Line #67 FanFic/ITSMYLIFE


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/marrissa_games_tvt_8030.png]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:Yes, those two had a child. That is the sort of logic you have to deal with in Marissa's stories. (Artwork by [=ASBusinessMagnet=])]]
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4	''ITS MY LIFE!'' is perhaps the most infamous ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' fanfic, and has been compared to ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'' and the like. It begins by telling the story of Marrissa Roberts, a test subject in "Portal Labs" who is seemingly Chell's sister, has [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands "speshul powers"]] and is [[ArtisticLicenseBiology somehow pregnant with Wheatly's "robot ball/human baby"]], putting her against the "[[EmoTeen goth emo]]" [=GLaDOS=] and the [[DrugsAreBad drugs-smoking and beer-drinking]] Atlas and [[RougeAnglesOfSatin P-Boy]]. And that's just the first chapter. Along its course it also involves [[DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch copious British insults]], time travel to a HighSchoolAU version of the past of Portal Labs with inexplicable appearances of the ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' characters, evil twins, evil clones and a fusion of Chell and [=GLaDOS=].
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6	While it was signed by "[=MarrissaTheWriter=]", its authorship was eventually claimed by Doombly, better known to the TrollFic world as Creator/SueMary.
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8	Due to its popularity, it has spawned a series, named ''ADVENTURES OFF MARRISSA ROBERTS'', which ends up touching on [[MassivelyMultiplayerCrossover many more fandoms]] than just ''Portal'':
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10	* ''TEEN FORTRESS 2'', the second fan fiction and a "seekwillspinoff" of ''ITS MY LIFE!'', tells the story of Scot, Teen Fortress 2 and their problems in [[HighSchoolAU high school]]. (Not to be confused with [[http://www.somethingawful.com/hosted/jeffk/teenforetress2.htm this]] "TEEN FORTRESS 2".)
11	* ''THE MARRISSA GAMES'', the third story and a sequel to ''ITS MY LIFE!'', was started on Creator/SueMary's Tumblr, in which Marrissa, Wheatly and Chell Junor are forced to leave Portal Labs and Marrissa must participate in Literature/TheHungerGames.
12	* ''HARRY POTTER AN THE KILL OF SNAPE'', the fourth fic, is set during the same timespan as ''TEEN FORTRESS 2'' and elaborates on Wheatly, who also is actually Literature/HarryPotter (don't ask). He participates in his own shenanigans, eventually meeting [[Videogame/BioShockInfinite the "Lettuce" twins]].
13	* ''ITS MY LIFE!: THE FLAMES AWAKENS'', the fifth fic, features [[WesternAnimation/InsideOut Riley Andorsen]] as the main character. Not unlike Marrissa, she has "emoshun powers", allowing her to win the Hunger Games and genreally wreak havoc upon the shared universe.
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15	There are also two stories by [=MarissaTheWriter=] that are not set in the ''ITS MY LIFE!'' continuity, ''[[FanFic/InvaderZimBornAgainChristian Invader Zim: Born Again Christian]]'' and ''[[http://suemaryfanfiction.tumblr.com/tagged/Real-Beauty Real Beauty]]''.
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17	Links to the fan fictions:
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19	* ''ITS MY LIFE!'': [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/528613/chapters/936194 (Archive of Our Own)]] [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8265417/1/ITS-MY-LIFE-repost (FanFiction.Net)]]
20	* ''TEEN FORTRESS 2'': [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/528610/chapters/936191 (Archive of Our Own)]] [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7247709/1/TEEN_FORTRESS_2 (FanFiction.Net)]]
21	* ''THE MARRISSA GAMES'': [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/435682 (Archive of Our Own)]] [[http://suemaryfanfiction.tumblr.com/tagged/The-Hunger-Games (Tumblr)]]
22	* ''HARRY POTTER AN THE KILL OF SNAPE'': [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/2750948 (Archive of Our Own)]] [[http://guyofdoomblr.tumblr.com/tagged/HARRY-POTTER-AN-THE-KILL-OF-SNAPE (Tumblr)]]
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24	Due to their notoriety, they have gained... ''various'' following. The many varieties of [=MarissaTheWriter=] fan content include, but are not limited to:
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26	* As usual with badfic, there are at least a dozen DramaticReading[=s=] of the stories. The first reading of ''ITS MY LIFE!'' was made while the fanfic was still being written, and can be found at [[https://www.youtube.com/user/seaweedprincess/videos seaweedprincess's YouTube channel]].
27	* Several {{MST}}s of one or more fan fictions can be found at various sites. Those include, but are not limited to (under cut):
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29	[[folder:Links to [=MST=]s]]
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31	* At Blog/TheHalfWorld:
32	** ''ITS MY LIFE!'': [[http://thehalfworld.tumblr.com/post/98492968552/fanfic-mst-its-my-life-a-portal-fic-part-1 begins here]]
33	** The same author had also [=MSTed=] ''TEEN FORTRESS 2'' and ''THE MARRISSA GAMES'' and, due to how these [=MSTs=] were popular, was even acknowledged by [=MarissaTheWriter=] herself; those [=MSTs=] are currently pending republishing.
