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• 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 Trickster: All dark faeries are tricksters in some way— some are straight-up evil, while others just pull practical jokes or make promises they don't keep.
• Fake–Real Turn: The Gnorbu was originally the "Lamameeah," one of 50 fake pets announced by the Neopets team as an April Fool's Day joke in 2005. It subsequently won a sitewide poll to turn one of the designs into a real Neopet. Several of the other designs, such as the Slymook, became petpets.
• Family-Unfriendly Violence: Some of the old beaten pet poses, even ones released after the site became more kid-oriented, have some pretty nasty-looking wounds.
• Fantastic Fruits and Vegetables: Neopia is filled with many varieties of fantastical fruits and vegetables, which coexist alongside real-world ones. A few notable examples include the Chokato, Doughnutfruit, the various types of Negg, the fruits associated with Mystery Island's Gadgadsbogen festival, and the berries that can be acquired through Meri Acres Farm's Pick Your Own game.
• The Fantastic Trope of Wonderous Titles: Prof. Milton Clodbottle's Astounding Habitarium
• Fantasy Aliens: The Alien Aishas (related to the basic Aisha but with two extra antennae) and the Grundoes (who come from another planet called Doran).
• Fantasy Counterpart Culture:
  • Mystery Island = Polynesia, what with the secret ninja school, moai, volcano, and tiki torches, not to mention the leis and grass skirts present by default on multiple Island-painted pets.
  • Neovia = Victorian England.
• Fantasy Landmark Equivalent: With some lands being based on real-world cultures or locations, there are some famous landmarks inserted and changed to be Neopian-based:
  • In the Egyptian-inspired Lost Desert, landmarks include pyramids, the tomb of King Sutek which resembles the sphynx, and Coltan's Shrine which resembles the obelisk.
  • The prehistoric world of Tyrannia is known for its Concert Hall, which takes place in a circle of stones that look like Stonehenge.
  • The Greco-Roman city of Altador contains its own version of the Colosseum, where an Olympic games / World Cup equivalent known as The Altador Cup takes place each year.
• Fantasy Kitchen Sink: Faeries, Dinosaurs, Dragons, Mummies, Ghosts, Griffons, Aliens, and Robots, just to name a few. Sometimes more than one of these things at the same time.
• Fattening the Victim: Squire Meekel, one of the opponents in Cellblock, is a prisoner of the Darigan dungeons. He's not sure why he hasn't been eaten yet, but he's started to become suspicious of the large plates of food the guards feed him every day.
• Faux Furby: The design for the Toy Vandagyre is an obvious Furby Shout-Out.
• 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. There is even a game called "Fetch!"
• Fictional Sport: Two — Gormball and Altador Cup's Yooyuball, the latter based on the little-known jai alai but played more like traditional soccer.
• Fishing for Sole: The Ye Olde fishing vortex ofen gives out useless trash items, including rotten sandals and boots, as opposed to fish.
• Fishing Minigame: There's one in Maraqua. You can have each of your pets fish there once a day, with a chance of getting a fishing stat increase, which makes your pet fish better.
• Flaming Hair: Many Neopets painted Fire have flames in place of where their hair or manes would be, including the Gnorbu, Yurble, Peophin, Kau, and Moehog.
• Formerly Sapient Species: Barbats, which are mindless petpets, are rumored in-universe to be cursed Korbats, but it's never been confirmed.
• Foul Medicine:
  • The Elephante Unguent is a Battledome healing item that restores 50% of an Elephante's maximum hit points, but is said to taste like drinking bilge water.
  • The Bubbling Healing Goo is said to taste like wallpaper paste, but makes you feel a lot better. It restores 200 hit points.
• Four-Legged Insect:
  • The Habitarium Petpetpets played with this a bit — Mootixes have four legs, Larnikins and Pinchits have six, pests have eight.
  • Buzzes possess two "hind" legs and two arms.
  • Averted with Rukis, which are drawn with two arms but use four legs to walk upright like a human (how exactly is another matter).
