History Literature / RomeoAndOrJuliet

* FamousLastWords:
** 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.

* CallBack: If Romeo or Juliet go to Denmark, they run into Ophelia who has killed everyone in town with her ninja training. She notes that she is merely one possibility out of dozens and it's completely possible they could've run into another version of her.

* ValuesDissonance: InUniverse, the narrator notes that a lot of what Romeo could do would be seen as stalker-like or creepy today.

* ContinuityNod: If Romeo or Juliet go to Denmark, they run into Ophelia who has killed everyone in town with her ninja training. She notes that she is merely one possibility out of dozens and it's completely possible they could've run into another version of her.

** Lady Macbeth takes up the option of fighting to the death instead of Macbeth in ''Foul is Fair and Fair is Foul'', with her putting up far more of a fight before succumbing.

** [[spoiler:Rosaline is the final playable character, reinvented as a Noir-style PI of Verona and niece of Lord Capulet.]]

* ColorMotif: Red and pink in accordance with being a much more romance focused book and also to highlight the violence in the otherwise DeliberatelyMonochrome art.

* DistractedByTheSexy: Juliet has the option of wearing a sexy guard uniform to distract the other guards.
* DivideByZero: Juliet puts her foot down on [[ItMakesSenseInContext using the ghost time machine to travel back to the year zero]] because of the possibility of running into a terrible anomaly caused by this.

* LoveInterestTraitor: Juliet can make the inexplicable decision to fatally poison Romeo with absolutely no remorse on her part for no other driving reason besides the reader's whim. The narrator is baffled at this sudden pivot to murder.

* AdaptationDistillation: ''Twelfth Night'', ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', and ''Macbeth'' all make appearances within the narrative but since they're not the focus of the book, the narration is just limited to one character and heavily abridges their stories.

* ColorMotif: Red in accordance with being a much more romance focused book and also to highlight the violence in the otherwise DeliberatelyMonochrome art.

* AllJustADream: ''A Midsummer Night's Choice'' is a dream that Juliet had while faking her death, but that only applies to her path.

** Iago attempts to hijack the plot when the narrator loses track of who the reader was controlling but he's quickly kicked out.

* TheCameo: Juliet can run into Jacques from ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt'' in a tavern. She gets fed up with his monologuing when she tries to socialize with him.

** The reader can abuse their power of character choice to various degrees of tolerance by the narrator.

* OnlySaneMan: Friar Lawrence -- ''most'' of the time. He does have a slighly disturbing obsession with people faking their deaths, but apart from that he tends to be more together than the majority of the other characters.

** [[spoiler:Rosaline, who didn't even make an actual appearance in the original play, is the final playable character, reinvented as a Noir-style PI of Verona and niece of Lord Capulet.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Romeo ''literally'' wishing to be Juliet's glove results in him becoming it... but gloves are non-sentient (so Romeo can't explain what's going on) and Juliet is disgusted by the glove inexplicably growing humanoid features. Also , [[KickTheDog the wish being fulfilled]] means [[EquivalentExchange somewhere a kid has drowned]] because Romeo used up the wish quota.
* ButThouMust: The book again has some of these and the most blatant example parodies this.

Creator/RyanNorth's follow-up ChooseYourOwnAdventure book 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.

!!''Romeo And/Or Juliet'' provides examples of the following tropes:

* ShowWithinAShow: Three this time, with ''Fair is Foul And/Or Foul Is Fair'', a ChooseYourOwnAdventure version of ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'', ''A Midsummer Night's Choice'', a choose-your-own-adventure version of ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'', and a condensed version of ''Pyramus and Thisbe''. There are also several made-up books mentioned like ''Eleventh Night'' and ''Much Ado about Choices''. ''To Be or Not to Be'' is also depicted in this manner and so is ''[[MindScrew Romeo and/or Juliet]]''.

* MultipleEndings: The main conceit behind the book is that there are many ways one can play the story of ''Romeo and Juliet'', ranging from zany (horses have become religious after consuming Romeo's flesh, devote themselves to eating flesh and rampage across Europe!) to dark (Romeo drowns himself out of his despair at Juliet not responding to his letters.).

* LoopholeAbuse: Friar Lawrence refuses to give out poison for murder due to his oaths as a friar, but poison for the supposed purpose of committing suicide is a-okay as he believes in a radical form of self-realization. Likewise, getting enough rat poison to get rid of rats that will also happen to be enough to kill a human is okay.
* LoveAtFirstSight: It's Romeo and Juliet. The only times it ''doesn't'' happen is when they make a terrible first impression.

** [[spoiler:Rosalyn, who didn't even make an actual appearance in the original play, is the final playable character, reinvented as a Noir-style PI of Verona and niece of Lord Capulet.]]

