- Creator's Favorite: A given. Nobody picks up a character that they hate.
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The No-Prizes are on-site Cosmetic Awards. They provide examples of:
- Shout-Out: Quite a few. Many of the names reference things specific to comics (Hope You Survive for threading with the X-men). No-Prizes won by threading with mods feature a quasi-anthropomorphic version of the Yellow M. Some No-Prizes share names with TV Tropes tropes.
No-Prizes: Marvel Comics Presents
These No-Prizes are sort of catch-all No-Prizes that don't fit somewhere more narrow.
- Acting for Two: Encouraged by the Double Post No-Prize for posting as two different characters in the same post.
- Baseball Episode: Possible with Contest of Champions.
- Big Applesauce: As Marvel is very New York-centric, there's one No-Prize for Roleplaying in a board for stories set in New York and another for Roleplaying in one for stories set anywhere else in the universe.
- Burger Fool: Invoked in the image for Average Joe, which requires a superhero/villain to spend time as their alter ego. It's Gert Yorkes in an embarrassing fast food uniform.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: . . . There Must Also Come Great Responsibility requires heroics to interfere with one's personal life.
- Concert Episode / Movie-Theater Episode: Encouraged by Live From New York.
- Creator Cameo: John Byrne, Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby, and Marie Severin show up for No-Prizes awarded for having number of posts ranging from 250 with Byrne to 2000 for Kirby. Stan Lee meanwhile is the image for a No-Prize used for what is effectively a character cameo.
- Halloween Episode: Tomb of Horror requires a horror-themed post in October.
- Historical AU: Days of Future Past is set in either the past or future.
- No-Dialogue Episode: Silence is Golden requires a 500+ word post with no spoken dialogue.
- Note from Ed.: Who's Ed? requires this.
- Sailor Earth: Who's the New Guy? can be earned by adding an OC to the Avengers, X-men etc.
- Secret-Keeper: You get the titular No-Prize for adding a new one.
- Superhero School: ABC is Easy doesn't strictly require this, but it's the most likely given the overall setting.
- Title Drop: Roll Credits requires this to earn it.
Marvel Team Up
These are No-Prizes encouraging playing with a particular category of character (such as villains or Avengers).
- The Ages Of Super Hero Comics: One set of these has you RP with a Golden Age, Silver Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age character respectively.
- Consolation Prize: Cancelled gives you one if your thread dies because the other player left the site. It is also the only animated No-Prize featuring a disappearing Invisible Woman.
- Team-Up Series: Encouraged in a way by the nature of these No-Prizes.
Vs. the Marvel Universe
These are No-Prizes related to battles/fights.
- Battle Couple: Happens with Paramour Pugilists.
- Cock Fight: One of the possible triggers for 'Triangle Triage'.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Punching Above Your Weight would probably result in this.
- Evil Versus Evil: Having a villain fight another villain is how to earn No Honor Among Thieves.
- Good Versus Good: All a Misunderstanding requires this.
- "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Needed for the I Know You're In There No-Prize.
- Rivals Team Up: Enemy of My Enemy is earned by having a pair of archnemeses team up against a third party.
Trade Paperbacks
These are more intensive No-Prizes.
- Face–Heel Turn and Heel–Face Turn: Turncoat requires one or the other.
- Jack Kirby: The namesake of the Barrier. Two players have 1 week or less to write a 22 post arc.
My Romance
These are No-Prizes related to dating and relationships.
- Dating Catwoman: Sleeping With the Enemy is earned when a hero dates a villain (or vice versa).
- Outlaw Couple: Bonnie and Clyde is earned when two villains date eachother.
Secret Wars
These are No-Prizes whose triggers are secret.
- Do Not Spoil This Ending: Players who earn them are asked not to reveal the trigger.
