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==This game includes examples of:==
==This game includes examples of:==
* [[Action Girl]]: Darwin, Angela, Eve...
* [[Action Girl]]: Darwin, Angela, Eve...
* [[Aliens Are Bastards]]: Earth's been invaded by something like a half dozen different alien races, and while some of them are pretty chill (the Caramahz are a notable exception), a lot of them just want to colonize our planet, use us as slave labor, destroy our brains and go joy riding in our bodies, dissect us [[For Science]], or just eat us.
* [[Aliens Are Bastards]]: Earth's been invaded by something like a half dozen different alien races, and while some of them are pretty chill (the Caramahz are a notable exception), a lot of them just want to colonize our planet, use us as slave labor, destroy our brains and go joy riding in our bodies, dissect us [[For Science!]], or just eat us.
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: So many of these. Peregrine, Liv Lockheart, Skye, Rayth, Dr. Slashblight, Beirut, Winterborne, Tesla, the list goes on.
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: So many of these. Peregrine, Liv Lockheart, Skye, Rayth, Dr. Slashblight, Beirut, Winterborne, Tesla, the list goes on.
* [[A World Half Full]]: This is heroic horror. It's the end of the world, but the good guys keep winning.
* [[A World Half Full]]: This is heroic horror. It's the end of the world, but the good guys keep winning.
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* [[Bizarro Universe]]: The town got kicked into an alternate timeline where many characters had made different choices at critical times; the end result was that Temple wasn't the shining beacon of hope it used to be, but an outpost of brutal alien sellouts dominating the surrounding locals. The situation was immediately dubbed "Bizarro Temple."
* [[Bizarro Universe]]: The town got kicked into an alternate timeline where many characters had made different choices at critical times; the end result was that Temple wasn't the shining beacon of hope it used to be, but an outpost of brutal alien sellouts dominating the surrounding locals. The situation was immediately dubbed "Bizarro Temple."
* [[Black Magician Girl]]: Karen.
* [[Black Magician Girl]]: Karen.
* [[Canada Eh]]: Gord Hodgkinson, the town's token Canadian, pretty much exemplifies this trope, right down to the tuque and fighting demons with a hockey stick.
* [[Canada, Eh?]]: Gord Hodgkinson, the town's token Canadian, pretty much exemplifies this trope, right down to the tuque and fighting demons with a hockey stick.
* [[Chef of Iron]]: Joy Mc Masters.
* [[Chef of Iron]]: Joy Mc Masters.
* [[Combat Medic]]: Doc Sue, Beirut, Z'denko, Helen, Aeron, Marc, Nicole, Slashblight...pretty much the whole med staff, actually.
* [[Combat Medic]]: Doc Sue, Beirut, Z'denko, Helen, Aeron, Marc, Nicole, Slashblight...pretty much the whole med staff, actually.
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* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Grace.
* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Grace.
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Skye, Ian, Samson, Peregrine, Rayth, and a host of NPCs.
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Skye, Ian, Samson, Peregrine, Rayth, and a host of NPCs.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu]]: The town's defeat and banishment of Chalithac.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: The town's defeat and banishment of Chalithac.
* [[Dressed to Heal]]: Doc Sue still wears her (bloodstained, tattered) lab coat, years after the fall of humankind. This may be the apocalypse, but we have standards.
* [[Dressed to Heal]]: Doc Sue still wears her (bloodstained, tattered) lab coat, years after the fall of humankind. This may be the apocalypse, but we have standards.
* [[Energy Weapon]]: It's good to be an Artificer. See also: [[Lightning Gun]]!
* [[Energy Weapon]]: It's good to be an Artificer. See also: [[Lightning Gun]]!
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* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]: How the players temporarily dealt with one [[Big Bad]], Salismandt: they sealed him in a box where he had to count grains of rice for a year and a day.
* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]: How the players temporarily dealt with one [[Big Bad]], Salismandt: they sealed him in a box where he had to count grains of rice for a year and a day.
* [[Sickly Green Glow]]: Chalithac, the Entity of Radiation, had this going on in spades.
* [[Sickly Green Glow]]: Chalithac, the Entity of Radiation, had this going on in spades.
* [[Small Girl Big Gun]]: Meg.
* [[Small Girl, Big Gun]]: Meg.
* [[Someone Has to Die]]: Usually NPCs, but was also meant the final end for Skye, because [[No One Could Survive That]]...
* [[Someone Has to Die]]: Usually NPCs, but was also meant the final end for Skye, because [[No One Could Survive That]]...
* [[Space Base]]: Toma's moon base. Considering it was equipped with a a [[Wave Motion Gun|mass driver]], it also doubles as a [[Kill Sat]].
* [[Space Base]]: Toma's moon base. Considering it was equipped with a a [[Wave Motion Gun|mass driver]], it also doubles as a [[Kill Sat]].
* [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]]: The Do Sha Kaa.
* [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]]: The Do Sha Kaa.
* [[The Conscience]]: A few people serve in this capacity, including Darius, Winterborne, Preacher (the town's resident [[Badass Preacher]]), and others.
* [[The Conscience]]: A few people serve in this capacity, including Darius, Winterborne, Preacher (the town's resident [[Badass Preacher]]), and others.
* [[The Reason You Suck Speech]]: Samson pretty much has a doctorate in this.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Samson pretty much has a doctorate in this.
* [[The Underworld]]: Basically what it says on the tin.
* [[The Underworld]]: Basically what it says on the tin.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Ian, Samson.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Ian, Samson.