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The Life SMP, or the Life series, is a hardcore ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' survival series started by Grian. It features [=YouTubers=] such as LetsPlay/{{InTheLittleWood}}, [=SolidarityGaming=], Smajor, [=LDShadowLady=], and several members of ''WebVideo/{{Hermitcraft}}'', like Rendog, [=GoodTimesWithScar=], [=ZombieCleo=], [=TangoTek=], LetsPlay/{{Etho|sLab}}, and [=impulseSV=].

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The Life SMP, ''Life SMP'', or the Life series, ''Life Series'', is a hardcore ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' survival series started by Grian. It features [=YouTubers=] such as LetsPlay/{{InTheLittleWood}}, [=SolidarityGaming=], Smajor, [=LDShadowLady=], and several members of ''WebVideo/{{Hermitcraft}}'', like Rendog, [=GoodTimesWithScar=], [=ZombieCleo=], [=TangoTek=], LetsPlay/{{Etho|sLab}}, and [=impulseSV=].



The Life SMP is taped in three-hour recording sessions mostly on Friday, and each person's perspective is uploaded to [=YouTube=] somewhere within the following week.

3rd Life began on April 20th, 2021, and ended on June 8th, 2021. A second season -- later dubbed Last Life -- was announced in Grian's final episode of Season 1, officially started on September 21st, 2021 and ended on November 16th, 2021. Grian uncertainly teased a third season at the end of his last Season 2 episode, later confirmed Season 3 in his 12th episode of Hermitcraft Season 9, and Double Life started airing on June 17th, 2022 and ended on July 22nd, 2022. Grian later confirmed there would be a fourth season taking place, and Limited Life started on March 3rd, 2023 and ended on April 21st, 2023. The fifth season, Secret Life, started on October 20th, 2023 and ended on December 15th, 2023. A one-off season, Real Life, premiered on [[AprilFoolsDay April 1st]], 2024.

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The Life SMP is taped in three-hour recording sessions mostly on Friday, early in a given week, and each person's perspective is uploaded to [=YouTube=] somewhere within around the following week.

3rd Life
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''3rd Life''
began on April 20th, 2021, and ended on June 8th, 2021. 8th. A second season -- later dubbed Last Life ''Last Life'' -- was announced in Grian's final episode of Season 1, episode, officially started starting on September 21st, 2021 and ended ending on November 16th, 2021. Grian uncertainly teased a 16th. The third season at the end of his last Season 2 episode, later confirmed Season 3 in his 12th episode of Hermitcraft Season 9, and Double Life started airing season, ''Double Life'', began on June 17th, 2022 and ended on July 22nd, 2022. Grian later confirmed there would be with a fourth season taking place, and Limited Life started fourth, ''Limited Life'', starting on March 3rd, 2023 and ended ending on April 21st, 2023. The fifth season, Secret Life, started and a fifth, ''Secret Life'', starting on October 20th, 2023 and ended ending on December 15th, 2023. 15th.

A one-off season, Real Life, special, ''Real Life'', premiered on [[AprilFoolsDay April 1st]], 2024.



# ''WebVideo/ThirdLifeSMP'' (2021)
# ''WebVideo/LastLifeSMP'' (2021)
# ''WebVideo/DoubleLifeSMP'' (2022)
# ''WebVideo/LimitedLifeSMP'' (2023)
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# ''WebVideo/ThirdLifeSMP'' ''[[WebVideo/ThirdLifeSMP 3rd Life]]'' (2021)
# ''WebVideo/LastLifeSMP'' ''[[WebVideo/LastLifeSMP Last Life]]'' (2021)
# ''WebVideo/DoubleLifeSMP'' ''[[WebVideo/DoubleLifeSMP Double Life]]'' (2022)
# ''WebVideo/LimitedLifeSMP'' ''[[WebVideo/LimitedLifeSMP Limited Life]]'' (2023)
# ''WebVideo/SecretLifeSMP'' ''[[WebVideo/SecretLifeSMP Secret Life]]'' (2023)



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** The personalized secret tasks in Secret Life must be fulfilled. If a player fails their task, they get no hearts at the end of the session. If a player fails a rerolled harder task, they lose 10 hearts.

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** The personalized secret tasks in Secret Life must be fulfilled.fulfilled to counter the AntiRegeneration gimmick of the season. If a player fails their task, they get no hearts at the end of the session. If a player fails a rerolled harder task, they lose 10 hearts.

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* AprilFoolsDay: The season was released on April 1st, 2024.
* AugmentedReality: The gimmick of the one-shot season is that the creators are playing on Minecraft VR, resulting in visual oddities like players' hot bars being on their left arms and moving alongside them, making it difficult to keep track of one's health and the in-game chat.
* CallBack:
** Big B, as he infamously did in Secret Life, tries to confuse others using a hole.
** Martyn is once again the murderer of Pearl's dog, whose name even rhymes with Tilly!
** Pearl is once again the centerpiece of another impromptu slumber party of sorts. Martyn even muses that he has finally been invited to the party that he missed back in Secret Life.
* ContentWarnings: A handful of [=POVs=] preface their videos with a warning that the VR set-up may cause motion sickness for both the creators and the viewers.
* DeadlyEuphemism: Jimmy and Grian invite everyone to join their club if they want to. Jimmy and Grian are the only Reds on the server at the time. Scar doesn't put two and two together.
* HistoryRepeats: Scott, Cleo, and Pearl end up working together, and quickly realise they've accidentally recreated their ''Last Life'' "Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss" group.
* LastSecondWordSwap: When Cleo is jumpscared by a creeper:
-->'''Cleo:''' Oh, shhhhh-ugar.
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* AprilFoolsDay: The season was released on April 1st, 2024.
* AugmentedReality: The gimmick of the one-shot season is that the creators are playing on Minecraft VR, resulting in visual oddities like players' hot bars being on their left arms and moving alongside them, making it difficult to keep track of one's health and the in-game chat.
* CallBack:
** Big B, as he infamously did in Secret Life, tries to confuse others using a hole.
** Martyn is once again the murderer of Pearl's dog, whose name even rhymes with Tilly!
** Pearl is once again the centerpiece of another impromptu slumber party of sorts. Martyn even muses that he has finally been invited to the party that he missed back in Secret Life.
* ContentWarnings: A handful of [=POVs=] preface their videos with a warning that the VR set-up may cause motion sickness for both the creators and the viewers.
* DeadlyEuphemism: Jimmy and Grian invite everyone to join their club if they want to. Jimmy and Grian are the only Reds on the server at the time. Scar doesn't put two and two together.
* HistoryRepeats: Scott, Cleo, and Pearl end up working together, and quickly realise they've accidentally recreated their ''Last Life'' "Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss" group.
* LastSecondWordSwap: When Cleo is jumpscared by a creeper:
-->'''Cleo:''' Oh, shhhhh-ugar.
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%% While the "Eyes and Ears" lore was originally spoilered because it was news in Last Life when this page was recently created, additional incentives for spoilering are that some fans do not like engaging in this lore and because it's exclusive to Martyn's POV -- the spoilering is a compromise for the interests of all fans.

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%% While the "Eyes and Ears" lore was originally spoilered because it was news in Last Life when this page was recently created, additional incentives for spoilering are that some fans do not like engaging in this lore plotline and because it's exclusive to Martyn's POV -- the spoilering is a compromise for the interests of all fans.



The fifth season, Secret Life, alters the formula once more, starting with the return of two once-absent members and one new member. While everyone is back down to three lives this season, players had 30 hearts (i.e. triple the health) per life but no natural regeneration. To regain hearts, they had to complete a secret task given to them at the start of the session and visit the Secret Keeper, and be rewarded with 10 hearts if they succeed and receive nothing if they fail; while the health nominally caps at 30 hearts, the Secret Keeper can alternatively reward players with over 30 hearts with material gifts usually unobtainable in the series. Players can also reroll their assigned task for a harder one in order to gain 20 hearts, but will lose 10 hearts if they fail the rerolled task. In addition, similar to the life-giving mechanism of Season 2, players are allowed to gift one heart to another player per session, but without losing a heart of their own; this is one method by which players can go over 30 hearts. The other method is, similarly to Season 4, by killing people, which grants 10 hearts even when that would make the player go over 30. Much like the previous season, keepInventory is enabled.%%The penalty for ''failing'' to keep one's task a secret before completing it is to reroll for the harder task; it has not been confirmed what the penalty for failing to keep the harder task a secret is(?).This season is a variant of the ultra hardcore (UHC) gamemode.

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The fifth season, Secret Life, alters the formula once more, starting with the return of two once-absent members and one new member. While everyone is back down to three lives this season, players had 30 hearts (i.e. triple the health) per life but no natural regeneration. To regain hearts, they had to complete a secret task given to them at the start of the session and visit the Secret Keeper, and be rewarded with 10 hearts if they succeed and receive nothing if they fail; while the health nominally caps at 30 hearts, the Secret Keeper can alternatively reward players with over 30 hearts with material gifts usually unobtainable in the series. Players can also reroll their assigned task for a harder one in order to gain 20 hearts, but will lose 10 hearts if they fail the rerolled task. In addition, similar to the life-giving mechanism of Season 2, players are allowed to gift one heart to another player per session, but without losing a heart of their own; this is one method by which players can go over 30 hearts. The other method is, similarly to Season 4, by killing people, which grants 10 hearts even when that would make the player go over 30. Much like the previous season, keepInventory is enabled.%%The penalty for ''failing'' to keep one's task a secret before completing it is to reroll for the harder task; it has not been confirmed what the penalty for failing to keep the harder task a secret is(?).This season is a variant of the ultra hardcore (UHC) gamemode.



3rd Life began on April 20th, 2021, and ended on June 8th, 2021. A second season -- later dubbed Last Life -- was announced in Grian's final episode of Season 1, officially started on September 21st, 2021 and ended on November 16th, 2021. Grian uncertainly teased a third season at the end of his last Season 2 episode, later confirmed Season 3 in his 12th episode of Hermitcraft Season 9, and Double Life started airing on June 17th, 2022 and ended on July 22nd, 2022. Grian confirmed there would be a fourth season taking place, and Limited Life started on March 3rd, 2023 and ended on April 21st, 2023. The fifth season, Secret Life, started on October 20th, 2023 and ended on December 15th, 2023. A one-off season, Real Life, premiered on [[AprilFoolsDay April 1st]], 2024.

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3rd Life began on April 20th, 2021, and ended on June 8th, 2021. A second season -- later dubbed Last Life -- was announced in Grian's final episode of Season 1, officially started on September 21st, 2021 and ended on November 16th, 2021. Grian uncertainly teased a third season at the end of his last Season 2 episode, later confirmed Season 3 in his 12th episode of Hermitcraft Season 9, and Double Life started airing on June 17th, 2022 and ended on July 22nd, 2022. Grian later confirmed there would be a fourth season taking place, and Limited Life started on March 3rd, 2023 and ended on April 21st, 2023. The fifth season, Secret Life, started on October 20th, 2023 and ended on December 15th, 2023. A one-off season, Real Life, premiered on [[AprilFoolsDay April 1st]], 2024.



!!List of seasons of the ''Life SMP'':
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# ''WebVideo/ThirdLifeSMP'' (2021)
# ''WebVideo/LastLifeSMP'' (2021)
# ''WebVideo/DoubleLifeSMP'' (2022)
# ''WebVideo/LimitedLifeSMP'' (2023)
# ''WebVideo/SecretLifeSMP'' (2023)
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** The personalized secret tasks in Secret Life must be fullfilled. If a player fails their task, they get no hearts at the end of the session. If a player fails a rerolled harder task, they lose 10 hearts.

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** The personalized secret tasks in Secret Life must be fullfilled.fulfilled. If a player fails their task, they get no hearts at the end of the session. If a player fails a rerolled harder task, they lose 10 hearts.



** Averted with the Boogeyman in Season 2, who is randomly chosen from the pool of Yellow and Green lives, and after Day 2 is granted a temporary buff after making their kill to prevent instantly getting revenge-killed afterwards by their target's allies.

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** Averted with the Boogeyman in from Season 2, 2 onward, who is randomly chosen from the pool of Yellow and Green lives, and after Day 2 is granted a temporary buff after making their kill to prevent instantly getting revenge-killed afterwards by their target's allies.



* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: No one on the server wears a helmet. [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]] in that one of the rules of the server specifies that no one is allowed to wear one, presumably so they're more recognizable in others' videos.

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* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: No one on the server wears a helmet. [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]] {{Enforced|Trope}} in that one of the rules of the server specifies that no one is allowed to wear one, presumably so they're more recognizable in others' videos.



* PrecisionFStrike:

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* PrecisionFStrike:PrecisionFStrike: While the series is mostly PG/PG-13, there are a few moments where the creator-characters curse without it being edited out.



* RunningGag:%%to be split by season if possible
** As of 3rd Life, Martyn likes to play a Creeper's hiss sound while in groups of people to scare them. So far, he has successfully scared everyone at least once.
** During Last Life, Mumbo repeatedly loses/gives away the spyglasses that Jimmy makes for him, solely to annoy Jimmy.
** Following the massive success of Grian's TNT trap killing three people in 3rd Life, all his subsequent traps aside from the redstone-less bubble elevator trap either fail to work or somehow don't kill anyone when they do work, leading him to be increasingly exasperated at his own lack of redstone expertise. In Season 2, he outright says that it seems to be a running gag for traps to never work, leading to [[MassOhCrap extreme surprise]] on the rare occasion a trap ''does'' work.
** During Last Life, there's an amusing trend of people building secret rooms underground and behind walls with a respawn bed and a chest of supplies in case they die, and when they die and respawn there, discovering that they forgot to leave themselves a pickaxe to get out of the room so they must slowly break their way out by hand.
** In most Season 2 episodes, Martyn and the other Southlanders like to watch Mumbo doing his intro from a distance, often through spyglasses, while Martyn does an impression of Mumbo.
** When Scar changes into his purple wizard robes in Last Life, several people ask why he's dressed as a grape, much to his annoyance.

