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9-> ''"It's happened again." Jay leaned back from her console, indicating a flashing red light. "Someone's mucking with the plot continuum."''
10-->-- PPC: The Original Series, mission 1 ''Rambling Band''
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12The Protectors of the Plot Continuum are a {{metafiction}}al online community dedicated to preserving canon in fandom, promoting good writing, supporting critical thinking and analysis in fanworks, and above all, having fun. It also [[GenrePopularizer popularized]] the MarySueHunter concept, having its origins in the efforts of a pair of writers in the early 2000s who noticed that the release of the ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' film trilogy resulted in SturgeonsLaw being on full display in the resulting fanfics. The concept has since grown into a SharedUniverse about many different fandoms written by a multitude of writers. Because of the wide variety of PPC authors, the styles of writing present run the gamut from literary-oriented criticism, to madcap zany fun, to downright raunchy humor.
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14The setting is an organization of the same name as the group, whose purpose is to tamper with fanfiction in order to bring it closer to the {{canon}} of the original work. The agents who work at the PPC are tasked with resolving the consequences of fanfic writers not thinking things through, regardless of the form they manifest in. However, the organization began with Mary Sue assassinations, and is most well-known for this. {{Possession Sue}}s, Bad Slash victims, and other OOC characters are exorcised back to their {{canon}} selves, but in earlier stories they could usually be fixed by simply removing {{Original Character}}s. Especially lucky or non-disruptive {{Original Character}}s may get recruited into the organization -- for those who defend the canons must have a dash of the extraordinary in them.
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16The agents of the PPC usually work in pairs, as they are often fans of the canons they delve into and need help with staying objective on missions. Alternately, they work in pairs because their bosses (a group of [[PlantAliens sentient flora from another planet]]) specifically try to create {{Odd Couple}}s, which is supposed to improve mission performance. They are equipped for their tasks with a camouflage generator that hides them from canon characters and an electronic device that determines a character's status in the narrative and how much they've been distorted by the badfic. Proper job training for the agents is minimal at best, and the sizes of their paychecks and the state of their equipment is likewise marginal.
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18Overall, the setting ''thrives'' on SurrealHumor, the RuleOfFunny, and the power of TemptingFate. Typos in fanfiction are frequently interpreted as literally as possible by the canon, producing bizarre results. Electronics tend to [[MadeOfExplodium blow up at the first excuse]] or [[InstantAIJustAddWater develop sentience if not properly maintained]]. Actively attempting to relax results in being sent on another mission just as soon as the agents start to get comfortable.
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20Ideally it strives to be a community of writers and fanfiction lovers first, not bullies. Within the community it is heavily frowned upon to take a pot-shot at a fanfiction writer -- it is ''inarguably'' [[DeathOfTheAuthor poor fanfiction that is the subject of their ire, not the people who produce it]]. Of course, the effectiveness of this is rather subjective.
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22The group has [[http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Guide_to_the_PPC a wiki]] with a helpful guide for newbies. Its Posting Board (where most conversation is done) is [[https://www.plotprotectors.org/ here]] while TheOriginalSeries and some of the early spinoffs can be found [[https://plotprotectors.neocities.org/TOS/ here]]. All PPC fiction can be found [[https://ppc.fandom.com/wiki/The_Complete_List_of_PPC_Fiction here]], and it has [[https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Protectors%20of%20the%20Plot%20Continuum/works its own tag]] on [[Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn AO3]]. They also have [[Fanfic/ThingsIAmNotAllowedToDoAtThePPC a list of things the agents aren't allowed to do]].
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24The FanFic/OfficialFanfictionUniversity (and its spinoffs) share a multiverse with the PPC, while the ''Fanfic/AntiClicheAndMarySueEliminationSociety'' is a similar but distinct organization with its own canon and way of doing things.
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27!!This provides ''notable'' examples of the following:
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32* AbsurdlySharpBlade: The sharpness of [[http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Hammerspace_knife hammerspace knives]] can be controlled by the wielder's thoughts, but they default to "murderously sharp".
33* AerithAndBob: The PPC's agents come from all over the multiverse, creating an understandable disparity in names. The Department of Mary Sues alone has agents whose names include the likes of Brenda, Diocletian, Martin, and Evangeline von Lilith.
34%%* AllStoriesAreRealSomewhere: Central to the premise, of course.
35* AlienBlood: "Mary Sue" characters bleed red or pink [[EverythingsBetterWithSparkles glittery]] blood, or, in extreme cases, only glitter.
36* AlienHair: Agent Alloy, thanks to a typo in her home fic, has green, papery hair.
37* AlienGeometries:
38** The Word Worlds are [[LiteralMinded extremely literal]] when interpreting poorly phrased or illogical prose, resulting in eye-blinding sights or mind-bending shapes. Placing a non-canonical location in the wrong place can do truly gruesome things to the local landscape.
39** [[DependingOnTheWriter Depending on who's writing any given story]], PPC Headquarters is either merely a huge labyrinthine building, or a partially sentient structure [[MobileMaze that's always shifting around]]. Either way, it's easy to get lost inside the place, and oftentimes the only way to find the place you're trying to go is to distract yourself and ''not'' think about it. The place was built by PlantAliens, who seem to be able to navigate it just fine.
40* AliensInCardiff: PPC Headquarters' RealLife base is in New Caledonia, a French-owned island in the South Pacific. Nobody is quite sure why it's ''there'', of all places, though there are other doors to HQ scattered about Earth and the multiverse in general.
41* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: The PPC's headquarters has been invaded on several occasions. Culprits include armies of Mary Sues, a rouge security department, and a stampede of creatures created due to a typo in a spambot's message.
42* AnatomicallyImpossibleSex: Agents regularly encounter instances of intercourse in badfic that display general ignorance of how the human body moves and responds during sex.
43* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: Two variants based on Literature/TolkiensLegendarium crop up in Agent Suicide's missions, commenting on the IdiotBall in the badfics.
44** From "'Twas Many and Many a Year Ago in a Nondescript Random Town by the Sea":
45--->[[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Jack [Sparrow]]], being a savvy captain, didn't trust this woman one inch and told Bootstrap that a gal is all very well, but this "true love" stuff didn't happen in one hour, and certainly not with some lady who might well be a poxed-up tart for all they knew.\
46Yeah. And the Balrog just tripped.
47** From "The [=OOCest=] Teacher We Could Hope For":
48--->Naturally [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Cheerilee]], being an experienced teacher, drew on the education courses she had taken and her own prior experience with other classes to help her handle this.\
49Yeah. And Ar-Pharazôn's fleet simply struck a reef.
50* AndIMustScream: Within Suefics, the canon characters are either actively replaced and shoved in a PlotHole for the duration, where they may or may not be able to see what's going on, or they're [[DemonicPossession mind-controlled by the Sue]], [[MindRape forced to do what the Sue tells them to]], and, at least some of the time, conscious of how horribly out-of-character they're being forced to become.
51* AndroclesLion: [[RaptorAttack Velociripper]] reveals in his first mission as an agent that he sought revenge on his author for being used as a tool for terrorizing the protagonists, resulting in his grudge against said author's persona, Falchion. He ultimately puts an end to this grudge, and his general hatred of humanity, after Falchion shows him the kindness and mercy he needs to emotionally recover.
52* {{Angrish}}: Agents have sometimes babbled incoherently if they're particularly angry with a badfic. Agent [[JekyllAndHyde Kaguya]] is even worse – he becomes TheUnintelligible every time he's on a mission.
53* AnswerCut: Gabrielle wonders why the Flowers assigned her and Doktor Trollenfisch a badfic that would usually be handled by the Department of Bad Parody, as the two of them work for the Department of [=WhatThe=]. The story promptly flashes back to Doktor Trollenfisch practicing the sousaphone next to the office of Admiral Pansy, who happens to be the Department Head of Bad Parody, at three in the morning.
54* AnthropomorphicPersonification: [[http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Anthropomorphic_Personification Has its own page on the Wiki.]] Aside from this, the "gijinka" definition of this is an apt description for some agents, such as Omicron the [[Series/DoctorWho Dalek]] and Backslash the [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY Honedge]].
55* AnyLastWords: In the mission "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/16644677 In Other News, Water Is Wet]]", the villainous [[invoked]][[GodModeSue God-Mode Stu]] Titus asks [[BloodKnight Agent Chakkik]], whom he horribly crippled when the latter tried to take him on in single combat, if he has any last words. Chakkik responds by quoting, "[...][[Literature/MobyDick for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee...]]" followed by a SpitefulSpit. Titus prepares to kill him and the [[invoked]] GaryStu protagonist anyway, but [[spoiler:what he doesn't know is that Chakkik has become part of a BadassAndChildDuo, and the child in question was requesting the assistance of ''Davy Jones himself'' at the time. Suffice it to say, she is ''not happy'' when she finds out what Titus did, and at [[SummonBiggerFish her command, the Kraken]] [[TotalPartyKill devours Titus, the protagonist Stu, and every single one of the villain's remaining crew members besides]]]].
56%%* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:Makes-Things, Agent Nick, the Wisteria, and various others.]]
57* ApocalypseHow:
58** The DOGA is known to destroy Suvian star systems via Sun Crushers, as they won't go away on their own.
59** If badfic-created [[AlternateUniverse alternate universes]] are too different from canon, they will collapse after the Sues are killed.
60* AppliedPhlebotinum: Agents utilize technology from all over the multiverse, with the most commonly-used tech including neuralyzers from ''Film/MenInBlack'' and SEP fields from ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''.
61* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Charge lists often start with technical errors, progress to serious problems like Rape Is Love or CanonDefilement, and quite often end on the charge of "Annoying PPC agents".
62* ArtificialLimbs:
63** Technician Narcolepsy of Testing and Application (a division of [=DoSAT=]) has artificial eyes and a computer in his brain.
64** Agent Ally Malet has an artificial eye and arm.
65* ArtisticLicenseBiology: A common charge for badfics is [[http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Bad_Biology Bad Biology]], which covers situations where organisms are portrayed in ways inconsistent with how reality works. Sub-varieties of the charge include [[ArtisticLicenseMedicine nonsensical health problems and medical treatments]], [[HollywoodGenetics the laws of genetics being ignored]], lack of knowledge about anatomy, and characters doing things that are physically impossible ([[AnatomicallyImpossibleSex usually in regard to sex]]).
66* ArtisticLicenseLinguistics: The head of the PPC's postal department has [[https://plotprotectors.neocities.org/TOS/mission12.html a "Czechoslovakian accent"]]. No such accent exists, mainly because there is no such thing as a Czechoslovakian language. Not to mention that there's been no such thing as Czechoslovakia since 1993.
67* AscendedExtra:
68** While most characters from The Original Series ended up [[PutOnABus permanently retired]], [[LongBusTrip particularly insane]], [[KilledOffForReal dead]], or in [[FateWorseThanDeath upper administration]], [[ExtremeOmnisexual Agent Lux]] will show up -- [[DepravedBisexual and molest]] -- nearly every spin-off.
