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{{quote|''"I am a killer and a clown. I am a hero and a fool."''
|''Drunkard's Walk II'', Prologue}}

Serial [[Mega Crossover]] series more-or-less continuously written by Robert M. Schroeck since 1998. It is "serial" in two senses: first, in the more common usage, it has appeared in semi-regular installments for nearly twenty-five years (as of Spring 2022); second, unlike most [[Mega Crossover]]s which blend multiple sources into a single setting, '''''Drunkard's Walk''''' visits its different contributing series one after another, with little to no "bleed-through" between them.

At the center of the story is Douglas Q. Sangnoir, codenamed "Looney Toons", who would be called a superhero in any world but his own. On his native Earth, though, he is a metahuman -- and a paramilitary operative in Warriors Alpha, an organization of metahumans contracted by that Earth's version of the United Nations to act as its "super-police" force. A ten-year veteran of the Warriors and its Security Chief, with a rank equivalent to colonel, Doug Sangnoir is a professional soldier with a powerful but chaotic set of superpowers, an intimidating intellect, and a personal style strongly influenced by [[Looney Tunes|Warner Brothers cartoons]]. Ejected from his home universe by enemy action, he is [[The Homeward Journey|on a quest to return there]] by traveling essentially at random through the multiverse (hence the name of the series). As might be expected, this means his trip goes neither quickly nor smoothly...

Although an honorable man who is loyal to a fault and driven by his sense of duty to acts of occasionally insane bravery, Doug is no paragon -- despite his powerful intellect, he is prone to leaping to conclusions and acting foolishly, and he is a bigot on two fronts: he initially dismisses most [[Muggles]] as fragile ephemeral creatures who need protecting but are otherwise beneath his notice; and he hates most gods and godlike beings with a near-homicidal (deicidal?) passion. Both these attitudes get him in trouble at one point or another during his journeys...

When it is complete, the ''Drunkard's Walk'' will be composed of 14 main parts, called "Steps". Of these Steps, two are complete (as of early 2022), four chapters of a third have been released, and the first four chapters of a fourth and the first chapter of a fifth are available. In addition to the these major stories, the author has been writing and releasing short pieces he calls "Steplets".  He also writes (and encourages readers to write, as well) short-short vignettes he calls "nanoSteps".

The home of ''Drunkard's Walk'' can be found [http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/dwmain.shtml here].

''Drunkard's Walk'' is part of a larger metafictional continuum mapped out [[media:Crossovers.jpg|here]].

{{examples|The planned installments in the ''Drunkard's Walk'' are:}}
* ''Drunkard's Walk I: A Horse Ain't A Horse, Of Course, Of Course''. Set in [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s ''[[Heralds of Valdemar]]'' series, this Step is in active development.

* ''[http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/dw2.shtml Drunkard's Walk II: Robot's Rules of Order]'', a complete, fifteen-part story set in the world of ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]''. The first chapter of this Step was released in 1998; it was completed in 2003.

* ''Drunkard's Walk III: Sana-chan no Omocha'' -- an unwritten story to be set in ''[[Kodomo no Omocha]]''.

*  ''Drunkard's Walk IV: Pests and Hanoi-ances'' -- an unwritten story to be set in the world of, and after the events of, ''[[Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension]]''.

* ''[http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/dw5.shtml Drunkard's Walk V: Another Divine Mess You've Gotten Me Into]''. Doug finds himself the guest of the Norns in a hybrid ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]''/''[[In Nomine]]'' world. The first chapter of this Step was released in 2004; it was completed in 2012 after a several-year hiatus. It is a crossover with the [[Self-Insert Fic]] ''[[Oh! My Brother!]]'', cowritten with the author of that fic, Christopher Angel.

* ''Drunkard's Walk VI: Angel Baby'' -- A story currently in active development, set in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''.

* ''Drunkard's Walk VII: Revolution Calling'' -- an unwritten story to be set in the aftermath of the events of ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]''.

* ''[http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/dws.shtml  Drunkard's Walk S: Heart of Steel]''. This unnumbered Step takes place between Steps VII and VIII, and recounts Doug's impact on the plotline of the first season of the original ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' anime.

* ''[http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/dw8.shtml Drunkard's Walk VIII: Harry Potter and the Man From Otherearth]''.  After arriving in an apparently-normal 1990s Earth which actually has a hidden magical subculture, Doug trades a year of teaching at a magical secondary school for help from its headmaster and staff in finding a way home.  Four chapters of this Step have been released, and the fifth is being written.

* ''Drunkard's Walk IX: [[The Borribles]]'' -- currently unwritten.

* ''Drunkard's Walk X: Walking Through The Storm'' -- a four-way [[Intercontinuity Crossover]] between ''DW'', ''[[Legion's Quest]],'' ''[[Sailor Moon Expanded]]'' and the Japanese B-Movie ''[[Zeiram]]''. Co-authored with Ed "Legion" Becerra, this Step is under development and partially written.

* ''Drunkard's Walk XI: Brother Loon, Sister Princess''. As its title might suggest, Doug finds himself in the [[Blatant Lies|fast-paced, action-packed]] world of ''[[Sister Princess]]''.

* ''Drunkard's Walk XII: Nine Flowers And A Weed'' -- set in ''[[Sakura Taisen]]''.

* ''[http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/dw13.shtml Drunkard's Walk XIII: Glory Hound]''. The final Step takes place during the fifth season of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. The first chapter of this Step is available.  Co-written with Helen Imre.
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{{Megacrossover List}}
* ''[[The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension]]''
* ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]''
* ''[[The Borribles]]''
* ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]''
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''
* ''[[City of Heroes]]''
* ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Disney's Aladdin]]''
* ''[[GURPS|GURPS International Super Teams]]''
* ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]''
* ''[[Heralds of Valdemar]]''
* ''[[In Nomine]]''
* ''[[Kaleido Star]]''
* ''[[Kodomo no Omocha]]''
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''
* ''[[Papillon Rose]]''
* ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]''
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' (original anime)
* ''[[Sakura Taisen]]''
* ''[[Sister Princess]]''
* ''[[The Specials]]''
* ''[[Villains and Vigilantes]]''
* ''[[West Side Story]]''
* ''[[Zeiram]]''

'''<big>Additionally, it contains metafictional crosslinks to the following fan fiction and web original works:</big>'''

* [[The Bet (fan work)|The "Bet-verse"]]
* ''[[The Dance of Shiva]]''
* ''[[Fenspace]]''
* ''[[Legion's Quest]]''
* ''[[Oh! My Brother!]]''
* ''[[Sailor Moon Expanded]]''
* ''[[Twisted Path]]''
* ''[[Undocumented Features]]''
* ''[[A Wolf In Crisis]]''
* The subseries ''Girls, Girls, Girls'' also connects with ''[[The Teraverse]]''.

''Drunkard's Walk'' is in fact part of a much larger metafictional continuum mapped out in [[:File:Crossovers.jpg|this image]].

