From left to right: a Shoyru, Lupe, Grundo, and Aisha.
Neopets started out with a website created by Welshman Adam Powell, launched in 1999. In short, it's the virtual pet site. The basic idea is you are a Neopian — i.e., an owner — with a limit of four Neopets per account. Owners can take care of their pets by feeding them and playing with them, but there are a number of things they can do — buy and sell items, play games, discuss on the Neoboards, explore Neopia, train and battle with their Neopets, and design a webpage. Some Neopians strive to become rich, others use it as a place to post Neopets fanwork, and still others use it to win contests.Neopets has a lot of fiction: encyclopedia articles, short stories, a rich world, comics, game premises, and ongoing Story Arcs (known as "plots") which crop up every so often. And, if in need of inspiration, The Neopets Team lets talented users post Neopets-related articles, novellas and comic strips.The site has since evolved into a franchise — video games have been released, a now-discontinued Trading Card Game was made, as well as Nickelodeon shorts and a breakfast cereal. Neopets also provides a simple, efficient way of advertising — sponsor games. These games give easy Neopoints, so they're played by a lot of Neopians every day, which provides some good advertising. It's also rather successful with merchandise; McDonald's and Burger King even had Neopets plushies as part of their kids' meals some years ago.Special mention goes to the NeoQuest series of RPGs, which have so many tropes they all have their own page. The Neopian Times Writers Forum (NTWF for short) also has its own page, just be careful of the insanity. Lastly, a Gaiden Game to the main Neopets site, Petpet Park, also has a page.
Absolutely Happened: Inverted; there's "no such thing as Jelly World." Veterans and noobs alike simply adore screwing with newbies this way.
Adam Smith Hates Your Guts: You better hope and pray you make a ton of Neopoints in case your pet ever comes down with a disease (which can happen due to a random event); the cures, depending on the disease, range from 1,000 to over 300,000 NP. Blame the undercutters taking advantage of the random diseases given via Qasalan Expellibox (a game where you can earn Neocash without paying money, hence its popularity) for this. Same thing goes for taking advantage of the demand for items needed for avatars.
Alternatively, you could just go to the Healing Springs every half hour until your pet's healed for free. This can take quite some time, though...
There's also overriding that sickness with another sickness that has a cheaper medicine, usually by feeding your pet some Poisonous Jelly.
Has been eased a bit with the release of Key Quest, a game which awards high-demand items like Neggs and Codestones as prizes.
And you can sometimes win Codestones too in the Battledome Beta.
Adipose Rex: King Skarl, King Hagan, and King Kelpbeard all exude this trope, and this tends to be lampshaded by villains.
Aerith and Bob: Character names range from normal names like Lucy, Jake, and Rosie to names like Meerouladen and Prytariel. Alien Aishas and Grundos have a tendency to be Aeriths.
Affably Evil: Dr. Sloth, the first major villain in site history, is very affable despite his plans for world domination! It really sets him apart from Lord Kass and the like.
This even spirals into Fridge Horror in their Premium service; One of the bonuses to a membership is being able to adopt a fifth neopet. Cancel the membership, and you have to give up said pet. This isn't made any easier considering that about-to-be-abandoned pets express their horror and despair in no uncertain terms.
Alliterative Name: Aristotle A. Avinroo, and his sister Abigail Avinroo.
Alpha Bitch: The Faerie and Fire Cybunnies in the Neopedia article for the Cybunny Beauty Contest.
And I Must Scream: When a Petpetpet dies in the Habitarium, it turns into a diamond with a face on it (these you collect to gain Experience Points, thus levels and bonus Neopoints).
Antagonist In Mourning: A 2010 Advent Calendar animation implies a heroic variant, with MAGAX mourning Hubrid Nox after his death in The Faerie's Ruin.
Anthropomorphic Food: Some of the more bizarre colors available for Neopets can make them these, such as Jelly, Custard, Mallow, and Chocolate, as well as the various fruits and vegetables that one can turn their Chia into.
There's also the peculiar case of Captain Threelegs. He was originally an Eyrie (a griffon Neopet) that looked just like the kind a player can own, except for the fact that he had a pegleg replacing one of his forelegs. An art update made him an anthropomorphic Eyrie that still had his pegleg... serving as his right hand. Not to mention he's also still called captain "three"legs.
Anti Poop Socking: Hello, Restock Banning. Keep refreshing the main shops for hours on end in the hopes of nabbing that rare item, and you'll find that no items at all are shown in any shop for the rest of the day.
Art Evolution: The cast of Neopets has come a long way from the first gradient-shaded pets, many of which have gone through multiple revamps since the site's introduction.
The most striking (and funniest) revamp was done to the Bruces: currently a race of penguins, they were originally photographs of Bruce Forsyth!
Some of Neopets' newest art, particularly in the recent plots and events, now incorporate gradients done the right way. The results are amazing, especially in the Faeries' Ruin comics.
Master Vex, the host of Cellblock, has apparently "Never lost a game". However, he can be defeated in nine moves, nearly every time.
The Altador Cup—specifically, Yooyuball. The only real challenge is figuring out the quickest path to the goal, weaving through the opposing team, then shooting. Once you've got that sorted, it's just a matter of tedious repetition.
Partly fixed with the keyboard version. Now the opposing team is even more frustrating.
Ascended Glitch: Certain glitches in Yooyuball, particularly the ones who give a superfast ball or the one which has all of the players facing backwards. The Neopets Team liked them so much, they kept them in.
Ascended Meme: Neopian Times writers launched an intentional campaign to make it possible to paint Weewoos white. They did this by including images and mentions of White Weewoos in their Neopian Times submissions. Now, not only do White Weewoos exist, but they're the official mascot of the Neopian Times.
Mr. Coconut, a meme from the Editorial section of the Neopian Times that started when they featured a random entry for a Caption Contest, got his own shopkeeper and mask. The Fance Top from the same meme is now a wearable.
At the beginning of The Faerie's Ruin plot, a group of players made a tongue-in-cheek campaign to demand that The Neopets Team rescue the pie that turned to stone along with the faeries. When the prize shop for the plot opened, one of the prizes was a stone pie with the description "Poor pie... still stone. Mmm... crunchy."
During the event in which Krawk Island disappeared, players took an image of the event's main character (a Krawk named Gavril Mc Gill) and edited in various images into his hands. Later in the year, during the Haunted Faire's "Masks of Dread" event, for completing each quest the day it was released, you received a bonus prize - a book entitled "Book of Awesome" with the cover showing Gavril holding the book. The item description: "What won't Gavril hold up next?"
