| 1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chains_of_reality__pre_reboot_version__cover_art_by_radiationaddiction21_dc1vx8l.png]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:350:Cover art for the original version by [[https://radiationaddiction21.deviantart.com/art/Chains-of-Reality-Pre-Reboot-Version-Cover-Art-728763141 Radiationaddiction21 on DeviantArt]]]] |
| 3 | |
| 4 | ->''"The world we see is not the first. After Lincoln discovers a mysterious dimension known as "The Original Reality", Lincoln, his sisters and several other allies must fight back against impostors of the sisters known as the "Proto-Sisters", and try to stop their enigmatic goals."'' |
| 5 | -->-- ''The summary in the original fanfic'' |
| 6 | |
| 7 | ->''"Our world wasn't the first. It was never the first. What happened in the previous world, usually doesn't do anything to the new one. But this time... the creator's mistakes have grown strong enough to affect our world. And if we do nothing about them... then only the lord and savior, will be able to save us."'' |
| 8 | -->-- ''The summary in the reboot'' |
| 9 | |
| 10 | ''Chains of Reality'' is a ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fanfic written by Creator/{{Exotos135}}, which was published in February 19, 2017. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | Also has some side-stories for it, all with the "Chains of Reality" prefix: |
| 13 | * [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12670052/1/Chains-of-Reality-Lincolnism Lincolnism]], which focuses on the biker toddlers from "Hand-Me Downer" and their introduction to the "Lincolnism" group. |
| 14 | * [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12819302/1/Chains-of-Reality-Caste-Examination Caste Examination]], which focuses on Lisa interacting with some "subjects" in order to find out more about a particular caste's powers. |
| 15 | * [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12811132/1/Chains-of-Reality-Openings-and-Endings Openings and Ending]], ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. |
| 16 | * [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12895317/1/Chains-of-Reality-Genderbended Genderbended]], a one-shot focusing on how the story would play out in the genderbended universe. |
| 17 | * [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13156138/1/Chains-of-Reality-Omakes Omakes]], essentially a collection of sidestories that can't exactly be fit into the main story, but are supposedly canon nevertheless. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | It can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12373327/1/Chains-of-Reality here]]. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | A reboot for the fanfic, titled ''Chains of Reality: Divinity Reborn", was posted on December 25th, 2017, and it can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12773517/1/Chains-of-Reality-Divinity-Reborn here]]. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | After several years, the story officially ended May 30th, 2021. |
| 24 | ---- |
| 25 | !!"Chains of Reality" provides examples of: |
| 26 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 27 | |
| 28 | [[folder: A-C]] |
| 29 | * AbominationAccusationAttack: Lincoln finds himself on the receiving end of these from both the Proto-Sisters and the Lincolnists, both due to believing that he and his EvilCounterpart Sincoln are one and the same. |
| 30 | * AbusivePrecursors: The Proto-Sisters, ''and how''. Let's just say them trying to kill their own descendants (In this case, ''their own daughters'') is the least abusive thing about them. |
| 31 | ** Judging by certain visions Lincoln has, Proto-Lincoln wasn't much better, considering he, you know, destroyed the original reality among other things, without even a hint of remorse (which he outright says when he returns in the Proto-Lana arc). |
| 32 | * AccidentalPun: Carol mishears Luan asking "Are you a Loud?" to "Are you allowed?" and after she asks the obvious question, Luan has to hold back her laughter. Curiously enough, though, Luan, the PungeonMaster she is, ''doesn't'' notice that pun until ''after'' Carol's answer. |
| 33 | * AccidentalTruth: Retroactively, since it's implied some of the events of the series did happen in this story, then Maggie's line of "Wow, It's about how we're all just clones" becomes quite a dark example of this trope, since not only is this true with the revelation of the original and the new reality, but it's ''precisely'' for this reason that the Proto-Sisters want to destroy the reality, besides their anger towards Lincoln. |
| 34 | * AchillesHeel: The hydra summoned during the Proto-Lana arc is basically capable of shrugging most damage done to it outside, but it can be killed on the inside. However, [[spoiler: it being partially metallic]] is the least of Ronnie Anne's team's problems once they go in... |
| 35 | * ActionGirl: Pretty much everywhere, considering the original show's large female cast. There's the Loud sisters, obviously, and their counterparts as well, and the list just grows from there. |
| 36 | * AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: |
| 37 | ** Clyde's relationship with Lori has nowhere near the same romantic implications, from either Lori or Clyde, that the canon show does. |
| 38 | ** Comparing the original story with the reboot: |
| 39 | *** The Proto-Sisters, instead of still loving Lincoln despite their madness, now actively despise him for destroying the old reality. |
| 40 | *** Maggie and Haiku originally had a rivalry to try and become teachers to Lucy, but since this little subplot is AdaptedOut in the reboot, Maggie and Haiku have little to no interaction. |
| 41 | *** Likewise, Maggie and Lucy shared some interactions during this subplot, but again, being AdaptedOut, Lucy and Maggie don't meet in the reboot. |
| 42 | * AdaptationalBadass: Regardless of version, this applies to practically everyone, considering the series the fanfic is based on is a SliceOfLife show. Of particular note are the Loud siblings, who went from a qroup of quirky children, to a group of quirky ''gods''. |
| 43 | * AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the reboot, characters that didn't appear until later in the fic (Maggie, Sam, the Sadie Hawkins dates, Ronnie Anne) appear as early as the introduction arc. |
| 44 | * AdaptedOut: Haiku and Maggie's rivalry to become Lucy's poetry teacher is removed in the reboot. |
| 45 | ** Because Proto-Lana is pretty much dead by the end of her own arc, [[spoiler: Lana being possessed by Proto-Lana]] doesn't happen in the reboot. |
| 46 | * AdorableEvilMinions: Lincolnism and the Chain-Breakers (themselves implied to be a part of Lincolnism) seem to be mostly made up of these: Proto-Lola's chain breaker troops seem to be mostly Leias, Winstons, and a Lindsey, none of which look particularly threatening, Proto-Lola has Claire and Skippy as workers for her, and neither of them seem particularly dangerous at first glance either. The closest aversion is the Morticians Club members for Proto-Lucy, and even then, that's only in their transformed forms; their basic forms are weird, but not exactly frightening. |
| 47 | * AdultsAreUseless: Either [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-Zagged]] or [[PlayingWithATrope Played With]] depending on how you look at it. On the one hand, the organization is comprised almost entirely of adults, with the few non-adult members like Becky being relatively close to reaching actual adulthood, and it's their job to protect Royal Woods in case anything happens, especially with the progenitors. On the other hand, they rarely deal with the main problem at hand (And it's unlikely they'd get much done), and mostly go for dealing with the smaller threats under the shadows. |
| 48 | * AdvancedTech2000: The Lily Protector 1250, a machine created by Lisa to keep Lily safe from danger. |
| 49 | * AFormYouAreComfortableWith: [[spoiler: Spongebob]] appears to Margo as a glowing yellow square during the events of the Proto-Lucy arc. Considering his home status, thugh, it's more like A Form I'm Comfortable With. |
| 50 | * AfterlifeAntechamber: The Dimensional Purgatory, the place Leni and Lucy visit in chapter 31, serves as the waiting space before people go to heaven or hell, both of which happen to be currently locked. |
| 51 | * AfterlifeExpress: Chapter 31 has Leni give Lucy a whistle that allows her to summon one of this, which is driven by Great Grandma Harriet. Supposedly, the harder Lucy blows the whistle, the harder and faster the train will go... |
| 52 | * AfterTheEnd: The dimension Carol, Lisa, and Lily visit during one of the mini arc chapters takes place after it was overrun by cyborgs, and at least Royal Woods lays in ruin. |
| 53 | ** The omakes have the "Dark World" omake, showing what would've happened had Proto-Lucy not been defeated. Everybody being a zombie is the ''least'' of the world's problems. |
| 54 | * TheAgeless: It's quite obvious the prototype sisters have to be this, considering they're ''eons old''. However, considering how Lola is shown looking the same as she did in a flashback to the original reality in Proto-Lola's arc, it could be assumed Lincoln and the Neo-Sisters are these as well, having been there since fall of the reality. |
| 55 | ** The cyborgs from the "Cyborg Overlord Dimension" are also this. |
| 56 | * AlienAbduction: [[spoiler: Lulu kidnaps Chandler as part of Proto-Lisa's plan, and is about to head back to Lisapolis when Lincoln, Ronnie Anne, and Clyde intercept her.]] |
| 57 | * AliensSpeakingEnglish: The Proto-Lisa arc reveals two extraterrestial locations, Lisapolis and Planet Tokyo, whose inhabitants are effectively aliens that somehow can speak english. Lisapolis is at least a little justified, since the only sapient being there is Proto-Lisa, but Lulu (the girl who looks like Luna's idol alter ego, not the lovechild) can both speak and understand english despite being an alien. |
| 58 | * AllForNothing: The premise is that Proto-Lincoln destroyed the original reality in order to create a new one, saving it from TheCorruption that would've twisted it into a horrible world to live in. Now, remember the crap Lincoln goes through in the canon show, which by all accounts also happened in this story, and you start to see that maybe destroying the new reality really was pointless. [[spoiler: Chapter 46 further cements this by revealing Proto-Lincoln was always meant to destroy the original reality to make way for the new reality, meaning every attempt to change would do nothing at best, speed up the process at worst.]] |
| 59 | ** In the omake side of things, "Walpurgisnacht" reveals that Haiku wanted to prove her loyalty to Lucy and how she was the greatest champion on her side. [[spoiler: Not only does she end up proving her loyalty to the ''wrong'' Lucy, but the title of Champion remains in Silas' hands by the time the story proper begins.]] |
| 60 | ** Ronnie Anne, upon discovering that [[spoiler: Lucy lost her eyes after fusing with Lynn into Lylu]], believes that the main point of the Proto-Lucy arc was thus rendered moot. [[SubvertedTrope Lucy quickly points out the main point was to avert the]] ZombieApocalypse, [[SubvertedTrope therefore it wasn't all for naught]]. |
| 61 | * AlternateUniverseFic: The premise alone should give you an idea as to why. |
| 62 | * AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: The Loud House Pets already were like this in the original show, but in this story, they can outright talk telepathically with each other, and are capable of communicating with Bun-Bun, as well as Lana and Lincoln later on. |
| 63 | * AngelsDevilsAndSquid: The Neo-Sisters are commonly called angels, Proto-Lincoln, what with the sociopathic traits he's shown and complete callousness, is the closest thing the setting has to a devil, and the Proto-Sisters, being fallen angel-like entities with insane powers and a weird way of thinking, fall into the Squid. |
| 64 | * AnIcePerson: Ice is a type of mineral, which seems to be the overall theme of Lola's caste. Do the math. |
| 65 | * AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: Lucy]] dies during the Proto-Lana arc, but comes back to life during the Proto-Lucy arc. By contrast, by the end of said arc, [[spoiler: Lynn, Haiku, Giggles, Rocky Spokes, Liam, Hattie, and a good deal of the organization members]] have all kicked the bucket, with no clear indication of how to bring them back to life; Only the possibility that they ''could'' be brought back. |
| 66 | * AnotherDimension: For starters, there's the "original reality" that used to be the prototype version of the show, going by what's known from it anyway, and the "new reality" that was made after the original reality was basically destroyed. A "Swag Dimension" is mentioned, but how many other dimensions exist is unknown. |
