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>[[Planet Heck|LAND OF DEATH AND FLAMES]]
Whoa... this place is sweltering, and with all the flames burning endlessly around you it's quite apparent why. You're glad you alchemized that COOL FRIDGE CAP before you came here. Surprisingly enough, the tropes beginning with D, E, and F [[Convection, Schmonvection|don't seem to mind the heat.]]
[[Homestuck
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* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: In every session, roughly half the players' dream selves live on Derse. The [[Eldritch Abomination|Horrorterrors]] as well, who don't seem to be as malevolent as suggested.
** Some lower ranked dersite Agents aren't as bad as [[
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Hivebent. Before the twelve trolls even leave Alternia, they go through [[Tear Jerker|almost]] [[Deus Angst Machina|as]] [[Mercy Kill|much]] [[The Woobie|crap]] as the four kids have during their whole adventure.
** Homestuck itself arguably qualifies; it hasn't sacrificed humor, but it's significantly darker in tone than [[Problem Sleuth|its immediate predecessor]].
** [[Lampshaded]] by Rose and John:
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{{color|#b536de| TT: I'm not actually trying to caricaturize a grim sorcerer.}}
{{color|#b536de| TT: There's still a perfectly intact piece of my mind which realizes how ridiculous it is to be flying across rainbow oceans with a couple of magic wands and a salamander in a little cowl.}}
[a bit later]
{{color|#0715cd| EB: maybe later, i will drop by your planet again and rescue you, thus breaking the spooky spell put on you by your}} [[Eldritch Abomination|nefarious, shadowy masters.]]<br />
{{color|#0715cd| EB: that way you will stop being so [[Grimdark]] and ominous, and basically [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|completely off the deep end in every way]],}} [[Leaning
{{color|#b536de| TT: [[Ship Tease|Swoon!]]}} }}
** The 7th soundtrack is noticeably darker than its predecessors. Not surprising, considering how utterly grim things have been getting as of late.
** The Post-Scratch session is this compared to the pre-scratched, in both story and even tone. This gets Lampshaded by one of the Salamander writing tablets in a crypt, missing the old and happy stories of Heroes compare to the Noble's stories.
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* [[Deader Than Dead]]: There are varying levels of Deader Than Dead. If your dreamself is dead or you've already used your it as an extra life you can't resurrect. If a god-tier player dies a just or heroic death they lose their immortality. But topping them all is that when the Scratch happens all the dead players in the dream bubbles will be trapped in the barren session/alternate universe ''forever''. No escaping a la ''Problem Sleuth'', no dream visits, ''nothing''. Then again things haven't exactly gone as planned in this story...
** Also, we don't actually know how dream bubbles work. This is best examplified by Sollux (who is not even dead at that point) simply walking out of his "afterlife" - [[Achievements in Ignorance|just because he didn't know you're not supposed to do that.]]
* [[Death
* [[Death Is a Sad Thing]]: Watching the flowers on Jasper's casket slowly decay is certainly sad.
* [[Death Is Cheap]]: Subverted. When a character or their dream self dies, they die for real. That iteration of them can only exist in dream bubbles with others who have died. That said, dead characters can be revived as their dream selves (if their dream selves aren't dead) or their bodies can be prototyped, reviving them as sprites, such as with Jade's dream self.
* [[Death World]]: Alternia. [[Our Zombies Are Different|HEINOUS BROODS OF THE UNDEAD]] rise during the day to feast on the living, terrible MUSCLEBEASTS roam at night, and the Alternian sun is invariably described as "blistering", to the point that it permanently blinded Terezi after mere ''seconds'' of staring into it, driving most trolls to nocturnal behavior out of sheer necessity.
** Eridan turned his planet, Land of Wrath and Angels, ''into one'' when he started to kill the consorts there to the point where they started to go berserk. Even the most powerful troll players don't want to go there.
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** Gamzee constructs a mock jury consisting of the severed heads of Nepeta, Eridan, Equius, and Feferi, with himself as the judge, during the showdown between Vriska and Terezi.
