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.It's filled up to its nose in plot holes, hanging plots/subplots, call backs, shout outs and gags. It is currently on its eight iteration (There are at least 15 threads 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: 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.
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.
Waffles' real writer eventually stopped trying to make large storylines in Mall Fight 6 due to them never going well.
Artifact Title: That could be argued due to tendencies from the Fighters to go to locations other than the Mall or do things other than fights.
Ascended Extra: Fighters who, when first appearing, are unimportant, but then become more prominent later on. Diablo fills this bill, only appearing on Mall Fight 3 as a random drunk ranting about the lack of VODKA but then becoming a recurring villain in 4 and on.
Aerith and Bob: Tox, Waffles, Ran, Salt, Miniman, Paddy and Knife next to... Connor.
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: Word of Tox says that the Mall is infinite but with an edge. By that, he means that there is a central area and an edge while everything in-between is somehow infinite, which means that you could only reach the edge of the Mall through by-passing the infinite middle part.
The same goes for the sub-basements. You can only reach the bottom through unconventional means or plot convenience.
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.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Nega Tox killing the Anti-Monitor by snapping his fingers and then doing the same to Tox without taking a step in Mall Fight 4.
Dark Is Not Evil: The Nega City was 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: Tox' counterparts (like Xot, Futox, Venbak, etc) were at first almost identical to him in personality but became different characters in their own rights.
Dungeon Punk: One of the ways you can define the Mall as.
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.
Big Bad: Nega Tox in Mall Fight 3 and the Dark Forceuser in Mall Fight 2.
The Gods: Godhead Fridge, Adrien Brody and Professor Brian Cox.
The Higher Powers: Martin, Backroom Six and Alexander the Great/Ultimate. They are all dead, though.
The old Mall Fighters (Claymorez, Aitruis, etc.)
The 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 mattresses.
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: Played straight with Diablo and subverted with Nega Tox.
Heroic Spirit: Most of 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).
Improvised Weapon: Improvised weaponry is the main point of Mall Fight.
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: The Dark Forceuser, 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: Although there are already quite a lot of characters who have been at least partly developped, 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.
Moral Event Horizon: If you are a pedophile, then you are in for an omniverse of eternal pain and misery.
Multinational Team: The fighters include among their ranks African-American Waffles, American Connor, Australian Knife, French Canadian Tox, and (when he is on their side) Irishman Diablo.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: When Diablo tried to blow up the Moon to kill the other Mall Fighters, but hit Nega Tox instead.
Non-Lethal K.O.: Even thought characters die a lot, they either respawn or reappear in Hell.
Yes, in Mall Fight, dying and going to Hell is considered non-lethal.
Enough so that Nega Tox and Toxter were out-gambitting each other in Mall Fight 4.
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 (due to most of the story going on being purely improvised), 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.
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.
The Cube System, a prototype of the Hypercube one 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.
Reactor Boss: Tox' Writer is especially fond of those.
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. So, more often than not, the levels get reverted back to 1. It didn't help that Tox accidentally raised the level cap to 1,000,000.
Ironically, the level system is supposed to be a joke.
Connor and Waffles in the beginning, although they soon became Vitriolic Best Buds.
RPG Elements: Sometimes, the Mall Fighters level up or gain some kind of skill, and at some other point, they completely forget about it.
Taken to an extreme when Waffles imagined everything was a Turn-based RPG.
Running Gag: Nuclear C4, Diablo's lair being destroyed for one reason or another, various kinds of play forts made of things like books and computers, misnaming Venbak (wasn't his name Vladimir?), there are many of them.
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.
Shout Out: Due to the Mall containing everything in existence, this is bound to happen a lot.
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.
Two Fisted Tales: Because the writers have just as big a liking for that sort of thing as the next guy.
Unreliable Narrator: Caused by the fact that there is no real GM to Mall Fight, more often than not, 2 Writers will start arguing over what actually happens.
.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.It's filled up to its nose in plot holes, hanging plots/subplots, call backs, shout outs and gags. It is currently on its eight iteration (There are at least 15 threads up to now if you count the two Mall Fights on the JR-Network
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