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* [[Sacrificial Lion]]: The Guardians, most of the Trolls.

** Due to the nature of Sburb's independent sessions of players, it's fairly popular for fanfiction and forum adventures to create their own sessions.

** It's also popular to create a thirteenth troll themed after the zodiac sign Ophiuchus, which appears in certain astrological models, and it has the bonus of satisfying the [[Arc Number]] (four human kids, thirteen trolls). These trolls usually have the initials UU, after uracil, a chemical found in RNA, in keeping with the story's genetic [[Theme Naming]]. A U also resembles the semi-official astrological symbol of Ophiuchus.

* [[Sanity Has Advantages]]: Terezi manages to get her revenge on Vriska due to the fact that Vriska is unable to stray from her compulsive behaviors.

* [[Save Scumming]]: Aradia had to do this thousands of times in order for the battle with the Black King to be [[Unwinnable|possible to complete]].

** {{color|#b536de|STRIIIIIIIIDEEERRRRR!!}}

** {{color|#000056|AURTHOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUR!}}

** {{color|blue|naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!}}

** {{color|blue|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMPS!}}

** Recovered/returned by John's dad to Rose's mom when they're reunited above Skaia

** Rose a few times, but usually goes with the sash variation, as does Kanaya.

** Not to mention ''any'' time clouds appear, they are incredibly detailed.

* [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: Justified with the Green Sun. Space works differently in the Furthest Ring.

** Averted during Cascade, the Act 5 finale. Despite the Human Universe being destroyed by Jack, Earth hangs around for a few minutes simply because the Universe is '''huge''', and none of the Red Miles had reached it yet.

*** In fact, the Red Miles don't hit Earth until the Exiles' timeframe, [[Arc Number|413]] years later.

** Parodied with the placeholder for the (real) Act 4 finale:

{{quote|You go downstairs to check the mail for the END OF ACT. In spite of the fact that the red arm-swingy-dealy thing is flipped up, the mailbox is empty! You are going to have to conclude that the position of the red flippy-lever thing is an unreliable gauge for the presence of mail. You really don't know what the point of it is. The parcel you are waiting for is obviously going to be late. You will have to keep checking the mail over the next several days. Hopefully it will not arrive too late, or it may start to become a sore subject with you.}}

** The 12/16/2010 (the 612th Day Anniversary) update actually came out well into 12/17.

** The End of Act 5 update was actually pushed back enough that it landed on an important date, 10/25.

** Battles in Skaia are fought with swords, giant ass chess monstrosities, and battleships in the sky.

** Mindfang's journal reveals that in the same era sails powered most ships, cybernetic arms also existed.

* [[Scrappy Mechanic]]: In-universe, several of the more cumbersome fetch modi can be a pain to work with.

** Sollux, after being told the game would inevitably bring about the doom of their planet.

** Archagent Jack Noir will always seek to disrupt the normal flow of the SBURB session ''by design.'' Given a prototyping ring or sufficient weaponry, he will attempt to make the session totally [[Unwinnable]].

* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers]]: The main reason why Jack Noir is a huge problem for both the kids ''and'' the trolls, even before prototyping Bec made him effectively omnipotent. It remains to be seen if anyone can fight him directly on any level, though God-Tier Aradia was able to freeze him in time.[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005713 Doesn't look like it.]

** With the events of Cascade, however we now have ''two'' people strong enough to take him on. And while one of them is busy escaping the scratched session [[Mind Screw|with most of the session]], the other is PM - prototyped with WV's ring and [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|seriously pissed]].

{{quote|> John: Be the imp

You be the imp and quickly abscond the fuck outta there!!!

** Of course, multitude of time-traveling Daves running around was not unnoticed by fandom. And now there are also two Jades, hugging each other.

** ...and then when Karkat sees Jade arguing fiercely with her dreamself, he fantasises about her making out with herself. And proceeds to accidentally mistype 'make myself out to be' as '[[Freudian Slip|make out with myself]]' in the ensuing log. I think it's safe to say at this point that Karkat kinda has ''issues''.

* [[Scully Syndrome]]: Inverted with John following an ominous trail of black ooze.