• Freudian Excuse: Balthazar hates Faeries because he was attacked by three Dark Faeries as a child after being abandoned by his family.
• Friendly Ghost: Coltzan's Shrine is haunted by the ghost of Coltzan III, who was The Good King in life and rewards his visitors with weapons, stat increases and other kindnesses.
• Friendly Pirate: Garin and his crew turn into heroic characters after their Character Development in the "Curse of Maraqua" plot. The story kicks off with Garin and crew raiding a wedding, but ends with all of them defending Maraqua from a crew of far more evil pirates and cementing themselves as being Anti Heroes at worst — their pirating ways aren't abandoned, but they're far nicer and more heroic than other pirates in the Neopian lore.
• Fun Size: Grape and Pea Chias are much smaller than normal Chias, and most other pets for that matter.
• Fun with Autocensors: Often crosses with Take That!. For instance, the filter rendered it impossible to say "Twilight" or "Stephenie Meyer" without them being turned into My Little Pony or Krusty the Clown.
  • Just saying "Edward" - no, not "Edward Cullen", just "Edward" - got turned into Roxton Colchester III (a main character in more than one of the plots and very different from Mr. Cullen).
  • And Taylor Lautner became the infamous Nick Neopia from an old prank.
  • Heck, anything Twilight-related was blocked out, though only during the new movie releases. Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, main character names… it was all censored.
  • Attempting to post "5514344" on the Neoboards will result in the number being autocorrected to "Ghostbusters!"
  • An example not related to pop culture is how attempting to post "bikini" and "hot tub" on the Neoboards would result in those terms being respectively changed to "cardigan" and "swamp". Co-creator Donna Powell admitted in a 2014 Reddit AMA this was her idea, out of annoyance with roleplay threads involving "hot blah blah blah sitting in a hot tub wearing a bikini".
  • At least that's how it used to be. As of 2018 (or earlier), these fun censors aren't a thing anymore.
• Furry Confusion:
  • Three of the older pets, before they were converted into the Bruce (penguin), Mynci (monkey), and Kau (cow), were humans. Which meant that if someone owned one, they were a human with a human for a pet.
  • Moehogs were said have been originally bred as livestock, even though TNT has confirmed that all Neopets are sapient beings.
  • Although there are two Neopet species based on frogs, a pet reluctant to go to the lab might say "What if I turn into a frog?" This applies even if the pet in question is one of the aforementioned species. Non-anthro frogs also exist in some food items.
  • Some Neopets and Petpets are based on the same animal, but the former are sapient and the latter are treated like regular animals. For example, this Neopedia article features a Wocky with a pet Kadoatie, with both species based on cats.
• Furry Reminder:
  • Myncis can both speak and make monkey noises.
  • Petpets mainly just make noises, but Desert petpets say, "A curse on you!" sometimes, robot petpets occasionally say, "Need oil", "Hungry, need food" or "Must protect Neopet", Tyrannian petpets know a few phrases in Tyrannian, and if you swear (or accidentally trip the filter), all petpets say, "Oi! Don't swear! This site is family-friendly!".
  • 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 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 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 old game Kau Korral involved controlling a Gelert to herd Kaus into a barn. Also ties into Furry Confusion and Early-Installment Weirdness.
  • 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 (squirrel).
  • In their first design, Korbats hung upside down with their wings folded.
  • Buzzes are capable of making honey if the item Buzz Honey is anything to go by, although they look more like dragonflies than honeybees.
  • Some real Neopets plushies come with codes that can be redeemed for rare items. Among those is the food item Electric Lupe Treats, which come in a dog bowl. Yum?
  • The pre-customization "angry" pose for the Mutant Mynci had it pounding its chest.
  • The Spotted Paint Brush turns most Neopets yellow with black spots. However, a few of them (namely, the Gelert, Kau, Koi, Lupe and Tuskaninny) instead receive coloring similar to real-life animals. Have a look!
