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* TheBadGuyWins: After [[KillEmAll everyone died]], [[ItsAWonderfulFailure the epilogue]] makes it quite clear that the construction of the doomsday device is able to proceed as planned. It is then used by the empire to wipe out all rebel forces from orbit. The general of the Imperial Guard then takes the throne and [[DownerEnding initiates a new golden era of oppression.]]
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->''"I REPEAT, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, ET, AND ALL THAT IS MUFFIN-BASED, THIS WAS ONLY A DRILL. IF THIS WAS NOT A DRILL, YOU WOULD HEAR ME SCREAMING, AND CRYING FOR MOMMY, WHILE PEEING MY PANTS."''
-->-- '''Lighthearter''', ''Pacific War: Empires Clash''
''The Action Chatroom'' is a game genre started by Lighthearter on [[https://forums.civfanatics.com/forums/forum-games.154/ CFC]]. The basic point of the game is that the GameMaster will set up a chatroom and a forum thread, and the players will purchase equipment in the thread and get together for the game in the chatroom, ala ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''.
Due to the roleplays having taken place in chatrooms, they have not been archived and aren't available to view.
'''Warning: all spoilers are unmarked.'''
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[[folder:List of Action Chatroom roleplays]]
* ''After the End''
* ''American Uprising (AU)''
* ''Assassins Life (Assassins)''
* ''Augustine Unite''
* ''Brotherhood (AGACAC)''
* ''Dark Oaths (DO)''
* ''The Day Before (DB)''
* ''Deep Vale Wars (TLPAC)''
* ''Duality (Duality)''
* ''Final Frontier (FF)''
* ''Flash of Swords, Dance of Fate, Lights of Magic (FSM)''
* ''Freedom to Die ([=FtD=])''
* ''Glory to the Empire ([=GttE=])''
* ''Great Patriotic War (GPW)''
* ''Heroes of Hopeville''
* ''Heroes Rise and Fall (Heroes)''
* ''Hold The Line ([=HtL=])''
* ''The Infection''
* ''The Infiltrators (Infiltrators)''
* ''Incorrupt ([=KaiserAC=])''
* ''Island of Dreams ([=IoD=])''
* ''Joint Strike Force (JSF)''
* ''The Jumpers (Jumpers)''
* ''Metropolis (Metro)''
** ''Metropolis 2 ([=Metro2=])''
* ''Pacwar series''
** ''Pacific War (Pacwar)''
** ''Desron: Pacific War 2 (Desron)''
** ''Pacific War: Battlefield Burials (Burials)''
* ''Pandora Syndicate (PS)''
* ''Please Enter the System ([=PEtS=])''
* ''Privateers of the Silver Sea (Privateers)''
* ''Red Alert (RA)''
* ''Saviors series''
** ''Saviors of a Broken World (Saviors)''
** ''Saviours of a Broken World 1.5: Sending a Message ([=SaM=])''
** ''Sending a Message 2: Watching the World Burn''
** ''Saviours of a Divided Nation (sav2)''
* ''Shadows of Tenochtitlan (Shadows)''
* ''SSD series'':
** ''Special Services Division (SSD)''
** ''Special Services Division 2 ([=SSD2=])''
** ''Special Services Division Reloaded: Battle for Terra (SSDR)''
* ''Spiral Tower (ST)''
* ''Stellar War (SW)''
** ''Stellar War 2: The Northern Legion ([=SW2=])''
* ''The Survival Games (Games)''
* ''TLPAC: The Hunt (Hunt)''
** ''TLPAC: The Lurking Jungles (Jungles)''
* ''Under the Mask ([=UtM=])''
** ''Under the Mask 2: Fading Lights ([=UtM2=])''
* ''United Strike Force (USF)''
* ''[=ZetaAC=] (Zeta)''
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!!''Action Chatroom'' roleplays contain examples of:
[[folder:General Tropes]]
* AllMonksKnowKungFu: In ''Shadows of Tenochtitlan'', Missionaries and Priests are only allowed knives as weapons. But they can get the Unarmed combat skill. Gerani and Patli are thus religious figures that fight with their fists.
%%* TheAntiNihilist: ''Spiral Tower's'' Haulsee.
* AnyoneCanDie: All but one of the characters died on the first mission of ''Great Patriotic War''.
%%* BadassNormal: Pretty much all the superpower games really.
* BritainIsOnlyLondon: Inverted, the recurring character Lord Crumpet comes from the completely obscure region of Crumpetshire, as does his sister.
* CardCarryingVillain: In ''Spiral Tower'', there was Nuke's Baron Bludgetsen ''von Badguy.''
%%* ColdSniper: Anyone with a sniper rifle, regardless of the game.
* ACommanderIsYou: ''Red Alert'' and ''Heroes'' featur the ability to command armies.
%%* CulturedWarrior: Lord and Lady Crumpet.
%%* DarkAndTroubledPast: A number of characters use this as a backstory.
%%* DarkIsEvil: The Black Guard in ''The Infiltrators''.
* DemonicPossession: The recurring character Tim is home to the demon known as 'Mary'. When she takes direct control she usually acts as a [[SuperpoweredEvilSide power amplifier for his abilities]].
* DumbMuscle: Peter Korovich in ''Red Alert''. He was strong enough to punch through walls, but too stupid to form complete sentences.
%%* EagleLand: In ''Heroes Rise And Fall'', Arya attempted a Type 1 portrayal, partially by giving all the good equipment to the USA.
%%* EnergyWeapon: These appear in a number of games. In some they are quite Rare, and usually more powerful than normal bullets.
* FailedASpotCheck: In ''JSS'', the tank coming down the road fires at random, having failed to notice JoanK running out to distract it.
%%* {{GMPC}}: [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs Steggy the Stegosaurus]] in ''Survival Games'' is looking a lot like this.
%%* IAmVeryBritish: Lord and Lady Crumpet.
%%* KnightInSourArmor: ''Spiral Tower'''s General Haulsee, to a T.
%%* LeeroyJenkins: The recurring NPC [[MeaningfulName Private L. Jenkins]] is this trope personified.
%%* MyGreatestFailure: Many character have this in their backstory.
%%* OfficerAndAGentleman: Lord and Lady Crumpet.
%%* OnlySaneMan: Whenever the NPC [=MacDonald=] appears, he invariably acts as this to the other [=NPCs=]. [[MeaningfulName Like]] [[LeeroyJenkins Jenkins]].
%%* OpposingCombatPhilosophies: This happens in every two-team game.
%%* ThePlan: Corpus. Christi. Bay. They all use different kinds of plans
%%* PlayingWithFire: Recurring character Tim and his demonic possessor 'Mary'.
%%* PoweredArmour: This shows up in some form in most modern/future combat ACs.
%%* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Lady and Lord Crumpet.
%%* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Every AC "team" comes off as this, even in games about groups of elite professionals.
%%* RunningGag: Lord Crumpet, to the level that his played once played as "Lady Crumpet" just to lampshade it.
%%* SpotOfTea: Lord Crumpet lives on this trope.
* StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale: In ''JCAC'', nobody ever finds Lucy's obsession with Signan disturbing enough to do anything about it. Even after [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale she's raped him]].
%%* StalkerWithACrush: In ''JCAC'', Lucy Penner to Signan Origanam.
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Delphine Rose Watson (DR Watson) in ''The Day Before''.
%%* StuffBlowingUp: Every AC ever has had copious amounts of this.
* SurprisinglyEliteCannonFodder: N.P.C. in ''USF'' began life as a mook who rolled a 20 against a grenade, before surviving three more turns of attack unscathed by just standing still.
%%* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Every single game has at least one pair that cannot work together well, but have to.
* UsingYouAllAlong: In ''USF'', the player's boss was the BigBad who had actually been using the team to ease the [[GovernmentConspiracy EU into a single German-dominated state]].
%%* TheVamp: Shannon Dreyfus. Ye gods.
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[[folder:American Uprising]]
%%* BayonetYa
* ACommanderIsYou: The game features the ability to command armies.
* EnemyCivilWar: From the Federation's perspective, the split of Free America between the loyal forces of Eagle and the deserting Condor Legion led by John "Condor" Smith qualify.
* EnemyMine: Condor Legion has on numerous occasions helped out Federation forces, despite having the same goal of independence as Free America. On the last Condor Legion mission, Smith points out that eventually that they're going to do battle with each other.
* OpposingCombatPhilosophies: The organized Federation versus the LeeroyJenkins US.
* TooDumbToLive: In a hilarious version, a lone foot soldier refuses to surrender to the head of the Condor Legion, who is in a tank, simply because said leader, Smith, was a Red Sox fan while the soldier was a Yankees fan. Eventually Smith got out of the tank and wrestled him down, too amused to kill him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dark Oaths]]
* ChallengingTheChief: This was required to depose the King of Dixie, with Ethar'tey acting as Senator Trumans [[CombatByChampion Champion]] in a [[DuelToTheDeath Duel]] against [[EvilRedhead Chancellor O'hara]].
* FaceHeelTurn: Ethar'tey, during the CC Bay incident. Complete with much [[EvilGloating gloating.]]
* LongLived: Elves live to about 200. Ethar'tey is 74, several times older than most of the other characters.
* MoralityPet: Ethar'tey's familiar 'Siggy' serves as this. Given Eth's [[TokenEvilTeammate moral compass]], Siggy also fufils [[RightHandCat another role]]. Of course, Siggy and Eth have [[SmugSnake a fair bit]] [[CatsAreSuperior in common]].
* SixthRangerTraitor: Ethar'tey, who is literally a ranger, and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulated the whole team into capture]] at Corpus Christi Bay.
* SpeciesLoyalty: Ethar'tey takes this [[KnightTemplar to the extremes]], being willing to defend even enemy members of her species from her allies. Of course, it's [[TokenEvilTeammate Ethar'tey]], so she does this sort of thing even without elves to defend.
* TakeThatKiss: [[TokenEvilTeammate Ethar'tey]] to chancellor [[EvilRedhead O'Hara]] after their [[CombatByChampion first fight]].
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: None of the team can work together. At least for the first few missions.
* TokenNonHuman: Ethar'tey is an elf amongst a team of humans. She repeatedly bemoans this fact, and her [[FantasticRacism opinions on humans]] give her elements of [[TokenEvilTeammate another type of token teammate]].
* TokenReligiousTeammate: Antonina the cultist, almost to the point of being a KnightTemplar.
* TurnCoat: Ethar'tey betrays the team during the Corpus Christi Bay Incident.
* UriahGambit: Ethar'tey's plan to wear out her allies on the various mooks before she and Wraith!Dem Taqat finished them off.
