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3''Adventurers!'' is a webcomic by [[Tropers/{{Webrunner}} Mark Shallow]], who later created ''Webcomic/AntiheroForHire'' (there's a crossover... of sorts). It began as a series of console RPG jokes connected only by the presence of the main characters, but gradually developed a storyline that [[GrandFinale culminated with]] a massive battle against the FinalBoss.
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5The storyline is now finished and the comic no longer updates. [[http://www.giantrobot.club/adventurers/2016/6/15/001-100 You can start at the beginning here.]]
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7The TabletopRPG ''Console'', also an AffectionateParody of C{{RPG}}s and their tropes, uses ''Adventurers!'' strips for some of its illustrations.
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9A sequel series, ''[[http://www.giantrobot.club/adventurers-two Adventurers!!Two]]'' is now running.
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12!!This webcomic provides examples (almost always {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d or {{Parodied|Trope}}) of the following tropes:
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14* AbortedArc: Nate Wars, among several recurring comics during the first 100 strips.
15* AcademyOfEvil: As shown in a flashback, Khrima, after taking some [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0207.html courses in evil subjects]] in senior high, enrolled in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0208.html Evil University.]]
16* AcceptableBreaksFromReality: Much of the humor in the strip comes from taking these literally.
17* AcronymAndAbbreviationOverload: Karn [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0081.html outlines a plan]] with an excessive number of acronyms in it that may or may not mean anything.
18* ActionBomb: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020306.html Bombats]] explode when the party encounters them in battle.
19%%* AffectionateParody
20* AIRoulette: When Eternion agrees to face the party in an RPG battle, he finds that [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040122.html he can't use his most powerful skill a second time]] because RPG bosses choose attacks randomly.
21* AlienGeometries:
22** Imposis specializes in these, creating an "impossible object" [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020614.html when challenged as to the meaning of his name]].
23** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0345.html An NPC declares]] that the WrapAround on each side of the square world map makes their world an "impossible" shape. Apparently he's never heard of a torus.
24* AllMythsAreTrue: Actively cited as a law of the universe.
25* AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield: Khrima [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040629.html has one built]] just for the sake of conforming to this trope.
26-->"See, Eternion wouldn't bother with this. That's why he'd never make a good final boss!"
27* AmazonBrigade: Karn suggests that, since the party's splitting, Karashi, Tesla and Lumi should form one of these, go off on their own quest and indulge in {{Stripperiffic}} CostumePorn during battles. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030402.html They don't like the idea.]]
28* ApatheticCitizens: The Bystandrians, who are doomed to stand idly by instead of taking action in the face of danger.
29* AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering: When Karn tries to figure out [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0014.html how to escape from a collapsed dungeon]], he decides the key to escaping is the model airplane and completely ignores the cracked wall and explosives...
30* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit:
31** Every traveling party must have exactly three people [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020118.html because there's a law that says they can't have more]]. This explains why every TraumaInn has the same number of beds.
32** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040417.html Near the end]] when Cody suggests he might have been able to join the team if they didn't have nine characters already. Since there's only one named OptionalPartyMember, this suggests Cody and Drecker are MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers as well.
33** Made fun of [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0133.html in this strip]], in which one party member must stay behind for what turns out to be no reason whatsoever.
34* ArtEvolution: The art does improve over time, although it is still very amateurish. Inevitably parodied [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050115.html in this comic]], in which, at the beginning of a flashback, the characters complain about the sudden lack of quality in the art (which is drawn in the style of the early strips).
35* AttackItsWeakPoint: Karn decides that a robot's glowing red power core must be its weak spot and attacks it. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020411.html It doesn't work out the way Karn hoped it would.]]
36* AwesomenessIsVolatile: While preparing a really big spell, Ardam says: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050903.html "Incidentally, if I catch on fire or explode or something, that's probably normal."]]
37* AuthorGuestSpot: The author occasionally appears to address the audience and [[LampshadeHanging hang a lampshade]] on something or other, but he doesn't interact with the characters directly.
38* AwesomeButImpractical: Karn finds out the hard way that a [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0347.html ridiculously-shaped sword he bought]], despite its high ATP, is structurally unsound.
39* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040327.html Argent isn't about to just let a de-powered, mortal Eternion go.]]
40* BankruptcyBarrel: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0019.html Karn wears one]] after all of his equipment (including his clothes) is stolen by Drecker.
41* BarehandedBladeBlock: A couple of characters manage to [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0358.html pull this off]] by virtue of having robot arms. [[spoiler:Happens again during the final boss fight.]]
42* BehindTheBlack: Characters can't see anything that's out of the "player"'s field of view, no matter how illogical this is.
43* {{BFS}}: All of Karn's weapons are oversized swords.
44* BigBadEnsemble: Khrima and Eternion, both of whom correspond to different kinds of RPG villains. (Khrima is an EvilOverlord, and Eternion is an evil PhysicalGod.)
45* BishonenLine: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050616.html This strip]], in which the characters comment on the relative monstrousness of Khrima's different forms, is the {{Trope Namer|s}}.
46* BlahBlahBlah: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050203.html A whole panel full of blather.]]
47* BlindIdiotTranslation: Parodied in a strip where the characters speak gibberish and then blame it on the translator.
48* BlockPuzzle: The party faces these in every temple they explore, including one temple dedicated to [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020226.html "the annual festival of the pushable cube."]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0164.html Everyone but Karn hates them.]]
49* BossBattle: The party encounters many of these.
50* BottomlessMagazines: Tesla is [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20021002.html quite happy]] that console RPG characters never run out of ammo, ever.
51* {{Bowdlerise}}: An early joke is that Drecker, hard-bitten thief that he is, finds himself able to swear only in cutlery once he joins the party. This extends to everyone else (except Eternion) and becomes a RunningGag; when Khrima's [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040720.html about to go through a lot of pain]] in the Final Battle, he says "Oh '''utensil'''."
52* BreakingTheFourthWall: Not a heavily used trope, but there is one notable example. Final Boss Khrima uses an attack spell with an animation so over-the-top, it doesn't just include an EarthShatteringKaboom, it actually cracks the ''Adventurers!'' game disc, requiring Karn to tell the "player" how to replace the disc with a backup copy.
53* BrickJoke:
54** In an early strip, the party [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0128.html defeated a microbug and won a piano]]. During the final fight against Khrima, Karashi, realizing that she could throw ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050609.html anything]]''...
55** When he finds out that the person who his boss most fears is a [[QuirkyBard bard]] of all things, Cody [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020329.html wonders if he isn't really a superhero in disguise]]. Then fast forward to [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20060911.html the finale]]...
56** In an [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0010.html early strip]], as Ardam is dangling over an AcidPool, Karn plays Boggle with Khrima and spots "gorilla". [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0068.html Several strips later]], Khrima spots the same word as he plays Boggle with one of his minions. And again when he fights Eternion.
57** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0029.html Early in the strip]], an Ice Dragon which has painted himself red to make itself look like a Fire Dragon. It [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030103.html later]] appears in the news, complaining about the quality of the paint, which has apparently faded to green.
58** A very subtle one: Early in the strip, Ardam [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0102.html spoons up a summon]] and realizes he got the wording wrong. Then during the final battle, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050728.html he gets it right]]. And when he sends an enemy to the Realm of Calling to be attacked by all his summons at once [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050927.html look for panel eight]].
59* ButThouMust: The heroes are [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020107.html rather used to NPCs not taking "no" for an answer]].
60* ByThePowerOfGrayskull: The Khaos Generals have to say a phrase to use their Flowgem-granted abilities. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020206.html "I would have gone with the naked costume change but she doesn't change costume."]]
61* {{Cap}}s: After strip number 999, every subsequent strip was also numbered 999.
