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[[caption-width-right:300: In a nutshell.]]

->''"So many people from so many worlds, all wanting to go home..."''
-->-- '''[[VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}} Razputin]], Played by Firock Finion, Season One'''

->''"Damn, it's like watching a Saturday morning cartoon on acid!"''
-->-- '''[[Literature/TheOutsiders Two-Bit]], Played by Tropers/RomanMyth, Season Two'''

''The Massive Multi-Fandom RPG'' is a Forum RPG notable for reviving the Website/TVTropes Forum roleplayer section. The "first season" was started in 2009 by Tropers/MintPearlVoice, but once she disappeared, GM duties were taken over by tropers Tropers/{{Nyktos}}, Tropers/TeChameleon, Tropers/{{Theoneknownasme}}, Tropers/KazeKoichi, Tropers/{{Demovere}}, and a number of [=GMs=] led by Tropers/DoctorThunder. The basic plotline was that [[MegaCrossover various characters from alternate dimensions]] were pulled into a place known simply as "The City", with no way to get back. A gigantic Hourglass dominated the center of the City, and as the days went on, the characters were put through strange scenarios, such as having their ages changed or being forced to burst out into song at random intervals.

Season Two carries a similar premise, with one of the major differences being that the Hourglass is replaced with a really bad pun in the form of a (literal) [[GambitRoulette Xanatos Roulette]] that doesn't stop spinning. The third and final installment in the trilogy takes place in Extremus, a mysterious composite land located at the edge of TheMultiverse.

While Season Three ended rather abruptly, a continuation called "At Intervals" or "Season 3.5" was started later in an effort to [[WrapItUp wrap up the plot]]. Unfortunately, it hasn't received new posts since August 2014 and while the roleplay has not been officially closed, it appears to be all but dead for good.

On a more meta level: in the opinion of several of its GM's, it's a case study of how not to run a forum RP. The general tone of the plotline got steadily darker and darker from the goofiness in the first season, the players obligated to post longer and longer walls of text, until eventually apathy overran the whole thing and it collapsed into a pile of [=GMs=] realizing a forum RP was ''really'' not the right format for the kind of story they wanted to tell.

Has Character pages for [[Characters/TheMassiveMultiFandomRPGSeasonOne Season 1]], [[Characters/TheMassiveMultiFandomRPGSeasonTwo Season 2]], and [[Characters/TheMassiveMultiFandomRPGSeasonThree Season 3]], as well as a [[Recap/TheMassiveMultiFandomRPG Recap]] page.

See also ''Roleplay/CityOfLostCharacters'', its unofficial SpiritualSuccessor.

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!!Links:
* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=m4aag41sqkxaq9j28x9zfban The discussion thread]], for seasons 1-3.
* Season One is [[MissingEpisode missing]], unfortunately. [[OldShame Or not.]]
* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=t077yqjlwtpawew4yu07dzpw Season Two]]; [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=oi2shwhswpluqqd33gqnwp20 sign-up thread]].
* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13051542160A89900100 Season Three]]; [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13050888660A91009300 sign-up thread]].
* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13674870820A19648600 At Intervals]]; [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13672640940A60190100 sign-up thread]]; [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13671865000A90570900 discussion thread]].
* [[https://archive.org/details/MMFRPG Backup of the RP from Season Two onwards at the Internet Archive.]]
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[[folder:Tropes common to all seasons]]
* TheArtifact: Even as the RP got more dark and serious with time, in-jokey elements such as "the Troper" or Trope-Tans remained, inherited from the wackier and sillier Season 1.
* BroadStrokes: Applies to Season 1, in part because it was sillier than the other ones (to the point where some players and GM's were embarrassed by it), in part because it got deleted. As a result, while its events did happen canonically (more or less), the exact details are made quite vague. For instance, even if a character had participated in Season 1, you could join one of the later seasons with this character while pretending they never appeared before.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Many players left the roleplay in mid-game; sometimes it was {{handwave}}d by having them stay in the location or die or something, but often, they just... stop appearing and none of the other characters seem to notice. The worst case was perhaps Season 1's disappearance of Tropers/MintPearlVoice, the game's own creator.
* CerebusSyndrome: The series as a whole has gotten more and more serious and dark with each incarnation. Season One began as a very silly and chaotic light-hearted crossover. By Season Three the players are stuck in a bleak, post-apocalyptic world, while the backstory involves a threat that can destroy entire universes.