* [[Deconstruction]]: Of the classic "A group of young friends go on an adventure in a magical land to save the world!" plot.
* [[Defictionalization]]: You can buy the shirts of all of the Beta universe kids (John, Jade, Rose, and Dave) and trolls. There's also a [https://web.archive.org/web/20130601032718/http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?37333-PESTERCHUM-3.14.1-New-Pesterchum-
* [[Demonic Spiders]]: [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004901 The Uranium Imps.]
** Angels once Eridan pissed them off. Fast, angry, and takes a full minute of sustained firepower from a legendary weapon just to kill ''one''. There are thousands.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Tavros, Nepeta, Equius, Eridan, and Feferi have a fair amount of spotlight during Act 5 Act 1, and Tavros was one of the first troll characters introduced, even in Act 4, but all of them were killed off midway through Act 5 Part 2 and have been scarcely mentioned since, save for their deaths being motivation for revenge.
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* [[Developer Room]]: See the Silliness Switch.
* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: Whatever created Sburb built in scenarios for ''everything''. It takes an indestructible demon to break the game, and even then it may not be completely broken.
** This is actually brutally Subverted, bordering on Deconstruction: Sburb is rather easy to set [[Off the Rails]], to the point where certain races (Read as: Humans) could have dozens of universe-creation attempts and all of them fail for one reason or another. Granted, there are ways to set things right, such as the Time player's method of [[Save Scumming]] and The Scratch, which is in fact a hard temporal [[Reset Button]] that completely reconfigures session parameters - including [[Ret
*** Though in a different sense, played straight, after all, the alchimeter can make ANYTHING that exists, and anything that DOESN'T exist, but is possible, usually through combinations of other things...like a pogostick-hammer-clothes iron...for example...and each of these has a unique captcha code exclusive to itsself...so in order to create the game, they would have to literally think of EVERYTHING...(this basically means scribblenauts, taken to the logical (and possibly illogical) extreme).
*** Also, the mere fact that they can go off the rails in a video game, to the degree of a tabletop rpg, without incurring massive glitches and making the game unplayable is also quite impressive...and would mean they would have to anticipate every possible way the players COULD go off the rails, or make the game capable of free thinking enough to be able to respond appropriately, and modify the state of the game...and it still be plausible...as in, the game would have to UNDERSTAND what to program, such that humans would still find it logical, and it would have to emulate proper emotional responses...(either they did think of everything, or the game is sentient enough that IT can...).
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: On his formspring account, Andrew Hussie claims to be an expert on [[Anime|"the animes"]], and lists [[Discworld]] as an example of one. He was just joking, however.
** And, in canon, Jane acts like she's a big fan of [[Hercule Poirot]] but doesn't actually seem to have ever read any books or seen any movies featuring him since she believes he's French.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Jade bapping Jack on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper. And it works because he is her doggie.
* [[Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?]]: Terezi does this by manipulating Doc Scratch into punishing Vriska.
* [[Didn't See That Coming]]: Jack clearly wasn't expecting the Cyberbunny to side with John.
** No one was expecting Gamzee to go axe-crazy, Eridan to actually be able to use the wand (much less blast his allies to bits with it), or Kanaya to recover from Eridan's attack by becoming (awakening as?) a rainbow-drinker.
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* [[Discount Lesbians]]: For Trolls, gender is unimportant when it comes to romance. It manages to sidestep most of the unfortunate implications from this trope. Troll romance is much more complicated in so many other ways. This is just one area in which it is simpler.
** It also means Discount [[Yaoi Guys]], meaning a lot of the unfortunate implications are eliminated in one fell swoop.
* [[Discussed Trope]]: Dave voices his opinion on [[Arbitrary Skepticism]] and [[Not Now, Kiddo]]:
{{quote|{{color|red|TG: just once id like to see dad crap his pants when a kid says theres a vampire in his closet}}
{{color|red|
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* [[Disney Death]]: Three, Sollux via the [[Brown Note|Vast Glub]], Vriska via [[No
** [[Trolling Creator|If Hussie's tumblr is to be believed]], Spades Slick is alive.
*** [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006189 Somewhat confirmed]. However, his fate is ambiguous along with Clover's.
* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: When Jane is [[Never Found the Body|seem]][[Disney Death|ingly]] killed by an explosion, the wind chime music continues playing, though the wind itself does go silent. The flash then cuts to an animation of autumn leaves falling.
* [[Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud]]: Rose struggling to build an exit before a number of flaming cyclones consume her house.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Equius seems to get [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004121 a little too worked up] over [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004178 issues of control].
* [[Doing
* [[Doing It for
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* [[Doomed Protagonist]]/[[Foregone Conclusion]]: In Act 5, Sollux prophesies that all the trolls will die. ''Complacency of the Learned'' supports this. Most of them are dead as of yet.
* [[
* [[Dramatic Irony]]: Kanaya gets a hold of Rose's FAQ. Impressed by the wealth of knowledge, she assumes the person who wrote it [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004246 succeeded with flying colors.]
** During Act 2, when Rose is in danger and needs Dave to get her into the Medium, the story jumps to his point of view... earlier that day. The player commands Dave to [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002214 get the damn beta and save his friend's life], but he sees no reason to.
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** Also, any player whose dream-self is on Derse has The Horrorterrors of the Furthest Ring whisper prophecies of the future to them. A lot of Derse dreamers however (Dave included), find this very creepy, and choose to ignore them.
*** In [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005779 this panel], it seems that Dave had a particularly harsh example of this, even ''before'' his dream self woke up. Specifically, at one point some time before his 13th birthday, he had a dream about himself dying multiple times, often in violent ways, all the while being watched by crows and hearing eerie disembodied singing. It's then implied by Rose that this was a message from the horrorterrors prophesying his important role in a mission that would ultimately result in his death, but would save existence itself.
* [[Dropped a Bridge
** Recently, just about all of the trolls. All of them. Their bodies are shoved unceremoniously on panel, sometimes with a little self-parodying [[Unsound Effect]] - {{smallcaps|dead}}.
* [[Droste Image]]: [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/index.php?s=6&p=005097 Here.] If it wasn't official before, it certainly is now; those Junior Compu-Sooth Spectagoggles are awesome.
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** Kanaya the [[Our Vampires Are Different|rainbow drinker]] [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005424 pulls one off fantastically.]
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: The trolls ''[[Memetic Mutation|sure are weird]]'', aren't they? Both from their viewpoint and from our culture's viewpoint, they are ''really'' screwed up.
* [[Easily Forgiven]]: After [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006016 a failed attempt] at [[Hello, Insert Name Here]] with Jane, "she is not the sort to hold a grudge, and she will let it slide this time."
** Gamzee, due to the the way moirallegiance works. Karkat even admits to John that he'd probably think Karkat was terrible for it and that it's a troll thing.
* [[Easter Egg]]: Trying to visit the url displayed on [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002012 this page] leads you [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=3 here], which [[Foreshadowing|foreshadows]] the Midnight Crew intermission between Act 3 and 4. You can also enter [[Problem Sleuth]]'s office through use of Trickster Mode in the Flash segment that opens Act 2, and there's a hidden page accessible from [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002838 this page], which shows a somewhat... [[Not So Above It All|different side to Rose.]]
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** The above and many more can be found on the MSPA wiki entry for [http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Trickster_Mode Trickster Mode].
** Try right-clicking and selecting play on [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005836 this branch-point page] and the next three after it. (Sadly the first two in the series have nothing.)
*** Also, this more easily missed than [[Easter Egg]], but the banners starting at [https://web.archive.org/web/20130821190306/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005956 this page] have alt-text.
*** Starting around that time, you can now use [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6 Scratch] and [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/sbahj.php?s=6 SBAHJ] mode.
** [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006273 This page] contains a hidden animation, which can be viewed by itself [https://web.archive.org/web/20130921132344/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=darkcage here]
** Going to the URL on the echeladder in [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006473 this page] sends you [http://green-eyes-peeled-for-blue-lookers-nude.com here]{{Dead link}}. (It's {{spoiler|a redirect to Jake's introduction page}}.)