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* RunningGag:%%to be split by season if possible
** As of 3rd Life, Martyn likes to play a Creeper's hiss sound while in groups of people to scare them. So far, he has successfully scared everyone at least once.
** During Last Life, Mumbo repeatedly loses/gives away the spyglasses that Jimmy makes for him, solely to annoy Jimmy.
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RunningGag: Following the massive success of Grian's TNT trap killing three people in 3rd Life, all his subsequent traps aside from the redstone-less bubble elevator trap either fail to work or somehow don't kill anyone when they do work, leading him to be increasingly exasperated at his own lack of redstone expertise. In Season 2, Last Life, he outright says that it seems to be a running gag for traps to never work, leading to [[MassOhCrap extreme surprise]] on the rare occasion a trap ''does'' work.
** During Last Life, there's an amusing trend of people building secret rooms underground and behind walls with a respawn bed and a chest of supplies in case they die, and when they die and respawn there, discovering that they forgot to leave themselves a pickaxe to get out of the room so they must slowly break their way out by hand.
** In most Season 2 episodes, Martyn and the other Southlanders like to watch Mumbo doing his intro from a distance, often through spyglasses, while Martyn does an impression of Mumbo.
** When Scar changes into his purple wizard robes in Last Life, several people ask why he's dressed as a grape, much to his annoyance.
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* ShoutOut:%%to be split by season
** One defunct faction from 3rd Life early on is "the Music/VillagePeople". At least one ''YMCA'' joke was made.
** Dogwarts' overall aesthetic and dynamics have been compared to ''Literature/HarryPotter'' turning into ''Series/GameOfThrones'' by the server-members themselves.
** When Grian is rigging a trap in Dogwarts' basement on Day 6 of 3rd Life, Scott compares him to [[WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire Vinny Santorini]].
** On Day 6 of Last Life, Scott tells Pearl and Cleo that he intends to ambush Jimmy and Lizzie for his Boogeyman kill. Upon leaving, Cleo calls after him, "[[Film/ThePrincessBride Have fun storming the castle!]]"
** Also on Day 6 of Last Life, five people decide to play a game of Red Light, Green Light in the style of ''Series/SquidGame'', meaning anyone caught moving gets shot ([[AnnoyingArrows although a single arrow isn't fatal]]). Martyn even creates his thumbnail to have himself, Etho, Bdubs and Impulse in green jumpsuits and Grian dressed as the giant doll, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfs4WbUXu68 names the episode "Red Light, Green Light".]]
** After Bdubs, Martyn and Scar rescue some Allays from a Pillager outpost on Day 1 of Duble Life, Bdubs compares them to [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Navi]].
** Scar's InSeriesNickname for the Ranchers is "the Jolly Ranchers", after the candy brand.
** When Tango chews out Cleo for her EscortDistraction that cost him and Jimmy their goats on Day 2 of Double Life, he says, "[[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail I blast my horn in your general direction!]]"
** In the finale of Double Life, Grian gathers the other Red Names (and honorary Red Name Pearl) on the server to form "[[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings the Fellowship of the Red]]" to knock the Yellow Names down to Red.
** In Limited Life, the faction based on the Coral Isles is known as "the [[Film/MeanGirls Mean Gills]]", and their strategically-placed dolphins are named 'WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}' and 'Bingo' (with Martyn singing the theme song when he hears this).
** The frog which Jimmy and the Nosy Neighbours feud custody over is named "[[Film/HotFuzz Judge Judy And Executioner]]"; the reference is very much invoked.
** During the mourning period for Bread Bridge on Day 5 of Limited Life, the Bad Boys compare their solemn suits coupled with their sunglasses to the attire of the Franchise/MenInBlack.
** When the Big Dogs faction collectively goes Red mere seconds after each other in Secret Life, cue some dejected jokes across the server that they're now Literature/{{Clifford the Big Red Dog}}s.
** Etho's assigned secret task on Day 5 of Secret Life is to never move when someone is directly looking at him, like a [[Series/DoctorWho Weeping Angel]].
** While trying to clue Cleo in on her secret task on Day 6 of Secret Life, Scar claims to have hated watching ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'' growing up, in nod to a famous scene from the movie which fits Cleo's task requirements; Cleo doesn't clock on to this and instead sings "Do-Re-Mi" to Impulse in an attempt to guess her task.



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* NumberOneDime: PlayedForDrama. The Dogwarts banner which Scar steals on Day 5. It's from the first batch of banners created; when everyone else points out they have many more identical banners, Martyn says it holds sentimental value... hence Dogwarts' relentless attempts to kill Scar, since he's stuck the thing on his shield and has constantly held on to it. This culminates into literal ''battles'' where many server-members are killed, sometimes [[KilledOffForReal permanently]], and Dogwarts never end up getting their banner back in the end.
* AccompliceByInaction: Right after Tango is executed by a firing squad, everyone thinks that's that... until Bdubs tells Etho that he too must be punished for not reporting Tango for breaking the rules, causing him to be executed in the same way.
* AllForNothing: In an attempt to gain a monopoly over all the dark oak wood on the server, Grian and Scar spend an hour on Day 1 chopping down a dark oak forest to ensure they'd be the only one with saplings... not knowing that there is a ''second'' dark oak forest in a secluded corner of the map, right by Scott and Jimmy's base. When they hear on Day 2 that Scar scammed both Joel and Cleo out of their items by promising them dark oak saplings sometime in the future, they start distributing free dark oak saplings to everyone else out of spite.
* AnvilOnHead: On Day 6, Joel attempts to {{invoke|dTrope}} this on Scott by setting up a trap at his base while he is away fighting, so that two anvils will fall on his head when he tries to enter. {{Subverted|Trope}} in that the trap was not set up correctly and only succeeds in giving Scott two free anvils.
* BettingMiniGame: Jimmy's "Chick Chance" game that he runs on Day 4 in an attempt to multiply his own diamonds. Participants place bets on whether or not a chicken will spawn from five eggs thrown in the air, which according to Jimmy is a 50/50 chance.
* BigFancyCastle: Several of them have been built across the server, such as Etho's lava walled wool castle and Bdubs' and Cleo's [[MyNaymeIs Crastle]] with a moat.
* BigYes: Grian shouts this out after successfully killing 3 people with his TNT trap, [[FissionMailed even though it initially failed]].
* {{Bookends}}: Scar is the first and last to die, killed by Grian in both cases.[[note]]That is, if you exclude Grian's LastSurvivorSuicide.[[/note]]
* {{Cliffhanger}}: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Day 5 ends with an all-out war between the Desert and Renchanting that doesn't see an end in that episode. However, Day 6 starts without this fight... and then it becomes a DoubleSubversion when the fight resumes mid-episode.
* CommonLawMarriage: The "Flower Husbands", who simply have a small love declaration alongside FlowersOfRomance (on Jimmy's part) before settling in the same corner of the map together -- it's not like there's time or resources in the middle of a DeadlyGame for them to have a proper ceremony anyway. They proceed to [[BattleCouple fight alongside each other]] in the brewing war... until things start ''really'' [[KilledOffForReal hitting the fan]], at least.
* DeadlyPrank: The first death on the server is caused by Grian leading a creeper over to a cluster of players to scare them, then setting it off by accident, blowing Scar up. This ultimately kick-starts the plotline of the season.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In 3rd Life, Etho loves to make fun of the size of the Crastle to annoy Bdubs, as well as Bdubs' real-life height, which is actually average despite his testiness about it. After Etho gets Cleo to do the same, she [[LampshadeHanging points out that this trope is in play]].
* DownerEnding: Everyone dies. That much was a ForegoneConclusion. Grian's perspective really hammers it in: after an entire series of him and Scar wanting to make it big together, their friendship collapses and the two fight to the death. Grian wins, but his victory is hollow -- everyone else is dead, and his only true friend for the entire series is gone at his hands. Grian ends the series by taking his own life: he didn't die with riches, friends, and power -- he died sad, poor, and alone, in the ruins of his and Scar's magnum opus.
* EnemyMine:
** The Crastle (Bdubs especially) was never on great terms with the Sand People, due to hostilities from the Desert's side that resulted in the loss of Bdubs' second life, and even the alliance that Cleo forged between the factions was tenuous at best. However, after the Battle for the Red Desert destroyed the Sand People's home base, and the resulting fight between the Crastle and Dogwarts resulted in the elimination of Cleo, Bdubs realized it'd be foolish to reject the Sand People's allegiance and invited them into the Crastle right before it was besieged.
** The server ended up devolving into politics because of a schism between the Desert and the Flower Forest over the monopoly on dark oak. When things really get down to the wire, however, these two factions end up forming an alliance at the end of Day 5.
* ExplosiveStupidity: The TNT minecart trap on Day 4 (the one that netted Grian the highest kill count on the server) definitely counts. First off, [[EpicFail it doesn't even detonate at first]], meaning Grian misses out on so many more kills. However, as Scott proposes a fairly foolproof idea of detonating the bomb without killing anyone (shooting it from a distance with an arrow), Jimmy spies the TNT. For a myriad of reasons, ranging from greed[[note]]Gunpowder is a fairly uncommon mob drop and Grian and Scar have a monopoly on sand, so TNT is a rare item[[/note]] to generally not thinking things through[[note]]For some reason, Jimmy believed the bomb was disarmed despite ample warnings that it wasn't[[/note]], Jimmy immediately goes to grab it... and nudges the TNT minecart ever so slightly, which ''immediately'' sets off the bomb. Most of the people around the bomb have left by now, but the resulting explosion still kills Jimmy, Skizz, and Ren, placing the former two on their last life and destroying all three players' items ([[AllForNothing including the TNT Jimmy wanted so badly]]).
* FlowerMotifs: The Flower Forest faction and relationship within is represented, both in this series and [[WebVideo/EmpiresSMP beyond]], with gifts of poppies as FlowersOfRomance.
* {{Gaslighting}}: Martyn builds a creeper face in Jimmy's house and gets Scott to join him in pretending they don't know where it came from. Soon thereafter, Scott leaves a cake in Jimmy's secret room and feigns ignorance to make Jimmy paranoid about it.
* GilliganCut: On Day 3, Bdubs tells Cleo that he won't participate in Tango's minigame, Dare To Flare, calling it a "stupid little game". The next shot? Bdubs telling Impulse he wants to play.
* AGodAmI: Alluded to; the Renchanting slogan that Martyn came up with is "Don't be a dog, be a god."
* GreyAndGrayMorality: None of the people or factions on the server are what you would call morally upstanding. Dogwarts actively seeks to kill everyone on the server and wages war against those who refuse to join them; the Desert scams everyone out of everything and sets up traps for their allies and enemies alike, and its two core members are only truly loyal to each other, not even their allies. Even the Flower Forest, arguably the most peaceful faction, [[NeutralNoLonger joins the Desert after they've been threatened by Dogwarts]], and when Jimmy is killed, Scott goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, vowing to destroy Dogwarts for murdering his husband.
* IronicName: The Pufferish of Peace is gifted and named as a symbol of the alliance between the Red Desert and the Flower Forest, the latter being one of the most peaceful factions on the server. When the warmongering Dogwarts gets ahold of it, with Martyn stealing it from the Flower Forest just before the Battle of the Red Desert, it's repeatedly used [[PainfulPointyPufferfish as a weapon of war]].
* KansasCityShuffle: After Grian sets up a water elevator in Bdubs's castle on Day 5, Bdubs catches Grian with pufferfish and Grian admits that he'd tried to rig the elevator with it. Bdubs is happy that he caught Grian before the trap could be complete... and proceeds to burn to death when he goes up the elevator, realizing too late that Grian ''had'' rigged his trap -- and that said trap was ''lava''.
* MassOhCrap: When Scar reaches his last life and becomes the first person ever to go Red, everyone else ''freaks out'', especially those on bad terms with the Red Desert, resulting in many hasty alliances being made to try and ensure their safety.
* MistakenForBetrayal: Ren orders Martyn to kill him using a renamed axe to turn him Red, causing a death message to appear in chat stating that Martyn killed Ren and that "Red Winter is coming". Skizz, not knowing Ren was the one who asked to be killed, assumes Martyn has turned on Ren and runs to Dogwarts to help.
* MoodWhiplash: On Day 1, a large group meets up in the center of the map to trade resources, exchange information and dance to Bdubs' jukebox... until night falls, and about a dozen phantoms suddenly swoop down on them, sending all of them running for cover.
* PalatialSandcastle: The base Grian built on top of the Monopoly Mountain was a sandcastle that is large enough for him and Scar to reside in the desert for the majority of the season before it was destroyed on Day 6, resulting in Grian and Scar moving away to a bunker.
* PassThePopcorn: As the Red Desert briefly siege the Crastle, Martyn and Ren have just returned from recruiting Etho into Dogwarts; having no stake in the conflict at that point, the two simply stand back to watch the fireworks, with the former discussing eating popcorn during their joint commentary of the attack.
* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: Said to Scar many times by various people, since he chooses to not wear a shirt throughout the season.
* PointOfNoReturn: Grian sticks with Scar even after losing his first life since it's clear there's no way he's avoiding retribution even if he ditches Scar; he's simply become too involved in the politics of the server to back out now.
* ARareSentence: "You don't just climb into a coffin with another man and not be bros for life."
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After Jimmy is killed in the Battle of the Red Desert, Scott -- who up until this point had been trying to stay out of conflict as much as possible -- [[CrusadingWidow vows to get his revenge]] on Ren and the rest of Dogwarts, and joins the Desert in their offensive. This rampage nets him a KillTally of two and a count of arson before he himself gets KilledOffForReal by Dogwarts.
* RuleOfThree:
** Scar goes to burn Etho's base in revenge for Pizza, and it takes him three tries to do it.
** The name of the season is 3rd Life, and each player gets three lives.
* {{Scandalgate}}: {{Parodied|Trope}} near the end of Day 4, when Martyn refers to the TNT minecart triple kill incident as "Gategate".
* ShotAtDawn: Tango is executed by firing squad for violating the "No Helmets" rule.
* SoleSurvivor: Grian wins the final fight between himself and Scar, making him the winner of 3rd Life. [[LastSurvivorSuicide It doesn't last]].
* SuddenlySignificantRule: The "No Helmets" rule, which hasn't been paid much mind, suddenly becomes ''very'' important on Day 5 when Tango breaks it and is sentenced to execution by firing squad.
* ThereWasADoor: Most people opt to break through Dogwarts' wall rather than use the door, much to Ren's annoyance.
* TogetherInDeath: After being KilledOffForReal, TheStinger of Scott's perspective of the finale has Jimmy give him an AfterlifeWelcome in a completed version of the Flower Forest. CanonWelding with ''WebVideo/EmpiresSMP'' Season 1 also gives them a ReincarnationRomance.
* TooDumbToLive: {{Discussed|Trope}} twice.
** On Day 6, Grian rigs the Desert to immediately explode when someone enters the main base. Scar, ''his own ally'', considers stepping on the pressure plate, and Grian notes that if Scar dies, he won't even feel bad because he's been warned so many times. Later in the day, Scar admits he nearly stepped on the plate and only didn't from an accidental bug. He then intentionally sets it off to try and take out his enemies, but only ends up harming (but thankfully not killing) himself and Tango.
** On Day 7, after Jimmy is KilledOffForReal, Grian notes he kind of had it coming since he not only failed to activate a trap despite ample warning, but only ''did'' activate the trap ''when Grian, his own ally, was caught inside''.
* WarIsHell: While the server starts out with faction politics as the main source of conflict, the latter half of the season drives home the point how the escalating conflict as a ''war'' has brought nothing but horrors for everyone. By the last two sessions of the season, even the relatively pacifistic players have had to take up arms, former friends have drifted apart and turned against each other as leading figures on opposite sides, most server-members have lost allies and friends (and in at least one case, suffered from bereavement) before being taken out themselves -- oftentimes without mercy, and even the "winning" faction has destroyed their home in the process and ultimately gets a DownerEnding by the nature of the DeadlyGame itself.
* WhamEpisode: Day 7. Where do we begin...
** Grian, Scott, Martyn, and Impulse each lose their first life, leaving Big B as the only remaining Green Name. Even then, that's only because he was PutOnABus for the episode, and his bright green IGN only serves to put a large target on his back when he returns on Day 8.
** Grian goes back on something he's pledged for the entire series and decides to stick around with Scar in spite of his "first life" rule -- he's past the PointOfNoReturn regarding the collapsing politics of the server, and even if he ditched Scar he'd still be a big target.
** Jimmy, Cleo, and Skizz are KilledOffForReal, making them the first permanent casualties of the server.
** The Red Desert is left a smoking crater in the aftermath of a vicious battle.
* WhenTreesAttack: Cleo gets a scare on Day 1 when a sapling she was standing over grows into a tree, nearly suffocating her inside its trunk.

