| 1 | ''Halloween Unspectacular'' is a series of fanfics by E350, each containing thirty-one one-shots, one for each day of October. While each is an anthology, {{Story Arc}}s run through each, and {{Myth Arc}}s have grown out of those. It was a yearly tradition on his Website/FanFictionDotNet account from 2010 to 2020 (excluding 2015, as he had tried to wrap up the series with the fifth edition only to come back to it in 2016). |
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| 5 | [[folder:List of Halloween Unspectaculars]] |
| 6 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6364928/1/Halloween-Unspectacular Halloween Unspectacular]]'' |
| 7 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7426460/1/Halloween-Unspectacular-2-Do-the-Gasmask-Shuffle Halloween Unspectacular 2: Do the Gasmask Shuffle]]'' |
| 8 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8568978/1/Halloween-Unspectacular-3-Terror-Australis-Incognita Halloween Unspectacular 3: Terror Australis Incognita]]'' |
| 9 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9729282/1/Halloween-Unspectacular-4-Mess-Effect Halloween Unspectacular 4: Mess Effect]]'' |
| 10 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10726125/1/Halloween-Unspectacular-5-The-Final-Push Halloween Unspectacular 5: The Final Push]]'' |
| 11 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12171918/1/Halloween-Unspectacular-6-Lair-of-the-Hack-Writer Halloween Unspectacular 6: Lair of the Hack Writer]]'' |
| 12 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12671447/1/Halloween-Unspectacular-7-Watchmeh Halloween Unspectacular 7: Watchmeh]]'' |
| 13 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13079699/1/ Halloween Unspectacular 8: Blue Alert]]'' |
| 14 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13399633/1/Halloween-Unspectacular-9-This-is-fine Halloween Unspectacular 9: This is fine]]'' |
| 15 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13709320/1/Halloween-Unspectacular-X Halloween Unspectacular X]]'' |
| 16 | [[/folder]] |
| 17 | |
| 18 | !!This series contains examples of: |
| 19 | [[folder:Tropes over multiple collections]] |
| 20 | * AdaptationalVillainy: In several [=AU=] stories, normally heroic or at least decent characters are put in less-than-moral roles; for example, [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Mr. Lancer]] is a cult leader in one story, and [[WesternAnimation/HeyArnold Arnold Shortman]] is a Capone hitman in another. |
| 21 | * ArcWords: For the first MythArc, "It always rains". First spoken by [[spoiler: the Governor, after he looks in the box in El Dorado]], before popping up several times afterwards, lampshading how major conflicts always seem to end with a BattleInTheRain as part of the cyclical nature of things. [[spoiler: These get brought back in [=HU9=], when the Stranger invokes another BattleInTheRain to lure E350's friends into a trap.]] |
| 22 | ** A sort of inverse of these arc words was used in the second MythArc; every thirty-first chapter, Kamala will observe/say something to the effect of "That's odd, it's not raining...", which reflects how this arc is more continuous and streamlined than the first. The rain finally comes at the start of [=HU8's=] climax, indicating that it is the true FinalBattle. |
| 23 | * AuthorAvatar: E350 is often a character in these stories. |
| 24 | * BattleInTheRain: A trope so recurring it ended up becoming a plot point; every major arc in the series ends with one of these. |
| 25 | * BigBad: Shifted several times with the first MythArc. The second and third ones each have a singular one (General Rausseman and the Stranger/[[spoiler:the Bus Driver]]) as a result of being more streamlined than the first. |
| 26 | * ButtMonkey: |
| 27 | ** Squidward and Dib are the most frequent victims of having a lot of random bad stuff happen to them. Characters that E350 genuinely dislikes, like Gaz and Paulina, are close behind. |
| 28 | ** Danny also has a recurring habit of suffering a horrible death or some other misfortune in various stories, to the point it was lampshaded in the beginning of ''Blue Alert''. |
| 29 | --->'''Danny:''' Hey, maybe this year you can go one month without killing me or eternally trapping me in some kind of horrific torment.\ |
| 30 | '''E350:''' I ain't promising you anything, Fenton. |
| 31 | * CanonDiscontinuity: The endings of [=HU1=] and [=HU2=] are considered noncanon by the author due to the deaths of major characters. |
| 32 | * CerebusRollercoaster: Each collection alternates between comedic entries (on even numbered days) and darker action/drama/horror pieces (on odd numbered days). This pattern was apparently unintentional early on in [=HU1=], but once it was pointed out to him, E350 codified it. |
| 33 | * DemotedToExtra: The Fiddley Thing. It was an important MacGuffin in the second Halloween Unspectacular, but over the years its importance waned to the point that it's now only used for the occasional humor one-shot. Justified due to its StoryBreakerPower. |
| 34 | * {{Elseworld}}: A few stories throughout various collections put fictional characters in different time periods than their respective canons. |
| 35 | * EveryEpisodeEnding: Every collection except for the last two ends with a parody of [[Music/BillyJoel Billy Joel's]] "We Didn't Start the Fire". |
| 36 | * LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When it's not being outright [[BreakingTheFourthWall broken]]. |
| 37 | * MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: Happens quite a bit, most commonly between various [[Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} Nicktoons]]. |
| 38 | * MythArc: Three major ones: |
| 39 | ** The first, officially referred to as the Fiddley Canon, covers just about everything plot-related from [=HU1=] to [=HU5=]. It involves the Fiddley Thing, magic, sorcery, dragons, figures from European myth, and various other things. |
| 40 | ** The second one, going from [=HU6=] to [=HU8=], revolves around a Nazi remnant group that the heroes must defeat. |
| 41 | ** The third one, started in [=HU9=], has a mysterious figure who blames E350 for ruining his life going on a vendetta against him. |
| 42 | * MythologyGag: Some of the earlier stories contain references to ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5967099/1/E350-s-Happy-Fluffy-Reviews-of-Really-Bad-Fanfics E350's Happy Fluffy Reviews of Really Bad Fanfics]]'', a [[DeadFic now-dead]] {{MST}} written by the author. These were eventually phased out after the second collection, only to return in the ninth. |
| 43 | * NewJobAsThePlotDemands: The unfortunate bastard who shows up repeatedly throughout the first MythArc only to get caught up by all the insanity following the main characters around -- In [=HU1=], he's a bus driver in the Outback whose bus gets used as a testing ground for the Fiddley Thing; in [=HU2=], he's now a conductor on the Ghan, which Insano decides to use to test the upgraded Fiddley Thing; in [=HU3=], he's now a security guard at JFK International, and gets mind-wiped after seeing some of Madame Athena's actual magic; in [=HU4=], he's renting river boats on the Orinoco, which the heroes need to chase the villains to El Dorado; and in [=HU5=], he shows up at [[spoiler: the Fiddley Thing's funeral]], where he reveals that he's now unemployed and in therapy. [[spoiler:He shows up again in [=HU9=] as the BigBad, blaming E350 for all his troubles.]] |
| 44 | * OfficialCouple: [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Mabel and Pacifica]] in some one-shots, [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Spongebob and Sandy]] in others. |
| 45 | * OnlySaneMan: [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Vlad Masters]] usually ends up being this for the villains. |
| 46 | * PlaceWorseThanDeath: A RunningGag throughout the series is E350, who is himself Australian, taking potshots at Sydney and treating it as the worst place in the world. |
| 47 | * PoorlyDisguisedPilot: Many entries are meant to be, or can serve as, jumping off points for stories of their own. In the case of "Time to Send in the Troops" from [=HU1=], it actually [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6447961/1/Eureka paid off]]. |
| 48 | * RealityWarper: The Fiddley Thing. |
| 49 | * RunningGag: |
| 50 | ** The Fiddley Thing showing up at some point. |
| 51 | ** The opening of each edition in the second MythArc makes it clear that E350 is only continuing the series because some internet-obsessed trolls are bribing him with fan memorabilia. |
| 52 | ** E350 opening the later collections with song parodies, with various fictional characters as backup singers/dancers. Then, once they're done, he tells them all to get out of his house. |
| 53 | ** Danny dying or otherwise having something horrible happen to him in at least one of the stories, to the point that he asks E350 to cut it out at the beginning of the eighth collection. |
| 54 | * SelfDeprecation: E350 does this a ''lot''. |
| 55 | * ShipTease: Timmy and Dani get a lot of this throughout various stories. |
| 56 | * StoryArc: Aside from the regular [[MythArc myth arcs]], several collections have a more self-contained story arc: |
| 57 | ** In the first one, there's a three-chapter arc about E350 and his friends trying to defeat a witch version of [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Ember McLain]]. [[spoiler:The starring characters later appear in the main arc, fleeing [=ReGenesis=].]] |
| 58 | ** In the second one, Spongebob has to go on a mission to stop the Underworld King after accidentally freeing him from his prison. |
| 59 | ** In the third one, E350 retells the story of the ship ''Batavia'' with fictional characters. |
| 60 | ** In the fourth one, there's an arc centered on a prison only referred to as "the Gaol" (an alternate spelling for jail). [[spoiler:It turns out to be connected to the MythArc.]] |
| 61 | ** The fifth one has a three-part FreakyFridayFlip story. |
| 62 | ** The sixth one had a two-part story about [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Ford]] and [[WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall Wirt]] getting trapped in a strange land. |
| 63 | * TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: A threat in most of the major story arcs, and a few of the individual stories. |
| 64 | * ThoseWackyNazis: PURITY. |
| 65 | |
| 66 | [[/folder]] |
| 67 | |
| 68 | [[folder:Halloween Unspectacular 1]] |
| 69 | * AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Membrane, not satisfied with how Dib turned out, experimented on him and turned him into a PhysicalGod. Needless to say, this backfired.]] |
| 70 | * AfterActionReport: This is actually the name of the third story, which features a version of Danny who is a SWAT officer being debriefed by a superior about a raid he led on a lab where Doombringer is turning people into FishPeople. |
| 71 | * AfterTheEnd: "Masters of War" follows a nuclear war which devastates America and much of the rest of the world, and the aftermath. |
| 72 | * AlternateHistory: "Legendaries", where the Allies use [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} legendary Pokemon]] to win WWII well ahead of schedule. |
| 73 | * ApocalypticLog: |
| 74 | ** "Dead Gods" is a final journal entry by AJ, who recounts how he was part of an expedition to explore a Reaper discovered buried beneath London, only for most members to either be killed or Indoctrinated into husks. AJ ends with a promise to shoot himself before he can be taken, and a plea to destroy the Reaper (even if it means nuking London) to prevent this happening again. |
| 75 | ** "Project [=ReGenesis=]" is a collection of project reports and transcripts of security footage detailing the creation of the titular PhysicalGod SuperSoldier, and how it all [[GoneHorriblyRight goes horribly right]]. |
| 76 | * ArcWelding: During the climax, [=ReGenesis'=] destruction of the world somehow causes the main timeline and the "Legendaries" one to start bleeding into each other. This leads to WWII generals armed with Pokemon joining the established heroes in the fight to save the world. |
| 77 | ** Also during the climax, the storyline about Squidward and Insano's misadventures in the Outback and the Witch Ember arc are also tied in, as the former's bus ends up at Vlad's villa, and the latter supplies Linkara with the flying van he and his friends use to flee [=ReGenesis=]. |
| 78 | * BigBad: Witch Ember for her arc, and [=ReGenesis=] [[spoiler: aka Dib]] for their arc. |
| 79 | * BittersweetEnding: In the last story. [[spoiler: The world is saved, but not everyone made it out alive.]] |
| 80 | * BodyHorror: "With Great Power..." features, among other things, Tad and Chad getting melted and Francis looking like he'd been put through a blender. |
| 81 | * BrainUploading: Sandy does this in "A Terrible Thing to Lose" [[spoiler: in order to escape Terminus' influence]]. |
| 82 | * TheCameo: [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] makes one at the end of the first part of the Witch Ember story, before getting a bigger role for the rest of the arc. |
| 83 | ** WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic gets a few cameos in as well before getting an entire chapter to himself. |
| 84 | * CanonCharacterAllAlong: [[spoiler:[=ReGenesis=] is actually an empowered [[WesternAnimation/InvaderZim Dib]].]] |
| 85 | * CassandraTruth: E350 ends up getting humored by emergency services when he tries to call about [[ItMakesSenseInContext the giant witch on his front lawn.]] |
| 86 | * ContinuityCavalcade: The finale does this, which is especially notable in [[spoiler: the Doctor's speech.]] |
| 87 | * DarkerAndEdgier: "Masters of War" is probably the darkest, bleakest one-shot in the collection, dealing with the event and aftermath of America getting nuked. |
| 88 | * {{Deconstruction}}: A minor example. Over the course of the collection, E350's bad luck and ButtMonkey status are played for comedy. However, in the finale, [[spoiler:it leads to him failing during the crucial part of a plan to at least slow down [=ReGenesis=], leading to more people dying.]] |
| 89 | * DeusExMachina: [[spoiler: When it looks like [=ReGenesis=] is going to kill Zim and finish destroying the world, the Doctor comes in and talks him down.]] {{Lampshaded}} in TheStinger. |
| 90 | * DisproportionateRetribution: After Insano transforms everyone on the bus for giggles, it's trying to smoke which gets him kicked off. And Squidward gets thrown off too, just for sitting next to him. |
| 91 | * TheDogBitesBack: Really, after [[CosmicPlaything everything he's gone through]], is it really a surprise that [[spoiler:Dib wants to use his newfound power to destroy the world?]] |
| 92 | * EldritchAbomination: |
| 93 | ** In "Demon's Land", Lancer performs a ritual of HumanSacrifice in order to summon the "Great Orb" slumbering in the waters off the shore of Van Diemen's Land (modern day Tasmania). [[spoiler: He succeeds, only for Vicky to absorb its power before he can.]] |
| 94 | ** [=ReGenesis=] could arguably be considered this, given how it's able to destroy ''entire states'' in hours, and the penultimate entry of the story is even a PublicServiceAnnouncement warning about Eldritch Abominations. [[spoiler: Really more of a HumanoidAbomination PhysicalGod, since it's an empowered Dib.]] |
| 95 | * EnemyWithout: [[spoiler: Timmy's inner darkness made manifest, the main villain of "With Great Power..."]] |
| 96 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Vlad walks out of the Syndicate due to their deal with Terminus in "A Terrible Thing to Lose". |
| 97 | ** He also refused to have anything to do with the creation of [=ReGenesis=], seeing it as madness. |
| 98 | * FacePalm: Vlad does this during the [=ReGenesis=] arc as more and more people find their way to his private villa in Australia. |
| 99 | * FictionalPoliticalParty: "Countdown" has the Prosperity Party, which runs on a platform of national richness, increased employment, and "a healthy dose of electoral fraud". Once in power, their main goal is the increased mining of blue ectoplasm as a fuel source, despite the hazards involved in the substance. |
| 100 | * {{Filler}}: "The Unspectacular Filler", of course. |
