I’m writing a story, and I’m going to use this page to list the tropes it will include, as a way for me to quickly access their pages, and as a starting point for the story’s page if I ever actually finish it, and because I’m autistic and I like listing things. I’m only including the title and most of the details in hidden text, so it won’t be a spoiler if I actually finish it (and because the title is a really good and original Pun and it’s liable to be stolen at any moment).
Comic Tropes
General and Unsorted Tropes
- Accidental Misnaming
- The Ageless
- All for Nothing
- All Myths Are True: Averted. Though fantastical creatures from many mythologies exist, it is unknown whether those mythologies' deities are real.
- Anger Born of Worry
- Beauty, Brains, and Brawn
- Big "WHAT?!"
- Blood from the Mouth
- Bloody Horror
- Broken Masquerade
- Cast from Stamina
- Central Theme
- Cerebus Syndrome: Starts out with some dark elements, and keeps some comedic ones even near the end, but the seriousness and drama does gradually increase as the series goes on.
- The Chase
- Commonality Connection
- Corrupt Corporate Executive
- Courtroom Episode
- Creator Provincialism: The setting is a fictional New York town around where I grew up.
- Crush Blush
- Curse
- Cursed Item
- Dangerous Workplace
- Deadly Nosebleed
- Demonic Possession
- Doing Research
- Dying Alone
- Escalating Punchline
- Evil, Inc.
- Expositing the Masquerade
- Fantastic Legal Weirdness
- Fantasy Kitchen Sink
- Female Groin Invincibility: Averted.
- Forced Transformation
- Foreshadowing
- Fortune Teller
- Found Family via Work
- Functional Magic: Rule Magic, plus a bit of Device Magic.
- Gender-Equal Ensemble: For most of the story, the main group consists of two guys and two girls. Even if Character 5 is counted as part of the main group, it’s still equal, as Character 5 has No Biological Sex and is non-binary.
- Give Geeks a Chance
- Groin Attack
- Haunted Technology
- Hidden Disdain Reveal
- High Turnover Rate
- Holy Burns Evil: Though in this universe, no religion is confirmed to be correct, and humans deciding that an object is holy is what gives the object its anti-vampire properties.
- I'll Kill You!
- Immortality
- Innate Night Vision
- Internal Reveal
- Killed to Uphold the Masquerade: One of the main conflicts in the Courtroom Episode: how do you out a supernaturally corrupt business when most of the creatures it harbors want to maintain the masquerade, and could kill you easily if you don’t?
- LGBT Awakening
- Little People: Eloko.
- Love Confession
- Lovecraft Country: The setting is a fictional small town in the state of New York.
- Love Revelation Epiphany
- The Mall
- The Masquerade: Exists in various amounts for the different supernatural creatures. Many species maintain it to prevent their human victims from being prepared for their attacks. For vampires, this makes for easier prey, but most Yōkai just want to mess with humans, and their pranks are more effective if humans aren’t expecting them. A few species, like ghosts, actively try to make themselves known, but aren’t very good at it.
- May Contain Evil
- Mentor's New Hope
- Mirror Routine
- Missing Reflection
- Monster of the Week
- Moving Beyond Bereavement
- Muggle–Mage Romance: Downplayed, since anyone can use magic in this setting, but the main character who usually casts the spells gets together with another main character who rarely relies on magic.
- Nature Spirit
- New Superpower
- Nightmare Sequence
- No Guy Wants an Amazon
- The Nose Knows
- Office Romance
- Oh, Crap!
- One-Gender Race
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business
- Opposites Attract
- Our Ghosts Are Different
- Our Mages Are Different
- Our Vampires Are Different
- Our Werebeasts Are Different
- Paranormal Mundane Item
- Phantom-Zone Picture
- The Place
- Plot Armor
- Plot Tailored to the Party: Played with. Three of the four main characters have skills that are useful on the regular: one has physical strength and leadership skills, one has extensive knowledge of the supernatural, and one has an uncanny ability to reason with nearly anyone. The fourth and newest of the main characters... has no major skills, and feels inferior because of it. He does help the other characters often, but his ways of helping are conditionally useful at best, and things anyone could have done at worst.
- Power Trio: Characters 2, 3, and 4 form one of these. Character 1 is also there.
- Power-Upgrading Deformation
- Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
- Previously Overlooked Paramour
- Predatory Business
- Pun-Based Title
- Reaction Shot
- Reactive Continuous Scream
- Really 700 Years Old
- Silver Bullet
- Silver Has Mystic Powers: It slows supernatural healing from dark-magical creatures.
- Soul-Sucking Retail Job
- Spoiled by the Format
- Supernatural Angst
- Supernatural Hotspot Town
- Super-Senses: Various supernatural creatures boast these, including vampires, werewolves, and kitsune.
