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* ''[[The Cats of Ulthar]]''
* ''[[A Certain Magical Index]]'', ''[[A Certain Scientific Railgun]]'', and ''A Certain Scientific Accelerator''
* ''[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]''
* ''[[Chobits]]''
* ''[[Comic Party]]'' and ''Comic Party Revolution''
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* ''[[Highway Blossoms]]''
* ''[[Homicide: Life on the Street]]''
* ''[[How to Train Your Dragon (animation)|How to Train Your Dragon]]''
* {{spoiler|''[[In Nomine]]''}}
* {{spoiler|''Invasion! [[Squid Girl]]''}}
* ''[[Jack of Kinrowan]]''
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* ''[[Lilo & Stitch (Disney film)|Lilo & Stitch]]''
* ''[[A Little Snow Fairy Sugar]]''
* ''[[Looney Tunes]]''
* ''[[Lucky Star]]''
* ''[[The Mad Scientists' Club]]'' series
* ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]''
* [[Lyrical Nanoha|The ''Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha'' anime, ''Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's'', ''Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Reflection'', and ''Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Detonation'']]
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* [[Norse Mythology]]
* ''[[Risky☆Safety|Omishi Magical Theater: Risky☆Safety]]''
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''
* ''[[Princess Principal]]''
* ''[[Princess Tutu (anime)|Princess Tutu]]''
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* ''[[The Time Tunnel]]''
* ''[[To Sir, With Love]]''
* ''[[Tom Swift|Tom Swift, Jr.]]''
* ''[[The Tonight Show]] Starring Johnny Carson''
* ''[[The Wild Wild West (TV series)|The Wild Wild West]]'' TV series
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* [[I Need a Freaking Drink]]: ''A Little Slice of Heaven on the Gulf'' ends with Kaji and Misato both saying this as a result of Kaji being contacted by HAL 9000.
* [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]]: Mimi Hanyu, because of her background as a theatre major before being possessed by Mimete.
* [[Invoked Trope]]:
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** When [[Sailor Moon|Usagi Tsukino]] learns about [[Fuku Fic]]s, she decides to prank [[Ranma ½|Ranma Saotome]] ''and'' provide entertainment for a birthday party by pretending to recruit him for the Sailor Senshi.
* [["It" Is Dehumanizing]]: Invoked in one item of marginalia in the in-universe book ''So You Just Arrived from a Parallel Universe'': where the book states that "If you meet a self-aware program or android, it's a displacee", [[Robot Girl|Chii]] from ''[[Chobits]]'' has indignantly commented "'It'? I self-identify as female."
* [[It's Quiet... Too Quiet]]: Lampshaded during the story that brought the undines into the setting.
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* [[Lime]]: By writer consensus, this is as far as this story will go in deconstructing sexuality. The line has already been reached.
* [[Literal Genie]]: Sebastian very knowingly and borderline maliciously plays this role when, in response to the Undines of ''[[Aria (manga)|Aria]]'' asking to be sent to Venice, he arranges their transport to [["London, England" Syndrome|Venice, California]] rather than Venezia, Italy.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Over
* [[Log Fic]]: "Some Uncomfortable Questions".
* [[Logging Onto the Fourth Wall]]: Inverted on the project's wiki -- [[Ferris Bueller's Day Off|Ferris Bueller]] has edited several pages and directly addresses the reader in them.
* [[Look Ma, No Plane]]: {{spoiler|When he needed to take a teleporter and a pilot to an aircraft, Accelerator controlled his own and their speed vectors in order to fly beside the plane close enough for the teleporter to get the pilot aboard.}}
* [[Male Gaze]]: Jaune Arc is briefly disgusted with himself in ''Everyone's a Critic'' when he follows Pyrrha outside after she watches her animated counterpart die, and finds his first thought when he gets there is how nice her butt looks in the jeans she's wearing.
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* [[Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond]]: The mages, magical girls, [[Shout-Out|aliens, time travelers, sliders or espers]] who have found themselves in the setting. The overwhelming majority keep their abilities secret, either to blend in more easily or to keep them as hidden advantages (or for both reasons).
* [[Numerical Theme Naming]]: The first four Misaka Sisters seen in the story took personal names based on the final digit of their serial numbers, although one of them was quickly renamed when Mihoshi misheard the name.
* [[Oh Crap, There Are Fanfics of Us]]: Many if not most of the displacees end up surprised or worried about the existence of fanfic about them. (A few are from works that are too new to have been released in Refuge.) Some displacees are known to read stories about themselves.
** From Ranma Saotome's point of view, [[It Gets Worse]]; he ''hates'' the entire idea of [[Fuku Fic]]s.
* [[Old Shame]]: In ''Everyone's a Critic'', Satan suggests that the ''[[Casey and Andy]]'' web comic is this for Andy.