34	* At Website/LibraryOfTheDamned:
35	** ''ITS MY LIFE!'': [[http://literarytravesty.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/03-its-my-life-chapter-one/ begins here]]
36	** ''TEEN FORTRESS 2:'' [[https://literarytravesty.wordpress.com/2015/04/26/team-fortress-2-chapter-one/ begins here]]
37	** ''THE MARISSA GAMES:'' [[https://literarytravesty.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/the-marissa-games/ begins here]]
38	* ''TEEN FORTRESS 2'' at HIT THE BERSERK BUTTON!: [[http://trollinmahpantz.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/fanfic-mst-1-teen-fortress-2-a-team-fortress-2-fanfic/ begins here]]
39	* ''ITS MY LIFE!'' and ''TEEN FORTRESS 2'' at Script/TelltaleFanficTheater3000: [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/14Uv_Gp_q4BodvPTxAhOhNHRtIfwEs4qtBPwU_GqmUmE/edit?hl=en_US here]]
40	* At Website/FanFictionDotNet:
41	** ''The Unfortunate Discovery of Marissa Roberts'' (''ITS MY LIFE!'' as done by the Portal characters): [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7552655/1/The_Unfortunate_Discovery_of_Marissa_Roberts here]]
42	*** [[FanFicRecs/{{Portal}} As recommended by Tropers!]]
43	* At deviantART:
44	** By [=CadenGailic=]:
45	*** ''ITS MY LIFE!'': [[http://cadengallic.deviantart.com/art/Chapter-1-Science-lab-places-354427597 begins here]]
46	*** ''THE MARRISSA GAMES'': [[http://cadengallic.deviantart.com/art/Marissa-games-Chapter-1-Character-Bastardization-374181164 begins here]]
47	** The mirror of the same [=MST=] on [=FanFiction.Net=] is available [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8640533/1/ITS-MY-LIFE-The-commentary-or-rather-another-one here]], and also includes a ''THE KILL OF SNAPE'' MST.
48	* [=MarrissaTheWriter=] Second Anniversary "Reading" (by [=ASBusinessMagnet=]): [[http://xn--portal-4-asis-tkstantmetis-zgf.lt/aperturechronicles/2013/06/05/marrissathewriter-second-anniversary-reading-part-one/ begins here]]
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50	[[/folder]]
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52	* Some people have been trying to fix the atrocious spelling of the stories, either on their own ([[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7367081/1/Its_My_Life_Edited Logic Editor took on]] ''ITS MY LIFE!'' and ''TEEN FORTRESS 2'', included with the originals, while [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zj3Kj9SpDO5Al7p4vL-xv54v_17bs-MOpp6E9TB0upY/edit ASBusinessMagnet took on]] ''THE MARRISSA GAMES'') or via autocorrection ([[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7348238/1/TEEN_FORTRESS_2_Autocorrected this is MightyPirateTM's take on]] ''TEEN FORTRESS 2'').
53	* [[RecursiveFanfiction Fan stories]]:
54	** [=ASBusinessMagnet=] is by far the most prolific in this regard, and has outwritten Doombly and created an entire distinct ExpandedUniverse based on ''ITS MY LIFE!'', as well as a compilation of her own and Doombly's stories in the form of the [[http://istrige-namuose.tumblr.com/post/94512208128/marrissathewriter-complete-anthology MarrissaTheWriter Complete Anthology]]. For a complete listing of her own stories, see ''[[FanFic/ITSMYLifeExpandedUniverse ITS MY LIFE! ]]''[[FanFic/ITSMYLifeExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]].
55	** ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7187436/1/MarissaxChell MarissaxChell]]'' by Arrow-Awesome; she also had written another story, ''Portla 3'', but removed it.
56	** ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8066540/1/The_Chronicles_of_DA_SUs The Chronicles of DA SUs]]'' (previously ''The Chronicles of Invader Zim'') by [=Prettydog200=]; this story, interestingly enough, was on the MST list of Telltale Fanfic Theater 3000 as well.
57	* And last but not least, [[DrinkingGame/{{ITSMYLIFE}} a drinking game.]]
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59	Compare ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'', ''Fanfic/MyInnerLife'', ''Fanfic/LightAndDarkTheAdventuresOfDarkYagami'', ''Fanfic/HalfLifeFullLifeConsequences'', ''[[FanFic/QuarterLifeHalfwayToDestruction Quarter-Life: Halfway to Destruction]]'', Fanfic/MarissaPicard. [[JustForFun/IReadThatAs Not to be confused with a certain]] Music/BonJovi [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC67JzPqDG4&hd=1 song]]. [[SimilarlyNamedWorks Or any other song]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_My_Life named "It's My Life".]] Nor is it related to [[Website/ItsMyLifePBS the PBS Kids website]].