62* CardCarryingVillain: Khrima identifies as one.
63* CerebusSyndrome: Even after the plot picked up there would be periods where they went back to complete "gag a day" strips, justified as taking time off from the plot to level grind.
64* ChainedByFashion: Eternion's second form wears chains.
65* ChainsawGood: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050101.html Spybot gets one and is very happy about it]], though it doesn't get put to any use.
66* CharacterDevelopment: A few nice bits.
67** Karn [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020430.html is]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20051103.html frustrated]], but he never did have much patience for anything that didn't involve hitting things with swords.
68** A couple times earlier, Karn tries to actively demonstrate CharacterDevelopment by being angsty or apathetic, but both times is called out on it - particularly since his personality doesn't really mesh. He also dreams of getting amnesia.
69* CharacterNameLimits: Karn is befuddled by these in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0046.html this strip]]:
70-->'''Karn''': Guys, what's an X-LKSK? If they're gonna trim skill names for space they should at least have the decency to leave a vowel.
71* CharacterShill: [[ParodyCommercial Parodied]] - Karn shills for products such as [[AnimeHair "Hero Hair" brand hair gel]], [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0188.html "Ribbon"]] ("Blocks status ailments!") and [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020930.html "Armor-Armor-All" armor protectant]].
72* ChekhovsGunman:
73** Played straight with Argent. Inverted in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011130.html this strip]], in which a character is conspicuously introduced and then never seen again.
74** This actually happens with several characters early on, mostly because the series hadn't switched from its gag-a-day nature. Later on, many characters were merged into the story line, but many of the less defined ones didn't make the cut. [[note]]Though in this case, it might also have to do with the fact that he's literally just [[VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory Dias Flac]][[/note]]
75* ChestMonster: And [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0392.html it's bigger than the box it was hiding in!]]
76* CollapsingLair: Standard issue for RPG villains. Averted once because the designers 'were on a budget'.
77* CombatantCooldownSystem: Karn [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20031227.html knows all the details of this]], and wonders at one point why he [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050702.html doesn't get to act when his bar fills up]].
78* CombatPragmatist: Tesla, when challenged to a duel, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0362.html starts fighting a little sooner than her opponent expected]].
79* CombatTentacles: Dark Doomsceror [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040617.html uses them for counter attacks]]. Drecker notably worries they might be the naughty kind instead.
80* CommonplaceRare: Apples, for which NPC vendors charge a surprisingly high price.
81* ContinuityCavalcade: Most of the summons seen in the comic return when Ardam summons Pantheon.
82* ContinuityNod:
83** A silly one comes up late in the comic. Early on, Ardam fights one-on-one with an evil wizard named Whizrom, who begins melting/evaporating after he's defeated. Both of them notice that Whizrom is taking an awfully long time to finish disappearing (which Ardam lampshades), and hundreds of episodes later we see him again, still evaporating and going about his business normally. And later still, he appears in the final dungeon, after being frozen into the shape of a sphere.
84** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011119.html Septuple]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050820.html Scare]].
85** Karn plays Boggle with Khrima in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0010.html one of the earliest strips]], and [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050514.html still has a Boggle set]] during the final battle.
86** See also Brick Joke, above.
87* ConvectionSchmonvection: Karashi and Tesla train their jumping skills because, as Karashi puts it, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020320.html "EVERYTHING is protected by floating platforms over lava."]]
88* ConvenientQuesting: The Demon Peak Pass becomes passable just when [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030422.html our heroes need to get through it]]. Karn and Ardam sarcastically remark that that's "not predetermined contrivance at all." [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020731.html An earlier strip]] has Ardam complaining about this sort of {{Railroading}}.
89* CoolMask: The Eternals all wear masks.
90* CoupDeGraceCutscene: Karn says that Ardam's plan to have him strike the final blow against Khrima in battle is unnecessary: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20051103.html "It doesn't matter who makes the final hit, the plot says I do it anyway."]]
91* CrateExpectations: Karn, trying to solve a PressurePlate puzzle, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0384.html suggests pushing a crate on top of it]].
92-->'''Ardam''': For the ''last time'', there ''are no crates!''\
93'''Karn''': There are ''always'' crates.
94* {{Crossover}}: With ''Webcomic/RPGWorld''. And with ''Webcomic/AntiheroForHire''... sort of.
95* CrossoverCameo: Hero and Cherry from ''Webcomic/RPGWorld'' appear in the background when Maxima Termis calls for 'a spiky-headed hero and his sidekick'. The later when Eternion announces in a newspaper that he's making a bid for Final Boss, another article in the newspaper is titled "Galgarion to gardners: Prune or Die." In turn, Khrima made a cameo in ''RPG World'', appearing in the hallway at Eviltown U.
96* CurbStompBattle: After much epic adventuring, the party has finally managed to confront Eternion, one of the two {{Big Bad}}s, and drag him into an RPG battle. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20031230.html The result?]] [[TotalPartyKill "Well, that was easy."]] [[spoiler: Subverted: Ardam had a Relife Ring equipped.]]
97* CutscenePowerToTheMax / CutsceneIncompetence: When threatened by a goon with a gun, Karn remarks that there's no way that gun will do enough damage to reduce his HP to zero. Then he wonders if he's in a cutscene, and decides that he'd better run away, because things in cutscenes actually can kill characters.
98* CutAndPasteEnvironments: Karn [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030604.html complains about two buildings having the same layout]], though Ardam tries to point out that it makes sense since they're designed for the same purpose.
99* CuttingTheKnot: When stuck in TheMaze, Karashi [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0386.html climbs over the walls]] and Tesla [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0387.html breaks through them]].
100** Ardam gets frustrated with a puzzle and opts for [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0375.html a simpler solution]].
101* DamageOverTime: This is apparently the effect of being poisoned, which [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0084.html isn't as horrible as Drecker thought it would be]].
102* DamselInDistress:
103** In Lumi's job description, evidently. "Didn't they teach you anything at your church? Next thing you'll tell me they didn't tell you how to properly get kidnapped."
104** Also attempted with Karashi on two occasions. Both times she freed herself. One time she actually managed to free herself and make it back to camp before the rest of the party realized she had been kidnapped at all.
105* DeathGlare: It's a little insensitive to complain about feeling left out to the party's resident {{Butt Monkey}}s, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030722.html Ardam]].
106* DeathIsCheap: Any character that appears to be "dead" inevitably returns. As Karashi [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050813.html puts it]], "the worst part about being dead is all the stuff you miss before you get revived."
107* DeathTrap: Found in the ancient temples. They do surprisingly little damage.
108* DimensionLord: The Eternals are a race of these, with Maxima Termis being their initial leader, followed by Eternion.
109* DistressedDude: In one storyline, Karn is captured by Khrima and tied up.
110* DramaticThunder: Karn makes Ardam use a lightning spell only for the sake of this trope.
111* DramaticUnmask: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0181.html Eternion]] when Khrima hits him with the Mallet of Extreme Pain. The fact that the mask ''is'' his face should tell you where it [[AntiClimax heads]].
112* DuelBoss: Ardam vs Whizrom, among others. (The author [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020617.html has a rather low opinion of these]].)
113* DungeonShop: A temple that supposedly nobody has set foot in for centuries turns out to have a [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0064.html hidden gift shop inside]].
114* EasterEgg: Karn follows some ridiculous directions in order to find one.
115* {{Egopolis}}: Khrima's vision of "Khrimopia" (which he decides he should write down) sees "a laser in every pot, and robots patrolling the streets".
116* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Including such elements as [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0268.html "Tastes Like Orange Tang," "Doesn't Taste Like Orange Tang,"]] and "Peanuts." There's also a tree that is [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011206.html healed by fire]] because it's red, and therefore must be weak to water.
