I run into a radio shack and grab all the N-Gages. Then I run into the bathroom.
—Aitruis, at the beginning of Mall Fight 1 on The Escapist.
Mall Fight is a Forum Game originally from GameFAQs, then The Escapist and now hosted primarily on its own forum.The main location of the game is an endless mall which contains everything you could ever imagine. Yes, even that. That too. Yes, but you'd have to look for that one for a while. The goal is to kill everyone you see with improvised weapons, customized weapons and the such. Due to the many things one can do in the Mall, it is not a rarity that various matters of plot appear, and there has been way enough for Mall Fight to have its own continuity.In fact, Mall Fight is currently more about the plot than the actual fighting, which converts the fighting into a break between story arcs.It's filled up to its nose in plot holes, hanging plots/subplots, call backs, shout outs and gags. It is currently on its seventh iteration (There are at least nine iterations up to now if you count the two Mall Fights on the JR-Network and the thread(s?) on GameFAQs) and has a video game in the works.
Abhorrent Admirer: Diamond to Waffles, but its not because he thinks she ugly, its because she made him kill his parents.
He overlooks it in Mall Fight 7.
Aborted Arc: The journey into Waffles' mind due to Justin's inconsistency.
Tox planned for a lot of stuff back in Mall Fight 2 and 3, but couldn't execute it due to time restraints and the other Fighters.
This can happen when one writer sets up a plot point, but another writers do away with it because they dislike the element, or because they have a better idea.
Artifact Title: Mall Fight might as well be renamed to Mall altogether, as there has been nearly no fights in the threads for a long while.
Ascended Extra: Maddie started off as just one of an army of anime loli maids Eric kept around after a paradox that made him President of the Mall, having only the name to distinguish her from all the rest. However, the other Mall Fighters, uncomfortable with this situation, had the lolis Put on a Bus and Eric used the fact that Madilyne had a name as an excuse to keep just one around. Since then, she has almost became a main character.
Diablo fills this bill as well, only appearing on Mall Fight 3 as a random drunk ranting about the lack of VODKA.
Aerith and Bob: Eric and Connor next to...Tox, Waffles, Ran, Diablo and Knife.
Cool Shades: Tox started wearing Sollux Captor'stubular shades since the end of Mall Fight 2, and wore them for so long that he forgot he even had them.
Bait and Switch: Sakura and Eric are alone in a secluded part of a tomb. A snake attacks them, the other Mall Fighters hear a girlish, high pitched scream...and Sakura comes out, saying the snake has grabbed Eric.
Beach Episode: Just before the second Nega Tox arc gets underway, the Mall Fighters all go out to a beach where Eric becomes GM.
Berserk Button: Zaffran will go off if you ship him with Ice and Justin gets pissed if you remind him he hasn't played a Touhou game or dare call him Beaver.
Needless to say, the two push each others buttons continuously.
Bizarrchitecture: A map of the Mall would span a couple of lightyears.
Black Comedy: Can dip into this everynow and then.
"Waffles, did you rape my soon to be wife? I mean that would be fine, then I know she didn't cheat on me."
Cross Over: There have been multiple cross-overs in Mall Fight, but most notable are the Daleks playing an important role in the story and The Auditor which comes from the Madness Combat series.
Dark Is Not Evil: Nega City is full of black buildings and has crashing lightning but is a entirely normal city otherwise (Aside from hanging above the Mall).
Determinator: The Mall Fighters will never give up. Ever.
Divergent Character Evolution: Sakura was just a holographic Expy of Madilyne, but she is slowly becoming brattier and more sarcastic, rather then a cliche loli ripped out a manga.
Dungeon Punk: The Mall is more or less this in a nutshell.
Enemy Mine: Nega Tox teams up with the Mall Fighters to stop Psycho Eric.
Faux Affably Evil: Don't let Nega Tox's smile fool you. He will end you in a second if it is needed, and a lot of times even if it isn't.
Five-Bad Band: While there hasn't been a complete example of that Trope in Mall Fight yet, there are some villains that would fit in, should they ever all come together.
Bigger Bad: Nega Tox served as this during Act One of Mall Fight 4 while DAAAAAAAARRRRRRK ERIC served as the Big Bad. Subverted in the case of the Anti-Monitor, who was foreshadowed to be this, but he was ultimately just a Red Herring who never even met the Mall Fighters before he was killed by Nega Tox.