During the Obelisk War, it was common to edit the image of the Zafara Digger, who was pointing out the Mysterious Dig Site, to point at just about anything. After the war? His likeness is now a wearable item, here to point at your pets for all time.
Awesome, but Impractical: A lot of the Battledome items look and sound cool, but are weaker than a stick swung by a two-year-old.
Baguette Beatdown: In the game "Whack-A-Kass" (eventually changed to "Kass Basher"), one can use a baguette like a bat. You can upgrade to a sick and a spiked bat after whacking Kass far enough, though.
Ban On Politics: You can get in trouble for discussing politics or religion on the Neoboards.
Bedsheet Ghost: Taken to an extreme with Ghostkerchiefs, which are ghost(-like?) Petpets that haunt pockets.
Begone Bribe: There's a random event where a rendingly mewling Mutant Kadoatie appears and "you pay its owner 5000 Neopoints to take it away."
Big Bad: Dr. Frank Sloth, although he hasn't been doing a whole lot lately. He's recently been upgraded to Sealed Evil in a Can.
Bigger on the Inside: Houses in the Habitarium appear no larger than the Petpetpets themselves, but can hold up to seven Petpetpets when upgraded to the highest level.
Brain Food: You can make any pet eat items such as Brain Stew and Brain Kebab, although they'd presumably have to be Zombie to enjoy it.
Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: The description of the Potato-Stuffed Turkey is "The only thing better than turkey and potatoes is turkey stuffed with potatoes!"
Carnivore Confusion: Neopets eat each other as well as Petpets, apparently — Neopians can purchase Blumaroo meat, Elephante trunks, Snorkle snouts?
Chias have a longstanding rivalry with Lupes due to the latter's tendency to eat them. This does not take into account the factor that Chias tend to be prized for their unique food-like colorations to begin with.
Draik eggs are considered gourmet food. Yum...
Cartoon Creature: The majority of Neopet species are based on already-existing animals, but a few do qualify such as the Kacheek, Chia, Zafara, and Kiko.
Choose Your Own Adventure: Neo Adventures allow users to make their own. There was formerly a spotlight competition centered on these.
Convection Schmonvection: Inevitable with the release of the lava-themed world of Moltara. Roxton and Cog can fly just a few feet over a magma without any ill effects, and none of the Neopets fixing the machine spitting a large plume of magma inside a cavern ringed with a magma river feel anything.
Justified somewhat with Scorchios, dragon-like Neopets which prefer high temperatures.
Cosmetic Award: The various competitions on the site, as well as getting top scores in most games, reward you with spiffy trophies for your profile.
Difficulty By Acceleration: Some minigames have the game speed up as the game continues. Either the game is faster, things come sooner, or time limits are reduced.
Doomy Dooms of Doom: The Lever of Doom that steals your neopoints. Then there is the Evil Toy of DOOM, Ice Lolly of Doom, Immense Rubber Axe of Doom, and Nimmo of Doom (a book).
In a more explicit sense, the Altador Cup has gone through this. The first installment of the 'Cup was very different than the event organized today. Yooyuball was the only game, and there were no other games to back it up. The game itself was played from a top-down perspective, more primitive than today's isometric version, and it was also much slower. Perhaps the most important changes were in the way the tournament was played: it was done knockout-style, which every team was eliminated after a game, and you could join another team immediately after the first team you joined up with was eliminated. There were also other differences, such as injuries to several of the teams (which probably wouldn't be able to be done with today's version of YYB), differences in trophies, and how points were given out. Most of these oddities were changed before Altador Cup II, but it wasn't until the 3rd cup where things began to look like they do today.
Ears as Hair: The Usuls appear to have scrunchies holding up their ears, though Hannah from the games "Pirate Caves", "Ice Caves", and "Kreludor Caves" is depicted with human hair on her head.
Easter Egg: Some games have these. Appearances from the Phantom Orange Shirt Guy are the most common.
Eat That: A lot of Spooky Food, and, oddly, some Gourmet Foods. Brain Kebab, Dung Slushie, Edible Tar Pizza...
Likewise, there's the Turmaculus, an overgrown Petpet that eats Petpets.
Any Neopet can count when you take the wide variety of available foods into consideration — they will eat nearly anything you give them, from chocolate coins to fish food to exotic fruit to gruel soup to whole loaves of bread.
The Fair Folk: The Faeries sometimes act like this, as evidenced by Eithne, Ilere, The Drenched, and the Dark Faeries.
Fairy In A Bottle: There are six types of bottled faeries that, once freed, will grant a pet a blessing or two depending on their type which can be spent on the Battledomes for abilities. According the the back story, they are put in the bottles by a faerie-hating Lupe named Balthazar.
Fairy Sexy: Neopets is surprisingly full of fanservice.
Fake Difficulty: Training your Neopet for the Battledome makes EV (Effort Value) training in Pokemon look like a cakewalk. While your Neopets do gain experience with each battle, the experience doesn't boost said pets' stats at all. To boost your pets stats, you need to take them to a training school (there are three) which asks for Codestones (not that easy to get ahold of depending on which stone they ask for) or Dubloons (somewhat easier to acquire). However many Codestones they ask of you will only contribute to the boosting of one stat per training session as well. On top of that, Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors doesn't come into play at all. So you can't arm you Neopet with any fire-based weapons in hopes of improving your chances against, say, the Snowager.
Fanwork Ban: To a point. In the Nickelodeon Kids & Family Virtual Worlds Group games terms of service (which includes Neopets, Petpet Park, Nicktropolis, and Monkey Quest), all rights to making derivative works under Fair Use are given up. However, Neopets at the least still allows people to submit original fanwork to the various contests and the Neopian Times, all of which have rules that all submissions must follow in order to be accepted.
Feather Fingers: Lennies and Pteris. It's hard to tell what Hissi wings are made of, but they could also qualify.
Fetch Quest: Every single quest in the game, ranging from the Kitchen Quest, Edna's Quest, and of course the Faerie Quests, are all about getting some items in exchange for monetary, item, or Rare Candy rewards.
Fictional Sport: Two - Gormball and Altador Cup's Yooyuball, the latter based on the little-known jai alai but played more like traditional soccer.
Just saying "Edward" - no, not "Edward Cullen", just "Edward" - gets turned into Roxton Colchester III (a main character in more than one of the plots and very different from Mr. Cullen).
