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Affectionate Parody[edit]

  • All of the expy stories, but especially Festivity Attenders, which started out as SteveT's backstory and became this for Party Goers while also giving nods to MOG, Epic Goers, and MMEDDP.

All There in the Manual[edit]

  • Many details about the characters' backgrounds (as well as in some cases personality aspects and weapons/abilities that are mostly ignored by writers) are only in the Character Bios and now the OG Wiki entries while either never being mentioned or rarely being inferred to in the other OGs. This is especially true for Luiigii of the Pipes, with his seventeen million retcons that he has made to his background due to it not being referenced in the stories. This led to the very ironic situation where the only OG that heavily referenced this background, Pokemon: OG Version, had to be itself retconned due to further changes in Luiigii's background.

Apathetic Teachers[edit]

  • The staff of GHU is pretty much entirely this, although Professors GORE and Luiigii occasionally lean more towards Sadistic Teacher.

Asskicking Equals Authority[edit]

Avenging the Villain[edit]

  • In Member OG there's the Koopa Family in which each of Koopa I's descendents shows up to avenge their ancestors only to be killed quickly, often without more than one line. Later subverted when Koopa I turns out to be alive and sets out to avenge his descendents.
  • Gamehiker Member OG has the Kaiser Bear family which works on a similar principle as the Koopa family, except that roughly one Kaiser Bear descendent appears per OG. The future stories also give the alternate Koopa II and Donkey Congo Jr., both motivated by avenging their fathers.

Author Avatar[edit]

Back from the Dead[edit]

  • Naturally, with the comic book-like nature of the OGs. Party Goers only had a few prominent ones (although it had few deaths to begin with). The first and most notable would be how Metal Mario had been written out with a dramatic death scene at the end of the first Party Goers, only to be retconned to still be alive as a minion of Vorpal years later in Party Goers 11: When Sidekicks Kick Back. Golem dies as Cat and is revived in his normal form within Party Goers 15 (as is Magikoopa, despite not really being dead), while the other most prominent would be Party Goers 17 being based around reviving Guisseppie following his death in Party Goers 16.
  • All over the place in Member OG. Lupus in particular was killed off for good at the end of the first Member OG, only to return shockingly near the end of the next OG. Also happens with a variety of villains, as well as heroes who are killed during petty author disputes, for the first few Member OGs often being brought back through some convulated explanation. Member OG 3 has most of the OGers die and revived by Sophnito, while Member OG 4 lampshades the villains always returning after death with the explanation of a variant of Joker Immunity in which they revived themselves endlessly. Afterwards for the last five OGs death was played relatively straight, but with some exceptions such as Black Skull Dragoshi as Akujin (although most characters who returned from the dead in the last stories were eventually killed for good).
    • The king of this trope would happen to be Introbulus, which is probably due to some of the writers' love for the character more than anything else, as Introbulus's author only had a hand in one resurrection. Like all the other OGers he died and was revived in MOG3's finale. Then at the end of MOG5 he was abruptly killed by Evil Doppleganger Robobulus, but was brought back in the beginning of Member OG 6: VGF Moon by Eerie II under the conditions he does a FaceHeelTurn. Then at the end of the OG he betrays his word and leaves with Eerie seemingly to return to death, only for Member OG 7 to retcon his fate into being frozen in einsteinium sandwiches, which Cerulea rescues him from. Then he has not one, but two Heroic Sacrifices throughout Member OG 10: Full Circle, with the first actually sending them into another dimension while the latter seemed to permanently destroy Introbulus and all reality with it... until they came back in Member OG 11. And even there he came back to life after Fusion murdered him in cold blood.
  • Happens a few times during Gamehiker Member OG, most prominently during Gamehiker Member OG VIII: The Final Parody. Not only does Donkeyman bring a bunch of dead characters back to life, but Yami Yoshi returns from the dead with an extremely convulated explanation of how he returned that lampshades every farfetched revival scenario combined into one. There is also the Donkeyman's own revival at the end of Gamehiker Member OG IX.
  • Luigi 64 is killed and brought back in both timelines--killed by SteveT in Gamehiker Member OG IV and brought back in Gamehiker Member OG X (only to die again by the ending) for the Good Timeline, and died sometime before or during (can't remember) Party Goers 17 but was brought back by Magikoopa in The OGers: The Third Generation in the Bad Timeline. He's also killed by Naut in OG Wars, 2030 for the Neutral Timeline, but nobody cares.
  • The GCPA does this quite often, and with lampshading. Nemo was originally killed off for real, but after his author complained it was decided he would return every now and then only to die without explanation ala South Park's Kenny. One death that was intended to be permanent was Big Bad Bob Saget's at the end of The OG, aside from a temporary revival in one sidequest. However, it was later decided to bring him back in the X-Men 3 parody sidequest seemingly for the sake of a parody.
  • The afterlife must have a revolving door for Ditto McCloaker who is either dead or not, depending on who introduces him to the story, and who remembers whether he is or not.

Badass Longcoat[edit]

Beleaguered Assistant[edit]

  • Every last Koopa.
  • Many of the hero's sidekicks, such as Dodo, are often portrayed in such a light.
  • Within the GCPA, Que Pasa is usually closer to Hyper Competent Sidekick while Lupine is the beleaguered assistant (to both his superiors and anyone who forces him to help them) who was reluctantly forced into pirating. Edwin sometimes fills in the role in his place, such as in the GCPA 411 series where he acted as this trope to Que Pasa in leau of Scruffy and Que Pasa's absence.