The Gods: Godhead Fridge, Adrien Brody and Professor Brian Cox.
The Higher Powers: Martin, Backroom Six and Alexander the Great/Ultimate.
The Higher Guardians: The old Mall Fighters (Claymorez, Aitruis, etc.)
The Lesser Guardians: Mall Fighters themselves. A large number of their enemies want to take over the Mall to help take over/destroy the Omniverse.
Hammer Space: There's a reason why a mall fighter can carry 2 shotguns, 6 chainsaws, 2 swiss army knifes, 1 minigun, 591 copies of the Mall Fight Magazine, 692571 scrolls...
Lampshaded after Tox and Waffles defeated an army of Dutch people and obtained an unquantifiable number of matresses.
Hearing Voices: Diablo hears Nega Ninja Medic in his head. How the Nega is doing this exactly, is unknown, but telepathy is unlikely, considering that the voice started showing up after Diablo was sent to the future.
For a while in Mall Fight 2, Tox had the spirits of Xot, Futox, Female Sam G, Code Monkey, Martin and Jim inside his body, and had to constantly hear their voices until he summoned them.
Waffles has stated there are at least five people in his head.
Heel Face Turn: Subverted with Nega Tox. Also, Sister is no longer entirely malicious, and is about as friendly as someone as Ax Crazy as her can be.
Diablo is now on the side of the angels after he and Eric destroyed the Mall.
Heroic Spirit: All the Mall Fighters have this at some point.
Home Base: Mall Fight Offices. Connor and Diablo both had their own personal version they call a lair, but Connor's is just a IT department with a bed, while Diablo's was a more traditional Supervillain Lair (When they don't get destroyed).
Humongous Mecha: In Mall Fight 4, Diablo, Eric, and Ran all had a giant Humongous Mecha fight, mostly using Transformers. Eric also used a suped up Dragonzord to take out Nega Tox, and currantly rides around in the standard model to block Psycho Eric's Vampiric Draining.
Hypocritical Humor: "Gods, everyone wants to fuck kids around here. It's fucking weird, man. Fucking...Jesus."
"That sounds like something a 13-year old nerd would post on a forum game on a retarded gaming website!"
Iconic Item: Eric's Black Blade, and his motorbike now that he is officially a Kamen Rider.
Improvised Weapon: Improvised weaponry is the main point of Mall Fight.
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: DAAAAAAAAARRRRRRK ERIC for a little while. Eventually he got sick of it and tried to hijack the Missingno. Arc, going on a A God Am I and Who's Laughing Now? spiel. He was punked by the titular Big Bad of the story, but after that he became a better bad guy, and mainstay of the rest of Mall Fight 3. In the newest canon, he is even Nega Tox's Dragon.
The Dark Forceuser applies too, first for being an Anticlimax Boss in Mall Fight 2 and failing to kill the Mall Fighters in Mall Fight 3 with fucking aircraft carriers.
Loads and Loads of Characters: While there are not that many developped characters in Mall Fight, Martin implied that there is an infinity of counterparts of just about everyone.
Even said counterparts have counterparts who have counterparts who have counterparts who have counterparts who have counterparts who have counterparts who have counterparts who have counterparts who have counterparts who have counterparts who have counterparts, etc.
Lost Forever: House of (M)all. It was deleted due to severe Creator Backlash on Eric's part, leaving how the universe went back to normal and how Stephanie appeared unexplained in the next Mall Fight.
Also supposedly lost are the original Mall Fight threads on GameFAQs.
Multinational Team: Americans Eric and African-American Waffles are joined by Australian Knife, French Canadian Tox, and (when he is on their side)Irishmen Diablo.
Overly-Long Name: Jim, or Timothy Bartholomew Gonzales Lloyd Martin Olive Kenneth Blair Herman The Third.
Plot Hole: Mall Fight is filled with fucktons of them, but the biggest one is Martin and Backroom Six going back in time in Mall Fight 2 to "help" the Mall Fighters defeat Sister even thought Sister was still defeated in the future before they went back in time.
This results in fucking up the entire time-line.
An ironic follow-up of this plot hole is Futox asking Martin why he went back in time to defeat Sister even thought she was defeated anyways, even though he was never told that Sister would be defeated even without Martin and Backroom Six' intervention.
