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6	''[[http://rpgworld.the-comic.org/ RPG World: Fan Revival]]'' is a fan continuation of the long-abandoned RPG World by Ian Jones-Quartey. The website hosts links to the full original comic, plus new fan content with writing by [=DoomDragon6=] and artwork by [=AtariBetch=]. The original Webcomic/RPGWorld takes place inside a Playstation Japanese RPG and pokes fun at all the tropes of RPG gaming while maintaining compelling story and characters.
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8	RPG World: Fan Revival directly continues the plot immediately after the events of ''[[http://rpgworld.keenspace.com/ RPG World]]'', before it was abandoned. It starts out with Jim, the real-life player of RPG World, continuing the events 7 years later, then continues the in-game story where it left off. The revival began on June 19th, 2016 though the initial pages were written in 2013, hence the "7 years later" as opposed to "10 years later". The revival went into an official hiatus on November 17, 2016 after the author had trouble keeping updates, but returned over a year later on July 31, 2018, and has maintained a steady update schedule since then.
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10	The revival has enjoyed mild success, but the author has lamented the difficulty in finding older readers of the comic, due to the nature of the internet back in its original success and lack of current social media popularity.
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12	In addition to the characters listed on the RPG World TV Tropes page, RPG World: Fan Revival has introduced:
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14	'''In the "real world":'''
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16	* '''Jim's Roommate''': Functionally replacing Jim's friend in the older comics, Jim now has a roommate, played by [=DoomDragon6=] himself. Both the new live-action actor for Jim and Jim's Roommate have only appeared for a brief 7-page stint to launch the revival.
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18	'''In the game world:'''
19	* '''Mr. E''': Less introduced and more expanded upon from the figure talking to Oligarch on ''[[http://rpgworld.keenspot.com/d/20030824.html this page]]'', sporting his own mask and appearing only in silhouette.
20	* '''Tuna''': Descendant of the great Tunalesca (a clear parody/ripoff of Yuna and Yunalesca from the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series), Tuna is a Summoner Priestess of an underwater race of FishPeople, who helped rescue the party when their airship exploded.
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23	!!This webcomic provides examples of:
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25	* AerithAndBob: #347's name is Sydney, though this is somewhat subverted as he goes by '''Syd'''.
26	* AffectionateParody: ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'', and somewhat ironically the original RPG World.
27	* AltText: Sometimes appears from time to time, usually in the form of snarky comments or off-topic ramblings. The author made a joke about how barely anyone reads on a computer anymore, making the alt text effectively non-existent for the majority of viewers as they read on cell phones, only to find out you can hold down your finger on the image to pop it up.
28	* BackFromTheDead: The Timetoaster works its wonders on Reka, bringing her back to life, and thanks to a little TechnoBabble, sends her directly to where the party is at that moment... [[spoiler:currently flying away from South City with a no-longer-evil Galgarion a few feet away.]]
29	* BagOfSpilling: Apparently, the "giant gaping asshole in the sky", as Galgarion so eloquently puts it, absorbed Cherry's levels along with her soul, dropping her down to 28 and putting her on par with two of the new party members. Hero remains in the mid 30s, and Reka and Tuna (re)join at this level, too.
30	* BreakingTheFellowship: After [[spoiler: the fall of South City and an InternalReveal of where Dragobo's egg came from]], Diane, Eikre, and Rabble split off and head to South City, and Dragobo and Howard leave the group in a separate escape pod that deposits them at Dragobo's Mystery Dungeon 2.
31	* CaptainErsatz: Zechnian crystals are a direct ripoff of Materia. It's even lampshaded.
32	* CatsHaveNineLives: Larry, Earl, and Detestai, though they're all on their last one.
33	* CharacterClassSystem: With new party members come new classes.
34	** Evil Soldier #347, named Syd, is an [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Evil Soldier]]. His stats are rated as Good in most areas, but [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy his Accuracy is so bad it can only be rated with a Bruh]].
