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8	''World War X: The War To End All Wars'' is a series of forum roleplays on the Administrivia/TVTropesForum. It is, essentially, an AlternateHistory version of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII set in a {{Magitek}} universe.
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10	It began with the thread ''[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=frqjw08fbd6wm41crn6yvfcp&page=1 ITT: We are the Soviet Technocrats VS. The Nazi Occult Empire]]'', which was ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Later on, a spin-off, ''[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=8upq97n4qade94oqb4srq6hs&page=1 We Are The Elven and Freemason Allies VS. The Roman Axis]]'', chronicling the attempted allied invasion of Gibraltar, held by the New Roman Empire.
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12	The Pacific Theatre is ''[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=mpxinda1omhjkxulvvy5qqde&page=1 We Are The Japanese Spirit Warriors VS. The Raygun Gothic Allies]]''. The African Theatre, ''[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=l4p3reppdja6pzs679z90wx9&page=1 We Are The Allies, Axis, And Resistance, All Hunting The Ark]]'', is just that--a three-way battle between the Colonial British forces, the Nazi Occult Empire, and the African Resistance & Emancipation Movement, all of them searching for TheArkOfTheCovenant in order to win this crazy war. The fifth front in Central and South America: [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=qc9b0amjcjdp6z9dvneihybq&page=1 WE ARE THE JOINT AMERICAN-AZTEC FORCES VS THE ARGENTINE-NAZI HORDE]].
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14	There's also [[{{Ghostapo}} Nazi Occultists]], Soviet {{Mad Scientist}}s, [[OurFairiesAreDifferent Fey]] [[UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships Royal Marines]], Freemasons, a MagicalNativeAmerican special forces team, insane [[NaziNobleman noblemen]], captive {{eldritch abomination}}s, warring gods, and monkeys.
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16	As a result of this, it has a [[Characters/WorldWarX character sheet.]] '''SEE''' ''THE PERSONAS OF HEROES AND VILLAINS IN STARK BLACK AND WHITE!''
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18	!!''World War X'' provides examples of the following tropes:
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20	[[folder:General]]
21	* AllMythsAreTrue: Given how many of the Greco-Roman, Basque, Norse, Slavic, Japanese, and Aztec Pantheons have shown up, as well as Angels, it's a safe bet that this is in effect.
22	%%* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Various Robots and Gods.
23	%%* AuthorAvatar: Certain characters, especially in SVN, such as Commissars Chabal and Flanker.
24	%%* BigBadDuumvirate: At this point Loki/Samael/Hecate.
25	%%* BigDamnHeroes: Several succeeded and attempted instances occur throughout both theatres.
26	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: A few characters have fallen victim to this, usually because their player left the thread.
27	%%* CoolVersusAwesome: It's pretty much the whole point.
28	* CrossoverCosmology: Slavic gods, Norse gods, Roman gods, ''angels'', and more.
29	%%* DarkActionGirl: Hecate.
30	%%* TheFairFolk: They appear on both sides of the war, and can be most terrifying when pressed.
31	* KillSat: The Romans have these in the form of the ''Hand Of Jupiter'' and the ''Wrath Of Apollo''. Also, the Mir space station is one in this universe.
32	* TheMagicVersusTechnologyWar: Started out this way, but has since developed as such that each side has [[{{Magitek}} some of each]].
33	%%* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:Loki.]]
34	* NoIndoorVoice: Most gods speak '''in booming voices'''. '''CZERNOBOG IN PARTICULAR.'''
35	* PhysicalGod: The only gods mentioned so far who aren't one of these are the Abrahamic God and Huracan, the Mayan wind god.
36	%%* StuffBlowingUp
37	%%* TeleportersAndTransporters: The Soviets, Freemasons, Romans and Commonwealth forces can all do this in various different ways.
38	* ThoseWackyNazis: Played straight, subverted, and zig-zagged. Sometimes they are the hams of film, other times they are as coldly and hatefully evil as they were perceived in RealLife. Sometimes, they are just soldiers trying to get through a completely mad war. Depends on the character, and on which theatre they're on.
39	%%* WorldOfBadass
40	%%* WorldOfHam: But of course.
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43	[[folder:Soviet Technocrats vs. the Nazi Occult Empire]]
44	%%* TheBerserker: Koschei
45	* BreathWeapon: Sleipnir. Whether [[KillItWithFire gouts of searing flame jetting from his nostrils]] or [[ShockAndAwe bolts of lightning shooting out of his mouth]], one can't deny that this is the horse's favourite battle tactic.