| 67 | ** "Genderbended" confirms there's a genderbent dimension, where all the characters are the opposite gender. Consequently, however, ''Linka'' is the one learning the ropes about her divine nature, while the brothers have it figured out to an extent. |
| 68 | ** Chapter 28 introduces the "Cyborg Overlord Dimension," a dimension [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ruled by a cyborg overlord]], which is one of the Louds (it's unknown who) after they went made with powers. Another dimension that isn't given much focus is the dimension that Calliope came from. |
| 69 | ** The chapter that features the return to Atlantis, chapter 30, also introduces another dimension, the EXE dimension. It's ruled by Lucy's counterpart there (Xucy) and simply put, the fact everything's red is the ''least'' disturbing thing about it. |
| 70 | * {{Atlantis}}: Chapter 24 features this city, and reveals [[spoiler: It's the domain of Proto-Lana.]] |
| 71 | * ApatheticCitizens: A beauty pageant building flying off then shattering to bits, with the people inside falling to their doom? Nobody lifts a finger to help. A giant sea monstrosity coming out and attacking Aloha Beach? Only the characters in the beach (and even then, only those related to the Louds) seem to notice and try to do something about them, while everybody else else just watches. Possibly [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in the sense that the events could only be taken out by the Loud siblings, but it's still quite baffling how almost nobody reacts to what's happening. |
| 72 | * ApocalypseHow: The original reality suffered either a Class X-3 (Galactic Scale) or Class X-4 (Universal Scale) at the hands of Proto-Lincoln. |
| 73 | * ApocalypticLog: During the "Lincolnism" side story, the biker trio (Ronnie/Pravuil, Cindy, and Mindy) find a log related to Cristina close to the [[spoiler: Sanctuary of the Damned,]] and, despite it being ambiguous just what happened to her, the log still fits all the prerequisites, seeing as it talks about what Cristina learned post-the destruction of the original reality. |
| 74 | * ArtificialLimbs: It's indirectly confirmed that the Louds can create limbs out of their respective elements: Lola and Lana gain these to replace their lost arms from their counterparts' respective arcs, after being taught how to do it by Carol. Lola's arm is made of crystal, Lana's arm is made of earth, and they can make or unmake them at will. |
| 75 | * ArbitrarySkepticism: You could consider Luan, Luna, and Lisa's early skepticism concerning the world around them to be this, the last one especially, seeing as she's once managed to create ''a sentient creature out of garbage'' (Trashy), and is also working on a giant robot, both things that would be definitely considered out of the ordinary. This is possibly [[JustifiedTrope justified]] however, if one considers that while the last two bizarre things have somewhat logical explanations (Lisa created Trashy through science, and is using a bunch of junk to create her Royal Woodroid 5000), no such explanation can be given to the whole "Gods of another world" idea. |
| 76 | * AStormIsComing: The skies become particularly cloudy as Lori's training session with Luna and Luan (Really just Luna at the point the trio get to see it) gets quite intense. When it ''doesn't'' disappear after Lori calms down, [[spoiler: zombies suddenly pop out of the ground.]] |
| 77 | * ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: There's no better way to describe Haiku's entire life up until the Proto-Lucy Arc: [[spoiler: In her desperate attempt to prove both her loyalty and her greater contribution as champion of Lucy, she kills Calliope on the misguided idea that this would prove her loyalty to her, only to wind up being tricked and forced to join Proto-Lucy's side, while also having to process how she just killed an innocent lovechild for nothing]]. She manages to hold herself since then until the aforementioned Proto-Lucy Arc, where's she's tortured until her mind breaks, reveals her involvement to Clyde, potentially ruining whatever relationship she had with him at the moment, and in her final moments is anticlimactically killed by [[spoiler: Stella]], going out with a bang, but a much more subdued one than expected. |
| 78 | * AwfulTruth: Sincoln eventually reveals quite a shocking one to not only Proto-Lucy, but most of the people present when he says it, including Lincoln: [[spoiler: Proto-Lincoln is actually well and truly ''dead'', the Lincoln that we've been following until now, as well as Sincoln, are actually both halves that were split off from him in order to try and stop himself from being corrupted; The good uncorrupted half of him became Lincoln, while the corrupted half became Sincoln.]] |
| 79 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Lucy]] implicitly does this at the end of the Proto-Lana arc, though Leni eventually tells her that she's more like stuck in a state between life and death. [[spoiler: She eventually comes back for real during the events of the Proto-Lucy arc.]] |
| 80 | ** A straighter example comes from [[spoiler: Calliope, who was explicitly spelled out to be dead during most of the arc, only to come back to life once she's taken out of the Gashadokuro, as she's not part of the souls who go to the afterlife afterwards.]] |
| 81 | * BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: While more morally grey rather than evil, [[spoiler: Stella]] is ultimately the one to stop Renee, [[spoiler: who performed human sacrifices to empower the Gashadokuro, though it becomes too late for it to matter at this point]], Haiku and Giggles ([[spoiler: Who were corrupted at the time]]) from making the current situation any more difficult than it already is. |
| 82 | * BarredFromTheAfterlife: As it's sadly discovered in chapter 31, this is the fate of most people in the afterlife of the Chains dimension, since the actual afterlives, heaven and hell, were sealed by unknown hands in order to stop that plane of existence from being conquered by Proto-Lucy. |
| 83 | * BattleAura: Sometimes shown during fights, as per usual anime tropes. |
| 84 | * BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Between Lincoln and Sincoln inside the former's mind, which takes them so long, they wind up missing the vast majority of the stuff happening in the new reality. |
| 85 | ** Half of the climax of the Proto-Lucy arc also has one of these, [[spoiler: between Proto-Lucy and Lucy inside of Lucyfers mind.]] |
| 86 | * BeachEpisode: The original story has at least one or two chapters taking place at the beach, while the reboot seemingly has the Prototype Lana arc take place in the beach. |
| 87 | * BeingEvilSucks: In this case, this applies more to the Chain Breakers and those who form Lincolnism: in the case of the former, they're practically an interdimensional clone army whose sole job is obeying a bunch of ancient, sociopathic nutcases, and for the latter, if they eat the purple bread at the initiation, their personalities are basically slowly corroded overtime and replaced with overzealous praise and admiration (and maybe lust) for Lincoln. And if they ''don't'' eat the bread? They now have to deal with the aforementioned zealots and the church's ruling minister, one of the mad nutcases mentioned before. |
| 88 | * BeamOWar: Between [[spoiler: Proto-Lola and Lola]] during the climax of Proto-Lana's arc. Using EyeBeams. [[spoiler: Lola wins]]. |
| 89 | * BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: A peculiar passage read by Lisa from the Ars Loudia reveals this to be true of the Loud sisters, though the only counterparts she points out are Luan's (Dante Alighieri, writer of the Divine Comedy) and Lynn's (Napoleon Bonaparte and Jeanned'Arc). |
| 90 | * BehemothBattle: A brief example happens in the Proto-Lucy arc, between the Gashadokuro, the divine beast summoned by Proto-Lucy, and [[spoiler: Lisa's Royal Woodroid 5000 replica.]] However, everybody's attacks against it, as well as [[spoiler: Clyde taking out its core, Calliope, out of it]] weakens it enough so that [[spoiler: Lisa]] can destroy it in one punch. |
| 91 | * BenevolentAI: The computer in charge of the organization Mr. and Mrs. Loud works for, who gives the agents the mission to help protect Royal Woods, fits this trope, though in terms of morality it seems to be more a WildCard. |
| 92 | * BeautyContest: One of these is the basis for the first major story arc after the introduction arc. Quite obviously, Lola is the main focus of said arc. [[spoiler: It ends up being a trap set up by Proto-Lola in order to trap both her and the other sisters.]] |
| 93 | * BewareMyStingerTail: Proto-Lana gets a scorpion-like tail after she powers up against Lana. It also seems to be [[PrehensileTail prehensile]] too, since she uses it to slap Lana at one point. |
| 94 | * BigBadEnsemble: The Prototype Sisters, though their level of prominence in the plot [[ArcVillain varies depending on what story arc you're reading]]. |
| 95 | ** Technically speaking, the Proto-Lucy arc has Proto-Lucy, Proto-Lynn, Proto-Luan, and Proto-Luna as the antagonists, but they all seem to have their own individual plans, and usually don't meddle in each other's ideas. |
| 96 | * BigDamnHeroes: Lynn and Lana come to Lola's aid during her fight with her counterpart at the climax of the Proto-Lola arc. |
| 97 | ** Lynn does this again when she arrives in Atlantis in order to fight Proto-Lana during the climax of the Proto-Lana arc. As for the sisters fight with the hydra, see TheCavalry below. |
| 98 | * BigScrewedUpFamily: '''The Loud Family''': The original set of Loud children were the father and mothers of pretty much an entire universe, but they were insensitive at best, outright assholes at best. And assuming the same stuff in canon happened in the new reality (Including episodes like "No Such Luck"), then they're just as messed up as their prototype counterparts. Oh, and also, those same counterparts? ''Want to kill their descendants to get back at Lincoln'', '''''who destroyed the original reality for some reason'''''. It wouldn't be incorrect to say the Loud family has a couple of messed up family issues. |
| 99 | ** To a lesser extent (Though, every family would be of a lesser extent compared to the Louds), there's the Swagger family: The patriarch of the family, Mick Swagger, is nowhere to be seen, the only known mother (that we've seen anyway) is Maggie's Mom, who's busy in the organization, the oldest daughter, Sam, is an agressive fanatic of the Swagger, and the last two children, Maggie and Tabby, are quite clearly upset about their relation to the family, to the point Maggie said she refuses to ever associate with the family name! |
| 100 | * BittersweetEnding: Proto-Lucy's arc in the original story ends like this: Proto-Lucy is defeated, but [[spoiler: Giggles]] dies, the poetry club [[spoiler: is destroyed]], and Haiku [[spoiler: bites the dust]] not long afterwards. |
| 101 | ** The Proto-Lola arc in the reboot has a bittersweet ending too. Everybody survives [[spoiler: the trap beauty pageant]] and Lola manages to achieve her angel form ''and'' drive off Proto-Lola. However, the prototype's [[InvincibleVillain not defeated in the end]], and she leaves with Lindsey Sweetwater back to her dimension. |
| 102 | ** The Proto-Lucy arc once agains ends in a bittersweet way in the reboot, although it's notably more bitter than sweet this time: Proto-Lucy is stopped, the zombie apocalypse is averted, and peace returns to Royal Woods afterwards. In fact, thanks to a certain type of DivineIntervention, the other progenitors around (Proto-Lynn, Proto-Luna, and Proto-Luan) are going to take a longer time to recover before they can mess with the heroes again, giving them a breather. However, several people, [[spoiler: including Lynn]], have hit the bucket and gone to purgatory without a known way to revive them, the organization has been trashed so thoroughly it might take a while before its fully operational again, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking whatever project Higgins had made that required the parents to leave for a month has been set back once again]]. |
| 103 | * BookEnds: A roundabout example. While not posted right at the beginning of the story, the first opening started with an image of Lincoln, Ronnie Anne, and Clyde shooting attacks at the screen before the song proper began. The last parts of Chapter 43, serving as an epilogue to the Proto-Lucy arc and ending to the first act, end in the exact same way, also revealing what attacks the trio were doing. |
| 104 | * BreatherEpisode: Certains chapters function as this, either coming right after the big climactic finish (Chapter 6, "Calm After the Storm") or otherwise being lighter compared to previous chapters. (Chapter 17, "Bun-Bun"). |