| 101 | * FishPeople: Mrs. Doombringer's plan in "After Action Report" seems to revolve around turning people into these. She manages to do it to Timmy, [[spoiler: Sam]], and who knows how many others. |
| 102 | * GoneHorriblyRight: The goal of Project [=ReGenesis=] was to create a PhysicalGod. They succeed, and it promptly goes on a rampage to destroy the whole world. |
| 103 | * KarmicDeath: |
| 104 | ** [[spoiler: Lancer in "Demon's Land", when Vicky absorbs the Great Orb and scares him off the same cliff he'd been tossing people off of in order to summon the Orb in the first place.]] |
| 105 | ** Everyone involved in Project [=ReGenesis=] being slaughtered by it once it gets free. Especially Professor Membrane, who kept going with the program even after repeated warnings. [[spoiler: Doubly so since he used his own son as the test subject.]] |
| 106 | * LamePunReaction: During the climax of the Witch Ember arc, after the titular antagonist turns Sandy into a stuffed animal, E350 makes a joke about the group being "stuffed". Linkara only barely manages to keep Zim from throwing him out of the Rocket Van. |
| 107 | * LargeHam: Zim, as usual. |
| 108 | * MagnificentBastard: InUniverse, E350 calls Witch Ember one after she "scams his scam". |
| 109 | * {{MST}}: Done by Squidward twice. |
| 110 | * PhysicalGod: [=ReGenesis=]. |
| 111 | * PleaseWakeUp: Zim begs [=ReGenesis=] to wake up after [[spoiler:he sacrifices his life to reset time]], it doesn't work. |
| 112 | * PokeThePoodle: Dr. Insano's attempts to "destroy lives" with the Fiddley Thing only end with the victims being neutral or happy about their transformations. |
| 113 | * PublicServiceAnnouncement: A parody one is used for the October 30 one-shot, giving instructions on what you should do if an EldritchAbomination is attacking. |
| 114 | * ResetButton: [[spoiler: The Doctor convinces [=ReGenesis=] to use his powers to undo the damage he's done to Earth.]] |
| 115 | * SideBet: Mr Krabs and Squidward had one in the ''VideoGame/OregonTrail'' chapter on who's going to die first. Patrick died first, allowing Squidward to win the bet. |
| 116 | * SuperheroEpisode: "Heroics", sort of. |
| 117 | * TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: [[spoiler: How the Doctor defeats [=ReGenesis=].]] |
| 118 | * TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: [=ReGenesis=] starts destroying the world almost immediately after being created. [[spoiler: He almost totally finishes the process before the Doctor convinces him to use his powers to hit the ResetButton (at the cost of his own life).]] |
| 119 | * ThisIsGonnaSuck: Sandy says this word-for-word in the second part of the "Witch Ember" storyline. |
| 120 | * UnwillingRoboticisation: A team of villains manage to do this to a good chunk of the Earth's population in the first story. |
| 121 | * WastelandWarlord: The story "Masters of War" sees Vlad taking absolute control of the ruins of Amity Park after WorldWarIII, aided by surviving army units that accepted his command after the federal government was lost, with [[WellIntentionedExtremist brutal but necessary tactics]] like only feeding people who can work. He talks about using this as a power base to rebuild the world his control, and the story's epilogue suggests that he does build up a kingdom of some kind over the next ten years, before Dani returns from WalkingTheEarth and takes him down. |
| 122 | * WhamLine: Zim gets his first full look at [=ReGenesis=], and utters only one word: [[spoiler: "''Dib?''"]] |
| 123 | * WholePlotReference: The entirety of "You Have Died of Dysentery" is ''VideoGame/OregonTrail'' with ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' characters. |
| 124 | * WickedWitch: Witch Ember. |
| 125 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: [=ReGenesis=], aka Dib Membrane.]] |
| 126 | [[/folder]] |
| 127 | |
| 128 | [[folder:Do the Gasmask Shuffle]] |
| 129 | * AdaptationalVillainy: Roy Earle was merely a {{jerkass}} and corrupt cop in the game he originates from. Here, [[spoiler:he's willingly assisting a madman in his quest to become a god.]] |
| 130 | * AGodAmI: [[spoiler:Dan Phantom's ultimate goal.]] |
| 131 | * AlternateHistory: |
| 132 | ** "Come the Revolution" takes place in a version of 1940s Los Angeles where robots known as Mechans are a sizable minority of the population. Oh, and Thomas Dewey is President. |
| 133 | ** "Lady Liberty", set in a world based on a game of ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'', features the Mongols as Britain's great enemy in Asia. And the Art/StatueOfLiberty in this world is in Edinburgh, and is actually [[spoiler: a transformed Dani]]. |
| 134 | * AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Sandy's fate at the end of "Black Sun".]] |
| 135 | * ApocalypticLog: "Cairo to the Cape" is a series of journal entries by Jimmy, AJ, and Jazz, detailing their expedition to traverse Africa from Cairo to Cape Town, which goes wrong as they find themselves lost after crossing Lake Victoria. Tensions rise as provisions grow low while SanitySlippage and disease set in, and the last journal entry [[spoiler: is by Mr Krabs, who reveals he and Eliza misled and killed the others as {{Human Sacrifice}}s]]. |
| 136 | * AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: Almost every hero involved in the Fiddley Thing war in the end.]] |
| 137 | * BerserkButton: For Lancer, it's butchering Shakespeare. He demands that his class ''bring him the head'' of whoever wrote the parody from "Parody", and, to prove he's serious, pulls out a machine gun. |
| 138 | --> "Hell hath no fury like an English teacher scorned." |
| 139 | * BigBad: The Underworld King for his own arc, and [[spoiler: Dan Phantom]] for the Fiddley Thing arc. |
| 140 | * CarFu: [[spoiler: Unintentionally utilised by the police and two members of the Nicktoons' apartment's private security force against the Underworld King, who then name-drops it: "''Only'' '''I''' ''may utilise the Car Fu!''"]] |
| 141 | * CloningGambit: [[spoiler: Richtofen kills Insano to get the Fiddley Thing, only for it to turn out to have been a clone decoy.]] |
| 142 | * DisneyVillainDeath: Zim sends Vicky falling to her doom during the climax. |
| 143 | * DisproportionateRetribution: Some of the things the Hunters "punish" Dib for are as simple as annoying people and wasting their time. |
| 144 | * DrivesLikeCrazy: After the above instance of CarFu, Harrison and David (who drove the police car and jeep, respectively) are banned from ever driving again by their respective partners. |
| 145 | * EldritchAbomination: The copy of ''Halloween Spectacular'' in the beginning. It also apparently smells like Cthulhu. |
| 146 | * EvilMask: The mask that Sam purchases in "The Peddler" that [[spoiler: turns her into a demon]]. |
| 147 | * ForcedTransformation: [[spoiler: Dani is turned into the Statue of Liberty by Alden Bitterroot.]] |
| 148 | * GenreMashup: "Come the Revolution" is described as "[[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Tucker]] + ''VideoGame/LANoire'' + Robots". |
| 149 | * {{Ghostapo}}: One of the exhibits shown in "The Wax Museum" describes how Hitler apparently ordered Heinrich Himmler to harvest the souls of Russian captives, believing he could use them to make an army of ghosts under his command. |
| 150 | * HardWorkMontage: Happens when Spongebob gathers everything he needs in order to seal away the Underworld King. Invoked, as Spongebob figures a montage will save him time on getting everything. |
| 151 | * HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler: What Eliza does to the rest of her traveling companions in "Cairo to the Cape".]] |
| 152 | * LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: Insano apparently feels this way about whatever the Fiddley Thing puts him, Sandy, and Spongebob through in "The Fiddley Thing Returns". |
| 153 | * TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: Dan Phantom, for Richtofen.]] |
| 154 | * {{MST}}: |
| 155 | ** E350 forces a group of characters to read the tropes page for ''Roleplay/DeadlyMistakes'', due to the winner of last year's contest requesting it. |
| 156 | ** Squidward does two more for the 23rd and second-to-last stories (the latter targeting ''Fanfic/ThirtyHs''). |
| 157 | * MythologyGag: In "London Underground", one of the many travelers on the titular train is John, the Mountain Dew-obsessed Stu protagonist of a fanfic E350 covered in his MST series, ''E350's Happy Fluffy Reviews of Really Bad Fanfiction''. |
| 158 | * OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: What slaughters the village in "Bitter Memories". |
| 159 | * ParentalNeglect: Professor Membrane comes to regret practicing this in "The Hunters" after [[spoiler: Dib becomes an invalid.]] |
| 160 | * PublicServiceAnnouncement: Another parody one, regarding [[RealityWarper the Fiddley Thing.]] |
| 161 | * ThePurge: In "The Hit List", [[spoiler: Dan Phantom]]'s minions hunt down and kill anyone who poses a threat to their plans. |
| 162 | * RageAgainstTheAuthor: Done in response to the above tropes page MST. |
| 163 | * ResetButton: |
| 164 | ** The Underworld King's defeat rewinds time to before he was released. |
| 165 | ** [[spoiler: The fight over control of the Fiddley Things collapses the multiverse, but once Sandy defeats Dan and Insano and takes all three Things, it's restored.]] |
| 166 | * TheReveal: [[spoiler: Dan Phantom]] is the one that wants Richtofen to get him the Fiddley Thing. |
| 167 | * RougeAnglesOfSatin: Parodied with the "Parody" chapter. |
| 168 | * RussianRoulette: Done in "Potions" with...well, potions. |
| 169 | * SanitySlippage: Happens to both Jimmy and Jazz in "Cairo to the Cape". |
| 170 | * SkewedPriorities: ''All over the place'' in the first story. |
| 171 | * TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: [[spoiler: The fight for control of the Fiddley Things causes the multiverse to collapse. The ResetButton gets hit when the heroes win.]] |
| 172 | * WaxMuseumMorgue: The setting of "The Wax Museum", naturally enough. |
| 173 | [[/folder]] |
| 174 | |
| 175 | [[folder:Terror Australis Incognita]] |
| 176 | * AfterTheEnd: "South Point" is set years after an AlienInvasion resulted in humanity being enslaved and taken off planet. The only people known to have escaped this fate are Danny, Dani, and Jazz. |
| 177 | * AgentScully: Sandy towards Madame Athena when they first meet. |
| 178 | * AnimationAgeGhetto: Invoked with "Thomas Something Something". |
| 179 | * AntiMagicalFaction: [[spoiler: The Witchfinders seek to eradicate every witch and wizard on the planet.]] |
| 180 | * TheApprentice: Jazz is learning magic under Athena. |
| 181 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Jones the dragon, thanks to Excalibur's magic.]] |
| 182 | * BadassNormal: A French cafe owner manages to get the EldritchAbomination print version of last year's ''Halloween Unspectacular'' out of Paris by yelling at it for disturbing his customers. |
| 183 | * BigBad: Dan in the ''Batavia'' arc, [[spoiler: Zombie King James I]] in the main one. |
| 184 | * BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Doctor Insano rescues everyone who came to help Jazz from armed forces. In a flying house. It is awesome.]] |
| 185 | * BrainBleach: In "Bizarre Nonsequitors", Timmy goes to scrub his brain after learning that Cosmo and Wanda dressed up as each other for a convention. |
| 186 | * BrainUploading: Done to various characters in "New Horizons". |
| 187 | * BullyingADragon: As said by E350 when talking about the ending to "Collection": "Well, someone's doomed here, and it ain't [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]]." |
| 188 | * {{Cliffhanger}}: "Purpose" ends with [[spoiler: the Doctor and his team facing a bunch of Daleks]]. |
| 189 | * CoolVsAwesome: [[spoiler: Zombie King James I versus King Arthur.]] To quote E350, "PLACE YOUR BETS!" |
| 190 | * CutLexLuthorACheck: What is Calamitous' ultimate plan for turning people into robots? [[spoiler: Selling them for profit.]] |
| 191 | * DragonRider: Danny does this in "Down the Mine" [[spoiler: in order to free a dragon using his intangibility powers]]. |
| 192 | * FauxToGuide: The first story is a ''very'' sarcastic (and potentially hypocritical, if Timmy's comment at the end is to be believed) guide on how to write a ''Danny Phantom'' fanfic. |
| 193 | * FlingALightIntoTheFuture: After the Earth is depopulated by alien invasion in "South Point", Danny, Dani, and Jazz record as much of the remains of human civilization as they can, for whatever eventually inherits the Earth. |
| 194 | * GilliganCut: In "Fiddling Away" Spongebob and Sandy realize that the Fiddley Thing is officially theirs (Dr Insano gave it to them, long story). Cut to Squidward walking in on [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext a line of square-dancing Sandy duplicates, with Spongebob acting as a disco ball.]] |
| 195 | * InsideAComputerSystem: Sandy in "Computer Problems", thanks to the Fiddley Thing. |
| 196 | * KnightTemplar: [[spoiler: The Witchfinders.]] |
| 197 | * LastOfHisKind: Jazz is the last human alive in "South Point".[[note]]Danny and Dani, due to their half-ghost status, apparently don't count.[[/note]] [[spoiler: She dies by the end of the story.]] |
| 198 | * MadArtist: The art collector that turns people into paintings, statues, etc. in "Collection". |
| 199 | * MagiciansAreWizards: Madame Athena, a full-fledged witch, is perfectly happy performing in front of large audiences. |
| 200 | * MonumentalDamage: In "Unidentified Flying Object", Mandie's ship crashes through the Washington Monument when arriving on Earth. |
| 201 | * {{MST}}: Happens once again for the ninth one-shot, this time with E350 doing the riffing (since Squidward [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere locked him in his room and ran for Tobago]]). |
| 202 | * QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice: In "Monsters in the Darkness", a ZombieApocalypse hits Amity Park, leading to half the city being sealed off by the army, while troops with black suits and gas masks move through the quarantined zone, killing everyone (infected and not) that they come across... much to the surprise and confusion of the army officers maintaining the quarantine, as those aren't ''their'' troops. |
| 203 | * SealedGoodInACan: Jones the dragon spends two hundred years trapped in a collapsed mine before Danny frees him. |
| 204 | * TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: King Arthur does this to King James I in order to end the battle.]] |
| 205 | * TalkingToThemself: In "Bizarre Nonsequitors", Ember for some reason has two heads, which are arguing about music. |
| 206 | * TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: [[spoiler: It's stated that if the Witchfinders destroy Britain's magic, the island itself will be destroyed, with horrible consequences for most of the world.]] |
| 207 | * UnwillingRoboticisation: In "But Then There Were Robots", a group of villains start turning people into robots ForTheEvulz. |
| 208 | * WhamLine: What Dani finds after reading the warning in the book left by Witchfinders: |
| 209 | --> "This message was [written] [[spoiler: two years ago]]." |
| 210 | * WholePlotReference: E350 apparently intended to write "Unidentified Flying Object" as an ''Film/IndependenceDay'' clone. |
| 211 | * TheWitchHunter: There was once an entire society of people seeking to stamp out magic users. [[spoiler: As Dani finds out, they're still around]]. |
| 212 | * ZombieApocalypse: "Monsters in the Darkness" features a viral plague hitting Amity Park, which turns the infected into green, pus-ridden mindless maniacs. |
| 213 | [[/folder]] |
| 214 | |
| 215 | [[folder:Mess Effect]] |
| 216 | * AlternateUniverse: "The Catalyst" is centered around these, giving different fictional characters the final choice the player has to make in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''. |
| 217 | * AntagonisticGovernor: The unnamed Governor of the Gaol serves as the BigBad of that arc [[spoiler: and is the leader of the villain alliance in the main arc.]] |
| 218 | * ArcWelding: [[spoiler: The Governor of the Gaol turns out to be the leader of the present day VillainTeamUp.]] |