to:

[[folder:3rd [[folder:Real Life]]
* NumberOneDime: PlayedForDrama. AprilFoolsDay: The Dogwarts banner which Scar steals season was released on Day 5. It's from the first batch of banners created; when everyone else points out they have many more identical banners, Martyn says it holds sentimental value... hence Dogwarts' relentless attempts to kill Scar, since he's stuck the thing on his shield and has constantly held on to it. This culminates into literal ''battles'' where many server-members are killed, sometimes [[KilledOffForReal permanently]], and Dogwarts never end up getting their banner back in the end.
April 1st, 2024.
* AccompliceByInaction: Right after Tango is executed by a firing squad, everyone thinks that's that... until Bdubs tells Etho that he too must be punished for not reporting Tango for breaking the rules, causing him to be executed in the same way.
* AllForNothing: In an attempt to gain a monopoly over all the dark oak wood on the server, Grian and Scar spend an hour on Day 1 chopping down a dark oak forest to ensure they'd be the only one with saplings... not knowing that there is a ''second'' dark oak forest in a secluded corner
AugmentedReality: The gimmick of the map, right by Scott and Jimmy's base. When they hear on Day 2 that Scar scammed both Joel and Cleo out of their items by promising them dark oak saplings sometime in the future, they start distributing free dark oak saplings to everyone else out of spite.
* AnvilOnHead: On Day 6, Joel attempts to {{invoke|dTrope}} this on Scott by setting up a trap at his base while he
one-shot season is away fighting, so that two anvils will fall on his head when he tries to enter. {{Subverted|Trope}} in that the trap was not set up correctly creators are playing on Minecraft VR, resulting in visual oddities like players' hot bars being on their left arms and only succeeds in giving Scott two free anvils.
* BettingMiniGame: Jimmy's "Chick Chance" game that he runs on Day 4 in an attempt to multiply his own diamonds. Participants place bets on whether or not a chicken will spawn from five eggs thrown in the air, which according to Jimmy is a 50/50 chance.
* BigFancyCastle: Several of them have been built across the server, such as Etho's lava walled wool castle and Bdubs' and Cleo's [[MyNaymeIs Crastle]] with a moat.
* BigYes: Grian shouts this out after successfully killing 3 people with his TNT trap, [[FissionMailed even though it initially failed]].
* {{Bookends}}: Scar is the first and last to die, killed by Grian in both cases.[[note]]That is, if you exclude Grian's LastSurvivorSuicide.[[/note]]
* {{Cliffhanger}}: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Day 5 ends with an all-out war between the Desert and Renchanting that doesn't see an end in that episode. However, Day 6 starts without this fight... and then it becomes a DoubleSubversion when the fight resumes mid-episode.
* CommonLawMarriage: The "Flower Husbands", who simply have a small love declaration
moving alongside FlowersOfRomance (on Jimmy's part) before settling in them, making it difficult to keep track of one's health and the same corner of in-game chat.
* CallBack:
** Big B, as he infamously did in Secret Life, tries to confuse others using a hole.
** Martyn is once again
the map together -- it's not like there's time or resources in murderer of Pearl's dog, whose name even rhymes with Tilly!
** Pearl is once again
the middle centerpiece of another impromptu slumber party of sorts. Martyn even muses that he has finally been invited to the party that he missed back in Secret Life.
* ContentWarnings: A handful of [=POVs=] preface their videos with
a DeadlyGame warning that the VR set-up may cause motion sickness for them to have a proper ceremony anyway. They proceed to [[BattleCouple fight alongside each other]] in both the brewing war... until things start ''really'' [[KilledOffForReal hitting creators and the fan]], at least.
viewers.
* DeadlyPrank: The first death DeadlyEuphemism: Jimmy and Grian invite everyone to join their club if they want to. Jimmy and Grian are the only Reds on the server is caused by Grian leading a creeper over to a cluster of players to scare them, then setting it off by accident, blowing Scar up. This ultimately kick-starts the plotline of the season.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In 3rd Life, Etho loves to make fun of the size of the Crastle to annoy Bdubs, as well as Bdubs' real-life height, which is actually average despite his testiness about it. After Etho gets Cleo to do the same, she [[LampshadeHanging points out that this trope is in play]].
* DownerEnding: Everyone dies. That much was a ForegoneConclusion. Grian's perspective really hammers it in: after an entire series of him and Scar wanting to make it big together, their friendship collapses and the two fight to the death. Grian wins, but his victory is hollow -- everyone else is dead, and his only true friend for the entire series is gone at his hands. Grian ends the series by taking his own life: he didn't die with riches, friends, and power -- he died sad, poor, and alone, in the ruins of his and Scar's magnum opus.
* EnemyMine:
** The Crastle (Bdubs especially) was never on great terms with the Sand People, due to hostilities from the Desert's side that resulted in the loss of Bdubs' second life, and even the alliance that Cleo forged between the factions was tenuous at best. However, after the Battle for the Red Desert destroyed the Sand People's home base, and the resulting fight between the Crastle and Dogwarts resulted in the elimination of Cleo, Bdubs realized it'd be foolish to reject the Sand People's allegiance and invited them into the Crastle right before it was besieged.
** The server ended up devolving into politics because of a schism between the Desert and the Flower Forest over the monopoly on dark oak. When things really get down to the wire, however, these two factions end up forming an alliance
at the end of Day 5.
* ExplosiveStupidity: The TNT minecart trap on Day 4 (the one that netted Grian the highest kill count on the server) definitely counts. First off, [[EpicFail it
time. Scar doesn't even detonate at first]], meaning Grian misses out on so many more kills. However, as Scott proposes a fairly foolproof idea of detonating the bomb without killing anyone (shooting it from a distance with an arrow), Jimmy spies the TNT. For a myriad of reasons, ranging from greed[[note]]Gunpowder is a fairly uncommon mob drop put two and Grian two together.
* HistoryRepeats: Scott, Cleo,
and Scar have a monopoly on sand, so TNT is a rare item[[/note]] to generally not thinking things through[[note]]For some reason, Jimmy believed the bomb was disarmed despite ample warnings that it wasn't[[/note]], Jimmy immediately goes to grab it... Pearl end up working together, and nudges the TNT minecart ever so slightly, which ''immediately'' sets off the bomb. Most of the people around the bomb have left by now, but the resulting explosion still kills Jimmy, Skizz, and Ren, placing the former two on their last life and destroying all three players' items ([[AllForNothing including the TNT Jimmy wanted so badly]]).
* FlowerMotifs: The Flower Forest faction and relationship within is represented, both in this series and [[WebVideo/EmpiresSMP beyond]], with gifts of poppies as FlowersOfRomance.
* {{Gaslighting}}: Martyn builds a creeper face in Jimmy's house and gets Scott to join him in pretending they don't know where it came from. Soon thereafter, Scott leaves a cake in Jimmy's secret room and feigns ignorance to make Jimmy paranoid about it.
* GilliganCut: On Day 3, Bdubs tells Cleo that he won't participate in Tango's minigame, Dare To Flare, calling it a "stupid little game". The next shot? Bdubs telling Impulse he wants to play.
* AGodAmI: Alluded to; the Renchanting slogan that Martyn came up with is "Don't be a dog, be a god."
* GreyAndGrayMorality: None of the people or factions on the server are what you would call morally upstanding. Dogwarts actively seeks to kill everyone on the server and wages war against those who refuse to join them; the Desert scams everyone out of everything and sets up traps for their allies and enemies alike, and its two core members are only truly loyal to each other, not even their allies. Even the Flower Forest, arguably the most peaceful faction, [[NeutralNoLonger joins the Desert after
quickly realise they've been threatened by Dogwarts]], and when Jimmy is killed, Scott goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, vowing to destroy Dogwarts for murdering his husband.
* IronicName: The Pufferish of Peace is gifted and named as a symbol of the alliance between the Red Desert and the Flower Forest, the latter being one of the most peaceful factions on the server. When the warmongering Dogwarts gets ahold of it, with Martyn stealing it from the Flower Forest just before the Battle of the Red Desert, it's repeatedly used [[PainfulPointyPufferfish as a weapon of war]].
* KansasCityShuffle: After Grian sets up a water elevator in Bdubs's castle on Day 5, Bdubs catches Grian with pufferfish and Grian admits that he'd tried to rig the elevator with it. Bdubs is happy that he caught Grian before the trap could be complete... and proceeds to burn to death when he goes up the elevator, realizing too late that Grian ''had'' rigged his trap -- and that said trap was ''lava''.
* MassOhCrap: When Scar reaches his last life and becomes the first person ever to go Red, everyone else ''freaks out'', especially those on bad terms with the Red Desert, resulting in many hasty alliances being made to try and ensure
accidentally recreated their safety.
''Last Life'' "Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss" group.
* MistakenForBetrayal: Ren orders Martyn to kill him using a renamed axe to turn him Red, causing a death message to appear in chat stating that Martyn killed Ren and that "Red Winter is coming". Skizz, not knowing Ren was the one who asked to be killed, assumes Martyn has turned on Ren and runs to Dogwarts to help.
* MoodWhiplash: On Day 1, a large group meets up in the center of the map to trade resources, exchange information and dance to Bdubs' jukebox... until night falls, and about a dozen phantoms suddenly swoop down on them, sending all of them running for cover.
* PalatialSandcastle: The base Grian built on top of the Monopoly Mountain was a sandcastle that is large enough for him and Scar to reside in the desert for the majority of the season before it was destroyed on Day 6, resulting in Grian and Scar moving away to a bunker.
* PassThePopcorn: As the Red Desert briefly siege the Crastle, Martyn and Ren have just returned from recruiting Etho into Dogwarts; having no stake in the conflict at that point, the two simply stand back to watch the fireworks, with the former discussing eating popcorn during their joint commentary of the attack.
* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: Said to Scar many times by various people, since he chooses to not wear a shirt throughout the season.
* PointOfNoReturn: Grian sticks with Scar even after losing his first life since it's clear there's no way he's avoiding retribution even if he ditches Scar; he's simply become too involved in the politics of the server to back out now.
* ARareSentence: "You don't just climb into a coffin with another man and not be bros for life."
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After Jimmy is killed in the Battle of the Red Desert, Scott -- who up until this point had been trying to stay out of conflict as much as possible -- [[CrusadingWidow vows to get his revenge]] on Ren and the rest of Dogwarts, and joins the Desert in their offensive. This rampage nets him a KillTally of two and a count of arson before he himself gets KilledOffForReal by Dogwarts.
* RuleOfThree:
** Scar goes to burn Etho's base in revenge for Pizza, and it takes him three tries to do it.
** The name of the season is 3rd Life, and each player gets three lives.
* {{Scandalgate}}: {{Parodied|Trope}} near the end of Day 4, when Martyn refers to the TNT minecart triple kill incident as "Gategate".
* ShotAtDawn: Tango is executed by firing squad for violating the "No Helmets" rule.
* SoleSurvivor: Grian wins the final fight between himself and Scar, making him the winner of 3rd Life. [[LastSurvivorSuicide It doesn't last]].
* SuddenlySignificantRule: The "No Helmets" rule, which hasn't been paid much mind, suddenly becomes ''very'' important on Day 5 when Tango breaks it and is sentenced to execution by firing squad.
* ThereWasADoor: Most people opt to break through Dogwarts' wall rather than use the door, much to Ren's annoyance.
* TogetherInDeath: After being KilledOffForReal, TheStinger of Scott's perspective of the finale has Jimmy give him an AfterlifeWelcome in a completed version of the Flower Forest. CanonWelding with ''WebVideo/EmpiresSMP'' Season 1 also gives them a ReincarnationRomance.
* TooDumbToLive: {{Discussed|Trope}} twice.
** On Day 6, Grian rigs the Desert to immediately explode when someone enters the main base. Scar, ''his own ally'', considers stepping on the pressure plate, and Grian notes that if Scar dies, he won't even feel bad because he's been warned so many times. Later in the day, Scar admits he nearly stepped on the plate and only didn't from an accidental bug. He then intentionally sets it off to try and take out his enemies, but only ends up harming (but thankfully not killing) himself and Tango.
** On Day 7, after Jimmy is KilledOffForReal, Grian notes he kind of had it coming since he not only failed to activate a trap despite ample warning, but only ''did'' activate the trap ''when Grian, his own ally, was caught inside''.
* WarIsHell: While the server starts out with faction politics as the main source of conflict, the latter half of the season drives home the point how the escalating conflict as a ''war'' has brought nothing but horrors for everyone. By the last two sessions of the season, even the relatively pacifistic players have had to take up arms, former friends have drifted apart and turned against each other as leading figures on opposite sides, most server-members have lost allies and friends (and in at least one case, suffered from bereavement) before being taken out themselves -- oftentimes without mercy, and even the "winning" faction has destroyed their home in the process and ultimately gets a DownerEnding by the nature of the DeadlyGame itself.
* WhamEpisode: Day 7. Where do we begin...
** Grian, Scott, Martyn, and Impulse each lose their first life, leaving Big B as the only remaining Green Name. Even then, that's only because he was PutOnABus for the episode, and his bright green IGN only serves to put a large target on his back when he returns on Day 8.
** Grian goes back on something he's pledged for the entire series and decides to stick around with Scar in spite of his "first life" rule -- he's past the PointOfNoReturn regarding the collapsing politics of the server, and even if he ditched Scar he'd still be a big target.
** Jimmy, Cleo, and Skizz are KilledOffForReal, making them the first permanent casualties of the server.
** The Red Desert is left a smoking crater in the aftermath of a vicious battle.
* WhenTreesAttack:
LastSecondWordSwap: When Cleo gets is jumpscared by a scare on Day 1 when a sapling she was standing over grows into a tree, nearly suffocating her inside its trunk.creeper:
-->'''Cleo:''' Oh, shhhhh-ugar.