| 105 | * BrokenMasquerade: Shortly after the story begins, and Lincoln gets his first visions, Lori and Leni decide to come clean and tell their siblings about the original reality. Not all of them are convinced (Luna and Lisa, in particular, are skeptical), but most of them are still shaken by the reveal. |
| 106 | ** The Proto-Lana arc unexpectedly sorta follows this up: After [[spoiler:the Hydra is summoned]], the Sadie Hawkins dates ask Lori and Leni why the sisters refuse to do anything about it (Namely, run away to safety), and they reveal that they're still trying to process the whole "original reality" deal. |
| 107 | * BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: Lola ''literally'' shatters her arm in her final attack against her counterpart in the Proto-Lola arc. |
| 108 | ** Carol and Lincoln/[[spoiler: Proto-Lincoln]]/[[spoiler: Sincoln]] also suffer this in the next arc, the Proto-Lana arc: Lincoln tries to talk with Proto-Lana, but she triggers him into attacking her, prompting her to fight back and knock him out, [[spoiler: bringing out Proto-Lincoln/Sincoln]]. He then uses the [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Savinoken]] to fight her, but they're evenly matched before Proto-Lana hits him hard enough to power him down and knock him unconscious once more. Carol fares a little better, if only because she gets a couple of hits in, but this only annoys Proto-Lana rather than do any significant damage to her, and she's left too exhausted for the remainder of the arc. |
| 109 | * BrotherSisterIncest: This isn't explicitly pointed out or described, but during the creation myth, it's said that the Proto-Louds, prototype versions of Lincoln and his sisters, had to breed with each other in order to populate the world. |
| 110 | * BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler: Lylu's black flames do this to Renee and the morticians club members after trapping them in a skull cage, upon which she and Lincoln take the chance to ask about Lincolnism.]] |
| 111 | * BurnTheUndead: Lynn tries this tactic since, as she says herself,one of the things she learned in fiction [[LampshadeHanging is that one of the best ways to deal with them is to burn them to a crisp]]. [[SubvertedTrope The zombie she was aiming at simply grabs the fireball and throws it back at her]]. [[DoubleSubvertedTrope And then Proto-Lynn's fireball in the next chapter very much burns them to a crisp, no reflection included]]. |
| 112 | * ByNoIMeanYes: Sam says something along these lines while she's snapping at Luna: |
| 113 | --> '''Sam:''' Look, Luna, I'm not saying that I know you much better than you know yourself, and I know that if you were to be heartbroken, you'd end up killing yourself... *takes a deep breath* But I know you much better than you know yourself, and I know that if you were to be heartbroken, you'd end up killing yourself. |
| 114 | * CatsAreSnarkers: Both the main story and omakes show that Cliff can get pretty sarcastic when he wants to be. |
| 115 | * CallingYourAttacks: Played straight with the neo sisters, or at least Lola, who tends to shout names like "Diamond Flash" before executing her attacks. Averted with the Proto-Sisters, who for the most part just straight up attack without saying anything. |
| 116 | * CameBackWrong: One could say this apply to all the forms of TheUndead: They call come back to life, sure, but they're either mindless drone (Zombies), filled with blinding rage (Revenant), or essentially a living puppet (Dolls). |
| 117 | ** One could also say this is the case for the Proto-Sisters, since a couple of visions from the past show them with normal eyes, instead of the colored sclera-birthmark pupils combo they have in the present. And also, the lack of a desire to kill everyone. |
| 118 | * CataclysmBackstory: While the full story is still a mystery, the general consensus is that ''something'' happened in the original reality that convinced Lincoln, and by extension, "The Creator of Everything", to wipe-out all the prototypes-besides the prototype sisters-and start anew in a new reality. The Proto-Sisters also rebelled against Lincoln, but were unsuccessful, resulting in them being sealed. |
| 119 | * TheCavalry: Some of the organization's members (Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Shrinivas, Mrs. [=DiMartino=], and Mr. Universe) and the Sadie Hawkins dates come to the sisters' aid during their fight against the hydra. [[LampshadeHanging Lori even calls the former "the cavalry" as such]]. |
| 120 | * CerebusRetcon: That collar Ronnie Anne's Mom made her wear because she wanted to make sure she wouldn't be outside for too long? It was actually a MindControlDevice, one intended for [[spoiler: ''Lincoln's evil counterpart'']], and she was actually just a test subject. |
| 121 | ** At first, the gag where the Morticians Club members talk to Haiku about digging out a dead body, only for it to turn out to be a skeleton from the science class that was thrown away, seems to be just that, a gag. [[spoiler: Chapter 33 eventually reveals that the reason they were digging for bodies in the first place was because they were under orders of Proto-Lucy, who needed the bodies in order to summon the Gashadokuro.]] |
| 122 | ** Maggie's line of "Wow, It's about how we're all just like clones" is practically this trope, considering how the original and the new reality works, and the fate of the protophilim. |
| 123 | * TheChampion: There are a set of characters simply known as the champions, who work as the enforcers of the Proto-Sisters. There's a champion for the prototype versions of Lola, Lana, Luna, Luan, Lynn, and Lucy, but so far, only two have had their civillian identity revealed: The Pink Champion ([[spoiler: Carlota]]) and the Blue Champion ([[spoiler: Claire]]). |
| 124 | * ChekhovsGunman: |
| 125 | ** The Mortician's Club members, first seen in a random moment in the earlier chapters, return to play a significant role in the Proto-Lucy Arc, [[spoiler: helping Proto-Lucy with her quest to summon the Gashadokuro.]] |
| 126 | ** Silas appears in the audience at the beginning of the fic, and he eventually plays a larger role in the Proto-Lucy Arc. |
| 127 | ** Winston has a minor role in the Proto-Lola Arc, and leaves hoping to find a way to get Lindsey back. [[spoiler: He's among the Lincolnists who're made to fight Carol and Paige and protect Renee's ritual.]] |
| 128 | ** Benny's among the love interests seen in the earlier chapters. He returns in the Proto-Lucy Arc, [[spoiler: and is revealed to be the yellow champion.]] |
| 129 | * ChildrenAreInnocent: Most children that aren't connected to Lincolnism have been shown to be normal kids, and even among the Lincolnists, only those who took the purple bread have shown to be unnerving: The rest seem to be just as normal as non-Lincolnists. |
| 130 | * ChildOfForbiddenLove: Any lovechildren who doesn't have Lincoln as a parent is seen as this by the Lincolnists, and let's just say, [[HumanSacrifice what they have in plan for them]] isn't very nice... |
| 131 | * ChildSoldiers: The kids that make up most of Lincolnism's forces also work as soldiers, as when [[spoiler: Carol and Paige try to ruin the HumanSacrifice]], some of them try fighting them off themselves. |
| 132 | * ClonesArePeopleToo: One could say this applies to ''the entire new reality'', who were original born to serve as replacements for the prototypes/protophilim. While there's no knowledge of how much the neophilim differ from the protophilim, it's clear that from the few protophilim we've seen (Proto-Maggie, Proto-Ronnie Anne and the Proto-Sisters especially), the neophilim are explicitly different from their prototype counterparts. |
| 133 | * CombinedEnergyAttack: Maggie creates one of these, titled "The Edgy Sphere of Despair," which, as the name implies, is primarily fueled by despair. Mostly her own, but the rest of the team join up soon after to make it big enough to defeat [[spoiler: the corrupted Haiku]] and her familiar. [[spoiler: While it destroys the familiar, Haiku is only momentarily knocked out unconscious.]] |
| 134 | ** [[spoiler: Lucyfer]] later uses this attack [[spoiler: Lincoln]], hoping [[spoiler: KarmicDeath the despair of everyone he's ever screwed over thanks to his actions will take him down.]] [[spoiler: NoSell Lincoln simply grabs it and dilutes it, replacing it with hope.]] |
| 135 | * ContinuityReboot: ''Divinity Reborn'' serves as one for the original fic. |
| 136 | * TheCorruption: There are hints, both in the main story and at least "Lincolnism," that some sort of corruption happened in a dimension-wide scale in the original reality, forcing Proto-Lincoln to destroy it completely. |
| 137 | ** We also get to witness what happens when a Neophilim goes through the process: Both [[spoiler: Haiku and Giggles]] wind up being corrupted after [[spoiler: Proto-Luan not only submits them to a horrible torture in her tent, but also when they go utterly furious at what's revealed to them (Giggles) or when they can't hold their own shame and regrets anymore (Haiku).]] Unlike with the protophilim, it seems that the neophilim [[spoiler: get to keep their mostly human forms, but are accompanied by a giant familiar of sorts, which does most of their fighting for them.]] |
| 138 | * CoolStarship: Spaceships that are shaped like spades are a feature in this universe, and its used by both Lincolnists and the main characters as a method of transportation, the latter using it once they need to FindTheCure on Lisapolis. |
| 139 | * CrazyEnoughToWork: Sam's plan to try and help with the hydra in the Proto-Lucy arc involves [[spoiler: setting up giant speakers close enough to the beast and play a note so loud, it'll disorient it enough to let everybody pull the finishin strike.]] It actually does work, as well. |
| 140 | ** Another example comes from the Proto-Lucy arc, where Lynn's plan involves ''hurling herself at the sun'' in order to use it as a power booster to get strong enough to deal with Proto-Lucy/[[spoiler: Lucyfer.]] Like with Sam's example, it works, [[YourDaysAreNumbered but with quite the drastic drawback]]. |
| 141 | * CreationMyth: Narrated by Lori. Apparently, a being simply known as "The Maker" created the Proto-Louds and the world, then disappeared mysteriously. Proto-Lincoln and the Proto-Sisters then bred with each other in order to create people, with certain combinations resulting in the castes. |
| 142 | * CreepyCemetery: The Royal Woods graveyard has become one of these by chapter 45, as said by Ronnie Anne. Granted, the cold armosphere probably made her say she had the chills, but the fact the cemetary has twice the numbers it used to have, most of the tombstone are for children, and that they serve as a reminder of the ZombieApocalypse that happened not too long ago, it still fits the atmosphere. |
| 143 | * CreepyChild: It's not unreasonable to say ''every single child in Lincolnism'' is one of these: If they're not glamouring Lincoln or the Proto-Sisters, they're [[spoiler: conducting mass human sacrifice to summon a divine beast.]] And of course, some of the Proto-Sisters resemble kids, and they're on a whole different level... |
| 144 | * [[spoiler:{{Crossover]]: [[spoiler: WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Spongebob]] appears during the Proto-Lucy arc in order to help with the situation. He's never referred to by name, though. |
| 145 | * CrystalLandscape: As shown in one of the omakes, this is the general look of Lolaspace: a dimension mostly filled with crystal, most pink in color. |
| 146 | * CrystalPrison: [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Lola]] traps the whole beauty pageant in one of these during the Proto-Lola arc, once Lindsey strikes her nerves a little bit too much. She later repeats this action, this time willingly, to convince Lisa to let her come with her during the Proto-Lisa Arc. |
| 147 | * CueTheSun: During the Proto-Lucy arc, once TheNightThatNeverEnds brought forth by Proto-Luna's barrier is taken care of, the sunlight itself returns and things progressively start to get on the heroes' favor. |
| 148 | * {{Cult}}: The "Lincolnism" movement, seen in the original, has shades of this along side CorruptChurch. Most of it's members seem ''utterly dedicated'' to serving "the lord and savior Lincoln," [[spoiler: which seems to be tied in to the purple bread served at the initiation]], regularly praying to him and most of the proto-sisters, but primarily Lincoln, and it doesn't seem to be a publicly known group besides to fellow Lincolnists. |
| 149 | * CurbStompBattle: The scuffle the sisters have against the champions near the end of the introduction arc is heavily against them, mostly because said champions have more experience fighting than them. Their scuffle with the Proto-Sisters moments later goes ''even worse''. |