- The Team
- Truth Serums
- Two Girls to a Team: Later on, when the male Character 6 joins the Gender-Equal Ensemble main group.
- Undeathly Pallor
- Underestimating Badassery
- Unsatisfiable Customer
- Virgin Sacrifice
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: A number of shapeshifting entities appear.
- Waif-Fu: Intentionally averted.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?
- Who's on First?
- Workplace Horror
- Yōkai
Episode 1
Episode 2
- Big Applesauce: Discussed.
- Immediate Sequel: Set on the same day as the first episode.
Episode 🐍
Episode 🍔
- Beat Panel
- Big Damn Heroes
- Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind
- Doing Research
- Fantastic Science
- Growling Gut
- Is It Always Like This?
- Joke and Receive
- Just Woke Up That Way
- Late to the Realization
- Machete Mayhem
- Mad Scientist
- Mutagenic Food
- Painful Transformation
- Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
- The Secret of Long Pork Pies
- Side Bet
- Slow Transformation
- Transflormation
- What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Episode 🔪
Episode 🐀
- All Up to You
- Animal Eyes
- Animorphism
- Epiphany Comeback
- "Eureka!" Moment
- Face-Revealing Turn
- Go Through Me
- Heroic Sacrifice
- Little "No"
- Magic Wand
- Mirror Reveal
- Move in the Frozen Time
- Not Quite Back to Normal
- Randomized Transformation
- Reaction Shot
- Senseless Sacrifice
- So Proud of You
- Spell Book
- A Taste of Their Own Medicine
- Wham Shot
- You Monster!
Episode 🕹️
- Accidental Nightmare Fuel: In-universe. The arcade game the episode focuses on, based on Qix, had a generally creepy vibe to it even before it became evil.
- Attract Mode
- Continuity Nod
- Demonic Possession
- Fictional Video Game
- Haunted Technology
- The Most Dangerous Video Game
- Suddenly Shouting
- Video Arcade: A modern-day one in a mall.
- Video-Game Lives
Episode 🌪️
Episode 🔁
- "Freaky Friday" Flip
- Gender Bender
- Hands Looking Wrong
- Stumbling in the New Form
- Voice Change Surprise
- Voices Are Not Mental: Implied. The medium has no audio, but during the "Freaky Friday" Flip, characters notice that their voices are different.
Episode 🍬
Episode 🪢
Episode 👩❤️👨
Episode 🦊
Episode 👻
Episode 🧟♂️
Episode 💊
Episode 🔦
Character Tropes
All ghost characters
- Achievements in Ignorance: A ghost that doesn’t know it’s dead will act more like a corporeal being, even being able to grab objects. Post-realization, this is harder to do, and may require the doer to pretend they’re still alive.
- Black Blood
- Ectoplasm: In this world, ghosts’ body fluids turn to ectoplasm upon contact with air. Clear fluids like sweat, tears, and saliva become clear ectoplasm, while blood becomes black ectoplasm.
- Ghastly Ghost
- Ghost Amnesia
- Ghostly Chill: Especially when a ghost passes through someone.
- Ghostly Glide
- Intangibility: Most of the time, though they can touch things through extreme focus, or by not being aware that they’re dead.
- Invisibility: Most of the time. They can become visible or partly visible with effort, or just randomly by accident.
- Invisible to Normals: They can only be seen by the relatively few people with the gift of ghost sight.
- Jacob Marley Apparel
- Salt Solution: Ghosts can’t cross lines made of salt. The ghosts are surprised that this actually works.
- Unfinished Business
Character 1
He's 5'7", ethnically Pakistani, and very easy to scare. Unfortunately for him, he has to face paranormal happenings on a daily basis. There’s a lot of screaming.
- Chekhov's Skill
- Couldn't Find a Pen
- Culturally Religious
- The Everyman
- Fish out of Water: He is the only character who isn't accustomed to supernatural occurrences. He's perplexed at how calm the others are around things that are terrifying to him.
- Ghost Amnesia
- The Heart
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
- The Load
- Logical Latecomer: He’s the only one who’s not numb to the supernatural weirdness of the setting.
- Lovable Coward
- Kid Hero: Downplayed. He’s 18 years old.
- Motivated by Fear
- Naïve Newcomer
- New Meat
- Non-Action Guy
- Overly-Nervous Flop Sweat: He tends to sweat excessively when he’s nervous or scared, which is most of the time.
- Rookie Red Ranger
- Supporting Protagonist: He’s the main character. He's also the newest member of the main group, and the only member with no distinctly useful skill. He often feels like he’s just there, and the rest of the team only keeps him around as Comic Relief.
- Tomato in the Mirror
- Took a Level in Badass
- Torso with a View
- Transflormation
- Trauma Button
- Unlucky Everydude
- Useless Protagonist
- Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: Frequently displays this expression in moments of pure terror (which happen nearly once per episode for him).
