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For Neopets' spin-off game, ''[[Treasure Keepers]]'', go [[Treasure Keepers|here]].
 
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* [[Absolutely Happened]]: Inverted; there's "no such thing as [[Level Ate|Jelly World]]." Veterans and noobs alike simply ''adore'' screwing with newbies this way.
* [[Adam Smith Hates Your Guts]]: You better hope and pray you make a ton of Neopoints in case your pet ever comes down with a disease (which can happen due to a ''random event''); the cures, depending on the disease, range from 1,000 to over 300,000 NP. Blame the undercutters taking advantage of the random diseases given via Qasalan Expellibox (a game where you can earn Neocash without paying money, hence its popularity) for this. Same thing goes for taking advantage of the demand for items needed for avatars.
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* [[Amazing Technicolor Wildlife]]: Each species has at ''least'' a dozen or two, from basic colors to stuff like "Baby", "Pirate", "Darigan" ([[Obviously Evil]]), "Mutant" ([[Body Horror]]), "Royal" (with both "prince" and "princess" varieties), and "[[Retraux|8-Bit]]". But not "[[Level Ate|Jelly]]"; [[Running Gag|that's just silly]].
* [[Ancient Grome]]: Altador.
* [[And I Must Scream]]: When a Petpetpet dies in the Habitarium, it turns into a diamond with a face on it (these you collect to gain [[Experience Points]], thus levels and bonus Neopoints). Seeing as this falls under the category of [[Your Mileage May Vary]], that might not qualify (the faces have a "what just happened" expression, then they smile, like, "oh, cool!").
* [[Antagonist in Mourning]]: A 2010 Advent Calendar animation implies a heroic variant, with {{spoiler|Magax}} mourning {{spoiler|Hubrid Nox after his death in The Faerie's Ruin}}.
* [[Anthropomorphic Shift]]: It used to be that most Neopets were simply 'pets' and their human owners ''were'' there. See also [[Was Once a Man]]...
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** The most striking (and funniest) revamp was done to the Bruces: currently a race of penguins, they were originally ''[[Unfortunate Implications|effeminate tuxedo-wearing men]]''. Photographs of Bruce Forsyth, to be precise.
** Some of Neopets newest art, particularly in the recent plots and events, now incorporate gradients done the ''right'' way. The results are amazing, especially in the Faeries' Ruin comics.
* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: Loads.
** Master Vex, the host of Cellblock, has apparently "Never lost a game". However, he can be defeated in nine moves, nearly every time.
** The Altador Cup--specifically, Yooyuball. The only real challenge is figuring out the quickest path to the goal, weaving through the opposing team, then shooting. Once you've got that sorted, it's just a matter of tedious repetition.
*** Partly fixed with the keyboard version. Now the opposing team is even more frustrating.
* [[Ascended Glitch]]: Certain glitches in Yooyuball, particularly the ones who give a superfast ball or the one which has all of the players facing backwards. The Neopets Team liked them so much, they kept them in.
* [[Ascended Meme]]: Neopian Times writers launched an intentional campaign to make it possible to paint Weewoos white. They did this by including images and mentions of White Weewoos in their Neopian Times submissions. Now, not only do White Weewoos exist, but they're the official mascot of the Neopian Times.
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* [[Level Editor]]: A number of games. Started off with Hannah and the Pirate Caves, which actually is a very solid game, and was followed by...a poor mini golf editor. The more recent games featuring level editors haven't been much better, sadly.
* [[Level Grinding]]: Leveling up at the Mystery Island Training School (or Cap'n Threelegs' Swashbuckling Academy) is automated, but takes several days in real time.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: Neopets was meant for young adults when it first came around. The early plots all had gobs of [[Family-Unfriendly Violence|black comedy]]. Everything has since lost that sort of humour when the site was made kid friendly, but the old pages from old plots still float around, waiting to become [[Nightmare Fuel]]. Other bits that still float around are details changed in upgraded games. The Game Graveyard lets you play the old versions, where ''Carnival of Terror'' still says "cause of death" when you lose. And the game ''Spell or Starve'', from the very old Doctor Sloth plot.
** [[Darker and Edgier|On the other hand]], The Faerie's Ruin has basically become the darkest thing in the history of the site with its [[Wham! Episode]].
* [[Light Is Not Good]]/[[Moral Dissonance]]: Despite technically being the ones who started the whole thing by stealing from the Citadel, Meridell is viewed as the good guys by TNT and King Skarl is in the Gallery Of Heroes, while Lord Darigan is still in the Gallery of Evil despite saving them.
* [[Living Shadow]]: The Shadow Usul, the Creeping Shadows from the Tale of Woe, Edna's Shadow, the Shadow Wraiths from The Faerie's Ruin... There are a lot of them on the site.
* [[Long Runners]]: Started in 1999, and still maintains a big, loyal playerbase over 20 years later.
* [[Long Runners]]
* [[The Lost Woods]]: The Haunted Woods. [[Don't Go in The Woods|Don't go there]].
* [[Lost World]]: The Lost Isle, though many Neopian lands were unknown until "discovered" through a plot.
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** Justified for Jhudora. Her entire schtick is that she gets to run around scot free ''because'' no-one has ever caught her doing anything bad.
* [[One-Gender Race]]: Faeries, as confirmed in [http://www.neopets.com/ntimes/index.phtml?section=editorial&issue=488 this] [[Word of God|editorial]].
* [[The Other Marty]]: In the earliest releases, some Neopets were replaced, much like the Bruce incident. One such change was a species of dragon called the Tatsu that was inexplicably replaced with the Eyries (gryphons). The [https://web.archive.org/web/20130524140502/http://www.wacky-packages.org/neopets/Tatsu.htm Tatsus] apparently rose from an even earlier design called the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130524150312/http://www.wacky-packages.org/neopets/Cerpull.htm Cerpull].
* [[Overly Long Gag]]: Members giving TNT food (mostly cookies) in the editorial of the Neopian Times.
** The Wheel of Monotony.
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* [[Star-Spangled Spandex]]: The Space Faerie
* [[Steampunk]]: Moltara City.
* [[Super Fun Happy Fun TropeThing of Doom|Super Happy Fun Trope]]: The Super Happy Icy Fun Snow Shop in Terror Mountain.
** Relax, it ''is'' super happy icy fun alright!
*** Go [http://www.neopets.com/objects.phtml?type=shop&obj_type=37 here] if you're concerned.
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