DoofQuest
is a play-by-post Quest roleplay hosted on Sufficient Velocity, mainly run by Made In Heaven. It is based on the Disney Villains Victorious setting, with the players taking on the role of a victorious Dr. Doofenshmirtz as he builds up his power base in Doofania and deals with the other villains in the setting, peacefully or otherwise.
The mechanics are loosely based on those of Crusader Kings II, with the players voting each round for certain National Actions, along with Personal Actions for Doofenshmirtz and his various hero units.
DoofQuest contains examples of the following tropes:
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- Adaptational Villainy: The Fearsome Five were already evil in their home series but, given their home series reliance on Toon Physics, only one of them ever actually successfully killed anyone on screen, although all of them made attempts. IN this quest, all of them very much have body counts.
- Affably Evil: Doof, as in both show and DVV canon. Most of his citizens are fairly happy with his rule, especially when he starts pushing Greevil (green and evil) technology and solving the famine crisis.
- Ambiguously Human: Agent Russ is very knowledgeable about Toon culture and good at using Rule of Funny to his own advantage, leading to some questers suspecting that he is actually a Toon himself.
- Ambiguous Situation: All that's known about Perry's death is that one of Doof's -inators exploded during a fight, and neither of them pressed the self-destruct button. It's currently unknown if this was an accident or malicious sabotage.
- And Now for Someone Completely Different: A temporary example. As a result of a Inator, Doof is put out of comission for two months, leaving Mirage to lead the company in his stead in the MirageQuest
- Auction of Evil: The Magic and Moolah quest revolves around one of these at the Magus Bazaar.
- Back from the Dead:
Word of God says this is not allowed, although early on in the Quest Doof does manage to resurrect Genghis Khan via cloning. - The Bad Guy Wins: Par for the course of DVV -though Bad Guy is being relative. Some of the kings, like Doof, Xanatos and Tau are not necessarily bad people, but they were antagonists in their respective settings. Then you move to more neutral figures, such as Shere Khan, Waternoose and Glomgold who simply want to keep their businesses going no matter what. Finally, you get figures who are straight-up EVIL such as Bill, the Core and Negaduck, who cause chaos in the wake of their moves.
- Bait-and-Switch: Happens on occasion due to the narration being vague about details.
- Benevolent Boss: Unless your name is LOVEMUFFIN, most of DEI's employees agree that Doofenshmirtz is this, as he's overall chill with most of his employees shenanigans, likes to have some fun from time to time, and overall attempts to help them, to the point that DEI feels like a big family. Even Hego shared that feeling to an extent.
- Binding Ancient Treaty: It turns out that Genghis Khan had one with the gargoyles of Xanadu, and although his descendants broke the treaty, they are willing to honor it with the man himself and return the items he left with them for safekeeping.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall:
- When Wile E. Coyote ends up having a vision quest after eating peyote, he ends up meeting the Zebra, who gives him some vague cryptic advice before tacking on an additional message explicitly aimed at the questers themselves.
- When Doof ends up going on an adventure through his own mind, several of the Mind Workers' lines are direct quotes from the thread.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: What Doofenshmirtz looks to Xanatos. For most of the world, he's the crazy doctor that declared the Tri-State area "his." For Xanatos, he is a very eccentric man that has the ability to create fearsome machines like the Probabilinator and has a surprisingly capable cast of other eccentric figures, and is an overall reliable ally.
- Butt-Monkey:
- Candace has it even worse in this setting - her attempts at setting up a Resistance go poorly and are eventually crushed when her mom is informed of what she's doing, Jeremy broke up with her, and her new pet is an evil alien cat.
- On the villainous side, Syndrome keeps getting extremely poor rolls on almost everything he tries, eventually leading to his apparent death.
- El Fuego is mercilessly ridiculed by everybody around him in all his appearances, which usually end in his defeat and humiliation, despite him being a power-armored luchador with flamethrowers.
- Cats Are Mean: Kat, as in his native series. Candace is the main target for his tricks and he nearly orders an alien invasion against Doofania in the Kataclysm by commanding a legion of cats to do his bidding.
- The Chessmaster: Xanatos is this amongst the kings, being the cunniest of them, besides, maybe, Toffee. That said, he can still be occasionally Out-Gambitted or be surprised. He nearly loses his composture after Doof comments about the Probabilinator, and Demona manages to see through his plans in the Twelfth Night, requiring Puck's quick thought and Kitsune's abilities in illusion to put her in a vulnerable position to be defeated.
- The Chew Toy: Max had this as his role in life. Being a Toon he is subject more to the Rule of Funny than to physics and was invariably the butt of every joke.