[[folder:Last Life]]
* AfterTheEnd: Downplayed, but after Day 7, the world sure starts to feel this way. All major bases were destroyed or abandoned when their members either died, turned Red, or were forced to flee after repeated attacks from the Red Lives. Tentative alliances of Greens and Yellows resorted to roaming the server, looting anything valuable that was left in the ruins of bases, while the Reds got a lot more outwardly hostile, attacking anyone they saw roaming the server instead of relying on traps. The few bases left standing (the Shadow Fort and Magical Mountain) were clumsily patched up and reinforced, serving as strongholds for the survivors, though the Reds managed to sweep through them multiple times, and Martyn's attempt to hide out at Magical Mountain ended in his death as it was overrun.
* AloneWithThePsycho: During Day 3, Grian is snooping through Scott and Pearl's house while they're away, when suddenly Joel reveals his presence as he sets up a trap. Grian's [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl scream]] of pure unadulterated terror is truly something to behold.
* AntiClimax: During Day 7, all but one of Grian's wolves is killed during the chaotic warfare. The SoleSurvivor proceeds to walk into a cactus and die instantly, with the Red Names watching in complete disbelief.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Joel and Lizzie, being a married couple both in- and out-of-universe. In spite of their numerous attempts to [[TilMurderDoUsPart off each other]][[labelnote:*]]from Joel luring Lizzie into a trap as the Boogeyman of Day 2 to Lizzie plotting Joel's demise while both of them were Red Lives on Day 7[[/labelnote]], on Day 7 they share declarations of love in case either one of them died while preparing to lava-trap the Scottage from above.
* CassandraTruth: While Mumbo and Grian are building the ghast farm platform together, Mumbo spots Joel, a Red Name, climbing the ladder up to them. Mumbo immediately alerts Grian to this fact, but Grian thinks he's just joking around and trying to scare him, until [[PoorCommunicationKills Joel shoots him off the platform to his death]].
* ColourCodedTimestop: [[spoiler:The Watchers]] talking to Martyn is often shown this way, except for the chase at the beginning of Day 8.
* DarkestHour: The end of Day 7. Six people had lost their last lives, and were out of the series permanently. Every major base on the server was destroyed or abandoned as their inhabitants either turned Red or were forced to flee. In the end, the Reds continue to roam the server while Scott, Cleo, Ren and Etho (the last non-Reds aside from Martyn, who had split off from them at some point and was still missing, and Pearl, who missed the end of the day [[RealLifeWritesThePlot due to a power outage]]) hunkered down in the lava-casted remains of the Scottage's underground base, struggling for food and other resources, desperately trying to figure out what to do next.
* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: On Day 7, Joel blows up the roof of Scar's wizard hut in an attempt to kill Scott and Cleo. On Day 8, he tells Scar that Bdubs vandalized the roof, who has conveniently been eliminated at that point and can't refute it. Scar learns the truth from Pearl, though.
* DifficultySpike: InUniverse. On Day 8, Grian discovered that the server had been set to "Easy" rather than "Hard", as it was intended to be. He changed the difficulty and it had immediate effects, namely Etho's death to a creeper explosion which now caused more damage than he expected, as well as a huge uptick in armored mobs.
* DownerEnding: Once again, everybody dies. After Martyn's death, there are no more Green Lives remaining, meaning the Reds on the server have to duke it out between themselves. Scott, Cleo, Pearl and Ren form an alliance to go after Grian and Joel, and while they lose Cleo during the fight, in the end, Grian and Joel go down as well. Scott, Pearl and Ren decide that they don't want to betray one another, and each of the four remaining Reds picks a cardinal direction (Pearl picks north, Scott picks east, [[GoingHomeAgain Martyn picks south]] and Ren picks west), they split off, count down, and each of them charges into the center of the map where they proceed to [[DuelToTheDeath slaughter each other until only one remains]]. The winner of Last Life, Scott, only gets a brief moment to say goodbye to his axolotl Binkie before he too drops dead.
* EpicFail:
** On Day 2, Joel managed to go from four lives down to one. Motivated by his Boogeyman status, he tried killing other players to remove the affliction. He started with a pitfall trap. First, he lured Lizzie there to push her in, but ended up falling into it himself. Later, with a crowd lured in, Grian accidentally discovered the trap, exposing it to the others there. Joel panicked and tried to kill Martyn, which got him killed by Mumbo. As a last resort, he went after Scott and Pearl -- successfully killing Scott but also getting himself revenge-killed by Pearl.
** On Day 5, Scar tries to enter the Southlands' fort and triggers their TNT-lava-PitTrap. The Southlanders are stunned when he survives, meaning they've lost their TNT for nothing as well as Mumbo's redstone door. This flips on Scar when they reset the trap and he triggers it again despite knowing it was there and having several people tell him to not trigger it. He doesn't survive a second time.
* FalseReassurance: Mumbo tries to convince Grian to walk into an obvious trap, but he doesn't do it well.
-->'''Mumbo:''' If you walk through at the same time as me... then... then... then... good things'll happen I reckon.
* FoodAsBribe: When Scar and Grian are trying to get Mumbo to join their respective alliances on Day 1, Grian keeps offering more and more salmon to tempt him.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Cleo seems to have a knack for it this season.
** When Cleo first comes to Lizzie's Fairy Forest on Day 1, she casually remarks on its flammability, as it's made entirely of trees. Come Day 5 and Cleo, now a Red Life, burns the Forest to the ground to dislodge and intimidate her old allies.
** Later on, Pearl shows Cleo and Scott her booby-trapped dance room in the Green Lives club, and Cleo tells her she doesn't think it will kill Martyn or Etho but it would probably get Ren. Sure enough on Day 9, when Pearl lures the three of them into the room and activates the trap for her Boogeyman kill, Martyn and Etho survive it while Ren dies.
* FunWithAcronyms: Team B.E.S.T.'s name is an acronym made up of the first letters of its members' names ('''B'''dubs, '''E'''tho, '''S'''kizz, '''T'''ango). Whenever one of their members turns Red, plenty of jokes are made about having to change the acronym.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: On Day 7, Scott tries to kill Impulse for his Boogeyman kill when some of the Southlanders try to pull a heist on his base, however Impulse has an enchanted golden apple and an Ender pearl that allows him to escape. Scott knows that he'll have a much harder time getting a kill if Impulse tells anyone that he's the Boogeyman, so he hunts Impulse down again at the Southlands and successfully kills him there.
* HistoryRepeats:
** Once again, Grian is responsible for the loss of Scar's first life, this time by scamming him into transferring it to him.
** Once again, Jimmy is the first to be eliminated after losing his last life. It even happens on Day 7 again.
--->'''Scott:''' [[LampshadeHanging Why is he always the first one out the series]]?
** Once again, Day 7 marks the complete collapse of the server's fragile alliance system as several players die and many more drop to their Red lives.
* IronicEcho: Early on, Grian tried to buy a life off Scar, instead being told he could pre-order one to buy later. Scar ended up walking back on that deal, pissing Grian off immensely. After Grian turned Red on Day 4, he went back to Scar to threaten him, while Scar desperately tried to make a new deal with him. Grian's response was that he could put that deal on pre-order.
* {{Irony}}: On Day 3, Joel sets the Southlands' outer wall on fire. Most of them fail to notice at first because they're too distracted by Mumbo's new redstone door, which he specifically built to help protect them from outside attacks.
* JumpScare: It happens to Scar a lot. So far, Cleo has done it twice and Grian once.
** On Day 7, Skizz did it to Jimmy, Lizzie did it to Mumbo, and Ren did it to Big B, who even put a ScareChord over it.
* KillSteal: On Day 7, Martyn becomes the Boogeyman after Pearl, the original Boogeyman, left the day early due to a power outage. Martyn attempts to kill his only ally Grian, but unbeknownst to either of them, Joel is watching from the shadows and is able to shoot Grian once before he kills himself with Ender pearl damage. This causes the game to credit Joel with the kill, leaving Martyn friendless and still needing to kill someone.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: On Day 6, Grian attempts to spark infighting among the Red Names so that he doesn't have to deal with a unified Red Team.
* LosingHorns: Scott's Day 8 episode shows that should a player fail to Boogey-kill someone by the end of a session, one such sound effect plays when said player drops to their final, Red life.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: The Boogeyman, who is randomly selected out of the living non-Red players and must kill someone with two or more lives to cure themselves or be reduced to their last life the next day. In all, the Boogeymen were Bdubs (Day 1), Joel and Scar (Day 2), Lizzie (Day 3), Ren and Big B (Day 4), Etho (Day 5), Mumbo, Etho again, Bdubs again, Joel again, Scott, and Jimmy (Day 6), Pearl[[labelnote:*]]she ended up having a power outage, causing her to be exempt from it... but then got a kill from a trap anyway[[/labelnote]] and Martyn[[labelnote:*]]chosen after Pearl's reshuffle[[/labelnote]] (Day 7), Scott again (Day 8), and Pearl again (Day 9).
* MythologyGag: A few to ''WebVideo/{{Hermitcraft}}'':
** Scar recycles a business scheme from Season 7 of Hermitcraft, which is to rename stained glass and sell them as magical crystals while dressed as a wizard.
** On Day 4, Mumbo decides to build a ghast farm not only for gunpowder, but also for ghast tears so he can produce and weaponize End crystals, a gag from Hermitcraft Season 8.
** In addition to events of the last season being mentioned, Scar also points out to a group of people that when Bdubs wears iron leggings and boots with his current skin, he looks like [[Series/SesameStreet Oscar the Grouch]].
** During Day 5, Mumbo says that the way Impulse denied being the Boogeyman seemed sus, "and by 'sus', I don't mean sustainable".
** After Tango loses his last life on Day 8, Grian makes a grave that says "rest in peace love and plants tango".
* NoManShouldHaveThisPower: Martyn steals the Scottage's Wither skeleton skull for this reason, but he gives it back after hearing that Grian also has one, and bringing the Scottage's skull to their base would make it easier for Grian to collect three and summon a Wither. The Scottage have also taken it upon themselves to ensure that no one faction will ever have more than one skull after Scott, Impulse and Mumbo successfully stole Grian's skull from the Team Red base on Day 5, with Scott delivering it to Lizzie after Grian turned back yellow and rejoined the Southlands.
-->'''Scott:''' It's like the [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Infinity Stones]], we just keep them as spread apart as we can.
* NothingIsScarier: Ever since Day 1, hearing the music disc "13", especially from an unknown or hidden source, is taken to mean that someone is about to attack; although the only time it actually happened was Bdubs' Boogeyman kill against Grian on Day 1. Etho exploits this on Day 3 to frighten several people.
* OverlyLongGag:
** The Southlands unite when they all got spyglasses and pointed it at each other's faces while going "AHA!" They kept doing this until it comes time to build their base, and Martyn lets off a HurricaneOfPuns around the "aha" sound, to the point where the others contemplate whether it was worth killing him to make it stop. They even make an "[[TheSwearJar Aha Jahar]]" on Day 2.
--->'''Martyn:''' I'm literally sweating from laughing, that doesn't happen very often. Like, I'm a ''mess''.\\
'''Mumbo:''' What–\\
'''Martyn:''' I need a shower, or a ba-hath!\\
'''Grian:''' STOP!\\
'''Mumbo:''' MARTYN!\\
'''Jimmy:''' Seriously, can we kill him?!
** On Day 2, Mumbo and Grian spend a very long time digging for diamonds and try to one-up each other by pretending to have hidden diamonds nearby and saying, "My diamonds are right... HERE!"
* PetTheDog: Since Scar is absent during Day 7 for health reasons, everyone else decides to not steal the Enchantment Table from Magical Mountain since it wouldn't be fair to him, [[ZigZaggedTrope although they do take the opportunity]] to get free enchants without his supervision.
* PlotDevice: The Enchantment Table. Unlike the first season, the Table is set at spawn and the players are disallowed from crafting another one or any bookshelves. Although it was clearly intended to remain at spawn, there is evidently [[ExactWords no actual rule stating such]]...
** Day 1: Scar and Joel steal the Table and plan to charge others for its use.
** Day 2: Scar and Joel are both assigned to be Boogeymen for that day. Joel tries to lure other players into a trap by saying the Table is in the back of his cave, when in reality the Table is carried in his inventory. His traps fail and he eventually loses the Table when he is killed by Pearl after killing Scott in their base. Scar tries to intimidate the duo into giving him the Table, but they manage to drive him away long enough to sell the Table to Lizzie in exchange for two lives. Scar arrives at Lizzie's Fairy Forest soon after, but he doesn't find where Lizzie hid the Table and ends up getting tricked into following Pearl and Scott again.
** Day 3: Lizzie and the Castle Alliance set up the Table within the Fairy Forest and plan to charge for its use just like Scar wanted to do, but Lizzie agrees to trade the Table to B.E.S.T. in exchange for enchanted diamond pants and a chestplate. B.E.S.T. returns the Table to its original place at spawn attempting to facilitate free use to the whole server once again, but fail to provide sufficient security which enables Scar to steal the Table a second time. Although he allows the people of the Southlands to use it free of charge for a limited time, he's very careful to keep them from taking it. They are successful in stealing Scar's horse, however, and try to create a HostageSituation in which they demand that Scar give them the Table for the horse's safety. Scar defies them, reminding them that it was actually Grian's horse which Scar first stole from him, and holds onto the Table while the horse is dropped into lava.
** Day 4: Bdubs gives Scar a life in exchange for the Table. B.E.S.T. opts to keep the Table in a secret location in the fort, but allow everyone to use it free of charge.
** Day 5: Bdubs and Etho offer the Table to Scar in exchange for giving Bdubs a life which he accepts, however it turns out to be a scam and Etho, that day's Boogeyman, kills Scar right after the transaction and steals back the Table for B.E.S.T. Scar belatedly realises this, and tries to call on his new contract with Bdubs and Etho to get the table back but they've given it to Skizzleman who hasn't signed Scar's contract. Scar then goes to call on his new allies to get the table back from him, only to die while recruiting Grian (to the same trap he'd miraculously survived earlier that day) and end up as a Red name.
** Day 6: Scar attacks B.E.S.T. for the Table but they restore him to yellow and trade it to him for diamonds, as well as the promise that he'll go after Bdubs when he becomes Red again, a request from Tango who had just been killed by Bdubs, one of that day's Boogeymen.
** Day 7: The Table now has lost most of its driving force with the server shifting to much more open warfare, only used for occasional enchanting with not much fighting surrounding it. It completely falls OutOfFocus for the rest of the season.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Much of the intra-faction conflict on the server is caused by a player refusing to inform their allies of their Boogeyman status, and subsequently resorting to betray their own faction-mate to rid themself of the curse. On the other hand, in the instances where a set of allies are honest about their status and refuse to kill anyone from their faction, things tend to end in much more civil terms.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The survivors of Day 7. They all stem from completely different factions (Scott, Pearl and Cleo from the Scottage, Ren from the Shadow Alliance, Etho from Team B.E.S.T. and Martyn from the Southlands), with varying amounts of grief between them, forced to set it aside and work together to make a final stand.
* RedHerring: The Scottage (Scott, Pearl and later Cleo's house) was built as a decoy, and was never actually lived in. Their real base was buried under the ground, with the house serving as a distraction for anyone coming to steal from them or grief them.
