Webcomic / L's Empire

"Excellent, everything is mostly going somewhat according to my vague plan."

— Luigi showing he has no idea what he's doing

L's Empire is a webcomic hosted on Smack Jeeves written by Gamermaster and his younger brother SubrosianDimitri, that follows Luigi leaving Mario and then going off to form his own "Empire." To accomplish his vague goals, he enlists a gay clown, a narcissistic robot, and a mentally unstable green guy with a spear. Hilarity Ensues.

The comic updates 8:00 AM EST every day. Also the Authors have a habit of putting A LOT of information in their author comments, so a good chunk of the tropes are All There in the Manual.

Has nothing to do with that other L.

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Tropes used include:

• All There in the Manual:
  • The authors really like doing this, especially with the Lcyclopedia and the Author Comments. They're the only places where you can find out the powers of the other two Y Guys.
  • Inverted with Mr L's entry in the character page, which tells the reader to go read the comic for more information.

• Amusingly Awful Aim: Void misses an attack despite being less than a foot from his target (his attack turned at a 90 degree angle). Earlier, he missed every attack while training (except for the one spear head that ended up on the back of the target).
• Arc Fatigue: In-Universe example. The authors themselves get tired of the arc, so they just fast forward to the end of it.

• Arc Words: "Beware the night of five lights." ^{MASSIVE SPOILER} It refers to Dark Star, the knight of the five lights (both characters who said the line were Kayoss, and Kayoss are terrible at spelling), who is trying to collect five specific shards of the Master Stars so he can become an author.
• Art Initiates Life: Reco makes recolors by painting them on a canvas. However, he has no control over his creations once they come to life.
• Artistic License – Biology: The Slash Fic Future!Void was reading:
  Future!Void: Ugh, don't these fanfiction writers have the slightest clue on how Kayoss biology works?
• Art Evolution: The background for the Pixl's hideout went from MS Paint to Gradient. This was a clue that they were hiding in the new world created by Count Bleck's minions.
• Art Shift: On occasion, the comic will change to different sprite styles, (including various types of 8-bit and Paper Mario 64). Geminiman is never affected.

• Author Powers: The authors can freeze time, make glitch holes and warp the fabric of reality itself. They normally don't get involved because the story would then be boring.
• Authority Equals Asskicking: A literal example, where the king or queen of Kayoss is granted the ability of Strong as They Need to Be.
• Badass Boast: Dark Star gives one that overlaps with I Have Many Names:
  Whacka: And just who are you?
  Dark Star: Who am I? I am the Shadow Constellation. I am the Black Prism. I am the Color of Evil. I am he who calls your mother a fat cow and gets away with it. I AM... DARK STAR!

• Beta Test Baddie: QS, who feels incomplete in the fact that he can't form his body from the waist down into anything but a pile of mercury.

• Beyond the Impossible: It was stressed that the Master Stars can not change the angle they are viewed from and are unaffected by shading or photoshop effects, even remaining the same during art shifts. In his very first appearance, Dark Star manages to not only fade them into the page, but make them glow and turn them.
• Big Damn Hero: All 6 of the grandmasters of Nej-Lök show up to help L's Empire in the fight against Dark Star.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: All Kayoss have disembodied feet and male Kayoss breath through their eyes and skin, have disembodied hands, and no mouths. The Limbs are controlled via pheromones.
• Bizarre Alien Reproduction: Kayoss can only reproduce with a single being (although they being can be of any species, and sometimes it doesn't even need to be a living thing), they exchange genetic material by wanting to have a kid and holding hands, and they can only have three (living) children at a time.
• Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism: Female Kayoss look like human women with floating feet and no noses. Male Kayoss have no hair or mouths along with a Majin Buu head tentacle, can breath through their eyes, have floating hands to go along with their feet and can absorb life energy though their hands.

• Breaking the Fourth Wall: The fourth walls entry in the Lcyclopedia is "Purely hypothetical."

• But Liquor Is Quicker: Played for Laughs. Pix's birth was a result of his parents getting drunk on lint blood (which was previously established to be alcoholic). This was used less as an excuse to get them hooked up and more as a Hand Wave as to why they can't explain how a dark god and a woman in an artificial 2D body had sex.

