Tropers / Iheartgod 175

"So, here's this idea I was working on.."

The sentence that starts it all.

Contrary to the title, this page is the home to two fanfiction authors and best friends, Iheartgod 175 and Vulaan Kulaas. This intrepid duo, having been friends since around 2015, has too many fandoms they’re interested in and just a little too much time on their hands, but there's no doubt that they share a passion for creating unique, diverse stories-some that might make you laugh and others that might break your heart, though there is a hope spot that peeks through. This shared page is meant to house further details regarding their many stories and the tropes that appear in each one.

WARNING!: Many of the tropes listed below contain spoilers for not only events that have happened in the published stories, but also events in current projects. You have been warned!

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The Writers Themselves

Iheartgod 175

Iheartgod 175

Iheartgod 175 is a fanfic writer who has stated that TV Tropes has ruined her vocabulary on more than one occasion. She has a huge love of animation and two of her favorite animation companies are Creator/Pixar and Hanna-Barbera. Her hobbies include watching various anime, occasionally gaming (Creator/Nintendo games in particular), hanging out with her family, drawing and reading, and arguing with her brothers, but her main pastime is writing stories, both fanfiction and original. She joined Fanfiction in 2012, but didn't post anything until the end of that year. She's also on deviantART, Fiction Press and Tumblr all under the same name. She doesn't mind being your friend, but what'll really make her happy is if you read some of her fanfics and the tropes accompanying them, (most) of which are listed below.

A good majority of her fics take place in cartoons that are for the younger crowd or are long-forgotten kids shows. But don't even think for one minute that her stories are all fluffy or sugary sweet(though there are some with definite happy endings and exist for WAFF). Her stories involve the following things: darker, intricate plots, tragedy, violence, suspense, romance and endings that have to be worked for. Another thing she likes to do is thoroughly develop the characters in her fics (‘’Blazin’ Trails’’ and many of the Hanna-Barbera fics she has written notwithstanding).

These are the following shows, anime and video games she has written for:

• Zula Patrol
• Super Why!
• Fantastic Max
• Iron Chef (the original Japan series; can't be posted on fanfiction, though, due to restrictions)
• Thomas the Tank Engine
• Handy Manny
• Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!
• Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
• Aikatsu! (first season only)
• VeggieTales
• Super Smash Bros.
• My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic
• Various HannaBarbera properties, such as The Huckleberry Hound Show (and its movie), Top Cat, Quick Draw McGraw, Ricochet Rabbit and Droop-a-Long Coyote, Peter Potamus, a few Yogi Bear spin-offs, and Touché Turtle and Dum Dum.
• Sheriff Callie's Wild West
• Odin Sphere
• Love Live! (has yet to be posted, but you'll find some snippets of several WI Ps here).

For more info on her fanfics, you can go to her Fan Fiction page: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/3617402/iheartgod175

Her deviantART page:http://iheartgod175.deviantart.com/

Her FIM Fiction page:http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Rare%20Twinkie

Her Tumblr blog, titled GLORIOUS HORIZONS: http://iheartgod175.tumblr.com/

Tropes that can be applied to her work:

