History WebVideo / DreamSMP

* Technoblade

* ChekhovsGag: When brainstorming names for their new nation, Wilbur and Tommy come up with "Manburg" before deciding that it sounds too American, adding an "L" to make it "L'Manburg" to sound more British. Just a funny jab at Americans, right? Wrong. When Jschlatt takes over, guess what he decides to rename L'Manburg as?

** From the war, though the wham is moreso from who says it:

** Eret does this during the SMP War, selling out Wilbur and Tommy (alongside every other L'Manburgian) to the Dream SMP in exchange for power. That said, however, he's also one of the few to unambiguously declare support for Wilbur and Tommy when JSchlatt ousts them from power, implying [[TheAtoner he may be trying his hand at redemption]].

* ChekhovsGag: When brainstorming names for their new nation, Wilbur and Tommy come up with "Manburg" before deciding that it sounds too American, adding an "L" to make it "L'Manburg" to sound more British. Just a funny jab at Americans, right? Wrong. When JSchlatt takes over, guess what he decides to rename L'Manburg as?

* FaceHeelTurn: Jschlatt is initially presented as Tommy's friend, with the former's anticlimactic kicking from the server further angering Tommy against Dream. When Jschlatt comes ''back'', however, he's all but forgotten his old friend and proceeds to dismantle everything Tommy and Wilbur worked for. Furthermore, his goals of expansion also attract Dream's ire, to the point where the SMP leader begins supporting Tommy and Wilbur in secret.

* AllThereInTheManual: A lot of the war between the Dream SMP and L'Manburg was just improvised roleplaying. The many Theatre/{{Hamilton}} references and parallels were intentional, though major events like [[spoiler: Eret's betrayal]] were improvised.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Dream makes this to each member of L'Manburg during the SMP war--join him or die. None of them take the offer [[spoiler: except for [[RebelliousRebel Eret]]]].

* ChekhovsGun: Right before the Election, Tubbo showed Tommy and Wilbur a secret bunker he made underneath L'Manburg, just in case things would go south. This bunker ends up coming in very handy when [[spoiler: Schlatt revokes Tommy and Wilbur's citizenships, and orders everyone to hunt them down until they're outside of the borders. While Wilbur dies on the way to the bunker, Tommy manages to escape into the bunker and tunnel out into the wilderness.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: Jschlatt joins the server for a brief while before being anticlimactically kicked by Dream. [[spoiler: When he rejoins, he proceeds to take over L'Manburg and force Wilbur and Tommy into hiding]].
* CivilWar: War breaks out between two sides: the Dream Team (plus Punz), and a faction seeking independence from the main server known as L'Manburg consisting of [=WilburSoot=], [=TommyInnit=], Tubbo, Fundy, and [=TheEret=]. [[spoiler:The latter eventually defected to the Dream Team, betraying L'Manburg in exchange for being promoted to a king within the Dream Team lands]]. The war ends [[spoiler: with the Dream Team winning the main conflict, but Dream granting L'Manburg independence anyways in exchange for two music disks owned by Tommy (a major source of conflict between him and Dream)]].

* CurbStompBattle: During the SMP war, L'Manburg is forced to flee into a bunker prepared by Eret. It turns out to [[spoiler: be a trap by the Dream Team-aligned Eret designed to get all of L'Manburg's fighters in one place, and once they are, Eret retracts the walls, allowing Dream and his allies to raid the bunker. The demoralized L'Manburgians don't even get a single kill as they are soon wiped out by the Dream Team in one of their most crushing defeats in the war]].
* DownerEnding: The L'Manburg election ends in this. Thanks to some last-minute deals, [[spoiler: Jschlatt wins the election and goes full fascist dictator, declaring his intent to conquer more land and immediately putting a bounty on Wilbur and Tommy, forcing them to flee. Jschlatt then forces Tubbo into his employ, and while Wilbur and Tommy are able to eventually make him a spy it's clear that simply being around Jschlatt is taxing on Tubbo's health. [[HopeSpot It's not all lost, however]]--Wilbur and Tommy soon get Technoblade into their ranks (though his loyalty is recently being called into question), and a recent letter to Tommy reveals that [[EnemyMine Dream himself is willing to ally with them]]]].
* TheDreaded: Techno joining the server was met with a collective OhCrap from everyone who wasn't aware he'd be joining.
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler: Dream becomes this to Pogtopia. While they were on opposite sides during the war, Dream recognizes that, while L'manburg led by Wilbur was a largely peaceful nation just wanting to exist, Manburg under Schlatt is a ''serious'' threat. Dream does not actively help, as he does not want to be branded as the villain of the conflict again (overthrowing a democratically elected leader is generally not a very popular move), but he will help out Wilbur and Tommy from the sidelines.]]