* ContinuityLockout: Both for each individual season, and for the series as a whole:
** Season 1 was already big: at one point, it was over 600 pages and 16,000+ posts and growing. Seasons 2 and 3 grew even more convoluted. Beyond a certain point, nobody really expected the new players to read through the entire game thread so far, just to read the last few pages and the recap (always horribly out-of-date) to get a vague idea of what's going on.
** A lot of elements from Season 1 and 2 play a major role in Season 3. It got to the point that one of the purposes of the discussion thread was having a platform to explain the horribly referential plot.
* {{Doorstopper}}: As mentioned in ContinuityLockout above, these threads are ''big''. The Season Two thread in particular has nearly ''sixty thousand'' posts, which means (and this is a conservative estimate) about five million words.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The title may not be the most imaginative, but it sums up the premise well: it's a RP game which involves a massive conglomeration of elements from multiple fandoms.
* MegaCrossover: The premise of the roleplay. Season 1 alone involves player characters from about 90 different fictional universes, including such disparate ones as ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'', ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'', ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian''...
* TranslatorMicrobes: All the characters can understand each other perfectly, despite coming from different worlds. However, this effect doesn't actually change what speech or writing sounds/looks like. Season 3's [[Franchise/AssassinsCreed Ezio]] (who comes from the 12th century) shows us that [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13051542160A89900100&page=678#16948 even with these, communication can be quite confusing across various cultures and time periods of origin:]] when [[VideoGame/EpicMickey Oswald]] introduces himself as a "cartoon", Ezio understands this as "moving picture", and needs some time to associate the word "gun" with medieval firearms.
* WebcomicTime: Each season is divided into "days", but each "day" inevitably takes a lot longer in real life. For example, Season 1 needed 15 real-life months to reach Day 13.
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[[folder:Season One Tropes]]
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: The sewers in the City are spacious enough to drive a car through them, which Fiddy does on Day 10.
* ActionDuo:
** Max (of the Sam and Max duo) and Spriggan for some time in the Exactor, when the former uses his Jedi power to hurl frag grenades tossed near him against Dark Troopers.
** In Day 13, Kaidan and Rondeau working together to distract White Selvaria so that Spriggan can snipe her with a non-lethal tranquilizer bullet.
* AntiMagic: The Winslow is completely immune to Troper's power.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: When [[Toys/{{Bionicle}} Vezon]] loses his cape, he lists the things he would do when people inevitably start poking him with sticks.
-->"I just feel so....naked and vulnerable without it. And I don't want anyone seeing me vulnerable. Because then they'd point and laugh and say "Hey, look, Vezon's vulnerable. Lets' all poke him with sticks." And then they'd poke me with sticks, and then I'd get angry, and then I'd strangle them and bite them and RIP OUT ALL THEIR THROATS AND BURN THEM OVER A FIRE AND THEN I'D START KILLING EVERYBODY IN THE WHOLE WORLD AND SMASH THEIR HUTS AND RIP THEIR DESKS AND SPONGE THEIR HAGGISES AND TRIFLE THEIR MAGNOLIAS TO THE GROUND!! AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAA!!!...I'm fine."
* BackToBackBadasses: Mitchell and Spriggan do this to finish off the remaining Nobodies with small arms fire, flashbangs and incendiary grenades during Day 12.
* BerserkButton: Do NOT endanger Vlad or Dani ''will'' come after you. The reverse is also true.
* BigBad: The Troper. He is the one who kidnapped everyone into the titular City, and keeps tormenting them with curses.
* BlatantItemPlacement:
** Spriggan seems to be able to find things just randomly laying around whenever he goes to look - from ammo caches, weapons, tactical gear, [=BDUs=] and headgear to ''[[BreakingTheFourthWall artbooks featuring some of the characters.]]''
** He's not the first; Rookie conveniently finds a Warthog in the X-Mansion's garage on Day Eight.
* BloodKnight: Dan and Caim fit this. They become ''furious'' when their fight is interrupted.
* CerebusSyndrome: Season 1 originally started out as a relatively-lighthearted romp, where characters only had to deal with each other and whatever silly curse was thrown their way by the Troper. [[FromBadToWorse Then the curses started becoming more and more deadly,]] and the characters soon found themselves fighting for their lives...
* ContrastMontage: Tot and Five of Eleven on Day 10, two sides of Borg enslavement who attempt to describe their [[HiveMind takes on]] [[{{Utopia}} the Borg]] to the others.
