History FanFic / TheInfiniteLoops

** The ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' universe isn't highly regarded by visiting Loopers. It almost drove its Anchor, Leah, to irreversible despair and madness before an Admin realized she had become Awake and pulled her out for therapy in a better Loop. Loopers forced to go there tend to raise hell or kill those responsible for the setting's condition, some out of spite and others to get revenge for Leah.

** ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' is often treated as a FateWorseThanDeath loop for a good portion of the Multiverse, its Anchor (Leah) included!

* BlackHoleSue: InUniverse, [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Leah]] [[LampshadeHanging complains]] how no matter ''what'' she or anyone else does in her Branch, "Everything seems to revolve around those two idiots (Bella and Edward) and their relationship, whether it wants to or not." It's a fact that most loopers, even from said universe, [[TakeThat cannot stand Bella and Edward, and it's why those two are the most wildly hated two non-loopers both in and out of universe because of it.]] Regardless, it doesn't stop loopers from causing them hell every chance they get, no matter how much they eat up baselines they loop into.

** The 'Hub' universe is suppose to be ''our'' universe, and isn't looping because it was the only universe not damaged by what supposedly caused the loops in the first place (aside from ''[[Main/CoolAndUnusualPunishment Eiken]]'', of course). While rarely ever brought up, there ''is'' mention that loop compilers and writers are supposedly seers who are able to see the shenanigans the characters get up to in the loops and are compelled to write about it as part of Yggdrasil's system of backing up data.

--> '''Ritsuka''': The Fae of Britain are horrible, awful existences that I frankly, could not care how horribly someone wants to kill them. I have watched DIO string them up by their entrails and stab them full of knives. I have seen the Doomslayer go on a one man rampage and slaughter every fae in his path until Morgan tossed him into the ocean. Alucard took great pleasure in coming up with individual tortures for every last one he could get his hands on, and I even helped participate in some of them, and then he held a zombie apocalypse war against the final foe of the Lostbelt. There is a long, long list of horrible, horrible things I have watched happen to the fae. [[AssholeVictim They deserve every second of it.]]

* AbortedArc: Given that multiple writers work on several loops at a time, this is bound to happen, though most are pretty good about finishing what they start. Most of the time this tends to happen because the arc isn't all that well received either by fellow loop writers or readers, a case of real life getting in the way, or a loop writer simply losing interest in the loops in general.
** Of course, there are cases of loop writers genuinely forgetting they were writing an arc too.

* The (now dead) ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'' loops can be found [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-infinite-loops-nasuloops.292979/]]. It now has a [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/type-infinite-loops-2-return-of-the-nasuverse.968123/ new thread]].

** The VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys Loops can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11111954/1/Infinite-Loops-Five-Nights-at-Freddy-s here.]]

* The Indie Game thread (formerly the VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys thread) can be found [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/indie-games-infinite-loops.329956/ here.]]

In addition, Fused Loops allow Loopers from different universes to interact. As a given, Loopers are tremendously stir-crazy due to the loops. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity usually ensues.]]

** The LightNovel/{{Log Horizon}} Loops can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10191055/1/Log-Horizon-Loops here]]

* The LightNovel/LogHorizon Loops thread can be found [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/log-horizon-infinite-loops.286511/ here]].

** [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-infinite-loops-movie.306132/ This thread]] is for a story in which every Looper EVER is involved in the making of a Theatrical Production, directed by [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Haruhi and the S.O.S brigade]].

** Most things that grant wishes that can/or cause high level [[RealityWarper reality warping]] have been toned down to where they can't do anything that would cause a loop crash, such as [[Franchise/{{Dragonball}} the Dragonballs]], [[WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents Fairy Magic]], or most high level {{Reality Warper}}s in general like [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Haruhi.]]

** The [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda Zelda]] Loops are found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10039954/1/Legend-of-Zelda-Time-Loops here.]]

* GagBoobs: All females, including [[GenderBender genderbent males]], get these whenever they end up in ''Eiken''.

** The Wiki/SCPFoundation Loops can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12547865/1/SCP-8888-The-Infinite-Loops here]].

** The VideoGame/MegaMan Loops are so long they've been broken into parts: [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/mega-loops.281489/ 1]] [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/mega-loops-2-get-equipped-with-time-loops.297315/ 2]] [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/mega-loops-3-battle-in-the-network-now-fortified-with-vitamins-x-and-zero.317846/ 3]]

** [[VideoGame/MegaMan Waltz]] only began looping due to a glitch, but could still use normal looping powers.

* UncannyValley: Some Loopers regard nonloopers as disturbingly static versions of their friends and family. On the flip side, young loopers or particularly perceptive nonloopers sometimes regard older loopers as being strangers in the bodies of their friends when they have changed a lot from their baseline selves.

** The Machinima/RedVsBlue can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10880417/1/ here]].

* The Machinima/{{RedVsBlue}} Loops thread can be found [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/infinite-time-loops-red-vs-blue-thread.322634/ here]].

** The relative power of loopers also tends to vary allot. Generally it's presumed loopers with any significant level of experience should have grown to the point that they can should be able to [[CurbStompBattle curb stomp]] anything the loops throw at them that isn't a god in-universe. However, if an author needs a looper to be challenged for the sake of a story expect them to struggle when dealing with things that would usually be trivial for them.

** Manu the Great, the Chaldean God who 'presides over fate', is the Admin for the ''Nasuverse'' as a whole, most notably [[VideoGame/FateGrandOrder Fate/Grand Order]], which happens to include the Chaldea organization.