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: As Dream gives his ultimatum to L'Manburg, he punches George and Sapnap away from the wall, something Tommy notices and calls him out for. The two can also be seen backing up further. Seconds later and it turns out that Dream wasn't trying to hurt them, he was instead trying to [[spoiler: get them out of range of the massive explosion of TNT that soon erupts from under L'Manburg's base]].

* IHaveNoSon: Inverted [[spoiler: and subverted]] in the L'Manburg Civil War. Fundy claims that Wilbur is not his father after the latter refuses to support Jschlatt's rule. [[spoiler: However, this is just a ploy by Fundy to make Jschlatt think he's really on his side--in actuality, Fundy is a mole siding with Wilbur]].
* IneffectualDeathThreats: [[spoiler: Subverted]] in the Dream SMP War. Dream threatens to detonate a single block of TNT within L'Manburg's walls if they do not concede the war. The L'Manburgians, clearly not worried about a single block of TNT, call his bluff, and Dream lights the block of TNT... [[spoiler: which in turn activates the countless ''other'' blocks of TNT underneath L'Manburg the Dream Team had planted prior to their parlay.]]

* LuredIntoATrap: After an encounter gone wrong, the L'Manburgians hide in a bunker prepared by Eret. Except [[spoiler: Eret reveals himself to be a traitor and activates a piston door in the wall, allowing Dream and his allies to storm the bunker and kill the L'Manburgians in a CurbStompBattle]].
* MoodWhiplash: The L'manburg election was mostly lighthearted, with the two leading parties being named silly things like POG 2020 and SWAG 2020, Fundy getting ridiculed publicly for getting caught trying to commit election fraud, and Quackity playing the role of the ineffectual CardCarryingVillain. However, things change when, due to some last minute deals with Quackity's campaign, [[spoiler: [=JSchlatt=]]] wins the election. In a speech that sounds legitimately ''terrifying'', [[spoiler: Schlatt declares himself [[AGodAmI Emperor]], has Tommy and Wilbur chased out of L'manburg with nothing but the items in their inventories, demands the walls be torn down, and declares his desire to... expand the nation. That's right, an election in Minecraft ends with the new president going full fascist dictator and his opponents being powerless to stop him.]]
* NukeEm: In the SMP war, Dream demands unconditional surrender from L'Manburg or else he'll detonate a block of TNT within L'Manburg's walls. Wilbur, unfazed by merely one block of TNT, declares that he'd rather die defending L'Manburg's right to independence. Unfortunately for Wilbur and L'Manburg, however, [[spoiler: Dream doesn't ''just'' have that one block within the walls--he also has an entire nuke's worth of TNT hidden right under L'Manburg itself, and detonating the one block above ground causes nearly every block underground to detonate as well, destroying a majority of L'Manburg from the inside out and dealing its defenders a blow they never recover from]].
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Wilbur is the wordsmith of the group, with the ability to write impressive speeches and generally always having a comeback to everything. However, after [[spoiler: [=JSchlatt=] revokes his and Tommy's citizenship to L'manburg]], Wilbur just stares blankly at the screen, without speaking, for a good long while. He even lampshades this later.

