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{{quote|''I run into a radio shack and grab all the N-Gages. Then I run into the bathroom.''|Aitruis, at the beginning of Mall Fight 1 on [[The Escapist]].}}

 

 

The main location of the game is an endless mall which contains everything you could ever imagine. Yes, even that. That too. [[Overly Long Gag|Yes, but you'd have to look for that one for a while.]] The goal is to kill [[Anyone Can Die|everyone]] you see with [[Improvised Weapon|improvised weapons]], customized weapons and the such. Due to the many things one can do in the Mall, it is not a rarity that various matters of plot appear, and there has been way enough for Mall Fight to have its own continuity.

In fact, Mall Fight is currently more about the plot than the [[Artifact Title|actual fighting]], which converts the fighting into a break between story arcs.

 

 

== Mall Fight threads ==

* [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/362.334084-Mall-Fight-Now-70-Percent-Plot-Fr-You-know-what-Fucking-forget-it?page=1 Mall Fight 4]

* [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/362.338988-Mall-Fight-Back-To-Basics?page=1 Knife's Mall Fight II]

 

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* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Diamond to Waffles, but its not because he thinks she ugly, {{spoiler|its because she made him kill his parents}}.

** {{spoiler|He overlooks it in Mall Fight 7.}}

* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Main point of the game.

* [[Artifact Title]]: Mall Fight might as well be renamed to Mall altogether, as there has been nearly no fights in the threads for a long while.

** Diablo fills this bill as well, only appearing on Mall Fight 3 as a random drunk ranting about the lack of VODKA.

* [[Aerith and Bob]]: Eric and Connor next to...Tox, Waffles, Ran, Diablo and Knife.

** Especially Eric, who's fondness for "lolis" has gotten him in trouble more than once.

** Diablo does like his VODKA.

* [[Author Catchphrase]]: "You'll wish this was in visual media!"

** "Shit is awesome now!"

** [[Badass Adorable]]: Maddie has been able to hold her own in a fight.

*** As has her successor, Sakura (who is really just Maddie with an actually asian sounding name).

*** The Sixth Wall / Six Remnants Army in its prime years.

** [[Badass Crew]]: The Mall Fighters and their [[Bizarro Universe|Negas]].

** [[Badass Transplant]]: Waffles and his Dalek arm.

** [[Beware the Silly Ones]]: Both Tox and Waffles.

** [[Future Badass]]: The future Mall Fighters.

** [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: Mango, with him being a Killer Robot.

* [[The Bechdel Test]]: ''Barely'' passes.

* [[Benevolent Architecture|Benevolent Respawn]]: You always respawn exactly where there's weapons.

** Needless to say, the two push each others buttons continuously.

* [[Bizarrchitecture]]: A map of the Mall would span a couple of lightyears.

* [[Black Comedy]]: Can dip into this everynow and then.

** "Waffles, did you rape my soon to be wife? I mean that would be fine, then I know she didn't cheat on me."

** Like VODKA.

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: More like [[Up to Eleven|breaking every brick on the wall]].

** The Fourth Wall was even repaired when Tox ret-con'd Mall Fight 3... Only for it to be broken again.

* [[Brick Joke]]: David the Mexican hooker from Connor's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrOOxEcGUYU Wasteland video] will pop up randomly.

* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: Mango, Oh dear god, Mango.

* [[Cloudcuckooland]]: The Mall itself.

* [[Cool Gate]]: The gate to the Plot Mall at the beginning of Mall Fight 3.

* [[Cool Starship]]: The Sky Fortress, a fortress that can literally fly and ''go to space''.

* [[Continuity Reboot]]: Often, and many times the result of a [[Time Paradox]].

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: See The Worf Effect below.

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: {{spoiler|Nega City is full of black buildings and has crashing lightning}} but is a entirely normal city otherwise (Aside from {{spoiler|hanging above the Mall}}).

* [[Dungeon Punk]]: The Mall is more or less this in a nutshell.

* [[Enemy Mine]]: Nega Tox teams up with the Mall Fighters to stop Psycho Eric.

