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3->''"Fighting against all sanity since 2008"''
4-->--'''The BZPB tagline'''
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6''[[http://bzpb.forumotion.co.uk/ BZPB]]'' is a PlayByPost roleplaying game whose sole purpose is defying sanity since its inception. It petered out around 2017, though [[http://bzpb.forumotion.co.uk/t688-the-mazkertis-paradox a wrap-up]] of the roleplay's plot is still being updated as of 2019.
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8The plot is amazingly complicated, but the basic premise is that a Makuta called [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Blackout Blackout]] has come up with a plan to take over everything.
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10!!''BZPB'' contains examples of:
11* AbortedArc: During the Bara Magna arc, it was heavily implied that the Vrai were up to ''something'', but this was completely forgotten once the main characters descended on the planet.
12* AchillesHeel: Blackout's only weakness is, in fact, his heel. It's never specified ''which'' heel, but people either know which one to hit already or just go for both.
13* ActionGirl: Zev loves this trope to death. Namah, Prudence, Vi, Makoto...But the Bleach transplant Yoruichi Shihouin outshines them all; coming out of a battle with Zev's ludicrously-strong Inner Hollow without so much as a scratch on her. Fighting barehanded no less!
14%% * AirborneAircraftCarrier: The ZFT uses these. They go into space, too.
15%% * TheAlcatraz: [[Manga/OnePiece Impel Down]].
16* TheAlliance: The Rebel Alliance against Uterio Di Armechio, though with the added twist of the ZFT already planning to betray everyone else, and everyone else planning to betray the ZFT.
17* AlternateHistory: [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Uterio%27s_World Uterio's World]], a universe where the Rebels lost the final battle of the Uterio War.
18* AlwaysAccurateAttack: When faced with missiles, a common tactic is to open portals in front of the missiles and make them come out of other portals that are so close to the enemy that it is physically impossible for them to avoid being hit.
19* AmusingAlien: [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Kranxx Kranxx]] of course, for his love of cheese and flies... not to mention his catchphrase which is said whenever he's discovered hiding in jail cells, escape pods or underneath corpses in small-scale wars: "Hello."
20* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Arty Arty]], the sibling of TMV, who is even more shrill than his brother.
21* AnotherDimension: [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Chronospace Chronospace]], a bizarre dimension located outside of time.
22%% * {{Antimatter}}: Used during the Battle of Omega Supreme to actually ''change the shape of the planet''.
23%% * AnvilOnHead: The Matoran in a Black Suit knocked out [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Vorahk-Kah Vorahk-Kah]] by doing this.
24%% * ApocalypseHow: Planetary/Physical Annihilation happens a lot here. Multiversal/Physical Annihilation was only averted because everyone forgot it should have happened after the characters broke out into the Real World.
25* AreWeThereYet: Crimson Mirror Zev constantly asking Namah this is a RunningGag.
26%% * AttackDrone: [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Outriders Outriders]]
27* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Vorahk-Kah after absorbing the energy of a ''nebula'' near SM Tybion. He proceeded to rampage through the streets of the planet in his new humongous form, but returned to his normal size after receiving a significant amount of punishment from the Ta'har military.
28* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Misaki Masaki Raregroove, Zev's mother and Empress of Jurai, is capable of such feats of strength that everyone (who knows better) automatically dreads crossing her.
29%% * AxCrazy: Shattered Mirror Moss.
30%% * BackFromTheDead:
31%% ** Very very often.
32%% ** Kakamu is this trope given life.
33* BackToBackBadasses: [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Ynot Ynot]] and [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Zev Zev]] numerous times.
34* BadassFamily: Zev's family, the Raregrooves, are all powerful shamans with mastery over a range of fighting techniques. They are also royalty back on their home planet, Jurai.
35%% * BattleButler: Abneris.
36* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Jack the Ripper was Vultran collecting tissue samples.
37* BerserkButton:
38** Never say the name "Keichi" around Deathsaurus, unless you have insurance and/or a bazooka.
39** In Keichi's case, if you say "have you eaten yet", you will hear curse words not yet written in any dictionary.
40* {{BFG}}:
41** Viriathus, aka Vi, loves her some heavy artillery. Especially since she's strong enough to carry rifles the size of anti-tank mounted guns.
42** Ynot also has an arsenal of guns ONLY referred to as '[=BFGs=]'.
43%% ** Blackout also had one on his CoolStarship before it was blown up.
44%% ** Malchiorians got outfitted with some of these.
45%% ** Osseron's Planetkiller Battlecruiser.
46%% ** Deathsaurus' Electromagnetic Projectile Launcher, is one of these.
47%% ** Lilith Heyerdahl's Stand, ''Only My Railgun'', can take the form of ''any'' weapon conceivable. [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-94bdLKlQ0gE/UuGgOkoBk2I/AAAAAAAAwek/4-qnUH2z31o/s1600/Shot0006.png Guess what it spends most of its time as?]]
48%% * BigBad: Blackout, the game creator's main character.
49%% * BigBadDuumvirate: The [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/ZFTOrg ZFT]] leadership: Blackout, [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/DRJ David Robert Jones]] and [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/TPK TPK]] was this, until [[spoiler:TPK brainwashed Blackout's troops and forced them to turn against him]].