* DeathIsCheap: The Troper can bring dead characters back to life. However, he always requires them to give up something precious to come back.
* DeusExMachina: [[VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}} KOS-MOS]] arrives in the nick of time out of nowhere to defeat the Gnosis (though since the only way to defeat the Gnosis is by the Hilbert Effect, there was no real way out of the situation apart from bringing in something from the ''Xenosaga'' universe that could use it.)
* DuelToTheDeath: Day 11, Selvaria versus Beatrice. Beatrice wins, though she is impressed enough afterward to heal Selvaria's wounds before Selvaria could die from injury.
* EpiphanyTherapy: Selvaria has spent nearly her entire time in the City waging a mental battle between her loyalty to Maximilian and her desire to live for herself. This battle comes to a close on Day 13, when the others help manifestations of her fragmented psyche reconcile, allowing her to finally ''choose'' her fate and her future for herself.
* EvilKnockoff: The Troper turns into one of Ahiru, Mint Pearl Voice's character, as the first boss during the finale, and she's much more powerful then the original. His other forms turn out to be the other {{GMPC}}s: [[VideoGame/GoldenSun Felix]] ({{Tropers/Nyktos}}'s character,) [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Ganondorf]] ({{Tropers/Theoneknownasme}}'s character,) [[ComicBook/XMen Nightcrawler]] ({{Tropers/TeChameleon}}'s character,) [[Manga/IkkiTousen Ryofu Housen]] ({{Tropers/KazeKoichi}}'s character,) and [[VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles Selvaria]] ({{Tropers/Demovere}}'s character.)
* FaceHeelTurn:
** When Ryofu first appears in the city, she has amnesia. She joins the good guys and makes a number of friends. And then [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Raz and Lirael restore her memory.]] Shortly after that Ryofu steals Lucas's lightsaber (and kills him), then joins Darth Vader.
** Edward and Iji join Xemnas on Day 12 after becoming Nobodies.
* FantasyKeepsake: After committing suicide in the City, the RED Engineer wakes up at home, before finding the hat he had worn back in the city.
* FriendlySniper: Spriggan does this on Day 12. He's doing this in Day 13 by trying to use tranquilized sniper rifle rounds to take down White Selvaria non-lethally. On the last day, he fires from the VKS to assist Maria against a giant non-friendly dragon. He fights against the fake Selvaria by engaging in long-range sniping.
* FreudianExcuse: Fiddy ''hates'' helicopters. They stole his highschool date, his mother was killed in a helicopter drive-by, his dog was ran over by a helicopter, and, in his words, they "'''TOOK MAH SKULL!!!'''"
* FromBadToWorse: When Anonymous decides to summon [[Franchise/TheElderScrolls Sithis]], who pretty much deletes the City from existence, a process only delayed by the Winslow.
* TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil: The characters are a moral mishmash from genuine [[TheHero Heroes]] (example: Lirael), to [[AntiHero Anti Heroes]] (Conan), through [[AntiVillain Anti Villains]] (Argost) down to utter bastards (The Joker). And that's not forgetting [[WideEyedIdealist Wide Eyed Idealists]] (Lyra) and [[SociopathicHero Heroic Sociopaths]] (Caim).
* HailfirePeaks: Day 11 splits the City into two themed areas: a [[SpaceOpera space-themed zone]] where the characters gain personalized starships and pilot suits, and a horror-themed zone where they turn into appropriately-themed monsters. A Gate in the center allows passage between the two zones.
* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: After Dani disappears from the city, Ryofu suddenly remembers she likes men.
* HeroicSacrifice:
** Day 7 - The RED Engineer shoots himself to prevent the Borg from becoming stronger.
** Day 11 - Raz uses his telekinesis to push his companions through a water-filled tunnel and out the exit before he is crushed by the stone grinders within the tunnel and Edward blows himself up using alchemy in an attempt to defeat Darth Vader.
** Day 11 - Sort of. Spriggan uses a Cherudim SAGA Gundam mobile suit to be a target for Wikus' ship when it detected him as an enemy. Until Wikus took care of the problem.
** Day 12 - When the [[TheHeartless Nano Beast]] starts its SelfDestructMechanism, Jixi (Iji's [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Nobody]]) orders everyone to run as she tries (unsucessfully) to disarm it.
