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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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Anything That Moves is a disambiguation


* AnythingThatMoves: Zeus kidnaps beautiful girls in order to get it on with them.

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* CrusadingWidow: Rihana Sayar lost her husband a month before her story begins. [[spoiler: You later learn he was attacked, robbed, and left for dead by the 40 thieves, [[DrowningMySorrows driving him to drink]] and eventually [[DeathByDespair to death.]] The rest of the storyline after this is mostly dedicated to [[ItsPersonal Rihana getting payback.]]]]



* DeterminedWidow:
** Jinpa in ''Caravans'' lost her husband on a trade expedition, and had to take up trade in her own right to feed the kids. [[spoiler:Though she isn't ''really'' a widow until you are done playing her storyline]].
** Rihana Sayar lost her husband a month before her story begins. [[spoiler: You later learn he was attacked, robbed, and left for dead by the 40 thieves, [[DrowningMySorrows driving him to drink]] and eventually [[DeathByDespair to death.]] The rest of the storyline after this is mostly dedicated to [[ItsPersonal Rihana getting payback.]]]]

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%%* ShopFodder: Precious Gemstones (Rubies, Sapphires, Diamonds, and Yellow Diamonds) in ''Legends''.

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%%* * SecretTestOfCharacter: In the overarching story of the "Custom Character" in ''Legends'', you're once told to bring a secret clan leader (of a clan you are a part of, albeit a junior member) to a city leader or be beheaded. When you find the clan leader, he's so beaten down by running for his life that your character can't bring themselves to take him in. When they return to the city leader, the leader praises you for not going through with it.
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ShopFodder: Precious Gemstones (Rubies, Sapphires, Diamonds, and Yellow Diamonds) in ''Legends''.''Legends''; utterly useless except for being sold for a nice chunk of change.

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%%* ShopFodder: Precious Gemstones (Rubies, Sapphires, Diamonds, and Yellow Diamonds) in ''Legends''.



* UpperClassTwit : Some of the highborn or wealthy characters who appear in various title are this trope, so the player can be their messenger/gopher/sidekick to them. Ardru Haroun and his dad, Haroun Ar-Rashid, in Legeds are good exmple.
* VendorTrash: Precious Gemstones(Rubies, Sapphires, Diamonds, and Yellow Diamonds) in ''Legends''

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* UpperClassTwit : UpperClassTwit: Some of the highborn or wealthy characters who appear in various title are this trope, so the player can be their messenger/gopher/sidekick to them. Ardru Haroun and his dad, Haroun Ar-Rashid, in Legeds are good exmple.
* VendorTrash: Precious Gemstones(Rubies, Sapphires, Diamonds, and Yellow Diamonds) in ''Legends''
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* AdultFear: Caravans - Jinpa Tasaret. Her husband never returned from a trip, and her children are affected with a mysterious disease. So, she took the job merchant as a means to provide food and find the way to cure them.
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** Tradewinds 2 has [[spoiler: Sebastian LaRoche, a feared pirate whose crimes include the murder of Ignacio Verdugo's father. It's the player character's goal to defeat him.]]

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** Tradewinds 2 has [[spoiler: Sebastian LaRoche, [=LaRoche=], a feared pirate whose crimes include the murder of Ignacio Verdugo's father. It's the player character's goal to defeat him.]]

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* ALoadOfBull: Asterion the Minotaur, one of the player characters in ''Tradewinds Odyssey''.
** In Odyssey, you can buy "actual" living bull from reliquary which gives more damage to enemies when ramming them. You can also buy golden bull there.


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* OurMinotaursAreDifferent: Asterion the Minotaur, one of the player characters in ''Tradewinds Odyssey''.

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Adult Fear is not about children in any peril. It's about problems level-headed adults would be concerned about, which includes children in non-fantastic peril.


** Literal AmazonBrigade in Odyssey. Yes, that one.
* AdultFear:
** Zeus is a primary cause of this, kidnapping beautiful girls in order to get it on with them. One side-quest involves a father searching for his abducted daughter. It turns out Zeus turned her into a shrub to protect her from Hera's fury. Since PC can't identify which shrub she turn into, she can't be turned back, her father gives up on saving her, simply pretends that she left to get married, and adopts the girl the PC saves.
** Subverted in Caravans - Sameer. There is quest which you must save a baby who is lost after a monster attack. You fight the monster and asked nearest bystander [[spoiler: whom turn out to be the ''baby himself''. The baby is 23 years old and used the monster attack as distraction to run away from home.]]
** Caravans - Jinpa Tasaret. Her husband never returned from a trip, and her children are affected with a mysterious disease. So, she took the job merchant as a means to provide food and find the way to cure them.
* AmazonBrigade: The original one in Odyssey - Asterion.