69** Some agents, after appearing as background characters in other works, also get their own missions or entire spinoffs.
70* AssShove: As the Department of Bad Slash frequently deals with pairings who both have the same type of equipment, one of the duties of Bad Slashers is noting and critiquing inaccurate depictions of anal sex.
71%%* TheAtoner:
72%%** Agent Dafydd, a.k.a. [[spoiler:[[Literature/TheSilmarillion Maglor]], perpetrator of multiple kinslayings]]. Agents who used to write badfic also count.
73%%** Agent Alec Trevelyan. Yes, [[spoiler:the turncoat]] from ''Film/{{Goldeneye}}''.
74%%** When the [[Series/StarTrekVoyager macrovirus]] epidemic broke out, Paul Bunyan was infected.
75%%* AttemptedRape: Many, many fics which get sporked. Laburnum narrowly escaped when a mission went wrong, and Molly's father from "That Series" tried to molest her while possessed.
76* AxCrazy: Sometimes an Agent loses it. Often in spectacular manner.
77-->'''Agent Len:''' "Mr. Rogers! Mr. Rogers!"
78* BabyMorphEpisode: At one point, the Continuity Council of [[Series/DoctorWho Gallifrey]]-in-Exile (plus one) get de-aged into various stages of childhood. Chaos ensues.
79%%* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:Agent Nicholas Duval.]]
80%%* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Dafydd Illian]], and later [[spoiler:Makes-Things]]. When he was [[LampshadeHanging questioned about it]], he irritably responded, "[[HandWave You'd think I would know if I was dead!]]"
81* BadassArmy: The Black Cats are an organization that, prior to their expulsion from the PPC, used to be a SecretPolice force. Even though [[spoiler:[[http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Mysterious_Somebody The Mysterious Somebody]]]] quickly became the real threat during the ''Crashing Down'' story, the Cats have made the best showing against the PPC out of any groups to attack Headquarters; this is partially because most of them were former PPC agents themselves, and thus knowing how best to fight them.
82* BadassCreed: The PPC Constitution includes the statement "[[ShoutOut Do not meddle in the affairs]] of assassins, for we are heavily armed and quick to anger. And not noticeably subtle."
83%%* BadassInDistress: Agents Laburnum, Manx, and Adder have all been captured by villains when missions went wrong.
84* BadassNormal: Many agents are [[PunyEarthlings ordinary humans]] who get the job done through whatever training they received, rapidly gained experience, and sometimes luck. "Normal" is a relative term in the PPC, though, given that [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover they can recruit from almost every continuum that's ever been written]]; nonhuman characters include elves, dragons, FunnyAnimals, dinosaurs, aliens, and [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy a superintelligent shade of the colour blue]].
85* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: Mini-[[Franchise/GIJoe Battle Android Troopers]] turn hostile whenever concepts associated with the American Way are brought up and show loyalty to people who mention villainous concepts. This is because they're based on villains from an '80s cartoon and act accordingly.
86* BalletEpisode: The Four Demonly Kings' first mission as a quartet is into a badfic based on the ballet version of ''Theatre/TheNutcracker''. Because of this, the fic's environment is rendered as a ballet stage and the agents' movements are affected accordingly. This includes being unable to speak and bodily movements restricted to ballet moves during fic events. After the mission, everyone except [[TheBigGuy Urato]] is in excruciating pain.
87* BambooTechnology: Among the various items used by the tech department includes [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin's duplicator and transmogrifier]], which are merely cardboard boxes oriented in specific ways and powered by believing that they'll work.
88* BattleCouple: Some pairs of agents are in an active romantic relationship with each other and continue protecting the multiverse from the effects of bad fanfiction together.
89* BeardOfEvil:
90** The Mysterious Somebody is a clone of [[Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy Dark Jedi Joruus C'baoth]] who engineered an epidemic of insanity to take over the PPC and spent most of the 90s in charge of the organization. While in control, he started a department that acted as a SecretPolice force, funded most of the PPC's activites via a factory that produced Mary Sues, and used his mind control abilities to keep people from suspecting him of any wrongdoing. The image of C'baoth used to represent the Mysterious Somebody on the wiki sports a long white beard.
91** In the MirrorUniverse where the PPC is an organization run by Mary Sues, the counterpart of Makes-Things has a beard.
92* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Inverted; the villains are Mary Sues, whose [[TheBeautifulElite unnatural beauty]] is another facet of their nature as {{brainwash|ed}}ing [[RealityWarper reality-warping]] [[EldritchAbomination abominations]]. The Assassins that hunt them down, by contrast, are typically fairly scruffy people who've had too little sleep and too much time since their last shower.
93* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Supernumerary asked to be partnered with an Andalite from ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' due to their normally logical, professional manner. The Andalite he ends up with, Ilraen-Aroline-Fothergill, is a BlankSlate due to lacking any defining characteristics whatsoever in the fic he was recruited from; he has barely any personality at all to begin with, let alone anything that would make him act in a logical and professional manner.
94* BerserkButton: Agent Trojie has such a deep respect for Music/KurtCobain that writing bad RealPersonFic involving him is enough to send her into a burning rage.
95%%* TheBerserker: Any agent that has Bloodwrath turns into one.
96* BewareTheNiceOnes: Any agent who has a sweet and friendly demeanor will inevitably become a terror to Suvian entities, as agents' jobs include assassinating Mary Sues, performing exorcisms (which involve bashing the possessed character over the head) or similar violent or semi-violent duties.
97%%* BigBad: The Mysterious Somebody, Bracket Fungus, and League of Mary-Sue Factories.
98* BigDamnHeroes: The Librarian gets a particularly epic moment when his fellow agents are captured by [[Series/DoctorWho Daleks]] -- [[spoiler:having previously abandoned his companions, he reappears just when the Daleks are about to execute them. He straps explosives to the Daleks, delivers a PreAsskickingOneLiner, and blows them to kingdom come.]]
99%%* BigGood: The Sunflower Official.
100* BillBillJunkBill: Techno-Dann sifts through a box of assorted ray guns in search of a shrink ray, so that he can fit a [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon dragon]] into your average small apartment:
101-->'''Dann:''' Death ray ... heat ray ... death ray ... freeze ray ... manta ray?
102* BloodyHilarious: Trivialization of violence is frowned upon, but for the sake of humor, anything is possible, whether it be hedgehog skin to the [[GroinAttack groin]], head trauma by marital aid, or humanoid fox handing someone your liver.
103* BrainBleach: Bleeprin (bleach combined with Aspirin), its variants, and Suebuprofen are used to help agents cope with anything disturbing they witness while on missions.
104* BrainlessBeauty: The Mary Sues that the agents face are almost universally "beautiful" and universally dumber than a shoe.
105* BreadEggsMilkSquick:
106** [[invoked]] Charge lists tend to start with minor charges like "having bad spelling", go on to charging for horrific {{Squick}} or disrupting the entire fabric of the multiverse, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking then finish on the unofficial charges like "confusing PPC agents"]].
107** The Department of {{Angst}} deals with overly melodramatic fanfics. Their methods of cheering up canon characters include balloon animals, sock puppets, sun lamps, chocolate, and hard drugs... though its operatives are encouraged to avoid medicating people if possible.
108%%* BreakTheCutie: Lots of agents who snap go through this.
109%%* BreakTheHaughty: Quite a few other agents. Of particular note is [[ObstructiveBureaucrat the Notary]], whose backstory is sort of this.
110* BugWar: The 2008 Macrovirus epidemic is aggravated by the giant viruses from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' infecting Myth/PaulBunyan early on; his growth hormones make them turn into giant killer bugs that run amok in HQ. Over ''one thousand'' agents are killed by the bugs, and the place is torn apart. On top of that, Sues invade shortly afterward.
111* BunnyEarsLawyer: Most agents are quirky, to say the least. Most of them are competent, too -- else they’d have snapped or died long ago.
112* BurpOfFinality: When one mission involving the ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' continuum goes pear-shaped and a Gary Stu and his ship full of generic crewmates nearly kill one of the agents involved, another agent summons [[KrakenAndLeviathan Davy Jones' Kraken]] as backup. Cue a MightyRoar, ''everyone on the ship'' (except the agents, who'd already escaped at that point) ending up on the business end of a TotalPartyKill, and a burp from the Kraken to top it off.
113* TheBusCameBack: Sean, who used to be Agent Luxury's boyfriend, returns after an absence of nearly a decade to help a team of newbies tackle an NSFW crossover involving a [[Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}} Slimer]] replacement raping Sam from ''Film/{{Transformers|FilmSeries}}''. His disappearance is {{handwave}}d by him explaining that he spent most of the decade lost in a plothole.
114* CanonDiscontinuity: Some agents and their respective missions have been officially declared non-canon, either due to their author leaving and requesting as such or for being too much against what the PPC stands for.
115* CartoonCreature: Generic Beasts are furred humanoids of no identifiable species, spawned from fics written for franchises featuring multiple kinds of sapient animals when the fic writer forgets to specify what species a new character is.
116* CatsAreMean: The DIS emblem was a crouching black cat; they also employed at least one anthropomorphic cat, who was certainly a very nasty individual.
117* CerebusRollercoaster: Because of the many authors and writing styles present in the community, PPC stories tend to run the gamut of comedy and drama.
118* CerebusSyndrome: Partly defied, partly played straight. Steady drama in the PPC community has led to a massive backlash against Emergencies (attacks on HQ or similarly large threats). However, the quality of writing has increased and the PPC itself has become a real "world" rather than just a way to spork bad fan fiction.
119* ChildSoldiers: Agents as young as twelve are sometimes sent into the field (though agents under fifteen are not particularly common). The average agent is in their mid-teens to early twenties.
120* ChivalrousPervert: A lot of agents spend their time on missions ogling over their Lust Objects, while at the same time protecting them from the horrors of badfic. Some even extend their horniness to other agents as well.
121* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: If you remind an agent that Bleeprin shouldn't be chemically possible, it may stop working.
122%%* CloakAndDagger
123* CloudCuckooLander: Many agents are kind of goofy or crazy. For instance, Jay loves taking photos of vicious beasts, Acacia turns homicidal whenever she's frustrated, and Foxglove watches ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' (a very gory SubvertedKidsShow) while she eats.
124* ClusterFBomb: When Falchion reads off the charge list to the "heroic" [[invoked]] GaryStu on his first mission, he's so mad at him that he practically spews out the F-word every five seconds.
125* CombatPragmatist: Cheating in a fight is common and, depending on the strength of the Sue or canon characters they're fighting against, often necessary on the part of the agents.
126* ComedicSociopathy: As demonstrated in one of the [=FAQs=].
127-->'''Q''': Don't our agents have rights?\
128'''A''': No.