** Another hidden page is accessible from [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006517 here]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130927174328/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=pony2 It's the sequel to an earlier hidden page].
** On the [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006021 character] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006369 select] screens, right-clicking and selecting play twice without mousing over the character buttons will let you see the "panels aren't done yet!" animations.
* [[E
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Feferi's lusus is [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004335 definitely one of these], as well as anything in the Furthest Ring.
** After it's prototyped, some of the enemies in the trolls' session become these. The [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004492 Black King] is especially nasty.
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* [[Eldritch Location]]: The Furthest Ring.
* [[Emoticon]]: Several characters use these in pesterlogs.
* [[The Empire]]: The Condesce's specialty.
* [[Enemy Mine]]: In their last hours, the Prospitian and Dersite armies [https://web.archive.org/web/20130922004702/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003840 unite against Jack].
* [[Entertainingly Wrong]]: At one point, Terezi comes across the scene of Eridan's recent killing spree. Having just seen Tavros after he was impaled by Vriska, she concocts a crazy sequence of events positing Vriska as the killer there as well...except she immediately realizes it makes no sense. Especially since some of the evidence she saw was the result of one of the "victims" reviving as the troll equivalent of a vampire.
* [[Epic Fail]]: When John hands Wayward Vagabond his dad's wallet, Jade tries to message him. John, of course, doesn't respond because he ''left his only computer'' in the damn thing. And John's just waving as WV, Liv Tyler [Uber Bunny] and the Courtyard Droll head to Derse while having the most [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005590 derpy face imaginable.]
** [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005599 Dave], [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005600 that's not] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005601 how you] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005602 do it].
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20110909055901/http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?37291-I-may-have-just-deleted-the-MSPA-chat-thread Here's a meta example.]
* [[Epileptic Flashing Lights]]: All the time. All of it.
* [[Escalating War]]: This happened between the trolls, and resulted in Tavros becoming crippled because of Vriska, so as revenge Aradia tormented Vriska with the ghosts of the people she'd killed. Vriska in response arranged for Aradia to be killed by Sollux, who, just to rub salt in the wound, she had a crush on. Terezi then set up Vriska to lose her arm and eye when her cueball exploded in her face, and in retaliation Vriska had Terezi blinded. Terezi and Vriska finally agreed to a truce to settle this, but then Aradia came back as a robot and kills Vriska, though [[Death Is Cheap]] so it doesn't really stick. Whew.
* [[Eureka Moment]]: The old "Hole in the Ace" gag. Also works with punch cards, yielding hybrid items.
{{quote|
[[color:blue:EB: thanks!
EB: i got the idea from harry anderson.]]
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* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Pretty much all of the trolls have been seen to have some [[Blue and Orange Morality|issues with moral behavior]], considering their [[Raised
* [[
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: All of the Prospitians and Dersites, with the sole exception of Jack Noir, are named a descriptive reference to their job. Exiles maintain the convention, with the exception of the Midnight Crew and Snowman.
* [[Everyone Is Bi]]: Not the kids, but the Trolls. They're technically a [[One
** Dirk, Roxy, and Jake all have at least considered romance with both sexes, and Rose is implied to have done so as well.
** More generally, there are only three characters who are explicitly ''not'' bisexual: [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?|John]], [[Word of Gay|Kanaya]], and [[Asexuality|Doc]] [[No Biological Sex|Scratch]]
* [[Everyone Is Related]]: Baby Grandpa looks an awful lot like John, baby Nanna looks an awful lot like Jade, and John's Dad and Rose's Mom are HOLDING HANDS. John and Jade were created from a mix of (paradox clone baby) Grandpa and Nana's DNA, and likewise Rose and Dave from Mom and Bro's (paradox clone babies). John's Dad is technically his half-brother...
