Role Play / Trolls: Keep the Party Goin'

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Tropes:

• Absurd Phobia: Despite accepting all other genres aside from rock, Queen Barb is revealed to be afraid of J-pop, or more specifically, of the japanese language itself. She claims it to be rational because she doesn't know how to speak it. (She even refused to go to the language class King Trollex was hosting because she didn't knew he was teaching Japanese and mistook his Japanese speaking for gibberish). When she found out that what she mistook for gibberish was actually Japanese, she decided to try it herself, only to be corrected by King Trollex because she used his pronoun ("ore") instead of her own ("watashi"). She was shocked to learn there were different kinds of pronouns, leading to this exchage:
  Barb: There are different kinds of pronouns?! Why didn't anyone tell me?!
  King Trollex: You would've known that if you had joined the lesson!!
  • She eventually faces her fears by learning the lyrics to a J-pop song and singing it with Poppy and King Trollex.
    • Barb is also afraid of tridents for no reason, though she claims there is a reason; Tridents are pointy. However her fears become worse when she discovers that King Trollex's trident is not only pointy, but also shoots lasers!

• An Ice Person: One of King Trollex's powers, which he discovers during his battle against Bad Siren, is ice breath.

• Baby Morph Episode: in "Baby Ambassadors", one of R&B's inventions cause the Ambassadors to become babies. (In the process revealing that Synth's fear of the dark was present from when he was a baby).

• Berserk Button: We find out that King Trollex has been taking anger management classes, and the word "glitch" is the trigger word to set off his anger. (But only if is said in a malicious tone)
  • He also doesn't like people who laughs at his Embarrassing Middle Name, as Bad Siren figured out when she mocked King Trollex for having the name "Aloysius" as a middle name.
  • Furthermore, he doesn't take it lightly when others mock him for his fish-like biology, specially when it comes to fish puns (specially if it's Barb who does the puns).

• The Bus Came Back: This series feature the return of Viva and the Members of Brozone.
  • It also includes the thriumphant return of DJ Suki to the franchise.

• Call-Back/ Mythology Gag: One episode had flashbacks of DJ Suki when she was in Techno Reef. One of the flashbacks shows her showing King Trollex her catchiest song ^note  (From The Beat Goes On episode "Ear Worm") . That was a big mistake, because King Trollex couldn't get the song out of his head ^note  (Which made him unable to perform his royal duties properly)

• Catapult Nightmare: In an episode, Synth wakes up from a dream where he's disowned by his father (reminder that Synth's father is King Trollex). He wakes up screaming "No longer a Trollex!!"
  • In a later episode, he has a nightmare about his fear of the dark, he wakes up screaming so loud, he woke up everyone in Techno Lagoon. He even woke up a Techno Troll who was sleeping in, whom, upon being woken up, groggily asks "is it time for the morning rave already?".
  • Not even the tribe leaders are immune to this: In another episode, King Trollex was having a nightmare of becoming his rock zombie version via a whole new method (since the Ultimate Powerchord was destroyed in the movie (along with the strings)). After the Dream Rock Zombie Trollex did a heavy metal scream, King Trollex woke up in a shock, shouting "No!".

• 11th-Hour Superpower: When it all seemed lost and Synth seemed to be dead, King Trollex got so angry, he finally awakened his rage form "Trollex the Terrible"
  • After it, he unlocks the Tsunami Screech, a powerful shriek that can only be used if you focus your full power on it and can destroy Bad Siren for good.

• Embarrassing First Name: This series reveals that King Trollex's first name is the relatively average and not awesome "Wade". King Trollex claims that he was named "Wade" because his parents were running out of male names related to water. Plus, is so average, he went by his last name because his subjects wouldn't take him seriously as a king with a name like "Wade".
  • Embarrassing Middle Name: This furthermore reveals that King Trollex's middle name is the even more average "Aloysius"

• Embarrassing Nickname: When they find out King Trollex is their dad, Synth and Laguna both find out they've been given equally embarrassing nicknames by him when they were little, Synth's nickname was "Little pearl", while Laguna's was "Pearl of my heart".

• Eskimos Aren't Real: one episode reveals that Queen Barb thought the feeling of ringing ears was a myth.

• Full-Name Ultimatum: Whenever Synth is in trouble, King Trollex calls him by his full name "Synthiago Marinus Tidepool Trollex III". He also does this with Laguna, calling her by her full name "Lagunetta Aqualina Bubblisa Tidepool Trollex I"
  • Later, this gets coupled with Calling the Old Man Out. When Synth, sick of King Trollex's embarrassing him by calling him his "little pearl", calls out on him by turning the tables on his dad by giving him a full name ultimatum. Then, after Synth told King Trollex how embarrassing the nickname really is, King Trollex recalls a time he heard Synth said that the nickname was "embracing", and Synth corrects him. Thus, King Trollex thinking that Synth still liked being called "little pearl" might be a case of Mondegreen Gag.
  Synth: Wade Aloysius Trollex II!, Don't you realize you calling me your "little pearl" stopped being cute a lot of years ago
  King Trollex: But I heard you talk about it, you said it was "embracing"
  Synth: not "embracing", "embarrassing"!