117* ElevatorFloorAnnouncement: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20031028.html The elevator carrying Garshask up to Eternion]]:
118-->"Ding! Third floor! Cookware, men's socks, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick battles for the fate of the universe]], and giftwrapping!"
119* EleventyZillion: The winning bid in an auction is [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030220.html "seventy billion trillion million gold."]]
120* EmphasizeEverything: An NPC 「Soldier」 in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0127.html strip #127]] insists that 『brackets build character.』
121* EnemyMine: Played straight and later subverted when the less-evil Khrima realizes Eternion's trying to force him into one with the heroes, as part of his gambit to secure the role of Final Boss.
122* EquipmentSpoiler: Invoked when Karn panics on discovering a shop that sells a weapon no one in the party uses in case they missed a secret character. [[spoiler:They meet and recruit the user of said weapons later.]]
123* EventFlag: Brought up in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0091.html strip #91]]:
124-->'''Karn''': Looks like we're going to have to wait a while longer.\
125'''Ardam''': If we went and furthered the plot it'd be ready by the time we get back...\
126'''Karn''': Oh, like some unrelated event thousands of miles away would trigger that. ''Rrright.''
127* EverythingTryingToKillYou:
128** Anything and everything can attack the party in a RandomEncounter, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0154.html even a cup of coffee Ardam was trying to drink]].
129** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020314.html The monsters don't need a reason why.]]
130** Lampshaded (with a literal lampshade) back in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0055.html strip #55]], where Karn strikes an AssKickingPose and draws his sword on a lamp, on the grounds that it just might be "an evil lamp monster."
131* EvilChancellor: Parodied - the chancellor wasn't evil and the monster impersonating him had a cold.
132* EvilCounterpart: Most of the good guys have one - Ardam vs. Wizrom, Drecker vs. Rio, Karashi vs. Mizuna, Gildward vs. Dirlend, even Chookie vs. Blanc...
133* EvilMinions: Khrima, being an EvilOverlord, has lots. Most of them have [[MinionWithAnFInEvil Fs in Evil]], but still.
134* EvilerThanThou: Eternion is clearly more evil than Khrima and attempts to usurp the role of True Final Boss.
135* ExplosiveInstrumentation: Khrima [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050811.html apparently]] built them like this on purpose.
136* FakeKing: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0253.html Parodied]]: Karn meets a chancellor and immediately defenestrates him, on the assumption that he's been replaced by a monster. It turns out that was the real chancellor; the monster assigned to replace him was out sick.
137* FantasyGunControl: Karn attempts to defy this in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0087.html strip #87]], where he buys an X500 Plasma Rifle instead of any of the {{Elemental Weapon}}s Ardam thinks they're supposed to buy instead.
138* FarSideIsland: Karn and Ardam seem to be [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0400.html stranded on a one-tree desert island]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0401.html for a few strips]]... [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0402.html but it isn't really one]].
139* FauxSymbolism: [[invoked]] Lampshaded with the holy sword Longinus, which Infinel points out is named after [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040131.html "a loosely named item being enough fundamentally different to make the affair meaningless."]]
140* FetalPositionRebirth: one of Khrima's transformations.
141* FetchQuest: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0348.html Karn is given a UPS hat when he volunteers to do these.]]
142* FightingYourFriend: Karn wants to fight Ardam because [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0239.html he's desperate for the XP]].
143-->"C'mon... I promise I'll resurrect you."
144* FightWoosh: Ardam hates battle transitions. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20031206.html Eternion also thinks they're pointless.]]
145* FinalBoss: Khrima and Eternion actually get into a [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020130.html PR battle]] over who gets to be FinalBoss. Khrima wins.
146* FlechetteStorm: Drecker's [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040624.html "IKNIVES"]] causes him to sprout knives all over his body and hurl them at the enemy for 7777 damage per hit.
147* FloatingPlatforms: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050621.html Subverted]] during the final battle, after Khrima's BishonenLine transformation, when Drecker notices the supposedly floating platforms have supports.
148* FlockOfWolves: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011120.html One of Khrima's plans]] was to capture all the party members and replace them with robot duplicates, then have the robot duplicates strike when they least suspect it. There are four major flaws with this plan:
149** One: The robot duplicates don't look like the people they're supposed to look like.
150** Two: The plan involves capturing them all. Why would they need to bother doing anything else if they've all already been captured?
151** Three: If he'd captured and replaced them all, then when the robots strike, they would be attacking each other.
152** Four: Why would they make a robot duplicate of Evil Killer Death Spybot 5000? He's already TheMole.
153* FollowThePlottedLine: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0296.html A road sign says so.]]
154* FourthWallMailSlot: A few filler strips feature the comic's author answering questions from fans.
155* [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]]: Khrima demands that his engineers put lasers on everything, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0331.html even ballistic missiles]]. He later [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20021111.html fires one of them for inventing a weapon better than lasers]].
156%% commented out as Administrivia/WeblinksAreNotExamples * GainaxEnding: "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20051224.html This]] is going to cause message board debates for ''years''."
157* GameBreaker: In-Universe. All of Karn's ultimate abilities. [[spoiler:Although Khrima's final form actually blocks one of them.]]
158* GameBreakingBug: In-Universe, one boss attack breaks the game disc!
159* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Lampshaded - the characters can do ridiculous things in battle, but can't do any of it outside.
160* {{Gasp}}: Lampshaded in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030318.html this strip]]:
161-->'''Ardam''': Why did you gasp?\
162'''Karn''': I don't know.
163* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Parodied and played straight at different points.
164** Eternion's first appearance is as one of these.
165** After defeating the True Final Boss, the party just runs away from "[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX Necrevil]]" instead of fighting it.
166* GlobalAirship: The party gets one, but [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0011.html the rest of the party hates when Karn flies it.]] Also, In a world that has airships, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020618.html there are still places you can't get to except by flying on a bird]].
167* TheGlomp: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0360.html Tesla glomps Ardam]].
168* GoldfishPoopGang: Kemmit and Meck are one.
169* GoodBadBugs: In-Universe. A [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011026.html nod]] to VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI's infamous "Vanish" + [[UselessUsefulSpell "Doom"]] GameBreaker combo.
170* GottaCatchThemAll: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011112.html The Elemental Relics]]: Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium...
171* GrailInTheGarbage: Karn has found legendary swords in the oddest of places: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0062.html someone's shower]] and [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0168.html a barrel marked "FISH."]]
172* GrandFinale: Goes on for just under 300 strips.
173* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: There may be [[RunningGag many guards in the castle]], but [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0288.html they don't seem that good at keeping their secret passwords actually secret]]. A [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0350.html later strip]] subverts this somewhat.
174* GuestStarPartyMember: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0407.html The Guy Who Took the Gold Armor]], the [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0251.html Level 99 Guy]].
175* GuideDangIt: Ardam finds out that he and Karn were supposed to perform [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0077.html a ridiculously complicated series of steps]] based only on the clue "GNWG".
176* GunsAreWorthless: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0286.html Parodied]] - gun-wielding enemies do very little damage because their weapons fire Nerf balls.
177* HalfHumanHybrid: Despite looking completely human, Karn is quarter-[[WingedHumanoid Skyrian]], [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020508.html as revealed]] via painfully straight AsYouKnow; his father is half-Skyrian. The green hair probably should have been a giveaway. Also, Karashi and her sister are half-dwarf. They get their looks from their father.
178* HarmfulHealing: [[AllThereInTheManual In the cast pages]], it's mentioned that Karashi has a ninja healing technique which works by cutting off bits of the people to be healed. This is probably why Tesla refused to acknowledge her offer of "ninja healing" late in the comic.