** Also, all trolls come from the same "incestuous slurry", although their reproductive cycle is [[Bizarre Alien Biology|more]] [[Mate or Die|complicated]]. Enough for romantic comedies to exist. Except for the main twelve, who were cloned in a way similar to the kids.
** It's heavily implied Betty Crocker is actually Her Imperious Condescension. If this is true, then John and Jade can technically be considered to be related to Feferi by adoption.
*** In which case, due to the relationship between Rose's Mom and John's Dad, one could also say that, at the very least, a John/Rose ship would be gross. If that is the case, then all 4 main kids are related, due to Dave and Rose being siblings and John and Jade being siblings. Due to the incestuous slurry that is how trolls are created(as well as the fact that ancestors exist), Jane & Jake's relation to Feferi means that all 20 main characters are related. All ships have been sunk.
* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: The Midnight Crew vs {{color|# 2ED73A| The Felt}}. Apparently subverted during the Intermission, as {{color|# 2ED73A| The Felt}} (except possibly {{color|# 2ED73A| Sn}}o{{color|# 2ED73A|
* [[Exact Time to Failure]]: The countdown to John's home being hit by a meteor, the countdown to the underground lab being 'unestablished', and the countdown timer to The Reckoning. Averted with the countdown timer in the Wayward Vagabond's hideout.
** All of the countdowns revealed by opening a Cruxtruder display the time left before a meteor strikes their location.
** Justified by the heavy amount of WEIRD TIME SHIT involved in Sburb. After all, if the end of the world ''didn't'' happen, there'd be no meteors to deposit the players, their guardians, and the Skaian tech that tracks this stuff in the first place.
* [[Exactly What It Says
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** Troll television, on the other hand, is young enough to allow shorter, "normal" titles such as ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel
** A different example concerns Rose. For a while, Kanaya has been warning Rose that there's a moment where she "goes dark" on the Trollian window, not like a death or anything but the window just literally goes dark. We finally get to the event in question in linear time, and, well... [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005542 Rose goes dark].
* [[The Exile]]: A whole class of characters.
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* [[Eye Beams]]: [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002392 Why you don't mess with Nanna].
** Also, [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005222 Sollux].
* [[Eye Scream]]: In the Midnight Crew intermission, {{color|# 2ED73A| Sn}}o{{color|# 2ED73A|
** Besides that, we eventually get to see just how Terezi was blinded.
** Sollux is eventually blinded, as he predicted; it's possible he lost his eyes entirely.
** Guy Fieri got an eyeful of sewing needles, courtesy of Roxy's mom.
* [[Eyes of Gold]]: With gray irises. In certain lights, they can almost appear greenish
** [[Technicolor Eyes]]: When trolls reach adulthood their eyes match their blood.
* [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong]]: A core component to playing Fiduspawn. Fortunately, or unfortunately performed on HOST PLUSHES.
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** Slick [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=004385 attempts to pull off the coveted FACEPALM x2 COMBO again] but falls short this time.
** In [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005660 [S] Flip], Terezi pulls off a [http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/6590/facepalmcombo3.png FACEPALM x3 COMBO].
** Doc Scratch takes the gag to an extreme [https://web.archive.org/web/20130821115153/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005761 here].<ref>You'll notice I didn't specify WHICH extreme.</ref>
* [[Failed Attempt At Drama]]: [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002301 YOU SAID]... [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002302 PUT THE BUNNY]... [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002303 BACK IN]... [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002304 THE BOX!!!!!]
** '''[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005973 STORY TIME'S OVER WIND BAG] WHOOPS OH SHIT GET THIS FUCKIN' CLOCK OUTTA MY WAY.'''
* [[Failed a Spot Check]]: Dave mistaking the Apocalypse-in-progress for an abnormal heat wave.
* [[Fake Band]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20131104184555/http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead-2 The Midnight Crew.]
* [[Fake
* [[Fake
* [[False Start]]: For the ''comic itself.'' At the beginning, Hussie planned Homestuck to be done [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=5 entirely in flash] than how it is now. [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?viewlog=5 After three days,] he rebooted it to be more gifs than flash, and he [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] the [[False Start]] [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=001922 here.] Could cross into [[You Do NOT Want to Know]] and [[Long Story]], if still a sore subject.