| 219 | * AuctionOfEvil: "Terror of the Police Auction", which centers around the police auctioning off things that belonged to an evil sorcerer. Among these items are a camera that sends you back in time, a pair of "Binoculars of Fear", and the sorcerer's spellbook, which Sam purchases and uses to send Paulina into space. |
| 220 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In "Wolf", Timmy thinks it would be cool to be a werewolf. [[spoiler: He probably should have phrased this desire better, considering what happens...]] |
| 221 | * BigBadDuumvirate: Vlad Masters, Mr. Cromwell, Morgan le Fay, and a mysterious cloaked person ([[spoiler:the Governor from the Gaol story]]) for the overarching plot. |
| 222 | ** The cliffhanger gives us [[spoiler: a team-up between every BigBad up to this point. Yes, even the retconned [=ReGenesis=].]] |
| 223 | * BigGood: [[spoiler: Guinevere.]] |
| 224 | * CallBack: Jazz is still learning magic from Athena. |
| 225 | * TheCameo: Series/{{Torchwood}} makes an appearance in "Report". |
| 226 | ** [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Zoidberg]] makes an appearance in "The Inspection", volunteering to be dissected for a high school biology class. |
| 227 | ** [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Kang and Kodos]] appear in the convention center, trying to find a bathroom. |
| 228 | * ChekhovsGag: Remember the AuctionOfEvil oneshot that ended with Sam launching Paulina into space? [[spoiler: She still has the spellbook, allowing her to aid the heroes in finding El Dorado.]] |
| 229 | * DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: The Governor, after seeing...''whatever'' was in the box in El Dorado.]] |
| 230 | * EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Governor is never named. |
| 231 | * EvilLawyerJoke: The only reason Roy Cohn is included in the group of historical bad guys in "Lunchtime at the Tyrant's Arms". He even admits as such. |
| 232 | * ForcedTransformation: A number of people have been turned into figurines by the time "Figurines" happens. |
| 233 | * FusionDance: Sandy and Ember get hit with this at the convention thanks to a teleporter mishap. |
| 234 | * GilliganCut: At their hotel, Dani mentions that there's an incident going on in the lobby and that it's nothing serious. Cut to a bunch of peasants in the lobby dragging Paulina away, having misinterpreted E350 calling her a WitchWithACapitalB. |
| 235 | * GothGirlsKnowMagic: The gothic Sam ends up getting her hands on an evil wizard's spellbook in "Terror of the Police Auction". She doesn't do much with it, besides launching Paulina into space and [[spoiler:helping locate El Dorado]]. |
| 236 | * HumanSacrifice: The Governor uses them to power his black magic. |
| 237 | * InsultBackfire: [[spoiler: The Governor calls Dani "worse than my convicts". She promptly thanks him for the compliment.]] |
| 238 | * KnowledgeBroker: Grim serves as this, providing information to heroes and villains alike for a tidy sum. |
| 239 | * MindScrew: A mild version happens in "Writing"; in the end, we don't know what's "real" and what's fictional. |
| 240 | * MrExposition: Jimmy explains some of the events from the last Halloween Unspectacular to Carl in one chapter. |
| 241 | * {{MST}}: More of this from Squidward in story 13. |
| 242 | * NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: A couple of times in "A Regal Intermission" -- first, when mentioning how William III died due to his horse tripping over a mole, and then bringing up the sex chair invented by Edward VII -- E350 pauses long enough to reaffirm that these things really happened. |
| 243 | * NoSenseOfDirection: Timmy's Dad proves as much when trying to drive to Comic-Con in San Diego -- along the way, he somehow ends up in ''Canada'', and then ''Mexico''. |
| 244 | * OurSirensAreDifferent: [[spoiler:The siren that appears in "The Report", who doesn't use the CompellingVoice typically associated with sirens (though her physical appearance is based on Ember [=McLain=], who ''does'' have this power in canon); instead, she's capable of limited reality warping, creating an "interactive illusion" to disorient and capture her prey.]] |
| 245 | * OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: The story "Wolf" obviously involves this. |
| 246 | * SequelHook: The cliffhanger that ends the story has [[spoiler: a new villainous alliance being formed]] that the heroes will clearly have to deal with. |
| 247 | * ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler: Mr. Cromwell thinks that the whole trip to El Dorado was this. He's wrong.]] |
| 248 | * TemptingFate: Done to hell and back by the group that's going to Comic-Con. [[spoiler: Which is why it's no surprise when the cloaked figure kidnaps them.]] |
| 249 | * UniverseChronology: "The Fiddley Canon Recap" is a summary of the entire MythArc as it exists at this point, including backstory and notes about how the endings of [=HU1=] and [=HU2=] are non-canon. |
| 250 | [[/folder]] |
| 251 | |
| 252 | [[folder:The Final Push]] |
| 253 | * AdaptationalWimp: [[spoiler: [=ReGenesis=] is weaker than he was in [=HU1=], though he's still powerful enough to take on a skilled mage.]] |
| 254 | * AffectionateParody: E350 sings a parody of "One Day More" from ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' in the beginning. |
| 255 | * AlternateContinuity: For the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' stuff, this story was written some time before "Not What He Seems" aired; therefore, E350's explanation as to who wrote the journals has long been disproved. |
| 256 | * AscendedExtra: Ovard Grim, who only appeared twice in the last Unspectacular, becomes [[spoiler: a member of the BigBadDuumvirate]]. |
| 257 | * BigBad: [[spoiler: Galahad.]] |
| 258 | * BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler: [=ReGenesis=], Dan Phantom, King James I, Ovard Grim, and the Governor all team up. Except they're all being played by Galahad.]] |
| 259 | * BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Jones saves the Mystery Shack crew from the [=GiW=] in "Dragons of Oregon".]] |
| 260 | * BigGood: [[spoiler:As it turns out, E350 is this for the entire Fiddley Canon, being the caretaker of its branch of the multiverse.]] |
| 261 | * BreakingTheFourthWall: Grim does this at the end of the story, talking to the reader to address the dangling plot threads. |
| 262 | * BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: While Jazz can logically understand why Athena had to manipulate her, she can't forgive it.]] |
| 263 | * CallBack: Both "Wolf" and "The Inspection" from [=HU4=] get followups here. |
| 264 | * CerebusRetcon: [[spoiler: Turns out, Athena has been grooming Jazz for a HeroicSacrifice since first taking her under her wing.]] |
| 265 | * TheChosenOne: [[spoiler: As E350 explains to her personally during the climax, Sandy has always been the lynchpin to saving the world.]] |
| 266 | * CivilWar: One of these has erupted in Avalon about a year after the Battle of El Dorado, primarily between factions loyal to Galahad and Gawaine, who are trying to take the throne for themselves, while a smaller loyalist faction led by Guinevere and Lancelot having to flee elsewhere. |
| 267 | * ClearMyName: Jazz and Athena end up having to clear Dr Insano's name when he's accused of murder in "The Piccadilly Caper". As it turns out, [[ForcedTransformation it wasn't even murder to begin with]]. |
| 268 | * ConspiracyTheorist: E350 becomes one in "Wild Mass Guessing", regaling Timmy with a supposed conspiracy that he's uncovered; it involves a secret government agency framing Nixon for the Watergate scandal when he tries to expose them, 4chan being a plan to stop a sinister cabal, and Madame Foster making red-headed teenage clones (her granddaughter and Vicky among them) for a laugh. Timmy is understandably skeptical, but the end reveals that E350 may actually be right. |
| 269 | * DealWithTheDevil: Vlad makes one with Bill Cipher in "The Infernal Machine". By the time they're stopped, most of Amity Park and Oregon are destroyed, and several heroes are heavily injured or [[HeroKiller dead]]. |
| 270 | * TheDogWasTheMastermind: [[spoiler: Gus, the apparently innocent magic performer, was behind the businessman's transmogrification. Oh, and he's actually the Governor.]] |
| 271 | * DrivesLikeCrazy: Spongebob, much to the detriment of Mrs Puff and her go-kart track in chapter 16. |
| 272 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Grim is an unpleasant sociopath, but at least he's ''honest'' about it, as he points out to [[spoiler: Athena while criticizing her plans.]] |
| 273 | * EvilChef: The Muffin Man from his self-titled chapter is a fairly affable fellow, but uses suspect ingredients to make his muffins (ranging from horse meat to building tar to his own blood), has apparently been investigated and arrested several times, and is perfectly willing to lie to customers about the properties of his muffins in order to squeeze more money out of them. |
| 274 | * FamousAncestor: [[spoiler: The Fentons are descended from King Arthur himself. And so are either Dipper and Mabel or Wendy, by way of Morgan le Fay.]] |
| 275 | * FlippingTheBird: Implied with Athena in "The Middleman", who shoots Ovard a "lewd finger gesture" as she leaves his office. |
| 276 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: As it turns out, the "Wild Mass Guessing" chapter was only E350 setting up for some ''major'' reveals in the next chapter, with at least one involving -- you guessed it -- Wild Mass Guessing. |
| 277 | * FreakyFridayFlip: Dipper ends up in one with Wendy at the end of chapter 8, thanks to [[ItMakesSenseInContext a pair of socks]]. |
| 278 | * GrandFinale: Ended up being this for the Fiddley Canon MythArc, wrapping up most of the plot threads in that story. It was also intended to be this to the ''Halloween Unspectacular'' series as a whole, but E350 ultimately decided to continue it after a hiatus. |
| 279 | * GroinAttack: In "The Other Sock Drops", Soos ends up bringing a security guard in after Dipper and Wendy have already taken care of Robbie. The guard offers to take his nightstick to Robbie's crotch, but gets politely declined. |
| 280 | * HatedByAll: Gaz has this among the ship's crew in "The Sea of Switching", thanks to her habit of having people beaten for the pettiest of reasons. [[spoiler:Which is why it's ''enormously'' satisfying to them once [[LaserGuidedKarma karma hits her hard]].]] |
| 281 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Galahad is done in by the very event he tried to control.]] |
| 282 | * HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler:The ritual to collapse the multiverse requires the unwilling sacrifice of a servant. The original plan was to use Grim, but he ended up skipping town, so Galahad uses his right-hand man instead.]] |
| 283 | * INeedAFreakingDrink: Athena, after hearing Cochrane's "demolition team" plan, grabs a glass of wine and drains it. |
| 284 | * KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Grim escapes any sort of retribution for his crimes, which he points out gleefully to the readers.]] |
| 285 | * KidFromTheFuture: [[spoiler: Tammy Turner.]] |
| 286 | * KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: The Fiddley Thing. It gets a funeral on the moon...[[SubvertedTrope and then shows up again in the next ''Unspectacular'']].]] |
| 287 | * LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: In "The Sea of Switching", a sea spirit turns Gaz into a member of the crew she's been tormenting, leaving her at their mercy.]] |
| 288 | * LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When told about the apparent murder in "The Piccadilly Caper", Jazz states that it's pretty dark for a humor episode... of their lives. |
| 289 | * MindControlDevice: The titular ring in "Remy's Ring". |
| 290 | * MirrorUniverse: Where "The Other Side of the Mirror" takes place. Starring [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Aang as a tyrannical dictator and Azula as a heroic freedom fighter]], to boot! |
| 291 | * {{MST}}: Squidward gets one last one in chapter 18 |
| 292 | * NeverMyFault: Robbie blames Dipper for Wendy breaking up with him, despite the fact that the breakup was mostly his own fault. |
| 293 | * OnlySaneMan: Timmy in "For Want of a Bit", being the only one to think that [[ItMakesSenseInContext using a haunted Game Boy to try and cure Danny's phobia of 8-bit ghosts]] maybe isn't the smartest means of doing things. |
| 294 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: |
| 295 | ** In "Hey Fiddle Fiddle", Spongebob becomes worried when Mr Krabs doesn't open the Krusty Krab for the first time in ''25 years''. |
| 296 | ** In previous stories, Vlad would normally be the one villain to [[EvenEvilHasStandards balk at the idea]] of making a DealWithTheDevil. In "The Infernal Machine", however, he makes such a deal with Bill Cipher, showing how desperate (and insane) he's become. |
| 297 | * PassThePopcorn: Timmy breaks some out when listening to E350's conspiracy theories. |
| 298 | * TheReveal: See FamousAncestor above. Also, [[spoiler: Jeremiah Fenton wrote [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls the journals, and took on the alias Fiddleford McGucket]] in order to escape detection from the government]]. |
| 299 | * SanitySlippage: Jimmy suffers from this ''big'' time in "The Infernal Machine", as years of bullying for his intellect slowly drive him towards madness, culminating in him [[spoiler: deciding to turn humanity into robots]]. |
| 300 | * SeriesFauxnale: Meant to be the GrandFinale for the series until E350 changed his mind. |
| 301 | * ShipTease: [[spoiler: Tammy Turner's mother is Dani, as a corporal figures out.]] |
| 302 | * SkewedPriorities: When facing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt and learning that no one's running the Mystery Shack in his absence, Stan complains about all the money he's going to lose. |
| 303 | * StatingTheSimpleSolution: The author's notes in "Missing Midnight" pokes fun at the spirit's plan to turn everyone into chess pieces: |
| 304 | --> "Dude, couldn't you just, like, ''buy'' a chess set?" |
| 305 | * TheStinger: After E350's goodbye to the readers, we get a final scene showing [[spoiler: that Insano is still in prison]]. |
| 306 | * TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: [[spoiler: Galahad's plan to collapse the multiverse. Tammy comes from a BadFuture where it backfired and unleashed a horde of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s which destroyed the world.]] |
| 307 | * TrappedInTVLand: [[spoiler: Danny, Jimmy, Timmy, Cosmo, and Wanda at the end of "For Want of a Bit".]] |
| 308 | * UnmanlySecret: According to Mr Turner, Timmy liking Enya music is one of these. |
| 309 | * VillainExitStageLeft: [[spoiler: Grim slips away just before the climax kicks off.]] |
| 310 | * WhamEpisode: "The Middleman". [[spoiler: Athena's plans and allegiances are thrown into doubt, and we learn that A) Danny's paternal grandmother is the director of the Guys in White, and B) that Dipper and Mabel's parents are working for the villain Ovard Grim.]] |
| 311 | ** "Eureka". [[spoiler: We learn that Athena was grooming Jazz for her apparent "destiny", where she either has to let [=ReGenesis=] send the world into a new Dark Age, or die. Except maybe not, if the appearance of [[KidFromTheFuture Tammy Turner]] says anything...]] |
| 312 | * WhamLine: Chapter 12: [[spoiler: "They had killed the Fiddley Thing."]] |
| 313 | ** Timmy (to [[spoiler: [[KidFromTheFuture Tammy]]]]): "Good luck. And just a heads-up -- [[spoiler: mess with time again and I'm grounding you]]." |
| 314 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: The final fate of Dipper and Mabel's parents isn't explained.]] |
| 315 | ** Lampshaded with [[spoiler: Doctor Insano, who's still stuck in jail.]] |
| 316 | * WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: Athena gets subject to this several times regarding her plans for Jazz. Even Grim gets in on this.]] |
| 317 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Galahad intended to end his partnership with Grim by sacrificing him for the ritual, but was preempted by Grim fleeing. He pulled this on his own NumberTwo instead.]] |