179* HarmlessVillain: Nearly all of them.
180* HeadTiltinglyKinky: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0161.html In this strip]], Karn and Ardam have this reaction to Karashi fansites.
181* HealingPotion: Ardam [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020227.html speculates]] on the magical ingredients used in these.
182* HealthDamageAsymmetry: The result of [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050816.html Khrima not investing in healing research]].
183* HelloInsertNameHere: Name entry screens pop up when new characters try to join the party. Drecker [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0023.html complains that he was trying to have a conversation]], and Karashi [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0118.html gets one]] even though Karn just said he already knew her name. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20021104.html Lumi doesn't get one]] because a few voice clips use her name.
184* HelpingGrannyCrossTheStreet: Khrima [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020124.html once helped an old lady cross the street]]... but he still counts it as evil because he didn't use the crosswalk, thus setting her up for a criminal career in ArsonMurderAndJaywalking.
185* HeKnowsAboutTimedHits:
186** When an NPC tries to explain the controls for placing flags, Ardam [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011127.html complains]] that he doesn't ''have'' an "X button." (Drecker does, because he stole one from Khrima's keyboard.)
187** As Karn's duel with Argent begins, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030812.html the latter reminds the former about the fighting controls]].
188* HeelFaceTurn: Argent is one of Khrima's underlings, but he turns out to be very helpful to the party in the struggle with Eternion.
189* HeroesPreferSwords: Karn is not very interested in mastering battle techniques other than [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0067.html "hit things with a sword."]]
190* HeroicBSOD: Ardam, after being attacked by the [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0343.html Evil Pants.]]
191* HiddenElfVillage: Chookie leads the party to [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011115.html Chooktown]], the secret abode of small annoying creatures. Drecker sees it as a PlaceWorseThanDeath.
192* HitPoints: As is standard for an RPGMechanicsVerse, the heroes and enemies have them and are aware of the amout of damage they do and receive.
193* HolidayMode: December 25 puts [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20021225.html Santa hats on dragons]].
194* HolyHandGrenade: The Smite spell. Pity Lumi [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20021028.html only has enough MP to cast it once]].
195* HonestJohnsDealership: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0111.html Honest Cid's Used Airships]]
196* HoYay: [[invoked]] Lampshaded by Karn in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20060807.html this strip]], in which Ardam says he'll miss adventuring with Karn.
197* HPToOne:
198** Eternion's [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20031218.html Grief Impulse]] wouldn't work on anyone he couldn't kill in a single turn anyway, but he uses it because he enjoys the cruelty of it regardless.
199** Khrima [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040824.html also has one]] that hits the entire party, but due to an abundance of healing options they weren't particularly intimidated.
200* HurricaneOfPuns: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030319.html Strip #777]] wants you to know that it has a [[LuckySeven theme]].
201* ImpossibleItemDrop: Ardam wonders [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0128.html how a small insect could have been carrying a piano]].
202* ImpossibleTheft: Drecker can get away with stealing pretty much anything. Even objects that would be too large for the victim to be carrying.
203* IndyEscape: Karn and Ardam [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011123.html fail to outrun a boulder]], but they only suffer a few hitpoints of damage from it.
204%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Rio.
205* InexplicableTreasureChests: Treasure chests can be found even in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0190.html hitherto unexplored places]]. One strip explains them to be the result of [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020115.html tiny robot pirates dancing through caves]]. Karn [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020628.html knows that it's mandatory for them to all look the same]].
206* InfallibleBabble: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020424.html Lampshaded]]:
207-->'''Karashi''': What if the rumor isn't true? It could just be a rumor.\
208'''Ardam''': When has that ''ever'' happened?\
209'''Karashi''': ...I see.
210* InformedEquipment: When Karn puts on a new suit of armor, it makes him look [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0126.html exactly the same]].
211* InsecuritySystem: Khrima's [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0186.html "Easy-Break" security system]] allows Security Level A to be deactivated by pressing a conveniently located "A" button.
212* InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha: The party pilots them in one strip, much to Ardam's confusion [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0194.html "Since when did we have giant robots?"]]
213* InsurmountableWaistHeightFence: Parodied twice - once when a villain places a chair in the party's path and Karn doesn't comprehend the notion of stepping over it, and again when he performs a jumping attack on an enemy in battle, but then declares a small obstacle too high to pass.
214* IntentionalEngrishForFunny: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020626.html This]] butchered version of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' is implied to be a back-translation.
215* InterchangeableAntimatterKeys: Karn [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0395.html insists on using once-only keys]], even though there are other ways of opening locked doors.
216* IrrelevantSidequest: A prominent NPC is [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20021003.html concerned with having the heroes bring back his stolen vase]], even when they would rather get on with SavingTheWorld.
217%% commented out as Administrivia/WeblinksAreNotExamples * ItemCrafting: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0159.html Parodied.]]
218%% commented out as Administrivia/WeblinksAreNotExamples * ItsAllAboutMe: Yes, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0196.html yes it is, Karn]].
219* IWillShowYouX: Khrima is quick to object that [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0200.html he hasn't been vanquished yet]]:
220-->'''Khrima''': They think they vanquished me!? Well... I'll make them see what it's like to ''really'' vanquish me!
221* JokeItem: Karashi tries throwing a wet sponge at Khrima. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050331.html It does no damage]], though Khrima is disgusted by it.
222* JokerImmunity: Khrima up until the final arc, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0403.html and the party knows it]].
223* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Lampshaded. Khrima tells a captured Karn everything, even though [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0205.html Karn tells him it might not be the smartest thing to do]]. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0206.html "Whatever, I'll tell you guys anyway,"]] Khrima says.
224* KamehameHadoken: Chookie uses [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040710.html Hachooken]]. It's not very effective.
225* KickTheDog:
226** "He kicks cute things" is the theme of one [[SlaveToPR PR campaign]] to prove Khrima's [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020315.html villain cred]]. It's not a terribly effective way of showing evil, given that Karn habitually [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0001.html beats up defenseless animals]] for the sake of LevelGrinding.
227** Mizuna tries to prove she's evil enough to Khrima: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030408.html "I've been practicing! I kicked a kitten just a few days ago!"]]
228* KillerRabbit: Ardam falls victim to a [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0302.html DevilRabbit]].
229%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * KillSat: Khrima sure does love his lasers.
230* KleptomaniacHero: Karn is unapologetic about [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0330.html being the sort of hero]] who habitually [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020517.html ransacks people's houses]] and [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20021009.html castles]] for useful items.
231* KnightOfCerebus: Eternion. Things get much more serious and plot-oriented when he appears.
232* LampshadeHanging: The basis for much of the strip's humor.
233%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * LaserBlade: Lampshaded by how absurd it is.
234* LastDiscMagic: Magic attacks start doing a lot more damage in later strips.
235* LazyBackup: When Karn gets switched out of the active party, he can't do a thing to help them in battle, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0130.html not even give them some of the soda he's sipping]].
236* LetsSplitUpGang: The party has to divide into three groups to attack the Khrimalith. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040422.html Ardam gets stuck in a group with Chookie and Gildward.]]
237* LevelGrinding: Yeah, they've got to do lots. It's a [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011022.html compulsive behavior]] for Karn.
238* LimitedWardrobe: Karn's outfit doesn't change regardless of what he equips. Also subverted in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0390.html this strip]], in which Khrima is wearing something different from his usual dark robes...
239* LoadBearingBoss: Khrima, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20051231.html naturally]]. Beating him in battle makes his fortress start to collapse.
240* LiteralMinded: Khrima in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020924.html this strip]]:
241* LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0030.html Here]] and [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0083.html here]]/
242* LockAndKeyPuzzle: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020715.html A mandatory part of dungeon design.]]