Heck, anything Twilight related is blocked out, though only during the new movie releases. Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, main character names... it's all censored.
Furry Confusion: Three of the older pets, before they were converted into the Bruce,Mynci, and Kau, were humans. Think about that for a second.
A Pteri (a bird Neopet) fed any "worm" food item will instantly become bloated and have all their health restored.
The old "angry" pose for a pre-customization Aisha depicted it crouching low to the ground with its tail raised, its back arched and the fur on its spine sticking up, much like a real cat.
One food item is a jar of fish food that is apparently specially made for Flotsams (amusingly, Flotsams are dolphins).
Moehogs like to play in the mud.
The game Nimmo's Pond has the player control the eponymous Nimmo riding on a lily pad to shoot other lily pads. Flycatcher is played similarly, only with a Quiggle and a swarm of flies.
Cybunnies' love for carrots is seen often, including in this image and the item Cybunny Carrot Stew.
The description for the Acorn Jam Sandwich is "A nutritious and delicious healthy sandwich filling that Hannah just adores". What species is Hannah? An Usul.
The original design of the Korbat had it hanging upside down with its wings folded.
Buzzes are apparently capable of making honey, if the item Buzz Honey is anything to go by.
Gameplay and Story Segregation: The description for the Ugga-Ugga disease claims that your pet will only be able to make Ugga noises if it comes down with it. However, a pet infected with the disease will still give the normal automated responses ("Thanks, you're the best owner ever!" "How many books are in Neopia? I want to read them all!") when interacted with.
Gender Bender: The Lab Ray has a chance of changing your Neopet's gender when it is used. This is also what happens when the Strange Potion is used.
Getting Crap Past the Radar: Lengthy discussions have been held on what is and is not suitable for publication in the Neopian Times, especially regarding the more obscure rules. Nevertheless, some writers manage to push the limits even on such forbidden fare as romance, death, and violence.
It's not completely forbidden, as long as it's done tastefully and without too much dwelling on it.
Here's a canon example. The description for the Steam Horn is along the lines of Now you can play some steamy music.
Some owners get away with having pets who are Wholesome Crossdressers, though a few handwave it by saying they're being labbed, which sometimes has the side effect of changing their gender.
In the Hannah and the Ice Caves plot, when Kanrik kills Galem, the panel is shown in silhouette, but the placement of Kanrik's dagger and the blood spray makes it look like he ripped Galem's heart out. And keep in mind this was after the site became Lighter and Softer.
One of the Petpetpets on the Habitarium loading page is a Mootix. Said Mootix is wearing a very cheeky look on its face and has its rear end pointed directly at the loading bar. Which is long, thin, and rounded at one end.
Giant Eye of Doom: The Mark of Ta-Kutep is the outline of an eye symbol that appears in a pointless random event causing the user to flee in fear.
It actually causes an Interface Screw, as it actually sends you back a page if you wait long enough.
Global Currency Exception: You have to use Dubloons and Codestones, not Neopoints, to pay for training courses for your pets. Dubloons are also the exclusive currency of Krawk Island shops.
They were also almost impossible to get if you didn't have gratuitous amounts of NP... until the new Anchor Management daily came along. And the Battledome Beta.
Good Is Not Nice: Jazan and Ilere, among others. They're on the side of good, but they're certainly not friendly.
Under Lord Darigan's rule, the Darigan Citadel certainly qualifies.
Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Rarely done in-universe, but is pretty much necessary for the Neoboards due to the strict filters. Saying "hell" can occasionally get you a warning.
Impossible too for most new users, as some of the avatars were plot rewards and thus unattainable.
Guide Dang It: Some of the requirements to get high scores in certain games are pretty ridiculous. For example, to get the sub-2000 distances for high scores in Kass Basher, you have to hit the plush Kass with a(n incredibly rare) tree ( Even so, there's still the possibility that you could miss... ). Beyond that, to get on many of the high score tables for games, you have approach the game in very unorthodox ways, such as losing on purpose in order to rack up points (generally on games that have a fixed number of levels, like Wrath of the Snowager), or taking advantage of in-game cheats that you can only learn (other than from guides, of course) by getting a lucky spin on the Wheel of Knowledge.
Many of the secret avatars can be this, especially the ones that are gotten at random. One avatar in particular took almost 2 years to figure out the solution.
Healing Spring: There's one in Faerieland. The Water Faerie that supervises it, though, isn't all that too consistent with how well one's Neopets are healed, sometimes not doing so at all and instead handing over an item. You can still buy Healing Potions from her though.
I'm a Humanitarian: Foods that are supposedly made out of Neopets can be fed to Neopets of the same species with no ill effects (e.g. a Meerca can eat a Meerca Pie and find it delicious).
The goal in the game Jelly Blobs of Doom is to eat the jelly blobs smaller than you while growing exponentially larger to eat even larger jellies. The protagonist? A Chomby - made of jelly.
Improbable Weapon User: Pretty much anyone who even enters the Battledome, as well as the NPCs within it.
Infinite Stock For Sale: It is both played straight and averted, since most shops have a certain amount of each item for stock before it sells out, requiring restock. The general store, though, has infinite stock, but only sells the same goods. Additionally and literally, users can buy as many shares of stock as they want on the stock market, with the only limit being 1000 per day.
Informed Species: Aishas are supposed to be stylized cats, but only their heads and ears bear any resemblance to a cat's. Anthropomorphic Aishas are even less catlike.
Ingesting Knowledge: It's just a way to keep prices up and intelligence stats coveted, but books mysteriously disappear when you read them to your pet.
Interspecies Romance: "Skeith plus Zafara equals... Ixi??" It's actually rarer at times to see family members of the same species.
Justified in that most Neopet children are Happily Adopted. For a while Neopets seemed to be playing the line that all children were adopted. It made the sudden revelation that Nabile was an identical copy of a royal ancestor very jarring.
Jerk Ass: Team Maraqua's Elon Hughlis, who infamously won the "Most Selfish Player" award during ACI. Despite this, he's still the Team Captain, and he has many fans in and out of Team Maraqua.
King Skarl also counts, mainly because his Marrow Tax means that a Random Event can take your hard-earned Neopoints. He's also technically to blame for two wars between Meridell and the Citadel, as well. However, he's more of a Jerkass With A Heart of Gold despite his flaws.
Joke Weapon: Unfortunately, about 99% of Battledome items seem to fall into this category nowadays.
