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* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: Every place on planet Thor takes its name from Norse mythology. The planet itself is named after the god, the capital city is called Valhalla, the hotel everyone was supposed to be staying at is the Mjolnir Hotel, the two moons are named after the goats that pull Thor's chariot, the local apex predator is colloquially known as Sleipnir...
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* ElevatorActionSequence: In the Crossover challenge, the Champions and Overlords are riding an elevator up to their hotel suite when a bomb planted by alien assassins suddenly goes off, blowing the shaft wide open. The challengers then have to fight off these assassins and try to get out of the compromised death trap.
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* AssassinOutclassin: Near the start of the Crossover challenge, the Champions and Overlords have to fight off a pair of deadly alien assassins.
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* TheStarsAreGoingOut: In the Crossover challenge, the twin moons of Thor vanish from the night sky as the double eclipse reaches its peak, and an inky blackness takes their place. This blackness quickly spreads across the sky, blotting out all the stars and plunging the planet into unnatural darkness.
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* TotalEclipseOfThePlot: In the Crossover challenge, the Champions and Overlords quickly learn that the planet they're on will experience an extremely rare double lunar eclipse at midnight. They deduce, correctly, that this eclipse will be important. They just don't expect the horrors that it will unleash...
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* MakeAnExampleOfThem: Several of the more villainous Nomads decide to make an example out of Raz after he commits suicide to get himself out of a challenge. They torture him to the point that he is reduced to a decapitated (but still living) head resting on top of a broken sack of meat, then nail a post-it note explaining why this was done to him to his forehead and put up an impenetrable forcefield around him so no one can come to his aid.
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* FaceYourFears: The Persona 4 challenge sees several Champions confronted by Shadows which personify their deepest fears and insecurities. Ravage faces a Shadow that personifies his secret doubts about Megatron's leadership of the Decepticons and buried belief that he could do a better job; Blink faces a Shadow which personifies her desire to be loved and her fear of ending up alone; and Rey faces a Shadow which personifies his fear that people only value him for his wrestling persona and don't care about the man beneath the mask.
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* ForcedToWatch: During the Persona 4 challenge, Digamma uses his powers to telekinetically restrain the Common Room Champions and force them to watch as he tortures Raz. They're not allowed to close their eyes or avert their gaze as Digamma dismembers Raz and reduces him to a shattered but still living sack of meat.
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* GoneHorriblyRight: After the Half-Life challenge, Subaru decides to create an adaptive robotic sparring partner for herself using the Common Room. She gets more than she bargained for: the robot immediately goes rogue and begins attacking everyone present, imitating current and former Champions in a lengthy battle.
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* RippleEffectProofMemory: Enforced and exaggerated in the Half-Life challenge. After the Champions change history by destroying the Combine overworld before the aliens can launch their invasion of Earth, Xi ensures that the inhabitants of the newly created timeline remember what came before, and how Gordon Freeman saved them all from being enslaved.
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* PlanetDestroyer: While relating his backstory, Dis Baba described how his people had designed a superweapon capable of destroying planets by, essentially, causing its atoms to all undergo nuclear fission at once. They used one in an attempt to destroy the Enigma of Ku'Tharkazz, which may or may not have worked.
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** Yiaxatar was a grotesque biomechanical LivingStatue many miles tall that was buried on the planet Ku'Tharkazz. Kin colonists unearthed the statue, and within months of them doing so, its malevolent influence had warped the formerly paradisiacal planet into a fractured hellscape and reduced the colonists to crazed, cannibalistic religious zealots. Dis Baba, recognizing this thing as an existential threat to both his people and the entire universe, ultimately blew half the planet up to kill it, and he isn't sure whether that did the trick.
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** Yiaxatar was a grotesque biomechanical LivingStatue many miles tall that was buried on the planet Ku'Tharkazz. Kin colonists unearthed the statue, and within months of them doing so, its malevolent influence had warped the formerly paradisiacal planet into a fractured hellscape and reduced the colonists to crazed, cannibalistic religious zealots. Dis Baba, recognizing this thing as an existential threat to both his people and the entire universe, ultimately [[EarthShatteringKaboom blew half the planet up up]] to kill it, and he isn't sure whether that did the trick.