• Abusive Precursors: The plot of The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade is all thanks to the organizations on both Paragor’s planet and Zula conspiring for ultimate power. Paragor getting the powers of a sealed Artifact of Doom and using it to wipe out his father and therefore, dooming his planet to die? According to the evil god that his father supposedly defeated, it was all according to plan. The events that became known as the Dark Days of Zula, where hundreds of thousands of Zuleans died and the Second Dreamscape Crusade took place? You can thank the Order of the Zulean Phoenix for that, because they too had gone away from their original mission and decided that power was more important than the needs of the people.
• Abusive Parents:
  • Chapter 16 ofSuper Readers’ Biggest Adventure reveals that Woofster’s father is this. Because he was born as the runt of the litter, his father singled him out as The Unfavorite, not only openly demeaning him, but encouraging his older siblings to do the same. This, and the fact that he’s had more failures than victories during his early days as a hero in training, have left him with some insecurities that he deals with even as a Super Reader. SRBA Gaiden: Woofster’s Trials, which takes place about a year after the events of the original story, focuses on Woofster confronting his father on his abusive behavior and proving that he has matured and grown past the stigmas cast on him.
    • Chapter 17 reveals that Jackson Flatts aka The Evil Reader also had an abusive father due to his mother dying after his birth, which the older Flatts took out on him.
• The Zula Patrol:
  • The original version of The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade gave us Paragor's father, Paragal I, hereby titled as "Father of the Year". A cold, heartless narcissist, he deliberately used Paragal’s desires to please him to manipulate him into murdering his enemies for political gain, and when he fails, he escalates it to physical abuse. Not only is it revealed that he killed Paragor’s mother and sister to keep usurpers from the throne (or to convince Paragor to overthrow his father’s tyrannical rule), but he also killed Paragor's girlfriend in front of him just to make him suffer. Needless to say, by the time Paragor finally cuts loose on his father, he pretty much deserved it.
  • Bula’s mother. She takes a page out of Yolanda Falconeri’s book and is extremely elitist and classist despite having married into Bula’s family, and adds narcissism to her list of shortcomings. Unlike Yolanda, who became a better person later on, Bula’s mother became even worse, especially when she realized that she couldn’t control him.
  • Blazin’ Trails has no shortage of these, as seen below:
    • This series has no shortage of abusive parents (and arguably the worst of the lot is Drag-a-Long Coyote, listed below on Vulaan Kulaas’ folder), but Salvador’s father, Spike Barnes, the former leader of Red Scorpion, would’ve been the runner up if it weren’t for Drag-a-Long. Redux explains that he killed Salvador’s mother shortly after he was born in order to keep him in the outlaw lifestyle. Sal would eventually become the very thing he feared—a savior of innocents—and punished him for it by emotionally and physically abusing him. When that didn’t work, he takes a page out of Drag-a-Long’s book and had his gang beat Salvador to near death before leaving him in a town where they’d put out a warrant for his arrest, pretty much ensuring he’d be hanged after he recovered. Salvador would be spared from the noose by meeting Roxanne, however, and would later kill his father in a fatal firefight when Red Scorpion attempted to raid another town.
    • Ricochet’s father, Daddy Ricochet. Though not physically abusive, he is emotionally distant and has a my way or the highway attitude that has turned some of his family against him, namely his older son Rudy, who straight up moved to another part of the US to get away from him. He’s also racist towards predators, coyotes drawing his ire in particular, an attitude that rubbed off on Ricochet until he met Droop-a-Long. The senior Ricochet’s attitude hasn’t changed, and it took him a while to accept his son’s friendship with Droop-a-Long because of this. Ricochet is on speaking terms with his father, but just barely—his father’s inability to move forward in spite of his painful past (which includes losing one of his daughters, Rose, to crime) and outright ignoring his nieces has put a huge strain on their relationship. In Redux, however, Ricochet would sever contact with his father for good when he discovered that he tried to have Mireya married off in order to prevent her from becoming a nurse.
    • Denise and Serena’s mother, Yolanda Falconeri, is part of the reason why the family’s dynamic is split. Despite marrying a man who practically came from nothing, she is rather elitist and classist towards those who didn’t meet her standards, and attempted to marry off her children to suitable people against their wishes. She was harsh towards Serena falling for a lower class man (her first husband, Marigold, was a window washer) and Denise for falling in love with both Ricochet (a sheriff who, while coming from an affluent family himself, didn’t meet her standards) and later Droop-a-Long (who not only came from poverty, but was also a completely different species). She was so harsh on Denise, that she forced her to end her relationship with the latter. Even Al Jr, her golden child, isn’t safe from her ire, for he ended up having a one-night stand with, and later dated and married, Ricochet’s sister Rachel, which produced Roxanne. Though part of her behavior stemmed from her desire to not see Denise fall to a life of crime like her sister (and she also felt awful when she learned that Serena’s husband had been murdered), her kids still don’t have the closest relationship with her.
    • Thankfully subverted with Alfonso Falconeri, Jr. & his kids, mostly seen in the reboot. Arrogant and cool he may be, but the man does care for his children a lot. Character Development would see him building a good relationship with his daughter (whose existence he didn’t know about for nearly a decade due to Ricochet’s mother), and he also adopted his nephew, although he admits that he worries for him due to his gunslinger lifestyle. When he discovered that he had children with yet another woman, he did his best to give them a home and even claimed he would legally adopt them. Dude was willing to be publicly dragged through the mud (either literally or figuratively is anyone’s guess) for this.
    • Melissa’s mother, Serena Starkweather, also counts. Disapproving of her daughter being a tomboy, she instilled fear into her by telling her gruesome stories of the Western frontier, and would constantly belittle and demean her for not acting proper and ladylike like her older sister, Eleanor. Even as an older adult and having gone through proper Character Development, Melissa still doesn’t have fond memories of her mother, claiming that if she had let her be who she was as a kid, she would’ve been much happier.
• Adaptational Badass:
  • The Super Readers’ Biggest Adventure series has, well, the Super Readers. Compare the canon Super Readers, who often choose flight over fight, to this story’s Super Readers, who not only engage enemies in combat, but also receive new upgrades that wouldn’t be out of place in a show such as, say, Lyrical Nanoha. Heck, Super Why’s final attack against Chaos is Starlight Breaker, for crying out loud. Word of God states that this was totally intentional.
    • Mother Goose counts in this sense as well. In the cartoon, she’s a motherly matron. SRBA and its sequel establishes her as a Lady of War who was Jeremiah’s mentor, the bane of the Evil Readers’ existence and one of the few people that Chaos would like to specifically avoid.
  • Most of the Hanna-Barbera characters that she writes about, specifically:
    • Any crossover with Hanna-Barbera that involves war/fighting, in which you can expect virtually everyone to become this. The scrapped Knights of Hanabera, which featured a crossover with Odin Sphere, has no shortage of these. The Heroes of Time also features much of the same, though when you’re in a war against the Heartless, it’s kind of expected that you’ll go up a few levels in badassery. And then there’s everyone in the Honkai Impact 3rd/Hanna-Barbera crossover, Eclipsed Horizons, only switch out Heartless with Honkai.
    • Both Ricochet Rabbit and Droop-a-Long Coyote in Blazin’ Trails. Not that Ricochet wasn’t capable of incredible feats in his own series, but in BT, badass might as well be his middle name—he’s practically a living legend, being one of the few sheriffs that can command a deadly outlaw’s respect, and isn’t nicknamed a reckless daredevil for nothing. Droop-a-Long becomes an equally fearsome lawman in his own right, a far cry from being Ricochet’s bumbling sidekick as he was in the original cartoon. And his badassery only increases from there.
    • Badassery is apparently genetic, as Ricochet’s family has no shortage of badasses there, either, most notably his nieces Roxanne (who is training to become a sheriff in her own right, and is much less merciful towards criminals than her uncle) and Mireya (who is training to become one of her deputies. Arguably the biggest one in the family, though, is Ricochet’s namesake, Great-Granddaddy Ricochet, whose monikers among outlaws include Terror of the Rio Grande and Ricochet the Indestructible. Make of that as you will.
    • Quick Draw Mc Graw in most of the stories he appears in, notably in the sequels to The Ghost of Huckleberry Hound. He was famous in the cartoons, though his efforts could be considered less than impressive due to his stupidity. In the fics, he’s not quite as dense and is just as formidable as Ricochet Rabbi in a gunfight, which brought him the rabbit’s respect. And in BT, he’s about as famous as Ricochet, with Word of God stating that between the two of them, Quick Draw truly does have the faster draw.
    • Touché Turtle and Dum-Dum in any fic they appear in, namely the For Love and Glory series and Eclipsed Horizons. In regards to Touché, For Love and Glory his status as the world's most powerful hero for hire isn't simply inferred or for show; this guy, while having made some colossal mistakes during his early days, worked his tail off to get to where he is, and he's even deadlier when he gets his hands on Devilsbane, a powerful holy sword that's hard to control. Eclipsed Horizons has him in the role of Bianka Ataegina aka Durandal. And in BT Redux, he shares a friendly rivalry with Ricochet, as he's one of the few people who can give Ricochet a challenge. As for Dum-Dum, he took a page out of Droop-a-Long’s book and became a proficient swordsman as well as a powerful magic user who can control dragons.
  • The Zula Patrol in pretty much any fic they appear in. As a kids’ show, some moments where characters get the Idiot Ball were to be expected, but one truly wonders how the team, with their habits of falling for Truder’s Paper-Thin Disguise and Deliria’s blatant lies, wound up being so beloved by the galaxy and feared by the villains. In these fics, though? That Idiot Ball basically gets chucked into a black hole, never to be seen again. The team (especially Bula, who’s hinted to be arch rivals with Truder in the original cartoon) has less tolerance for the villains’ BS and take their job of protecting the galaxy a lot more seriously. In fics such as Don’t Leave Me, Dreamscape Crusade and its remake, they prove just why one doesn’t tick off the galaxy’s number one intergalactic police force. And in the upcoming Us Against the Gods (a crossover between Dreamscape Crusade, Super Readers’ Biggest Adventure, The Legend of Zelda, the Dimmed Stars universe and the Mafia Queen universe), their tenacity and ingenuity would earn them the respect of the Pack, who initially avoided them due to Multo’s abilities and the fact that one of the beings they’re fighting came from their world. So yeah. If you read any story of hers that features the Zula Patrol, chances are you’re going to see the entire team go up a few levels in awesomeness.
  • The Thomas/Nanoha crossover, Sodor Magic Crusaders, might as well be a World of Badass. The original scrapped OVA made the similarities between Thomas and Nanoha even more apparent.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Often featured in her Hanna-Barbera stories, as seen below.
  • Augustus “Gus” Holiday in the Honkai Impact 3rd/Hanna-Barbera crossover, Eclipsed Horizons. Like a few other characters, Gus got handed the JerkassBall in this fic, but unlike most characters, not only does he get called out for it, but also gets some good character development. In the original cartoon, he’s similar to his predecessors Fred Flintstone and George Jetson in that he’s a well-meaning guy and father who happens to suffer mishaps due to a combination of bad luck and his own schemes. Eclipsed Horizons plays up his Deadpan Snarker tendencies and his scheming nature, not to mention makes him elitist, believing that Rome would come out on top in the war against the Honkai. Even after the second Honkai Impact (known during the Modern Roman age as the Infernal Collision) made him quickly eat his words, he still tried to downplay the issue—that is until his son, Happius, expressed interest in joining the army to become an Einherji. Gus became irate and tried to stop him, but to no avail. Upon learning that Venice was one of the few cities that were granted exemption from the draft, Gus decided to sell a few commodities to earn enough denarii to put on a down payment on an apartment there—said commodities ended up being his wife’s grandmother’s rings and the family’s beloved family pet, Brutus, whom he sold while his family was out on business—and didn't even tell his family about it until his scummy landlord, Evictus, decided to reveal his plot. His response when his wife and kids rightfully call him out on this? I Did What I Had to Do. Following a series of Laser-Guided Karma incidents (including getting fired from his job and later evicted from his apartment, while in jail, no less), he came to realize that he was wrong, made up with his family (and explained the reason why he was so desperate to save Hap), and decided to join his son in training, thus starting his path on becoming a straighter hero during the rest of the story, though eventually, he becomes a Tragic Hero later on.
    • And on the topic of the Roman Holidays, their landlord, Evictus, also counts. In the cartoon, he was already a Jerkass with little to no redeeming qualities (one episode, “Father of the Year” mentions that they had to use a microscope to find any good qualities in Evictus). In Eclipsed Horizons, he straight up becomes a Disney villain who decides to turn a profit in the middle of a horrendous conflict. He even laughs at the very concept of a Moral Event Horizon. From tripling his tenants’ rent due to “hard times” (he quadruples the rent of one of his tenants, a single father who lost his son, stating, “Death isn’t cheap, you know!”), to coming to Gus to congratulate him on getting rid of Brutus, while his family was within earshot, just to see the Holidays’ reactions, to coming to the jail cell where Gus is being held to evict him then and there because he “doesn’t deal with criminals”, it’s easy to see why Evictus became the most hated man in Rome. He does get some Laser-Guided Karma for his actions, though: the grieving father in question nearly hands Evictus his ass on a platter, Gus’ boss, Tycoonius (who is also a Jerkass) calls him out on his BS, and Gus punches Evictus in the face when Evictus insulted Laurie in front of him.
  • Top Cat got hit with this hard in the original version of The Heroes of Time. Though Word of God states that he wasn’t intended to become another Riku, TC was, for all intents and purposes, certainly heading this route and worse. T.C. in canon isn't a saint, but he was capable to doing good things and even feeling remorse for some of his scummier actions. In this fic, his smarmy nature didn’t really endear him to anybody aside from Quick Draw, and he formed an intense rivalry with Huckleberry Hound, though they became Vitriolic Best Buds near the end.During the final arc of the original fic, The Dark Keyblade arc, it was revealed that T.C. effectively caused the end of the Hanna-Barbera universe because he opened the Door of Darkness due to his coveting the power of the Keyblade, but he didn’t remember the details until later on, believing it to be a fever dream. Oh, and when he finally realized that this happened because of him, does he come clean about it? Nope. In fact, he didn’t feel the need to mention this to anybody until during the Dark Keyblade arc—and by then, though some of the worlds have been restored, many of them and their inhabitants have been completely corrupted, including some of the gang’s closest friends and family. To say he got hit with some major consequences is putting it lightly—his teammates call him out on this and Huckleberry Hound hauled off on him, nearly killing him in the process. It’s unknown if this will be prevalent in Re MIX, or will be completely retconned, but yeah. To say that TC was a bit of a jerk is a major understatement.
  • Dick Dastardly in any fic he appears in, especially if he’s the main villain. Not that he was a particularly nice individual to begin with, but in these fics, it seems that his nastiness is ramped up to eleven.
    • On a minor note, Sylvester Sneekly (of The Perils of Penelope Pitstop fame) and Stinky Dalton (from The Good, the Bad and Huckleberry Hound) also count.
  • Hokey Wolf in several fics where he appears, although he tends to fall into Adaptational Villainy. In canon, he is a smarmy con man with a heart of gold. In a few fics such as the upcoming The Blue Fur, he’s a lot nastier, viewing people as dollar signs and placing little value on their lives. In the upcoming project The Celestials' Guardian, he’s basically a miniature Otto Apocalypse, with a bit of Isaac Westcott, who seeks to use the Celestial Warriors’ powers for his own personal gain and will kill anybody—ally or adversary, guilty or innocent—for his goal.
    • Huckleberry Hound himself was hit with this in that story as well, although it's a Justified Trope due to his intense rivalry with Reaper (Ricochet Rabbit) and how the death of Clementine at Reaper's hands (and how Ricochet's sister's death at his own hands) really messed him up.
  • Ricochet Rabbit in most of the fics he appears in, namely Blazin’ Trails. In the cartoon, he is a nice person, though he’s got a bit of a hot temper, a large ego and a trickster nature. BT features him having no concept of a filter—he’ll let you know what he thinks of a situation, regardless of how you feel about it—and it also features him being prejudiced towards coyotes in one of the opening shorts. Thankfully, he disavowed the latter due to his friendship with Droop-a-Long and his family, and while he’s still a nice person, his brutal honesty and hotheadedness are two vices one has to get used to when dealing with him. Eclipsed Horizons also features him as a bit of an arrogant jerk—makes sense, since he’s supposed to be the Kiana Kaslana of the story—but like the character he stands in for, he does get better.
  • Touché Turtle in the For Love and Glory series. In the original cartoon, he was somewhat arrogant, but still overall a nice guy. In this series, his pride is taken up to eleven, and greed is also added on as a vice of his, as he originally did good deeds not because he liked to, but because the greatest deed got him the most cash. Similar to Gus Holiday above, he got hit with some Laser-Guided Karma when his rival ratted him out to his mentor, Harebrain Hare; when Harebrain died, he went back to the same thing and got the living crap beat out of him after pissing off the wrong heroes. He also says some pretty harsh things to Dum-Dum and is known for his Brutal Honesty, as well as a short temper. He does come out of it later, though, and becomes a straighter hero throughout the course of the series, but these are a few vices one has to deal with when working with him, as Dum-Dum can attest to.
  • Sodor Magic Crusaders:
    • James, Gordon and Henry, the Big Three, are bigger jerks here than they are in canon, with Gordon and James’ arrogance being more apparent than anything. Doesn’t help that they’re the villains for the first series, and even when they’re on the good side, their arrogance and gloating are things one has to get used to.
    • Diesel.
  • The Zula Patrol:
    • Zeeter in some of her fics, who still has her hot-dogging go-getter attitude, but also has a lack of a filter, which can get her in trouble with both Bula and Multo. She’s still got a heart of gold though.
    • The same can’t be said about Dark Truder, who in a few fics is a bit more of a threat and nastier than he is in canon, although he draws a line on how nasty he wants to be.
• Adaptational Nice Guy:
  • Top Cat in most of the Hanna-Barbera fics he appears in. His canon portrayal features him as a con man with a heart of gold, though the series never shied away from his more selfish traits. Now granted, his general smartassery and selfishness hasn’t been erased from the fics (in fact, they seem to be amped whenever Trixie or Officer Dibble is around), but he’s much nicer than he is in canon and sometimes fills in as the team’s fatherly figure in any fics where he has an active leader role. This is most prevalent in The Return of the Phantom Empire, and even shows up a bit in The Heroes of Time, but the Honkai x Hanna-Barbera crossover, Eclipsed Horizon, makes this even more apparent. Him joining the Einherjar (the story’s equivalent of Valkyries in H I3rd) on the condition that his gang is taken care of by the Hanabera Academy and kept out of the crossfire was a given (and naturally, he does take his cut of the money), but his being partnered up with Dibble and later avenging the latter’s death, as well as becoming an active teacher/captain of the main team and sacrificing himself to save Ricochet was NOT. Then again, given that his role here is that of Murata Himeko, maybe it shouldn’t be so much of a surprise.
  • Hokey Wolf in The Ghost of Huckleberry Hound universe. While he’s still the lovable scamming rogue, his imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Daltons have both humbled and instilled a sense of responsibility in him, and he takes his role as mayor much more seriously.
  • Punkin’ Puss in most of the Hanna-Barbera fics he’s featured in, specifically in Temporary Truce and Big City Tabby. The original cartoon took the Cats Are Mean trope up to eleven with Punkin’, whose stated to have practically no redeeming qualities within the show proper. Here, he’s shown to be capable of kindness (although like Top Cat, he’s not afraid to exploit others for his own selfish gain) and empathy for others. It’s all but stated that part of the reason he acts so ornery is because he’s afraid of getting close to others, as he’s very familiar with the taste of betrayal.
• Adaptational Villainy:
  • Dark Truder and Deliria in a few of her fics. Truder isn’t as goofy as he is in canon, and in a few fics will go out of his way to cause trouble for the Zula Patrol, while Deliria’s casual disregard for the environment is more malicious here. The main difference between the two is that Truder does have some kind of moral code, however skewed it may be.
    • Both versions of The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade is probably the best example of this trope. They weren't really good people to begin with in the cartoon proper, and that’s somewhat noticeable in the original story, but the original version featured them teaming up with the Zula Patrol when the Dreamscapers' plans put them in the crossfire. The Remastered version features Truder actively trying to kill the Zula Patrol and actively hinder their case in getting justice for Multo, while Deliria decides to join with the Dreamscapers and becomes their biggest donor during their war on Zula.
• A Day in the Limelight: A lot of her stories focus on characters/series that aren't that well-known, have small roles in their respective shows, or are hated by the audience.
• Adorkable:
  • Super Readers' Biggest Adventure gives us Whyatt, Pig and Woofster. Alpha Pig is a shy, sweet kid, Whyatt tends to be this when he's nervous, and Woofster is an excitable, dorky nerd who loves to randomly define words. Red who possesses a shy side underneath her tough nature (particularly around Whyatt), also counts.
  • Multo in several other of her Zula Patrol fanfics, especially if he's trying to impress Zeeter.
  • Bob the Tomato in her Veggie Tales fics, namely Hugs and Kisses and both versions of Best Friends Forever. He's his normal self until someone brings up Madame Blueberry, and he gets very shy, very quickly.
  • Deputy Peck in most of her Sheriff Callie fics, namely You've Got My Attention. Most praise tends to inflate his ego, but his shy side comes up whenever Callie is around.
    • Callie herself in some of her fics, which is most apparent in the Time After Time collection. Callie is secretly a romantic at heart, and though she doesn’t show it outwardly, certain actions that Peck does makes her heart skip a beat.
  • On the Hanna-Barbera side of things:
    • Droop-a-Long Coyote is this in Blazin' Trails and a few of the modern-day stories that focus on him and Ricochet. He's a sweet guy who's clumsy, shy, loves kids and small animals, and tends to be easily embarrassed—compliments and especially sly remarks tend to bring about a Luminescent Blush. In the modern day fics, he has a love of video games, and even writes fanfiction. In either universe, however, he remains clueless about this. Then again, he’s blind to every girl except Denise.
    • Ricochet himself has a dorky, shy side, but it hardly appears unless he's either excited about something, or whenever someone makes him embarrassed. Bringing up his romantic relationships, for example, will often result in Ricochet becoming embarrassed. Bringing up something he enjoys, such as the romance novels in "Guilty Pleasure", or his love of western films and Hollywood in Acting the Part, will often result in Ricochet going full-on fanboy mode. It's even more adorable when he tries to keep himself under control.
    • Blabbermouse in any short he appears in. He’s often portrayed as a Lovable Coward with a sense of naïveté, and loves to tease Snooper. One can’t help but want to hug him.
    • Dum-Dum in any fic he appears in, but he was particularly huggable in the For Love and Glory series, especially around Catalina. Similar to Blabbermouse above, he’s often portrayed as a Lovable Coward and a lovable idiot.
• Adult Fear:
  • The Fantastic Max one-shot Parental Instinct and its remake, A Father’s Instinct, establishes Kid Amidst the Chaos and Death of a Child as A.B. Sitter’s motivations for continually nagging Max about his safety. Despite all the headaches that the toddler gives him, he didn’t hesitate to run into a burning spaceship to save the toddler, even it if meant having to deal with the arrogant plumber who took him apart or (in the remake) going full on Papa Wolf on the alien who caused Max’s ship to catch fire. In the original, Max assures him that he has no need to fear because he knows that A.B. will always protect the tyke regardless. And in the remake, Max explains that though the nanny can be a stick in the mud, he is the closest thing he has to a father. Awww...
  • Pa Grape in Here For A Reason lost one of his nephews in a shooting when he was younger, so naturally, he is fiercely protective of his biological kids.
  • Blazin’ Trails:
    • The Only One I Can Trust, which is set in an Alternate Universe, features Droop-a-Long worrying about being a good influence on Bucky, Ricochet’s son, who was entrusted to him after the sheriff dies. In the original story, he didn’t have this happen, but in Redux, he had to deal with a few Red Scorpion members kidnapping Denise, as well as one of his children being kidnapped by an outlaw. Poor Droopy can’t catch a break.
    • Ricochet Rabbit is also hit with some pretty hard ones in the series, which is made apparent in Redux. His reluctance to settle down, while normally Played for Laughs, is brought into a different perspective when one remembers that he doesn’t handle death well at all, especially if it’s a close family member or young children. It’s why he’s so protective of Droop-a-Long as well as his numerous younger family members (especially Roxanne and Mireya), because his greatest fear is losing more family to his line of work. In the movie The Kid with No Name and the arc that follows, this conflict is what keeps him from adopting Droop’s half-breed nephew, the titular outlaw, whom he not only named, but becomes a affectionate father figure towards. He does put this aside to adopt him, followed by marrying Melissa and having several children with her, but this fear still plagues him at times.
    • This appears to be hereditary, as his great-grandfather, Ricochet Rabbit I, had a fear of losing his best friends to crime. This was due to the gruesome murder of Olivier Coyote (which he witnessed), his senior deputy and best friend. Throughout the rest of his career, although he had a lot of deputies, he did a lot of his missions solo or with his own family (in fact, he kept Olivier’s badge, not wanting to pin it on another man), and was unable to speak about Olivier without breaking down, a sign that he never truly recovered from the loss.
  • Eclipsed Horizons’ Chapter Extras and its Flame-Chasers of Valhalla arc revealed Gus Holiday’s greatest fear: any of his children to predecease him. While this is any parent’s worst nightmare, and is heightened during times of war (especially if it were to involve otherworldly forces), Gus’ memories of his father experiencing this very same thing was the catalyst behind his actions described in Adaptational Jerkass. Twenty-five years before the start of the Holidays’ story, Gus’ older brother Antonius, who was his father’s pride and joy, died in combat at the age of 28, a week before Rome’s neighboring enemies surrendered and before he was supposed to get married to his high school sweetheart. His father, Lucius, despite claiming Antony died for the glory of Rome, was absolutely devastated by his oldest son’s death and was inconsolable. Two days later, at Antony’s funeral, Lucius poisoned himself by downing a cup of wine that he’d spiked with arsenic beforehand, leaving his younger son to bury him two days later. Combine that with the deaths of Hap’s classmates, and one couldn’t really fault him for being so desperate, though it doesn’t excuse everything he did—in fact, a few people didn’t hesitate to point out how his reaction might have pushed his family further away rather than bring them together. Even worse for Gus is that his worst fears would be realized when Happius, who was sucked into the Imaginary Space along with him but got separated, was never found and was reported dead when Gus returned to Rome, and his daughter Precocia would meet a similar fate to Jane Jetson years later when she died defending her father from the Honkai.
• A Father to His Men:
  • Multo in any Zula Patrol fic he appears in, though this was most apparent in Don’t Leave Me and the remastered version of The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade. In both of these fics, he’s older than Bula and Zeeter (and in the remastered version, he tutored both of them, with Bula being a remedial student), and held a status as a professor before transferring to the Zula Patrol. Despite his absent-minded tendencies and his Lethal Chef habits, there’s no denying that the team as a whole respect him. It’s taken further in Remastered, where it’s revealed that he adopted Wizzy and Wigg after their parents died, and treated them like his own children.
  • Donkirk, surprisingly, in The Return of the Phantom Empire. For all his vileness, the guy cares about what happens to everyone in his army, particularly his subordinates, Rokusaburo and Yutaka. According to Donkirk himself, his care for troubled human beings is pretty much the only human part of him that remains.
  • Top Cat in most of the fics featuring him and the Alley Gang, especially in The Return of the Phantom Empire, The Heroes of Time, and the Honkai Impact 3rd/Hanna-Barbera crossover, Starward Horizon. Rather fitting, since he was implied to be this in the original series. Charlie Dibble is this to the gang sometimes, and even to Huck and company, much to Top Cat’s chagrin.
  • A.B. Sitter in her Fantastic Max fics, specifically A Father’s Instinct. He all but calls Max his son, and Max, though annoyed by his antics, admits that he’s the closest thing to a father he has.
  • Mario is implied to be this to much of the Smashers in both Acceptance and the original draft of Fiery Heart, Broken Soul. Some people even teased him about it, claiming that he’s acting like a middle-aged dad.
  • Peppy Hare, naturally, in any fic he appears in, specifically Fiery Heart, Broken Soul, and the Sonic the Hedgehog/Star Fox crossover, “The Azure Flash”, which is really a crossover between Star Fox and Vulaan Kulaas’ Attero Dominatus series. In the latter, he’s more successful in gaining Sonic’s trust than the rest of the Star Fox team, and even helps Fox and Slippy approach the abused hedgehog easier.
  • The For Love and Glory series has Sebastian Liévre, aka. Harebrain Hare, Touché's mentor. In addition to being a Badass Grandpa, he worked hard to lead by example (although sometimes it wasn't always great due to his Leeroy Jenkins tendencies), took time to patiently teach his pupils about character, and viewed his favorite pupils as sons; he was actually a father himself, as noted by Touché. He had his shortcomings (including his tendencies to hold intense grudges, could be incorrigible at times, and was also somewhat of a womanizer), but there was a reason why many of his students referred to him as their second father. Touché certainly viewed him as such, which is why his brutal death at the hands of the Black Knight grieved him for years.
  • R.O.B. in Redemption. After the president left all of the R.O.B.s in a warehouse, this particular R.O.B. took care of them for over twenty years. It's said that he loved them like his children, and that feeling was reciprocated. When Tabuu started blowing up the R.O.B.s after he refused to help him destroy the multiverse, R.O.B. went Papa Wolf and did manage to burn Tabuu before he got blown up. His fellow R.O.B.s lvoed him so much that they agree to join the Subspace Army on the condition that Tabuu revive him.
• Affectionate Nickname:
  • In Blazin' Trails, Droop-a-Long's most common nickname is "Droop", although you'll often find people calling him by the more affectionate "Droopy", which is used by Ricochet, Denise (the latter being Droop's girlfriend), a few townspeople he gets along with, and his family. This is one of many nods to the original Ricochet Rabbit and Droop-a-Long cartoons where Ricochet actually does call Droop-a-Long "Droopy" on occasion.
    • Ricochet's most common nickname is "Ric" (although sometimes it's spelled as "Rick"), used by his friends (minus Droop, who sometimes calls him by his actual name instead of "Mr. Ricochet")and his siblings. The more affectionate "Ricky" is often used by girls he's had romantic relationships with, as well as by his mother.
  • In the H-B universe, Ricochet Rabbit is The Nicknamer, so he usually has a pet name for people he's close to; Droop-a-Long, Melissa and Lucky's case notwithstanding, he nicknames Quick Draw "Q.D." (and it's said that he's the only person who does), Punkin' Puss as "P.P.", and Peter Potamus as "Pete" or "Petey". In one story, he nicknames Super Snooper as "Snoopy" as a joke, and in BT Redux, he nicknames Touché “Tooshy” (which is Edith’s pet name for him), which the latter takes in stride.
  • Punkin' Puss is often nicknamed "Punk" by friends and enemies. An affectionate version of this name, "Punky", exists. Oddly enough, it's used mostly by Mushmouse, although whether he's using it as a genuine affectionate statement or to get on the cat's nerves varies. Susie Mc Stomp also uses this nickname as a genuine nickname, though.
  • In the stories that feature Huckleberry Hound and Desert Flower, Huck's affectionate nickname for Desert Flower is "Dezie", while hers for him is "Huckie".
  • Hugs and Kisses has Bob hit with the name "Hairless" by his older brother Andrew (due to being the only member of his family who doesn't have hair), although for him it's more of an Embarrassing Nickname. Madame Blueberry nicknames him “Bobbie” when they eventually start dating, while he calls her “Gen” (short for her real name, Geneva).
  • For Love and Glory: Dum-Dum nicknames Touché "Toosh", while the terrapin nicknames the sheepdog Dum. Similar to the Blazin' Trails example above, this is also a Call-Back to the original Touché Turtle cartoons, where they actually call each other these on occasion.
    • Sebastian’s personal nickname for Touché was ‘’ petit tortue’’, which is French for “little turtle”. Edith also calls Touché this on occasion, but also the more affectionate “Tooshy”, especially when they start dating. Touché meanwhile, calls her “Edy”.
• A God Am I:
  • Chaos in Super Readers' Biggest Adventure believes that he is one, oh so very much.
  • Paragal I in The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade after he reveals that he is far from the decorated hero that he was in the past. And due to absorbing a power that could test a power said to create the universe, he may not be too far off the mark. His son, Paragor, soon follows in his footsteps later down the line.
  • Tabuu in Redemption. He believes that he should be the one in control of the universe rather than Master Hand because of his powers, which far exceed Master Hand's, which inspired him to trap Master Hand and Crazy Hand and bring about the Subspace Emissary. He also has this attitude in Fiery Heart, Broken Soul as well.
• Alas, Poor Scrappy: He's really more of a Base Breaker, but you can't help but feel sad that the annoying dog from Duck Hunt, who was really just a Nice Guy after all (albeit with a mischievous streak), got shot by the hunters, who represent what every player has hoped to do for years.
  • R.O.B., another Base Breaker in Super Smash Bros. and considered by many to be The Scrappy, is actually blown apart by Tabuu after refusing to help him cause the end of the multiverse, and then he ends up feeling regret and remorse when Ganondorf overrides the system on his fellow R.O.B.s, and then he is forced to leave them behind as the Subspace Bombs detonate.
• Alternate Universe Fic: Unless otherwise stated, most of her fics are this.
  • The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade takes place in a universe that's filled with more fantasy and sci-fi elements than in the original cartoon.
  • Super Readers' Biggest Adventure. In addition to creating an alternate introduction for Woofster (the author has stated that at the time of its writing, she hadn't seen Woofster's introduction episode), the story itself involves more fantasy elements that were clearly inspired by series such as Lyrical Nanoha and fight scenes that wouldn't be out of place in Dragon Ball.
  • A lot of her Hanna-Barbera fanfictions often expand the cartoon series, but most are this. Her fics for Huckleberry Hound/Desert Flower and Top Cat/Trixie take place in her "Modern Times" universe that features the characters in our time. Mirror, Mirror takes place in a modern-day fantasy, a rarity for a Top Cat fic.
  • Blazin' Trails is officially this to the original Ricochet Rabbit cartoon, though it wasn’t made clear in the beginning. The series often expands on the cartoon, including characters from the episodes and the inconsistencies featured in the show (such as T Vs and cars, which of course weren't in the West). There are some A Us within this AU, namely in the form of "What-If" scenarios (ie. if either Ricochet or Droop-a-Long died, if Ricochet hadn't left Denise at the altar, etc.).
• Anger Born of Worry: Often of the non-romantic variety.
  • In the Blazin' Trails short, Taking the Bullet, Droop-a-Long prevents an attempt on Ricochet's life by, well, Taking the Bullet for the sheriff. Thankfully, he doesn't die, but the event scars Ricochet for a long time. He attempts to keep his cool, but in reality he's very angry at not only Droop-a-Long for putting himself in danger, but at himself for not paying attention to his surroundings. After Droop-a-Long's stay in the hospital is up, Ricochet later lashes out at Droop-a-Long because of all the worry and anger that had been gnawing at him for weeks. Droop-a-Long then explains that he did it because he would never forgive himself if Ricochet died because he was too slow to stop the assassin, and that he'd take a bullet for him because Ricochet's his best friend. Awww...