* RebelliousRebel: [[spoiler: Eret becomes this during the war, betraying L'Manburg after Dream makes him [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse an offer he can't refuse]]]].
** In the eyes of the law, [[spoiler: Tommy and Wilbur become this when they defect from the new leader of L'Manburg, Jschlatt. In addition to them, however, Nihachu and Tubbo are also this, with the former outright denouncing Jschlatt's rule and the latter working behind the scenes as a spy feigning loyalty to Jschlatt]].
* ScrewYourUltimatum: Faced with Dream's demands of surrender, Wilbur defies Dream to his face, declaring he'd rather die than have L'Manburg rejoin Dream's half of the SMP server. Dream happily helps him and his allies with that "die" part, [[spoiler: having planted TNT underneath L'Manburg and using the moment to detonate it and destroy a good 80% of the land]].

--->[[spoiler: '''[[RebelliousRebel Eret]]''']]: [[spoiler: Down with the revolution, boys. It was never meant to be]].
** [[spoiler: Schlatt]]'s inauguration speech has... just so many of these.
*** [[spoiler: "My first decree... As the President of L'manburg... The EMPEROR, OF THIS GREAT COUNTRY! IS TO ''REVOKE'' THE CITIZENSHIP OF ''WILBUR SOOT AND TOMMYINNIT!"'']]
*** [[spoiler: "Tubbo. As my Secretary of State, as my RIGHT HAND MAN! I need you to do something for me, Tubbo. I need you... to find Tommy. And I need you... to ''show him the door.''"]]
*** [[spoiler: "I reckon our nation needs to EXPAND! I reckon we've done our country a great disservice... I reckon... we ''take down the walls.''"]]

--->'''[[spoiler: LetsPlay/{{Technoblade}}]]:''' [=@tommyinnit=] [=@WilburSoot=] so i heard you guys might need some assistance

--->'''[[spoiler: [[TheDreaded Technoblade]] [[TheCavalry joined]] [[OhCrap the game]].]]'''
* WhamShot: During the war, Wilbur defies Dream's ultimatum and declares that he'd rather die than betray his own cause, being unfazed by a block of TNT. As Dream detonates the block of TNT, the L'Manburgians then see [[spoiler: [[StuffBlowingUp hundreds of blocks of TNT under the cracked surface of L'Manburg]], a few of them primed to explode from the initial blast]].

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: [[spoiler: After winning the L'manburg election, Schlatt goes absolutely mad with power. During his inauguration speech he declares himself Emperor, revokes the citizenship of Tommy and Wilbur and has them chased off, renames L'manburg to Manburg, and orders the walls to be torn down so they can... expand their borders.]]
* YouBastard: Tommy says this word-for-word after [[spoiler: Eret reveals his defection to the Dream Team]].

* DownerEnding: The L'Manburg election ends in this. Thanks to some last-minute deals, [[spoiler: Jschlatt wins the election and goes full fascist dictator, declaring his intent to conquer more land and immediately putting a bounty on Wilbur and Tommy, forcing them to flee. Jschlatt then forces Tubbo into his employ, and while Wilbur and Tommy are able to eventually make him a spy it's clear that simply being around Jschlatt is taxing on Tubbo's health. [[HopeSpot It's not all lost, however]]--Wilbur and Tommy soon get Technoblade into their ranks, and a recent letter to Tommy reveals that [[EnemyMine Dream himself is willing to ally with them]]]].

** Jschlatt is this for the L'Manburg Civil War, making enemies all around the server with his goals of expanding L'Manburg (which he renames Manburg) into Dream SMP territory. It's to the point that one of the only allies of his who isn't either a spy or a reluctant follower is Quackity.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Jschlatt is this to Dream. Dream was a WellIntentionedExtremist who only wanted to put down a rebellion against his nation, even granted said rebellion independence when he saw how much they were willing to fight for it, and considered the citizens of L'Manburg [[WorthyOpponent worthy of respect]], as a later letter to Tommy reveals--moreover, Dream seemed to be a good if unkind and pragmatic leader. Jschlatt, however, is a borderline fascist dictator who doesn't just want independence--he wants '''conquest''', namely the conquest of Dream SMP lands. Notably, Jschlatt is such a contrast that [[EvenEvilHasStandards Dream is outright disgusted by him compared to Wilbur]], and writes a letter to Tommy [[EnemyMine pledging full support to their war against Jschlatt]].

