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* [[Action Bomb]]: [http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/whumpling.htm A] [http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/whumplet.htm fair] [http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/whumplord.htm# few].

** {{spoiler|Further, ARE has discovered that its own AI is a crapshoot, as several of its Celestial Engines have developed odd quirks that ARE finds really weird, ranging from the merely weird- Engines assigning genders to themselves- to the worrisome- like survivor guilt.}}

* [[The Alliance]]: Wreathe's trying to start one in the human nations. Mortasheen can do the same, and not just with the human nations!

* [[Aliens and Monsters]]: The "Unknown" class makes up the aliens, everything else is monsters. Unknown are fantastically odd monsters in the game, capable of tons of status effects, but not very heavy on the damage... except for the [[The Big Guy|Meteor Series]], who reverse the trend.

** Wreathe considers Mortasheen citizens this.

* [[An Ice Person]]- This power, listed as the Attack Type Cold, is rare, yet not totally unknown. In-game, Cold damage functions as the equivalent of a Neutral damage type, only being resisted by one Class of monsters, though doing extra to Botanicals.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Several monsters are like this, and while they tend to be awesome, awesome battlers, they can prove to be more trouble than they're worth. The Cockatross, who is based on a ''chicken'', is one of the best examples; it's so [[Ax Crazy]] it attacks and eats its own kind!

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Dr. Faceless, who is a giant psionic collective of floating brains, is this trope personified; one of, if not the, smartest beings in the world, Dr. Faceless is also a Holder ''and'' a general, and the only one of Mortasheen's would-be military leaders to have gotten even close to Wreathe itself. Mortasheen's general impression of Wreathe, which is as a dome-like "turtle" in the north, are based on the good doctor's eyewitness accounts.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Wreathe's people are genuinely nice... unless you're not human. In monsters, Doomboros fits this best, though it's more Beware the Coward; normally terrified, if someone harms a master the Doomboros truly loves, it'll flip out and become nearly unstoppable.

* [[The Blank]]: [http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/goza.htm Goza] start out like this, but have a biologically programmed urge to make their own faces through self-mutilation.

* [[Bribing Your Way to Victory]]: Laverne loves doing this, and in Mortasheen itself, it's considered a totally valid method of advancement.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Humanity! Also deconstructed; the main reason Wreathe is so dangerous is because the humans there are so sick of getting kicked around. The culture there is based on both vengeance against the entire world and utopian society. {{spoiler|Wreathe was secretly started by a supercomputer in Wreathe, which named itself ARE, because it loved humanity and hated seeing it suffer so.}}

* [[Cloning Blues]]: Averted. Mortasheen views clones as the same person as the original, which is good, because it's teleportation and resurrection systems both rely on quick cloning. So most people in Mortasheen are, in fact, clones. But they still consider themselves to be the original, because they are such a perfect copy. Culturally, it's no more interesting- or looked down upon- than someone drinking tea. Wreathe, meanwhile, finds this horrifying, and refuses to use clones no matter what.

* [[Confusion Fu]]: a Harlequeen seems to act completely randomly, but her random actions always yield brilliant results.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Dolfury's backstory.

* [[Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor]]: The entire Joker class, while not necessarily evil, seems to consider their horrible abilities nothing short of hilarious.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Used in two ways, one straight, one a variant. Wreathe uses the straight variant, hating all non-humans. Mortasheen, meanwhile, is non-racist- racism being a hilariously inappropriate concept in a city where people change bodies like others change clothes- but they do hate Engineers, whose use of computers and cybernetics makes them seem too close to Wreathe for most people to be comfortable with them.

* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: Medama is Japan, past, present, and future; samurai borg and dueling sit alongside giant robots and other modern conveniences. Otherwise averted; Wreathe, while it resembles many future dystopia/utopia societies, has no direct analogue in the real world, and Mortasheen is even more out there. Cannontown, if you ''really'' stretched it, could be based on American militarism, but are more actively based on survivalist types. [[Crapsack World|Considering where they live, survivalism is not a bad strategy.]]

* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: Not only do they exist, they happen every day to lots of undeserving people- but don't worry about that, it's just how it goes! (skipping noises)

* [[Hollywood Acid]]: The Damage Type Acid is ''not'' this- it covers all potential chemical attacks, not just acidic assault. Bases, potent chemicals that cause hallucinations, and other such things are part of the "Acid" Damage Type. [[Word of God|We called it Acid because it sounded cool]].

* [[Humongous Mecha]]: Medama has a metric crapload of these, from relatively tiny buildings that become giant spiders, to the really big guns: each island has its own unique defender robot that is leagues stronger than almost anything else in the setting. Based on various insects, they not only function as military defense, but they also determine the political structure, battling it out every so many years to determine which island leads the nation. They are also popular merchandise icons, too.

** [[Lethal Joke Character]]: Doomboros become this; normally just a scared, if nearly invulnerable, monster whose only real advantage is that it causes Stunning, if its master drops below half health, it flips out and gains powerful attacks. Further, Garbage monsters can randomly become the Garbage Beasts, superpowered monsters that are some of the best in the game.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: The murder of that poor Chainsaw Kid. [[Word of God|Just as planned!]]

* [[Knight Templar]]: '''WREATHE.'''

* [[Lightning Can Do Anything]]: It can if you're an Electrician, at any rate. Also the name of one of their Discoveries.

* [[Lovecraftian Superpower]]: Pretty much all the monsters.

* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: {{spoiler|ARE is only so driven, determined, evil and, frankly, genocidal because it fell in complete and total love with humanity from reading its writings and works, then believed that humanity was wiped out, breaking its heart. Finding out that humans still existed has put ARE into Knight Templar mode, determined to protect what it loves.}}

* [[Mons]]: with Mad Science!

* [[Monster Clown]]: The "Joker" class.

* [[Spider Tank]]: Your house can become this, [[Rule of Three|with expense]].

* [[Super Prototype]]: Played with. {{spoiler|The Celestial Engines are all [[Super Prototype]] versions of the normal Purifiers, but only in the sense of inspiring ARE to build the Purifiers. The Engines themselves are unique machines, the Purifiers are only inspired by them, not based. ARE, if it actually ''did'' develop [[Super Prototype]] robots, would simply keep producing them, not use an inferior version.}}

* [[Synchronized Swarming]]: Swarm attacks, which do this, are some of the best in the game. Why? Because not only do they hit every opponent in every Part, but they also hit mad scientists, even if they are protected by their monsters!

* [[Tank Goodness]]: CannonTown. It's made up of tanks so large that some have ''entire natural parks'' on top of them, along with more practical things like giant drills to dig for water and farms. It's one of the last remaining human civilizations left on the planet, too, and probably the strongest outside Medama and Wreathe.

 

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