  • A similar incident happens in the third chapter For Love and Glory, in which Dum-Dum appears to be dead after getting a knife thrown into his side by the Black Knight. After killing the Black Knight, Touché weeps over Dum-Dum's body...only for the dog to get up and sneeze loudly afterwards, revealing that he'd been playing dead the whole time. Cue a very angry Touché smacking him in the head with his fencing foil, and yelling at him to never do it again. He later admits to Dum-Dum in another conversation that it was his worry for him that led to him to consider retiring.
• The Atoner:
  • Lexicon and Jackson Flatts—formerly the Evil Reader—become this at the end of Super Readers' Biggest Adventure and continue on in the SRBA Gaiden series, culminating in Chaos' Revenge.
  • R.O.B. in Redemption. In fact, it's mentioned as being the only reason why he was allowed back in the tournament in the first place, as he wanted to make up for causing the Subspace Emissary.
  • Touché Turtle is this in For Love and Glory. After all the mistakes he made during his period of being a Jerkass, the turtle aims to make up for the wrongs he did and become a straighter hero throughout his life.
  • King Edmund in A King's Oath vowed to become a good king per Cornelius' wishes. Too bad he doesn't get to live long enough to keep his promise.
• Author Appeal:
  • If the contents of this page weren’t apparent, she loves Dark Fic. A lot. To the point where she references it some times in the author’s notes.
  • Improbable crossovers, such as Thomas the Tank Engine/Lyrical Nanoha (Sodor Magic Crusaders), Hanna-Barbera/virtually anything (Honkai, Kingdom Hearts, Odin Sphere, Another Eden, etc.), seem to also be right up her alley as well.
  • If the entries on her Fan Fiction.Net profile are anything to go by, she has a love of old obscure cartoons/TV shows, and occasionally references them in her works. Or alternately, makes a whole fan fic to bring awareness to it.
  • She enjoys creating strong female characters—some of whom are intended to be love interests, but others who stand alone on their own two feet and don’t necessarily need a man. This is especially apparent in her Hanna-Barbera fics; in the canon proper, female characters that aren’t the Satellite Love Interest are few and in-between, but in her stories, you can expect not only women being featured, but also being just as badass as the men they work alongside.
  • Five words: Took a Level in Badass. Particularly evident in worlds where war isn’t common (ie. Super Why, Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!, Thomas the Tank Engine, etc.) or in worlds where nonviolence is used (ie. The Zula Patrol), you can expect practically EVERYONE to become a bit badass. In her Hanna-Barbera fics, such as Blazin’ Trails and For Love and Glory, it’s usually the foil to the main hero who becomes more badass as the story progresses, while not completely overshadowing their more competent friends.
  • Creating villains you can't possibly root for that always get what they deserve. Or alternately, certain villains getting redeemed, but suffering punishment for their actions and later becoming The Atoner.
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners also seems to be a huge thing in her stories as well, if Blazin’ Trails and Born for Adversity were of any indication.
  • She also loves magical girls, so you can expect a few to crop up as original characters from time to time.
  • Mythology and relics, specifically mythical swords and heroes, is another huge love of hers—specifically, Norse, Celtic, African, Native American and Japanese/Chinese mythology. Super Readers’ Biggest Adventure was the first to include its own series of relics, which was inspired by Arthurian legend, and would also feature Biblical references as the series progressed. For Love and Glory would take some cues from both Kingdom Hearts and Symphogear in regards to the heirlooms that both Touché and Dum-Dum wield—Word of God stated that this was intended to be a joke, but the idea was so fun it was left in.
• Ax-Crazy:
  • Eddie Russell and Julian Maverick in Hugs and Kisses are about as crazy as one can get for a VeggieTales fic. Their plan was to destroy Big Idea from the inside by destroying their successful formula and fire people (or in Eddie's case, threaten people with physical harm). It's when the Big Idea staff throws Eddie in prison for his actions (which included attacking Bob) that they really start getting nasty. Both of them tried to kill the Big Idea crew: Eddie reprogramming one of their props and setting it loose, and Julian deciding to destroy Big Idea and everything that Bob ever loved, including Madame Blueberry, who he planned to kill in revenge for ruining his plans. Thankfully, both of their plans were halted, although Whispers in the Wind gives a look at what would've happened if they'd succeeded.
  • Paragor in The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade and Remastered is this underneath his Affably Evil nature. In the original, he made the Zula Patrol believe that Multo died, killed several Zuleans (and almost killed Bula), kidnapped Zeeter to force Bula to listen to him, and trapped Bula, Bonnie and Gorga in an alternate world where Multo is evil and everyone they know is dead. And this is all during the main story; his backstory involves him committing patricide, dooming his planet to die at the hands of their enemies, and making a deal with the most dangerous being in the galaxy to achieve ultimate power. Heck, his entire goal is to subject everyone on Zula to a Fate Worse than Death by trapping them in their worst nightmares. Remastered adds on brainwashing a group of female warriors to become his loyal army by rejecting their humanity, as well as attempting to throw his oldest friend under the bus for a war that he started in order to justify his war on Zula.
    • The other villains in this fic aren't slouches in this department either: his father, Paragal I was driven mad with power, openly abused his son and emotionally manipulated him into accepting it, and not only killed Paragor's fianceé, but also killed his wife and unborn son; Vuva was a tyrant who slaughtered people for the slightest offence; Multo I was driven mad with grief over the death of his first love, and caused so much chaos and disorder on Zula he had to be put out of his misery; and Ignis is a machine who was formerly an alien and was in love with her king, so much that she murdered his consort, causing the king's insanity in the first place. And let's not even start on the alternate Multo...
  • Everyone in the Phantom Empire, specifically Rokusaburo, who's specifically mentioned to be a Psycho for Hire. Yutaka and Donkirk appear to be calmer, which almost makes you forget that he’s taking sadistic pleasure in torturing Top Cat and his crew, as well as Snerdly. Yutaka himself has had moments where he’s lost it, and in that state, he’s just as—or even more—dangerous than Rokusaburo.
  • Blazin' Trails features several nasty pieces of work:
    • Spike Barnes, the former leader of Red Scorpion and Drag-a-Long’s second-in-command. Though coolheaded in contrast to Drag-a-Long, the horned lizard is a cruel, cold-blooded mastermind and murderer who won’t hesitate to throw his subordinates or even his boss under the bus in order to get ahead. Originally a deputy US Marshal, Spike’s dissatisfaction with the law he upheld led to him joining forces with the leader of Red Scorpion, Solomon Newcomb. Spike would pay the diamondback for his loyalty by murdering him in his sleep with an axe, giving rise to his nickname Cutthroat, and from there, he hasn’t looked back.
  • The Black Knight/ Jean-Claude in For Love and Glory. The first hint he was this was how he casually mocks Touché's dead mentor and sidekick to his face. The second hint was his brutal murder of Sebastian Lièvre/Harebrain Hare, Touché's mentore, and how he almost killed Touché. The third was when he crossed the Moral Event Horizon and not only seemingly killed Dum-Dum and laughed about it (which sent Touché on the warpath), but when Touché unmasked him, he showed no remorse for his actions, stating that he did it all to make Touché break.
  • Mose in Temporary Truce and its sequel, A Hillcat’s Requiem. This cat actually strikes fear into Punkin’ Puss, a well known ornery critter, for the way he deals with and captures mice. Let that sink in for a moment. And he’s even worse in Blazin’ Trails.
  • Yohane in Love Live! Avenging Idol Project has no regards for human life, kidnapped her childhood friend and turned her into her personal demon, hurt Ruby and also converted Riko into a demon as well.
    • And on the µ's side, we have Nico, who went full-on Darth Vader and killed people who were "threats" to µ's, only to become more crazy as time went on.
    • Both of them are nothing comapred to The Idol, the Bigger Bad of the fic. She is the one who manipulated the destruction of µ's by bringing Nico to her side, convincing her to betray µ's and kill off their "threats" (which included idols from other universes), turned Yoshiko into Yohane, and is behind the destruction of both Otonokizaka and Uranohoshi.
• Bad Boss:
  • Timothy in You've Got My Attention, especially towards Esmeralda, who he's had a prior relationship with. Unlike most of the bosses on this list, he likes to manipulate and threaten his underlings to do what he wishes; it's only when they refuse to under those methods that he resorts to violence.
  • Zigzagged with Julian in The Very Veggie Romance series. He's the calm to Eddie's storm, but he's known to be just as volatile (or even moreso) than his raging employee.
  • Urzur the Conqueror in Future of Wuzzleburg, in addition to being a very cruel human being, is not kind to his subordinates; in one chapter, he practically sends one of them on what's basically a suicide mission to capture Murphy.
• Bad Future:
  • The future Wuzzleburg in Future of Wuzzleburg, due to humans taking over and ruling everything. It gets so bad, Murphy, the main character, decided to go back in time and Set Right What Once Went Wrong.
  • Super Readers' Biggest Adventure had Chaos present Whyatt a vision of what the future would look like if he continued to fight him, resulting in the deaths of all the Super Readers and the end of the fairytale world. Thankfully, this was averted by his defeat.
  • Paragor's entire goal is to create this for everyone in the universe in The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade. One of the alternate universes he created is literally running on the power of despair, and another involved one of the members of the Zula Patrol going evil, killing almost everyone on Zua and later going almost completely insane.
• Bad Guy Bar: The Black Hat in Mysterious Gathering, as well as The Raw Onion in Hugs and Kisses.
• The Bad Guy Wins: Sometimes pops up in her stories, and in order to discourage people from Rooting for the Empire, the bad guys are really nasty so that you feel the same way she does: the bad guys get exactly what they deserve in the end. Specific examples appear below.
  • The entire point of Future of Wuzzleburg is to prevent this from happening. The Emperor ( revealed to be Urzur) has taken over the world twenty years in the future and has made everyone in future Wuzzleburg miserable, driving Murphy to go back in time to Set Right What Once Went Wrong.
  • Also, it's the main point of Super Mario Bros.: The Darkside Chronicles. Bowser succeeds in taking over the Mushroom Kingdom, defeats Mario, exiles Luigi and marries the princess. And things only go From Bad to Worse after that.
  • Paragor's goal (or rather, the prophecy) states this in Dreamscape Crusade.
• Benevolent Boss:
  • Bula in virtually any Zula Patrol fic he appears in. While he’s the type to get the job done and doesn’t want to hear any complaints, he loves and cares for the Zula Patrol like family. Heaven help you if you do anything to hurt them.
  • Duke in Sodor Magic Crusaders, coupled with being A Father to His Men. He’s a stickler for the rules and is known for wanting things done in a certain way, but the entire crew loves him and will literally die for him. Charlie mentions that he’s the closest thing to a father that he has, as does Edward, who is close to being his age.
  • Bob in Hugs and Kisses. He's still a no-nonsense kind of guy, but he genuinely cares for each and everyone of his friends, who he views as a family. Similar to Bula, you’d better not do anything to hurt any of them in his presence.
  • Donkirk, surprisingly, in The Return of the Phantom Empire. For all his vileness, the guy cares about what happens to everyone in his army, particularly his subordinates, Rokusaburo and Yutaka. According to Donkirk himself, his care for troubled human beings is pretty much the only human part of him that remains of his original personality.
• Berserk Button: In most of her stories, it is a VERY BAD IDEA to go around hurting the main characters' friends/love interests/families. You will get hurt. Examples by fan fic:
  • Super Readers' Biggest Adventure:
    • Hurting the Super Readers' loved ones is a sure fire way to ensure that the Super Readers will come after you. Just ask Alpha Pig, who chewed out Lexicon for calling his father a mindless slave and got his new powers. Or Princess Presto, who also managed to hand the Evil Reader a solid one after her father took on an attack meant for her. And if you mess with any of them, they will come after you, and it won’t end well for you. Wonder Red, who gave the Evil Reader a brutal beat down for thrashing her friends, intends to make sure her enemies know this very, very well.
    • Don't ever say that you are more powerful than the Evil Reader. He will gladly prove you wrong.
    • As the High Cleric learned, DO NOT kill anybody Lexicon loves. It didn't end well for them.
  • Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!: Future of Wuzzleburg:
    • The citizens of Future Wuzzleburg don't really care for humans, but virtually everyone hates Urzur the Conqueror. Mention his name to a crowd and you'll either get stares of horror or you'll get beaten to death. Given who he is, you can't blame them for being too mad, but some people will go overboard. Case in point: Chef Spitz, in a fit of Unstoppable Rage, beat the everloving tar out of Past Urzur simply because the guy was standing there with Wubbzy and the others.
    • Hurting any of Wubbzy-2's loved ones, especially the ones he hasn't seen in goodness knows how many years, is going to be the last thing you ever do. Breaking the laws of the city of Scotsburg is an equally bad idea.
  • Sodor Magic Crusaders:
    • Charlie does NOT take kindly to towns getting destroyed, since a group of terrorists destroyed his hometown and killed his parents. Diesel had to learn the hard way...
    • Mess with Edward's friends, and you're in for a world of hurt. Also, don't mock them after you've thoroughly beaten them up, or say, "I couldn't care less if they were dead". Gordon was lucky that Percy showed up to save Edward seconds later, or else he would've been blasted to bits.
    • Thomas and Percy share the same button: Do not mess with their friends, or each other. If you mess with one, the other will come after you, and it will not be pretty.
    • Diesel 10 does not tolerate failure. The Counts got the living tar beat out of them for doing just that.
    • Oh, and don't mess with James' hat. Just...just don't. Edward was lucky enough to survive the onslaught after he accidentally shot it off.
    • And don't endanger the lives of the other Counts around Gordon, especially Henry, who Gordon is fairly protective of. As he tells James when the latter says he wasn't going to help Henry:
    Gordon: "If anything happens to Diesel or Henry, I will hold you personally responsible for this, James. And if you try to run, I will find you, and I will kill you. Your blood will be on my blade."
  • Hugs and Kisses gives Bob two: don't ever mess with his friends, and DON'T mess with his love interest turned girlfriend, Madame Blueberry, which Julien learned in Hugs and Kisses and which Cedric almost learned the hard way in its sequel, Very Veggie Romance. It doesn't matter if you're a psycho animation boss or an employee with a Hair-Trigger Temper; he will take you down.
    • Pro-tip: just don't mess with anyone at Big Idea at all. The staff were ready to gang up on Eddie Russell when he hurled Mr. Lunt into a wall. Even the peace-loving Larry was furious with Eddie after he threatened Lovey and Petunia just for asking a question. And when Julian kidnaps Madame Blueberry in order to kill her, the whole staff chases him out of the building, and Mr. Lunt actually tackles him to the ground!
  • Any fic featuring The Zula Patrol (includesThe Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade, its remaster, Don’t Leave Me, Love Language, and others):
    • Wanna know the best way to piss off the Zula Patrol? Go ahead and threaten and/or kidnap any of the Patrollers. Go ahead. I dare you.. Just note that two members of the Zula Patrol—Bula and Zeeter—were former Zula Scouts, and they take the Code (“Never leave one of your own”) very, VERY seriously, and that Multo, who’s the Cowardly Lion of the team, knows how to fight if you provoke him enough to use violence. They’ll get their friends back—and they’ll make damn well sure that you regret having EVER laid a finger on them. Oh, and if you do anything worse such as physically harming (including rape/sexual assault) or killing them? Well, as Love Language reveals, there’s a special code granted by the Zulean government that allows the Zulean task forces to exact brutal vengeance on you if you harm either innocents or one of their own, provided that there’s enough evidence and if the government deems you a threat to society (y’know, so as to avoid police brutality). And knowing how THIS iteration of the Zula Patrol is, they WILL find that evidence, they WILL find you, and if you don’t believe in anything, you will by the time they’re done with you. In Love Language part 2, it took Multo and Bula enacting this code once to get their point across. And Zeeter gets a chance to do so in part 4, after witnessing Nova shoot Multo and almost kill Bula. And if you’re an intergalactic threat, it doesn’t matter how much you boast—you’d best believe they’d find a way to make you pay for what you did.
    • You just go ahead and threaten any of the Zula Patrollers in front of Bula. I Yabba Dabba dare you. It is the quickest way to make him go from 0 to 100 real fast. Oh, and if you happen to kill any of them, especially Zeeter and/or Multo? He’ll make sure that prison is heaven compared to the punishment he’ll dish out for you. In the original scrapped chapter 11 of The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade, his rage manifests into a Berserk Mode, and in that mode, he will stop at nothing to destroy you, as Paragor nearly learned in Chapter 12.
    • Similarly, don’t do anything to the team in front of Zeeter, Bula in particular. Unlike her captain, she has a Hair-Trigger Temper. While there are a lot of things that can piss her off, messing with her friends will result in a swift introduction to her handy wrench or worse. A Legion robot who nearly killed Bula learned this the hard way in both versions of Dreamscape Crusade, with its face being caved in from the impact her scooter left on it. And in Love Language, where Multo is her Love Interest, she hands the villain of part 4, Bellanova, a beatdown that would’ve killed a regular Zulean for not only mind-controlling Multo to fight them, but also shooting him when he snapped out of it.
    • Multo is a hard person to anger, and has a notoriously long fuse, but when that fuse finally burns away, you’d better start running. He has a few things that will piss him off instantly: destroying his experiments, his valuables, insulting his friends and breaking his trust. Totally destroying his experiments may disappoint him, but destroying his valuables is one way to bring out his anger—Zeeter learned this lesson early on when she took one of his machines and destroyed part of his collection by accident, and was so unsettled by his wrath that she made note to never piss him off like that again. Hurting innocent people will also bring about a rare vengeance in him, as shown in both versions of Dreamscape Crusade. But if you get the great idea to mess with his team, he’ll hunt you down, and you’d better hope Bula’s there, because we can guarantee he’s thinking of multiple ways to hurt you. And heaven help you if you bring any harm his team, or if you get the even better idea to mess with his foster kids, Wizzy, Wigg and Sora.Hope you updated your will recently and made peace with everyone, because when he gets his hands on you, you won’t get that chance. In Love Language Pt. 2, Multo and Bula brutally enact revenge on Zeeter’s asshole of an ex-boyfriend (who drugged and raped her), with the former using his extensive knowledge of bone structure to effortlessly incapacitate him with his bare hands. In Pt. 4, he gets near homicidal when Bellanova threatens to hurt Wizzy and Wigg, and before his torture, swears to get revenge on Nova for the evils she inflicted on the Zulean Isles.
    • Paragor reacts quite violently to those who hurt the ones that are close to him. But telling him that his plans are worthless and that they're not worth following is the tip of the iceberg for him; it made him completely lose his cool and he tried to kill the Zula Patrol after they do just that.
  • The Heroes of Time:
    • If, for some odd reason, you really want to set off Huckleberry Hound, go ahead and try to kill his friends. Better yet, sit back and watch his friends get hurt and do nothing to help. He'll take it real well.
    • Yogi has a similar button as Huck. But messing with his friends just to screw with him for laughs is a very big one, as the Extinguisher learned.
    • Putting any of Top Cat's friends in danger—especially the Alley Gang and by extension Officer Dibble—is the biggest of T.C's buttons. When the Heartless invade New York City, Top Cat was concerned, but not so much as he had his new Keyblade and he and his gang were kicking tail. But then the Heartless ,headed by the Extinguisher, turn Officer Dibble against them, injures the Alley Gang and makes them disappear into thin air, and then Dibble, who was trying to redeem himself for almost killing the gang when he was Brainwashed and Crazy, is erased from existence after taking a Nova Ray shot meant for Top Cat. Cue a very calm but also VERY pissed T.C. handing the Heartless a major smackdown. So yeah. Don't do anything to T.C.'s friends. He will not take it well. At all.
    • Speaking of Quick Draw Mc Graw, he does not like to be called stupid. An even worse idea is to threaten his friends. He earned his Keyblade because his Friendly Rival Ricochet Rabbit was taken by the Heartless, and then later unlocked the Trailblazer Form simply because Dick Dastardly attacked his good friend Yogi Bear and almost left him for dead. He really was Too Dumb to Live.
    • Fred Flintstone's got a lot of buttons, but let's just say that hurting his family will be the last thing you ever do in your life.
    • Oh, and don't talk smack about George Jetson, especially where his current employment status is concerned. And also, don’t mess with his family either. Unlike Fred, George went straight after the guy who wrecked Orbit City and forced him, at Keyblade point, to turn his half-Heartless family and boss back to normal.
    • Freddy will not tolerate people hurting his friends, especially Daphne. Insinuate that you did anything to her, and you will be on the receiving end of a major beatdown.
    • What, you think the side characters didn't have any buttons either? Boo-Boo hands Dr. Quest a pretty scathing tell-off when the doctor sends him out to fight without proper weapons; Snagglepuss had to be stopped from beating down the Inner Circle when he was told what happened to his friends; Peter beat down Heartless to save innocent bystanders; and Yippee flew into Roaring Rampage of Revenge mode after the king and queen lost their hearts.
  • The Return of the Phantom Empire:
    • Snerdly's button, as the Galaxy Goof-Ups have learned (or maybe not, considering that they do it all the time), is general incompetency. But if you really don't want to see his bad side,do not blatantly lie to his face about a horrendous crime, especially if it's personally connected to him. At least with the first button above, he'll just yell at you. Press that second one, and you're in for a brutal smackdown. Just ask the Ax-Crazy Psycho for Hire who killed his father.
    • For Quack-Up, never mention the H-B Zoo. It's not a good idea, at all.
    • And also, don't underestimate the Galaxy Goof-Ups. They Took a Level in Badass in the later half of the story for a reason.
  • The Ghost of Huckleberry Hound universe:
    • The Ghost of Huckleberry Hound: Hurting Huckleberry Hound's friends, even if it's someone he's not particularly close to, is a very bad idea. When Stinky Dalton shoots at the citizens and hits Peter Potamus, Huck's ghost flew into a rage and had to be stopped by Snagglepuss, Yogi and Quick Draw from going to Stinky Dalton and attacking him right then and there. And even when he pretends to be a vengeful spirit to scare the Daltons into letting the townspeople go, some of his threats are pretty scary, and one shudders to imagine what he would've done if he'd still held a grudge against Stinky Dalton.
    • Quick Draw has two buttons: don't insult him, and don't even think of harming and/or insulting his deputy and sidekick, Baba Looey. In The Ghost of Huckleberry Hound, the Dalton brothers pushed this button after their counterattack severely injures Baba Looey, and they laugh at him while he's bleeding and unconscious. Quick Draw is the one to rally the weary citizens to action on the grounds that the Daltons need to be punished for their crimes, but the narrative makes it clear that hurting Baba Looey was the last straw.
    Quick Draw(with his back to everyone as he mends Baba Looey): Have you all forgotten what they've done to us?'Cause I sure haven't. They killed Huck, took over Two-Bit, enslaved all of us, shot Peter, and then hurt my sidekick and laughed about it. And after finally gettin' a chance to fight 'em, you just wanna give up?
    Peter:Need I remind you that the Daltons have killed people?!
    Quick Draw:I know that, Peter. But that's ain't gonna stop me. They got more weapons than we do, but we're gonna follow through with Huck's plan. (faces the citizens with a dangerous glare towards the Daltons) I don't know about you fellas, but I plan on makin' Stinky Dalton pay for what he's done. (walks over to another human and hands Baba Looey off to him) Come on, guys. Let's finish this.
    • The sequel, Have Guitar, Will Travel, has him almost resorting to violence after Dead On Dave insults Baba Looey. And in the miniseries Born For Adversity (which features a story taking place in this story’s universe), Quick Draw gives an animal trader, who’d purchased Baba Looey and various other animal folk and had tortured them for weeks on end, the mother of all beatdowns after he discovers what he’d done to Baba Looey. So yeah. Don’t do anything to Baba Looey. Your chances of survival will be much higher if you don’t. Threatening and/or hurting his friends and strangers is another hot button for him. He intends to make sure the Dalton brothers and Dead On Dave's gang know this very well.
    • For obvious reasons, Baba Looey doesn't like being called a pack mule. Also, involving innocent civilians or his friends in your schemes will also piss him off, and make him more likely to kill you.
    • In Have Guitar, Will Travel, Ricochet has three: do not attack innocent civilians, don't even think of hurting his deputy, and don’t even hint that you abuse your spouse. He doesn’t care if you’re a woman, either—in his eyes, abusing someone you supposedly love makes you lower than scum and he will treat you as such. If you're a girl, he's more likely to tell you off, since he Would Not Hit a Girl. If you're a man, you'd better hope Droop-a-Long's there to keep him from shooting you in the face.
    • Droop-a-Long's an easygoing fellow who'd really rather not hurt anybody. But whatever you do, don't hurt his closest friends, which include Ricochet, Clarissa and a few other people he knows around town, or his wrath will become homicidal, as one outlaw nearly discovered.
  • In Mysterious Gathering, don't even think of trying to publicly humiliate the Evil Reader. Rokusaburo was lucky that Yutaka was there to save him from being Black Fang Strikered. And also, Dr. Ver, you really shouldn't casually tell the King of the Koopas to rape the woman he loves. You'll get a punch to the face if you do.
  • Blazin' Trails:
    • Ricochet has a Hair-Trigger Temper, so even the smallest slip-ups can set him off. A few of his buttons are keeping secrets from him (as Droop-a-Long learned in Rapid Romance), goofing off, making jokes at his expense (both of which Droop-a-Long tends to do on a normal basis), and messing with his sweets (as Droop-a-Long also learned in ''Sugar Junkie''). But if you get the great idea to bring any sort of harm to his deputy and best friend Droop-a-Long Coyote, you are in for a heap of trouble. Doing it in front of him is just plain stupid. Hiding it from him won't help, either. He will find out, he will come after you, and you'd better hope someone stops him, or he might kill you. Oh, and if you mess with his family, his girlfriend, or innocent people (children especially), too? You're beyond screwed.
    • Droop-a-Long doesn't possess Ricochet's temperament, but one thing he has in common with the sheriff is his fierce protectiveness towards his loved ones, Ricochet, Denise and his family in particular. So if you value your life, don't harm any of these people in front of him. At least with Ricochet, you'll have a few seconds to realize you screwed up before he lays into you. You won't get that chance with Droop-a-Long, because Droop-a-Long's immediate reaction to someone hurting his loved ones is violence, ranging from punching someone clean into the street for slapping Denise, to reminding a group of outlaws that he is a coyote by almost tearing his captor's arm off with his teeth and then strangling the leader for torturing Ricochet in front of him. Oh, and this extends towards strangers too—one short in BT Redux, “The Deputy Means Business”, features Droop-a-Long punching an outlaw through a shop window for robbing and beating up an old lady. Beware the Nice Ones, indeed.
  • Travels, Toils and Troubles: Peter Potamus, being a victim of bullying, takes the whole “pick on someone your own size” thing VERY seriously. So if you decide “Hey, I’ll go bully that disabled person for kicks”, you’re in for either a punch to the gut, or a Category 5 Hippo Hurricane Holler—neither of which are pleasant experiences. And don't even think of messing with his friend So-So. It's one of the few times that he will get very angry.
  • For Love and Glory:
    • Go ahead. Hurt any of Touché Turtle’s loved ones in front of him...that is, if you really want to die.
    • What, you think Dum-Dum's gonna sit back and let you do what you want to Touché? Dum-Dum may be an idiot and a coward, but he'll make it very clear that nobody messes with his pal Touché. In the original For Love and Glory, the only reason he didn’t go after Jean-Claude after Touché told him what happened is because the turtle had already killed him, and Dum-Dum was shocked that he was expressing remorse over it after all the cat had put him through. In the sequel, The Dugan Crown Affair, Dum-Dum, who has been sitting on the sidelines and refusing to even accept his role as the Keeper of the Crown most of the fic, witnessed the Gold Paladin almost kill Touché by stabbing him and throwing him off the castle roof, gets pissed, and not only confronts the Gold Paladin, but hands him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. And in chapter five of Born for Adversity, which features a chapter set in this universe’s remastered version, he unlocks the true form of the Clan Dugan sword, Oathkeeper, known as the Keeper’s Eminence, after Angel possessed him and forced him to kill Touché, and uses its full power to both stab and swiftly decapitate her. So yeah. Don’t hurt Touché. You’ll probably live much longer if you don’t. Oh, and if you hurt a friend of the turtle’s, or, God forbid, his Love Interest, Catalina? You are beyond screwed, as a few members of the Keeper’s Collective learned the hard way, and which he intends for his grandpa to learn VERY thoroughly.
  • Both Big City Tabby and Temporary Truce established that for all his talk about stomping Mushmouse, Punkin' Puss does somewhat care about his well-being (though if you asked, he’d say that he’s the only one who treats Mushmouse that way and you’d better not keep going with it either). So go ahead and follow through with your great idea to go beat up Mushmouse in his line of sight. The damage that you deal to the mouse will be repaid not only in full, but tenfold, which Mose learned in Temporary Truce and its sequel, and Sebastian learned the hard way in Big City Tabby. But don’t worry, he won’t kill you…so long as you didn’t kill Mushmouse. And if you did, all bets are off.
  • You've Got My Attention established early on that you do not harass Callie in front of Deputy Peck. Don't gawk at her, either (seeing as he has a crush on her, he's kind of a jealous guy). And don't even think of forcing your ways onto her. Peck took on Timothy—a dangerous outlaw who threatened to kill him—and almost killed him over this.
    • The opposite is also true. Don't hurt Peck in front of Callie. And don't mock him, either. Timothy was lucky to get off with the telling off she gave him instead of getting his eyes clawed out.
• The Berserker:
  • Wonder Red and the Evil Reader become this when they unlock the aptly named Berserker Mode. It is basically a hero’s or villain’s Unstoppable Rage brought to the surface, and it does cause their appearances to change somewhat, with glowing red eyes and a supernatural aura. Anyone who manages to set this mode off is in for a brutal beatdown, no questions asked. As Wonder Red proved when she first unlocked it, the Berserker Mode isn’t a permanent change and can disappear when the user is knocked out, and as Jeremiah explains, this form shortens the user’s lifespan.
  • Bula's powers cause him to turn into this in the original version of The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade. In chapter 11, he takes on the full force of a dark energy cannon from Paragor (who corrupted Chikyuu with the powers of the Dark One), but survived. When Paragor seemingly killed the rest of the team, the dark energy he took on manifested into a beastly form of himself not unlike Hibiki Tachibana's Berserk mode. Filled with rage and a thirst for revenge, the berserk Bula nearly killed Paragor in his ensuing rampage, only stopping when Multo regains consciousness and manages to calm him down. As Autofocus notes later in the second arc of the story, Zuleans are highly resistant to otherworldly, supernatural forces, but Bula absorbed the dark magic that Paragor shot at him instead of repelling it, resulting in it coursing through his body. Autofocus also notes that, had Bula's Berserk Button not been pressed, he may have ended up with a different power altogether instead of his Berserk Mode. Due to retaining all of his awareness when he summons this form, Bula is understandably scared of his powers, fearing that he might go out of control if his Berserk Button is pressed again.
  • This is Huckleberry Hound's Superpowered Evil Side in The Heroes of Time's Dark Keyblade arc. Whenever he grabs the Dark Keyblade, he undergoes a dramatic transformation, getting red fur, yellow sclera, and red eyes. While this form is his most powerful, as he's able to rip apart foes with ease without his Keyblade, it is basically all of his pent-up anger brought to the surface, which makes him Unstoppable Rage incarnate. And we weren't kidding when we said this side is evil: in this form, he can't tell friend from foe and just relentlessly and brutally attacks people, laugh while doing it. Unlike most of his friends, his mode isn't the easiest to stop, and often he has to get it beaten out of him.
• Beware the Nice Ones:
  • Most of the characters in Sodor Magic Crusaders are this, but Edward gets a special mention. He's normally quite nice, if slightly sarcastic at time and is haunted by his big failure. But the moment he hears Gordon cruelly mock Percy and made him believe that he was dead, Edward cut the pleasantries short and nearly came close to killing Gordon with what is assumed to be a Dangerous Forbidden Technique (later mentioned to be a very powerfulbombardment spell). He didn't even care about the side effects that a spell that powerful would have; the only thing he cared about was making Gordon pay for seemingly killing Percy.
    • Charlie and Percy are also this. Both of them are very nice characters in general, with Charlie being The Prankster and Percy playing his role as the Nice Guy. But both of them are flat out scary when pushed.
  • Bob the Tomato in Hugs and Kisses. While he's practically Married to the Job and Oblivious to Love for most of the fic, he is a nice guy. After Eddie Russell and Julian Maverick show up, he gets pretty angry, first telling off Eddie before Madame Blue comes in with the cops, and then later he tackles Julian when he tried to shoot Madame Blueberry, who's now his girlfriend. The reviews pretty much speak for themselves.
  • The Super Readers in Super Readers' Biggest Adventure. Especially Alpha Pig.
  • The Zula Patrol in TZP:DC. Understandably so, especially since the Dreamscapers have caused The Dark Times on their planet twice, planned on causing ANOTHER one by manipulating Multo into taking the Dark One's powers, and basically subjecting everyone in the galaxy to a Fate Worse than Death. They're still nice characters, but if you force their hand, they can and will beat the crap out of you.
  • The Keyblade bearers in The Heroes of Time, especially Huckleberry Hound. It is very hard to get him legitimately angry at you. As the later chapters prove, this is good for everyone involved. Angry!Huck is scary Huck.
    • This applies to the others as well. Most of them are nice fellas, while some might hide their niceness behind their jerkish behavior. But you don't want to tick them off either way, as they won't stop until they've wiped the floor with you.
  • The Ghost of Huckleberry Hound universe:
    • Go HH has Huck's ghost. He's still the same Huck, but the moment Stinky Dalton shoots Peter for talking loudly, his calm briefly goes out the window and he roars in anger, planning on beating the crap out of the Dalton brothers. Even after they manage to talk him out of it, he was still quite serious about his threat. And he does a pretty good job of scaring the Daltons in order to spook them out of their house.
    • Have Guitar, Will Travel has Quick Draw and Baba Looey. Both of them are nice people willing to help others out. But press either of their buttons and they'll be coming after you, as the Daltons quickly learned.
    • Ricocheted Rendezvous has Ricochet and Droop-a-Long. Ricochet's genuinely polite to people, while Droop-a-Long's so easygoing one would think he's harmless. But you do NOT tick either of them off, as Ricochet tends to pack quite a punch, while Droop-a-Long tends to be even more threatening than Ricochet on the few times he is truly furious.
  • Blazin' Trails: Being an eternally easygoing coyote, it's very hard to get Droop-a-Long riled up about anything. As chapter 9 showed, it's a good thing for everyone involved. His wrath was so terrifying that not only did he scare the crap out of the outlaws, but he also scared Ricochet a bit.
    • Ricochet also counts. He's a genuinely nice person when one manages to avoid his buttons, but it's still not a good idea to make him mad, as Droop-a-Long can attest to. Making him truly furious to the point where he's thinking of killing you is a sign that you have pushed him too far.
• Beware the Silly Ones:
  • Quack-Up in The Return of the Phantom Empire. He is quite childish, naive and the resident Cloudcuckoolander, but tick him off and he'll be on the warpath, as Yogi and Scare Bear learn in chapter 4. A villainous example would be Rokusaburo, from the same story; his main personality trait is his lightheartedness in contrast to the ineffectual Donkirk and the cold Yutaka. However, there's a reason he's Donkirk's second-in-command and is just as feared as Donkirk and Yutaka.
