Line #19 YMMV/SurvivalOfTheFittest


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4	* CrossesTheLineTwice: Several scenes, noticably [[AxCrazy Wade Wilson]]'s rampage and Carson Baye's death.
5	** [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments "CRAIG HOYLE IS GOING TO]] [[{{Series/Firefly}} RAPE YOU AND WEAR YOUR SKIN AS A COAT!"]]
6	* FanNickname: Tons. 'Bocelot' (Bobby Jacks), '[=BCarv=]' (Bryant Carver), 'Captain America' (Tyler Blake)
7	** 'The Terrific Three' for Kaige, Rice, and [=McLocke=].
8	** Sometimes used to differentiate characters with the same name: Happy!Nick (Nick [=LeMonde=]) and Sad!Nick (Nick Reid), and Sarax (Sarah Xu), [=STan=] (Sarah Tan) and Seizure Girl (Sarah Atwell) being the main examples.
9	** "[=SCDos=]" Is the preferred name for Second Chances 2 among the handlers. A hypothetical Virtua sequel has been dubbed Vir2ua.
10	* LGBTFanbase: A lot of site members fit this, and it has been noted that character demographics tend to skew on the more diverse side (even if the characters are supposed to come from areas where things are more conservative).
11	* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Most characters will get one at some point. Some of the better examples can be found on [[Awesome/SurvivalOfTheFittest the relevant page]].
12	* {{Narm}}: Due to the written medium, a poorly placed typo or the like can utterly ruin a scene's mood. Also, the gore in some scenes is so hilariously over the top and childish (not to mention some of the one-liners...), that it's almost impossible to take seriously. On the other hand...
13	* NightmareFuel: ...some scenes use gore in a skilled enough manner to give the reader a serious case of the willies. [[NightmareFuel/SurvivalOfTheFittest Now has its own page.]]
14	* ObviousJudas: When the phrase "pre-made player" is used, this trope is what handlers are referring to. Generally it means that a character is obviously going to play just from a casual read-through of their profile. Such traits include any mixture of DarkAndTroubledPast, [[ManipulativeBastard excellent manipulation skills]], prior experience with weapons and/or martial arts, mental instability, or outright [[TheSociopath sociopathy]]. While more common in earlier versions, the site's staff has made an effort to avert this during profile submissions by asking characters with these traits to be rewritten, if not denied outright.
15	* ParanoiaFuel: It's all too easy to start applying the mindsets of characters to your own classmates.
16	* SpoiledByTheFormat: It's notoriously difficult to follow [=SOTF=] reading a version after the fact usually requires going by character, and the site's wiki has a full list of their threads. If the topic you're reading is the last one listed as featuring that character, it's not too hard to draw a conclusion about their fate.
17	** Actively participating in the game also requires reading the announcements, which in character tell the students what is happening and out of character tell participants who is due to die. Since handlers ''have'' to read this part or else fail to discover that their own character might be on the chopping block, they will immediately be spoiled on the imminent deaths of the half dozen or so characters rolled
18	* TearJerker: Several, although given the premise, that isn't really surprising.
19	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: A typical version features a large, fully fleshed-out cast. Death order is decided by random chance. As a result, you're going to end up feeling this way about at least one character.
20	* TooBleakStoppedCaring: It can be a little hard to care when you know all but one person's going to die, that person will be a shell of their former selves, and Danya [[spoiler: or his successors]] will inevitably win in the end ([[XanatosGambit even if it doesn't look like it]]).
21	* VindicatedByHistory: Some characters from early versions who were quickly forgotten were praised upon being re-discovered by the handlers. Examples of this include Jeremy Torres from v1 and Huy Tran from v2.
22	* TheWoobie: It's to be expected, given the premise. Most characters go through a round of [[BreakTheCutie cutie]] or [[BreakTheHaughty haughty-breaking]], and the more sympathetic ones tend to be some variant of this.
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26	* CargoShip: Kouji Ginsenshi and his soup.
27	* EnsembleDarkhorse: [[GenreSavvy Heather Pendergrast]], [[NiceGuy Jeremy Torres]], [[OnlySaneMan Lyndi Thibodeaux]] and [[PolarOppositeTwins Fred and Glenn Hughes]].
28	* MemeticMutation: "And then Minase died of aids"
29	** Kouji Ginsenshi is forever associated with soup thanks to one memorable scene.
30	* MoralEventHorizon: Cody Jensen raping and murdering Madelaine Shirohara, and then [[AccidentalMurder accidentally]] killing Amanda Jones.
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34	* CargoShip: Burton Harris ([[spoiler: Actually Ken Lawson.]])'s obsession with weed crosses into this territory.
35	* DesignatedVillain: Nicole Carter-Madison. Her son Damien's story attempts to paint her as an awful mother, but most handlers disagree. Of course, [[AxCrazy Damien]] isn't exactly a reliable narrator in the first place.
36	* EnsembleDarkhorse: CJ the [[HookHand hook-handed]] janitor from Bathurst High. After being forgotten for a long time, he was immediately embraced by the handlers during a revisit of v2.
37	** Nicole Carter-Madison, the mother of Damien Carter-Madison, has also received a resurgence in popularity. Most handlers consider her to be a good, albeit overprotective mom who deserved better treatment from [[AxCrazy her son]].
38	* MemeticBadass: Huy Tran is jokingly referred to as "The Savior of v2" for killing [[NauseaFuel Sam]] [[NightmareFuel Sorenson]].