50%% * BigRedButton: On just about every piece of machinery in the game.
51* BioAugmentation: Krika and Shockwave create super-powered mooks by messing with their DNA, using Yon's TouchedByVorlons genes as a template.
52%% * BizarreAndImprobableBallistics: Xeno will do things like this with his ammunition from time to time, just to show he can.
53* BizarroUniverse: [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Unireverse The Unireverse]], a universe where all things are reversed.
54* BlackKnight: Blackout uses these as his mooks. They all speak Latin for some reason (though they all seem to occasionally snap back to English).
55* BloodOnTheDebateFloor: This seems to happen every time TPK shows up to a Council meeting. The first time he started a fight with Serecio for disagreeing with him (they had the decency to take it elsewhere), and the second time the debate was interrupted by Uterio trying to arrest the Great Beings who weren't on his side.
56%% * BlueAndOrangeMorality: Blackout's morality scale is bizarre, to say the least.
57%% * BoisterousBruiser: Several.
58%% * TheBusCameBack: Prudence has returned, having [[TookALevelInBadass Taken A Few Levels In Badass.]]
59* ButtMonkey: Kakamu. He's died several times, and has been put into many circumstances that result in pain.
60* CallBack:
61** Within the first months of the game, a random encounter by the Energized Protodermis Entity occurs. It's finally explained four years later that Ynot dropped him there from across time.
62** The FRPG is full of these, with old characters that haven't been used in ages being brought back to fill out the ranks.
63* TheCameo: Greg Farshtey, ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}'' lore writer, appears in the RPG in a small part once a year. This is a homage to him, as without ''BIONICLE'', BZPB would never have existed.
64%% * CasualInterstellarTravel
65* CharacterNameAlias: "Fourteen" is not his real name, but the word has become so connected to his character that neither the characters nor authors who know him care what his real name is.
66* ChasedByAngryNatives: This happened to Yon's clone and his companion, Vea, when they tried to rip off some aliens by selling them a flintlock pistol in exchange for several laser rifles.
67* ChekhovsGun: Yeah. Remember those cute little critters that Zev and Co. befriended a while back? Neither do the players. Turns out they're all living {{MacGuffin}}s, if Namah's Spirit of Fire is anything to go by.
68* ChekhovsGunman: F-Klak. He showed up once and got Klak to briefly turn evil. He vanished for just long enough for everyone to forget about him, and then...
69* ChessMotifs: Uteria, Uterio's gender-flipped Shattered Mirror counterpart, owns a chessboard, and moves the pieces in accordance with troop movements.
70%% * ChestBlaster: Both Blackout and his Shattered Mirror incarnation have these.
71%% * ChromeChampion: Kakamu became this after his consciousness was bonded to a body made of the biometal element.
72%% * CloudcuckooLander: Zev and other main characters of the player of the same name tend to closely fit this.
73%% * CoolStarship: Everyone has one of these. Everyone.
74%% * ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Several teams fall into this.
75* CombiningMecha: Bruticus, the combined form of Blackout and the other [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Elite_Makuta Elite Makuta]].
76* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Namah evokes this by name as the reason she didn't use the [[spoiler:Spirit of Fire]] at a previous, largescale battle.
77* TheCoup: TPK becomes leader of the Great Beings by forcing Angonce at gunpoint to pass the position onto him, exiling him, and calling a meeting of the Council. Once all the council members have arrived, he puts forward a deliberately inflammatory motion to check who's loyal to him, and summons troops to chase the others out. Then, just to add insult to injury, his allies pass a motion to kick the dissenters out of the Council permanently.
78* CrapsackWorld: The Dark Universe. Its wiki page says it best: "In this universe, however, there is no point to the fighting - fighting is because fighting is. As a result, war is absolute and unending."
79%% * CrazyPrepared: Rainn
80* CruelAndUnusualDeath:
81** [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Rhanu Rhanu]], an extremely minor character, was ''ripped in half'' by Blackout.
82** Jarvis drowned in ''milk''. Yes, that's right.
83* CrypticConversation: David Robert Jones pulls this on Ynot. At first glance, it's barely coherent gibberish, but upon a closer look he turns out to be talking about [[spoiler:Ynot's future death, and the future war between Blackout and F-Klak]].
84* CurbStompBattle:
85** Starscream's coup against Blackout. Starscream went down after being kicked ''once''.
86** The so-called "[[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Blackout_Destruction_Society Blackout Destruction Society]]" was created for the sole purpose of being on the receiving end of one of these.
87** Then there was the fight between The Anima and their MirrorUniverse Counterparts. It was literally a single post side note.
88* CutShort: Asphyxiation, several times. The most recent attempt to get it going was at the end of the original RPG, which then carried over into the story ''The Mazkertis Paradox'', but Kon delayed it again as to not overshadow the story's main goings-on.
89%% * CuteMute: Vok's sniper sister, Zae.
90%% * {{Cyclops}}: The Terugan species.
91* DarkWorld: [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Dark_Universe The Dark Universe]], a place where there is no point to the fighting - fighting is because fighting is. As a result, war is absolute and unending.