** Part of the reason [[Manga/DeathNote Death Notes]] were near flat-out ''banned'' was because of this trope, as they managed to be a StoryBreakerPower ''[[UpToEleven even by looper standards!]]''

* HatedByAll: All [=MLEs=] (Malicious Looping Entities) and many malicious non-loopers such as Umbridge. [[spoiler:Hence, when Gendo Ikari starts looping when it was thought he never would, he finds himself at the mercy of an entire ''multiverse'' that hates his guts, and most have hated his Unawake self for millennia, ''at minumum''. Most of the loopers have met his baseline self at one point or another (due to ''Evangelion'' being one of the seven oldest looping universes), and most (if not all) of them are '''not''' happy to see him looping.]]

** Anime/LupinIII and his crew. He stole the [[WesternAnimation/WinxClub Dragonfire]] ''without magic'' and made it look easy, everything inside [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Gate of Babylon]] and Gilgamesh' armour (that he was wearing) ''while drunk'' (they had drunk all of Gilgamesh' wine inside Gate of Babylon before stealing the rest), [[ShipTease a kiss from]] Franchise/CarmenSandiego, and what she was wearing under the trenchcoat.

** WesternAnimation/TheTick ended up becoming the Anchor of his verse simply because ''he was the only viable candidate'' from the universe, and ''still'' ended up becoming an MLE. Let that sink in...

* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: Many Loopers run into common Variant Loops that they all agree to never mention again. Some examples include the ponies' [[Fanfic/TheConversionBureau Bureau Loops]], Marvel's ComicBook/{{Marville}} variants, and the Pokeverse's ''Fanfic/PokeWars'' worlds.

** Due to the nature of the Transformers Loops, this rule doesn't apply to Decepticons.

* [[MechanicallyUnusualFighter Mechanically Unusual Characters]]: Some loopers don't match the normal looping standards.

* MySkullRunnethOver: Averted thanks to Yggdrasil handling the storage of the eons of memories loopers accumulate.

** We never really ''see'' the ''Eiken'' loops, only hear them referred to, probably because ''Eiken'' is actually quite dull once the novelty of the physiological implausibilities and incessant fanservice wear off. This branch is infamous for its Admin-enforced {{Railroading}} that makes it play out its baseline plot in spite of a Looper's best efforts, which is the entire point – for Loopers, boredom is actually the worst punishment of all.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Stealth Looping, i.e. when someone who is looping hides the fact that they are looping from other loopers.

** [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Applejack]] will never live down the time she tried to make an alcoholic beverage out of potatoes (explanation: their name in French means 'apples of the earth', so she tried to make cider out of them) and ended up creating what has since been dubbed "potato acid", which literally blinded Twilight (who had to ascend to alicorn form to fix it), and set Discord on fire. This has been brought up several times since, with Applejack complaining about not being allowed to live it down.

* {{Railroading}}: Safe-Mode Servers, such as ''Eiken'', railroad loopers onto the canon plot. On a personal level, Setsuna Syndrome is characterized by seeing the events of the baseline (or in some cases, a 'perfect timeline') as sacrosanct and attempting to railroad events to happen like they would in canon. This is usually because the sufferer believes that doing so in just the right way for long enough will end the time loop.
* ReadingAheadInTheScript: As mentioned above, savvy loopers will exploit the MutuallyFictional nature of loops to get an overview of any world they end up in. Some loopers even keep a copy of their own script on hand to give to newcomers.

* RetGone: An entire universe was destroyed at the conceptual level because of data corruption. It's implied that it's not the first to go that way...

** The fact that ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureau'' variants are often treated with disdainful hostility from the ''[=FiM=]'' loopers, and the multiverse at large, can be see as a TakeThat to its setting. A few loopers had a ''Bureau'' loop be their first introduction to the ''Friendship is Magic'' branch, and it takes them subjective centuries to get over their instinctive hostility to Equestrians as a result.
** While not treated as AFateWorseThanDeath territory, they're often not particularly fond of pre-Gen IV ''MLP'' loops either.

* TomatoInTheMirror: Those suffering from Chrysalis Syndrome (AKA: First awaking after a non-baseline run where they have a different role, and thus keeping their memories from that instead of their usual baseline) go through a brief bout of this. Thankfully, it's not as bad as [[MultipleChoicePast Dissociative Loop Identity Disorder]] because after the first initial loop, they have a solid baseline to get used to, but they do have a hard time accepting it depending on what their role was. (''Especially'' if they're normally a villain, which usually results in MyGodWhatHaveIDone.)

** The Crash was a wham episode for every single Loop. An entire universe was wiped out, completely and utterly, damaging several other universes, and jumpstarting new Loopers in the process. It serves as a stark example of just why the Loops are occurring.
** The Crisis was another. Several Loopers were forced to cross lines they never wanted to in order to keep some nasty people from looping and in some cases that didn't even work. Adding onto this is that, following the end of the Crisis, the restrictions on villains looping have been lessened.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Literally everyone is here.

* AdultFear: The Admins in charge of the system explicitly render loopers unable to have children they would not have had in a normal timeline, since the child would cease to exist the moment a loop ended. The agony of losing said child left [[spoiler: Ranma]] in tears.

* The (now dead) ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'' loops can be found [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-infinite-loops-nasuloops.292979/]]. It has since been moved to the Infinite Anime Loops (link at top).