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** Clyde in "Lord of the Flies." Everyone wants him on their team, and he knows it, which is why he registers solo. He even outsmarts and defeats most of the people he joins. His {{Fatal Flaw}} is another trope, the Fallacy of the Talking Killer, which Wrenn points out later.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: {{The Stinger}} of "To the Lighthouse" involves Nellie “reviewing” the season of the show you’ve just watched, in which she is a character. She even [[TitleDrop refers to the show by name]], which isn’t done up until this point. The whole thing pokes fun at Website/YouTube reviews of TV shows.

* BrokenPedestal: Subverted. Wrenn refers to the Editors as “literary dignitaries” that she looks up to, but when they take their criticism of her journal one insult too far, she reveals that she always knew they were talentless assholes, and had a lot of ammo stored up for a {{The Reason You Suck Speech}}.

** The Black Ghost is considered this by most of the LARPers.

* DontExplainTheJoke:
** In "Pride and Prejudice":
--> Wrenn: "I'm still sore from Dix." -Sydney and Punter laugh- "What?"
--> Sydney: "It's funny because you don't like them."

* FireForgedFriends: Pretty much everyone in {{The Stinger}} of "Lord of the Flies."

* Homage:
** The "In a Grove" episode is named after the short story that inspired ''Rashomon'', and offers tribute to that film, as well as those that use similar flashback structure, such as [[ReservoirDogs ''Reservoir Dogs.'']]

* IncrediblyLamePun: Most of the team names in "Lord of the Flies."

** In "Alamut," Jessica gets Punter to combat plagiarism by giving a speech that more or less plagiarizes Ezio's big speech from AssassinsCreed2.

--> Emerson: "Explain it to me in a way that doesn't make you sound like an eight year-old."
--> Punter: "...I don't have to do that."

--> Sig: "Great speech."
--> Punter: "Great attitude."
--> Sig: "Great maturity."
--> Punter: "Great double-standard."
--> Sig: "Great...face!"
--> Punter: "Great...Expectations!" (storms off)

--> Nellie: "Because I'm me, and this is Space ''fucking'' Tornado..."

* PunctuatedForEmphasis:
** In "Treasure Island."
--> Wrenn: "Who do you ship?"
--> Punter: "I'd rather not - "
--> Wrenn: "WHO. DO. YOU. SHIP?!"

* SeriousBusiness: The entire LARP game. Everyone commits, even to the point of adhering to the honor system: no one is there to enforce the rules, but everyone still “dies” when hit.

* ShoutOut: Tons.

* SirSwearsALot: Nellie.
* StraightGay: Wrenn.

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial

--> Sydney: "Don't give me that 'Your journal was destined to become a flaming bumper-magnet because you treated contributors like turds' look."

--> Wrenn: "Any messages?"
--> Sydney: "Totally not anything from your sister that I opened and then marked as new."

--> Emerson: Music/{{Weird Al|Yankovic}} works with an accordion, and Creator/VannaWhite works with Pat Sajak, both of which are enormous bags of air."

--> Vince: "Drop the notebook."\\
Wrenn: "I wish someone would have [[Film/TheNotebook given me that advice in '96]], am I right?"\\
Vince: "Respectable burn."

--> Wrenn: "You want me to make up some crap and hope gullible idiots believe it? What am I, the History Channel?"
** To Family Feud in "In a Grove":
--> Punter: "Are you the host of Family Feud?"
--> Wrenn: "No."
--> Punter: "Then your career isn't over. Relax."

--> Emerson: "Big journals send form rejection letters, but their Masthead’s personal junk is left on the table like cold Brussels sprouts or a copy of ''Atlas Shrugged'' at a garage sale.”

* FoeYay: Sig and Punter twice allude to something that happened between them in the past, and Clyde states that the two [[NostalgiaFilter "had something good back in the day."]]

* TearJerker: [[spoiler: "No need to hurt anyone."]]

* YoureNotMyType: Said in another way: [[spoiler: Wrenn asks Emerson for a kiss, and Emerson asks if they can hug instead.]]

--> Emerson: [[WeirdAlYankovic Weird Al]] works with an accordion, and [[VannaWhite Vanna White]] works with Pat Sajak, both of which are enormous bags of air."
** To Nicholas Sparks:
--> Vince: "Drop the notebook."
--> Wrenn: "I wish someone would have [[Film/TheNotebook given me that advice in '96]], am I right?"
--> Vince: "Respectable burn."