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A rival gang to the Midnight Crew, {{color|#2ED73A| The Felt}} consists of {{color|#2ED73A| Lord English}} and his followers, who are (mostly) green-skinned humanoid aliens following a billiards theme. They are introduced in the Midnight Crew Intermission of ''Homestuck'', [[We Hardly Knew Ye|and almost all of them are also killed during it]].
 
==The following tropes apply to the entire group:==
 
* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]: Almost all of {{color|#2ED73A| The Felt}} are green.
* [[Bad Guys Play Pool]]
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* [[Big Guy, Little Guy]]: {{color|#2ED73A| Clover}} and {{color|#2ED73A| Quarters}}, who can switch out at the flip of a coin.
* [[Bow Ties Are Cool]]
* [[Creator in In-Joke]]: {{color|#2ED73A|The Felt}} are actually from a game idea Andrew had worked on, but that also ultimately was deemed too difficult by sheer technical restraints. They appeared on a poster on Dave's wall before actually being introduced.
* [[Dwindling Party]]: The Midnight Crew offs them one by one in the Intermission, with only three left by the end.
* [[Gang of Hats]]: Literally. Except for {{color|#2ED73A|D}}{{color|white|o}}{{color|#2ED73A|c Scratch}}, each wears a pool-themed hat.
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* [[Mook]]: The fact that the two most productive and useful members of {{color|#2ED73A| The Felt}}, {{color|#2ED73A|D}}{{color|white|o}}{{color|#2ED73A|c Scratch}} and the Handmaid, weren't introduced with {{color|#2ED73A| The Felt}} and might well be considered separate characters says something about these guys, as does the fact that Crowbar served as their leader more or less while English was content to let Slick and the Crew go around and murder them.
* [[Numerical Theme Naming]]: With the exception of [[Big Bad|Lord English]] and {{color|#2ED73A|D}}{{color|white|o}}{{color|#2ED73A|c Scratch}} (due to {{color|#2ED73A| The Felt}} being based on pool balls), every member of {{color|#2ED73A| The Felt}} has a name that relates to a number in some way. Also crosses over with [[Punny Name]] in most cases.
* [[Reality Warper]]: Several of {{color|#2ED73A| The Felt}} members have powers that don't necessarily affect time, but rather, aspects of reality, to a minor extent for example, Stitch's ability to repair wounds using effigies or Quarter's [[Summon Magic]].
* [[Self-Demonstrating Article]] / [[Insistent Terminology]]: {{color|#2ED73A| There's an awful lot of lime green on this page}}
* [[Summon Magic]]/[[Tag Team]]: Whenever they use one of {{color|#2ED73A| Quarters}}' special quarters, they can switch places with another member of {{color|#2ED73A| The Felt}}. However if it lands poorly, they die.
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=== {{color|#ffea00|Itchy}} ===
[[File:101px-Itchy_1455.png|frame]]
 
* [[Caffeine Bullet Time]]: It's implied that he moves so fast because he's all wound up on caffeine.
* [[Card Sharp]]: He isn't particularly fun to play against given that he can swap cards faster than you can blink.
* [[ColourColor-Coded Timestop]]: A yellow clock face appears around him
* [[Super Speed]]: Via speeding time up for himself
** [[Flash Step]]
* [[Punny Name]]: "Ichi", Japanese for 1.
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=== {{color|#4040fd|Doze}} ===
[[File:132px-Doze_4861.png|frame]]
* [[ColourColor-Coded Timestop]]: A blue clock face appears around him▼
 
▲* [[Colour-Coded Timestop]]: A blue clock face appears around him
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Every one of his appearances involves him being captured, tied up, chased after and finally, blown up. Even Spades is a little frustrated at how often he gets caught by the Midnight Crew.
* [[Perpetual Frowner]]: Quite a few members of {{color|#2ED73A| The Felt}}, actually, but it's particularly obvious with him.
* [[Punny Name]]: "Dos", Spanish for 2.
* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]: {{color|#2ED73A| Doze}}'s power is that he can slow ''himself'' down. Granted, this makes it pretty bloody useless to try to interrogate him, because it takes him a long time to register pain, and anything he does say is so horribly distorted by slowdown as to be unintelligible.
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=== {{color|#df0000|Trace}} ===
[[File:103px-Trace_7207.png|frame]]
 