* [[Family Relationship Switcheroo]]: Dave's "Bro" is actually his biological dad. John's Dad is actually his half-brother.
* [[Famous Ancestor]]: Literally in the case of the Trolls, and played with with the Guardians. Dad is a complete nobody, and Nanna Egbert never amounted to much, but the rest are fairly important.
* [[Fandom]]: Its own fandom (of [https://www.dropbox.com/s/tbcx3zpcno8m6ta/Fanart%20Aggregator fan artists], and so many [http://tindeck.com/listen/honw fan] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAsuHronyE4 musicians] and [http://tindeck.com/listen/ntwx fan] [http://tindeck.com/listen/nywd singers] that [http://tindeck.com/browse?gr=59 "Homestuck" is a *genre* on Tindeck] and [http://homestuckgaiden.bandcamp.com/ the unofficial fan album] limited each artist to two entries and they still had ''over fifty tracks'') aside, some of the trolls are nods and parodies of various fandoms and internet subcultures: Kanaya for ''[[Twilight (
* [[Fandom Nod]]: Kanaya and Tavros's [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|terrible attempts at trolling]] are inspired by the members of the forum who joined up to [[Defictionalization|roleplay the comic's trolls]] and ended up becoming regular posters with annoying font colors.
** (Remotely) possibly unintentional, but [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004600 this page] beings to mind [http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/4207/jeguschristvriska.png this piece of fanart]. Gamzee is even on the page.
** [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005423 Look at them go!!].
** Also possibly unintentional: Some time ago, there was a fan-theory about [[Hidden Villain|Lord English]] being the identity of Jade's penpal. This was [[Jossed]]. But when Jade's penpal finally appeared in the story his name was revealed to be Jake [[Meaningful Name|English]], and he brought with him a number of [[Shout
** John poking fun at Dave's God Tier hood and its tightness may be a nod toward the part of the fandom who considers said tightness hoodways to look really strange.
** The auto-responder's slew of bad-anime references [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006392 here], as he describes how Dirk ''isn't'' going to go about his attempt to woo Jake, may well be one to the Weeabro headcanon popular before Dirk appeared.
** In Act 6 Intermission 2 Hussie [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006571 dresses up] as the common fanart depiction of [[The Faceless|uranianUmbra]] - Calmasis with horns.
* [[Fantastic Caste System]]: The A2 trolls' [[Alien Blood|hemospectrum]], which places purple and blue at the top (Terezi barely passes as teal), green in the middle, and yellow to dark rusty-red at the bottom (Karkat's bright red isn't on the spectrum at all). After taking over B2 Earth the Troll Empress tries to recolor human blood, with disastrous results. The A1 trolls also had a hemospectrum, but it was based on ''helping'' lower castes rather than oppressing them.
* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: Trolls have a lot in common with dictatorial regimes, most especially Sparta.
* [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]]: Time travel, imps, ogres, human cloning, dark magic, aliens, alchemy, parallel universes, astral projection, spaceships, psychic fortune telling, genetic engineering and elder gods from beyond the universe are just some of the things to make an appearance and have a significant effect on the plot.
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** Jake English has been given so many ham-fisted references to Lord English that much of the fandom half-expects that this is going to be a Red Herring.
* [[Fetish Fuel]]: In-universe example: When Dave is talking to Terezi, he's contacted by his Exile (which is Aimless Renegade) for the first time. Dave accidentally starts reading what the Exile says to him, which revolves a lot around law-enforcement. Terezi tells Dave that it '1S COM1NG D4NG3ROUSLY CLOS3 TO G1V1NG M3 4 C4S3 OF TH3 V4PORS'.
** Not soon after Kanaya's introduction it is revealed that she has feelings for Vriska, who doesn't reciprocate. However, after Kanaya awakens as a rainbow-drinker, goes on a violent rampage that involves kicking Gamzee in the groin so hard he flies off the platform, sucker-punching Vriska and sending her flying, and sawing Eridan in half before erotically applying a smeared mix of lipstick and purple blood to her lips... Vriska is suddenly very, very interested.