92* DeaderThanDead: [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Xintun Xintun]] is the one character the game creator will absolutely not have resurrected.
93%% * DeadpanSnarker: Namah
94* DeathIsCheap:
95** So far, Kakamu has been swept out to sea, had his armour destroyed after trying to absorb a giant robot, was ''on'' Bara Magna when it exploded, has been teleported into the middle of a [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/ParasiticFluff Parasitic Fluff]] swarm, and sacrificed himself to destroy the head of Blackout's HumongousMecha body. He comes back ''every time''.
96** Also Akzer, who came back 4 times (unless you count a psychological apparition as a form of life), and Caiaphus (who faked his death too many times to count, and actually claimed to come back to life for the [[BreakingTheFourthWall sake of the plot]]).
97%% * DeathIsDramatic: Done to death....
98* DeathOfAThousandCuts: Vexull was sliced by Asheron hundreds of times, so that his skin became ribbon and his life force was released from underneath.
99%% * DefenceMechanismSuperpower: Ynot and Zev have their Hollow Masks, Klak goes Nova when in desperation.
100* DeityOfHumanOrigin:
101** [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Users The Users]] were this to some of the characters, before they broke out into the Real World and found they were just nerds who merged their favourite fictional universes to create an MMORPG of epic proportions.
102** Averted with the Shepherd, who is not one of the users at all.
103%% * DisneyVillainDeath: Uterio di Armechio's death was inspired by this trope.
104* DissonantSerenity: Following a series of defeats in a space station-hosted tournament, Zev reached an epiphany of sorts offscreen. Ever since, he has steadily become much calmer and relaxed, to the point that his goofiness is much more affable than, well... his previous states.
105* DrivesLikeCrazy: Shadow Blade driving into things has become a RunningGag. He admits to Rahn he failed his driving test.
106%% * DroolHello: Done to Ynot while taking a nap.
107%% * DysfunctionalFamily: How the Anima and Idiotas are played.
108%% * EarthShatteringKaboom: Blackout has done this many, many times.
109* EatenAlive:
110** The whole point of [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/John_the_Gadunka John the Gadunka's]] existence is to try and do this to people. It never works.
111** Carrots was later eaten alive by Hungry-man. He didn't want to wait for dinner.
112%% * TheEmpire: The ZFT. Heavily inspired by the Soviet Union of all things.
113* EndOfAnAge: Averted and played straight on several occasions, whether it be about a long time Veteran leaving, someone allowing a character to die, or expansion into new territory.
114* EnemyMine:
115** The aptly-named [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Battle_of_Ricochet_v._Everyone Battle of Ricochet v. Everyone]]. The BigBad's old rival resurfaces and kidnaps him. Result? Almost everyone showing up to summarily beat Ricochet up. The ''only'' reason they didn't ''kill'' him was because because Blackout stopped them.
116** Starscream's coup against Blackout. Pretty much everyone showed up to summarily take down Starscream. Unfortunately, they were interrupted by Blackout taking down Starscream with a single kick and then blowing up the ship they were on.
117%% ** The Uterio War.
118%% * EngineeredPublicConfession: Klak and Zev pull one of these on Uterio during the Battle of Mordor, [[spoiler:causing most of his army to turn against him]].
119%% * EstablishingCharacterMoment:
120%% ** Ynot has been having these lately. They typically involve many higher level threats and/or a well co-ordinated assault.
121%% ** Siege of Tahar'ix's Fortress
122%% ** Battle of Shinobi Nui
123%% * EveryoneChasingYou: The whole Boris Johnson bike saga.
124* EverythingTryingToKillYou: When Blackout locked a bunch of people in a virtual reality that then turned into the contents of his computer, the VR's occupants were attacked by programs, error messages, and even ''words''.
125* EvilIsPetty: Caiaphus destroyed a planet for no reason other than he could.
126* EvilLaugh: After killing a wannabe [[TheStarscream Starscream]], Blackout pulls off what may be the longest example of this ever.
127* EvilTwin:
128** [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/553 553]] had an "evil twin" who showed up and acted menacing, but didn't actually do anything significant. He was decapitated by [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Koranis Koranis]].
129** F-Klak turned out to be [[spoiler:Klak's]] evil twin, created as a result of Project Cadmus' slightly misguided experiments with cloning.
130* ExactWords:
131--> '''Krika''': You told me to stay quiet. You didn't say anything about sounding the alarm.
132%% * ExplosionsInSpace: A perfect example of BZPB's ridiculousness, this has also become a RunningGag.
133%% * EyeBeams: Pretty much everyone has these.
134* FinalSolution: One of Blackout's goals is to completely exterminate the Vrai.
135%% * FingerPokeOfDoom: My lord, done regularly, usually only for comedic effect, not intended to do damage.
136* FlamingSword: Nosmilo frequently lit his sword up like this while screaming "FLAMMATION!"
137* ForTheEvulz: Caiaphus to an extent. He pretended to be a cold and calculated villain [[AffablyEvil with some sense of morality in him]]. Until our characters found out the truth.
138%% * ForgotAboutHisPowers: Ferox, while fighting SM Muta. The battle lasted for ''two weeks''.
139* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: Possibly the most triumphant example. Blackout uses the Pandorica to effectively smash down the fourth wall, and use the resulting hole in reality as a door into the "real world", in an attempt to kill the Architect.
140* FromNobodyToNightmare: Uterio, in story terms. Starts out as D-Klak's disapproving boss, ends up as an EvilOverlord who threatens the entire multiverse.
141* FunnyForeigner: [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Seran_Dol-Abi Seran Dol-Abi]], due to his ridiculous accent, even more ridiculous full name, and his curious nature which always seems to get him into awkward situations.
142* GambitRoulette: Nabonidus' {{plan}} to give Lord Void a body. He quotes the trope's name.
143%% * GottaCatchThemAll: Ynot with the Lantern Corp Rings.
144* GottaKillThemAll: [[spoiler:Ynot]] will have his mind taken over by MY and kill all the Users (including MY), in one hundred thousand years.
145%% * GlassCannon: [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Nefelpitou Pitou]], to extreme levels.
146%% * GloriousLeader: Uterio did this to the Great Beings.
147%% * AGodAmI:
148%% ** Taken to extremes when new players are invited for every character falling into this.
149* GodhoodSeeker: Blackout killed a god (Unicron) and absorbed his power.
150%% * GreatOffscreenWar: We've only seen one battle of the Vrai War.
151* GrievousHarmWithABody: Blackout killed the [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Blackout_Destruction_Society_2 Blackout Destruction Society 2]] like this. He killed the first member by bludgeoning him with a wine glass, then the second with the first's corpse, then the third with the second's corpse. He then picked up the third to beat the fourth with, but he ran away.
152%% * HesAFriend: D-Klak introduced Kakamu, Bob and Quolas to Mike and Dave this way... although Mike remained sceptical of all of them.
153* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Future Ynot gets this ''hard'' when he ends up blowing up an entire planet because its inhabitants didn't give up some criminals he was hunting in time.
154-->'''Sasuken:''' YNOT! Listen to yourself! You sound like BLACKOUT! Get a hold of yourself, or you might hurt the ones you love!\
155'''Ynot:''' Then perhaps I have finally seen what Blackout was trying to show me, all those years ago.
156* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Malygos. Started out on Blackout's side, then switched sides so many times no one could keep track of him.
157* HeelFaceTurn: Ynot, [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Kakamu Kakamu]] and [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Malygos Malygos]] all started out on Blackout's side before eventually turning against him.
158%% * HelpingHands: The Hand.
159* HeroesPreferSwords: Ynot loves this trope to death. He can make any weapon he can imagine, but he sticks with a classic katana until the energy fights start.
160%% * HeroicSecondWind: Klak has developed a type 7, and a type 19.
161%% * HollywoodMedievalJapan: The Takemikazuchi Empire.
162%% * HorrorHunger: Pumkin.
163* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: The Vrai. Previous owners of one of the largest empires in the universe, now very few remain alive and they're scattered across the universe because their homeworld has been made uninhabitable and then made uninhabitable ''again''.
164%% * HumansAreTheRealMonsters: There is a reason Ynot and his crew choose them as their default forms.
165* HumongousMecha:
166** Blackout had to transform his CoolStarship into one of these after absorbing a god's power, so his body wouldn't be burnt out.
167** During a big fight, someone called Merlin appeared and gave ''all'' the characters these for the duration of the fight, for no reason at all.
168* IJustWantToBeNormal: [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/The_Guy_Who_Was_Engulfed_In_Milk The Guy Who Was Engulfed In Milk]] gave a brief monologue of this nature shortly after murdering [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Jarvis Jarvis]].
169%% * ImNotAfraidOfYou: Ynot does this to his Hollow Half.
170* ImprobableAge: [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Sefer_Yetzirah Sefer Yetzirah]] is emperor of the Takemikazuchi despite being only 21, in a universe where the majority of the major players are ''150,000'' years old.
171* InsistentTerminology: Do ''not'' put "the" in front of "Darkmount".
172%% * InterrogatingTheDead: The ZFT do this with Xigneo when trying to frame Kakamu for leaking info to Uterio.
173%% * InterstellarWeapon: Blackout's Arrow N40 missiles.
174* InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath: [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Battle_of_the_Virtual_Reality The Battle of the Virtual Reality]]. Most of the characters locked in said VR are surprisingly eager to kill each other. At first, anyway.
175* JokerImmunity: Blackout is very very blatantly subject to this. Perhaps the most egregious example of this was when he survived an explosion that took out everything else in a ''50-mile radius''.
176* KatanasAreJustBetter:
177** Ynot and Zev love their Japanese swords.
178** Masuta Kira of the Shinsengumi uses ''six'' - as in, ''actively uses all six at once''. His comrade, Original Zero, uses two, and the rest of the Shinsengumi each carry a katana.
179** Every soldier of the Takemikazuchi empire carries a katana - even the ''mechs'' carry up-scaled variants.
180%% * KilledOffForReal: Kakamu's creator ''claimed'' that Kakamu was this after his HeroicSacrifice.
181%% * KillSat: Blackout's [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Icarus Icarus]] satellite.