129* ComedicWorkSeriousScene: The show is usually a silly comedy, but the mission covering ''Little Miss Mary'' has a DownerEnding. Rina and Zeb kill the [[Literature/HarryPotter Harry and Snape]] impostors, but then the Harry impostor attacks Zeb, causing Rina to think he's dead. She [[FaintInShock passes out]], cries hysterically, and decides to go rogue and rename herself The Aviator.
130* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
131** Nonhuman agents unused to human ways sometimes misunderstand things in humorous ways.
132** It goes the other way, too: Agent Naomi (human) objects to Agents Stormsong (weasel) and Skyfire (stoat) teaching their adopted daughter Molly (ferret) about weapons because she's about six in human years. Skyfire acknowledges this, pointing out that said teaching has been left terribly late (at least for [[{{Literature/Redwall}} their home continuum]]).
133* TheComicallySerious:
134** The Ironic Overpower works to make sure any character with dignity is stripped of it.
135** Agent Omicron is a [[Series/DoctorWho Dalek]] given the Human Factor to make him less hostile to other lifeforms. He takes the game of TabletopGame/{{Cluedo}} just as seriously as exterminating Mary Sues, and is the PPC's "Supreme Cluedo Player" despite always thinking the victim was responsible for the murder.
136* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: The unusual ways most Agents dispose of Sues involve things like feeding them to monsters, throwing them into volcanoes, etc. On top of that, there's actually a department ''called'' the Department of Cool and Unusual Punishment, which presumably deals with this.
137* CoolShades: All agents wear these or close their eyes when using [[Film/MenInBlack neuralyzers]], so they don't accidentally wipe their own memories.
138* CrazyPrepared: Agents trend to either this, or the IndyPloy. A particularly noteworthy example would be Agent Trojie, who carries a [[Film/MaryPoppins Mary Poppins-style]] BagOfHolding that has everything from a handbook on obstetrics to the complete works of Tolkien to [[KitchenSinkIncluded a kitchen sink]]. It also has expanded to such a degree that finding ''anything'' not used daily requires [[RummageFail spelunking gear]], and a number of [[Literature/HarryPotter Nifflers]] are believed to have taken up residence.
139* CrazyWorkplace: The organisation is about people entering bad fanfiction and reverting it back to the canon portrayal. PPC HQ is well-known for being hard to navigate and having many insane or [[CloudCuckoolander weird]] agents, and it's run by sentient flowers.
140* {{Crossover}}: By the MegaCrossover nature of the PPC. The missions also tend to be riddled with references to other canons the authors [[ShoutOut like]] or [[TakeThat hate]].
141* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Sues are sometimes subjected to those, though torture is frowned upon and is against the rules.
142* {{Crunchtastic}}: "Glaurunging" -- see UnusualEuphemism. An [=MSTing=] also featured the use of the word "[[{{Hammerspace}} Malletspace]]" as a verb.
143* CuddleBug: Luxury will try to hug or grope whoever she meets.
144%%* CulturedBadass: Comes with the territory of being a PPC Agent.
145* CurbStompBattle: More often than not the result in the few cases where a Sue/Stu actually fights a PPC agent. (Serves them right for curbstomping all comers in their own stories... the Sues, not the agents, of course.) The 2008 Sue invasion of PPC Headquarters turned into this pathetically quickly. Most invasions of HQ tend to turn into this as soon as the initial surprise has worn off.
146* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: Nearly any Agent when upset or angry enough with [[invoked]]{{Mary Sue}}s and their authors. Usually happens with their Lust Object in apparent dire straits. This especially applies to new Agents and those just somewhat, just ''somewhat'' upset with the Flowers.
147* {{Cyborg}}: Post-resurrection, Agent Suicide's body composition includes 11% artificial components, which his Wiki page notes as meaning he technically qualifies as a cyborg and "is well on his way to switching from 'animal' to 'mineral.'"
148* ADarkerMe: Some agent characters are based loosely on their creators, except with better names and much more violent.
149* DeadpanSnarker: Most agents adopt making sarcastic remarks about what's happening around them as a means of coping with bad fanfiction.
150* DeathAsComedy: Some of the deaths thought up for Sues are absolutely ''hilarious''.
151* DeathByChildbirth: Agent Momoka's mother died giving birth to her.
152%%* DeathByIrony: Most of the agents enjoy creating these for their targets.
153%%* DeathSeeker: [[MeaningfulName Suicide]] ([[CharacterDevelopment although he's growing out of this]]) and, according to WordOfGod, [[HateSink the Notary]].
154* {{Deconstruction}}: For all the tropes on here, for the most part, the PPC is nearly entirely meant to be taken as a formulaic deconstruction of bad fanfiction and prose in general, up and to including the Ironic Overpower and the fact that much of the PPC verse is powered by the physics of narrative and that that missions take place in Word Worlds and is meant to follow the RuleOfFunny.
155* DemonicPossession: Author/Sue-Wraiths possess canon characters and force them to act on their (depraved) whims. They usually have to be exorcised before they can be destroyed - or in at least one case, [[DefeatMeansFriendship purified]].
156* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Two of the infrastructure departments at Headquarters are called the Department of Redundancy Department and the Repetitive Department of Repetition; agents find them annoying to report to because one has to repeat everything they say in a slightly different way at least once. The joke about tautology is furthered by their choice of symbolism; both departments have a music note on their flash patches that sound identical despite being written differently, and the Flowers in charge of them are the Coriander and the Cilatro, which are different names for the same plant.
157* {{Determinator}}: The PPC in general when it comes to killing badfic - no matter what happens to them, be it giant microbes, Mary Sue invasions, or body-swap incidents, they'll just keep on trucking.
158* DeusExMachina: [[VideoGame/KidIcarus Palutena]] becomes a ''literal'' example of this when she [[spoiler:saves Agents Sarah and Rashida from a Sue-wraith and turns it into Agent Cupid.]] Also see DoNotTauntCthulhu below.
159* DistantFinale: Some participants write a "Ten Years Hence" story that serves as this to their agents.
160* TheDitz: Lux appears to be so, remaining happily oblivious to attempts to dissuade her from her constant grabbiness up to and including physical attacks. Jay Thorntree also described herself as one.
161* ADogNamedCat: Laburnum's pet hellhound is named Crow.
162* DoorRoulette: In "[[https://rc1587.wordpress.com/2013/08/16/mission-5-the-fine-art-of-copypasting/ The Fine Art of Copypasting]]", Agents Sergio, Nikki, and Corolla follow a Sue down a hallway with several doors at the end. Since they didn't see which door the Sue went through, they end up checking them one-by-one trying to find her before Corolla simply opens up a portal to where the Sue is. The doors they try lead to an airport runway, [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Kyosuke's hospital room]], [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]] building a cruise spaceship out of Legos, and Series/TheATeam in a shootout.
163* DoorStopper:
164** Herr Wozzeck's missions average around forty pages long each and he's written a couple dozen of them.
165** [=SkarmorySilver=]'s missions tend to be on the longer side of things. The mission where he sporks [[Fanfic/RiseOfTheGaleforces a badfic of his own creation]] clocks in at a mind-boggling ''87 pages.'' In '''single space.'''
166** Iximaz's missions of ''The Girl Who Lived'' series, when condensed, are a total of 201 pages and 78,300 words long; for perspective, that's longer than the first ''Literature/HarryPotter'' book.
167** A co-write between @/{{Desdendelle}}, [=KarrinBlue=] (a.k.a. Firemagic) and Maslab sporking a horrid ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS'' x ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}'' fic is 67 pages long.
168* DoubleEntendre: Some agents -- particularly in Bad Slash -- like to point it out whenever the writing sounds like it's making a dirty joke.
169* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Some of the Sues killed by agents have been literal goddesses. Or demi-goddesses, in the case of Maia in Lord of the Rings. Killing them is possible not because the agent is overpowered, but because Mary Sues are not very intelligent or have very shallow ways of using their powers that lead to their demise. Or, in the case of Agent Mike de Bergerac, it ''is'' because the agent is overpowered.
170* DoNotTauntCthulhu: A particularly SadlyMythtaken one of the above was taken out when Agents Suicide and Ithalond [[spoiler:[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome invoked the]] ''[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome actual]]'' [[Myth/EgyptianMythology Sekhmet the Destroyer]], who proceeded to vaporize the Sue.]] The Goddess of Destruction apparently does not appreciate having her name misspelled and her powers mixed up and given to a bitchy teenager.
171*** A [[Film/TheHobbit Smaug]][[Series/{{Sherlock}} lock]] Stu idiotically provoked [[Literature/TheSilmarillion Ancalagon]] [[{{Kaiju}} the Black]]. [[Awesome/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum He is described as gazing into the mouth of Hell.]]
172%%* DramaticReading: of ''Fanfic/LegolasByLaura'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CrG6UYSc6A by a Gathering]].
173%%** This has been a popular pasttime of [=PPCers=] in general.
174* DreamDeception: In "Illogical in All the Right Ways", Christianne and Eledhwen assassinate a [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Spock]] impostor and his girlfriend, then convince the canon characters that it had all been a nightmare.
175* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Makes-Things]]. This bridge was [[http://warrior-joe.livejournal.com/5155.html removed]]; a member of the PPC got permission to go back and write a proper death scene for [[spoiler:Makes-Things]].
176* DrowningMySorrows: In Bleepka, usually. Several agents consider "drinking until I forget why I wished to be drunk" to be a good stress-relieving method.
177* DysfunctionJunction: Nobody in the PPC is entirely sane. They wouldn't be in the PPC if they were, and the job tends to wear down the ones who start that way anyway.
178* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The original twenty-six missions of Jay and Acacia have the same basic irreverent tone as later PPC works, but much of the organization's worldbuilding and behavior is noticeably different than what it would evolve into.
179** Two separate devices are used to determine information about fic characters besides their name, species, and canonicity: the Character Analysis Device, which states how much a character is influencing the narritive, and the Canon Analysis Device, which states how OutOfCharacter someone is. Since most of the information they provide is redundant to each other, they were later combined into a CAD model that does the same thing as both devices and more.
180** Original series missions and earlier installments in the SharedUniverse openly criticize the author of the fic being sporked in addition to their writing. Later missions drop the AdHominem aspect of the sporking and just focus on the contents of the fanfiction.
181** Restoring canon in the original series merely requires killing the Mary Sue(s). The concept of [[https://ppc.fandom.com/wiki/Canon_Damage Canon Damage]] as a force that makes it harder for canon to restore itself would later be introduced to give agents more work to do, mainly in the form of wiping any memories of the badfic from the canon characters.
182** The only effect bad spelling has for most of the original series is being a charge. The concept of Word Worlds interpreting typos literally for comedic effect doesn't show up until the twenty-fourth mission out of twenty-six. While the concept of miniature creatures being created by misspelling character names is mentioned, it's only in the context of the Fanfic/OfficialFanfictionUniversity and not as something agents encounter during missions.