| 318 | [[/folder]] |
| 319 | |
| 320 | [[folder:Lair of the Hack Writer]] |
| 321 | * AlternateUniverse: |
| 322 | ** [[spoiler: The setting of "Hanging Tree" is a universe where the American Civil War wasn't fought over slavery, so it's still an active thing in the present.]] |
| 323 | ** "The Great White Fleet" is set in America in 1902, but [[CoolAirship airship]] technology is advanced enough to make them flying fortresses used as standard by the military. Also, William [=McKinley=] is still alive and President, and Teddy Roosevelt is Secretary of the Navy. |
| 324 | * {{Anvilicious}}: InUniverse, the author admits that the aesop of "The Fable of the Two Castles" is this. |
| 325 | * BigBad: General Rausseman |
| 326 | * BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Ant-Man rescues Soos when a PURITY soldier is about to shoot him.]] |
| 327 | * BloodierAndGorier: Well, more violent at the very least, but "Hanging Tree" is this. |
| 328 | * BrickJoke: "It's Back" is kicked off by Insano, back in the Fiddley Canon universe, accidentally dropping the Fiddley Thing into a hole that leads to the new canon universe. TheStinger at the end of this whole edition shows him trying to reach into the hole to get it back. |
| 329 | * ContinuityReboot: E350 explicitly states that the new MythArc started in this edition is a separate continuity from the Fiddley Canon of the first five [=HUs=]. |
| 330 | * DisproportionateRetribution: One of the universes that Amethyst and Peridot visit in "It's Back" is one where everyone is disproportionately punished for bad behavior -- Gaz is forced to WalkTheEarth for being mean to Dib, and a meteor is dropped on the Gems when they find her situation humorous. |
| 331 | * DoNotAdjustYourSet: [[spoiler: General Rausseman takes over the airwaves to order the surrender of the remaining "abnormals" to him.]] |
| 332 | * EasyAmnesia: [[spoiler: Mabel and Pacifica lose their memories once Percivale turns them into a painting in "The Picture".]] |
| 333 | * EvilIsPetty: In "Alien!", it turns out that Zim is the one who convinced the government agents that Gaz was an alien. He was apparently hoping they'd dissect her, for no other reason than it'd upset Dib. |
| 334 | * FantasticRacism: PURITY hates anyone who either has powers or isn't human. |
| 335 | * TheFateOfThePrincesInTheTower: Percival Northwest is stated by family legend to have kidnapped the Princes in the Tower and sacrificed them to power his longevity, framing Richard III for killing them in the process. |
| 336 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:When he has a gun to the President's head, Rausseman idly wishes that said president's successor will be more "malleable". Come the next two installments, and the President's successor is indeed ''far'' more willing to work with PURITY.]] |
| 337 | * ForScience: Professor Membrane will take home renovation and use it as an excuse for this. |
| 338 | * {{Gamebooks}}: Parodied in two chapters by just presenting us with the endings. |
| 339 | * GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: The mandatory pill that everyone takes in "An Average Day" suppresses all negative emotions. |
| 340 | * ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: In "A Living", Vicky turns poor, homeless people into meat for her soup kitchens. She gets the Chair for it.]] |
| 341 | * JackassGenie: Desiree (as per the norm for her) in "Genies are Jerks". The narrator makes the argument that all genies are like this. |
| 342 | * JumpScare: Attempted by [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Zoidberg]] in "The Interview". It doesn't really work in text format. |
| 343 | * LifeDrain: In "The Picture", Percivale Northwest keeps himself alive by turning his victims into paintings and doing this. |
| 344 | * LoopholeAbuse: In "Genies are Jerks", Desiree says that the Crystal Gems may have one wish each. [[spoiler: Lapis gets around this by using a run-on sentence to voice multiple wishes.]] |
| 345 | * MindScrew: "The Cafe". |
| 346 | * MistakenForAliens: In "Alien!", government agents become convinced Gaz is an alien and bring her in for interrogation. [[spoiler: They almost dissect her before they realize their mistake.]] |
| 347 | * MonsterClown: Several in "Send in the Clowns". |
| 348 | * NoodleIncident: Exactly ''what'' lead to some of the endings in the "Choose Your Own Ending" chapters. |
| 349 | * OurPresidentsAreDifferent: The unnamed President is the President Target variant, with a few Personable and Iron traits mixed in (the latter especially in regards to PURITY's attempts at "negotiation"). This largely sets him up as a {{foil}} to his successor in later installments, who falls squarely into the Corrupt and PuppetKing variants. |
| 350 | * OppressiveStatesOfAmerica: In "An Average Day", America has become a corporate state, where low and mid level employees are given mandatory drugs which render them near-mindless drones. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. |
| 351 | * PrecisionFStrike: E350 isn't normally one to use swearing in his stories, making the Vice President calling [[spoiler: General Rausseman]] a "sanctimonious jackass" in "Of Presidents and Purity" this trope. |
| 352 | * PsychicLink: Mabel and Pacifica get one between them in "The Picture". |
| 353 | * RedHerring: [[spoiler: The Alaskan PURITY base is this, distracting the military while the organization goes for the president. Only [[{{Seers}} Garnet]] saw it coming.]] |
| 354 | * TheRemnant: PURITY arose from a group of Nazis who escaped the war to hide out in Alaska. |
| 355 | * Rule63: Occurs in the first "Choose Your Own Ending" chapter. |
| 356 | * SeenItAll: After [[spoiler: breaking into the White House in order to stop PURITY]], Kamala meets [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Spongebob, Sandy]], [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Peridot, Amethyst, Stevonnie]], and [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Mabel]]. She considers it pretty normal. |
| 357 | * SequelHook: [[spoiler: An arrested Rausseman is offered an alliance by people within the US government.]] |
| 358 | * SneezeCut: In "Genies are Jerks", Desiree says that, once she's free, she'll wipe "that annoying ghost boy" from existence. Cut to: |
| 359 | --> Far away, Danny Fenton had a sudden feeling of deep foreboding. |
| 360 | * StartOfDarkness: "Department Seventeen" explores the origins of General Rausseman and PURITY. |
| 361 | * TemptingFate: [[spoiler: In the finale, when the Crystal Gems realize that they'll need a portal in order to get into the White House, Peridot complains that one isn't just going to pop up out of nowhere. Cue portal, which Jimmy comes through.]] |
| 362 | * UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: "An Average Day". |
| 363 | * WhamLine: "Alien!", for the most part, is pretty lighthearted. Then comes this exchange: |
| 364 | --> '''Trigger:''' Just a question. How'd you know about this Zim thing?\ |
| 365 | '''Agent:''' Oh, some other government agency just grabbed him. Nothing to worry about.\ |
| 366 | '''Powers:''' What agency? There's nobody else operating in the area!\ |
| 367 | '''Agent:''' Um...[[spoiler:[[ThoseWackyNazis PURITY]].]] Why? |
| 368 | * WholeEpisodeFlashback: "Department Seventeen" serves as Rausseman's OriginsEpisode, showing how he went from being a random German soldier in WWI to being chosen to become a Nazi SuperSoldier to turning TheRemnant that fled to Alaska into the beginnings of PURITY. |
| 369 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: When PURITY abducts Vlad, they kill the patsy they had spying on him, because HeKnowsTooMuch. |
| 370 | [[/folder]] |
| 371 | |
| 372 | [[folder:Watchmeh]] |
| 373 | * AffablyEvil: Floyd from "Roommate" is rather nice for an evil wizard. |
| 374 | * AffectionateParody: "Trailers" is one to, well, film trailers -- specifically summer action blockbusters. |
| 375 | ** Chapter 30 is one to classic Saturday morning superhero shows, specifically the Adam West ''Batman'' series. |
| 376 | * AllPartOfTheShow: Danny and Sam assume that the battle between the Crystal Gems and the Ruby Squad was a ''really'' elaborate Disneyland show. |
| 377 | * AlternateUniverse: "The Trans-European Express" is set in a universe where the Bonaparte dynasty, the Kaiser, and the Tsar are all still in power. And transhumanism is common, if repressed, social group. |
| 378 | * AssholeVictim: The mob in "Angry Fandom Shelter". |
| 379 | * AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: Mabel and Pacifica, at the end of "The Gift".]] |
| 380 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Stan, thanks to the Phoenix Force.]] |
| 381 | * TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: PURITY takes over America and kills many heroes. Fortunately, more manage to take refuge in Wakanda, which along with other nations make clear their intent to fight back.]] |
| 382 | * BaitAndSwitch: In "Adapt or Perish", two [=MPs=] come to the Pines family's house because they might be harboring a fugitive from another dimension. While they technically ''are'', it turns out that the [=MPs=] were looking for [[WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil the Diaz family]] instead. |
| 383 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Timmy wishes that he could meet the ghost of a historical person to help with a history report in the eighth chapter. He wasn't specific, so Cosmo summoned UsefulNotes/LizzieBorden. Oops. |
| 384 | * BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: George Wallace, Strom Thurmond, and [[spoiler: J. Edgar Hoover]] were all agents of PURITY. And they engineered the entire Watergate scandal in order to ruin Richard Nixon when he wouldn't play ball. |
| 385 | * BigBad: Rausseman again. |
| 386 | * BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: PURITY has control of the USA, many heroes are dead, Ruby's fate is unknown, and Galactus is coming. The only thing that keeps the story from having a ''complete'' DownerEnding is the hope that the heroes gathered in Wakanda will be enough to save the world. And that's not even getting into what might happen with the Phoenix Force, who seems to have allied itself with Lapis, Timmy, and Stan.]] |
| 387 | * BlackComedy: "E350 Presents: Literature/{{Bluebeard}}", a more comedic and sarcastic take on the titular fairy tale. |
| 388 | * BrickJoke: "Karma Punishment" ends with Dib and Timmy playing a video game. TheStinger of the collection shows them still playing it. |
| 389 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Averted in "Robot Wars"; despite the fact that he was effective in getting rid of the monster, Admiral Stereotype was fired for his obvious mental problems. And for destroying Sydney. |
| 390 | * TheCaper: Stan and Ford's subplot in the whole PURITY mess involves breaking into Allsworthy's corporate building in order to figure out what he's keeping in a secret room. |
| 391 | * CorruptPolitician: [[spoiler: President Fulton. He starts as a Donald Trump parody, then sells out to PURITY out of both FantasticRacism and a desire for more power.]] |
| 392 | * DestructiveSaviour: In chapter 10, the Crystal Gems save Disneyland from the Rubies...and end up banned from the park for destroying the place. |
| 393 | * DudeWheresMyRespect: Bill Cipher complains about this in "Angry Fandom Shelter". After he started Weirdmageddon, he was expecting to get all the credit for it...only to find out that the ''Gravity Falls'' fandom was blaming everyone ''except'' him. |
| 394 | --> ''"...heck, I saw one guy trying to say it was'' Manly Dan. Manly Dan! ''That guy couldn't plan a fishing trip, never mind a total galactic apocalypse!"'' |
| 395 | * EldritchLocation: Timmy's house becomes one in "Timmy Turner's House of Terror". |
| 396 | * FanDumb: Happens InUniverse, which is why the Angry Fandom Shelter exists. |
| 397 | * ForcedTransformation: E350's roommate Floyd has a nasty habit of turning people into furniture and collectibles. |
| 398 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: Garnet's fate in chapter 14 is a hint towards her...[[spoiler: unfortunate fate later in the PURITY arc]]. |
| 399 | * GodzillaThreshold: For the Order of the Thirteen, PURITY winning is this. [[spoiler: When they succeed, the Order responds by summoning Galactus in order to spare the universe the threat of a PURITY-controlled Earth.]] |
| 400 | * GroundhogDayLoop: Thanks to an alien, the crew at Wright-Patterson Airbase is stuck in one. |
| 401 | * HellHotel: The titular resort in "Guests of the Marblehead", which may also be an EldritchLocation. |
| 402 | * HeroKiller: [[spoiler: PURITY kills off Hawkeye, War Machine, Black Widow, a good chunk of the people at Xavier's School for Gifted Children, a number of Inhumans, ''Garnet''[[note]]Actually, they poof her, and Captain America is only able to rescue Sapphire[[/note]], and who knows how many others.]] |
| 403 | * TheIlluminati: The secret society known as the Order of the Thirteen is compared to the Illuminati by Stan. Known members are Ford, Reed Richards, Professor Xavier, Black Bolt and Vlad (though he abandons his seat when he goes into hiding from PURITY). |
| 404 | * IncrediblyLamePun: Smoky Quartz gets heckled for this by Cosmo in chapter 10. |
| 405 | * TheInfiltration: [[spoiler: PURITY succeeds at infiltrating the United States government.]] |
| 406 | * KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Vlad in "House of Cards".]] |
| 407 | * LaserGuidedKarma: In "Karma Punishment". [[spoiler: Gaz used mind control on people, and she ends up under the control of the protagonists in the end.]] |
| 408 | * MindControlDevice: Gaz uses one of these in "Karma Punishment". |
| 409 | ** [[spoiler: In the PURITY story, the brain implants that were ordered for the US military are these.]] |
| 410 | * NewEraSpeech: [[spoiler: Fulton gives one on behalf of PURITY after they win.]] |
| 411 | * NotMeThisTime: After Gaz has her mind-controlled victims rob the Krusty Krab, including stealing the Krabby Patty secret formula, Spongebob immediately assumes that Plankton is responsible. Plankton, who's randomly walking by, clarifies that for once he's not involved. |
| 412 | * PaperThinDisguise: How the Rubies get into Disneyland in "Scenes from the Gems at Disney". |
| 413 | * OhCrap: [[spoiler: A PURITY platoon's reaction to facing the Hulk in the climax.]] |
| 414 | * RealTrailerFakeMovie: "Trailers" features E350's take on a generic, stereotypically over the top action movie trailer featuring his favorite characters as the heroes. Among other things there's lampshaded ProductPlacement, subplots which the characters admit are just there to pad out the runtime, and a scene of a character being accused of being TheMole [[NeverTrustATrailer that's only included to psych out the audience]]. |
| 415 | * RealityWarper: [[spoiler: Mabel at the end of "Dipper Goes to Tir na Nog"]]. |
| 416 | * ReferenceOverdosed: Nearly everything Allsworthy does is a reference to some movie, much to everyone else's annoyance. Most notably, the plan to [[spoiler:activate the mind control chips in the US military]] is dubbed "Franchise/StarWars" (after [[spoiler:the protocol that let Darth Sidious take control of the Stormtroopers]]). |
| 417 | * RuleOfCool: Pretty much everything about "Robot Wars". |
| 418 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: |
| 419 | ** When Vlad learns of PURITY's master plan, he goes into hiding in a cabin in Alaska. [[spoiler: It's not enough to save him.]] |
| 420 | ** In "Karma Punishment", after Gaz robs the Krusty Krab, Spongebob immediately volunteers himself, Sandy, and Squidward to get everything back. In response, Squidward just as quickly refuses to get involved, heading home instead. |
| 421 | * SequelHook: [[spoiler: The impending resistance against PURITY. And Galactus has been summoned to Earth.]] |
| 422 | * ShipTease: Between Timmy and Dani in chapter 29. |
| 423 | * SovietSuperScience: In "Cold War", Vlad is a Soviet politician put in charge of a secret base in Siberia where an attempt at creating a weapon to match the American nuclear arsenal instead opened a portal to AnotherDimension full of monsters. |
