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* TheLeeroy. On Liu Bei's side, Zhang Fei. On Cao Cao's side, Cao Hong. He even shouts "Leeeeroy Jenkins!" at one point.
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* TheLeeroy. LeeroyJenkins: On Liu Bei's side, Zhang Fei. On Cao Cao's side, Cao Hong. He even shouts "Leeeeroy Jenkins!" at one point.
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* TheLeeroy. On Liu Bei's side, Zhang Fei. On Cao Cao's side, Cao Hong. He even shouts "Leeeeroy Jenkins!" at one point.
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* [[BatheHerAndBringHimToMe Bathe Him And Bring Him To Me]]: Cao Cao loves this, although he never does more than look.
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* SmugSnake: Zhuge Liang. Cao Cao has moments where he is like this, but it's Zhuge Liang's default.
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* DesignatedHero: DeliberateValuesDissonance: Lampshaded frequently.
--> '''Villager:''' "Can we have Liu Beiis cowardly, incompetent, and emotionally unstable, but he's back? He was a great mayor."
--> '''Cao Cao:''' "You realize thehero and everybody knows it.guy eats people, right?"
--> '''Villager:''' "Can we have Liu Bei
--> '''Cao Cao:''' "You realize the
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* ValuesDissonance: Lampshaded frequently.
---> '''Villager:''' "Can we have Liu Bei back? He was a great mayor."
---> '''Cao Cao:''' "You realize the guy eats people, right?"
---> '''Villager:''' "Can we have Liu Bei back? He was a great mayor."
---> '''Cao Cao:''' "You realize the guy eats people, right?"
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Cao Hong.
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* NiceGuy: Lu Su. The heroes take full advantage of this.
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* PyroManiac: Zhuge Liang. He likes to burn things.
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* [[MamasBoy Aunt Stepmom's Boy]]: Sun Quan.
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* EvilOverlordList: Guo Jia made Cao Cao read it.
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* ChewbaccaDefense: Zhuge Liang's main debate tactic against the scholars of the South. He leaves them stunned into silence, not because he debated circles round them, but because there is no useful response to "You’re just a regular bird, so you can’t possibly understand dignified, majestic cranes like us."
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* The Dreaded: In the Southlands, Lady Wu.
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* GrandeDame: Lady Wu. Lady Sun takes after her.
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* MoodSwinger: Liu Bei, who responds to most situations by crying. Eventually Zhuge Liang gives up on changing this, and instead focuses on using Liu Bei's crocodile tears to manipulate people.
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* DisposableWoman: [[RunningGag It's the third century, after all.]] Zhao Yun is nice enough to try to avert this, but Lady Mi insists.
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* AntiHero: Cao Cao. Or, possibly, AntiVillain.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: No one finds it at all odd that Sun Qian can teleport, although they may be startled.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: UnusuallyUninterestingSight
** The first chapter mentions Liu Bei's physical description in the novel, claiming he has shoulder length ears and eyes that can look behind those ears, and how nobody in the story ever comments on this.
** No one finds it at all odd that Sun Qian can teleport, although they may be startled.
** The first chapter mentions Liu Bei's physical description in the novel, claiming he has shoulder length ears and eyes that can look behind those ears, and how nobody in the story ever comments on this.
** No one finds it at all odd that Sun Qian can teleport, although they may be startled.
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* PetTheDog: Cao Cao makes this his official policy, hoping to become a VillainWithGoodPR. He has some success, but no one really changes their mind about him being the villain.
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* PetTheDog: Cao Cao makes this his official policy, hoping to become a VillainWithGoodPR.VillainWithGoodPublicity. He has some success, but no one really changes their mind about him being the villain.
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* TalkLikeAPirate: Gan Ning, of course.
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* AssInAmbassador: Mi Heng, of course, but Zhuge Liang as well. Chapter 43 is titled "In which Zhuge Liang puts the “Ass” in “Ambassador."
* CaptainOblivious: Liu Biao persists in believing that Liu Bei is a good person, despite his wife's pointing out all of Liu Bei's misdeeds and suspicious behaviour.
* FrequentlyBrokenUnbreakableVow: Liu Bei and co. never intended to keep their promise to give Jingzhou back to Sun Quan, and every time they are asked to, they move the goalposts.
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* VillainHasAPoint: Cao Cao's entire shtick.
** The Cais aren't very nice people, but their suspicion towards Liu Bei is entirely justified, and what they fear (his taking over) does in fact come to pass.
* VillainWithGoodPR: Cao Cao tries to be this. Liu Bei succeeds.
** The Cais aren't very nice people, but their suspicion towards Liu Bei is entirely justified, and what they fear (his taking over) does in fact come to pass.
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* {{Anticlimax}}: Most of the cliffhangers end this way.
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* TraumaticHaircut: Cao Cao has a couple.
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* ShoutOut: Several to MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail.''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''.
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* AccidentalTruth: Zhuge Liang spins a completely implausible story that Cao Cao's motivation for invading the South is his obsession with the Qiao sisters. It ''isn't'', but Cao Cao turns out to be rather creepily obsessed with them.