243* LookBothWays: Invoked by Khrima when he uses a [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0212.html Scroll of Summon City Bus]] to win a WizardDuel.
244%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * PermanentlyMissableContent: Both parodied and played straight.
245* LoveInterest: Lumi for Karn, Tesla for Ardam, and Karashi for Drecker
246* MacrossMissileMassacre: Spybot [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050521.html inflicts one]] on Khrima. The missiles only do 100 damage each, but there's a ''lot'' of them.
247* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Karn can testify that [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050719.html "getting killed hurts."]]
248* TheMaze: The party gets trapped in one at one point. They [[CuttingTheKnot don't solve it in the traditional way]].
249* MeaningfulName: The city of [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030211.html Doomdia]], and the Bystandrians. Arguably, Gildward, whose name is a composite of "Gilbert" and "Edward", the Japanese and English names for the [[QuirkyBard Spoony Bard]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV''.
250* MementoMacGuffin: Lumi's amulet.
251* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Khrima attempts to explain evil: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0299.html "You see, evil is like... it's like a bowl of oranges..."]]
252* MillionToOneChance: Ardam doesn't even want to guess the impossible odds of finding the gold key needed to open a LockedDoor. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0378.html The next moment]], the Keeper of the Gold Key appears and hands it over.
253-->'''Ardam''': Have you ever considered trying the lottery?\
254'''Karn''': I'm not very good with numbers.
255* MindScrew: Karn's reaction to some unexplained weirdness during the ending: "This is going to cause message board debates for years."
256** Also, when they ask the Plot Computer to explain the convoluted plot of their own game, the answer they get is [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011128.html "Wait for the sequel."]]
257* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Khrima, despite being the EvilOverlord, just can't seem to come up with an evil plot that is actually evil.
258* TheMole: The aptly named [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0156.html Killer Evil Death Spybot 5000]], who, incidentally, is never seen spying again.
259* {{Mon}}: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0063.html Humorously averted.]] Karn catches a "giant snake monster" which does nothing for him but try to chew his arm off.
260* MoneyForNothing: Karn grows disappointed in finding only gold when he [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030403.html opens treasure chests]].
261* MonumentalDamage: Blanc's [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20041009.html justification]] for targeting landmarks with the [[KillSat Khrimalith]]: "Have you seen their ticket prices?"
262* MookChivalry: An important aspect of a turn-based battle system, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0287.html as Karn explains to Decker.]]
263* MotionBlur: Parodied in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0150.html this strip]], where motion blur effects just make everything harder to see for the characters.
264* MotivationOnAStick: A variation with a treadmill and a sign reading "plot" is used to keep Karn occupied in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011022.html strip #415]].
265* MundaneUtility:
266** Khrima uses a KillSat to [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030430.html make toast]].
267** Ardam uses a Lightning cantrip to [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20021108.html recharge Drecker's iPod]].
268* MusclesAreMeaningless: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020114.html Webrunner explains]] that muscularity has no real relation to strength: "Often scrawny kids can be strong enough to destroy ''gods'' without getting any visible muscle tone."
269* MusicalSpoiler: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020110.html Subverted.]] Tesla hears "dramatic plot music" and expects a plot point, but it turns out that it's just Gildward playing.
270* MysteriousInformant: Imposis.
271* NerfArm: Karn finds that [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0292.html a rolled-up newspaper]] and [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020927.html a stick]] do great damage.
272* NarrativeProfanityFilter: See "Bowdlerize", above.
273* NeverFoundTheBody:
274** A dimensional distortion swallows Argent and Garshask while they were fighting. Karn insists that since no bodies were found, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020510.html they're obviously still alive]]. [[spoiler:He's right.]]
275** And in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0403.html another incident]], after BigBad Khrima accidentally destroyed a magic crystal, wrecking a sizable part of his fortress, Drecker mentions that Khrima hasn't been heard from in months. Ardam speculates that he might have died in the accident, and wonders if they've seen the last of him. There is a pause, then both heroes burst out laughing.
276* NighInvulnerability: Whizrom claims [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040513.html immunity to both physical and magical attacks]] in his [[{{Unobtainium}} Crystallium]] sphere form.
277-->'''Ardam''': I don't suppose that works both ways?\
278'''Whizrom''': It's one-way Crystallium!\
279'''Ardam''': Dang.
280* NightmareRetardant: InUniverse examples:
281** Ardam is less than impressed by the revived Whizrom's appearance. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040511.html "That is confusion, not fear. Try again."]]
282** Kemmet and Meck try to scare Karn [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0325.html with a clown mask.]]
283* NoEndorHolocaust: Karn manages to save Bystandria from a plummeting Khrimalith by cutting it in two with his sword and making the two pieces barely miss the city. After this, Ardam totally gives up on expecting the world to make any sense whatsoever, even according to video game story logic.
284* NoHeroDiscount: Ardam [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020104.html tries and fails]] to get an NPC vendor to give Karn a 2 GP discount on a 50,000 GP sword after saving the town.
285* NonActionGuy: Gildward isn't of much use in combat.
286* NonDamagingStatusInflictionAttack: The party's SpoonyBard is hit by one such attack, which rolls "slow" and "attack down", but it downs him anyway because he's just that fragile. PlayedForLaughs.
287* NonLethalKO: After Ardam takes a little too much damage in battle, Karn, having no revive potions on hand, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0220.html carries him back to town in a wheelbarrow]], claiming he's "fainted."
288-->'''Drecker''': -ba-ah-ah-whoaaaah! He looks worse than 'fainted' to me!\
289'''Karn''': Well, that's what he did--he fainted.\
290'''Drecker''': But the--\
291'''Karn''': Fainted!\
292'''Drecker''': It's through his...\
293'''Karn''': I said fainted.\
294'''Drecker''': And what about...?\
295'''Karn''': Fainted.\
296'''Drecker''': It's hanging off the...\
297'''Karn''': Fainted fainted fainted!
298* NoSell: A supposedly "powerful" attack of Khrima's is [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050618.html "Totally Blocked!"]] by Karn.
299* NoSneakAttacks: Parodied multiple times. On one occasion, one monster persuades another to attack the party in their sleep... only to discover their tent is [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0258.html electrified]].
300* NotSoDifferentRemark: Khrima tries to pull one on Karn. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20051122.html It doesn't work.]]
301* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Khrima turns out more competent than he originally seems, but he's still not very threatening.
302* NumberOfTheBeast: An EnemyScan shows that Eternion has [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20031216.html 666666 HP and 66666 MP]].
303* OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs: Karn discovers that the only Adventurers! character to have fansites is Karashi. After [[HeadTiltinglyKinky looking at one]], he says [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0161.html "I suddenly find myself very, very glad that I don't have any fansites."]]
304* OminousLatinChanting: {{Invoked|Trope}}. It's the only thing Khrima considers appropriate music for a FinalBoss fight.
305--> '''Khrima''': Ahem. ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040817.html Cue the choir]]''
306* OneWingedAngel: Khrima. He uses [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0035.html Wing-B-Gone]] to deal with it. He also goes through four forms in the final battle.
307--> '''Khrima''': Fourth time's a '''charm'''.
308* OnlyIdiotsMayPass: Upon finding the fourth energy crystal, Karn [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0264.html explains]] that they can't take it unless they first go back to town and talk to a NPC, even though this makes no logical sense.
309* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: The reason Khrima saves the party when Eternion first appears.
310* OnlySaneMan: Ardam, who can't stand the absurd RPG tropes he has to deal with. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20060128.html Near the end]] -- [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20060623.html he gives up.]]
311* OnlySmartPeopleMayPass: The party sometimes has to deal with riddles and other puzzles.