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62	!!The ''ITS MY LIFE!'' series provides examples of:
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64	* [[NoIndoorVoice ALL CAPS]] - The author's notes are always written this way.
65	* AnachronismStew - Somehow in "the past" (for which the best guess is TheNineties) mayonnaise doesn't exist yet, [[note]]It was invented in 1756.[[/note]] while Music/MileyCyrus and Website/MySpace do, and the television of the time is black and white [[InsaneTrollLogic (which means the stuff that isn't black or white shows up as transparent)]]. Not to mention UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln is the president. And it's TheGreatDepression as well.
66	-->'''Skepkitty (in xyr MST):''' Apparently, [=MarissaTheWriter=] thinks that if it’s “the past”, just any old person from the past can be written into the story. Next she’s going to have UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar give everyone printing presses.
67	** The present doesn't make that much sense either, as modern pop culture elements such as Music/JustinBieber, Music/WhitneyHouston (SHE DIDANT DIE OK) and Website/{{Facebook}} and history facts (Britain still has a queen) are combined with the distant future timelines of ''Portal 2'' and ''The Hunger Games''.
68	** Then there's the past ''in relation to'' "the past", in which, despite the fact that it's roughly supposed to be the Marauders' era, everyone's getting to and from Hogwarts by woolly mammoths.
69	* AnyoneCanDie - They will be resurrected in inane ways anyway.
70	** Though, by the end of ''ITS MY LIFE!'' in the future everyone from Portal Labs save for Marrissa, Wheatley, Chell Junior and "Atbod and P-Las" (and possibly Rattmann) is dead for real.
71	*** And deaths of all of them were alluded to. [[note]]Marrissa died in Chapter 12 and was resurrected in 13, Wheatley died in 7 and was brought from the past, Assirram once "aborted" Marrissa and Wheatley's baby, Atlas and P-Body are also mentioned to have an abortion and Rattmann fell into space.[[/note]]
72	** ''THE MARRISSA GAMES'' tops this when [[spoiler:[=GLaDOS=] kills most good guys, Marrissa avenges this by killing [=GLaDOS=], Wheatley makes a spell that brings all the good guys back to life, exploding in the process, and Rugged Ralf and Fixin Feelix fix Wheatley in the epilogue.]]
73	* ArtisticLicenseBiology - Wheatly, endlessly. Firstly, his identity concealing surgery somehow makes him taller, then, his robot ball form is the result of ''another'' surgery, involving a downright alchemy act of turning skin to metal, and ''not'' a case of BrainUploading, and lastly, this robot ball form is somehow still fertile and can have a "robot ball/human" baby, despite nothing mentioning his DNA changing from that of pure human.
74	* AuthorAppeal - Males showcasing their genitalia, Chell's butt (to the degree its treated almost as a separate entity), tirades against drugs, beer, abortion, and rape, [[BloodyHilarious disturbingly comedic gorn scenes]], inexplicable cameos, characters [[InsistentTerminology "o-mouthing" and "lolling"]], enemies being defeated via kicks (of the "roundhose" and jump kick variety), and characters dying violently then being ressurected in increasingly nonsensical ways are all things Marrissa can't seem to write a story without.
75	* BackFromTheDead - Several times in various means. There are two main ways to become un-dead in ''ITS MY LIFE!'': one is that when you die, you appear in "Andord Hell" and can escape from it (this is how [=GLaDOS=] and "Gabe" Jonson came back to life) and the other is that when you eat zombie taters and "dead" you will become "zomboy" (Chell's case, she later came over to Adroid Hell and turned into her "retorded normal" self because there are no zombies in Adroid Hell.)
76	** More weirdly played with Marrissa herself. One of her special powers is that when she eats the zombie taters and dies (or vice versa), instead of becoming a zombie, she simply becomes alive again.
77	*** People are brought back several other ways as well. [=GLaDOS=] is brought back to life accidentally when Marrissa strikes her with lightning, and Wheatley comes back by Marrissa traveling back in time to bring his past self to the present to replace the dead Wheatley. The obvious and plentiful paradoxes that would cause are completely ignored.
78	* BadassFamily - Not only does Marrissa have speshul powers and Wheatly has the PowerOfLove (and is also [[spoiler:Harry Potter, pretty powerful in his own canon]]), their child, who [[PregnantBadass isn't even]] ''[[PregnantBadass born]]'' [[PregnantBadass yet]], can survive an attack from Assirram.
79	** Later it's hinted "Chell Junor" may have the same powers Marissa has.
80	** A generation upwards, Gabe Jonson has roundhouse kicks that are able to kill other people, even those with speshul powers similar to Marrissa's, and not to mention is the inventor of the portal gun.