• Catchphrase:
  • QS has a habit of shouting Boo when he makes his presence known.
  • On a more meta level, one of the fans has a habit of asking "OMG What will happen NOW?" (spelling varies in each usage).
• Chain Pain: Daisy uses a chain that Pix fused with a thunder bomb. Although she and her daughter prefer the term "Thunder Whip".
• Cheated Angle: The Master Stars are per Word of God always seen from the same angle and are unaffected by changes in lighting. The fact that Dark Star is able to change their angle is treated as a case of Beyond the Impossible.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Pete the Primid appeared for a single panel and promptly disappeared from the comic. 890 pages later he turns out to be the Smash Threader.
• The Coats Are Off: When Palmaster decided to fight seriously against Shadowpalm, he took off his cloak (he also put away the portable copy of Battletoads that he was playing, but that was more for laughs.)
• Coincidental Broadcast: When Gemini Man gets locked into a video game, there's an ad playing for the very game system that matches up with the cartridge.

• Combo Platter Powers: The members of the Kayoss Royal family get complete control over a word, and all its definitions.

• Cover Identity Anomaly: Mirror!Luigi blows his cover when Dimentio asks him what Mr L got him as a wedding present. He didn't get him anything.
• Crown-Shaped Head:
  • Exaggerated with Phala. Her entire head is a 3 pointed golden crown.
  • Pix also has two bumps coming out of the top point of his star-shaped body, giving the illusion of a crown. It's one of the clues that he's her Kid from the Future.
• Cursed with Awesome: ANY power up that Gemini Man might get is deemed useless by him because they make him ugly.
• Cutscene Incompetence: When Rib and Bow are kidnapped, the kidnappers run right past L's Empire and the Y Guys. The authors stated that the reason they didn't try to stop them is because it was a cutscene.

• Death Is Cheap: Mario gets their head cut of multiple time, in a matter of a few minutes. However a new head just pops up every time.

• Dead Guy Junior: Kind of, as Hector is named after his grandfathers and they're all undead.
• Demonic Possession: Dimentio was possessed by Dark Star during the events of Super Paper Mario.

• Disproportionate Retribution: Geminiman wants to kill Void for for doing the following (all in the first saga): Calling him an 8 bit recolor, going on a date with his older half sister, stealing his credit card to pay for said date, making a bunch of head puns when he was decapitated, impaling him on a spear, freezing him with a deus ex machina, destroying his blue armor polish, ruining his armor after another polishing, and blowing up his arm. What's so disproportionate about that? He wants to kill him once for each event.
• Don't Explain the Joke: Void has a bad habit of explaining jokes and pointing out obvious plot points.
  Mr L: *Sigh* Yes Void, thank you for explaining the joke.

Mr L: Why... Me?

• Dude, Not Funny!: In-Universe example. At one point, they find themselves in a pocket dimension inside Daisy's womb (don't ask), and Geminiman decides that the best way to get out is to blast the fetus. Mr L whips out his lightsaber and scolds Geminiman for even thinking of threatening his child. Gamermaster even says that they've gone beyond the realm of good taste.
• Early-Bird Cameo:
  • Toadbas first appeared in a video showing off a texture hack for Super Mario 64 before showing up in the actual comic 2 years later.
  • Gaio the Ancient made his first appearance when Link held SubrosianDimitri hostage. He entered the story proper 345 pages later.
  • Gold Joe appeared in silhouette when the comic went on hiatus. He wasn't properly introduced for another 353 pages.
  • Pix first appeared at the same time as Gaio and didn't appear in the present for another 382 pages.
    • Indx beats out all of them. She first appeared with Pix and Gaio, and then didn't show up again for 661 pages.
    • And the winner is Pete the Primid, who appeared for a single panel as a reference, got kicked out, and promptly disappeared from the comic. Cue 890 pages later and he becomes relevant as the Smash Threader.
• Easily Forgiven: Subverted. Everyone forgives Phala for her actions as the Pixl Queen. Everyone except her daughter, who was the one person she wanted forgiveness from. However, Indx's inability to forgive her mother doesn't stop her from saying she still loves her.