Character 2
- Action Girl
- Action Girlfriend
- Animorphism
- Badass Normal: Uses the least supernatural aid in fighting of all the main cast members. Not that she'd need any supernatural aid, with muscles like hers.
- Berserk Button
- Big Beautiful Woman: Most men find her unattractive, but it’s often due to her muscles and tomboyishness rather than her weight. Several lesbians, and eventually one male character (Character 4), think she’s genuinely hot.
- The Big Guy
- Deadpan Snarker
- Failure Knight
- Fantastically Indifferent
- From New York to Nowhere: Downplayed. She moved to the setting town from a city that’s implied to be more on the scale of Poughkeepsie than New York City.
- Jaded Professional
- Knight in Sour Armor
- The Leader
- Lovable Jock
- Magical Species Transformation
- Mangst: A rare female example.
- Meaningful Name
- Mentor in Sour Armor
- Not So Stoic
- Only Has Same-Sex Admirers
- Pervert Revenge Mode
- The Stoic
- Stout Strength
- Street Smart
- Stumbling in the New Form
- Tank-Top Tomboy
- Team Dad: Female version.
- Tomboy
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The tomboy to Character 3’s girly girl.
- Tomboyish Ponytail
Character 3
- Action Girl: Downplayed. She’s not nearly as strong or martially skilled as Character 2, but she participates in some fights.
- Animorphism
- Beneath the Mask
- Big Eater
- Black Eyes of Evil
- Creepy Good
- Curse
- Cursed with Awesome
- The Face
- Horrifying Hero
- Long Hair Is Feminine
- Lovecraftian Superpower
- Magical Species Transformation
- The Nose Knows
- Politeness Judo
- Power Incontinence
- Power Makes Your Hair Grow
- Prehensile Hair
- The Social Expert
- Stepford Smiler
- Token Non-Human: Later on.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The girly girl to Character 2’s tomboy.
- Transformation Horror
- Weight Woe: The eating disorder kind. She’s actually very skinny.
- Wound That Will Not Heal
- Yōkai
Character 4
- Amazon Chaser
- Animal Eyes: For a time.
- Bad Liar
- Bewitched Amphibians
- Book Smart
- Brainwash Residue
- Cold Ham
- Eyes Always Averted: As an autistic person, he struggles with eye contact.
- Geek Physique
- Hollywood Autism: Averted to my best ability. He falls under a few stereotypical traits (tall, skinny, white, male), but he's a respectful portrayal with some traits not usually associated with autism, such as his punk fashion style. He discusses his autism, including some of the difficulties that come with it, but it's never really the main focus.
- Inhuman Eye Concealers
- Little Bit Beastly
- Nerd Glasses: He's a nerd and he wears glasses for a time, but the glasses are purely Inhuman Eye Concealers.
- Not Quite Back to Normal
- No Social Skills
- The Smart Guy
- Squishy Wizard
- Weak, but Skilled
Character 5
- Barbie Doll Anatomy: Their default form lacks hair, genitals, nipples, a navel, and facial features.
- The Blank
- Chrome Champion: Their Shapeshifter Default Form.
- The Echoer
- Empathic Shapeshifter
- Humanshifting: They can turn into any human, as well as certain other humanoid creatures (notably, they can’t turn into a vampire, because they can’t see reflectionless beings). Attempting to copy the form of a creature significantly different from a human may cause them to crack.
- Magic Mirror: They’re an enchanted mirror whose enchantment caused them to become a humanoid shapeshifter.
- Meaningful Name
- Morphic Resonance: They're a living mirror-person who can shapeshift into other people, but their body remains mirror-like in all forms. They feel smooth to the touch, their feet clink against the floor when they walk, they fog up when surrounded by steam, they can crack, they can’t use touchscreens, and they can be easily written on with a marker.
- The Needless
- No Biological Sex
- Non-Human Non-Binary
- Perpetually Protean
- Shapeshifter Default Form
- Token Non-Human: If counted as part of the main group.
Character 6
- I See Dead People
- Medicate the Medium
- No Medication for Me
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Joins the main group after Character 1 dies, and is very similar in personality to Character 1 at the start of the series.
Villain 1
A teenage gorgon, hired by a store to turn bothersome customers into mannequins.
- Cute Monster Girl: She may have a number of scary traits, such as serpentine eyes and tusks, but she’s still a mostly humanoid teenage girl with fairly cute features.
- Double Agent
- For the Evulz
- Good Wings, Evil Wings: Fitting the original descriptions of gorgons, she has bat wings.
- Medusa: Or the descendant of Medusa, in this case.
- Wings Do Nothing: Her bat wings are too small to fly with.
Villain 2
Villain 3
One-Off 1
One-Off 2
A kitsune who hosts a yearly festival for Yōkai. He’s a bit oblivious, but he means well.
Tropes for Minor Characters
Minor Character 1
Minor Character 2