    • In the case of the Kougra and Techo, this coincidentally make them look like a real-life animal - the cheetah and leopard gecko, respectfully.
• Fuzzball Spider: The petpet known as a "Spyder" is just a black sphere with six differently-sized legs. It does get slightly more complex by having three pairs of red eyes, however.

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• Gamebooks: Neo Adventures allow users to make their own. There was formerly a spotlight competition centered on these.
• 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.
  • The Altador Cup commentators may remark before or after a game of Yooyuball that player X on team Y did poorly or was responsible for screwing up the game, when in reality they were the one trying the hardest. Conversely, player X may also be praised for leading their team to victory when in fact it was player Y who scored the most goals or performed all the saves.
  • There's also the fact that Neopets in plots and those who are NPCs are very different than in the game: they don't have owners, they appear to age, and have families.
  • The site gives each pet their own webpage that you can edit. Each species has their own default page, and as a result it becomes... interesting when some pages assume some detail about the pet, even if it's not the case.
    • The Usul pet page warns you not to take the Usul Transmogrification Potion and expresses disgust at the results, which becomes humorous if the Usul in question is Mutant.
    • Some pet pages will assume all members of the species like a specific food or Petpet, even though it's possible for a pet to reject the food or Petpet if the item has the same number of characters as their name.
    • The Kougra petpage mentions the Kougra being entered in the Beauty Contest several times, even if they've never participated.
    • The Krawk page assumes that the pet started off as a Krawk Petpet that grew to full size in the Fungus Caves. In reality, getting a Krawk that way is incredibly rare due to how uncommon (and expensive) the Krawk Petpet is; the majority of Krawks with the default petpage started off as other pets and became Krawks via Morphing Potions.
  • In-universe, the Bottled Faeries sold around the site are essentially kidnapping victims placed on the market by an evil bounty hunter who bottles and sells them for profit. In terms of gameplay, even good faeries like Fyora aren't above giving them away as prizes for successful quests.
• Gasshole: Invoked by the description for the item Beany Burpers.
  These little beans are delicious, dont eat too many though as they give you wind :)
• Gassy Gastronomy: Played with. Out of all the bean-related food items, the one that references passing gas are Beany Burpers — beans that seem to be enhanced with literal air faerie magic to "give you wind" if you eat too many.
• Gelatinous Encasement: In the game "Jelly Blobs of Doom", you play as a jelly Chomby who is trying to eat the jelly blobs and grow before you, too, get eaten. The objective is to avoid the larger jelly blobs, and if you touch them, you'll get sucked in and carried across the screen, ending the game.
• Gender Bender:
  • The Lab Ray has a chance of changing your Neopet's gender when it is used. However, if all you want to change about your Neopet is its gender, a sip of Strange Potion will do the trick.
  • Due to the sheer number of Yooyuball players involved in the Altador Cup^note 5 players per team x 18 teams = 90 active players at any given time, and counting retired players raises the number even higher, many characters have had their genders switched between years due to continuity errors, including Antola Maeir^note starting 2008 (Shenkuu, female to male), Minae Mitora^note starting 2011 (Terror Mountain, male to female), Meela Kitah^note starting 2011 (Kiko Lake, female to male), Valtonous Rea^note starting 2011 (Faerieland, male to female), and Ilsa Ellits^note starting 2011 (Meridell, female to male).
• Get Out!: While buying from a shop, if you haggle too many times over the price of one item, the shopkeeper will eventually scream at you to leave, with a message like "GUARDS! GUARDS! GET THIS ROGUE OUT OF MY SHOP!" or "THAT'S IT, I HAVE HAD ENOUGH. YOU'RE BARRED!"
• Giant Eye of Doom: The Mark of Ta-Kutep is the outline of an eye symbol that appears in a pointless random event causing an Interface Screw, as it actually sends you back a page if you wait long enough.
