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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]].

* [[Evil Genius]]: The City tends to attract a lot of these, many of them also [[Mad Scientist]]s.

* [[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.}}

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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!}}