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== A-E ==
* [[Action Girl]]: Lisa Vanette in ''DW2''.
* [[Affectionate Gesture to the Head]]:  In ''DW-S'', Doug gets in the habit of "scruffling" Usagi Tsukino's hair between the buns from which her ponytails sprout.
* [[Aliens Speaking English]]: Averted in Doug's case, as he is the "alien" in many settings. If it's not French, English, Japanese or Valdemaran, he has to learn to speak the local tongue.
* [[All Myths Are True]]:  For certain values of "myth", and certain values of "true".  Every god ever worshiped by sapient beings is an expression of one of the True Gods, and most of the stories about those expressions are [[The Legend of Chekhov|either literally true or a distorted account of something that actually happened]].  For instance, most if not all of the shenanigans the Olympians get up to in their myths actually happened at some point in history in at least one timeline.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: The author provides a detailed concordance for each story as well as a master FAQ file for the entire series.
* [[Alternate History]]: Doug's homeworld began noticeably diverging from the "real world" in 1929 (although the real point of divergence is several million years earlier), and is an odd mixture of familiar and alien.
* [[Alternate Universe]]: The stuff from which the whole series is built.
* [[American Accents]]: After a magical accident Delandra from ''DW1'' ends up speaking English with a decidedly Southern California style, and can do a perfect Valley Girl at will.  
* [[Amazon Brigade]]:  The "heavy hitters" Doug summons in chapter 12 of ''DW2''.
* [[Anatomy of the Soul]]: ''Drunkard's Walk'' uses a variation on the ''[[In Nomine]]'' mechanics for souls; this means the three helices Doug can see in sufficiently powerful souls correspond to Corporeal, Ethereal and Celestial Forces.
* [[And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt]]:  At the end of ''DW2'', Lisa gives Doug a T-shirt which reads, "I Went To Mega-Tokyo {{spoiler|And Freed The Boomers}} And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt".  Doug likes it so much that he has copies made of it to keep wearing for the next century and a half.
* [[Androids Are People, Too]]:  Clearly stated to be the default, socially and legally, in Doug's homeworld, and is a core value that informs many of his actions in ''DW2'' and other Steps.
* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: Assorted examples from various settings.
* [[The Apprentice (trope)|The Apprentice]]:  Usagi "Sailor Moon" Tsukino in ''DWS''; Doug, who's training her, frequently addresses her as ''teishi'' ("apprentice" or "student" in Japanese).
* [[Ascended Demon]]:  {{spoiler|Marller at the end of ''DW5''.}}
* [[Ascended Fanon]]:  Eimi, Doug's AI companion for the later part of the Walk, originated in a [[Recursive Fanfiction]] story.
* [[Aura Vision]]:  Doug's magesight.
* [[Author Avatar]]: Averted; the author has a ''different'' character from the same origin setting who is explicitly his avatar.
* [[Autobots Rock Out]]: Pretty much every fight Doug is in.
* [[Background Magic Field]]:  The basic way magic manifests in a universe, although different universes may also manifest [[Ley Line]]s and nodes.
** In ''DW8'', [[Harry Potter|the Weasley Twins and Hermione Granger]] discuss "background magic" in a way directly analogous to background radiation.
* [[Backstory]]: A considerable amount, born of twenty years of gaming, revealed in drips and drabs throughout the stories.
* [[Badass Biker]]: Part of the image that Doug projects, both professionally and at times personally. Subverted in that he's actually The Man, or an agent thereof.
* [[Badass Boast]]: Doug has several; he usually makes them up on the spot for the sole purpose of intimidating his opponents and doesn't necessarily believe the hype or accept the names that others have given him. That doesn't mean they're not mostly true, though.
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Doug in several Steps.
* [[Battle in the Center of the Mind]]:  The conclusion of the climactic fight of ''DW2'' takes place within GENOM's "Overmind" boomer remote control system.
* [[Bavarian Fire Drill]]:  How Doug becomes Usagi Tsukino's tutor in ''DW-S''.  Everything he says to her parents is the absolute truth, but he presents it all in such a manner so as to lead her parents to believe a school administrator referred him.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Seriously injuring someone Doug cares strongly about; initially this applies to just his wife, but expands to include various individuals he meets on the Walk.
* [[Big Bad]]: Several, in various Steps, including Quincy in ''DW2'' and Glory in ''DW13''.
* [[The Big Board]]:  In ''DW8'', Doug uses this exact phrase to describe his duty station in the Warriors' base, back in his home timeline.
* [[Big Book of War]]: Doug references Sun Tzu's ''The Art Of War'' whenever training anyone likely to encounter combat.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Doug and the other members of Warriors Alpha -- and just about anyone Doug trains or mentors during the Walk.
* [[Blackmail Is Such an Ugly Word]]:  In an example of a different ugly word, the Weasley twins in ''DW8'' deny taking wagers on anything, but they do "sometimes facilitate practical research into probability distribution for select members of the student body."
* [[Blade on a Stick]]: "God's Toothpick" sometimes behaves like this, although the "blade" is actually a construct of Celestial energy.
* [[Blood Oath]]:  In ''DW5'', Belldandy swears an oath upon her blood to never lie to, mislead or otherwise deceive Doug when she decides it is absolutely necessary for him to trust and believe her.
* [[Bond One-Liner]]: Doug occasionally snaps out one of these.
* [[Boom! Headshot!]]:  Invoked by name in ''DW8'' by Doug to describe his accidental knock-out of a ''dragon''.
* [[Born-Again Immortality]]:  [[All There in the Manual|According to supplemental materials]], this is part of the powers of the Warrior called "Skitz".
* [[Brick Joke]]:  In Chapter 2 of ''DW5'', Doug (as narrator) comments sarcastically "What was next? Krishna dropping in [[May I Borrow a Cup of Sugar?|for a cup of sugar?"]]  In the last pages of the final chapter, exactly that happens.  Almost certainly a deliberate invocation of the trope by Doug, as each story is supposedly an account assembled long after the events described.
* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: Doug, but mainly intellectual laziness -- he tends toward snap judgments and unwarranted assumptions.
* [[Bugs Bunny]]: Doug jokingly refers to Bugs as his "spiritual totem".
** Also, early in ''DW2'', Doug leaves [[Bugs Bunny]] cloisonne pins in the caskets of the victims of a boomer rampage, as tokens of his intent to fight GENOM.
* [[Bullet Dodges You]]: And lasers, and hostile magic, and more than a few good things, too... a typical effect of Doug's improbability field.
* [[Bullet Time]]: "Combat hyping".
* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: Religious/Cultural variant: Doug reveals in ''DW5'' that he's a Roman Catholic of Jewish descent.
* [[Casual Danger Dialogue]]:  Doug is usually quite cavalier about combat and other danger.
* [[Catch Phrase]]:  Doug seems to have one in "Gotta love it" and variations thereon, used both seriously and sarcastically about various subjects:
{{quote|Gotta love this nanomade stuff -- get one right, and they're all perfect.}}
{{quote|Arrogance born of ignorance. Gotta love it.}}
{{quote|Gotta love people who appreciate sophisticated humor.}}
{{quote|Industrial strength magical protection — gotta love it, except when it screws your life up.}}
* [[Celebrity Impersonator]]: Played with in a [http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=1690&pid=34063#pid34063 nanoStep] set after the end of [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Podkayne of Mars]]''.  In it, the former socialite "Girdie" mentions how she's making money by impersonating ''herself''.
* [[Character Name and the Noun Phrase]]:  ''Harry Potter and the Man from Otherearth''.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Practiced religiously by the author -- there are no [[Ass Pull]]s here.
* [[Chest Insignia]]: Played with: Doug's "costume" is grey biker leathers. On his left breast is a Velcro mount for a patch, which he swaps between a Harley-Davidson logo and a shield with a stylized "LT" depending on whether or not he's off-duty.
* [[Christmas Episode]]:  The short story ''[http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=7393 The First... No... Well...]''
* [[Chrome Champion]]: Silverbolt.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: A mild case of this is included as part of Doug's "public persona".
* [[Code Name]]:  Used by the members of the Warriors in Doug's home timeline:  "Looney Toons", "Wetter Hexe", "Silverbolt", "Shadowwalker" and many more.  Subverted in the case of "Kat", whose code name is a diminutive of her real name that also coincidentally describes her powers.
* [[Colonel Badass]]:  Colonel Douglas Q. Sangnoir, United Nations Metahuman Peacekeeping Force Warriors Alpha.
* [[Color-Coded Timestop]]:  As seen in ''DW5'', Chapter 1:
{{quote|Timestops are weird...  Everything takes on a bluish cast -- in this case even deeper than the combination of my combat hype and the fading twilight had already given it.}}
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Doug, to a degree; also the Warriors as a whole.