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* EldritchAbomination: Several mind-bending monstrosities show up or are referenced throughout the game.
** ECHIDNA is a vast mass of tentacles and eyes and mouths that swells in a realm of perpetual darkness below the Common Room. She has formidable psychic powers that she uses to torment the Champions from time to time and can spawn humanoid aspects of herself that do funny things to the minds of anyone who looks at them.
** Yiaxatar was a grotesque biomechanical LivingStatue many miles tall that was buried on the planet Ku'Tharkazz. Kin colonists unearthed the statue, and within months of them doing so, its malevolent influence had warped the formerly paradisiacal planet into a fractured hellscape and reduced the colonists to crazed, cannibalistic religious zealots. Dis Baba, recognizing this thing as an existential threat to both his people and the entire universe, ultimately blew half the planet up to kill it, and he isn't sure whether that did the trick.
** ECHIDNA is a vast mass of tentacles and eyes and mouths that swells in a realm of perpetual darkness below the Common Room. She has formidable psychic powers that she uses to torment the Champions from time to time and can spawn humanoid aspects of herself that do funny things to the minds of anyone who looks at them.
** Yiaxatar was a grotesque biomechanical LivingStatue many miles tall that was buried on the planet Ku'Tharkazz. Kin colonists unearthed the statue, and within months of them doing so, its malevolent influence had warped the formerly paradisiacal planet into a fractured hellscape and reduced the colonists to crazed, cannibalistic religious zealots. Dis Baba, recognizing this thing as an existential threat to both his people and the entire universe, ultimately blew half the planet up to kill it, and he isn't sure whether that did the trick.
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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: In Dis Baba's universe, wyrms are naturally occuring sixty-foot-long reptilian cyborgs with eight eyes, spiky thagomizers, and the ability to fly through space unaided and breathe plasma. They lack intelligence and are little more than incredibly destructive and dangerous animals which can devastate whole worlds if left unchecked. Dis Baba summons one to pit against the Champions as a training exercise, though it disappears after going out of bounds and is later shown to have been eaten by Eta.
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* CosmicRetcon: In the Silver Sentinels challenge, the Champions' interactions with the incredibly racist and sexist superhero Steel Sentry are abruptly written out of existence by the challenge's narrator, leaving the Champions with no memory of the events that had taken place over the last dozen or so pages.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Given that it's based on the Sixties, the world of the Silver Sentinels challenge is full of people who casually spout racist and/or sexist comments. The Champions, who tend to be from more progressive societies, are put off by these attitudes.
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* WorldOfHam: The Blood Feud challenge. Saren and Ravage are definitely the hammiest.
-->'''Saren: Useless prattle.''' Thou hearest report of a great beast who wouldst devour thine kin and end the line of Capulet for the grudge, and what doest thou? Prolong the ordeal and order the service of questionable men in arms, kick away the option of the diplomat! What a [[ShoutOut Sover]][[Franchise/MassEffect aigne]] be thou, what fine orders thou givst!\\
-->'''Saren: Useless prattle.''' Thou hearest report of a great beast who wouldst devour thine kin and end the line of Capulet for the grudge, and what doest thou? Prolong the ordeal and order the service of questionable men in arms, kick away the option of the diplomat! What a [[ShoutOut Sover]][[Franchise/MassEffect aigne]] be thou, what fine orders thou givst!\\
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** The Blood Feud challenge. Saren and Ravage are definitely the hammiest.
