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* [[Watsonian Versus Doylist]]: The fandom often invokes literary tropes like [[Plot Armor]] and the like, trying to predict where the plot will go next. They often fail.
* [[We Have Those, Too]]: Constant comparison between the humans and trolls leads to a bit of these.
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* [[Webcomic Time]]: [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003549 An anniversary update page] made it clear that not even a day has passed since the beginning of the comic. It's still April 13th. Although 13 days later than April 1st is April 14th. Which would fit with the first pesterlog occurring at 4.13PM in John's timezone, and the approximate number of hours between then and Dave's medium entry... [[Webcomic Time]] still definitely applies though.
** The Trolls to a lesser extent, as we are treated to 25 days' worth of events over the course of 3 months.
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Magic 8 ball: Not exactly. }}
** Act Five Act Two takes place over the course of around 24 hours (the span of the Reckoning) on the kids' end and ten hours on the trolls'. It came out over the course of more than a year, from 9/19/10 to [[Arc Number|10/25]]/11.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: The end of each act delivers a pretty big wham, even if you know ''something's'' coming. The beginning of the next act usually does too. And there are lots of others in the middle. [[Wham! Episode/Web Comics/Homestuck|Has the honor of being the first work to get its own Wham Episode page.]]
* [[Wham! Line]]: Many, see the section on the [[Wham! Line]] page. [http://www.formspring.me/mspadventures/q/154147870025488514 Hussie weighs in on this trope here]{{Dead link}}
* [[What Could Have Been]]: After it became apparent that doing the adventure entirely in Flash would be impractical, Andrew considered scrapping the Homestuck concept entirely and making a Flash-free Midnight Crew adventure.
** In-story, the trolls' famous ancestors were what "our" trolls would've been had if they A) weren't so darn human (Vriska says that working together isn't natural and what probably messed up their session so badly) and B) weren't screwed over by a reality warping game: Vriska's ancestor Marquise Mindfang was a pirate queen, Eridan's ruled the seas, Gamzee's was Subjugglator and Grand Highblood, Terezi's was a brilliant young legislacerator, Feferi's was the empress of all trolldom, etc.
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** Wait, this is a [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003109 BULL PENIS CANE?]
** [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004723 Gamzee: ENGAGE HERO MODE.]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130921205349/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005579 All: BEHOLD GLORY OF ZILLYHOO.]
** [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006194 "You seriously never thought you would live to see this achievement unlocked. It almost feels like cheating."] It's for introducing actual face-to-face dialogue, without any gimmicks attached.
* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: The trolls are each associated with a zodiac sign. The kids each have an element. Everyone has a DNA pair. And none of it matters.
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** What happened to the Troll session's White Queen? All we know is her ring was destroyed.
* [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?|What Is This Thing You Call Friendship]]
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** Trolls consider friendship a disease. They also use the same word for "friend" as "enemy."
*** Which leads inevitably to the question of how seriously one should take that statement, since it was said in a conversation between two trolls; if we assume that the statement is true, then it couldn't have been made in the first place because trolls wouldn't understand the distinction.
* [[Where It All Began]]: After the Scratch, the story is visibly shown rewinding, back to the first panel of John's introduction, and then a fade to white. No surprise, considering [[Reset Button|the nature of the Scratch]]. The beginning of the next Act is then very similar to Act 1, with the first panel extremely similar to John's introduction.
* [[Which Me?]]: As lampshaded by Rose & Dave...
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* [[While Rome Burns]]: While the city is being destroyed by a meteor shower, Dave and his bro head up to the roof of their high rise to have an epic showdown for no apparent reason beyond [[Rule of Cool]]. Still, given how [[Genre Savvy]] they are, and their love of irony, they're probably aware of it. Earlier, Rose plays a haunting violin refrain during the countdown to the destruction of John's house. The game sarcastically compliments the player's time management skills. Dave also seems perfectly fine continuing to update his web comic, even though shit is getting pretty damn real, and the fact that the Internet is basically gone.
** Almost everybody who is faced with a countdown timer at any point wastes some of that countdown doing something silly, but the all-time, unsurpassable king-- no you ''hate kings'' --'''mayor''' of this trope is Wayward Vagabond, who wastes ''four hours'' playing with his cans during a countdown and then scrambles around with the fear of death in him during the last [[Arc Number|four minutes and thirteen seconds]].
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* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: After the Empress takes over Beta-2 Earth on 3-11 she does everything possible to make humanity more like trolls, with disastrous results -- lusii don't care for baby humans (although some find them tasty); human blood isn't easily recolored with chemicals; because she thinks human reproduction is disgusting she sends subliminal messages to stop procreating, but it seems humans can't simply do whatever trolls do with buckets (especially if their nemesis is watching) -- and when she tried to recreate the troll race they were instantly killed by her pet horrorterror. Ultimately The Empress was just really, desperately lonely for her own kind.