| 150 | ** This then gets turned on its head during the Proto-Lana arc's climax: Proto-Lana and [[spoiler: Proto-Lola]] can't even get a good hit against Lala ([[spoiler: Lola and Lana's fusion]]) during their fight with her. [[spoiler: They fare ''even worse'' against the empowered Lola and Lana, resulting in their death. |
| 151 | * {{Cyborg}}: The hydra from the Proto-Lana arc turns out to be this, having an external organic body, and a robotic interior. |
| 152 | ** There's also an entire dimension based on this concept, which is titled the "Cyborg Overlord Dimension". |
| 153 | [[/folder]] |
| 154 | |
| 155 | [[folder: D-F]] |
| 156 | * DeadlyForceField: Atlantis gets surrounded in one of these once [[spoiler: Proto-Lola]] appears in the Proto-Lana Arc. As Lana demonstrates, anybody who tries to pass or touch the force field, without being of [[spoiler: Lola's]] caste, [[spoiler: gets slowly turned into crystal.]] |
| 157 | * DeathOfAChild: In the Proto-lucy arc, several children ([[spoiler: Calliope, the Biker Trio, Rusty Spokes, among others]]) kick the bucket during Proto-Lucy's redirected rampage against Sincoln. |
| 158 | * DealWithTheDevil: Lindsey Sweetwater makes ''two'' deals with Proto-Lola. The first one involves giving Lola a piece of her own medicine with [[spoiler: the trap beauty pageant]], and the second involves her going to Proto-Lola's dimension in exchange for her leaving everybody alone. |
| 159 | ** Another one is done by Silas to Xucy in chapte 30, in order to [[spoiler: Get her eyes so Lucy can fulfill her part of the deal.]] The deal goes like this: In exchange for [[spoiler: her eyes]], Xucy [[gets access to the Chain dimension]] for unknown reasons. [[spoiler: Having little options left, Silas agrees.]] |
| 160 | * DefeatEqualsExplosion: A variation. [[spoiler: Proto-Lana]] herself ''doesn't'' explode after being defeated by the empowered Lana, but the core of Atlantis, which she's stuck on after said defeat, ''does'' explode, taking her out as well as blowing up Atlantis in half. |
| 161 | * DefectorFromDecadence: Both [[spoiler: Paige and Mabel]] defect from Lincolnism after the horrific events of the Proto-Lucy arc, though their reasons vary: [[spoiler: Mabel]] leaves because she can't stand to be in the same religion that [[spoiler: performed HumanSacrifice in order to empower a death god's beast]], and [[spoiler: Paige]] is leaving to keep the former company. |
| 162 | * DemBones: Destroying the zombies bodies, but failing to properly get rid of them, causes them to transform into this. |
| 163 | ** Assuming the beast is the same as in Japanese mythology, then the Gashadokuro is also this. |
| 164 | * DemonicPossession: [[spoiler: As a desperate attempt to still win the arc, Proto-Lucy performs this with Lucy, creating Lucyfer in the process.]] |
| 165 | * DeusExMachina: Okay, so, Atlantis is [[spoiler: surrounded by a shield generated by Proto-Lola to keep everybody trapped inside, and those who try to go out will get crystallized]]. How does the team get out of this? By an unknown, cloaked figure coming out of the skies and kicking it so hard, it shatters into a million pieces, of course! Although, considering both Paige's confidence in this happening and the proto-twins' own idea of why this happened, this might be a bit more like a subtle DivineIntervention. |
| 166 | ** This is also the name given to the Casteless leader, implied to be Lincoln, in "Caste Examination's" last chapter. Although, because no description of what it does is given, it's unclear what it does. |
| 167 | * A pretty blatant example comes from the Proto-Lucy arc, where [[spoiler: Spongebob suddenly appears to Margo and helps her put a stop to Proto-Luna, Proto-Lynn, and Proto-Luan until Lincoln arrives.]] |
| 168 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler: Proto-Lola]] convincing Lala to [[spoiler: defuse back into Lola and Lana]] to prove her point that [[spoiler: the twins]] alone wouldn't be able to defeat her and Proto-Lana. She certainly didn't expect [[spoiler: the twins' achieving their true forms]], which consequently ends in [[spoiler: their deaths]]. |
| 169 | * DisneyDeath: One such death happens in the Proto-Lana arc. The one that winds up dying ([[spoiler: Lucy]]) eventually comes back to life once the entire dust settles. |
| 170 | * DistantPrologue: Chapter 46 begins in the prototype realitt with [[spoiler: Proto-Clyde and Proto-Luna trying to get people to join Lincolnism, and it ends with quite the revelation.]] |
| 171 | * DisproportionateRetribution: This is a big problem with the Progenitors, both before and after corruption: |
| 172 | ** The "Chocolate" side-story reveals the Proto-Sisters once tasted chocolate, and wound up liking it. However, fearing that the protophilim would think they're "Easy" with these offerings, they confiscated all the chocolate available, including Proto-Lincoln's chocolate for Proto-Cristina. And when he tried to call them out on it? They (Or at least Proto-Lori) locked him in his room until he decided to apologize. |
| 173 | *** Consequently, Proto-Lincoln decided to curse their ensuing descendants (And retroactively, his own) in being hopelessly in love with chocolate. |
| 174 | ** Proto-Lola outright threatens Leia with killing her simply because she tried to speak up to her. |
| 175 | ** Proto-Lola also completely snapped when Lola threw a shard at her face. Granted, something like that is going to hurt, but being an ancient, seemingly immortal being, this should be very low on the list of things that should piss her off that much. |
| 176 | ** Proto-Lucy is summoned by Lucy and Lynn tries to get her to cooperate. She responds by sending her flying across the room, and out of the house. |
| 177 | * DimensionalTraveler: Carol, Lisa, and Lily as of chapter 28, when they visit a dimension that has a cyborg thematic. Calliope could also count as this. |
| 178 | * DivineConflict: One arose between Proto-Lincoln and the Proto-Sisters in the original reality, which resulted in fight between the deities and Proto-Lincoln destorying the original reality. |
| 179 | * DivineIntervention: [[spoiler: Spongebob]], the GuardianOfTheMultiverse, pops out of nowhere to help turn the tide of the battle, stalling just long enough to [[spoiler: let Lincoln pull an even bigger example of this trope.]] |
| 180 | * DomedHometown: Royal Woods becomes this at the start of the Proto-Lucy Arc, due to Proto-Luna's [[TheNightThatNeverEnds Eternal Night Dome]]. |
| 181 | * DownerEnding: The "Walpurgisnacht" omake ends with [[spoiler: Haiku succeeding in helping the Gashadokuro gain its core, Calliope being killed to become said core, Haiku being forced to join the Morticians Club ''and'' Proto-Lucy's side in AnOfferYouCantRefuse, and also begins her slow descent into madness, with the final crack coming in the Proto-Lucy arc proper.]] |
| 182 | * DuelToTheDeath: In the main story, this could very well describe the Neo-Sister versus Proto-Sister fights, since the latter aren't going to let the former come out alive, and indeed, are far too dangerous to be allowed free roam on the world. [[spoiler: Proto-Lana, Proto-Lola, and Proto-Lucy]] all have bitten the bucket in one of these duels. |
| 183 | ** In the omakes, Haiku and [[spoiler: Calliope]] find themselves stuck in one in "Walpurgisnacht" after the latter becomes frustrated with the hate mail, and has come to believe Haiku's come to kill her. [[spoiler: Haiku wins.]] |
| 184 | * EldritchLocation: The remains of the original reality in the original version of the story. A dark, desolate collection of rubble floating in an endless abyss, with the only things there besides the rubble being specific items tied to the Proto-Sisters. |
| 185 | ** The reboot introduces instead "Lanaspace," an alternate dimension(?) ruled by Proto-Lana, which has blue skies with paw-shaped clouds, with platforms filled with pasture being eaten by Lana look-a-likes. There are also implications that Proto-Lola rules a similar dimension. |
| 186 | * EnemyMine: After Proto-Lucy breaks her promise with Proto-Lynn, [[spoiler: the prototype jock, using the doll-ified Liby as a medium,]] helps the Loud siblings put an end to [[spoiler: Lucyfer]] by binding her with [[spoiler: Liby]]'s strings, allowing [[spoiler: Lori, Lynn and Lucy]] to deal the final blow to her. |
| 187 | * EpicFlail: Lala's weapon takes the form of [[spoiler: Lola]]'s sash wrapping itself to a boulder, ''then'' making said boulder sprout crystal spikes all around it. |
| 188 | * EvasiveFightThreadEpisode: Chapter 32 features a rematch against Ronnie Anne and Clyde, the latter who only won against the former because he used the time limit to his advantage. Clyde even powers up, admitting that he probably would be no match for the girl on his base form. Eventually, [[spoiler: Lincoln stops them just before they clash, they get a vision, Lori calls them, and they decide to see what's going on, leaving the winner unclear.]] |
| 189 | * EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: There are implications that the Proto-Sisters might be some type of zombies, mostly going on a passage from a Lincolnism book. Though, considering they're the Proto-Sisters, [[InvertedTrope that's not necessarily a good thing]]. |
| 190 | * EveryoneIsRelated: While not explicitly pointed out, this is played both straight and ''literally'', as the Louds being the matriarchs of the castes, and Lincoln being the only male around to reproduce at the time, means that every single one of the characters in the "Chains" dimension are related to one another. |
| 191 | ** For some specific examples, Lindsey Sweetwater is related to Mr. Universe (both versions), Maggie, Tabby, and Sam are all Mick Swagger's daughters (also both versions), Penelope and Becky are Mrs. Johnson's daughter and sister respectively (the reboot), Giggles is Mrs. [=DiMartino=]'s daughter (the original), etc. |
| 192 | * EvilVsEvil: The Proto-Sisters versus Proto-Lincoln, in the new reality. The Proto-Sisters are genocidal maniacs bent on not only killing their own daughters, but also damage the world to make sure Proto-Lincoln pays. Proto-Lincoln, later renamed Sincoln, from what has been seen, is an egotistical, [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] jackass who shows no guilt over what he's done, believing that [[IDidWhatIHadToDo he did what he did for the greater good]]. |
| 193 | * ExtremelyShortTimeSpan: Act 1 takes place in little under a month; A week passes between the introduction and Proto-Lola arc, the Proto-Lana arc happens a day or two afterwards, and then at least two weeks pass between the Proto-Lana and Proto-Lucy arcs. Meaning that the beauty contest fiasco, the rising of Atlantis, and the ZombieApocalypse all happened in under a month. |
| 194 | * ExactWords: Said by Proto-Lana during her own arc, when Lola's hiding behind a rock while [[spoiler: the hydra's summoning ritual is about to take place. |
| 195 | ---> Proto-Lana: No, Claire, I'm afraid you're wrong. That's not the scent of any member of Lola's caste. *Destroys the rock with an implied energy blast* The scent belongs to Lola's own daughter. |
| 196 | * ExcitedTitleTwoPartEpisodeName: The basic naming convention of the chapters works like this, though sometimes the title might be split into more parts, like in chapter 22 (Battle of Goths). |
| 197 | * TheExile: [[spoiler: Lucy, in her Goddess form, performs a collective one on the inhabitants of the EXE dimension, or at least Xucy, Xynn, and Xaiku, as a punishment for not helping during the arc's fiasco.]] |
| 198 | * FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler: Proto-Leia and Proto-Lizy were forced to merge into the Crystal Leviathan, then sent off on the space between Lola and Lanaspace for who knows how long, until the twins found them.]] |
| 199 | ** Even before that, the Proto-Sisters were allegedly left behind the remains of the original reality, and forced to wait for billions of years until they could invade the new reality, knowing that the person who put them through such torment was out and about. |
| 200 | * {{Familiar}}: These seem to be part of TheCorruption. The witch in the "Witch Hunt" omake, a corrupted member of Lucy's caste, has these in the form of puppets, and in their corrupted forms [[spoiler: Haiku and Giggles are accompanied by two giant entities, one resembling a nurse, the other resembling a clown.]] |
| 201 | * FemaleAngelMaleDemon: Both the Proto and Neo-Sisters are considered angels, standard for the latter, fallen angels for the former. As for the demon, while nothing's know about Lincoln, ''[[GodOfEvil Sincoln]]'' fits the bill with nature alone. |
| 202 | * FindTheCure: This becomes the team's primary mission, and Lisa's begrudging sidequest, once Lola convinces Lisa to go along with her. |
| 203 | * TheFinalTemptation: "Walpurgisnacht" present an [[Inverted|trope]] example, as Haiku's [[spoiler: corrupted nurse familiar]] appears to her to warn her now to go through with [[spoiler: killing Calliope]] in order to avoid going down a path she can no longer come out of. [[ATragedyOfImpulsiveness She doesn't listen.]] |
