History VideoGame / Blaseball

* ReforgedIntoAMinion: The Shelled One's Pods, the team assembled from those claimed by The Peanut on Day X.

* NamesTheSame: Two separate teams have existed in Internet League Blaseball under the name "the Baltimore Crabs," one of them deceased.
** Several seasons after Pitching Machine was [[PutOnABus Vaulted]] and numbered Replicas of them became available in the seasonal Gift Shop, bizarre luck with the New York Millennials' fax machine led to all of their active pitchers being Elsewhere and unable to pitch, leading to their next game being pitched by... a different Pitching Machine.

** Team locations also range from places with actual sports teams (San Francisco, Dallas) to very large or small places that wouldn't normally have a competing team (all of Canada and Breckenridge, Colorado) to exotic locations like Hades and Atlantis.

* CapitalismIsBad: Anticapitalism is an actual, tracked stat for individual blaseball players. One of the blessings also turn the receiving team to be fully anticapitalist. The new BigBad from Season 11 onward is a giant coin who seems to be some kind of avatar of neoliberal capitalism.

* CapitalismIsBad: Anticapitalism is an actual, tracked stat for individual blaseball players. One of the blessings also turn the receiving team to be fully anticapitalist. In fact, as of Season 11, Capitalism seems to be the new BigBad.

* BackFromTheDead: In Season 6, a Blessing called "Lottery Pick" was introduced, which would allow whoever got it to steal the 14th most idolized player. A bunch of fans found a way to idolize Jaylen Hotdogfingers--the first player to ever be Incinerated, and not intended to be accessible. She stayed at #14 the whole season, and yes, she's back, with the ominous condition "Debted".

** She died again at the end of the regular season in season 10, but then she played a game against the Peanut's team flickering onto their team and after they were dispersed she ended up on the Lovers.

* BigBad: at first the Peanut who shelled players wanted the fans to repent, after being defeated in season 10, capitalism seems to have taken over as the boss.

* TheBusCameBack: After ascending in season 10, the Crabs unexpectedly reappeared in season 12 through mysterious "flooding" weather, along with three new teams thought to be from the "big leagues."
* ButtMonkey: In season 15, poor Chorby Soul's immensely long soulscream made them a favorite target of the Consumers, shark monsters that steal stars from players. Chorby was attacked nearly ''every game'', sometimes more than once, and as a result has zero stars in ''everything''. (Unfortunately for everyone else, Chorby's pitching stats don't seem to make a dent in how often they can cause the Observed condition.) By extension the Garages (and later the Millennials) were also this--their position at the bottom of the league meant theoretically the Consumers should leave them alone[[note]]A team's attractiveness to Consumers is determined by a lot of factors, not just wins, but they were doing ''much'' worse than many teams without the dreaded red dot of Consumer attention.[[/note]], but Chorby's soulscream remained prime sharkbait, meaning they spent most of Season 15 both losing the most and being attacked the most.

* CallAHitpointASmeerp: [[https://twitter.com/jjaffew/status/1288542282443104257 Several enterprising fans]] have datamined the stats that governs a player's star rating. Who knew that Shakespearenism was a factor in your pitching ability?

** Upon her first return from the dead, Jaylen Hotdogfingers gained the unfortunate tendency to aim pitches directly at batters, which causes them to become Unstable if she hits them. Not only does being Unstable put a player at higher risk of being incinerated, feedbacked, or repeating, depending on the season, if they are incinerated, ''it spreads''. (This appears to be a direct consequence of the Debted condition, as whenever an Unstable player is incinerated the text says "a debt is paid".)

* CapitalismIsBad: Anticapitalism is an actual, tracked stat for individual blaseball players. One of the blessings also turn the receiving team to be fully anticapitalist. As of season 11 Capitalism seems to be the new BigBad.
* CompanionCube: Pitching Machine[[note]][[InsistentTerminology Never preceded with "a" or "the"]][[/note]], brought in to serve as pitcher when all of the Unlimited Tacos' pitchers were trapped in giant peanuts, rapidly became one of the most popular players in the league- and one of the most feared pitchers. And had [[BeyondTheImpossible a pretty good at bat]].
* CosmicPlaything: an odd example straddling the line between a meta-example and an emergent one, the Unlimited Tacos have been the subject of many of the stranger mishaps, fan experiments, and just plain unlucky RNG rolls.

** The Monitor, a squidlike...being...whose attention was caught by the resurrection of Jaylen Hotdogfingers, and apparently followed her to the immaterial plane. Directly contrasting the Peanut/Shelled One's bloodred all-uppercase messages, [[teal:the monitor communicates only in blue, all lowercase letters, save for when referring to their Boss, though they also never use any punctuation except question marks.]] [[MundaneMadeAwesome He's also the Food and Beverage Director- in other words, there's a giant Eldritch squid running the concessions stand.]]