** Day 14 - Angelus unleashes a massive fireball on Nightcrawler's Copy in a desperate attempt to take him down in between teleports. Because she was already wounded, her fireball also caused her to eventually succumb to her wounds. And because of their pact, Caim dies too.
* HideYourChildren: Inverted, children are running around the city on day 12, playing with the characters as if they were toys. One of them tries to do this to Caim, this is a mistake.
* InvincibleVillain:
** Makuta. When you have a player character ''casually tossing around entire buildings'', you know something went wrong with basic power level balance. This reached its peak on Mecha Day, where he proceeded to turn on the other players and easily curbstomp all of them, forcing the GM to intervene by crushing him with a meteor.
** [[Franchise/MassEffect Harbinger]] as well. Upon his appearance he proceeded to easily mind-control everyone, until another character (specifically brought in for this very purpose) hacked into him with a laptop and destroyed him.
* KickTheDog: Anonymous ''shoots Trope-tan's eyes out'' on Day 12.
* MeleeATrois:
** Day 11. The fight for the Winslow pits the allied characters against Vader, the freedom-seeking former-Borg, and the Borg who want to rejoin the Collective.
** Day 12: [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Xemnas]]'s Corridors of Darkness, already full of Heartless and Nobodies, became overrun with [[VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}} Gnosis]]. The three factions promptly set about shredding each other, with a group of the heroes stuck in the middle.
* MindRape:
** Touching the hourglass (or affecting it) makes you relive your worst memory. ''Repeatedly'' - until you are no longer touching it.
** Xemnas subjects some of the heroes to this in an attempt to capture their [[SoulAnatomy Hearts]]. [[spoiler: For Iji, Edward and Sonic, [[FaceHeelTurn it works]]]].
* MomentKiller:
** Day 12. Iji's Heartless and Nobody are reunited, KOS-MOS rushes to her side... and what does Dimitri say?
-->Dimitri: (shouting) STOP IT STOP IT GO AWAY
* MoodDissonance: Day 10's [[WackyRacing buggy race]] is contrasted by Lirael's negotiations with Darth Vader and Ryofu, Selvaria, Geo and Joshua talking about a potential NPC killer.
* MoodWhiplash:
** During the Unimatrix Zero arc, an argument forms over whether or not it's justified [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman to kill Borg in self-defense instead of finding a way to save them...]] An argument which is followed by Roland attempting to explain [[LevelUpAtIntimacy5 how the 'Engagement' system]] [[NotWhatItLooksLike from his world works.]]
** Mint Pearl Voice played both the bashful, kindhearted [[Anime/PrincessTutu Ahiru]] and the foul-mouthed Troper, which made her posts rather contrasting.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Anonymous tries to summon [[Franchise/TheElderScrolls Sithis]] to fight the Troper. The only thing Sithis does is start slowly dissolving the city from the outside in.
* NoGearLevel: Haunted Mansion sidequest. The staff strips protagonist from every weapon they know about. Lyra had her Pokémon taken after she asked if she can keep them.
* NotWhatItLooksLike:
** After Day 6 and reverting to their true forms (and sharing a cot), Vlad is in his ghost outfit and Dani is nude. Lirael walks in and automatically makes an [[ParentalIncest unfortunate assumption]] but realizes that wasn't so.
** Meta example: A reading error caused Spriggan to respond to a comment Iji made ''while Iji was in a ladies' shower room.'' This was quickly edited once it was pointed out to Spriggan's player.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted by Demitri and Dimitri, among others.
* OriginalCharacter: Aftem. Can be chalked up to EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, possibly, since his inclusion technically runs contrary to the spirit of the game. Spriggan counts as well, since he comes from a story that his player had written and published.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Xemnas attempts to break Aigis [[HannibalLecture by comparing her to a tool meant to be thrown away once its purpose has been fulfilled.]] He is almost-immediately proven wrong by the other characters coming to her rescue, giving her the will to refuse his offer of gaining a heart.
* PutOnABus: Pretty much everyone who has left the city without dying. Of particular note are Vlad and Dani, who disappeared into a magic door that appeared out of nowhere in Bowser's Castle, due to Vlad's player leaving the game.
* PutOnABusToHell: Waspinator messes with Transwarp technology, merges with his counterpart from [[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated another universe]], causes the fabric of time and space to break down, and is swallowed up along with his Transwarp device by a crack in reality.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: A variation in that its given to another villain; Bowser chews out the Pigmasks about what incompetent villains they are and how stupid their uniforms look.
