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''Highborn'' is a [[Turn
And yes, the creators [[One of Us|totally know we exist]].<ref>Hiiii, Jet Set Games!</ref>
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* [[Acoustic License]]: the characters are often able to talk from across the map. This even gets [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] once:
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'''Enzo:''' [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|It's a plot device; roll with it]]. }}
* [[Action Girl]]: Trillian.
* [[Action Hero]]: The three, [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Actual Pacifist]]: The Monk. While they are invaluable as healers, they can't fight at all. They automatically die without entering the combat screen if an enemy engages them.
* [[Amplifier Artifact]]: Idols, which boost defense, attack power, or number of spaces you can move.
* [[The Archer]]: These guys can be either on the side of the Highborn or the Decay.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]:
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** Dragon coming-of-age rituals apparently involve the razing of towns, theft of treasure, consumption of wild worms, and gifting of pens.
* [[An Axe to Grind]]: Dwarves carry magical axes as their weapon. The Minotaur carries an axe as well.
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* [[Breaking Out the Boss]]: The first round of chapter 3, entitled [[Lampshade Hanging|"Inevitable Breakout."]]
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: Done quite often; they'll comment on how long the dialogue is, and things of that nature. Even this isn't immune to being lampshaded:
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* [[Butt Monkey]]: Poor Minotaur. He just wants to support his family, but he keeps getting defeated by everyone and made the subject of bovine-related puns.
* [[The Cake Is a Lie]]: The tutorial's description [[I Was Told There Would Be Cake|promises there will be cake]] at the end, but turns out there is none.
* [[Chuck Norris Facts]]: Floyd the Arch-Lich claims he can't stand these.
* [[Clown Car Base]]: In the tutorial, there's a tiny patch of trees that several monsters keep coming out of (too many to normally fit). This gets [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]]:
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* [[Compensating for Something]]: The Arch-Lich claims that Archie's large sword is this.
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: Members of and buildings that belong to the Decay are red. Members of and buildings that belong to the Highborn are blue. The colors are switched around when you play as the Decay faction in chapter 3.
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]]//LeaningOnTheFourthWall a couple times when a character points out that another is red or blue so that means they must be on a certain side.
* [[Control Room Puzzle]]: The ''[[Portal (
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Some of the battles, particularly when using one of your Heroes to fight a weaker [[Mook]] such as Imps or Skeletons.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Many of the characters - all three of the Heroes at some point or another, and occasionally some of the enemies as well. Special mention goes to Floyd the Arch-Lich, who has a snarky comment for anything that happens.
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* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: A mage in chapter 1 welcomes Enzo to the wizard's council on behalf of the "Order of the Natural Order".
* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]: The encyclopedia entry for Foozle acknowledges this trope, but then proceeds to explain the joke anyway, since it's pretty subtle.
* [[Dual
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: iB.
* [[Embarrassing First Name]]:
** The Arch-Lich's first name is Floyd, and he's astonished that Archie knows his name.
** During the second chapter, Archie's pizza order finally arrives, addressed to Archibald T. Paladin. Archie claims that he doesn't know anyone called Archibald.
* [[Exactly What It Says
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* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Enzo's encyclopedia entry claims that he considered doing this in order to keep his riches, but he knew he was Archie's hero, and didn't want to become a [[Broken Pedestal]].
* [[Fighter, Mage, Thief]]: The three Heroes: Archie, Enzo, and Trillian.
* [[Fragile Speedster]]: Flying Machines.
* [[Fridge Logic]]: Used in-universe: a knight muses about how healing works on the undead. Shouldn't it hurt them, if they're alrady dead? Or maybe resurrect them?
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* [[Glad I Thought of It]]: Archie, Enzo, and Trillian each claim that breaking monoliths to take down the Master Monolith was their idea. (It really was Trillian's.)
* [[Glass Cannon]]: Militia and Mad Wizards. Justified since they don't wear any armor. Cabus even refers to them as "glass cannons" in chapter 3.
* [[Good News, Bad News]]: Archie tells Enzo he's got good news and bad news. Enzo says to tell him half the good news first, then the bad news, then the other half of the good news.
* [[Great Big Book of Everything]]: There's an "encyclopedia", of sorts, which lets you read a biography/description of all friends, foes, spells, and buildings. You just have to have one existing in your current game to read the entry about it (apart from spells).
* [[Hair
* [[Half
* [[Harmful to Touch]]: Poisonous swamps (except to monks, the undead, Icky, iBs, and war machines). Fortunately the swamps are always [[Technicolor Toxin|bright purple]], so you're automatically suspicious of them.
* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]: Monty the Dragon. He admits it in the last mission of Chapter 3.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Jessica}} after her marriage to {{spoiler|Enzo}}.
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: The characters do this, on occasion, but once again, Floyd gets a special mention when he unleashes one on the Minotaur.
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'''Floyd:''' Don't even try to stop me folks, I've got a million of 'em! }}
* [[I Can See My House From Here]]: said by Archie when the Highborn first arrive on the moon.
* [[I Love the Smell of X In
* [[An Ice Person]]: Enzo, a mage whose full name is Vincenzo Barbagelata, has two spells are "Chill Out" and "Freeze". Barbagelata also translates as "Frozen Beard."
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]:
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** Monty the dragon and the Minotaur have a brief exchange of insults/puns in the last mission of the second chapter until Floyd makes them stop.
* [[Just Friends]]: In the first chapter, Cabus claims the he and Lola are this.
* [[Kill It
* [[Knight in Shining Armor]]/[[The Paladin]]: Archie. Though he admits in the end of chapter 3 that he'd rather be happy than right {{spoiler|which is why he still supports Foozle Jr. even though Floyd won the election.}}
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: ''Everywhere''.
* [[Leaning
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* [[Lethal Chef]]: Foglio.
* [[Mage Tower]]: You can capture towers to be able to control the Wizard living in it.
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* [[Mind Control]]: Floyd's map ability allows him to take control of any non-hero non-mechanical unit.
* [[Mister Seahorse]]: Lampshaded.
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* [[New Rules
* [[No Campaign for
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: First, the tutorial. [[Justified Trope|Justified]], as they need to teach you how to play. While the first chapter simply [[Leaning
* [["No. Just... No" Reaction]]: When a wizard suggests that Jessica the Gorgon might be pregnant, Trillian's reaction is "No! Don't you even suggest THAT!"
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Apparently the Arch-Lich going bad was caused by "the tragic events surrounding his brother Melvin and those penguins".
* [[Nonstandard Game Over]]: Normally the game ends when a Hero unit dies. In the ''[[Portal (
* [[Oedipus Complex]]: Archie
* [[One
* [[One of Us]]: The game's Creative Director is a Troper.
* [[Overly Long Gag]]: The encyclopedia entry about sorceresses, which is ''by far'' the longest entry in the game, and which is nothing but a [[Wall of Text|long]] [[Shout
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: The Minotaur, who just wants to support his wife and kids. It's just his bad luck that he is always pitted against the player character.
* [[Redemption Demotion]]: Lampshaded and inverted when Cabus joins Floyd in chapter 3. Cabus tells Floyd that he can only summon one wolf instead of four since he's playable. Inverted since Floyd is a [[Villain Protagonist]].
* [[Series Continuity Error]]: We learn the Minotaur's full name in chapter 2 - Fenton Harcourt Minotaur. His chapter 3 journal entry calls him Bill.
* [[Shout
* [[Squishy Wizard]]: The Mad Wizards, who can be taken out by the smallest physical assault. The encyclopedia entry mentions that decades of being cooped up in a tower studying magical lore 24-7 leaves little time for exercise and proper nutrition.
* [[Summon Magic]]: Cabus the werewolf gains the ability to summon Dire Wolves in Chapter 3.
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** The dragon in chapter 1 claims "I won't be hiding in this forest over here or anything."
** The Wraith Lord in chapter 2:
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* [[Take That]]:
** The heroes are horrified that Cabus has retooled the smithies to produce [[The Twilight Saga|Twilight]] figurines.
** Foozle's encyclopedia entry claims that if you don't know who [[Yoko Ono]] is, you're probably better off.
* [[That Came Out Wrong]]: From the tutorial:
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* [[Those Magnificent Flying Machines]]: The [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Totally Radical]]: Enzo tends to use slang like "pwned" on occasion.
* [[Tuckerization]]: The Worgons are named after the developers' kids, and the owner's dog Hershey.
* [[Useless Useful Spell]]: Mocked in the final mission of chapter 2. When the destruction of the first Moon Crystal destroys the nearby Monolith, Archie says it's a good thing it was just "Enfeeble" (spell that reduces an enemy's physical attack).
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: Chapter 3 gives you the spell "Sacrifice," which lets you sacrifice the life of a [[Red Shirt|non-hero, friendly unit]] to heal your other units. The Arch-Lich has the "[[Mind
* [[Warmup Boss]]: The Minotaur. He even claims that he shouldn't show up in the later levels because he's just an early-level boss and easily defeated.
* [[We Cannot Go
* [[Whole
* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]
* [[You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry]]: Said word for word by the Minotaur once.
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