  • Droop-a-Long in Blazin' Trails. He may be a bit dorky, forgetful, and clumsy, but he has shown to be quite insightful on things. And you do NOT want to make him mad, ever.
• Big Eater: Several characters in her stories can put food away like you wouldn't believe.
• Bittersweet Ending: Occurs very rarely, but notable examples include The Ghost of Huckleberry Hound (see below), Whispers in the Wind, Tea for Two and Redemption, as well as in at least one short of Blazin' Trails.
• Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics: Blazin' Trails features this in spades. Incorporating the lore from the cartoon, Ricochet created his famous trick bullets, but eventually sold them in order to concentrate on his career as a sheriff. Often when Ricochet has to subdue someone, he’ll pull out his trick bullets. However, the story does feature both Ricochet and Droop-a-Long using regular bullets, especially when there’s a dangerous situation.
• Blood Knight:
  • The Evil Reader/ Jackson Flatts in Super Readers' Biggest Adventure. Chaos is even worse than he is, however, as well as his Evil Readers.
  • Gordon, James and Diesel in Sodor Magic Crusaders. It's a three-way tie to who is the most fight-happy one, but if any of them get "in the zone", you'd better run.
  • Ignis in The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade. Zeeter has some shades of this as well, but not as severe.
  • Punkin' Puss in the H-B fics that he appears in. Although part of this has to do with his Hair-Trigger Temper, as his solution to solving a problem is almost always challenging someone to a fight, he's a little too enthusiastic when he gets a gun in his hands.
  • Stinky Dalton in The Ghost of Huckleberry Hound. He also has a habit of starting fights with others for no reason other than this.
  • Rokusaburo and Yutaka in The Return of the Phantom Empire. The latter's more low-key about it than the former, but he does love challenging stronger opponents.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Also crops up in a lot of stories.
• Brutal Honesty: Ricochet exhibits this in Ricocheted Rendezvous.
• Broken Tears: Ricochet sheds these a total of three times in Blazin' Trails: Taking the Bullet, after confessing to Droop-a-Long about how worried he was about him dying;It's Alright, Mr. Ricochet, where his personal fears are brought to light; and part 2 of Protector, where he learns that Droop-a-Long was apparently murdered and his body is missing. And this is all after he gets his job back and he's released from prison.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Rokusaburo's reaction to being told of his various crimes in The Return of the Phantom Empire. To say that Snerdly was not happy about this is a big understatement.
• But Now I Must Go: Happens in The Ghost of Huckleberry Hound. After Huck helps the citizens of Two-Bit capture the Daltons, he explains that he has to leave for good now, as he has finished his mission and can't be bound to Earth forever. It's the story's Bittersweet Ending.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Madame Blueberry in Hugs and Kisses, Wonder Red in Super Readers' Biggest Adventure, and Multo AND Zeeter in The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade. See a pattern?
• Cats Are Mean: Definitely the case with Punkin' Puss, who is known to be a bully towards Mushmouse and isn't the nicest person on the block. However, he does have a Hidden Heart of Gold (see below).
• Cerebus Syndrome: Hugs and Kisses gave us the Radical Animation arc, starring Eddie Russell and his boss, Julian Maverick.
• Character Development: Another trademark of hers; it's rare to find a fic that doesn't build on the characters in question.
  • Super Readers' Biggest Adventure managed to do this for the Super Readers:
    • Alpha Pig starts off as his normal, somewhat cowardly self in the beginning, and is extremely sensitive; he even goes into a breakdown after his dad and brothers are turned evil by the Evil Reader. A few chapters later, he later tells Lexicon, the Evil Reader's henchman, off for assuming that his dad was nothing more than a mindless slave, and then proceeds to demolish him with his new upgrade. He later starts to become more confident and more willing to get involved in fights.
    • Wonder Red starts out as being a hot-tempered, impatient girl who was quick to start fights and was at first very harsh towards her friends. She later grows out of this tendency as the story goes on, and proves just why she's the second in command of the Super Readers.
    • Super Why starts out as being very unsure of what to do while still trying to keep everyone together. By the end of the story he gets over it and becomes more confident in his decisions.
    • Princess Presto was the voice of reason for most of the story, but was also prone to cowardly moments and indecisiveness. She later becomes the Team Mom of the ground and the glue that holds the team together.
    • Woofster is the weakest of the Super Readers, and has serious self-esteem and abandonment issues. A major part of his development was moving on from his past failures and embracing the fact that he didn't need to keep holding things to himself.
  • The Very Veggie Romance series:
    • Hugs and Kisses: Bob at first was somewhat panicky, serious, sometimes high-strung and was oblivious to Madame Blueberry's feelings for him for a good half of the fic, much to the detriment of everyone. We later learn that there's more to his character, including the reason why he was oblivious to Madame Blueberry's feelings, and actually got a boost of awesome around the end. The AU ending for Hugs and Kisses, Whispers in the Wind explains just what happens if everything he's worked for is ripped from him.
    • Here For A Reason is another standout example. Pa started out as a boy who had nothing to live for after his dad left. After he got saved, he took every challenge head-on, resulting in The Unfettered Determi Nator that he is this series.
  • The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade:
    • Bula is known in the series to be quite the stalwart, fearless leader of the patrol, with some flaws such as his occasional cluelessness. In this story, he's somewhat Tsun Dere, and has a personality befitting that of a Knight in Sour Armor, mainly due to the Break the Cutie process he undergoes in the story; plus, in the story he's revealed to have powers that turn him into The Berserker, making him REALLY freak out about it. He also has a few slips in leadership later on, and considers dropping out at one point. Over time, he gets better and takes control of the force more easily, though he's still a Deadpan Snarker while doing his job. Also, he opens up his heart to Bonnie.
    • In the series, Zeeter was the hot-dogging pilot with some Hot-Blooded tendencies, as well as a habit of Did Not Think This Through, which repeatedly gets her into trouble. During the course of the story, she shows many Hidden Depths: she cares for the team like family, is in love with both Bula and Multo, and has the tendency to be a Clingy Jealous Girl to them both, especially when Bonnie comes into the picture. Later chapters show her being much more thoughtful in making decisions, and her hot-headed tendencies are later cut down, though her love life's still screwed up.
    • Multo was the team's Absent-Minded Professor, and pro course, he ends up setting off the adventure by nearly getting himself killed. He was also known for being cowardly, and had the infamous habit of being the team's Lethal Chef. It's only after he's reunited with his team that he starts to grow out of his absent-minded habits (while still retaining some of them), becoming more aware of what's going on around him. It's also here that we get to see his other moods: he can be dangerous when provoked, has a notable Break the Cutie process throughout the story that gives him a more serious outlook on things, and when the Dreamscapers start to invade his personal life, he declares that they will beat him.
    • Wizzy and Wigg were the ones aimed at the younger audience, and Multo's personal students, constantly learning about science, and were really innocent little critters. This trope sets in after Multo's "death", interactions with Paragor, and the reveal of Multo's secret family history as well as The Dark Times of Zula. The two of them eventually become Determinators that could put anybody to shame.
    • Even Dark Truder, the resident Harmless Villain, gets this. Earlier in the story, he could care less about the Zula Patrol after Multo's "death". As the story progresses, he soon comes to view the Dreamscapers as disgusting, especially when they plan on outright killing the team, something even he wouldn't do. The resulting war drives him to go into Friendly Enemy territory, though for the most part when the two parties work together it's pretty much Teeth-Clenched Teamwork.
  • Super Smash Brothers: The Duck Hunt Dog, of all things, got this in Acceptance. In response to his current Rescued from the Scrappy Heap status, the author wrote a story that explained why he got in the game. At first glance, when Master Hand shows Mario the world of Duck Hunt, it seems that he's just trolling with the hunters as usual, and Paul, one of the hunters, tells his owner, Jim, that he's going to Shoot the Dog the next time he laughs, which is pretty much what every player has wanted to do for years. Then, you learn that he's really a laidback, joyful and skilled, if somewhat clumsy and mischievous, dog who just wanted to be loved by his hunting team. Unfortunately, the team hates him and convinced Jim to start abusing the poor animal in order to "condition" him into being a better hunting dog and stop that irritating taunting of his; this includes calling him a "mistake" and constantly wishing death on him, things that are sure to break someone's psyche. Even worse, Jim stopped hurting the dog out of guilt, but his friends didn't, and Master Hand implies that what Jim's friends did to the dog was even worse than what Jim did. Rather than becoming a Broken Bird due to this, the dog decided to become a trickster and put on a show for his team, hoping that he could entertain them and get them to loosen up. Too bad he did that on his hunting trips. The climax of the story has the hunters (minus Jim) crossing the Moral Event Horizon when they literally Shoot the Dog, practically filling him with bullets, and he's spared from getting burned to a crisp by an angry flock of ducks that attack the hunters. Thanks to a little duckling nudging him awake after the shooting, he survived the gruesome attempt to end his life. It is only after this happens that he crosses the Despair Event Horizon and becomes a Broken Bird for a while, abandoning his master, and looking for people who cared, but at this point his status as The Scrappy is already well known, so he can't get the acceptance and love he craves. His story is so heartbreaking, Master Hand had pity on him and gave him the opportunity to be recognized again, by having him represent the NES era in Smash Brothers.
  • The Return of the Phantom Empire does this to Captain Snerdly. In the TV series, he was more or less the Drill Sergeant Nasty who yelled at the Goof-Ups when they screwed up all the time; he was always chewed out by General Bullhorn and never caught a break, leading him to dislike the Goof-Ups. In this story, it turns out that the reason he's so angry half the time is because he served in the Galactic Federation when they were just starting to become a threat to the Phantom Empire. He was a mere teenager when Donkirk's henchman Rokusaburo robbed him of his father. Years later, that same man robbed him of his brother, and his brother's death could've been prevented iif it weren't for an officer's blunder. The Revitilization series reveals that in his first year as captain, he made a mistake that inadvertently sent one of his men to his death. He learned the hard way that the smallest mistake can cause much suffering, and as such, he has developed zero tolerance for failure. And while he doesn't like the Galaxy Goof-Ups because of their constant failures, he will come to their aid, as they are the closest things to friends he has.
    • This story also does the same to the Galaxy Goof-Ups themselves. In the cartoon, they were mostly believed to be the police equivalent of the Bunny-Ears Lawyer, even when they screwed up. Yogi was The Leader (for the most part), Huck was mostly The Smart Guy, Scare Bear was the Lovable Coward and Quack-Up was The Ditz who you wouldn't want behind the wheel of anything. All four of them were utter failures in protecting the Galaxy, preferred disco parties to doing actual work and are little more than headaches to Snerdly. If it weren't for their blunders solving their problems and their shining recommendation from General Bullhorn, Snerdly would have had them canned. They've never gotten in trouble...until Part 2, in which, they not only fail to save Top cat and his crew from Donkirk's clutches, but also end up getting thousands of people killed due to their incompetence. Bullhorn retracts his statements and fires them in Part 3, putting all four in a slump. Their time on Earth makes them reexamine themselves and realize that they have been disappointments to Snerdly, hence why he hates them so much. Part 4 also gives them some major development, particularly to Scare Bear, Huck and Quack-Up; Scare Bear was treated horribly at a place called the H-B Zoo due to his cowardice, Quack-Up, who is mentally unstable, has had it much worse, and Huck turns out to be a Stepford Smiler at times. After having a conversation with Huck's mother during their time on Earth, and after rekindling their friendship, they soon decide that they need to help the Galactic Federation, and undergo rigorous training so they can prepare for their mission. After building their ship, the Goof-Ups go vigilante, infiltrate the Phantom Empire's world of operations in order to save Snerdly, Top Cat and his crew, and whoever else was captured, and actually put up a good fight, with most of the GF's forces commenting that they never, ever act this serious about anything.
  • Blazin' Trails is another standout example, especially for the development it gives to both Ricochet Rabbit and Droop-a-Long. In the original series, Ricochet was more of a Marty Stu, with many abilities and very few flaws, while Droop-a-Long was the Butt-Monkey Clueless Deputy. In this story, Ricochet's got several flaws as well as more layers to his character; while he's brash, sometimes impulsive and more than a little prideful, he is a nice person at the core who is passionate about upholding the law—-although that passion can become a problem——and is loyal to his friends. And while he's not as empathetic as Droop-a-Long, he does have a caring side, and has a lot of fears (losing the people he loves, being thought of as a failure) that tend to eat away at him when he thinks about it too long. Droop-a-Long, meanwhile, has a lot more to his character; he isn't so much of a clueless deputy here, although he is a naive and has a childlike view of the world, his slowness still hinders him at times, and he is loyal to his friends to a fault. He's also got a lot more going on in his mind than he lets in on, and he even has a a playful streak that often catches his best friend Ricochet off guard. It's telling that some people prefer Ricochet and Droop-a-Long's portrayals in this story over that of the cartoon.
• Clingy Jealous Girl:
  • Wonder Red in the Super Readers' Biggest Adventure universe. Although you wouldn't have been able to tell from the first story, the Gaiden series shows that before the events of SRBA, she used to be very jealous of girls who were around Whyatt—namely, Little Bo Peep (who was Whyatt's secret admirer) and Sleeping Beauty, who also has a crush on Whyatt.
  • Zeeter in The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade and most fics featuring her. Naturally, she tends to be this towards Bula, though in other stories, she is this towards Multo as well.
  • Denise in Blazin' Trails. Woe betide the girl who's hitting on Droop-a-Long and making him flustered. Ricochet sums it up nicely when such an incident happens and Denise is trying to keep herself from strangling the girl flirting with Droop at the dinner table.
  Ricochet: Never come between Denise an' her man.
• Clueless Chick-Magnet:
  • Bula in several of her Zula Patrol fics, but namely The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade and its remake. Zeeter, Bonnie, and Princess Marina of the Zulean Isles have shown interest in him, and he doesn’t bat an eye, though it could also be a case of being Married to the Job. Thankfully, he does grow out of it when he starts to return Zeeter’s feelings (Bonnie’s in the original).
  • Droop-a-Long in Blazin' Trails. Birthday Surprise and the aptly-titled short Chick Magnet shows that he's oblivious to the fact that his sweet, affable nature is attracting other women aside from Denise (who also liked him for the same reason). Part of it is due to his personality, and part of it is due to being teased and outright rejected by girls when he grew up, causing him to dismiss these things as silly assumptions. Even so, there's no denying that picking up on others' feelings is not his strong point; two waitresses, an energetic farmer girl, an unknown secret admirer and a rich woman are all pining for him—two of whom were very open about their feelings—and he didn't even bat an eye. Ricochet had to flat-out tell Droop that they were not just being "friendly" with him, especially after Droop misses this gem of a comment from Gloria, one of the aforementioned waitresses:
  Ricochet: No friend thanks ya by sayin' 'Your cookin's almost as good as your charm', Droop-a-Long.
• Clueless Deputy: Subverted with Droop-a-Long in Blazin' Trails; due to his slow nature, he's more observant and tends to notice things others may miss, and there are depths to him that even Ricochet didn't even think he had (such as his murderous wrath when incurred, and his teasing nature that pops up from time to time). The rest of Hoop 'n Holler thinks he's this, though, which becomes a problem for Droop-a-Long in the short Coming Through, when he has to step up and be sheriff when Ricochet's hurt.
• Complete Monster: VERY fond of creating original characters to fit this role. Although some of her villains are sympathetic, a good majority fit this. And after reading these profiles, you start to wish that the canon villians would appear just to tell the original ones off. This list is ranked by the most vile to least threatening.
  • Super Readers’ Biggest Adventure has Chaos, a god-like sorcerer who was originally sealed away in a black crystal for a very good reason, as he is a Person of Mass Destruction with a god complex. His end goal is to wipe out all the Super Readers and rewrite reality so that every fairytale character will suffer terrible fates or even worse situations. Even scarier is that he succeeded in a good majority of his plans, becoming known as a Hero Killer who killed nearly every single Super Reader, most of whom were children, effectively making our heroes the last Super Readers to exist. Despite his vast power, he can't rewrite reality....which is where Jackson comes in. In Super Readers' Biggest Adventure, he tricks Jackson's schoolteacher, Lindy Harlaown, into freeing him from his prison, kills his Beleaguered Assistant, Helena, and tempts Jackson with power. When Jackson refuses, he then twists his mind and gets him to think that everyone hated him, while in reality everyone really wanted to help him. Jackson falls for the ploy and grants Chaos access to possess his body, and the sorcerer gives him the power to kill his friends and utterly destroy Minor Land. When Jackson has a My God, What Have I Done? moment, Chaos interprets this as weakness and proceeds to commandeer Jackson's body, placing Jackson's soul in another dimension where he is constantly tortured. Chaos later masquerades as the Evil Reader, does the above hero and child-killing with the help of his own Evil Readers, left countless stories war-torn and ravaged, turned an entire village into murderous zombies (with Lexicon's help) and sent them against children, developed a creepy fixation on Princess Presto (which is explained in Chaos' Revenge as him wanting her as his assistant similar to Helena) and even tried to ascend to godhood after losing Jackson's body so he could rewrite reality. Even worse was that he was perfectly willing to let Jackson take the fall, as he allowed him access to his body in the first place. Chaos' Revenge reveals that he manipulated the The High Cleric of Minor Land into betraying Prince Phillip in the old days in order to possibly destroy it, and then he manipulated Lexicon's tragic loss of Angelica in order to have him work with him. After all the evil he did, his punishment to burn in purgatory for eternity is rather fitting...but the summary for Chaos' Revenge has him not only escape, but also reveals that he is planning something terrible for the Super Readers, the Superhero Council, namely his brother Jeremiah, and the entire fairytale world.
  • The Future of Wuzzleburg trilogy has Urzur, the human resident of Wuzzleburg who was top of the list until Dr. Ver took his place. His unassuming, shy, soft-spoken nature is really a front to a dangerous split personality that causes him to become an omnicidal, apathetic and highly manipulative psychopath. This psycho side of Urzur is directly responsible for the deaths of his parents, the burning of his hometown, and wiping his country off the map due to seeing it being unfit for his rule. He would've succeeded with the destruction of Wuzzleburg, followed by global domination, had Wubbzy-2 not killed him near the end. It's revealed that he has a serious Jekyll-Hyde complex more than anything; he did these things because he truly enjoys being evil. However, unlike most of the villains on this list, he is more sympathetic; even he was horrified by his future self (as seen below) and tried to change, but ultimately failed and later died.
    • His future self, aptly called Urzur the Conqueror, is basically him embracing his psychopathic personality for good—if you want to get technical, he’s Julian Maverick from the Veggie Tales fics and Chaos from Super Readers’ Biggest Adventure combined. His future self is the reason why everyone in the future thinks humans are horrible, as he destroyed many cites and forced the citizens to rebuild them and become industrial workhouses, kills thousands of people on a yearly basis in order to crush any inklings of rebellion, and in the past, he betrayed his friend Walden-2 by stealing his inventions to make destructive robots and destroyed Wuzzleburg, killing many in the process, forcing Walden-2’s friends to scatter—and after it was over, almost worked the remaining citizens to death. He's responsible for many of the characters of Wubbzy dying or becoming shells of their former selves (only Widget-2 made it out alright; Walden-2 is neurotic, Wubbzy-2 is a hardboiled cop and Daizy-2 is bipolar), which is why Chef Fritz-2's son, Chef Spitz, beats the living crap out of his past self for simply being there (as his future self sent his mother to the work camps and destroyed their town), and Walden-2 has a very bad nervous breakdown when Wubbzy mentioned his name. He is so evil, the regular Urzur who visited the future Wuzzleburg (who already did the aforementioned killing of his family and wiping his country off the map) was horrified enough to try to change...but Urzur the Conqueror goes a step further and he brainwashes his past self into becoming evil, having him go out and kill even more people; when he snaps out of it, he begs someone to put him out of his misery and states that he doesn't want to be alive if he's going to simply cause everyone more pain and suffering, which ultimately lead to his death at the hands of Wubbzy -2.
    • Urzur may be dead for real in Back to the Future (in that story, his assistant revives him and he is much more evil than before), but the third installment, Blast to the Past, reveals that he got the whole split personality disorder from his great grandfather, Heinrich, who was a mad scientist obsessed with destruction and making people suffer. An anti-social loner from the only country in the world populated with humans, any redeeming qualities Heinrich had were thrown out the window when he kills Murphy’s great-grandfather’s wife out of jealousy by putting a bomb in her car. After this, he insensitively revealed at the moment that he loved the sight of flames and wanted to make weapons of mass destruction. During the events of the story, he nearly kills Widget’s ancestor for refusing to go out with him, and also reveals that he plans on turning all of Wuzzle Town (the original version of Wuzzleburg) into a bomb making warehouse, so that he can eventually destroy all the surrounding cities and get complete control of everything in the midst of the chaos. He kills Galacticus, the main villain of the story who originally went back in time to murder Murphy’s great-grandfather in order to keep the good future from FOW and BTTF from happening, and then decides that if he can’t get control of the world, he’ll just blow himself up and the entire town with him. Although Wubbzy and his friends escape, and later, Wuzzle Town would be reformed into Wuzzleburg, that doesn’t erase the dark secrets of what he did.
  • The upcoming Thingamobob: Origins, the first full-length story featuring Veggie Tales superhero Thingamabob, brings Julian Maverick back into the villainous role. Remember how he was in Hugs and Kisses? Well, the role he played in The Very Veggie Romance series is sunshine and rainbows compared to what he does here. This incarnation is a powerful shadow wielder known as the Illusionist, who can create freaky illusions that shoot lasers from their eyes. His goal in this story is to build a powerful weapon that, when unleashed can rob a superhero of their powers and disable their equipment, leaving cities without protection and allowing crime to take hold in them. Remaining the dangerously cool, psychotic boss that he was in Hugs and Kisses, he masquerades as the owner of the Daily Bumble, where Bob works. He recruits three civilians with superpowers, the Diamond cousins, as his lackeys, lets them take the fall for anything going wrong and is hinted to regularly torture them if they fail their duty. After discovering Mark’s alter-ego and that he was the inventor of the formula he needs for his weapon, he blackmails Mark into giving him the formula with the threat of hurting his wife and son...and still has his partner Alabaster turn him into a statue when he does comply. He quickly figures out that Bob is in fact Thingamabob, he creates illusions that all represent Bob’s worst fears (including losing Mayor Blueberry), and blackmails him into lying low while he goes on a crime spree with the threat that he'll kill everyone he loves. The story later reveals that he’s responsible for bringing about the wave of crime that forced Mark to leave Bumblyburg, and has manipulated certain events where Thingamabob loses so it can tip in his favor. He later shows up at Larry-Boy’s mansion and tries to blow it up with the League inside, holds Mayor Blueberry ransom in exchange for the two million dollars he needs to build his weapon and poisons Thingamabob and sets him back a week, giving him the time he needs to finish building his weapon and prepare to unleash it on Bumblyburg. Similar to his original incarnation, he very nearly succeeded in his plans, but here he suffers a Disney Death instead of being hauled off to prison.
  • Hugs and Kisses, which is the first entry of The Veggie Romance Series has Eddie Russell. For an OC character in Veggie Tales, no less, Eddie Russell deserves top billing for the most evil vegetable to ever exist. He is presented to us as a zucchini who was the assistant producer for a blockbuster. Although he seems nice, Mr. Lunt doesn’t trust him. Then later in the story, we learn that the only reason he’s there is so he can destroy the company from the inside by ruining their reputation so his business can be the only one on top. Later chapters reveal that this guy is also violent, as he threatens Scallion 1, Lovey and Petunia, and gets into a physical confrontation with Mr. Lunt. When Bob doesn’t hire him, he lies to corporate offices and gets himself sworn in, kicking Scallion 2 out of his job, and when Bob comes back, he decides that the only way to get control of the production (and therefore, all of Veggie Tales) is to off the head producer: Bob. On the day of filming, he and his boss Julian Maverick show up at Big Idea, steals the remote for the robot they need to use for the scene, rips out its main controls, and has it go berserk on Bob and the others-which happens right after Madame Blueberry and Bob affirm their feelings for each other. When Archie and Lovey head to the TV station, they learn that this wasn’t the first time that Eddie tried to do something like that: the police have been after the guy since he was responsible for the collapse of five other animation companies-all of who taught good morals like Big Idea-just to keep Radical Animation afloat. Eventually, Eddie gets fired from his job, he can no longer work anywhere, and gets sent to jail for attempted murder.
    • The sequel to Hugs and Kisses, Very Veggie Romance, brings him back, and it manages to make him ten times WORSE. In this story, Eddie and his boss Julian, with the help of Scallion 1’s cousin Cedric, escape from prison, with the intention of getting their revenge on Big Idea. Eddie goes to England to get the money from his rich family, but when his uncle refuses, he sends Cedric’s gang to hold him hostage until he coughs up the money. He takes his wealth and builds his own animation company. After that he starts getting worse from there: He sends Scallion 1’s cousin Cedric, a gang leader who busted Eddie out of prison, to Big Idea under deep cover to learn what they’ve been doing with the money acquired from Radical Animation (which led to the company going bankrupt). Upon hearing of the Tales from the Fridge film, Eddie sends Cedric’s gang to trash the studio, steal half of the tapes to their film, including the negatives, and destroy them by covering them with gas and setting them on fire. He then shows up at Big Idea, steals the screenplay and other official papers, rewrites everything, and attempts to sue Big Idea for the entire incident. After Big Idea wins the lawsuit and he’s tried for unlawful conduct, Julian expresses his disgust at Eddie’s issues, and bails out, showing that even his psychopathic boss, who was also bent on destroying Big Idea, wants nothing to do with Eddie anymore. After this, Eddie decides that they’ll never finish the picture, and plans to blow up the entire studio, not caring who was in it. Thankfully, Rick Loraine and Bob stop him, Eddie’s company is taken over by Big Top studios and Eddie and Cedric are sentenced to life in prison.
    • Julian Maverick, Eddie’s boss, is even worse than Eddie is. He is introduced to us in chapter 11 of Hugs and Kisses, at a shady bar for criminals, no less, and has many claims of driving companies out of business with Eddie’s help. After Eddie escapes from jail, he tells Eddie that they’ll just have to forcibly sneak into the studio and “get rid of the obstacles” standing there- as in kill Bob and Madame Blueberry, who managed to kick Eddie out and ruin his plans. He exposes himself to the group, sends the robot on a rampage, and happily destroys majority of the building. He nearly kills Madame Blue twice, and uses Bob’s love for her to blackmail him into giving him the role of executive producer so he can continue his plans. To show how truly evil he is, the alternate ending, Whispers in the Wind shows what happened if he did kill Madame Blueberry; let's just say that it's a good thing that he and Eddie were thwarted when Jimmy and Jerry came with the police in tow, and he and Eddie were arrested. The fact that Julian is willing to use illegal means to make his business stand on top, not to mention being unnervingly remorseless, is what makes him more of a monster than Eddie. Very Veggie Romance, which is still in the planning stages, however, manages to make him less evil, as he ends up being uninterested in Eddie’s scheme and heads off to a remote corner of the world to do his own thing. Cedric, Scallion 1’s cousin, ends up taking this role in the story.
  • The Return of the Phantom Empire has Donkirk, a character from Iheart's older Iron Chef stories, who can be summed up as Palpatine as a wizard. An Ax-Crazy God-Emperor who was sealed away for a long time (and for good reason), his acts include splitting apart the galaxy for ten years, mind screwing people (including Quick Draw Mc Graw), trapping them in dimensions to be tortured, killing anybody who wasn't human (which utterly terrifies Yogi Bear), and turned people into superweapons, which is one of his favorite tactics. When he first appears, the first thing he does is electrocute Top Cat and his crew into unconsciousness, captures their Cool Starship, and sends out a distress signal to draw the Galactic Federation to him so he can trap them, suck out their very souls and use it as a power source, and destroy the Federation and restore his empire. His only saving grace, if it can be called as such, is that he's mostly a Benevolent Boss to his crew, albeit a sometimes harsh one, particularly to Yutaka and Rokusaburo.
    • His second in command, Rokusaburo, a Psycho for Hire who's also The Gadfly, is also this. He killed Snerdly's father without remorse, rammed his ship into another causing the deaths of tens of thousands of people, and gleefully calls murder the best game he's good at. Beware the Silly Ones indeed.
• Cool Kid-and-Loser Friendship: Big City Tabby features Punkin' Puss, a rough and tumble, fight-happy hillman, and Chester Cheshire, a rich city cat who's a Spoiled Sweet Stepford Smiler victim to his parents' controlling behavior.
• Counterpart Comparison: Namely in regards to the way she portrays her characters.
  • Touché Turtle and Ricochet Rabbit. Both of them are well known heroes (although in different time periods) and have big egos about their status, have dark pasts that shape who they are, possess quick tempers and sharp tongues, have friendships with people who're their complete opposite, don't like showing extreme emotion because of their reputations, possess a fierce loyalty to their friends and family and helping people is what they live for. Differences-wise, Ricochet's ego is bigger and possesses a quicker temper than Touché, and is a little more open to showing his emotions, whereas Touché tries to be low-key about his ego and doesn't like showing his emotions to even his closest friends. Also, while Ricochet will only consider killing if he feels they deserved it or if he's extremely angry, Touché has no qualms about killing when it comes to his friends, due in no part to his past.
• Cradle of Loneliness: Ricochet does this in part 2 of the "Protector" arc after learning that someone trashed the office and apparently murdered Droop-a-Long. He tries not to break into tears, but the moment he sees Droop-a-Long's hat and blood-soaked neckerchief, he sinks to his knees, holds Droop-a-Long's hat close to his chest and cries.
• Crazy Jealous Guy:
  • Timothy in the Sheriff Callie's Wild West fic, You've Got My Attention, reveals himself to be this in the second chapter where he becomes very possessive of Callie. Needless to say, neither Peck nor Callie appreciate this.
  • He may not look it, but Droop-a-Long can be jealous when guys try to flirt with Denise. His reactions vary from mild glaring to nearly punching a guy who was getting too close to her. Ricochet had to stop him from almost shooting the guy.
• Creator Thumbprint: If the story you're reading runs on The Power of Friendship, has a plot that starts out simple but then gets very deep, fantasy blending with realism, lots of angst and tragedy, a slew of Continuity Nod and Mythology Gag and possibly involves taking a kids' show and giving it a serious plot, not to mention utter monsters of villains, then it's probably one of her stories.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Heroes and villains in her stories dish these out and are on the receiving end of them just as much.
• Curse Cut Short: Pops up a lot, and normally Played for Laughs; other times, it's Played for Drama.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Also seems to like this as well, as everyone seems to have it.
  • In the Very Veggie Romance series, most of the characters minus Bob and Larry have this, butHere For A Reason and No Laughing Matter has Pa, Jimmy and Jerry hit hard with it.
  • Super Readers' Biggest Adventure has the Evil Reader aka Jackson Flatts and Lexicon, and to an extension, Woofster.
  • The original version of The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusadegave one to Zeeter and Paragor, whose story takes up at least two chapters in the first arc. Remastered also adds Wizzy and Wigg, who are orphans that were rejected by their extended family and in turn adopted by Multo.
  • Fiery Heart, Broken Soul has Scarlet, which is arguably the darkest out of the original characters.
  • Acceptance and Redemption has the Duck Hunt Dog and R.O.B.
  • Sodor Magic Crusaders has nearly the entire cast.
  • The Return of the Phantom Empire has Snerdly, Scare Bear, Quack-Up and all three members of the Phantom Empire: Rokusaburo, Donkirk and Yutaka.
  • Blazin' Trails has many. Ricochet and Droop-a-Long both had a close loved one murdered in front of them (and in Ricochet's case, he took matters into his own hands). Other characters include Lucky, Xiao Feng, Mireya and Salvador.
  • Have Guitar, Will Travel has Baba Looey. Its sequel, The Hand He's Dealt, focuses mostly on Quick Draw's.
  • For Love and Glory is Touché Turtle's backstory.
• Dark Fic: It's easier to list the fics that aren't this.
  • Super Readers' Biggest Adventure was originally conceived from this idea: "What if the Super Readers actually fought evil?" The result: Break the Cutie, Adaptational Badass, Dark and Troubled Past, Wham Episode and many more.
  • Although her first Veggie Tales fanfics didn't start out this way, The Veggie Romance series is this. Hugs and Kisses is a K+ rated fanfiction, and it was lighthearted until Eddie Russell and Julian Maverick show up for a few chapters, bringing moments of violence, threats of murder and emotional trauma. The direct sequels Very Veggie Romance and Family Matters are going to continue the tradition. There's an arc leading up to Very Veggie Romance in which some of the veggies had pretty screwed up lives before coming to Big Idea, inspired by another author named Fizzy Starburst. As of now, No Laughing Matter is the darkest entry, since it involves mentions of cutting and gang violence.
    • Whispers in the Wind, an Alternate Ending to Hugs and Kisses, is one of the darker and more tragic entries, as Madame Blueberry was killed by Julian, Larry develops a bipolar disorder due to depression over her death and is forced to leave the studio, Veggie Tales and Big Idea itself send up shutting down,everyone leaves, and Bob is driven to do the unthinkable. Thankfully, he's stopped from doing it, and things end on a better note for everyone, but man did they have to fight to earn it.
    • Tea For Two appears to be a five chapter romance for Archie/Lovey, inspired by the plot for a fanfic that the author asked to use. However, it then turns out that Archie's career is a front to hide his other job, in which he's a drug dealer helping one of the most notorious crime lords in town—and he has to keep this all a secret. And that's not even getting into the beef of the story...
  • Take Bad Future, Terminator Twosome, Complete Monster, La Résistance, Future Badass (pardon the language, but I couldn't think up another way to describe a few characters), Future Me Scares Me, Heroic BSoD, Family-Unfriendly Death, Stuff Blowing Up, The Dreaded and Omnicidal Maniac, and put it in the happy-go-lucky Sugar Bowl that is Wow Wow Wubbzy. That's Future of Wuzzleburg in a nutshell.
  • With over 60 something chapters planned, some of which contains betrayal, gruesome deaths,Break the Cutie processes for our main characters, a violent sibling rivalry, sound beatings, people going crazy from learning things they were to never know about and Star-Crossed Lovers mixed with Reincarnation Romance, it's safe to say that The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade is pretty dark, especially for something so light hearted and teaching about nonviolence. Thankfully, things get better.