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** %%** Literal AmazonBrigade in Odyssey. Yes, that one.
* AdultFear:
** Zeus is a primary cause of this, kidnapping beautiful girls in order to get it on with them. One side-quest involves a father searching for his abducted daughter. It turns out Zeus turned her into a shrub to protect her from Hera's fury. Since PC can't identify which shrub she turn into, she can't be turned back, her father gives up on saving her, simply pretends that she left to get married, and adopts the girl the PC saves.
** Subverted in Caravans - Sameer. There is quest which you must save a baby who is lost after a monster attack. You fight the monster and asked nearest bystander [[spoiler: whom turn out to be the ''baby himself''. The baby is 23 years old and used the monster attack as distraction to run away from home.]]
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AdultFear: Caravans - Jinpa Tasaret. Her husband never returned from a trip, and her children are affected with a mysterious disease. So, she took the job merchant as a means to provide food and find the way to cure them.
* %%* AmazonBrigade: The original one in Odyssey - Asterion.



* AnEntrepreneurIsYou: The Games / Franchise.

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* %%* AnEntrepreneurIsYou: The Games / Franchise.Franchise. %%Appending "The Game/Movie/Series/Book/Etc." to a trope name is not a good substitute for context.



* AnythingThatMoves: Zeus. Also Theseus.
* ArabianNightsDays: The backdrop of ''Legends.''

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* AnythingThatMoves: Zeus. Also Theseus.
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ArabianNightsDays: The backdrop of ''Legends.''



* BadassArmy: Your fleet if you choose to fight every enemy, win, and survive with intact fleet.



* [[BadassArmy Badass Navy]]: Your fleet if you choose to fight every enemy, win, and survive with intact fleet.



* CoolOldLady: Tiger Bai from ''Tradewinds Legends'' '''''is''''' this trope.
* CoolShip: In ''Odyssey'', Triton's Destroyer. Yes, a ship that looks like a ''marlin.''
** CoolAirship: In ''Legends'', Dragon Boats. The bird boats that are just one level down also qualify, trading a bit of hull strength and a few cannons for having the highest storage space in the game.

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* %%* CoolOldLady: Tiger Bai from ''Tradewinds Legends'' '''''is''''' this trope.
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* CoolShip: CoolAirship: In ''Legends'', Dragon Boats. The bird boats that are just one level down also qualify, trading a bit of hull strength and a few cannons for having the highest storage space in the game.
* CoolBoat:
In ''Odyssey'', Triton's Destroyer. Yes, a ship that looks like a ''marlin.''
** CoolAirship: In ''Legends'', Dragon Boats. The bird boats that are just one level down also qualify, trading a bit of hull strength and a few cannons for having the highest storage space in the game.
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* DeadpanSnarker: All of the player characters appear to be this in varying degrees.

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* %%* DeadpanSnarker: All of the player characters appear to be this in varying degrees.



* EarnYourHappyEnding: The PC-s if his/her/their respective story mode is completed.
* EverybodyHatesHades: The reason [[spoiler:Daimonea]] shirked [[spoiler:her]] duties.

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* %%* EarnYourHappyEnding: The PC-s if his/her/their respective story mode is completed.
* %%* EverybodyHatesHades: The reason [[spoiler:Daimonea]] shirked [[spoiler:her]] duties.



* {{JustForFun/Hello}}. [[MyNameIsInigoMontoya My name is Ignacio Verdugo]]. YouKilledMyFather. PrepareToDie. If you play as [[spoiler:Sebastian [=LaRoche=]]] in Story Mode in ''Tradewinds 2'', be prepared to hear this several times throughout the course of your game.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: In ''Odyssey'' Petrakles and Ganymede are this.

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* {{JustForFun/Hello}}. [[MyNameIsInigoMontoya My name is Ignacio Verdugo]]. YouKilledMyFather. PrepareToDie. If you play as [[spoiler:Sebastian [=LaRoche=]]] in Story Mode in ''Tradewinds 2'', be prepared to hear this several times throughout the course of your game.
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%%* HeterosexualLifePartners: In ''Odyssey'' Petrakles and Ganymede are this.
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* GameBreakingBug: One of the sidequests of the "Unlikely Heroes" expansion is incomplete.[[note]]The one where you're trying to test suitors for a future Sultana.[[/note]] Attempting to claim the reward for it crashes the game, and trying to continue the game after accepting that quest but without attempting to complete it will eventually corrupt the save.
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* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Flying Dragon ''boats'' in ''Legends.''
** In ''Caravans'', one of the possible characters you can unlock to play as is [[KarmicTransformation a dragon-turned-camel-as heaven's retibution]].

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