| 424 | * ThoseWackyNazis: In chapter 28, E350 categorizes the types of Nazis that he's used in his stories over the years. For him, they tend to fall into three types: A (the breathtakingly incompetent ones), B (the moustache-twirlingly evil ones), and/or C (the gratuitous back-story ones). |
| 425 | * {{Understatement}}: Pearl admits that they may have caused some minor damage to the Sleeping Beauty Castle and Main Street at Disneyland in chapter 10. "Minor" meaning "collasped much of the front of the castle" and "turned into a smoking ruin, with many things on fire", respectively. |
| 426 | * WholeEpisodeFlashback: "Legacies" depicts how PURITY slowly infiltrated the US government, eliminating enemies along the way. |
| 427 | * WrittenByTheWinners: Rausseman brags about this when PURITY's plan is put into motion, claiming that future generations will remember him as a hero and the actual heroes as terrorists he put down. |
| 428 | * WouldHurtAChild: |
| 429 | ** The mob in "Angry Fandom Shelter" are perfectly happy with lynching children. [[AssholeVictim Which E350 uses as an excuse to open fire on them with his Tommy gun, and why the police don't prosecute him for it.]] |
| 430 | ** [[spoiler:The soldiers brainwashed by PURITY have no compunctions about killing all the mutant children at Xavier's.]] |
| 431 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Rausseman guns down Allsworthy after they activate the brain implants which only the latter can deactivate.]] |
| 432 | [[/folder]] |
| 433 | |
| 434 | [[folder:Blue Alert]] |
| 435 | * AfterActionReport: "Incident Report X7" is series of reports and communications by and between X-COM officers as they combat an outbreak of TheVirus with the help of the Crystal Gems. |
| 436 | * AllegedlyFreeGame: Thoroughly mocked in "There's An App For That", where E350 has to pay a fortune for any kind of advancement in an app game, otherwise he has to slog through it in a way that'd take ''thousands'' of years to beat. [[spoiler: He ultimately decides to just rob a bank for the cash he needs.]] |
| 437 | * AlternateUniverse: "Sea to Shining Sea" expands on the one created in "The Trans-European Express" from the previous collection. White Star line is still around, China is split between the Qing and the Nationalists, transcontinental train lines are still the main form of long distance mass transit in America, and John F Kennedy was an anti-liberal authoritarian (who wasn't assassinated but lost reelection) while Richard Nixon is beloved for being a champion of the Civil Rights movement. |
| 438 | * AntiClimax: [[spoiler: The Phoenix gets restrained by PURITY, which backfires on them while their plans are exposed to the public (bringing down Fulton in the process), destroying their power base and convincing Galactus to leave Earth practically as soon as he arrives. Rausseman is then denied an epic FinalBattle, being quickly taken down by Ford instead.]] |
| 439 | * AntiMagic: The anti-nonhuman rounds invented by PURITY end up being capable of [[spoiler: breaking the Phoenix's control of its hosts]]. |
| 440 | * ApocalypseHow: Planet-level societal collapse or species extinction in “Come And See”, thanks to Gaz. |
| 441 | * ArmorPiercingQuestion: When Colonel Wendell tries to defend himself by saying he was JustFollowingOrders, T'Challa counters by coldly asking how many people have died and how many lives have been ruined because of men like him "just following orders". Wendell is left practically catatonic, and he ends up fleeing the battlefield. |
| 442 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The LongList of crimes Freakshow's gang is charged with contains numerous felonies, and literally ends with jaywalking. |
| 443 | * AssholeVictim: The series of people killed by [[spoiler: vampire Garnet]] in "Where They Feast", including Preston Northwest and Mr. Burns, are all slaveholders and supporters of the Confederate States. |
| 444 | * AsLongAsThereIsEvil: The ending narration of "The Dictator" states that the titular tyrant has always existed and will always exist as long as people are led by fear, hate, distrust and division. |
| 445 | * BackfireOnTheWitnessStand: Among Lionel Hutz's other acts of incompetence while defending Freakshow's gang, he calls all their heroic enemies as witnesses, having not properly vetted them beforehand. When he realizes this, he tries to call for a recess, but is denied when the judge deduces he wants to RunForTheBorder. |
| 446 | * BadFuture: Sapphire has foreseen hundreds of possible futures wherein PURITY succeeds in conquering all of Earth, slowly purging it of every non-human, and then going to war with the rest of the universe, all in constant pursuit of new groups to be labeled "other" and wiped out as an excuse to justify their regime. |
| 447 | * BalanceOfPower: The reason Jean's powers as the Phoenix are experimented on by the American government in the first place is the belief that she'll be capable of acting as a counterpart to the silver man should the Soviets ever manage to weaponize him. |
| 448 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In “Come And See”, Gaz gets a watch that grants her seven wishes. There are two catches; one, if she uses up all seven, she loses her soul to the Devil. Two, each wish she makes brings a great catastrophe upon the world. |
| 449 | * BeenThereShapedHistory: The Horrible Headcase is presumably responsible for Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance, considering the man's head is in his collection. |
| 450 | * TheBet: The Devil and [[spoiler:Dib]] make a bet on whether or not Gaz’s soul can be saved. [[spoiler:The Devil wins and claims her soul, much to Dib’s horror.]] |
| 451 | * BigBad: President Fulton, due to Rausseman's lack of appearances. That said, once Rausseman ''does'' finally show up in chapter 27, he makes it clear that Fulton is just his puppet and he's the one really in charge. |
| 452 | * BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler:As it turns out, PURITY is not the only threat that needs to be taken out -– there's also the Phoenix Force (which plans on killing everyone even remotely involved with PURITY, [[DisproportionateRetribution even those who did something as simple as vote for Fulton in the election]]) and Galactus (who was summoned by the Order of Thirteen in the last collection to destroy Earth as a last resort). None of these forces are directly involved with each other, though Phoenix and Galactus have similar motives.]] |
| 453 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Everyone that Phoenix takes under her wing becomes this.]] |
| 454 | * CallBack: |
| 455 | ** "Another Brick In The Wall" ultimately turns out to be a sequel to "Roommate" from the previous year's collection. |
| 456 | ** "Sea to Shining Sea" is a sequel to the previous year's "The Trans-European Express". |
| 457 | ** The last chapter reveals that Dani has been hiding out with Spongebob and Sandy, something established back in the climax of last year's story. |
| 458 | * CampingEpisode: "The Camping Episode", of course. |
| 459 | * TheCavalry: M'Baku and the Jabari serve as this during the FinalBattle, arriving just in time to help turn the tide against PURITY's forces. |
| 460 | * CelebrityIsOverrated: The lesson Ford gives Dipper at the end of "Before Breakfast". |
| 461 | * ChekhovsGun: In "House Call", Tambry manages to retrieve a flash drive during the chaos at the White House. The last chapter reveals that [[spoiler: it contained all of Fulton's private correspondence with PURITY, exposing their crimes and leading to his arrest and their downfall.]] |
| 462 | * ClusterFBomb: Lyndon Johnson briefly appears in "The Silver Man and the Burning Flame", and gives a few examples of his famous foul mouth. |
| 463 | * CourtroomEpisode: "The People vs. Frederick Showenhower". |
| 464 | * CruelMercy: [[spoiler: Ford ultimately chooses not to kill Rausseman, condemning him to a slow death from his illness and denying him his final blaze of glory.]] |
| 465 | * {{Crossover}}: |
| 466 | ** "Incident Report X7" crosses over ''Steven Universe'' and ''X-COM''. |
| 467 | ** "The Beast In Me" combines ''Steven Universe'' with [[spoiler:''Film/Venom2018'']], along with a cameo by Bruce Banner. |
| 468 | * DayOfTheJackboot: We got a taste of this in the previous year's ending scenes, but here it's shown how horrible PURITY's reign is. Mutants and Inhumans rounded up "for their protection", the President given increased emergency powers, disagreeing news outlets being forcibly shut down, critics arrested and killed, etc. |
| 469 | * DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler:The Phoenix Force's ultimate plan is to kill everyone involved with PURITY -– even the innocents who might not even have a say in the matter, or people who did something as simple as vote for Fulton in the last election (thus enabling their rise to power).]] |
| 470 | * TheDogWasTheMastermind: Mr. Monopoly turns out to be the one behind the cursed app in "There's An App For That". |
| 471 | * DramaticThunder: There's some outside of the Headcase's office building, despite the fact, as Wendy points out, it's completely sunny out. |
| 472 | * DudeNotFunny: Presumably happened InUniverse in "The Horrible Headcase"; one of the Horrible Headcase's skills was doing William [=McKinley=] impressions, but he started his act on the day [=McKinley=] was shot. |
| 473 | * DynamicEntry: As Danny and Timmy are wondering what song E350 is going to open the collection with this year, he suddenly drives a 1920's car through the wall. |
| 474 | * EmptyShell: [[spoiler: Gaz is rendered as this after the Devil takes her soul.]] |
| 475 | * EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Dictator, from the story of the same name, is only ever referred to as such. |
| 476 | * ExpandedStatesOfAmerica: After the Canadian Prime Minister offers to mediate between Fulton and T'Challa, the US military takes the "preventative measure" of invading and occupying Canada. |
| 477 | * FictionalPoliticalParty: "Feeling Presidential" shows that several new parties emerge in response to Americans getting fed up with the two-party system. There's a new Progressive Party, which runs on liberal platforms (the party of Presidents Dipper Pines, Stevonnie, and Dani Phantom), the Justice Party, originally the Trap Construction Party, which is a strong law-and-order group (the party of Presidents Fred Jones and Bruce Wayne), and the Truth Party, which is dedicated to investigations of the supernatural (the party of Presidents Denzel Crocker and Dib Membrane). |
| 478 | * FinalSolution: Rausseman's ultimate plan is to [[spoiler: use the Phoenix to hijack Galactus's power and use it in turn to wipe out ''every nonhuman in the universe'']]. |
| 479 | * ForcedTransformation: Just like in his last appearance, Floyd turns people into things. This time around, it's living Legos. |
| 480 | * FourthDateMarriage: Lampshaded in "E350 Presents: Rapunzel", when Mabel (the prince) and Pacifica (Rapunzel) decide to get married after knowing each other three days. |
| 481 | * {{Gamebooks}}: Like with the two entries in ''Lair of the Hack Writer'', this is parodied in chapter 18 by only showing the endings, with no context. |
| 482 | * GilliganCut: |
| 483 | ** At the end of "The People vs. Frederick Showenhower", [[spoiler: Sandy says there's no way she'll let the rest of the jury take the easiest path towards reaching a verdict. Cut to her grumpily reading out a not guilty verdict.]] |
| 484 | ** Near the beginning of "The Camping Episode", Sam questions whether she and Danny should be leaving Amity Park unprotected while they go on vacation. Danny says it'll be fine, since they left Tucker on the case, and then the scene cuts to Tucker completely oblivious to a ghost attack as he reads fanfiction. |
| 485 | * GrandFinale: To the PURITY MythArc. |
| 486 | * GreaterScopeVillain: Rausseman is this, since everything Fulton does is a result of the deal the two of them made in the last collection. He finally steps down into the main BigBad role in chapter 27. |
| 487 | * KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Freakshow in “The People Vs Frederick Showenhower”, thanks to an incompetent jury.]] |
| 488 | * KnightTemplar: [[spoiler:The Phoenix Force is against PURITY like the other heroes. However, it has no qualms about mind-controlling or killing innocents in the process. In fact, it wants to wipe out anyone even ''remotely'' connected to them, even those who just voted for Fulton.]] |
| 489 | * LaResistance: Ford is revealed to be leading one, composed of other heroes, against PURITY and their collaborators. |
| 490 | * LaserGuidedKarma: In "Iron Horses", Gaz rides hard and brutally on the workers at her father's railway line. This eventually leads to a group of them breaking into her mansion to try and rob her, but accidentally start a fire, which due to the expensive construction methods Gaz wanted spreads too fast for her to escape, leaving her to burn to death. [[spoiler: And, it's implied, leading to her soul (rejected by Heaven and Hell) becoming [[AndIMustScream trapped inside a train engine]] employed by the rail workers.]] |
| 491 | * TheLastDance: [[spoiler: The climax reveals that Rausseman's superpowered biology is breaking down, condemning him to a slow and painful death. So he sets up the FinalBattle in the hopes of going out in a blaze of glory instead.]] |
| 492 | * LeaningOnTheFourthWall: In "When The Going Gets Tough", President Fulton claims that the war with Wakanda will be over by Halloween. Since that's the day the last entry of this year's collection will be published, he's right either way. |
| 493 | * LightIsNotGood: The Devil manifests as a woman with pale skin in a white dress with an angelic glow around her. |
| 494 | * MilitaryCoup: |
| 495 | ** In "Come And See", General Ross eventually stages one against Vlad's government after America is devastated by WWIII, natural disaster-induced famine, and the Bubonic plague. |
| 496 | ** "Feeling Presidential" mentions that General Chaos spear-headed one to remove President Fred Jones from power, briefly ruling the country afterwards (though he ends up stepping down in time for the next scheduled election). |
| 497 | * MindControlDevice: The ERI chips from last year's collection are still being used by PURITY to control the American military. [[spoiler: The heroes manage to find an OverrideCommand and shut them down in the last chapter.]] |
| 498 | * MonumentalDamage: In "House Call", [[spoiler: the Phoenix hosts destroy the Washington Monument and the White House in order to send a message to Fulton and PURITY.]] |
| 499 | * {{MST}}: "Troped" is E350 providing some commentary on this very page. |
| 500 | * MurderTheHypotenuse: Gideon is apparently intending to do this in "Before Breakfast", eliminating Pacifica to get to Mabel. Pacifica specifically name drops the trope. |
| 501 | * MustHaveCaffeine: Ford in "Before Breakfast" just wants to get his coffee. Too bad he keeps getting interrupted. |
| 502 | * NeverMyFault: Petrov in "The Silver Man and the Burning Flame". Even as his experiments with Jean's Phoenix powers go wrong and leads to his death, he's blaming every superior he's ever had. |
| 503 | * NoodleIncident: Ford claims to have chanted an incantation in his sleep and woken up to Millard Fillmore. He also stole something from the Fortunate Son dimension. |
| 504 | * NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: In "E350 Presents: Rapunzel", when Priscilla Northwest (who's playing Rapunzel's mother) states that she wants to eat nothing but Rapunzel flowers, the narration pauses for a moment to clarify that this is something that actually happens in the original fairy tale. |
| 505 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: In "The Beast In Me", Bruce compares his situation with the Hulk with the one Pearl is now in with [[spoiler: the Venom symbiote]]. That allows him to help Pearl learn to control it. |
| 506 | * OffWithHisHead: The specialty of the Horrible Headcase. |
| 507 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: As an indicator of how bad things have gotten in America since PURITY took over last year, [[IrrationalHatred J. Jonah Jameson]] gives Spider-Man a ''public apology.'' |