• Glasses of Aging: The Elderly paintbrush, which gives pets an aged look by ways such as giving them Stock Costume Traits, canes, wrinkles, and greying hair or fur, gives many of the pets glasses as part of its color outfits. These include both gendered variants of the Elderly Aisha, Draik, and Eyrie among others.
• 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.
• Gloomy Gray: The "Grey" paintbrush color is universally associated with sadness. The grey pets all look unhappy, with red, puffy eyes and drooping body parts. The grey faeries have no magic and are always sad. Even items, such as grey-colored food, are either said to make you sadder or are themselves limp and miserable. To hammer it in, pets will occasionally ask you "paint them grey" if you're going to keep leaving them unhappy.
• Good Angel, Bad Angel: In the Advent Calendar comic for Dec 13, 2022, Celandra overhears about what she thinks is a surprise present for Fyora. As she contemplates whether to tell Fyora, tiny angel and devil versions of herself appear next to her head.
• 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.
• Gotta Catch 'Em All: Avatars. Also a particularly tricky Self-Imposed Challenge. Impossible too for most new users, as some of the avatars were plot rewards and thus unattainable. In several plots, there were avatars reserved for players who were on a certain side, of which you could only choose one.
• Grail in the Garbage: If you are very lucky, it's possible to find a Hidden Tower item or a paintbrush at the Rubbish Dump.
• Green Is Gross: About half of the Mutant pets and all the Swamp Gas pets are some shade of vomit-colored green.
• Green Means Natural: Earth Faeries (who are essentially nature fairies) are decked out in green dresses, with leaf-like wings and green eyes. The quest-giving Earth Faerie, Illusen, lives in a glade in the lush green kingdom of Meridell, instead of Faerieland with most other faeries.
• Gross Gum Gag: While there are a lot of gum-related items that aren't considered gross or weird at all, this trope still comes into play when you look at the "Gross Foods".
  • The "Chewed Gum Ice Cream Cone", coming with Flavor Text that specifies that the gum was all chewed "by the cook".
  • The "Pack of Snot-Flavoured Gum" is a clear plastic bag of sticky green cubes with "an extra burst of snot flavour".
  • "Sardine Vinegar Gum", "Peanut Seaweed Gum", "Lime Chilli Gum" and "Sausage Mayo Gum" all depict gross, gray sticks of gum in an open package with an extra gross food added for good measure. The text even calls them all "repulsive".
  • "Dandergum" combines gum with dandruff; as in, the gum itself has a dandruff problem.
  • "Chewing Dung" is, essentially, chewing gum made from dung.
• Group-Identifying Feature: Faeries have Colour Coded Elements in play, but you can also tell what type of faerie one is by her wings. Earth faeries have leaf-like wings, air and light faeries have large, pointy wings, fire faeries have flame-shaped wings, water faeries have mermaid tails instead of wings, and dark faeries have batlike wings.
• Grossout Fakeout: One type of "gross food" is actually banana rice cakes labelled as fingers.
• 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, and 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.
    • Said avatar, Chef Bonju, reaches insanity with the amount of requirements to get it. You have to mix three particular items (out of thousands) at the Island Cooking Pot (and NOT the Cooking Pot owned by the character in the avatar himself), while having one particular secret avatar as your active avatar at the time. Oh, and it can only be obtained in the month of August. There's a reason it took so long to figure out.
    • The Wishing Well avatar was another infamous offender, essentially requiring TNT to give the solution away in an Editorial... although it turned out to be rather banal: Donate 48,673 NP on any wish. Yup, that's all.
• Guilt-Based Gaming: You can send any unwanted pets to the Pound, but the game makes it very clear that you're a cruel, irresponsible lowlife for doing so.

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• Happily Adopted: You can create your own Neopet or adopt via the pound or a direct transfer. They'll love you just the same.
• Harmless Freezing: Being frozen itself is harmless, but not what it allows. Freezing the opponent is considered an essential mechanic in upper-level Battledome play; they're the only way Combos are possible.