* WelcomeBackTraitor: Ethar'tey repeatedly attempts to disrupt the teams plans, or to leave them to die, or even attacks them herself a few times, but is always welcomed back.
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[[folder:Final Frontier]]
%%* ActionGirl: Kaimana, Koreni, Janowski, Shuford, Salamanca.
* AirborneAircraftCarrier: The SFN Slater is a dedicated example, but many ships have the ability to launch fighters.
%%* AlohaHawaii: Kaimana Lae'ula.
%%* ArtificialGravity: A ship has yet to be introduced which lacks this in some form.
%%* AttackDrone: Fighters with the Drone Pilots perk.
%%* AwesomeButImpractical: Fighters.
%%* TheBattlestar: Is the size of New Zealand. And twice as powerful as the next most powerful ship.
%%* BeamSpam: Ships with lots of lasers can do this.
%%* BoardingParty: Used by both Players and [=NPCs=] alike to produce absolute bloodbaths.
%%* BrokenBird: We got a glimpse into Kaimana's psyche during BS-2. It wasn't pretty.
%%* BrownNote: The aliens from [=GoO=] cause this just by speaking.
%%* ChekhovsGunman: The entire purpose of being able to specify family members.
* ACommanderIsYou: The ability to control the crew on your ship.
* ContinuityNod: Lance Gates is married to Rose Valentine from SSD.
%%* CurbStompBattle: Many, oh so many.
%%** When Elite Marines board corvettes.
%%** [=GoO=]-1 was basically this on a fleetwide scale, to the Federation's detriment.
%%* DeflectorShields: The 'Shields' defenses.
* DoAnythingSoldier: The Captains fight boarding battles, space battles, land battles, and even conduct diplomacy.
%%* EliteMooks: Literally, crew can be upgraded to elite.
* EpicFail: In RAZ-1, a corvette blew itself up due to a failure firing missiles. Later on, enemy troops dodged straight into bullets from Kaimana's Marines.
%%* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Kaimana is a direct descendant of King Kamehameha.
%%* FrickinLaserBeams: Laser-equipped ships, like Dem's.
* FromBadToWorse: Everything in Gates of Orion is heading this way. A mere diplomatic exchange to stop Sol from becoming a garbage dump turned into a [[CurbStompBattle absolute curb-stomp]], which in turn caused the aliens to retaliate by glassing the colony at Polaris, which after repelled by friendly aliens, ended up revealing that the original alien fleet was the Emperor's personal fleet of that species, and the battle resulted in humanity being called for a holy genocide.
* GeniusDitz: Kaimana has elements of this. Notably the time she chalked everything that was happening in BS-1 up to the Hawai'ian gods, then said this when the briefing officer didn't know how the weather control satellite worked:
-->"''Well, obviously, it has to work by affecting ionized particles in the stratosphere and increasing or decreasing heat and in the air to fine-tune conditions to create or destroy cloud formations which then can become storms.''"
* GroinAttack: Gates shot an Alon in the groin, [[BizarreAlienBiology but it's unclear whether this had the same effect as it would on a human.]]
%%* HollywoodTactics: Invoked and subverted by the players and [=NPCs=] alike.
%%* HopelessWar: [=GoO=] is starting to look like this after Mission 3.
* InterruptedIntimacy: Koreni and Gerani walked into Isabella having sex with her wife. [[GirlOnGirlIsHot Gerani wanted to watch]].
%%* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: Mass Drivers, notably on Nuke's vessels.
%%* LaserBlade: The Energy Blade.
%%* LawOfAlienNames: The Zaarquan,
* LetsGetDangerous: Kaimana removed her hairpiece in [=GoO=]-3. Shortly thereafter, a ''battlestar'' blew up.
%%* MacGuffin: Artifacts.
%%* MacrossMissileMassacre: Missile weapons, prevalent on LH's ships.
%%* MagneticWeapons: Mass Drivers, bitches.
* MeaningfulName: Kaimana means "Divine Power of the Sea" and her ship ''Hokuikekai'' means "Star of the Sea." Remember that SpaceIsAnOcean.
* MulticulturalAlienPlanet: The differences in Alon culture are part of the reason for their civil war.
* OhCrap: In [=GoO=]-2, when the players see five battlestars attacking a Federation world.
%%* ProudMerchantRace: Most of the Zaarquan fall under this trope, although players are far more likely to encounter the [[SpacePirates outliers]] given their occupation.
%%* RammingAlwaysWorks: Played straight in BS-1 when a corvette rams the Ku'uaki.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Lance Gates' eyes turn red when he's mad.
%%* ReflectingLaser: Justified in [=GoO=]-1 when Red rolled a critical success.
%%* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Gerani is NOT attracted to Kaimana.
%%* SpaceFighter: Squadrons of these can be used in the game.
%%* SpaceIsAnOcean: Dem's reason behind playing his 'naval' character, Frederick Gerani.
%%* SpaceMarines: The Marine crew unit.
%%* SpaceNavy: The players are in one of them.
%%* SpaceStation: Several of these are encountered in the various campaigns.
%%* SpicyLatina: Isabella Salamanca.
%%* StealthInSpace: The Stealth perks.
%%* TacticalWithdrawal: A lot of {{Non Player Character}}s die trying this.
%%* TeleportersAndTransporters: All SFN Ships have these, as do a number of other races.
%%* UnresolvedSexualTension: Kaimana and Gerani.
%%* WeHaveReserves: Zeth's strategy in RAZ.
%%* WrongGenreSavvy: Okay, that corvette in BS-1 was a scout rather than bait...
* ZergRush:
** The Alon use huge waves of small ships. It's only a matter of time before they break out fighters.
** Gerani won a boarding battle by literally providing so many basic crew that Zeth's ELITE marines couldn't shoot them all.
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[[folder:Freedom to Die]]
* TheBadGuyWins: After [[KillEmAll everyone died]], [[ItsAWonderfulFailure the epilogue]] makes it quite clear that the construction of the doomsday device is able to proceed as planned. It is then used by the empire to wipe out all rebel forces from orbit. The general of the Imperial Guard then takes the throne and [[DownerEnding initiates a new golden era of oppression.]]
%%* BayonetYa
* BlingOfWar: The 'Visual Camo' available on [[PoweredArmor Some Armour]].
* CoincidentalDodge: [[CloudCuckooLander ObliviousGuard]] failed to notice his partner died, and then proceeded to [[InvincibleIncompetent avoid two bullets, a thrown knife, and an attempted stabbing]] [[FailedASpotCheck without even noticing]].
%%* CommonTongue: Played straight.
* EpicFail: In the second [=FtD=] Mission, Moe Queshire attempts to take out an armored enemy with Molotovs. The first two he throws refuse to catch fire, and the third simply hits the wall at the end of the corridor. Then he switches to his gun, which jammed as soon as he tried to fire it. Then [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere he and Ping flee]], leaving their comrades to die.
%%* LaResistance: The players form a key part of this.
* PocketProtector: Fa Ping has a bullet deflected by a cigarette lighter in her pocket.
%%* ShoutOut: L. Jenkins SPEAKS IN ALL CAPS! ALL THE TIME! and yells 'OVER THE TOP!' during his first appearance.
* TotalPartyKill: The ending involved the entire ship being blown up by Fa Ping, whilst the boat the team was trying to escape on was stuck on the deck after the rope leading to the crane was cut by the players trying to escape.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Island of Dreams]]
* AlternateHistory: The roleplay is jam-packed with many conflicting histories, seeing as it featured people from hundreds of worlds thrown into one area.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Tovarishch is described as a personification of Communism.
%%* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: Winston Churchill and Tovarishch did this to the Valkyre Bastet.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Ivan gets his jetpack shot off by a gunship, goes into a free fall, and [[RevengeBeforeReason pulls off a head shot]] on the gunship pilot that shot him down. With a crossbow.
* MagicIsAMonsterMagnet: Using Dream powers attracts the Valkyries.
* SchrodingersButterfly: Was [=IoD=] a dream, or was it real, and the "real" world was the dream?
* SixthRangerTraitor: Churchill was actually working with the Valkyries.
* ThatCameOutWrong: A lot.
-->'''DT:''' Fear the [[FreudianSlip Raper]]! ThatCameOutWrong! rEaper! with an E!
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[[folder:Metropolis]]
%%* BadassNormal: Metro 1 and 2 allows players to be these.
* BrainsAndBondage: Reva in Metropolis 2, as evidenced by [[http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=11465187&postcount=42 her log.]]
%%* CastingAShadow:
%%** The 'Dark' powers in Metropolis.
%%** Lord Crumpet from Metropolis 2.
%%* CoatHatMask: Signan Origanam uses this style.
* ACommanderIsYou: Metro features the ability to command armies.
%%* MyGreatestFailure: Lord Crumpet's is a NoodleIncident.
%%* PermaStubble: Signan Origanam from Metropolis 2.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Pacific War series]]
%%* CoolBoat: The entire premise.
%%* CurbStompBattle: Desron's League squadron in their first mission. Ironically, the USA squadron in their first mission as well, only they are on the losing side.
* DownerEnding: Pacwar concludes with the players fighting to the last man in Singapore against the Japanese onslaught.
%%* {{GMPC}}: Admiral James Arion and the battleship ''Honolulu''.
* LastStand: Dem Taqat and Nuke were surrounded by the Japanese fleet at Singapore (along with a few [=NPCs=]), and both fought to the last man.
* LeeroyJenkins: In Desron, Wayne and Amadeus sailed straight into the teeth of a task force of advanced Japanese destroyers and a British heavy cruiser, [[TooDumbToLive while they only had two obsolescent hulks]]. [[TotalPartyKill Guess how it ended.]]
* NoodleImplements: Gerani escaped POW camp with 'a piece of string, a bowl of gruel, a conveniently placed stick and an unbelievable amount of optimism and on-the-fly patches.'
* OnlySaneMan: Captain [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Killroy]]. At Surabaya, he only followed his LeeroyJenkins party because his odds of success weren't any better forging to Port Moresby alone.
* OpposingCombatPhilosophies:Desron's disciplined League vs. LeeroyJenkins US.
* SoleSurvivor: Duke Blackstone fled the battle of Singapore in his last plane, after his ship had been sunk (he'd moved his planes to the airfield beforehand) and all his allies had been killed.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Saviors series]]
%%* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Ransack Shark.
* ATeamFiring: Averted. The only thug to fire a shot at Salazar used a shotgun. Not only did the thug hit, but the shotgun missed the human shield Salazar had been using.