* TakingYouWithMe:
** Day 11: After being fried by Darth Vader's enraged Force lightning, Beatrice curses the area one mile around her to explode. Vader returns the favor by burying both of them under a pile of rubble so high, no one would be able to dig either of them out before Beatrice's curse went off...
** Day 12: The heroes defeated the [[TheHeartless Nano Beast]] by crippling its legs and destroying its gun. Its response - start charging up a [[SphereOfDestruction Nuke]].
* TheNicknamer: [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Waspinator]] calls everyone "(whatever)-bot". Franchise/{{Kirby}} is "Puff-bot" for him, [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Rei Ayanami]] is "fleshy-bot", and so on.
* UselessUsefulSpell: Miles's ability to hear the dead is fairly useless in the City, except where ghosts are involved.
* WhamEpisode:
** On Day 5, the Winslow enters the city, [[DynamicEntry killing Makuta]] and attracting [[Franchise/StarTrek the Borg]] and [[Franchise/StarWars the Empire]], and also setting the plot of most of the rest of the game in motion.
** Day 12: [[OhCrap Joshua is killed and Xemnas gets the Winslow.]]
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Selvaria is already dead in her homeworld; [[NoImmortalInertia the moment she sets foot on her homeworld, she will start to 'die' again.]]
* YouShallNotPass:
** Selvaria holds the line in front of the [[VideoGame/{{Mother3}} New Pork Tower]] against a star destroyer's worth of Imperial stormtroopers and their vehicles. It takes a miniature ZombieApocalypse courtesy of [[Literature/OldKingdom Lirael]] to drive them back completely.
** She does it again on night 10, holding the Borg at bay in the TempleOfDoom so the others could fight Vader.
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[[folder:Season Two Tropes]]
* ActionPrologue: The second season opens with JustForFun/TropeTan attempting to destroy a device known as the Xanatos Roulette. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero She only succeeds in activating it.]]
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Dimitri's attack on the TGS building on Day 8. The place takes such a beating that it eventually [[WatchingTroyBurn collapses]], leaving the heroes without a home base.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: The mysterious substance known only as 'Meta'. So far, this substance has only manifested as a purple mist; its ultimate purpose is still unknown.
* TheAtoner: Pyrrhus wants to make up for his mistakes, especially for the costly victory he achieved in the Battle of Asculum.
* BagOfSpilling: Ghor woke up in the City with basically none of his equipment: his 'story arc' involves him trying to get all of it back again.
* {{BFS}}: Shirou's Nine Lives Blade Works. It's so heavy, that even when reinforcing every bone in his body as much as he could, it ''still'' tore his arm open and broke one of his legs.
* BodyHorror: People were sufficiently freaked out when [[Manga/SoulEater Ragnarok]] burst out of Crona's back and started beating up on him/her.
* BossRush: The end of Day 7 features the heroes going up against BigBad 6[[superscript:3]], [[VideoGame/MegaManZero Omega]], [[Franchise/TheDCU Black Hand]], [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} the Black Queen]], and [[RealLife Kopassus commandos]].
* ClusterFBomb: Asuka's verbal attack on Hito-Shura on Day 7.
--> '''Asuka:''' Who the fuck do you think you are? You don't get to lecture me on anything, you fucking coward! You just run away from all your fucking problems! You ran away from me when I needed you! You ran away from having to fucking confront me later! Hell, you're just fucking running from yourself most of the time, you ball-less little shithead!
* CombiningMecha: Subaru and Shirou combined to finish off the Egg Dragoon on Day 5. Wreck-Gar also formed the arm of one during the climax of Day 2.
* CrazyPrepared: Spriggan placed an assault rifle underneath a pillow next to him in Day 10 as Raiders were the main threat.
* CulturedWarrior:
** Spriggan explaining to Maria about the history of the Old West and the wonders of nuclear-related topics in Day 3.
** Harima knowing exactly what to do in Feudal Japan due to specialized otaku-ness; he also explained to Maria the significance of the 1960s.
* CurbstompBattle: Sixes completely wiped the floor with the main cast the first time they fought, neatly impaling Fate in the process.
* DescriptionPorn: Spriggan's player loves this: every time Spriggan gets a new gun/equipment/vehicle, the name will be written out in full, every attachment mentioned (with name witten out in full) and with a link to the item even included. This wouldn't be so jarring if it weren't for Spriggan getting 3-4 new stuff each day. It's apparently because he wrote fanfiction beforehand.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Iroh]] died of a sudden random heart attack because his player got sick of him.