Big Bad Friend[edit]

  • In Epic Goers, The Director eventually becomes Don Fountain and Rocky's nemesis, despite Rocky's attempts to reclaim his friend. Subverted in some way later on to redeem Director, I think.

Big Man on Campus[edit]

  • Toby is the epitome of this at GHU.

Brick Joke[edit]

  • Gamehiker Member OG X:
Zora: By the way, how did you know I was taking Epistemology?
Masamune: Epistewhat?
  • Rhyx in The OGers: The Third Generation.

Brother Chuck[edit]

  • So many with various characters being forgotten in OGs. The first and possibly most classic was Luigi64 and Zora, who disappeared after the bombinator went off in the first Party Goers. Years later, other authors started using them with attempted explanations at their absences.
  • Also happens to various characters in Member OG, especially Miss Ingrid Number and most of Member OG 7's surviving characters, although some have resurfaced in The OGers: Third Generation. Other characters who disappear for most of the series include the Robo Scouts (whose heads appear five OGs after they were last seen in MOG3 and then are never seen again) and THE MAN.
  • Intentionally done to Lyssa, the most pointless GCPA character, in the GCPA Finale in a parody of Judy's disappearance from Family Matters; in the first scene after rejoining the cast, she is seen walking up to her room angrily without any lines, never to be seen again. A running gag is also Darth Curry often being forgotten, both before and after being a villain, by the very plot himself, resulting in him phasing in and out of being a Brother Chuck.

Brought To You By The Letter S[edit]

  • Early (and some current) drawings of Luiigii have him wearing a hat with an L patch, and the Reality-2 Lucas wears green L pins on his lapels.
  • Golem's hat has a G on it.

Butt Monkey[edit]

  • In the main OGs, Golem and Luiigii often receive such punishment, with the former having mostly emerged in recent years with the invention of the backhand. Also, Donkeyman's army of Mariorocks.
  • In the GCPA, Lupine and Nemo frequently receive this treatment.

Canon Discontinuity[edit]

  • Applied to Gamehiker High University 3: Finals Finale?! within the GHU series as well as GMOG 5+1 among the Gamehiker Member OG series, although neither was really that bad. GMOG 5+1's canon discontinuity status actually became a strange plot point towards the end of GMOG 8.
  • Commonly applied to individual posts within OGs, where OGers (especially in our earlier, more outspoken days) would dismiss or ignore the events of the previous posts, often by making it a dream sequence or dropping a bridge on the person's new developments. Commonly applied to Fusion and BSD's posts in Member OG, and Magikoopa applied often tried to apply this to posts featuring his characters that he did not write in Party Goers.
  • In the GCPA, the clearest example would be Lupine's original origin story that he tried to write by himself and was unnecessarily emo. Occasionally received discontinuity nods to annoy him.

Cerebus Retcon[edit]

  • Some within Member OG in regards to Lupus's motivations, and the value of cheesecake, as well as the explanation for Shade's villain decay and the whole S-Space decay debacle. One example of a Cerebus retcon that crossed an entire series was Youma Ganon's search for Repus in Member OG 7, which at first seemed like a comical wild goose chase subplot with no Repus character connected to Lupus, until Gamehiker Member OG IX retconned this with the revelation that Repus was actually Lupus's Mirror Universe counterpart. And then further retconned by making Lupus the Mirror Universe counterpart.
  • Several were incorporated into the GCPA Finale, especially in regards to Lupine. It was revealed that all of his powers that he pulled out of nowhere, as well as pretty much everything he did, had unknowingly killed alternate versions of himself and ruined other worlds, which led to one particular alternate Lupine summoning demons to hound Lupine (Wally being revealed to be one of them). Their torment of Lupine also explained why his life was so pathetic.
  • There are also quite a few for Rocky and the Director in the Epic Goers series that I can't bother to recall for myself.

Cerebus Syndrome[edit]