%%* BadassCape: Fear.
%%* BadassNormal: A specific background in Saviours, but Saviors 2 also allowed players to be these.
* BlindfoldedVision: The visually impaired Vya Fedha wore a blindfold when she fought. She "saw" by using echolocation.
%%* CastFromHitPoints: How Salazar managed to destroy half a city with only the Default levels of INT and WIS.
%%* CaptainPatriotic: Sergeant Russia.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Most of Fear's 'Powers' are derived from his suit.
* CordonBleughChef: Anna Fyre's culinary specialty? Cockroach anything.
%%* CoolCar: Frederick's car 'Maria'. Where Anna slept [[ItMakesSenseInContext with Frederick.]] Not [[UnresolvedSexualTension Gerani]], the other Frederick.
* {{Crossover}}: On one mission, the team have to set right what went wrong in other [=ACs=] -- leading to this little gem when Fear encounters Lord Crumpet:
-->"You turn and critical hit yourself in the face with an elbow."
* GreenEyedMonster: Anna is unhappy to say the least when Frederick spends the night at Belliam's home. It is also the next place added to her hit list.
* LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards: Inverted; the Supernatual origins let 'magical' characters start with great abilities which they struggle to improve, whilst normal origin characters grow much faster when all the potential synergies start coming into play.
%%* PsychicAssistedSuicide: Anna's backstory, and the reason she took up the "ThouShaltNotKill" code.
%%* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Gerani:
%%-->"Romance? It's just a conversation!"
* ShipTease: Plenty of Fyrani (Fyre/Gerani) action occurred in the Saviors "Battle Royale" Christmas Special.
%%* SupervillainLair: The players bases count as these.
%%* VillainProtagonist: The basic premise.
%%* VillainsActHeroesReact: [=SaM=] allows players to choose mission targets because of this.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:SSD Series]]
%%* AbsentMindedProfessor: Specs
* AccidentalAimingSkills: Hayakawa manages to blow up an entire ship when her shot misses the SAM Launcher and hits the ammunition store.
%%* ActionGirl: Captain Andropov.
* AffectionateNickname: Everyone calls the main helicopter "the Choppah", and, due to the Danish government not releasing his name at first, everyone calls Hans "Viking", even after he told his actual name to them.
* ArmorIsUseless: Both played straight and inverted, as most characters would be dead if not for armor. Most non-player characters wearing armor are tougher as well. However, it usually doesn't matter if normal Mooks are wearing armor.
* ATeamFiring: Despite his enhanced energy weapon, [=BestRFCplayer=] never hits what he is aiming for. At one point he tries to blast his way into a NYC warehouse. He ends up toppling the Statue of Liberty.
%%* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Specs gets this when examining the team for the plague.
* BackFromTheDead:
** Viking, even though he was blown into tiny chunks, later was revived [[TwinMaker as a clone]].
** Andropov comes back in the ending scene in a brand new body.
%%* TheBadGuyWins: Implied with the President of Russia and Tigershark.
* BerserkButton: Viking will break your crap if you dare call him a Swede.
%%* BetaCouple: Zhakov and Yvette.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Viking, one of the few members of the team that could be considered "Nice", went completely ballistic on Dale during interrogation, breaking his balls and pelvis in a single kick. The fact that he killed his MoralityPet didn't help matters.
%%* BigBrotherInstinct: Hugh Crumpet to his sister, Olivia.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Lord Crumpets equipment list includes: Guns, Grenades, Knives; and a bottle of urine. And he uses it. Repeatedly.
* BritainIsOnlyLondon: Inverted, Lord Crumpet comes from the completely obscure region of Crumpetshire.
* CasualDangerDialog: After Viking became suicidal after Andropov's death, he would always greet his enemies, even those who haven't yet noticed him, with a friendly "Oh hi there", for he stopped caring about the danger.
* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys:
-->'''Red Spy:''' VIVA LA FRANCE! I SURRENDER!
* CloningBlues: The US government secretly had a cloning project, and all of them are [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman slaughtered by the SSD like if the clones were trying to kill them]] except for the clone of Viking, which actually did try to kill them in their first meeting.
* CloningGambit: The entire plot of the latter half of SSD; almost everything is linked to America's secret cloning project, and both heroes and villains alike make use of the project.
* ClosestThingWeGot: Crumpet doesn't have a med skill, but when they don't have a Medic his jury-rig skill and a few cloths are the closest thing they've got to a bandage
%%* ColdSniper: Lord Crumpet and Marcus. Marcus once killed 6 enemies with one shot.
%%* ContinuityNod: One mission takes place near the Statue of Liberty. Or rather, what's left of it.
%%* CryIntoChest: Andropov cried all over Crumpet after her fight with Sven in SSDR.
* {{Determinator}}: Viking would just not give up trying to save Andropov when she tried pulling a HeroicSacrifice, even when she threatened to charge him with sexual harassment
* DeadpanSnarker: Landlubber:
-->'''Landlubber:''' Considering that she's not bi in the first place and her kids are in danger, the best decision she could make is obviously to leave her husband and fall in love with Sexton.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Lord Crumpet punching Luc'thar in the face with a burning cloth tied around his fist, followed by Luc'thars subsequent defeat at the hands of the team.
* DropTheHammer: Wayne carriers a utility hammer that he occasionally uses in combat.
%%* DrowningMySorrows: Andropov in SSDR after her fight with Sven. Sven was planning it too, but got annoyed with Crumpets attempts to help and gave up.
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: The first indication Sven is in love with Andropov is him kissing her whilst she is unconscious. Then he does it again later. The next time she's unconscious he restrains himself, but she assumes he did it anyway.
* DuelToTheDeath: Crumpet engages in a slightly unusual variation with [[DuelBoss Nimue]] in that only Crumpet is putting his life on the line. The fact that [[LetsFightLikeGentlemen the unwritten rules are honored]] and both sides refuse to [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown fight dirty]] is a driving force behind their [[WorthyOpponent mutual respect]] for each other.
%%* EpicFail: One of the Mooks Svensgaard fired at, I quote- "... LEAPED. INTO. THE. BLEEPING. BULLETS."
* FailedASpotCheck: When players go hunting for the trapdoor in a burning warehouse, they all forget that it is on a highly visible raised platform.
%%* FakeUltimateHero: Captain Arthur Nix, new commander of the SSD after the "Season Two Finale" and Andropov's death.
%%* FamilyHonor: Crumpet believes in this.
%%* TheFettered:
%%** Lord Crumpet.
%%** After he defeats her, Nimue becomes this to him due to her [[IGaveMyWord Oath of Servitude]].
* FreudianSlip: Omega saying "Give me a sex" where he meant sec.
%%* FriendlyFireIndex: Everywhere.
* FriendlySniper: Frederick Gerani in [=SSD2=]. In fact, his main flaw was attempting to be a little too friendly [[CasanovaWannabe with every female on the team]].
* FromBadToWorse: Fleeing from the exploding base with most of the squad wounded after the fight with Dale, the squad run into Another Dale... With another super energy weapon.
%%* GratuitousNinja: The Season 3 opening saw the team attacked by Ninjas.
* GrenadeHotPotato: In one SSDR mission a grenade manages to land by almost half the team before finally blowing up next to the enemy.
* GroinAttack:
** Lord Crumpet scored a critical hit on an opponent's groin in one mission, lifting him ''six inches into the air'' and ''breaking his pelvis''.
** Crumpet has since shot a clone of the same man in the groin with a sniper rifle. Now the 'Flaggs Groin' is Crumpet's favoured enemy, claiming he has a '+5 racial bonus' to hitting it.
%%* HappinessInSlavery: Nimue appears to have found this.
%%* HeroicComedicSociopath: Sasha Coronova.
* HeroicSacrifice:
** Viking blew himself up to kill 24 grunts (out of 80) and to allow the rest of the team to escape to safety.
** Andropov later tried pulling one off as [[YouShallNotPass a way to buy the team more time]]. Viking, however, [[AvertedTrope would not put up with it]] and tried rescuing her, although he failed at the very end.
* HonorBeforeReason: Lord Crumpet tells Red to patch up Rose (who has a minor wound and no combat ability) before himself (an elite soldier with 'firearms mastery' who is unable to use one of his arms) because his honor demands the ladies are healed first.
* HypercompetentSidekick: Nimue has a cumulative 9 skills and is almost invulnerable to projectiles. At the time of her [[ThePromise joining him]], Crumpet has 6.
%%* IAmVeryBritish: Lord Crumpet.
%%* IGaveMyWord: One of the reasons for Crumpet's insistence on Nimue's well being.
%%* IKissYourFoot: Nimue does this to Crumpet on occasion.
%%* {{Jerkass}}: Captain Nix, so bad that Sven slit his throat in their first mission together.
%%* KarmaHoudini: Redspy, Sasha Coronova, and Tigershark.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Gourmet uses a Katana. After he is killed, Lord Crumpet takes it up and continues to prove its betterness.
%%* MajorlyAwesome: Andropov becomes this in SSDR, although many still refer to her by her [[TheCaptain former rank]].
%%* ManchurianAgent: Sasha Coronova, for the [[PresidentEvil President]] [[DirtyCommunists of Russia]].
* MindControlEyes: The eyes of Xenid Psychics flash when they are attempting their attacks, with the color of the flash indicating their effectiveness.
%%* MindlinkMates: [[PortmanteauCoupleName Crumue]]. It wasn't exactly Crumpet's idea.
* MoralityPet: After indirectly allowing Wayne to torture a girl for info after his attempt of consoling her, Viking tried helping her to make himself not feel as bad. Key word being tried. He left her in her cell because he chickened out, got drunk in order to help motivate himself but ended up passing out, and the team left with Viking but not the girl. On a return trip, he was able to rescue her, but she got shot by Dale during the operation and bled to death.
* MultinationalTeam: There is the standard American, Russian, French, and British characters, but random nationalities such as Korean ([[NoodleIncident Which unified between the timespan of 2012-2014 without any true explanation given]]), Danish, and Swiss are thrown into the mix.
%%* MundaneSolution: Lubber uses his jury rig skill to bandage Andropov when she has been hit. To make a bandage, he cannibalizes a box she was carrying. The box was a super-medkit.
%%* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Nimue, after accepting Crumpet as her Master, takes this to extremes. And apparently isn't doing it enough by the standards of her people.
