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5	[[caption-width-right:350:John firing his "palsma rifle" at the Cyberdemon, as seen in [[https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/556109 the animated adaptation.]]]]
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7	''DOOM: Repercussions of Evil'' is an infamous ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' fanfic and the best known work of Website/FanFictionDotNet user Creator/PeterChimaera. Weighing in at just [[{{Drabble}} 211 words]], the story focuses on space marine John Stalvern as he fends off a demon attack on his base that he has been expecting for years.
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9	Like ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'', the story is well known and has spawned numerous parodies and dramatic readings, including a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R0ZZF4O0K4 presentation]] using ''VideoGame/GarrysMod''. There is also a song by [[https://soundcloud.com/tomexplodes tomexplodes]] and [[http://www.writing.com/main/madlibs/item_id/1711511-DOOM-Madlibs-of-Evil even a Madlib.]] The story was eventually {{unperson}}ed from Fanfiction.net, but can be [[http://www.peterchimaera.com/doom.html found here.]]
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11	See also ''Fanfic/DoomRepercussionsOfEvilMarkII'', as proof of the SugarWiki/FictionIdentityPostulate.
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13	And good ol' 1d4chan has a massive compendium of variants. [[https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/DOOM:_Repercussions_of_Evil Like this thing.]]
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15	Compare ''Fanfic/HalfLifeFullLifeConsequences'', and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Loig3HsUla8&fmt=18 this cutscene]] from the ''Doom'' game parody [[GameMod WAD]] ''Mock 2: The Speed of Stupid''.
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18	!! No, John. You are the Tropes:
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20	* ActionHero: John Stalvern. He solves most of his problems by shooting them with his plasma gun.
21	* AerithAndBob: Within one person's name, no less. A cursory Google search suggests the name "Stalvern" may not have existed until the writing of this story.
22	* AliensSpeakingEnglish: The demons seem to be exclusively speaking english.
23	* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: The TropeNamer. At the end of the story, John apparently turns into a zombie as the result of the radio telling him that he is the demons. It's not entirely clear whether this is actually an example of the trope or if [[TomatoInTheMirror he was actually a zombie the whole time.]]
24	* AngerBornOfWorry: John's father harshly rebuked his son's dream of riding on spaceships out of fear of demon attacks. His son ignored his warning and, well, [[DownerEnding you know the rest]].
25	* AntiClimax: Just as John is about to take the fight to the demons that plagued his memories for so long, the ceiling falls and traps everyone.
26	* CallingYourAttacks: The Cyberdemon says "I will shoot at him" before he fires the rocket missiles.
27	* CassandraTruth: Cernel [sic] Joson doesn't listen to John's warnings about the monsters.
28	* CruelTwistEnding: John fought the demons and then was a zombie.
29	* DeathByTransceiver: Strangely inverted and parodied as John is somehow turned into a zombie by talking into his radio.
30	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:
31	** Rocket missiles.
32	** "[...] and now it was too late. Far too late for now, anyway."
33	* {{Determinator}}: John Stalvern. He only thinks about stopping the demonic invasion, even as he's being crushed to death.
34	* DiabolusExMachina: The ceiling falling during the fight with the Cyberdemon.
35	* DownerEnding: John is a zombie. Or, at least, he becomes one. We think.
36	* DramaticReading: A major target for them.
37	* DramaticThunder: "The lights above him blinked and sparked out of the air."
38	* EagerRookie: Protagonist John Stalvern is really excited to join the marines, despite his father attempting to dissuade him by saying he would be killed by demons.
39	* FallingChandelierOfDoom: The ceiling falls and makes everyone unable to kill.
40	* FantasyForbiddingFather: John's father disapproved of John's dream to be on spaceships, fearing demon's attack.
41	* {{Flashback}}: John flashes back to a moment from his childhood when he watched spaceships with his father, who didn't approve of his desire to be on them, lest he 'BE KILL BY DEMONS'
42	* GainaxEnding: Why does the ceiling collapse? Why does John become a zombie? Who's talking on the radio at the end? In any case, the ending could be taken a couple different ways. If we go by the source material, ''Doom'', we can guess the demons killed John and possessed him. The ending also seems to imply that John was always a zombie, and his attacks on the "demons" was him attacking humans. Which, insanely, actually adds some unexpected depth to the ''Doom'' games if this holds true for all of the zombies. In fact, it is possible this plot was stolen from a 90s ''[[Series/TheOuterLimits1995 Outer Limits]]'' episode which ended almost ''the exact same way''.
43	* TheHeroDies: John. Or at least he is then a zombie.
44	* HeWhoFightsMonsters: At the end, John, who was killing the demons, became the demons. And then a zombie.
45	* TheKillerInMe: John is the demons. And then a zombie.
46	* {{Masquerade}}: John used to believe in demons when he was young, but then he stopped when he got oldered. [[BrokenMasquerade However, demons are real in the story.]]
47	* MinimalistCast: A whopping four characters: John, Joson, John's father, and the cyberdemon.
48	* OhCrap: "HE GOING TO KILL US", as eloquently stated by the demons upon seeing John.
49	* PlasmaCannon: The 'palsma rifle' that John uses to blow up the wall, and later he plasmaes at the cyberdemon with it.
50	* ProperlyParanoid: John had expected the demon attack for years. He's proven right.
51	* RocksFallEveryoneDies: Quite literally. The battle between John and the Cyberdemon abruptly comes to a halt when the ceiling falls on them for no apparent reason.
52	* RougeAnglesOfSatin: It could be quite possible that palsma is a unique variant of plasma.
53	* SpaceMarine: John, for fourteen years.
54	* StealthParody: At the time of release, some were skeptical that a person could genuinely have such poor English and writing skills. However, writing this bad for 7 years seems suspicious. Those who were suspicious were right, as years later, the mastermind behind Peter Chimera "Heisanevilgenius" admitted that [[StylisticSuck he felt like creating fanfics that parody fics with bad English]].
55	* ThereWasADoor: Parodied in the [[FanficRecs/DoomRepercussionsOfEvil animated adaptation]] where John blasts through a wall and then uses a door a few feet away.
56	* TomatoInTheMirror: One possible interpretation of the ending is that John was always a zombie and didn't realize it until now.
57	* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Another similar explanation of the [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie infamous plot twist]]: the "demons" are actually regular humans who John was hallucinating as demons.
58	* TrollFic: It came out later that the author intended for this and his other works to be parodies.
59	* {{Troperiffic}}: True, it doesn't contain a huge number of tropes, but look at it in a "trope density" sense. The story has 211 words. There are 41 tropes listed on this page (including this one). That's almost one trope for every five words. Furthermore, this trope page is currently longer than the work itself.
60	* UnsoundEffect: The story rather infamously uses "plasma'ed at" as a verb.
61	* TheVoice: Cernel Joson, who gives John his orders.
62	%%* WhamLine: "No, John. You are the demons."
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64	''And then John was a [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife Troper]].''

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