* [[Omniglot]]:
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* [[Pals with Jesus]]: It's common for a residence building to have a tutelary, and in some cases the kami (or demon) visits often enough that they're on a [[First-Name Basis]] with the building's residents.
** The tutelary of Maison d'Orléans, [[Archangel Michael]], shows up there almost daily, and has basically adopted [[Joan of Arc|Jehanne Romée]] as his little sister.
** The tutelary of Douglass Gardens Apartments, [[Ah! My Goddess|Belldandy]], has ''moved in'' so that she can live with her husband Keiichi Morisato.
** Just might be disturbingly literal for the girls of [[Bakuon!!|Kickstand Cottage]], whose tutelary is a Celestial they'd already met in their home universe who bears a striking resemblance to a clean-shaven Jesus. In an as-yet-unreleased passage, he all but admits to their local liaison that he ''is'' Jesus, but at the same time warns that who Jesus is thought to be today and who he actually ''was'' might be two very different things. (Which, given that thanks to its use in ''[[Bakuon!!]]'' the authors are incorporating [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-little-known-legend-of-jesus-in-japan-165354242/ some obscure Japanese folklore about Christ], is pretty much guaranteed to be the case.)
* [[Parental Substitute]] / [[Sink-or-Swim Fatherhood]]: In order to keep the Academy City girls from being separated in foster care, and then the same happening to the Sailor Senshi, Rob had to become foster father to them all. He made sure to get their permission first, but he still went from being a bachelor to having ten tween- and teenage daughters in a single week.
** {{spoiler|[[Happily Adopted]]}}: {{spoiler|And then after she learns about the dark side of Academy City and decides she's never going back there, Ruiko Saten agrees to be adopted by Rob. [[Deconstruction|As in real life,]] it will take a year in-universe for the process to be completed.}}
* [[Pass the Popcorn]]:
** The Sailor Senshi appear to be consuming buckets of it while watching the various adaptations of their story in ''Everyone's a Critic'' -- and have enough of it on hand to throw at each other.
** The managers at Douglass Gardens make popcorn for everyone when the casts of ''[[K-On!]]'' and ''[[Bakuon!!]]'' watch each other's
* [[The Password Is Always Swordfish]]: At least for the first few days, at Aria House:
{{quote|'''Brent''': The network name is "Pokoteng", and the password is 'swordfish1!', that's digit 1 and exclamation mark at the end. Don't want to make it too easy to guess, after all.}}
* [[Perpetual Frowner]]: Bidzii "Mitchell" Hatathli, manager for "Castle Pueblo" in New Mexico, is described as having a "resting frown face", which combined with his height and linebacker-like build can make him very intimidating or even frightening to those who don't know him.
* [[Pinky Swear]]: Tomo offers this to Yomi, but given that they were just talking about [[yakuza]], the implication is [[Yubitsume]].
* [[Playboy Bunny]]: Mii Konori's costume for the 2016 Halloween Party.<ref>And the writers discovered that as of late-2018 Pixiv, Safebooru, Zerochan, and E-shuushuu between them had fan art of every major heroic-side female from ''A Certain Scientific Railgun'' in the outfit ''except'' for Konori.</ref>
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* [[Real World Episode]]: This project is what happens when hundreds of works simultaneously get Real World Episodes -- all in the same Real World.
* [[Recursive Fanfiction]]: In ''Everyone's a Critic'', [[Revolutionary Girl Utena|Utena Tenjou]] reacts to having read the ''Symphony of the Sword'' stories from ''[[Undocumented Features]]'', and [[All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku|Atsuko Natsume]] discovers both a goal to aspire to and a problem she never realized upon reading 1990s-vintage fanfiction about herself.
* [[Refugee From TV Land]]: See the list under Mega Crossover. Many of the displacees got to watch their own television shows or movies when they arrived, often as evidence that they had changed universes... to the point that, in an as-yet-unpublished story when dispalcees who don't ''have'' fiction about them in the Refuge reality show up, nobody knows how to convince them of what happened.
* [[Remember the New Guy?]]: Malleable Causality turns this trope [[Up to Eleven]].
* [[Rule of Three]]: A motif in ''Donaldson en Kazakiri''. Some words are used three times in the same sentence, there were three encounters on the way back to the portal home, and three objections each were raised to the title characters returning to Earth.<ref>Yes, we know that this is three uses of the [[Rule of Three]].</ref>
* [[Rule 34]]:
** A comment made by [[Revolutionary Girl Utena|Anthy Himemiya]] in ''Everyone's a Critic'' suggests that at least some of the displacees have been warned about [[Lemon]]
** In the final scene of the same story it's obvious that [[Azumanga Daioh|Tomo Takino]] is reading one about herself and Yomi.