39	** Bryan Calvert, not only for his time on-island that often resembled an action movie, but for being arguably the best-written character in v2. [[spoiler: To date, he is still considered one of the site's best winners.]]
40	* MemeticMutation: Any mention of weed will immediately be linked to Burton Harris and vice versa.
41	* SophomoreSlump: v2 is widely considered to be the worst of the main versions due to severe inactivity issues, very uneven quality with the average leaning towards poor, and a large amount of unlikable and gimmicky characters.
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45	* AlasPoorScrappy: The death of Liam Black was considered to be well-written, and genuinely saddening, in spite of the fact that the character was extremely unpopular whilst alive.
46	* MemeticBadass: Bobby Jacks, who in-game managed to headshot a student from behind without looking at them. This led to tales of Bobby ricocheting bullets [[VideoGame/MetalGear Revolver Ocelot-style]] (which led to the nickname Bocelot), killing students from several threads away, and firing his gun in v3 and killing a student in v4.
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50	* BaseBreakingCharacter: [[EvilBrit Maxwell Lombardi]]. He's either hated for being cliche and over the top, or loved for those exact same reasons.
51	** [[AxeCrazy Liam Brooks]], full stop. Same reasoning as above [[FaceHeelTurn post-breakdown.]] He's either seen as an effective WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds or an over the top villain running on a {{Gimmick}}.
52	* DesignatedHero: Peter Siu is intended to be seen as a heroic character, but he would abruptly kill people for poorly defined reasons. One memorable moment occurred when a girl expressed her desire to find and work with Liz Polanski, and Peter's response was to kill her then and there, in front of her boyfriend, no less. ''And then he expected said boyfriend to be okay with it!''
53	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Mr. Kwong. It's very unusual for a non-student to get much attention (either in or out of character), but you'd be hard pressed to find a handler that doesn't like him.
54	* MemeticMutation: Nick [=LeMonde's=] Hunga Munga went on to become one of the most mentioned weapons in SOTF, due to its silly name and bizarre appearance. It lead to it being reused in future versions.
55	* {{Moe}}: Sierra Manning, a cute emotional girl whose cuteness is only amplified by her lisp.
56	** This trope could also easily explain why Orn "Dutchy" Ayers is so popular on the board. Dutchy is an [[FunnyForeigner Icelandic]], free-loving [[NerdsAreSexy comic book nerd]] who watches soccer and cries TenderTears over the plight of third-world countries among other things. Add in his in-game posts, which makes many handlers see him as TheWoobie, and his habit of wearing a PointlessBandAid over his nose, and you have a character who [[EnsembleDarkhorse most of the board adores]]. Which makes his mental scarring and subsequent death all that more painful.
57	* MoralEventHorizon: Sarah Atwell's [[spoiler:[[ColdBloodedTorture slow, calculated torture]] of Eve Walker-Luther]].
58	** [[spoiler: Alex White's ColdBloodedTorture of Rosa Fiametta]]. It's not helped by it being written similarly to a [[RapeAsDrama rape scene]]. At all.
59	* PortmanteauCoupleName: The [[HeterosexualLifePartners broship]] of Liam "Brook" Brooks and Jason Harris is generally referred to as "Brason", while Garry Villette and Saul Fetteralf are commonly referred to as either "Garul" or "Gaul".
60	** Sarah Xu and Reiko Ishida, who are often called "Sareiko" when mentioned together.
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64	* BaseBreakingCharacter: [[InsufferableGenius Gavin Hunter]] is either an interesting concept with flawed execution or an affront to the whole site, depending on who you ask. It doesn't help that his handler RageQuit the site after his escape attempt failed.
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69	* BaseBreakingCharacter:
70	** Jerry Fury as a parody of early SOTF can either be seen as a hilarious take on old character tropes and attitudes or an unfunny character that falls into the trappings of those very same tropes.
71	** [[AxCrazy Isabel Ramirez]] is intended to be a throwback to V3 style {{Sadist}}s, which makes her polarizing on premise. She tends to be considered either a great homage to killers from the earlier versions while being an illustration of [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools how to do such tropes correctly]], or making the same mistakes that made those characters less than interesting in the first place by being over the top with her bloodthirsty characterization.
72	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Josie Knight, a new terrorist in V6, quickly became a favourite due to her high tier [[DeadpanSnarker snark]]. Another new terrorist, Boris Petrikov, gained popularity due to his more PunchClockVillain attitude and general "sad dad" demeanor.
73	* LesYay: Georgia Lee Day and Fiyori Senay are antagonistic towards each other throughout pregame and the main game itself, but they also have several intimate interactions. [[spoiler:Georgia Lee even dies in Fiyori's arms moments after Fiyori declares her hatred of her.]]
74	* MoralEventHorizon: Isabel Ramirez torturing an already-injured Conrad Harrod to death, reflecting on how much she is enjoying it the whole while. She goes on to do this to other people as well.
75	* RunningGag: People misspelling or mispronouncing Alvaro Vacanti's name, both in-universe and OOC.
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80	* HoYay: Darlene Silva has an unexpected moment of this when her travelling companion Jonah Heartgrave accomplishes their group's goal of finding his prom date Arizona Butler. She starts openly blushing as she catches herself thinking about Arizona's butt.

Context YMMV / SurvivalOfTheFittest