35	** Plum is a [[MasterOfNone Jobless Bum]], which seems to be a non-combat class focusing on [[VideoGameStealing begging the enemy for G]] and [[BeneathNotice the enemies refusing to make eye contact with her, rendering her invisible]].
36	** Detestai is a [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent Crazy Cat Lady]]. She has high Attack and Agility and good Defense and Accuracy, and abilities like Nap, Cat Scratch Fever, and Hairball.
37	** [[spoiler:Galgarion]]'s class has not been shown at this time.
38	** Tuna is a [[SummonMagic Summoner]]/[[WhiteMage Priestess]]. According to her, within [[ClarkesThirdLaw Skuuba]], this involves being sunk into [[{{Unobtainium}} Zeichnenian]] deep beneath the surface for an extended period of time and becoming one with its energy.
39	* ChekhovsGunman: Parodying the original comic and being heartbreaking at the same time, [[spoiler: a callback to Page 3 causes Dragobo to leave the party, rendering Dragobo's mom (the faceless dragon) the gunman]]
40	* TheChosenOne: Like the original, Hero, Cherry and Diane are the three sides of the Tatsachore.
41	* {{Cutscene}}: This time around, often played for laughs. The actors are all paralyzed during cutscenes, and Reka might be developing an aversion to them, reasonably so.
42	* CuteMonsterGirl: Subverted in the same manner as the original. [[spoiler: Diane does end up becoming more monstrous when the Tatsachore is shifted dark.]]
43	* DeadpanSnarker: Cherry for plot contrivances. Reka has taken up this mantle for battle mechanics.
44	* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: Galgaron turns out to be this.]] There's another two discs left.
45	* ElementalRockPaperScissors: During the fight against Galgarion, Diane powers up the party's attacks with fire magic. [[TooDumbToLive Galgarion is a fire mage. They deal 34 damage.]]
46	* FantasticRacism: Humans v. Elves v. Monsters. Hero doubles down on it when SEVIL invokes a SEVIL Rage on top of his Chosen One powerup.
47	* GrievousHarmWithABody: Larry swings Detestai's unconscious body at an enemy to [[StatusEffects wake her up]]. She yells at them for being idiots.
48	* HeroicSacrifice: Earl and Larry boost Detestai onto the chains of the airship from the collapsing South Tower, then refuse to jump after her. [[CatsHaveNineLives This is their eighth time dying, meaning all three of the cats are on their last life]].
49	-->'''Detestai:''' Earl! Larry! Take my hand!\
50	'''Earl:''' Nah, that's okay. We're too heavy.\
51	'''Larry:''' We'd just pull you off.\
52	'''Earl:''' Besides, we've got another life.\
53	'''Larry:''' You don't.\
54	'''Detestai:''' What!?! You -- imbeciles! You jump onto the chain this instant!\
55	'''Both:''' ''[waving]'' [[FaceDeathWithDignity See ya, boss.]]\
56	''[The tower collapses.]''
57	* IResembleThatRemark: When Eikre asks Rabble if [[FantasticRacism he can pick locks since he's a monster]], Rabble objects, then immediately admits he can and starts trying to open Eikre's chains.
58	* InterfaceSpoiler: The party change menu pops up when Tuna joins the party, despite there only being 4 people to put in it. The party concludes they've missed some {{Secret Character}}s.
59	* LampshadeHanging: Again, by Cherry for plot and by Reka for battle mechanics.
60	* LightDarknessJuxtaposition: As part of South Corp's plans to [[TakeOverTheWorld rule the world for the next 1000 years]], [[spoiler: they mess with [[SentientCosmicForce the Tatsachore]]]], increasing the world's darkness and causing radical changes among monsters and other dark-aligned creatures. [[spoiler: This results in Diane transforming due to her dark-filled soul and [[HalfHumanHybrid half-monster body]]]]. Rabble is spared because his soul tends toward light.
61	* MagicSkirt: Unlike the original, this is subverted! Reka now sports a belt that inconsistently changes color from page to page.
62	* NoodleIncident: As part of [[TheOtherDarrin Jim's changed appearance]], he now wears glasses after "[his] eyesight plummeted from [a] horrific bongo championship accident."