{{quote|[[color:red:TG: dude monsters arent real

* [[Second Person Narration]]

* [[Self-Deprecation]]: There's [[Self-Deprecation]] pretty much ''everywhere'', which is more than a little bit interesting considering Hussie is far more well-known for [[Small Name, Big Ego|going the other way]].

** Also, from the [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003067 Midnight Crew Intermission]:

{{quote|> [I] SS: Go to mspaintadventures.com

*** In large part this may be [[Justified]] by the fact that a significant part of the fandom revolves around [[Shipping]] (let alone [[Rule 34]]). If the kids weren't aged up, that would have [[Unfortunate Implications|pedophilic implications]] and probably [[Squick]] out a good number of fans.

** Andrew knows about this, given the kids in the Alpha universe are around 15 - 15.5 years old.

** Due to the [[Stable Time Loop|circular nature of time]] within Paradox Space, pretty much any action done to try and undo some catastrophe will end up being the cause of it.

{{quote|{{color|#a10000|AA: a decisi0n y0u are ab0ut t0 make will invariably lead t0 every pr0blem we have and will ever face as well as the great und0ing itself}}}}

** Terezi convinces John to skip ahead using a jetpack and kill his Denizen earlier than he should be able to just to screw with the timeline. [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003543 This did not end well.]

** Jack Noir is more than willing to mess with the regular flow of the game for his own ends. As such, it's wise to make sure he never gets his hands on one of the Queen's prototyping rings. The kids find out about this way too late.

** Equius does this with abandon - rather than building up his house, he merely STRONGJUMPS into the next area right off the bat.

** It seems the only person ever interested in playing through the whole game without skipping was Tavros, and even he mind-controlled every monster in his path.

* [[Shades of Conflict]]: Many, due to the expansiveness of the cast and conflict.

** [[Black and Grey Morality]]: The Troll Ancestors display this, with the exception of [[Crystal Dragon Jesus|The Sufferer]]. After Hivebent, the Trolls degenerate into this [[Face Heel Turn|once some of them turn evil]].

** [[Blue and Orange Morality]]: The cosmic forces predictably display this (Skaia, Paradox Space, and most notably the Horrorterrors).

** [[Evil Versus Evil]]: The Midnight Crew are malevolent, but are pardoned mainly because they fight the Felt, who are far worse.

* [[Shifting Sand Land]]: Earth in the year 2422, and [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004248 The Land of Sand and Zephyr].

* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Nepeta calls herself [[The Matchmaker]], but she's more speculative than proactive, and simply maintains an illustrated log of ships in which everyone is a [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships|Little Black Dress]]. When her own [[Ship Sinking|ship sinks]], she dutifully records it.

** The revelation that some of the more popular pairings, ie, John/Jade and Dave/Rose are sort of siblings is quite a bit of a sink. This, of course, did not stop everybody.

{{quote|''"Also I think I ruined a solid year's worth of perfectly good shipping with recent revelations. WHOOPSEE DAISEE"'' - [[Word of God|Andrew Hussie]]}}

** John [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005319 talks about] sinking Dad and Rose's mom's ship. Turns out he was joking.

** {{color|blue| EB: i am not a homosexual.}} There goes all of John's [[Ho Yay]] pairings, including Dave and Karkat.

** Karkat is, as of the Oct. 20 update, attempting to torpedo any human/troll pairings, for several reasons he has yet to admit to.

** Also, any hope that Feferi and Eridan would get together was shattered with the 1/22/11 update.

** The June 16, 2011 update [[Killed Off for Real|killed off Vriska]], sinking a lot of ships, and unsinking [[Together in Death|Vriska x Tavros]]. Or it would have if dreambubble Vriska hadn't met beta-timeline dead John.

{{quote|{{color|red|TG: i should probably text him soon}}

{{color|red|TG: see whats up}}

** In the Alpha Session, the teens seem to all have ship tease so far. Jane and Jake with all the callbacks. Roxy openly saying she loves Jane. Roxy thinking about Jake's birthday before the end of the world and switching the Brobot to novice as an early gift. Dirk having an obvious soft spot for Jane while the other genuinely finds his "ironic humor" to be fascinating. And now Dirk is planning on confessing romantic feelings for Jake, at least according to his auto-responder.

** Act 6, Intermission 1 gives us [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006213 Bec] [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006214 Noir]/[http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006216 P][http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006217 M]. Bonus points for {{color|red|♥}}/{{color|black|♠}} mismatch to be resolved at some point.