* [[Combat Tentacles]]: The golden chains created by [[Fleetwood Mac]]'s "The Chain".
* [[Combo-Platter Powers]]: Doug: A martial artist with heightened intelligence, agility and speed, magically gifted, and wrapped in an improbability field. Somewhat justified in that there's a common cause for all the heighteneds, and the improbability field is a result of a ''negative'' mutation of his mage gift.
* [[Compound Interest Time Travel Gambit]]:  Doug tries to plan around a variation of this trope during his travels by carrying "trade goods".  The first time he (or rather a friend acting on his behalf) tries to use them in ''DW2'', though, it fails spectacularly because they offer gems (his initial and only trade goods at the time) to someone who can create dozens of diamonds for pennies using a [[Nanotechnology|nano-fabricator]].  In later stories he also carries gold bullion, jewelry, and cash left over from previous worlds; when the cash can't be recycled in a similar world, he can usually sell the rest to a jeweler or even a pawnbroker or "We Buy Gold!" outfit.
* [[Confessional]]: Doug, a lapsed Catholic, makes a confession in ''DW5'' -- not to a priest, but ''to the Norns''.
* [[Confusion Fu]]: Doug's usual tactics in a fight include a heavy dose of this, employing song lyrics, if the opposition and he share a language.  
* [[Cool Bike]]: From ''DW2'' onward, Doug's heavily-customized 2015 Mitsubishi Nightblade, a turbine-powered superbike native to the ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]'' world which is frequently described as looking like a science-fiction prop or "a missile on wheels"; it also [[Flying Car|flies]].
** In his native timeline, Doug has his original bike, a similarly-modified 1936 Harley-Davidson. It's never actually seen "on-screen", but Doug mentions it several times.
* [[Cool Gate]]:  How Doug arrives in and departs from the worlds he visits.  In most of the stories Doug spends a lot of time finding the way to create an exit from the world he's in.  Unfortunately, he has no idea where each one will go until he gets there.
* [[Cool Helmet]]: Doug wears what appears at first glance to be a gray motorcycle helmet -- but it contains a powerful voice-operated computer with a head-up display along with a library of songs and other data, an integral starlight scope, flare suppression, external speakers, a whip antenna plus wireless network and voice connectivity.  It's also heavily armored, to go with the rest of his "work clothes".
* [[Cosmic Chess Game]]:  Doug's conviction that all god-mortal interaction amounts to this trope (coupled with his experience of more than a few [[Jerkass Gods]]) is one of the reasons why he's a [[Nay Theist]].
* [[Create Your Own Villain|Create Your Own Hero]]:  {{spoiler|Chairman Quincy of GENOM set out to do this ''deliberately'' fifty years before the start of ''DW2''.  He claims that the Knight Sabers and Doug's presence in that timeline are proof that he ''succeeded''.}}
* [[Creation Sequence]]: Numerous, including Doug building himself a motorcycle in ''DW2'' and the rebuild of the same motorcycle in ''DW5''. 
* [[Crossover]]:  ''Drunkard's Walk'' crosses over with two other fan-written series:
**  Doug ends up in ''[[Fenspace]]'' at a point somewhere between ''DW10'' and ''DW11''.  He arrives at the very start of the setting and helps one of its pioneers establish a space station in Earth orbit before moving on.  This stop is not part of the ''Walk'' proper, but is "official", and can be read in [http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Sangnoir_of_the_Universe "Sangnoir of the Universe"], the prologue to the ''Fenspace'' story ''[http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Legend_of_Galactic_Girls Legend of Galactic Girls]''.
** Ed "Legion" Becerra of ''[[Legion's Quest]]'' makes a brief appearance in ''DW2'' that despite its brevity has a considerable impact on that world.  And the as-yet unwritten ''Drunkard's Walk X: Walking Into The Storm'' is an explicit crossover where Legion and Doug (along with a few allies) must face the [[Zeiram]].
* [[Crossover Cosmology]]
* [[Crowd Chant]]: In ''DW8'', Doug teaches [[Hufflepuff House]] [[Queen]]'s "We Will Rock You", a slight variation on the infamous [[w:Badgers (animation)|"Badger badger badger" chant]] ''and'' [https://youtu.be/93ar7YJo1AI?t=188 the "Locomotive Cheer"] from [[Ivy League|Princeton University]] to use during Quidditch games.
* [[Cryptic Background Reference]]: Doug's frequent, and often tantalizingly incomplete, references to his homeworld and its history.
* [[Culture Clash]]: This is one of the causes of conflict between Doug Sangnoir and the [[Bubblegum Crisis|Knight Sabers]] in ''DW2''.  Coming from a world which is very liberal about treating artificial intelligences as people, he regards the Sabers as slave-hunters and murderers.
* [[Cursed with Awesome]]: Doug's metatalent ''does'' screw up his life considerably, but it also lets him do things that almost no one else can.
* [[Dance Battler]]:  Doug's patchwork martial arts style -- which incorporates elements of capoeira -- can look like this at times, especially since he occasionally falls into following the beat of whatever song he's using for a power.  Just looking at the footprints he left behind after his first fight in ''DW2'', a police investigator said, "This boy's a real dancer, isn't he?"
* [[Danger Sense]]: Doug possesses a rudimentary "danger sense". He claims that everyone in the Warriors develops a "danger sense" sooner or later, and notes that the scientists in his home timeline call it "class 1 post-natal acquired precognition".  (This is, like many other things noted here, a representation of a ''V&V'' mechanic; every character has a Danger Sense, the accuracy of which is a function of their Intelligence score.)
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: Quincy in ''DW2''.
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]:  One of the "key points" Doug informs his Defense class in ''DW8'' he will be covering is the difference between dark and evil.
* [[Data Crystal]]:  Used by Doug's helmet, but only seen (or mentioned) in ''DW2''.
* [[Delivery Guy Infiltration|Delivery Girl Infiltration]]: In chapter 4 of ''Drunkard's Walk S'', [[Sailor Moon|Usagi]] uses this combined with [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] to pretend to be a [[wikipedia:Yamato Transport|Yamato Transport]] courier in order to investigate the Crystal Seminar.
{{quote|'''Usagi''': All I know is I gotta give this to a Fleetwood Elton at Cristo's Samovars.}}
* [[Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?]]: For someone who hates and fears gods as much as he does, Doug ends up dealing diplomatically with them quite a bit.
* [[Dimensional Traveler]]: Doug, although he can't exactly target his destination.
* [[Distant Finale]]:  Many of the Steps get distant finales as epilogues to later Steps -- which all turn into lead-ins to the parallel subseries ''Girls, Girls, Girls''.
* [[Ditto Fighter]]: Modified: Doug doesn't need an original to copy, he just needs a song that can give him an ability.
* [[Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud]]: Averted in the climax of ''DW2'' -- the funnel never approaches the main action, but other effects of the storm do considerable damage.
* [[Doppelganger Crossover]]: By sheer coincidence, several of the core cast of the parallel subseries ''Girls, Girls, Girls'' are voiced by [[Aya Hisakawa]].
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]:  According to Skuld in ''Drunkard's Walk V'', all [[Physical God]]s are nothing more than three-dimensional masks worn by the extrusions of twelve-dimensional creatures into four-dimensional space-times.  
{{quote|"If it helps you visualize things," Skuld interrupted quietly, "you can think of me as a little tiny finger puppet, attached to something huge and powerful that stays out of your sight."}}
* [[Elemental Powers]]: Doug's song effects are frequently sets of abilities linked by an elemental theme.
** Also, some of the Warriors clearly work on Elemental themes: Hexe is Weather; Shadowwalker is sound and darkness; Silverbolt is metal and electricity.
* [[Elemental Punch]]:  A frequent tactic when he uses a song that gives some kind of energy attack.  He is especially fond of loading his punches with lightning.  (This is a representation of a ''V&V'' mechanic called "carrier/payload attacks".)
* [[Epigraph]]: Virtually a trademark feature of the stories. Every chapter starts with at least two relevant quotes, their sources ranging from modern pop music to ancient Greek philosophers.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]:  In ''DW2'', [[The Dragon|Madigan]] hires the Knight Sabers to indirectly take down another GENOM executive, not only because he is a threat to her, but also because {{spoiler|he owns one of the last of the secret "pedophile special" sexaroids made}}.
* [[Everything's Better with Motorcycles]]
* [[Executive Suite Fight]]:  The climactic battle of ''DW2''
* [[Expy]]: There's a possibility that the [[Marvel Universe]] character [https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Mark_Sheppard_(Earth-616) "DJ"] may have been [http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/dw-faq.shtml#3k inspired by Doug].
* [[Extraordinarily Empowered Girl]]: Found in many of the Steps. Sometimes Doug's presence ''creates'' them.
* [[Eyeless Face]]:  {{spoiler|Maggie "Shadowwalker" Sangnoir}}.  Instead of eyes she has a patch of "fur" which is part of the active sonar system she uses to "see".