%%* MysticalPlague: The Psychic Plague.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Being nice to her despite her position is one of the ways Crumpet wins over Nimue.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Lord Crumpet: [[PoweredArmor Power-Armour-Wearing]], [[KatanasAreJustBetter Katana-Weilding]], [[GoodOldFisticuffs Martial Arts-Knowing]], [[PsychicLink Mind]][[HappinessInSlavery slave-Owning]], [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Demon-Punching]], [[PsychicPowers Psychic]] [[ElitesAreMoreGlamorous Commando]] [[OfficerAndAGentleman British]] [[OldSchoolChivalry Lord]]
* NotGoodWithRejection: After his initial rejection, Sven attempted to walk into a fire.
* OneHitPolykill:
** Marcus' six man collateral with the Barret .50 cal.
** [=BestRFC=] killed 8 people with one laser blast in one of the few times he actually hit the enemy with it
** Viking killed 24 in one attack, [[HeroicSacrifice but he went down with it]].
** Sasha killed 79 people, including President Dale, with one rocket.
* OneManArmy: Arya takes on Vice President Young as he escapes. He singlehandedly kills her and at least 7 of her "Greenie" supersoldiers.
* OneWingedAngel: Lord Crumpet uses the piloting mastery he hadn't gotten a chance to use all game and defeated President Dale's UFO while flying a captured [[CoolPlane F-22a Raptor]].
* OnlySaneEmployee: In SSDR, Crumpet pretty much takes up the job of 'preventing the whole team killing each other' as his main task, often with help from Marcus.
* OutOfTheInferno: Marcus walks through the fire in the warehouse.
%%* PresidentEvil:
%%** POTUS Christian Dale.
%%** [[ChessMaster The President of Russia]] is also implied to be this.
%%* PsychicLink: Nimue opens one of these with Crumpet after he defeats her.
%%* PyroManiac: Both Carla and Zhakov from SSDR.
%%* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Lord Crumpet (again).
* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: As soon as Sven has a fight with Andropov, he finds himself alone in a room with Slick. Who calls herself a 'desperate slut' for trying to seduce him whilst he has a moment of weakness.
* ShoutOut: Zhakov has a perk that gives him a bonus to fire-based attacks. It's called "[[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Belief in Magic]]".
* SingleTear: Crumpet sheds one of these in SSDR when shown a locket with a picture of him and his sister inside. At the time he is trapped on another world while his sister is sitting almost on top of a warzone back in theirs.
%%* SlapSlapKiss: Sven (landlubber) and Anropov (NPC)'s Relationship is perfectly summed up by this trope.
* StuffBlowingUp: Everyone, Everywhere.
** RFC blowing up the NYC warehouse.
** Arya launched a (completely unnecessary) car bomb at a Brotherhood safehouse.
* SurprisinglyEliteCannonFodder: One mook managed to hold of most of the squad for over 3 rounds, whilst Arya (who had been captured) looked on asking [[MundaneSolution why nobody would just stick a pistol to his head and shoot him,]] which DT eventually did (after shooting Lubber in the leg).
%%* TeethClenchedTeamwork:
%%** Arya and Andropov. Never ends well.
%%** Lubber and RFC exhibit this trope when on missions with Captain Andropov.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks:
** Redspy hurled his knife at Rose, leaving in a helicopter, specifically to invoke this trope. He actually hits, but she's fine.
** During one mission, Redspy threw a knife threw a wall and hit.
%%** Lubber does it too with an actual sword.
%%* TranquilFury: Lord Crumpet enters this when Luc'thar is [[ForcedToWatch torturing Nimue in front of him]].
%%* {{Tsundere}}: Captain Katrina Andropov, commanding officer of the SSD.
* UriahGambit: During the mission to Denver, the entire squad leaves Sasha to defeat a 'Greenie' SuperSoldier in hand-to-hand combat by herself. She survives by accidentally blowing up a tanker truck.
%%* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: The SSD Anti terrorist-squad plans to launch a teambuilding exercise. The goal? Burn down Wall Street.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Viking always tries to solve his problems through liberal use of explosives.
%%* WorthyOpponent: Crumpet and Nimue see each other as this.
* YourAnswerToEverything: People have noted that Iris recommends eggs as the answer to every problem.
%%* YouShallNotPass: The nature of Andropov's attempted HeroicSacrifice.
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[[folder:Stellar War]]
%%* AlienInvasion: The Federation acts as this for Haven.
* BattleCry: Private [[LeeroyJenkins L. Jenkins]]: "OVER THE TOP!!!"
* ACommanderIsYou: Stellar War features the ability to command armies.
* OpposingCombatPhilosophies: The LeeroyJenkins Federation versus the organized Haven.
* TheWarOfEarthlyAggression: The Federation comes from Earth and is invading Haven.
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[[folder:Under the Mask]]
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Iris and Umbel Lyse take pains to stay identical, to the extent of using the [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair same colour hair dye]].
* AndIMustScream: Dante went through this when he was [[HumanPopsicle frozen]] for 700 years.
* AuthorAppeal: [=UtM=] has five GM-created and one Player-created redhead {{Non Player Character}}s. In the same class. And 4 of them are females with 7+ CHA. [[RuleOfSexy Not that anybody is really complaining]].
%%* BadassNormal: A number of characters, both [=PCs=] and [=NPCs=]
%%* CrazyPrepared: Actually a feat.
* CreepyMonotone: The adoption of one of these by formerly friendly [=TS84P=] is one of the first things that convinces the players there is a problem with him. It's later revealed to be a result of him going into [[HeroicSafeMode survival mode]].
* DistractedByTheSexy: Ignan Origanam walks into the room where Delphine and Cardinal Rose are beating up a guy in perfectly synchronised WaifFu, and is distracted for a turn by just how hot the two of them look.
%%* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: So who was Crumpet actually working for?
* ElementalBarrier: Both Tim and Emily can form defensive shields of fire.
%%* FightsLikeANormal: A number of characters without combat-related feats.
%%* FishOutOfWater: One of the potential 'situations', although the NPC [[SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining Spartans]] tend to be better examples of this trope.
%%* FishOutofTemporalWater: Dante, although he has adapted quite well.
%%* FormallyNamedPet: Dr. Flufferkins, Kosteks dog.
%%* TheGlomp: Jin does this to John at one point after their latest big relationship bump.
* GrapplingHookPistol: Dante has a wrist-mounted version.
%%* HeroicBSOD: Batman has one of these after accidentally killing Zuko.
%%* HeroicHost: Tim, for Mary.
* HeroicSafeMode: While the heroic part is [[AntiHero debateable]], the Spartans safe mode activates automatically in danger, and is the key cause of their [[DirtyBusiness more immoral actions]].
%%* HeterosexualLifePartners: Taylor and Emily.
* HumanPopsicle: Dante was born in Renaissance Italy. This is how he got to modern day Doumedsville.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: [=TS84P=] apparently fights to save the world because the other Spartans promised to shoot him after they've done that, and his survival training won't allow him to do it himself.
* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: The game takes place in Doumedesville. Any similarities to the word [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom 'doomed']] are probably coincidence.
%%* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: The Heroes do this a lot to Emily when she starts to go Demon.
* ItsAllMyFault:
** Vya says this after her [[GoneHorriblyRight botched healing]] of Frederick Gerani.
** Jin says this repeatedly about the kidnapping of her friends.
%%* {{Jetpack}}: Venator has one.
%%* KillItWithFire: Taken to extremes by Logi, to the point that he hurts his friends more than his enemies.
* LapPillow: Taylor lies in Emily's lap at one point. It's played for comfort rather than romance, and in a slight subversion Taylor is the one doing the comforting.
* LeaveTheTwoLoveBirdsAlone: Veronica quotes this word for word when Jin goes to talk to John.
* MagicByAnyOtherName: Its not magic, its the manipulation of planar trickle!
%%* TheMenInBlack: The Agents of the FBI.
* MotorMouth: Fiona Blackspire. She speaks so much so quickly that Dem usually just picks out the important facts to tell the players and ignores the actual words.
* MrSmith: Members of Project Lovecraft all identify themselves as 'Operative Smith'.
* NoNameGiven: [=TS84P=] refuses to use his birth name, declaring that [[ThatManIsDead the person who it was given to no longer exists]].
* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: The ARC has at least one known prototype, but the plans were destroyed and the actual device stolen before further backups could be made. The Prototype is also vastly inferior, being more of a failed experiment.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Delphine says this after she shoves her hand down an unconscious Frederick's shirt in front of his girlfriend.
* PlaceOfPower: Doumedesville is a 'Planar Hotspot', which is the primary reason there are so many supers there.
%%* PlayingWithFire: Tim/Mary.
* PowerFloats: The first time the players see Emily completely possessed, she is hovering above the street throwing fire everywhere.
%%* PowerNullifier: Oswald's abilty acts as this.
%%* ThePowerOfLove: The explanation given for some of Vya's more dramatic accomplishments.
%%* PubertySuperpower: One of the Potential Situations.
* SadisticChoice: When Taylor is forced to choose between leaving Emily or John.
* {{Shapeshifting}}: Sanguine has the ability to turn into a bat.
%%* ShootTheDog: [[AntiHero The Spartans]] do this a lot. Oswald admits that [[DirtyBusiness they don't like it]], but given [[TykeBomb who]] [[ChildSoldiers they]] [[TrainingFromHell are]] they can't help it.
* ShoutOut: Cardinal Rose's (electric) Significant sense tell her '[[Franchise/StarWars it's fine, everything's fine, here, now. How are you?]]'
%%* SpiderSense: The 'Significant Sense' power works like this.
* SupernaturalSensitivity: Delphine's power is the detection of others with powers.
* SuperSmoke: Misty can dissolve his body into the air.
* TeleportersAndTransporters: One as-yet-unnamed character can teleport away with a click of his fingers.
%%* TimeStandsStill: Stopwatch can do this for himself and some others.
* ThemeTwinNaming: Iris Rose (I.R.) Lyse and Umbel Violet (U.V.) Lyse.
%%* ThoseTwoGuys: Ben B and Ben J were specifically made to invoke this trope.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Batman, although he does end up killing in extreme situations, sometimes by accident.
%%* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Much of what happens, particularly [[TykeBomb the Spartans]].
* VanInBlack: The Spartans have an entire carpark full of these, as well as similarly coloured [=SUV=]s. The suspiciousness of the vans is compounded by nameplates like [='N0R MA1=]' and '[=N0T 53A1=]'
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: This little scene after a mook is '[[GroinAttack downed]]'
-->'''Dem Taqat:''' hes never gonna have kids again\\
'''Nukeknockout:''' again?\\
'''Dem Taqat:''' so what if he has a family to support?\\
'''Dem Taqat:''' its not like you care anyway\\
'''Nukeknockout:''' true
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Batman's refusal to kill doesn't extend to extra-planar demons who intend to destroy humanity.