312* OperationBlank: Cody announces, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040424.html "Commence mission code name Enter the Khrimalith."]] He's not very imaginative at coming up with these.
313* OptionalPartyMember: [[spoiler:Drecker]] is ''not'' pleased to [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040417.html learn he's one]].
314* OurHeroIsDead: At one point in the final battle, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050716.html Karn gets killed by Khrima]]. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050719.html The next strip]] has Ardam revive Karn while Khrima busies himself with EvilGloating.
315* OverratedAndUnderleveled: Karn wants to leave Chookie behind because Chookie [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0260.html joined the party at level one]].
316-->'''Karn''': It's your own fault. You should have levelled up before you met us.\
317'''Chookie''': But... I didn't ''have'' an experience choogauge before then...
318* {{Padding}}: Woo boy, that last arc. [[invoked]] Lampshaded, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050614.html of course]].
319* PaletteSwap: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0042.html Which one's the navy one?]]
320* PamphletShelf: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0187.html RPG libraries only have one readable book on each shelf]]; the rest are just empty covers.
321* ParodyCommercial: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0270.html Strip #270]] is a commercial for the "game" itself.
322* PartyInMyPocket: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0203.html Lampshaded.]]
323* PayEvilUntoEvil: After Eternion is defeated and made mortal and Invisin offers to try and help him adapt, Argent explodes them both.
324* PermanentlyMissableContent: Cody could have been a party member if the party hadn't already picked up the optional party member. Karn was disgusted to learn that Chookie was optional the whole time, [[spoiler:and was told that ''Drecker'' was actually the optional party member]]
325* PhysicalGod: The Eternals
326* PlotCoupon: The characters are trying to collect all of the Elemental Relics.
327* PlotlineDeath: Discussed in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0072.html strip #72]] (implied to be about ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''):
328-->'''Karn''': And why doesn't that guy just use a Revive potion or cast "Life" instead of mourning over her so much?\
329'''Drecker''': They have to take some liberties to keep things interesting.
330* PointyEars: Karn has them.
331* PokeThePoodle: Most of Khrima's attempts at proving how evil he is... [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0016.html such as]] giving Karn free passes to an amusement park that ''doesn't have any cotton candy''.
332* PolishTheTurd: [[invoked]] A marketing department [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030520.html tries its best]] to make wind magic look TotallyRadical and not totally ineffective like it actually is. Ardam isn't taken in.
333* {{Precursors}}: "There are ancient, highly advanced civilizations hidden ''everywhere''," Karn [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0250.html claims]].
334* PricelessPaperweight: In one story arc, Khrima plots to steal a magic water-generating crystal, which provides the only source of water for a city, to use in his office water cooler. Mizuna then says that, once they have it, it would be better to ransom it back to the city in exchange for its inhabitants becoming his servants. Khrima agrees that her idea is better. Then, in the process of stealing it, the two of them discover what the people who live in the city [[TooDumbToLive are]] [[ObstructiveBureaucrat actually]] [[SurroundedByIdiots like]] - and into the water cooler it goes.
335* PunchClockVillain: Most of Khrima's {{Mook}}s appear to be these.
336* PureEnergy: Ardam [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0367.html tries to explain]] to Karn why it's not scientifically possible for a sword to be "made of pure energy." Karn justifies it by invoking the RuleOfCool.
337* PuzzleBoss: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040513.html Whizrorb]], in his second appearance, is not defeated in the usual RPG manner.
338* QuirkyMinibossSquad: The Khaos Generals take on this role as Khrima's most powerful underlings.
339* RagnarokProofing: Ardam is amazed that the machinery in the "thousand-year-old temples" still works, and that mana potions found in 100,000-year-old InexplicableTreasureChests are [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0326.html still good for him to drink]]. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030117.html Apparently, the construction company that built the ancient temple talked the owners into paying extra for this exact feature...]]
340* RandomEncounters: One of the inevitable annoyances of living in an RPGMechanicsVerse. In a GuestStrip, Karn [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0243.html tries to invite these by walking back and forth]].
341* RandomlyDrops: A typical way for Karn and company to get items... that have no relation whatsoever to the enemies that drop them.
342* RebelliousPrincess: Gildward claims to be one when introducing himself. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0109.html "I may have exaggerated a little..."]]
343* RecurringBoss: Numerous. Khrima, Eternion, Blanc, Mizuna just to name some. Lampshaded in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020917.html strip #651]]:
344-->'''Blanc''': Mark my words! I will return and exact my vengeance!\
345'''Ardam''': Well, obviously. It's kind of hard to find someone we beat and don't kill that ''doesn't'' come back.
346* ReviveKillsZombie: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0017.html This strip]] illustrates the results when Ardam takes advantage of this trick.
347* RewardingVandalism: Karn [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011207.html destroys a priceless vase]] because it might contain an item, much to its owner's outrage.
348* RingRingCRUNCH: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0026.html One strip]] has Karn sleeping at an inn "after a busy day saving the world." An alarm clock rings and he smashes it with his sword.
349* RPGMechanicsVerse
350* RuleOfDrama: "No respect for drama, heroes today," Khrima [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050524.html complains]].
351* RuleOfFunny: Real world physics occasionally come in to play, just to make Ardam's life more difficult. Especially with wind magic.
352* RummageFail: Karashi spends [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050512.html two]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050514.html strips]] searching through the inventory for a party-healing item. No Megahealers, alas, but the inventory does contain such items as 27 Useless Things and 67 pieces of Pocket Lint.
353* RunningGag: "Gorilla" is spotted in any word game Khrima plays, whether it's [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0010.html Boggle]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0068.html or]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020815.html Scrabble]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20041202.html or]] RockPaperScissors. In [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20021108.html one panel]], Ardam reads a book titled ''Gorilla: Is It Really Right There?''.
354* ScratchDamage: Although the highest-tier summoning spell can inflict the damage cap on each hit, one of the attacking creatures only does 1 point of damage.
355* SavePoint: Karn [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0221.html restores from one]], surprising one of Khrima's henchmen, who says, "I ''knew'' I shouldn't have had that thing installed."
356* SaveThePrincess: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011205.html "Princesses usually get kidnapped 3 or 4 times of a week,"]] Ardam says.
357* ScrollingText: Unfortunately for Ardam, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0377.html there's no way to speed it up]].
358* SequentialBoss: Khrima has four forms.
359* SharkPool: Khrima threatens to throw his enemies into a "vat of boiling sharks", but [[FridgeLogic soon realizes]] that it [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0037.html wouldn't work]].
360* ShootTheMedicFirst: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050809.html Ardam figures out this strategy]] when Byte-L keeps reviving Khrima.
361* ShoutOut:
362** The [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII "Magic Eight Squall"]], the name [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV Gildward]], and several others.
363** The use of "spoon" as a swear-word refers to the line "You spoony bard" in VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV's translated version.
364** Tesla's jetpack has the activation code "[[Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato YAMAT0]]".
365** The override command to activate Spybot's [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040608.html Cannon Mode]] is "[[Anime/{{Macross}} MAC-R-0-55]]".
366** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030221.html "That stupid rich kid bought the model airship I wanted,"]] just like in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI''.
367** Karashi's [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20031225.html IDOUBLDRGN]] attack throws a boxed copy of ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon''.
368** The footer caption for a KillerRabbit [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0302.html encounter]]: [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail "What, behind the rabbit?"]]
369* ShowWithinAShow: In addition to Khrima's [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0368.html daytime TV]] and various other shows, the entire comic turned out to be a ShowWithinAShow - or more accurately, Game Within A Comic - in the final comic, where it's revealed [[spoiler:Wrench of ''Webcomic/AntiheroForHire'']] has been playing it the whole time.