* [[Everything Is's Even Worse Withwith Sharks]]: Has shark teeth, and follows blood-coloured trails like one.
* [[Punny Name]]: "Tres", Spanish for 3. His time power is tracing where people were in the past.
* [[Stealth Pun]]: Both he and {{color|#2ED73A| Fin}} resemble sharks and are part of a billiards-themed gang. They're ''pool sharks.''
* [[Time Master]]:His power is the ability to track people's Past Trails through the past, and sucker punch them from the future. Unfortunately for him, this means that the people he punches know where he's going to be in the future.
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=== {{color|#a456ff|Clover}} ===
[[File:Clover_1592.png|frame]]
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: Is Number 4 (as in four leaf clover), is the symbol of good luck within the ranks of {{color|#2ED73A| The Felt}} and is also green.
* [[Logical Weakness]]: Despite his stated immunity to grievous harm, he can still be pummeled to help with less lethal instruments, such as a rolled-up newspaper.
{{quote| "You don't have to be all that unlucky to get whacked around with a newspaper. [[Loophole Abuse|It's sort of a gray area]]. "}}
* [[No Mouth]]
* [[Punny Name]]: As in four leaf clover.
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* [[The Smart Guy]]
* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: Clover technically "died" when Jack Noir transitioned into a timeline where he was already dead. Despite this he later appears unharmed in Doc Scratch's house on the moon, where he promptly switches places with Quarters. Even after the universe ends, it's hinted that he's still alive.
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=== {{color|#ff6204|Fin}} ===
[[File:155px-Fin_5858.png|frame]]
 