• Hiccup Hijinks: One episode features King Trollex getting the "glitch-ups", the Techno Trolls counterpart of the hiccups. So, Poppy and Synth have to cure King Trollex's glitch-ups before his big rave.

• Hulking Out: Coupled with Rage Breaking Point, Synth's rage form, Savage Synth, is this. However, instead of gaining muscles, he essentially turns more akin to a Siren/sea monster.

• Hurricane of Puns: As seen below, Barb often does a volley of increasingly annoying fish puns to annoy King Trollex during their battles.

• Insistent Terminology: Coupled with Faeries Don't Believe in Humans, Either. When King Trollex gets asked if Techno Trolls were based on fishes, he responds that Techno Trolls are based on "the human myth of merfolk". However, it seems only Techno Trolls believe in humans.
  Holly Darlin': Come on, King Trollex, we all know that humans were just a myth told by our parents via bedtime stories.

• Locked Out of the Loop: Even though he's the king of Techno Trolls, it turns out King Trollex is unfamiliar with his own tribe's most famous dish, the "Gloop du Jour".

• Look Behind You: In a battle between King Trollex and Queen Barb, whenever he gets pinned down, King Trollex often relies on this technique to reclaim the upper hand.
  King Trollex: Look! Free guitar picks!
  Queen Barb: huh? *King Trollex gets Barb off him*

• Person as Verb: This series has many examples:
  • The first example is to "Synth", meaning "to freak out due to fear of the dark".
  • Another example is to "Minuet", meaning "to refuse to sleeping due to having to do something, at the risk of a negative effect".
  • Another example, coupled with Call-Back and Mythology Gag, is to "do a Bliss Marina", which means "to be impatient when it comes to the beat drop". (This example even has the flashback being a 2D animated version of the scene of the movie where Bliss Marina says "just do it already!" in response to King Trollex delaying the beat drop)
  • Yet another example is to "Trollex-ing", which means "to jokingly delay the beat drop by saying "wait for it"".
• Pungeon Master: Coupled with Mythology Gag and Call-Back, This series brings back Laguna's love for puns, which was previously shown in the Trolls: TrollsTopia episode "Don't Make Me Laugh".
  • Also coupled with Berserk Button, every episode that includes Barb and how she gets along with King Trollex include her doing fish puns to mess with him .^note  or should we say "to troll him"?
  Barb: Let minnow if these puns annoy you *Riff does a rimshot*

• The Reveal: Synth is King Trollex's father, and Laguna is his sister. To top it off, "Synth" is short for "Synthiago" (a pun on the male name "Santiago")
  • This also reveals that the "Trollex" part of King Trollex's name is not his first name, but rather, his last name. See Embarrassing First Name above to see what's King Trollex's first name

• Trigger Phrase: In the episode "No More Swippy-Swapping", R & B install a hypno-chip in Synth's brain to make him stop "Swippy-swapping" (making pictures that doesn't "sing" to people). The trigger word to activate the trance is "wonderful art". However, there's a catch; In addition to a trigger word to activate the trance, R & B also added a trigger word to turn it off, the trigger word to have Synth snap out of it being "Swippy-swap". When Synth accidentally agrees to host an art show, R & B, along with Poppy, must keep everyone from saying "Swippy-swap" to keep Synth from snapping out of it so he'll keep doing wonderful art.

• Sick Episode: Coupled with Call-Back and Mythology Gag. In "King Trollex's Sick Day", King Trollex got sick with an illness called "Techno Flu" and refused to go to rest because he has to get back to Techno Reef to protect it and continue the rave. Synth even lampshades the Call-Back and Mythology Gag tropes.
  Synth: This situation is kinda like a deja vu.
  Poppy: Yeah, is like when Minuet refused to sleep because she was preparing for that audition.

• Superhero Episode: "Super Trolls", Poppy and her friends (and interestingly, Sky Toronto) become superheroes to protect Trollstopia. Smidge taking the villain role. Soon, the ambassadors (except for Lownote Jones) become superheroes too. (Lownote Jones didn't became a superhero at first because he was brainwashed. However, he becomes a superhero after snapping out of Smidge's control.)

• Took a Level in Badass: After his training in the Techno Dojo, King Trollex became tougher and more ready for battle, specially after receiving a trident.

• Tranquil Fury: Queen Barb presses both of King Trollex's Berserk Buttons (as in, he says the word "glitch" and makes fun of his middle name). Then, King Trollex shoots a laser from his trident at Barb in an eerily calm way.

• Training Montage: In orden to train King Trollex on fighting to test the Techno Dojo as his Mentor/Sensei, Synth puts him through a intense training montage. Said montage including working with Super Strength, training with Water Powers, etc. However, that's just the first part of his training, the second part includes training with a weapon, in the Techno Trolls' case, the designated weapon is a trident. (As a bonus coupled with Mythology Gag, the song that plays during the montage is "One More Time" by Daft Punk in its version from the movie)

• What Is This Feeling?: In "Techno Dojo" after being trained by Synth, King Trollex experiments a feeling he never felt before: Bravery.
  • Also, when before one of their battles, King Trollex warned Queen Barb about his shark-like traits, Queen Barb felt fear for the first time.
  Barb: What's this feeling?. Is it...fear?, Oh no!
  King Trollex: Why yes, it is fear. And I'll give you reasons to be afraid.