  • The Heroes of Time, though that's not surprising when your story features the Hanna Barbera characters dealing with The Heartless. And even with that, it's rather dark, taking some cues from Shattered Skies in terms of storytelling. Main characters undergo Break the Cutie processes, try not to become what they fight everyday, are susceptible to The Corruption and becoming Brainwashed and Crazy, and many other pleasant things.
  • The Return of the Phantom Empire, which as the author stated, is much, much darker than the original silly Galaxy Goof-Ups cartoon. Inspired by the Clone Wars, Imperial and Rebellion eras, it's a sci-fi/fantasy story that is about a Complete Monster coming back to take over the galaxy again. Four chapters in, and already Top Cat and his crew is in danger, Snerdly turns out to have lost his father to the Empire and is ready for payback, a Psycho for Hire who is Dangerously Genre-Savvy, the Galaxy Goof-Ups screwing up big time, horrific Cold-Blooded Torture, the villains turning out to not be all as they seem, dark secrets surrounding our heroes, and the galaxy teetering towards war. The best part? It's not even finished yet.
  • Fiery Heart, Broken Soul is possibly the darkest of the stories yet, and the first of iheart's stories to have an M rating. With a horrific Break the Cutie, characters crossing both the Moral Event Horizon AND Despair Event Horizon, Mind Rape, Rape as Drama, a disturbing Dark and Troubled Past, a horrific Complete Monster Mad Scientist, Teeth-Clenched Teamwork all over the place, many savage beatings and other things, it's not hard to see why.
  • The Ghost of Huckleberry Hound universe. Huckleberry Hound has been Killed Off for Real, the Dalton Brothers become much more of a threat, and there's a lot more violence that's not present in the original movie. Have Guitar, Will Travel has both Baba Looey and Quick Draw hit with a troubled past.
  • Blazin' Trails would mostly fitinto this category, despite having a lot of humor-based shorts as well as friendship fluff. The first short alone has Ricochet dealing with a failure that he almost quits over. The shorts Breaker of Barriers and the two parter Protector deals with racism (Breaker of Barriers illustrates Ricochet's feelings on coyotes before he met Droop-a-Long and became friends with him; Protector deals with the racist standards set in place in the West, which causes problems for Ricochet and Droop), as does the story of Droop-a-Long and Denise’s romance.Taking the Bullet almost kills off Droop-a-Long, The Only One I Can Trust has the characters dealing with the loss of Ricochet, and It's Alright, Mr. Ricochet deals with Ricochet's personal fears of losing those he loves.
  • The four-shot Touché Turtle and Dum-Dum fic For Love and Glory. Originally inspired by a comment on You Tube about a modern take on Touché Turtle, this story features a heartbreaking Dark and Troubled Past for Touché as it's main point, as well as gruesome deaths, detailed action scenes, and an irredeemable opponent.
• Defeat Means Friendship: In Sodor Magic Crusaders, Thomas recalls his friendship with Toby starting out like this, as Toby had slapped him in the face and gave him a thorough "The Reason You Suck" Speech during their high school days. Thomas hopes later that he can get the Counts to return to their good side in this way as well.
• Determinator: Many examples in many stories.
  • The Super Readers in Super Readers' Biggest Adventure become this over the course of the story. Especially Alpha Pig after his Character Development.
  • In The Ghost of Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw becomes this after the Daltons press his Berserk Button. This trait also carries over into Have Guitar, Will Travel.
• Deus Angst Machina: Sometimes pops up. Super Readers' Biggest Adventure has Jackson Flatts, and Fiery Heart, Broken Soul has Scarlet.
  • A villainous example would go to Paragor. After all the crap he's taken, you can't blame him for going evil.
• Did Not Get the Girl:
  • Have Guitar, Will Travel, although here it's more like 'Have to Wait to Get the Girl'. Quick Draw does confess his feelings to her, but Clarissa opts to stay in Hoop 'n Holler to fulfill her dream to run a store. Played straight for Ricochet Rabbit, however, who was Married to the Job.
  • Blazin' Trails: This happened to Ricochet several times, but his most notable ones were with Denise (who broke off their engagement when he left her at the altar) and then with Melissa (who dated a bad boy and ran off with him). Subverted later on when he reunites with Melissa and then marries her.
  • This would also count for The Ghost of Huckleberry Hound, as Huck dies early on in the story and never gets to meet Desert Flower.
  • Archie does not end up with Lovey at the end of Tea For Two, due to having to own up for working with Eddie Russell and directly helping in his deals. It's part of the story's Bittersweet Ending.
• D.I.Y. Disaster: The Scallions almost have this happen to them in chapter 2 of Best Friends Forever-Redone, where they hurt themselves multiple times helping their friend, Scallion 3, move into his new apartment.
• Did Not Think This Through: Even if he had good intentions, Droop-a-Long really should have reconsidered selling Ricochet's sweets to the townspeople. He also should've thought twice about putting cake batter in a frying pan to make it cook faster.
• Drives Like Crazy:
  • Madame Blueberry in Hugs and Kisses. There's a reason Bob hardly lets her drive.
  • Quack-Up in The Return of the Phantom Empire, keeping in the with the original Galaxy Goof-Ups cartoon. You seriously do not want him behind the wheel of anything.
• Driven to Suicide:
  • Bob in the Alternate Ending to Hugs and Kisses, Whispers in the Wind, due to Madame Blue's death, Larry developing a bipolar disorder and later leaving Veggie Tales, Big Idea shutting down and all of his friends leaving him in order to find new jobs in other cities. Thankfully, Mr. Lunt intervened and talked him out of it.
  • In Fiery Heart, Broken Soul, one of Devane's neighbors is so disgusted by what Dr. Ver has done to him that he hangs himself in his own cell, with a note to his friends and family explaining how sorry he was for being rude to them the last time he saw them.
    • Scarlet attempted to kill herself several times. The first time was during her first year at Nightmare, when she discovers that she was going to be used as a living weapon. She attempted to escape, but her attempt was thwarted, and not long after suffering a brutal rape at the hands of Dr. Ver, she slits her throat. The second time was when she had to kill her son after he was born to prevent him from suffering under Ver's hands; she felt so guilty, she stabbed herself. Another notable time was when Bowser told her to slit her wrists since everyone thinks she's an unstable creature who needs to be put out of its misery, and she readily agrees since she almost hurt her brother and her friends. All of her attempts were stopped by different people-Devane stopped her during her time at Nightmare, and Mario and Dedede intervened the second time several times later-and each attempt leaves her scarred and more broken than ever.
  • In The Return of the Phantom Empire, Donkirk's most loyal subordinate, Yutaka, recalls that as a young man he attempted to kill himself a long time ago due to his Dark and Troubled Past.
    • Quick Draw, who was subject to Donkirk's horrific tortures at the H-B Zoo, almost did so as well, which scarred his friends and made him leave the country. He tells Quack-Up this in order to reassure the duck that he wasn't the only one who saw the horrors of that place.
• Drunk on the Dark Side:
  • Happens to all of the heroes during the Dark Keyblade arc of The Heroes of Time, but special mentions go to Top Cat and Huckleberry Hound. When T.C. grabs the Dark Keyblade, he undergoes a Split-Personality Takeover (which is custom for any who holds the Dark Keyblade) and starts hurting everyone, laughing hysterically while doing it. Later, Huck grabs the Dark Keyblade after finally managing to get it away from Top Cat, but it is then where his Superpowered Evil Side is revealed, and he becomes The Berserker, not being able to tell friends from foes, and starts attacking innocent people.
  • Jackson Flatts also got hit hard by this in Chapter 17 of Super Readers' Biggest Adventure after Chaos possessed him and gave him his new powers.
  • Paragor got hit by this hard in Chapter 10 of The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade, where after he takes on the powers of the Dark One, he uses it to kill his own father, who at that point went mad with power. The clincher is that his father had returned to his senses, but Paragor still killed him even after he apologized for what he did. Since then, he has had occasional slips into this, especially when he decides to cut loose.
  • Droop-a-Long Coyote, of all people, got hit with this in The Dream Eater, a fantasy AU to The Ghost of Huckleberry Hound. He's seen laughing like a maniac as he starts sucking up the townspeople's dreams, and when he goes to Ricochet, this is what he has to say:
  Droop-a-Long(who is currently under the influence of the Dream Eater's power): I bet you wish you gave me my due of respect, huh, Mr. Ricochet? Now that I have this power, I'll get it from everyone...includin' the people who should've given it to me in the first place!
• Dude, Not Funny!: This is the reaction of many characters in response to just plain cruel jabs:
  • In The Return of the Phantom Empire, Yogi jokingly asks if Snerdly's hatred of the Phantom Empire is because one of them killed his father. He quickly takes it back.
  • Fiery Heart, Broken Soul has several instances of Bowser making rape jokes to Scarlet and Devane after the Smashers learn about Scarlet's past. Considering the fact that it's only been 3 to 4 months after Scarlet was rescued by Dedede and after her rape at the hands of Dr. Ver, it comes off as Bowser crossing the Moral Event Horizon.
    • Ganondorf also makes a very rude joke about Scarlet's child Aria, who she believes has been killed by Dr. Ver, along with her father, Devane. He pretty much deserved the Megaton Punch that Scarlet gave him in response to that.
  • Dead On Dave's jokes about Baba Looey being Quick Draw's pack mule in Have Guitar, Will Travel aren't so funny, since Baba Looey's Dark and Troubled Past had him literally being just that.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: Droop-a-Long in the Alternate Universe story to The Ghost of Huckleberry Hound, The Dream Eater. Being The Chew Toy for years and not receiving much of thanks from people or Ricochet has left Droop-a-Long bitter with envy, although he manages to hide it well. The Dream Eater preys on his envy to get him to Turn To The Dark Side, and he does, resulting in a very selfish Superpowered Evil Side.
  • He also exhibits this in Blazin' Trails a few times, envying Ricochet several times. However, he will quickly set it aside in order to help or save Ricochet when he's in trouble, proving how good of a friend he is.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Lexicon in Super Readers' Biggest Adventure. He didn't mind sending an army of possessed villagers after a group of children (and even laughing at them fighting their own family, which clearly traumatized both Wonder Red and Alpha Pig), but the minute the Evil Reader starts showing feelings towards Princess Presto (which, if you read Chaos' profile above, makes this reek of Squick), kidnaps her and turns her against her friends, he calls him out on this, and promptly goes behind his back, frees her father and allows the next piece of the Summoning Pin to be found. He later gets Black Fang Strikered for it. It's one of the few things that caused his Heel–Face Turn.
  • Dark Truder in the original version of The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade. He has no qualms about letting the Zula Patrol suffer, and he was willing to help the Dreamscapers get rid of the Zula Patrol, but outright killing them is where he draws the line, and makes no secret to hide his disgust at Ignis's and Paragor's constant schemes to do just that. While it seems to be based on The Only One Allowed to Defeat You excuse, it's really because he has a code of honor towards them, bordering on grudging respect. In fact, it drives him to do a Friendly Enemy gambit during Part 2, especially after Ignis nearly flays him for his unwillingness to cooperate in her plan to kill the patrollers. The alternate universe version of himself may also qualify; he is so disgusted by what Paragor has done to Multo that he performs a Heel–Face Turn and fights for the safety of the galaxy, as well as possibly saving Multo from his insanity.
    • Subverted thus far in Remastered, as Truder’s portrayal is much more villainous. Early in the story he rejoices at the news of Multo’s death and considers killing the rest of the team, a notion that scares Traxie (who, mind you, is usually unimpressed with Truder’s admittedly childish schemes) and Deliria (Truder's rival for Villain of the Year). And during Multo’s trip in the Dreamscape, Alt!Truder straight up tries to murder him. Only time will tell if he will work with the Zula Patrol or not.
  • Donkirk in The Return of the Phantom Empire, surprisingly. This guy has conquered home worlds and has no qualms about torturing animals to gain their despair by pulling a page out of Paragor’s book and subjecting them to their worst fears, but he draws the line at completely breaking people mentally to the point where they become different people. During his talk with Rokusaburo, who is really miffed about having been beaten by Snerdly, the latter mentions his old master, who apparently is the reason why he's a Psycho for Hire. Upon thanking Donkirk for saving him from being institutionalized, Donkirk mostly waves it off, but he does mention that what his master did sickened him, and even says he doesn't say that often.
    • He also believes that rape is evil, and that humans having relations with animals is disgusting. The fact that Ver was telling him to do that to his prisoners (one of them being Top Cat) outright sickened him, although Bowser quickly took care of Ver before he could.
  • In the crossover ficMysterious Gathering, the villains featured are no saints. But when Dr. Ver talks about using rape to control their prisoners, all of them are revolted, namely Lexicon (whose opponents are children) and Donkirk (whose prisoners are animals). It’s Bowser who gets an honorable mention here, as despite his actions, he truly loves Peach and wouldn't rape her to have her for himself, as Dr. Ver callously suggested. He even punched Dr. Ver into the wall for it.
  • Gus Holiday’s boss, Mr. Tycoonius, in the Roman Holidays section of Eclipsed Horizons. For all intents and purposes, he is a Bad Boss who would fire Gus if he even thought of calling in sick (and in the story proper, he lays off Gus despite knowing he needed the extra money, leading to Gus hauling off on him and ending up going to jail). Uncharacteristically for most bosses featured in this fic, however, he serves as a sounding board to the main character; he did call Gus out for what he did to his family, but was also sympathetic about his reasons behind his actions (as it turns out, Tycoonius has a son who was drafted). He’s also the first to call out Evictus for his actions earlier in the story, and not only gives Laurie the bailout money, but also gives the Holidays a place to stay until they can get a place of their own. Compared to Mr. Spacely (who retains his characterization as a Jerkass) and Mr. Cogswell (who became a full on villain), Tycoonius is closer to Mr. Slate in that he has some standards, but is still a jerk when it calls for it.
• Everyone Can See It: Also very fond of this. If there's a story of her's that features romance (which is about every story), expect this trope to come into play. Cases include:
  • Hugs and Kisses, in which part of this is the crux of the story. Everyone can see it, except Bob.
  • Super Mario Bros.: The Darkside Chronicles. The story starts out with Mario planning to propose to Peach, but being somewhat chicken to do so. This leads Luigi and his Koopa friend, Jerry, to play a prank on Mario in which they put up a fake wedding poster that has the whole castle in a happy mood. Luigi even tells Peach that a blind man could see how close she and Mario are.
  • The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade. Bula was one of the few to discern early on (as revealed in flashback) that Multo is in love with Zeeter. Multo and a couple of the populace knows that Zeeter's got a not-so-secret crush on Bula, but he doesn't know that she has a slight fondness for him. And the whole team knows what's going on between Bula and Bonnie...
    • Remastered has Bula as Multo's unofficial wingman, not knowing that Zeeter and Bonnie are in love with him (though he later turns her down). Autofocus and Rachel (Multo's sister) knew that Professor Precipito had a not-so-secret crush on him.
  • Have Guitar, Will Travel has everyone trying to ship Quick Draw and Clarissa together, with Baba Looey doing most of the teasing. Even Ricochet is in on it.
• Everybody's Dead, Dave: In the third arc of The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade, the alternate Multo became the only original member of the Zula Patrol who survived Paragor's onslaught.
  • Super Readers' Biggest Adventure coupled this with Kill Em All; after Jackson became the Evil Reader and wiped out everything with Diabolic Emission, he realized that he was truly alone forever.
• Everyone Has Standards: In Acceptance, there are a couple of hunters that hate the dog just as much as Paul does. But even they are appalled when Paul tells them to Kill It with Fire. Thankfully, the ducks put a stop to that.
  • In The Heroes of Time, Top Cat and Huckleberry Hound don't get along that well, and were happy when either of them were humiliated. But as much as they didn't like each other, they were not going to sit back and let each other die, whether from the Heartless, their enemies or the effects the Dark Keyblade had on their bodies. Interestingly enough, this actually helps them set aside their differences and become Vitriolic Best Buds.
• Everythings Better With Princesses: Princess Muse in Super Readers' Biggest Adventure.
• Evil Is Cool: Massively subverted. Most of the villains are Complete Monster or cross the Moral Event Horizon somewhere along the course of the story, which really decreases the cool factor and ups the vile factor.
• Evil Is Hammy: The Evil Reader in Super Readers' Biggest Adventure, full stop.
  • Julian and Eddie show some shades of this in Hugs and Kisses, especially during the reveal of their plan to Big Idea.
• Evil Old Folks:
  • Lexicon in Super Readers’ Biggest Adventure started out this way, using his powers to get revenge on Major Land and to attain power alongside the Evil Reader. The actions that the Evil Reader took described above in Even Evil Has Standards sees him subvert this trope and become The Atoner for the rest of the series. And if the ending is to be believed, Chaos also counts due to being of an ancient race that lives to be hundreds of years old.
  • All three of the Phantom Imperials (Donkirk, Yutaka, and Rokusaburo) in The Return of the Phantom Empire.
  • The For Love and Glory series sure loves these:
• Evil Virtues: While some of the villains in her stories are irredeemable due to their actions, there are the ones who have these traits to show that they aren't just plain evil...they just tend to call them weaknesses.
  • Julian Maverick, though still a notorious bad boss, is way more patient than Eddie, who is Hot-Blooded and has anger issues.
  • Donkirk in The Return of the Phantom Empire. His sense of responsibility, patience and his occasional humility are hints that there is a human in that wizened form...and hints of a deeper personality.
  • Paragor in The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade. While he is also rather patient, what makes him stand out is his ambition and determination. Despite having been sealed away twice, he is a major Determinator and tries to make himself better (until he decided to destroy Zula, that is). He also has a code of valor, and he normally holds up to his word.
• Extreme Doormat: Jim in Acceptance, especially since his friends convinced him to abuse his own dog. He grows out of it at the end of the story, and actually gives Paul a credible "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
  • Felicia in Have Guitar, Will Travel, and Melissa in Ricocheted Rendezvous. Later installments show how both of them eventually come out of their shells due to their Character Development.
• Fantastic Racism:
  • Bowser has been subject to this in Fiery Heart, Broken Soul by the Toads, who call him and Koopas "lizards" as a slur. To say that he wasn't too happy when Scarlet called him that is an understatement.
  • Occasionally pops up in the author’s Hanna-Barbera stories, where Interspecies Friendship is given a greater focus there than in the cartoons. Blazin' Trails is the most egregious of the lot, as in addition to the racist villains that appear, the humans that run both Gopher Gulch ad Hoop ‘n Holler are very speciest as well, with the latter having a reputation for their bigotry towards animal folk. They learned to respect Ricochet (although that doesn’t stop some a-holes from calling him derogatory monikers), but they targeted Droop-a-Long because of his species. While this is one of the few topics that actually gets under Droop’s skin, his first few years in town made him consider quitting because of all the hate he got. Ricochet and Denise were both guilty of this prior to meeting Droop-a-Long, though thankfully, both disavowed that and became better people. Much of Ricochet’s family, though, still has this attitude, especially towards coyotes, if Ricochet’s father is anything to go by.
• Flat-Earth Atheist:
  • Both Top Cat & Trixie in Mirror, Mirror. Trixie is initially very dismissive of magic and the supernatural at the beginning, only for her tune to change when she develops her powers. Top Cat went through a similar experience prior to the events of the fic, and his tune quickly changed when he encountered a Grim Reaper and was sealed away.
  • Again, Top Cat in A Heroes of Time and the H I3rd/H-B crossover. He even notes how insane it is for him to believe in stuff like that.
• Forbidden Friendship:
  • Ricochet and Droop-a-Long's friendship in Blazin' Trails is hinted to be this, mostly due to the Fantastic Racism against coyotes. Despite this, the two remain great friends, and not only have people backed off, but have respected them for it.
  • Punkin' Puss' friendship with Chester Cheshire in Big City Tabby, which also doubles as the Odd Friendship. The former's a hillman who's a bully towards mice, while the latter's a noble rich city cat who'd never dream of harming a mouse. Despite their completely opposite personalities, the two of them somehow became friends, but Chester's parents don't approve of Punkin' Puss due to his lifestyle and mannerisms, as well as their opinion of mountain folk in general (Chester's father even calls Punkin' "mountain scruff" as an insult).
  • Another example involving Punkin' Puss would be his friendship with Mushmouse in the Temporary Truce universe, which nearly gets both of them killed by his maniacal family. Punkin' at one point considered ending the friendship, but Mushmouse—and Ricochet—wouldn't let him do so.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse:
  • The original version of The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade features Paragor’s backstory, and the Zula Patrol’s reactions to it. In chapters 9 and 10, Paragor invites the Zula Patrol to his hideout and shows them his past so that they can learn more about him and who he is. We’re supposed to feel bad for him because he’s being abused by his father, and the tipping point where he finally recognizes just how far his father has fallen from grace—when he kills his fiancée in front of him—is supposed to give him the reason as to why he wanted to change the world into a better one where there’s no suffering. Indeed, Paragor’s father was a horrible being, and after everything he’d done, he did have it coming. But as Bula points out in his Shut Up, Hannibal! speech, this backstory didn’t make them feel any more sympathetic or understanding of his cause than they did originally. In fact, Bula goes out of his way to acknowledge that Paragal I was horrible, but what Paragor ended up doing was even worse. From going to his father’s worst enemy (who notoriously destroyed the planet and killed millions of people) to gain ultimate power and then brutally murdering his father, to go on and commit numerous atrocities on Zulean soil after his banishment, it certainly doesn’t paint him in a good light, nor does it make him want to help “correct the planet’s wrongs”. And then there’s what Paragor did to the Zula Patrol: making them believe Multo died, kidnapping Zeeter, almost killing Bula, and causing numerous deaths in the capital city with his Legion army. Bula tells Paragor that anybody with a right mind would’ve banished him. The fact that Paragor even said himself that he wasn’t going to explain everything only adds insult to injury—and yet, at the end of chapter 10, Paragor’s the one flipping out because he believes that Zuleans can’t be trusted, when in reality, he’s the untrustworthy one. Whether this part will be seen in the remastered version is up for debate.
  • This is also invoked for Jackson and Lexicon in the Super readers’ Biggest Adventure series. Both went through horrible incidents that provided some depth as to why they went on the wrong path. But they do face harsh judgement for their crimes, with the former being ostracized and even hated by some of the characters for what he did while he was possessed by Chaos.
    • This is even invoked for Chaos, the Big Bad of the series, as explained in the penultimate chapter of SRBA: Gaiden: Darkness Rewrite. In the penultimate chapter, Whyatt over hears Jeremiah and the other Councilmen talking about how hard it must be on Jeremiah to fight his brother—keep in mind that at this point, the Super Readers didn’t know that Jeremiah and Chaos are related. Jeremiah hints that jealousy was one of the reasons why Chaos turned to evil, and one man, who was recently added to the council, naively states that Chaos could probably be redeemed by the Super Readers, as after all, “someone like Jackson was”. Jeremiah, who’s arguably one of the nicest people in the series, absolutely goes off on this guy, his voice taking on the tone of an angry god at this point, which scares Whyatt and everyone into silence. Jeremiah tells him that while he understands why people are angry at Jackson, he can’t compare the former Super Reader’s actions to Chaos’, because while Jackson genuinely regretted his crimes and accepted his punishment, determined to change for good, Chaos has never shown remorse for his crimes, which increased in both brutality and depravity. Chaos’ actions went beyond the above people possessing, hero killing, and soul stealing, but also included capturing and molesting women—specifically, ones with great power that he could manipulate—until he breaks them, and then kills them afterwards. He states that he has a preference for girls on age as Muse, Red and Princess Presto, and did other horrible things to young children; in fact, one of his favorite things he liked to do—as evidenced with his toying with Whyatt in the original—was to present horrible fates of the children’s loved ones to them, scaring them into giving up or joining his side. Jeremiah did at one point try to bring his brother back, but upon seeing his brother kill a young princess and her sister with no remorse, he decided that Chaos was irredeemable from then on.
• For Want Of A Nail: The events of The Good The Bad And Huckleberry Hound are changed dramatically with Huck's death in The Ghost of Huckleberry Hound. The Daltons take over not just Two-Bit, but even more towns in the west, and enslave the townspeople instead of driving them out like they did in the movie.
• From Nobody to Nightmare:
  • Paragor in both versions of The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade. He goes from being a Wide-Eyed Idealist "Well Done, Son" Guy with a Horrible Judge of Character towards his father, to becoming one of the most feared people in the galaxy, developing his Chronic Backstabbing Disorder, his manipulative habits, and his entitlement complex. After being forced to kill his father, he leaves his own country kingless in search for another world that he can control. His goal is to recreate the universe and drive everyone in it into despair with his dreamscapes, which can best be described as a Lotus-Eater Machine infused with Nightmare Fuel; in other words, he's forcibly subjecting everyone to live in hisvision of the perfect world, meaning that everyone in the entire galaxy will suffer Fate Worse than Death for the rest of their lives. This is only possible with his possession of an Artifact of Doom that he was supposed to relinquish, but refused to and went back on the contract. He also wants revenge against Zula in particular, as the House of the Zulean Phoenix, where Multo descends from, sealed him away twice (not like they didn't have a reason NOT to, as he committed two mass genocides during his first appearance on the planet). It should also be mentioned that he is the catalyst behind the dreaded Dark Days of Zula, otherwise known as the First and Second Dreamscape Crusades. Plus, when he kills himself, it turns out that he had a back up plan to come Back from the Dead, because he's not dying until he fulfills the prophecy: in which he succeeds in the Third Dreamscape Crusade, which is unfolding as the story takes place. Talk about a dramatic Face–Heel Turn.
    • In that same story, the same could be said for the Alternate Universe Multo that Bula, Bonnie, Wizzy, Wigg, and Gorga run into during Part 3: The Dark Days of Zula, in which things go From Bad to Worse. Although he definitely wasn't a nobody, in this alternate universe, he goes from being a simple absent-minded, eccentric but kindhearted professor loved by everyone to an Ax-Crazy Evil Overlord with a god complex that has driven Zula into another Dark Age. The reason for this? Paragor. The Raptor, in a brilliant display of his manipulative nature, decides to still go about bringing the Third Dreamscape Crusade by passing on his role as the Dark One to Multo. He does this by first brutally killing Multo's friends one by one, starting with his friend Professor Autofocus, and each killing started to seriously damage Multo's psyche. The final person to die is his Love Interest Zeeter, and he broke down when he realized that she was dying. The clincher is that Zeeter, who couldn't chose between him and Bula in the normal timeline, gave Multo a Dying Declaration of Love in this universe, and then she Disappears into Light in front of him, sending him into a devastating Heroic BSoD. Seeing Multo in such a state, Paragor possesses Multo with the Dark One, in the hopes that it will eventually kill him after he was done reforming Zula into a Hell on Earth. What happens instead is that Multo ends up killing Paragor and the rest of the Dreamscapers in rage, and in his grief-induced rage and lapse of sanity, he also ends up destroying majority of Zula. Not long afterwards, before he can come to terms with what he did, he undergoes a Split-Personality Takeover, and the result is that the Dark One becomes the king of Zula. Now, he has a 0% Approval Rating, and is hated by nearly everyone on Zula. It got so bad, it forced Dark Truder to make a Heel–Face Turn and form a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits in order to expel the Dark One from Multo, as he's still not going to kill him due to his Honor Before Reason, and the fact that he knows that Multo is Not Evil, Just Misunderstood. Even worse, Paragor is actually planning on bringing this dreamscape to life.
  • Super Readers' Biggest Adventure: Jackson goes from being a slightly selfish but good-intentioned guy to the biggest bad guy ever, especially after he gets possessed by Chaos, abandons his original dream of becoming a Super Reader, kills his best friends after believing that he was betrayed by them, and he causes The End of the World as We Know It for his own story by using his newfound powers to create a massive Sphere of Destruction that wipes it out. This isn't Chaos' doing. This is all on him. Thankfully, he got better.
  • This happens to Droop-a-Long Coyote of all people in The Dream Eater. He goes from the slow but ultimately loyal and friendly sidekick we all know and love, to a backstabbing outlaw who's Dangerously Genre-Savvy, extremely selfish and is clearly Drunk on the Dark Side.
• The Gadfly:
  • Rokusaburo in The Return of the Phantom Empire. In the Intercontinuity Crossover, Mysterious Gathering, his penchant for teasing almost gets him killed by the Evil Reader.
  • Droop-a-Long, surprisingly, in Blazin' Trails. On the few times he gets the upper hand on Ricochet, he's seen pushing the sheriff's buttons, although he knows when to rein it in.
  • Ricochet's other main personality quirk aside from his temper is this—some of his jokes tend to be double sided, but all in all, it's nothing offensive. In Blazin' Trails, Droop-a-Long's his main target, as he loves teasing him about Denise (although it'll quickly backfire when Droop-a-Long teases him about Melissa). Other stories that feature him outside of the Blazin' Trails universe keeps this part of his personality; Spring in His Step has him teasing Snooper about his address book (which contains many females' phone numbers) and leading Blabber on with a story about his own address book. The continuation, So We Meet Again, has him bring it up when Snooper says he's never going to have kids. Note that this takes place five years after the first one.
  • Top Cat in any fic he appears in, oh so very much.
  • Mushmouse in any fic he appears in simply loves to pick on Punkin’ Puss. Big City Tabby featured some close calls for him, though, since Punkin' Puss has no qualms of shooting him over the most minor of insults.
  • Blabbermouse, surprisingly, loves to pick on Snooper whenever he can.
• Go Mad from the Revelation: Narrowly subverted in part 2 of The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade; Multo almost does this after learning of his heritage, but Wizzy, Wigg and Bula bring him back from the brink. His ancestor, Multo I (who's also his namesake), plays this straight once he learns that the technique he used brought Paragor back, the Ill Girl he'd been trying to save died anyway, and that the Dark One will eventually take over his body. Cue him doing this trope, as well as undergoing Sanity Slippage.
• Good Is Not Soft: Every single freaking hero in her stories is this. They all stick to their ethics, but that doesn't mean they're going to go easy on you when you've pushed them too far.
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Every story has this. Every once in a while, a character may come close to swearing, but they'll be cut off immediately.
• Guilty Pleasures: In Blazin' Trails, Ricochet mocks the romance novels that droop-a-Long and Denise read, only to become engrossed in the story, and near the end he admits to enjoying them—but not as much as Droop-a-Long does. This turns Droop-a-Long into The Gadfly (mentioned above), and Hilarity Ensues.
• Hair-Trigger Temper:
  • Both Wonder Red and Princess Muse exhibit this in the original version of Super Readers’ Biggest Adventure, with the former’s anger manifesting into The Berserker.
  • Zeeter in any Zula Patrol fic that she appears in. If it weren’t for both Bula and Multo keeping her in check, she might’ve hauled off on a few of the series’ villains a few times.
  • James in Sodor Magic Crusaders. His temper manifests in battle as a Blood Knight, where he’s able to unleash his frustrations on his opponents to deadly efficiency. Charlie and Duncan also have this, though the former can’t weaponize it like James can.
  • Ricochet in both The Ghost of Huckleberry Hound series and Blazin' Trails. The latter even explains that this is a family trait, with several of his family members having it, though who has the worst temper is up for debate. Oddly enough, the family temper didn’t come from Ricochet’s great-grandfather, but his great-grandmother, Reese Rabbit, whom even Ricochet’s father recalls as being “a crack away from snapping”.
  • Punkin' Puss in any story he appears in. To put this into perspective, even the equally trigger-happy Ricochet (mentioned above) is wary of Punkin’s temper, noting that it’s bad news whenever he gets his blunderbuss.
• Heel–Face Turn: Several villains in her stories perform these.
• The Hero Dies:
  • Huckleberry Hound is killed in The Ghost of Huckleberry Hound early on in the story, which kicks off a chain reaction that changes everything in The Good The Bad And Huckleberry Hound.
  • Ricochet is killed in chapter 11 of Blazin' Trails, which in itself is an Alternate Universe to that story.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners:
  • Bob and Larry in her Veggie Tales fics, especially in Hugs and Kisses and the aptly titled “Best Friends Forever”. Larry has outright referred to Bob as his brother, a statement that Bob wholeheartedly agrees with. Whispers in the Wind featured Larry’s departure from Big Idea as one of the catalysts that nearly drove Bob to end it all, and the two’s reunion near the end of the fic is the biggest Hope Spot in the story.
  • Alpha Pig and Princess Presto in the Super Readers’ Biggest Adventure series. As Wonder Red and Super Why are often paired together, the two would work together more frequently, with Presto serving as Alpha Pig’s sound board, and Pig being a good supportive friend to her. Their teamwork really shines in the Gaiden series, namely in Darkness Rewrite, where they defend each other on the battlefield and are often seen working together as the team’s unofficial strategists.
  • Bula and Zeeter in every Zula Patrol fics they star in—fitting, since Zeeter was outright stated to be Bula’s best friend/sidekick in the bio. Depending on the story, however, that “life partners” descriptor is a little more literal.
    • And on that note, Multo is this with Bula. In the story “Academy Daze”, Bula and Multo met when Bula had to take a remedial class in order to become the captain of the Zula Patrol, and Multo was his teacher. The two got along like a house on fire, and even Zeeter notes that the bond they share is a bit different than her own with Bula. Even though Bula is technically Multo’s superior, the two still enjoy a good rapport and support system.
    • As for Multo and Zeeter, their friendship crosses into Odd Friendship due to their conflicting personalities, but there’s no denying the respect they have for each other. As with Bula and Zeeter, Multo and Zeeter’s status can change depending on the story.
  • Gordon and Henry in Sodor Magic Crusaders, to the point where Diesel teases them for it. Anything happening to Henry is one of the few things that will immediately make Gordon lose his cool—in the first story, he outright threatens to kill Diesel if Henry gets hurt, and in A’s, he leads the charge in attacking Nacht Wal and grows increasingly desperate, afraid that Henry will never be freed. In the original draft, however, Gordon and Edward had this dynamic, with their friendship forging in the throes of battle similar to how Nanoha and Fate’s was. Other pairs like this include Thomas and Percy, James and Edward (though they were Vitriolic Best Buds for a while after the Counts officially joined the Crusaders) and Sir Handel and Rheneas.
  • Blazin' Trails and its remake, Blazin' Trails Redux:
    • Ricochet Rabbit and Droop-a-Long Coyote. Word of God states that the main reason for Blazin’ Trails’ existence was due to a thought of how Ricochet and Droop-a-Long could be friends rather than having a boss-employee relationship (where in the cartoon it’s hinted that Ricochet mostly tolerates Droop just to have a person who can praise him). The result—a mini Door Stopper featuring vignettes into this pair’s friendship, where they both explicitly call each other brothers in all but blood. In the fourth chapter of BT, it explains how the two met—Ricochet was prejudiced against coyotes and initially dismissed Droop-a-Long at first, searching for a rabbit to be his deputy. Droop-a-Long’s kindness, and his role in saving his life, would lead to Ricochet disavowing that behavior, and he picked the coyote to be his deputy. They’re practically inseparable, to the point where Ricochet’s girlfriend Melissa notes that the only person who’d steal Ricochet from her would be Droop-a-Long. And even when they eventually part ways in Redux, it’s clear that their friendship is going to last for the rest of their lives. Their friendship is described by outsiders as “iron tight, unbreakable, and able to withstand nearly anything”. Though they are polar opposites in terms of temperament, interests and personality, their similarities and common ground on important issues is what keeps their friendship alive, not to mention their Undying Loyalty to each other.