46	%%* TheBrigadier: Formerly ColonelBadass, Brigadier Aleksandr.
47	* ClickHello: One of the Commissars has a disturbing tendency to interrupt complainers and possible morale-breakers with a very audible gun cocking.
48	%%* ClockPunk: The French Resistance.
49	* ColonyDrop: The ''[[KillSat Wrath Of Apollo]]'' gets ''thrown'' at Erzengel. [[Myth/GreekMythology By Atlas]].
50	%%* {{Commissar}}: Chabal and Flanker.
51	%%* CoolVersusAwesome: Wotan vs the Black God.
52	* DemonicPossession:
53	** Eavle is able to do this, first possessing Rusalka, then [[spoiler:Sleipnir and a veritable legion of zombified ''Sonderkommandos'']]. [[{{Synchronization}} It has the potential to backfire spectacularly]], however, as Chabal proved when [[spoiler:[[EyeScream he shot the possessed Sleipnir in the eye]].]]
54	** Czernobog [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands is also capable of doing this]], remote-piloting a stoned-out-of-his-mind commissar.
55	* EnemyMine: Wotan and Czernobog must team up to kill Niddhogg, then the Nazis and Soviets to kill Eavle.
56	%%* EpicFlail: Rusalka's primary weapon.
57	* {{Ghostapo}}: Possessed tanks, summoning rituals, and [[spoiler: daemon-powered air dreadnoughts]], a smooth blending with StupidJetpackHitler.
58	%%* GiantFlyer: Erzengel.
59	%%* HiveMind: Sirus, who is also, bizarrely enough, a MindHive.
60	%%* HotBlooded: Most characters with a name are this, but in particular is the water fairy Rusalka, whose primary offensive abilities revolve around [[{{Irony}} cold and ice.]]
61	%%* HumongousMecha: The Leninator, Erzengel.
62	%%* AnIcePerson: Rusalka
63	%%* MadScientist
64	* MookMaker: The Ophanim have a weird version of this, being able to release dozens of Virtues [[ClownCar which aren't much smaller than themselves.]]
65	* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Wotan delivers one of these to [[spoiler:Samyaza, after learning just ''who'' was powering Erzengel.]]
66	%%* OfficerAndAGentleman: Sleipnir.
67	* OurAngelsAreDifferent:
68	** Samyaza rocks it Old Testament style. As do all of the other angels. Phanuel, for example, has six wings, metallic blue skin, has permanently closed eyes, no lower body, and a wheel covered in eyes where his waist would be. It gets weirder from there.
69	** The Ophanim are even weirder. They are completely made up of wheels covered in eyes, can shoot flaming swords out of said eyes, and serves as a ClownCar for the smaller Virtues (which are androgynous crystalline {{Winged Humanoid}}s).
70	* PapaWolf: Wotan. Mess with his progeny and he ''[[UnstoppableRage will]]'' [[UnstoppableRage grind you into dust]].
71	%%* PhlebotinumBreakdown: [[spoiler: Samyaza seems to be showing the first sign of it.]]
72	* SadlyMythtaken: Wotan gets lightning powers, Czernobog gets fire, ice and necromancy.
73	* ShutUpHannibal: Sleipnir responds to [[spoiler: the Ressurected Eavle]]'s rant about Rusalka by ''jumping into the air and biting his leg off.''
74	%%* SizeShifter: [[CoolHorse Sleipnir]] is all over this trope.
75	%%* SovietSuperScience
76	* StarfishAliens: Sirus, a sapient, mutagenic ''liquid'' that apparently controls a small portion of the universe beyond Earth.
77	%%* TheStoic: Koschei
78	%%* StupidJetpackHitler
79	* TakingYouWithMe: Eavle seems to be attempting this with [[spoiler:his activation of the horrifically powerful Erzengel. It didn't work.]]
80	* TankGoodness: The Soviet's bread-and-butter vehicle, on scales as huge as a naval destroyer, as seen with the landship ''Marx''.
81	%%* ThanatosGambit
82	%%* TragicMonster: [[spoiler: Erzengle/Balder]].
83	%%* VillainousRescue: The Nazis seem to be rather good at this, particularly when it comes to air power.
84	%%* YouHaveFailedMe: BLAM
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87	[[folder:Elven and Freemason allies vs. the Roman Axis]]
88	%%* AccidentalMisnaming: A lot of people get Octavian's name wrong.
89	%%* AcePilot: [[MagicalNativeAmerican The]] [[UsefulNotes/CanucksWithChinooks Reapers]].