81	* [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace Marissa Can Fly To And Breathe In Space]]
82	* BrainUploading - Gabe Jonson turns Caroline into [=GLaDOS=] (named after her mother, Principal [=GLaDOS=]). While Cave turns Wheatly into a robo ball later on, it is actually a process based on his own body, rather than the creation of a new robot body.
83	* BritainIsOnlyLondon - Invoked when [[spoiler:Assirram is killing off "all the city of Englond", including the Queen.]]
84	-->[[spoiler:"Bloody no! There killin the queen!" Wheatly britished.]]
85	** Thankfully averted with British England in ''HARRY POTTER AN THE KILL OF SNAPE'', where it's very clearly established that London and Hogwarts are two different places.
86	* ButtMonkey - Whichever characters Marrissa chose to be a CopycatSue of are in for a very bad treat. [[Videogame/{{Portal2}} Chell]] is a brain-damaged, Booty Quake-dancing test subject turned into a zombie turned into a fusion with [=GLaDOS=], while [[Literature/TheHungerGames Kantiss Evergreen]] has "feekal incontinence", rendering her unable to volunteer for her sister, and is sold as a "sexing slave".
87	** It turns out, though, that due to her problem, Kantiss is unable to do even ''that''.
88	* CrossoverCameo:
89	** The zombies from ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' and ''Franchise/DeadSpace'' appear briefly.
90	** [[spoiler:[[WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends Thomas the Tank Engine]]]] of all things appears as a ''villain'' in ''THE MARRISSA GAMES''.
91	* CloudCuckooLander - The author "Marrissa the Writer" seems to be one. Her responses to some of the negative reviews are just downright odd such as when stated her jokes about Chell being mentally retarded due to brain damage were DudeNotFunny she replied by saying its okay because "HELL IS JUST A PRETEND CARTOON!".
92	** Also when Chell and [=GLaDOS=] fuse, she becomes known as "CHELLGADOS", most reviewers believed it to be a simple misspelling of "CHELLGLADOS" only for Marrissa to explain "I NO THAT GLADOS IS SPELLED GLADOS I CALLED HER FUSION CHELLGADOS BECOS CHELL ALREADY HAS THE LS AN IT [[RuleOfCool SOUNDED MORE COOLER]]!"
93	** As well as this private message exchange:
94	--->'''[=MarissaTheWriter:=]''' ...he named it that ''(refers to Scot naming his baseball bat Marrissa)'' as a shutout to ''ITS MY LIFE!''
95	--->'''[=ASBusinessMagnet:=]''' This is the past. He wouldn't know about ''ITS MY LIFE!'' because it wasn't invented yet!
96	--->'''[=MarissaTheWriter:=]''' Thats why Scot dosent rember why he called his bat Marrissa!
97	* ClusterFBomb - Logic dropped several of them with the introductory chapter of ''ITS MY LIFE!''[='=]s editing.
98	* CrazyPrepared - When Doug Rattmann appears he reveals that to become immune from [[GroinAttack groin attacks]] he replaced his balls with the Space and Adventure cores while remarking "[[VideoGame/DukeNukem I'VE GOT BALLS OF STEEL]]!".
99	* CrossOver - Mainly between ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' and ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', there are also elements from ''VideoGame/HalfLife'', ''Film/MenInBlack'' and ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', the zombies from ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' and ''Franchise/DeadSpace'' have cameos, a [[{{Videogame/Fallout}} super mutant]] briefly appears, and Marrissa cries that she has been ''VideoGame/Left4Dead''.
100	** In a recent chapter of ''THE MARRISSA GAMES'', [[Film/MenInBlack Agents J and K]] battle the characters from ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'' in VideoGame/HalfLife College. [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment This doesn't really have much at all to do with the overall story]].
101	** In ''TEEN FORTRESS 2'' [[spoiler: ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' characters have begun to appear, and Harry and Wheatley share an identity, as do Ron and Gale "Thunderpants".]]
102	** Marrissa later claimed she wanted ''ITS MY LIFE!'' and ''TEEN FORTRESS 2'' to take place in the same continuity as an ''Invader Zim'' fanfic called [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/800177/1/Love_Knows_No_Race Love Knows No Race]].
103	* DeadGuyJunior - All the characters have a ridiculous habit of naming people/animals/things after their dead relatives. [=GLaDOS=], Cave Jonson, Chell Junior (a robot ball-human baby), Katty Smithereens (a koala) and Marrissa (a baseball bat) have all fell victim to this one.
104	* DeathIsCheap - [=GLaDOS=] is resurrected by a lighting bolt after attempting "Sewiside".
105	* DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch: Wheatley talks almost entirely in British swear-words. When reviews pointed out to Marrissa that these words are cusses in Britain instead of just insults like "darn" she said "(The Words) MEAN SOMETHING NOTTY? OMG!"
106	** However when another review pointed out that technically they were insults too, she went back to using them misinterpreting that review to mean the others were untrue.
107	* DisproportionateRetribution - So Chell is dancing... That makes it okay to shoot her in the head?