183* EarthShatteringKaboom: The Department of Geographical Aberrations has been known to blow up Suvian worlds -- and star systems; they have licensed [[Franchise/StarWars Sun Crusher]] pilots.
184* EldritchAbomination: A version of Big Brother from ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''. Also, ''Cthulhu himself'' used to appear in the earlier spinoffs, to whom Sues would often be fed (although, in the very first one, the Non-canons are fed to the Watcher in the Water). This has become forbidden by PPC policy though (apparently the Sues are making him fat), and thus Cthulhu no longer shows up. The Sues/Stus themselves can count, as well.
185* EmergencyTransformation: Several agents, such as Tawaki Penguin and Rina Dives, have been turned into Time Lords so they can regenerate and heal off what otherwise would be a fatal injury.
186* TheEmpire: The Enforcers of the Plot Continuum, the PPC's EvilCounterpart in the mirror multiverse.
187* EnemyCivilWar: The power struggle between the Venomous Tentacula and Forget-Me-Not for control over the [[BigBad League of Mary-Sue Factories]] after the Yarrow's death. [[spoiler:The Tentacula won.]]
188%%* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Most Flowers, some Agents.
189* EveryoneCanSeeIt: In regards to Agents Eledhwen Elerossiel and Christianne Shieh. [[spoiler: They got together eventually.]]
190* EveryoneHasStandards: There are a number of rules enforced both upon the fictional agency and its fandom in order to keep them from devolving into the trolls, griefers, HateFic writers and neer-do-wells they sometimes get accused of being.
191** The gathering of charges serves two purposes. One, it helps to explain in generally non-subjective terms what makes a story bad in the first place, instead of just saying it's bad and acting like everyone agrees. Second, it prevents agents from acting on a "shoot first, shoot some more and when everyone's dead, give a reason for it" attitude.
192** Torture is outright prohibited on the job. Besides ethics, it's also pragmatic as it prevents any Sues from pulling something out to save their skins. Doesn't mean that agents won't enjoy watching Sues who get tortured as part of the story.
193** Directly insulting the author of the work or killing a fictional representation of them is also a no-no. This ensures focusing on the story and prevents an invocation of NeverLiveItDown.
194** Officially produced works always fall under their jurisdiction, regards of their popularity and perceived quality, meaning agents have to put it back the way it was and can't change it just because they don't like it. One agent ended up getting removed from continuity for trying to alter ''Harry Potter'' canon...by blowing up Hogwarts with a Sun Crusher.
195** Certain execution methods for Sues have been banned for being far too cruel, violent or excessive. They usually involve [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape]].
196* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: {{Inverted|Trope}}; Mary Sues sparkle and their glitter is dangerous in large quantities (it can Sue you).
197* ExactWords:
198** When badfic gives improbable descriptions, World Worlds tend to interpret them in highly literal and comedic ways.
199%%** Some agents like to pull this off as well when they inflict DeathByIrony on Sues.
200%%* ExpandedUniverse: The various spinoffs are technically this for the Original Series.
201* ExtremeOmnisexual: Agent Luxury is open to propositioning just about anyone, to the extent that the group's wiki states that her Lust Object(s) are "all sentient beings". Her [[EveryoneHasStandards only actual no-no]] appears to be children, as she [[BerserkButton gets angry for the first time ever]] during a poorly-handled scene of child sexual abuse.
202* FacePalm: Used quite often by most agents; they'll put their hands to their faces if something annoying happens.
203* FakeFaint: In one mission, Rarity the miniature [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic draconequus]] pretends to faint when [[AmbiguousGender it]] sees Celestia, to be dramatic.
204* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Some agents get very creative with Sue deaths, but being distastefully vulgar or invoking the same things you are condemning are frowned upon.
205* FanDisservice: The No-Drool Videos featuring such beauties as [[Literature/{{Discworld}} the Unseen University’s Librarian]].
206* FireForgedFriends: Most agent pairs that start out with the two of them bickering or otherwise having hard feelings turn into friends.
207* FluffyTamer: Any agent with a large collection of minis, since minis are usually smaller versions of vicious monsters like [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Balrogs]] or [[Literature/HarryPotter Acromantulas]].
208* ForeignCussWord: From French to German to Russian to Old English to Klingon.
209%%* FullFrontalAssault: Sometimes, if a canonical species does not wear clothes, Agents disguised as such will go in the nude.
210* FunetikAksent: Part of the disguise when agents enter literary continua in which the accents get written, and some agents have them all the time.
211* FunWithAcronyms: One of the disguise generators is called the Disguise-Outfitting Ryticular Kostume System, or D.O.R.K.S. No one knows what "ryticular" means, while "kostume" is ''definitely'' spelled with a K [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial because the patent had a typo as opposed to it just being that way to make the acronym work.]]
212* FurryConfusion: Human agents Laburnum and Foxglove go to the Real World for a holiday and bump into agents Naomi (human), Drake (anthro fox in human disguise), Stormsong, Skyfire, and Stormy and Sky's adopted kids Molly and Moses (all various anthro mustelids in human disguise). In a conversation, Drake wants to go to a zoo, but Sky argues against it on the basis that Molly would have a fit (she already had one after encountering a pet shop).
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216* GadgeteerGenius: Makes-Things, Techno-Dann, Liz O'Grady, and the entire Department of Sufficiently Advanced Technology as a whole are technicians and are commonly seen fixing and building things.
217* GallowsHumor: You kinda need a dark sense of humor when your job is primarily killing things.
218* GargleBlaster: Pink Stuff, Euphoria Elixir from ''Harry Potter'' mixed with Romulan Ale from ''Star Trek''. Knocks you out something fierce but leaves a killer hangover.
219* GenderBender:
220** There was an... ''incident''... involving an AxCrazy Agent with a TransformationRay.
221** Agent Cadmar has been left female as punishment for his behavior in a mission gone wrong.
222* GentleGiant: Stephanie Podd is 11 feet tall, and she won't hurt a fly...ing fish.
223* GenreRoulette: While it's a comedy first and foremost, the multiversal setting makes it only natural that it takes a turn for [[NightmareFuel/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum horror]], or [[Heartwarming/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum sweetness]], or [[Awesome/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum action]], and [[Funny/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum back to comedy.]]
224* GenreSavvy: As expected in a setting where irony is enforced by the Legal Department, most but not all Agents have at least a decent grasp on the more common tropes.
225* GlamourFailure: Having one's disguise drop or otherwise fail is always a risk.
226* GoodIsNotNice: Though all the agents are technically fighting to protect the multiverse, you see quite a few Jerkass agents.
227* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Canon characters cannot truly die until their "official" deaths in the canon material. Agents ''can'' die, but Medical has the best techniques and instruments from just about anywhere in the multiverse, so anything short of death can be healed or at least patched up.
228* GoryDiscretionShot:
229** Often, especially [[invoked]] {{squick}}-laden bits of fics aren't quoted directly. The most extreme example is probably from the Cluny Fic, where the agents spend most of the truly disgusting scenes screaming, throwing up, banging their heads against walls, and drinking as much alcohol as possible without going into any more detail about what's happening than that it involves a spear.
230** There was also a SexyDiscretionShot involving Agents given a mission on their wedding night.
231** [[spoiler: [[OfficialCouple Valon and Kala's]] [[UnusualEuphemism first dance]] is completely offscreen.]]
232* GrammarCorrectionGag: Agents sometimes respond to titles or prose describing horrible {{Gorn}} or {{Squick}} or extreme CanonDefilement by pointing out spelling or punctuation errors, either as a case of ComicallyMissingThePoint or in a vain attempt to keep their minds off the horror.
233* GroupIdentifyingFeature: You can tell what department an agent works for by looking at the symbol on their "flash patch", which is essentially an ID badge. There are too many departments to list here, but for a few examples, the Department of Bad [[SlashFic Slash]] has a [[ExtraEyes three-eyed]] rubber duck, the Department of Floaters has a waterlily, and the Department of [[WeirdCrossover Implausible Crossovers]] has a flying pig.
234* GrossoutFakeout: In "How Will I Clean My Fur?", there is a tsunami of thick, white gunk that is said to come from [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Ned Flanders]]. However, the narration confirms that the substance is "a completely fictional liquid and not what it was implied to be".
235%%* HalfHumanHybrid: Some Agents.
236* HandWave:
237** [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]] visits Headquarters during a major blackout, but has his memories of the event wiped afterwards. A few months later, some agents stumble across him while dealing with a DoorRoulette and he somehow recognizes them. Agent Sergio attributes the discrepancy to the Doctor being resistant to neuralysing as a side effect of being "a madman with a police box".
238** Agent Sean goes completely unmentioned in any PPC writings following his break-up with Luxury, only to pop up again over a decade after his last appearance. The only explanation he provides for why he disappeared for so long is that he got lost in a plothole while on a mission in the ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'' continuum.
239%%* HarmfulToMinors: Some young agents, the rescued Sue-offspring.
240* HatesBeingNicknamed: Agent Acacia gets annoyed whenever her partner Jay refers to her as Acy, to the point where her saying "Don't call me that" in response has become her catchphrase.
241* HateSink: The Notary, who is an [[SmugSnake arrogant]], [[FantasticRacism racist]], [[ObstructiveBureaucrat obstructive]], and [[HairTriggerTemper hostile]] [[JerkAss prat]] of a Time Lady.
242* HeadTiltinglyKinky: Happens often, especially in Bad Slash. Often combined with QuizzicalTilt.
243* HeWhoFightsMonsters: One of the many perils of being an agent is the risk of, in the process of fighting Mary Sues, becoming one yourself.
244* HeelFaceTurn:
245** A few Mary Sues (and even one or two Sue-wraiths) reform and become agents, though their interactions with other agents (who make a living off ''killing'' Sues) are rather awkward.
246** The Nightshade started out as the Mysterious Somebody's secretary, then went on to be the Department Head of the Department of Operations; the restructuring of the Board of Department Heads after Crashing Down was done specifically to keep her off it. In the same storyline, [[spoiler:Ontic Laison]] has one after her insanity was cured, having been ObliviouslyEvil beforehand.
247** Omicron, a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E9TheEvilOfTheDaleks humanized Dalek]] who reformed and became an agent. Likewise Agent Charlie, originally of the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E6RevelationOfTheDaleks Imperial]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks faction]]. Agent Fearn, who has been given the Human Factor, counts as well.
248* HeroesPreferSwords: Swords are the most popular weapon by far among agents, and many enemies of the PPC also use them. Partly justified by the fact that agents need to use weapons that fit the continuum they're in when doing missions, or they're risking contaminating the canon - bladed weapons are almost ''always'' canonical. It is unknown if preventing the non-canon weaponry from being found by canons is a loophole, but agents prefer to be safe rather than sorry on that ground.
249* HeroicBSOD: A commonplace occurrence. About half the agents end their careers too insane to work (most of the rest are killed in action).