== F-J ==
* [[Fantastic Science]]:  Doug makes occasional mention in both dialogue and narration of "metabiologists" from his home world who study the nature and function of superpowers; readers will learn some of their classification system and terminology, which powers are understood scientifically and which still are mysteries.  And some of the worlds he visits have their own Fantastic Sciences.
* [[Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue]]:  The final chapter of ''DW2'' includes several scenes written in this style in order to obscure the identities and location of the speakers.
* [[Fictional Document]]:  In ''DW2'' there is mention of a [[Disney]]-made [[Live Action Adaptation]] of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' from the 1990s, starring Geena Davis, Ariana Richards and Kirsten Dunst.
* [[Fictional Field of Science]]:  "Metabiology" from Doug's home timeline.
* [[Field Power Effect]]:  Doug's "song power" -- when it doesn't produce a result that is inherently targetable, it floods an area about 110 feet in radius with whatever effect it's generating, affecting friend and foe alike.  Not every result of its use is a strict example of this trope, but a number of them -- such as emotion controls, gravitic effects and so on -- certainly qualify.
* [[Finishing Each Other's Sentences]]:  Subverted in ''DW8'' -- the Weasley twins admit it's a gag where they each just have to be quick-witted enough to come up with a suitable conclusion to a sentence the other started.  Since no one ''really'' knows how the first twin would have ended the sentence, anything that the other says which makes sense in context makes it look like they're a [[Hive Mind]].
* [[First-Person Smartass]]: Doug's narration segments.
* [[Flash Step]]:  Doug can put on a massive burst of speed that lets him hit over 80 mph (129 kph) for a second or two, at the cost of being unable to move for a several seconds afterward.  (This is actually the depiction of a movement mechanic from ''[[Villains and Vigilantes]]''.)
* [[Flying Brick]]: Silverbolt, Wetter Hexe, Shockwave.
* [[Flying Car|Flying Motorcycle]]: Doug builds one for himself from scrap in ''DW2''; it is rebuilt into a [[Hubcap Hovercraft]] and improved by Skuld and Megumi in ''DW5''. Similarly, his original motorcycle in his home timeline ''also'' flies.
* [[Flying Dutchman]]: Doug, across the universes. Averted in that he finally gets home after the thirteenth Step.
* [[For Want of a Nail]]: Doug's very presence changes the course of the worlds he visits, usually without him realizing it.
* [[Force Field]]: Doug's "improbability field", generated as a side effect of his broken mage gift, sometimes acts like this.
* [[Forged by the Gods]]:  In chapter 12 of ''DW2'', Wetter Hexe idly notes that her daggers "were [[All Myths Are True|forged for me by Hephaestus from mithril mined by the Svartalfar, breathed upon by Indra and blessed by Marduk]]."  Played with in that Hexe herself is an [[Physical God|incarnate goddess]], and would be expected to wield god-forged weapons.
* [[A Form You Are Comfortable With]]:  What most [[Physical God]]s effectively are.  See ''Eldritch Abomination'', above.
* [[Friendly Address Privileges]]:  Doug frequently extends these to the people he's reasonably close to, even if he's (temporarily) higher in a more formal hierarchy than they are.  For instance, upon agreeing to train Usagi Tsukino in ''Drunkard's Walk S'':
{{quote|"So, what do I call you now?  Sangnoir-sensei?"
I shrugged and had more sandwich.  "I'm fine with you calling me 'Doug'.  As for the honorific... 'Sensei', 'sempai', 'onii-san', even 'jiji' are all okay by me -- your choice."}}
* [[Functional Magic]]: Doug meets many spellcasters during his travels, as well as being a variety of mage himself.
** He ends up being a ''teacher'' of magic in both ''DW8'' and ''DW-S''.
* [[Fun Personified]]: Doug, especially in [[Darker and Edgier]] settings and situations.
* [[Fun T-Shirt]]:  Doug develops a collection of these over his travels; by ''DW8'' they've almost become a trademark for him.
* [[Genghis Gambit]]: Part of Doug's plan in the short story ''[http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/dw-wsl.shtml West Side Loon]''
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Doug, and many supporting characters. And some of the [[Big Bad]]s, too.
* [[Gentleman Wizard]]:  What little information there is about Dwimanor of the Warriors makes him out to be this.
* [[Ghost Planet]]: Although they have yet to appear "on-screen", Doug has made several references to having to survive on "post-human" Earths.
* [[Go-To Alias]]: Doug has been known to use "Quincy Black" (from his middle name plus the second syllable of his last name translated from the French) as an off-the-cuff alias.
* [[God in Human Form]]:  Hexe.
* [[Gods Need Prayer Badly]]: Averted. The gods exist independently of mortals, although there is mention of an ancient Covenant that defines some kind of bargain between the two sides that is allegedly beneficial to both.
* [[Good Is Not Nice]]:  Doug considers himself a soldier and a killer (with some justification) and not a hero, and tries to correct anyone who expects a superhero's morality from him.  His approach to enemies is [[Combat Pragmatist|pragmatic]] and usually aimed at eliminating them permanently as a threat.  And his prejudices, while not extreme enough to qualify him as a [[Noble Bigot]], also prevent him from being any kind of paragon.
* [[Great Offscreen War]]:  A "Vampire War" in which the Warriors fought has been mentioned several times, but so little details have been provided it's practically a [[Noodle Incident]].
* [[Grievous Harm with a Body]]:  In ''DW2'', {{spoiler|Lisa Vanette telekinetically}} bludgeons one boomer with the body of another.
* [[Hammerspace]]: The panniers of Doug's motorcycle, after Skuld and Megumi rebuild it in ''DW5''.
* [[Heads-Up Display]]:  Doug has one built into the goggles of his helmet, initially displaying metadata, lyrics, time left to play and other information from his song database, telecomm details, and some personal data management tasks.  During his sojourn in [[City of Heroes|Paragon City]], it also displayed HeroComm data streams.  After an off-screen visit to the world of ''[[Shadowrun]]'', it incorporated smartgun targeting functionality.
* [[The Hecate Sisters]]:  The Three explicitly are the ''original'' Hecate Sisters, among other three-member archetypes.
* [[Healing Hands]] and [[Healing Factor]]: Both are the result of any song Doug can use for healing; unlike the usual Healing Hands effect, though, his works at a range, healing ''everyone within 110 feet'' of wounds, diseases and all manner of other ills.
* [[Hedge Wizard]]:  In ''DW8'', Doug characterizes the inhabitants of the Wizarding World as hedge wizards (compared to the [[Doctor Strange]]-level super-wizards he's used to from his homeworld), and notes that only Albus Dumbledore is powerful enough to count as a "proper" magic-user to him.
{{quote|[I]f I couldn't defend myself against a bunch of inbred hedge wizards like [the Death Eaters], I'd resign my commission and take up needlepoint.}}
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Madigan in ''DW2'', Marller in ''DW5''}}.
* [[Hello, Insert Name Here]]:  Nearly every member of the Warriors mentioned by Doug throughout the stories is based on an actual player character from the Warriors' World roleplaying campaign.  The author discovered in early 2020 that the player of "Ai Jiao Min" had drawn a blank when creating her character and named her "I Have A Name" in Chinese.
* [[Hermetic Magic]]: One of several styles of magic in which Doug is well-versed -- though unable to actually ''use''.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard|Hoist by Her Own Petard]]: In chapter 4 of ''Drunkard's Walk S'', a [[Sailor Moon|youma]] is over-filled with life energy by her own energy drain.
* [[The Homeward Journey]]
* [[Hot Paint Job]]:  Doug's motorcycle (built during the events of ''DW2'') has a red-flames-on-gloss-black paint job when it's in "civilian mode".  (The entire bike, including its license plate, turns naval gray when he uses it as his [[Thememobile]].)
* [[How Do I Shot Web?]]: Subverted in ''DW2'' when {{spoiler|Doug temporarily gives Lisa telekinesis}} -- when she wants to do something, the ''power itself'' tells her how to do it.
* [[Hufflepuff House]]:  Doug becomes affiliated with the [[Trope Namer]] in ''DW8'', which seems to be averting the trope's characteristic lack of characteristics.
* [[I Do Not Own]]: Detailed listings of copyright/trademark ownership conclude each chapter. The author is a professional writer on the side, and scrupulously tracks down all such information.
* [[I Have Many Names]]: Doug appears to be accumulating a portfolio of titles and aliases.  (See ''Sobriquet'', below.)
** When he first meets the Knight Sabres in [http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/dw2-05.shtml chapter 5 of ''Drunkard's Walk II''], he introduces himself with a rapid-fire assemblage of song lyrics, poetry and literature, and ultimately ending with a quote from [[The Rolling Stones]]:
{{quote|"<Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name>," he suddenly said in English. "<But what's puzzling you is the nature of my game.>"}}
* [[I Know Your True Name]]:  All the many and varied gods and demons of every pantheon in every world are essentially "roleplaying characters" for a group of [[Eldritch Abomination|cosmically powerful 12-dimensional beings]] -- none of whom use their real names with any of the masks they wear in the many universes.  That said, Doug admits that he knows the True Name of his commanding officer, one of these beings who incarnated ''all of itself'' as a mortal, in order to understand what it was like to live as one.  Averted, though, in that knowing this does not seem to give him any power over her, but instead testifies to their respect and affection for each other.
* [[I Meant to Do That]]:  In chapter 4 of ''DW8'', Doug instinctively blocks a ''Confrigo'' cast by Draco Malfoy, and his personal [[Wild Magic]] lets him actually catch and hold the spell.  As [[The Narrator]], he then notes
{{quote|[[Rule Number One|Rule number one]] when you're a teacher, I learned long ago at Warriors Academy, was "Never admit you don't know what you're doing."  So I made like a cat and pretended that catching the spell was what I had intended all along...}}
* [[I'm Not a Hero, I'm X|I'm Not a Superhero, I'm X]]:  Doug finds several opportunities to say, "I'm not a superhero, I'm a soldier" in ''DW2''.
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Each story has a different convention for chapter naming.
** ''DW2'' uses variations on quotes from various [[Looney Tunes]] cartoons.
** ''DW5'' uses [[In Which a Trope Is Described]].
** ''DW8'' has basically smartass comments for most of its chapter titles.
** ''DW13'' uses [[Titled After the Song|lines from songs]].
** The [[Sequel Series]] [[Fanfic]] ''Legend of Galactic Girls'' uses misquoted titles from various anime series.
* [[Immortality Immorality]]: Subverted, in that Doug is [[Rush|"immortal for a limited time"]] as a reward for serving the Three in ''DW2''.
* [[Inherently Funny Words]]:  From ''DW8'':
{{quote|"[It's a] lie..." said one.
"...and a base canard," said the other.
"What's a canard, anyway?" muttered the first.
"A lie, or a small wing on a Muggle aircraft," I said.  "It's also French for 'duck'."
"Right," said the first.  "It's a lie..."
"...and a base duck," finished the other.  They shared a grin and a nod.  "I like that.  Has style."
"Ducks are always in style," I agreed.}}
* [[Instant Runes]]: Rarely for Doug, but not uncommon for the spell-casters he meets, especially in anime-based Steps.
* [[Insufferable Genius]]: Doug at times.
* [[Intangible Man]]: One of the powers Doug can get, using the Police's "Spirits In The Material World" among other songs.
** Also Wetter Hexe's "spiritform".
** And Kat.
** Note that intangibility is actually slightly subverted under the ''[[Villains and Vigilantes]]'' rules by which the author handles powers; a sufficiently skilled attacker can actually hit an intangible target in hand-to-hand combat, as Linna and Sylia both demonstrate in ''DW2''.
* [[Intercontinuity Crossover]]: Technically all but one of the individual Steps is a single such. The one that isn't is a [[Mega Crossover]].
* [[Invisibility]]: One of the powers Doug can get, using the Police's "Spirits In The Material World" among other songs.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Doug.
* [[Jerkass Gods]]:  Why Doug is a [[Nay Theist]] -- he initially considers ''all'' deities (aside from Hexe) to be jerkasses.  Later in the series he allows for exceptions, but still considers gods to be jerkasses unless proven otherwise.
* [[The Joy of X]]:  "All This, And Robot Stew", the title of chapter two of ''DW2'', follows the "All this, and X Y" pattern and directly mimics the title of an infamous [[Bugs Bunny]] short.
* [[Jumped At the Call]]