108	-->'''Skepkitty (in xyr MST):''' Marissa has a very weird set of morals. Shooting your sister in the head because she’s brain-damaged = [[BlatantLies fine]]. Leaving your zombie sister who wants to eat your flesh in android hell, where she will presumably be fine since she’s not an android = WE MUST SAVE HER?!
109	** Also, in ''THE MARRISSA GAMES'', Louise Bomboms 2 (a stripper) has been attacked by Marissa... for doing nothing except her job.
110	* DontExplainTheJoke - Every single time the author makes a pun, she feels the need to point it out.
111	* DrugsAreBad - Apparently "Altas" and "P-Boy" the robots drink and smoke drugs while they beat Marissa up.
112	-->'''Wheatley''': "He b*** wanna smoke some drugs/?" P-Body said an gave ne a drugs. "No." I answered becos drugs are bad I new from Marrissa.
113	* EvilTwin - Cave Jonson is the evil twin of Gabe Jonson.
114	** EvilCounterpart - The evil TEEN FORTRESS 2.
115	** EvilKnockoff - Assirram Strebor.
116	* [[FlawedPrototype Flawed Prototip]] - In the end of the day, the prototip portal gun just shoots its portals wherever the hell it wants to.
117	* {{Gorn}} - Marrissa can get really creative when writing how characters died. A select few death descriptions:
118	-->The turrents screemed lick a screemin thing that screems an they died.
119	-->[[spoiler:My hole body glowed brite gold an there was a huge boom an Assirram becomed a skelton. Then the skelton died.]]
120	-->[[spoiler:An Atlas an P-Body lolled an shot me in head. "Marrissa!" Wheatly screamed an ever thing got really black an I died.]]
121	** As well as how the Spy look's under his mask, how Wheatley became a personality core, and why Rattmann felt the need to replace his balls with the space and adventure cores.
122	* GrandFinale - Chapter 16 of ''ITS MY LIFE!.''
123	** ...And then a credits song was also posted and ''TEEN FORTRESS 2'' started.
124	** The last chapter of ''THE MARRISSA GAMES'' also has some GrandFinale aspects.
125	* HighSchoolAU - Portal High School in general. One still has to explain why everything in the future is not simply a continuation of the AU, but actually the worlds of the works of fiction Marissa is writing for.
126	* IJustWantToBeNormal - "Why cant I jus be a normal girl going to high school an have a boyfriend that isn't space lost!"
127	** And guess where the second fan fiction takes place in?
128	* IKEAErotica - Averted; whenever it comes to writing sex scenes Marrissa just says "an you pervs out there Im not riting what happened next! =P".
129	** Though, french kissing ''is'' described and makes Wheatley go sparks, which only leaves you wondering how he even survives the real thing.
130	** Weirdly enough, while Logic does present himself as a better editor, he actually did insert a terrible sex scene. Which only led to Marrissa saying that the story is T-rated and can't have sex scenes.
131	** Also, one of the reviews of ''ITS MY LIFE!'' tried to explain to the author what "wank" means:
132	--->WANK =
133	--->Wank means to Masturbate.
134	--->To Masturbate is to stimulate oneself (you're already confused, aren't you, illiterate trollfic writer?).
135	--->To stimulate someone is to yank their [[GratuitousFrench pénis]] (or Willy/man parts/privates as you 7-year-olds put it) until they get an orgasm.
136	--->An Orgasm is that feeling of intense pleasure you get in sex.
137	--->Sex is something that you do to make babies (as you babies put it) or have fun.
138	--->You have sex by a man putting his parts into the lady's parts and moving them in and out and kissing each other and sucking each other's necks.
139	* InsaneTrollLogic:
140	-->The evil Teen Fortes 2 was watchin the hole thing on there tv camra (but it was black an wite becos its the past so they coldnt see the nerotoksin becos it was green an not black or white so it didant show up)."
141	* InsistentTerminology - Whenever a character is shocked they "o-mouth", even the ones who don't have mouths...
142	* LeetSpeak - The characters will regularly say "OMG" and "LOL" in regular conversation. Whenever a character laughs Marrissa says that they "lolled" or "were lolling".
143	* LightningCanDoAnything
144	* [[MeanwhileInTheFuture Meanwhile In The Past]] - Chapter 13 of ''ITS MY LIFE!'' uses it.
145	** [[{{Prequel}} And it is the main premise]] of ''TEEN FORTRESS 2''.
146	* MediumAwareness: "Bad musik started to play so I new there was gonna be a fight."
147	* MyOwnGrampa - Skepness Man is the kid of Business Man and Skepkitty, who is the kid of Skepness Man and Jenny Weasley.
148	* NakedOnArrival - Cave Jonson. (And I mean Gabe Jonson who renamed himself to Cave because his evil twin (who was also named Cave) died.)
149	* {{Neologism}}: "Dramakshun".
150	* NeverTrustATitle - ''HARRY POTTER AN THE KILL OF SNAPE''. Snape does die, [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext but the big bad is actually Gobo Fraggle]].