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* TooDumbToLive: Dong Zhuo interprets an escalating list of very clearly bad omens as signs that he will be crowned Emperor.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: Jian Yong is quite bitter about his status as a minor character.
* TheSociopath: ZhugeLiang. He doesn't give a damn about morality, only about winning. Liu Bei, at least, has some conscience.
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Everybody is completely insane.
No, ''more'' than the original.
Cao Cao is poised to take over the country. He's brilliant, determined, and a phenomenal leader; he just has one little problem. He's the villain. And the ever-present thorn in his side is TheHero, Liu Bei. He might be a cowardly, lying, narcissistic jerk, but he's still the hero...
Everybody is completely insane.
No, ''more'' than the original.
Cao Cao is poised to take over the country. He's brilliant, determined, and a phenomenal leader; he just has one little problem. He's the villain. And the ever-present thorn in his side is TheHero, Liu Bei. He might be a cowardly, lying, narcissistic jerk, but he's still the hero...
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Cao Cao, although Big Xun and Little Xun usually keep him on track.
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* ChainmailBikini: ''[[FanDisservice Huang Gai.]]''
* ComedicSociopathy: Frequently.
* ChainmailBikini: ''[[FanDisservice Huang Gai.]]''
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* DoubleEntendre: Until the narrator told them to knock it off.
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* StalkingIsLove: Liu Bei gains Zhuge Liang's undying loyalty by being ''extremely'' creepy.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Zhao Yun is the only genuinely nice person on Liu Bei's side.
*{{Troll}}: Mi Heng (who sings the Trololo song)is the first and most memorable, but Zhuge Liang is nearly as good. He does troll Zhou Yu to death, after all.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Zhao Yun is the only genuinely nice person on Liu Bei's side.
*{{Troll}}: Mi Heng (who sings the Trololo song)is the first and most memorable, but Zhuge Liang is nearly as good. He does troll Zhou Yu to death, after all.
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* AntiHero: Cao Cao.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Everyone knows perfectly well they're in a book. They will occasionally address the narrator (and he also may step in when things are getting too silly.) At one point, the characters even ''pull out the book'' to work out a ContinuitySnarl. [[spoiler: They decide to ignore it and [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain pretend it never happened.]]]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Everyone knows perfectly well they're in a book. They will occasionally address the narrator (and he also may step in when things are getting too silly.) At one point, the characters even ''pull out the book'' to work out a ContinuitySnarl. [[spoiler: They decide to ignore it and [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain pretend it never happened.]]]]
* EatingTheEyeCandy: Cao Cao is prone to this.
* GrayAndGrayMorality: Neither the "hero" nor the "villain" are nice people.
* MusicalEpisode: Chapter 38. Everybody finds this rather irritating.
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Lampshaded.
* ShoutOut: Several to MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail.
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Lampshaded.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Cao Cao is just as ruthless in the original, and will sometimes use his status as the villain to justify his actions - but he's not ''wrong'' that the country would have been torn into pieces by civil war without him.
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->'''Li Ru''': This is a serious work of literature!\\
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!!''Farce of the Three Kingdoms'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* CardCarryingVillain: Everyone is well aware who the Villain is, including Cao Cao himself. He sometimes chafes against this.
* DesignatedHero: Liu Bei is cowardly, incompetent, and emotionally unstable, but he's the hero and everybody knows it.
* EveryoneIsGay: Or rather, the HoYay in the original is dialed up.
* GenreSavvy: Cao Cao. Pretty much everyone else to some degree, except Lu Su.
* {{Jerkass}}: Zhuge Liang, in spades.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Cao Cao's is ''Yakety Sax.'' Liu Bei gets suspicious at one point because he doesn't hear it when Cao Cao is supposedly around.
* SickeninglySweethearts: Sun Quan and Lu Su.
* ValuesDissonance: Lampshaded frequently.
---> '''Villager:''' "Can we have Liu Bei back? He was a great mayor."
---> '''Cao Cao:''' "You realize the guy eats people, right?"
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!!''Farce of the Three Kingdoms'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* CardCarryingVillain: Everyone is well aware who the Villain is, including Cao Cao himself. He sometimes chafes against this.
* DesignatedHero: Liu Bei is cowardly, incompetent, and emotionally unstable, but he's the hero and everybody knows it.
* EveryoneIsGay: Or rather, the HoYay in the original is dialed up.
* GenreSavvy: Cao Cao. Pretty much everyone else to some degree, except Lu Su.
* {{Jerkass}}: Zhuge Liang, in spades.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Cao Cao's is ''Yakety Sax.'' Liu Bei gets suspicious at one point because he doesn't hear it when Cao Cao is supposedly around.
* SickeninglySweethearts: Sun Quan and Lu Su.
* ValuesDissonance: Lampshaded frequently.
---> '''Villager:''' "Can we have Liu Bei back? He was a great mayor."
---> '''Cao Cao:''' "You realize the guy eats people, right?"
