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The premise is initially similar to that of other [[Mega Crossover]] games; [[Ontological Mystery|Characters from various canons suddenly find themselves in the strange and bizarre "Ink City" after crawling out of a large ink well in the center of town]], and are forced to co-exist with everyone else who also happened to be brought here... peacefully or otherwise. A unique element of the City itself however is that it's made of up buildings from each of the character's worlds. When a character enters the City, they bring with them a building relating to them from the place they come from, such as their house or place of work.

 

Has a [[Ink City/Recap|Recap]] page.

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* [[Aborted Declaration of Love]]: Cave Johnson does this towards Caroline, after he gets her a little drunk.

** A more meta example: take a [[Cute but Psycho]] pink pokémon with the power to shapechange, and give it [[Split Personality|multiple personalities]]. Where's the [http://rpdictionary.wikia.com/wiki/PB PB] for her human form come from? [[Elfen Lied|Why, the anime with]] [[Cute but Psycho]] [[Elfen Lied|girls with]] [[Split Personality|multiple personalities]] [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|and pink hair]]!

* [[Addressing the Player|Addressing The Mun]]: [[1/0|Petitus]] does this all the time.

* [[All the Myriad Ways]]: Caroline justifies her decision to aid Starscream with a variation on this. Sure, betraying Optimus Prime to him will surely cause the deaths of millions of innocents upon his return home... but that's not ''her'' universe, so what does that matter to her?

* [[Alternate Continuity]]: The [[Transformers]] cast has representatives from [[Transformers Generation 1|Gen 1]], [[Transformers Generation One Dreamwave|the G1 Dreamwave comics]], [[Transformers Animated|Animated]], [[Transformers Prime|Prime]], and [[Transformers: Shattered Glass|Shattered Glass]]. Including [[One Steve Limit|four Starscreams]].

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Him versus Doctor Norrington.

* [[Cute and Psycho]]: [[Pokémon|Berri]], having been completely broken back home, has become this as a result. What she did to Trevor just proves it.

* [[Damned By Faint Praise]]: Some of the things the voice in Hely's head could be interpreted this way, such as "'''You've made this City what it is!'''"

* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: Yakko, Audrey II, and a few others.

* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: [[Katamari Damacy|Ichigo]] is quick to tell others that she's a Royal Cousin, emphasizing the royalty aspect. There's also Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana-Fana-Bo-Besca the Third, aka 'Dot'.

* [[Cute Kitten]]: [[Fairly Oddparents|Cupid]] turned [[Lackadaisy|Mordecai]] into a kitten. And promptly ''forgot about it'', much to Mordecai's dismay.

* [[The Evils of Free Will]]: Trevor wishes to eliminate this and transform Ink City into New Bregna. [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|All for their own good]], [[Sarcasm Mode|of course]].

* [[Expy]]: The Inky Mayor is very often compared to [[Superjail|The Warden]]. His human form just adds to this.

* [[Eyeless Face]]: {{spoiler|The Mayor's Consort}}.

* [[Foe Yay]]: Heloise and Lucius, in the crack community especially.

* [[For Science!]] [[For the Evulz|and Evulz]]: Heloise's motivation for doing what she does.

** What Megatron did to Caroline was pretty much to prove to Ink City how evil he is.

* [[Four Is Death]]: Openly, blatantly referenced by Berri when her fourth post to the community involves {{spoiler|displaying Trevor in a paralyzed but still-living [[And I Must Scream]] state.}}

* [[Gentle Giant]]: Several among the Transformers Cast. [[Transformers: Shattered Glass|SG Megatron]], [[Transformers: Shattered Glass|SG Starscream]], [[Transformers Generation 1|Skyfire]], and [[Transformers Prime|TFP Optimus Prime]] come to mind

* [[A God Am I]]: Trevor invokes this a lot.

** [[Doomed by Canon]]: A bit of an odd case; [[Robotomy|Thrasher's]] madness-inducing revelation is becoming aware of his canon's status as a [[Screwed by the Network|cancelled show]] that [[Too Good to Last|likely won't see any sort of revival]] in the history of ''ever'', and is a large part of [[Break the Cutie|what leads to]] his [[Megaton Punch|city]]-[[Brick Break|shattering]] [[Arc Words|me1td0wn]].