* SpookySeance: {{Parodied|Trope}} during Day 8, with Grian and Joel trying to contact Bdubs' "ghost" (Bdubs in spectator mode), in which they succeed when Bdubs responds to their questions in the chat.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: After Grian and Joel use a TNT minecart cannon to damage the Scottage on Day 5, Scott tells them they could have done more damage by just putting the TNT directly on the house and blowing it up. Grian and Joel's argument is that they wanted to [[RuleOfCool act with flair]].
* SwordOfDamocles: After the Southlands collected three Wither skeleton skulls, they planned to use the threat of unleashing a Wither on the server to strongarm others into doing their bidding.
* TemptingFate:
** On Day 3, Scar refused to make a deal when the Southlands held his horse Yellow Snow hostage. Out of earshot of the Southlands, Scar confidently told his viewers that there was no way they'd hurt Yellow Snow... at the ''exact moment'' that Grian was dropping the horse into lava.
** On Day 4, Bdubs trades a life to Scar for the Enchantment Table, bringing himself down to his yellow life. He promises his teammates at B.E.S.T. that he won't be turning Red... only to fall to his death at the end of the day and do just that.
** On Day 7, Grian's wolf army constantly drops like flies, except for one wolf, who kept teleporting back to Grian no matter what. Grian calls this out, saying that that wolf never seems to give up. Literal ''seconds'' later, the wolf runs straight into a cactus and dies instantly.
* ThisIsMySide: Etho divides their shared castle between himself and Bdubs after Bdubs turns Red, by drawing a line of cobblestone down the middle of it.
* TroubleMagnetGambit: {{Discussed|Trope}} by the Scottage faction when Pearl is the last one with a Dark Green name, where they contemplate giving one of Pearl's lives to a random player to make them a better target for the Reds.
* WhamEpisode: A four-parter in Days 4, 5, 6 and 7:
** Day 4: Grian, Cleo, and Bdubs all reach their last life, which deals crippling blows to their respective former factions (although technically Cleo had already left the Castle Alliance shortly before turning Red).
** Day 5: Although the Red Lives are restored to Yellow, the Fairy Fort is burned to the ground, the Scottage is blown up, and the Southlands are betrayed by Jimmy, dealing a massive blow to their alliance. Scar is threatened into giving up his remaining lives to the Reds, putting him on Yellow, shortly before falling into a trap and becoming Red himself.
** Day 6: There are not one, not two but ''six'' Boogeymen, three of whom are Boogeymen for the second time. After numerous kills throughout the day, there are six Red Lives, including the entirety of the Magical Mountain faction, and the Scottage is the only faction to survive with all its members still on Green. The Southlands are officially disbanded, and as the three remaining members torch their base to put their old alliance to rest, they remain victorious in that they now have three Wither skeleton skulls (although Martyn doesn't know that).
** Day 7: The Scottage is submerged in lava by Lizzie and Joel, B.E.S.T.'s snow fortress is destroyed by a Wither spawned by the now-Red Grian and Impulse, six players are KilledOffForReal and the six remaining non-Reds are forced to band together to survive. Furthermore, the entire dynamic of the server shifts noticeably, where before the Reds were more focused on trapping and harassing Yellow and Green Names, they now shift to actively hunting them down. Every faction save for the Scottage is destroyed or disbanded as their members have either died, turned Red, or were forced to flee their homes after repeated attacks from the Reds. In the end, Scott and Cleo resort to gathering the few remaining non-Reds together (save Martyn, whom they couldn't find, and Pearl, who missed the second half of the day [[RealLifeWritesThePlot due to a power outage]]) and hiding them away in the Scottage's now-destroyed underground base. From this point forth, the Survivors spend most of their time looting the remains of abandoned bases, trying to fortify the few structures still left standing to protect themselves, and hiding away from the Reds to avoid being hunted down and slaughtered.
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[[folder:Double Life]]
* AchievementsInIgnorance: Martyn and Joel end up accidentally killing the "Ranchers' Revenge" Warden with fall damage on Day 4 while playing around with [[RodAndReelRepurposed fishing rods]]. In their defense, it had already lost most of its health in the previous episode from drowning when Tango brought it up to the surface, making their job much easier that it would otherwise have been.
* ArrowsOnFire: On Day 6, while Scott and Pearl are sieged on top of Pearl's tower base, Martyn and Cleo briefly shoot arrows through fire at the Red Lives in an attempt to set them alight.
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Throughout Day 5, the Red Names have absolutely ''zero'' qualms threatening or killing Scar's Jellie Pandas or burning down the Sanctuary Scar built for them to try to cow Scar into submission, and later shoot Scar's pet Allay while using it for target practice. In the finale, Joel and Scar also casually blow up Pearl's dogs for no reason other than the fact they can, solidifying her stance against the Red Names.
* BigNo: Grian's reaction when he realizes he's linked to [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Scar]].
* BlowThatHorn: In Grian's first episode, he collects several goat horns in a mountainous corner of the world to test out their sounds, and gives away the "bad" ones (e.g. the Seek variant, which makes a noise identical to the sound that plays during Pillager raids) to other players. These players later unofficially form a group called the Horn Club/Gang, where they would respond by blowing their own Goat Horns when a member blows theirs, mainly out of amusement.
** On Day 5, the horns turn into the Horns of Destruction type when the Reds use it as a rallying cry when hunting down Grian and Scar.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Scar's description for his third episode goes as follows:
-->Welcome to Last Life season 3 renamed Double Life SMP – episode 3! We start Double Life [=Ep3=] by opening the Jellie / Panda reserve and couples retreat. The first visitor is Mart[y]n and Cleo and I try to bring them back together. We became the worst paper salesman and play Grian's snow bucket challenge with Bdubs. Who will win, Bdubs or me? You will have to find out. Also, Tango lets a Warden out onto the map...
* CallBack: A group of players find an amethyst geode on Day 1, and Martyn wastes no time in making a spyglass and an "aha" pun. [[OhNoNotAgain The others tell him to not bring that back]].
* CantLiveWithoutYou: By the {{synchroniz|ation}}ed nature of soulbound pairs, when one player dies, their soulmate dies as well immediately afterward.
* ChekhovsGun:
** On Day 4, Ren and [=BigB=] rig a trap using a zombie spawner, and use their generated zombie "army" to crash Bdubs and Impulse's pool party at the end of the episode, killing them in the chaos that ensued. This returns as a ChekhovsBoomerang on Day 5, when Scar digs into the zombie pit and loses his and Grian's first life trying to escape.
** The modded mechanism where Sculk Sensors can be triggered by the sound of someone's voice. At first, it's just an obstacle for anyone venturing into the Ancient City to get enchantments in order to avoid spawning the Warden in, but on Day 5, Joel and Etho rig a TNT trap using one, killing Scar (and thus Grian) while he was trying to invite everyone to a funeral for Jimmy and Tango (who had been KilledOffForReal earlier the same episode).
** At the start of Day 5, Grian attempts to prank Scar using a falling dripstone stalactite, which almost kills the both of them. At the end of the episode, he skewers Ren with a falling stalactite and causes him and Big B to be KilledOffForReal with the same trick.
** At the end of Day 5, Grian makes a grave in the mountains for Big B after accidentally killing him by proxy. Scott stumbles across it on Day 6 and he later [[RobbingTheDead steals the sand from the grave-site]] to make TNT, which is later used to either distract the two Wardens the Red Lives ferried up to the surface... or to die from suicide at the end of the series.
* DownerEnding: As usual, everyone dies. Once the Red Lives hunt down the remaining Yellow Lives, two of the five remaining soulbound pairs at the time end up dying as a result of their own or their partners' stupidity (in oddly ironic/symbolic ways to boot). After Pearl kills the remaining two enemy soulbound pairs in a RoaringRampageOfRevenge for her late CanineCompanion (and LivingEmotionalCrutch), Tilly, she meets up with her own soulmate, Scott. She gets a few moments to relax with her remaining dogs... before Scott blows himself up to give her the win, instantly killing them both due the CantLiveWithoutYou nature of soulbound pairs.
* DramaticIrony: On Day 5, while discussing how Scar stole the Enchanting Table the previous day and how they'd have to find a way to get it from him, Martyn remarks, "There's no way he's not buried it in the Panda Sanctuary, by the way, it's just gonna be underneath a couple of, like, dirt blocks or something for sure." As it turns out, according to [[SwitchingPOV Scar's episode]] for Day 4, that's ''exactly'' what he did, and that's what the Reds find when they start griefing the Panda Sanctuary.[[note]]As the four spy on the griefing from just beyond its walls, Martyn lampshades that he called it.[[/note]]
* DueToTheDead: ZigZaggingTrope.
** While members of the server hold or attend unofficial funerals and make small memorials for those who are KilledOffForReal, even if they themselves were the killers, most have no issue stealing from the dead's bases like they would have done anyway if they were alive.
** [[RobbingTheDead Robbing the dead's inventory-items]] if they're not on their final life is more grey territory than anything; putting the dead's items in a double-chest is usually considered basic courtesy, especially if the people in question just turned Red and can freely murder item-thieves as revenge.
* ExactEavesdropping: At the start of Day 5, Scott and Cleo learn about Team Rancher's plan to kill Grian and Scar, the last Greens left at the time, by eavesdropping on the Reds' meeting the Ranchers called. Martyn also happens to eavesdrop on them at the same time, and the three gather to seek out Pearl, believing WorkingWithTheEx to be the best option for them.
* {{Foil}}: Scar and Scott, on a small scale. While both of them build an animal-related structure claiming it can help to bring soulmates closer together (the Jellie Panda Reserve/Petting Zoo and the Relationship Ranch, respectively), Scar seems genuine in his attempts, while Scott does so with the explicit intention of {{gaslighting}} soulbound pairs into falling apart. This ultimately doesn't last due to CerebusSyndrome.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Likely unintentionally. On Day 5, Joel swears that if the Relation-Ship burns, everything burns. In the episode after, him and his soulmate lose their last life by burning in lava in Martyn and Pearl's trapped Nether portal after their portals linked up.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: On Day 3, Tango attempts to get revenge on Grian and Scar burning down their ranch by ferrying a Warden up into their base, which just results in the Warden roaming the server and terrifying everyone. The resulting chaos indirectly causes the death of soulmate pair Ren and [=BigB=] near the end of the session, making the first Red Lives.
* GotVolunteered: Tango and Jimmy get roped into defending Grian and Scar from the wrath of the rest of the server on Day 4 because they happened to come up to their safety platform so Tango could enchant his boots just before everyone else shows up to lay siege on them.
-->'''Grian:''' ''(in the chat)'' tango and jimmy are going to defend us to the end\\
'''Jimmy:''' Grian, I don't think we agreed on that.
* HistoryRepeats: On Day 5, Jimmy becomes the first to permanently die on the server. ''[[RuleOfThree For the third time]].''[[note]]This time by losing a fight with an Enderman.[[/note]] Naturally, this is lampshaded by everyone, including his content creator counterpart.
* HostageSituation: PlayedForLaughs on Day 5 when the so-called "Divorce Quartet", the only Yellow Names at the time, take [[ButtMonkey Jimmy]] hostage and trap him in a cobbled deepslate and dirt box in his own Ranch just to mess with him.
* {{Irony}}: After Bdubs betrayed Impulse and took his last life at the end of 3rd Life, and Impulse helped summon the Wither that brought Bdubs down to Red and directly resulted in him losing his last life in Last Life, the two are now partners in Double Life and must keep each other alive.
* JokeAndReceive: When off adventuring in caves with Pearl, Martyn jokes about the possibility that both of their soul-linked partners have also teamed up. Later, it turns out they have, and their partners quickly tire of waiting for Martyn and Pearl and [[ScrewDestiny abandon them]].
-->'''Martyn:''' I think whoever we're soulbound with, I think they're also hanging out together. I would love that parallel, seeing what we're doing and what they're doing at the same time.\\
'''Pearl:''' I know. Imagine if both the people we're partnered with, yeah, if they're linked. You'd see two [=POVs=] of both of us wondering who they're partnered with.
* KickTheDog: Just about everyone bullies Jimmy and Tango. On Day 2 alone, Scott leads an effort to stop them getting goat horns and then gets everyone to stop responding to their horn calls after they get horns, then gets Cleo to do an EscortDistraction so he can steal their goats, which directly results in Scar burning down their base since they stole his horse while they were falling for Cleo's trick.
* LoveLetter: Grian, unsatisfied with his own soulmate, secretly has eyes on [=BigB=]. At the end of Day 2, he breaks into Box and builds a not-so-secret heart. He attaches a sign saying "[[BetterPartnerAssertion Get yourself a soulmate who doesn't die to endermen <3]]". He also gifts a chest full of bread with a sign reading "I baked you this bread, it's made of GRAIN", a hint for [=BigB=] since "grain" is a misspelling of 'Grian'.
* MegaNeko: The Jellie Pandas, to some degree. While they are functionally Panda mobs, exclusively from Scar's perspective, they're retextured to look like his cat Jellie, resulting in huge "cats" the size of giant pandas.
* MickeyMousing: {{Discussed|Trope}}. During the memorial held for the Relation-Ship, the attendees play the music disc "otherside" while watching the structure burn, and make a joke about the Relation-Ship ''exploding'' the moment the beat drops in the tune.
* NoYou: When Pearl and Martyn try to make a trade with Impulse and Bdubs, Pearl suggests to Martyn that they could find better deals elsewhere, saying that they're "scraping the bottom of the barrel". Bdubs angrily tells Pearl that it is her, not them, at the bottom of the barrel.
* PapaWolf: On Day 4, the sight of Joel and Etho threatening his Jellie pandas was enough to motivate Scar into jumping down from a tall platform. And surviving with [[SoftWater the water bucket trick]]. Joel and Etho actually left Scar alone for the rest of the siege in shock that Scar was able to pull a move like that off.
* PortmanteauCoupleName: In-universe. While Joel refers to him and Etho as [[IdiosyncraticShipNaming "Boat Boys" or "Boat Gang"]], on Day 1, Grian calls them "[=SmallEtho=]".
-->'''Grian:''' Well, you can't be "[=EthoBeans=]"!
* ProfessionalKiller:
** On Day 4, several soulbound-pairs of the server consider the idea of hiring the resident Red Lives to kill their enemies ''for'' them. For example, Scott and Cleo hire Joel and Etho, who had just turned Red earlier that episode, to kill Team Rancher in an established feud. Joel and Etho contemplate this, but accept the offer upon learning Tango has access to the enchanting table that Scar stole at the start of the episode.[[note]]In a twist of fate, at the start of Day 4, Team Rancher also try to hire Ren and [=BigB=], the first Red Lives of the season, to kill Scott for them because they felt him and his Relationship Ranch was stealing their brand, but the plan ultimately fell through.[[/note]]
** On Day 5, one idea bounced around in the Red Lives' meeting is to get Cleo (a Yellow Life at the time) to attack Scar and Grian for them.
* RedStringOfFate: The main gimmick of the season is that two soulbound players [[{{Synchronization}} share a health bar]], and realize someone is their soulmate when the other takes damage (or in the case of Jimmy with Tango, ''[[CantLiveWithoutYou when the other dies]]''). As a result, there's a tendency on Day 1 for players to hit each other to see if the other is their soulmate. This is eventually PlayedForDrama on Scott and Cleo's side as they decide to ScrewDestiny, leading to some one- or two-sided AbandonmentInducedAnimosity, among many other twists and turns related to this. The season's logo even evokes this symbolism with two half-hearts connected with a red string.