== K-O ==
* [[Kilroy Was Here]]: In ''DW2'', a freed Boomer takes "Kilroy" as his name and uses the graffito as a marker to indicate where other Boomers can find deposits of the nanite/organism which frees them from GENOM control.
* [[Knockout Ambush]]: How Madigan manages to capture Doug in chapter 14 of ''DW2''.
* [[Kukris Are Kool]]: In his confession to the Norns in ''DW5'', Doug mentions that he "slaughtered seventeen of [[The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension|Hanoi Xan]]'s minions with a Gurkha kukri and a [[Once Killed a Man with A Noodle Implement|pair of chopsticks]]..."
* [[Kung Fu Wizard]]: Doug.
* [[Lady Mondegreen]]:  Deliberately invoked at least twice in two different installments: once, when Doug explains the "H" in "Jesus H. Christ" as "Harold", and another time when he mutters "Harold be his name" in response to another character saying "Our Father, who art in Heaven".
* [[Lady of War]]: Wetter Hexe, Shadowwalker, Silverbolt and Kat; and the Knight Sabers in ''DW2'', just to name a few.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Doug occasionally hangs a lampshade on standard tropes he comes across in the "real world".
* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]:  In the wake of ''DW-S''.  Starting in ''DW8'' Doug ''knows'' his memory's been tampered with, making him forget something large and important, because he has a signed picture of himself at Tokyo Disneyland with the [[Sailor Moon|Sailor Senshi]], but cannot remember who those seven girls are or why he was with them.
* [[Last-Episode New Character]]:  The freed boomers with [[Stellar Theme Naming|Zodiac-inspired names]] who appear in the final chapter of ''DW2''.
* [[Ley Line]]: One of the ways magic manifests in some worlds, along with nodes.
** There is a massive node underneath [[Bubblegum Crisis|MegaTokyo]] that Doug makes careful use of in ''DW2''.
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Doug -- as well as most of the Warriors who appear over the course of the stories.
* [[Lightning Can Do Anything]]: Which is why it's Doug's favorite power.
* [[Line to God]]:  [http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums The Drunkard's Walk Forums] at the author's website.
* [[The Loonie]]: Doug's code name clearly indicates the author's preferred play style.
* [[Looney Tunes]]: Doug models part of his "public persona" on classic Warner Brothers cartoons. Also, early in ''DW2'' he leaves [[Bugs Bunny]] cloisonne pins in the caskets of the victims of a boomer rampage, as tokens of his intent to fight GENOM.
* [[Loveable Rogue]]: Part of the public persona Doug likes to project, but also a part of his real personality.
* [[Mafia Princess]]: Nichigumi Saiko, granddaughter of the ''sosai'' of the Minato-kai Yakuza group in ''DW-S''.
* [[Magic A Is Magic A]]: Despite the apparent randomness of Doug's own magical talent, it has been established in ''DW8'' that magic is, at its core, a consistent repeatable phenomenon open to scientific investigation, and that the many and varied styles and traditions of magic across the multiverse relate to it in almost precisely the same way that high-level computer programming languages relate to raw machine language.
* [[Magic Hat]]: Doug's metatalent, to a degree.
* [[Magic Music]]:  Another way to look at Doug's primary metatalent.
* [[Magic Staff]]:  "God's Toothpick", a Celestial artifact Doug acquired during the events of ''DW5''.
* [[Magical Computer]]: Eimi's laptop, thanks to some [[Advanced Phlebotinum]] specific to her native universe.
* [[Magic Misfire]]:  Happens sometimes when Doug tries to "force" a song to manifest a specific power.
* [[Magitek]]: Much of Doug's equipment, either deliberately or accidentally.
* [[Make Me Wanna Shout]]: Shadowwalker.
* [[Martial Arts Uniform]]:  Both averted and invoked in ''DW-S''.  When Doug starts training [[Sailor Moon|Usagi Tsukino]] in martial arts, she wears just the traditional Japanese school gym outfit of T-shirt and bloomers.  But because of his training she joins the martial arts club at her middle school and routinely wears a gi there.
* [[Mary Sue]]: Deliberately does a "Shuffle Off To Buffalo" all over the line between expressing and subverting.
* [[Mathematician's Answer]]:  In ''DW8'', Draco Malfoy responds to the question "What is evil?" with the answer "The opposite of good".  He loses points for being a smart-aleck.
* [[May I Borrow a Cup of Sugar?]]:  In the last few pages of ''DW5'', Krishna (yes, the god) shows up looking to borrow a cup of sugar from Belldandy, in the punch line to a [[Brick Joke]] set up six years and several chapters earlier.
* [[Mega Crossover]]: The series as a whole; additionally, the as-yet unwritten ''DW10'' is known to be a four-way [[Crossover]].
* [[Meganekko]]:  Eimi.
* [[The Metric System Is Here to Stay]]: Doug's home timeline.
* [[Mildly Military]]:  As an admittedly paramilitary organization, the Warriors seem to sit firmly between an aversion and an invocation, from what little we've seen. There is a strict chain of command, and an expectation that orders are orders and to be obeyed, but at the same time the group appears to be composed solely of (courtesy rank) officers who are open to informal and unconventional solutions.
* [[Military Superhero]]: Doug and the rest of the Warriors.
* [[Mind Over Matter]]: The "default mode" of {{spoiler|Lisa Vanette}}'s awakened mage gift.
* [[More Dakka]]: The basic philosophy of Doug and the Warriors when it comes to approaching their opposition.
* [[Motherly Scientist]]: IDEC's Hiroe Miyama from ''DW2'' starts off cold and distant, but eventually becomes very maternal toward Doug. Her co-workers even comment on it.
* [[Muggles Do It Better]]: The Unified Theory of Magic, from Doug's home timeline, is equal parts this and [[Post-Modern Magik]].
* [[Multi Melee Master]]: At least as early as ''DW8'', Doug carries and uses both a katana and a quarterstaff, although he still prefers fighting with empty hands.
* [[Multiverse]]: ''Drunkard's Walk'' takes place in a metafictional continuum housing a literally infinite number of universes of varying dimensionality, with the 12-dimensional realm of the gods' metaselves at the "top".
* [[Mysterious Past]]: Doug, almost everywhere he goes; subverted in that Doug will gladly tell it all to someone he trusts.
* [[Mythopoeia]]: It's clear that a large, consistent one exists behind the stories, but it is revealed only in fragments here and there. What is known for sure: The multiverse is made of an infinite assortment of universes which range from 1-dimensional "lineworlds" at the "bottom" up to the unique 12-dimensional realm of the Gods at the "top". Any and all [[Physical God]]s who appear in the lower-dimensionality universes are expressions of the greater Gods, akin to role-playing characters which can operate autonomously, and most of the myths and stories about them are [[The Legend of Chekhov|true or garbled accounts of true events]]. The greater Gods themselves are divided into two groups confusingly called "Gods" and "Demons", whose primary conflict appears to be the answer to the question [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|"What Measure Is a Non-God?"]] The Gods have an undefined Covenant with lower-dimensional sapients that apparently codifies some kind of beneficial relationship between them; the Demons think of the lower sapients as playthings, or worse, prey.
* [[Narrator]]: Doug narrates approximately half the material in the stories; the rest is third-person narrative of events of which he is unaware or for which he is not present.
* [[Nay Theist]]: Doug.
* [[Never Gets Drunk]]:  Douglas has noted that his mutant metabolism processes alcohol so quickly that it's difficult (though not impossible) for him to get drunk.
* [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]]: Doug's core super-ability could be easily defined as exactly this.
* [[The Nicknamer]]:  Doug seems to do this often, usually for people with whom he is at odds:
** In ''[[Bubblegum Crisis|DW2]]'', the Knight Sabers became "Lady White and the High-Heel Gang".
** In ''[[Harry Potter|DW8]]'', he gives Voldemort numerous nicknames:  "Flight-of-Emo" and "Lord Emo" are the two most common.  Referring to her amphibian-like appearance, he dubs Dolores Umbridge [[Cthulhu Mythos|"Lady Innsmouth"]].
** He also borrows terms like "Laughing Boy" and "Nimrod" for his enemies from [[Bugs Bunny]].
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: Doug's public persona can be summed up as being along the lines of "[[Badass Biker]] [[Kung Fu Wizard]] with [[Bugs Bunny]] as a cherry on top".
* [[No Inner Fourth Wall]]: In the final chapter of ''DW2'', Quincy tells Doug that he's nothing more than a roleplaying character Quincy created as a young man; Doug angrily retorts, "I'm no more fictional than ''you'' are."
* [[No Such Thing as Wizard Jesus]]:  Explicitly averted.  [[All There in the Manual|According to the FAQ page for the series]], scientists and others on Doug's homeworld have no problems speculating that Christ and other extraordinary figures from history, religion and myth might have been humans with powers instead of (semi)divine.  Of course, some of those powers are supernatural in origin, so the line does get a bit blurry...
* [[Non-Fatal Explosions]]: After off-screen backfires of his powers in both ''DW2'' and ''DW5'', Doug ends up looking like he suffered one of these.
* [[Non-Human Sidekick]]:  Eimi, an [[Artificial Intelligence]] based in a laptop-sized supercomputer, who joins Doug on the Walk at some point between Steps X and XI.
* [[Non-Linear Character]]:  Strongly implied of gods, which is reasonable given the twelve-dimensional nature of their "real" selves.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Doug makes frequent, if undetailed, references to events that happened before the Walk started.
{{quote|Which is how I ended up, somewhat less than an hour later, standing in a blank, empty "dead-zone" isolation chamber, stripped down to my Fruit-of-the-Looms. (White briefs, if you ''must'' know. The rumors that I only wear custom-made Shadowwalker Underoos are gross exaggerations. It was only that one unfortunate incident, and anyway the lady involved settled out of court.)}}
** In ''DW8'', there are several references to Doug's time working at the Romanian dragon reserve with Charlie Weasley that come out this way:
{{quote|[Charlie] stood and then yanked me to my feet. "C'mon, let's go to the Cauldron. My treat."
"Um, ''no''," I said, following after him as he began striding off down the alley. "I remember what happened the last time you offered to pick up the tab at a pub."
"Relax," Charlie called back over his shoulder. "There won't be any trolls in the Cauldron. I swear."}}
** For many years, ''Drunkard's Walk I'' (set in [[Heralds of Valdemar|Valdemar]]) seemed doomed to be in its entirety a Noodle Incident.  Then in 2012 [[Mercedes Lackey]] changed her stance on fan fiction and [https://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php?topic=5895.msg70822#msg70822 gave the author explicit permission to write it].
* [[Not Wearing Tights]]
* [[Officer and a Gentleman]]:  Doug.
* [[Older Than They Look]]:  Doug started out his journey looking younger than his actual age of 36 due to "mutant life-extension genes".  Several years later, still looking no older than his thirties, [[Ah! My Goddess|the Norns]] temporarily suspended his aging.  By the first chapter of ''Drunkard's Walk XIII'', he is somewhere in excess of 150 years old, but still looks no older than 35 or so.
* [[Omake]]: The "Steplets", short pieces showing some of Doug's less world-shaking stops. Also various snippets and one-shots the author posts in his forums, including a collection of over 200 "nanoSteps".
* [[Once Killed a Man with A Noodle Implement]]:  In his confession to the Norns in ''DW5'', Doug mentions that he "slaughtered seventeen of [[The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension|Hanoi Xan]]'s minions with a Gurkha kukri and a pair of chopsticks..."
* [[One Steve Limit]]:  [[In-Universe]], Doug invokes this trope when re-nicknaming Luna Lovegood in chapter 4 of ''DW8''.
* [[Orbiting Particle Shield]]:  Doug does this with ''quantum black holes'' to defend himself from a gravity weapon in ''DW2''.
* [[Our Liches Are Different]]: In ''DW8'', Doug catalogues for Albus Dumbledore all the ways he knows of that a sorcerer can evade death, and expresses gratitude that Voldemort has chosen one of the ''lesser'' (and ''less invulnerable'') ways to do so.
* [[Our Souls Are Different]]:  Doug can see souls with his mage sight, and even make out their component parts if the soul is "powerful" enough.
* [[Outside Context Villain|Outside Context Hero]]:  Doug is this in many of the worlds he visits.  Even in those with active magic or super-powers, his abilities are so different from the norm as to be completely baffling to the natives.