90	* AndThisIsFor: Octavian dedicates his missile strike on the Wendigo to Vigilo Atticus, who the Wendigo killed. Mars does this in the battle with Mari. Who is the attack for? Mars' sword, Harry.
91	%%* BadassFamily:
92	%%** The Basque pantheon.
93	%%** The Blackwatch were, apparently, Fade's brothers, so he fits here.
94	* BadassNormal: Used (at first) by the [[MagicalNativeAmerican Blackwatch]], subverted by the Royal Marine squad under the command of Sergeant Lewis Rotham (who currently seem to be horribly outclassed by the gods waging war around them). They are, however, slowly recovering.
95	* BarBrawl: Having Heracles and Hercules drunk and bored is a bad idea (even though the WDM started it).
96	%%* BashBrothers: Hercules and Heracles appear to be shaping up to be this.
97	* ColossusClimb: Heracles subverts this by climbing up the Throne of Vulcan with a little assistance... that is, strapping himself into a missile and firing himself up there.
98	* EyeScream: Cyclopes get shot or stabbed in the eyes a lot.
99	* FullFrontalAssault: Fade has all his clothes burned away during a fight with Octavian, and spend the rest of the fight like this.
100	* HandicappedBadass: Octavian loses an arm to the Wendigo, and due to the nature of the wound, won't be able to regrow it with nanites for a ''long'' time.
101	%%* HumongousMecha: The Throne of Vulcan, Talos.
102	* ICallItVera:
103	** Mars has a sword called Harry, of all things.
104	** Brontes' railgun is called Sophia.
105	* IOweYouMyLife: The entire cyclopes race towards Octavian and his Century, who saved them from a life of slavery at the hands of the Greek Gods.
106	* InfernalRetaliation: ''Don't'' try to set Fade on fire. You wouldn't like [[KillItWithFire the results]].
107	%%* KnightTemplar: Centurion Octavian.
108	%%* LeetLingo: Mars occasionally does this, for some reason.
109	%%* MagicalNativeAmerican: Fade and the Blackwatch.
110	%%* MagmaMan: The Sons of Vulcan.
111	%%* MakingASplash: Neptune.
112	%%* MamaBear: The Basque goddess Mari, towards the rest of her pantheon.
113	* ManiacMonkeys: The Romans initially use battle-trained Barbary Macaques in Gibraltar.
114	* MixAndMatchCritters: Scylla is an unholy melding of tentacles and dog heads that can eat a battleship in two bites.
115	* {{Nanomachines}}: The Romans make heavy use of nanites, both for healing grievous injuries and disassembling enemies.
116	%%* NotSoStoic: Fade, when his men die horribly at the hands of Octavian.
117	* OvershadowedByAwesome: Lewis Rotham and his men, although they seem to be gradually recovering.
118	%%* PlayingWithFire: Mostly Fade, but also, at one point, Octavian.
119	* SamusIsAGirl: [[spoiler:Turns out that the Wendigo is a ''woman'', and Fade's older sister.]]
120	* ThoseTwoGuys: Hercules and Heracles seem to be taking a break from fighting and commenting on the battle, mostly involving potshots at the other's pantheon.
121	* {{Wendigo}}: It is summoned as a distraction by the Blackwatch. It can teleport, grows as it eats people, and is TheVirus.
122	* WhyWontYouDie: The Wendigo's ability to return from seemingly certain defeat elicits this reaction from Octavian.
123	%%* YourMom: Several of these get thrown about by Heracles and Hercules.
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126	[[folder:Japanese Spirit Warriors vs. The Raygun Gothic Allies]]
127	%%* AirborneAircraftCarrier: The ''Sky Fortress Seiryuu'' for the Japanese, the HMAAS ''Triumph'' for the Allies.
128	%%* AlienGeometries: The Aberration is a living, biological example.
129	%%* AnimalMecha: The ''Sea Titan Genbu'' is a titanic sea turtle mecha.
130	* BadassSanta: The Australians brought in Father Christmas to aid in the invasion of the Philippines.
131	* CombatPragmatist: The Bushman has no qualms about running or using less honourable tactics against the things he fight. It's already saved his life at least once, and he's killed several of Shinshiro's personal guards and crippled a pair of warmechs using ''dishonourable'' tactics.
132	%%* DeathOfAThousandCuts: How Shinshiro's cherry blossom attack works.
133	%%* EldritchAbomination: The Aberration.