** [[Word of God]] says this is what happened to Bass after he {{spoiler|absorbed part of the Mayor's [[Fourth Wall Observer]] powers, leading him to [[Hearing Voices|hear unidentified voices]].}} The madness made him [[Oh Crap|more violent than usual]]. This lasted until becoming Crmsn's [[Living Shadow]] during the Halloween event ''forced'' him into close contact with people he'd otherwise been avoiding. This acted as something of a weird [[Sanity Ball]] dropped into his lap, and he's been improving ever since, albeit still dealing with stress from what had happened. Of course, with renewed contact with the wall, [[It Got Worse|things got worse]].

* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Trevor frequently engages in these just in everyday conversation.

* [[Has Two Daddies]]: Legato. Starscream and Soundwave have also formed an odd family unit with Jetstorm.

** Heloise also starts hearing voices after the World Split is fixed; its comments don't bode well for her future...

* [[The Heartless]]: {{spoiler|The Inky Mayor has the power to summon hoards of monstrous black Ink creatures, actually somewhat similar in appearance to the original Heartless.}}

** Bass has somewhat of a minor one after {{spoiler|[[Oh Crap|tagging the wall through Berri]]}}. It would have been more serious if he hadn't forcibly pushed it aside for other priorities, but a full-blown one is certainly on the horizon.

* [[Hidden Elf Village]]: One ''tries'' to run the Cathedral like this, ordering the other stitchpunks to stay inside and never use their communicators. It doesn't work.

** Prior to this, Trevor managed to hurt Rigby by showing Phoenix a video of {{spoiler|Rigby's revenge killing}} and damaging his friendship with the lawyer. Rigby eventually gets his revenge by broadcasting footage of what led up to Trevor's hoisting above.

** Trevor is a magnet for these; Berri takes the first example and throws in a dash of [[Mad Science]] by {{spoiler|pumping him full of paralytic and opening up his chest}}.

* [[Humanoid Abomination]]: {{spoiler|The Mayor's Consort is essentially a mix between an attractive young lady and an Ink Monster.}}

** Subverted by [[Sam and Max Freelance Police|Doctor Norrington]], who's an [[Eldritch Abomination|Elder God]] in disguise.

* [[I Am Not Weasel]]: Rigby is constantly confused for a rodent. Ren has the same basic problem.

* [[If You're So Evil Eat This Kitten]]: [[Transformers Prime|Megatron]] demanded that [[Transformers Animated|Swindle]] prove his loyalty by finding a way to destroy the Ink Well and its regeneration abilities. Swindle's been trying to [[Take a Third Option]] and weasel out of it without making himself a target in the process.

* [[Ignored Expert]]: {{spoiler|Mordecai to Benson in Log #3}}

* [[Implausible Deniability]]: Trevor attempting to convince Optimus Prime that despite all evidence to the contrary, he didn't kidnap Aisling.

* [[Innocent Innuendo]]: Innuendo tends to fly right over Ichigo's head, while Dot is savvy enough to recognize, lampshade and encourage it. This backfired on the Warner sister when Ichi's not understanding [[Compensating for Something|what Oscar Mayor could be compensating for]] led down a ''very'' awkward road.

** Trevor also likes to use this to 'justify' his behavior by claiming those who stand against him are insane, violent creatures.

* [[Intellectual Animal]]: The city has quite a few, although not all of them are standard Earth animals; the [[Pokémon]] are a good example.

* [[Loony Friends Improve Your Personality]]: Bass was on this road back home, which was interrupted when he decided to put himself on a [[Long Bus Trip]]. Castmates arriving in the city have put this right back on track.

** In fact, this trope in general could be said of a few people around.

* [[Man Hug]]: [[Regular Show|Don]] sure loves his sugar.

** [[Persona 4|Yosuke and Souji]] share one when the latter arrives, much to Seta's surprise.

* [[Master of Delusion]]: A number of times.

* [[Medium Awareness]]: Yakko, Wakko and Dot still have this, as do Deadpool and Petitius.

* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: Another humorous misunderstanding has Heloise take Mordecai's [[Embarrassing Nickname]] to the next level.

* [[Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal]]: Caroline was pretty dedicated to helping the Decepticons until Megatron showed up. How he treated her resulted in her rethinking which side of the Cybertorian war she's on.

