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Even if I wrote these stories before meeting TV Tropes, now I realize that I used and played with tropes right from the start. It's true, tropes are everywhere! Here are some examples.
Common
Dragon Ball HP
- Affectionate Parody
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: giant Pokemons!
- Batman Can Breathe in Space: oh, wait... it happens all the time in the real anime, doesn't it? Oh, well, Talking Is a Free Action!
- Black Blood: with references to Kill Bill
- Compelling Voice: Ash for Pikachu.
- Executive Meddling / Moral Guardians: A.V.M., an infamous Italian executive, appears here and there with her magic scissors
- Goggles Do Something Unusual: they are of course the same glasses from the remake of 13 Ghosts. They are Special Glasses which can be found in a box labeled "Special Glasses".
- Improbable Hairstyle: and HOW!
- Killed Off for Real: Ash and all the Pokemons except Pikachu. Of course, in the world of Dragon Ball, Death Is Cheap
- Multicolored Hair: rainbow for Super Saiyan 17!
- Never Say "Die"
A.V.M.: Pokemons can't d... er... what shall I say? Pass away?
- Prehensile Hair
- Super Mode: Super Saiyan 17 !!!
- The Voice: Ash.
- This Trope is [BLEEP]: Suddenly, Cell realizes that, in his sentences, some parts of words are bleeped out. It turns out that A.V.M. is trying to censore words she thinks are "dirty" even when they appear inside innocent words (e.g. member of parliament; stitch)
- What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?: In the end Goku and Vegeta wear BASEBALL CAPS! And they TURN THE BILL BACKWARDS! Before yelling I CHOOSE YOU!
- Xanatos Gambit: Voldemort wants that Goku and Vegeta reach the maximum Super Saiyan level to power a 13 Ghosts-like machine.
Inheritance Cycle parody
- Blessed with Suck: Harry Potter and Neo try to explain to Fragon that being The Chosen One is a source of troubles. Unfortunately, he ignores then.
- Also Blödhgarm's super seducing powers are a source of troubles for him. And not only for him: Fragon drives away Darth Murtagh by temporarily transferring Blödhgarm's powers to him.
- "Blind Idiot" Translation: Fragon turns the Italian translator into a toad because of her bad translation.
- Captain Ersatz:
Fragon: Help! The Urcs!
Frodo: Nice try, but it won't work! Ripoff, ripoff!
Fragon: Help! The Urcs WITH HORNS!
Frodo: Ok, that's right.
- Chekhov's Gun: a dying Brom tries to explain to Fragon what a Chekhov's Gun is. In vain: Fragon complains that a gun il completely out of place in a fantasy setting.
- Compressed Adaptation: invoked by Fragon to shorten the story. He manages to delete the Elva arc, but unfortunately not all that boring politics.
- Creepy Child: Averted! Before meeting Elva, Fragon asks to "skip that arc", because he doesn't want to backstabbed with a Crysknife.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Roran introduces himself this way in the beginning
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Arya is (apparently) in a coma, Fragon guesses she's a princess because she has "the face of a princess". Then he looks better and adds that she has "the face of a princess with a prominent role in a super-secret Rebel Alliance, tortured by the bad guy who wants to find the secret base of the Rebel Alliance".
- Everything's Better with Princesses: in the real books, Arya is revealed to be a princess in Book 2. In my parody, she can't resist and reveals to be a princess immediately in Book 1, because it's cool.
- Exit, Pursued by a Bear: inverted in Book 1, 3 and 4, where the good guys exit pursued by someone (especially after the Pyrrhic Victory: Fragon and his friends killed Durza, but destroyed the Humongous Sapphire, and dwarves are very angry). Played straight in Book 2, with Murtagh - but this is also an example of You Have Failed Me.
- Fighter, Mage, Thief: Fragon complains that he must be both the Fighter and the Mage, and asks if he must also be the Thief and the Cleric.
- Forgotten Fallen Friend: invoked by Fragon. Brom says they needs an excuse to start their journey, Fragon suggests "We may chase the Razgul for revenge, then we forget about it until Book 3". Brom thinks it's a very good idea.
- Freudian Slip: at a certain point, Christopher Paolini is about to say that the secret base of the Rebel Alliance is on Yavin IV... he corrects himself: "in the Dwarven Kingdom". Later, Darth Murtagh calls his sword "lightsaber"
- Genre Blind: Fragon's genre blindness leads to Garrow's death. He then learns his lesson, and becomes so Genre Savvy he can anticipate some plot twists from Book 2 and 3 right in Book 1.
- The Razgul also are in Book 3, and this leads them to their death.
- Instant Expert: lampshaded by Brom (in FIVE minutes he transforms Eragon in a sword master and powerful wizard)
- Luke, I Am Your Father: Darth Murtagh is Completely Missing the Point.
- Meaningful Name: parodied. Since "Eragon" is "Dragon" with one letter changed, here the main character is called "Fragon".
- Mysterious Past: Fragon (when he becomes Genre Savvy) knows every character has one. Even swords has!
- Our Elves Are Better: the Queen explains that they are very different from Tolkien's elves: they're MUCH WORSE.
- Overly-Long Name: the Italian translator Maria Concetta Servelloni Mazzanti Viendalmare
 (real name Maria Concetta Scotto di Santillo)
- Also the Ancient and Very Precious One Humongous Block of Sapphire And-You-Are-In-Trouble-If-You-Break-It Which Is The Ceiling of the Great Hall.
- Mr. Exposition / Plot Coupon: Jeod admits he's just a plot device: he must feed Fragon some clues (to be written down in his character sheet) and to make the plot advance.
- Polly Wants A Microphone: but it's not a parrot... it's a robin!
- Robe and Wizard Hat, Magic Wand and Staff: Fragon steals them from Harry Potter, Gandalf and Merlin. They beat him black and blue and get their stuff back.
- Role-Playing Game: Jeod thinks Fragon has a character sheet ("With Hit Points and such"). Well, it turns out later that he indeed has a character sheet!
- Shaggy Dog Story: Arya was not in a coma. She was just taking a nap. A long nap.
- Shaped Like Itself: Brom explains that there is "an ancient language called The Ancient Language"; Fragon says that it's stupid like a newspaper called "The Newspaper". Truth in Television: it's a quote from Italian comedian Paolo Rossi, because such a newspaper really exists in Italy ("Il Giornale").
- The Cassandra: Luke Skywalker and Harry Potter try to warn the characters. A waste of time!
- The Dark Side: Darth Murtagh.
- The Empire: but Fragon points out that an Empire would need an Emperor, not a King.
- The Hero's Journey:
Brom: It's fantasy, we gotta go.
Fragon: Where we going, man?
- The Obi-Wan: the Obi-Wans are both Genre Savvy:
later
Oromis: Yoda is dead, Dumbledore is dead, and I'm not feeling too well myself.
- They Copied It, So It Sucks / Expy : characters from other works, and even authors, appear here and there crying "Ripoff, ripoff!"
- Time Delayed Death: Garrow is about to die immediately when tortured, the Razguls advice him to die later, it's more dramatic
- Who Would Be Stupid Enough: of course, Fragon. And, according to Fragon, Christopher Paolini himself.
- You Killed My Uncle: subverted by Fragon (see Forgotten Fallen Friend above) and by Harry Potter (he wonders why Death Eaters haven't killed obnoxious Uncle Vernon yet).
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