* RelationshipSabotage: Many players try to do this in order to weaken other partnerships and alliances.
** Bdubs and Impulse try to get people alone to give them vague warnings about their soulmates trash talking about them behind their backs, although it doesn't always work due to some people knowing that their soulmate couldn't possibly have had time to gossip, and some people already being on bad terms with their soulmate, making Bdubs' and Impulse's efforts unnecessary.
** Grian tries to get Big B to break up with Ren by making himself out as a secret admirer to Big B. It somewhat works since Big B was willing to secretly ally with Grian, and the "affair" has put some strain on Big B and Ren's relationship.
** Scott creates the "Relationship Ranch" on Day 3, which he markets as a couples' retreat meant to strengthen relationships with trust exercises. Its true purpose, however, is for Scott to {{gaslight|ing}} the couples by AccentuatingTheNegative in supervising the activities and inciting concern between the couples.
* RodAndReelRepurposed: Much of Day 4 is dedicated to every other person on the server playing around with fishing rods by flinging entities far into the air with them. While it is indeed fun, it carries a strong risk to it in that the entity in question can be [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou killed]] if they don't land in SoftWater or have enough health to survive the fall -- first demonstrated by the "Ranchers' Revenge" Warden at the start of the episode, then Etho and Joel in the middle of it, causing the two to become Red Names.
* ScrewDestiny: Due to their soulmates having gone adventuring to the Deep Dark and the Nether in the very first episode, Scott and Cleo decide to ''choose'' to become pseudo-soulmates purely because their own soulmates refuse to show up to player gatherings, and they call their soulmates out for this at the end of the episode. Unfortunately, Pearl doesn't take this well, due to not exactly ''volunteering'' to go adventuring in the first place, and perceives it as abandonment in turn.
-->'''Scott:''' I like Cleo. I don't need a ''soulmate''. [[LampshadeHanging I pick my own destiny]], Big B!
* StickyFingers: This applies to just about ''everyone'' when it comes to ''everything''; everyone's base is pretty much free game when it comes to robbing valuables.
* StylisticSuck: Ren and Big B's Box was designed to be as unappealing as possible so people would be deterred from visiting/attacking. As its name implies, it's a giant cobblestone box with facial features being added as the series progresses.
* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic:
** During the pool party at the end of Day 4, Impulse (the "DJ") puts on the music disc "13", a creepy ambient track, when armed zombies begin rising from the pool thanks to Ren and [=BigB=]'s trap. The music plays as night falls and Bdubs is chased by the pair until he is killed.
** Averted at the memorial held for the burning Relation-Ship, since the only music disc the attendees had was "otherside", a light and upbeat march.
* {{Synchronization}}: The premise of this season. Each player's health-bar is linked to another, if one takes damage so will the other, and [[CantLiveWithoutYou if one dies, the other does as well]]. The official series description refers to these duos as "soulmates". Since the game doesn't directly tell people who their soulmate is, most of the first day was spent with everyone running around punching each other to find their partner. (And in Jimmy and Tango's case, they didn't find out until the latter lost his first life.)
* TemptingFate: In Scott's second episode, while discussing the goat horns and the goats living near them, he and Cleo both decide to hide the goats from Jimmy so he can't get a horn. The ''very next scene'' starts with Scott spotting Jimmy leading a couple of goats away.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: After Tango and Jimmy end up getting stuck up on a wooden platform with Grian and Scar while the entire server is out for the latter two's blood, Tango ends up asking a very important question.[[note]]It was actually made out of dirt, but that made little difference when Martyn water-bucketed his way up and lit the platform on fire.[[/note]]
-->'''Tango:''' Is the pillar up to this made out of wood?\\
''(Grian silently looks at Scar)''\\
'''Tango:''' Your awkward silence speaks everything.
* UndergroundCity: The only Enchanting Table allowed on the server begins squirreled away in the Ancient City. Scar steals it on Day 4, causing him to become HatedByAll on the server. The location becomes vital on Day 6 as one of the sites of confrontation between the factions at the time.
* UndignifiedDeath: After being targeted by the Red Names for over half the episode, pulling off the S-tier MLG Water Bucket the previous day, on top of surviving several days in the series without dying, Scar ends up falling into Ren's zombie spawner pit and [[DevouredByTheHorde dying in it]] on Day 5.
-->'''Martyn:''' ''(in the in-game chat)'' yikes, the reds can't do it so the world did
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: On Day 2, Pearl goes to Ren and [=BigB=]'s Box where she jokingly steals their horse. When Ren tries to retrieve it, he accidentally looks at an Enderman and is killed, taking the first life of him and his soulmate, [=BigB=]. This leads to Pearl being banned from Box and Ren branding her as a harbinger of evil and "demoness".
* VisualPun: Joel and Etho, being soulbound to each other, have built a large ship as their base called the Relation-''ship''. Scott burns half of it to ashes on Day 5; combined with Joel's resultant MadnessMantra of "If the ship burns, everything burns", it ends up as unintentional {{foreshadowing}} to Joel and Etho's final death in the finale by burning in lava.
* WhamEpisode: Episode 4, when things really start to hit the fan. By the end of the session, there are ''four pairs'' of Red Lives, and everyone else is Yellow except Grian and Scar, whose base was sieged by literally ''everyone else'' for the stolen enchanting table save Jimmy and Tango, who became one of the Red Life pairs during their defense against the siege.
* WorkingWithTheEx:
** {{Discussed|Trope}} on Day 5. At the start of the episode, when Team Rancher calls the other Red Names to a meeting, Cleo and Scott snoop on them and discuss that if they're forming a Red Alliance, they'd have to team up with their separated assigned-soulmates to stand a chance against them, as by that point, the Red Names consisted of over half the server population.
** It's later played straight when the Ranchers' call turns out to be one to kill Grian and Scar, the last Green Lives left, and the two believe they'd be the Reds' next target as the only Yellow Lives left. As a result, the "Divorce Quartet" do, in fact, team up with their estranged soulmates for Days 5 and 6. However, they stick to primarily working alongside their non-soulbound partners as it made them less vulnerable, forcing enemies to go through two health-bars instead of one.
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[[folder:Limited Life]]
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The '''B'''ad '''B'''oys often make references to having items and builds of a similar naming scheme, like the '''B'''read '''B'''ridge and '''b'''amboo. They also create '''P'''otato '''P'''ier.
* AmnesiaEpisode: Day 6 has Cleo and Pearl mysteriously coming down with an "amnesia-cold" for the duration of the session, and the two are briefly PutOnABus while [=GeminiTay=] and Lizzie substitute in for them temporarily. While the out-of-universe explanation is due to content creator unavailability (Pearl) or technical difficulties (Cleo), the in-universe explanation Martyn gives is that [[spoiler:their emotional states are still fractured from the events of Double Life and need more time to heal, so that [[GreaterScopeVillain the Watchers]] can have a more continuous source of [[EmotionEater snacks]].]]
* AwesomeButImpractical: The Bad Boys' Skynet 2.0, a version of Skynet constructed after the destruction of Bread Bridge, is located at almost build limit and is used for espionage and [[DeathFromAbove TNT minecart]] dropping. Due to it being so high up, it's impossible to see where a person is on the map accurately (unless you massively boost your draw distance), and players can only tell where their targets are via their silhouettes or, at times, other signs of 'human life' like campfires. Alternatively, they may choose to target the people on the T.I.E.S' original Skynet, which consists of a network of narrow walkways and sky-bridges and thus are difficult to aim for accurately. However, when the TNT minecarts hit, they hit ''powerfully'' with a massive blast radius, and [[DifficultButAwesome the Bad Boys have pulled off numerous kills using it]].
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Or more accurately, Better to Be Killed by an Ally than a Non-Ally, which overlaps with MercyKillArrangement to some degree.
** Scott's two deaths on Day 4 are arranged with Cleo and Martyn (in advance and impromptu, respectively) so that they can receive the life-time increase that comes with the kill, as opposed to the temporary Yellow alliance intent on hunting him down. Immediately after this, Skizz and Tango make the same arrangement for the same reason.
** By Day 7, this has evolved into [[HeroicSacrifice a form of self-sacrifice]] where players willingly allow themselves to be killed by their allies so they can have some extra life-time.
* BirthdayEpisode: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Since the Day 6 episode was released on Martyn's birthday, he spends the session building a birthday party and inviting others on the server to said party... which is rigged with TNT so that he can try to get some life-time back. In the end, no one gets ''any'' life-time after the Bad Boys crash the party by attempting to rain DeathFromAbove, and by some miracle, no one dies from this.
* BlowThatHorn: A variation where no goat horns are actually present. The sound of the "Dream" goat horn is used to signify the beginning of the 24-hour time limit at the start of Day 1, making it arguably of the Horns of Destruction variety.
* BreatherEpisode: Zig-zagged. A lot of players believed that Day 5 would be a calmer day focused on building and preparation since everyone were all Yellow Names and had no reason to kill each other, creating a moment of peace. That peace doesn't last long, as the Bread Bridge is destroyed by the T.I.E.S., the Clocker sons are accidentally blown up by Etho, and Scar and Skizzleman become the first Red Names on the server. However, Day 5 ''does'' have the fewest deaths in the season -- at 5 deaths in total (1 Boogeyman kill and 4 accidents), in contrast to the days preceding and following it, which have drastically higher death tolls than it, even setting new records for the number of deaths in the series as a whole[[note]]Day 4 has 16 deaths (the previous record was 17 in the Season 1 finale), Day 6 has 27 deaths, and Day 7 has '''45''' deaths[[/note]].
* CallBack:
** On Day 1, Scott winds up scooping up a "Pufferish of Peace" to give (back) to Jimmy.
** Near the end of Day 1, the Bad Boys get into a HurricaneOfPuns based on their team name, swapping in words that rhyme with 'bad'. Grian compares it to Last Life's 'aha' shenanigans.
* CharacterCatchphrase: The Nosy Neighbours sign off their episodes with "Always watching" as their creed.
* ChekhovsGun:
** Early in Day 1, Etho discusses digging holes throughout the server with Martyn, and brings up how many people fall down these holes in other series. Naturally, near the end of the day, Martyn falls to his death in the very hole the discussion was held in. Martyn, being Martyn, takes the time to lampshade it.
** On Day 2, Grian and Joel exploit a mechanism that allows them to go beyond the map border, which they initially use for trolling the rest of the server. By Day 5, the Bad Boys jointly use the same mechanism to sneak to the T.I.E.S. base to disable their mob farm in revenge for them blowing up Bread Bridge. And the reason Bread Bridge gets blown up? Joel killed their cow [[CallBack on Day 1]].
*** This eventually becomes a ChekhovsBoomerang on Day 8 when the Nosy Neighbours, with Grian now among their ranks, decide to attempt [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere the coward's way out]] and sneak outside the world border so that no one can hurt them. Unfortunately for them, it backfires and the Mean Gills and the remainder of T.I.E.S. (or rather, I.E.) are suddenly able to attack and kill them from inside the border.
* DeathFromAbove: Happens frequently this season in the form of dropped TNT minecarts. The T.I.E.S' Skynet, a chaotic network of floating walkways, is the source of many of those.
* DeathIsCheap: Cheap''er'', at least. Although death is still penalized and undesirable, everyone starts out with the rough equivalent of twenty-four lives and [=keepInventory=] is enabled, so it's significantly less painful.
-->'''Grian:''' This mechanic doesn't work; it's given people way too much freedom to die.
* DisproportionateRetribution: T.I.E.S. carpet-bombs Bread Bridge on Day 5 to strike back against the Bad Boys for being the bullies of the server. However, after Day 1, where their behaviour was mostly in PokeThePoodle territory, the Bad Boys had mainly kept to themselves -- apart from Joel's stint as the Boogeyman on Day 2, any antagonistic behavior was either in response to provocation from other factions, or simply Yellow-on-Green violence as intended by the season's premise. Ultimately, the whole attack is an act of revenge for Joel ''killing one of their cows on Day 1'' (although this may be more of a convenient excuse to cause chaos).
* DownerEnding: As expected by both the season's mechanism and the nature of the series, everyone dies. After hours of battles and fluctuating alliances, the final battle comes down to the remaining members of T.I.E.S. (Impulse and Etho) and the Nosy Neighbours (Pearl) fighting against the Mean Gills (Scott and Martyn), who are still going strong at this point and have managed to decimate the competition. With Impulse left under 10 minutes left by the end, the three negotiate to have a three-way, fair play DuelToTheDeath on roughly even time... which ends with Martyn going full-on CombatPragmatist before the duel even starts [[spoiler:under the Watchers' influence]], killing both his Day 1 ally and their former enemy, then waits one last hour and a half for his life-timer to tick down.[[note]]Out-of-universe, Scott has Grian /kill Martyn after everything is said and done, but it's not present in Martyn's perspective of events.[[/note]]
* DeathsHourglass: Every player has a timer on their screen showing how much life-time they have left, which is also ColourCodedForYourConvenience. It is technically of the Fatalistic variety, since it's impossible to ''stop'' the timer, but most if not all players interpret it as a Jump to Action to regain life-time by any means possible so they can ''delay'' the inevitable enough to win the season. Fan interpretation on how the timer manifests in-universe may vary.
* DuelToTheDeath: {{Subverted|Trope}}. The final three discuss having a fair fist-fight like the ending of 3rd Life, only for [[spoiler:the Watchers to drive]] Martyn to pull out a sword and kill both Scott and Impulse in ''about ten seconds''.
-->'''Martyn:''' Nah, I don't wanna play this silly game. ''(kills Scott)'' I wanna do it this way.\\
'''Impulse:''' ''(overlapping)'' WHOA! Whoa! Whoa, whoa! What?! ''(places down a lava bucket)'' No!\\
'''Martyn:''' ''(overlapping)'' I wanna do it ''exactly'' this way. It doesn't matter if you're a Mean Gill or a Bad Boy or a-a ''Neighbour–'' ''(kills Impulse)'' –or a Clocker! You're all going down, none of these niceties, this is a death match ''for a reason''. ''(voice deepens)'' '''''OOH, THAT FEELS GOOD! TIME IS DELICIOUS!''''' ''(EvilLaugh)''
* EmergencyFoodSupplyAnimal: {{Discussed|Trope}} on Day 3. When Cleo announces she plans to go feral, Scar "fears" for her safety because if she dies, he and Bdubs would "starve". Cleo replies that she would have a dispenser system set up... then Scar argues that the dispenser might run out of food, to which Cleo half-jokingly says that the two could eat their dogs to survive. Of course, since this takes place in Minecraft, it's physically impossible for a player to eat their dogs anyway.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: {{Discussed|Trope}}. Jimmy claims on Day 5 that the only people the Bad Boys love are their own mothers.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** During the choosing of the third Boogeyman on Day 1, an ominous Boogeyman jingle can be heard from Grian and Tango's perspectives due to proximity chat. Is it any wonder that Martyn, who was standing next to them at the time, turns out to be the next Boogeyman?