* DownloadableContent: Parodied. In one ending, the narrator laments that you should've bought the DLC for this book to see the further adventures of Romeo as a vigilante and Rosalyn as his insane nemesis.

* FakingTheDead: Friar Lawrence invents the serum early on to get out of any inconvenience that bothers him like jury duty and watering his mother's plants, and both Romeo and Juliet have the option of taking it at certain points in the story. [[spoiler:If you take Rosalyn's path, it's also revealed that Mercutio was also using it.]]

* HappilyMarried: Romeo and Juliet can end up like this if you can successfully marry them and avoid dying.

* LemonyNarrator: Back in full force, and while he's okay with how the reader can follow the original plot of the play this time around, he snarks on a lot of options and is frequently annoyed at how the reader chooses to skip certain scenes.

* PrivateEyeMonologue: The entirety of [[spoiler:Rosalyn's]] path is narrated like this instead of the LemonyNarrator commenting on what Romeo or Juliet does.

* RapidFireFisticuffs: Benvolio punches Romeo to death with the narration describing it as a tornado of punches.
* SecretCharacter: [[spoiler:As a reward for Juliet's epically tragic suicide, the narrator gives the number corresponding to the fourth character option, Rosalyn Catling.]]

* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Rosalyn's path which follows up on the actual ending of ''Romeo and Juliet'' reveals that Mercutio faked his death to murder Lady Montague.]]

* DownloadableContent: Parodied. In one ending, the narrator laments that you should've bought the DLC for this book to see the further adventures of Romeo as a vigilante and Rosaline as his insane nemesis.

** Not that Juliet gets the impressive last words in all the endings. In one ending, her last words after stabbing herself and falling down on Romeo is "I hope we spend eternity with my butt on your face." The narrator is ''not'' happy.

* FamousLastWords: 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.

* LoveAtFirstSight: It's Romeo and Juliet. The only times it ''doesn't'' happen is when they're drunk, being too dazed to notice or drunk enough to vomit on someone and make a terrible first impression.

* {{Portmanteau}}: Romeo and Juliet in one ending reject their families and instead combine their last names, coming up with Montalets and Capupagues.

* LoveAtFirstSight: It's Romeo and Juliet. The only times it doesn't ''happen'' is when they're drunk and either too dazed to notice or vomit on someone.

* AdaptationalSexuality: In a roundabout way, as in one ending, the narrator declares that whoever Juliet falls in love with is dependent on the reader and notes that if you're into girls, than so is Juliet.

* ShowWithinAShow: Two this time, with ''Fair is Foul And/Or Foul Is Fair'', a ChooseYourOwnAdventure version of ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' and ''A Midsummer Night's Choice'', a choose-your-own-adventure version of ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream''.

* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: In one ending, Romeo and Juliet name their daughter after Juliet's mom. Her name is ''Manhump Buttstuff''. The narrator apologizes for this name and suggests giving their baby a cute nickname like "Mannie" or "Stuffie".

* ArrangedMarriage: Juliet, of course, is still betrothed to Tom Paris with a variety of options on what to do about. Meanwhile, Romeo can end up getting pressured into marrying Amelia of the Ameliason family, staunch allies of the Montagues.

** [[spoiler:Rosalyn, who didn't even make an actual appearance in the original play, is the final playable character, reinvented as a Noir-style PI of Verona.]]

* LoopholeAbuse: Friar Lawrence refuses to give out poison for murder due to his oaths as a friar, but poison for the supposed purpose of committing suicide is a-okay as he believes in the expression of free will. Likewise, getting enough rat poison to get rid of rats that will also happen to be enough to kill a human is okay.

* PrivateEyeMonologue: The entirety of [[spoiler:Rosalyn's]] path is narrated like this.

** 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 pee, 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.

* ProductPlacement: One choice informs you to go out and buy ''To Be Or Not To Be'', consume it in its entirety, and tell your friends about how awesome it was and that they should buy it too.

* SexyDiscretionShot: The narrator gives you the choice to skip over Romeo and Juliet's sex scene, and if you don't, he tells you to go look up a sex scene from literally any other written media and mentally substitute in their names and pronouns to get the desired scene you want. An illustration of their sex has a [CENSORED] bar over it in one ending.

* TheMostDangerousVideoGame: Parodied, ''A Midsummer's Night Choice'' isn't capable of harming its in-universe reader when you reach a bad ending, but the librarian standing right behind them has decided to murder them if they do.

* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: In one ending, Romeo and Juliet name their daughter after Juliet's mom. Her name is ''Manhump Buttstuff''.