** Act 6, Intermission 2 we have Karkat basically admitting his feeling for Terezi, while thinking she may be in a flushed relationship with Dave [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006591 here.]

* [[Showdown At High Noon]]: [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005235 Invoked] [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005236 with] [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005237 these] [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005238 updates] [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005239 in] [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005240 a] row.

** Game Within A Game: SBURB. Also FLARP, for a few pages.

** "Squiddles" is also a kid's show within the series' universe. John, Jade and Rose all have merchandise related to it, in addition to the [[Defictionalization|Squiddles poster and album that you can buy in real life.]]

** John/Janes's house [https://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&q=21605+Fir+Dr,+Maple+Valley&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x54905ffd33d00ded:0x222daa58a290e749,21605+Fir+Dr,+Maple+Valley,+WA+98038&gl=us&ei=kS7JT5muHqbh0QGh5el0&oi=geocode_result&ved=0CBgQ8gEwAA has an identifiable, street-accurate address], although [[The Other Rainforest|being in Washington, having fallen leaves in autumn is inaccurate]].

* [[Shrouded in Myth]]: Lord English.

** The resistance movement leaders -- John, Rose, Dave and Jade -- are this to the Post-Scratch universe. Dave and Rose vanished without a trace, continuing to feed into their legend.

* [[Shrug of God]]: If it's not shown, then Andrew probably doesn't care about it right now. (What the characters sound like, what they did before the story, etc.)

* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: The brunette human kids tend to be more naive and idealistic while the blonde kids tend to be more genre-savvy and cynical.

** [[Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling]]: Dirk is always awake while Dave zones out. Roxy is always drunk while Rose doesn't like alcohol.

* [[Slasher Smile]]: [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005342 here.] and again two pages later.

* [[Slashed Throat]]: A favorite coup de grace of Jack Noir, in all his incarnations.

** [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004011 This is probably not what you had in mind.]

** Tavros also gets one . . . [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004019 but it doesn't stay cute for long.]

* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: The simple, quiet bells that went with [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=001982 John's look down the street] also accompany [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006182 a bomb exploding in Jane's face].

** In the newest flash, the sound is tranquil and soothing in the background of a planet void of life. It gets worse how it still plays when the tablets mention how the residents focused on digging their own graves and died out millions of years ago.

* [[The Spartan Way]]: Troll society. More specifically, post-Scratch troll society, due to Doc Scratch's influence.

* [[Special Edition Title]]: When Rose checks up on John in Act 3, the ''Sburb'' loading icon has been defaced with Shale Imp slick -- just like John's house.

* [[Spoof Aesop]]: [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003819 This is exactly why babies should not be allowed to dual-wield flintlock pistols].

* [[Spoony Bard]]: Gamzee, until we find out he is the Bard of Rage, and rightly so.

** John suddenly crash-landing his jetpack in Rose's bedroom seems to have been gleefully received by the fans.

** After months of [[Love Dodecahedron|strange alien love triangles]] that [[Love Hurts|rarely turn out well]], finding out that Karkat and Terezi are simply in love with each other sent waves of joy throughout the fandom.

** The short return of The Midnight Crew caused a bit of this in some fans.

* [[Stable Time Loop]]: A '''major''' recurring theme in the comic. Even people with control over time [[You Can't Fight Fate|can't do anything more than ensure the timeline goes the way it was supposed to in the first place, because if you do change the timeline, than the totality of existence will slate you for imminent destruction.]]

** Vriska makes stable time loops by looking into the future for cool events, and then going back in time to tell people to do things that make the events happen. She wants to be responsible for all of the major events in the story, both good and bad. So yes, it's all her fault, but it was going to happen anyways, and she might as well be responsible for it for bragging rights.

** Rose tries to prototype the Kernelsprite with Colonel Sassacre's, which would have made it a Colonelsprite. In addition, everything Rose writes is both ridiculously fancy [[Purple Prose|and in purple text]].

** WV accidentally turns off the capslock key on the terminal, un'''lock'''ing a '''caps'''ule. Then he hits tab, opening another capsule of... tab.