• Heal It with Water: The Healing Spring is run by a water faerie named Marina. Water faeries in general have tears that can heal.
• Healing Herb: Of the "guaranteed" cures, NeoWarts is treated with a Neowart Fungus mushroom. Less surefire treatments for other ailments include the White Squid Root (for Bloaty Belly), Brilliant Draik Flower (for Bloaty Feet), and Dried Prampet Leaves (for Itchy Scratchies, Neezles, and NeoPox).
• Healing Potion: Some of Neopia's diseases have specialized potions as their primary cure — Jitters with a Potion of Containment, Pollenitus with Crater Fruit Elixir, and Spyder Bite with Spyder Juice Elixir. Other healing items take the form of potions, but either have lessened chances of treating illnesses or instead restore hit points.
• Healing Spring: There's one in Faerieland. The Water Faerie that supervises it, though, isn't very 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.
• Heel–Face Turn: Magax was once a servant of the evil Hubrid Nox and committed terrible atrocities in his name, but has reformed and is trying to atone for his past crimes.
  Text of the MAGAX: Destroyer TCG card: There's one little shred of light inside him, fighting against all the darkness, and it may just win.
• Herding Mission:
  • One of the site's mini-games, "Ultimate Herder", has the player character as a shepherd herding several Petpets (pets for Neopets) and trying to get all of them into a pen located in the middle of the level, while Balthazar the Petpet Eater tries to swallow as many of the Petpets before the player character can save them. Lose too many Petpets and it's Game Over.
  • Another game, "Whirlpool", has you move whirlpools around to guide some Petpets into an enclosure to protect them.
  • The game "Feed Florg" is a slight variant of this in that its premise is a twisted variation on the usual "keep them safe" one. You control a robotic hand that can circle around a table to prevent fleeing Petpets from falling off it so that Florg can eat them. Florg will randomly eat one every ten or so seconds, and a new one appears at random intervals. If five fall off the table, it's Game Over.
• Historical In-Joke: More of a literal version of this trope, but the Royal Boy Tuskaninny◊ looks just like Henry VIII.
• Hold Your Hippogriffs: Occasionally can be found in the site content. For instance, in a report on Team Shenkuu in advance of the Altador Cup:
  Fans have been speculating that Larcy Phu's rocky relationship with team captain Mirsha Grelinek has further deteriorated during the offseason, but Phu insists they are "making a mountain out of a symolhill."
• Hot Drink Cure: Two diseases, Bubbles and Neoblues, can be cured with hot drinks. Bubbles can be cured with a herbal drink and Neoblues can potentially be cured with green tea.
• Hu Mons:
  • Subverted with the April Fools' Day prank for 2005: the revelation of fifty new pet designs that would supposedly be released. One of these was a baby called Hughman. While some of these were eventually added as Petpets and the Lamameeah was remodeled into the Gnorbu after being chosen by vote to be made into a Neopet, the Hughman was only ever part of the prank and was never seen again.
  • In the earliest days of the site, three of the original twelve pets were human: the Mellish (based on one of founder Adam Powell's friends), the Macy Gray (a crudely-drawn caricature of Macy Gray which had a ray gun for some reason), and the Bruce Forsyth (a photo and then caricature of Bruce Forsyth). The Mellish and Macy Gray were both gone before the site's first anniversary; the former being an inside joke in the first place and the latter due to legal trouble. While the Bruce stuck around a little longer, it eventually vanished as well in order to fit in with the other pets. They were replaced with the monkey-like Mynci, the cow-like Kau, and the penguin-like Bruce respectively.
• Hunger Causes Lethargy: Downplayed. Neopets don't seem particularly lethargic when hungry, but they aren't up to fighting in the Battledome (a play arena).

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• I Just Want to Be Beautiful:
  • One of the minor villains, Vira, was cursed into ugliness.
  • The Faeries as a whole are very vain creatures.
  • One of the worst parts of being a Grey Faerie is that they lose their beauty ^*in-universe anyway; among the players' opinions, they're not really considered ugly.
