3rd Life | Last Life | Double Life | Limited Life | Secret Life
Note: Unless otherwise specified, all tropes pertain to the characters, not the content creators that play them.
- Alternative Character Interpretation: At the end of Day 7, Skizz runs headlong into the siege on the Crastle, likely Blinded by Rage by the Red Desert having taken possession of the Red Winter axe, and dies in the fight that ensues. However, since he expresses guilt for killing Cleo permanently due to being unaware she was on her final life earlier the same day, some have voiced suspicion that his death may not be out of recklessness in rage.YouTube Commenter on Martyn's video: Skizz said it himself: he felt guilty for ending Jimmy and Cleo.note It was self-enforced karma. He knew when he rushed the Crastle that he wasn't coming back out.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: On Day 6, Cleo proposes to Scott that, once their husbands (Bdubs and Jimmy respectively) were dead, they'd form the Widows Alliance and rain hell onto the server. While this never comes to fruition, Scott and Cleo wind up forming a Divorcees Alliance in Double Life in defiance of the soulmate mechanism.
- Idiosyncratic Ship Naming: In 3rd Life, Grian and Scar are called "Desert Duo" due to them setting up their base in the Desert biome of the map, while Scott and Jimmy are called the "Flower Husbands" after settling in a Flower Forest biome together and being married in-universe. These 'duo names' carry across beyond 3rd Life, with the former keeping their dynamic name for Double Life and the latter carrying across to Empires SMP Season 1note . The former generally leans platonic (though romantic variants aren't unheard of), while the latter is explicitly romantic.
- One True Threesome: "Clethubs" (Cleo, Etho, and Bdubs) is quite loved on Tumblr. The ship began in 3rd Life and has remained popular ever since.
- Portmanteau Couple Name: Primarily reserved for more shippy variants of character dynamics, though they're sometimes used platonically as well.
- In both 3rd Life and Double Life, for a more romantic-coded variant of 'Desert Duo' (Grian and Scar), there's 'Scarian'.
- Martyn and Ren are sometimes called "Treebark" based around a pun on their screen-names, InTheLittleWood and RenDog, respectively. Non-shippers typically stick to their faction name, 'Renchanting', or the variant portmanteau spelling 'Renchantyn'.
- Signature Scene: The triple kill Grian and Scar get from Grian's TNT minecart trap on Day 4, primarily because it's the single deadliest (and therefore most impactful) event on the server. It remains the deadliest event of the first three seasons.