• "Eureka!" Moment: Geminiman pointing out a star shaped hole in the ceiling makes Dimentio realize that someone is collecting five specific shards of the Master Stars (by arranging the stars into a pentagon it shows that the missing shards form a star).
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin:
  • Sue Ez Spensive, it's an expensive restaurant.
  • Also, the princess of the Sammer Guys is named Hime.

• Extreme Omnivore: Fluffy will swallow anything except a mass of mercury based nano-machines.
• Eyeless Face: Palmaster partially deconstructs this while combining it with The Blank. Male Kayoss only have eyes on their heads to begin with, and since they breath through their eyes (and partially through their skin), he can't move that much because of a lack of oxygen.

• Fake King: Just like in the game he came from, King Sammer is impersonated by a shapeshifter.

• Fantastic Naming Convention: Kayoss have a sibling seniority naming system on top of their gender based Theme Naming (destruction themed for boys and flowers for girls). Eldest children have a long first name and no middle name, second children have a short first name and short middle name, and the youngest have a long first name and middle name (they're biologically incapable of having more than three living children).

• Finagle's Law: By the words of Gamermaster, "In Webcomics, the only law is Murphys law."
• Flame War: Gamermaster and Dark Star got into one over the latter's Jerkass behavior.

• Foreshadowing: Done with all the subtlety of a brick to the face and lampshaded to the Nth degree. You'd be surprised just how subtle it can be.
• Frame Break: Done as part of a Wham Shot when Temporary Dark Samus jumps out of the frame of the comic, taking Gamermaster with him.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: Void and Gemininman end up in each other's bodies the second time Spearhead is defused, due to Present!Pix's inexperience with his fusion powers. Coincidentally, the page that they swapped went up on a Friday.
• Fun with Acronyms:
  • FUSS^note Federation of United Species Summit
  • TACT^note Temporal Anomaly Correction Team
  • LEET ^note L's Empire Extermination Team
  • SLIP ^note Soul Lacking Infantry Pixl
  • Reco's Recolor Genesis Brush.
• Fusion Dance: Pix has the unique ability to act as a catalyst for a composite type for any two objects or people he wants. He can also undo the fusion whenever he wants.
• Future Badass: 700 after the main story, Void has ascended to the Throne of Chaos and can beat anyone in the raw power department. Plus his aim has improved.
• Ghost Memory: Due to the way that godhood works, Pix is born with a complete memory of the past events of the comic (including the appearances of his future self). However, this only includes things that have actually been seen by the audience. His own private thoughts, muscle memory, and knowledge of how to use his Fusion Dance powers did not carry over. It takes him at least a week before he's able to talk properly, and his first two fusion attempts cause misfires (along with a half hour cool-down time that his future self lacks).
• GIS Syndrome: The 4th anniversary.
• Glass Cannon: Gamermaster describes Void as such, with his abilities almost completely devoted to offense. Of course, this is only by Kayoss standards.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: The start of the DS Saga and the PQ Saga.
• God Mode: Prevented by the God Mod Formula.
• God of Evil: Dark Star
• Gotta Catch Them All: The Master Stars. Subverted. Only the last shard of the Mirror Star was actually important (it's the one that Dark Star needed to complete his plans). This was lampshaded by Void.