  • Seems to happen to all OG series eventually (The Life and Adventures of Miyamoto as always the exception that proves the rule). The latter half of the Party Goers started to get more serious and darker, from an offscreen suicide and Sapphire's betrayal being a serious pot point in Party Goers 15 to the dark alternate world and death of Guiseppie in Party Goers 16 to the more emotional and dramatic exploration of the afterlife in Party Goers 17, although there was still room for comedy. The New Party Goers 7 and 8 seemed to shift the focus back towards comedy though, as New Party Goers 7 notably seemed to ignore most of Party Goers 17's more dramatic plot points.
  • Member OG had this so hard, progressively as the series continued, and definitely getting more serious after Lupus left. As the series progressed there was more a focus on action and on the individual characters, higher amounts of serious threats and characters being killed for real, along with some more politics, dabbling in space opera and breaking the fourth wall in a creepy way with the Authors. This resulted in a dark and bleak Member OG 10 with most of the main cast dead. This was a series that started with a yoshi looking for cheesecake.
  • Gamehiker Member OG has only had this in limited doses. Most of the OGs only get as serious as a romantic comedy, aside from Mario Jr.'s posts involving Laura Mario, Marin and Wario Jr., which would probably fit into the category of Mood Whiplash. However, it escalates to darker and more serious levels in Gamehiker Member OG X.
    • Literal aversion - The original ending for Gamehiker Member OG IX was going to have Luiigii rip out his own heart and stuff it into SteveT to stop him from killing Rebe, then while he was TeevC the Mariorocks would convince him to revive Donkeyman and casually end the fighting. And Loogi would have absconded with Luiigii's corpse or something. Really glad I didn't go with this.
  • The Golden Cheesecake Pirate Armada, reputed to be the sillliest series since Life and Adventures of Miyamoto, also has this to some degree. The OG in particular seems to take on a more serious tone towards the end, and some later sidequests are treated more seriously. This is intentionally invoked in the GCPA Finale top set up the thematic conflict of comedy vs. drama and fantasy vs. reality, and it also eventually refers to the trope by name.
  • The Loophole also seems to be afflicted with this. It started off as a very fun set of standalone cases, but becomes more serious as the series progressed with the introduction of a shadowy conspiracy as well as Wayne contemplating the morality of his actions.
  • The Festivity Attenders has suffered a strange version of this ever since Donkeyman has been introduced. It is still light-hearted, but it also has the side effect of building up the tragic backstory of the Donkeyman.
  • Epic Goers also has a strange case. Starting off as several standalone comedy/horror stories, it slowly evolved into some sort of epic space opera with Loads and Loads of Characters, starting to breach drama over comedy in What Lies Beneath and then bringing it to its greatest height in Make War, Not Pixels!.
  • Also, perusing this list reminds me that Harvest Goers '07 got hit with this hard - going from a simple story about the OGers as farmers to a very complex time travel story with a very morally complex and tragic villain, being based around the attempts to redeem him/her.

Chekhov's Gun[edit]

Chaotic Stupid[edit]


Chronic Backstabbing Disorder[edit]

  • Sapphire fits this through her constant betrayals of the Party Goers as well as Team Rocket (Omega} throughout the Party Goers series, usually out of her own whims and fancies, although at least on one occasion (Party Goers 16) it was for the "greater good". Luigi 64 also betrays everyone he's with eventually (but doesn't appear as often) until The OGers: Third Generation surprisingly subverted this with the truly unexpected twist that Luigi64 doesn't betray the heroes.
  • In the GCPA, Babyface McTraitorpants was created and added to the crew as a very exaggerated parody of both this and The Mole, as he frequently betrayed them openly with the pirates being too oblivious to notice, and in fact they came to idolize him.
  • Gamechamp and the Robot Team in the MOG series have betrayed or tried to betray pretty much every partner they've worked with.
  • Also one of Dark Ditto's defining traits.

Cloudcuckoolander[edit]

Comic Trio[edit]

  • SteveTrio- Steve's the navigator, Lynel's the driver and Straw Man is the powerless smart person, subverted in that Straw Man is actually the schemer among the group and not exactly smart by sane definitions. Played straight in times when Straw Man gains power and switches places with Steve.
  • In GCPA, the trio of Captain Scruffy as the navigator, Que Pasa as the driver and Lupine as the powerless smart person. Scruffy and Que Pasa may switch roles depending on whether in the situation Que Pasa is blindly obeying Scruffy's orders or Scruffy is blindly heeding Que Pasa's advice.

Corrupt Corporate Executive[edit]

  • Donkeyman is originally introduced in this capacity as the president of UPN.
  • The manager from YOURMOM Vs. The School who I made but forgot the name of is somewhat of a protagonistic version of this trope.

Cry For the Devil[edit]

  • Donkeyman after his past is revealed, especially his death scene in Gamehiker Member OG VIII: The Final Parody.
  • Luiigii/Harvest Goddess and/or Farmer Jon in Harvest Goers '07, especially since all of their motivations are due to bizarre time travel accidents. I never thought... I'd feel bad for Luiigii...

Dating Catwoman[edit]

Dean Bitterman[edit]

Did You Just Backhand Cthulhu[edit]

  • Frequently happens during MOG given how many of the villains are gods: Lupus, Qwirtzok, Chaos, King Bob, Sephnita, Evil, Akujin, Nijuka, Velvet Monkey, Eerie...
  • Also in GMOGIV, where the characters seemingly kill One and get in a fight with Two and a number of angels (they get better).
  • After the Harvest Goddess gave birth to Elise Annette and attempted to pass her off on Donkeyman, he backhooved her into keeping the child (read: passing her off on someone else).
  • Then there's GMOGX, where the characters take down a quartet of "New Gods" consisting of Old Golem, Luigi64, Isis and Cindy.

Doomed by Canon[edit]

  • One of the controversies associated with The OGers: Third Generation was that it meant that the heroes of Member OG would die at the end of the series and more or less warranted the series' downer ending. At the same time, this ironically also condemned Vlad (whom Fred seemed to desparately want to kill off) to survive Member OG.
  • And of course before that, Member OG retconned that the Party Goers fell under Lupus's control... and they remained either under his control or separated from their bodies for a majority of the series... so that basically limits any Party Goers series set from the early 2000's to around 2020.

Drop In Character[edit]

  • Rafael's character in the GCPA Christmas pilot acted as a parody of this.
  • Also parodied with Toby in GHU, exaggerated to the point where Toby is even shown to have a deed to Golem's house.

Eldritch Abomination[edit]

  • Donkeyman (as well as his kin) and Bob Saget in particular are sometimes played up as such.