182%% * LargeHam:
183%% ** The BigBad for one, and just about every side villain along the way.
184%% ** Uterio's infamous quote: "These two beings instill fear into my horse." is made of this trope.
185%% * LastOfHisKind:
186%% ** Xeno was introduced as such, but was later revealed a couple more still exist, then most were killed again.
187%% ** Malygos is a straighter example.
188* LeaveNoWitnesses: Blackout takes this trope up to eleven after sending his Rahkshi to steal a MacGuffin from one of Uterio's fortresses: he has the Rahkshi teleported into a sun, blows up the ship they used, orders the fortress bombed out of existence, sabotages the engines of the ship that bombed the fortress so that it is instantly vaporized when it tries to return to base, then kills the general who he ordered to bomb the fortress, so that no one can possibly find out that he's already preparing for another war ''hours after'' already joining one.
189%% * LostTribe:
190%% ** Le Chiffre's Forgotten Tribe, main reason for Le Chiffre joining Blackout was hunting and discrimination.
191%% ** The Vrai MAY be considered this.
192%% * MadScientist: ''Oh boy''.
193%% ** Blackout, Vultran, Krika, most of the Vrai, and a lot of other people.
194%% ** Krika was originally a TortureTechnician, but suddenly became a Mad Scientist.
195%% ** Malygos has shades of this, particularly after [[TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering employing]] [[EvilutionaryBiologist Momir Vig]] and [[TotalitarianUtilitarian Jin-Gitaxias]].
196%% * MadeOfIron:
197%% ** Ynot and the Anima.
198%% ** Klak, Kakamu, the BigBad, most of the original cast
199%% * MagicKnight: Trixitin
200* MakeRoomForTheNewPlot: Happens whenever people involved in an ongoing plot get bored before its logical end, and have a better idea instead. One of the most prominent examples of this is the switch from "We gotta team up to fight Malygos!" to "We gotta team up to fight Mazkertis!" at the start of the ''Mazkertis Paradox'' arc, even though the reason for the plot change was a player going on hiatus.
201%% * MechanicalHorse: Uterio has one of these. Thanks to Uterio's LargeHam quote: "These beings instill fear into my horse.", it is the source of many jokes among the players.
202* MegaCrossover: Combines ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'', ''Franchise/StarTrek'', ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Series/{{Fringe}}'', ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', the Franchise/StargateVerse, ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''Shadowmancer'', ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' and much, much more.
203* MirrorUniverse: [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Shattered_Mirror_Universe The Shattered Mirror Universe]]. Not as black as the Dark Universe, but still not great either.
204* MissionControlIsOffItsMeds: If not off some kind of meds, Vriska Serket definitely needs either medication or counselling. [[spoiler: Being raised by a giant spider that demanded its young ward/"zookeeper" combo-pack feed it dead members of her own race was not kind to Vriska's emotional state, to say the least.]]
205%% * MoreDakka: [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Osseron Osseron]] follows this rule, since he is based on a group from Warhammer.
206* MythArc: BZPB wasn't originally intended to have much of a plot beyond people beating the crap out of each other, but it has now evolved to the point of having a Myth Arc spanning hundreds of thousands of years leading up to [[spoiler:the Reckoning, a war which will decide the fate of the universe]].
207* NamedAfterTheirPlanet: The Vrai and the Agrippa subvert it, coming from Z'traa and Linkit respectively.
208%% * NewNeoCity: ''Helloooooo'', Neo Z'traa.
209* NoFourthWall: Fourth Wall? It's been knocked down and characters are now interacting with their Users.
210%% * NoIndoorVoice: Vorahk-Kah
211%% * NonActionGuy: The Guy Who Was Engulfed In Milk.
212* NonHumanUndead: Chainlingtons are deceased Ta'har skeletons that are animated by a kind of living oil. Whenever a large amount of Ta'har are killed in battle, whatever survivors remain can splash this oil on the corpses, which corrodes the flesh and brings the skeletons "back to life" to fight again.
213* NoodleIncident: While he was infiltrating the Shadow Proclamation, Blackout was sent on a mission to Xindi VII. He almost got his head blown off as a result and won't say any more.
214%% * NowItsMyTurn: Ynot loves saying this.
215%% * ObfuscatingInsanity: Rainn.
216%% * ObfuscatingStupidity: Zev is Lord and Master of this trope.
217* OfCorpseHesAlive: [[spoiler:Caiaphus]] fooled everyone into thinking he was Uterio by inhabiting the Generalissimo's cadaver after he had died.
218* OhCrap: [=BlackZarak=] acts ''very'' tough to scare off some random intruders, only for Starscream to smugly tell him that he's up against Ynot and Zev. They then curb stomp his fleet.
219* OnlyInFlorida: This particular exchange
220-->'''Shaern''': Aw hell, he's in Miami.\
221'''Sonia''': What's so special about Miami?\
222'''Shaern''': It's in Florida.\
223'''Sonia''': Crap.
224* OnlyOneName: Virtually everyone, with a few exceptions, such as the Makuta Anima, Zev Raregroove, Seran Dol-Abi, Lalli Cain and other human characters.