| 508 | * OppressiveStatesOfAmerica: |
| 509 | ** What the US becomes under PURITY's control. |
| 510 | ** A standalone, non-StoryArc related version appears in "The Dictator", where the eponymous tyrant has taken control of America, with many heroes detained by his "[[StateSec Freedom Brigades]]", either being prisoners or outright executed. |
| 511 | * OurPresidentsAreDifferent: "Feeling Presidential" features a list of fictional characters who become President, to varying levels of effective leadership. |
| 512 | * OurVampiresAreDifferent: [[spoiler: "Where They Feast" features vampires as holy warriors who only feast on the wicked.]] |
| 513 | * PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: "Feeling Presidential" mentions that during Dipper's presidency, America briefly enters a conflict with the "Free People's Democratic Utopian Republic of Quebec". Nothing much is said about this country, except that it apparently eventually collapses under the extreme weight of its totalitarian regime. |
| 514 | * PresidentEvil: |
| 515 | ** Fulton in the main StoryArc, turning America into a totalitarian dictatorship on behalf of PURITY. |
| 516 | ** Vlad borders on this in "Come and See", making Danny a fugitive and taking the country into two wars (and conscripting whole towns in the process). General Ross, who overthrows him and establishes a military dictatorship, is worse. |
| 517 | ** The Dictator, in the story of the same name, has his SecretPolice round up anyone "abnormal" or who disagrees with his regime. |
| 518 | ** Fred Jones, of all people, is this in "Feeling Presidential", becoming a law-and-order autocrat who among other things has anyone who dresses up as a monster (and that includes trick-or-treaters) arrested and held without trial. |
| 519 | * RaceAgainstTheClock: "The Eve of Battle" sets up the FinalBattle with PURITY, establishing that Galactus is coming to destroy Earth rather than let PURITY control it and use its resources against the rest of the universe. The Surfer states that they have a mere ''eight hours'' before he arrives to beat PURITY and thereby change his mind. |
| 520 | * {{Reincarnation}}: Stanford goes through this in "The Great Chain", with WordOfGod clarifying that the new being he became was [[spoiler: White Diamond]]. |
| 521 | * RoboticReveal: "Before Breakfast" goes with the fan theory that Tambry is a robot, but that she doesn't know it. |
| 522 | * {{Satan}}: Appears in "Come and See", in the form of an angelic-looking woman. |
| 523 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After taking one look at [[spoiler: the head-swapped Mystery Shack gang]], Pacifica immediately turns on her heel and leaves the building. |
| 524 | * SelfDeprecation: In "The Camping Episode", Tucker gripes about a fanfic with an unclear ending. The story posted the day before ("The Great Chain") had an ending which confused readers. |
| 525 | * SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Multiple characters try to do this in "Cause and Defect". |
| 526 | * SequelHook: Although the PURITY MythArc is wrapped up here, there's still a [[TheStinger stinger]] setting up an entirely new story next year, with a mysterious figure calling E350 a monster and planning revenge on him. |
| 527 | * ShipTease: During the epilogue, it's mentioned that Timmy asked Dani out on a date. |
| 528 | * SkewedPriorities: When Timmy tells him that a bunch of their friends have been transported into an app game, E350 is more concerned with finishing the current chapter of a book he's reading first. |
| 529 | * StickySituation: Soos and Waddles end up in one in "Before Breakfast". |
| 530 | * TankGoodness: The PURITY forces invading Wakanda are spearheaded by the ''Ratte II'', a tank the size of a house and big enough it has its own command bridge. |
| 531 | * TomatoInTheMirror: Tambry didn't know she was a robot, and when Ford (assuming she did) reveals it, the shock causes her to have a hard drive crash. |
| 532 | * UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: What Floyd seems to be trying to go for in the Lego scenario he sticks the characters in in "Another Brick In The Wall". |
| 533 | * TheVirus: "Incident Report X7" features X-COM and the Crystal Gems combating a virus which changes people into psychically-linked mutants. |
| 534 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Galactus sees a PURITY-controlled Earth as a threat to the rest of the universe, and is prepared to wipe out the whole planet to stop them. |
| 535 | * WhamLine: In "First They Came...", we don't figure out the identity of the narrator until he says this: |
| 536 | -->''"Spider-Man, [[TheAtoner I am sorry.]]"'' |
| 537 | ** From "The Silver Man and the Burning Flame": |
| 538 | -->'''Bucky:''' You too, huh? [[spoiler:Well, let's get you out...]] |
| 539 | ** Fulton's line at the end of "House Call" raises the stakes considerably: |
| 540 | --> ''"If the offensive fails, [[spoiler:[[NukeEm we're nuking them.]]]]"'' |
| 541 | * WhatTheHellHero: Ford gets this from several people after yelling at Peridot in "Before Breakfast". |
| 542 | * WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The final portion of the last chapter (excluding E350's annual closing song and the SequelHook) covers what happened to everyone after the FinalBattle. |
| 543 | * WholeEpisodeFlashback: "The Silver Man and the Burning Flame" reveals the origins of both the Phoenix Force and the silver man (heavily implied to be the Silver Surfer) seen at the end of the last ''Unspectacular''. It ends with us seeing what the current bearers of the Phoenix Force are doing in the present, as well as [[spoiler:Bucky apparently about to free the silver man]]. |
| 544 | * WholePlotReference: "Cause and Defect" is one to [[Creator/TomSka TomSka's]] "PIZZA TIME" skit...[[spoiler:which leads to E350 getting sued by him in the end.]] |
| 545 | * WhoWantsToLiveForever: Played with with Ford in "The Great Chain". He doesn't regret living so long, even with having to outlive all his loved ones, but by the time the universe completely ends, awaiting a new Big Bang, he admits that he's simply ''tired'' of living. And since his immortality can't be undone, he accepts the next best thing in being reincarnated into a new form. |
| 546 | * YourSoulIsMine: [[spoiler:The Devil to Gaz, at the end of “Come And See”.]] |
| 547 | [[/folder]] |
| 548 | |
| 549 | [[folder:This is fine]] |
| 550 | * EightiesHair: Mocked in "Ten Decades", where in the 1980s section Dib treats 80s fashion choices (hair and [[ImpossiblyTackyClothes otherwise]]) as TheVirus infecting people. |
| 551 | * AlienInvasion: |
| 552 | ** Ultimately turns out to be the cause of [[spoiler: the titular outbreak in "The Plague"]]. |
| 553 | ** [[spoiler: "Reds" features an alien race invading Earth in 1960 (focus is on the US, but mention is also made of Europe being overrun).]] |
| 554 | * AlternateUniverse: |
| 555 | ** "A Phantom Died Tonight" takes place in a world where Franchise/{{Superman}} is a bloodthirsty GalacticConqueror. |
| 556 | ** "A Sunburnt Country" is set in the same universe that was begun in "The Trans-European Express" in [=HU7=] and continued in "Sea to Shining Sea" in [=HU8=]. This time it focuses on Australia, which never unified politically and is composed of several nations, the largest of which is a reactionary apartheid state which represses aboriginals and women. Also, all space exploration efforts ceased after the first manned mission to the moon ended with the spacecraft crashing and all but one crew member dying (with the sole survivor being stranded). |
| 557 | * AndIMustScream: In "The Statuary Car", [[spoiler: Tulip]] is turned into a statue. Her POV shows that she's still fully aware and desperate to escape. |
| 558 | * AssholeVictim: The Northwests in "Bewarb the Blob", who are consumed by the Mabel blob right after forcing their daughter to dump incriminating files for them. |
| 559 | * BadGuyBar: The Backslide Tavern from "Run For A Long Time" is a hangout for villains. |
| 560 | * TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:The Stranger/the Bus Driver gets everything he wants, leaving E350 miserable and alone.]] |
| 561 | * BaitAndSwitch: |
| 562 | ** "Reds", at first, seems to be about the military fighting off highly advanced Soviet weaponry. [[spoiler:It isn't revealed until the end that they're actually fighting off an alien invasion.]] |
| 563 | ** [[spoiler:We're initially led to believe that the Bus Driver will pin E350 as the mastermind behind his attack on Melbourne (and Danny and Jenny's "help", which caused far more damage). Instead, the whole thing is blamed on Sandy.]] |
| 564 | * BattleInTheRain: [[spoiler:Invoked; the Stranger uses the series' tendency to do this to lure E350's friends into a trap, before going after E350 himself.]] |
| 565 | * BigBad: The Stranger (the mystery figure introduced in last year's stinger), who wants revenge on E350 for something that happened to him. [[spoiler:He's actually the unfortunate bus driver from the Fiddley Canon arc.]] |
| 566 | * BlobMonster: Mabel turns into one in "Bewarb the Blob", after mistaking one of Ford's formulas for Smile-Dip and ingesting it, transforming her into a blob that instinctively absorbs anything it touches and grows bigger as a result. |
| 567 | * BreakingOldTrends: This is the first collection not to end with a parody of "We Didn't Start The Fire" and a writing stat check; instead, we simply get a message saying that ''Halloween Unspectacular X'' will come in 2020. |
| 568 | * BreakingTheFourthWall: |
| 569 | ** Soos notes that people actually dying in Mabel's blob rampage is rather dark for a comedy entry. |
| 570 | ** In "Oh No, Zombies!", [[spoiler: the Stranger hijacks the story to tell the readers that this is part of why E350 is a terrible person.]] |
| 571 | * BuriedAlive: [[spoiler:Stan's fate at the end of "The Deepest Mine in Ballarat", though legend claims that he's still digging.]] |
| 572 | * BystanderSyndrome: The Stranger's biggest beef against E350 is this -- even with all the power he has, the man stood by and let disaster after disaster happen, which eventually led to something bad happening to the figure. |
| 573 | * CallBack: |
| 574 | ** In the opening, the Stranger remembers an old conversation about the Fiddley Thing, and mentions the Witchfinders, Galahad, and PURITY. |
| 575 | ** In the seventh story, the Stranger robs Axiom Labs and leaves behind several items featuring nods towards previous collections -- a ticket for the Australian bus Insano experimented on, an old musket ball, a pass to meet President Fulton, and a map of the Governor's jail. |
| 576 | ** In "Evil", the Stranger meets with Grim (not seen since [=HU5=]) and Insano (not seen since a cameo in [=HU6=]) and pays off the former with various items from the previous collections. |
| 577 | ** "A Sunburnt Country" is a followup to the previous year's "Sea to Shining Sea", which was in turn a continuation of "The Trans-European Express" from the year before that. |
| 578 | ** "Party at E3's" repeatedly mentions the time that E350 was attacked by Yobbo pirates, which occurred in "A Sunday Drive Down Fury Road" in [=HU7=]. |
| 579 | ** Even the Stranger's identity is ultimately a callback -- [[spoiler: he's the Bus Driver, the poor unfortunate bastard from the first MythArc who kept losing his jobs because of the plot.]] |
| 580 | * CerebusRetcon: [[spoiler:Previously, the Bus Driver's many, ''many'' misfortunes were played for comedy. Here, it's revealed that these misfortunes ruined his life in the long run, leading to him seeking revenge on E350 for causing them.]] |
| 581 | * ContinuityReboot: Is in a separate canon from the previous PURITY arc, though it does contain references to said arc, as well as the MythArc before it. |
| 582 | * CruelMercy: The Stranger ultimately [[spoiler: refuses to kill E350, instead wishing him to live a long time with his misery.]] |
| 583 | * DealWithTheDevil: At the end of "Brother Can You Spare A Soul?", it's revealed that [[spoiler:Mr. Krabs has sold his soul to so many people that, after his death, they're all going to court to determine who has legal ownership of it]]. |
| 584 | * {{Deconstruction}}: The main arc deconstructs the AuthorAvatar trope, which E350 uses extensively in the series. The Stranger is pissed off at him because he's able to interact with multiple worlds; however, he only uses this ability to view what happens in each, write those events down, and make them stories for the collections, while the Stranger believes that he should have used this ability to ''help'' the denizens of these worlds. They also believe that E350 should have helped when they were in trouble, pinning all their problems on his negligence. |
| 585 | * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "The Curse of the Cursed Curse". |
| 586 | * DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:The Stranger/Bus Driver seemingly kills most of E350's friends, but it's later shown he's keeping them prisoner.]] |
| 587 | * TheDogWasTheMastermind: [[spoiler:The Bus Driver, a one-note comic relief character from the original MythArc, is the BigBad.]] |
| 588 | * DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Most of E350's friends are captured by the Bus Driver (with everyone thinking they're dead), Sandy is in jail after being framed for being the mastermind behind the Bus Driver's attack on the city, and E350 himself is left homeless, miserable, and alone.]] |
| 589 | * EarthShatteringKaboom: [[spoiler: Homeworld]] is destroyed in "Downfall", as a weapons demonstration. |
| 590 | * EvilLawyerJoke: |
| 591 | ** In the ''Star Wars'' parody in "The Reject Shop", the stormtrooper stand-ins are lawyers. |
| 592 | ** In "Welcome To Your New Job!", lawyers are included on the list of creatures that the DPC is authorized to eliminate. |
| 593 | * EvilOverlord: "Downfall" features Emperor Octavian Valerian of the Velutarian Empire, who is conquering the universe by force [[spoiler: and who destroys Homeworld, killing billions of innocent Gems, just to make a point]]. |
| 594 | * FailedAttemptAtDrama: In "Iron Monger", Peridot makes a big show out of how she's going to use her powers to lift a downed helicopter out of a river... only for nothing to happen when she tries. [[spoiler: Because the helicopter is a hologram the Stranger is using as part of his ploy.]] |
| 595 | * FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:What the Bus Driver does to E350 -- he gets to watch all his friends (apparently) die and Sandy get captured by the police, and is kept alive so he can remember the day for the rest of his miserable life.]] |
| 596 | * FlatWhat: E350's reaction to being told he's got an eviction notice in his mail. |
| 597 | * ForcedTransformation: Lisa is turned into a coffee table in "Welcome To Your New Job!". |
| 598 | * FrameUp: [[spoiler:Sandy gets framed as the mastermind behind the attack on Melbourne.]] |
| 599 | * GodwinsLaw: In the 1940s section of "Ten Decades", the Nazis are described as "the evilest", and that's the only reason needed to fight them. |
| 600 | * GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: "Welcome To Your New Job!" features the Department for Paranormal Containment, which hunts paranormal creatures. |
| 601 | * HaveAGayOldTime: Jimmy uses "gay" in its original context in the 1900s segment of "Ten Decades". |
| 602 | * TheHeroDies: |
| 603 | ** "A Phantom Died Tonight" focuses on the death of Danny Fenton/Phantom at the hands of either General Zod or an evil Superman. |
| 604 | ** In "Iron Monger", [[spoiler:The Stranger manages to trap and blow up Danny and Jenny. Later subverted when it turns out that they're still alive; see below.]] |
| 605 | ** In "error-titlecorrupted", [[spoiler:the Stranger apparently kills the rest of E350's friends, excluding Stevonnie, Soos, Dipper, Mabel and Wendy (all not at E350's party for various reasons), Amethyst and Peridot (who both get poofed by the police), and Sandy (who gets arrested). Later subverted when it's revealed that he's keeping them alive for an as-yet-unknown reason.]] |