Everyone Went to School Together[edit]

Evil Counterpart[edit]

  • Golem/Cat in the Bad Timeline is a literal example of a character who had a slightly different backstory than Golem and Cat in the Good and Neutral Timelines that led him to become evil. The two Golems have only had run-ins in Party Goers 8 and GMOGX, though.
  • Luiigii does this as well, but with opposite timelines. The Good and Neutral Timeline Luiigiis are jerks, while the Bad one isn't. Though in the future, Good Timeline Luiigii mellows and Bad Timeline Luiigii becomes the jerk. Neutral Timeline just gets worse.
  • Yami Boshi to Yami Yoshi during his brief appearance in MOG, as well as MON-KILL to GORE-ILLA (possibly Donkey Congo to the GMOG GORE but that's more of a stretch).

Evil Twin[edit]

  • Everyone in Anti-Space, though two evils make a good in some cases.
  • Murasame is this to Masamune, despite Masamune's own attempts at evil ambition.
  • Kuribo is Kinoko's not-quite-so-evil twin.

Expy[edit]

Evil Teacher[edit]

  • Actual teachers were written into the GCPA as villains, although few stories involve the pirates actually being in their classes.

Exhausted Eye Bags[edit]

Zanreo has these, however it's hard to tell due to her shiny glasses.

Five Bad Band[edit]

  • The Robot Team, when they're bad
    • The Big Bad: Gamechamp
    • The Dragon: Black
    • The Evil Genius: Green, being the mechanical expert
    • The Brute: Yellow
    • The Dark Chick: Blue is the only one left, although he does not really fit. Brown could count, although the team is more good by the time he joins.
    • The Sixth Ranger: Brown is moreso this.
  • Team Monkey
    • The Big Bad: Dark GORE/MON-KILL
    • The Dragon: Ol' Bessie
    • The EVIL Genius: EVIL Scientist Dude, Diskun to a lesser degree
    • The Brute: Bullwinkle
    • The Dark Chick: Mousey
    • Team Pet: Pinchy/Mecha-Pinchy
    • The Sixth Ranger: Ralph Nader

Five Man Band[edit]

Most OGs never quite quite manage to limit their characters like this, but some examples have managed to work out...

  • There's the Robot Team when they're good.
    • The Hero: Gamechamp
    • The Lancer: Black
    • The Smart Guy: Green
    • The Big Guy: Yellow
    • The Chick: Blue is feminine enough to fit. The entire Robo Scouts could also count.
    • The Sixth Ranger: Brown

Flanderization[edit]

  • Luiigii big time. He's went from being a Jedi with a somewhat naturalistic view on life to becoming a hobo that happens to own a light saber. (It's actually better this way)
  • GORE-ILLA is a robot with tons of weapons at his disposal. All he ever does is punch people with his fist. Personality-wise, he has gone from a brooding and capable straight arrow with some spells of stupidity to more of a happy-go-lucky asshole who is desperate for love. (Versions 1.0 and 2.0?)

Foe Yay[edit]

  • There seems to be some with Sapphire and Magikoopa in the early Party Goers.
  • In GMOG, Murasame/Luiigii.
  • In GHU, the Hooded Figure with both GM and Tyler.
  • Most villains in GCPA show some sort of bizarre/disturbing attraction towards the heroes, especially Bob Saget (with any crew member) and Mithos (who can make anyone fall in love with him and so far has done so to Que Pasa and Mr. T).

Freudian Excuse[edit]

  • These have also become more prevalent for villains as the OGs grew more sophisticated. The only villain from Party Goers who fits this criteria and comes to mind would be Vorpal in his early appearances, where he had a tragic backstory in which he murdered his girlfriend and had a sort of split-personality due to the sword. However, these traits have been downplayed as Vorpal continued to make his appearances due to his HeelFaceTurn and time as the Atoner, which led to his transition as a Sixth Ranger of the Party Goers as well as occasional Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain.
  • The arguably most successful version of this thus far would be the Donkeyman, whose tragic backstory and failed romance with Sapphire have been fleshed out in Festivity Attenders. There is also SteveT, who is possibly a subversion as he hates the Festivity Attenders for replacing him when he had been a Jerkass from day one.
  • Within Member OG, very few villains have Freudian Excuses due to the large amount of insane supervillains who seem to work better without tragedy (such as Lupus) and the various uncreative superpowerful supervillains (like Nijuka). Akujin was planned to have a tragic background at one point but it was never even hinted at in the end. Oh and Youma Ganon was motivated by a combination of his father's death and the same Freudian Excuses as his father (and later by being crippled), although he was mostly played for Narm.
  • All of the time travel accidents in Harvest Goers '07 gave these to Luiigii of the Pipes and Farmer Jon, which is as sad as it is utterly confusing and mind-destroying.

Fridge Brilliance[edit]

Frickin' Laser Beams[edit]

  • Any OG where Zanreo is involved is sure to include lasers.

Fully Absorbed Finale[edit]

  • New Party Goers 7 basically turns into a conclusion for the unfinished Party Goers 17. As New Party Goers 7 wound up being the last completed Party Goers OG, it can also be seen as the overall series finale.