Karl Marx Hates Your Guts: The Hidden Tower, which is available to all users so long as their account is aged to at least four months and are able to find the hidden link in Faerie City. It's the most expensive shop in-game, but it also offers some of the nicest weapons to use in the Battledome, rare paint brushes, and collectibles such as clothing and plush toys. Just as well, you can only buy one item a day from the Tower, and the highest discount senior users can receive for one day a month is 3% off.
Lab Pet: Inverted. You can acquire a "lab ray" after completing a secret laboratory map. You may then zap your Neopets with the ray, causing random changes in size, gender, color and species. Neopets that are used for the sole purpose of testing the lab ray are called "lab rats".
Lethal Joke Item: The occasional high-level item is pretty silly. For example, the greatest reward for one of the story arcs is a hat. It's a weapon. And it's decent.
Level Editor: A number of games. Started off with Hannah and the Pirate Caves, which actually is a very solid game, and was followed by...a poor mini golf editor. The more recent games featuring level editors haven't been much better, sadly.
Level Grinding: Leveling up at the Mystery Island Training School (or Cap'n Threelegs' Swashbuckling Academy or the Secret Training School) is automated, but takes several days in real time.
Lighter and Softer: Neopets was meant for young adults when it first came around. The early plots all had gobs of black comedy. Everything has since lost that sort of humour when the site was made kid friendly, but the old pages from old plots still float around, waiting to become Nightmare Fuel. Other bits that still float around are details changed in upgraded games. The Game Graveyard lets you play the old versions, where Carnival of Terror still says "cause of death" when you lose. And the game Spell or Starve, from the very old Doctor Sloth plot. On the other hand, The Faerie's Ruin has become the darkest thing in the history of the site with its Wham Episode.
Light is Good: The sun motif of the kingdom of Altador.
Light Is Not Good/Moral Dissonance: Despite technically being the ones who started the whole thing by stealing from the Citadel, Meridell is viewed as the good guys by TNT and King Skarl is in the Gallery Of Heroes, while Lord Darigan is still in the Gallery of Evil despite saving them.
Living Shadow: The Shadow Usul, the Creeping Shadows from the Tale of Woe, Edna's Shadow, the Shadow Wraiths from The Faerie's Ruin... There are a lot of them on the site.
Living Toys: The evil marblemen in the game Attack of the Marblemen.
Long Runners: As of May 2013, the site has been running for 15+ years.
Lost Forever: Several avatars were plot prizes or only available from sponsor promotions, and are thus retired, preventing newer accounts from ever aquiring them. One major example is the Advent Calendar on December each year- miss a day on it and that day's door is sealed forever.
Not to mention the Lab Ray Scorchio's Petpet, a Kookith that runs the Petpet Lab Ray.
Magic Wand: Many varieties in the Battledome, but very noticeable in Neoquest I, since this is the only kind of weapon that the player can wield (although it is not too surprising since just about anything that is capable of talking in this game is a mage).
Mayincatec: What Geraptiku was before… whatever caused it to be abandoned.
Mix-and-Match Critters: Quite a few Neopets, including Peophins (hippocampus), Eyries (griffins), Elephantes (bipedal elephants with little bird wings), and Aishas (catlike with thicker tails and an extra set of ears). And most pets painted Maraquan (scales and/or a fish tail) or Faerie (a more delicate appearance plus wings).
Money Sink: The shops run by NPCs in Neopia as well as the Lever of Doom in the Virtupets Space Station, the Wheel of Extravagance and the "Save the Wheels" event from July to early August 2010.
In early 2011, the game implemented a new sink: old, retired stamps are occasionally auctioned off by a dummy account, effectively removing millions of NP from the economy as well as returning near-extinct, one-use items into circulation.
Hannah: It was my grandfather's! You stole it from him, just before you...
Enforced Trope: "Kill", "die", et cetera. are blocked words on any text entry in-site.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: A sort of meta example: Neopets was launched around the same time as the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (coming into effect in early 2000), meaning that it was one of the first major websites to have to deal with laws concerning the collection of personal information from minors. Specifically, users under 13 had to have their parents fax a signed form indicating that the child had permission to sign up and use certain futures of the site (such as Neo Mail). The prompt and decisive response from the preteen would-be userbase was to simply lie about their age when creating their accounts. Fast forward to circa 2006: Neopets implements a birth date check in their login form. Now, what fake birth date did you enter on a whim some long-passed Wednesday back in 5th grade? ...Yeah, that's what I thought. Cue the anguished cries of thousands of nostalgia-seeking teenagers as they're simultaneously locked out of their childhood. Oops.
Luckily, there is a way to get your birth date back by sending a ticket to the staff.
Nineties Anti-Hero: MAGAX. Of course, given that it's Neopets, he goes no farther than being a Badbutt. But other than that, he reeks of this trope.
No Hugging, No Kissing: Users are forbidden from including more than a passing mention of romance in submitted work, and for the most part official site plots avoid it as well. Which begs the question of how Habitarium Petpetpet nesters, even newborn ones, are able to lay eggs when placed in a nest without needing any, ah, assistance.
Subverted in The Faerie's Ruin Plot. Brynn kisses Hanso, even if it's only on the cheek.
No Name Given: The aforementioned Zafara Double Agent. Despite this (or perhaps because of it), she may even be among themost popular characters.
Non-Standard Character Design: Currently, baby pets, Maraquan pets, mutant pets, 8-bit pets, mallow Grundos and fruit/vegetable Chias have unique designs instead of being recolors of standard "template" pets. Pre-Customization, Faerie, royal, and grey pets had unique designs as well. The original Starry Korbat was a strange case, as it was drawn hanging upside down from the circle background by its tail instead of flying in midair.
Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: The Darigan Citadel. Yes, the Dariganites all have Spikes of Villainy and they made their presence known by attacking Meridell, but the Meridellians stole their Orb from them and caused their Obviously Evil appearance in the first place.
Granted, Darigan did go Ax Crazy after getting the orb back. Of course, when he came Back from the Dead, he saved Meridell from Kass.
Rent-a-zilla: Maraqua is protected by a giant monster named "Chiazilla".
Offstage Villainy: Some of the most feared villains have never been shown doing anything evil.
Justified for Jhudora. Her entire schtick is that she gets to run around scot-free because no-one has ever caught her doing anything bad.
The Other Marty: In the earliest releases, some Neopets were replaced, much like the Bruce incident. One such change was a species of dragon called the Tatsu that was inexplicably replaced with the Eyries (gryphons). The Tatsus apparently rose from an even earlier design called the Cerpull
Overly Long Gag: Members giving TNT food (mostly cookies) in the editorial of the Neopian Times.