* EldritchLocation: Whatever happened to Los Angeles during the Grand Unslam tore spacetime apart and refracted the city into infinite realities. Accordingly, the Los Angeli Blaseball team renamed themselves the Unlimited Tacos.

* GenreBusting: Blaseball is one as a whole. Is it a sports game? Is it a betting game? Is it a simulation game? Is it even a video game, or is it a web original series? All these questions and more will more than likely go unanswered, since the one thing everyone agrees on is that [[ShapedLikeItself Blaseball is Blaseball]], and it's cool because of it.

* HellGate: The town of Moab was swallowed by Hellmouth after Season 1 elections. This didn't affect their ability to play blaseball.
* HeroicSacrifice: During season 7, the Unlimited Tacos launched the "Snackrifice" campaign, deliberately getting every single one of their pitchers shelled as an ad-hoc strike. The blaseball gods declared that "play must continue" and put the Pitching Machine on their lineup.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Salmon Cannons renovation for ballparks has a chance to get rid of those pesky salmon (thus preventing the salmon from accidentally negating some of a team's points by rewinding time) and Consumers, but it also has a chance to get rid of ''players''.

* {{Irony}}: A player named Pitching Machine was traded in season 12, and ended up batting instead of pitching.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Every team began with fourteen players, and twenty teams made an initial count of 280 players. Incinerated players, of which there are about 80 at the time of writing, are replaced by new recruits, who remain in cases of revival. Now the nature of the game means not every character plays a major role, but most of them still have plenty of both official and fan lore. Add to this semi-official creations like mascots and team staff and it's clear how ArchiveBinge set in rather quickly for the wiki.
* KilledOffForReal: In the wake of the season 10 finale, all players on the Hall Stars after the final fight became Released. While not officially dead, they have presumably been completely, irreversibly removed from the game, not even being present on the Hall of Flame's dead player list.

* PlanetOfSteves: The end of season 3 saw the Wyatt Masoning hit the Unlimited Tacos--''everyone'' on the team was suddenly renamed to Wyatt Mason, seemingly by accident. This was eventually fixed, although not every player had both their names reverted. (The original Wyatt Mason ended up renamed to [=NaN=], referring to the error code "not a number".)
** And then the Second Wyatt Masoning happened during the Season 14 Latesiesta, creating 13 new Wyatt Masons, dubbed Wyatt Mason I through Wyatt Mason XIII, each of them "pulled through the rift" to join the teams who chose the "PsychoAcoustics" renovation for their ballpark... and then it all went horribly wrong. An ominous, fully-capitalized purple message appeared in the feed of the Forbidden Book: [[purple:OVER AND OUT.]] This was followed by ''the Microphone going offline for the first time since the Localization tweets of the Unmasoning, and the problem only got worse from there.'' Throughout the rest of the season, nearly all of the new Wyatt Masons, along with Wyatt Quitter, Echoed into Static ''and were completely removed from the rosters of their teams with no replacement and could no longer be idolized.'' By the end of Season 14, only two of the new Wyatt Masons have yet to be lost to the Static: Wyatt Mason IX on the LA Unlimited Tacos, and Wyatt Mason X on the Seattle Garages.

Created by The Game Band, Blaseball is a text-based blaseball sim released in July of 2020. The game includes twenty original teams, split into two leagues (with ten teams each), which are then split into two sub-leagues (with five teams each).

Gameplay is simple. Every week, a new season of Blaseball begins. Players pick a team to root for and bet coins on the hourly games. With those coins, players can buy items for their own benefit, delicious peanuts, and votes to lobby for Decrees, which fundamentally alter the game and its players, or for Blessings, which benefit their favored team in various ways.

** The Peanut, better known as the Shelled One. First appeared after the Peanut Fraud incident (during which several fans cheated to gain an incredibly large amount of peanuts), it took over the game's main page as a large, rotating peanut with the words BLASPHEMY underneath. It would appear sporadically to deliver cryptic messages, and again on Day X to challenge the upstart mortals. [[red:IT SPOKE EXCLUSIVELY IN RED, ALL-UPPERCASE LETTERS, AND NEVER USED ANY PUNCTUATION SAVE FOR QUESTION MARKS.]]

** The Chicago Firefighters' slogan is simply "we are from Chicago".

* WeirdWeather - the energies released during a game of blaseball create an array of unusual weather conditions including spontaneous solar eclipses, peanut storms, [[RainOfBlood Bloodrain]], [[TimeCrash Reverb]] and "lots of birds." Also salmon, for some reason.

** If the weather is Flooding, players on bases may be washed away to Elsewhere. This isn't permanent, but there's no way to tell how long they'll be gone.

** Players who vanish after being Observed are Redacted. They're not dead, but they're off their team's rosters completely without any notification (as opposed to Shelled or Elsewhere players, whose names remain but are labeled over, and whose disappearances/imprisonments are noted in the feed).