250* HerrDoktor: Doktor Trollenfisch is referred to as a doctor, sporting a labcoat and goofy German accent. He is also a lurid pink pufferfish about a foot across with a love of oompah music, and has ''no'' idea what Germany even is. It's best not to question it.
251* HeterosexualLifePartners: Some agent pairs are best friends of the same gender. "Things I Am Not Allowed To Do At The PPC" instructs the agents not to refer to their partners this way, though.
252%%* HonoraryUncle: Applies to any agent who adopts Nursery children.
253* HormoneAddledTeenager: Most of the Mary Sues and their writers are teenage girls who have the hots for one of the characters. Some of the agents have tendencies that way, but tend to get it squicked out of them.
254* HumansThroughAlienEyes: Nonhuman agents have a hard time getting used to the majority species.
255* ICallItVera: Some agents name their weapons or belongings.
256* IDoNotOwn: Every mission starts off with a disclaimer reminding us Jay and Acacia made the PPC, who the owner of the original property of the fic is and who the fic belongs to, usually snipping that they can keep that last one.
257* ImAHumanitarian: Sue Soufflé and capital-W Water are made from Mary Sue flesh, or blood in the latter case, and agents in the more species-diverse settings show little concern with sampling. Agents may not consider Sues human, and certainly don't consider them people, though.
258* ImHavingSoulPains: Recruited goodfic characters sometimes have problems when a particularly bad piece of work gets into their continuum.
259%%* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Agents often kill Sues this way.
260* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Invoked by Agent Zug after his intern, Cy (a former Stormtrooper) tried to shoot a possessed canon and missed. Or, as he put it, "You're a Stormtrooper who just tried to shoot a named protagonist".
261* ImpressivePyrotechnics: Especially in the Department of Geographical Aberrations. They’re called “The Pyros” for a reason.
262%%* ImprobableWeaponUser / ImprovisedWeapon: Used frequently. Justified in that most agents who use these types of weapons are from continua that ''only'' use improbable weapons.
263* INeedAFreakingDrink: Particularly bad fics or annoying co-workers tend to lead to agents drinking alcohol to cope.
264* InitiationCeremony: Has, at least in the past, included the [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment Trial of Tom Bombadil's Poetry]]. Then comes the Sue-smiting.
265* InsaneEqualsViolent:
266** Both averted and played straight. Most agents are a little crazy, but those who have real-world disorders aren't any more violent than anybody else (which, granted, isn't saying much when it's a PPC agent you're talking about). However, insanity induced by contact with too much horrible fan fiction does occasionally make agents find themselves a flamethrower and start burning things. The violence is nearly always a comical sort.
267** They also distinguish between the PlayedForLaughs "insanity" and the PlayedForDrama "mental illness."
268* InstantAIJustAddWater: Any HQ technology with a speaker or display either a) ignites, b) explodes, or c) becomes sentient or sapient. This has resulted in [[http://twitter.com/ConsoleNo2985 Consoles with a twitter account]], and disguise generators with a sense of humour. Especially problematic with Simulation Generators, which start out producing simple if realistic automatons, but will develop CloneAngst and {{Expendable Clone}}s if not carefully monitored, eventually producing simulations that try to kill and replace the character they simulate.
269* InterspeciesRomance: The PPC is a multidimensional organisation. This is the inevitable result. For instance, Christianne and Eledwhen are a human/[[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Tolkein elf]] couple.
270* IntimateHealing: The usage of sexual intercourse to resolve angst and heal injuries outside of the few continua where it's supposed to happen constitutes a charge; this is due to the unrealistic results, the intimacy often involving a Mary Sue, and the fact that people with mental and/or physical health issues in real life may not be interested in sleeping with anyone.
271--> '''Jennifer Robinson:''' (...) And tell them from me that Healing Sex is ''not'' a legitimate medical procedure.
272* IronicEchoCut: During the Mary Sue Invasion of 2008, Jennifer Robinson finishes her instructions to the agents defending the Medical Department with a directive to tell the Sues for her that IntimateHealing isn't a proper medical treatment. The scene cuts to Agent Omicron mowing down Sues while echoing Robinson's statement.
273-->'''Jennifer Robinson:''' Take 'em out. And tell them from me that Healing Sex is ''not'' a legitimate medical procedure.\
274''[cut to Agents Kamkenta Duval and Omicron killing Sues]]''\
275'''Omicron:''' EX-TER-MIN-ATE! BY THE WAY, HEA-LING SEX IS NOT A LE-GI-TI-MATE TREAT-MENT.
276* ItCameFromTheFridge:
277** Eating from the cafeteria should earn hazard pay, as it's likely to send you to Medical.
278** Slorp is an animate pile of Suvian meat given life by the cafeteria's haphazard food preparation and the inherent improbability of its ingredients.
279* ItMakesSenseInContext: Most of what the PPC does. Bonus points for most of the context ''also'' requiring context.
280* ItGetsEasier: Agents usually get used to killing Sues; it helps that they're effectively fighting to protect all of existence. [[ItNeverGetsAnyEasier On the other hand]], the longer they are agents, the more likely it is that they'll lose their sanity altogether. Terrible fanfiction is very stressful.
281* ItsPersonal: Many agents have a BerserkButton relating to their home canons being Sued, or their Lust Objects being interfered with.
282* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: The basis for most PPC Technology are stabilized [[PlotHole Plotholes]]. If you tell someone that Bleeprin, literal BrainBleach, couldn't possibly work as it does, it ''may stop working'' (and the Agent will then need to kill you). Humour and irony are (slightly) stronger forces than gravity.
283* JekyllAndHyde:
284** Dr. Niamh Tran is an abrasive Irish woman most of the time, but sometimes inexplicably turns into a cheerful Vietnamese woman.
285** Kaguya Hazama is normally a sweet, pleasant NiceGuy, but during missions he's angry and irritable.
286* JustDesserts: Sues used to be fed to [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]] himself, before the practice was banned due to their making him fat. Other creatures which have since been used to off them include [[http://plotprotectors.tripod.com/TOS/mission05.html the Balrog]] from ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', [[http://starshadowhall.tripod.com/ppc/rc999/03hpdrop.html the Thread]] from ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern'', [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b0cfqX2-xrS4HM9x4khZPZkLdzKQfYUi6_xiKvyWKZo/pub Suu]] [[Manga/MonsterMusume the slime]], [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Davy Jones']] [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/12nFPwjpdFbfdkMyBi42BZW72uUii3wUbnRNGkIeeMak/edit?pli=1 Kraken]], a whole host of minis, and in [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p3dItexiiMWzujoLIw-77UMlqoYFwUG4BdYa_CHjIbs/edit?pli=1 at least one case,]] [[ToServeMan a nonhuman agent.]]
287* KarmicDeath: Mary Sues are subjected to this. For example:
288** Suicide and Dio subjected a Franchise/GIJoe Sue who erased military discipline to [[spoiler:the Reality Room, where the rigors of military life (intensified by her own attitude problem) reduced her to a glittery stain]].
289** The Rainbow Dash impersonator in ''Fanfic/RainbowFactory'' was [[spoiler:turned into rainbows herself]].
290** [[Fanfic/LegolasByLaura laura]] was killed by [[spoiler:being tied to a tree in Mirkwood and a rock of the Ered Lithui and knocked out so that the tree and rock would take their natural places hundreds of kilometers apart. With bits of her still tied to them.]]
291* KillItWithFire:
292** A common reaction to most badfics.
293** Basically the go-to solution for the Department of Geographical Aberrations, leading to them being nicknamed “Pyro Department”.
294* KilledOffForReal: For both Sues and agents. Canon characters cannot die until the author says so. Agents don't get this safety net.
295* KilledMidSentence: Sues often die this way. This is out of necessity, as the canon has a hard time correcting itself if a Sue dies on her own terms (and said terms often involve faux-eloquent LastWords).
296* LamePunReaction: During a mission to a fic based on ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', a Normal-Sized Temmie gets a tummy-ache from eating the agents' charge list... or, as Backslash puts it, a ''Temmie''-ache. The Temmie, whose dialogue is usually filled with strange capitalization and punctuation, glares at him and switches to proper English to tell him to shut up.
297* LampshadeHanging: Near constant. One agent has been known to pull out and wave a ''literal'' lampshade.
298%%* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: Happens often, especially after really bad missions.
299* LikeRealityUnlessNoted: World One is identical to present-day Earth except for the existence of various entrances into PPC Headquarters and their hidden city in the New Caledonian mountains. However, it's explicitly just a representation of reality rather than actually intended to be reality. [[https://ppc.fandom.com/wiki/World_One Their wiki's article about World One]] elaborates further on the distinction by using New Caledonia as an example: The World One version of the island has a city that, while well-hidden, isn't impossible to find; the real-life island only has mountains and abandoned mines in the same location.
300* LiteralGenie:
301** When the fic writer makes technical errors, the fic world interprets it literally, frequently to comedic effect.
302** One Sue, thanks to a misspelling of 'lion', turned into a loin. She wasn't able to do much after that.
303* LoonyFan: Fans of varying levels of loonyness are responsible for the creation of Mary Sues. %%Bamf Sues could also count.
304* LustObject: Referred to by name for any character or object that gets an agent horny.
305%%* MadnessMantra: "I must not shirk the Duty."
306* MadeOfExplodium: Canon Analysis Devices frequently explode if they're pointed at a particularly bad Mary Sue/instance of OutOfCharacter-ness or used for extended amounts of time. It's pretty rare for a CAD to survive more than one mission.
307%%* MamaBear: Some agents who have children in the PPC count as this. Agents in general may also be like this to their favorite characters/Lust Objects.
308* MarySue: [[invoked]] The PPC uses a special definition of Mary Sue: a badly-written character that corrupts the canon for selfish or shallow reasons such that the real story could never take place. For example, Frodo would have never destroyed the One Ring if he was too busy being a badly-written love slave -- the character that sets the canon into such ruin is considered a Mary Sue to the PPC. Mary Sues, or possession Sues, are the most frequent culprits that make terrible fanfiction terrible, and thus are hunted by the PPC. Because they are badly-conceived characters that could never be complete human beings, PPC canon considers them to be actually inhuman, and possibly not even living things at all. Some agents are reformed Mary Sues, either rescued from a story because they showed a scrap of humanity or written by PPC authors who have written Mary Sues in the past and wish to exploit that in their work. Also, uploading a Suefic is sometimes implied to be a PointOfNoReturn for the Sue/Stu.
309* MarySueHunter: The Department of Mary Sues consists of this; Agents in other departments specialize elsewhere (or “specialize” in not specializing, in case of Agents in the Department of Floaters). The PPC can be said to have popularized the trope.
310* MassOhCrap: Happens from time to time, usually when a large number of agents are involved and everything goes south. Large groups of Suvians may also get this when the agents step in.