• 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. Mynci meat on a stick, Meerca in a pie, Blumaroo tails in a salad...yum.
• Immune to Fire:
  • Scorchios are immune to the fireballs that sometimes come from the Wheel of Mediocrity. Perhaps this is because they are dragon-like Neopets who breathe fire.
  • When a pet is painted with the "Fire, Fire, Your Pants on Fire" paint brush, it will appear to be perpetually on fire, and will also become immune to the fireballs.
• Improbable Antidote: While most cures for in-game diseases are fairly-realistic avenues (pills, vaccines, ointments, etc.), others are a lot more outlandish or fantastical.
  • Bloaty Feet, which causes an affected pet's feet to swell in size, is cured by Magic Smelly Socks.
  • NeoBlues is akin to your pet developing depression, and they can be healed by eating a Tasty Pie.
  • While its description doesn't go into much detail on what it actually is, it can be reasonably assumed NeoMonia is like pneumonia, which in real life affects the lungs. On the other hand, NeoMonia is treated through cleaning with a bar of Medicinal Soap.
  • NeoPhobia is an in-universe equivalent to agoraphobia, and the primary method of treatment is to wear a pair of Step Out Shoes — sparkly pink high heels.
  • Likewise, NeoPox is Neopian chickenpox, and the cure for it is to eat a slice of NeoPox Pizza.
• Improbable Weapon User: Most Battledome items are standard affair you'd expect to use as weapons, like swords, spears, bows, shields... But then another good chunk of weapons are somewhat absurd. Multiple muffins and rubber ducks are usable as weapons, for one, as can a squeaky toy that absorbs any water damage. Most absurdly, the most powerful usable weapon in the entire website is... a pea.
• 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.
  • Poogles are doglike, but aside from having canine teeth, look almost nothing like dogs, instead appearing to be plump mammalian creatures.
  • Harry is a mutant Moehog, but actual mutant Moehogs are a lot more plump, lack hooves, have stripes, and little hairs sticking out of their tails. Harry, by contrast, looks no different from a regular Moehog aside from having a hunched back, red mane and tail tuft, and spots in place of stripes.
• In-Game Banking Services: National Neopian Bank is a means to save Neopoints and preventing them from being stolen from various means. Interest can also be collected daily, and the more money saved, the more the bank pays you interest. Also, just like real banks, there is a limit to how many times one can withdraw per day.
• 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.
• Insufferable Genius: The citizens of Brightvale are famous for their intelligence and scholarly pursuits, but this is apparently what the guy running the Qasalan Expellibox thinks of them.
  After sending a scarab to Brightvale: Brightvale isn't that far away, but I've never liked those guys... thinking they're so smart! I'll cut you a break. Have a [name of prize] for your help.
• Interface Screw: The Chia Flour and Kacheek Flour battledome items had only use — to be a dick. They permanently transformed another user's neopet into a Yellow Chia or Blue Kacheek, respectively. They were one-use and are retired now, luckily, but unfortunately, there are still horror stories popping up of especially dedicated Griefers with millions of neopoints to burn... Say goodbye to your unconverted plushie draik.
• An Interior Designer Is You: Neohomes. There are two variants of them, but in both cases, you can collect and place furniture in them.
• 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.
• Irony: There is a wearable item called the Down With NC flag...which can only be bought with NC.
• I Taste Delicious: The book "How to Teach Your Pet Not to Eat Everything They See" is about teaching Neopets to not eat themselves when hungry, though the implication is that the book is primarily directed towards pets who are painted colors that turns them into food. The book's cover depicts a Jelly Grarrl joyfully chewing on its own arm.

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• Jerkass:
  • Team Maraqua's Elon Hughlis, who infamously won the "Most Selfish Player" award during the first Altador Cup. 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 Jerk with a Heart of Gold despite his flaws.