** Chorby Soul accounted for [[https://twitter.com/nymillenials/status/1383020845912752131 seventy percent of the Consumer attacks that occurred following their first resurrection]], and was incinerated in the first game of Season 17 following their second.

** The Election at the end of Season 14 resurrected two more players: the recently incinerated York Silk, who will now play for the Baltimore Crabs, and Chorby Soul, who was incinerated all the way back in Season 3, and will now play for the Seattle Garages.

* ButtMonkey: In season 15, poor Chorby Soul's immensely long soulscream has made them a favorite target of the Consumers, shark monsters that steal stars from players. Chorby was attacked nearly ''every game'', sometimes more than once, and as a result has zero stars in ''everything''. (Unfortunately for everyone else, Chorby's pitching stats don't seem to make a dent in how often they can cause the Observed condition.) By extension the Garages were also this--their position at the bottom of the league meant theoretically the Consumers should leave them alone[[note]]A team's attractiveness to Consumers is determined by a lot of factors, not just wins, but they were doing ''much'' worse than many teams without the dreaded red dot of Consumer attention.[[/note]], but Chorby's soulscream remained prime sharkbait, meaning they spent most of season 15 both losing the most and being attacked the most.
* CallAHitpointASmeerp: [[https://twitter.com/jjaffew/status/1288542282443104257 Several enterprising fans]] have datamined the stats that governs a player's star rating. Who knew that Shakespearenism is a factor in your pitching ability?

* ButtMonkey: In season 15, poor Chorby Soul's immensely long soulscream has made them a favorite target of the Consumers, shark monsters that steal stars from players. Chorby has been attacked nearly ''every game'', sometimes more than once, and as a result has zero stars in ''everything''. (Unfortunately for everyone else, Chorby's pitching stats don't seem to make a dent in how often they can cause the Observed condition.) By extension the Garages are also this--their position at the bottom of the league means theoretically the Consumers should leave them alone, but Chorby's soulscream remains prime sharkbait, meaning they've spent most of season 15 both losing the most and being attacked the most.

* TraumaCongaLine: "Consumers," eldritch sharks that diminish players' stats, were introduced in season 14. They tend to target players with large Soulscreams, and for season 15, Chorby Soul--who has an absurdly long soul--was resurrected. Poor Chorby became the consumers' favorite target for chomping, getting attacked over a hundred times in one season. Long after all of Chorby's stats hit zero, the sharks kept on biting.

** The Monitor, a squidlike...being...whose attention was caught by the resurrection of Jaylen Hotdogfingers. Directly contrasting the Peanut/Shelled One's bloodred all-uppercase messages, [[teal:the monitor communicates only in blue, all lowercase letters, save for when referring to their Boss, though they also never use any punctuation except question marks.]] [[MundaneMadeAwesome He's also the Food and Beverage Director- in other words, there's a giant Eldritch squid running the concessions stand.]]

* WeirdWeather - the energies released during a game of blaseball create an array of unusual weather conditions including spontaneous solar eclipses, peanut storms, [[RainOfBlood Bloodrain]], [[TimeCrash Reverb]] and "lots of birds."

* ButtMonkey: In season 15, poor Chorby Soul's immensely long soulscream has made them a favorite target of the Consumers, shark monsters that steal stars from players. Chorby has been attacked nearly ''every game'', sometimes more than once, and as a result has zero stars in ''everything''. (Unfortunately for everyone else, Chorby's pitching stats don't seem to make a dent in how often they can cause the Observed condition.)

** The Election at the end of Season 13 resurrected two more players: the recently incinerated York Silk, who will now play for the Baltimore Crabs, and Chorby Soul, who was incinerated all the way back in Season 3, and will now play for the Seattle Garages.

*** York Silk and Chorby Soul also gained the Debted condition when they returned via being Plundered in the Season 14 election.

** The Peanut, better known as the Shelled One. First appeared after the Peanut Fraud incident (during which several fans cheated to gain an incredibly large amount of peanuts), it took over the game's main page as a large, rotating peanut with the words BLASPHEMY underneath. It would appear sporadically to deliver cryptic messages, and again on Day X to challenge the upstart mortals. It spoke exclusively in red, all-uppercase letters, and never used any punctuation, save for question marks.
** The Monitor, a squidlike...being...whose attention was caught by the resurrection of Jaylen Hotdogfingers. Directly contrasting the Peanut/Shelled One's bloodred all-uppercase messages, the Monitor communicates only in blue, all lowercase letters, save for when referring to their Boss, though they also never use any punctuation except question marks.
** Boss. The Monitor's boss, specifically, who is an ancient Roman coin. She communicates with properly punctuated messages in yellow.

* BigBad: at first the Peanut who shelled players are wanted the fans to repent, after being defeated in season 10, capitalism seems to have taken over as the boss.

** Players can also be sent to the Shadows, usually through election swaps. It's essentially a holding zone for a team's unused players, only visible to its own fans who have the Apple snack.