--->'''[[spoiler: [[TheDreaded Technoblade]] [[TheCavalry joined]] [[OhCrap the game]].]]

-->-- '''Wilbur Soot''', declaring L'manburg's independence.

It's perhaps most well-known for the extended roleplay going on on the server, starting with Wilbur Soot claiming a piece of land for himself, naming it L'manburg, and declaring it an independent nation. This kicked off a civil war between L'manberg and the rest of the Dream SMP, with much drama, betrayal, and many, MANY ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'' references.

* AllThereInTheManual: A lot of the war between L'manburg was just improvised roleplaying. The many Theatre/{{Hamilton}} references and parallels were intentional, though major events like [[spoiler: Eret's betrayal]] were improvised.

* ChekhovsGun: Right before the Election, Tubbo showed Tommy and Wilbur a secret bunker he made underneath L'manburg, just in case things would go south. This bunker ends up coming in very handy when [[spoiler: Schlatt revokes Tommy and Wilbur's citizenships, and orders everyone to hunt them down until they're outside of the borders. While Wilbur dies on the way to the bunker, Tommy manages to escape into the bunker and tunnel out into the wilderness.]]

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: As Dream gives his ultimatum to L'Manburg, he punches George and Sapnap away from the wall, something Tommy notices and calls him out for. The two can also be seen backing up further. Seconds later and it turns out that he wasn't trying to hurt them, he was instead trying to [[spoiler: get them out of range of the massive explosion of TNT that soon erupts from under L'Manburg's base]].

* EnemyMine: [[spoiler: Dream becomes this to Pogtopia. While they were on opposite sides during the war, Dream recognizes that, while L'manburg led by Wilbur was a largely peaceful nation just wanting to exist, Manburg under Schlatt is a ''serious'' threat. Dream does not actively help, as he does not want to be branded as the villain of the conflict again (overthrowing a democratically elected leader is generally not a very popular move), he will help out Wilbur and Tommy from the sidelines.]]

Currently, the SMP is split into three factions: the Dream Team led by Dream, Manburg (formerly L'manburg) led by [=JSchlatt=], and Pogtopia led by Wilbur Soot.

* YouBastard: In the Dream SMP, Tommy says this word-for-word after [[spoiler: Eret reveals his defection to the Dream Team]].

Currently, the server is split into three factions.
* Manburg (formerly L'manburg), led by [=JSchlatt=]. Members include Fundy, Tubbo, and LetsPlay/GeorgeNotFound.
* Pogtopia, led by Wilbur Soot. Members include [=TommyInnit=] and LetsPlay/{{Technoblade}}.
* The Dream SMP, led by LetsPlay/{{Dream}}. Members include [=BadBoyHalo=], Jack Manifold, and Skeppy.

* CivilWar: War breaks out between two sides: the Dream Team (plus another friend named Punz), and a faction seeking independence from the main server known as L'Manburg consisting of [=WilburSoot=], [=TommyInnit=], Tubbo, Fundy, and [=TheEret=]. [[spoiler:The latter eventually defected to the Dream Team, betraying L'Manburg in exchange for being promoted to a king within the Dream Team lands]]. The war ends [[spoiler: with the Dream Team winning the main conflict, but Dream granting L'Manburg independence anyways in exchange for two music disks owned by Tommy (a major source of conflict between him and Dream)]].

--->[[spoiler: [[RebelliousRebel Eret]]]]: [[spoiler: Down with the revolution, boys. It was never meant to be]].
** After the

The Dream Team SMP is a private ''Videogame/{{Minecraft}}'' survival server run by LetsPlay/{{Dream}}. It features many well-known Minecraft Youtubers and streamers, including Wilbur Soot, [=TommyInnit=], LetsPlay/GeorgeNotFound, and many, many more.

* AllThereInTheManual: A lot of the war between L'manburg was just improvised roleplaying. The many Theatre/{{Hamilton references}} and parallels were intentional, though major events like [[spoiler: Eret's betrayal]] were improvised.

* Pogtopia, led by Wilbur Soot. Members include [=TommyInnit=] and LetsPlay/{{Technoblade}}