* [[Fight Woosh]]: [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002292 here]
* [[Filk Song]]: There [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq6rUUt9EbM are] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa7O8juc44k parodies] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAsuHronyE4 original] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhCz18Fhew4 songs].
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** Happens again at the beginning of Act 6, though not quite to the same degree.
* [[Flash Back]]: The story often shifts back to show earlier events from different characters' views.
* [[Flip
* [[Flying Car]]: Well, it's really just an ordinary car that John is "flying" with his [[Blow You Away|wind powers]].
* [[Foil]]: Vriska/Tavros, almost perfectly. Both of their faults become almost intolerable next to each other. Tavros would be Gamzee or Feferi, but when he reacts to Vriska(or tries to act like her) he's pathetic. Vriska would be Terezi or Eridan, but next to Tavros she's [[Phrase Catcher|BLUH BLUH HUGE BITCH]]
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* [[Forceful Kiss]]: Featured quite humorously [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004280 here].
* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: The world will end and Prospit will lose to Derse. A whole bunch of other stuff is also inevitable due to [[Stable Time Loop|stable time loops]].
** Subverted in some regards where [[Mr. Exposition|Mr. Expositions]] have blind spots. For example, the trolls tell the kids from what they see that John is the only one among them that will [[Ascend to
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Too many examples to list. "Retroactive Foreshadowing" is a common occurrence in this story as well, where the author re-interprets past events as foreshadowing of present events.
** [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=001982 Special mention] goes to John's amazing [[Webcomic Time|skills of observation]].
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*** If the narration says "You're sure X isn't important", it definitely is important.
*** If it says "You're sure X won't happen again", it ''will'' happen again.
** The author warned the readers about his [[Author Avatar|avatar's]] entry into the story on [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005558 this page], specifically to let the readers know that it won't become a [[Self
*** Not to mention the fact that said self-insert was itself a foreshadow. Take a closer look at the hoodie Andrews avatar is wearing.
*** Also, note the apparently meaningless statement regarding Hussie limiting his involvement in the story: "My window of influence, end to end, will be exactly ONE YARD". Much later, we discover this means [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006201 exactly what it says].
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** The artwork for the Homestuck Volume 7 album has a red and blue glare behind the Derse moon, which is within the Green Sun...
** In Act 1, [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=001932 John picks up] ''Colonel Sassacre's Daunting Text of Magical Frivolity and Practical Japery'', exclaiming that {{spoiler|"It could kill a cat if you dropped it."}} [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006400 By Act 6, Scene 2...]
** The [[Tomato Surprise]] in [S] Jane: Enter [https://web.archive.org/web/20130130213559/http://mspaforums.com/showthread.php?45245-IDE-Theory-Thread-23-Locating-the-queens-orbs&p=6143877&viewfull=1#post6143877 had quite a bit of this.]
** [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006020 Each of the] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006364 Alpha Kids' introductions] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006017 contains a hint] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006368 as to what] their God Tier title will be:
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{{color|#f141ef| Roxy:}} "You are known to nonseldomly employ a '''ROGU'''ISH DEMEANOR toward the FELLAS" "But you have good friends and many distractions to fill this '''VOID''' in your life."
{{color|#00d5f2| Jane:}} "When it does, you will waste no time in embarking on the game's '''MAID'''EN VOYAGE, and if even a fraction of what you've heard turns out to be true, you are prepared to have the time of your '''LIFE'''!!!"
{{color|#f2a400| Dirk:}} "Maybe tagged as a RENAISSANCE NINJA, PHILOSOPHER '''PRINCE''', and FLASHSTEP PUPPETEER." "You don't have the '''HEART''' to hold it against him, though." }}
* [[Four Lines, All Waiting]]: Between the [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] and [[Anachronic Order]], cliffhangers tend to accumulate rather quickly.