134	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: when we first see Shinshiro, he is drinking tea in his command center when two subordinates burst in, bearing important information concerning the battle. He then calmly ''beheads the man who interrupted his tea'', explains ''why'' he did so to the second man, gives said man a chance to avoid making the same mistake, then invites him to have some tea and explain the situation.
135	* ForcedTransformation: The Bunyip turns a large number of Japanese soldiers into black swans.
136	* HumansThroughAlienEyes: The Aberration sees us all as something just as horrific as we see it, and believed we were all out to torture and kill it, resulting in its homicidal rampage.
137	%%* HumongousMecha: Liberty Prime and the turtle-shaped ''Sea Titan Genbu''.
138	%%* InvincibleMinorMinion: The Defender mech, piloted by a PsychoForHire.
139	%%* KillItWithWater: Susa-no-O's specialty.
140	%%* LandDownUnder: The Bushman and his associates (barring Father Christmas), are all Australian.
141	%%* MagicalNativeAmerican: The Old Man.
142	* MilitaryMashupMachine: The craft of Starbird Flight are submersible jet fighters. Their mothership is an aircraft carrier-submarine.
143	%%* MiniMecha: The Warmechs under Naito's supervision.
144	* NukeEm: Liberty Prime hurls mini-nukes around. [[spoiler: One of them kills Shinshiro.]]
145	%%* {{Samurai}}: Shinshiro Kenji (or Kenji Shinshiro, if you want to go by the Western order)
146	%%* ShoutOut: Hey, it's the [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 TF2]] guys! And The Bushman uses [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pokeballs!]]
147	* SpeechImpediment: Yugure has a very bad stutter.
148	%%* SssssnakeTalk: The Bunyip.
149	* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Yugure kills Liberty Prime in this manner. Notably, [[RuleOfCool this was at a range of at least a mile, and the sword went through Liberty Prime, impaling the main power core]], and Liberty Prime is a HumongousMecha.
150	* {{Youkai}}: Shinshiro employs ''[[OurOgresAreHungrier Oni]]'' as bodyguards, and he's got other, weirder examples patrolling the forests.
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153	[[folder:The Allies, Axis, And Resistance, All Hunting The Ark]]
154	%%* AdventurerArchaeologist: Professor Hendricks and, more recently, Dr. Joanne Lockner.
155	%%* AirborneAircraftCarrier: The ''HMA Canterbury''.
156	* AnimalMecha: G.O.R., Yaw Nwosu's [[MechanicalLifeforms sapient robotic]] silverback gorilla; serves as the Resistance leader's primary mode of transportation, bodyguard and pet.
157	%%* BlackAndGreyMorality
158	%%* BoobyTrap: Jacob Rosen's tomb is absolutely ''filled'' with the things.
159	* CatchPhrase: '''DEATH TO ALL WHO OPPOSE''' for the Iron Warrior.
160	* CoolBoat: The HMS ''Implacable'', the British battleship most of the British forces in Zanzibar fight from.
161	* DealWithTheDevil: The Resistance members are presently bartering with Baron Samedi for the exact location of the Ark, [[EverybodyHatesHades and while the Baron sure as hell isn't evil]], being the God of Resurrection and all, [[GoodIsNotNice he certainly isn't nice.]]
162	%%* EliteMooks: The Nazi commandos.
163	%%* LaResistance: The AREM.
164	* MakingASplash: The British onboard the ''Implacable'' appear to be able to manipulate water by singing ''Rule Britannia''.
165	%%* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Nazis again, sorta.
166	* TankGoodness: The Nazis have one called the Iron Warrior, a [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Baneblade]]-sized monstrosity that is possessed by some manner of daemon.
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169	[[folder:Joint Aztec-American Forces vs. The Argentine-Nazi Horde]]
170	%%* BlobMonster: El Chupacabra.
171	%%* BodyHorror: The Technological Ascendancy Battalion.
172	* DemBones: El Coronel's Mexican battalion, who are all brightly-painted Day Of The Dead-style skeletons.
173	* HumanSacrifice: It's the Aztecs, for crying out loud. In this particular case, someone needs to die to summon the Pantheon into their PhysicalGod form, except for Xiuhcoatl, who comes as a bonus package for summoning Huitzilopochtli.
174	%%* ShownTheirWork: All of the dogfight- and aircraft-related terms used by ''Thunderchief'', and to a lesser extent the Mudbugs.
175	* TransformingMecha: The Colossi Prototypes, which can transform from an aircraft into a mecha and back again.
176	* VoluntaryShapeshifting: The Jaguar Warriors can transform into, well [[ShapedLikeItself Jaguars.]]
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