311* MayflyDecemberRomance:
312** Judging by Fenworth and Paladin's [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld ages]] in the ''Literature/DragonKeeperChronicles'', Chrysocome and Del's marriage is this.
313** As of her second mission, [[Manga/MonsterMusume Stephanie Podd]] the Kraken seems to be developing a relationship with Cupid Carmine, an immortal angel from ''VideoGame/KidIcarus''. Now, consider that the lifespan of an average World One squid is seldom more than 2-3 years...
314* MeaningfulName:
315** Nendil Morifëa's second-name literally means "Black soul". Some other agents also have meaningful names: sometimes as a chosen alias or in the form of a pun, and sometimes because the culture from which they hail considers it normal. PPC Agents charge Mary Sues with this when it's out of place, tacky, and [[{{Irony}} meaningless]].
316** Makes-Things is called that because that's what he does.
317* MeaningfulRename: Since names in HQ run the gamut from [[AerithAndBob Alice to Supernumerary]], more than a few agents have probably done this.
318* MegaCrossover: Including some characters who are walking crossovers themselves.
319* {{Mentors}}: A full spread of these tropes, albeit with a warning:
320-->''Senior Agents either have an abnormal tolerance for things that turn other people into gibbering wrecks or they're faking it somehow. Either way, it is wise to tread softly until you have an idea which is the case.'' - The Manual
321* {{Metafiction}}: Missions are parodies (in a certain way) of bad fanficition.
322* {{Metaphorgotten}}: The Disentangler equates a Suvian turning into a Time Lady with Daleks liking bunnies in terms of overall wrongness, only to get sidetracked by the possibility that one of the Daleks working for the PPC actually likes bunnies.
323-->'''The Disentangler:''' That’s about as wrong as Daleks being into fluffy pink bunnies, although I think I might’ve seen Charlie in DAVD admit to his partner once that he liked fluffy pink bunnies, which was kinda traumatising but that’s not the point!
324* MirrorUniverse: Literally. More than one, in fact; there's at least the evil Suvian mirror multiverse, the one where [[EveryoneHasLotsOfSex everyone has sex all the time]], and at least one known AlternateHistory multiverse.
325* MissingEpisode:
326** Some missions were on websites that folded and were not archived on the Wayback Machine. Now that Geocities has closed down, this applies to all PPC material posted to it and not uploaded to [[https://plotprotectors.neocities.org/ PPC: The Lost Tales]]. In the Original Series, "The Dark Elf" used to be a MissingEpisode until it was found on the Wayback Machine.
327** In-universe, [[MissingEpisode lost works]] from real and fictional cultures alike are archived in the Musée des Univers Perdus[[labelnote:Translation]]Museum of Lost Universes[[/labelnote]].
328* MisterSeahorse: Male pregnancy is a common and serious charge, both dealt with within the Department of Bad Slash and the focus of the Division of Mpreg. Usually fixed by combining the [[Film/TheMatrix debugger]] with a {{People Jar|s}} or more suitable parent (i.e., one with a uterus).
329* MistressAndServantBoy: Gender-flipped with Agents Kaguya, a wealthy young man, and Momoka, a girl who swears fealty to him out of gratitude for him and his family for letting her live under their roof. The former uses his master status to playfully tease the latter, the latter is attracted to the former, and [[spoiler:they eventually become a couple.]]
330* TheMonolith: The main part of the Tomb of the Unknown PPC Agent; there used to also be tombstones, but these were removed.
331* MostCommonSuperpower: Sues frequently have large breasts. Agents occasionally do, but less of a point is made of such.
332* MostFanficWritersAreGirls: Leading to the need for [[https://ppc.fandom.com/wiki/FAQ:_For_Other_People "Isn't this sexist"]] section of the FAQ; playing the "sexist" card is something of a BerserkButton in general. Also, most PPC writers are also young and female.
333* MrFixit: The entire Department of Sufficiently Advanced Technology (or Ms. Fixit, as the case may be). Makes-Things especially has a knack for winding up in this role. One mission actually gave Makes-Things an assistant called Fix-It.
334* MSTing: The missions are vaguely reminiscent of [=MSTs=], as quotes from the fic are interspersed with commentary and such from the agents, though the agents are often carrying on their own story around the fic and only small snippets of the fics being sporked are used; at times, the fic itself is never quoted at all, being summarised instead. Some of the writers also do "official" MST fics as well.
335* MundaneUtility: [[FlameWar Flames]] can burn indefinitely without fuel or air. They naturally find use as torches, space heaters, and to melt snow when caught in an avalanche on Caradhras...or as it was called that time, [[EpicFail Garadas]].
336* MustHaveCaffeine: Agents don't get much time to sleep in the first place, so some make up for their sleep deprivation by drinking coffee.
337%%* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: See ImHavingSoulPains.
338[[/folder]]
339
340[[folder:N to S]]
341* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast:
342** [[XtremeKoolLetterz Agent X]], [[ExtremeOmnisexual Luxury]], [[DeathSeeker Suicide]], [[RaptorAttack Velociripper]], the Marquis de Sod, etc.
343** On the villains' side, the Mysterious Somebody and the [[Literature/HarryPotter Venomous Tentacula]].
344* NightmareFuelStationAttendant:
345** From the original series: Jay ''loves'' slimy tentacled things. She gets maternal over ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing the Watcher]]''.
346** Zara Smith has adopted a friendly replacement of the mutated bear from ''Film/{{Annihilation|2018}}'' and a fell beast.
347* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Agent Tawaki is a werepenguin [[Franchise/StarTrek Borg]] who gets turned into a [[Series/DoctorWho Time Lord]].
348* NoodleImplements: Agent Granjo tortures Mary Sues with a Narayani hammer, an empty tin can and a cell phone.
349* NoodleIncident:
350%%** Almost every agent pair has at least one.
351** The No-Drool videos. All we know is that they're made up of some of the most [[invoked]]FetishRetardant scenes possible, designed to stop agents from lusting. Thankfully, apart from a few throwaway sentences, we don't know what these scenes are.
352* NoOffButton: Shortly after getting recruited, Makes-Things invents a portal generator that automatically creates self-powering portals capable of creating more portals in short succession, but forgets to include an off switch. Despite the generator's subsequent destruction, the portals continue multiplying rapidly because they're running off their own power and eventually destroy the Flowers' home planet.
353* {{Nosebleed}}: No-Drool Videos are used to curb people getting nosebleeds around their crushes (and immaturity around Lust Objects in general).
354%%* NoSocialSkills: Some non-human agents. And, for that matter, some of the human ones.
355* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Since the Sues tend to go down within a few paragraphs of being confronted, it's very easy to think this. But most of the time, the agents either have to restrain them or kill them with trickery, as these are still beings that can wrap reality or are incredibly powerful at the least. When the Sues are able to evade capture or fight back, they can severely injure or kill Agents as easily as anyone else.
356* NotWhereTheyThought: In "How Will I Clean My Fur?", Steven makes two of these mistakes. First he thinks he's at home when really he's in someone else's apartment, then he thinks he's in the wrong story due to seeing a Franchise/{{Pokemon}} centre (and the story is meant to be a CrackFic of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''), but really he's in the right one.
357%%* ObstructiveBureaucrat:
358%%** The Marquis de Sod.
359%%** The Notary, ''in spades''.
360* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Many plot developments occur completely off screen, with the reader only knowing about them due to an infodump on an agent's part.
361%%* OldMaster: Any sufficiently experienced agent can turn into this.
362* OlderThanTheyLook: Due to the time distortions in HQ, many agents have experienced years more of life than their chronological age would suggest.
363* OneSteveLimit:
364** There are three agents with the name Alison, all of whom spell it slightly differently (Agent Alison, Agent Allison, and Agent Ally).
365** The PPC has several members whose names are shortened versions of "Alexander": Alec Trevelyan, Alec Troven, Alex Bjørnsen, Alex Dives, Alex Orange, Alex Warren...
366** Two agents are named Charlie (a [[Series/DoctorWho Dalek]] and a [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons tabaxi]]), while a third is named Charlotte but goes by Charlie. Additionally, a Marty Sam in one of Jay and Acacia's missions is referred to as Charlie.
367* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Some agents, such as Supernumerary. Especially popular among the Time Lord agents, who are almost all renegades. Subverted, however, by the Notary -- her name is Antrilovorasilendar -- and Emiranlanoamar, AKA the Guardsman.
368* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
369** In one mission, Supernumerary used [[Literature/HarryPotter Avada Kedavra]] on a vampiric replacement of Luna that had knocked out an agent he trained.
370** Jay drops her happy attitude when things get serious.
371** When Agent Ilraen starts swearing, you ''know'' something's gone wrong.
372%%* OurMonstersAreDifferent: Agents from several different continua.
373* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: They include werewolves, werepenguins, weretigers, werehawks, and even a were-sea-anemone.
374* PardonMyKlingon: "[[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aIgPDwjXjj8ExP56dVjGjX5nbdN0QufAbeAKarV8C68/preview Kogec mjaaš]]!" Targir does not like seeing [[Franchise/StarWars Han Solo]] replaced with TheSociopath.
375* ParodySue: [[http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Jaycacia_Thornbyrd Jaycacaia Thornbryd]], who had the misfortune of ending up the PPC cafeteria, resulting in her remaining lifespan being measurable in milliseconds.
376* PersonaNonGrata: Agent Trojie is prohibited from going to ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' when not assigned a mission there for [[NoodleIncident some reason]]. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial This has nothing to do with the mysterious absence of important items from that continuum, such as the New Pie]]. The quarantined continua count for all agents, as their authors have forbidden fanfic to be written about them.
377%%* ThePlague: The Macrovirus Emergency. ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Macrocosm]]'' taken up to eleven.
378* PlantAliens: The Flowers are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin giant, alien flowers]] given sentience (and, in many cases, grown to human size or larger) by the radiation given off by their sun being consumed by a black hole. They communicate and go about daily tasks primarily through the use of powerful psychic abilities, also given to them by said radiation.
379%%* PleasePutSomeClothesOn:
380%%** The standard reaction to Luxury.
381%%** Peter Piper's reaction to finding his partner [[http://www.freewebs.com/bonsaimallorn4/DIO2.htm sunbathing]]. Also Nume's reaction to Ilraen's failed morphing, Kern's reaction to Logan's penchant to go shirtless, Brightbeard's typical response to Barid, who doesn't like to wear clothing. Also a semi-common reaction to Sues, and Blast J's reaction to a nymph newbie [[InnocentFanserviceGirl wearing nothing but VaporWear]].
382%%** Also happens to Selene near the end of [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10727893/4/PPC-Driftwood her third mission]] with Kaitlyn.
383%%** [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uxS825Slu8VGYjFXwqwW1kJToxiIUbAmS-JTj09Gbhg/pub Orientation Day]] practically opens with this trope, with [[StraightGay Chakkik]] tripping over his partner's new girlfriend, with [[ModestyBedsheet neither girl being dressed]].