• Green Thumb: Sort of, as Gardener's power lets her make easily removable hypo-allergenic flowers grow on the heads of people she touches. Technically the first queen of the Kayoss, Kaamylla Ryndum, had this as part of her power.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Dark Star cuts Fluffy in half off-screen. He gets better.
• Halloween Cosplay: here and here.
• Handicapped Badass: Palmaster was born without eyes so he can't see or move that much^note Male Kayoss breathe through their eyes (and partially through their skin), but that doesn't stop him from being one of the most powerful fighters in the comic.
  • Shadowpalm as well. Since he was born before his father ascended to the throne, he doesn't have royal powers, plus he can't store Vim due to the fact that he has a second pair of hands instead of feet.
• Handy Feet: Shadowpalm has a second pair of hands for his feet (it's mentioned as being a mutation). This actually hinders him since the Mana Drain effects of his Supernatural Martial Arts requires feet flat on the ground.
• Have We Met Yet?: Happens when Void meets Reco for the first time in the future.
• Healing Factor: Both Geminiman and the the Hooniversity itself are granted this through the power of Void's (and later Carnation's) Chaos Heart.
• He Will Come for Me: After she's kidnapped by the Pixl Army, Timpani is confident that her husband will come rescue her, saying that the villians have no idea how far he'd go for her (for those not in the know, the last time she disappeared he went on a Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum when he couldn't find her.) Subverted since Indx didn't let him come along and demanded he get some therapy after having another Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum. Timpani is resuced, but it was Daisy (who had also been kidnapped) that rescued her.
• Highly-Visible Ninja: Endboss may have become a ninja, but he still wears the same bright yellow outfit. Void also claims to be one, but his credentials are questionable.
• Hostile Show Takeover: While Geminiman was trapped inside a video game, Link from the Authors previous comic drugs and takes SubrosianDimitri hostage. His motive? His comic hadn't been updated in two years.
• Hypnotize the Captive: Inverted by Carnation.
• Hypocritical Heartwarming: Hime is the only one allowed to insult her students.
• I Am Legion: Sometimes Gemini Man talks like this. Justified because he can multiply, and there's someone else living in his head.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: Mr L wears shoes with heavy iron soles. When he takes them off...
• I Have Many Names: Dark Star, who likes to list off his names when trying to be intimidating: The Black God of Power, Knight of Five Lights, Endless Umbra, Shadow Constellation, Black Prism, Starlight's Antithesis, Color of Evil, He who calls your mother a fat cow and gets away with it, Master of the Night Sky, Daylight's Requiem, and Almighty Shade.
• Idiot Ball: In the words of Gamermaster "...this is a comic so everyone has to be slightly on the idiotic side."
• Ikea Erotica: Once again, the Slash Fic that future!Void was reading (Although Geminiman is a robot, so it might be partially accurate).
  Future!Void: And then Geminiman inserted his flashdrive into Void's...
• Immortal Immaturity: Void, along with his brother and sister, act a lot less mature than people who are technically 17, 21 and 5 respectively.
• Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Poor Void. He even misses at point blank range.
• Improbably High I.Q.: Dimentio has an IQ of 256.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Pix.
• Intercontinuity Crossover: Done with the authors previous work, The Legend of Zelda High School AU, and with the younger authors Parody of bad sprite comics^note although this comic was what inspired Gamermaster to make L's Empire making this more of a Mythology Gag.
• Interspecies Romance: Several examples
  • Rib (a Dry Bones) and Bow (a Boo).
  • Carnation (a Kayoss) and Pix (a half pixl/demigod thing).
  • Shadowpalm (a Kayoss) and Pari (a Nutrimensnam Sentent)
• Invisibility: Void's Great Uncle has the power to control the transparency of anything; up to and including lies and emotions.
• It Makes Sense in Context: Discussed by Gamermaster when Luigi defeats Mirror!Luigi.
• Jerkass: Dark Star. When he became an author, he constantly posted rude responses to the readers comments.
• The Juggernaut: Fluffy. He isn't called the Ultimate Invincible Chimera for nothing. It's to the point where he was cut in half and one fan's reaction was "meh, he'll get over it."
• Kame Hame Hadoken: Dimentio fires them as part of a Running Gag.
• Karma Houdini: Despite attempting a class X-5 apocalypse, and causing several X-4 ones, Sergeant Smacka ends up getting off scot-free. He actually ends up better off than when he started his plan. This is, naturally, lampshaded.
• Kid from the Future: All three members of TACT are kids of members of the cast. Hector is Rib and Bow's son, Pix is Dark Star and Phala's son and Rosa is Luigi and Daisy's daughter.
  • Subverted in Rosa's case. By the time she traveled back to the present, Daisy was already pregnant with her. And we don't find out that Dark Star and Phala are Pix's parents until after he's born.