151	* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands
152	* NonIndicativeName - "Chapter 12: The Final Battle", while it does end with [[spoiler:Marrissa dying]] there are four more chapters afterwards. (Five if you count the "Credits Song").
153	* [[GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion Non-Jerks Avoid Abortion]]: "Just lick I ekspected those two JERK ROBOTS were smokin drugs an drinkin beer (P-Body had a abortion becos shes a jerk an isnt pro-life the b***)." Naturally, her kids show up in the sequel.
154	* OurZombiesAreDifferent - [[spoiler:Even though Chell was shot in the head, she became a zombie. And can speak.]]
155	* ThePowerOfLove - Between Marrissa and Wheatley, and occasionally foreshadowed.
156	-->Little Wheatly is a powerful bad arse now becos I have THE POWAR OF LOVE!
157	* PurelyAestheticEra - See AnachronismStew above. It's not clear ''what'' era [=MarissaTheWriter=] was trying to emulate while writing "the past" (or "the present"), but it's pretty much obvious she failed.
158	* RapeAsDrama: The "rap" of the naked gurls by the football dudes in ''TEEN FORTRESS 2'', they also raped Heavy's gun "Sasa".
159	* RecursiveFanfiction - Various; see above.
160	* {{Retcon}} - Whenever its pointed out that Marrissa got a character's name (or gender) wrong she makes up a story about how the character was originally named her misspelled name before they changed it to the canon version for some incredibly convoluted reason.
161	** Or, in case of Jenny Weasley, how she changed it to ''Marrissa''[='=]s version.
162	* RougeAnglesOfSatin - Many, many of them. Particularly, "feces" instead of "faces". [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Every. Single. Time]]
163	* SaveTheVillain - When Chell and ATLAS end up in Android Hell. Despite ATLAS's harassing, Marissa attempts to rescue him and Chell from Android Hell.
164	* ScienceFair - While one proper never happens, Caroline brings Wheatley to Portal High School and he has to pretend he is a science fair project.
165	-->'''Skepkitty (in xyr MST):''' “Since, you know, high school students often invent sentient AIs.”
166	** However, in [=MarissaTheWriter=]'s world, they actually do: Gabe Jonson later made a robotic body for Caroline, his EvilTwin made one for Wheatley and the Medic resurrected the Spy's head.
167	*** And the Engineer also made a time machine. ArtificialIntelligence and TimeTravel are probably this universe's equivalents of baking soda volcanoes and potato batteries.
168	* SdrawkcabName - Assirram Strebor.
169	** [[SarcasmMode Well, what other name do you think]] [[spoiler:[[SarcasmMode an evil clone]]]] [[SarcasmMode would pick?]]
170	--->'''Skepkitty (in xyr MST):''' Nice backwards name. Oh, sorry. Ecin sdrawkcab eman.
171	* SelfInsert - The author's PenName is "Marissa the Writer" after all...
172	* SequelHook - The credits song of ''ITS MY LIFE!'' hints at the possibility of one, and that Ratman was not really dead and would play a role, and the prologue to ''THE MARRISSA GAMES'' repeats that.
173	* ShoutOut - Marrissa quite frequently will make puns based on movies and video game names and [[DontExplainTheJoke makes sure the reader is aware of them]].
174	** From chapter one: "[[Literature/AtlasShrugged Atlas shrugged]] (GET IT IT'S A MOVIE!)." [[note]]Followed by ""WHEATLY!" I screemed [[Creator/AynRand ayn rand]] towards him."[[/note]]
175	** Chapter two had "{{Film/MISERY}} (GET IT ITS A MOVIE)"
176	*** "Put him out of his misery" is also a quote from ''Film/{{Inception}}'', though, as it is a given Creator/SueMary is a huge movie buff, she could have referenced either.
177	** In chapter four, the characters are VideoGame/Left4Dead
178	*** The biggest shout out in the story comes when Rattmann replaces his testicles with the Space and Adventure Cores so he can have "Balls of Steel", Marrissa explains "Thats from a game called [[VideoGame/DukeNukemForever Duke Nukum Forever]] its funny".
179	** Perhaps a more subtle one in Chapter 7 of ''TEEN FORTRESS 2'' where Mr. Pursell is "drawin pictures of a [[Franchise/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice dog an rabbit solvin criem]]." It is also reprised in ''THE KILL OF SNAPE''.
180	** Chapter 9 of ''TEEN FORTRESS 2'' is named ''[[VideoGame/DeadRising Dead Risin]]''.
181	* SiblingTriangle - In ''ITS MY LIFE!'', Wheatly likes both Marissa and Chell. It is only really resolved when Chell dies.
182	* SirSwearsALot - Try and guess what Sweary Guy's defining trait is.
183	** Assirram also delivers a line almost entirely in swear words.