== P-T ==
* [[Military Superhero|Paramilitary Superhero]]:  Doug.
* [[Parental Substitute]]:  Doug, to a surprising number of the children and teens he meets along the Walk.
* [[Pass the Popcorn]]: In chapter 4 of ''DW-S'', after seeing the changes Doug has (unknowingly) made to the far-distant future, Sailor Pluto conjures a recliner and a bowl of popcorn to watch current events through the Gate of Time as they unfold.
* [[Pastiche]]: The author has written several of his "nanoSteps" in the styles of [http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=1690&pid=33965#pid33965 John Steinbeck], [http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=1707&pid=168403#pid168403 Charles] [http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=1690&pid=33977#pid33977 Dickens], [http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=1707&pid=180052#pid180052 Dr. Seuss], [http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=1681&pid=33407#pid33407 Eric Flint] and [http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=1707&pid=213436#pid213436 Wikipedia], among others.
* [[Phlebotinum Analogy]]:  Seen every so often, such as this example from ''DW2'':
{{quote|If you were to visualize a boomer brain as a stack of circuit boards (which it's not, not even close, but the image is useful), the controls GENOM imposed were all on the topmost board, with the occasional wire snaking down to a lower level.}}
* [[Physical God]]: The Three and others, especially during the events of ''DW5''. And, of course, Wetter Hexe. Among others.
* [[Pinball Gag]]: Became the basis of an entire combat scene in ''DW2''!
* [[Pinball Projectile]]: See [[Pinball Gag]], above.
* [[Pop-Cultured Badass]]: Doug.
* [[Population X and Counting]]:  Played with in ''DW8'':  When Albus Dumbledore uses Legilimency to enter Doug's ''[[Looney Tunes]]''-influenced mindscape, one of the first things he sees is a sign reading "Welcome to [[Wackyland]]!  Population Thursday and still Growling!"
* [[Portal Door]]:  One of Skitz's powers is the ability to open 3-by-3 meter teleport gates anywhere within a radius just a bit larger than the Moon's orbit. 
* [[Post-Modern Magik]]:  The Unified Theory of Magic, from Doug's home timeline, is equal parts this and [[Muggles Do It Better]].
* [[Post-Victory Collapse]]:  Doug, after he {{spoiler|arranges for the resurrection of Toshi and Yui}} at the end of chapter 8 of ''DW2''.
* [[Power Incontinence]]: Theoretically the basic problem with Doug's metatalent, but he's got a couple of very effective workarounds.
* [[The Power of Rock]]: Literally: Doug's primary metatalent turns songs he hears into superpowers; he has a preference for classic rock and various metal subgenres.
* [[Power of the Storm]]:  Wetter Hexe, whose code name is German for "Weather Witch"; she shows ''why'' it's her code name when Doug summons a simulacrum of her (along with several other Warriors) in ''DW2''.
** Doug himself in the climactic battle of ''DW2''.
* [[Power Strain Blackout]]:  Happens to Doug in ''DW2'' (after contacting the Three) and in ''DW5'' (after the events of the climax).
* [[Private Military Contractors]]: The Warriors in Doug's home timeline are the U.N.'s ''contracted'' super-police, a pre-existing team hired by the U.N. instead of forming their own metahuman force.
* [[Prophecies Are Always Right]]:  In the prologue to ''DW8'', Sybill Trelawney gives a fairly clear, reasonably precise prophecy concerning Doug's arrival in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' world.  (Unfortunately, she's completely alone at the time, and no one hears it.)
* [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!]]:  Numerous examples, such as 
{{quote|"Excuse me!" A large woman with long dark hair sharply berated her companions. "DON'T! TAUNT! GODS!"}}
:from chapter 13 of ''DW2''.
* [[Rage Against the Heavens]]: Unlike most folks who do this, Doug was able to rage directly into a god's face.
* [[Raised Catholic]]: Doug, who retains enough of it after meeting (and working for) all manner of pagan gods, that he did a proper confession ''to the Norns''.
** Also, {{spoiler|Katherine Madigan}} in ''DW2''. 
* [[Random Teleportation]]: Doug has no control over where he goes when he opens a gateway between worlds. At least he has control over ''when'' the gateways appear.
* [[Real Place Background]]:  Seen multiple times just in the first chapter of ''DW-S''.  Doug's apartment, the gym where he trains Usagi, even a random 7-11 visited by Minako Aino -- all are real places and most get Google Maps coordinates in the story's concordance.
* [[Reed Richards Is Useless]]: Firmly averted. Doug's home universe is more advanced than the "real" one because of scientific advances made by studying superhumans.
** Doug also frequently leaves advanced technologies in his wake which make radical changes to the worlds he drops them in. 
** And then there's [[Legion's Quest|Legion's]] "gift package" to the Knight Sabers in ''DW2''.
*** Which itself becomes the basis of a similar archive of information carried from world to world (and shared) by the protagonists of ''Girls, Girls, Girls''.
* [[Refusal of the Call]]: In ''DW2'' Doug is initially reluctant to involve himself in "local affairs" -- until Lisa Vanette prods his sense of duty. This was [[Call Back|acknowledged in ''DW8'']] when the Hogwarts Sorting Hat didn't sort Doug into Gryffindor House.
* [[Robot Girl]]: Several, in various universes.
* [[Rule of Cool]]
* [[Running Gag]]
* [[Save the Villain]]: Outright averted by Doug and the Warriors.  The Warriors are a ''(para)military'' organization and approach their battles with ruthless military sensibilities:
{{quote|One reason the Warriors are as successful as we are is that in any given opportunity, we will field far more force that is far nastier than the enemy is prepared to deal with.  We don't fight just to win.  We fight to crush the enemy utterly.  We fight to overwhelm and destroy.}}
:Doug himself routinely advises those he mentors "never leave an enemy alive to attack you again".
* [[Scrapbook Story]]:  Somewhat.  Those sections presented from Doug's point of view are explicitly composed of or from journal entries he maintains in his helmet computer during his "exile"; the provenance of most of the other sequences is less clear.
* [[Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can]]:  In the [[Backstory]], Wetter Hexe -- the leader of the superhero team to which Douglas Sangnoir belongs in his home world -- is a goddess who did this to herself so that she could fully understand what it was to be human and mortal.  (The fact that she's still a world-class level superhuman even so suggests she didn't fully seal the can, despite her best intentions.)
* [[Secret Identity]]: Both embraced and averted. Doug notes that he does not bother with a secret identity "back home", but in worlds where he is a unique specimen, at odds with the local power structure, or both, he establishes one for himself.
* [[Self-Insert Fic]]: Averted; while Douglas Sangnoir is one of the author's roleplaying characters, he points out that he has an explicit self-insert avatar in that campaign in a ''different'' character entirely. Furthermore, the author often deliberately subverts the usual conventions of the self-insert fic.
* [[Sempai-Kohai]]:  In ''DW8'', Doug compares the self-organizing social structure of Hufflepuff House to multiple levels of sempai-kohai relationships, with almost everyone in the house having both a mentor and someone whom they mentor.
* [[Sequel Series]]: Mostly planned but unwritten: ''The Drunkard's Vacation'', ''Girls, Girls, Girls''. Also at least three [[Recursive Fanfiction|fan-written sequels]] to ''DW2'' are in the works, two of which have been recognized as "official".
* [[Shave and a Haircut]]:  Played out by falling crockery in ''DW8'', as a side effect of Doug's "improbability field".
* [[Signature Colors]]: In chapter 4 of ''Drunkard's Walk S'', Usagi and Ami buy workout outfits for their training sessions with Doug -- in exactly the same color schemes as their [[Custom Uniform]]s as Sailor Moon and Sailor Mercury. Luna buys a tracksuit in the color scheme of her canon sundress, as well. Doug considers lecturing them about taking this trope too far, citing the trope by name.
* [[Simplified Spellcasting]]: The "Will and Word" magical style Doug teaches to Usagi in ''DW-S'' is about as simple as magic can get, outside of the "preprogrammed" effects that come with being Sailor Moon.
* [[Simulated Urban Combat Area]]:  One is generated by the Warriors Mansion Danger Room near the end of ''DW8'' chapter 4.
* [[Simultaneous Arcs]]: See ''Narrator'', above, and ''Switching POV'', below. Doug is usually on the outskirts of the main action in the settings he visits, only occasionally intersecting with their casts and plots.
