Subjective tropes for Fantasy of Utter Ridiculousness
- Awesome Music: The author put together a track listing of songs that he believed fit the story's major scenes.* Most of them are from their respective sources while a few are rearrangements thereof, and the majority of them are fine songs in their own right. A partial playlist can be found on YouTube here,
while this forum thread at Fanfiction.Net offers a complete list of what could have been. - Crack Pairing: Jamie and Patchouli: one's a good-for-nothing slacker and Casanova Wannabe, and the other's a constantly ill, century-old youkai magician who should really know better. Koakuma initially makes her displeasure known at the idea of the two of them getting together, but gets dropped into a pairing of her own with Goat by story's end.
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- After getting trapped inside Megas, Patchouli decides that she's never leaving the Mansion again "for anything short of an earthquake". Fast-forward to the events of Touhou Hisouten ~ Scarlet Weather Rhapsody...
- During the "credits", it's implied that Megas was what inspired Alice to create the Goliath Doll.
- From the Extra Stage, Reisen takes offense to Reimu lumping her in with a group of youkai, reminding her that she's a moon rabbit. By the time of Touhou Kanjuden ~ Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom, her attitude in this regard has done a 180.
- Yukari notes at one point that no one in Gensokyo really paid attention to outside-world holidays such as Christmas. Years later, not only has awareness of Christmas grown, but the hermit Seiga Kaku has played the role of a Bad Santa.
- The Woobie: Patchouli. Very little, if anything at all, goes right for her when Coop comes to town. By the end of the story, her circumstances have not only driven her to angrily snap at her best friend, but have left her with a minor case of trauma that rears its head during the Extra Stage.