The most ironic thing is that Martin and Backroom Six did absolutely nothing when the Mall Fighters started fighting Sister.
Another notable plot hole is Xot going insane and killing Female Sam G, Code Monkey and Jim in Mall Fight 2 for no apparent reason.
Portal Network: The Hypercube System is basically that, in which you can go anywhere in the universe by using the Cubes as a tele-transportation system.
Also notable is the Cube System, a prototype which was abandoned after its reproduction system broke.
Plot Parallel: Often used by the Mall Fight Writers to give a meaning to things that happened long ago but don't make sense.
Readings Are Off the Scale: By the time Martin was introduced, the notion of levels was completely distorted into oblivion up to the point where the Mall Fighters' levels were so high they stopped giving a shit about it.
It didn't help that Tox accidentally raised the level cap to 1,000,000.
Subverted when the New Mall caused level inflation to drastically decrease, causing everyone to go back to Level 4.
Connor and Waffles in the beginning, but they soon became Vitriolic Best Buds.
RPG Elements: Sometimes, the Mall Fighters level up or gain some kind of skill, and at some other points, they completely forget about it.
Especially when the Fighters have skills that leave to think that they're level 1000, prompting the writers to often revert everyone back to Level 1.
Taken to an extreme when Waffles imagined everything was a Turn-based RPG.
Running Gag: Nuclear C4, Diablo's lair being destoryed for one reason or another, various kinds of play forts made of things like books and computers, and many, many more.
Every time someone (Tox, mostly) says the phrase "Cheese it!", Ren casts a spell causing molten cheese to rain all over the place, no matter if he's there or not.
Seinfeldian Conversation: Conversations about Eric's bad choice in music will span a couple of posts.
Spin-Off: Subverted, much to Tox's displeasure. He tried to start a prequel centering around the Sixth Wall and Sixth Remnants Army, but due to lack of interest, it went nowhere.
The Only One: The Mall Fighters are, in the end, the only people in the Mall to begin with.
The Worf Effect: Nega Tox destroys DC's very own Anti-Monitor just by snapping his fingers the moment he returns, and shortly thereafter murders Tox with barely a fight. Later in that same arc, Eric beats DAAAARRRRRK ERIC in seconds to show off his new Green Ranger powers that let him fight the same Nega Tox from the previous sentence to a stand still for ten days.
Unreliable Narrator: Caused by the fact that there is no real GM to Mall Fight, more often than not, 2 Writers will argue about one thing happening or something else happening.
A notable example is Ran and Eric back in Mall Fight 3 arguing in-thread whether Madilyne died due to a Chestburster or not.
Tox' Legendary Katana/Epsilon, which was created by the 6 most powerful JRPG fans in existence, but then stolen after the Great Weeaboo Raid of 2XXX, and found by him in a parking garage.
The Katana's full capabilities hasn't been fully talked about yet, but knowing that it can cut through time, it's got some radical powers.
Connor's Widowmaker Sniper Rifle which uses .50 Caliber BMG bullets and his .223 Revolver (based off the gun from Fallout (Based off the gun from Blade Runner).
Eric and his Phantasm Spheres. He also carries the Masamune, a katana that can cut through anything in the omniverse when Eric wants it to, but when it is "idle" it is dull as a butter knife. DAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRK ERIC has it's opposite, the Muramasa. THAT sword is "active" at all times, and will cut through anything just by touching it, regurdless of it's master's wishes.
FPV is known for using both WEAPON ICE FUCK (a sniper rifle which uses ice cubes as ammo) and The Screwknife (a powerdrill with a knife attached to the end)
Word Of God: The Mall Fighters started and have been adding to this page, so anything said by them here can be taken as canon. This includes the effects of the Masamune and Muramasa above.
.The main location of the game is an endless mall which contains everything you could ever imagine. Yes, even that. That too. Yes, but you'd have to look for that one for a while. The goal is to kill everyone you see with improvised weapons, customized weapons and the such. Due to the many things one can do in the Mall, it is not a rarity that various matters of plot appear, and there has been way enough for Mall Fight to have its own continuity.In fact, Mall Fight is currently more about the plot than the actual fighting, which converts the fighting into a break between story arcs.It's filled up to its nose in plot holes, hanging plots/subplots, call backs, shout outs and gags. It is currently on its seventh iteration (There are at least nine iterations up to now if you count the two Mall Fights on the JR-Network
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