370* SideEffectsInclude: A ParodyCommercial [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020313.html for magic]] ends with the warning: "Magic has been linked to [[SquishyWizard low physical strength]] in test subjects. If after using magic you have any abnormal reaction, contact your local item shop."
371* {{Sidequest}}: Karn [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030320.html recommends taking sidequests]] as "an efficient way to increase our battle efficiency through equipment and experience."
372* SirSwearsALot: Eternion [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20031021.html demonstrates]] that, as an extradimensional being, he isn't bound by the world's rules against cuss words.
373* SlapOnTheWristNuke: An EarthShatteringKaboom does not as much damage as you'd think.
374* SlaveToPR: Khrima wants to be seen as an evil supervillain because EvilIsCool. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0089.html He is hypocritical about his devotion to evilness, though.]]
375%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * SmokeShield: Lampshaded/Subverted/Parodied/Inverted.
376* SoLongAndThanksForAllTheGear: A GuestStarPartyMember runs off with the expensive gold armor Karn bought for him, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0407.html much to his annoyance]].
377* SoloSequence: Karn must [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030303.html go into the Vine Forest on his own]], without the PartyInMyPocket to invisibly accompany him.
378* SoMuchForStealth: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0157.html Karn's plan for a secret infiltration]] marks the spot where the party will get ambushed. Ardam raises the obvious objection:
379-->'''Ardam''': Wouldn't it be better to ''not'' get ambushed?\
380'''Karn''': Boy, you don't know much about infiltration missions, do you?
381* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Partially subverted; the party fights Eternion before Khrima, even though Eternion seems to have been more powerful both in and out of battle.
382* SpikeballsOfDoom: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0307.html Strip #307]] gives one of these a speaking role.
383-->'''Khrima''': Shouldn't you be moving back in forth of a door or something?\
384'''Spikebot''': I GET SO VERY LONELY.
385* SpikesOfDoom: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020823.html It's someone's job to keep the spike traps in perfect shape.]]
386* SpoofAesop: The lesson Gildward learns from being kidnapped: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0249.html "But most of all I learned never to tick off a ninja."]]
387* SquishyWizard: Ardam. Gildward is a squishy ''bard''.
388** Parodied when Ardam had to fight a DuelBoss fight against Whizrom. Whizrom was completely immune to Ardam's magic - but being a squishy wizard himself, he was vulnerable to Ardam's usually useless physical attack.
389* StatusEffects: Parodied.
390** If you're on fire, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0370.html being doused with water]] will make you wet but won't stop the burning.
391** Getting "Berzerked" makes Karn [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020702.html glow red and hit monsters over and over]]... though the latter is what he usually does anyway.
392** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0098.html The various items for curing these effects don't make much sense.]]
393* StartOfDarkness: Khrima describes in detail of how he came to be a lord of darkness.
394* StatingTheSimpleSolution: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0112.html A minion tries to give Khrima advice.]]
395* StayingAlive: [[spoiler:Khrima, as shown in the "secret post-credits scene", survived the game's ending and is trying to retire from evil.]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20061006.html here]].
396* StealthPun: In [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020806.html this strip]]:
397-->'''Khari''': Well, you know what they say about assuming.\
398'''Ardam''': Since the wordplay [[TranslationConvention wouldn't make sense in the original Japanese]] and it wouldn't make it past the censors anyway, I can't say that I do.\
399'''Khari''': Let's say it makes you a donkey and leave it at that.
400* SteamPunk: No matter how anachronistic it seems, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0193.html all machinery and technology is powered by steam]].
401* StockAnimalDiet: Ardam complains about being [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020109.html swarmed by rabbits]] while Karn obliviously snacks on a bag of carrots.
402* StrategyGuide: Karn is seen [[NoFourthWall reading a walkthrough]] when he gets [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0195.html stuck in a puzzle]].
403* StupidityIsTheOnlyOption: If the plot requires that the party do something stupid, they have to do it even if they know it's stupid.
404* SuicidalOverconfidence: Monsters attack the party even though they have no chance of winning the fight. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020109.html "What attracts them to us enough to override their self-preservation instincts?]]
405* SummonMagic: Ardam uses this, and so do a few other characters. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0102.html He sometimes gets it wrong, though.]] The theory behind it is explained in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050910.html this comic]].
406* {{Superboss}}: {{Lampshaded}} in one of the [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0224.html installments]], Karn and company are climbing a mountain to fight an optional Superboss. He's asked why and he responds that it's [[BloodKnight because [the boss] is there]].
407* SuperMode: Karn has probably one of the most [[GameBreaker broken]] cases ever seen. Lampshaded as with everything else.
408* SuspectIsHatless: Maxima Termis, trying to find Karn, puts out a call for [[AnimeHair large-haired]] heroes, a description which turns out to be [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011019.html nowhere near specific enough]].
409* SuspiciouslyCrackedWall: Karn [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020704.html blows up a cracked wall]] because he thinks there could be some treasure behind it. There isn't.
410* TakeThat: "[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Squall]] belongs to Square. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0336.html They can keep him.]]"
411* TakeYourTime: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0196.html Made fun of]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011116.html repeatedly]]. In [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020516.html one of the more ridiculous examples]], Karn runs off to TalkToEveryone at the bar while Ardam is fighting a boss.
412* TakenForGranite: Khrima [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050215.html hits Karn with a stoning attack]] during the final battle, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050222.html forcing the party to use a remedy]].
413%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * TakingYouWithMe
414* TalkToEveryone: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020318.html This is]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020121.html rule #1]] of adventuring.
415-->'''Ardam''': Wait a sec, you actually mean to talk to ''everyone on the planet''?\
416'''Karn''': Well, yeah, multiple times. [[ThrivingGhostTown There can't be more than a few dozen.]]
417* TempleOfDoom: And they contain {{Block Puzzle}}s!
418* TenPacesAndTurn: Tesla and a villain [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0363.html attempt this]], but are foiled by the RPG battle system.
419* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: As Khrima explains, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20021115.html "Any job worth doing with a laser is worth doing with many, many lasers."]]
420* ThingOMatic: Khrima immobilizes Karn by sneakily deploying the [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0201.html Bindomatic Mark VII]].
421* ThisCannotBe: Eternion's final words: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040316.html "NO! It cannot be! I am invincible!"]] The next panel shows the party members gaining experience for defeating him.
422* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: The reason that Ardam has to fight a DuelBoss, even though he'd rather not.
423* ThrowAwayCountry: Khrima [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020412.html magically obliterates a village the heroes have been to]]. He couldn't do that to a village the heroes are actually ''in'', since that wouldn't be fair.
424* TimedMission: The party encounters one [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020101.html in this strip]].
425* TimeTravel: Used for a couple of cheap jokes and then never mentioned again.
426* TimmyInAWell: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0008.html One early strip]] has Ardam unable to communicate except through VisibleSilence. He tries to tell Karn, "Help, giant octopus! Run!" Karn, hearing "...!!!", responds: "Jimmy fell into the old well?" He runs off to the well as CombatTentacles close in on Ardam.
427* TookAShortcut: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0398.html How the NPCs get there first.]]
428* TookALevelInBadass: Dirlend, an evil bard, learns to play [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0357.html Heavy Metal music]] and is no longer [[SquishyWizard Squishy]].
429* TooManyBelts: Decker thinks lots of belts make him look cool. Ardam says it makes him look stupid. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020228.html Karn already went too far with them.]]
430* TotalPartyKill: {{Save Point}}s make these little more than an [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0371.html inconvenience]].
431* TrapDoor: Khrima can activate one of these from a button on his desk. However, he [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0349.html can't use it to get rid of a Skyrian ambassador]] because Skyrians have wings.
432* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: As Karn explains, "If it's a trap then it's a plot point and we '''have''' to follow the plot."
433* TrippyFinaleSyndrome: There's a point in the ending where things get weird.
434* {{Troperiffic}}: Just look at this page!
435* TraumaInn: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0379.html "Just sleep it off, you'll be fine."]]
436* TreasureIsBiggerInFiction: Subverted. The [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0099.html "world's largest cut diamond"]] turns out to be a cardboard cutout.
437* TwoGamersOnACouch: Parodied in a one-off [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030401.html strip]], with Karn and Khrima as teenagers laughing too much at ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}''.
438* UltimateBlacksmith: The TropeNamer is [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20041014.html this strip]], where he wonders why the party hasn't followed the confusing clues to find his very out-of-the-way shop, GuideDangIt.
439* UndergroundMonkey: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050122.html Discussed]]:
440-->'''Khrima''': I was a busy person. I had evil to plan, ancient texts to translate, heroes to mislead, monsters to create.\
441'''Cody''': Most of the time you just took an existing monster and put "ice" in front of the name.\
442'''Khrima''': Do you have any idea how long that takes?
443* UnderwaterBossBattle: Karn is [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020724.html eager for the party to follow a monster into the water and battle it there]]. Ardam wonders how they'll breathe.
444%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * UnexpectedGenreChange
445* UnexplainedRecovery: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0049.html Leaving the party is always temporary.]]
446* UniversalPoison: Lampshaded in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0084.html strip #84]], where Drecker receives a poisonous snakebite and finds that the effects aren't as bad as he thought they would be.
447-->'''Karn''': What, you thought that you'd get sicker and sicker and die or something? Don't be silly.
448* UnknownRival: Khrima is annoyed that Eternion seems to be taking over the role of BigBad. Eternion, for his part, considers Khrima a mere [[PunyEarthling puny mortal]] of no particular consequence.
449* TheUnpronounceable: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0139.html Strip #139]] has Karn as the host of a kids' show asking the audience if they can say the name of the evil demon Kh'htrrild58dj@dhf.
450* UnsoundEffect: Several:
451** One strip in the final boss battle gives us "Slash! Cleave! Bisect!" Another from earlier has [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030610.html "That sound ninjas make when they jump silently!"]], and then later [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030612.html "That same sound from the last comic about jumping ninjas!"]]
452** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020725.html Sound associated with a falling safe!]]
453* UnusualEuphemism: "Spoony" and its variants.
454* UrbanLegendOfZelda: [[invoked]] Karn decides to stare at a spot on a wall for 45 hours, having heard that this will unlock a great weapon. Ardam [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0124.html doesn't put much stock in these kinds of rumors]].
455* UselessUsefulSpell: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0167.html De-Lificate]] proves to be ineffective when cast on enemies. It seems that [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0332.html most of Gildward's abilities]], which supposedly "can cause status ailments," are equally useless.
456* UselessUsefulStealth: The narration of [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0312.html Strip #312]] brings Karashi to the realization that "stealth doesn't mean much in a turn-based battle system."
457* VaguenessIsComing: Lampshaded in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0134.html this]] strip, in which a mysterious hooded NPC warns that "'It' is about to rise, and the 'Time' is upon us," and Ardam asks him if he could possibly be more vague.
458* VerbalTic: Chookie says "chook" a lot.
459* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: The Khrimalith
460* VideoGameGeography: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0345.html "The world is not round."]] Like many other [=RPGs=], [[WrapAround if you go off of one side of the square world map, you end up on the other side.]]
461* VideoGameStealing:
462** The use of this in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' is [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030404.html parodied]]: Drecker, the resident thief, destroys a robot by stealing a grenade, and notes that all robots are built around one. When Ardam asks if that's dangerous, Drecker replies "Only if you pull the pin".
463** And [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020419.html earlier than that]], when he steals a sword from someone threatening them with a knife.
464--->'''Bandit''': Wait... I had a '''sword'''!? Why was I using '''this''' thing, then?\
465'''Drecker''': Yeah, well, it's '''ours''' now.
466%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * VillainBall
467* VillainsOutShopping: Khrima is sometimes shown doing entirely mundane things.
468* VisibleSilence: Lampshaded in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20021113.html strip #692]], where the villains practice conversing in ellipses.
469-->'''Khrima''': My, aren't we being stoic and mysterious. Good work.
470* WalkingDisasterArea: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0289.html Parodied.]] Karn wonders why a town he shows up in has been destroyed--it's because he landed his airship too close.
471%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * WalkingTheEarth
472* WallOfText: Lampshaded in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20021014.html strip #670]], where Endless tries to cram as much expository text (with no spaces between words) into a single panel as possible before even properly introducing herself.
473* {{Wangst}}: [[invoked]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030206.html Subverted.]] Karn tries to be angsty, but fails.
474* WeaksauceWeakness: Khrima has a few of them; in one battle, he's weak to "Peanuts" element because he's allergic. Also, the greatest weakness of one of his final boss forms turns out to be [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050611.html getting hit on the head with a piano.]]
475* WeaponOfMassDestruction: Khrima tries to build and use these.
476* WebcomicTime: the final battle lasts ''a year and a half''.
477* WelcomeToCorneria: Parodied repeatedly. In the comic's RPGMechanicsVerse, it's apparently in the [=NPC=]s' job descriptions to [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0225.html walk back and forth shouting one line to passersby]]. Repeating one line over and over again may be boring, but [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0082.html at least one NPC doesn't take kindly to being questioned about it]]. The line [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0066.html "There are many guards in the castle"]] became a RunningGag, especially as seen [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011121.html here]].
478* WellIntentionedExtremist: Argent claims that this is the reason he works for Khrima.
479* WhammyBid: Karn and Ardam [[https://web.archive.org/web/20160702152052/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030220.html get outbid]] by EleventyZillion when an elemental artifact they want is being auctioned.
480-->'''Auctioneer''': I heard 3000. Going once. Going twice.\
481'''BlackCloak''': Seventy billion trillion million gold.\
482'''Auctioneer''': SOLD!
483%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer
484* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: All the playable characters get one during the game's ending. [[spoiler: So does Khrima.]]
485* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Argent. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0255.html Ardam immediately guesses he's evil upon seeing him.]]
486-->'''Argent:''' What!? You think a guy can't have silver hair and gold trimmed black armor without being evil?
487* WordSchmord: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0349.html Strip #349]] is titled "Skyrian Shmyrian."
488%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * WorthyOpponent
489* WrapAround: On the world map, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0345.html a scientist discovers]] that you teleport to the south side of the world when you go past the northern boundaries.
490* WreckedWeapon: Happens to Gildward once.
491* WrittenSoundEffect: Lampshaded with the "FOOM!" effect in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0338.html strip #338]].
492* YouALLLookFamiliar: To Karn, Lucinda [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20021008.html seems to be important because she has a unique character sprite]].
493* YouCantFightFate: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0296.html The characters follow the plot, because that's what you do in an RPG.]]
494* YouDoNOTWantToKnow: In [[https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5758783607eaa0b68fc52697/5761683827d4bdcb6658f823/5761683f4d088e411ed77d24/1466001472866/0024.GIF?format=750w this]] strip, Karn tells Ardam that he does not want to know where monsters carry the items that Drecker steals.
495* YouHaveFailedMe: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0057.html Strip #57]] has Khrima doing this to a white-haired minion who has run out of excuses:
496-->'''Minion''': I'm fired, aren't I?\
497'''Khrima''': If by "fired" you mean "set on fire and thrown to the lions" then yes.
498* YouMeddlingKids: Given a ShoutOut [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0181.html here]].

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