    • The prequel for the entire series, Terror of the Rio Grande, gives us Ricochet I (Ricochet’s great-grandfather) and Olivier Coyote (Droop-a-Long’s great-grandfather). Their friendship starts off in an even more dramatic way than their great-grandsons’: Ric I came upon some tradesmen beating up Olivier, saved him from getting killed and arrested the tradesmen, and treated the wounded coyote himself when no other doctor wanted to treat him due to their prejudice—and when the remaining purchasers came back to finish the job and kill Ricochet, Olivier saved him, and Ricochet in turn saved Olivier from being executed by hiring him on as a deputy. Olivier’s own prejudice towards rabbits made him wary of Ricochet, and even after he was offered the position he told him outright that he’d kill him if he turned out to be like his previous masters. And Ricochet, already a badass at this point told him he’d hold him to that promise if he ever did, making Olivier realize that Ricochet was a rabbit of his word. Their close friendship wasn’t just forbidden, it was outright illegal, but since Ricochet was the most popular sheriff at the time and didn’t give a damn about standards, no criticism could break their friendship. They too outright referred to each other as brothers in all but blood, and Ricochet’s wife Reese joked that they had natural chemistry with each other. Their close friendship ended when Olivier was murdered by Red Scorpion, and though Ricochet got swift vengeance on them, he was inconsolable about his loss, and couldn’t even speak of Olivier without sobbing uncontrollably. Still, he regarded Olivier as the best deputy and man one could ask for, even if he didn’t name him, which inspired his young great-grandson to be like him and get a “cool deputy” of his own…which he eventually found in Droop-a-Long.
  • Huckleberry Hound has three:
    • His best friend in the whole world is naturally, Yogi Bear. Aside from Boo-Boo (who is also this with Yogi), Huck and Yogi are close friends, with the hound putting up with Yogi’s crazier shenanigans and Yogi being a good sounding board for Huck. In The Heroes of Time, Yogi is a lot more protective of Huck than normal (namely because unlike him, Huck has no experience in combat), and in the Honkai/Hanna-Barbera crossover Eclipsed Horizons, Huck, Yogi and Boo-Boo were roommates in the dorms before Huck was lost in the Sea of Quanta. In The Cerulean Avenger, their friendship was tested due to their missions clashing, but they would eventually put it aside to unite against Hokey Wolf, who was revealed to have orchestrated the mission where Huckleberry Hound killed Rose, Ricochet’s sister, in a gambit to both give Ricochet his powers and later kill him for them.
    • His other good friend is Top Cat, which doubles as an Odd Friendship as the two don’t appear too much together in H-B canon. Similar to Yogi, Huck usually puts up with T.C.’s more outlandish shenanigans, but both often play as each other's sounding board/voice of reason when it comes to each others problems. In Dog Days, Top Cat helped Huck find a new job after he was fired from his job for fighting with Stinky Dalton, and later led the rescue party to find Huck when they hadn’t heard from him. In Good Enough for Me, Huck tells Top Cat to not give up on Trixie after the cat doubts that his lifestyle would sit well with her. Their friendship shines best, however, in stories such as “Never Too Late”, A Welcome Distraction, and the Born For Adversity chapter, “I’ve Got Your Back”. “Never Too Late” features TC advising Huck after the latter cheats on Desert Flower. “A Welcome Distraction” featured both Top Cat and Yogi helping Huck with depression and talking him out of committing suicide, with the former even delving into an Anger Born of Worry speech when he finds Huck alive and well. And in the fifth chapter of Born For Adversity, titled “I’ve Got Your Back”, Top Cat gets his boys to help him break Huck out of an abusive relationship with Clementine, whose cheating and gold-digging ways have not only driven Huck nearly bankrupt, but also nearly drove him to do the unthinkable. To say that T.C was pissed off at Clementine is the understatement of the freaking year. The remastered version of The Heroes of Time has this bond tested when both of them are dealing with the Heartless, although thankfully by the end of the story the two are still friends.
    • Snagglepuss is also a close friend of Huck’s, and similar to Yogi, this serves as a Call-Back to their interactions in the cartoons. This is seen mostly in The Heroes of Time (with Snag being a supporting member in Huck’s party), but other fics such as the upcoming H I3rd/Honkai crossover and The Ghost of Huckleberry Hound features them at their best. In The Cerulean Avenger, Snagglepuss is Huck’s closest friend, having known of his life before he became a Celestial Warrior and being Huck’s Morality Pet throughout most of the series.
  • Touché Turtle and Dum-Dum in the For Love and Glory series. Dum-Dum practically worships the turtle, and while Touché doesn’t reject his praise, he deeply respects and appreciates Dum-Dum’s presence in his life. Their friendship is a near parallel to Ricochet and Droop-a-Long (mentioned above), with the added factor that Touché allowed Dum-Dum into his very small circle of friends (albeit not without some pestering from the sheepdog) after the deaths of his mentor and first sidekick caused him to retreat within himself. Even after telling Dum-Dum everything about his painful past, the sheepdog refuses to leave Touché alone, saying that he’ll always be his best friend. And their sense of Undying Loyalty is stronger than Ricochet and Droop-a-Long’s; if you do something to either of them, you’d better start running, because neither of them will hesitate to kill you.
  • Punkin' Puss and Mushmouse are this in the Temporary Truce universe. Makes sense since they formed their friendship during a truce.
  • Peck and Toby in You've Got My Attention. Callie jokes in chapter 6 that they're a package deal: if Peck dates any girl, she'll have to get used to seeing Toby around.
• He Who Fights Monsters:
  • This was the tagline (or part of it, anyway) for the original version of The Heroes of Time.
  • The Cerulean Avenger features Huckleberry Hound, who became more of an anti-hero as his desire for revenge took hold, and Yogi Bear, who admits openly that for him, friend and foe are interchangeable. Both would later get redemption arcs that would restore their heroic desires, but man. 100 years (or 1000, in Huck’s case) of fighting other warriors will really screw with someone’s psyche.
• Hidden Depths: It's easier to list the characters that don't have these.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Punkin' Puss in Big City Tabby and any other H-B fic that he appears in. For all of his numerous flaws, he does have a good side, although the few times this is sincerely shown (and not part of a gimmick to get whatever he wants) is when he's around his friends, particularly Chester (with whom he has a Cool Kid-and-Loser Friendship), Ricochet (with whom he has an Odd Friendship), Droop-a-Long, Magilla and occasionally his rival Mushmouse when their rivalry cools down.
• Hollywood Tone-Deaf: Quick Draw in Have Guitar, Will Travel, and Droop-a-Long in Blazin' Trails.
• Hot-Blooded:
  • Wonder Red is this in Super Readers' Biggest Adventure. Doesn't help that her powers deal with fire.
  • Ricochet Rabbit in the Blazin' Trails series.
  • Peck in You've Got My Attention and several other Sheriff Callie fics.
• I Choose to Stay: Despite accepting Quick Draw's feelings, Clarissa decides to remain in Hoop 'n Holler to fulfill her dreams at the end of Have Guitar, Will Travel.
• I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship: This is Zeeter's dilemma in Dreamscape Crusade. She's in love with both Bula and Multo, but she's afraid that by choosing one she's going to break the heart of another.
  • Denise also had this struggle inIf Likin' You Is Wrong and Safe from the Rain. She acknowledged the possibility that she might like Droopy as more than just a friend, but she was afraid of losing the comfortable relationship she had with him, mostly because she thinks that he doesn't like her like that. She's quickly proven wrong when Droop-a-Long confesses to her both times.
• Interspecies Friendship: Most of the Hanna Barbera fics in her universe focus on the friendships with various species(Quick Draw and Baba Looey, Ricochet and Droop-a-Long, Top Cat and Huck) and how they manage to remain friends despite the standards.
• Interspecies Romance:Blazin' Trails has Droop-a-Long (coyote) with Denise Falconeri (rabbit). Their older siblings, Drag-a-Long Coyote and Serena Falconeri, also had this, resulting in a son.
  • Ricochet himself has had a few of these romances due to him being The Casanova in his earlier years. Both Blazin' Trails and the modern day universe hints that he is attracted to human females in addition to his own species.
• I Surrender, Suckers: Baba Looey says this word for word in The Ghost of Huckleberry Hound, when the Daltons attempt to kill him as he's stalling for time.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold:
  • Top Cat has been portrayed like this in a few H-B fics.
  • Punkin' Puss in Big City Tabby. Despite being a fight-happy hothead, a bully towards mice, and his scheming nature, he does have a good side, although it takes a lot to get it to show. He values loyalty and honesty over everything else ([[Irony which is interesting since sometimes he's quick to lie]]) and vowed to never steal from his friends, no matter what their standing. One reason he hates being worried is that when he does worry, it (and guilt) consumes him and he immediately jumps into the situation; although it hasn't helped him in the past, it does show that he looks out for his friends and will jump in to help them.
• Killed Off for Real:
  • Super Readers Biggest Adventure had Jackson's friends, and the whole population of Minor Land when he wiped out his own story after becoming the Evil Reader. Angelica, Lexicon's lover, was also killed off rather brutally, as shown in Lexicon's flashback.
  • Redemption killed off Professors Hector and Vector, the main characters of Video Game/Gyromite and R.O.B.'s creators.
  • Whispers in the Wind did this to Madame Blueberry.
  • The Ghost of Huckleberry Hound did this to Huckleberry Hound, though you should've figured that out from the title.
  • Ricochet in chapter 11 of Blazin' Trails was killed by an outlaw. And in chapter 29 of the same story, Droop-a-Long meets a similar, grislier fate. Thankfully, both chapters are set in an Alternate Universe.
• Laughing Mad: Top Cat in The Heroes of Time when he grabs the Dark Keyblade and falls under its power.
• Light Is Not Good: Chaos' powers in Super Readers' Biggest Adventure. If you ever see intense light coming from this guy, RUN.
  • In that same vein, Paragor's powers in Dreamscape Crusade.
• Loser Friend Puzzles Outsiders: Punkin's friendship with Chester in Big City Tabby confounds everyone; Chester's parents notwithstanding, Mushmouse was also surprised to hear that Punkin' Puss knew someone of Chester's caliber, and in one point in the fic he falls to the same suspicion that Chester's parents have and thinks Punkin's trying to con the older male. Chester was quick to defend Punkin' Puss when his parents started in on him, but it's only after Punkin' Puss proves his innocence by finding the real culprit in a jewel heist (he'd been suspected of steal Chester's family's crown jewels at a party and nobody believed that he was innocent) that people realized that not only does Chester see Punkin' Puss as a good friend, but that Punkin' Puss does have some good qualities under his blustery nature.
• Lotus-Eater Machine:
  • Happens a total of three times in Super Readers' Biggest Adventure in this order: Jackson Flatts, Whyatt, and Lexicon, with the latter practically being a a shot-by-shot recreation of Fate’s dream sequence in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's.
  • The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade has the Dreamscape. Originally, it was just a projection of what Paragor wanted to accomplish in the real world, and it wasn't nightmarish or anything. It's only after the Dark Days of Zula where the Dreamscape becomes much, much more terrifying.
• Love at First Punch: Multo recalls falling in love with Zeeter this way, as she had more or less slugged him (completely on purpose) during an argument. Zeeter thinks he's nuts.
• Love Makes You Crazy: Arguably could be said for the two versions of Multo in The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade. Multo's ancestor, Multo I, used a Dangerous Forbidden Technique in order to save a girl he loved, only going crazy when it turns out that it didn't revive her. The other version of Multo, which appeared in Part 3: The Dark Days of Zula, was in love with Zeeter. He was already across the Despair Event Horizon when Paragor killed his friends one by one, but when he killed her in front of him and she gave him a Dying Declaration of Love before she died, he went completely berserk and killed Paragor and his entire army, right before undergoing Sanity Slippage and becoming the Dark One.
• Love Makes You Evil:
  • Lexicon in Super Readers' Biggest Adventure. He wasn’t evil to begin with (though he and Muse disliked each other), but he had angered the High Cleric due to his uncovering their treacherous plots. And said treacherous councildid murder his beloved Angelica right in front of him, which would drive any rational human to kill them in anger. Later, he joins the Evil Reader aka Chaos on his conquest in destroying the fairytale world.
    • This could be argued for Jackson/The Evil Reader, who was feared for his reality warping abilities and just wanted to be accepted and loved for who he was.
  • Twisted love (be it familial or romantic) happens to be one of the motivations for three of characters in the original version of The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade:
    • Paragor was a "Well Done, Son" Guy who believed his own fantasies about his father before he learned how evil the king was, leading him to use the powers of Chikyuu, the Artifact of Doom, to kill him, thus becoming the Dark One. He also later doomed his planet to die at the hands of his enemies, and would go on to start other intergalactic conflicts, fully cementing him as a villain).
    • Ignis was originally an alien soldier who fell in love for Multo's ancestor, also named Multo. When her love wasn’t reciprocated, she decides that no one can have him and offs her competition. She later fell for Paragor, gave up her humanity and joined his army. Remastered combines parts of this story with a virulent hatred towards Zuleans, with the Order of the Zulean Phoenix being public enemy number 1.
    • Multo’s ancestor, Multo I, was a good king until he fell in love with a terminal patient from the common streets. So desperate was he to save her that he turned to the Zulean Dark Arts to save her life…an act that not only plunged Zula into another Dark Age and allowed Paragor to launch the Second Dreamscape Crusade, but also drove him absolutely insane and he started to kill his own people, including those of the Order of the Zulean Phoenix. It got to the point where even his allies couldn't do anything for him but grant him a swift, merciful death.
• Luminescent Blush: Pops up a lot in her stories, especially when the characters have been teased or embarrassed.
• The Matchmaker:
  • Madame Blueberry and Lovey Billington were this in Hugs and Kisses, before eventually getting their own boyfriends. Pa, however, plays this straight by trying to help Mr. Lunt get back with his ex-girlfriend, Ellen, and being a huge Shipper on Deck for Archie and Lovey.
• Memento MacGuffin: James' hat in Sodor Magic Crusaders.
  • The Super Diffusion Beam in Redemption.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Chaos crosses it when he manipulates Jackson into turning into the Evil Reader and then later possesses his body, kills nearly every Super Reader in existence, and has no problem killing Super Why and making him lose his powers.
  • Acceptance has the hunters, who represent the players in this story, shoot the Duck Hunt dog. Some may cheer, until you remember that Master Hand explained that the dog was only playing around and taunting them to gain their approval, even though they were abusing him, and it was the only thing saving him from crossing the Despair Event Horizon. The shooting that follows makes him cross that line, and he becomes a Broken Bird.
• Mr. Vice Guy:
  • Pride is one of Ricochet's main vices, as seen in Ricocheted Rendezvous, Blazin' Trails and The Dream Eater. Whenever he gets too cocky, he's setting himself up for defeat and Droop-a-Long usually either bails him out or ends up winning instead. His second vice is Anger, which comes in the form of his Hair-Trigger Temper.
  • Droop-a-Long's vice, as shown in both Blazin' Trails and The Dream Eater, is Envy. Although it rarely pops up due to his eternally relaxed attitude, he does mention a few times that he is jealous of Ricochet's popularity and standing, while he's normally the Butt-Monkey that gets no respect. Interestingly enough, his girlfriend Denise also has Envy as her vice.
  • Felicia is apparently a MsViceGal, as her character profile lists Greed as one of her vices. In The Hand He's Dealt, Felicia's hoarding of the jewels almost gets Quick Draw arrested.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: Upon learning of Scarlet's past, Bowser believes that this is the best way to deal with Scarlet in Fiery Heart, Broken Soul. Even worse, he actually does decide to start coming up with plots to get rid of her.
• Mythology Gag: Also crops up. The Super Smash Brothers story Acceptance, for instance, throws out lots of shout outs to both Hogan's Alley and Wild Gunmen, and explains how the dog came up with his NES Zapper Posse. Super Readers' Biggest Adventure throws out a lot of references and characters from the show's episodes.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  • As mentioned above, Multo I using magic to save the Ill Girl he loved seems like a noble deed...and then you learn that it's a Dangerous Forbidden Technique that didn't work and the result plunged Zula into another Dark Age and allowed Paragor to launch the Second Dreamscape Crusade. This drove him mad with power and grief, and he started to kill people. It got to the point where even his allies couldn't do anything for him but grant him a Mercy Kill.
  • In Sodor Magic Crusaders, Charlie's moment of Unstoppable Rage towards Diesel ends up blowing up part of the labs as well as part of the neighborhood behind them. Charlie practically has a Heroic BSoD at this.
  • In Acceptance, the dog's attempts to be accepted by the hunters in spite of their abuse results in him taking on a more mischievous personality. The kicker? The hunters (minus Jim, his owner) make no secret that they hate him, and after he taunts them again, they literally Shoot the Dog in a moment that clearly crosses the Moral Event Horizon.
  • In The Return of the Phantom Empire, Quack-Up's attempts at rescuing Captain Snerdly end up backfiring severely, as he blows up the Vitalization and inadvertently sends Snerdly into the hands of Donkirk and the oter members of the Empire. And before that, the Goof-Ups fell for an illusion created by Donkirk and Yutaka meant to look like a disco club, leading to Snerdly's capture in the first place.
• Noble Male, Roguish Male: Chester is the Noble Male (a privileged, nice upper-city cat who happens to come from a Big, Screwed-Up Family) to Punkin' Puss' Roguish Male (a temperamental, fight-happy hillman who does have some nice qualities.)
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: The general rule for this is that if the villain has crossed the Moral Event Horizon and pisses off the heroes enough, they’re in for one of these:
  • Chapter 10 of Super Readers' Biggest Adventure features Wonder Red, who had just unlocked her Berserker Mode, giving a particularly brutal one to the Evil Reader and actually knocks him out of his own Berserker Mode. The Super Readers all concur that while he deserved it for all the crap he pulled earlier in the story, it was terrifying for all of them to see her like that.
  • Chapter 5 of Sodor Magic Crusaders features Charlie giving one to Diesel after the latter not only decides to blow up the Device Labs as well as a small town before returning the parts to Diesel 10, but also Charlie that he was the one who blew up his hometown when he was younger, which robbed Charlie of his parents and friends. Upon hearing that Diesel wouldn't mind doing it again, Charlie decides to forego his mission and beat the tar out of him. He did get some disciplinary action for it later, but he didn’t regret it one bit.
    • Chapter 11 recreates the Nanoha vs. Vita fight with James vs. Edward. Edward has the upper hand on James…until he accidentally destroys James' hat. Cue a pissed off James using the full extent of his new cartridge system on Edward, knocking him through several buildings and into the hospital.
  • Chapter 12 of Hugs and Kisses implied that Bob gave one to Julian Maverick after the latter attempted to kill his co-star and new girlfriend Madame Blueberry, though most of this happened off-screen.
  • Future of Wuzzleburg has Chef Spitz, Chef Fritz's son in the future, give one to the past Urzur simply because he showed up. And later you find out his behavior was justified when you learn who his future self is...
  • The fight between Scarlet and Bowser in Fiery Heart, Broken Soul's fourth chapter. It starts out a bit more intense than most matches, but was otherwise pretty light fare until she insulted him by calling him a lizard (a racial slur in the Mushroom Kingdom). At that point, Bowser beats the stuffing out of her and knocks her out of the ring. Scarlet, being as Hot-Blooded as she is, is not going to take such a beating lightly, and challenges him to another fight. It's then that the Bloodier and Gorier nature of the story is revealed, as soon both of them dealing nasty wounds to each other and Bowser even serves up a dose of Eye Scream to go with it. Even though Bowser emerges victorious, most of the Smashers wondered how they were still standing.
    • In that same chapter, Dedede was nearly ready to do the same thing to Bowser, if his slamming Bowser through the wall was of any indication.
  • The original version of The Heroes of Time has this a lot:
    • Chapter 8: Top Cat is barely stopped from giving one to a possessed Officer Dibble, who hurt his gang while he was out of town with Huck and Yogi. And when he finds out about what the Extinguisher has done to Dibble and what he did to the Alley Gang, he turns all his rage on the Heartless and had to be stopped by Yogi from giving a similar one to the Extinguisher. And in that same chapter, Leopold loses his cool when he learns what the Extinguisher has done thus far (including creating a Heartless out of the darkness of Ranger Smith just to mess with Yogi) and beats the utter crap out of him.
    • Chapter 21: George Jetson gets down to business attacking the Extinguisher, who had just attacked his family.
    • Chapter 57: Fred Jones also dispenses of the pleasantries with the Freak of Crystal Cove, and actually runs out and attacks instead of thinking of a plan like he usually does.
    • Chapter 64: When the Extinguisher puts the lives of the competitors of the Laff-a-Lympics in danger, George (who has received his new Keyblade) and Top Cat team up to beat the Extinguisher to a pulp.
    • Chapter 109: Top Cat finds himself on the receiving end of a brutal one from Huck, who is angry that he opened the Door of Darkness due to his coveting the power of the Keyblade, therefore letting the Heartless loose and causing worlds to be destroyed. Were it not for George Jetson talking him out of it, Huck would have killed Top Cat.
    • Chapter 116: Huck gives one to the Heartless when they press his Berserk Button by attacking all of his teammates. Here he goes partially berserk, ripping off their arms and hurling them into walls. Top Cat had to slap him to get through to him before he kills Quick Draw.
  • Chapter 2 of The Return of the Phantom Empire has Captain Snerdly start to give one to Rokusaburo, the man who killed his father ten years ago, after the latter blatantly lies about killing his father when Snerdly clearly heard his father's death over the intercom, and then he mocks him about it. Snerdly ends up knocking a few teeth out of this guy's mouth. And then he ends up on the receiving end of one by Yutaka, who does not appreciate him beating up on his co-worker.
  • Blazin' Trails:
    • Chapter 9 has Ricochet on the receiving end of a brutal one by a group of outlaws, who plan on killing him in order to become the most feared outlaws in the West. Were it not for this sending Droop-a-Long on the warpath, Ricochet would've been finished.
    • The Protector arc in that same story starts out with one, and this time, it's Ricochet who's delivering the beatdown. Dave and Chuck, who not only gave Droop-a-Long a very harsh "The Reason You Suck" Speech (which was also filled with blatant racism), but were also harassing and abusing him ever since he came to town—all of which went without Ricochet's notice, no less—-openly mocked Droop-a-Long in front of Ricochet and made him cry. Needless to say, Ricochet gets ticked off, tackles them through the window and beats the utter crap out of them. It's hinted that if Droop-a-Long hadn't stopped him, he would've killed them. This incident drives the two men to go gunning for both Ricochet and Droop-a-Long.
  • Chapter 2 of Born for Adversity has Quick Draw Mc Graw, who’s usually a pretty friendly guy, giving the mother of all beatdowns to a purchaser (which is this universe’s equivalent of a slaveholder for animals) who’d not only bought, enslaved, and tortured Baba Looey and other animals for weeks on end, but also killed all of his victims aside from Baba so nobody would know what he’d done. Said purchaser also planned to kill Baba before making his escape, only for Quick Draw and company to intervene. At this point, everyone agrees the guy deserved it, but Quick Draw’s beating is particularly brutal, with him punching him in the head several times. Everyone was terrified, even Ricochet, who had to hold him back and talk him out of killing him. As Droop-a-Long notes later, you know a situation is bad if the most hotheaded sheriff in the West has to be the voice of reason.
• Not So Stoic:
  • Yutaka in The Return of the Phantom Empire has a moment in chapter 4 where, after he suffers a bout of Sanity Slippage, sits in the corner of his room and cries.
  • Murphy in Future of Wuzzleburg. He tries to remain hardened during his trip to the past Wuzzleburg, but several times he exhibits joy and even smiles a few times, showing that the past Wuzzleburg is really starting to affect him.
• Oblivious to Love: Bob in Hugs and Kisses, much to the detriment of everyone. Subverted later when we learn that he actually isn't, but he didn't want to be heartbroken again. Thankfully, he gets out of this by the end of the story.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • The Heroes of Time: When the normally pacifistic Huckleberry Hound is trying to murder someone, you have seriously pushed him beyond the limit.
    • In that same story, if Top Cat's crying, it's a sign that things have gone From Bad to Worse.
  • Blazin' Trails: Despite having more than a few buttons, Ricochet would never kill anybody and in general doesn't like extreme violence. Droop-a-Long is the same way. So if either of them decide that they’re going to turn you into an obituary, then it’s a sign you’ve gone past the Moral Event Horizon, and you’ve screwed up beyond redemption.
  • The Ghost of Huckleberry Hound: If Quick Draw, who’s usually easy going, is trying to kill you, you either messed with Baba Looey, or did something so heinous he’s figured you don’t deserve redemption.
• Odd Friendship:
  • Most of the relationships in her Hanna-Barbera fics feature these. Examples include Top Cat and Huck, Snooper and Ricochet, Punkin' Puss and Mushmouse (well, Punkin' Puss and anybody, really), and Magilla and Mr. Peebles.
    • The overarching theme of Blazin' Trails is this trope—specifically Ricochet and Droop-a-Long's friendship.
• Promoted to Parent: In Fiery Heart, Broken Soul, Dedede becomes this due to his and Scarlet's parents deaths. It's part of the reason why he's so protective of her.
  • Droop-a-Long ends up being this when Ricochet dies in Chapter 11 of Blazin' Trails, due to being named as the guardian of Ricochet's son, Bucky, in the sheriff's will.
• Psychopathic Man Child: Rokusaburo in The Return of the Phantom Empire. Despite his free-spirited behavior, Donkirk has to keep tabs on Roku often, because he could end up killing someone simply because they amused or angered him.
• Race for Your Love: Ricochet tells Quick Draw to do this in regards to Clarissa in Have Guitar, Will Travel, mostly because he didn't take that advice himself.
  • He also gives this advice to Droop-a-Long when it comes to his relationship with Denise, further cementing his status as a Shipper on Deck for them.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning:
  • When Huckleberry Hound first goes into his berserk state, his eyes turn red, followed by developing fangs and his fur turning black.
  • Bula also undergoes a similar transformation when he turns into his berserk form in The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade.
  • In Super Readers' Biggest Adventure, Wonder Red's eyes turn a bright red before she unleashes the full power of her berserk form on the Evil Reader.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Snerdly, after undergoing The Corruption, gives one to the Goof-Ups in Part 2 of The Return of the Phantom Empire.
  • In The Universe's Plaything, one of the eyes that torture Rarity on a daily basis, who took the guise of Trenderhoof, gives Rarity two in the whole story-one as his disguise, and the other as his true self-and both are pretty brutal. The second leaves Rarity in tears.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Also fond of this. She likes several characters that are absolutely loathed by the fandoms she's writing for, and attempts to rescue them and present them as better characters. This trope is going to be in effect for Slippy Toad for the upcoming The Legend of Star Fox, and for the Duck Hunt dog in the Super Smash Brothers one-shot, Acceptance.
• Sanity Slippage:
  • It happens to a total of four characters in The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade: Paragal I (which was also a combination of this and Drunk on the Dark Side), Pargor (after he fully crosses the Despair Event Horizon), Multo I (after his well-intentioned actions led to another Dark Days of Zula), and the Alternate Multo, aka the Mad King (who lost everything and everyone he loved due to Paragor, and in his rage killed not only him and his army, but many, many Zuleans as well).
  • In Fiery Heart, Broken Soul, Scarlet suffered a lot of this during her six years at Nightmare. She wasn't the only one, though; one of the Cappy prisoners with her couldn't take it anymore and was Driven to Suicide.
  • In The Return of the Phantom Empire, Quack-Up has a brief moment where he loses it after Yogi and Scare Bear bring up the H-B Zoo. Huck manages to get through to him before he hurts himself or anybody else.
    • And later, Yutaka has a moment of this right before he and the other members of the Phantom Empire prepare to take over a planet. It may have something to do with his Dark and Troubled Past, which he hasn't told anybody about yet.
• Secret Relationship: This is the relationship between Droop-a-Long and Denise in Blazin' Trails, due to the fact that Interspecies Romance isn't accepted in the West. Later on, their relationship goes public, although it takes a long time for Denise's parents to get used to the idea.
• Serious Business:
  • As Droop-a-Long learned in Sugar Junkie, sweets are serious business to Ricochet.
• She Is Not My Girlfriend: Happens in Chapter 9 of Hugs and Kisses, when Bob insists that he and Madame Blue are just friends. Too bad he said that loud enough for Madame Blue to hear.
  • It also happens several times in The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade, mostly between Bula and Bonnie. When Multo comes back from Paragor's clutches, the first thing he does is to congratulate Bula for getting a girlfriend. Bula, who is somewhat Tsun Dere for Bonnie here, has this reaction, and Bonnie also denies it, though neither do it without a Luminescent Blush on their faces. For Multo and Zeeter, Zeeter heavily insists that Multo is not her boyfriend, and neither is Bula, and is desperate to remain as Just Friends. The fact that she's in love with both of them, but doesn't want to break one of their hearts and is somewhat very closed minded on love due to some bad experiences doesn't help.
  • Fiery Heart, Broken Soul has the FrozenFlame pairing(Scarlet X Falco) start out this way for most of the fic, mainly because Falco doesn't want to admit that he cares for Scarlet way more than just a friend, and Scarlet in the sense that her idea of love has been seriously warped thanks to Dr. Ver, leading her to close off her heart to those who care about her.
  • Quick Draw insistently says this about Clarissa in Have Guitar, Will Travel. He's not fooling anybody.
• Shipper on Deck:
  • Once he got over their Secret Relationship, Ricochet Rabbit becomes a huge one for Droop-a-Long Coyote and Denise Falconeri in Blazin' Trails, and per his nature, makes no attempt to hide it; several times, he's teased or bluntly brought up the topic of marriage around his deputy, which never fails to embarrass him.
  • In addition to being The Matchmaker, Pa Grape is this for the main two pairs in Hugs and Kisses, which are Bob/Madame Blue and Archie/Lovey. And before the events of the fic, it's implied that the whole staff shipped Larry/Petunia, which is covered in the short story, "It's About Time!"
• Sleep Cute: Ricochet in Blazin' Trails tends to sleep like this, to the point where Droop-a-Long did pet him behind the ears once. Droop-a-Long even teases him about it, much to his chagrin.
• Stepford Smiler:
  • Fiery Heart, Broken Soul has Scarlet as the Unstable variety. Some of the Smashers are somewhat concerned of her state, or in Peach's case, terrified, while others don't really care. Given what happened to her over the span of six years, this is expected.
  • Have Guitar, Will Travel has Baba Looey as the Depressed variety due to his Dark and Troubled Past.
  • The Return of the Phantom Empire has Quick Draw as the Depresssed variety, after his horrific tortures at the hand of Donkirk.
    • A villainous version would be Rokusaburo, mostly of the Unstable variety. It's hinted that the reason for his constant taunts and playful nature is so he can block out his own Dark and Troubled Past.
• Superpowered Evil Side: The seven main characters in The Heroes of Time have this due to the effects of grabbing the Dark Keyblade. Yogi becomes a kleptomaniac, Freddy becomes a Dangerously Genre-Savvy Trap Master who almost kills his teammates, Fred Flintstone is always Hulking out at the smallest things, George practically abuses everybody, Quick Draw becomes a backstabber, Top Cat becomes a Laughing Mad hoarder, and Huckleberry Hound becomes The Berserker. See This Is Your Brain on Evil for more information about what the Dark Keyblade does.
  • Scarlet's Soul Form is this in Fiery Heart, Broken Soul thanks to Dr. Ver's experiments on her. She is very powerful in this form, being able to use devastating fire attacks that she couldn't use in her normal form; however, she becomes Unstoppable Rage incarnate, and will not stop attacking until whatever wronged her is destroyed.
• Sweet Tooth: Ricochet's got a major one in Blazin' Trails; he's got a weakness for honey buns, donuts and chocolate in particular. In Sugar Junkie, Droop-a-Long tries to get Ricochet to eat healthier by getting rid of his snacks, but ends up making a profit when the townspeople start buying them...and then Ricochet finds out. Hilarity Ensues.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: The dynamic between the group of Keyblade Wielders in The Heroes of Time, but special mention goes to Top Cat and Huckleberry Hound; cat-and-dog rivalry aside, it stemmed from three things: one, a bad first impression; two, a plan of Huck's that went completely wrong, and three, the fact that T.C. opened the Door of Darkness, bringing the Heartless to the whole universe and forcing everyone to fight in the first place. Their relationship sours even further when Huck, in a fit of Unstoppable Rage, tries to kill Top Cat after he learns about this, but settles for a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown instead. Later, when Top Cat falls to temptation and gets the Dark Keyblade, the first thing he does after he undergoes the Split-Personality Takeover is to attack Huck, even when Huck was trying to save him. When Huck gets the Dark Keyblade and becomes Brainwashed and Crazy, he almost killed Quick Draw Mc Graw, who is one of the few people Top Cat got along with. After they find out just what the Dark Keyblade does to their bodies, Huck and Top Cat make it their mission to keep that Keyblade away from the other. Later, they become Vitriolic Best Buds. And later, everyone in the group becomes Fire-Forged Friends.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: This is Paragor's reason for going so far off the deep end in The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade. He wasn't evil at first and did resent taking the power of the Dark One after he was forced to renounce his position of king on his planet. But after spending most of his life trapped in a Heel–Face Revolving Door (and having his one good act go completely wrong), he decides to just screw everything and recreate the universe the way he wants it: a paradise for himself, and utter chaos for others.
• This Is Your Brain on Evil: During the Dark Keyblade arc of The Heroes of Time, Top Cat comes down with life-threatening spasms, and Huck also undergoes terrible headaches that prevents either of them from fighting. It's later revealed that continued use of the Dark Keyblade will make the users go mad with power and make them shadows of their former selves, eventually killing them off. With that in mind, Huck and Top Cat decide to keep the Dark Keyblade as far away from them as possible, only swearing to use it if the situation is bad. When Huck is forced to use the Dark Keyblade again during the final battle, everyone in the group, on Top Cat's insistence, takes on its effects in order to keep the Dark Keyblade from killing the hound.
• Tranquil Fury:
  • Quick Draw exhibits this in Have Guitar, Will Travel after the Daltons hurt Baba Looey to the point where he almost dies.
  • Ricochet also exhibits this several times in Blazin' Trails. Although he's known for his various buttons, when he's truly furious he'll actually get like this. It's actually more terrifying than his outbursts.
• Vitriolic Best Buds:
  • Super Snooper and Blabber Mouse in several of the H-B fics. Blabber's mouth often gets him in trouble with Snooper, and sometimes, Snooper's arrogance can get on Blabber's nerves. But anytime any of them are in trouble, they've got each other's backs.
  • Nearly every friendship Punkin' Puss has ever had is this type of friendship, namely with Ricochet, Droop-a-Long, Magilla and (very rarely) Mushmouse. Punkin' gets annoyed with some of his friends' habits, and most of them are wary of his wild, rough-around-the-edges personality, but they'll come to each others' aids when it comes to it. Temporary Truce establishes this point, namely between Punkin' aand Ricochet.
• Wham Episode: Chapter 17 of Super Readers' Biggest Adventure. As it turns out, the Evil Reader isn't the Big Bad. That spot goes to the story's Bigger Bad, Chaos, a Person of Mass Destruction who basically wants to be god, and is bent on destroying the entire world, and killing every single Super Reader. Plus, he is the one who possessed Jackson Flatts, the Evil Reader's REAL identity (though he willingly allowed him to do that), and when Jackson expressed remorse over having destroyed his own story, Chaos simply took control of all of his actions, sentencing him to an eternity of roaming an alternate dimension as a ghost.