184	--->(she seys a lot of cusses becos shes really evil)
185	** Actually, the villains of Marrissa stories do that frequently.
186	* {{Smurfing}} - All the "<nationality>-ing" (i.e. "britishing") words and "happying".
187	* SpaceIsNoisy - She attempts to avert this, but ends up playing it straight anyway:
188	-->Then I rembered, [[Film/{{Alien}} in space noone can here you scream!]] So I couldn't here them, unless maybe I have another special power! I thot hard to try an listen when I heard something it was….. WHEETLY!
189	* SpeaksFluentAnimal - Snipper can communicate with koalas, [[InsaneTrollLogic because he's Australian.]]
190	* SpinoffBabies - Sort of; when Marrissa travels to the past she meets "TEEN FORTRESS 2", the teenage versions of the characters from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''. She has started writing a SpinOff about their adventures in "Portal High School" for your enjoyment.
191	* TakeThat - Towards the [=MSTers=]. In the last chapter they get [[spoiler:eaten by Scot's brothers and the "liter" get punched in the face.]]
192	* TangledFamilyTree - While not ''too'' tangled, most of the main characters are related to each other with family relationships, and [[PlanetOfSteves identical names]] make it worse.
193	** To be specific, [[spoiler:Principal [=GLaDOS=] is the mother of Caroline. Cave and Gabe Jonsons are twins, one evil and one good. Gabe and Caroline (turned into [=GLaDOS=] the A.I.) have two children, Marrissa "Roberts" and Chell, through artificial insemination, but the DNA is a mixup and Rattmann turns out to be Chell's biological parent. Marrissa and Wheatley (who is actually Harry Potter) marry each other and have one child, Chell Junior.]]
194	*** Scot's family is an entirely different story: [[spoiler:Scot's [[HalfHumanHybrid father is a dog and mother is a human]]. His eight brothers are mad dogs (only one has been given a name, Wulf (deceased)), and Scot himself is a dog-human hybrid. Scot and Pyro are involved in a romantic relationship, as (unsucessfully) are Spy and Caroline.]]
195	*** [[spoiler:Cave cloned the good TEEN/TEAM FORTRESS 2 to make evil TEEN FORTRESS 2; the evil version then cloned Marrissa Roberts to make Assirram Strebor.]]
196	* TeleportationMisfire - The prototip portal gun, originally taking people strictly to [[FireAndBrimstoneHell Android Hell]], by Chapter 16 also took Marrissa and Assirram to the land of dinosaurs, [[Franchise/StarWars The Death Star]] and Portal High School.
197	* TimeyWimeyBall: The later chapters feature heavy amounts of TimeTravel. Several plot holes are subsequently created by the author losing track of when in time characters are, such as Marrissa bringing a past version of Wheatley to her present after the present Wheatley dies, only for the past Wheatley to remember events he hasn't experienced yet. Additionally, various characters worry about messing up the "time streem", but Marissa bringing the past Wheatley forward in time should have messed it up via that Wheatley not being present to meet her for the first time (from her perspective) later on. Further muddling things, the past Wheatley shows affection for Marrissa before even ''meeting her''.
198	* TitleDrop - The last line of the last chapter (not counting the credits song).
199	** As well as Chapter 5 of ''TEEN FORTRESS 2'', "ITS HIS LIFE!"
200	* TrainingMontage: One occurs in ''THE MARRISSA GAMES'', which is [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall referred to a such in the fist person narrative, complete with Wheatley saying what song was playing]].
201	-->I pot Chell Junor in her krib an me an Gale did a trainin monstashe. The song was "Eyes on the Tiger" by the guys.
202	* TrollFic - Was confirmed to be such. Doombly (also known as Creator/SueMary) mentioned he wrote ''ITS MY LIFE!'' because he wanted Portal to have its own ''Fanfic/MyImmortal''.
203	** For what this guy does when he's not trolling, see [[Fanfic/BeingHumanAPortalFanfic Being Human]].
204	* JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife- {{Invoked}} (by the real creator). The fact is that Marrissa knows of TV Tropes:
205	-->I GOT A REVIEW SAYIN I WAS [[JumpingTheShark JUMPIN THE SHARK]] (ITS A TV WORD) AN I AM KINNA RUNNIN OUT OF IDEAS SO I THINK ONSE MARRISSA FIGHTS ASSIRRAM [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools ILL END THE STORY]] BUT IT WILL BE THE MOST EPIC AN ENTENSE END YET SO MAYBE THE LAST ONE WILL BE CHAPTER 20? FIND OUT!
206	** She also apparently knows of this article:
207	--->It [''ITS MY LIFE!''] even gots a TV TROOPS page so its the most famos portal faaniction every!
208	*** That sounds [[TrollFic suspiciously similar]] to ''Fanfic/LightAndDarkTheAdventuresOfDarkYagami''.
209	*** And of course Marissa is writing a Literature/TheHungerGames crossover as well.