• Jump Scare:
  • How the Lair of the Beast ends if you keep clicking. The aforementioned Beast is revealed to be a giant Pterodactyl (Not a giant Pteri). The size of it, the way it just pops out of the darkness after growling, and the roar is Nightmare Fuel, indeed^*It even provides the page image for this website's Nightmare Fuel page..
    • You can also "win" this from the Wheel of Monotony. In earlier versions of the wheel, landing on the space took you directly into the page without confirmation required.
  • Sometimes in Typing Terror, a giant robotic grundo appears out of nowhere with the damage noise taken to the extremes. The game ends from there.
• Junk Rare: Almost all store-bought Battledome Equipment, even those with 95+ rarity, has incredibly weak stats even for the time of their release and are far outclassed by Hidden Tower weapons or those obtained from various events.

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• 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.
• Killer Rabbit:
  • Poogles. They're cute, cuddly, and friendly, often randomly hopping by and saying "Hi!"... until they open their mouths to reveal fanglike teeth.
  • This also applies to any of the cuter pets with high enough battledome stats.

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• 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".
• Lame Pun Reaction: In the Year 21 Neopies, one nominee for "Best Prize Pool Update" is the Qasalan Expellibox, the description for which reads:
  The Qasalan officials have offered some splendid new rewards for expelling those pesky Scarabs this year. Were they cast far enough away, though? One pesky journalist described the problem as 'unde-scarab-le'... She was almost fired for it.
• 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.
  • Most of the decent battle items seem to fall under this. To wit: four of the most powerful weapons on the site are a pea, a pea wearing a Christmas hat, a pea wearing a tiny cape, and a slingshot that shoots acorns. And grapes.
  • The "Sword of Lameness", which has a twisted blade, is as of January 2014 the most expensive item in the Hidden Tower.
• Lethal Lava Land: Moltara, a big volcanic cavern.
• Level Ate: The Key Quest "Sweet" boards, made up of various candy, chocolate, cookies, and caramel. But an entire world made out of gelatin? That's just crazy talk.
• Level Editor: A number of games. It started off with Hannah and the Pirate Caves, and it continued with Tyrannia Mini Golf, Faerie Caverns II, Escape from Meridell Castle, and even the second sequel to Pirate Caves, Hannah and the Kreludor Caves. There were even contests hosted for these level editors, but unfortunately, they all have been discontinued for over a decade, and with the removal of Flash, likely aren't coming back.
• 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 is definitely one of the darker things in the history of the site with its Wham Episode.
• Limited Sound Effects: The sound the Meepits make when falling out of the tree in "Meepit Juice Break" is the same sound the Hasees make when they cry during the losing screen in "Hasee Bounce".
• Limited-Use Magical Device: In Neopets, you can purchase scrolls for your Neopet that have a magical effect on them or can be used in the Battledome. They are one-use only.
• 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.
  • Neopets and Petpets painted Plushie or Toy, as well as the Malevolent Sentient Poogle Plushie.
• Loads and Loads of Races: Not counting less prominent ones such as Snow beasts, and Petpets and P3s, there are a total of 57 different species.
• Long-Runners: Despite not being as big as it was in its golden age, Neopets, of all kid-oriented online websites, still remained active for over 25 years, having been around long before the kids virtual world boom of the 2000s.
• Loophole Abuse:
  • When you are on a Faerie Quest you cannot use the Shop Wizard to find your requested item. However, there is no stopping you from going on a side account and using the Shop Wizard to find your item there, or asking someone else to use the Shop Wizard to find you the item.
  • Once Jhudora's Bewitched Ring has been equipped to a pet, it cannot be removed. But a pet who is abandoned or transferred to a different account will automatically leave behind any Battledome gear it has, which you can use to get the ring off.
• The Lost Woods: The Haunted Woods features a quest-giving tree with a brain where its leaves should be, a witch in a tower, an always-hungry monster in the ground, a haunted fairground, and a dilapitated town. The area's description calls it the "spooky Halloween land."

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