* [[Evil Knockoff]]: Psycho Eric.

* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: Don't let Nega Tox's smile fool you. He will end you in a second if it is needed, and a lot of times even if it isn't.

** [[Big Bad]]: Nega Tox.

*** [[Bigger Bad]]: Nega Tox served as this during Act One of Mall Fight 4 while '''DAAAAAAAARRRRRRK ERIC''' served as the Big Bad. Subverted in the case of the Anti-Monitor, who was foreshadowed to be this, but he was ultimately just a [[Red Herring]] who never even met the Mall Fighters before he was killed by Nega Tox.

*** Mango.

** [[Dark Chick]]: Sister/Nega Saber.

** [[Big Good]]: Tox

** [[The Hero]]: Eric

* [[Gambit Pileup]]: The latest arc, between Nega Tox and Toxter.

* [[Gambit Roulette]]: {{spoiler|Nega Tox planned everything, even him being possessed by Toxter.}}

* [[Gone Horribly Wrong]]: Everything that the Mall Fighters and the NPCs create will go this way, including T.U.R.O.K and Mango.

* [[Great Big Book of Everything]]: The files from the multiple security rooms have been known for making the plot advance more than once.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Subverted with}} Nega Tox. Also, Sister is no longer entirely malicious, and is about as friendly as someone as [[Ax Crazy]] as her can be.

** Diablo is now on the side of the angels after he and Eric destroyed the Mall.

* [[Home Base]]: Mall Fight Offices. Connor and Diablo both had their own personal version they call a lair, but Connor's is just a IT department with a bed, while Diablo's was a more traditional [[Supervillain Lair]] (When they don't get destroyed).

* [[Humongous Mecha]]: In Mall Fight 4, Diablo, Eric, and Ran all had a giant Humongous Mecha fight, mostly using Transformers. Eric also used a suped up Dragonzord to take out Nega Tox, and currantly rides around in the standard model to block Psycho Eric's [[Vampiric Draining]].

* [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]: Subverted. Diablo's [[Mooks]] are deadly accurate.

* [[Improvised Weapon]]: Improvised weaponry is the main point of Mall Fight.

** The Dark Forceuser applies too, first for being an [[Anticlimax Boss]] in Mall Fight 2 and failing to kill the Mall Fighters in Mall Fight 3 ''with fucking aircraft carriers''.

* [[Insistent Terminology]]: His name is not Dark Eric. It's '''DAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRK ERIC'''.

** Even said counterparts have counterparts who have counterparts who have counterparts who have counterparts who have counterparts who have counterparts who have counterparts who have counterparts who have counterparts who have counterparts who have counterparts, etc.

* [[Lost Forever]]: House of (M)all. It was deleted due to severe [[Creator Backlash]] on Eric's part, leaving how the universe went back to normal and how Stephanie appeared unexplained in the next Mall Fight.

* [[Lost Superweapon]]: The Mall has a billion or so in it's vaults.

* [[Lovecraft Lite]]: Dark things lurk beneath the Mall...

** Eric too, in the same vein as [[The Elric Saga|Elric Melnibone.]]

* [[Multinational Team]]: Americans Eric and [[Token Minority|African-American]] Waffles are joined by Australian Knife, French Canadian Tox, and (when he is on their side)Irishmen Diablo.

* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: Somewhat of a [[Running Gag]] with Vanessa.

** Victor.

** Valdez.

** [[Harry Potter|Voldemort]].

** Vsdnrqewnaqfgaonglajnglisaerbgaliwrbgliawhbrgfkawhbfrgvlabhfvliafgbaergareh.

** [[Monty Python's Flying Circus|Venjohann Gambolputty de von Ausfern- schplenden- schlitter- crasscrenbon- fried- digger- dingle- dangle- dongle- dungle- burstein- von- knacker- thrasher- apple- banger- horowitz- ticolensic- grander- knotty- spelltinkle...]]

* [[Nerd Action Hero]]: Pretty much all the fighters.