The Wheel of Monotony.
Paper-Thin Disguise: The "Happiness Faerie" (Dr. Sloth). Amusingly, the site staff appears to fall for it.
Pimped-Out Dress: Several female Royal pets, especially in the old pre-Customization poses.
The site currency, Neopoints (NP), enters the economy mainly via games. Players are awarded with NP as they play the on-site games. Some NP enters via Random Events and "daily" activities such as talking to a discarded plushie, collecting bank interest or spinning a wheel.
Players can keep their Neopoints safe by opening a bank account. If kept in hand, money can be lost to random events.
Although through random events, you can end up with a negative amount of Neopoints on hand.
Most items enter the economy via site shops. Rare items such as paint brushes and morphing potions are only available from random events. Some items are given out via games, while some are given as prizes for players who have participated in site events such as plots or the Altador Cup.
Players can keep their items safe by placing them in their Safety Deposit Box. The maximum number of items that can be kept in hand is 50, after which it becomes impossible to buy from user or site shops. Items can be lost to random events as well.
Items in site shops cost from a few dozen NP to tens of thousands of NP. For the vast majority of items the supply in site shops is greatly limited however. This enables restocking, where players buy high demand items from site shops and resell them at significantly higher prices. High demand items can fetch a price of hundreds of thousands, even several millions of NP.
High demand items include most importantly one-use items such as food (especially avatar-related food), books, training currency (Codestones and Dubloons), Neggs (which are tradeable for one-time training items), and Neopet-modifying items such as Paint Brushes and Morphing Potions, and collectable items such as stamps that cannot be removed from user albums once added.
As the flow of money into the system is virtually unlimited, the site maintainers have specifically created money sinks to keep the inflation somehow in check. Such would be the Lever of Doom and the Wishing Well, which can both give out a site avatar, but demand money in turn (and cannot be predicted), and the late site event Save the Wheels, which gave out items in turn for donations.
Polar Opposite Twins: Skarl and Hagan, the rulers of Meridell and Brightvale, respectively.
Power Creep: Many of the outstanding, multimillion-neopoint battledome items back in the day have been far outclassed by items that can be picked up for only a few hundred neopoints nowadays.
Read The Fine Print: The Terms and Conditions, which have to be signed to access the site, have some... odd wording. such as "...or incorporate such materials into any form, medium, or technology (now known or hereafter developed or devised) throughout the universe."
Real Men Wear Pink: Male Neopets are perfectly happy playing with girls' toys such as Usuki Dolls or wearing feminine articles of clothing.
Recycled In Space: Hannah and the Kreludor Caves is Hannah and the Pirate Caves ON THE MOON!
And before that, Hannah and the Ice Caves was Hannah and the Pirate Caves IN TERROR MOUNTAIN!
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Most Acaras' eyes assume a reddish tone when they're angry. Ghost Neopets have this by default.
Revenue-Enhancing Devices: Buying real-life merchandise can net you in-game items; Lutari Island was only accessible by signing up for Neopets Mobile.
Running Gag: Denials of the existence of The Not Secret Jelly World. Also, the idea that those creepily staring Meepits are plotting to take over.
"March 3rd has been cancelled due to lack of interest."
For a little while, the Neopian Times Editorial always ended with "mr. coconut" shouting "GOOD NIGHT!" After a few months of that, TNT went meta by retiring mr. coconut and starting a new gag about trying to find a suitable replacement.
Schizo Tech: All over the map - literally; it's dependent on region. There's sticks and stones in Tyrannia, the various Fantasy Counterpart Cultures have the tech level you'd expect, Moltara is Steampunk, Neopia Central is closest to real life but has nothing like computers or cars, and then there's the Virtupets Space Station and moon colony on Kreludor…
Shown Their Work: The hierarchy of the Habitarium is set up similarly to a real beehive or ant's nest, with Petpetpets being assigned at birth to produce eggs, gather resources or fight enemy pests.
Significant Anagram: Eliv Thade, whose spirit haunts a castle: Evil/Vile Death/Hated. Appropriately enough, the game featuring him centers around anagrams. Also: the Sword of Skardsen/Darkness, Grimoire of Thade/Death, Amulet of Thigl/Light, and Shield of Pion Troect/Protection.
Slave Race: The Grundos were once this for Dr. Sloth.
Sure, Why Not?: The "Rooligans" are a chatgroup for the Roo Island team during the Altador Cup. Eventually, TNT decided to use the term as an all-purpose nickname for RI fans.
Take That: The description of the Pink Poogle Toy is a Take That to a fansite of the same name.
The Gallery of Evil book features a shadowy creature chewing on a Pikachu if you mouse over it.
Taken for Granite: The Relic Paint Brush turns Neopets into cracked stone sculptures, complete with bedrock stand, but not the least bit petrified that usually comes along with this trope. Before that was the long-retired Stone paint brush.
Temple of Doom: The Deserted Tomb in Geraptiku, although its only real booby trap is an arrow trap. If you're lucky, its free items are there for the taking.
Although there is that giant, constantly voracious Ghost Hissi that's always running around in there…
10-Minute Retirement: Dasher Soley, a character from the Yooyuball sports tournament, kept claiming he was retiring, only to come back. Only recently did he actually retire.
Theme Naming: The Lost Desert Petpets are named after Egyptian deities.
Too Dumb to Live: The owner is implied to be this at times, especially in the Deserted Tomb of Geraptiku.
You've never seen so many traps in your life. Seriously. Someone must really not want you to be here. You wonder how many traps there really are, and who put them here. And, while you were thinking that and not paying attention, you set off another one. You watch as the arrows fly right at you, but luckily (your active pet) was paying attention and pushes you out of the way just in time.
This is especially jarring if you do this once-a-day activity daily. Your pet saves you so many times in there that you'll almost wish for it to stop saving you.
Troperiffic: Being a Fantasy Kitchen Sink planet with two sci-fi-based worlds orbiting around it AND dozens of stories both major in the plots, and minor in the Neopedia, site games and events, AND users that submit art AND fiction to the site does that.
Tyrannosaurus rex: Grarrls, one of the few species to be designed as "Badass" rather than "cute", though they seemed to have adopted a rather cheesy smile after the pet conversion.
Unpredictable Results: The lab ray. It can alter a pets' stats; or change its color, its species, battle stats, or even its gender.