** Several remarks have been made early on about how flammable the Woodland Mansion at the heart of the map is. As expected from players in the ''Life'' series, it gets burnt down by the end of Day 1... ''and'' in the later half of Day 2[[note]]it was reset due to the expected mobs not having been present on Day 1, since the world was generated in "Easy" mode[[/note]].
** On Day 8, after Scar returns from ambushing and killing Tango, Cleo compares their life-times and predicts that they'll die together. While it's not by natural causes, the two do indeed end up permanently-dying about 20 seconds apart from each other.
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: A more literal example that usual; while digging straight down to Y-11 on Day 1, Jimmy points out he can hear lava along the way. About five seconds later, he and Joel find where the lava is... [[AMoltenDateWithDeath right underneath their feet]].
* FunWithAcronyms: Much like Team B.E.S.T. from Last Life (and including three of its members), a group of players name their faction T.I.E.S. after the names of its members: '''T'''ango, '''I'''mpulse, '''E'''tho and '''S'''kizz.
** When Bdubs briefly joins them on Day 5, Impulse says they should be renamed to B.I.T.E.S. to include him.
** During Day 1 while Martyn was considering teaming with the "Skizz Protection Squad", he suggests team T.I.M.E.S. to them with his own initial, although it doesn't come to pass after his Boogey attempt and making an alliance with Scott. He brings the suggestion back on Day 8 for their temporary alliance, though just as T.I.M.E. due to Skizz's unfortunate death in the previous day. He also suggests S.M.I.T.E. in the event he could convince Scott to join them.
* GhostReunionEnding: After all of them are taken out in the finale, the Clockers family reunite as ghosts watching over the action throughout the rest of the server.
* TheGreatFire: Near the end of Day 1, Cleo sets three blocks of the Woodland Mansion on fire, which the Bad Boys have previously established as their base. In minutes, half of its interior has burnt to the ground and the fire itself has spread to the dark oak forests nearby.
* HellBentForLeather: The Bad Boys all wear black leather jackets [[InvokedTrope to reinforce their image as 'bad boys']].
* HighAltitudeBattle: As Grian correctly predicted on Day 4, most of the battles in the final few sessions take place in the sky; more accurately on the various sky bridges (or "[[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Skynet]]" as the players call it), with the players' main form of fighting being trying to shoot or hit each off or dropping TNT minecarts from above. After the season, there is a mutual agreement among the content creators to never use this strategy again.
* HistoryRepeats: {{Discussed|Trope}} on Day 1; six minutes in, Grian messages in the in-game chat if anyone is willing to bet Jimmy will be KilledOffForReal first again, after having the dubious honour of doing so for the ''past three seasons''. On Day 7, this ''does'' come to pass, as Jimmy is indeed the first one out. ''Again.''
* InSeriesNickname:
** Martyn refers to the Bad Boys' Bread Bridge as "Grainbow Road", while Scar calls the Coral Isles the "Knockoff [[ContinuityNod Panda Reserve]]" for its bamboo barrier.
** After the construction of the Bread Bridge, the Bad Boys have occasionally been called the "Bread Boys". Occasionally, even the Bad Boys themselves refer to the group as such in slips of the tongue.
* JacobAndEsau: The Clockers' family dynamic goes as such -- after a messy separation in the "pre-season backstory" (whatever it may be), Cleo shows favouritism to Scar (and vice versa), while Etho dislikes everyone in the family except Bdubs, who prefers to remain "neutral" in familial conflicts.
* KillSteal: {{Discussed|Trope}}. On Day 3, Cleo makes a deal with the Mean Gills that if they are being chased down by a Red Life, they will allow her to intervene and kill them first so that she gets the time increase instead of the Red Life. It's later invoked on Day 4 once the entire server is out for Green Life blood.
* LastOfHisKind: Downplayed; as of the start of Day 4, Bdubs, Impulse, Scott, and Tango are the final Green Names remaining in a server of Yellow Names, many of whom are willing to do anything it takes to get some more life-time. This culminates in half of the server joining the hunt for Green Name blood.
* LastRequest:
** {{Discussed|Trope}} at the start of Day 1, where Martyn, Skizz, and Etho discuss what their preferred final meals would be if they genuinely had 24 hours to live in real life.
** Skizz's final request to the T.I.E.S. before he allows Etho to MercyKill him is that one of T.I.E.S. must make it to the final three of the season. It comes true in the finale as Impulse makes it to 2nd place, with Etho also coming close by making it to 5th.
* MeaningfulName: The faction 'Entertainment Mountain' is so dubbed due to it being located at the heart of the map. This gives them a prime view for any recent respawns and any burnings of the Woodland Mansion nearby. They were later renamed to 'the Clockers' due to their base taking the form of a clock tower.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: The Boogeyman, who is randomly selected out of the living non-Red players and must kill someone by the end of the day, or drop a colour grade and lose up to ''eight'' hours of their limited life. Meanwhile, anyone who ''gets'' killed by the Boogeyman will lose two hours of their life instead of the standard one, basically doubling the gains and losses for any Boogey kills. In all, the Boogeymen were Scott, Bdubs, and Martyn (Day 1), Joel (Day 2), Impulse (Day 3), Tango (Day 4), Tango again (Day 5), Lizzie-as-Pearl (Day 6), and Etho (Day 7); there was no Boogeyman on Day 8 as everyone was on Red by that point already.
* MythologyGag:
** Martyn's first episode of the season is titled "[[WebVideo/MinecraftChampionship THE SANDS OF TIME]]".
** When Scar and Martyn try to put an AFK Grian on a minecart track on Day 3, Scar starts singing the exact same song from the last time he put an AFK Grian in a minecart in Season 8 of Hermitcraft.
* NoYou: When threatening Entertainment Mountain with a Bread Bridge invasion, Joel says, "You'll see what happens" if they mess with the bridge. In turn, Bdubs replies that the Bad Boys will see what happens if they go through with this. This goes on for about ten seconds.
* NosyNeighbor: Naming themselves after the trope, the Nosy Neighbours faction, consisting of Pearl and Big B, live next door to Entertainment Mountain next to spawn and have a habit of snooping in on the ongoings of the server, involving everything and everyone. This results in a lot of ExactEavesdropping.
* PainfulPointyPufferfish: Since the Mean Gills faction lives in the sea, they [[ExploitedTrope weaponize]] the pufferfish that naturally spawn there as defensive weapons. This tactic has since spread to adjacent alliances like the Clockers.
* PlayingCatchWithTheOldMan: {{Parodied|Trope}} on Day 5 where Etho takes Bdubs and Scar outside to play catch after a family meal... with TNT minecarts. [[ExplosiveStupidity It goes about as well as you'd expect]].
* PokeThePoodle: The self-titled Bad Boys spend their time partaking in abhorrent activities like trampling crops, breaking carpets, washing away torches with water buckets, and digging straight down... [[AMoltenDateWithDeath into lava]]. And also intruding on other factions' territory with their Bread Bridge and sneaking outside the world border.
* RefugeInAudacity: When Joel became the Boogeyman on Day 2, he and the other Bad Boys plotted to get the kill. How? By building the highly visible Bread Bridge from the Woodland Mansion to Entertainment Mountain, complete with an obvious powered railway track.
* RussianReversal: Joel's response after discovering that other players have been stealing from and griefing the Bad Boys' Bread Bridge:
-->'''Joel:''' You come for Bread Bridge, and Bread Bridge comes for you. That's my new motto in life.
* SickeninglySweet: PlayedForLaughs. On Day 6, Impulse and Tango feign nausea from eavesdropping on one of Skizz's "affirmation" sessions of the day. Skizz chalks it up to them being jealous that they haven't had their own sessions yet.
* SunglassesAtNight: Having sunglasses as part of their Bad Boys team-skins, Jimmy, Joel, and Grian wear these no matter what time of day it is. Grian, at the very least, wears them ''on top of'' his head rather than over his eyes, while Joel wears them below his (presumably perched on his nose, but [[InformedAttribute you can't see a nose on his skin]]).
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: More accurately, a Surprisingly Sudden Series of Deaths occur on Day 3. Having turned Yellow early in the episode, Scar spends much of the session attempting murder on the Green Lives. This results in him getting ''five kills'' in quick succession, and that's not even counting Impulse's Boogeyman kill on Pearl, Joel's two revenge kills on Scar and Martyn for messing with his fellow Bad Boys, and [[YetAnotherStupidDeath various miscellaneous deaths]] caused by trivial reasons or accidental murders. From this point onward, there has been [[CerebusSyndrome a massive uptick in deaths]] in the season.
* TeleportationSickness: Ender-pearling results in the loss of 2.5 hearts of health in-game. Because of this, several characters have died ender-pearling away from fights throughout the season, be it physically throwing one or via activating an ender pearl stasis chamber.
* TropicalIslandAdventure: The Coral Isles are constructed with such a setting in mind. While it fits the holiday resort aesthetic for the first few days, it quickly becomes a major battleground on Day 4 when bloodthirsty Yellow Names start circling its Green inhabitant like sharks in a thriller.
* VisualPun: Invoked at the cost of [[SomewhereAHerpetologistIsCrying biological accuracy]]; the frog murals on the Nosy Neighbours tower have visible, poking-out noses as opposed to two nostrils.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: On Day 4, the temporary Yellow alliance certainly consider themselves as this, believing that hunting down the last Green Names can cause the server to return to peace. This is, of course, [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist discounting]] the fact that most of the Yellow Names chose to initiate or join this witch hunt because they want more life-time for themselves.
* WhamEpisode: A two-parter:
** On Day 3, Grian is out sick and AFK for the entire session. This results in a near free-for-all where the Bad Boys try to protect Grian while every other faction tries to kidnap him. 13 deaths rack up over the course of the session, among which 5 are caused by Scar alone. By the end of the day, most of the server has gone Yellow, which builds up to...
** Day 4: Since most of the server has gone Yellow over the past couple of days, many of them quickly go on a killing spree to hunt down as many Green Names as possible to get ahold of their life-time. The bloodthirst and bloodshed over the first hour alone leaves no Green Name unscathed and causes Pearl to believe the rest of the server has collectively gone insane. Apparently, the rest of the server agrees with this sentiment and cuts the recording session short by an hour.
* WrongNameOutburst: On Day 7, Grian nearly refers to Joel as [[TheKlutz Scar]] when he jumps from a lethal height.
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: On Day 5, Grian calls Jimmy "Jimmy" instead of "Timmy" while screaming at him to kill the Enderman attacking him.
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[[folder:Secret Life]]
* AccidentalMisnaming: On Day 7, Skizz accidentally calls Cleo "Chloe". She does not appreciate it.
* AntiRegeneration: The gimmick of the series; each player has a whopping ''30'' hearts, but they are completely incapable of healing.
* ArtistAndTheBand: The alliance "Gem and the Scotts" act like an 80s rock band, with Gem as the band leader, and "the Scotts" being [[ShapedLikeItself Scott]] and Impulse (whose real name is Scott).
* AttendingYourOwnFuneral: On Day 6, Cleo concludes that Jimmy has never experienced the series tradition of holding a funeral for the first person to lose all their lives (which, up until this point had always been Jimmy). As such, she decides to hold a funeral for Jimmy while he's still around to experience it. Jimmy isn't amused.
* AudienceParticipation: During Day 1, Grian tells the viewers that they can give suggestions for secret tasks in the comments section of the episodes.
* BlatantLies: Gem's Day 6 task is to say nothing but lies for 30 minutes straight, so she does this when going to her XP farm.
-->'''[=GeminiTay=]:''' I really don't want Thorns on my armor, so I'm going to hit these Endermen– ''(while visiting her Zombie farm)'' –for a while. To make sure I don't get Thorns on my armor.
* BreakingOldTrends: Jimmy is no longer the first to die permanently in a season, as Lizzie's the first instead.
* CallBack:
** Both Double Life's {{Synchronization}} mechanic and [[TheDreaded the Boogeyman]] from Last Life and Limited Life return in the form of tasks.
** The Southlanders and their "AHA" puns are recalled two separate times during Day 1, first by Grian and Mumbo when their secret tasks cause them to engage in a pun battle, and again by Jimmy and Scar when the former offers the latter a spyglass. Etho also draws on this when trying to complete a secret task suggested by Martyn on Day 4.
** On Day 2, Scott lampshades that Cleo has a drastically different opinion of Etho than she did in Limited Life. Later, Bdubs refers to Etho and Cleo as "you and Dad" when he jokes about moving in with them.
** Grian's Day 2 task, to move people's front doors around, is highly reminiscent of his challenge to constantly steal people's doors in Season 7 of WebVideo/{{Hermitcraft}}. This is not lost on him or Mumbo.
** During Day 7's ZombieApocalypse, Cleo proposes to Scott that they form a Widows Alliance since they're some of the last players left uninfected, a reference to the alliance of the same name they almost formed back in 3rd Life.
** Throughout the rest of the season, Etho and others would say "Did that make you jump?" regarding some startling events, calling back to Etho's Day 2 task of trying to jumpscare people.
* ChainOfDeals: Scar's secret task on Day 5 was to make a series of at least four trades starting with seeds and ending with a golden apple. Scar got this task, and traded four seeds for a camel, a camel for a zombie spawn egg, a zombie spawn egg for five diamonds, and finally five diamonds for a golden apple.
* DamageSpongeBoss: As a result of the maximum health limit only applying to the hearts from the Secret Keeper and not player-gifted hearts or hearts gained by Reds from kills, killing two Yellows (Scott and Impulse) causes [[MercyKillArrangement their ally]] Gem to gain 20 more hearts, which, on top of her still-high 27.5 hearts, means she has '''57.5''' hearts by the end of Day 8. This makes her an incredibly dangerous player to confront directly in Day 9, as she can take boatloads of damage over a long time and easily outlasts nearly the rest of the remaining players through sheer attrition alone. The same can be said to Pearl, who has 50 hearts at the end of the same session, albeit from committing less consensual kills throughout Day 8. Due to this, both end in the top 3, alongside Scar. Grian could have also become one of these if he had managed even a single kill in his [=3v1=] battle against Gem and the Scotts on Day 9, because he took a total of '''99''' hearts off of their team from traps and sword hits, which is more than 3 players ''at full health''. Killing any one of them would've given him 10 hearts and a better chance to survive against the remaining two, getting even more hearts.
* DeathOfAThousandCuts: This season, players gradually take chip damage from various sources (such as fall damage) throughout their lifetime, eventually leading to death because of the AntiRegeneration mechanic. To tie into the new system, Red Names cannot intentionally go straight for a kill, but instead receive an endless flow of specific tasks to deal damage.
* DenserAndWackier: Owing to the ridiculous tasks that also frequently ask for involvement with the other players, things get comically wacky as the sessions go on, with so many people acting in so many bizarre ways that [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight nearly everyone just goes along with it]]. Of course, this being a DeadlyGame, this all makes [[WhamEpisode the sessions where the bodies start dropping like flies]] hit far, ''far'' harder.
* DownerEnding: Nearly everyone dies; that's the point of the series. After the Heart Foundation and the Roomies (and Martyn, the last of the Big Dogs) are taken down, the ensuing fight splits the Mounders and Gem and the Scotts' tentative alliance, with Scar, the last unaligned player, siding with the Mounders while with them at the time. The band puts up a respectable fight but are taken down by Pearl, who didn't even want to live this long or win again, and Scar, who has refused to kill Pearl, even at her own request. The final duel ends with Pearl being shot and falling off a ledge, and while [[SoleSurvivor he doesn't die at the end of his episode]], Scar is left alone after spending almost the entire series alone and essentially friendless. [[spoiler:It's even ''more'' of a downer in Martyn's "Eyes and Ears" continuity, as Scar's loneliness and suffering is eventually [[GoMadFromTheIsolation drawn out]] off-screen [[EmotionEater for all it's worth]].]]