** "Taking priority at the moment is shipping two passengers". Take a wild guess what happens within the next few pages.

** The programming languages, "^CAKE", "~ATH", and "DIS*". Reading the non-alpha characters as their names, we get [[Incredibly Lame Pun|"carat-cake" (carrot cake), "tilde-ath" ('til death), and dis-asterisk (disaster risk).]]

** Fantasy-loving troll Tavros's lusus is a little bull with fairy wings -- a [[An Aesop|fey-bull]].

** It seems that Diamonds (Droog) made a girl's best friend. Bec, that is.

** Karkat's land, the Land of Pulse and Haze, is full of "bleeding hearts."

** And [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Blue-Oni-to-his-Red]] Sollux has a very ''cerebral'' land (Land of Brains and Fire)

** Nepeta's land (Land of Little Cubes and Tea) doesn't really seem to fit her theme (cats) until you abbreviate it (LOLCAT).

** Those reaching ''God''-tiers receive ''hoods.''

** One of Jade's alchemized weapons, [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005060 the "Girl's Best Friend,"] costs an awful lot of ''Diamond'' grist. Exactly 500,500 diamond grist. 500 in Roman numerals is the letter D. Two D's... Diamonds Droog...

** John is the '''Heir''' of [[Blow You Away|Breath]].

** There is type of [[Unwinnable|null session]] called a void session. In other words, "null and void".

** [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006787 Jack being the first guy to think of carving a face on a pumpkin] a Jack-o'-lantern.

* [[Stock Super Powers]]: Everyone who plays Sburb gets superpowers.

** Trolls: All of them play Sgrub and get superpowers, in addition to the few that had psychic powers to begin with. A few alternate timeline iterations of them reached their God Tiers, but the Alpha Timeline has only had Aradia and Vriska reach them as of yet.

*** {{color|#a15000|Tavros}} as the '''{{color|#0087eb|Page of Breath}}''' can [[Blow You Away|manipulate wind]]. He also naturally can [[The Beast Master|commune with animals.]]

*** {{color|#a1a100|Sollux}} as the '''{{color|#0f381b|Mage of Doom}}''' has unknown abilities, though they seemingly are his ability to [[Mad Oracle|prophecy]] and [[Blessed with Suck|hear voices of the imminently deceased]]. He also naturally has [[Mind Over Matter|strong telekinetic abilities]] and [[Eye Beams|can shoot beams from his eyes]].

* [[Stop Helping Me!]]: Jade attempting to 'clean' Dave's bathroom, and Dave explicitly telling her [[Don't Touch It, You Idiot!|not to put anything weird in the seizure kernel]].

** '''{{color|blue|> Jade: Put something weird in the seizure kernel.}}'''

* [[Stupid Statement Dance Mix]]: Vriska's Nicholas Cage shrine is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqjieIbqb0g accompanied by one of these].

* [[Stylistic Suck]]: Dave's truly awful webcomic ''[[Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff]]'', which he writes ironically. The (brief) archive can be found [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/sweetbroandhellajeff/?cid=001.jpg here].

** And Dave's remixes.

* [[Sure Why Not]]: Andrew has stated that he gets more ideas from the forum theories than he does from the actual suggestions.

{{quote|''"90% of all "calling it" is really "influencing it" in disguise."''}}

** From Karkat.

{{quote|{{color|#626262|CG: WHETHER [Terezi] AND I HAVE A THING OR DON'T HAVE A THING, OR TOOK A ROMANTIC HOT AIR BALLOON RIDE SUSPENDED IN A GODDAMN FILIAL PAIL TOGETHER}}

* [[Take It to the Bridge]]: As Post-Scratch Dave was assassinating the Dual Presidents, Post-Scratch Rose tracked down the High Chaplain to an overlook above [[Niagara Falls]].

* [[Take My Hand]]: Rose's introduction to the JASPERSPRITE.

** Subverted: [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005886 We get to see the rap-off,] [[Brick Joke|but only much, MUCH later]].

** And then readressed [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005931 here], in the form of a young Dave and Sober!Gamzee having "One of the Best Rapoffs in the History of Paradox Space".

* [[Take That]]: John's movie posters, particularly his McConnaughhay wall. Karkat's [[Romantic Comedy|rom-com]] wall is its other world equivalent.