* [[Four
* [[Fourth Wall Psych]]: [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005155 Jade turns it off.] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005156 ...oh, wait.]
* [[The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You]]: Lord English somehow gets into Andrew's home in the Hussieverse during the second Act 6 Intermission, even worse being he managed to tear the head off his Robotic Author Avatar.
* [[Freud Was Right]]:
{{quote|{{color|red| TG: i just want your professional take on how many things in my dream symbolize dicks}}
{{color|#b536de| TT: We've already established that all of your dreams are packed with enough homoerotic symbolism to lift Freudian theory from the ashes of discreditation.}} }}
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Vriska's tendency to solve problems with assault, revenge, and murder appears to stem partly from the fact that she habitually murders trolls on a regular basis to feed her lusus, whether she has a beef with them or not.
* [[Freudian Slip]]: When talking about Jade's problems with her dream self, Karkat manages to type "{{color|gray|SHE'S PROBABLY NOWHERE NEAR AS BAD AS SHE'S [[Screw Yourself|MAKING OUT WITH HERSELF]] TO BE}}" when he means "{{color|gray|
* [[Fridge Logic]]/[[Fridge Brilliance]]: Discussed in [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006758 this conversation.]
* [[Full Set Bonus]]: Magic items.
* [[The Fun in Funeral]]: Trolls don't have funerals, so when Aradia hears of them, she thinks of them as a "human corpse party" and is eager to try them out.
* [[Fun
** When Karkat sets up his bulletin board using Trollian, those communicating from the past have a "P" preceding their abbreviated trolltag, and those communicating from the future have an "F". So when future Vriska (arachnidsGrip) responds to one of Karkat's memos...
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{{color|gray| CCG: TOO BAD THE ACRONYM WASN'T "HAG" INSTEAD, IT WOULD HAVE SUITED YOU MUCH BETTER.}}
{{color|gray| CCG: INSTEAD OF THAT NONSENSE WORD}}
{{color|gray| CCG: MAYBE [[Historical In-Joke|ITS ASSOCIATION WITH YOU WILL COLLOQUIALLY CAUSE IT TO TAKE ON A NEGATIVE CONNOTATION]], WHAT DO YOU THINK?}} }}
** Year 411 P.C. (Post Condescension)
* [[Funetik Aksent]]: Every troll has a typing quirk, and many of them apparently reflect the way they talk. Eridan's represents his sort of wwavvy accent and droppin' gs [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping|although he packs it in if something is distracting him]]. Sollux had a written lii2p, at least bef0re he g0t blinded with science and began talking m0re like Aradia used t0. Karkat is FUCKING OUTRAGED. tAVROS SPEAKS IN A FALTERING MANNER, rEFLECTING HIS WEAK PERSONALITY, Aradia's w0rds are 0ddly h0ll0w until she ascended to God-Tier. Vriska actually is that [[Large Ham|emphaaaaaaaatic]]. Kanaya Enunciates All Her Words Very Distinctly
* [[Funny Background Event]]: More or less the point of the site-layout change during Scratch's narration, but pay particular attention after he pulls the fire alarm: Matchsticks turns up with a fire extinguisher, and way to the right, Spades Slick's hand is reaching back to steal more liquorice terriers. *GRAB*
* [[Furry Fandom]]: [[Doing It for
* [[Fusion Dance]]: Jane's sprite ends up being one when Gamzee hurls Tavros and Vriska's corpses into her unprototyped kernelsprite, causing them to fuse together into [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006734 Tavrisprite].
* [[Future Imperfect]]: [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004247 This] is how Kanaya imagines Rose Lalonde. It's obviously a little off, but she certainly doesn't look any more or less badass than she really is.
* [[Futureshadowing]]: Too many times to list. For example, Dave and Jade are introduced at around the same in-universe time as John, so while they're catching up with the "Present" their pesterlogs foreshadow things that they'll eventually get into. A simple example: [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=001926 Dave messaged John about finding some Apple Juice], so we eventually see him [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002220 find the Apple Juice when he becomes playable] and then [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002224 pesters John about it].
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