* EasilyForgiven:
** Most of the players who have done tremendous amounts of damage to their close friends and allies for a secret task are let off with barely a slap on the wrist ''because'' it's for a secret task, so they'd have no choice in the matter.
** It's a bit of a running gag that if you do wrong to Bdubs, but then give him a horse, he'll immediately forgive you and become your best friend.
* EldritchLocation: The Secret Keeper, an giant statue of stone and moss with a flipped Watcher symbol in place of its face, surrounded by the sounds of WhisperingGhosts, where the sky goes dark for anyone who gets close enough. It is the only thing able to ignore the AntiRegeneration that prevents players from healing, and the land around it seems to partially restore itself between the 6th and 7th sessions after taking damage from the Wither.
* EliteZombie: As Minecraft would have it, armed zombies and baby zombies are the most common in the series. It's exceptionally notable in Secret Life; not only does the Hard gamemode cause an uptick in these mobs' spawn rates, but the tremendous amount of damage they deal cannot be regenerated by all but supernatural means (by this series' standards), causing them to be much greater threats than they have been in any other season. On Day 4, after several unfortunate encounters, Grian comments on how it's no wonder baby zombies are [[ShoutOut infamous for ending Hardcore worlds]].
* EnemyMine: On Day 9, the Mounders and Gem and the Scotts, the factions involving the two players with the most hearts on the server, have a tentative alliance to take down the Roomies and the remainder of the (Broken) Heart Foundation. The moment both factions fall, the two factions immediately turn against each other, with Scar, the last loner, joining up with the Mounders at the last second.
* ExactEavesdropping: On Day 6, Scott overhears Jimmy instructing Pearl on her secret task requirements while hiding in an underground hole, and runs off to warn Skizz and tell the Yellow Names on the server so they can make guesses. Fortunately for Pearl, her task requirements specify that for her to be called out by a Yellow Name, she has to specifically be called a "traitor", so Gem's guess is nullified by the task technicalities; meanwhile, the Mounders (Joel and Bdubs) refuse to betray their ally.
* FailedASpotCheck: Near the end of Day 6, Etho has to bring a Warden to the surface as part of his secret task (a joint task with Grian, who needed a Wither, and have them fight). While [=BigB=], Scott, and Etho run past as fast as they can, [=BigB=] yelling "Oh my!" in particular, Scar has a friendly chat with Grian, oblivious to the Warden coming up behind him.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: At the beginning of Day 6, a Wither painting can be seen hanging in Etho, Grian and Cleo's base. Soon afterwards, Etho and Grian have to reroll for hard tasks as consequences of the last session. The hard tasks in question? Bring a Wither and a Warden to a central area and make them fight. [[LampshadeHanging This is later lampshaded by them]].
* FormulaBreakingEpisode: Day 7. It starts out normally enough, but Gem's task to spread the Boogeyman curse (which overrides infected players' original tasks) quickly shifts the episode to a ZombieApocalypse type survival event.
* GameOfChicken: {{Invoked|Trope}} on Day 6 as a joint secret task between Bdubs, Impulse, and Scar, where they have to engage in activities that will cause damage, and can only succeed their respective tasks if they win more than three competitions.
* GoodAngelBadAngel: Cleo, Skizz, and Etho's joint Day 7 secret task revolves around this dynamic, with Skizz and Etho respectively acting as the "angel" and "devil" on Cleo's shoulders; the two can only win if Cleo listens to them more. Meanwhile, Cleo is told to alternate between the two's advice and keep the books balanced, and to pretend she's not in the know about the situation.
* AGoodNameForARockBand: The alliance name 'Gem and the Scotts' is joked to be a good name for an '80s rock band, and the three involved choose to theme their attire for the season as such.
* HotPotato: Pearl's Day 5 secret task, submitted by _term1576, requires her to play this with her secret task book, ensuring it's always in a player's inventory and to keep a slot in her own inventory open, while others have to try to return the book to her; if she has the book with her at the end of the session, she fails, and if anyone else has the book by the end of the session, they have to reroll for a hard task on Day 6. In the end, Etho is left in possession of the book due to movement difficulty caused by his own secret task of the day, forcing him to reroll for hard.
* HurricaneOfPuns:
** Day 1 kicks off with Grian and Mumbo's assigned tasks being opposite each other, and Mumbo is soon able to complete his task by making one bad pun after another with Grian in relation to their items and the environment, while Grian is ''unable'' to complete his task for another while, due to Mumbo laughing at every single one of the puns he makes.
** After Martyn is tricked into joining Joel's "Round Mound" cult, they exchange puns of words rhyming with "mound".
* ImpossibleTask: As the series goes on, the difficulty level of each secret task starts going up, with the rerolled tasks being notably nigh-impossible to complete. Given the DeadlyGame nature of the series, it's likely intended for some of these tasks to be outright impossible and to weaken the players enough for everyone to lose lives eventually.
** Gem's Day 3 assigned task is to open the End portal. Granted, the End portal only has one Eye of Ender left to be filled in, but to ''get'' an Eye of Ender, one has to travel into the Nether and fight Blazes (which deal tremendous amounts of fire damage) near a Bastion (where another player has already ''died'' trying to loot), on a server with an AntiRegeneration mechanism. They'd also have to kill an Enderman, which are fairly dangerous and have historically been responsible for several deaths in the Life series already. While Gem ''does'' die once from aggravating an Enderman by complete accident, she succeeds in this task with some help.
** Joel's Day 3 rerolled task is to pull off a 100-block [[SoftWater water bucket clutch]] in front of the whole server. This in itself isn't ''impossible'' to pull off, but failure to complete it in one go will require death, to which Joel thinks once is more than enough.
** Mumbo's Day 3 assigned task is to prevent another player from taking more than 3 hearts of damage. Unfortunately for him, the player assigned to him is Scar, who is infamous for being TheKlutz. After hearing about it, Grian comments that if he had received that task, he would have just immediately gone to reroll.
** Lizzie's Day 5 rerolled task is to get the entire server to sleep.
* InSeriesNickname: The alliance 'Gem and the Scotts' and their base have been referred to by various nicknames, including "the Cherry Blossoms", "Cherry Hill" (for their base), and "the Scotts and Tots" (by Scar).
* {{Irony}}:
** Halfway through Day 2, Pearl watches Impulse fail his assigned task by blabbing about it before hitting the Success button, and says she's sure she won't do the same thing. At the end of the session, that's exactly what she does as well, and ''in front of the entire server'' at that.
** On Day 4, Lizzie and Scott comment on how they spent the better part of the session making paths to connect the server for the former's secret task (and by extension, the latter's), but end up not riding along those paths to get to the Secret Keeper.
** On Day 7, Gem's task ends up unleashing a ZombieApocalypse across the server. At the end, one of the only survivors ends up being the player literally named [=ZombieCleo=], which multiple people comment on. She puts on her "Human Cleo" skin the following day to showcase that.
* ItsProbablyNothing: At the start of Day 3, Lizzie hears the sound of crunching dirt while near her house. Initially, she assumes that someone is digging beneath her home, before learning that the composter makes the same sound as breaking dirt blocks and writing it off as just her hopper automatically feeding items to her Composter. As it turns out, someone really was digging below her house: Grian was trying to move her door.
* JoinUsDrone: At one point during the ZombieApocalypse at Day 7, the ones afflicted with the Boogeymen curse croon to the defending survivors to join them in the middle of combat.
* KeepingSecretsSucks: The season's premise; it revolves around having to complete specific tasks every session within a certain time limit, but if anyone ''tells'' another player their task, unless it's covered by the task instructions, they fail and may receive a penalty. Yellow Names are also allowed to guess the secrets of Green Names, which means they have to put extra effort into keeping their ''actions'' a secret or otherwise create diversions to prevent accurate guesses. That being said, it's acceptable for a normal player to guess another player's task and try to help them complete it instead of ratting them out.
* LooseLips: A recurring trend on the server is for players to complete their respective task requirements but accidentally reveal its nature to someone else before they press the button, resulting in the day's task being registered as a failure.
** On Day 1, Scar's failure to keep his own secret task a secret ''while he's still doing it'' is broadcast to the entire server via the in-game chat. As he's the first to do so, and with the approval of the rest of the server, he is allowed to reroll for a harder task as opposed to hitting the "Fail" button.
** On Day 2, Impulse and Pearl both fall victim to this just before hitting the button, although Pearl unwittingly succeeds in her task; Impulse's episode for the session is fittingly titled "[[LampshadeHanging Loose Lips Sink Ships!]]". Scott also falls victim to the exact same thing, but retrospectively gets let off on account of everyone being exhausted by time of filming.
* MassOhCrap: Nearly everyone on the server collectively loses it when Etho and Grian bring a Warden to the surface on Day 6, and proceed to do so a second time when Grian spawns in the Wither at the heart of the server.
* MattressTagGag: A brief one; about five minutes into Day 7, Pearl catches Scar rifling through her chests in an attempt to gather supplies to start a Pillager raid. In response, Scar claims to be conducting a mattress inspection and that Pearl pulling off her mattress tag is illegal on the Life series, with Martyn backing him up as he's trying to cause Red chaos.
* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: {{Invoked|Trope}} as a secret task requirement. On Day 6, Etho and Grian receive the shared task of staging a Warden and Wither fight in the middle of the map. By the time it's over, two players are permanently dead and the land is heavily damaged.
* OppositeDay: Scar's task on Day 4 requires him to do the opposite of everything someone asks him to do.
* ARareSentence: Given the name Grian chose for his pet magma cube on Day 7, he ends up saying the following:
-->I am wasting my session with Etho's Dishwasher... Y'know, there are things that you say in ''Minecraft'', and [[LampshadeHanging that was not one of them I ever expected to say]].
* RobbingTheDead: On Day 7, Cleo decides to rob Lizzie's base after the latter's final death the previous session; Etho then additionally suggests they burn the base to the ground since Lizzie's not around to object anyway, while saying [[DueToTheDead he's supposed to be more "evil" than them]] as the "devil" on their shoulder.
* RoyalWe: Jokingly namedropped by Scott when Mumbo asks Bdubs to share his ancient debris on Day 2, saying "we could have Netherite" when he's clearly intending to keep it all for himself.
* ScoobyDoobyDoors: Martyn edits himself and Jimmy chasing Big B through his Backrooms on Day 5 to look like this.
* TogetherInDeath: {{Discussed|Trope}}. While watching Joel try to get his initiation kill for the Infected on Day 7, Scar suggests to Gem that if Joel dies in the process, it would be a nice gesture to bury him next to Lizzie.
* TooDumbToLive: At the end of Day 6, multiple people question why Jimmy and Mumbo were running around trying to fight Grian's Wither and Etho's Warden while on their Red lives, resulting in their final deaths to the latter... especially in contrast to Martyn, who ran to hide in Big B's Backrooms away from the chaos for most of the fight.
* UnfortunateNames: On Day 1, Bdubs suggests that he, Mumbo, and Cleo could be called the "Axis" because they were going to have a theme of rotated houses. Cleo is quick to nip it in the bud, and it takes a few seconds for the other two to figure out [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII why it would be a bad idea]].
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: As early as Day 2, everyone is getting used to seeing strange behavior from their server-mates (often attributable to their respective assigned secret tasks) and as such they stop questioning it. This is mildly PlayedForDrama on Day 2 as Jimmy and Lizzie both fail their tasks and call out the server on this, as they both needed people to respond to their antics in certain ways (or at all), but never received a response.
-->'''Grian:''' This series, I just stopped asking questions.
* WhamEpisode: Day 6 comes with a large uptake in the death toll, including three players being KilledOffForReal for the season, as well as ''both'' the Warden and a Wither being summoned to the surface near the end. It's also a twist episode for the entire series in that Jimmy manages to ''not'' be the first to die permanently this season.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Namedropped by Grian after the Greens who guessed his task immediately sold him out to the nearest Yellow despite having nothing to gain from it. {{Zigzagged|Trope}} because [[BatmanGambit that's exactly what he wanted them to do]], as his real task was to bait a Yellow into guessing incorrectly.
* WithUsOrAgainstUs: PlayedForDrama. Martyn adopts this attitude in relation to the Big Dogs as a Red Life alliance, in that everyone who joins up has to renounce their previous alliances to ensure full faction loyalty. This policy he enforces causes an argument over Bdubs' ConflictingLoyalty, in that Pearl is fine with him being with the Big Dogs as long as he doesn't have to ditch the Mounders in the process, while Martyn insists on him picking a single side and sticking with it. The same policy also drives Skizz away from joining the alliance in favour of staying with the now-Broken Heart Foundation.
* ZombieApocalypse: {{Invoked|Trope}} on Day 7 when Gem's secret task denotes her as PatientZero for the Boogeyman curse, and is tasked with infecting everyone on the server.
-->You are infected with the Boogeyman curse. You must kill a non-Red to infect them. Once you have infected them, show them this book. Their task, if they have one, is replaced with this. Yellows cannot call out this task; you cannot reroll for hard. You succeed when all non-Reds have the curse during the session. All infected players can work together. Anyone infected can kill a non-Red, but the most recently infected player must be involved. If you turn Red, you can choose to be free from the curse by hitting 'Fail' early.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* AprilFoolsDay: The season was released on April 1st, 2024.
* AugmentedReality: The gimmick of the one-shot season is that the creators are playing on Minecraft VR, resulting in visual oddities like players' hot bars being on their left arms and moving alongside them, making it difficult to keep track of one's health and the in-game chat.
* CallBack:
** Big B, as he infamously did in Secret Life, tries to confuse others using a hole.
** Martyn is once again the murderer of Pearl's dog, whose name even rhymes with Tilly!
** Pearl is once again the centerpiece of another impromptu slumber party of sorts. Martyn even muses that he has finally been invited to the party that he missed back in Secret Life.
* ContentWarnings: A handful of [=POVs=] preface their videos with a warning that the VR set-up may cause motion sickness for both the creators and the viewers.
* DeadlyEuphemism: Jimmy and Grian invite everyone to join their club if they want to. Jimmy and Grian are the only Reds on the server at the time. Scar doesn't put two and two together.
* HistoryRepeats: Scott, Cleo, and Pearl end up working together, and quickly realise they've accidentally recreated their ''Last Life'' "Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss" group.
* LastSecondWordSwap: When Cleo is jumpscared by a creeper:
-->'''Cleo:''' Oh, shhhhh-ugar.
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