| 204 | * {{Flight}}: One of the most common powers exhibited by the characters, at least in the original version of the fic. For the reboot, the only character who's shown to be able to actually fly is Lori: Everybody else either has an alternate method, like wings, or don't fly at all. |
| 205 | * FlyingOnACloud: This is more or less a common power for Lori's caste: Ronnie Anne, Chandler, Becky, whenever the power is used, it usually has something to do with Lori's caste. Ronnie Anne, in fact, uses this ability to [[spoiler: head to the park when the skies start becoming cloudy.]] |
| 206 | * ForegoneConclusion: "Walpurgisnacht" takes place ''before'' the Proto-Lucy Arc, and depicts some important background events for it that lead it into this trope: [[spoiler: Haiku can't die since she's alive to die in the story proper, Calliope can't survive since she needs to be used as the core for the gashadokuro, and Haiku can't just call it quits when she realizes she proved her loyalty to the wrong Lucy.]] |
| 207 | * FreeFallFight: The few remaining chapters before the climax of the Proto-Lola arc has one of these. After her trap is discovered and [[spoiler: Lola stabs her with a crystal right in the eye,]] Proto-Lola ''shatters'' the whole place and everybody starts falling down, all while [[spoiler: Mr. and Mrs. Diaz, with Claire's help]] are fighting [[spoiler: the Eidoleias,]] Ronnie Anne's still processing [[spoiler: Carlota being the Pink Champion,]] and the introduction of [[spoiler: Sincoln, or Proto-Lincoln.]] |
| 208 | * FromBadToWorse: The Proto-Lucy arc seems to be an exercuse on just how bad things can get before the big guns have to be called in: |
| 209 | ** Zombies are popping out of the ground in Royal Woods? No problem, we'll send some of our troops there to deal with them and-What do you mean the city's been surrounded by a dome depicting an eternal night?! |
| 210 | ** Okay, so, some people are trapped inside the dome, but that means the zombies are trapped too, and as long as some capable fighters-What do you mean most of them are civillians who don't know how to fight?! |
| 211 | ** Alright, fine, we'll focus on getting the civillians out of the way, deal with the zombies, then call it a da-''There's a giant skeleton entity about to be summoned in the city square, which is being powered by dead bodies?!''. |
| 212 | ** Oh look! One of the kids actually managed to slice and dice a group of zombies! Surely that should stop them-They simply turn into skeletons after being stripped to the bone?! |
| 213 | ** Okay, wait! The Louds are there! Surely they will-Most of them are having trouble dealing with everything, and the strongest of them isn't even around here?! |
| 214 | ** Fine, as long as the dang giant skeleton doesn't come out-It was just summoned, wasn't it? |
| 215 | ** Finally, something goes right and the gothic kid has seemingly defeated her counterpart. Surely things can only get better from-''The prototype took her over and '''possessed''' her, creating an even stronger monster?!'' [[PrayerIsALastResort Okay everybody, get on your knees and pray for your lives]]! |
| 216 | * FusionDance: PlayedForLaughs during the Proto-Twins arc in the original, when Proto-Lana and Proto-Lola seemingly fuse together... only to reveal they were just joking around. And, outside of a little callback in a later chapter while training with Carol, the topic isn't brought up again. |
| 217 | ** The Proto-Lana arc in the reboot also has both a variation, and an example played straight: The straight example is Claire merging with Watterson (her pet dog), gaining dog-like traits from him and claws, and the variation is both Liam and Hattie both joining together and beig used as bases to summon the hydra, essentially becoming its core [[spoiler: and heart]] in the process. |
| 218 | ** Finally, at the climax, the arc introduces not only fusion proper (though it doesn't go into too much detail into how it works), but the very first fusion of the story: Lala, [[spoiler: the fusion of Lola and Lana]]. |
| 219 | * A chapter after the Proto-Lana arc that revisits Atlantis introduces another type of fusion, titled Chain Fusion. It's somewhat similar to the normal fusion, only the fusion takes the form of the warden (Either the stronger member or the one who started the fusion) and it only lasts until a certain amount of time passes, or the prisoner breaks out of the fusion. [[spoiler: Leia and Lezy use this kind of fusion against Becky and Catherine in the same chapter, but their exhaustedness proves to be their undoing.]] |
| 220 | ** [[spoiler: Lucy and Lynn become the next pair of sisters to fuse, turning into an entity called "Lylu" in order to help Lincoln with his predicament.]] |
| 221 | * FirePurifies: Lynn's argument on how they could [[spoiler: snap the morticians club and Renee]] out of their trance is to burn them in a way that the fire will purify them and bring them back to normal. [[FireKeepsItDead Unlike her last assumption]], it works. |
| 222 | * FiveSecondForeshadowing: A small example in chapter 33: The skies become cloudy, and everybody presume it's because Lori's getting quite intense in her training with Luna and Luan. She eventually calms down, but the skies don't turn back to normal. This, along with Luan lampshading it, is the only real clue everybody gets that things are going to get worse, before [[spoiler: Silas appears, kidnapping the Sadie Hawkins dates,]] and [[spoiler: zombies start coming out of the ground.]] |
| 223 | ** Electricity still surging through her and her schedule being vandalised are the only clues Haiku gets that [[spoiler: she's now stuck serving Proto-Lucy with the Morticians Club]] in the "Walpurgisnacht" omake. |
| 224 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: During her fight with Luna, Proto-Luna gets the upper hand of her by calling her "Lulu," the name of her stage person from Loud Music. It makes no sense for her to know about this, since Luna never once took the persona the entire story, until chapter 43 reveals [[spoiler: An entity claiming to be Lulu, who looks just like her to boot, is her champion.]] |
| 225 | ** One of Lynn's historical counterparts, as detailed in the Ars Loudia read by Lisa, is Jeanne d'Arc/Joan of Arc, who met her demise when she was burned at stake. Surely enough, [[spoiler: Lynn meets her end when she burns off all the remaining energy of her solar form, reducing her to ashes.]] |
| 226 | [[/folder]] |
| 227 | |
| 228 | [[folder: G-M]] |
| 229 | * GemTissue: Naturally, most characters who have this belong to Lola's caste. Both Lola and Proto-Lola have these [[spoiler: in their empowered forms]], and the Carbuncles, corrupted forms of members of Lola's caste, possess a red crystal on their forehead. |
| 230 | * GirlsLoveChocolate: The "Chocolate" omake side-story opens up with the Loud siblings enjoying some chocolate Carol got for them, something that also happens to be true of the Prototype Sisters, as shown in the flashback. However, this is later [[DeconstructedTrope]] when this trope is the precise reason why [[TheParanoiac Proto-Lori]] decides to [[DisproportionateRetribution confiscate any and all chocolate that could be gifted to them]], lest the protophilim start thinking they can get easy favors from them with that offering. This includes Lincoln's chocolates for Cristina. |
| 231 | * GothGirlsKnowMagic: This idea is the one that drives Haiku's motivation in the "Magic" omake. [[PlayingWithATrope However]], the idea is rendered irrelevant when she attempts to use magic from ''another'' caste like the Lynn caste. |
| 232 | * GraveMarkingScene: The last Lincoln and Ronnie Anne segment in chapter 45 deals with them visiting the Royal Woods graveyard and paying a visit to the gravestones for not only Lincoln's friends, except for a missing Liam, and the biker trio. They also visit [[spoiler: Lynn]]'s grave, but not before seeing [[spoiler: Margo]] [[DesecratingTheDead kicking the tombstone in rage]]... |
| 233 | * GuardianOfTheMultiverse: As explained by Lori and Leni, [[spoiler: Spongebob]] is this to the multiverse that houses their world's universe. |
| 234 | * HopeSpot: A relatively comedic example. Luan, being unable to sleep, tries to call Maggie's house in order to ask the emo girl if she can help her. The voice mail initially sounds like Luan can call her, but then adds that if it's Luan, then to never call her. [[Determinator This doesn't stop Luan from trying again, though]]. |
| 235 | * HopelessWar: One broke out between the Proto-Sisters and their castes, versus Proto-Lincoln and the Neo-Sisters. If the first chapter doesn't make it clear, the war was pretty one-sided. |
| 236 | * HumanAliens: The inhabitants of Planet Tokyo effectively resemble punk rock-styled humans, [[AliensSpeakingEnglish english language and all]]. |
| 237 | * HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler: The Lincolnists, under orders of Renee, perform this kind of action in order to help Proto-Lucy summon the Gashadokuro and make it even stronger, using the lovechildren in the organization who don't have Lincoln as one of their parents.]] |
| 238 | * HumongousMecha: This was Lisa's original plan for the Royal Woodroid 5000, but her current attempt is basically just a pile of junk miraculously held together, who's so big she can't even get it out of her lab. Later, during the Proto-Lucy arc, [[spoiler: encouragement from Darcy and a little focus on her powers allows her to summon a functional variation of it, which she uses to fight against the Gashadokuro in the climax.]] |
| 239 | * HybridMonster: The Crystal Leviathan, as it is a fusion of [[spoiler: the corrupted Proto-Leia and Proto-Lizy]], essentially making it half Carbuncle, half... whatever the corrupted members of Lana's caste are supposed to be. |
| 240 | * HybridPower: Carol, the strongest ally the Louds have at their disposal, is a Lori-Leni cross-caste, which is basically the caste equivalent of a hybrid. |
| 241 | ** One could also say this is the case for the fusions seen so far: Out of all of them, Lala completely overpowered Proto-Lana and Proto-Lola on her first fight, Lezy had to be beaten through their time limit instead of a straight fight, and the Crystal Leviathan is a fusion [[spoiler: between Proto-Leia and Proto-Lizy]] that required the twins to fuse into Lala in order to stand a chance. |
| 242 | * IDidWhatIHadToDo: This is Proto-Lincoln/Sincoln's answer when confronted with the fact he destroyed the original reality, which Proto-Lana brings up. [[JerkassHasAPoint Normally he would have a point]], but he's such a jerk about it that he gathers ''no'' sympathy from anybody, and it utterly fails to justify what he did. |
| 243 | * ImmortalProcreationClause: [[Trope|PlayedWith]] in regards to the sisters. On the one hand, the original Loud siblings were capable of producing offsprings despite being effectively immortal, otherwise both realities would end up barren and without life. On the other hand, the Proto-Sisters are never shown having any children, or trying to have any children, in the present time. In fact, most of the lovechildren seen aren't even theirs; they're all but stated to be from other dimensions. |
| 244 | * ImprobablyFemaleCast: The basic premise of the story (The surviving progenitors of an entire race seemingly come back from the dead to try and get revenge against the person responsible for said reality's destruction) doesn't sound like one where this would apply, since it could be written with either one or both genders in mind. It still plays this trope straight because in nearly every major story arc so far, in both the original and the reboot, most of the characters who play an important role, or a supporting one, are female. To give you an idea, the approximate number of important male characters is of ''two'', Lincoln and Clyde. [[spoiler: Three if you count Proto-Lincoln/Sincoln as a separate entity from Lincoln]]. |
| 245 | * ImHavingSoulPains: A collective one happens to [[spoiler: the souls making up the Gashadokuro's interior]] when [[spoiler: Bobby appears to electrocute the beast.]] |
| 246 | * INeverSaidItWasPoison: The day after Maggie calls Luan and realizes she could've been pranked, Sam comes in, feeling something is fishy. The ensuing conversation happens: |
| 247 | ---> Sam: Is that why you did it? |
| 248 | ---> Maggie: D-Do What? |
| 249 | ---> Sam: Invite over Luan Loud to your house! |
| 250 | ---> Maggie: H-How did you know that?! |
| 251 | ---> Sam: So you ''did'' do that! |
| 252 | * IncompletelyTrained: A big problem with the Loud sisters, who, due to discovering their divine nature just a while ago, they only just started training their divine powers. Predictably, once the Champions and the Progenitors come to mess with them, [[CurbStompBattle the battle is quite clearly not on their favor]]. |