* FunbagAirbag: During the Day 6 [[SchoolSwimsuit Water Polo match]], when an accidental collision and a Wardrobe Malfunction result in Subaru cushioning Shirou's face... with her bare cleavage.
* GenderFlip: Some of those transformed by Day 4's curse changed their gender. For example, Shirou became Rin Tohsaka, while Maria became Alucard.
* HeroicBSOD: Happens to Spriggan on the 17th day, after his legs get disabled, Maria gets mad at him and was forced to be disarmed of most of his gear. He's a walking, mobile sitting duck waiting to be gravely injured or killed. Engineer as well after his fight with the others against 666 in the same day.
* HighSchoolAU: Day 6 becomes one of these, with the characters becoming either teachers or students at [[ElaborateUniversityHigh City High]].
* ImplacableMan: Meta-infected Optimus Prime proves to be ''extremely'' difficult to kill, requiring two groups of {{Mooks}} and multiple player characters wailing on him to ''finally'' bring him down.
* MoodWhiplash: Thanks to Zim's pink gas, which causes uncontrollable happiness and lethargy in anyone who breathes it in, the affected Subaru and Maria take turns hugging Crona... while Shirou, Fate and the RED Engineer are busy trying to take down Meta-infected Optimus Prime.
* {{Muggles}}: Unlike the first City, where the [=NPCs=] were rather lifeless, the [=NPCs=] of the second City are actual people pulled from other worlds, and will react in various ways to things they're not familiar with (for example, soldiers of [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Minas Tirith]] will stare in shock and awe at [[Franchise/LyricalNanoha two mages in futuristic outfits flying past their fortress]]).
* NextTierPowerUp: Madeleine gets one by training for one month in a pocket dimension filled with dinosaurs. She returns with the power of alchemy and a little older and wiser.
* NotSoAboveItAll:
** Shirou and Subaru have some friendly aerodynamics competition on Day 5, despite the former usually trying to be somewhat serious at that point.
** The two of them also competed against each other at the arcade on Day 9, proving that his "family" has managed to change Shirou's constant stoicism.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: On Day 7, Subaru and Shirou emerge from the bedroom after a few hours with bed hair and wrinkled clothes. It actually wasn't what it looked like, but that didn't stop everyone from giving them a hard time about it.
* OlderAndWiser:
** Maria and Spriggan are now veteran City-goers and act as guides for the newcomers.
** Averted with Dimitri (another veteran) who had his SplitPersonality Enerjak graduate from TalkativeLoon to AxCrazy.
* OfficialCouple: Maria and Spriggan for HighSchoolAU. As of Day 15, the couples currently stand at Shirou/Subaru, Two-Bit/Maria, and Crona/Sakura.
* OutOfCharacter: [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics Dimitri]], originally a WellIntentionedExtremist, was turned into something akin to [[WesternAnimation/InvaderZim Zim]] and [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Eggman at his worst]]. His player eventually gets called out on it, and a few people seem to agree that this actually made Dimitri better.
* ShoutOut:
** Anyone in the party with a radio uses the frequency [[VideoGame/MetalGear 140.85]] to keep in touch with each other.
** [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=t077yqjlwtpawew4yu07dzpw&page=787#19656 Spriggan did an infiltration method in Castlevania]] [[Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex that was done similarly by a certain muscular Section 9 operative.]]
** Scott Pilgrim's band name is [[VideoGame/RiverCityRansom based from a Kunio video game]].
** Harima doing an impression of [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar Kenshiro]].
** Deadpool doing various pop culture references.
** GIR doing a [[Series/CSIMiami reference to Horatio Caine wearing his shades.]]
** The Hesse's hideouts are named Series/{{East Ender|s}} and [[Film/KamenRiderTheNext Little Italia]] [[spoiler:Since the hideout in KR:N's an Italian-based restaurant]].
** #19450 said something that [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=t077yqjlwtpawew4yu07dzpw&page=2084#52089 usually Tsukasa Kadoya would only say]] [[Series/KamenRiderDecade in this particular show.]]
* ShownTheirWork: Pyrrhus's player is very committed to trying to keep his stuff historically accurate, and has a miniature freak out in the discussion thread when he realizes he messed something up.