- Commonality Connection: During a trip to Drusselstein, Doof and Major Monogram end up bonding over tragic backstories.
- Composite Character: The Ducktales characters are mostly based on the original comics, but characters that have little characterization in said comics are based on the expanded characterization in Ducktales 2017.
- Due to the Dead: Doof has set up a memorial statue for Perry. He visits it together with Major Monogram at one point in the quest.
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- Enemy Mine: Doof and Shego end up working together to infiltrate and ransack one of Syndrome's galas. They work together so well that Doof ends up changing her from his Most Hated Enemy to his Greatest Rival.
- Entertainingly Wrong: After investigating Alonso Hawk's murder DEI comes to the conclusion that Judge Doom has a murderous toon that he uses to frame other toons while killing his enemies. A reasonable but wrong deduction given they have no way of knowing that Doom is a killer toon.
- Epic Fail: Critical failures are a mechanic in the quest, though they don't really come into play for most people until Doof activates his Probabilinator, which turns every failure into a critical failure (and every success into a critical success).
- Fantastic Racism:
- Judge Doom towards Toons, as in canon. This eventually leads to him becoming Doof's new Most Hated Enemy, due to Doofania being very open to Toon refugees.
- Played for laughs in a canon omake about Della Duck being rescued from the moon, where she calls one of the astronauts "SUPER RACIST, WOW" for asking if eating turkey counts as cannibalism.
- Godzilla Threshold: Phineas, Ferb and Doof share the same philosophy of never doing a same invention twice. Yet, in different moments, they have to go back on their word and replicate old inventions: the brothers when they recreate a water invention to fight against Kat's feline army, and Doof when he, along with the rest of DEI, has to recreate the On-Ice Inator to fight against Liquidator of the Fearsome Five.
- Hero of Another Story: Not necessarily "heroic," but all the other characters are also doing their own thing as the plot goes on, which only occasionally intersect with what Doof is doing.
- Heroic Canines, Villainous Felines: Goofy and his son Max are lovable heroic canines. Villainous felines become a very big problem when Kat gets involved.
- Humanity Is Infectious: This turns out to be the key to creating true AI. By treating them like people, they slowly become actual people.
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- Insistent Terminology: Doof insists on calling his part of the Tri-State Area Doofania, despite the U.S. Government refusing to use that term.
- Interface Spoiler: Since the information on hero units and current income/inventory is always kept up-to-date to the most recent turn, it can serve as a spoiler to new readers about what might eventually happen in the Quest.
- Journey to the Center of the Mind: There's a long interlude about Doof going on one with the aid of Technor and Dreamfinder, which serves as a major turning point in his development.
- Karmic Jackpot: Choosing diplomacy when confronted with the Xanadu gargoyles leads to them voluntarily returning Temujin's old treasures that he stored with them, a gargoyle beast joining the party, and much later on, the Xanadu clan refusing to help Demona with her evil schemes.
- Killed Off for Real: Perry in the backstory, along with Pony Head and The 7D via Word of God.
- Also in-quest, Alonso Hawk gets killed by Judge Doom in an Interlude.
- The Masquerade: There is one about the existence of magic and aliens, which the government is desperately trying to keep a lid on. So far, it hasn't completely broken yet.
- Massive Multiplayer Crossover: As in the source material, although there are additional fandoms and characters added in that weren't in the original documentation, along with a few Original Characters.
- Medium Awareness: True to their nature, many Toons demonstrate this for gags, such as Ludivine noting the name of a trait when it pops up in the mechanic text.
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- Only Sane Employee: While the 'only' is stretching things a little Mr. Moseby was hired specifically for his ability to manage and mitigate a chaotic workplace.
- Max Goof also eventually develops into this, becoming a calm island of productivity in a sea of shenanigans.
- Papa Wolf: Doof is extremely protective of his daughter Vanessa as in canon, and mechanically this means she cannot be assigned to risky actions.
- Quirky Miniboss Squad: Technor, Juniper, and Gomez have been grouped into a single unit officially called the Quirky Miniboss Squad. They fit the trope to a T, choreographed poses included.
- Rag Tag Bunch Of Misfits: Over the course of the quest Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated expands its aegis to include a very very varied bunch. From toons, to cartoonish supervillains, resurrected Mongolian warlords, ninjas, magical creatures, failed teenage heroes, and the strangest of all, normal businesspeople.
- More specifically, the Marcnificent Few, composed of a Latino teenager mercenary, an aspiring sorceress that wields a staff inhabited by an evil god, a kitsune that is later revealed to be a fragment of Tamamo-no-Mae, the ruler of hell and a villainess that manipulates ants as her power.
- Rule of Funny: Toons run on it. Agent Russ is also good at utilizing it.