225%% * OnlySaneMan: Rahn ''thinks'' he's this to the Malchior terrorists. It's actually 553.
226* OpenHeartDentistry: Nadle, a scientist, once removed a parasite from Trantoshen's brain.
227* PassThePopcorn: Dawtdawt ate a bowl of popcorn while watching Shaern and Sonia argue about the latter's feelings for Blade.
228%% * PersonOfMassDestruction: The BZPB Wiki has a [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Category:Persons_of_Mass_Destruction category]] that lists the ''many'' such characters in the RPG.
229* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: We are constantly told that the Vrai were once a galactic superpower, but not even the slightest hint of this appears in-game. It's perhaps justified, since they've had their homeworld nuked twice and have waged at least one civil war since their glory days.
230* PitifulWorms:
231--> '''Blackout''': Caiaphus, Caiaphus, Caiaphus. To fight you one-on-one would be to acknowledge you are worthy of such attention. You aren't. You are just an ant, whose only purpose is to be stomped on, then come back only to be stomped again. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have actual worthy opponents to destroy.
232* PlayAlongPrisoner: After his Unicron-power fuelled rampage was cut short by Kakamu's HeroicSacrifice, Blackout was knocked out and imprisoned by Ynot on-board the Ironclad. He sits around in his cell, not doing much, and then, while everyone is celebrating his capture, summons undead humans to attack everyone on-board and escapes in the ensuing chaos.
233%% * PlotHole: [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Plothole An actual natural phenomenon in the RPG]].
234* PowersDoTheFighting: [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Sefer_Yetzirah Sefer Yetzirah]] has only ever taken her hands out of her pockets during a fight ''once'', because she wanted to go easy mode on her opponent.
235* PsychicPowers: Sefer, to the extent that she's often regarded as the most powerful psychic in existence.
236* PublicExecution: Fod, Acting President of Teruga Prime, was publicly hanged almost immediately after his planet unconditionally surrendered to the ZFT.
237%% * PunchParry: At least once per battle.
238%% * PursuingParentalPerils: Trantoshen.
239* PutOnABus: Prudence Franklin, initially Zev's closest comrade, disappeared for a long time. Of course, TheBusCameBack.
240%% * PyrrhicVictory:
241%% ** The Battle of Malchior IV and the Uterio War as a whole count.
242%% ** Subverted in the fight against MiaBS.
243%% ** And played straight in a wager between Shika, the Shattered Mirror Ynot, and Blackout.
244%% * RageAgainstTheAuthor: During the Pandorica arc, Blackout revealed that this was his reason for doing everything he did.
245* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Blackout does ''not'' like Caiaphus.
246-->'''Blackout:''' You are a foolish one, Caiaphus. You always were. You have no goal other than to blow things up. You may be strong, but strength without vision is ''nothing''. Good will always triumph over evil. Light will always triumph over darkness. That which has a reason behind it will always triumph over that which seeks only to burn. Do you understand that, or must I hammer it into that piece of sponge you call a brain? You throw about words ignorant of what they mean. What is normally termed light is in reality true darkness, and what is normally termed darkness is in reality true light. It appears nonsensical but upon further examination you will find it makes infinitely more sense than the explanations given by the fools who fight me. And you do not understand the meaning of order, either. Order is not an attribute of light or darkness. Both light and darkness can bring about order, though it will look differently depending on who brings it about. You fight for chaos. Destruction. You view these things as an end. I view them as a means to an end. The universe is like a phoenix. Though you may destroy it, it will be reborn from its ashes, stronger still. I will do what I must, so that a new, stronger universe may emerge. The destiny of the Makuta is to reign over all creation. I have realized this, but you choose to waste your time trying to burn what you could be ruling. Nature abhors a vacuum. Others refused to do what had to be done, so I stepped in to fill the void. And now I will lead Makuta-kind to its final and true destiny. ''Whether you like it or not''.
247* RecycledInSPACE: The ZFT are almost exactly the same as they were in Fringe, but this time IN SPACE!
248* ReplacementMooks: Averted, as every Mook is still tossed aside like ragdolls. No matter how 'upgraded' they are, they still fall down one by one.
249%% * RippleEffectProofMemory:
250%% ** Everyone manifests one of these after the Time Slip.
251%% ** Played straight with [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/F-Klak F-Klak]] after the timeline was altered. SEVERAL TIMES. We would go into details, but that might result in brain explosion.
252* Rule63: Uterio's Shattered Mirror counterpart is a woman.
253%% * RuleOfCool: Ynot in spades.
254* RunningGag: Socah the Fourth Wall Matoran, much to his annoyance, is forced to rebuild his wall every single time a character breaks the fourth wall.
255* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: King of Nynrah openly admits he has no sense of distance at all, and lists [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/The_Nakamura The Nakamura]]'s actual length as "very big".
256%% * {{Seers}}: The Time Guardians, specifically Quolas. However, he chooses to not use this ability most of the time, instead finding it more fun to live out events as they happen.
257* ShatteredWorld: In BZPB, Earth suffers from a temporal dysfunction, which means that every time it is destroyed a new one pops into existence to take its place. On one of the occasions of its destruction, the entire country of Poland was blasted into space. This Poland remains out there somewhere, protected by an artificial atmosphere.