384* PlotHole: The PPC uses plot holes in much of its technology, allowing its agents to move and communicate between worlds and universes. The entirety of HQ, in fact, consists of bits of building joined up via plot holes. People regularly fall into HQ because of this.
385* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Agent Trojanhorse gets sent on a mission to a RealPersonFic about Music/KurtCobain despite having a CelebrityCrush on him and normally not being allowed "within two hundred light years" of her Lust Object. She suspects the upper management made an exception due to a lack of other people who know who Cobain is.
386* PowderGag: In [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MXtm-z_1PDrOxLE32BO2A6Zu-w_9WfqRyFKB8KcI-1s/edit "How Will I Clean My Fur?"]], Steven gets hit with a prank that leaves pink glitter all over him. It sticks to him, too, because he'd previously been drenched in [[AppliedPhlebotinum a strange, fictional goo]].
387%%* PreAssKickingOneLiner: Agents ''love'' these, especially when trying to inflict DeathByIrony on Sues in all kinds of creative ways.
388* PrecisionFStrike: Agent Ilraen is a soft-spoken and often naive guy. So [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness when he starts screaming about how something is bullshit]], you ''know'' he's [[UnstoppableRage very not happy]].
389* PuffOfLogic: One mission involves Agent Whitney encountering a Mary Sue in the middle of having sex with [[ElementalEmbodiment a monster that's made out of fire]]. Once Whitney reminds the Sue exactly what she's doing, she ignites on the spot.
390-->'''Whitney:''' (W)hen I pointed out that she was basically fucking a guy made of ''fire'', she screamed and burst into flames.
391* PunchClockHero: Being a PPC agent is a job, though agents generally aren't paid much post-Reorganisation (before which they were paid very well and got frequent holidays, but at the cost of being ruled by the BigBad and his SecretPolice) and don't do it for the money. On the plus side, there isn't very much you ''need'' to pay for in HQ anyway.
392* PunnyName: Some agents, such as Justin Agent, Beethoven "Moon" Sonata, Light Fixture, Night Shade, Peter Piper, and Blue Photon.
393* PurpleProse: Suefics tend to go overboard with the florid writing.
394* PutOnABus: Sometimes an agent retires, is transferred to a new department, or goes mad.
395* QuirkyHousehold: Any group of agents that calls themselves a family will fall into this trope by the nature of the PPC.
396* RageAgainstTheAuthor: Happens often, particularly against badfic authors. Doing much worse than raging isn't allowed, however.
397* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The PPC is an ''entire organization'' comprised of individuals with a wide variety of backgrounds and dysfunctions attempting to protect the multiverse from the results of bad fanfiction.
398* RapeAsDrama: The focus of several possible charges, ranging from trivializing rape to worse.
399* RapidAging: A Sue was forced to [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade drink from the false grail]], resulting in this.
400* ReadingsBlewUpTheScale: The Canon Analysis Devices can explode when measuring high doses of {{OOC}}-ness.
401* RealityWarper:
402** Sues, by their very nature.
403** ''All'' fanfic writers are this as well, as their words literally cause things to happen in the canon 'verse. In badfic, [[RougeAnglesOfSatin unfortunate spelling errors]] or syntax problems can cause some [[LiteralGenie rather weird things]] to happen.
404* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Some agents, particularly the elves and Time Lords, are ancient despite not looking old.
405* ResetButton: Neuralysing canon characters and removing the Sue or other centre of distortion doesn't merely fix the effects of the badfic, it effectively stops the badfic from happening in the first place.
406%%* ResurrectionSickness: A staple for the Time Lord agents after regenerating.
407* RevoltingRescue:
408** When a canon character eats something that ought to be poisonous, the agents will first try using a device to make the poison vanish from the character's stomach. However, if that doesn't work, the agent will try making the character vomit with ipecac syrup, and if that doesn't work, they'll try using senna pods to make them poo.
409** Discussed in one mission, where an agent wants to kill an [[FunnyAnimal anthropomorphic cat]] villainess by s masturbating (in reference to the meme "God kills a kitten every time you masturbate"), but his partner vetoes the idea.
410* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Misspelling a character's name creates a tiny, adorable, and usually bloodthirsty version of a monster from the appropriate canon called a Mini. Even the minis based on hideous, monstrous creatures such as [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Lavos]] [[UglyCute remain endearing]].
411* RingRingCRUNCH: The consoles’ incessant beeping sometimes causes the agents to react… violently.
412* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Common in badfic; when applied to a character's name, it creates a [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter mini]].
413* RuleOfCool: Usually invoked by the Sues to prop themselves up, though the agents can sometimes do this as well.
414* RuleOfFunny: If anything can be, the Rule of Funny is ''the'' guiding trope for the PPC. If a spinoff doesn't follow the Rule of Funny, or if a serious story for the PPC doesn't occasionally bend to its will, it's not really in the spirit of the PPC. As said above, the setting also has its own name for the Rule, the Narrative Laws of Comedy.
415* RuleThirtyFour: A big reason many agents go through so much Bleeprin. The PPC also has its own version, "...there is fanfic for it."
416* RummageFail:
417** The average BagOfHolding can hold a lot of stuff, which makes them convenient for agents on missions. This property, combined with RuleOfFunny, also results in agents frequently pulling out the wrong thing while searching for whatever they need.
418** When Agent Zeb is looking for the spare remote activator to get the grievously injured Rina to Medical, he ends up emptying out Rina's left jacket pocket without finding it. Knowing that Rina will probably bleed out before he can finish searching the other pockets, he's forced to use the disguise generator to turn her into a Time Lord and force a regeneration instead.
419* RunningGag: [=CADs=] exploding, consoles beeping at bad times, and others depending on the spinoff. The CAD gag could possibly be considered an OverusedRunningGag, as it's now done almost every time a CAD is used at all and can give off the impression that PPC tech is completely useless.
420* ScaryScorpions: Kala Jeng is a girtablilu native to the ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' universe, meaning she's a short Romani girl attached at the hip to the body of a [[BigCreepyCrawlies seven-foot, four-hundred pound scorpion]]. Not only that, but she's been repeatedly kicked out of the homes of her host families because of her HairTriggerTemper and violent tendencies. However, [[FluffyTamer Valon]] seems to have gotten through to her, [[spoiler: and they're [[OfficialCouple married]].]]
421* TheScottishTrope: Both on the Posting Board and in the context of the missions, agents and writers avoid invoking the names of particularly horrifying badfics, either by censoring the name ("C*l*br**n") or just avoiding it ("That Series").
422* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The Librarian's response to seeing a Dalek version of Literature/HarryPotter during a mission is to immediately portal away from it, leaving his fellow agents behind to deal with the situation. [[spoiler:He comes back in time to save said agents from getting killed by Dalek Potter.]]
423* SecretPolice: The Department of Internal Security, after becoming corrupt; their existence was common knowledge, but the secret part was their corruption, the [[spoiler:Mary Sue Factory]] they were protecting, and the fact they were torturing and murdering agents. The Department of Internal Operations can be taken as a more literal example, since in theory, only the Flowers even know they exist. In practise, there are rumours of their existence, but most still don't know the truth, and part of Agent Justin Agent's job is to discredit such rumours. According to one DIO agent, their existence being discovered would cause another revolt against the PPC's leaders, as they're too much like the DIS for most agents' comfort.
424* SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains:
425** PPC uniforms are [[TheMenInBlack black]], good for a wide variety of temperature ranges, and comfortable to spend time in. Sues usually aim for ostentatious, and in the Mirror Multiverse, the female agents wear very little.
426** Averted with Agent Luxury. Whenever she shows up, she's usually in some state of undress/ wearing skimpy clothes.
427* SheIsAllGrownUp: Happens when younger agents visit home or the OFU they attended after some time, and in the Ten Years Hence stories.
428* ShockAndSwitchEnding: Invoked, where agents enter stories (namely badly-written fanfiction) with bad or disturbing endings and change reality so that the stories have happy endings.
429* ShoehornedAcronym: Justified. The Disguise-Outfitting Ryticular Kostume System abbreviates to DORKS. However, the "K" in "kostume" was there because of a typo on the patent form. No one knows the meaning of "[[TechnoBabble ryticular]]", though.
430* ShotInTheAss: Invoked in "[[https://docs.google.com/document/d/12cM2HhYPDLPV0O4LvArKg3QVApHiSBP9EpNn4K8PbZo/edit He Was Practically Asking For It]]" when Rina decides to kill a Gary Stu early because he's wearing underwear with a target on the back and the idea of using it as a reference point for killing him via bow and arrow is too tempting to pass up.
431-->'''Rina:''' The Stu has a literal target on his ass! This is like the Holy Grail of Appropriately Ironic Assassinations! There's no way I'm gonna pass it up!
432* ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow: Most agents are in their teens, and the job leaves them no time for schoolwork, though they occasionally get leave to attend an Official Fanfiction University.
433* ShoutOut:
434** When Agent Gabrielle asks "WHY IS THE POOP THERE?", Doktor Trollenfisch replies that [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy if they knew why, they'd understand a lot more about the nature of the universe.]]
435** One badfic justifies its portrayal of [[Literature/HarryPotter Hermione Granger's parents]] via an author's note saying that nothing in canon contradicts the possibility of the Grangers being abusive. Agent Carlisle responds by invoking [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot Russell's teapot]], pointing out that there likewise isn't anything in canon contradicting the possibility of a teapot orbiting Jupiter, but that alone isn't proof that the teapot (or the Grangers' abuse) exists.
436* SickAndWrong: This is the reason {{Squick}} is a chargeable offense, and in the [[SlashFic Bad Slash]] Department, a rather common one at that.
437* SignificantBirthDate: Agent Kaguya was conceived on a ''tsukimi'' night, which is how he got his name. He was then born on June 21, making him a Cancer, which is a sign ruled by the moon.
438* SlasherSmile: Many agents, [[SlashFic in some cases in a slightly different sense than usual]].
439* SmokyGentlemensClub: HQ's only private bar, the Pennacook Club.
440* {{Squee}}: An interjection often leading the one uttering it to a round of [[FanDisservice No-Drool videos]].
441** In continua where "squee" is a noun (common or proper), squeeing produces "Piercing Squees", large versions of whatever squee means in that continuum, that glomp the squee-er and vanish.
442%%* TheStarscream: [[spoiler: The Nightshade.]]
443* StatingTheSimpleSolution: A group of agents lose track of a Sue that went down a hallway with several doors at the end and decide to figure out where she went by opening the doors one-by-one. Corolla eventually asks why they aren't using "the smart method" and uses the remote activator, which is standard-issue agent equipment, to open a portal directly to where the Sue is.
444* StraightGay: The PPC has a significant number of LGBT+ agents, who don't tend to follow any stereotypes unless they particularly want to.