| 606 | * HeroWithBadPublicity: Invoked by the Stranger in "Iron Monger", [[spoiler: as he fakes an attack on Melbourne, counting on the heroes' attempts to stop him causing more collateral damage than he did, turning public opinion against them. And later, he frames Sandy for being the mastermind of the attack, leading to her being arrested.]] |
| 607 | * ImplausibleDeniability: In "Welcome To Your New Job!", we see that the DPC deals with Dib investigating their operations by spouting out blatantly false and contradictory cover stories about their base of operations (such as claiming it's both a teriyaki chicken stand and an Arby's, and that the Bigfoot he saw being escorted inside was swamp gas reflected off a weather balloon and/or a V-2 rocket test). |
| 608 | * KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:After escaping justice in the Fiddley Canon arc, Ovard Grim gets killed by the Stranger as a part of his revenge plot.]] |
| 609 | * KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: In "Welcome To Your New Job!", the DPC authorizes its agents to do this if necessary. |
| 610 | * KneelBeforeZod: Emperor Valerian commands this of the Diamonds in "Downfall", forcing them to surrender Homeworld to his forces. [[spoiler: Then he destroys the planet anyway, having only made his demands to humiliate them.]] |
| 611 | * LaserGuidedKarma: |
| 612 | ** In "Brother Can You Spare A Soul?", Mr. Krabs uses the fact that Sandy sold him her soul to prove a point in order to enslave her ghost after her death. When she subsequently frees herself by buying her soul back from him, [[spoiler: he dies of a heart attack from the shock of the lost opportunity... at which point it's revealed that he'd previously sold his own soul to numerous people as a scam, leading to them fighting in court over ownership of him]]. |
| 613 | ** In the fairytale parody "The Curse of the Cursed Curse", Gaz is a medieval noblewoman who loves tormenting peasants, including Mabel. One day, Mabel takes too much and makes a deal with the fairies to switch their lives. As such, Mabel becomes a noblewoman who lives a wonderful life, while Gaz becomes a peasant (and later mercenary) who lives a life of misery; it's also specifically noted that she could have fixed her situation if she just learned to be a better person, but she refuses. |
| 614 | * LongList: In "Party at E3's", Dani lists all of E350's enemies, including the various foes he's faced over this series, but also including such notable mentions as the Sicilian Mafia, Creator/HenryCavill, and the Teamsters Union. |
| 615 | * LuredIntoATrap: In "Iron Monger", [[spoiler: the Stranger fakes an attack on Melbourne to lure out E350's friends, whom he can then blow up, after first staging things so that they cause more damage than he did, tainting their reputations and leading to Sandy getting arrested.]] |
| 616 | * MadeASlave: Mr. Krabs intends to do this with Sandy's ghost in "Brother Can You Spare A Soul?", as she had previously sold him her soul to make a point, and he wants an unpaid employee he can work forever; since he owns her soul, she has to obey him. She gets out of it by offering him twenty dollars for her soul back, counting on his greed overriding everything else. |
| 617 | * ManchurianAgent: The Stranger gets ahold of the sword of Joan of Arc, which allows him to compel the souls of people stabbed with it and turn them into sleeper agents. He uses it on [[spoiler:Jimmy]] as a part of his plan. |
| 618 | * ManipulativeEditing: The fourth story is an interview Amethyst has with a reporter about the Crystal Gems' activities. The first part is the unedited interview, which is fairly normal, but the second is the aired version, where Amethyst's responses are cherry-picked to make the Gems sound like perverted criminals. |
| 619 | * MoodWhiplash: "Oh No, Zombies!" starts out as a fairly standard BlackComedy 'shot, where Dib wakes up the undead. It quickly switches to [[spoiler:a monologue by the Stranger, criticizing E350 for turning this into a comedy story instead of doing anything to help.]] |
| 620 | * {{MST}}: [=SquidRiffs=] is brought back in the 26th chapter; this time around, Squidward reads the first-ever story written for the series. |
| 621 | * MythologyGag: The opening contains references to not only past collections in the series, but also to ''E350's Happy Fluffy Reviews of Really Bad Fanfic'', an old MST series by the same author. |
| 622 | * NoodleIncident: |
| 623 | ** According to Amethyst, Pearl was once chased by the police, but it wasn't a big deal. This might be a reference to "Last One out Of Beach City", though. |
| 624 | ** Apparently, E350's LongList of enemies includes the Sicilian Mafia, Creator/HenryCavill, and the Teamsters Union. |
| 625 | * PetTheDog: A meta example: [[spoiler:WordOfGod says that [[ServantRace the Pearls]] were the only survivors of Homeworld's destruction in "Downfall", because he can't bring himself to kill them.]] |
| 626 | * ThePurge: "Run On For A Long Time" has the Stranger start his endgame by [[spoiler: killing Grim, then luring all the other villains to one location and blowing them up]]. |
| 627 | * RageAgainstTheAuthor: PlayedForDrama; this is the Stranger's plan in a nutshell. |
| 628 | * RetGone: Lars accidentally does this to himself in "Welcome To Your New Job!" |
| 629 | * TheReveal: [[spoiler: The Stranger turns out to be the Bus Driver, who kept losing his job in each of his appearances in the first MythArc. This ruined his prospects of continued employment, which made him lose his wife and home.]] |
| 630 | * RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: In "Evil", the Stranger convinces [[spoiler:Dr. Insano]] to sell him information on E350, and then instead of paying, kills him. |
| 631 | * RoleSwapPlot: In the fairytale parody "The Curse of the Cursed Curse", Mabel makes a deal with the fairies that makes her and Gaz switch lives, making Mabel a noblewoman and Gaz a peasant. |
| 632 | * RightThroughTheWall: Every year since [=HU5=], E350 has opened up these collections with an elaborate song-and-dance routine. However, it turns out his neighbors aren't as thrilled about this as the readers -- "The Stranger" reveals that he's getting evicted from his house due to constant noise complaints. |
| 633 | * TheScottishTrope: In "Letters To The Author", [[{{Twincest}} Pinecest]] is referred to as "The Forbidden Pairing". |
| 634 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: |
| 635 | ** In the 1910s section of "Ten Decades", Lance ultimately quits the British army and walks away when he learns that they're only in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI because of a ridiculously complicated series of alliance treaties. And in the 1970s section, Stan is ''trying'' to ditch the instability of the Western world, only for his efforts to leave for Iran be ruined by the revolution. |
| 636 | ** Discussed for laughs in "Bewarb the Blob", where Ford notes that if their plan for stopping Mabel's blob rampage fails, they may have to make like [[Franchise/RickAndMorty Rick]] and skip dimensions. |
| 637 | * SeenItAll: Wendy's reaction to seeing Mabel turned into a blob is to shrug it off as "a Mystery Shack thing". |
| 638 | * SequelHook: In the final scene, it's shown that [[spoiler: all of the "dead" heroes are actually being kept prisoner by the Bus Driver]]. Following this is a message stating that ''Halloween Unspectacular X'' will be coming in 2020. |
| 639 | * ShipTease: There's a bit of Timmy/Dani in the last chapter, where Timmy shows great concern for Dani as she's holding off the Stranger's attack [[spoiler: and is heartbroken when she's seemingly killed]]. |
| 640 | * SoleSurvivor: |
| 641 | ** According to the author's note, [[spoiler:the Pearls survive Homeworld's destruction in "Downfall" as he can't really bring himself to kill them.]] |
| 642 | ** [[spoiler:Plankton survives the explosion that kills every other villain in "Run On For A Long Time" by sheer luck.]] |
| 643 | * SpoofAesop: Invoked at the end of "The Curse of the Cursed Curse", when Rick ignores Morty's more relevant suggestions for an aesop and goes with "Christopher Columbus was a jerk". |
| 644 | * StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler:The final chapter reveals that E350 might be carrying a ''lot'' of mental baggage under his usual happy-go-lucky exterior, if the letter he wrote to himself ("You are a fraud, and in time everyone will know who you really are.") is any indication. Sandy tries to reassure him that it's okay to need help, but she's interrupted by Jimmy's ManchurianAgent programming kicking in.]] |
| 645 | * StoryBreakerPower: "Letters to the Author" explains that this is why Cosmo and Wanda don't show up too much in HU stories, and why the Fiddley Thing isn't used as much anymore. |
| 646 | * TakenForGranite: Happens to [[spoiler: Tulip]] in "The Statuary Car". |
| 647 | * TakeMeInstead: [[spoiler:E350 begs the Bus Driver to kill him instead of Timmy, which sadly doesn't work.]] |
| 648 | * TechnicallyLivingZombie: In "The Plague", those infected with the Omega, Beta, and Alpha strains of the virus become these, attempting to infect or kill others. |
| 649 | * TemptingFate: When Sandy dies and becomes a ghost in "Brother Can You Spare A Soul?", she figures that, as long as they get her body to the hospital, she can come back. Cue both a Krabby Patty monster and a brain monster bursting out of it. |
| 650 | * VanHelsingHateCrimes: In "Welcome To Your New Job!", it's noted that the DPC captures and locks away all paranormal creatures, regardless of if they're a genuine threat or not. |
| 651 | * VillainsOutShopping: The villains apparently gather regularly to play UNO. |
| 652 | * TheVirus: The titular infection in "The Plague". |
| 653 | * SugarWiki/{{WAFF}}: "Future Family Picnic" breaks the usual pattern, being neither comedy nor drama, instead being simply about older versions of the Crystal Gems getting together for a picnic. |
| 654 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: As the story arc goes on, it becomes clearer that the Stranger is one of these. They go after villains for the most part, and they seem to have some legitimate issues with E350 (namely, that he watches horrible things happen to others, yet simply records these events instead of helping); however, they're perfectly willing to endanger innocent lives and commit murder in order to further their goals. |
| 655 | * WhamEpisode: |
| 656 | ** "Evil". Not only do we get to see Mr. Grim and Dr. Insano for the first time since the 5th and 6th collections, respectively, but more of the Stranger's plan comes to light -- including the fact that [[spoiler:he's turned one of E350's friends into a ManchurianAgent]]. |
| 657 | ** "Run On For A Long Time". [[spoiler:The Stranger finally enacts their plan, starting with the murder of Ovard Grim and every villain sans Plankton.]] |
| 658 | ** "Iron Monger". The Stranger lures Danny and Jenny into a fight that ends with [[spoiler: the two of them being seemingly killed in an explosion. Worse, the Stranger has manipulated events so that they caused more damage than he did, and are being posthumously branded as criminals.]] |
| 659 | ** "error-titlecorrupted", the final chapter, fittingly goes out with a series of bangs. [[spoiler: The Stranger attacks E350's house party, seemingly killing most of his friends, before revealing himself to be the Bus Driver. He then leaves, [[CruelMercy sparing E350 to live a life of misery]], and having framed Sandy for his attack on Melbourne, letting her be arrested and Amethyst and Pearl being poofed by the police when they try to defend. And in the final scene, it's revealed that all the "killed" heroes (including Danny and Jenny) have actually been transported to the Bus Driver's lair, where he's keeping them prisoner and brainwashing them.]] |
| 660 | * WhamLine: |
| 661 | ** At first, "Reds" seems to be about the US military fighting off advanced Soviet tech. Then we get to this line at the end: |
| 662 | -->''"We've lost control of West Germany and they're heading towards France and the Low Countries; [[spoiler:plus the Soviets are getting their asses kicked in Poland, which isn't something I ever expected to be upset about.]]"'' |
| 663 | ** "Oh No, Zombies!" looks like it's going to be a typical comedy story. Then... |
| 664 | -->"He thinks this is funny. Walking corpses devouring people. Coming after children. He's watching over this, and instead of doing anything, he writes it down and packages it as a 'comedy.' He thinks this is ''funny.'' [[spoiler: He thought what happened to me was ''funny.'' So. Very. ''Funny.''"]] |
| 665 | ** "error-titlecorrupted" ''finally'' gives us the Stranger's true identity, which is coupled with a change in story titles: |
| 666 | --->[[spoiler:''"...hail to [[TheDogWasTheMastermind the Bus Driver]]... Bus Driver man."'']]\ |
| 667 | '''31/10/19:''' Hail to [[spoiler: the Bus Driver]] |
| 668 | *** From the same chapter: we're initially led to believe that [[spoiler:the blame for the Melbourne attack will fall on E350's shoulders]]. But then... |
| 669 | -->'''The Commissioner:''' As I was saying, we have been told that the culprit is being taken into custody as we speak, and that [[spoiler:[[BaitAndSwitch she]] will face her day in court very soon...]] |
| 670 | * WouldHurtAChild: |
| 671 | ** [[spoiler:The Stranger calls E350 out for writing a story where zombies attack and devour children.]] |
| 672 | ** [[spoiler:The Stranger himself is not above hurting E350's younger friends in his quest for revenge.]] |
| 673 | * YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: E350 is dumbfounded when the Stranger's true identity is revealed [[spoiler: as he didn't expect a joke character to be the BigBad]]. |
| 674 | * ZombieApocalypse: |
| 675 | ** "The Plague" is about a viral plague which turns people into violent, infectious savages, and which soon spreads across the world. [[spoiler: It turns out to be a DepopulationBomb created by aliens intending to colonize Earth.]] |
| 676 | ** Likely would've been the focus of "Oh No, Zombies!" [[spoiler:had the Stranger not interrupted.]] |
| 677 | [[/folder]] |
| 678 | |
| 679 | [[folder: Halloween Unspectacular X]] |
| 680 | * AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: In "A House in New Orleans", the Man in the White Suit's gambling house runs normally in general, but those who gamble against him directly are made to offer up greater collateral than mere money -- things such as their memories, their freedom, and even their souls. [[spoiler: Gaz bet and lost all of the above in her obsession with winning a rare game controller off of him, and Dib's attempt to win them back for her has him wagering her existence... and then he loses.]] |
| 681 | * AffectionateParody: "Robot Connie vs the Moon Nazis" is a send-up to 1950s sci-fi B-movies. |
| 682 | * TheAlcatraz: Sandy was sent to one after being framed by the Bus Driver -- Devil's Island, Massachusetts, a concrete fortress attached to the mainland only by a slim causeway, which is covered by checkpoints, sniper posts, and the Coast Guard. [[CardboardPrison Soos and Stevonnie break Sandy out in short order.]] |
| 683 | * AloneWithThePsycho: [[spoiler: Soos is trapped in E350's cabin with the Bus Driver when the latter puts it into lockdown.]] |
| 684 | * AlternateHistoryNaziVictory: "Spread Your Wings" appears to be set in one, as it's focused on Danny as part of an Allied counterattack that's trying and clearly failing to prevent a more technologically advanced Axis fleet that's intent on invading mainland America. |
| 685 | * AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: The yearly climax features the FBI forces led by Agent Parker assaulting E350's group in the latter's cabin [[spoiler: which the Bus Driver infiltrates and locks down after hijacking its security systems]]. |
| 686 | * AndThisIsFor: In "Meanwhile, in Space...", Shepard prefaces his unleashing of the anti-Reaper DeathRay by declaring it "for Anderson". |
| 687 | * ApocalypticLog: "Sea Dogs" opens with an entry in the personal log of a sea galleon's captain, recounting how his ship became lost at sea, and overwhelmed by a mysterious illness, which the main story eventually reveals to be [[spoiler: werewolves]]. |