• Killer Rabbit: Carnation. Even though she isn't physically dangerous, she can hypnotize you to kill yourself and is perfectly willing to do so.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Dimentio doesn't have any memory of the events of Super Paper Mario because he was possessed by Dark Star at the time.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: Due to the fact that the comic profile page shows all of the authors, it's nigh impossible to not know about Dark Star and the fact that he becomes an author.
• Life Energy: Vim
• Limb-Sensation Fascination: Void spends several pages staring at his hands while getting used to the sensation of having limbs and a mouth after a "Freaky Friday" Flip with Geminiman.
• Literal Split Personality: Siruv and Geminiman are the good and the ego respectively.
• Little Miss Snarker: Indx snarks a lot. Enough that her brother sent her a message from the future, telling her to cut down on it. It's probably a side effect of spending 1500 years in solitary.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Everyone seems to know what "Beware the night of five lights" means, yet they refuse to tell L's Empire. It turns out that it's because, if they were told, the audience would know and, therefor, Dark Star would know.
• Losing Your Head: Happens to Geminiman, and Void attempts to milk it for all it's worth, in every way except a Hamlet quote.
  • Mirror!Mario later provided the quote. Incorrectly.
• Love at First Sight: As a result of their magical genetics, and being the living embodiments of order and chaos, all Kayoss will find true love at first sight (and suffer a condition known as Love Struck, where they drool out of their eyes). Mind you, it has to be first sight without time travel involved as shown with Carnation and Pix in the Valentines Day Special.
• Made of Iron: Void and, by extension, all Kayoss. Geminiman even admits that almost all of his offscreen time is devoted to figuring out a way to even scratch Void.
• Magic Genetics: The Kayoss. Just take a look at Bizarre Alien Reproduction above to see how magical.
• Massive Multiplayer Crossover: Due to the release of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the boundaries between the video game universes kind of... er, merged to the point where it's neither a Multiverse or a Universe but something in between. The Conglomiverse. To put it simply, The dimensions are now like countries. You can walk from one to the other but depending on which one your in determines what the rules are.
• Meaningful Name: Several. One particular example would be the god of recolors who is named Reco Lord.
• Meaningful Titles: All of the Grand Masters of Nej-Lök are given titles that reflect their fighting techniques, (with the exception of Stonemaster, who is named such because of his body patterns).^note Although the name still fits his power anyways
• Me's a Crowd: While originally Gemini Man had the ability to create a hologram of himself, upon coming within proximity of Void's Chaos Heart he gained the ability to create an army of solid clones.
• Mind-Control Eyes: Anyone under Carnation's spell gets blank pink eyes.
• Mirror Universe: One storyline takes place in one. For bonus points, they actually get there by going through a mirror.
• Monster Mash: Hector Calcius Bone is the son of a Boo and a Dry Bones.
• Motor Mouth: Wheel Man. Also SubrosianDimitri when he's excited.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous- Palamaster can make a near infinite amount of floating hands, without having to worry about the limb part.
  • Shadowpalm technically counts, as he has two pairs of hands instead of having a pair of feet.
• Multiversal Conqueror: What Empress Peach thought she was. Dimentio thought otherwise.
• The Multiverse: Actually a Conglomiverse (The universes are partially melded so that their boundaries connect but the different laws of physics still apply in separate sections).
• Mythology Gag- Taken to it's most literal extreme, where the main cast from the creators previous comic show up because their comic hadn't been updated in two years.
• My Nayme Is: All Kayoss, because they can't spell.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: Gemini Man towards Void about Roll.
• Namedar: Indx's pixl ability.
• New Body, Old Abilities: Void keeps his ability to summon spears out of thin air while under the effects of a "Freaky Friday" Flip with Geminiman due to the powers being bound to his mind and soul. It also ended up being the punchline to a three year long Brick Joke.
• Noblewoman's Laugh: Phala has the stereotypical "Oh ho ho ho" complete with using her wing to cover where her mouth would be.
• Noodle Implements: General Man's purchase of the Hooniversity involved powdered milk.
• No Mouth: All male Kayoss.
• No-Sell: Unlike with previous characters who absorbed it, dodged it, or regenerated, Dark Star takes a full blast from Dimentio's Pet Peeves without a scratch or even flinching (He asked if it was supposed to tickle).
  • On the less spoileriffic side, Geminiman is unaffected by Carnation's mind control because he's a robot.
• Not Just a Tournament: QS took over King Sammer's Generic Tournament for Fighter Type People so he could collect all the pieces of the Vim Star.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: SubrosianDimitri, the younger author, at least according to his brother.
• Odd Name Out: Shadowpalm does not match the doom based naming conventions of male Kayoss.
  • Actually that's just a title. His birth name, Deethin, fits the normal pattern just fine.
• Offscreen Romance: Dark Star and Phala had no hint of attraction to one another when they met. Cue two weeks later, and they had a son off-screen (the mechanics behind the conception and fast pregnancy were Handwaved with "we were drunk at the time")