63	* PrecisionFStrike: Cherry's response to inexplicably stealing an elixir from an inanimate door.
64	* RelationshipUpgrade: Detestai and Galgarion get back together with a SlapSlapKiss after [[spoiler: they become stranded on an island.]]
65	* ReversePolarity: Galgarion does this to his crystal ball to prevent South Corp from spying on him using the flat-screen TV.
66	* RunningGag: Jim gets in on Syd's tendency to mistake nearby plants for the person he's speaking to.
67	* RunningTheAsylum: What happens when an OrphanedSeries has a very dedicated fan.
68	* ShallIRepeatThat: Robert and Podderhead are apparently in an exposition loop about [[TimeTravel the Timetoaster]] because Podderhead keeps pressing the button.
69	* ShapeShifting: Like in the original, [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Detestai, Earl, and Larry]] can change into cat monsters. [[spoiler: Earl and Larry actually use this to hide the fact that they're monsters when SEVIL is rounding them up]].
70	* ShoutOut: To several different Genre/[=RPGs=], particularly Square-Enix properties.
71	** Evil Soldier #347 [[Franchise/FinalFantasy is able to fly the airship he and Plum stole, and his name is Sydney, shortened to Syd.]]
72	** Galgarion [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger joins the party around the same time that a character is brought back from the dead.]] He also insists that he's not doing this because he enjoys the party, but because he wants to stop the world from falling into ruin.]]
73	** When Plum and Syd are stranded on a [[YouMakeMeSic dessert island]], they read their map and find [[SpellMyNameWithAnS a city whose name should be spelled with an S instead of a TH.]] Plum responds to this by saying, "Ugh. [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII This map are sick.]]"
74	** Dragobo and Howard find themselves entering [[VideoGame/ChocobosDungeon Dragobo's Mystery Dungeon 2]], since they entered D.M.D.1 in the original comic.
75	** Tuna, and her ancestor Tunalesca, are a direct reference to [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Yuna and Yunalesca]].
76	* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Parodied. The party, upon entering a new city, are directed towards activities for which they are wildly overpowered. Tuna then informs them those tasks are for interns.
77	* SplitPersonality: Detestai, as in the original.
78	* SummonMagic: Tuna.
79	* SuperpoweredEvilSide: When Hero is under the influence of both the [[UnstoppableRage SEVIL Rage]] and his [[ThePowerOfFriendship "The One" power up]], he becomes solely focused on [[NeverSayDie destroying]] monsters and gaining EXP. [[OhCrap Diane is half monster.]] During this time, most of his moves have [[LightIsNotGood the word heroic]] appended to them.
80	* TerribleTrio: Inverted. Detestai, Larry, and Earl end up dropping their second-string villain flags, with Detestai joining the party.
81	* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Cherry and Hero find a Hex Tool that allows Reka to use magic while searching through junk. Cherry and Hero throw it away, since she likely wouldn't need it. Reka, meanwhile, is currently in a boss fight with an enemy that has high Physical Defense, but no Magic Defense.
82	* ThePowerOfFriendship: Hero pulls power from the Tatsachore to do this. It actually ends up being a big problem, as Galgarion uses that to tilt the Tatsachore dark.
83	* TimeTravelEscape: Reka's burnt-toast timeline. Once she's revived, the Timetoaster does not ripple-effect away the fact that she had died, but instead revives her and places her in the place she would have been if she hadn't died at all, i.e. with the party.
84	* UnexpectedGameplayChange: Reka and Tuna's boss fight against the Hyper Mecha Rat King suddenly throws in several mechanics involving NPC allies and a time limit, as well as a parallel boss battle with Hero and Cherry against... [[EverythingTryingToKillYou a door.]]
85	* WaterIsAir: And won't pick oil stains up off of the ground in [[UnderwaterCity Skuuba's waters]]. [[{{Handwave}} Apparently, it's an enchantment.]]
86	* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Hero and Cherry not thinking about having killed so many monsters [[spoiler: is what ultimately convinces Diane and Dragobo to leave.]]
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