| 688 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The questions in "Form [=13E7-SP00K3=]" is mostly composed of things that make sense in the type of fictional universes that are normally used in E350's work, asking about doomsday cults, supervillains, paranormal events, etc. But then it will occasionally ask about mundane things like asbestos or termites. |
| 689 | * BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: Soos feels real bad about having to knock out a guard who was just nice to him as part of the plan to rescue Sandy, but before he can another prisoner runs up and decks the guy for beating him in cards, saving Soos the trouble. |
| 690 | * BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: In "Robot Connie vs the Moon Nazis", it's noted that Connie can breathe in space because she's a robot, Peridot can do it because she's a "science princess", and Amethyst can do it [[InsaneTrollLogic because she's British]]. |
| 691 | * BattleInTheRain: As the climatic showdown approaches, Sandy is unsurprised to hear that it's about to rain. |
| 692 | * BigBad: The Bus Driver, following on from last year. |
| 693 | * BewareTheSuperman: In "Controlling the Superman", Vlad and the superheroes he represents take to systematically killing criminals, and then government members who question them. |
| 694 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: What the Bus Driver has done to the heroes he abducted at the end of the last collection, turning them into villainous caricatures in order to ruin their reputations. |
| 695 | * BrickJoke: |
| 696 | ** While breaking Sandy out of Devil's Island, Stevonnie meets Group Captain Mallory, a WWII soldier who's imprisoned there for some reason, and planning to dig his way to freedom with spoons. During the FinalBattle, he shows up to provide the heroes with air support, Stevonnie expressing shock that he got out. |
| 697 | ** While setting up his cabin's defenses, E350 takes pains to stress that each weapon is only set to stun. During the FinalBattle, when his friend Outcast tosses one of Parker's goons into the ocean, E3 makes a point of saying that he's only being ''stun'' drowned. |
| 698 | * BullyingADragon: In "Don't Ask", Steven picks up a hitchhiking Rick and Morty. [[JerkAss Rick being Rick]], it isn't long before they're arguing, with Rick eventually pulling a laser gun on Steven and thinking he can intimidate him. One GilliganCut later, Rick has been imbedded in a cactus. |
| 699 | * ByNoIMeanYes: When Sandy asks if Soos only broke her out of prison to perform an intervention on E350, he initially says no only to immediately admit yes. |
| 700 | * CallBack: |
| 701 | ** Way back in the first edition's opening, Plankton declared that he would take over first Website/FanFictionDotNet and then the world. This edition opens with him attempting to take control of Halloween Unspectacular in E350's absence, only to be arrested. |
| 702 | ** The songs listed in "Halloween Unspectacular: The Album" reference stories from across the various editions of the series. |
| 703 | * TheCaper: E350's plan to defeat the Bus Driver and save his captured friends involves him and the few that are still free stealing the Crucible from the ''Mass Effect'' universe. |
| 704 | * CatharsisFactor: InUniverse and out in "Meanwhile, in Space...", E350 declares sweet satisfaction out of intervening in the FinalBattle of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' and bypassing its SadisticChoice ending to wipe out the Reapers without a compromise of any kind. |
| 705 | * CheckpointCharlie: "Getting Out" is set in Berlin in 1961, and features Pearl as a CIA agent trying to smuggle [[spoiler: Greg and an infant Steven]] from the East to freedom in the West. |
| 706 | * ChekhovMIA: E350 disappeared after the Bus Driver's attack. Subverted when it turns out he just moved to a cliffside shack and has been living in misery ever since; Sandy gets him back into action pretty quickly once she's out of prison. |
| 707 | * CutLexLuthorACheck: "The Focus Group" has Jimmy casually reveal that he's been funding his lab by selling depleted uranium on the black market. |
| 708 | * CuttingTheKnot: The Bus Driver ultimately sabotages E350's plan by [[spoiler: unplugging his modem, cutting off the internet connection that Tulip was using to try and hijack the Crucible]]. |
| 709 | * DescentIntoAddiction: The gambling house in "A House in New Orleans" gets people so obsessed with winning that they just keep coming back until they've lost so much they lose their freedom and souls to it. |
| 710 | * DeusExMachina: Tulip calls it as such when Rick shows up in the final chapter with a "super modem" to help save the day. She also says that she's not complaining. |
| 711 | * EveryoneHasStandards: The Blue-Haired Lawyer has one line he won't cross, and that's breaking the law to get results. [[spoiler: As such, he eventually turns on Parker during the climax.]] |
| 712 | * EvilerThanThou: "The World in Black and White" reveals that as bad as White Diamond was, using the Gem empire to impose her ControlFreak nature on the entire universe, Black Diamond was worse, wanting to turn all non-Diamond beings into the Diamonds' playthings. |
| 713 | * ExactWords: After Sandy's escape from Devil's Island, the warden justifies it by pointing out that he only ever said that his prison was "''nearly'' inescapable", not "''completely'' inescapable". |
| 714 | * FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: [[spoiler:The Bus Driver reveals to E350's group that he has cancer on top of his other misfortunes as a result of exposure to the Fiddley Thing. Stevonnie and Sandy note that his list of atrocities makes it ''really'' hard to sympathize with him.]] |
| 715 | * FunWithAcronyms: In "Robot Connie vs the Moon Nazis", Connie is technically C.O.N.N.I.E, which stands for "Combat Operations Network Nine, Intelligent Entity". It's noted that the acronym was thought up before what it stands for. |
| 716 | * {{Ghostapo}}: "Robot Connie vs the Moon Nazis" mostly uses StupidJetpackHitler, but just before the end we're told about Himmler being Hitler's Chief Warlock. This is when E350 gives up on the story, as he realizes that's just a bit too much. |
| 717 | * GoMadFromTheRevelation: Happens to the Crystal Gems [[spoiler: in "A Perfectly Normal Summer's Day" when they see that the world doesn't exist beyond their house]]. |
| 718 | * GondorCallsForAid: Going into the climax, E350 sends out a call for help from the remaining allies who weren't already in his RagtagBunchOfMisfits, and they all end up swooping in to help save the day. [[spoiler: After Tulip breaks the Bus Driver's control of all the heroes he abducted, they also show up.]] |
| 719 | * GrandFinale: To the ''Halloween Unspectacular'' series as a whole (while the author [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/852182944/4867979770 was unsure of this initially]], he later confirmed it), the arc set up last edition, and (in a meta sense) the author's time on Website/FanFictionDotNet. |
| 720 | * GreatEscape: Soos and Stevonnie plot to break Sandy out of prison, sneaking in disguised as the laundry delivery, shrinking her with a shrink ray, and then taking her with them. |
| 721 | * TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: The guards at Devil's Island don't bother checking the laundry van, and don't even raise a fuss when it bursts through the gates at high speed on the way out. |
| 722 | * HandWave: E350's explanation for how all his dangerous weaponry is designed to just stun (including ''flamethrowers'' and ''landmines'') is "I dunno, science" and telling Sandy not to question it. |
| 723 | * HauledBeforeASenateSubcommittee: Vlad is called before one in "Controlling the Superman" to explain the superheroes' extreme actions. [[spoiler: He ends up killing the chairman and threatening the others to make a point.]] |
| 724 | * HeroicBSOD: E350 has been in one ever since last year's climax. |
| 725 | * HeroWithBadPublicity: As Sandy was already this following being framed last year, breaking her out of prison turns Soos, Stevonnie, E350 and Tulip into this as well. |
| 726 | * ImAHumanitarian: "A Letter Regarding Recent Events" reinterprets [[WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain the Apex]] as a cult that turns people into cannibalistic monsters. |
| 727 | * InspectorJavert: Agent Parker, the FBI agent sent to hunt down Sandy and her friends after she's broken out of Devil's Island. He's determined to capture them at all costs, even being willing to kill them if they resist rather than take them alive for the courts. He also makes it clear that he views himself as above the authority of the Attorney General due to the latter being a politician, and sees laws as stuff he can override as necessary. |
| 728 | * ItHasBeenAnHonor: E350 and Sandy exchange these feelings right before engaging in the FinalBattle. |
| 729 | * KnightTemplar: Going by Vlad's actions in "Controlling the Superman", he and the superheroes he represents feel they're above the law. |
| 730 | * LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Parker's gleeful twisting and breaking of the law in his pursuit of E350's group results in him being stripped of authority and ordered arrested.]] |
| 731 | * LastStand: E350 and his remaining friends make one at his cabin against the corrupt FBI forces working with the Bus Driver. |
| 732 | * LookADistraction: As part of their plan to break Sandy out of Devil's Island, Stevonnie and Soos use a mannequin to make it look like some other prisoner is escaping on a hang-glider, which most of the guards chase after, leaving Sandy under-guarded. |
| 733 | * LostHimInACardGame: In "A House in New Orleans", [[spoiler: a desperate Dib tries to win Gaz's freedom back, only to lose her and her entire existence.]] |
| 734 | * LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler: In "A Perfectly Normal Summer's Day", it turns out that the Crystal Gems are trapped in some kind of virtual reality.]] |
| 735 | * TheMenInBlack: "A Letter Regarding Recent Events" is written by a version of Ford who works for a government agency that investigates the occult. |
| 736 | * NoodleImplements: The only way Ford can stop the ZombieApocalypse in "Night of the Living Stereotypes" is apparently with a Sev'ral Timez album, a mountain of formaldehyde, a mountain of cinnamon, and a very large fire house. |
| 737 | * NoodleIncident: In "Don't Ask", when Steven picks up a hitchhiking Rick and Morty, it's apparently after the two have just buried the body of an alien Morthy accidentally killed with a high-five. |
| 738 | * NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: At one point in "How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Seelowe", E350 states that having the largest army in the world means nothing if the troops can't be supplied and have to resort to cannibalism. He then clarifies that that's not a bit of BlackComedy, it's ''literally'' what some Japanese troops in the Pacific had to do when the islands they were on got cut off. |
| 739 | * NothingIsScarier: |
| 740 | ** In "A Perfectly Normal Summer's Day", we get almost no explanation for what [[spoiler: led to the Crystal Gems being trapped in a virtual world on loop]]. |
| 741 | ** In "The Hole in the World", we're never told what's at the bottom of the hole, or what happened to the people who descended into it. |
| 742 | * OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Turn out to be the cause of the events of [[spoiler: the lost ship in "Sea Dogs"]]. While not seen for long, it's clear that their curse is spread by bite, while it's implied that they've managed to survive for many years in total isolation. |
| 743 | * PoliceAreUseless: In "E3's Eleven (Minus Six)", the cops just let Stevonnie in a PaperThinDisguise walk into the station and take E3's Anti-Magic Tommy Gun, on a clear lie that the District Attorney wants it. But, considering the cops in question are the Springfield Police Department, one of the crowning examples of this trope, that shouldn't be too surprising. |
| 744 | * PrecisionFStrike: In "I Fought the Law", E350 notes that since ''Halloween Unspectacular'' is always rated T, he's allowed one F word per story, but has never used it. Facing the LastStand, he gives the honors to Tulip, who directs it at Agent Parker's forces. |
| 745 | -->'''Tulip''': ''Fuck the police!'' |
| 746 | * RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The group working to undermine the Bus Driver consists solely of E350, Stevonnie, Sandy, Soos, and Tulip. |
| 747 | * RetGone: [[spoiler: In "A House in New Orleans", Dib is made to wager for Gaz's existence as collateral while trying to win her soul and mind back. He loses, and afterwards can't remember why he was in New Orleans in the first place.]] |
| 748 | * SeriousBusiness: The cops arrest Plankton for bad comedy. |
| 749 | * ShutUpHannibal: During their final confrontation, the Bus Driver traps E350 in a Fiddley Thing illusion of himself as the leader of a Nazi army and gives him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about how he's the true villain. E3 responds that he doesn't care about what anyone thinks of him and that he's just focused on having fun, before shattering the illusion. |
| 750 | * SpaceBattle: In "Meanwhile, in Space...", E350's group intervenes in the climax of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''. |
| 751 | * SpottingTheThread: [[spoiler: Soos is suspicious that Agent Strangways isn't who he says he is because that's the name of the agent killed at the start of ''Film/DrNo'', and then realizes that he recognizes the man from security footage of Grim's death last year. Putting this together, he figures out that "Strangways" is actually the Bus Driver.]] |
| 752 | * StoryArc: E350 and his remaining allies trying to rescue the others from the Bus Driver. |
| 753 | * StupidJetpackHitler: "Robot Connie vs the Moon Nazis" has the titular Moon Nazis, being Nazis who escaped to the moon with their advanced technology. |
| 754 | * TakingYouWithMe: In "Spread Your Wings", [[spoiler: Danny kamikazes his fighter plane into the Nazi flagship ''Graf Zeppelin'']]. |
| 755 | * TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: [[spoiler: E350, Sandy, and Soos ultimately do this to the Bus Driver, pointing out that he's never actually hurt E350 or his friends despite his threats, and clearly isn't as bad as he's trying to claim he is. Ultimately, the Bus Driver gives up, and the heroes send him on his way.]] |
| 756 | * ThisMeansWar: In "We Interrupt This Program", the Bus Driver sends a note to Kent Brockman's news station as they cover the hunt for E350's group, declaring his intention to finish the job he started last year. |
| 757 | * WomenAreWiser: In "The Hole in the World", Sadie is the only person who suggests that they should leave the titular hole alone. Given [[DeliberateValuesDissonance the time period]], she's ignored initially, but after several people fall into its depths trying to study it, the remaining soldiers concede that she has a point. |
| 758 | * YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Sandy snaps E350 out of his HeroicBSOD by telling him he's not a normal person wasting his time pretending to be weird, he's a legitimately weird person and should embrace that. |
| 759 | * YourBrainWontBeMuchOfAMeal: In "Night of the Living Stereotypes", it's mentioned that Stan made several jokes about zombies coming to Gravity Falls in search of brains to this effect. |
| 760 | * YourHeadASplode: Vlad vaporizes the head of [[spoiler: the Senator chairing the subcommittee]] to make a point about his power. |
| 761 | * ZombieApocalypse: "Night of the Living Stereotypes" is a comedic example of one breaking out in Gravity Falls, as anyone bitten turns into a historical stereotype (medieval peasants, redcoats, 18th century nobles, etc.) and is given a desire to bite people and spread it. |
| 762 | [[/folder]] |
| 763 | ---- |
| 764 | ->''[[EveryEpisodeEnding We didn't start October,]]''\ |
| 765 | ''It's some science thing,''\ |
| 766 | ''And we don't have degrees.''\ |
| 767 | ''We didn't start October,''\ |
| 768 | ''But one thing can be told,''\ |
| 769 | ''Because it's all E3's fault.'' |
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