| 253 | * InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: Chapter 32, the chapter that officially starts the Proto-Lucy arc, has the feel and tone of a general filler/mini-arc chapter. |
| 254 | * IntentionalEngrishForFunny: During the Proto-Lana arc, after Clyde's parents find Lisa and Lily playing around the organization, they also see Lisa speak in mangled English. It's equal ways cringy and funny: |
| 255 | ---> Lisa: There's no need-o for this-o fight, Lily-Tan! We're sistas in same battoru! Assapt my proposal, cease-to and desist-to this instant-to! |
| 256 | ---> Lily: *Baby gibberish that has a Japanese tone to it*. |
| 257 | ---> Lisa: Take-u that-o back-o! |
| 258 | * {{Irony}}: Lucy's caste, and Lucy herself to an extent, seems to have a theme concerning skeletons, darkness, and some other death-related stuff. The birthmark of the caste is even shaped like a skull. [[spoiler: DisneyDeath notwithstand, Lucy is the first character in the story to actually die.]] |
| 259 | * ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals: The day that [[spoiler: the Loud family have a funeral for Lynn]] is a pretty rainy one, especially in comparison to the sunny day most of the Proto-Lucy arc took place in otherwise. |
| 260 | * ItsRainingMen: Ronnie Anne's vision of the past with her and [[spoiler: Proto-Tabby]] shows both of them jumping off a platform, diving straight into the battlefield. |
| 261 | * KrakenAndLeviathan: While the former doesn't appear, the latter is represented through the Crystal Leviathan, essentially a fusion monster [[spoiler: created from the merging of the corrupted Proto-Leia and Proto-Lezy.]] |
| 262 | * LeftHanging: The original version of the story ends with [[spoiler: Lincoln still about to give birth to Proto-Lily, Lucy and Lana being possessed by their prototype counterparts, and the Lucy-Proto-Lucy union person about to fight Lynn, Polly Pain, and Paige.]] |
| 263 | * LetXBeTheUnknown: The inhabitants of the EXE dimension (Well, the three that have been seen anyway) all have "X" at the start of their name in contrast to their counterpart (Lucy becomes Xucy, Lynn becomes Xynn, and so on), and they also happen to be the most eldritch outworlders featured so far. |
| 264 | * LightningCanDoAnything: ShockAndAwe seems to be the basis of the Lori caste's powers, and going by Act 1 alone, they can: create swords made of lighting [[AbsurdlySharpBlade sharp enough to cut metal]], unleash normal lighting bolts, [[TheParalyzer allows the user to stun a target as long as they're stronger than the target]], can load clouds with lighting, and [[spoiler: allows Lori to keep herself alive after having a hole blown on her torso by Lincoln]], making it among the most versatile of power sets shown by the castes. |
| 265 | * LightheartedRematch: Ronnie Anne and Clyde have one of these in chapter 32, as a follow up on their fight during the tag team trainings. |
| 266 | * LittleBitBeastly: Proto-Lana when she decides to power up against Lana at Atlantis. In her case, she gains a scorpion-like tail and bat wings, kinda like a manticore. |
| 267 | ** Unexpectedly, [[spoiler: Proto-Lola]] gets this as well just before she engages in an [[EyeBeams eye beam]] [[BeamOWar Clash]] with the empowered [[spoiler: Lola]]. In her case, she gains attributes similar to a type of furry creature. |
| 268 | * LiterallyShatteredLives: This happens to [[spoiler: Proto-Lola]] at the climax of the Proto-Lana arc, courtesy of a newly empowered [[spoiler: Lola]]. |
| 269 | * LivingToys: The Bun-Buns are rabbit plushies that have been brought to life through unknown means, and in the case of the ones given to Lincolnists, share a striking resemblance to their owners. |
| 270 | * LovecraftLite: One the one hand, there are eldritch abominations called the "Proto-Sisters" on the look to not only kill their counterparts, but either destroy or severely damage the new reality to make Lincoln pay, and they have the power to do so. On the other hand, not only are these several ways to fight back against them, but the Neo-Sisters, provided they have enough training, are strong enough to not only take them on, but drive them back. |
| 271 | * LowerDeckEpisode: Chapter 34, which focuses on the other victims of the zombie apocalypse trying to survive the suddenly hostile environment. In fact, the Loud siblings and the main trio, supposedly the main characters, don't appear until the next chapter preview at the end! |
| 272 | * LukeYouAreMyFather: A variation. When asked who are her parents, [[spoiler: Leia]] non-verbally points out that [[BrotherSisterIncest Lincoln and Lola]] are. The variation comes from the fact that ''our'' Lincoln and Lola aren't the parents in question, but ''counterparts'' to said parents. |
| 273 | * TheMainCharactersDoEverything: As much as the organization tries to bring help to the events that happen each arc like the Hydra attack, it's ultimately the Loud sisters, and to a lesser extent the main trio, that deal with the threat at hand in the end. |
| 274 | * MagicAIsMagicA: The "Magic" omake has Silas explains this to be the case: Only certain castes can use certain types of magic, like the Lynn caste being able to use fire magic, and said magic can't be casted by anybody else: Haiku, a member of Lynn's caste, can't cast fire magic. The only known people who can cast more than one kind of magic are cross-caste hybrids, and even they're mostly stuck with the magic related to their specific castes. |
| 275 | * MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Lynn [[spoiler: burns her arms]] in chapter 31 after using her powers to win the game, but fails to notice this as she goes to congratulate, and then get scolded by, Polly. |
| 276 | * MalevolentMaskedMen: And women, in this case. The champions of Lincolnism are [[ColorCodedCharacters color-coded]] masked entities that serve the progenitors. |
| 277 | * MasterOfIllusion: Mabel, also known as "Sweater QT," exhibits the ability to create and control illusions in the Leni caste chapter in "Caste Examination," which she claims is her only power. However, see SuperStrength below. |
| 278 | * MeaningfulRename: Proto-Lincoln, or at least who the characters believe to be Proto-Lincoln, is eventually given the name "Sincoln" not just to differentiate him from the Lincoln everybody knows, but as a reminder of all the horrible things he's done. |
| 279 | * MindControlDevice: The collar Ronnie Anne was wearing in the earlier chapters is revealed to be this during the first few chapters before the Proto-Lucy arc, as she was used to test it to test the waters, compared to the collar's intended target: [[spoiler: Proto-Lincoln/Sincoln.]] |
| 280 | * MistakenIdentity: A big problem for Lincoln: Whether It's the Proto-Sisters, people like Penelope, or the lincolnists, nearly everybody thinks he's the same Proto-Lincoln that destroyed the original reality. This makes people either want to kill him (the Proto-Sisters), hate him (Penelope), or adore him (Most lincolnists). |
| 281 | ** [[PlayedForDrama More tragically]], Haiku believed that [[spoiler: killing Calliope]] was necessary because she thought the Lucy who would approve of this was the Lucy she knew. [[CaptainObvious It wasn't]]. |
| 282 | * {{Mutants}}: The Proto-Lisa Arc introduces the concept of these creatures as the result of experimentation, some potentially coming from [[spoiler: Lisa's]] experiments. [[spoiler: Bobbie Fletcher]] is one such mutant, and [[spoiler: Lindsey Sweetwater]] being the next convinces Lola to go FindTheCure. |
| 283 | * MythologyGag: When asking about the powers of their castes, Lynn wonders if she has super strength, only for Leni to confirm her caste is the one who has that power, and by extension Leni herself, which was actually part of her original design. |
| 284 | ** When Lincoln [[spoiler: stops Ronnie Anne and Clyde's fight, and gets a vision of his counterpart doing the same thing,]] Ronnie-Anne's prototype counterpart actually resembles her original character design. |
| 285 | [[/folder]] |
| 286 | |
| 287 | [[folder: N-S]] |
| 288 | * NegatedMomentOfAwesome: At the end of the Introduction Arc, Lincoln, [[spoiler: presumably controlled by Sincoln's anger]], bursts into the backyard when the Proto-Sisters have beaten his sisters, seemingly ready to fight them. However, he turns back to normal mere moments later, and the Proto-Sisters knock him out. |
| 289 | * NiceDayDeadlyNight: Essentially {{Invoked|Trope}} during the Proto-Lucy arc. The start of the story arc has the ZombieApocalypse appear in Royal Woods, and Proto-Luna "adds some atmosphere" with her Eternal Night Dome, which traps Royal Woods in a dome whose function is to bring a night that lasts forever to the city, just in time to correlate to the apocalypse itself. |
| 290 | * TheNightThatNeverEnds: As explained by Bun-Bun, this is more or less the function of Proto-Luna's Eternal Night Dome: It encases the given area in a massive dome that then subjects the area to a night that basically lasts forever. |
| 291 | * NoBodyLeftBehind: Two examples from Proto-Lana's arc: |
| 292 | ** The Hydra, after blowing itself up when it was thrown at the floating Atlantis. |
| 293 | ** [[spoiler: Proto-Lana]], courtesy of being caught in the core's explosion, one which blew Atlantis in half. |
| 294 | ** [[spoiler: Lynn]] joins the ranks at the end of the Proto-Lucy arc, [[spoiler: her body turning to dust before being swept away by the wind.]] |
| 295 | ** However, [[spoiler: Proto-Lucy]] averts this in that her motionless body remains even after [[spoiler: the spirit inside it]] is destroyed. |
| 296 | * NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Skippy returned Lana's hat to her, but Proto-Lana has him call her "[[AccidentalMisnaming Lola]]" instead, causing her to slap him. |
| 297 | ** Sam works up the courage to help fight against the hydra. [[spoiler: She ends up temporarily killing Lucy in the process, and gets on Leni's bad side.]] |
| 298 | ** Silas [[GoThroughMe gets between]] Lincoln and [[spoiler: Lucyfer]] in order to try and reason with the latter. [[CruelAndUnusualDeath He's killed in a brutal manner]]. |
| 299 | * NotQuiteDead: After being squashed by the hydra, everybody presumes [[spoiler: Lucy]] to be dead. Then Lincoln comes up to her and listens for a heartbeat, and shortly after he hears it, she wakes up, seemingly no worse for wear besides her left eye looking different. However, according to Leni, it's not that simple. |
| 300 | * NoodleIncident: During Luna's flashback in chapter 2, Sam, while scolding Luna for thinking she'd fall for the obviously bogus invitation, compliments her by saying her guitar skills are sicker than that one time she ate haggis. |
| 301 | --> '''Luna:''' Is... Is that a metaphor, or did that really happen? |
| 302 | --> '''Luna:''' [[LampshadeHanging Dude, you just contradicted yourself]]. |
| 303 | * OffingTheOffspring: One of the Proto-Sisters' goals is to kill the Neo-Sisters, who are their daughters conceived with Proto-Lincoln. |
| 304 | ** Proto-Lincoln did this on ''a dimension-wide scale'' when he wiped the original reality, seeing as the protophilim are the children he had with his sisters. [[IDidWhatIHadToDo He supposedly had his reasons]], but still... |
| 305 | * TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: As revealed during the Proto-Lana arc, the Proto-Sisters made an agreement sometime before the arc to only attack and kill their own respective child, like Proto-Lola being the only one allowed to kill Lola. [[spoiler: Proto-Lana deciding to make an exception after Lola interferes in her and Lana's fight causes Proto-Lola to step in and crash the party.]] |
| 306 | * OneSteveLimit: Averted, sort of. There's Ronnie Anne, everybody's lovable tomboy, and Ronnie, the leader of the biker trio consisting of her, Cindy, and Mindy. To avoid confusion, the latter is sometimes called "Biker Ronnie," or just Ronnie, while Ronnie Anne is called "Ronnie Anne." |
| 307 | * OurAngelsAreDifferent: They appear to be a transformation that can be achieved by the divine beings of the universe, or at least the Neo-Sisters. Achieving this form not only changes their appearence, but they gain wings that, unlike the typical bird-like wings, more or less resemble floating versions of the caste symbols of each angels' caste. They're also strong enough to go toe-to-toe against the progenitors, provided they're not using their full power. |
| 308 | * OurGodsAreDifferent: |
| 309 | ** The Neo-Sisters have physical forms, had their powers locked off for most of their lives, and, going by Lola and Lana, [[spoiler:have the essences of the original prototypes within them]]. |