  • Nevermind that, the whole story is this. From the citizens of Storybrooke falling under Demonic Possession, to some notable Break the Cutie processes, to fights that seem to be ripped from Dragon Ball, the story itself should be called "The Wham Movie" since iheart obviously calls it a movie.

  • Hugs and Kisses is notable for having not one, not two, but four Wham Episodes in the story. See Cerebus Syndrome above.
  • The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusadeshould be notable for having several Wham Episodes in the first 3 chapters alone. Here are the examples:
    • Chapter 1: Multo and Professor Autofocus awaken Paragor, who has been sealed away in the base of Mount Zula for centuries. Multo ends up getting taken into the Nightmare Fuel-infused Lotus-Eater Machine that is the Dreamscape, and Paragor ends up setting the cave to explode so no one can find him. This leads everyone to believe that Multo is dead. Cue a massive Tear Jerker.
    • Chapter 2: Bula and the team are attacked by the ruthless Legion robots, and Bula gets injured.
    • Chapter 3: The team meets Bonnie, who seems to know about the Dreamscapers quite a bit. The Legion shows up in the middle of Bonnie's explanation, and kidnaps Zeeter, sending Bula into a Heroic BSoD.
    • Parts 2 and 3 may as well be call Wham Acts.
  • The Ferret Who Knew Too Much has this happen nearly every chapter. Though the author's going to rewrite it so that they're spread out.
  • Acceptance might as well be called The Wham One-shot. Everything about it is just...wow. And then its follow up, Redemption, a two-shot that focuses on R.O.B., has taken this Up To Eleven.
  • Fiery Heart, Broken Soul, has Chapter 4, appropriately titled "There Will Be Blood". The story gets Bloodier and Gorier, with Scarlet and Bowser engaged in a How Much More Can He Take? fight that leaves the Smashers stupefied. And then Bowser indulges in some Cold-Blooded Torture after this, making Scarlet have a Heroic BSoD and almost killing her.
• Wrong Guy First: What happened to Madame Blue in Hugs and Kisses, due to a Parental Marriage Veto. In Zeeter's case, however, this happened several times.
• Would Hurt a Child: Several villains in her stories do this in order to show just how vile they really are. Cases in point are Chaos from Super Readers' Biggest Adventure and Dr. Ver in Fiery Heart, Broken Soul.
• Would Hit a Girl: Also crops up in many stories with the villains. The heroes mostly try to avoid this trope, only fighting girls if they have no choice.
  • Fiery Heart, Broken Soul: Dr. Ver seems to have no problem with hurting girls. Neither do Bowser or Ganondorf.
  • In ''The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade", Paragor's father, Paragal I, also has no problem with this, as he states after he brutally killed Paragor's fiancee.
• You Killed My Father: Snerdly tells Rokusaburo this in chapter when the latter denies knowing his father, right before handing him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.