-->'''Saren: --->'''Saren: Useless prattle.''' Thou hearest report of a great beast who wouldst devour thine kin and end the line of Capulet for the grudge, and what doest thou? Prolong the ordeal and order the service of questionable men in arms, kick away the option of the diplomat! What a [[ShoutOut Sover]][[Franchise/MassEffect aigne]] be thou, what fine orders thou givst!\\
** The Blood Feud challenge. Saren and Ravage are definitely the hammiest.
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*** The Silver Sentinels challenge takes place in a world based on UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks, so naturally '''everyone''' and '''everything''' talks with the '''utmost BOMBAST!'''
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-->'''"Ridiculous wretches,"''' Rav roared, taking aim at the walruses with his ray gun. '''"Were these really the roughest roughnecks you could rouse to rattle your regulators, Doctor? Rav the Ruthless Rocketeer Ravager of Rigel relates his righteous and reserved ridicule!"'''
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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Ravage's superhero identity in the Silver Sentinels challenge is "Rav, the Ruthless Rocketeer Ravager from Rigel", and when he speaks, he tries to cram in as many words that start with the letter R as possible.
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-->'''Ravage:''' I dislike this place, I really do...and I dislike the gosh-darned fact that my ''own speech is being sliding censored before it can even '''leave my slippery mouth!'''''
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* MagicalProfanityFilter: In the Silver Sentinels challenge, the Champions quickly discover that some force is preventing them from swearing. Whenever they try, all that comes out is GoshDarnItToHeck equivalents.
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* EmotionControl: The Champions encounter two [=SCPs=] that instill specific powerful emotions in whatever they interact with. One is a gelatinous blob that makes anyone it touches unreasonably happy, while the other is a depressed-looking frog with a human face that makes anyone it stares at unconsolably sad. The two creatures are immune to each other's powers.
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* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Roach says this phrase when the Champions encounter the Anglerfish Monster in the Magical Girl challenge. The monster's own reaction implies that all his past victims have said it, too.
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* CoveredInGunge: During a lull in the Halo Reach challenge, a bored Sigma decides to entertain himself by spraying raw sewage all over Spriggan.
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* ParrotExposition: In the WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} side challenge, Professor Farnsworth cheerfully informs the Champions that they'll be delivering Christmas letters to Santa's Death Fortress on Neptune. Ravage and Gordon can only repeat the words "Death Fortress on Neptune" in disbelief.
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* YouWouldntShootMe: A variation occurs in the Halo Reach challenge. Jorge, fed up with Tron for constantly arguing against any attempt to save the civilians of Reach, grabs Tron by the throat and threatens to drop him from the Pelican they're riding. Tron retorts that he doesn't believe Jorge will do this, even in his current emotionally compromised state. Jorge simply retorts "You're wrong" and lets Tron plummet hundreds of feet to his death.
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* CurbstompCushion: The end result of a Ravage vs. Rey "match" is evident, but Rey manages to land a couple of hits before he's taken down.
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* MexicanStandoff: During the lull between the Magical Girl and Halo Reach challenges, Craft and Ravage end up holding each other at gunpoint after the latter starts waving a gun around in frustration and the former orders him to stand down. Tron tries to butt in on Craft's side and gets a few warning shots fired at him for his trouble, but ultimately the situation defuses itself.
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* DisappointedByTheMotive: At the climax of the Magical Girl challenge, the Collector reveals its backstory and motives: it's an old man who decided to become immortal by slaughtering enough people to bathe in their blood, and he needs to repeat the process every five years to sustain his immortality. These revelations earn it nothing but contempt and disgust from the Champions and Ms. Nakamura.
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** A concussed Ravage [[WaxingLyrical quotes lines]] from the song "[[Music/TheLonelyIsland Like a Boss]]" for almost an entire page.
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** In the Magical Girl challenge, Hahli is approached by a weird bum who asks if she [[WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}} wants to see something strange and mystical]].
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* LuringInPrey: In the Magical Girl challenge, Hahli wanders off alone and encounters a weird bum who tries to tempt her into entering his alleyway. He turns out to be the lure of a man-eating anglerfish monster.
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* TentacledTerror: In the Magical Girl challenge, a random squid monster attacks Gordon[=/=]Gardenia when she tries to walk home alone.