210	* TWordEuphemism - Marrissa can spell ''a curseword covered in asterisks'' wrong. (Example: "b[==]*" (6 letters), to which closest examples are "bitch" (5 letters) and "bastard" (7 letters).)
211	* UnusualChapterNumbers - ''ITS MY LIFE!'' has two chapter threes, then goes to chapter five. [[EpicFail There is no chapter four]].
212	** While ''TEEN FORTRESS 2'' actually does have a chapter four, chapter three is called "threen".
213	** The chapter numbers of ''THE MARRISSA GAMES'' are, in order: "Pro-log", one, "too", 2, 3, "fore", "4five", "sicks", "(surry I forgoat which one)", 2, "Film/{{se7en}}", "[[GratuitousGerman nein]]" and "final".
214	--->'''Doombly:''' "Chaptar 2" is up, which is actually chapter 3, which is actually chapter 4. [[WritersCannotDoMath Marrissa is not good with counting.]]
215	*** Interestingly enough, in ''ITS MY LIFE!'', not counting the above mistake, the author managed to count to 16 correctly.
216	* VillainBall - Why are "Altas" and "P-Boy" (and, later in the road, [=GLaDOS=]) so evil? Who knows!
217	** Both are HandWave[=d=]: it's stated that [=GLaDOS=] became a villain because Assirram Strebor installed a virus in her and Altas and P-Boy became villains after Marrissa accidentally left drugs and beer with them (from Wheatly's corpse, which had the drugs and beer only because [[StableTimeLoop Altas and P-Boy intoxicated him]]), they then smoked the drugs and drank the beer which turned them into "jersk".
218	* VillainSong - Skepkitty sings one in ''THE MARRISSA GAMES''.
219	* WordSaladTitle - The credits song "Im Still Want You Gone". One reviewer commented "My brain kind of tried to process that sentence and add in letters where I thought it might be plausible you were misspelling something, but this still manes no sense."
220
221	!!The various fanworks of ITS MY LIFE! (excluding those by [=ASBusinessMagnet=], which have [[FanFic/ITSMYLIFEExpandedUniverse their own page]]) provide examples of:
222
223	* BigNo - From Blog/TheHalfWorld MST:
224	-->OH GOD NO
225	-->PLEASE NO
226	-->NOT A [[HighSchoolAU HIGH SCHOOL AU]] FIC
227	-->NOOOOOOOOO
228	* DrivenToSuicide - In ''The Unfortunate Discovery of Marrissa Roberts'', both Space Core ''and'' Wheatley attempt to escape the story by jumping into a bottomless pit.
229	* DrivingQuestion - From Blog/TheHalfWorld MST:
230	-->'''By Chapter 9 of ''ITS MY LIFE!'', when the [=TF2=] characters are first met:''' Also, is this the BLU team or the RED team?
231	-->'''By Chapter 10, when the evil clones are met:''' So is this the RED team or the BLU team?
232	-->'''By Chapter 2 of ''TEEN FORTRESS 2'':''' "He waved an we got red for school." So I guess they’re the RED team, then?
233	** It is revealed, however, that they became the BLU team, and then "Redman" cloned said team and made the RED team a.k.a. "Team Fortress 2". (The BLU team also called themselves "Team Fortress 2".)
234	--->I suppose this settles the question as to whether this is the RED team or the BLU team.
235	* TheDogBitesBack - In ''The Unfortunate Discovery of Marrissa Roberts'', Wheatley, treated as the local ButtMonkey, after reading "time streem paradoks" ''almost'' rattles of the "This sentence is false" paradox. It is possible that he attempted this ''on purpose''.
236	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall - In ''The Unfortunate Discovery of Marrissa Roberts'', the characters make several vague references to other Portal fanfics and even the story itself.
237	* MissingStepsPlan - From Website/LibraryOfTheDamned MST:
238	-->So [=GLaDOS=]’ super-effective plan was;
239	-->
240	-->1. Give Chell a brain damage relapse so she would Booty Quake
241	-->2. Force Wheatley to watch Chell Booty Quake without him knowing he was being forced to do so.
242	-->3. Tell Marissa about the zombie-making potatoes curing brain damage.
243	-->4. ???
244	-->5. [[strike:Profit!]] Marissa’s Emo-Gothification and the death of everyone!
245	* PorkyPigPronunciation - From Website/LibraryOfTheDamned MST:
246	-->Marissa laughs at [=GLaDOS=], reminding her that she is immune to the nero …. nerdro … neuro … icky green farts.
247	* RunningGag: If we believe the [[Website/LibraryOfTheDamned LotD]] interpretation of ''ITS MY LIFE!'', Marrissa has never dropped anything that she picked up, and therefore always has a whole bunch of stuff in her hands. This, of course, is persistently brought up.
248	-->Marissa shows up out of nowhere, carrying all manner of futuristic crap including her portal gun, Companion [[strike:Boob]] Cube, and Wheetly’s robocorpse, and no one reacts to it?

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