* TakeThat: To prevent Gnarl from finding Human LifeEnergy and using it to create minions, Mike Jones hides it in a box labeled "[[Film/{{Caddyshack}} Caddyshack II Videos]]".
* ThirdPersonPerson: Wreck-Gar lapses into this on Day Four; he's so confused by the body changing that he becomes convinced that he's not Wreck-Gar anymore.
* [[TooKinkyToTorture Too Weird To Torture]]: On Day Seven, Wreck-Gar actually ''enjoys'' all the bizarre and horribly awful movies that are in Servo's mindscape.
* WatchingTroyBurn: On Day 8, the heroes can only watch as the TGS building collapses after Dimitri's MindControl attack, wiping out the complex's effectiveness as the party's main base.
* WhatTheHellHero: Two-Bit is called out by damn near ''everyone'' after causing #19450 to have a rather serious HeroicBSOD on Day 15.

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[[folder:Season Three Tropes]]

* AnachronicOrder: Due to all the problems with players being absent most of the time, the posts frequently have a character retroactively do things in the past.
* BodyHorror: In Day 3, the Edelweiss gets turned into a large gun attached to Isara's arm and pumping blue liquid through her veins. Should she actually be called upon to use this gun, the liquid coursing through her body will cause major internal damage. Yeesh...
* TheCameo: [[VideoGame/{{Portal2}} Space Core]], [[{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}} Flexo]], [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Marvin]], [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Frenzy]], and [[Literature/IRobot NS-2]] are among the many robots assimilated by [[WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot the Cluster.]]
* CastHerd: The heroes are usually split into 2-3 groups (originally depending on starting location) to make it easier for the players to keep up with what's going on.
* CrapsackWorld: Extremus does not seem to be the happiest place around. Bandits and other bad guys are everywhere, the environment is generally unfriendly, food and water is scarce in most places... it's borderline post-apocalyptic.
* DemotedToExtra: Ithilrandir fell prey to this for a while--only appearing once in a blue moon, apparently eternally lagging kilometers behind the group and only popping up to remind that he exists, then going OutOfFocus again (his player was having problems finding time to RP). He later recovered.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Day 4. Folgore and Kachome's singing annoys a lot of people, leading Dante to point a gun at the duo, and Fawful to steal their voices. This causes a MexicanStandoff.
* DualWielding: Hakumen does this with his no-dachi and a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]]. Alyssa did it with Machetes on day 5, during the fight against the Legion.
* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: The mindscapes--curse zones created unexpectedly by a person's mind. Usually the allies need to travel through dangers and past the person's memories in order to rescue them and destroy the mindscape.
* MundaneUtility: Mordecai uses his sniper rifle as a telescope most of the time rather than using it to shoot people.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: The group goes through great danger to rescue a man crucified in the Legion's camp. After all the fighting and the escape, they eventually manage to get him to safety... and some time later, one of the GM's [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13051542160A89900100&page=470#11740 succintly states]] that the prisoner is now dead, because none of the characters as much as tried to tend to his wounds or care about him once he was "safe".
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Kyle, Magog, and Rogue manage to talk Memory!Griff out of unleashing the Archdevil. It's especially poignant as those three characters had suffered from experiences similar to Griff's in their respective pasts.
* UnCancelled: While Season 3 ended rather abruptly, the story was later continued in Season 3.5, "At Intervals".
* UnwillingRoboticization: Happens to Sub-Zero; villains intend to use him as a weapon against the group, but end up being defeated. The group is unable to reverse the process, but keep Sub-Zero with them as an obedient slave. Later Makuta gives Sub-Zero his free will back, in exchange for his loyalty.
* WhatTheHellHero: Karzahni's first actions after joining group B are quite malevolent, but brutally threatening a little girl (Emily) is what truly pisses the rest of the characters off.
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* RunningGag: The players keep accidentally damaging the apartament complex in various ways, much to Oswald's frustration.
* SuddenLackOfSignal: Batman's first act upon his sudden arrival is trying to contact the Batcave. Upon realizing that it is out of reach (which is "impossible"), he immediately realizes the situation isn't normal.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The inhabitants of the fake Miami pay no mind to the presence of bizarre and alien individuals and monsters.
* WrapItUp: The season so far forgoes the previous seasons' complicated setup--with their travels all over the world, etc.--in favor of a straightforward series of missions, interspersed with socializing at a safe home base. All for sake of ''finally'' wrapping up this plot with no further distractions. [[SeriesHiatus Not that it helped much.]]
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