%%* WreathedInFlames: Demon!Emily often appears like this.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Iris and Umbel Lyse both dye their hair blue for no apparent reason.
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->''"I REPEAT, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, ET, AND ALL THAT IS MUFFIN-BASED, THIS WAS ONLY A DRILL. IF THIS WAS NOT A DRILL, YOU WOULD HEAR ME SCREAMING, AND CRYING FOR MOMMY, WHILE PEEING MY PANTS."''
-->-- '''Lighthearter''', ''Pacific War: Empires Clash''
''The Action Chatroom'' is a game genre started by Lighthearter on [[https://forums.civfanatics.com/forums/forum-games.154/ CFC]]. The basic point of the game is that the GameMaster will set up a chatroom and a forum thread, and the players will purchase equipment in the thread and get together for the game in the chatroom, ala ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''.
Due to the roleplays having taken place in chatrooms, they have not been archived and aren't available to view.
'''Warning: all spoilers are unmarked.'''
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[[folder:List of Action Chatroom roleplays]]
* ''After the End''
* ''American Uprising (AU)''
* ''Assassins Life (Assassins)''
* ''Augustine Unite''
* ''Brotherhood (AGACAC)''
* ''Dark Oaths (DO)''
* ''The Day Before (DB)''
* ''Deep Vale Wars (TLPAC)''
* ''Duality (Duality)''
* ''Final Frontier (FF)''
* ''Flash of Swords, Dance of Fate, Lights of Magic (FSM)''
* ''Freedom to Die ([=FtD=])''
* ''Glory to the Empire ([=GttE=])''
* ''Great Patriotic War (GPW)''
* ''Heroes of Hopeville''
* ''Heroes Rise and Fall (Heroes)''
* ''Hold The Line ([=HtL=])''
* ''The Infection''
* ''The Infiltrators (Infiltrators)''
* ''Incorrupt ([=KaiserAC=])''
* ''Island of Dreams ([=IoD=])''
* ''Joint Strike Force (JSF)''
* ''The Jumpers (Jumpers)''
* ''Metropolis (Metro)''
** ''Metropolis 2 ([=Metro2=])''
* ''Pacwar series''
** ''Pacific War (Pacwar)''
** ''Desron: Pacific War 2 (Desron)''
** ''Pacific War: Battlefield Burials (Burials)''
* ''Pandora Syndicate (PS)''
* ''Please Enter the System ([=PEtS=])''
* ''Privateers of the Silver Sea (Privateers)''
* ''Red Alert (RA)''
* ''Saviors series''
** ''Saviors of a Broken World (Saviors)''
** ''Saviours of a Broken World 1.5: Sending a Message ([=SaM=])''
** ''Sending a Message 2: Watching the World Burn''
** ''Saviours of a Divided Nation (sav2)''
* ''Shadows of Tenochtitlan (Shadows)''
* ''SSD series'':
** ''Special Services Division (SSD)''
** ''Special Services Division 2 ([=SSD2=])''
** ''Special Services Division Reloaded: Battle for Terra (SSDR)''
* ''Spiral Tower (ST)''
* ''Stellar War (SW)''
** ''Stellar War 2: The Northern Legion ([=SW2=])''
* ''The Survival Games (Games)''
* ''TLPAC: The Hunt (Hunt)''
** ''TLPAC: The Lurking Jungles (Jungles)''
* ''Under the Mask ([=UtM=])''
** ''Under the Mask 2: Fading Lights ([=UtM2=])''
* ''United Strike Force (USF)''
* ''[=ZetaAC=] (Zeta)''
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!!''Action Chatroom'' roleplays contain examples of:
[[folder:General Tropes]]
* AllMonksKnowKungFu: In ''Shadows of Tenochtitlan'', Missionaries and Priests are only allowed knives as weapons. But they can get the Unarmed combat skill. Gerani and Patli are thus religious figures that fight with their fists.
%%* TheAntiNihilist: ''Spiral Tower's'' Haulsee.
* AnyoneCanDie: All but one of the characters died on the first mission of ''Great Patriotic War''.
%%* BadassNormal: Pretty much all the superpower games really.
* BritainIsOnlyLondon: Inverted, the recurring character Lord Crumpet comes from the completely obscure region of Crumpetshire, as does his sister.
* CardCarryingVillain: In ''Spiral Tower'', there was Nuke's Baron Bludgetsen ''von Badguy.''
%%* ColdSniper: Anyone with a sniper rifle, regardless of the game.
* ACommanderIsYou: ''Red Alert'' and ''Heroes'' featur the ability to command armies.
%%* CulturedWarrior: Lord and Lady Crumpet.
%%* DarkAndTroubledPast: A number of characters use this as a backstory.
%%* DarkIsEvil: The Black Guard in ''The Infiltrators''.
* DemonicPossession: The recurring character Tim is home to the demon known as 'Mary'. When she takes direct control she usually acts as a [[SuperpoweredEvilSide power amplifier for his abilities]].
* DumbMuscle: Peter Korovich in ''Red Alert''. He was strong enough to punch through walls, but too stupid to form complete sentences.
%%* EagleLand: In ''Heroes Rise And Fall'', Arya attempted a Type 1 portrayal, partially by giving all the good equipment to the USA.
%%* EnergyWeapon: These appear in a number of games. In some they are quite Rare, and usually more powerful than normal bullets.
* FailedASpotCheck: In ''JSS'', the tank coming down the road fires at random, having failed to notice JoanK running out to distract it.
%%* {{GMPC}}: [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs Steggy the Stegosaurus]] in ''Survival Games'' is looking a lot like this.
%%* IAmVeryBritish: Lord and Lady Crumpet.
%%* KnightInSourArmor: ''Spiral Tower'''s General Haulsee, to a T.
%%* LeeroyJenkins: The recurring NPC [[MeaningfulName Private L. Jenkins]] is this trope personified.
%%* MyGreatestFailure: Many character have this in their backstory.
%%* OfficerAndAGentleman: Lord and Lady Crumpet.
%%* OnlySaneMan: Whenever the NPC [=MacDonald=] appears, he invariably acts as this to the other [=NPCs=]. [[MeaningfulName Like]] [[LeeroyJenkins Jenkins]].
%%* OpposingCombatPhilosophies: This happens in every two-team game.
%%* ThePlan: Corpus. Christi. Bay. They all use different kinds of plans
%%* PlayingWithFire: Recurring character Tim and his demonic possessor 'Mary'.
%%* PoweredArmour: This shows up in some form in most modern/future combat ACs.
%%* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Lady and Lord Crumpet.
%%* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Every AC "team" comes off as this, even in games about groups of elite professionals.
%%* RunningGag: Lord Crumpet, to the level that his played once played as "Lady Crumpet" just to lampshade it.
%%* SpotOfTea: Lord Crumpet lives on this trope.
* StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale: In ''JCAC'', nobody ever finds Lucy's obsession with Signan disturbing enough to do anything about it. Even after [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale she's raped him]].
%%* StalkerWithACrush: In ''JCAC'', Lucy Penner to Signan Origanam.
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Delphine Rose Watson (DR Watson) in ''The Day Before''.
%%* StuffBlowingUp: Every AC ever has had copious amounts of this.
* SurprisinglyEliteCannonFodder: N.P.C. in ''USF'' began life as a mook who rolled a 20 against a grenade, before surviving three more turns of attack unscathed by just standing still.
%%* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Every single game has at least one pair that cannot work together well, but have to.
* UsingYouAllAlong: In ''USF'', the player's boss was the BigBad who had actually been using the team to ease the [[GovernmentConspiracy EU into a single German-dominated state]].
%%* TheVamp: Shannon Dreyfus. Ye gods.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:American Uprising]]
%%* BayonetYa
* ACommanderIsYou: The game features the ability to command armies.
* EnemyCivilWar: From the Federation's perspective, the split of Free America between the loyal forces of Eagle and the deserting Condor Legion led by John "Condor" Smith qualify.
* EnemyMine: Condor Legion has on numerous occasions helped out Federation forces, despite having the same goal of independence as Free America. On the last Condor Legion mission, Smith points out that eventually that they're going to do battle with each other.
* OpposingCombatPhilosophies: The organized Federation versus the LeeroyJenkins US.
* TooDumbToLive: In a hilarious version, a lone foot soldier refuses to surrender to the head of the Condor Legion, who is in a tank, simply because said leader, Smith, was a Red Sox fan while the soldier was a Yankees fan. Eventually Smith got out of the tank and wrestled him down, too amused to kill him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dark Oaths]]
* ChallengingTheChief: This was required to depose the King of Dixie, with Ethar'tey acting as Senator Trumans [[CombatByChampion Champion]] in a [[DuelToTheDeath Duel]] against [[EvilRedhead Chancellor O'hara]].
* FaceHeelTurn: Ethar'tey, during the CC Bay incident. Complete with much [[EvilGloating gloating.]]
* LongLived: Elves live to about 200. Ethar'tey is 74, several times older than most of the other characters.
* MoralityPet: Ethar'tey's familiar 'Siggy' serves as this. Given Eth's [[TokenEvilTeammate moral compass]], Siggy also fufils [[RightHandCat another role]]. Of course, Siggy and Eth have [[SmugSnake a fair bit]] [[CatsAreSuperior in common]].
* SixthRangerTraitor: Ethar'tey, who is literally a ranger, and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulated the whole team into capture]] at Corpus Christi Bay.
* SpeciesLoyalty: Ethar'tey takes this [[KnightTemplar to the extremes]], being willing to defend even enemy members of her species from her allies. Of course, it's [[TokenEvilTeammate Ethar'tey]], so she does this sort of thing even without elves to defend.
* TakeThatKiss: [[TokenEvilTeammate Ethar'tey]] to chancellor [[EvilRedhead O'Hara]] after their [[CombatByChampion first fight]].
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: None of the team can work together. At least for the first few missions.
* TokenNonHuman: Ethar'tey is an elf amongst a team of humans. She repeatedly bemoans this fact, and her [[FantasticRacism opinions on humans]] give her elements of [[TokenEvilTeammate another type of token teammate]].
* TokenReligiousTeammate: Antonina the cultist, almost to the point of being a KnightTemplar.
* TurnCoat: Ethar'tey betrays the team during the Corpus Christi Bay Incident.
* UriahGambit: Ethar'tey's plan to wear out her allies on the various mooks before she and Wraith!Dem Taqat finished them off.