* [[Name's the Same]]: [[Regular Show|Mordecai]] and [[Lackadaisy|Mordecai]]. Has led to the players [[Fan Nickname|referring to them as]] "Birdecai" and "Mordecat", respectively.

* [[Nice Guy]]: Crmsn is one of these in the [[Troubled but Cute]] way, complete with a dose of [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] and [[Broken Hero]]-ness to judge by a recent thread.

* [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]: When Yakko, Rigby and Crmsn tried to rescue Trevor from [[A Fate Worse Than Death]], their reward was {{spoiler|getting blown up by Bass}}.

** Belldandy helps Trevor repair his building, unaware it was damaged by Optimus Prime breaking Aisling out. Trevor immediately starts plotting to run experiments on ''her'' instead.

** Killer robot [[Robotomy|Thrasher]] and bad luck magnet [[Ruby Gloom|Misery]]. He offers to be her bodyguard.

** [[Mega Man Battle Network|Bass]] and [[Pokémon Black and White|Shiro]] seem to be heading down this path.

** [[The Secret of Kells|Aisling]] and [[Transformers Prime|Optimus Prime]].

** In crack canons, [[Yu-Gi-Oh!|Yami Bakura]] and [[Powerpuff Girls|Him]] almost always end up in one of these.

* [[Order Versus Chaos]]: The reason why [[Sam and Max Freelance Police|Dr. Norrington]] and [[Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas|Eris]] aren't particularly fond of one another - he's Order while she's Chaos.

* [[Parasol of Prettiness]]: [[Ace Attorney|Dahlia]]. Ichigo also likes to use paper drink umbrellas like this.

** Souji and Tai Lung get into a bout of this when Tai Lung answers Souji's question about weapons just to imply he's weak for wanting one instead of learning Kung Fu.

* [[Pay Evil Unto Evil]]: Anyone victimized by {{spoiler|Heloise}} tends to come to this conclusion pretty quickly.

* [[Speak in Unison]]: Dot and Ichi have a tendency to skirt ''very close'' to this, saying ''almost'' the exact same thing at nearly the same time.

* [[Supreme Chef]]: Doctor Chipotle Junior, in a humorous contrast to [[Lethal Chef]] Heloise.

* [[Strapped to An Operating Table]]: {{spoiler|Heloise's preferred form of restraint.}}

* [[Sympathetic Murderer]]: Explored. If somebody murdered ''you'', does that give you the right to murder ''them'' in return and consider it a [[Karmic Death]] for an [[Asshole Victim]]? Or will that, in turn, give ''them'' the right to kill ''you'' again?

* [[Thou Shall Not Kill]]: Death may be cheap, but Phoenix doesn't care for the idea of going around ''killing'' others anyway, short of self-defense.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Trevor attempting to justify [[And I Must Scream|his]] [[Cold-Blooded Torture|plans]] for Yakko... to Wakko.

{{quote|'''Mordecai''': {{spoiler|[[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|This is for ripping my heart out, you bitch.]]}}

'''Veser''': {{spoiler|FUCK YOU, CTHULHU!}}

* [[Treacherous Advisor]]: Tai Lung takes the Young Tigress on as his pupil. How straight he plays this remains to be seen, but considering her relationship with his estranged master, Shifu...

** [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|The Tengu Shredder]] was this to Saft, Leonardo, and Aisling.

* [[Victoria's Secret Compartment]]: When Caroline leaves Cave's service, she takes a hard drive with her, carrying it here. This doesn't stop Cave from reaching right in to try and reclaim it.

* [["The Villain Sucks" Song]]: Yakko and Rigby's [http://ink-logs.livejournal.com/20131.html?thread=1925283#t1925283 Pretty Fly (For a Toon Guy)], mocking Trevor to his face.

** In general this is really common, see [[Put on a Bus]] above.

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: Discussed between [[Fallout: New Vegas|Priscilla and Mr. House]], after Priscilla [[Unwilling Roboticisation|unwillingly becomes a Securitron with a unique AI]] due to [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Discord]]'s Halloween antics.

* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: Being in the City essentially causes indirect immortality. Not everyone is a fan of this.

* [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]: During the [[Victoria's Secret Compartment]] incident, Caroline gets Optimus Prime's attention and sympathy with this. Cave does NOT [[Not Helping Your Case|help his case one bit]].