The Petpet Lab Ray can change your Neopets's Petpet's, into all of the above (except gender), but can also turn the Petpet into a Pile of Soot, an item, or make it disappear altogether.
Video Game Caring Potential: You can keep your Neopet happy by feeding it periodically, giving it toys to play with, buying cool things for it, and the like. Adopting an unwanted Neopet from the Pound also falls under this category.
Video Game Cruelty Potential: On the other end of the scale, you can also starve your Neopet until it's "dying", force it to eat Gross Food, make it sick on purpose, or make it wear embarrassing clothes. Or abandon it, which usually falls straight into Kick the Dog territory. However, the last one can be subverted into Video Game Caring Potential, as some users adopt pets from the pound and then abandon them after healing them back to full health or zapping them with the lab ray to give them unique colorations to ensure that they have a better chance of finding a permanent home. D'aww!
Virtual Paper Doll: Most Neopets have been these since the Customisation feature was launched.
Wales: The founder was of Welsh descent and quite proud of it. As such, St David's day is sometimes an in-game event.
Was Once A Human: Edna the Witch and Dr_Death were originally drawn as humans.
Thankfully averted with the Tiki Tack Man - users started noticing a pattern, and the staff had to go out of their way to allay any fears that he would be next.
"No, the Tiki Man is quite safe, if he fell into the Tombola he would just be covered with little pieces of paper."
And, as mentioned above, the curious case of the Bruces...
Weaksauce Weakness: Faeries are ostensibly the most powerful species in all of Neopia. They are regularly bottled by a scraggly mutant-wolf with no magical powers, sold away, freed, then caught again a few weeks later.
Weird American/Welsh Site: Although the plots tend to be a bit more serious, the site itself has a LOT of weirdness. And that's why we love it.
What Does This Button Do?: The Lever of Doom is marked "Do Not Pull." It exists to steal your money. Most people who use it repeatedly know exactly what it does, but pulling it over and over is the only way to get a certain avatar.
The Tear Jerker ultimate fate of the Grey Faerie (whether she got her powers back or not) was never solved.
What Have I Become?: Played for laughs in the Petpet Park Mini-Plot. You come upon an adorable Cybunny with the choice of four options. #
A) Become inexplicably hostile, B) Request an autograph, C) Ask, "If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?", or D) Bribe it with Neocash
Upon executing any of the options, the Cybunny would turn around to reveal itself to be half-robot. If you chose A ("become inexplicably hostile"), it pulls a mirror out of nowhere and says, "ERROR: WHAT HAVE I BECOME?"
What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: Subverted in the stories that circulate, where anyone can be a hero; but read the basic descriptions of the Neopets and you'll notice it's the cute, fluffy, huggable Aishas and Lupes and Boris that seem to be friendly and easygoing, and the less-cute or fluffy pets such as Skeiths or Jetsams that are… less agreeable.
What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Although all Neopets and Faeries are officially regarded as sentient beings, there's some confusion over where entities such as Petpets lie.
Considering that there are games in which you play as a Petpetpet?
Word Of God: The Editorial section of the Neopian Times is used for this.
Written-In Absence: Once Shenkuu joined the Altador Cup in 2007, there were 17 possible teams competing, so an odd team out was always written out (due to training accident or some such) in order to make a nice, neat, 16-team bracket. Now fixed in 2010, as Moltara has joined and made it an even 18 teams.
You Mean Xmas: There is a holiday-themed land (Happy Valley) *
and an Advent Calendar in the Month of Celebrating (December), but December 25 is the "Day of Giving." Strangely, pets can still be painted "Christmas," which gives them a festive holiday look.
The Winter Starlight Celebration.
One Neopian holiday, Illusen Day, takes place on March 17.
Plot Tropes
Plots provide examples of:
Abandoned Hospital: The Meepit Oaks Sanitorium for the Psychologically Fragile, a part of the Tale of Woe plot where you have to find the way through a creepy hospital building.
Almighty Janitor: The Yurble foreman eventually ended up as this. His temper followed, but not his toenail painting habit.
Anti-Villain: The Sway are described as a Type III in their Neopedia entry, their primary goal being keeping peace in Neopia at the cost of free will of others.
Ascended Meme: The Helpful Zafara Digger from the Obelisk War that was mercilessly lampooned and pasted over many images was made into a wearable plot prize for users to do the same to their pets.
Big Good: Again, plots often have their own Big Goods, such as Jeran and LordDarigan from the Meridell wars; The Keeper of Time from Hannah and the Ice Caves; King Kelpbeard from Curse of Maraqua; the deceased King Coltzan from the Lost Desert; and King Altador from Altador and The Faeries' Ruin.
As for the main Big Good in the faeries, Xandra wonders what they did to deserve such a reputation, and has gone to extreme measures to break the pedestal for everyone else.
Bittersweet Ending: Some plots, particularly The Tale of Woe, The Curse of Maraqua, and The Faeries' Ruin.
Cassandra Did It: Caylis from the Curse of Maraqua plot was often a victim of this, since her powers of precognition came though nightmares. Her sister Isca, who foresaw pleasant events in her dreams, benefited from this trope.
Chekhov's Boomerang: Two of them: The Darkest Faerie was turned to stone after being defeated in the PS2 game, and the Faeries as a whole are restored from being turned to stone in the Faeries' Ruin years later. The two collide and come back in the Faeries' Ruin epilogue (about a month after the latter) when it's implied that the Darkest Faerie was restored along with everyone else.
Colony Drop: Intentional or otherwise— Averted for Darigan Citadel in the "Battle for Meridell" plot, and played straight for Faerieland in the "Faeries' Ruin" plot.
Faerieland has a history of this - The Darkest Faerie tried to drop it onto Meridell in the video game.
Creepy Twins: The Awakened, twin Wocky girls who can apparently control the undead.
Curb-Stomp Battle: The Neggbreaker from the Year 14 Neggfest site event. Its Battledome difficulty rating is listed at one hundred thousand, but the Ancient Negg Amulet Battledome item (created specifically for the event) allowed it to be defeated without the weilder taking a scratch.
Dark Is Not Evil: Special mention goes to Caylis of the Curse of Maraqua plotline. In previews for said storyline she was heavily implied to be an Evil Twin of Isca who wanted revenge for being banished due to being suspected of bringing bad luck with her powers (it went so far as to have her card in the Trading Card Game be of a "villain" alignment and an avatar suggesting Isca was "good" and Caylis was "bad"). Once the plot kicked around, however, it transpired that if anything she was a Broken BirdDark Magical Girl who, while being cynical and unwilling to help at first, ultimately helped save Maraqua with said powers.