445* StrictlyFormula: Agents get mission report/briefing, agents enter bad fanfic, agents bitch about bad fanfic, agents exchange smart-aleck banter, agents kill Sue and/or exorcise victims in variety of interesting ways, agents go home and do post-mission wrap-up. That it's still working like a charm is a testament to how terrible most of the target material is. And they're good about mixing it up just enough so that it doesn't get entirely predictable.
446%%* StuffBlowingUp: Always a favorite when the agents of DOGA are involved.
447* StumblingInTheNewForm: Whenever agents disguise themselves as ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' style ponies, they struggle to walk on all fours (except [[{{CloudCuckooLander}} Valon]]) and hold things in their hooves. And if they disguise themselves as a ''flying'' pony, they'll usually have trouble flying in the right direction as well.
448* SuckinessIsPainful: Actually having to watch the horrible reality-bending induced by bad prose can cause really bad headaches.
449* SummonBiggerFish: As noted under DoNotTauntCthulhu, Agents Suicide and Ithalond got help from the real goddess Sekhmet after a Sue claimed to be her avatar.
450** Agent Cupid's first mission ended with him [[spoiler:baiting [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY Yveltal, the Destruction Pokémon]], into wiping out an army of Suvian soldiers.]]
451** [[FluffyTamer Valon Vance]] enlists the aid of [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys the Puppet]] to deal with a psychotic Freddy Fazbear replacement.
452** And in an example involving actual sea life, this is how [[KidHero Lapis]] saves [[BloodKnight Chakkik]] from [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/12nFPwjpdFbfdkMyBi42BZW72uUii3wUbnRNGkIeeMak/edit a near-fatal encounter]] with a literal, villainous [[invoked]][[GodModeSue God-Mode Stu]]. '''''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill "RELEASE]] [[PreAssKickingOneLiner THE]] [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean KRAKEN!!!"]]'''''
453* SuperGullible: Some Sues are rather lacking in the critical thinking department and will do anything an agent asks them to do. For just one example, Jay opened a portal and asked a Mary Sue to step through it, which she did. The portal, of course, led to the Whomping Willow.
454* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Agents tend to take down Sues in very cynical ways, especially Sues trying to make a cynical setting idealistic. Then there are Reality Rooms, which force canon-adherence and logic on everything inside them.
455* SurrealHorror: Shows up unintentionally in a lot of badfic, as bad prose makes horrifying and physically-implausible things happen; for example, overuse of pronouns in a SlashFic, where both characters are referred to as "he", sometimes results in both characters doing ''every'' action described to the other at the same time.
456* SwordFight: Many agents and enemies of the PPC use swords, so this happens frequently.
457[[/folder]]
458
459[[folder:T to Z]]
460%%* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Several agent pairs. Actually, just about every team is like this at some point.
461* TemptingFate: Agents deliberately aim to avoid invoking the "Laws of Narrative Comedy" or the "Ironic Overpower", as they are fundamental laws of the universe. Whenever an agent says anything along the lines of "At last, a break from badfic" or "Now I can catch some sleep", they get sent on another mission. If a mission is described as appearing "not too bad", it will rapidly get worse.
462* TentacleRope: Stephanie Podd, a [[KrakenAndLeviathan kraken]] from ''Manga/MonsterMusume'', employs this frequently.
463* ThemeNaming:
464** FloralThemeNaming: Three of Dafydd and Constance's children are named after the plants the latter grows. There are also agents Laburnum and Foxglove, plus the former's alter ego Hemlock.
465** ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming, ShoutOutThemeNaming: The quartet of agents featured in the "Four Demonly Kings" spin-off all have surnames derived from ''Literature/TheGoldenDemon'', while their first names are taken from Japanese folklore. Agent Kaguya's parents also have their first names referencing [[Literature/TheTaleOfTheBambooCutter the same folk tale]] he's named after. The name of the ensemble (and the spin-off) itself alludes to two groupings of Buddhist deities.
466* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted. There's an entire Department dedicated to this, and agents too close to snapping are often ordered to go there. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
467* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The [[http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Canon_Bomb Canon Bomb]] is an explosive weapon that causes powdered ''canon'' to scatter through a badfic-warped location, literally ''rewriting it'' into its correct form and dissolving every uncanonical character or object caught in the very wide blast area. It only has one documented use, probably because the Agents who used it nearly got vaporized themselves (as they're not canon either).
468%%* ThisIsGonnaSuck: A common reaction from agents, especially when being sent into notorious fics.
469* ToServeMan: Nonhuman agents who have a fondness for Suvian flesh might possibly fall under this trope, though it's acknowledged that Sues aren't human to begin with. Special mention goes to Velociripper, though, who comes from [[Franchise/JurassicPark a continuum]] where predators seem to prefer humans more than bigger prey - and once ate a character replacement so completely that by the time he was done, only the ''[[StrippedToTheBone bones]]'' were left!
470* TrackingDevice: Agents who are ex-Sues or close to becoming Sues are fitted with a tracking anklet.
471* TranquilFury: Some agents are too professional, or just too far beyond rage, to express it much. This is usually very bad for the Sue.
472* TransformationRay: The Disguise Generator, necessary for continuum-appropriate disguises. The Disguise Outfitting Ryticular Kostume System is a similar device, allowing agents to change their disguise without having to go back to their RC.
473* TriggerHappy: One of the reasons agents being obliged to read charge lists before killing Sues is to stop them from killing at random.
474%%* TroubledFetalPosition: Usually happens to an agent on the brink of a meltdown.
475* UglyCute: When a canon character's name is misspelled in badfic, a 'mini' creature appears: a small version of a monster from that canon. For ''[[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Lord of the Rings]]'', Mini-Balrogs, for ''Literature/HarryPotter'', there are Mini-Aragogs, etc. These are cute, but also just as ugly as their larger counterparts.
476* UncannyValley: Sues fall into this because they're too perfect. Their bodies often have many traits that would be attractive on their own, but are creepy and unnatural together.
477* UnconventionalFoodUsage: This series has "dubious lube", which is wacky or bad things being used as lubricant, several of which are food. The list of items on the Wiki includes egg white, barbecue sauce, gravy, ketchup, [[PainToTheAss melted sugar, vinegar]], vegetable soup, honey, maple syrup, chocolate, melted cheese, a lollipop, mango pulp, and peanut butter.
478* UnconventionalFormatting: Kaguya's speech is literally [[TheUnintelligible unintelligible]] when he's enraged by badfics. To represent this, his dialogues in "angry mode" are bizarrely formatted, using various text sizes, fonts, colors and special characters.
479* UndyingLoyalty: Agent Momoka has this attitude toward Agent Kaguya due to her characterization's being inspired by the {{samurai}} archetype.
480* UnexplainedRecovery:
481** Canon characters can be "made to think they're dead" by fanauthors, but cannot actually die until their original author says they have. Dead agents usually cannot be resurrected, though Dafydd Illian is a notable exception. The Medical department can heal pretty much anything short of death.
482** Makes-Things abrubtly returns three years after seemingly having his heart punched out by a {{Kaiju}} [[Series/StarTrekVoyager macrovirus]].
483* UnnecessaryRoughness: An important part of Australian Indoor-Rules Quidditch (a game stolen from ''Webcomic/MacHall''). The main rule is "Cause as much damage as you can while you run around for the ball in the dark. Least injured team wins, outside of forfeit."
484%%* UnstoppableRage: Often happens when an agent's BerserkButton is pressed.
485* UnusualEuphemism:
486** "Glaurung!", after the father of Dragons in Tolkien's Legendarium.
487** Agents have a tendency to swear by... ''odd'' decisions made in film adaptations of their favorite books. These include "[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing Flaming Denethor]]!", "[[Film/PrinceCaspian Jadis in a block of ice]]!", and "[[Film/TheHobbit Radagast on a bunny sled]]!"
488** Other Creative Curses include “[[Franchise/LyricalNanoha Reinforce Eins in a sweater!]]”, “[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS Rein Zwei in a box!]]”, and "[[Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Son of a werechihuahua]]!"
489* VagueAge: Agents tend to forget their ages, as HQ time more or less runs on guesswork. Some agents recruited from fics have no idea how old they were to start with, or are of species which don't age at the same rate as humans, so it's hard to tell.
490* VictoriasSecretCompartment: During the mission for ''Fanfic/MyInnerLife'', Randa dopes up on Bleeprin and sticks the bottle down her shirt. Rina twice contemplates going after it before deciding to tough it out.
491* ViewerNameConfusion: InUniverse, if a character's name is misspelled, they will be replaced by a small creature called a "mini".
492* VitriolicBestBuds: A common dynamic between agent pairs, as agents are usually assigned partners with different personalities -- the Flowers think it helps prevent madness.
493* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Putting on a disguise is effectively this, since it actually transforms the agents into their disguise -- for example, when Jay and Acacia were disguised as Ents, they didn't feel anything despite being riddled with arrows.
494* WeNeedADistraction: Many agent pairs have used the strategy of having one agent distract the canons or the Sue while the other does what needs to be done -- neuralysing, capturing, or killing.
495* WebcomicTime: A problem for many writers, which is partly why Emergencies are frowned on now; it's hard to fit them into one's personal canon when struggling with a timeline. Time in HQ is pretty loosely defined, though, so most writers tend to just wing it or specifically state when a given story is set.
496* WhamEpisode: ''Crashing Down'', where [[spoiler:The Mysterious Somebody and his League of Mary Sue Factories and the Black Cats come back to destroy the PPC and are repulsed, albeit with heavy losses.]]
497* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Or non-elf, non-alien, etc. Sues are always treated as though they are more like wild animals causing environmental contamination than a sentient being, so aside from charging them out of duty, the Agents have no guilt killing or even eating them.
498* WhatTheHellHero: Agents often call the Flowers out when they've had enough, or even each other.
499* WritingLines: Supernumerary makes his partner Ilraen write "I will not steal my partner's underwear" over and over as punishment for doing exactly that.
500* WunzaPlot: {{Enforced|Trope}}; the Flowers purposefully create odd couples, then send them to fight Sues, disentangle bad crossovers, et cetera. Jay even described herself and Acacia as such in the author's notes for their second story.
501-->"One's a bloodthirsty killer. One's a flake with a Polaroid. They fight crime!"
502* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Agents recruited from fics often can't go back for fear of death. Agents from World One often have trouble with the idea of readjusting to "normal" life. And some Agents are replaced canon characters...
503* YouDoNOTWantToKnow: An all-too-common response when Agents are asked about something particularly nasty they saw on a mission.
504%%* ZergRush: The MarySue Invasion of 2008. Went completely to pieces once their mind powers were neutralised, however. The agents also do this to some extent during attacks on HQ, as their enemies are always ''vastly'' outnumbered (though it isn't known exactly how many agents there are).
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507'''''[[HereWeGoAgain [BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!] ]]'''''

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