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1	''The Out Crowd'' is a web video series for a tabletop RPG playthrough. The RPG is set in the small California town of Springfield during TheEighties where a group of twentysomethings get involved with the supernatural. Featured on Creator/HyperRPG and hosted by [[https://www.twitch.tv/thatbronzegirl That Bronze Girl]]. The last episode aired on May 7th, 2017.
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3	The main characters are:
4	* Roxy: A former cheerleader turned aerobics instructor who has returned home recently after an affair with one of her professors went wrong.
5	* Ashley "Ash" Blair: A Goth and, it later turns out, a witch.
6	* Zeke: A hustler who is an agent of an organization called The Shadow Council.
7	* Professor Mindy Benton: A teacher at the local college and mad scientist from another dimension.
8	* Reggie: A stoner who works at the local comics shop who is the inheritor of a curse that causes him to become a giant devilish creature whenever he's upset or angry.
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11	!!Tropes featured in the show include:
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13	* AgentMulder: Zigzagged with Alex because they soon find out that her theories are real but in ways different from how she thought.
14	* AlienAmongUs: [[spoiler:Mindy Benton]] who is here to observe as part of a thesis, and has a device to look human.
15	* AmoralAttorney: Janae, their advocate before the Shadow Court, more concerned with keeping her spotless win record in place than with the group although she does bond somewhat with Mindy.
16	%%* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Alex, with a vengeance.
17	* AudienceParticipation: As with all Hyper RPG shows the viewers can give both GM and players bonuses and retools by contributing donations.
18	* BadassNormal: Roxy [[spoiler:until she becomes a Dhampir]] who seems to have turned aerobics into a martial art.
19	%%** Alex also qualifies and is perhaps even more badass than her older sister.
20	* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Mindy mentions that [[spoiler: like herself]] David Bowie is a traveler from another dimension.
21	* TheCasanova: Zeke who hits on every attractive woman he meets except, oddly, Ash and Roxy
22	* CatchPhrase:
23	** Zeke: "White people", usually while shaking his head.
24	** "This is my life now", which is odd because, as an agent of the Shadow Council his life was already strange and dangerous.
25	** Mindy: "I am not a witch! I am a ''scientist''!"
26	%%* TheChessmaster: Victor Pence.
27	%%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Jimmy
28	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Ash's mother, Mrs Blair, who seems like a frighteningly stereotypical housewife, complete with a Fargoesque accent, but is actually a powerful witch.
29	%%* CursedWithAwesome: Reggie [[spoiler: who turns into a giant lizard-devil when his adrenaline pumps up]].
30	%%* {{Dhampir}}:
31	%%** Raven.
32	%%** Also [[spoiler:Roxy after being bitten by a Nosferatu vampire]]
33	%%* TheEighties: Set in 1986 and chock full of pop allusions from the decade
34	%%* ForScience: Mindy's ''raison d'etre''
35	* {{Goth}}: Ashley aka Ash has an all-black wardrobe and Egyptian-style eye makeup, and is both a self-proclaimed and actual witch.
36	* GRatedDrug: Jimmy snorts garlic powder, Tang and powdered Kool-Aid, sometimes all together.
37	%%** Also Yoo-Hoo for Mindy.
38	* HeroicComedicSociopath: Alex who in her first appearance relentlessly harasses Ash, later kidnaps her, stabs one of Rick's crew for his blood, and steals a Vespa.
39	%%* HighSchoolHustler: Zeke is a college version of this.
40	* HumanoidAlien: [[spoiler: Mindy's]] real form is purple, and has antennae and a vestigial tail.
41	%%* IJustWantToBeNormal: Roxy who only gets involved because of Alex's kidnapping.
42	* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Ashley dreams of having magic powers and it turns out she does, and Alex creates the Midnight Society in order to investigate weird things.
43	* InsistentTerminology: Mindy is a ''scientist'', not a witch.
44	%%* LooksLikeOrlok: The creatures in the aquarium warehouse.
45	%%* MadScientist: Professor Mindy Benton with a particular focus on chemistry.
46	%%* AManOfWealthAndTaste: Mr. Victor Pence
47	%%* TheMasquerade: Enforced by the Shadow Council
48	%%* MyBelovedSmother: Ash's mom
49	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Victor Pence is a thinly veiled version of Creator/VincentPrice. [[spoiler: Except he really is a vampire.]]
50	* NoIndoorVoice: Alex's normal conversational tone is a hysterical shout.
51	%%* OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: The Shadow Council
52	%%* OnlySaneMan: Zeke, most of the time.
53	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: There are apparently several different types of vampire. So far we've met three: Ricks biker gang vampires who are right out of ''Film/TheLostBoys, [[spoiler: Victor Pence]]'s more sophisticated group and the [[LooksLikeOrlok Nosferatu types]] in the aquarium.
54	%%* PhraseCatcher: Mindy: "She's a powerful witch", usually but not exclusively from Ash
55	%%* RagTagBunchOfMisfits: The main characters
56	* SecretLegacy:
57	** Ash plays at being a witch [[spoiler: and then finds out that not only does she have powers, so does her mother and so did her grandmother.]]
58	** [[spoiler:Reggie's]] demon form is the result of a curse put on his grandfather.
59	* ShadowWalker: Zeke. He can teleport through shadows and, with enough donations, walk through walls.
60	* StepfordSmiler: Ash's mother, Mrs Blair who is in serious denial [[spoiler: about her witchly past and even more upset about her daughter's emerging powers]]
61	* TheStoner: Reggie always has a joint handy. It's also useful for calming him down from his monster state.
62	%%* VegetarianVampire: [[spoiler:Victor Pence]]
63	* WeirdScience: Mindy's specialty is chemistry and she blends this trope with, despite her insistence that it's science, AlchemyIsMagic. She turned someone into a dragon.

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