Also, Jazan after his Heel Face Turn, as he is still explicitly stated to have great knowledge of dark magic, being a former practitioner himself, but is ultimately becomes a heroic example on the site.
Lord Darigan eventually becomes this after his defeat in the first Meridell plot as well, later becoming a Reformed, But RejectedNoble Demon.
Did Not Get the Girl: Tomos. And pretty much every other guy in Neopets' plots. Pretty much justified, considering how they usually avert the topic of love… that doesn't stop the shippers, though.
However, many plot villains have deeper motives. Razul seemed to be after Immortality and was willing to do ''anything'' to achieve it; Kass is driven by vengeance, ambition and Greed; Scarblade seems to have an unknown vendetta against Maraqua; Galem is after the Heart of the Mountain due to his own Greed; The Darkest Faerie is another overly-ambitious character... Honestly, Sloth and the Bringer of Night are the only ones who count. And maybe Krawley.
The Glasses Come Off: Xandra loses hers when things go bad and she reveals herself as the villain. Lampshaded by Hanso when he's taunting her, saying she might be able to aim better if she put them back on. And then again when they're offered as a prize, where the item description says that Xandra and the villaincan't be the same person because one wears glasses and the other doesn't.
Guide Dang It: Some of the steps in the site plots, but this definitely applied to the "Breaking the Code" step of the Dr. Sloth part.
And maybe the entire Altador Plot. It's nigh-impossible to get through without a guide.
Heel Face Turn: In the Lost Desert Plot, Jazan was set up as the villain from the start, but does this towards the end thanks to The Power of Love. He returns in the Faeries' Ruin plot on the heroic side, playing a role akin to the Token Evil Teammate.
Subverted with Commander Gormos in The Return of Dr. Sloth Plot. He spares the heroes' lives, but does so only out of frustration of being reduced to Dr. Sloth's errand boy. The heroes assume that Gormos really did make a Heel Face Turn, and so later on the Grundos make a golden statue in his honor. Gormos doesn't react very well to it.
His Name Really Is Barkeep: The Resistance scout from the Return of Dr. Sloth plot turns out to be named Scout.
Hoist by His Own Petard: There are instances of this in plots such as Battle for Meridell and Hannah and the Ice Caves, but this is most clearly seen in The Faeries' Ruin.
Hanso: You know, it's ironic. Xandra was undone by the same artifact that started it all.
Hopeless Boss Fight: Mayor Thumburt, Razul, Oblivion, and... a lot of plot end-bosses are this. From the player's perspective, anyway - unlike most enemies, the bosses' health bars are shared among everyone in Neopia, so while a single pet has almost no chance of beating them, from the bosses' perspective they're suffering a Death of a Thousand Cuts via a Zerg Rush of them.
Hostile Show Takeover: A fake ending for Hannah and the Ice Caves, where the cast of the then-Vaporware Return of Dr. Sloth plot attacks out of nowhere because their plot was canceled.
Humans Are Bastards: The Haunted Woods Plot gives a Neopet equivalent of this trope, showing the local Neovians as morally-weak cowards, who only know to find a scapegoat to blame for a malicious potion's effect on their bodies and psychology. It is also the reason Sophie is determined to stay away from the town as a lone swamp witch for many years. Granted, Neopets is supposed to be a kid-friendly website!
Ill Girl: Invoked. To trick Hannah into retrieving the Heart of the Mountain for him, Kanrik makes up a story about his sister being one ("I have to get that cure, Hannah. For her sake.")
The Illuminati: One of the factions in the 2013 plot are the Sway who seem to be the Neopets version.
Interspecies Romance: Very common in the plots, with the aforementioned Jazan/Nabile and Hanso/Brynn being the most explicit examples. Others include Masila and Galem (or Kanrik) from Hannah and the Ice Caves, and Edmund and Alice from Tale of Woe. There was also the wedding between a Gelert and an Usul (designed to look like Kanrik and Hannah) that Garin and Jacques interrupted.
Karma Houdini: Skarl, who as of today is still listed in the Gallery of Heroes and rules Meridell without any question from the people in spite of being at fault in the tragic transformation of what is now the Darigan Citadel back in Champions of Meridell.
Killed Off for Real: Lord Kass, possibly Galem Darkhand, Razul, King Coltzan, Hubrid Nox...
Knights and Knaves: The Two-Headed Hissi in the "Tale of Woe" plot. The solution? Poke one of the heads with a stick.
Magical Society: The Order of the Red Erisim, which is comprised of many powerful magic users scattered throughout Neopia.
Mêlée à Trois: The War of the Obelisk has six different sides fighting for the Obelisk itself.
Evil vs. Evil: No faction comes off as entirely heroic or good, with all of them being motivated by the idea that the Obelisk is rightfully theirs for varying reasons. Even worse since it appears the Sway's victory (the original event-oriented one) and advantages were only temporary.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Well done, Brynn and Hanso (plus all the players who participated in the plot). You just helped Xandra crash Faerieland into Neopia.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: When Razul arrives and starts destroying Sahkmet, Jazan is initially unable to stop him. But then he presses his berserk button by harming Nabile...
Not So Stoic: After the others are freed from stone, they happen upon Brynn crying next to a petrified Hanso. Of all people, Jazan is the one who appears to be the most upset.
Official Couple: Jazan and Nabile from The Lost Desert plot, Brynn and Hanso from The Faeries' Ruin plot.
One-Winged Angel: Mayor Thumbert in the Tale of Woe plot and Lord Darigan in the first Meridell plot.
Pixel Hunt: Since we're already under the "plots" category, ONE WORD: Altador.
More words: Having to find the tiniest spots to click on the maps, of course, but mostly? Constellation hunting with thousands of not-quites and even hints that can actually mislead you (such as giving three equidistant stars whereas the real deal has three collinear, but NOT equidistant, stars). You will need the patience of a Zen master and the eyes of a hawk. And for the annoyances of this plot, that's just for starters!
Portmanteau Couple Name: 'Brynnso' for Brynn/Hanso, later used by TNT in the name of one of the plot prizes (Brynnso Plushie Set), making it an in-universe example.
Reset Button: Always averted, since plots introduce changes into Neopia. This is why the destruction of worlds, such as Maraqua and Faerieland, come as a shock. The area may be rebuilt afterward, but things are never quite the same.