- The Runaway: Star Butterfly is this, being on the run ever since Toffee dominated her former home. The reason why Marco became the Cazador was to find her.
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- Saloon Owner: Pete fills this role when he and his House of Villains are encountered.
- Sit Com Archnemesis: Moseby is this to Tobe, as they butt heads over "control" of DEI's lobby. Moseby doesn't really care about this too much, he just wants the ninjas to not make a mess out of things.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Doof starts out greatly overestimating his own ability thanks to Syndrome's early defeat and some lucky breaks against ENCOM and Judge Doom the latter two upping their game and massively increasing their power and influence swiftly disabuse him of this notion.
- Still Believes in Santa: Both Doofenshmirtz and Monogram still believe Santa is real, no matter what other adults may say. And, to be fair, in this setting, it's entirely likely that's true.
- There Are No Therapists: Averted. Technor is one of the earlier hires, and despite his ego actually does quite well at giving various characters therapy.
- Theory of Narrative Causality: Beyond Rule of Funny toons function on this and given the setting they have a variety of different reactions to it. Some are uncaring and just live their lives (Goofy and Ludivine), some love it and play into it for fun (like the Phantom Blot), while some hate it and even successfully change their narrative (Wile E. Coyote and Max), while others take advantage of their sick senses of humor to hurt and kill people like Negaduck and Judge Doom.
- This Cannot Be!: The Roadrunner has a non-verbal one when Coyote successfully catches him on account of him being strangled at the time.
- Took a Level in Badass: Many characters do this as the Quest continues and they gain more experience and training.
- Max Goof does this by going to the backline. Thanks to Russ, he learns how to use his Toon powers, and uses them to essentially perform damage control on the wacky shenanigans that DEI often finds itself.
- And then there's Hego. Dear god, Hego. From upstart Wide-Eyed Idealist that was also the butt of countless jokes to what boils down to being the new Mr. Incredible. Hercules would be proud.
- Trauma Conga Line: Oh, Russ. In quick sequence, he figures murderous Toons exist, he gets temporarily banished to a dream realm, has a small break facing the comparatively normal Phantom Blot, then he gets another mind-whammy when investigating the mind of Nega Duck to the point that he can't use his Toon powers for a bit after the experience and is completely off his game during the mission to recover the Declaration of Independence.
- Wild Card: Old Man McGucket shows up during the casino heist to spread more chaos, then bails after a while, though his actions mostly end up helping the questers' goals.
- Wham Episode: The "Luck Be a Lady" quest, revolving around Syndrome's gala. The heist that Doof and his friends pull not only catapults him in terms of power, but indirectly leads to the development of true AI, the ultimate fall of Syndrome as a King, and the ascension of Winston Deavor as a leader and recurrent ally.
- The first Crisis, Twelfth Night. Demona nearly succeeds in her plans, being barely foiled by the combined force of Xanatos and the Rag Tag Bunch Of Misfits that would become the Marcnificent Few.
- Who Framed Bonkers Bobcat. Russ takes a risky decision to obtain a valuable clue about the case, but is forcefully dragged away from the world of living...with EVERYONE forgetting he existed!
- Following that, there's the L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N blowout, the first time that Doof would be forced to dismiss an employee(s).
- KATACLYSM, and how. The first crisis to personally affect Doof's territory, and one that nearly ended in disaster. Not only it affected Phineas and Ferb usually eternal optimism, but also led to Hego quit from working to the company, which would lead him to a Redemption Quest to figure out what is to be a true hero. Which leads to...
- The Best is Yet to Come. Evelyn Deavor is exposed as the one responsible for manipulating the hero scene to fit the needs of her company, and goes into a rampage as response. This leads to Hego finally becoming a true superhero and save the day with the help of Doof's employees...but not before Evelyn reveals Mirage's involvement in Mr.Incredible's death. As said best by the authors, "a certain ship has been finally and irreparably sunk."
- The Deep in Your Mind interludes, as a catalyst for Doof's Character Development.
- Find Fantastic interludes. The Phantom Blot steals a rare magical artifact from Doof. On the flipside, Agent Russ returns from his time in the Dreamscape.
- Following Doof's tendency for Character Development, the "Try" interludes, about him attempting to come to terms with many facets of his life, like his relation with his brother and Norm. In the final part, he also stops Kitsune -a facet of Tamamo no Mae - from committing suicide and makes a pact with her in an action that heavily alters her character.
- Dark Comedy. At the (temporary) cost of his Toon abilities, Russ manages to snag information about who is attacking Doofania in the stead of the Fearsome Five - Liquidator - giving Doof forces time to prepare a counterattack against him.