* [[Skip of Innocence]]:   In chapter 4 of ''DW8'', Luna Lovegood skips merrily back into Ravenclaw Tower with Doug as her escort after he sets things in motion to stop the bullying she's been subject to.
* [[Sobriquet]]:  Doug appears to be picking up a collection of these as he makes his way across the universes. In chapter 4 of ''DW8'', for example, a House-Elf tells him, "You is the Crazy Songs, and the Rider Between the Worlds, and the Wizard of War."
* [[Song Fic]]: Justified by the nature of Doug's primary superpower, which uses songs he listens to as catalysts to produce other powers.
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: Numerous examples throughout the cycle, as intentional humor.
** ''DW2'':
*** Discussions between the Three frequently end up this way.
*** Hexe addressing the Three:
{{quote|"Honored Aunts, once Your bargain with him is complete, kindly ''butt the hell out.''"}}
* [[Spanner in the Works]]: A frequent side effect of Doug's presence in a given world.
* [[Speed Blitz]]:  Doug can "combat hype", during which he is several times faster than a normal human.  Even without hyping he is occasionally described as moving so fast he seems to blur.  And if ''DW2'' is any indication, this is a trope shared by almost all of the Warriors, among whom Doug is merely mid-level in speed.  (This is a result of expressing the ''V&V'' combat and initiative system in "real world" terms.)
* [[Spider Sense]]:  In ''DW2'', Doug claims everyone in the Warriors develops a "danger sense" sooner or later, and notes that scientists in his home time line call it "class 1 post-natal acquired precognition".
* [[Spontaneous Weapon Creation]]:  Billy Idol's "White Wedding" allows Doug to manifest shotguns out of thin air.  Elton John's "Saturday night's alright for fighting"  appears to produce butterfly knives.  Other songs may provide similar effects.
* [[Squishy Wizard]]: Averted, ''hard'', by Doug, who describes getting shot by a handgun as something that will hurt like hell but not seriously inconvenience him.  In the material released so far, he's been hit with attacks ranging from machine guns to particle beam weapons, suffering at the worst serious injury.
** Dwimanor, however, is shown in Doug's recollections to be a more traditionally squishy magic user -- but still only by comparison to Doug.  
* [[Stock Shout-Outs]]: In ''DW13'', Doug describes the residential neighborhoods of Sunnydale as [[Colossal Cave Adventure|"a maze of twisty little roads all alike"]].
* [[Stock Superhero Day Jobs]]: Both expressed and subverted; Doug does anything he can to survive, especially immediately after arriving in a new world.
* [[Stock Super Powers]]: Doug can get any of these with an appropriate song -- but only for as long as that song lasts.
* [[Stop Worshipping Me!]]:  According to Doug, this is Hexe's reaction to anyone attempting to offer her any kind of worship or devotion, apparently because she incarnated as she did in order to experience the mortal condition ''as'' a mortal.
* [[Student and Master Team]]:  Sailor Moon and Doug, starting in chapter two of ''DW-S''.
* [[Super Empowering]]:  Doug can do this, at least on a temporary basis, with the right song.
** He uses Genesis' "Invisible Touch" to give Lisa Vanette [[Mind Over Matter|telekinesis]] in ''DW2'', {{spoiler|unknowingly priming the awakening of her latent mage gift after he leaves that universe}}.
** In ''DW-S'' he uses the live version of [[Daft Punk]]'s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1hlKSuqCgs "Harder Better Faster Stronger" (from their Alive 2007 tour)] to permanently reset Usagi, Ami and Luna's physical attributes to human maximum.
* [[Super Senses]]: Doug's magesight; Hexe's "air sense"; Chris and the goddesses' different levels of "higher perceptions" in ''DW5''.
* [[Super-Hero Gods]]:  Hexe, although the author is coy about just ''which'' god(dess) she really is.
* [[Superhero]]: Subverted -- while Doug is a "metahuman" with special powers, he views himself as a ''soldier'', not a hero. And while his homeworld has powered vigilantes, it lacks the very word "superhero".
* [[Superhero Paradox]]: {{spoiler|Quincy reveals at the climax of ''DW2'' that he has spent the majority of his life trying to run this trope ''backwards''. And that the presence of both the Knight Sabers and Doug in Megatokyo proves he ''succeeded''.}}
* [[Super-Hero School]]: Warriors Academy, in Doug's home world, is mentioned several times in passing. 
* [[Superpower Lottery]]: Doug bought every ticket and hoarded them.
* [[Super Speed]]: Possessed to one degree or another by all the Warriors we see in ''DW2'', although Doug is "merely" fleet of foot compared to the others.
* [[Super Strength]]: Demonstrated by both Wetter Hexe and Silverbolt in ''DW2''; a classic super-strength stunt is averted with when Silverbolt grabs a car by the bumper in order to lift it, and the bumper rips off in her hand instead.
* [[Switching POV]]: The stories alternate between first-person narration by main character Douglas Sangnoir, and third-person omniscient narration of events for which he is not present.
* [[Talk Like a Pirate]]:  In chapter 4 of ''DW8'', Doug mentions how he taught all of his classes at Hogwarts on [[Talk Like a Pirate Day|September 19, 1995]] in an exaggerated pirate accent, and that for some reason it seemed to upset Hermione Granger.
* [[Technopath]]: Secondary effect of any song that gives Doug lightning or electrical powers.
* [[That's an Order]]:  In chapter 12 of of ''DW2'', Wetter Hexe tells him to stand down from a confrontation, and bellows "That's an order, Mister!", with the thunder from the storm she's currently causing echoing her voice word-for-word.
* [[Thememobile]]: Doug's cycle has a "camouflage" mode in which all its painted surfaces and its license plates turn a neutral grey in color -- which happens to coordinate with his grey biker leathers.
* [["There and Back" Story]]: The ''Drunkard's Walk'' fanfic cycle is clearly intended to be this, though it hasn't yet reached the point where the protagonist actually returns home.
* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]:  Thoroughly averted.  Doug is a soldier with super-powers, not a superhero, and approaches the enemy like any other soldier unless he is operating under non-lethal rules of engagement.
* [[Three-Point Landing]]: Sailor Venus makes one the first time she literally drops in to meet Sailor Moon in ''Drunkard's Walk S''.
* [[Time Stands Still]]:  In ''DW5'', both Chris/Paradox and Doug demonstrate this ability.  In Chris' case, it's a divine power as the God of Moments; in Doug's case it's a magical effect caused by the [[J Geils Band]] song "Freeze Frame".
* [[Time Travel]]: Several of Doug's power effects allow him time travel or something similar; also, he is not restricted to his "personal calendar" when arriving in a new world, and can show up anywhere in its history.
* [[Tim Taylor Technology|Tim Taylor Magic]]: Doug and the node under Megatokyo.
* [[Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe]]: Towards the end of his travels, Doug starts wondering why he ends up in or near Tokyo in two-thirds or more of the universes he visits.
* [[To the Batpole]]: Averted in ''DW2'' -- Doug keeps his uniform in his wardrobe and his motorcycle in a garage in the basement of the apartment building he lives in; one time when he has to respond to an emergency, he has to get rid of a guest, change, and then run down twenty flights of stairs.
* [[Translation Convention]]: ''Drunkard's Walk'' plays with the comic book and web comic convention of putting "< >" brackets around plain English to represent when a character is talking in another language. In stories that are set in Japan, dialog without any special indicators is Japanese subject to the Translation Convention, while dialog marked with < > is spoken or written English (that is written in English).
* [[Trapped in Another World]]: Doug is trapped in a ''series'' of other worlds, as he tries to find his way, somewhat randomly, back home.
* [[Tuckerization]]: In addition to the Warriors, who are superpowered avatars of the author's fellow gamers, there are a number of original characters who appear both "on-screen" and only by reference who are named after people the author worked with at the time their first appearances were written.
* [[Twin Telepathy]]:  Subverted in ''DW8'', when the Weasley Twins explain that they fake it by cleverly [[Finishing Each Other's Sentences]].  Possibly [[Double Subversion|double-subverted]], when Doug sees them appear to communicate silently with each other and suspects they really ''do'' possess this.