Rustproof Blood: Averted/subverted with a red-splattered asylum door in the Tale of Woe plot. In the walkthrough released after the plot ended, the door was explicitly described as rusty. The associated plot prize was actually called the Rusty Asylum Cell Door, and its description reads "Repeat after me: The red stuff is RUST."
Sealed Evil in a Can: The Darkest Faerie; Sloth in the Space Faerie's token. Xandra.
Sequel Hook: The epilogue of the Faerie's Ruin mentions that the Darkest Faerie statue went missing in the chaos.
Seven Deadly Sins: The endgame bosses for each different faction in War of the Obelisk. However, this is not played completely straight; due in part to Neopets being "family-friendly", Lust is understandably excluded, but Gluttony is oddly replaced as well. Though the "Death" boss that takes the place of Gluttony also has elements of Cupid as well, so you never know...
Shipped in Shackles: How the Chia Police prepare to send The Ski Lodge Killer to prison.
Ship Sinking: A surprising number of people shipped Tomos and Nabile together, before, all of a sudden, Nabile decided she wanted to marry Jazan. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Stab the Scorpion: Done in The Faeries' Ruin when Hanso tells Brynn that she can stay in Brightvale to fight the wraiths and die for all he cared in order to get her to follow him. She then calls after him and he turns around to see her chucking her sword at him. Turns out she was impaling the wraith that was sneaking up behind Hanso as he was leaving.
Stranger in a Familiar Land: Several plots end bittersweetly, with the objective accomplished but the more alienated or bitter characters unable to settle (back) into 'normal' life. See Sophie, Bruno, and Caylis.
Suddenly Suitable Suitor: Near the end of the Lost Desert Plot, the street thief Nabile is revealed to have royal blood. This is thanks to her resemblance to a picture of a princess, which just happens to be on the wall in the room where Jazan and Princess Amira are about to be wed. Nabile then declares her love for Jazan and they get married instead.
Taken for Granite: The Faeries' Ruin started when the Faeries were all turned to stone during their festival. Other characters were also petrified as the plot progressed.
Thirteen Is Unlucky: Probably unintentional, but "unlucky" doesn't even begin to describe Chapter 13, the Wham Episode of The Faerie's Ruin. From the hero's perspective, at least; to the users (and the site), it's a Crowning Moment of Awesome.
This Was His True Form: In the Battle for Meridell plot, Lisha unmasks the seemingly-beautiful Court Dancer with a magic spell, revealing her to be a hideously ugly Darigan Aisha.
Those Two Guys: The Draik and Skeith guards from The Faeries' Ruin.
Too Soon: Lampshaded with a wearable trinket — Faerieland in flames crashing to earth — whose description is "Too soon?"
Vampiric Draining: The creepy glowing purple wraiths in The Faeries' Ruin plot drain the Life Energy of their captives.
Villain Protagonist: Garin, of the Chaotic Neutral type, though he does protect an underwater city from being destroyed by a pirate lord once again. He is a born pirate and will not give up the life of piracy and thrill.
Visionary Villain: Xandra, who believes the Faeries don't do enough good with their power and thinks everyone else is worse off for depending on them.
Weaksauce Weakness: The zombies that terrorize Sakhmet in the Lost Desert Plot can be destroyed by heavy blunt objects. The only ones who are able to figure this out are some scrappy street thieves, and they get an audience with the princess in order to pass on their discovery.
There's a bit of this as well as Hoist by His Own Petard with the villain of the Petpet Park plot; he has been foiled multiple times in his life (including in the plot itself) by his insistence on using pens instead of pencils. In fact, his frustration with this is what drove him to villainy (as opposed to driving him to, you know, just use pencils).
We Can Rule Together: The Faeries' Ruin plot villain Xandra, almost word for word.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Xandra. Surprisingly, she actually has some valid points. We eventually find out Lord Darigan is one, as well.
When contrasted with Meridell's excuse for a ruler, Lord Darigan looks like a Big Good. At least he doesn't make up stupid things like a Marrow Tax.
Most of the War of the Obelisk factions are presented as this in their Neopedia entries, wanting to take control of the Obelisk so others don't misuse it (the exceptions are the Thieves' Guild, who admit they're in it for personal gain; and the Awakened, whose Creepy Twins leaders seem to have gotten the undead involved just for their amusement).
Wham Episode: The Faerie's Ruin, Chapters 13 and 16.
Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?: The Angry Orange Yurble — a foreman (and later, a chef) in the Lost Desert plot, a janitor in the Altador plot and a Librarian in the Faerie's Ruin plot.
Xanatos Gambit: In the Faerie's Ruin plot, Xandra's second plan. The heroes try to get a special artifact to reverse the spell that transformed the faeries into stone. It doesn't matter if they succeed or not. Because the artifact is an Amplifier Artifact and thus useless by itself. Even if the heroes get the artifact on time Xandra will simply use the artifact to transform the heroes into stone too.
The X of Y: Most plot titles use the formula "The ____ of ____" or "The _______'s ______"
You Fight Like A Kau: One of the steps in The Faerie's Ruin involves Hanso (you) insulting Xandra. One of the achievements for this step even has this as the description.
started out with a website created by Welshman Adam Powell, launched in 1999. In short, it's the virtual pet site. The basic idea is you are a Neopian — i.e., an owner — with a limit of four Neopets per account. Owners can take care of their pets by feeding them and playing with them, but there are a number of things they can do — buy and sell items, play games, discuss on the Neoboards, explore Neopia, train and battle with their Neopets, and design a webpage. Some Neopians strive to become rich, others use it as a place to post Neopets fanwork, and still others use it to win contests.Neopets has a lot of fiction: encyclopedia articles, short stories, a rich world, comics, game premises, and ongoing Story Arcs (known as "plots") which crop up every so often. And, if in need of inspiration, The Neopets Team lets talented users post Neopets-related articles, novellas and comic strips.The site has since evolved into a franchise — video games have been released, a now-discontinued Trading Card Game was made, as well as Nickelodeon shorts and a breakfast cereal. Neopets also provides a simple, efficient way of advertising — sponsor games. These games give easy Neopoints, so they're played by a lot of Neopians every day, which provides some good advertising. It's also rather successful with merchandise; McDonald's and Burger King even had Neopets plushies as part of their kids' meals some years ago.Special mention goes to the NeoQuest series of RPGs, which have so many tropes they all have their own page. The Neopian Times Writers Forum (NTWF for short) also has its own page, just be careful of the insanity. Lastly, a Gaiden Game to the main Neopets site, Petpet Park, also has a page.
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