* [[Everything Is's Even Worse Withwith Sharks]]: He's got shark teeth. That seems to be part of the reason he's called {{color|#2ED73A| Fin}}.
* [[Punny Name]]: Slang term for five dollar bills. He can also travel to the end of your timeline.
* [[Shout-Out]]: He and Trace's abilities were inspired by [[Donnie Darko]].
* [[Stealth Pun]]: Both he and {{color|#2ED73A| Trace}} resemble sharks and are part of a billiards-themed gang. They're ''pool sharks.''
* [[Time Master]]: His temporal power is the ability to see people's Future Trails, and the ability to attack them from the past. Unfortunately for him, doing this leaves evidence in the future that allows people to track and attack him.
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=== {{color|#008140|Die}} ===
[[File:71px-Die_4196.png|frame]]
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** Also, when Spades Slick helped him to "live up to his name."
* [[Slashed Throat]]
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=== {{color|#950014|Crowbar}} ===
[[File:148px-Crowbar_2557.png|frame]]
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* [[Anti-Magic]]: His crowbar has the power to destroy and revert any Time-manipulation ability.
* [[Badass Normal]]: He is one of two members of {{color|#2ED73A| The Felt}} to not have any ability. He's also more or less the only thing keeping them competent, as English is content to watch them from the shadows.
* [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]: Spades revives him in the current timeline by bringing him back in his War Chest. And kills him ''again'' shortly later.
* [[Crowbar Combatant]]
* [[Diabolical Mastermind]]: According to Slick, he was basically the only person keeping {{color|#2ED73A| The Felt}} anywhere near competent.
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* [[Punny Name]]: A crowbar is shaped similarly to the number 7.
* [[They Call Him "Sword"]]: His name matches his weapon, a crowbar.
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=== {{color|#2ED73A|Sn}}o{{color|#2ED73A|wman}}/Banished Quasiroyal ===
[[File:112px-Snowman_6463.png|frame]]
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* [[Face Framed in Shadow]]: She's shaded in the same way as the Midnight Crew, but with green highlights instead of white.
* [[Femme Fatale]]
* [[For the Evulz]]: Enjoys tormenting Slick and does so frequently.
** [[Flat Character]]: It's actually all she ever does even. All of her appearances in the story are directly tied to Slick and their [[Foe Yay]].
* [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]]: What kind of [[Femme Fatale]] would she be without a cigarette holder?
* [[Instant Death Bullet]]: What finishes off Snowman once and for all.
* [[Load-Bearing Boss]]: In a sense, the biggest one ever. Killing her ends the universe, just as pocketing an 8 ball ends a game of pool.
** It's later revealed that the Troll universe is ''her heart''.
* [[Meaningful Rename]]: Originally Black Queen, then Banished Quasiroyal after her Exile, before finally become Snowman after joining the {{color|#2ED73A|Felt}}.
* [[Mix-and-Match Critters]]: As the trolls' Black Queen, even worse than in the kids' session.
{{quote| "She would be braced for the heavy load of augmentation ahead. She could certainly withstand the eight eyes of an arachnid. The fairy wings might at worst be frivolous, and the great bull horns could even be regarded as striking additions. For that matter, the sultry lips of a mother grub might very plausibly suit her. She perhaps would wear a brave face even behind a dignified mustache, and the centauring of her lower torso could transpire without much complaint. She would dutifully indulge a lactating udder. And when all was said and done, doubling her head count would surely be insult to elevenfold injury, but nothing she hadn't essentially endured already, all in the name of her kingdom."}}
* [[Non -Standard Character Design]]: Quite unlike {{color|#2ED73A| The Felt}}, she has black skin with green highlights. Given that she's the former Black Queen, it's to be expected.
* [[Not Afraid to Die]]: "What are you waiting for? Draw, Spades."
* [[Preemptive Declaration]]: "Hold still, Slick. Something in your eye."
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* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: The only female member of {{color|#2ED73A| The Felt}}, and the Midnight Crew Intermission story as a whole. The Handmaid and Condesce are also female but they're more unofficial members of the {{color|#2ED73A|Felt}}.
* [[Star-Spangled Spandex]]: Occasionally.
* [[Sure Why Not]]: This trope is the reason she's female, [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=587130#p587130 according to word of Hussie.]{{Dead link}}
* [[Revolvers Are Just Better]]
* [[Villain Teleportation]]: Perhaps one of the best examples.
* [[Whip It Good]]: Uses one. With some help from her revolver, she's able to pull Spades' arm clean off.
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=== {{color|#ffea00|Stitch}} ===
[[File:170px-9stitch_840.png|frame]]
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* [[The Medic]]: Or rather, The Tailor. His primary job is to make sure {{color|#2ED73A| Lord English}}'s CAIRO OVERCOAT is in good condition. He can also create effigies of people using their spare hats, thus providing medical aid by proxy of sewing their effigy back together.
* [[Punny Name]]: "A Stitch in time saves ''Nine''". Also said to be good at repairing things, or "stitching them back together."
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=== {{color|#3e40f9|Sawbuck}} ===
[[File:220px-10sawbuck_4733.png|frame]]
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* [[Stout Strength]]: Even the largest of blades leaves [[Only a Flesh Wound]].
* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]: {{color|#2ED73A|Sawbuck's}} time power is the ability to randomly teleport himself (and those surrounding him) to a random point in the timeline. Given that it's entirely unpredictable, only activates when he gets hurt, and takes whoever hurt him along for the ride, its pretty much useless.
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=== {{color|#df0000|Matchsticks}} ===
[[File:154px-Feltsprites_M_1706.gif|frame]]
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* [[Emergency Services]]: {{color|#2ED73A|D}}{{color|white|o}}{{color|#2ED73A|c Scratch}} calls him in to extinguish the fire Spades Slick started in the mansion, suggesting Matchsticks may be {{color|#2ED73A| The Felt}}'s specialist in such work.
* [[Me's a Crowd]]: This will happen if he doesn't put the flames he travels through out.
* [[Posthumous Character]]: During the intermission, at least. He's since been [http://mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005725 glimpsed], apparently alive and well, in {{color|#2ED73A|D}}{{color|white|o}}{{color|#2ED73A|c Scratch}}'s mansion. However, whether he's [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]], was [[Not Quite Dead]] in the first place, summoned from the past in a [[Stable Time Loop]], or is a doppelganger from an alternate timeline summoned into this one, has yet to be explained or may not be at all.
* [[Punny Name]]: A pair of matchsticks resembles the number 11.
* [[We Hardly Knew Ye]]: Died about 3 seconds after finally making an appearance.
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=== {{color|#a357ff| Eggs}} ===
[[File:142px-Eggs_5339.png|frame]]
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* [[Off with His Head]]: Hearts Boxcars [[I Am a Humanitarian|eats it.]]
* [[Punny Name]]: {{color|#2ED73A| Eggs}} are sold in packages of a dozen.
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=== {{color|#ff6000|Biscuits}} ===
[[File:169px-13biscuits_5831.png|frame]]
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* [[Shout-Out]]: Fans have noticed that when he combines his oven "power" with {{color|#2ED73A| Eggs}}'s power to travel into the past, it acts a lot like the time-travel method used in ''[[Primer]]''. Box-shaped "time travel" device included.
* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]: {{color|#2ED73A|Biscuit's}} "time power" is essentially to hide in a broken oven until the timer buzzes. Crowbar's namesake isn't even able to ''affect'' the oven because there's no "time powers" to affect.
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=== {{color|#008341|Quarters}} ===
[[File:203px-Quarters_9077.png|frame]]
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** Alternatively, 1/4
* [[Summon Magic]]/[[Tag Team]]: Provides each {{color|#2ED73A| Felt}} member with a quarter with their number and the number of another {{color|#2ED73A| Felt}} member on each side that they can flip when they're in trouble. If it lands on their number, they die. If it lands on the other {{color|#2ED73A| Felt}}'s number, they swap places with each other. He gives Clover the coin with his (Quarters') number on it, because Clover's luck is so good the coin would never land on his number. It is "considered unwise" to let Snowman to handle her own coin - [[Failure Is the Only Option|both sides are eights.]]
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=== {{color|#910213|Cans}} ===
[[File:213px-15cans_4921.png|frame]]
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* [[Punny Name]]: "Quinze," French for 15.
* [[There Was a Door]]:
{{quote| ''It sounds suspiciously like {{color|#2ED73A| Cans}} is about to plow through the wall Kool-Aid Man style. You pray to God that it is not {{color|#2ED73A| Cans}} about to plow through the wall Kool-Aid Man style.''<br />
 
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''All of a sudden {{color|#2ED73A| Cans}} plows through the wall Kool-Aid Man style.''<br />
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'''> [I] DD: Resist urge to shout "Oh Yeah!"'''<br />▼
 
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▲'''> [I] DD: Resist urge to shout "Oh Yeah!"'''<br />
 
 
''{{color|red|Oh No!}}'' }}
* [[Unsound Effect]]: '''CLOCK!'''
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