== U-Z ==
* [[Un Installment]]: ''Drunkard's Walk'' originally started with ''Drunkard's Walk II'' because ''I'' was set in [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s world of [[Heralds of Valdemar|Velgarth]] and at the time the author began the project in 1998 she had a firm [[Fanwork Ban]]; he chose to respect it. However, in 2012 she reversed her stand on the ban, opened up her worlds to fan fiction, and explicitly [https://cohtitan.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=cq1m3v4s1g3p1v2ol8bjlfcqb4&topic=5895.msg70822#msg70822 authorized] the writing and release of ''Drunkard's Walk I'', which may result in this trope entry becoming purely historical.
* [[Undead Tax Exemption]]:  Averted.  Doug has to arrange for forged identity papers and history in every world he visits where such matters -- with varying degrees of difficulty.
* [[Unobtainium]]:  "Teslium", mentioned in ''DW2'', implied to be a synthetic transuranic element from Warriors' World not available in the ''Bubblegum Crisis'' timeline.
* [[Vagueness Is Coming]]:  Trelawny's prophecy at the start of ''DW8'' might be an aversion, or it might be played straight, depending on how much you know about Doug.
* [[Values Dissonance]] : Multiple in-universe instances, usually caused by the collision between Doug's ethics and the standards of the world he's in.
** Prime example: ''DW2''. Doug comes from a world where AIs and robots are considered people; upon discovering that Boomers are sentient, he immediately views the Knight Sabers as ''murderers and slavehunters''.
* [[Variable-Length Chain]]: One effect of Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain" in ''DW2''.
* [[Void Between the Worlds]]:  Mentioned several times, but never seen.
* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]: Kat in ''DW2''.
* [[Wacky Guy]]: Sometimes Doug, sometimes the people Doug gets to know.
** In ''DW2'', Lisa Vanette develops a very [[Seinfeld|Kramer-like]] habit of bursting into Doug's apartment unannounced.
* [[Wackyland]]:  In ''DW8'', Albus Dumbledore [[Journey to the Center of the Mind|enters Doug's mindscape]] and finds it is strongly influenced by classic [[Looney Tunes]] cartoons; he actually comes across a sign therein declaring "Welcome to Wackyland!  [[Population X and Counting|Population Thursday and still Growling!]]"
* [[Walking Techbane]]: Both expressed and averted in Doug, whose field can not only mess with technology but given enough time can erode and evaporate ''any'' sufficiently complex object -- yet can also accidentally ''enchant'' objects as well. Fortunately, Doug can "nudge" it away from things -- like food, his clothing and useful equipment -- that he doesn't want ruined or "improved".
* [[Walking the Earth|Walking The Multiverse]]: Doug.
* [[Walking Wasteland]]:  The effect that the song "This Corrosion" by [[The Sisters of Mercy]] has when Doug plays it -- every non-living thing within Doug's radius of effect rots or rusts or corrodes away.
* [[Wall Jump]]:  In ''DW2'', Doug does one to quickly get to ground level from the roof of a three-story building.
* [[We Didn't Start the Billy Joel Parodies]]: Not strictly speaking a ''parody'', but an alternate version of "We Didn't Start The Fire" from Doug's timeline appears in chapter seven of ''DW2''.
* [[West Coast Team]]:  Several times Doug mentions that the superteam of which he is part in his home universe has its headquarters and "Alpha" branch near London, England and a "Beta Team" in Tokyo.  There is also apparently a Delta Team in the Sinai Peninsula, as well as a Gamma Team, whose location [[Running Gag|is never specified]].
* [[What Could Have Been]]: [[In-Universe]], Doug's recollections of his homeworld often hold tantalizing hints of things that happened differently from our timeline, such as [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] and [[Jim Steinman]] collaborating to write ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]''.
* [[What Is Evil?]]: Discussed in chapter three of ''DW8''. At the end of what's presented of the discussion, Doug offers an example of how an evil person might speak, and, without Doug having met the person in question, "for a moment Harry was sure he was looking at Lucius Malfoy in the hallway outside Dumbledore's office, two years earlier."
* [[Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?]]: In ''DW2'', Doug comments on Mackey Stingray's full first name:
{{quote|''Who'' in their right mind names their kid "Mackinnison"?}}
* [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?]]: Averted -- Doug almost always does the obvious pragmatic thing, such as making sure his opponents are dead, instead of acting like a movie hero.
** Actively subverted in the climax of ''DW2'', when Doug actually warns the [[Big Bad]] that monologuing about his evil plans virtually guarantees his defeat. However, the [[Big Bad]] is meta-[[Genre Savvy]] and offers a justification for acting in a way that seems like [[Genre Blindness]].
** Averted in the Steplet ''[http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/dw-idod.shtml I Dream of Djinni],'' where Doug {{spoiler|uses a sniper rifle to assassinate Jafar from Disney's ''Aladdin'' before he can cause any serious trouble}}.
* [[Winds of Destiny Change]]: One of the effects of Doug's field.
* [[Wrong-Context Magic]]:  Doug is this practically everywhere he goes due to the unique effects of his mutated mage-gift.
* [[Yakuza]]:  In ''DW-S'', Doug makes use of the Minato-area yakuza organization the Minato-kai to get sufficient (and sufficiently good) false paperwork and ID that he can live "aboveboard" in Tokyo. It later transpires that the Minato-kai are aware of the Sailor Senshi and their enemies, and are willing to provide them with aid -- especially after Sailor Moon rescues its leader's granddaughter from the same juku where Sailor Mercury awoke to her powers.
* [[Yiddish as a Second Language]]: Born into a show-business family and with a German Jewish grandmother, it's a wonder Doug doesn't use ''more'' Yiddish than he does.
* [[Yin-Yang Bomb]]: {{spoiler|"God's Toothpick", the quarterstaff Doug acquires in ''DW5'', was jointly created by Heaven and Hell as a prototype for a weapon intended to take out god-level third parties who might try to horn in on the relatively peaceful ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' world}}.
* [[You All Meet in An Inn]]:  Evoked and parodied in ''DW8'', especially with the title of chapter 1, "Okay, So, You Meet This Wizard In A Tavern..."
* [[You Just Told Me]]:  An example from chapter 13 of ''DW2'':
{{quote|Leon began to chuckle, but it died in his throat.  "Ah... um..." He coughed.  "How long have you known?"
Daley gave a sniff of noiseless laughter.  "About half an hour.  You really should learn to control that mouth of yours, partner."}}
* [[You Will Know What to Do]]:  Said word-for-word to Doug by Belldandy when she gives him [[Plot Coupon|a vial containing a drop of blood from each of the gods living at Tarikihogonji temple]] (which he's shown to still have as of ''DW13''):
{{quote|"When faith calls to faith," she added, "you will know what to do with this."}}

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