{{quote|"Few people realize that John Cusak is [[Identical Stranger|a universal constant]]."}}

** Jane's love of MUSTACHIOED FUNNYMEN. ...[[My Friends and Zoidberg|Except Gallagher]]. "You've got to draw the fucking line somewhere."

** Dirk breaking the news that where he comes from, the entire Earth is flooded.

*** [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005981 Don't forget Lord English!]

** Roxy and Dirk have hot pink and orange eyes, respectively.

** Fin loses a tooth during the intermission. Importantly, Diamonds sees the tooth on the floor and uses its placement to know where and when to throw a swing that, due to Fin's time powers, hits him several minutes ago, [[Stable Time Loop|knocking the tooth onto the floor in the first place.]]

** Sollux has this happen to him which has the benefit of removing his [[Lisp]].

* [[Teenage Wasteland]]: Alternia, as all adult Trolls are off-planet.

** Paradox space is very peculiar about these. Grandfather paradoxes are rejected by erasing any alteration to the alpha timeline, yet sometimes one is needed in order for the alpha timeline to progress. Conversely, ontological paradoxes are not only allowed, but ''demanded'' on at least two occasions for any session to function at all. Trying to understand all the [[Temporal Paradox]] nuances involved in just a single game is [[Mind Screw|a daunting task,]] to say the least. The entire deal between the Kids' and Trolls' sessions takes it [[Up to Eleven]].

** For obvious reasons, the various Appearafiers are programmed to avoid creating a grandfather paradox when appearafying subjects; they will respond to any such attempt by producing a gelatinous paradox ghost imprint.

** And then there's {{color|#2ED73A|The Felt}}, pool-themed adversaries of the Midnight Crew with [[Numerical Theme Naming]]. From the bottom up, we have {{color|#2ED73A|Itchy}} (from ''ichi'', Japanese for one), {{color|#2ED73A|Doze}} (''dos'', Spanish for two), {{color|#2ED73A|Trace}} (''tres'', Spanish for three), {{color|#2ED73A|Clover}} (as in a four leaf clover), {{color|#2ED73A|Fin}} (slang for a five-dollar bill), {{color|#2ED73A|Die}} (as in a six-sided die), {{color|#2ED73A|Crowbar}} (from the crooked shape of a 7), {{color|#2ED73A|Sn}}o{{color|#2ED73A|wman}} (from the shape of an 8), {{color|#2ED73A|Stitch}} (...in time saves nine), {{color|#2ED73A|Sawbuck}} (slang for a ten-dollar bill), {{color|#2ED73A|Matchsticks}} (two straight lines, like an 11), {{color|#2ED73A|Eggs}} (a dozen eggs), {{color|#2ED73A|Biscuits}} (a baker's dozen), {{color|#2ED73A|Quarters}} (''quatorze'', French for fourteen), and {{color|#2ED73A|Cans}} (''quinze'', French for fifteen). Each member's name doubles as a reference to their respective billiard ball number and a [[Meaningful Name]] related to their power or appearance. On top of that, they're led by {{color|#2ED73A|Lord English}} (named after a sidespin put on the cue ball), and {{color|#2ED73A|D}}{{color|white|o}}{{color|#2ED73A|c Scratch}} (named after a foul in pool).

* [[Theme Table]]: A pretty in-depth listing of the similarities between protagonists can be found [http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Homestuck_Kids here.] The parallels also have a tendency to spawn numerous [[Homestuck/WMG|fan theories]], some a [[Epileptic Trees|little loopier than others.]] The truth turns out to be pretty loopy itself, mind.

* [[They Plotted a Perfectly Good Waste]]: All of the fan-hatred towards Vriska was ''completely planned'' by [[Magnificent Bastard|a certain Mr. Hussie]].

* [[There Are No Therapists]]: Partial aversion in that there are no ''professional'' therapists, but plenty of amateurs: Rose takes a keen interest in psychology (with the irony that she probably has the most mental issues of any of the Chums) and Kanaya seems to perform a lot of therapy on her fellow trolls (suggesting that Tavros gives his self-esteem a name, arguing with Aradia and Vriska about the nature of fate and free will). John also seems to have a bit of talent for this, [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002991 at least in terms of] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002997 diagnosing the problem]. Karkat seems to fancy himself a relationship counselor, and manages to [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004196 accurately psychoanalyze Vriska] in between gushing about romance. The fact that the other trolls seek out his counsel when they are in need of romantic advice suggests that he may actually have a deep and useful understanding of the complicated subject; whether this is just part of his personality or if watching romcoms actually taught him useful things about hate and pity remains unknown, and probably up to interpretation.

