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* TeenPregnancy: This happens to Juliet in some endings since she's a horny teenage girl with a very sheltered upbringing and, subsequently, a shallow understanding of sex and pregnancy.
** In one ending, she becomes so annoyed with her parents trying to talk frankly about sex with her when she floats the topic of boyfriend, she decides to date in secret. She ends up pregnant with the guy who got her so skipping town, leading to Juliet telling her daughter, Juliet Junior, every single detail about the process of becoming pregnant.
** PlayedForLaughs in the ending where she and Romeo decide to settle down in Mantua without robbing the Capulets as she soon becomes pregnant with triplets. The ending picture has her proudly smiling and holding up her kids with Romeo as a banner behind them declares "It was the best teen pregnancy ever!".
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* OmniscientMoralityLicense: In the ending where the player effectively becomes the god of the book's universe by controlling literally everything in the cosmos and dictating their actions, it's eventually declared there is just simply ''too''' much to micromanage and free will is given back to most life while the player is looking after every single physical action. Humanity questions why the universe allows bad things to happen and, in response, the player is just annoyed that their effort in making every star not explode is being overlooked in favor of someone's pet dog dying because they don't have the free time to bother with manipulating people's lives.


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* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Parodied. In the ending where Romeo and Juliet invent HumongousMecha, their parents use them to conquer all of Europe in what is presumably a bloody war of conquest, but the narrator hastily states this is a happy ending because the Capulets and Montagues were all extremely wise and just rulers who also happen to spend all their time in their robots shooting flaming arrows out of their palms.
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** One ending has the ghosts of Romeo and Juliet possess [[Film/BackToTheFuture George and Lorraine]] at their high school dance, unfortunately the sudden shock of possession causes the two to piss themselves, tearing the two apart in embarrassment. The narrator says it's probably fine and they'll find someone else to marry, it's not like they ruined anyone's life by splitting them up.

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** One ending has the ghosts of Romeo and Juliet possess [[Film/BackToTheFuture [[Film/BackToTheFuture1 George and Lorraine]] at their high school dance, unfortunately the sudden shock of possession causes the two to piss themselves, tearing the two apart in embarrassment. The narrator says it's probably fine and they'll find someone else to marry, it's not like they ruined anyone's life by splitting them up.
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* LoveConfession: Besides the ones already in the play, one route has Romeo and Juliet making a public one in one in church, in front of everyone. [[spoiler:It goes well. The Prince approves and the two families begrudgingly reconcile, Romeo and Juliet end up HappilyMarried and everyone remembers Verona as the site of their happy ending.]]

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* LoveConfession: Besides the ones already in the play, one route has Romeo and Juliet making a public one in one in church, in front of everyone. [[spoiler:It goes well. The Prince approves and the two families begrudgingly reconcile, Romeo and Juliet end up HappilyMarried and everyone remembers Verona as the site of their happy ending.]]

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Creator/RyanNorth's follow-up {{Gamebook}} after the success of ''Literature/ToBeOrNotToBeThatIsTheAdventure'', this time adapting Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''. Again using the idea that Shakespeare merely used one path as his actual play, the reader can go through multiple plotlines, with wildly varying degrees of realism as Romeo, Juliet or unlockable characters.

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Creator/RyanNorth's follow-up {{Gamebook}} after the success of ''Literature/ToBeOrNotToBeThatIsTheAdventure'', this time adapting Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''. Again using the idea that Shakespeare merely used one path as his actual play, the reader can go through multiple plotlines, with wildly varying degrees of realism as Romeo, Juliet Juliet, or unlockable characters.



* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: In Juliet's choose-your-own-sex scene, it's suggested that they made sex, mistakes, or sex mistakes long into the night.



* ButtMonkey: Nobody really likes Tom Paris, not even the narrator, primarily because he's an adult man trying to woo a teenage girl into marriage. He's frequently given the option to be murdered by both leads and even in endings where Juliet must acknowledge his engagement or marries him, he often ends up being physically bullied by Juliet anyway.



* LoveAtFirstSight: It's ''Romeo and Juliet'', the couple best-known for this trope. The only times it ''doesn't'' happen is when they make a terrible first impression.

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* LoveAtFirstSight: It's ''Romeo and Juliet'', the couple best-known for this trope. The only times it ''doesn't'' happen is are when they make a terrible first impression.



** Juliet's favorite play is ''[[Film/TenThingsIHateAboutYou 10 Things I Hate About Thou]]'' (it also counts as one of the book's many, many references to Shakespeare plays).



* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: In one ending, Romeo and Juliet name their daughter after Juliet's mom. Her name is ''Manhump Buttstuff''. The narrator suggests giving their baby a cute nickname like "Mannie" or "Stuffie" if they don't want to use her actual name.

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* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: In one ending, Romeo and Juliet name their daughter after Juliet's mom. Her name is ''Manhump Buttstuff''. The narrator suggests giving their baby a cute nickname like "Mannie" or "Stuffie" if they don't want to use her actual name.name.
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** There are even more extreme versions of ''To Be or Not to Be'' endings is expanded from murdering the entire cast of ''Hamlet'' to murdering the ''entire world'' and the remain as ghosts ending goes from simply hanging around the afterlife doing cool stuff to witnessing the death of the Earth when the sun expands as a red giant respectively.

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** There are even more extreme versions of ''To Be or Not to Be'' endings is endings, with the EverybodyDiesEnding expanded from murdering the entire cast of ''Hamlet'' to murdering the ''entire world'' and the remain as ghosts ending goes from simply hanging around the afterlife doing cool stuff to witnessing the death of the Earth when the sun expands as a red giant respectively.
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Kill Em All was renamed Everybody Dies Ending due to misuse. Dewicking


** There are even more extreme versions of ''To Be or Not to Be'' endings as the KillEmAll ending is expanded from murdering the entire cast of ''Hamlet'' to murdering the ''entire world'' and the remain as ghosts ending goes from simply hanging around the afterlife doing cool stuff to witnessing the death of the Earth when the sun expands as a red giant respectively.

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** There are even more extreme versions of ''To Be or Not to Be'' endings as the KillEmAll ending is expanded from murdering the entire cast of ''Hamlet'' to murdering the ''entire world'' and the remain as ghosts ending goes from simply hanging around the afterlife doing cool stuff to witnessing the death of the Earth when the sun expands as a red giant respectively.
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* LoveConfession: Besides the ones already in the play, one route has Romeo and Juliet making a public one in one in church, in front of everyone. [[spoiler:It goes well. The Prince approves and the two families begrudgingly reconcile, Romeo and Juliet end up HappilyMarried and everyone remembers Verona as the site of their happy ending.]]

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Idiot Plot is now Flame Bait. Also, Kill 'Em All has been renamed to Everybody Dies Ending.


* EveryoneDiesEnding: Exaggerated when Juliet teams up with Ophelia to lash out at all of humanity for Romeo's murder and poisons every human on Earth by using a specialized poison that only kills humans and stays in every liquid known to man in bodies of water, weather, and drinks.



* IdiotPlot: As the original story kind of was one, averting this is one way to get a good ending, such as by [[spoiler:refusing to intervene in the illegal street fight with Tybalt.]]
* KillEmAll: Exaggerated when Juliet teams up with Ophelia to lash out at all of humanity for Romeo's murder and poisons every human on Earth by using a specialized poison that only kills humans and stays in every liquid known to man in bodies of water, weather, and drinks.
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* KillEmAll: Taken UpToEleven when Juliet teams up with Ophelia to lash out at all of humanity for Romeo's murder and poisons every human on Earth by using a specialized poison that only kills humans and stays in every liquid known to man in bodies of water, weather, and drinks.

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* KillEmAll: Taken UpToEleven Exaggerated when Juliet teams up with Ophelia to lash out at all of humanity for Romeo's murder and poisons every human on Earth by using a specialized poison that only kills humans and stays in every liquid known to man in bodies of water, weather, and drinks.
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* SequelEscalation:
** ''To Be or Not to Be'' only had one optional segment where it segued into a new story available within the narrative. ''Romeo and/or Juliet'' has four of them nested into the narrative.
** There are even more extreme versions of ''To Be or Not to Be'' endings as the KillEmAll ending is expanded from murdering the entire cast of ''Hamlet'' to murdering the ''entire world'' and the remain as ghosts ending goes from simply hanging around the afterlife doing cool stuff to witnessing the death of the Earth when the sun expands as a red giant respectively.
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* LameLastWords
** The narrator is annoyed at how Romeo chooses to say "DAAAAAAANNNNNNGGGG" as his last words and decides that between the reader and him, it was always "Thus with a kiss I die." He is much more impressed with what Juliet says.
** Not that Juliet gets the impressive last words in all the endings. In one ending, after stabbing herself and falling down on Romeo so her butt lands on his face, her final words before dying are is "I hope we spend eternity with my butt on your face." The narrator is ''not'' happy.

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