Vulaan Kulaas

Vulaan Kulaas

A fellow fanfiction author, Vulaan Kulaas is one of Iheartgod 175's friends, and the main creative force behind a few stories, namely Fiery, Heart, Broken Soul and Mysterious Gathering. She loves to RP, play video games and chat with her friends when not writing fanfiction. She's also a very avid gamer, and loves the Kirby series, Pokemon games, and Nintendo games. Here are the following games/TV shows she's written for:

• Kirby (including the Kirby: Right Back at Ya!)
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Super Mario Bros
• Super Smash Brothers (was the original creative force behind Fiery Heart, Broken Soul)
• Video Game/Glover
• Ricochet Rabbit And Droop A Long Coyote (has also contributed to Blazin' Trails in regards to characters and plots)

Tropes that apply to her works:

• Abusive Parents:
  • Fiery Heart, Broken Soul: Dr.Ver definitely would have been this to Ebony if Scarlet had remained at Nightmare longer than six years. So terrified was she of this becoming a reality that she put her newborn son out of his misery, an action that she deeply regrets years after the fact.
  • King K. Rool in her Donkey Kong Country stories. If you thought canon K. Rool was bad, you’ll absolutely despise him here. He has a son, Stronghold, who not only shares a close friendship with Damien Kong, DK’s son, but is also dating Trixie. To say that K. Rool doesn’t approve of this is the understatement of the year, and lets his son know just how he feels about this by kidnapping, torturing and attempting to drown Damien in front of his son. He also had his brother (Krusha, who is listed below) kidnap and rape Stronghold’s girlfriend (who is a disabled teenager), and attempt to kill Diddy and Dixie Kong, who had just adopted Skipper, Stronghold’s brother. It’s little wonder why DK and Candy decided to adopt Stronghold, because his home life is just that messed up.
    • Cruelty runs in the Rool family, because his brother Krusha also applies for this trope. He also tried to kill Damien at one point (Damien is dating Krusha’s daughter, Kassandra), kidnapped and raped Stronghold’s girlfriend Trixie, and attempted to sterilize his daughter so that she couldn’t reproduce with a Kong. Thankfully, Kassandra would escape her father’s grasp, though not without any trauma from the event.
  • Blazin’ Trails: Droop-a-Long’s outlaw brother, Drag-a-Long Coyote Jr., would probably be the poster child for this trope if it weren’t for King K. Rool (listed above), who surpasses him in terms of awfulness. He abused both his kids, Lucky (the titular "kid with no name"), and Xiao Feng; both are half-breeds from his liaisons with other women who suffered under his "loving touch" (Serena would later be beaten half to death by him, and would have died if it weren't for her brother-in-law happening upon the scene, and Xiao Feng's mother became cruel and unloving toward her daughter). He trained both of his children to be brutal killers with little to no regard for human life and isn’t above abandoning them when they fail a mission. The opening scene of the special “The Kid With No Name” features him mocking his son and then beating him with a glass bottle, followed by leaving him to die, and in a later arc, he purposely leaves Xiao Feng in a burning town so she can die. Thankfully, both children were rescued from the hellhole he put them in.
    • Xiao Feng’s mother would eventually become this due to Drag-a-Long’s abuse. She would not only disown and ignore her daughter, but also become the ruthless mayor of Saint Sina Belle Isle, forbidding interspecies relations and keeping people under lock and key. James and Kiara, as well as Xiao Feng, would recognize that she’s a victim, though, which leads them to want to save her, thus kicking off the arc.
• Adaptational Jerkass:
  • Bowser in Fiery Heart, Broken Soul and the DKC stories where he makes a special appearance, as well as crossing over into Adaptational Villainy. While in the games he’s portrayed as having some kind of morals, FH, BS makes him especially nasty, with him not only calling Scarlet several slurs regarding her situation, but also making fun of phobias and telling her to slash her wrists because nobody would love her or want to tolerate her. And what makes this even worse is that Scarlet, whose mental state was made worse by the bullying she faced in the Smash Mansion, actually tried to do so, only to be stopped by Dedede and Dr. Mario. His response when everyone called him out on this? “You guys probably had the same thought.” To say that he deserved the Megaton Punch from Dedede would be the understatement of the year. And unsurprisingly, he gets even worse from there.
  • Dr. Robotnik in Attero Dominatus. Canon Eggman isn’t a good guy (and actually balks at the thought of being one), but he did have some standards. Attero Dominatus Eggman, however, has none of the silliness nor standards of his canon counterpart, and his lust for power and control, not to mention his sadistic nature, makes him absolutely terrifying. He completely breaks Sonic and makes him into the perfect super soldier, as well as working on doing the same to Shadow (who in this universe is much kinder to humans thanks to Maria surviving).
  • King K. Rool in the DKC stories. Not that he was a nice individual to begin with, but these stories take his hatred of the Kongs Up To Eleven, and he will not rest until they are completely eradicated. He even adds child abuse and unspeakable tortures to his list of crimes, making him a truly despicable being.
• And I Must Scream:
  • In Strength, Meta Knight is possessed by Yin-Yarn's magic yarn, and is forced to fight Kirby, who he looks up to as a son, while he's trapped in his own body. Thankfully, Kirby managed to free him.
  • In Dimmed Stars, an Alternate Universe to Kirby and the Forgotten Land, this was the fate that Fecto Elfilis and his younger brother Elfilin were subjected to for years by many a scientist, namely the Demon Beast scientist Tabitha, who also raped Elfilis in order to create “the ultimate lifeform”. The brothers can only communicate telepathically because the scientists ripped out their vocal cords, rendering them unable to speak, which makes this a literal version of this trope.
• Anger Born of Worry: Both Squidward and Sandy show this in Clear Surface, Dark Waters.
  • The non-romantic variant occurs with Squidward after Sponge Bob is hit by the boat mobile due to saving his life. Squidward runs over to him and angrily demands to know why he did that, but he's feeling both remorseful and horrified at what happened to the sponge, thinking that the accident was a form of Laser-Guided Karma for all the times he was cruel to Sponge Bob.
  • The romantic variant happens with Sandy when she, Mr. Krabs, Patrick and Squidward all go in to see Spongebob. She angrily tells him that she'll beat him up if he scares her like that again...all while giving him a hug. Hilarity Ensues when Patrick tells Sponge Bob that she really likes him, which results in him getting chased out of the room by Sandy.
• Author Appeal:
  • Just like iheartgod175 above, she really, REALLY likes Dark Fic, if the universes that she’s created is anything to go by.
  • Rape as Drama is heavily featured in a lot of her stories, with some of her original characters (ie. Scarlet, Roxanne) getting the worst of it and suffering trauma. It is treated with complete seriousness in a way that isn’t shown on television, however, with the victims having PTSD attacks and triggers.
  • Different forms of abuse is also present, namely familial and psychological, and like the above example, it’s treated completely seriously, with the abusers being portrayed (as they should) as irredeemable scumbags.
  • Four words: The Power of Love. Be it familial, platonic or romantic, love is often portrayed as a force that can heal even the deepest of wounds. Most apparent in Attero Dominatus, Dimmed Stars and the DKC stories, where the main characters still have tight bonds and love for each other in spite of—or maybe because of-all the stuff that’s happened to them.
  • Showcasing characters with some disabilities and how they survive in an imperfect world is also common.
  • Found family is also a common theme, especially in stories like Attero Dominatus and Dimmed Stars. The former features Sonic, who has spent years being broken into Robotnik’s perfect killing machine, finally accepting love from both Amy and his friends, and the latter features Elfilis and Elfilin forming a tight bond with Sonic, Kirby (who is an embittered ex-Star Warrior), and Scarlet, affectionately known as the “Pack”.
  • She also loves creating strong female characters, especially badasses who have their own powers and aren’t afraid to speak their mind.
• Ax-Crazy:
  • Blazin’ Trails: Perhaps the most infamous of the lot would be Drag-a-Long Coyote, Jr., who first got his start in “Powerful Friendship, Iron Bond” as the main antagonist. In that fic, he kidnaps a feverish Ricochet, kills his father, and attempts to force Droop-a-Long to choose between killing Ricochet or his sister Betty if he wants him to stop his rampage. In Blazin’ Trails, his name strikes fear into the most hardened lawmen, as he’s known as a walking harbinger of destruction. Here, he adds rape and child abuse to his list of heinous crimes, and is such a despicable person that Droop-a-Long himself figures that there’s no redemption for him, only death. Iheartgod 175’s fic Best of the West (a Ricochet Rabbit/Quick Draw Mc Graw crossover fic unrelated to BT) makes him a little sympathetic there (his wife and son were killed by outlaws by a mole in his gang, and he’s going on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge until he catches him), but not by much.
    • Xavier Jones, an absolute sexist, racist pig that abuses his workers, manipulated his whole family into fighting each other at one point, and enjoys toying with women, even driving one to suicide at one point. Al was the first to pick up on his unpleasantness, but nobody believed him, assuming that he’s just biased as “it takes a prick to know one”. Well, guess who hired Drag-a-Long to murder Serena’s first husband in cold blood, and sexually assaulted (and eventually raped) Ricochet’s niece, Roxanne? That’s right, this guy. This was the catalyst for not only Alfonso to step up and become a father, but for the Falconeri and Rabbit families to put aside their differences, because now, they absolutely had to nail this guy.
• Bad Boss:
  • All of the Demon Beast scientists would qualify, but Dr. Ver in Fiery Heart, Broken Soul, as well as his sister Clarissa, really take the cake. Both of them have not only casually killed their underlings for petty reasons, but they've also subjected them to the same experiments that Scarlet, Devane and the others were put under in order to turn them into Demon Beasts.
  • The Dimmed Stars series (which features the above mentioned Demon Beast scientists) adds Tabitha, one of Ver’s younger sisters, as this. She has no qualms of killing her underlings, but what makes her a particularly nasty case is that she has manipulated many people who desperately needed help (ie. Suffering homelessness, escaping toxic situations, etc.) into becoming her personal slaves.
  • Robotnik in Attero Dominatus. Casually sends his underlings to their deaths, knowing they’re disposable? Check. Performing illegal experiments on those he deems “worthy” of his attention? Check. Breaking the will of his most loyal soldier repeatedly to keep him under control? SUPER check.
• Berserk Button:
  • Her Kirby fics follow the same rule: Don't hurt Kirby in front of Meta-Knight, or you're going to be in for a world of hurt.
    • The inverse of this is also true. Do not hurt Meta-Knight in front of Kirby, or else you're getting a punch to the face.
    • Kirby also doesn't take well to being betrayed by his friends. He was very ready to go after Magolor for what he did to them before Meta-Knight talked him out of the idea.
  • Evil Tyrant, Enraged Father: Ruin Bowser's plans? Yeah, he won't be too happy with you. Beat his son to a pulp? He will come after you with his army and blow yours to smithereens. Mario and Luigi were very lucky that they and Paper Mario hadn't killed Bowser Junior, because if they had, he would leave nothing of them. The same goes for his paper self.
  • Fiery Heart, Broken Soul:
    • Beat up, insult or threaten the people Scarlet cares about, and you're in for a world of pain—and that's only if she decides that you're worth sparing. Best case scenario: you walk away with many broken bones, and maybe a few missing body parts, but at least you're still alive. Worst case scenario: she kills you right then and there, and there probably won't be anything left to remember you by. It is also unwise to mock her or make jokes about her painful past. Ganondorf and Bowser did this, and both of them got the living tar beat out of them. She also won't tolerate people harrassing and/or insulting her brother either; you're writing out you will if you do so. In the upcoming sequel Shattered Bonds, Ivory Heart, don't put her kids in danger, either. To say that it's not a good idea is an understatement.
    • And even though he has a Hair-Trigger Temper and almost anything can set him off, threaten/kidnap/insinuate that you hurt Scarlet in front of Dedede, and he will flip out, which Nightmare learned the hard way, as did Dr. Ver, who is the reason that Scarlet is a Broken Bird in the first place. Also, you don't come anywhere near his sister.
    • Want a tip to survive in Smash Mansion? Don’t hurt Kirby in front of Meta-Knight. Or vice versa. You’ll live much, MUCH longer.
• Beware the Nice Ones:
  • You go ahead and hurt Meta Knight in front of Kirby. We double dog dare you. He’ll happily remind you just WHY he’s called the Star Warrior, turning into a terrifying creature that even scares his father figure. And it takes a lot to frighten the knight, so seeing him shaken like that is a thing to behold.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Patrick in Clear Surface, Dark Waters. Sure, he's still the dumb, but easy-going star that everyone knows and loves, but that all goes out the window when Mr. Krabs and Sandy get into an argument, and he stops it by telling them that Sponge Bob could be dying and that he wouldn't want his boss and his other friend/love interest fighting. This reaction shocks all three of them into stunned silence.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Meta-Knight in Strength, thanks to Yin-Yarn. He becomes a Blood Knight who almost completely wiped the floor with Kirby, who is very shaken at having to fight his father figure.
• Broken Tears: Kirby cries these in Forgiveness as he's coming to terms with Magolor's betrayal, an event that has left him very shaken.
• Bullying a Dragon: In Hollow Victory, Magolor does this to Meta-Knight. Meta-Knight, who was recently in shock from having witnessed Magolor kill Kirby, answers this bullying with a Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
• Caretaker Reversal: Happens in Guardian Angel, where Meta Knight comes down with the same fever that Kirby had in the first chapter and Kirby takes care of him.
• Complete Monster: Vulaan Kulaas has her fair share of these, though her favorite thing to do is to take the canon characters and make them even worse. In the events where crossovers between the canon and fan fiction occur, even the villains (who aren’t nearly as bad as their alternate counterpart) have to admit that they’re monsters. Similar to Iheart’s profile, this list goes in order from the most vile to the least threatening.
  • The villains of Fiery Heart, Broken Soul are all this to some degree, but no one moreso than Dr. Ver, a Demon Beast scientist who is inarguably the villain of the entire fic, as he's responsible for Scarlet being a Broken Bird in the story. He has the dubious honor of being the most monstrous character ever created, topping Urzur the Conqueror from Future of Wuzzleburg, and that's an achievement in itself. Similar to Scarlet, he was created as a Demon Beast hybrid, although he was screwed up before his conversion, having an obssession with death and execution methods. He and his sister, Clarissa, were converted as part of a punishment, then later saw the advantages of their new bodies and decided to stay at Nightmare and work for them, specifically in working to create Demon Beasts out of hapless people. His favorite method of getting what he wants is a combination of manipulation and mind screwing his subjects, torturing them over and over again until they break and submit to his control. Dr. Ver kidnapped Scarlet, her friend Devane and about twenty-five other Cappies in order to turn them into Demon Beast hybrids as part of a science experiment for Nightmare, ultimately creating monstrous super-soldiers that will bring Dreamland to its knees. Anybody who didn't respond to his serums, had adverse effects to them or rebelled were horrifically tortured or raped as punishment, either at his hands or the guards' (in this instance while he sat and watched the whole thing, laughing), and here he puts his knowledge of torture methods to horrific use. Along with his sister Clarissa and his assistant Peabody, his methods are so gruesome that only half of the Cappies he kidnapped survived and at least a few prisoners were Driven to Suicide. Out of all of the prisoners, however, he had a sadistic obsession with Scarlet, who unlike most of his prisoners was unruly and disobedient, often fighting back against him, his assistants and the guards. Unlike most of the villains in iheart's stories, whose love stories are used for sympathy (but in no way lessens the severity of their crimes), this love is presented as the twisted, abusive and manipulative love it is; he is so obsessed, he made a Mirror World self of her proclaiming that she will love him. He took glee in torturing her horrifically, and in her final year as his prisoner took it one step further and started raping her multiple times; he even allows the guards and his assistant to do the same, often taking delight in her horror and screams. While he explains to his sister that this was to see if a Demon Beast hybrid can reproduce with another species, Clarissa knows that he mostly does this to break her further. To this end, he forced her friend Devane into having sex with her after leaving her suffering from hypothermia, claiming that the Cappy had to use “the last resort” to save her. He was hoping that it would result in a son, but when Scarlet had a daughter instead, he was enraged, but instead allowed her to keep the child for a short time, only to come up with a plan to truly break her. In what Dedede considers to be his most heinous act, he raped Scarlet two weeks after she'd given birth to her daughter as punishment for giving him a daughter, and got his lab assistant Peabody to do the same, followed by seemingly killing Devane and her daughter while they were trying to escape. The ensuing pain and pent-up rage Scarlet had been holding in explodes, and she soon develops a new demonic form, which promptly went berserk and started destroying the prison, killing guards along the way. Needless to say, he deserved Scarlet's rage-fueled rampage, as well as the fittingly brutal death he suffers at Dedede's hands. He is so evil that Bowser (whose portrayal in this story is also on this list) and Donkirk were repulsed by him in the crossover fic Mysterious Gathering, and the King of the Koopas even gives the good doctor a Megaton Punch.
    • Fang
    • Peabody
    • Clarissa
    • Bowser
    • Ganondorf
• Cradle of Loneliness: Meta Knight holds Kirby's dead body in Hollow Victory after defeating Magolor. It's part of the story's Tear Jerker.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: Kirby dies in Meta Knight's arms after Magolor impales him in Hollow Victory
• Dislikes the New Guy: In Forgiveness, Meta Knight tells Kirby that he was suspicious of Magolor when he teamed up with them. As it turns out, he had a good reason to.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Even though he's evil and seeks to destroy the Mushroom Kingdom, there's no denying that Bowser loves his son, Bowser Jr.; the same goes for his paper self and his son. Mario, Luigi and Paper Mario learned the hard way that you do NOT harm Junior in any way, shape or form, ever.
• Evil All Along: Magolor, as revealed in Forgiveness and Hollow Victory. Then again, for those who actually played Kirby's Return to Dream Land, this comes as no surprise.
• False Friend: Magolor to Kirby in both Forgiveness and Hollow Victory. In Forgiveness, the revelation of this almost sends Kirby over the Despair Event Horizon.
• Fighting Your Friend: Kirby was forced to fight Meta Knight in Strength when he was possessed by Yin-Yarn's magic yarn. Had he not gotten through to Meta-Knight in time, the possessed knight would have killed him.
• Flashback Echo: Happens in Forgiveness, when Kirby recalls his dream about Magolor's betrayal to Meta Knight.
  • Meta Knight also has one in Hollow Victory, when he recalls his good times with Kirby.
• Happily Adopted: Kirby in Guardian Angel is adopted as Meta Knight's son at the end of the story, and he even calls him Daddy. Awwww...
• The Hero Dies: Kirby is killed by Magolor in Hollow Victory.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Damien and Stronghold—you'll have to see to believe how close their friendship is. Nothing will server it, and it's been joked that the two males are attached to the hip, for you'll hardly see one without the other. Unfortunately, those with bad intentions could threaten Stronghold by harming or killing Damien, and because of this he would be forced to do anything against his will.
• How Much More Can He Take?: Magolor's and Meta Knight's final fight in Hollow Victory is pretty darn brutal. They both end up dealing some nasty wounds to each other, but in the end, Meta Knight emerges victorious.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: How Kirby dies in Hollow Victory.
• Interspecies Friendship: Damien (a full-blooded Kong like his father DK) and Stronghold (a Kremling).
• Interspecies Romance:
  • Trixie Kong, Diddy's daughter, is in a relationship with Stronghold, the son of King K. Rool. They were in a Secret Relationship for a while until Diddy walked in while they were in a heated moment. Diddy and Candy don't mind Stronghold, but on Stronghold's side of the family it's definitely a Forbidden Romance due to K. Rool's hatred of the Kongs.
  • Kassandra, daughter of Krusha (who's K. Rool's equally cruel brother) and Damien Kong. Similar to Trixie and Stronghold, they too were in a secret relationship until Krusha found out that his daughter was pregnant. It only gets worse from there.
• Killed Off for Real: Both Kirby and Magolor in Hollow Victory-the former was killed by the latter, who was later killed in battle with a furious Meta Knight.
• Knight Templar Big Brother: A lot of things may set this Kremling off, but go ahead and hurt his little brother. You can run, but once he gets ahold of you all that can be said is this: Pick a god and pray, for you'll get the seven kinds of crap beaten out out of you.
• Like a Son to Me: Meta Knight says this about Kirby in Guardian Angel; later, he actually does take Kirby under his wing as his son. His relationship with Kirby is like this in most of Vulaan Kulaas' other fics.
• Papa Wolf:
  • Do not ever hurt Kirby in front of Meta Knight. As Vengeful Warrior, Protective Father, Hollow Victory and Helpless Warrior, Prism Nightmare shows, hurting the boy he calls his son is a very bad idea.
  • Bowser also has this instinct towards Bowser Jr. Woe betide the fool who thinks he can get away with harming his son. Mario, Luigi and Paper Mario just had to learn that the hard way.
• Parental Substitute: Kirby sees Meta Knight as this in Guardian Angel, and even calls him his father, further cementing their father-son relationship.
• Please Wake Up: Meta Knight begs Kirby to wake up after the latter dies in his arms in Hollow Victory. Needless to say, this, and Magolor's taunting, drives him to the breaking point.
• Shipper on Deck: Patrick is this for Sponge Bob and Sandy in Clear Surface, Dark Waters. He even makes a few sly references to it to Sponge Bob, much to both of their embarrassment.
• Ship Tease: In Clear Surface, Dark Waters, there are hints of Spandy made throughout part of the fic. Examples:
  • Squidward tells Sponge Bob to take out the trash instead of talking to his girlfriend, which brings about a Luminescent Blush from Sandy and a Cat Smile from Patrick.
  • Later, she gets into a heated argument with Mr. Krabs due to her worry for Sponge Bob's safety, only for Patrick to cut in and tell them both to shut up.
  • And then there's her Anger Born of Worry reaction when Sponge Bob wakes up, prompting Patrick to tell Sponge that she really likes him. Cue Sandy and Sponge Bob going as red as tomatoes and Sandy chasing him out of the hospital room.
• Sick Episode: Guardian Angel has Kirby (and later Meta Knight) falling ill due to a fever, and features a Caretaker Reversal.
• The Stoic: Stronghold fits this to a T when he's around his father and uncle. When he's with the Kongs, however you get to see the side of him most don't. The only Kongs that know him to the point of being able to write a book about him are Damien and Trixie, and the reverse is also true.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Bandanna Dee gives Meta Knight an earful at the end of Hollow Victory. Due to his grief for Kirby, Meta Knight had drawn within himself and was pushing everyone he cared about away, not saying a word to them. Bandanna Dee tells him straight up that moping around and grieving for him would only kill him, and that he needs to live and protect Dream Land as Kirby once did. His words end up having a profound effect on the knight, and he resolves to move on and do just that.
• Working Through the Cold: Meta Knight attempted to do this in Guardian Angel when he comes down with the same fever that had Kirby bedridden. Unfortunately for him, though, he passes out, and Kirby ends up becoming his caretaker.

Iheartgod's Fanfics

Links to (some of) Iheartgod 175's Fanfics:

• Super Readers' Biggest Adventure. Has a TVTropes page in the works.
• Best Friends Forever, and its remake
• Hugs and Kisses, the first entry in the Veggie Romance series. Has a one-shot taking place afterwards, dealing with Mr. Lunt.
• Sodor Magic Crusaders, a Fusion Fic between Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha and Thomas The Tank Engine. Yes, you read that right.
• Tea for Two
• The Zula Patrol: Dreamscape Crusade, a fanfic for The Zula Patrol
• Dear Nanoha Fans. Has a sequel.
• The Ferret Who Knew Too Much
• You Drive Me Up the Wall
• Unexpected Surprise, and its sequel
• Whispers in the Wind,a tragic what-if ending to Hugs and Kisses, above. Now has a follow up.
• Parental Instinct, a fanfic for Fantastic Max
• Here For A Reason, a story that details Pa Grape's somewhat grim past. Has an indirect sequel, which focuses on Jimmy and Jerry.
• Forgiven in the Rain, a Bob/Madame Blueberry fic that was done based on a OTP challenge prompt
• I Uh You, Too, another OTP Challenge Prompt done for Larry/Petunia
• Acceptance, a story about the Duck Hunt dog and his duck partner, and how they arrived in Super Smash Bros..
• Fiery Heart, Broken Soul, a full-blown Super Smash Brothers story written for fellow member Vulaan Kulaas's OC character, Scarlet. A TV Tropes page has started up.
• The Heroes of Time, a Hanna Barbera and Kingdom Hearts Crossover. A TV Tropes has started up.
• Redemption, the sequel to the above Acceptance.
• The Return of the Phantom Empire, a fanfic for the Galaxy Goof Ups.
• The Ghost of Huckleberry Hound, a what-if ending to The Good The Bad And Huckleberry Hound.
• Have Guitar, Will Travel, the sequel, focuses on Quick Draw and Baba Looey.
• Several Top Cat/Trixie fics
• Mysterious Gathering, an Intercontinuity Crossover between several of her fics, mostly Super Readers' Biggest Adventure, Fiery Heart, Broken Soul, Hugs and Kisses and The Return of the Phantom Empire. It mostly has the villains from those stories meeting each other in a Bad Guy Bar, and then goes from there.
• Mirror, Mirror, a full blown T.C./Trixie fic that takes place in a modern day fantasy, based off of a prompt from Tumblr.
• Blazin' Trails, a collection of short stories that focus on Ricochet Rabbit and Droop-a-Long Coyote.

Vulaan Kulaas' Fics

Links to Vulaan Kulaas' fanfics:

• Guardian Angel, which takes place during the anime series
• Forgiveness, taking place a few hours after Kirby's Return to Dream Land
• Hollow Victory, which is a alternate Bad Ending to Kirby's Return to Dream Land
• Strength, takes place near the end of Kirby's Epic Yarn.
• Helpless Warrior, Prism Nightmare, takes place at the end of Kirby & the Amazing Mirror
• Clear Surface, Dark Waters, a SpongeBob SquarePants fic
• Pure Hero, Tainted Villain, a Video Game/Glover fic
• Evil Tyrant, Enraged Father, a Paper Mario fic that takes place during Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam.
• Pure Heart, Unbreakable Bonds, another fic set in the anime series, but features an AU in which Garlude and Jecra didn't die.
• Dark Memories, Bright Hope, takes place during Kirby: Planet Robobot
• Vengeful Warrior, Protective Father
• Powerful Friendship, Iron Bond, a Ricochet Rabbit And Droop A Long Coyotefic written for Iheartgod 175's birthday
• Mercy, a fic that takes place after the events of Kirby's Dream Land 2
• Red Fire, Green Thunder, which takes place during Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' that focuses on the friendship between Luigi and Hooktail.