Characters / When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace

Below are the various characters who appear in the When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace series.

Beware of unmarked spoilers.

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The Literature Club

As a Group Yes, they are doing a JoJo reference.Used to be just a regular school club, but suddenly found themselves awakening awesome superpowers and Dark and Dark. It affects their life very little.

• Giver of Lame Names: Most of the group when Andou coaxes them into making up nicknames. Subverted with Tomoyo and zigzagged with Andou himself, who comes up with so many that they fill the whole scale from cringeworthy to awesome.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Invoked. They try pretty hard to conceal their superpowers from the public. Also, the characters themselves: there's a superpowered There Can Only Be One fight going on and they have no idea.

Jurai Andou

Jurai Andou

Voiced by: Mamoru Miyano [drama CD], Nobuhiko Okamoto [anime] (Japanese), Mateo Mpinduzi-Mott (English)

The protagonist of the series, a boy who's stuck in his chuuni phase but kind-hearted and caring. His power is Dark and Dark, the ability to summon a (useless and lukewarm) black flame.

• Awesome McCoolname: Guiltia Sin Jurai. He knows it's awesome because he came up with it himself.
• Book Smart: He gets pretty good grades and is the second smartest character in the club, tied with Hatoko. He also knows lots of useless trivia about "cool" things like the Schrodinger's cat experiment, various mythologies, legendary weapons, torture devices and so on, once acing a quiz that stumped adults.
• Butt-Monkey: Lost the Superpower Lottery (from an outside perspective, anyway) and constantly gets the short end of the stick.
• Childhood Friends: With Hatoko. He's known her since elementary school and supported her since then.
• Chuunibyou: He is one and he's proud of it. He loves anything "dark and edgy", making obscure references to things from various mythologies and using Gratuitous English when it's not really necessary.
• Companion Cube: Says good morning and good night to his superpower every day.
• Dark Is Not Evil: He calls his power Dark and Dark and is fond of the "darkness", "evil", and "sin" motifs, but is a nice person who selflessly helps people.
• Deadly Upgrade: Dark and Dark of the End. In exchange for becoming an actual offensive power, it burns him as well, and can't be extinguished by any means other than loss of the hand, which was only recovered from the first time due to the state-reversion power Root of Origin.
• Guile Hero: He may be the least capable fighter with powers and still largely useless in a fight without them, but behind his Obfuscating Stupidity, He's the most emotionally and socially intelligent member of the club. He counsels the others when something's troubling them, and he's capable of a Batman Gambit or Xanatos Gambit if the stakes are high enough.
• Innocently Insensitive: When he tells Hatoko one too many times that she won't understand his deeds with Tomoko (they were just talking about their powers), she takes it as them being a couple and distancing himself from her and she snaps and rants at him in the show's signature scene.
• Large Ham: Shamelessly overacting and loves dramatic flair.
• Morality Chain: A low-stakes example. He is the one who thought through and investigated each of the powers, he's the one who tells the others what should be off-limits (Creating Life, bringing back the dead), and he's also the one who tells them when it's okay to make an exception (healing a dying cat). The others serve the same capacity with ''Dark and Dark of the End'', since he requires their help to make use of it.
• Nice Guy: For all his Chuuni delusions and grandstanding, he is a genuinely kind and caring person and the happiness and well being of his friends is always his top priority.
• The Nicknamer: Comes up with nicknames for everything, including the names of most superpowers in the series.
• Personality Powers: Dark and Dark is dramatic, but its harmless nature reflects his conviction that superpowers are toys, not weapons. Dark and Dark of the End embodies this philosophy, in accordance with his sense of empathy: using his superpower as an actual weapon requires him to bear the same pain as any enemy he uses it against, and he can't turn it off, forcing him to rely on others.
• Power Incontinence: Insists that his dark powers cannot be controlled, only restrained. Dark and Dark of the End suffers from just that.
• Playing with Fire: Dark And Dark lets him summon an orb of black flame from his hand. It looks cool, but has no actual use.
• Stock Light-Novel Everyman: Andou is both a parody and deconstruction that analyzes the differences between this trope and the Stock Light-Novel Hero. His firm belief is that powers should never be used to hurt other people, thus most of the group's problems are solved by talking things out or finding alternative solutions.
• Unquenchable Fire: Andou's Deadly Upgrade Dark and Dark of the End causes his flames to burn and become completely unquenchable. But his empathy causes the power to require him to bear the same pain as his victim, burning him alive at the same time. The only way to save Andou is to cut off his flaming arm via guillotine and seal the fire away since it can't be put out.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Dark and Dark doesn't do anything but look cool. He considers this a subversion—in his eyes, superpowers exist to be cool, not to harm others. Double Subverted. Its "awoken" next stage, Dark and Dark of the End, initially has its effects shown offscreen, and the girls make him swear to not use it again, just like he made them swear to not create life or raise the dead... but it turns out that it's not just useless, but it can actually kill him.