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. Mr L actually gets confused when one character is introduced that shares their name with another one.
• One True Love: Every Kayoss is guaranteed to meet theirs. However, it won't always be the same species or even a living thing (yet they're still able to have fertile kids).
• One-Winged Angel: Both Gaio the Ancient and Dark Star pull this off.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Shadowpalm is only referred to as Deethin once. It's to the point where his younger brother didn't even know that was his real name.
• Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Literal in universe example, where Luigi looses his italian accent when he becomes Mr L.
• Opposites Attract: Pix and Carnation are pure good and pure evil respectively, yet they're each others One True Love.
• Order Versus Chaos: Kayoss are the living representation of this concept.
• Our Gods Are Different: They are immortal and remember everything that happens on screen (even things they weren't present for). They also can instantly tell if someone else is a god or demigod and project a field that prevents plot important items from being detected. There are two types in the story:
  • Universal Gods which are extremely powerful, but their abilities only work within their native dimension.
  • Subversal Gods which are not as powerful, but their powers work everywhere.
• Our Souls Are Different: Souls develop while the mind is developing with the fetus, only in reverse. They start off selfless and then develop selfishness. Kayoss are the only exception, their souls and minds being the same thing.
• Playing with Fire: The Fyra Herre Flaremaster.
• Portmanteau: Used occasionally with Lcyclopedia (L Encyclopedia), Smashclysm (Smash Cataclysm), and Conglomiverse (Conglomerate Universe) being the main examples.
• Pokémon Speak: Weegee Weegee Weegee.
• Pocket Dimension: Gamermaster has a pocket dimension located in his left pocket. It's also noted that pocket dimensions, if not periodically cleaned, will become infested by creatures called lints.
• Power at a Price: Played with by Geminiman's Virus Mode, which grants him a huge amount of power at the cost of, in his view, making him hideous.
• Power Glows: Void's old spear.
  Void: Dude, name one magical artifact that DOESN'T glow.
• Pregnant Badass: Daisy. Although, she's only at the end of her first trimester.
• Princesses Prefer Pink: Peach and Carnation, although for the latter it's actually her skin.
• Produce Pelting: Geminiman ends up getting hit with tomatoes when he puts on a concert to pay for the rent, leaving him to wonder where everyone got them. Turns out that Void was selling them, resulting in them making a net profit.
• Projectile Toast: The way that Geminiman communicates while in Nap Time.
• Punny Name: All male Kayoss.
• Puppy-Dog Eyes: Carnation's method of hypnotizing her older brothers.
• Pure Is Not Good: Carnation is pure evil.
• Rage Against the Author: Link from the the creators previous comic, holds the younger author hostage because they haven't updated his comic in two years.
• Real Life Writes the Plot: Discussed here.
  • Also when their landlord showed up, he tells them they haven't paid rent since the comic went on hiatus.
• Really 700 Years Old: Kayoss age 100 times slower than humans do.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Blademaster, the most powerful Nej-Lök practitioner alive, has salmon pink skin with a lavender stripe running down his face.
• Real Women Choose if They Wear Dresses: Discussed. Tomboy Princess Daisy wears a yellow dress. When questioned on why, she responds as follows:
  Daisy: DID YOU EVER THINK THAT MAYBE I LIKE TO WEAR DRESSES? HUH, DID YOU EVER THINK OF THAT?
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Dark Star. Text boxes included.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Quite a few characters (most notably Dark Star). Pix averts this as, despite him always having red eyes, he's the nicest guy in existence.
  • Also Dimentio, here when he somehow noticed Smacka's fancy intro.
• Robosexual: Void and Roll.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: Hector Calcius Bone is both the heir to two kingdoms (the Boos and the Dry Bones) and is an active member of T.A.C.T.
• Rule of Cool: Mr L seems to be a fan of this trope as it's the reason his group is called L's Empire and why he started off his fight with Mirror!Luigi with a head on collision.
• Running Gag: 5, misnamed tropes, everything being Void' fault, Fancy Intro's, spelling mistakes (especially the word sibling).
• Schedule Slip: Weaponized InUniverse (Major Spoilers)
• Sealed Evil in a Can: After his defeat, Dark Star is put in Gamermaster's left pocket and had all of his author powers except the ability to post author comments removed. Since it's another dimension, Dark Star can't use any of his godly powers because he's a universal god.
• Second-Hand Storytelling: Often lampshaded.
• Semantic Superpower: Every member of the Kayoss royal family born to the King or Queen gets one. Wyrld, The current king has the power of sound; so he can control sound waves, make whatever he says perfectly believable, and put anything into a perfect (sound) state. Shadowpalm doesn't have one because he was born before his father became king.
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: Only the last piece of the Mirror Star was actually necessary to the plot. The other 25 shards were completely non-concequential. This does not go unnoticed.