* [[They Just Didn't Care]]: Vriska's bizarre "Pupa Pan" cosplay runs into its own [[Fridge Logic]] when she wonders why he would need to teach a fairy to fly. This is because a) she is confusing Tinkerbell with Wendy and b) She just didn't care.

* [[Thick Line Animation]]: normally present, lost when in Hero Mode.

{{quote|{{color|#e00707|TG: bow down before your new king bitch}}}}

** Spades preparing to [[Neck Snap]] Sawbuck. "COUNT SOME SHEEP BITCH"

** And now, [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005289 THIS] [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005290 IS] [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005291 S-T-U-P-I-D]

* [[Those Two Guys]]: Eridan and Feferi, Nepeta and Equius, and Aradia and Sollux scarcely appear without each other. Tavros is "That One Guy" by himself, while Gamzee is an [[Ascended Extra]].

* [[Time Skip]]: The Wayward Vagabond interludes take place several years [[Running Gag|(but not many)]] after the the meteors strike. According to the Appearifier, the current date is 2422-04-13. Exactly [[Arc Number|413]] years after the start of the comic.<br />Admittedly, from a certain perspective (that of the exiles themselves) it is quite likely that it ''has'' only been only a few years, and as we watch the gap between the past and present of those segments has shrunk considerably.

* [[Time Travel for Fun and Profit]]: Dave has pulled off one of these with the LOHAC Stock Exchange. [[Beyond the Impossible|Rather Spectacularly]].

** You can never take tense for granted when dealing with {{color|# 2ED73A|The Felt}}.

** "It begins to dawn on you that everything you are about to do may prove to have been a colossal waste of time."

** "this private b0ard will and has already served as a l0g 0f past events f0r future selves t0 rec0rd and a guide 0f future events f0r past selves t0 f0ll0w"<br />"i d0nt kn0w which half 0f its r0le has been 0r will be m0re imp0rtant"

** "i cant wait for future you to future kiss my ass!"<br />"i also cant wait for past you to past drop dead and go to hell, PAST TENSE!!!!!!!! "<br />"when are those things going to happen?? or will have already past/future happened?????"

** Also, discussed [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003543 here] in the main story, during the [[Bad Future]] Rose and Dave have landed themselves in:

{{quote|{{color|red|TG: the thing with time travel is}}

{{color|red|TG: just roll with it and see what happens}}

{{color|red|TG: and above all try not to do anything retarded}} }}

** Another almost when you [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002153 check the Cruxtruder here.]

** Finally done in the album ''Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido'', which features the song ''Chain of Prospit'' with the line "Feeling like you're ''Homestuck''" (emphasis in the song). Said song is basically made of a bunch of shout outs to Acts 1 and 2. However it is not exactly canon.

** As of Jane's [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006022 introduction], she is FORBIDDEN FROM LEAVING THE HOUSE.

* [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]: It's revealed this happened to ''the entire troll race''.

* [[Totally Radical]]: ''GameBro'' magazine ''oozes'' this trope.

{{quote|'''AR''': You are ripping up so many hellaceous shreds this fierceshitty biznasty is getting so deliriously rudebrazen it... Ok you lost the handle on that sentence.}}

* [[The Treachery of Images]]: Alpha Jack Noir ends up locked in a Prospitian jail cell. (Un)fortunately, there's a (crude drawing of a) key right on the floor in front of him.

* [[Transformation Trinket]]: The Queens' rings and Kings' scepters. They only work for Agents though, as they have no effect on humans.

* [[Troll]]: Both literal trolls, [[Trolling Creator|and the Author himself.]]

* [[Tropes for Dummies]]: ''[[Tropes for Dummies|Data Structures for Assholes]]''.

* [[Troper Critical Mass]]: At least by the size of the article and the various other pages, this is probably up there with ''[[The Order of the Stick]]''.

* [[Troubling Unchildlike Behavior]]: All the trolls. All of them.

* [[Two-Headed Coin]]: Terezi has one which, like that of [[Batman|Harvey Dent]], has a scratch on one side.