258* ShipperOnDeck: Just about everyone in Zev's family for himself and Namah.
259* ShoutOut: Several famous real-world people who have not appeared in the RPG still get mentioned on-screen by characters or news reports. Some examples include HG Wells, HP Lovecraft, James Cameron, and WebVideo/FilthyFrank.
260%% * ShutUpHannibal: Klak's response to Caiaphus's [[spoiler: not so]] final monologue.
261%% * SignatureMove: Ynot will change his once a year.
262* SignedUpForTheDental: Metax literally signed up to be a member of HYDRA because of the health insurance.
263* SingleTear:
264** A single tear fell down CIA's face when he decided to embrace his destiny by falling out of Hungry-man's flying log cabin, to see if he really could survive a plane crash. He did.
265** Yon cried a single tear once, when Big Man Tyrone congratulated him on setting in motion a chain of events that would free Teruga Prime from ZFT control.
266%% ** Moss's reaction to the suffering Ryoko experienced at the "Shady Factory".
267%% ** Jade Harley, when she thought User Zev was for it.
268%% * SirSwearsALot: The Heller is the hecksonification of this trope.
269* SmallTownBoredom: Sal'e in the spin-off fic ''Stargazer'' longs to explore the stars. She soon gets her wish, [[spoiler: but only after her entire town is kidnapped by slave merchants.]]
270* TheSpeechless:
271** Mazkertis, who had his vocal cords damaged while fighting a group of heroes led by D-Klak and Zev fifty years ago.
272** Masaharu before he received his voicebox from Berucanta. From that point onwards, he became TheVoiceless.
273* SpinOff: A second RPG has been launched, about F-Klak rising to power and the characters trying to stop him. [[spoiler:They won't succeed.]] Other canon BZPB spinoffs include Subnixus and Heat the Soul.
274* SpinOffspring: There is a tale being written about Ynot's Offspring.
275%% * SpySpeak: The ZFT leaders during the Uterio War used this quite frequently.
276%% * TheStarscream: Malygos, [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Starscream Starscream]] and [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/LeChiffre Le Chiffre]] have all been this to Blackout, while [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Blade Blade]] is this to Ynot.
277* StickyBomb: The Skrall brothers, Theodore and Harold, take out HK-47 with a sticky {{EMP}} Bomb.
278%% * StylisticCallback: Very often.
279* SuperpoweredEvilSide:
280** Hollow Ynot, who comes out to play when Ynot has taken such a major beating, he is on the brink of death (which doesn't happen often).
281** Nova Klak is also worth mentioning. He is a superpowered side to Klak that emerged when he was sufficiently battered by Eclipse Blackout. Nova Klak was also later used to destroy one of Caiaphus's many bodies.
282%% * SuperSoldier: Blackout started out in life as the leader of a [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Elite_Makuta squad of these]].
283* SwissArmyWeapon: Ynot [[HeroesPreferSwords likes swords]] but his weapon can turn into a lot of other things.
284* SwivelChairAntics:
285** [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Praepediti Praepediti]]'s weapon of choice was a spinning chair called "The Wheeler".
286** Also, SM Yon had a swivel chair, and frequently spun himself around in it whenever he thought nobody was looking.
287* TakeAThirdOption: Pulled by Malygos during Starscream's coup against Blackout.
288-->'''Starscream:''' I've made it a point to keep multiple backup bodies in store in case this [ed: having his original body stolen by Malygos] happens. And now, all of you, bow down to Lord Starscream!\
289'''Blackout:''' Why should we?\
290'''Starscream:''' THIS IS WHY! (shoots Blackout)'' I am now the new leader of the Brotherhood of Makuta! Surrender or be destroyed.\
291'''Malygos:''' Well, 'Lord Starscream', I think I'll take the third option. Teleportation.
292%% * {{Technopath}}: Coro.
293%% * {{Telepathy}}:
294%% ** A lot of characters can do it.
295%% ** Seeing as many are of robotic nature, this may be ElectronicTelepathy. Although given Malygos's characters are organic, this means a lot of them have both.
296* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill:
297** Le Chiffre's death at the hands of Blackout. Smashed into several walls, thrown away, pinned with daggers to a wall that was later blown up, crushed with high gravity, and his remains blown away with a small cyclone. Why? No reason at all.
298** Klak killed [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Akzer Akzer]] the first time by rolling him into a metal can using the power of gravity.
299** Anyone Ascheron has killed; notable examples include being exploded from within, and stabbed repeatedly with the projectile of a planet-shattering superweapon.
300%% ** Osseron once said this quote in-game.
301%% * ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Blackout kills the Random Ensign this way.
302* TimeAbyss: All the main characters are over ''one hundred and fifty thousand years old'' now. The exception to this is Klak, who is about 80-100 years old. This is because the version of Klak originating from the main multiverse was born tens of thousands of years later than his Shattered Mirror counterpart.
303* TimeSkip: In the main RPG, time skipped ahead by 50,000 years after the Battle of Impel Down. Much later, another RPG was created on the same site to run alongside BZPB, except it is set 100,000 years after current events. It is called the "F-RPG" but has been affectionately nicknamed "FROG" due to typos.