• Shock and Awe: Mr L's choice of attack apart from his lightsaber.
• Shout-Out: The Alt Text and author comments make numerous references, from Homestar Runner and The Nostalgia Critic to West Side Story and Buckaroo Banzai.
  • Bow and Rib wonder if they could end up like Romeo and Juliet, until they realize that they're already dead.
  • Also, Void and Shadowpalm both mention Naruto by name at one point.
  • All of Mirror!Luigi's attacks are Fire-type moves.
  • Several storyline titles are references to other works: War and Peace, Project Runaway, Mission Improbable, Duel of Fakes, The Devil in a Pink Dress, Geminiman II, 1709 Going On 2409, 8-Bit Trip, Shift Me Baby One More Time, A Whole New World, Mirror Mirror in the Hall, Everybody was Nej-Lök Fighting, Narcissism Tango, The Return of the Queen, My Life as a Preteen Pixl, Who You Gonna Call, Turnabout Sweep, Do the Mario, Into the Woods, and Saving Private Pix.
    • Somewhere in Egypt... is one long Shout-Out to Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series (specifically, Marik's Evil Council of Doom).
  • Professor E. Gadd's mirror world counterpart is called Doctor Gaddsano.
• Show Within a Show: The Impossible Plot Channel. Hosted by Missingno.
• Sibling Team: Shortstop and Fastball.
• Single-Target Sexuality: All Kayoss are destined to fall in love with a single being.
• Sizeshifter: Snowball's superpower that can make him 2, 3, 4, and 5 times bigger exactly. However, this is the only thing he can change, his mass remains the same.
• Sound-Effect Bleep: Whenever Gemini Man tries to curse, his programing literally causes him to say bleep.
• Spell My Name With A Space: Gemini Man or Geminiman? It depends on his mood.
  • Also, Peri or Pari?
• Spin-Off: Void's Game Reviews. It was originally hinted at in 2008, but didn't come around until 2011. And it only had three pages.
• Spontaneous Weapon Creation: Void can make spears shoot out of his hands and feet. In the future, he can do it on any solid surface.
• Sprite Comic
• Storming the Castle: L's Empire attacks the Mushroom Empire in a storyline appropriately named Storming the Castle.
• Straight Gay: Dimentio
• Strong as They Need to Be: One of the powers of the King or Queen (whichever one was born into the role) of the Kayoss is that they will always be stronger than the combined power of those they are fighting.
• Super Mode: Geminiman's Virus Mode. Siruv converts all of Geminiman's ego into power.
• Superpowered Evil Side: Inverted with the above. The source of the energy (Siruv) is actually nicer than Gemini Man.
• Superpower Lottery: The Kayoss Royal Family's words.
• Super-Speed: Void, as a result of growing up with a martial arts master that uses him as a punching bag for an older brother, and pure evil incarnate as a younger sister. Naturally it only works when he's running away.
  • Mr L also has this when he takes off his shoes.
  • This is also Windmasters specialty.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: As Rib and Bow are the children of Feuding Families, they wonder if they will end up like the trope namers. Since it's revealed that they have a Kid from the Future, it's obvious that they won't end up dead even more dead than they already are.
• Stealth Mentor: Shadowpalm to Void. Although, the reasons are selfish.
• Sweat Drop
• Take That!:
  • A good natured one towards recolors:
  Reco: Why do you think there are so many (recolors) on this site?
  SubrosianDimitri: OWNED!
  • The Subbing Versus Dubbing debate is made a punchline for Stafy and Starly's sibling rivalry. The alt text labels it as "the dumbest argument in the history of arguments." invoked
• The Talk: With a twist. The listener (Void) reproduces in a completely different way than the one giving the talk (Mr L). He is naturally squicked out at it.
• Team Title
• Technicolor Ninjas: Void claims to be one, but the validity of this claim, unlike his coloration, has yet to be seen. Endboss on the other hand, plays it straight.
• Tempting Fate: Multiple characters do this at one point or another with Void being the worst offender, to the point that Mr L actually calls him out on it.
  Mr L: Seriously Void, learn basic narrative devices.
• Theme Naming: All Male Kayoss have a full name that means some form of destruction. All Female Kayoss are named after flowers.
• There Are No Therapists: Averted when Blumiere is forced to get some therapy after his second Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum. Hypnotherapy, to be precise.
• Time Travel: The rules are somewhat complex as explained in this comic. It includes:
  • Only One Me Allowed Right Now: Sort of, as is impossible to travel back in time from the point that you were born to the point that you left.
  • San Dimas Time
  • Stable Time Loop
    • You Can't Fight Fate: Subverted, while you can't change the past, you can't know the future, therefore the existence of fate is irrelevant.
  • Time Police: The Temporal Anomaly Correction Team
  • Timey-Wimey Ball: But only when dealing with magical time travel
• Tournament Arc: King Sammer's Generic Tournament for Fighter Type People.
• Training from Hell: Rosa's training when she was younger involved climbing a steel wall by slamming her bare feet into it to create footholds.
• Transformation Name Announcement: I AM SUPER MR L!
• Totally Radical: Shortstop and Fastball, along with Lady Lima (a.k.a. the L'ster) try to be this. Lima does it to sound hip, but no reason is given for the other two.