Funny Aneurysm Moment[edit]

  • Two words: Ricardo Montalbain.
  • The Golden Cheesecake Pirate Armada actually has quite a few due to the many celebrity cameos (as well as some real life parallels).
    • In The OnGoing Adventures of the Golden Cheesecake Pirate Armada, Michael Jackson tells Que Pasa during their dance-off that "the only way to stop me is to kill me because there's no court that will imprison me because of my intimidatingly scary face!" As well as Michael Jackson getting killed several other times later on.
    • Around the same part of the story, Scruffy wrote Rick James into a post heavily referencing drug usage on his part, but removed him and apologized after realizing he was dead, having been unaware.
    • No Name's then-now-ex-girlfriend appeared throughout one three-part Valentine's Day sidequest, which is now quite awkward to say the least. Most references of real life couples become a more awkward version of this during the periods when they're broken up (let's not touch upon any of the GCPA Finale's romantic subplots, especially the one that was used as the heart of it, shall we...)
    • Steve Irwin being written into the GCPA Prequel in the last post made before it died out. That post alone is fairly innocent but, GORE actually tried continuing it on his own and portrayed Steve Irwin as being Made of Iron, shrugging off various horrific injuries without dying. Steve Irwin's real-life death put him off from writing that prequel.

Gender Bender[edit]

  • Luiigii does a Freaky Friday Flip (with only one body) variation of this in Harvest Goers '07 when Death forces his recently removed soul to reanimate the Harvest Goddess's dead body. This leads to having to awkwardly refer to Luiigii as a she for almost the entirety of the sequel, the Harvest Goddess's spirit also being alive inside the body and the two occasionally struggling for control, and the Harvest Goddess later being retconned into Luigii's mother.

Grand Finale[edit]

  • The GCPA Finale is a large epic story that wraps up the "high school era" of the GCPA and possibly is the finale of this continuity of the GCPA, although ideas for continuations are occasionally tossed around.
  • Member OG 10: Full Circle acted as this... although Member OG 11: We're Back later emerged. There have also been an attempt or two at a Party Goers one over the years, but that didn't get so far.

Heel Face Revolving Door[edit]

  • The Party Goers have Masamune and Vorpal, who were introduced as villains and slowly became heroes, but have been known to regress into villainy from time to time (but most of the time as Inneffectual Sympathetic Villains). Ditto and Sapphire also had shifting allegiances, although Sapphire moreso fits under Chronic Backstabbing Disorder while Ditto did not have as many villainous appearances once Dark Ditto was introduced. Temporary Face Heel Turns among other characters became commonplace enough that it was lampshaded/parodied in Party Goers 16 when Yoshiman decided to take his turn at becoming a villain just because he hadn't been one yet, and Vorpal showed up to give him advice.
  • It became a running gag in the GCPA for various pirates to temporarily turn evil, most notably Patten McGroin when he turned into Darth Curry, as it was not immediately undone. Curry remained an intentionally neglected villain throughout the series, but would arbitrarily help the pirates again from time to time, until he finally became good again seemingly for good towards the end of the GCPA Finale.
  • Luiigii of the Pipes gained this status throughout the Gamehiker Member OG series, until he finally settled in Face territory after GMOG 9. Similarly, Lupus and Fred until they were put on a bus.

Heterosexual Life Partners[edit]

  • The GCPA is composed of various pairs, most of whom are shown under Ho Yay.
  • GORE-ILLA and Luiigii of the Pipes have become a strange antagonistic version of this, to the point where they got their own version of "Guy Love" in GMOG X.
  • GM and Don Miguel, as well as Big Al and Flutter (helps that they're brothers in real life).
  • Rocky and The Director.

Hilarious in Hindsight[edit]

  • At the beginning of GMOGX, Masamune reintroduced Big Al, in the hopes of getting the real Big Al to post. Big Al was made a school teacher, solely for the inappropriateness of it all. Once the real Big Al came back, it turns out that's what he'd been training to do with is life.

Ho Yay[edit]

I Know Kung Fu[edit]

  • Pretty much anyone, when the plot requires it. However, the reverse of this happens even more often with characters gradually 'losing' powers so as not to stand out so much.

Jerk Jock[edit]

  • SteveT parodies this in GHU, as well as his goons Flutter and Big Al. Steve also acts as the Paolo in the way of Golem's relationship with Sapphire.
  • Luigi64 also seemed to be an out-of-school version of this at first, before he became primarily a ghetto punk.

Life Embellished[edit]

  • GCPA in varying degrees. It starts in that all of crew members (as well as select characters from outside the crew) are the fantasy counterpart of real people who all know each other in real life. Also, teachers from the school often appear as villains (as well as actual celebrities, but that is more accepted from an absurdist comedy series). In some stories the fantasy setting is mostly ignored altogether with the pirates being treated as teenagers in high school (like the authors were at the time). No Name in particular during the GCPA Sequel has based posts on directly incorporating injokes and recent events that happened in high school into the plot often with little relevance.

Loads and Loads of Characters[edit]

  • Every OG, basically. Big ones include GMOGX, MOG7, Galaxy Goers and the GCPA.