| 310 | ** The Proto-Sisters, meanwhile, have wide hips added to their average bodies, giving them an unnerving nature, their eyes have colored sclera and pupils shaped like their caste's birthmarks, and going by Flip and [[spoiler: Sincoln]]'s ideas, are possibly [[spoiler: the original prototypes' bodies being controlled by something else.]] |
| 311 | * OurSoulsAreDifferent: They apparently have some kind of energy, creatively titled "Soul Energy," which can be utilized by members of Lucy's caste and nobody else. |
| 312 | * OurTimeTravelIsDifferent: Chapter 51 explains, and confirms the existence of, time travel in this story: This is Luan's domain, any changes done to the past won't affect the Loud siblings but ''will'' affect everyone else, etc. One method of going through this is a PortalToThePast. |
| 313 | * OurZombiesAreDifferent: They're one of the "classes" of undead that Leni spells out during her and Lucy's trip to the afterlife: More specifically, they're what happens when somebody [[CamebackWrong comes back wrong]] as a mindless drone. |
| 314 | * OutlivingOnesOffspring: The Proto-Sisters wound up being the only survivors of the old reality, which was populated by their children with Proto-Lincoln, who was the one who destroyed it. As if their minds weren't broken enough already... |
| 315 | ** Clyde and Penelope, both in the Chains' dimension and the dimension where [[spoiler: Calliope]] came from, outlive her when she's killed by [[spoiler: Haiku]] in order to [[spoiler: empower the Gashadokuro.]] [[spoiler: This is then averted when Clyde takes her out of the skeleton and seemingly brings her back to life... somehow.]] |
| 316 | ** The Loud parents, Rita and Lynn Sr., can be added to the ranks as well, not only for temporarily outliving [[spoiler: Lucy]] before she revived, but ''officially'' outliving [[spoiler: Lynn]] when she dies at the end of the Proto-Lucy arc, with no known way to revive her at the moment. |
| 317 | * PhilosophersStone: Featured in the first/The Crystal Leviathan omake. As it turns out, [[spoiler: The prototype lovechild twins, Proto-Leia and Proto-Lizy, were tasked with protecting it, but failed and it got in the possession of Proto-Lisa.]] |
| 318 | * PhysicalGod: Both the progenitors and Neo-Sisters, both considered the gods of the original and new reality respectively, are naturally this. |
| 319 | * PortalToThePast: Leni opens one in chapter 51 in order to take Luan to see the past. Luan, having time as a domain, might be able to create one of these too. |
| 320 | * PossessingADeadBody: Proto-Lucy does this to a skeleton the Mortician Club members dug out, in order to watch their progress, and also get into a talk with Proto-Luna, who comes out soon after. |
| 321 | ** Assuming the Proto-Sisters are the possessive-type of revenants, then they count as this as well. |
| 322 | * PowerIncontinence: A natural result of the Loud sisters being IncompletelyTrained is that they don't have full control of their abilities, like when Luan tries to go to sleep, and due to saying "time to hit the hay," a pack of hay suddenly materializes in her bed. |
| 323 | ** A more serious example happens in chapter 31, where, during a volleyball match, Lynn uses her fire powers to hit the ball and [[spoiler: scarred and burnt.]] Not that she notices it. |
| 324 | ---> Luan: Ugh, I wasn't even making a pun! |
| 325 | * PowerGivesYouWings: The sister's angel forms, besides giving them a boost in power that allows them to fight evenly with the Proto-Sisters, also gives them some rather bizarre-looking wings as well, shaped like their caste symbols. |
| 326 | * PowerMakesYourHairGrow: Lana's angel form has her hair grow past her back and form a mane, and it's this form that allows her to fight toe-to-toe against Proto-Lana. |
| 327 | * ThePowerOfHate: Sore loser hate, as in the case of Lynn's bersoreker form. |
| 328 | ** Later on, during Lucy and Leni's trip to purgatory, Leni explains that this is used to revive somebody into a Revenant. |
| 329 | * PoweredByAForsakenChild: Paige's mecha is powered by a Bun-Bun, specifically hers. Unlike most examples, however, they don't seem to mind. |
| 330 | ** Implied to be the case with the [[spoiler: Core]] of Atlantis, which is decidedly less willing this time. |
| 331 | ** Another example would be [[spoiler: Liam and Hattie]], the ones inside the hydra's heart. As long as they stay inside, the hydra will live, and as soon as they're taken out, it won't take long for the beast to blow up. |
| 332 | * PrayerIsALastResort: Once the Gashadokuro is taken out and [[spoiler: Lucyfer]] is severely ticked off as a result, as well as them quickly running out of options, everybody in the new reality, by [[spoiler: Stella]]'s request, prays to Lincoln in order to get him to help them turn the seemingly hopeless situation on its head and give them a chance of victory. [[spoiler: He listens, and things quickly turn to their favor.]] |
| 333 | * PrecisionFStrike: In order to put some extra emphasis on how important is what Luna did, Lori outright ''swears'' to drive the point home. |
| 334 | ---> Lori: [[LampshadeHanging And you know It's a big deal, because I used a swear word to emphasize it!]] |
| 335 | * {{Precursors}}: The protophilim and the Progenitors, of course. |
| 336 | * PsychoPrototype: The Proto-Sisters are a whole group of this, thanks to the corruption. |
| 337 | * PublicDomainArtifact: Mjolnir, Thor's hammer, is mentioned by Lori in chapter 33. Considering everything else that's happened up to that point, it could very well be a real thing. |
| 338 | * PulledFromYourDayOff: This is practically the basis of the "Proto-Lana" arc: The Louds and some of their friends head to Aloha Beach in order to try take a break from their issues with the progenitors, but Proto-Lana and her minions/subordinates/whatever are there too, and end up doing stuff such as summon a hydra and [[spoiler: lift freaking Atlantis off the ground]], forcing them to face her. |
| 339 | * PunchedAcrossTheRoom: This generally happens to anybody who gets hit by sufficient force by someone stronger than them, with Proto-Lucy sending Lynn flying out of the house just being one example. |
| 340 | * PutOnABus: At the start of the story, Lynn Sr. and Rita inform the children that they'll be away for a month for business. With "business" in this case being them going to the organization to help from the shadows. |
| 341 | * RaceAgainstTheClock: A side-effect of Lindsey's scuffle with Lisa in the earlier chapters, which goes unspoken for several chapters, is the possibility [[spoiler: she might turn into a mutant.]] Once this fact is known the main group, primarily Lola, head to Lisapolis in order to FindTheCure. |
| 342 | * ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: The Loud Sisters, [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Clyde]], all appear to be named after angels from both Christianity and Judaism, while the Proto-Sisters are named after demons from the Ars Goetia. |
| 343 | * RedSkyTakeWarning: The sky-as well as everything else-in the EXE dimension is blood red, and it's implied the dimension is among the most dangerous ones in the Loudverse. |
| 344 | * TheResistance: The organization could count as one for the main/Chains dimension, as they deal with the Progenitors' stuff on the sidelines. There's also one on the "Cyborg Overlord Dimension," lead by [[spoiler: Lisa's counterpart.]] |
| 345 | * TheReveal: Chapter 28 reveals the reason why Penelope hates Lincoln (Or at least, Sincoln): Her child with Clyde, Calliope, wound up dead because of his orders. |
| 346 | * RiseFromYourGrave: Zombies start doing this ''en masse'' during chapter 33, when the ZombieApocalypse finally begins. |
| 347 | * RoboticReveal: Downplayed with the hydra in Proto-Lana's arc. It looks organic on the outside, [[spoiler: but its insides are robotic]]. |
| 348 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After [[spoiler: Proto-Lola [[LiterallyShatteredLives is shattered]] by Lola]] and Leia informs this to her troops, ''the entire armada'' gets the heck out of dodge as fast as possible. |
| 349 | ** [[spoiler: Proto-Luna, Proto-Lynn, and Proto-Luan all have this reaction when Lincoln arrives in the battlefield, shortly after they were left exhausted by fighting Spongebob!Margo.]] |
| 350 | * SeaMonster: A hydra is summoned in chapter 23, and it doesn't take long before it starts wrecking havoc. [[spoiler: Making things more difficult is that the only way to kill it is on the inside, which reveals its mechanical innards.]] |
| 351 | * SelfDestructMechanism: The hydra begins such a sequence after [[spoiler: Liam and Hattie]] are removed from its heart. Luckily, [[spoiler: an enraged Velvet Mode Leni]] throws it away before it blows up. |
| 352 | * SeriousBusiness: This is the way Lynn and Margo treat their friendly volleyball game between each other (And Polly and Paige) in chapter 31. |
| 353 | * SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The climax of chapter 51 involves Luan [[spoiler: using one of her timeflies to send Proto-Lisa and Proto-Luna through a portal to the moon.]] The consequences of this haven't been explored yet, but Leni implies it can't be good. |
| 354 | * SharingABody: Lincoln and his prototype counterpart. [[spoiler: The climax of the Proto-Lana arc also reveals that the twins, and by proxy, the other sisters, have a similar case of this with their respective, uncorrupted prototype counterparts.]] |
| 355 | * ShedTheFamilyName: While there's no evidence suggesting Maggie outright removed the Swagger surname from her name, she most certainly did so in spirit with what she said to Sam: |
| 356 | ---> "Have I not been clear with you these past few years!? I want nothing to do with the Swagger side of the family! I'd rather be Luan's comedy partner, than to ever identify as a Swagger!" |
| 357 | * SkewedPriorities: The title of the very first chapter [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this; Lincoln has a weird dream about the original reality, and decides to ''not'' focus on it, but on checking on his sisters' activities. Naturally, the truth comes out later, but you'd still expect him to be more intrigued about the dream. |
| 358 | * SolarAndLunar: As revealed in "Night Life," Lynn and Luna had this sort of duality, as they were in charge of controlling the sun and the moon, respectively, which is what Lori tells Luna during this chapter. Proto-Lynn and Proto-Luna, by virtue of supposedly being the original Lynn and Luna, have this same duality. |
| 359 | * SoulPower: Members of the Lucy caste, and thus Lucy herself, possess this with their ability to manipulate the "Soul energy" within them, which they can use to create weapons and other things. |
| 360 | * SoulPoweredEngine: The Gashadokuro, the divine beast summoned in the Proto-Lucy arc, is powered by one, with none other than [[spoiler: Calliope, Clyde and Penelope's lovechild from another dimension]], serving as its core. [[spoiler: As soon as Clyde takes her out, the Gashadokuro doesn't last long afterwards.]] |
| 361 | * SummoningRitual: The "Ars Loudia" seems to have both pages about the progenitors and rituals on how to summon them. In both versions of the story, Lucy summons Proto-Lucy, but while she botches it both times, in the original she lost her eyes immediately, while in the reboot she at least got the chance to pay off the mishap. |
| 362 | * TemptingFate: During the climax of the Proto-Lana arc, [[spoiler: Proto-Lola]] scoffs at Lala, saying that her and Proto-Lana [[spoiler: fighting together]] would be as arbitrary as fusion itself, and mocks her saying that, [[spoiler: if the twins weren't fused as her]], they would stand no chance. Let's just say, [[CurbStompBattle they got everything that was coming to them]]. |
| 363 | ** This is later done by both Sam ''and Luna'' during the "Night Life" chapter, the former by trying to pet Charles even though he's clearly angry at her, which gets her hand bitten in the process, and the latter by saying something he misinterprets as an insult, also getting her hand bitten in the process. |
| 364 | * TimeSkip: A full month passes between the end of Act 1 and te beginning of Act 2. |
| 365 | * ThereIsAnother: Two examples from the Proto-Lucy Arc. |
| 366 | ** Up until the mentioned arc, Lincolnism was the only known "religion" based on the new reality. That is until Paige and Mabel defect, and [[spoiler: Cristina reveals the existence of her own religion, Cristinanity.]] |
| 367 | ** The second example comes from the epilogue, where Tabby reveals to Lucy that [[spoiler: there's a 12th unknown caste, supposedly ruled by Cristina.]] |
| 368 | * ToastOfTardiness: "School Day" has an example of this, fittingly enough, with Lynn, although instead of a piece of toast like the usual trope, she apparently ate a ''ham'' instead. Her body is unable to digest it properly due to being eaten in a rush, and, combined with the stress of talking to her crush, causes her to vomit. |