* WelcomeBackTraitor: Ethar'tey repeatedly attempts to disrupt the teams plans, or to leave them to die, or even attacks them herself a few times, but is always welcomed back.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Final Frontier]]
%%* ActionGirl: Kaimana, Koreni, Janowski, Shuford, Salamanca.
* AirborneAircraftCarrier: The SFN Slater is a dedicated example, but many ships have the ability to launch fighters.
%%* AlohaHawaii: Kaimana Lae'ula.
%%* ArtificialGravity: A ship has yet to be introduced which lacks this in some form.
%%* AttackDrone: Fighters with the Drone Pilots perk.
%%* AwesomeButImpractical: Fighters.
%%* TheBattlestar: Is the size of New Zealand. And twice as powerful as the next most powerful ship.
%%* BeamSpam: Ships with lots of lasers can do this.
%%* BoardingParty: Used by both Players and [=NPCs=] alike to produce absolute bloodbaths.
%%* BrokenBird: We got a glimpse into Kaimana's psyche during BS-2. It wasn't pretty.
%%* BrownNote: The aliens from [=GoO=] cause this just by speaking.
%%* ChekhovsGunman: The entire purpose of being able to specify family members.
* ACommanderIsYou: The ability to control the crew on your ship.
* ContinuityNod: Lance Gates is married to Rose Valentine from SSD.
%%* CurbStompBattle: Many, oh so many.
%%** When Elite Marines board corvettes.
%%** [=GoO=]-1 was basically this on a fleetwide scale, to the Federation's detriment.
%%* DeflectorShields: The 'Shields' defenses.
* DoAnythingSoldier: The Captains fight boarding battles, space battles, land battles, and even conduct diplomacy.
%%* EliteMooks: Literally, crew can be upgraded to elite.
* EpicFail: In RAZ-1, a corvette blew itself up due to a failure firing missiles. Later on, enemy troops dodged straight into bullets from Kaimana's Marines.
%%* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Kaimana is a direct descendant of King Kamehameha.
%%* FrickinLaserBeams: Laser-equipped ships, like Dem's.
* FromBadToWorse: Everything in Gates of Orion is heading this way. A mere diplomatic exchange to stop Sol from becoming a garbage dump turned into a [[CurbStompBattle absolute curb-stomp]], which in turn caused the aliens to retaliate by glassing the colony at Polaris, which after repelled by friendly aliens, ended up revealing that the original alien fleet was the Emperor's personal fleet of that species, and the battle resulted in humanity being called for a holy genocide.
* GeniusDitz: Kaimana has elements of this. Notably the time she chalked everything that was happening in BS-1 up to the Hawai'ian gods, then said this when the briefing officer didn't know how the weather control satellite worked:
-->"''Well, obviously, it has to work by affecting ionized particles in the stratosphere and increasing or decreasing heat and in the air to fine-tune conditions to create or destroy cloud formations which then can become storms.''"
* GroinAttack: Gates shot an Alon in the groin, [[BizarreAlienBiology but it's unclear whether this had the same effect as it would on a human.]]
%%* HollywoodTactics: Invoked and subverted by the players and [=NPCs=] alike.
%%* HopelessWar: [=GoO=] is starting to look like this after Mission 3.
* InterruptedIntimacy: Koreni and Gerani walked into Isabella having sex with her wife. [[GirlOnGirlIsHot Gerani wanted to watch]].
%%* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: Mass Drivers, notably on Nuke's vessels.
%%* LaserBlade: The Energy Blade.
%%* LawOfAlienNames: The Zaarquan,
* LetsGetDangerous: Kaimana removed her hairpiece in [=GoO=]-3. Shortly thereafter, a ''battlestar'' blew up.
%%* MacGuffin: Artifacts.
%%* MacrossMissileMassacre: Missile weapons, prevalent on LH's ships.
%%* MagneticWeapons: Mass Drivers, bitches.
* MeaningfulName: Kaimana means "Divine Power of the Sea" and her ship ''Hokuikekai'' means "Star of the Sea." Remember that SpaceIsAnOcean.
* MulticulturalAlienPlanet: The differences in Alon culture are part of the reason for their civil war.
* OhCrap: In [=GoO=]-2, when the players see five battlestars attacking a Federation world.
%%* ProudMerchantRace: Most of the Zaarquan fall under this trope, although players are far more likely to encounter the [[SpacePirates outliers]] given their occupation.
%%* RammingAlwaysWorks: Played straight in BS-1 when a corvette rams the Ku'uaki.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Lance Gates' eyes turn red when he's mad.
%%* ReflectingLaser: Justified in [=GoO=]-1 when Red rolled a critical success.
%%* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Gerani is NOT attracted to Kaimana.
%%* SpaceFighter: Squadrons of these can be used in the game.
%%* SpaceIsAnOcean: Dem's reason behind playing his 'naval' character, Frederick Gerani.
%%* SpaceMarines: The Marine crew unit.
%%* SpaceNavy: The players are in one of them.
%%* SpaceStation: Several of these are encountered in the various campaigns.
%%* SpicyLatina: Isabella Salamanca.
%%* StealthInSpace: The Stealth perks.
%%* TacticalWithdrawal: A lot of {{Non Player Character}}s die trying this.
%%* TeleportersAndTransporters: All SFN Ships have these, as do a number of other races.
%%* UnresolvedSexualTension: Kaimana and Gerani.
%%* WeHaveReserves: Zeth's strategy in RAZ.
%%* WrongGenreSavvy: Okay, that corvette in BS-1 was a scout rather than bait...
* ZergRush:
** The Alon use huge waves of small ships. It's only a matter of time before they break out fighters.
** Gerani won a boarding battle by literally providing so many basic crew that Zeth's ELITE marines couldn't shoot them all.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Freedom to Die]]
* TheBadGuyWins: After [[KillEmAll everyone died]], [[ItsAWonderfulFailure the epilogue]] makes it quite clear that the construction of the doomsday device is able to proceed as planned. It is then used by the empire to wipe out all rebel forces from orbit. The general of the Imperial Guard then takes the throne and [[DownerEnding initiates a new golden era of oppression.]]
%%* BayonetYa
* BlingOfWar: The 'Visual Camo' available on [[PoweredArmor Some Armour]].
* CoincidentalDodge: [[CloudCuckooLander ObliviousGuard]] failed to notice his partner died, and then proceeded to [[InvincibleIncompetent avoid two bullets, a thrown knife, and an attempted stabbing]] [[FailedASpotCheck without even noticing]].
%%* CommonTongue: Played straight.
* EpicFail: In the second [=FtD=] Mission, Moe Queshire attempts to take out an armored enemy with Molotovs. The first two he throws refuse to catch fire, and the third simply hits the wall at the end of the corridor. Then he switches to his gun, which jammed as soon as he tried to fire it. Then [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere he and Ping flee]], leaving their comrades to die.
%%* LaResistance: The players form a key part of this.
* PocketProtector: Fa Ping has a bullet deflected by a cigarette lighter in her pocket.
%%* ShoutOut: L. Jenkins SPEAKS IN ALL CAPS! ALL THE TIME! and yells 'OVER THE TOP!' during his first appearance.
* TotalPartyKill: The ending involved the entire ship being blown up by Fa Ping, whilst the boat the team was trying to escape on was stuck on the deck after the rope leading to the crane was cut by the players trying to escape.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Island of Dreams]]
* AlternateHistory: The roleplay is jam-packed with many conflicting histories, seeing as it featured people from hundreds of worlds thrown into one area.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Tovarishch is described as a personification of Communism.
%%* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: Winston Churchill and Tovarishch did this to the Valkyre Bastet.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Ivan gets his jetpack shot off by a gunship, goes into a free fall, and [[RevengeBeforeReason pulls off a head shot]] on the gunship pilot that shot him down. With a crossbow.
* MagicIsAMonsterMagnet: Using Dream powers attracts the Valkyries.
* SchrodingersButterfly: Was [=IoD=] a dream, or was it real, and the "real" world was the dream?
* SixthRangerTraitor: Churchill was actually working with the Valkyries.
* ThatCameOutWrong: A lot.
-->'''DT:''' Fear the [[FreudianSlip Raper]]! ThatCameOutWrong! rEaper! with an E!
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Metropolis]]
%%* BadassNormal: Metro 1 and 2 allows players to be these.
* BrainsAndBondage: Reva in Metropolis 2, as evidenced by [[http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=11465187&postcount=42 her log.]]
%%* CastingAShadow:
%%** The 'Dark' powers in Metropolis.
%%** Lord Crumpet from Metropolis 2.
%%* CoatHatMask: Signan Origanam uses this style.
* ACommanderIsYou: Metro features the ability to command armies.
%%* MyGreatestFailure: Lord Crumpet's is a NoodleIncident.
%%* PermaStubble: Signan Origanam from Metropolis 2.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Pacific War series]]
%%* CoolBoat: The entire premise.
%%* CurbStompBattle: Desron's League squadron in their first mission. Ironically, the USA squadron in their first mission as well, only they are on the losing side.
* DownerEnding: Pacwar concludes with the players fighting to the last man in Singapore against the Japanese onslaught.
%%* {{GMPC}}: Admiral James Arion and the battleship ''Honolulu''.
* LastStand: Dem Taqat and Nuke were surrounded by the Japanese fleet at Singapore (along with a few [=NPCs=]), and both fought to the last man.
* LeeroyJenkins: In Desron, Wayne and Amadeus sailed straight into the teeth of a task force of advanced Japanese destroyers and a British heavy cruiser, [[TooDumbToLive while they only had two obsolescent hulks]]. [[TotalPartyKill Guess how it ended.]]
* NoodleImplements: Gerani escaped POW camp with 'a piece of string, a bowl of gruel, a conveniently placed stick and an unbelievable amount of optimism and on-the-fly patches.'
* OnlySaneMan: Captain [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Killroy]]. At Surabaya, he only followed his LeeroyJenkins party because his odds of success weren't any better forging to Port Moresby alone.
* OpposingCombatPhilosophies:Desron's disciplined League vs. LeeroyJenkins US.
* SoleSurvivor: Duke Blackstone fled the battle of Singapore in his last plane, after his ship had been sunk (he'd moved his planes to the airfield beforehand) and all his allies had been killed.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Saviors series]]
%%* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Ransack Shark.
* ATeamFiring: Averted. The only thug to fire a shot at Salazar used a shotgun. Not only did the thug hit, but the shotgun missed the human shield Salazar had been using.
%%* BadassCape: Fear.
%%* BadassNormal: A specific background in Saviours, but Saviors 2 also allowed players to be these.
* BlindfoldedVision: The visually impaired Vya Fedha wore a blindfold when she fought. She "saw" by using echolocation.