Mary Sue and Subtropes[edit]

  • Fusion is the defining example of the God Mode Sue- and not just in the Author Character. All of his secondary/replacement characters like Mr. Mysterio and Velocity are obnoxiously powerful heroes who will gain new powers and titles without any sense and seem to be able to handle most of the world's problems by themselves. BSD can also qualify, to a lesser extent.
  • In-story, the Cheesecake of the Gods effectively turns the one who eats it into a God Mode Sue, allowing Dark Ditto to parody Kefka in GMOGIV and Straw Man to rewrite all of reality to his liking in GMOG Holiday Special. Ashley has been more subtle about it...so far.
  • Fusion was also the master of the Villain Sue. It is at its most jarring in MOG3, where Fusion brings in omnipotent villain after omnipotent villain, all of whom in his posts overpower and overthrow Dark Jim as the OG's Big Bad. The most notable example was Shade, who absorbed Dark Jim and became so ridiculously powerful that only a terrible fusion of all the OGers could match up to him, and they had to waste their deus ex machina on him. In fact, the running gag of Shade becoming the most pathetically weak villain in later MOGs may have been subconcious revenge for having to put up with that portion of MOG3.
  • Those aren't the only Villain Sues in MOG. The same OG had Evil, who turned out to be as bland as he was powerful. Akujin and Dark Jim may also qualify, especially Akujin in that he was freaking unbeatable for both of the two OGs he appeared in, even raping the fused Introbulus and Jim. The Velvet Monkey, originally intended as Akujin's Man Behind The Man, was originally built up in a way that he would become a Villain Sue once his identity was revealed. Subverted in how the other writers treated his "Dark Cloak" disguise pathetically and in how when his time finally came to shine, GORE had him depowered for the most part so he would wind up acting as the Evil Teammate for the OG.

Meganekko[edit]

Zanreo is never seen without her glasses.

Mysterious Past[edit]

  • Technically most OG characters before Character Bios came around- particular Vorpal until his past was revealed in his lost spin-off (not the be confused with a LOST spin-off).
  • Although most characters have eventually had their pasts revealed, others such as Moondo and Rival intentionally have basically no details about their pasts known to other characters.
  • Done to over-death in Member OG between GORE-ILLA and Black Skull Dragoshi. Many of the other main characters, such as Lupus and Akujin, also had background that were not really touched upon. Additionally, GORE has a second, canon mysterious past in the later part of the series after the first one is retconned away, although this time around there is more lampshading in its handling.
  • The Golden Cheesecake Pirate Armada parodies this in a sidequest where Que Pasa's past is examined to see if he is actually a traitor, complete with homages to Member OG 4. Played somewhat more straight with Stampede/The Guz, as well as Bob Saget.

Non Action Guy[edit]

  • Golem is the most natural example of the OGers. This has been increasingly lampshaded and poked fun at over the years, due to his main weapon being a scarf.

Older Than They Look[edit]

  • Masamune is a textbook example of the trope, being over 500 years old but physically in his twenties. He's hardly alone though, since his brother and father are both immortal. The same applies to his arch nemesis, Donkeyman.
  • Rhyk and Rhykette survive well into the future while presumably still looking like a 12 year old boy and 20-something year old girl.
  • In the GCPA, it's become nearly expected for various characters (even ones with known birthdates such as the real life celebrities) to actually hail from ancient times, the most egrerious being Bob Saget. Mr. Feeny and Morgan Freeman

Paper Thin Disguise[edit]

  • Several OGers have superhero disguises, some of them more obvious than not. Regardless of what his disguise might look like, few people seem to connect Vorpal to Vorp-Man or his other aliases.
    • This is subverted in the Norwegian Nichibutsu when Ditto attempts to reveal Vorpal is posing as the Vorpriest AND Vorpope, only for it to turn out that they are two different people.
  • Even though Sapphire rarely bothers to keep it a secret and has even told people about her Lady in Red identity, Golem just doesn't seem to get it.

Pointy Ears[edit]

  • Masamune, Murasame and some of their relatives fall into this trope, though it really would be nice to ret-con it out some day.
  • There's also a fair number of legitimate elves and hylians who fall into this as well, incidentally.

Put on a Bus[edit]

  • There are various examples, as this usually happens when an author leaves and the other writers run out of things to do with their characters, unless they instead decided to drop a bridge on them or Brother Chuck them. The most recent example would be Lupus and Fred, whom it was decided not to use after GMOG8 unless their true writers return, except in OGs where they are already playing big roles (particularly 3G2).
  • In the GCPA, this was initially done to half of the crew in order to cut the crew's numbers down to something that could be more easily managed by the writers. However, this actually helped to make things more confusing and convulated, so they came back for the finale, and in the end a more efficient-looking method of splitting the crew was used.

Rage Against the Author[edit]

  • Played for comic effect in The Life and Adventures of Miyamoto, where authors were called together for meetings, with Mario500 attempting to establish sanity in the story while Lupus and the others promoted their absurdist agenda.
  • In the Member OG series, this played deathly straight with the Authors who are introduced in Member OG. Though they are presented as being similar to the "actual" authors and have no problem with the world or its characters, Author 9 rages against the story and manipulates it in frequent attempts to destroy the OGers and prevent S-Space deterioration. And it is ultimately revealed that he wrote in GORE's prophecy, sealing the fates of the OGers, at which point the Authors had been pushed to the wayside due to the fusion of the universes.