304%% * TimeyWimeyBall: These people can't keep anything straight, much less which types of time travel are correct.
305* TokenEvilTeammate: Blackout during the Uterio War. He was frequently accused of betraying the Rebels. [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Battle_of_Corrantia They were right.]]
306* TheTokyoFireball: Thanks to [[spoiler:the Architect's half-hearted attempt to stop Blackout]], Earth will always pop back into existence after being destroyed (it's happened three times already).
307* TooDumbToLive:
308** Blackout makes [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Motrokh Motrokh]] fall into a pit of lava. What does Motrokh's friend [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Muta Muta]] do? Yep, that's right, ''jump in after him.''
309** After [[spoiler:killing off most of the Users]], Ynot opens a "gift" from Blackout. Turns out it's PandorasBox, and Ynot ends up being sealed away for all time.
310** F-Blackout's "terrorist cell". When the smartest person on your team is ''[[SpearCarrier 553]]'', you're in trouble.
311** Vance Vangelis's assistant, Hell, once failed a mission because he forgot how to walk through an open doorway.
312* TortureTechnician: Krika. His specialty? Dissecting fully-awake prisoners.
313* TotalitarianUtilitarian: Oh dear ''lord'', Blackout. His goal is to end all war... by conquering the entire multiverse and ruling it with an iron fist, waging countless wars and killing billions along the way. He sees no problem with this.
314* TouchedByVorlons: Yon gets EyeBeams from The Architect. It bites him in the butt hard when the ZFT gets interested in him.
315* {{Troperiffic}}: This game falls into more tropes than you can imagine.
316%%* TheUndead: Briefly mentioned. A StoryArc involving this trope has been threatened, but nothing has come to pass.
317%% * UnexplainedRecovery: [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Klak Klak]] and Uterio, to name a few of the ''MANY''.
318%% * VillainWorld: BZPB seems destined to become this, even after [[spoiler:F-Klak's death during Ragnarok]].
319* TheVoiceless: Masaharu, who did not/could not speak from his very first appearance up until he discovered who experimented him. Then he got mad.
320%% ** Trixitin was this until he TookALevelInBadass to become a MagicKnight.
321%% * WeaponizedAnimal: [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Caged_Lion The Caged Lion]]. Oh jeez.
322* WhamLine:
323-->'''Klak:''' You! How the bloody hell are you alive?\
324'''Caiaphus:''' Does it even matter? You should instead focus on more important questions. What are you destined for? Where did you come from?\
325'''Klak:''' That's for me to know. His will is the best will.\
326'''Caiaphus:''' Are you sure you know where you came from, boy? Dear boy, do you not realize? Your antidermis had to have been begotten from somewhere or someone. Now, add that to the fact that the Norman and I have known each other for decades, and you have been... ''(smiles again)'' attracted to my presence for quite some time. Now, what does that imply?\
327'''Klak:''' ''(pauses)'' No...that's not true...THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!\
328'''Caiaphus:''' Search your feelings. You know it to be true.\
329''(Klak wakes up, screaming and clawing on the walls. His eyes glow red in the dark)''\
330'''Klak:''' I'M THE SON OF A MADMAN! I'M THE SON OF A MADMAN!
331%% * WhatHeSaid: Done so many times it is painful.
332* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Shattered Mirror Abneris.
333-->'''SM Abneris:''' Dun worry, dis has got nuthin' to do with any flux capacitors or nacho cheese, though ah'd be eager to hear more 'bout dat particular Noodle Incident later. Anyway, ah figured that after Ol' Kay went and got himself killed, there was nuthin' left fer me back in the SMU, so ah stole this cool wristband! *he shows SMT a wristband with several glowing dials on it* Anyway, dat wristband took me to some random jungle planet where a Great Being and a Makuta were beating da scrap outta each other with a chair! I waited 'till dey were gone and tried to teleport away again, but this damn thing was completely drained! So I had to stay on dat planet for a whole month, until ah finally found some ancient, dusty power cell and managed to get to a spaceport! Dere, I met some pirate captain called Amareta, and she offered me a job in some alliance called the Argenta Guild! I was then told to look for new recruits! I found these idiots *points to the Stormtroopers*, and now they're under mah command! I was just here on business, and I saw this cantina, so I thought "hey, maybe I'll find some recruits in here!" and here I am! Aaaaand I think you know where I'm goin' with dis, eh Trevvy?
334%% * AWizardDidIt: A Scientist in this case, Vultran. Anytime something can't be explained, Vultran is the reason.
335* YouAreNumberSix: This is played with for [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Fourteen Fourteen]], since he has the name for an unknown reason. When asked about it by [[http://bzpb.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Raigen Raigen]], he replies "You really don't want to know where I got the name, mate".
336* YourMindMakesItReal: During the [[InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath Battle of the Virtual Reality]], Blackout claimed that death in the VR equals death in the real world. Since nobody died in the VR, we don't know if he was telling the truth, but he probably was.
337* ZombieApocalypse: A zombie arc has been in development hell for a long time. Kon has taken it upon himself to try and bring it to fruition, but it keeps getting pushed back by other plots.

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