| 369 | * TomeOfEldritchLore: The "Ars Loudia" book that Lucy finds in the house, which contains not only information about the Proto-Sisters, but also how to summon them. |
| 370 | * ToughLove: This is Lori's reasoning for her strict method of teaching, and is also confirmed by her to be the method she was trained with. |
| 371 | * TrappedInVillainy: Implied, and confirmed in the "Walpurgisnacht" omake, is that most people from the new reality who work alongside the Proto-Sisters are practically stuck serving them, regardless of whether they even enjoy working for them. Even when they realize their mistakes (Silas, Haiku), the only way they come out of this is [[SuicideByCop through death]]. |
| 372 | * TragicMonster: The Crystal Leviathan, the featured "antagonist" of the first omake, turns out to be this. [[spoiler: They were original the prototype versions of Leia and Lizy, until their failure to secure the PhilosophersStone caused them to be punished by being merged together into the beast known as the leviathan.]] |
| 373 | * TragicVillain: Silas and Haiku, both from the Proto-Lucy Arc. The former has whatever plan he had with the X-dimension fall apart once Xucy refuses to help, not to mention realizing the damage the gashadokuro could do to the city; he tries to do one last good thing by [[GoThroughMe getting between Lincoln and the other Lucy]], only to [[RedemptionEqualsDeath die horribly for it]]. As for Haiku, [[spoiler: besides the obvious killing-Calliope-to-serve-as-the-gashadokuro's-core bit]], she gets tortured to the point of insanity, fights against those she used to call her friends, and dies with nary a whimper, all happening simply because she wanted to prove her loyalty to Lucy. |
| 374 | * TransformationSequence: In both the original and rebooted versions, the sisters go through this while accesing their angel forms, as proven by Luna (original) and Lola (the reboot). |
| 375 | ** In the chapters before the Proto-Lana arc, ''Bun-Bun'' goes through one of this when he goes from his toy form to a more humanoid form. It's even outright compared to a MagicalGirl transformation! |
| 376 | * TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: The information about the "Cyborg Overlord Dimension" that Carol reads in chapter 28 reveals that some of the cyborgs did this, ensuing a war for five years between them and the overlord that left that Royal Woods in its current, broken state. |
| 377 | * TheUndead: Unsurprisingly, these happen to be both Lucy's domain [[spoiler: And what she kinda becomes after the Proto-Lana arc]]. In chapter 31, Leni slightly elaborates on them: |
| 378 | ** Those who are brought back wrong, becoming a mindless drone, are called Zombies. |
| 379 | ** Those who will themselves back to life throgh rage are called Revenants. |
| 380 | ** Those who are brought back to life, without any free will of their own, are called Dolls, at least according to Leni. |
| 381 | ** It's also eventually revealed that the Proto-Sisters are a type of undead,most likely a revenant going by their consistent hatred, going by a phrase on a Linconlism book saying that the progenitors wouldn't come back. |
| 382 | * UndeadChild: [[spoiler: Lucy post-Proto Lana arc.]] |
| 383 | * TheUnreveal: Cyborg Darcy (The Darcy from the Cyborg Overlord Dimension) is about to reveal to Lisa who's the overlord in that dimension, when Carol interrupts the two, reminding Lisa that they have to leave. |
| 384 | * UpgradeVsPrototypeFight: Pick a fight that has one of the Loud sisters facing off against their respective prototype counterpart (Lucy Versus Proto-Lucy, for example), and it will count as this, with a side of MirrorMatch. |
| 385 | * RuleSixtyThree: "Genderbended" reveals there's an entire ''dimension'' based on this concept. |
| 386 | * SliceOfLife: The first few chapters/Introduction Arc function like this, being mostly about the Loud siblings going through their day before [[BrokenMasquerade the revelation of the true nature of the world]] forces them to go into something that's a bit more fantastic. |
| 387 | * StoryArc: Both the original and the reboot employ story arcs, the latter being the only one who has all considered story arc revealed. These are, in order: |
| 388 | ** Original: |
| 389 | *** Younger Prototypes Saga: |
| 390 | *** Introduction Arc: 1-8 |
| 391 | *** Prototype Twins Arc: 9-13 |
| 392 | *** Prototype Lucy Arc: 15-24 |
| 393 | *** Prototype Lily Arc: 27-44 |
| 394 | ** Reboot: |
| 395 | *** Younger Prototypes Saga/Act 1: |
| 396 | *** Introduction Arc: 1-5 |
| 397 | *** Prototype Lola Arc: 9-16 |
| 398 | *** Prototype Lana Arc: 20-31 |
| 399 | *** Prototype Lucy Arc: 32-42 (43 serves as an epilogue) |
| 400 | *** Younger Prototypes Saga/Act 2: |
| 401 | *** Introduction Arc: 44-??? |
| 402 | *** Prototype Lisa Arc: ??? |
| 403 | *** Prototype Lily Arc: ??? |
| 404 | *** Gate of Childhood Arc: ?? |
| 405 | *** Older Prototypes Saga/Act 3: |
| 406 | *** Prototype Lynn Arc: ??? |
| 407 | *** Prototype Luan Arc: ??? |
| 408 | *** Prototype Luna Arc: ??? |
| 409 | *** Loudgeddon Arc: ??? |
| 410 | * StressVomit: Mentioned by Lincoln mentions this could've happened to her sisters and him if they didn't fully recover from his condition after the introduction arc. And considering who they were facing, it's surprising they didn't do it back then. |
| 411 | ** A straight example comes from Lynn later on, as a result of a combination of trying to digest a ham and the stress of talking to her crush. |
| 412 | * SuperStrength: Leni claims that her caste has this power during chapter 3, "Training Time." Mabel, otherwise known as "Sweater QT" in the fandom, however, claims to lack this ability during her chapter in "Caste Examination," saying she can only create and control illusions, so whether the ability's exclusive to Leni, or Mabel was just lying, is unknown. |
| 413 | [[/folder]] |
| 414 | |
| 415 | [[folder: V-Z]] |
| 416 | * VillainTeamUp: Averted during the climax of Proto-Lana's arc. Once [[spoiler: Proto-Lola]] crashes the party, neither she nor Proto-Lana even humor the idea of working together, even while they're getting their butts kicked by [[spoiler: Lola and Lana's fusion]]. |
| 417 | ** The team up in the Proto-Lucy Arc one-ups this by involving ''four'' progenitors: Proto-Lucy, Proto-Lynn, Proto-Luna, and Proto-Luan. However, only the first two are explicitly working together, the last two are mostly minding their own business. |
| 418 | * VillainWorld: We get a glimpse of Proto-Lana's at the beginning of her arc, and it's implied that Proto-Lola, and by proxy the rest of the proto-sisters, have worlds as well. |
| 419 | ** The "Dark World" omake features another one, this one being ruled by [[spoiler: an alternate version of Lucy.]] |
| 420 | * ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption: A lesson Lincoln eventually learns is that, no matter how much he wants to believe otherwise, the Proto-Sisters are too shattered, vindictive, and all around ticked off at him to agree to anything other than a battle to the death with him. |
| 421 | * WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: Initially played straight, as despite the brutal ending to the introduction arc, the next few chapters involve the Loud siblings (And Clyde and Ronnie Anne) going to school. [[SubvertedTrope Then]] school is suspended for a month for an unknown reason, and thus gets written off the Louds' bucket list of problems. |
| 422 | * WasOnceAMan: As revealed in chapter 21, TheCorruption turns members of a caste into a creature. So far, the only known corrupted caste members are Carbuncles, Witches and Wizards, which are corrupted members of Lola's caste, and Lucy's caste, female and male respectively. |
| 423 | * WebcomicTime: The entirety of Act 1 takes place in under a month, as said in the ExtremelyShortTimeSpan trope above, which, in real time, took about a year to come out. |
| 424 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: Luan and Maggie used to be, and the rift between them is still strong even to the present. This is the precise reason why, of all people Luan could call, she calls Maggie: Because she could still remember the time they used to be friends. |
| 425 | ** Ronnie Anne and Chandler also seemed to have been friends in the past, or at least used to get along before something unknown happened that caused them to part in bitter terms. |
| 426 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: The Proto-Sisters became a victim of this in the original reality, as said by [[spoiler. Proto-Lisa. Whether they went through the same madness as their impostors is unknown.]] |
| 427 | * WitchHunt: One of the omakes is literally titled this, and since it involves Proto-Lucy, Silas, and Lupa hunting an actual witch, which in this universe is the corrupted version of members of Lucy's caste, it's rather fitting. |
| 428 | * WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Discussed. While testing out the Loud Slayers, Mrs. Loud wants to test them on the Androids, since she believes they're the perfect way to test them and nothing else would work. Howard, Harold, and Lynn Sr. promptly ask her if she couldn't use something else, since the androids are not only the best defense the organization has against attackers, but they're also expensive to program and create. Seeing the logic, Rita caves in and decides to use robot bunnies as test subjects instead. |
| 429 | * WhenTreesAttack: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Clyde originally believed that this was going to happen when Silas warned everybody that Royal Woods would be in danger, but instead, TheUndead start rising from their graves. |
| 430 | * WouldHurtAChild: It'd be easier to count the times this trope ''isn't'' at play: |
| 431 | ** Proto-Lola endangers not only Lola and the Louds, but also several children with her stunt at her rigged BeautyContest. |
| 432 | ** Proto-Lana, as well as Claire to a lesser extent, attack Lola when they realize she's spying them, and then later on Proto-Lana doesn't consider Skippy being around the battlefield a reason to stop her fight with Lana. |
| 433 | ** Later in the same arc as the last example, Proto-Lola blatantly threatens Leia, a Loud lovechild between Lincoln and Lola and thus ''her own granddaughter'', with death if she doesn't do what she says. |
| 434 | ** The biggest examples, however, come from the Proto-Lucy arc, where: |
| 435 | *** Before the arc even began, [[spoiler: Calliope]], who's a lovechild between [[spoiler: Clyde and Penelope]], was killed by [[spoiler: Haiku]] in order to [[spoiler: serve as the core for the Gashadokuro's revival.]] |
| 436 | *** Haiku, Giggles, and [[spoiler: Renee]] are all murdered in cold blood by [[spoiler: Stella.]] |
| 437 | *** Several kids die as a result of [[spoiler: Proto-Lucy's barrage of scythe swings at Sincoln being redirected so they don't hit him.]] |
| 438 | *** And finally, Silas is brutally murdered by [[spoiler: Lucyfer]] for having the gall to [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished stand against her and try to reason with her to stop the carnage]]. |
| 439 | * WoundThatWillNotHeal: As revealed during the final fight with [[spoiler: Lucyfer]], any attack that Lincoln does with the smallest of effort ''cannot'' be healed, either easily or whatsoever. [[spoiler: Proto-Lucy's eyes were completely blinded by Proto-Lincoln in the past, and when they clash fists, Lucyfer's arm remains damaged for the entirety of the battle.]] |
| 440 | * YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Sometime after the Proto-Lana arc, Luna's feeling down over everything that happened (Especiall [[spoiler: Lucy's "death"]]), so Lori promptly reminds her that she was the one who lead the charge against the hydra, that she and her sisters survived ([[spoiler: Even Lucy]]), and that she didn't wet herself or ran away like a normal person would do, she charged at it and lead the sisters and their friends on a counterattack. |
| 441 | * {{Youkai}}: The Proto-Lucy arc has one of these in the form of the Gashadokuro, a giant [[DemBones skeleton]] created from the bodies of the dead. |
| 442 | * YouCantFightFate: Proto-Lincoln destroying the original reality [[spoiler: was always meant to happen to give way to a new reality, as intended by TheMaker.]] Both Proto-Lisa and [[spoiler: Proto-Clyde]] are the only ones known to have found this out before the destruction itself. |
| 443 | * ZombieApocalypse: With the zombies suddenly rising from their graves, and them being required in order to summon Proto-Lucy's beast, [[spoiler: the Gashadokuro]], this seems to be the main conflict of the Proto-Lucy arc. |
| 444 | [[/folder]] |
| 445 |
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/context.php
FollowingContext Fanfic / ChainsOfReality
Go To
- Show Spoilers
- Night Vision
- Sticky Header
- Wide Load