Real Life Relative[edit]

  • Some authors are siblings, although their characters are usually unrelated; see Nintenfreak and Flutter; Vorpal and Yoshiman; Masamune and Evildog.
  • Eightch 2. Oerson was made by/inspired by/some other nonsense Luiigii of the Ugly Ugly Men's actual younger brother. Although the two are not brothers in canon, they share a bizarre likeness in a vain similar to the Prince and the Pauper. And although she does not post in OGs, Golem has a sister who is incorporated into canon as AC Golem's sister (as well as his parents). Air Conditioner Golem could not be reached for a comment.
  • Relatonship-wise, Vorpal's then-girlfriend Kuria Eiren was written into every substantial OG at the time that had Vorpal in it as his new love interest even though she only wrote one post in the first GMOG. The awkwardness after the break-up lead to her slowly being Put on the Bus in each series she was appearing with (luckily Member OG 10 saved us the trouble of writing her out by just eventually forgetting the entire segment of the plot involving Kuria and the Party Goers). There was also Chibi Tohru-Chan, then-girlfriend of Golem, but she luckily had been written into only a few OGs and was only a potential love interest outside of the Harvest Goers '07 series so her character became less awkward to deal with.
  • Originally averted in the GCPA, where the only couple among the crew was eLFa/Pink Ninja who were paired up specifically since they did not know each other in real life. Later played straight- after White Panther joined the crew, she has been paired up with Stampede to reflect their then-real-life relationship. The GCPA Finale takes it further with No Name/Vagineta. There are also sometimes sly (and very possibly awkward) references of pirates who have at one point dated in real life having been couples in the pirate world (Siren with Stampede and One-Armed Willy. Oh yeah and some sidequests referenced No Name's then girlfriend, which is also pretty awkward. The finale also contains subtler references to real-life relationships and crushes, possibly squeezing some more awkward puss from the pimples of love. And still subverted with other couples such as Shiny Stallone and Salama being made into a gay couple.

Recurring Extrai[edit]

  • The Arab Dude, to much lampshading, although he has occasionally played a major role such as in Party Goers 4-5. To a lesser degree dudes of various other nationalities, although the only other one with a decent amount of appearances is the Canadian Dude.
  • Various characters could count in the GCPA, but I'll just mention Han Solo who usually appears at the end of major battles to say "Great shot kid, that was one in a million" or a number of variations from the Millennium Falcon.

Red Oni Blue Oni[edit]

  • Bomberman and Magikoopa respectively.

Relationship Upgrade[edit]

  • Golem and Sapphire had a primarily platonic relationship in the original Party Goers series, aside from some subtext. GORE tossed them together in GMOG and had them suddenly marry originally as a half-joke and a way to annoy their authors into posting again. But it has stuck, and the two have since had their fair share of heartwarming moments. This has similarly led to Golem and Sapphire being portrayed with more romantic tension in other continuities since.
  • It's been a Foregone Conclusion that Luiigii ends up being married to Rebe, but in GMOG they don't get their upgrade until the end of GMOGV (about two or three OGs after Rebe was written into the series), and they are later married in GMOG IX.
  • Stampede and White Panther in the GCPA Finale, which may have been a mistake on my part.

The Starscream[edit]

  • GORE-ILLA literally acts as Starscream in Transformers OG, although he and Luiigii are only memetically Starscreams towards Gamehiker Forums.
  • Koopa Xtreme acts in this role in MOG8 (as well as GMOG8) towards Lupus. Lupus also has Gamechamp until he leaves TWIFATIT, and other Koopas sometimes show signs of treachery but not as overtly as Xtreme.
  • In the GCPA, there's Count Gonad to Bob Saget, and briefly Darth Curry. In rare heroic variant, Lupine occasionally plots to wrest control of the crew from Scruffy.

Scary Shiny Glasses[edit]

  • Zanreo, although the "scary" part is debatable.

Ted Baxter[edit]

  • Vorpal has often acted in this role following his original Heel Face Turn. Masa, Flutter and GORE sometimes qualify as well - Headmaster Mune especially in GHU (although averted in the area that Mune is repulsed by women aside from Rebe).
  • Rocky in most depictions.

Teacher Student Romance[edit]

  • Mostly parodied with Vorpal and Kuria in GHU. Eventual exposure lead to Professor Vorpal temporarily being fired and Kuria being put on a bus.

Romantic False Leads[edit]

  • It's become a bit of running gag that Masamune is this by dating Rebe before Luiigii, who is canonically destined to be Luiigii's wife.
  • Within the GHU series, SteveT and then Flutter both parody different aspects of the trope by dating Sapphire instead of Golem; SteveT parodies the jerk jock whom the girl arbitrarily loves despite his obvious deficiencies, while Flutter represents the seemingly perfect guy she moves onto after dumping Golem.