** And there is a discussion forum on the [https://kanrikyara.miraheze.org/wiki/Displacees.yggdrasil server set up for displacees] where they can discuss how to deal with Rule 34 fan
{{quote|"If I ever meet anyone who drew any such pictures of me, they will die."|[[Fate stay night|Rin Tohsaka]]|"Thermal - er, Culture Shock"}}
:* Yui Hirasawa's wiki page notes that she has a hidden directory on her computer where she keeps NSFW ''[[K-On!]]'' fan art.
:* On a meta level, ''My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character'' will not be going any farther than [[Lime]] stories, by writer consensus.
* [[Scattered Across Time and Space]]: Common to larger groups of characters from long-running works. The most obvious example is the characters from ''A Certain Magical Index'', whose arrivals were spread out over a full year and across two continents despite them leaving their own world at the same time.
* [[Secret Path]]: The tunnel running between the Banzai Institute compound and the Roadhouse in Somerset NJ is the "go somewhere without being noticed" type.
* [[Self-Insert Fic]]: With anywhere from two to five self-insert characters active at a given time in Real Life. Subverted in that the self-inserts are ''supporting'' characters and are rarely central to the action.
* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Tomoyo, approaching [[The Matchmaker]] except that she does understand "personal space".
* [[Show Within a Show]]/[[Fictional Document]]:
** ''[http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14534 So You Just Arrived from a Parallel Universe]'', an in-universe guidebook for displacees which has been made available in PDF form to readers of the story. It comes complete with [[Marginal Note|comments jotted in the margins]] by various characters.
** ''Hard Press'': a ''[[Josei]]'' manga that doesn't exist in the Refuge timeline (or ours), but was big enough in many other universes (including that of ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' and ''[[Comic Party]]'') to get an anime and a live-action movie.
* [[Side Bet]]: In the Halloween story: "Okay, who had 'As soon as she saw him' in the pool?"
* [[Slice of Life]]: particularly in Brent's stories.
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* [[Translation Convention]]: Played straight, as characters who know Japanese or German may be speaking it to each other, but it's written in English. Also enforced, as most displacees were given knowledge of the local language (usually English) on entering the world. Also inverted, as characters subject to the convention in their home canon don't actually know the language, like how all but Akari from ''Aria'' don't know Japanese.
* [[Trapped in Another World]]: [[Inverted Trope|Inverting the trope]] is the premise of the entire shared world; instead of the self-inserts going to a fictional world, fictional characters come to the shared world. (Hence the implied meaning behind the title: "My apartment manager is not an isekai character, but everybody else in the apartment building is!")
** [[Reincarnation Fantasy]]: Also inverted in the case of displacees who died in their stories but are alive in Refuge. Considering that the cast list includes characters from ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' and at least two of [[Joss Whedon]]'s works, it's a
* [[Truck-kun]]: Played with. During the events of ''The Displaced Mrs. Pollifax'', [[Mrs. Pollifax (franchise)|Emily Pollifax]] and her husband are transported to a new timeline in a truck. When they inquire about it, the driver says:
{{quote|"The truck, I have been given to understand, is a newly-traditional means of accomplishing the transition, although for your comfort it was decided that it was better that you were both ''inside'' it rather than in the street in ''front'' of it, as is the usual arrangement."}}
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** [[Eddie and the Cruisers|Eddie Wilson]], [[To Sir, With Love|Mark Thackeray]] and [[Life on Mars|Sam Tyler]] all basically woke up on the side of a street, having no idea where they were or how they got there.
** In ''Outriding'', Sailors Uranus and Neptune wake up in the same bed, in a hotel room on a different continent than the one they went to sleep on.
* [[Walking the Earth]]: Ryouga Hibiki mentions this in connection to his canon [[No Sense of Direction]], in "Tell me, what do you want?":
{{quote|"But now that I'm thinking about it, I'm starting to think that being a wandering Ally of Justice just might be what I'm destined to be."}}
* [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?]]: Becomes a [[Discussed Trope]] when the Misaka Sisters [[Conversational Troping|ask]] Sailor Venus about this on Valentine's Day.
* [[With a Capital T]]:
{{quote|Over the next couple days we got Busy with a capital "B". [[The Music Man|(Which rhymes with "D", which stands for "Deadline"...)]]}}
* [[Wrong Turn At Albuquerque]]: Deliberately invoked by the domain name assigned to "Castle Pueblo", located some sixty miles south of Albuquerque: "no-left-turn.displacees.yggdrasil".
* [[You No Take Candle]]: [[Ranma ½|Shampoo]] still speaks this way, despite Malleable Causality and the Translation Convention making her as fluent in English as she is in her native dialect of Chinese. [[Black Butler|Sebastian Michaelis]] is sure that she does it on purpose to hide her fluency, and gets away with it because people ''expect'' her to speak this way.
* [[Your Costume Needs Work]]: Alice Carroll to Saber, the morning after [[Halloween Episode|the Halloween party]].
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