%%* CastFromHitPoints: How Salazar managed to destroy half a city with only the Default levels of INT and WIS.
%%* CaptainPatriotic: Sergeant Russia.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Most of Fear's 'Powers' are derived from his suit.
* CordonBleughChef: Anna Fyre's culinary specialty? Cockroach anything.
%%* CoolCar: Frederick's car 'Maria'. Where Anna slept [[ItMakesSenseInContext with Frederick.]] Not [[UnresolvedSexualTension Gerani]], the other Frederick.
* {{Crossover}}: On one mission, the team have to set right what went wrong in other [=ACs=] -- leading to this little gem when Fear encounters Lord Crumpet:
-->"You turn and critical hit yourself in the face with an elbow."
* GreenEyedMonster: Anna is unhappy to say the least when Frederick spends the night at Belliam's home. It is also the next place added to her hit list.
* LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards: Inverted; the Supernatual origins let 'magical' characters start with great abilities which they struggle to improve, whilst normal origin characters grow much faster when all the potential synergies start coming into play.
%%* PsychicAssistedSuicide: Anna's backstory, and the reason she took up the "ThouShaltNotKill" code.
%%* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Gerani:
%%-->"Romance? It's just a conversation!"
* ShipTease: Plenty of Fyrani (Fyre/Gerani) action occurred in the Saviors "Battle Royale" Christmas Special.
%%* SupervillainLair: The players bases count as these.
%%* VillainProtagonist: The basic premise.
%%* VillainsActHeroesReact: [=SaM=] allows players to choose mission targets because of this.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:SSD Series]]
%%* AbsentMindedProfessor: Specs
* AccidentalAimingSkills: Hayakawa manages to blow up an entire ship when her shot misses the SAM Launcher and hits the ammunition store.
%%* ActionGirl: Captain Andropov.
* AffectionateNickname: Everyone calls the main helicopter "the Choppah", and, due to the Danish government not releasing his name at first, everyone calls Hans "Viking", even after he told his actual name to them.
* ArmorIsUseless: Both played straight and inverted, as most characters would be dead if not for armor. Most non-player characters wearing armor are tougher as well. However, it usually doesn't matter if normal Mooks are wearing armor.
* ATeamFiring: Despite his enhanced energy weapon, [=BestRFCplayer=] never hits what he is aiming for. At one point he tries to blast his way into a NYC warehouse. He ends up toppling the Statue of Liberty.
%%* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Specs gets this when examining the team for the plague.
* BackFromTheDead:
** Viking, even though he was blown into tiny chunks, later was revived [[TwinMaker as a clone]].
** Andropov comes back in the ending scene in a brand new body.
%%* TheBadGuyWins: Implied with the President of Russia and Tigershark.
* BerserkButton: Viking will break your crap if you dare call him a Swede.
%%* BetaCouple: Zhakov and Yvette.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Viking, one of the few members of the team that could be considered "Nice", went completely ballistic on Dale during interrogation, breaking his balls and pelvis in a single kick. The fact that he killed his MoralityPet didn't help matters.
%%* BigBrotherInstinct: Hugh Crumpet to his sister, Olivia.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Lord Crumpets equipment list includes: Guns, Grenades, Knives; and a bottle of urine. And he uses it. Repeatedly.
* BritainIsOnlyLondon: Inverted, Lord Crumpet comes from the completely obscure region of Crumpetshire.
* CasualDangerDialog: After Viking became suicidal after Andropov's death, he would always greet his enemies, even those who haven't yet noticed him, with a friendly "Oh hi there", for he stopped caring about the danger.
* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys:
-->'''Red Spy:''' VIVA LA FRANCE! I SURRENDER!
* CloningBlues: The US government secretly had a cloning project, and all of them are [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman slaughtered by the SSD like if the clones were trying to kill them]] except for the clone of Viking, which actually did try to kill them in their first meeting.
* CloningGambit: The entire plot of the latter half of SSD; almost everything is linked to America's secret cloning project, and both heroes and villains alike make use of the project.
* ClosestThingWeGot: Crumpet doesn't have a med skill, but when they don't have a Medic his jury-rig skill and a few cloths are the closest thing they've got to a bandage
%%* ColdSniper: Lord Crumpet and Marcus. Marcus once killed 6 enemies with one shot.
%%* ContinuityNod: One mission takes place near the Statue of Liberty. Or rather, what's left of it.
%%* CryIntoChest: Andropov cried all over Crumpet after her fight with Sven in SSDR.
* {{Determinator}}: Viking would just not give up trying to save Andropov when she tried pulling a HeroicSacrifice, even when she threatened to charge him with sexual harassment
* DeadpanSnarker: Landlubber:
-->'''Landlubber:''' Considering that she's not bi in the first place and her kids are in danger, the best decision she could make is obviously to leave her husband and fall in love with Sexton.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Lord Crumpet punching Luc'thar in the face with a burning cloth tied around his fist, followed by Luc'thars subsequent defeat at the hands of the team.
* DropTheHammer: Wayne carriers a utility hammer that he occasionally uses in combat.
%%* DrowningMySorrows: Andropov in SSDR after her fight with Sven. Sven was planning it too, but got annoyed with Crumpets attempts to help and gave up.
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: The first indication Sven is in love with Andropov is him kissing her whilst she is unconscious. Then he does it again later. The next time she's unconscious he restrains himself, but she assumes he did it anyway.
* DuelToTheDeath: Crumpet engages in a slightly unusual variation with [[DuelBoss Nimue]] in that only Crumpet is putting his life on the line. The fact that [[LetsFightLikeGentlemen the unwritten rules are honored]] and both sides refuse to [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown fight dirty]] is a driving force behind their [[WorthyOpponent mutual respect]] for each other.
%%* EpicFail: One of the Mooks Svensgaard fired at, I quote- "... LEAPED. INTO. THE. BLEEPING. BULLETS."
* FailedASpotCheck: When players go hunting for the trapdoor in a burning warehouse, they all forget that it is on a highly visible raised platform.
%%* FakeUltimateHero: Captain Arthur Nix, new commander of the SSD after the "Season Two Finale" and Andropov's death.
%%* FamilyHonor: Crumpet believes in this.
%%* TheFettered:
%%** Lord Crumpet.
%%** After he defeats her, Nimue becomes this to him due to her [[IGaveMyWord Oath of Servitude]].
* FreudianSlip: Omega saying "Give me a sex" where he meant sec.
%%* FriendlyFireIndex: Everywhere.
* FriendlySniper: Frederick Gerani in [=SSD2=]. In fact, his main flaw was attempting to be a little too friendly [[CasanovaWannabe with every female on the team]].
* FromBadToWorse: Fleeing from the exploding base with most of the squad wounded after the fight with Dale, the squad run into Another Dale... With another super energy weapon.
%%* GratuitousNinja: The Season 3 opening saw the team attacked by Ninjas.
* GrenadeHotPotato: In one SSDR mission a grenade manages to land by almost half the team before finally blowing up next to the enemy.
* GroinAttack:
** Lord Crumpet scored a critical hit on an opponent's groin in one mission, lifting him ''six inches into the air'' and ''breaking his pelvis''.
** Crumpet has since shot a clone of the same man in the groin with a sniper rifle. Now the 'Flaggs Groin' is Crumpet's favoured enemy, claiming he has a '+5 racial bonus' to hitting it.
%%* HappinessInSlavery: Nimue appears to have found this.
%%* HeroicComedicSociopath: Sasha Coronova.
* HeroicSacrifice:
** Viking blew himself up to kill 24 grunts (out of 80) and to allow the rest of the team to escape to safety.
** Andropov later tried pulling one off as [[YouShallNotPass a way to buy the team more time]]. Viking, however, [[AvertedTrope would not put up with it]] and tried rescuing her, although he failed at the very end.
* HonorBeforeReason: Lord Crumpet tells Red to patch up Rose (who has a minor wound and no combat ability) before himself (an elite soldier with 'firearms mastery' who is unable to use one of his arms) because his honor demands the ladies are healed first.
* HypercompetentSidekick: Nimue has a cumulative 9 skills and is almost invulnerable to projectiles. At the time of her [[ThePromise joining him]], Crumpet has 6.
%%* IAmVeryBritish: Lord Crumpet.
%%* IGaveMyWord: One of the reasons for Crumpet's insistence on Nimue's well being.
%%* IKissYourFoot: Nimue does this to Crumpet on occasion.
%%* {{Jerkass}}: Captain Nix, so bad that Sven slit his throat in their first mission together.
%%* KarmaHoudini: Redspy, Sasha Coronova, and Tigershark.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Gourmet uses a Katana. After he is killed, Lord Crumpet takes it up and continues to prove its betterness.
%%* MajorlyAwesome: Andropov becomes this in SSDR, although many still refer to her by her [[TheCaptain former rank]].
%%* ManchurianAgent: Sasha Coronova, for the [[PresidentEvil President]] [[DirtyCommunists of Russia]].
* MindControlEyes: The eyes of Xenid Psychics flash when they are attempting their attacks, with the color of the flash indicating their effectiveness.
%%* MindlinkMates: [[PortmanteauCoupleName Crumue]]. It wasn't exactly Crumpet's idea.
* MoralityPet: After indirectly allowing Wayne to torture a girl for info after his attempt of consoling her, Viking tried helping her to make himself not feel as bad. Key word being tried. He left her in her cell because he chickened out, got drunk in order to help motivate himself but ended up passing out, and the team left with Viking but not the girl. On a return trip, he was able to rescue her, but she got shot by Dale during the operation and bled to death.
* MultinationalTeam: There is the standard American, Russian, French, and British characters, but random nationalities such as Korean ([[NoodleIncident Which unified between the timespan of 2012-2014 without any true explanation given]]), Danish, and Swiss are thrown into the mix.
%%* MundaneSolution: Lubber uses his jury rig skill to bandage Andropov when she has been hit. To make a bandage, he cannibalizes a box she was carrying. The box was a super-medkit.
%%* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Nimue, after accepting Crumpet as her Master, takes this to extremes. And apparently isn't doing it enough by the standards of her people.
%%* MysticalPlague: The Psychic Plague.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Being nice to her despite her position is one of the ways Crumpet wins over Nimue.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Lord Crumpet: [[PoweredArmor Power-Armour-Wearing]], [[KatanasAreJustBetter Katana-Weilding]], [[GoodOldFisticuffs Martial Arts-Knowing]], [[PsychicLink Mind]][[HappinessInSlavery slave-Owning]], [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Demon-Punching]], [[PsychicPowers Psychic]] [[ElitesAreMoreGlamorous Commando]] [[OfficerAndAGentleman British]] [[OldSchoolChivalry Lord]]
* NotGoodWithRejection: After his initial rejection, Sven attempted to walk into a fire.