** When Diablo tried to blow up the Moon to kill the other Mall Fighters, but hit Nega Tox instead.

** Yes, in Mall Fight, dying and going to Hell is considered Non Lethal.

** {{spoiler|Nope. Nega Tox was planning on all of THAT too.}}

* [[Overly Long Name]]: Jim, or Timothy Bartholomew Gonzales Lloyd Martin Olive Kenneth Blair Herman The Third.

** Also notable is the Cube System, a prototype which was abandoned after its reproduction system broke.

* [[Plot Parallel]]: Often used by the Mall Fight Writers to give a meaning to things that happened long ago but don't make sense.

Waffles: That's an odd thing to say to someone about to kill himself. }}

** Made on purpose by Xot before killing Toxter.

Toxter: '''Oh my god that was an awesome li-'''[[Breaking the Fourth Wall|Wait, you just want this to end up on TV Tr-]]*gunshot* }}

* [[Reactor Boss]]: Helped by Tox' [[Fetish]] for reactors.

* [[Readings Are Off the Scale]]: By the time Martin was introduced, the notion of levels was completely distorted into oblivion up to the point where the Mall Fighters' levels were so high they stopped giving a shit about it.

** It didn't help that Tox accidentally raised the level cap to 1,000,000.

*** Subverted when the New Mall caused level inflation to drastically decrease, causing everyone to go back to Level 4.

* [[Relationship Upgrade]]: Eric and Stephanie [[Unresolved Sexual Tension|FINALLY]] become a couple in Mall Fight 7, [[Naruto the Abridged Comedy Spoof Series Show|and they couldn't have done it without the rower]].

* [[The Rival]]: Tox [[Understatement|doesn't like]] Xandus.

* [[Running Gag]]: Nuclear C4, Diablo's lair being destoryed for one reason or another, various kinds of play forts made of things like books and computers, and many, many more.

** Every time someone (Tox, mostly) says the phrase "Cheese it!", Ren casts a spell causing molten cheese to rain all over the place, no matter if he's there or not.

* [[Signature Move]]: Eric's Galactic Hadoken.

** Tox' Binary powers and his [[Saint Seiya|Typheus Ryusei Ken]].

** Mango's [HYPER SENTINEL FORCE!]

* [[Seinfeldian Conversation]]: Conversations about Eric's bad choice in music will span a couple of posts.

* [[Sword Beam]]: One of the Black Blade's abilities.

* [[The Only One]]: The Mall Fighters are, in the end, the only people in the Mall to begin with.

* [[The Worf Effect]]: Nega Tox destroys DC's very own Anti-Monitor just by snapping his fingers the moment he returns, and shortly thereafter murders Tox with barely a fight. Later in that same arc, Eric beats '''DAAAARRRRRK ERIC''' in seconds to show off his new Green Ranger powers that let him fight the same Nega Tox from the previous sentence to a stand still for ten days.

** Diablo, ever since he was briefly the Big Bad, has generally became a better Fighter since.

* [[Troubling Unchildlike Behavior]]: Sakura being Eric's sex friend.

* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Caused by the fact that there is no real GM to Mall Fight, more often than not, 2 Writers will argue about one thing happening or something else happening.

** A notable example is Ran and Eric back in Mall Fight 3 arguing in-thread whether Madilyne died due to a [[Alien|Chestburster]] or not.

* [[Vampiric Draining]]: Psycho Eric.

* [[Weapon of Choice]]:

** Tox' Legendary Katana/[[Alien Soldier|Epsilon]], which was created by the 6 most powerful JRPG fans in existence, but then stolen after the Great Weeaboo Raid of 2XXX, and found by him in a parking garage.

*** Eric now uses the Black Blade, a [[The Elric Saga|Stormbringer]] [[Expy]]

** FPV is known for using both WEAPON ICE FUCK (a sniper rifle which uses ice cubes as ammo) and The Screwknife (a powerdrill with a knife attached to the end)

* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]: Both Sakura and Maddie.

** This trope also applies to Mall Fight's version of Oblivion.

* [[Your Mom]]: Waffles' will make cracks at Tox's Mom for no reason.

 

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