** Starting in Act 4, the protagonists encounter [[Palette Swap|enemies based on different varieties of grist]]: Chalk Imps, Amber Imps, and so on. The prototypings are also randomly shuffled for each enemy, leading to combinations such as tentacled suit-wearing imps and flying basilisks.

** This continues throughout all of the monster types.

** It seems that [[God Save Us From the Queen|the Black Queen]] enforces this trope, as seen when Jack finds himself forced to wear his much-hated harlequin costume.

** The start of Act 4 uses a similar point-and-click Flash game with John in the "Land of Wind and Shade". This version also allows John to beat the snot out of imps and utilize his sylladex though.

** In story, Sburb quickly transitions from a Sims clone into an RPG.

** Act 6 Act 3 now introduces Myststuck, where Jane's planet is introduced and explored through the medium of a Myst style point and click minigame, complete with puzzles to solve.

* [[Unintentionally Unsympathetic]]: In-universe example. [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005927 Dave thinks that Gamzee freaking out over his religion is just another troll.]

** We know them as DAD, MOM, [[Promotion to Parent|BRO]], NANNA, and GRANDPA. BEC does have a name though.

** Most of the Trolls' Lusii as well; only Tinkerbull, Pounce de Leon, Aurthour and Gl'bgolyb are named.

* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Apparently not. The MSPA wiki states as fact anything said by a troll, about the troll species as a whole, even if the character who said so is a known cynic, liar, or [[My Friends and Zoidberg|Gamzee]].

** Except for comedy. Such as [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004092 "We are all completely blown away by this stunning revelation."], or [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004221 "For that matter, what about this young lady? What is HER deal??? We'll probably find out about her later too. It will probably be quite some time before you get to be her. It could very well be pages and pages and pages."] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004222 "And pages and pages and pages. Seriously, it could take forever."] or [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/test_index.php?s=6&p=003385 "Anyway, thank goodness for your BARBASOL BOMB. The cooling lather should work its magic in no time..."], as for the [[Running Gag|misattributed celebrity quotes]], [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004886 this book] seems to imply that they may not be misattributed in the [[The Verse|HomestuckVerse]].

* [[The Un-Reveal]]: Lord English, though he eventually is revealed.

** Dreamselves have a whole lot of weirdness surrounding them that has been hinted at a few times but never really explained in any depth.

** He's so fond of it it'd be easier to list the aversions. [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005602 Like this one.]

** You know if you ever hit someone with a tome bigger than your torso and almost as heavy, it probably ''would'' sound something like ''"Sassacre!"''

** Any [[Grandfather Paradox]] will cause this to the [[Alternate Timeline]] it creates, as [[The Multiverse|Paradox Space]] slates any [[Alternate Timeline]] to [[Ret-Gone|temporal erasure.]]

** Allying yourself with [[The Starscream|Jack Noir]] is a viable strategy when you're trying to dispose of the [[Dual Boss|Black]] [[Authority Equals Asskicking|Queen]]. Letting [[Omnicidal Maniac|Jack]] take the Black Queen's ring for himself is not.

*** Later, we learn this is exactly what will happen in the B2 (Alpha) Session.

* [[Unwinnable By Mistake]]: And a mistake by Karkat, of all people, before the game even started. Turns out him screwing up the creation of Billious Slick, the next universe, gave him cancer. The cancer manifested as a series of unfortunate events. The cancer is Jack Noir.

* [[Unwinnable by Design]]: And then a pissed-off, sober Gamzee made that cancer ''terminal''.

** And now it turns out that the post-Scratch Earth session is this because of the [[Timey-Wimey Ball]] and [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy|Self Fulfilling Prophecies]]. Skaia knows that the kids won't prototype their Kernelsprites before entering the Medium, so there is no mechanism for them to do so.

* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: The ''entire playable cast'', Jack Noir included. Their combined actions end up creating the Green Sun when most were trying to destroy it. The ones not trying to destroy it didn't even realize what was going on.

** Everything. All the time. And then [[Beyond the Impossible|eleven becomes the new one, and then THAT gets turned to eleven...]]

** Andrew himself commented on this, saying that [[Problem Sleuth]]'s ending is something he'd consider a regular panel now.

 

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