* [[Word of God]]: Frequently, on his [https://web.archive.org/web/20111014095807/http://www.formspring.me/mspadventures formspring].
** Andrew: "Anyone who doesn't like [Vriska's] outfit is the dumbest kind of terrible."
** [[Word of Dante]]: A lot of people are taking the inclusion of "The Thirteenth Hour", the theme for [[Sixth Ranger|UU, the hypothetical Ophiuchus troll]], on the Alternia album as a reason to persist with the theory that he/she exists.
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*** Equius is initially portrayed as pretty much ''the'' strongest of the trolls; his trip through Hivebent is shown as being almost effortless, even as a lowest-level player. He can ruin dudes in one punch, strongjump through gates without having to build his hive, and protects Nepeta almost without trying. When Equius confronts Gamzee, Gamzee uses several methods both physical and mental to dominate Equius completely, in order to show just how dangerous Gamzee is off the sopor slime. Then again, he wanted to die at the hands of a troll of higher blood than him, so he didn't even fight as he let Gamzee strangle him. In fact, he was smiling the whole time.
*** Sollux possesses telekinetic powers so potent, particularly from his eye-beams, that he doesn't even need to bother with a Strife Specibus, because his teek powers will always be better; he uses them to fling ''meteors'' at the Black King during the Hivebent Reckoning, after all, and he fought Eridan to a standstill in a one-on-one duel while Eridan was wielding his best-in-class weapon. Kanaya is also no slouch in the fightin' department, and famously ''[[Chainsaw Good|uses a chainsaw]]'' as her primary weapon. Once Eridan obtained the White Wand of Science, Eridan KO'd and ''blinded'' Sollux, crippling his eye-beam powers (among other things) and killed Kanaya outright without even taking a scratch, and required ''one shot each'' to accomplish this.
* [[A World Half Full]]: The human population has been reduced to single figures, the destruction of sentient species is apparently standard multiversal policy, and those that remain seem doomed to failure... but hey, that's no reason to stop trying, right? In fact, Homestuck in general (much like [[
* [[World Limited to the Plot]]: The world outside of the main characters' lives appears almost desolate. None of them seem to have any other friends apart from themselves and characters on the periphery of their interpersonal interactions (their guardians) appear almost vacant and robotic. And they're not really [[Angst? What Angst?|very affected]] by Earth's imminent and unavoidable destruction either. On the other hand, there are cases where we do have a glimpse outside the plot, with current events like how [[Barack Obama]] is the president, and other people completely irrelevant to the plot, like the [[Twitter|Serious Business]] and [[GameFAQs]] users, are still shown to actually exist, even if they are never shown. We also see maps of the entire planet, and the plot does, in fact, make an [[Stealth Pun|impact]] in places irrelevant to the main characters.
* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: You slay them all with your [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003195 RAPIER WIT].
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* [[Write Back to the Future]]: Jade transporting her birthday present to "MR MAYOR!♥" in the future.
* [[Writing Around Trademarks]]: Averted, especially with Betty Crocker.
* [[X Meets Y]]: Homestuck was conceived as ''[[
* [[Yin-Yang Bomb]] '''THE TUMOR''', in a [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005559 literal sense]. In addition, the actual reaction taking place is the ''simultaneous destruction of two universes.'' The reaction actually creates the Green Sun, which was earlier said to mass at 'two universes.
* [[You All Look Familiar]]: The Salamanders in the Land of Wind and Shade, except for the mushroom farmer, Crumplehat, and the secret wizard. Also applies to all incipisphere inhabitants in different sessions.
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* [[You Taste Delicious]]: While we haven't seen her doing any actual licking of the characters (since the vast majority of the character interactions are through an instant messaging system), Terezi makes quite a few references to this. However, it's later subverted when we find out she's actually blind, and uses taste and smell to "see" colors. She describes a handful of the other trolls' blood as tasting/smelling like some sort of food. Examples include chocolate (Tavros), mustard (Sollux; his eyes are "appleberry blast"), grape jelly (Gamzee) and cherry (Karkat).
* [[Your Approval Fills Me with Shame]]: Jake praising his ''"friend"'' Jane's advice on his [[UST]] with Dirk.
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* [[Your Mind Makes It Real]]: The afterlife is like this, with the user able to manipulate their dream bubbles to recall past events or conjure things at will.
* [[Your Normal Is Our Taboo]]: Buckets. Also, it's considered pretty bizarre for a troll to be raised by a member of his or her own species instead of a lusus. Inverted with the trolls wondering why incest and sexual preference is even a thing to humans.
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