* OneHitPolykill:
** Marcus' six man collateral with the Barret .50 cal.
** [=BestRFC=] killed 8 people with one laser blast in one of the few times he actually hit the enemy with it
** Viking killed 24 in one attack, [[HeroicSacrifice but he went down with it]].
** Sasha killed 79 people, including President Dale, with one rocket.
* OneManArmy: Arya takes on Vice President Young as he escapes. He singlehandedly kills her and at least 7 of her "Greenie" supersoldiers.
* OneWingedAngel: Lord Crumpet uses the piloting mastery he hadn't gotten a chance to use all game and defeated President Dale's UFO while flying a captured [[CoolPlane F-22a Raptor]].
* OnlySaneEmployee: In SSDR, Crumpet pretty much takes up the job of 'preventing the whole team killing each other' as his main task, often with help from Marcus.
* OutOfTheInferno: Marcus walks through the fire in the warehouse.
%%* PresidentEvil:
%%** POTUS Christian Dale.
%%** [[ChessMaster The President of Russia]] is also implied to be this.
%%* PsychicLink: Nimue opens one of these with Crumpet after he defeats her.
%%* PyroManiac: Both Carla and Zhakov from SSDR.
%%* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Lord Crumpet (again).
* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: As soon as Sven has a fight with Andropov, he finds himself alone in a room with Slick. Who calls herself a 'desperate slut' for trying to seduce him whilst he has a moment of weakness.
* ShoutOut: Zhakov has a perk that gives him a bonus to fire-based attacks. It's called "[[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Belief in Magic]]".
* SingleTear: Crumpet sheds one of these in SSDR when shown a locket with a picture of him and his sister inside. At the time he is trapped on another world while his sister is sitting almost on top of a warzone back in theirs.
%%* SlapSlapKiss: Sven (landlubber) and Anropov (NPC)'s Relationship is perfectly summed up by this trope.
* StuffBlowingUp: Everyone, Everywhere.
** RFC blowing up the NYC warehouse.
** Arya launched a (completely unnecessary) car bomb at a Brotherhood safehouse.
* SurprisinglyEliteCannonFodder: One mook managed to hold of most of the squad for over 3 rounds, whilst Arya (who had been captured) looked on asking [[MundaneSolution why nobody would just stick a pistol to his head and shoot him,]] which DT eventually did (after shooting Lubber in the leg).
%%* TeethClenchedTeamwork:
%%** Arya and Andropov. Never ends well.
%%** Lubber and RFC exhibit this trope when on missions with Captain Andropov.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks:
** Redspy hurled his knife at Rose, leaving in a helicopter, specifically to invoke this trope. He actually hits, but she's fine.
** During one mission, Redspy threw a knife threw a wall and hit.
%%** Lubber does it too with an actual sword.
%%* TranquilFury: Lord Crumpet enters this when Luc'thar is [[ForcedToWatch torturing Nimue in front of him]].
%%* {{Tsundere}}: Captain Katrina Andropov, commanding officer of the SSD.
* UriahGambit: During the mission to Denver, the entire squad leaves Sasha to defeat a 'Greenie' SuperSoldier in hand-to-hand combat by herself. She survives by accidentally blowing up a tanker truck.
%%* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: The SSD Anti terrorist-squad plans to launch a teambuilding exercise. The goal? Burn down Wall Street.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Viking always tries to solve his problems through liberal use of explosives.
%%* WorthyOpponent: Crumpet and Nimue see each other as this.
* YourAnswerToEverything: People have noted that Iris recommends eggs as the answer to every problem.
%%* YouShallNotPass: The nature of Andropov's attempted HeroicSacrifice.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Stellar War]]
%%* AlienInvasion: The Federation acts as this for Haven.
* BattleCry: Private [[LeeroyJenkins L. Jenkins]]: "OVER THE TOP!!!"
* ACommanderIsYou: Stellar War features the ability to command armies.
* OpposingCombatPhilosophies: The LeeroyJenkins Federation versus the organized Haven.
* TheWarOfEarthlyAggression: The Federation comes from Earth and is invading Haven.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Under the Mask]]
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Iris and Umbel Lyse take pains to stay identical, to the extent of using the [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair same colour hair dye]].
* AndIMustScream: Dante went through this when he was [[HumanPopsicle frozen]] for 700 years.
* AuthorAppeal: [=UtM=] has five GM-created and one Player-created redhead {{Non Player Character}}s. In the same class. And 4 of them are females with 7+ CHA. [[RuleOfSexy Not that anybody is really complaining]].
%%* BadassNormal: A number of characters, both [=PCs=] and [=NPCs=]
%%* CrazyPrepared: Actually a feat.
* CreepyMonotone: The adoption of one of these by formerly friendly [=TS84P=] is one of the first things that convinces the players there is a problem with him. It's later revealed to be a result of him going into [[HeroicSafeMode survival mode]].
* DistractedByTheSexy: Ignan Origanam walks into the room where Delphine and Cardinal Rose are beating up a guy in perfectly synchronised WaifFu, and is distracted for a turn by just how hot the two of them look.
%%* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: So who was Crumpet actually working for?
* ElementalBarrier: Both Tim and Emily can form defensive shields of fire.
%%* FightsLikeANormal: A number of characters without combat-related feats.
%%* FishOutOfWater: One of the potential 'situations', although the NPC [[SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining Spartans]] tend to be better examples of this trope.
%%* FishOutofTemporalWater: Dante, although he has adapted quite well.
%%* FormallyNamedPet: Dr. Flufferkins, Kosteks dog.
%%* TheGlomp: Jin does this to John at one point after their latest big relationship bump.
* GrapplingHookPistol: Dante has a wrist-mounted version.
%%* HeroicBSOD: Batman has one of these after accidentally killing Zuko.
%%* HeroicHost: Tim, for Mary.
* HeroicSafeMode: While the heroic part is [[AntiHero debateable]], the Spartans safe mode activates automatically in danger, and is the key cause of their [[DirtyBusiness more immoral actions]].
%%* HeterosexualLifePartners: Taylor and Emily.
* HumanPopsicle: Dante was born in Renaissance Italy. This is how he got to modern day Doumedsville.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: [=TS84P=] apparently fights to save the world because the other Spartans promised to shoot him after they've done that, and his survival training won't allow him to do it himself.
* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: The game takes place in Doumedesville. Any similarities to the word [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom 'doomed']] are probably coincidence.
%%* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: The Heroes do this a lot to Emily when she starts to go Demon.
* ItsAllMyFault:
** Vya says this after her [[GoneHorriblyRight botched healing]] of Frederick Gerani.
** Jin says this repeatedly about the kidnapping of her friends.
%%* {{Jetpack}}: Venator has one.
%%* KillItWithFire: Taken to extremes by Logi, to the point that he hurts his friends more than his enemies.
* LapPillow: Taylor lies in Emily's lap at one point. It's played for comfort rather than romance, and in a slight subversion Taylor is the one doing the comforting.
* LeaveTheTwoLoveBirdsAlone: Veronica quotes this word for word when Jin goes to talk to John.
* MagicByAnyOtherName: Its not magic, its the manipulation of planar trickle!
%%* TheMenInBlack: The Agents of the FBI.
* MotorMouth: Fiona Blackspire. She speaks so much so quickly that Dem usually just picks out the important facts to tell the players and ignores the actual words.
* MrSmith: Members of Project Lovecraft all identify themselves as 'Operative Smith'.
* NoNameGiven: [=TS84P=] refuses to use his birth name, declaring that [[ThatManIsDead the person who it was given to no longer exists]].
* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: The ARC has at least one known prototype, but the plans were destroyed and the actual device stolen before further backups could be made. The Prototype is also vastly inferior, being more of a failed experiment.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Delphine says this after she shoves her hand down an unconscious Frederick's shirt in front of his girlfriend.
* PlaceOfPower: Doumedesville is a 'Planar Hotspot', which is the primary reason there are so many supers there.
%%* PlayingWithFire: Tim/Mary.
* PowerFloats: The first time the players see Emily completely possessed, she is hovering above the street throwing fire everywhere.
%%* PowerNullifier: Oswald's abilty acts as this.
%%* ThePowerOfLove: The explanation given for some of Vya's more dramatic accomplishments.
%%* PubertySuperpower: One of the Potential Situations.
* SadisticChoice: When Taylor is forced to choose between leaving Emily or John.
* {{Shapeshifting}}: Sanguine has the ability to turn into a bat.
%%* ShootTheDog: [[AntiHero The Spartans]] do this a lot. Oswald admits that [[DirtyBusiness they don't like it]], but given [[TykeBomb who]] [[ChildSoldiers they]] [[TrainingFromHell are]] they can't help it.
* ShoutOut: Cardinal Rose's (electric) Significant sense tell her '[[Franchise/StarWars it's fine, everything's fine, here, now. How are you?]]'
%%* SpiderSense: The 'Significant Sense' power works like this.
* SupernaturalSensitivity: Delphine's power is the detection of others with powers.
* SuperSmoke: Misty can dissolve his body into the air.
* TeleportersAndTransporters: One as-yet-unnamed character can teleport away with a click of his fingers.
%%* TimeStandsStill: Stopwatch can do this for himself and some others.
* ThemeTwinNaming: Iris Rose (I.R.) Lyse and Umbel Violet (U.V.) Lyse.
%%* ThoseTwoGuys: Ben B and Ben J were specifically made to invoke this trope.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Batman, although he does end up killing in extreme situations, sometimes by accident.
%%* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Much of what happens, particularly [[TykeBomb the Spartans]].
* VanInBlack: The Spartans have an entire carpark full of these, as well as similarly coloured [=SUV=]s. The suspiciousness of the vans is compounded by nameplates like [='N0R MA1=]' and '[=N0T 53A1=]'
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: This little scene after a mook is '[[GroinAttack downed]]'
-->'''Dem Taqat:''' hes never gonna have kids again\\
'''Nukeknockout:''' again?\\
'''Dem Taqat:''' so what if he has a family to support?\\
'''Dem Taqat:''' its not like you care anyway\\
'''Nukeknockout:''' true
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Batman's refusal to kill doesn't extend to extra-planar demons who intend to destroy humanity.
%%* WreathedInFlames: Demon!Emily often appears like this.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Iris and Umbel Lyse both dye their hair blue for no apparent reason.
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