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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.

* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: [[G La DOS]].

* [[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 Timeline]]: What occurs in the crack community is completely non-canon from the rest of the game, but has somewhat its own separate (and hilarious) continuity, and is often referred to as "Labocanon". This crack canon does have less actual continuity to it to, for obvious reasons.

** Interestingly, unlike most games, the crack-community's "canon" is actually has prominent and evolving characterization, albeit one that is aware of the goings-on in the main game. Chances are, if one of the Ink City characters shows up in [[Dear Mun]], the version you're speaking to is "Labocanon" (due to the meta nature). Of course, for some characters ([[No Fourth Wall|Deadpool]] and [[Ren and Stimpy|Ren]] come to mind) the difference is almost completely nonexistent.

* [[Fourth Wall]]: Located in the forest; touching it leads to '''BAD THINGS'''.

** {{spoiler|Caroline}} is poised to go through this as well, once she learns the [[Awful Truth]].

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

* [[Go Mad From the Revelation]]: [[Robotomy|Thrasher]] throughout the me1TD0WN event.

** Ichigo does this to Swindle when she tells him about the [[Ink City/Recap/S2 World Split|World Split]], unaware that he's asking about it because Megatron wants ''him'' to break the Well.

* [[Odd Couple]]: Young, optimistic and cheerful [[Fallout: New Vegas|Courier]] Priscilla loyally works for and is highly respectful towards the worldly, uptight and business-minded Mr. House.

** Some examples? [[Tangled|Flynn]] and [[Danny Phantom|Dani]], [[Ace Attorney|Phoenix]] and [[Regular Show|Rigby]], and [[Franken Fran|Fran]] and [[Ren and Stimpy|Ren]].

** There's also [[Haruhi Suzumiya|Yuki Nagato]] and [[Scott Pilgrim|Knives Chau.]]

* [[Playing Both Sides]]: [[Transformers Animated|Swindle]], being a [[Con Artist]], started trying this right away. However, the Decepticons and Autobots in Ink City are mostly very different than the ones he's used to, putting him over his head very swiftly.

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|Poking The Fourth Wall]]: What happens when you go too far out into the forest or ocean.

** And now, Mordecai is starting to realize the bounds of reality (while Yakko [[No Fourth Wall|smashes right through them.]])

** And then there's [[Deadpool]], who seems to be aware that he's a character in an online RPG.

* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: [[Katamari Damacy|Ichigo]] is a big believer in "Noblesse oblige", thanks to how she was raised and the role she plays back home. Someone misusing or abusing whatever power they have is a major [[Berserk Button]] for her.

* [[Running Gag]]: All the [[9|stitchpunks]] react poorly to a single line on the Sign: "7) There is no number 7." Leads to a [[Brick Joke]] when the twins steal the Sign so they can remove that line and Seven shows up immediately.

* [[Scarf of Asskicking]]: Legato.

* [[Secret Keeper]]: Several characters, as they've learned more about the nature of the City, have chosen to uphold the masquerade.

** [[Pokémon Black and White|Shiro]] decided to explore this trope by asking why the people would end up murdering someone. The answers were quite...varied, to say the least.

** Berri, on the other hand, [[Cute but Psycho|took a different route]] and decided that, since [[Death Is Cheap]], it's far better to lock someone in [[And I Must Scream|a fate far worse than death]].

* [[Take Over the City]]: A common goal of the more evil residents, which tends to be [[Lampshaded]] by the savvier residents. Anyone publically declaring their intent to do so gets soundly mocked.

* [[Taking You with Me]]: [[Robotomy|Thrasher]] attempts this on {{spoiler|the Ink Well. [[Gone Horribly Right|It works, causing the massive tremor that was likely the catalyst of World Split.]]}}

* [[Tempting Fate]]: Mordecai and Benson were ''really'' asking for it in the beginning of Log #3...

** Konata accidentally does this regarding {{spoiler|the broken Ink Well}}, saying "What's the worst that could happen?" [[One of Us|Immediately realizing her mistake]], [[Oh Crap|she reacts accordingly]].

* [[Villain with Good Publicity]]: Trevor [[Tautological Templar|does not consider himself a villain]], and [[0% Approval Rating|is heavily disliked]] by most citizens who are aware of his plans; however, ''new'' residents meeting him for the first time often come away with a good impression.

** Rigby tried to fix this by showing off what Trevor had done to him and Yakko. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|It got the attention of]] [[It Got Worse|the wrong kind of people]].

* [[We Can Rule Together]]: After [[Wham! Episode|Event #1]], Heloise tries this on Yakko.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: [[Aeon Flux|Trevor]] sees himself as this. [[Mind Rape|His preferred methods]], however, don't exactly endear him to anyone...