• Tzadikim Nistarim: Threaders are basically this, being described as "threading together the fabric of the universe."
• Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Justified. No one tells L's Empire about Dark Star and the plan to defeat him because if they find out, the audience finds out, which means Dark Star finds out (since he's a god, Dark Star remembers anything that happens on screen).
• Unwitting Pawn: Wyrld Distrukshun had Palmaster manipulate L's Empire into collecting the shards of the Master Stars, knowing that the laws of narrative devices would lead them to finding the lost piece of the Mirror Star and draw Dark Star out of hiding.

• Verbal Tic: Tail's Doll has one. Is that ok?
• Visual Pun: The Tre Herre's name is Kaytlle Klicm. What does his skin pattern resemble? A cow.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting:
  • Gamermaster doesn't have his own personal sprites, so instead he transforms into various video game characters. However, all of the forms he takes incorporate blue into their color schemes.
  • QS also demonstrates this ability when he masquerades as King Sammer during the tournament.

• Webcomic Time: The comic has been going on for close to 5 years, yet in-story it's only been 13 weeks. ^note Every time skip larger than a few hours is always one week long.
• We Are as Mayflies: As stated earlier: Kayoss age 100 times slower than humans and can live to be up to 20000 years old. It helps that their genetics were magically influenced.

• White Void Room: There have been several cases where L's Empire ended up in a featureless white void: when they were in a brand new dimension, Gamermaster's left pocket, and the Void Between the Worlds. They comment on this.
  Void: So this is the new dimension huh? Where's the color?
  Mr L: Uh, Void. I think you mean, where's the EVERYTHING?
• Win to Exit: Subverted. They thought that beating the game would get Geminiman out, but it didn't. So Dimentio just used his dimensional magic to free him off-screen.
• Womb Level: Literal case when the soul of Daisy and Luigi's unborn child transports them inside Daisy with the power of the Mirror Star (Daisy is with them in there, which leads to some confusion) complete with the 7 week old fetus of Rosa in the background.
• The Worf Barrage: Dimentio's Pet Peeves is one of the most powerful attacks in the series. As a result, it's the first thing used to show off the current villain. Though only one character actually No Selled it. Everyone else had to absorb it, dodge it, or reform after the attack.
• You're Not My Father: Rosa says this to Mr L when he scolds her on her manners. Since she's his Kid from the Future, she ends the sentence with "... yet."

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