The Gwen Stacy[edit]

  • Misty seems to be the original Gwen Stacy in OGs, having been killed off in Vorpal's backstory OG. This is the main source of Vorpal's angst in his early Party Goers appearances. However, this has been subverted/reversed with Misty's revival in the Good Timeline, which leads to her swapping places with Kuria Eiren as Vorpal's mainest love interest.
  • Deijii Brinn is an example of this for Luiigii. A literal parody that has only been implied in Luiigii's backstory and has yet to be actually shown. Deijii herself has only actually appeared in spin-offs taking place in alternate continuities (where she has yet to suffer such a fate)... in fact, aside from explaining Luiigii's hatred for Loogi, there have yet to be any actual signs of Deijii's existence in the canon OGs. It's believed she actually died from looking at Luiigii's face.
  • It is possible that MPOM is this for GORE-ILLA, as she is taken apart by Introbulus and, after being reconstructed into EVIL Scientist Dude's mech in the end, GORE is forced to tearfully tear her apart. This leads to his emo phase in the following OG.
  • In the Bad Timeline, Golem has one in the form of Isis at some point after 3G. It in fact drives him to villainy in Gamehiker Member OG X when he becomes a villain and summons her spirit into Zora (who in turn becomes a temporary Gwen Stacy for Masamune).
    • Though speaking of Masamune, his Gwen Stacy was Ashley when she randomly popped out of existence, though he derived a lot more angst from the world exploding... probably...
  • Princess Lila may be this for Kanenobu, since they're never seen together after Kiku is born. His scarred face, gruff attitude, and adorable daughter certainly seem to make him appear angst-ridden.
  • Safour, Ruby Red, Sapphire and countless other reincarnations have been multiple Gwen Stacies for Donkeyman who seriously won't get over her and find a woman that does love him. Except he has with Elenia Aostuin, along with two separate instances of Sapphire coming to accept him.
  • Gooom no get over Safour. Feel heap sad when big black man take her in moving rock!
  • In a rare reversal, this happened for Ruby Red when Elemental was killed and reincarnated as a jackass. Although this parallels Golem's death in Party Goers 15, Sapphire and Golem weren't an item then.
    • Though she would never admit it, it is all too clear that Vivid carries a terrible pain in her heart at the death of Kester. But then... we all do, don't we?
  • Grunt #18 wasn't exactly the lover of T.T. Showstoppa, but his death certainly put him at odds with Team Rocket and put him squarely on the side of awesome.
  • The Pikmin and the Olimar.
  • A GCPA example would be Patten McGroin. In one sidequest Zordon is killed an elaborate mass unmasking scene follows, with the already dead Zordon being unmasked to be Jessica Alba, whom Patten is fanatically obsessed with. This quick joke evokes the long-running change of Patten turning to the dark side and becoming Darth Curry. Actually there should be something different for when a love interest's death drives one to evil, the "Nora Fries" or some such. would you like some Nora Fries with that?

Those Two Guys[edit]

  • GM and Tyler in GHU.
  • Lupus and Fred often wound up in this role in the GMOG series as part of potential Villain Decay, which eventually lead to them being put on a bus.
  • The two Nichibutsu salarymen from Lasers.

Two Teacher School[edit]

Unusual Euphemism[edit]

  • Shrack, a word used by Neezer Stubbs that later worked its way towards being the forum censor for the f-bomb.
  • Any number of Vorpuns. Pick one, any one.
  • Member OG brought the world "shatmuck".

Villain Decay[edit]

  • In MOG, could arguably apply to Lupus after his author stopped posting (with the most possible exception of Fred's posts) and definitely applies to his character in the GMOG series, who rarely acts as a serious threat following the first GMOG. Also applies to Akujin, who was played straight as the new Big Bad until being defeated in MOG6. Afterwards, he in his later appearances he is either a self-parody or overshadowed by someone of much larger strength. Shade must also not be forgotten, who went almost the exact same path (but with a much shorter tenure as Big Bad).
  • Dark Ditto starts down this path in the GMOG series, given that it's never really explained why he stops using the Cheesecake of the Gods powers he picked up in Gamehiker Member OG IV.

Waxing Lyrical[edit]

  • Part of Vorpal's shtick has eventually become frequently quoting 80s songs, after Lord of the Parties had him threatening to rock his opponents like a hurricane.
  • Became an Overused Running Gag in GMOG VIII after Golem made a slideshow of the OG to the Polyphonic Spree's "Fragile Army". The song was quoted constantly until Luiigii lampshaded it and put it to sleep in the beginning of the next OG.
  • Happens from time to time in the GCPA as well. That Krazy Dude's lines in particular will often be random song lyrics or titles.

We Want Our Jerk Back[edit]

  • Every appearance of TeevC

Welcome To The Real World[edit]

  • Most notably occurs in Party Goers 6 (the premise of which was apparently taken from a Red Dwarf) in which the Party Goers wake up from the previous OG's cliffhanger to find that their adventures were all a simulator and that they had different identities in the "real" world. Somewhat ruined by Magikoopa and others not going through the plot and creating various inconsistencies between the "simulation" and "real world", although these inconsistencies arguably made the story good in a different way. Also like to point out the irony that it is in the "real" world that they meet their most cartoonish and absurd antagonist S-Cargo.
  • Versions of this similar to the Party Goers 6 example (but played out more similar to the identical premise) have been planned by GORE-ILLA for possible future adaptations of Member OG and Golden Cheesecake Pirate Armada. There was also an attempt to invoke this with one sidequest involving Scruffy waking up in a high school classroom with the implication that the GCPA adventures were all his daydreams, but the sidequest died out soon afterwards.

Will They Or Won't They[edit]

  • Golem and Sapphire, especially in GHU, where the "Will They Or Won't They" is partially parodied; in the main OGs, their relationship was barely touched upon when they leaped into getting married in GMOG2.
  • Luiigii and Rebe have a little in the GMOGs before they get together, as well as the GHUs and most OGs that don't start off with them automatically together.
  • In Golden Cheesecake Pirate Armada, this has also developed for several potential couples.
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