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[[File:neopets.jpg|frame|From left to right: a Shoyru, Lupe, Grundo, and Aisha.]]
''[http://www.neopets.com/ Neopets]'' started out with a website created by [[Land of My Fathers and Their Sheep|Adam Powell]], launched in 1999. In short, it's ''the'' virtual pet site. The basic idea is you are a Neopian
Neopets has a lot of fiction: encyclopedia articles, short stories, a rich world, comics, game premises, and ongoing [[Story Arc
▲''[http://www.neopets.com/ Neopets]'' started out with a website created by [[Land of My Fathers and Their Sheep|Adam Powell]], launched in 1999. In short, it's ''the'' virtual pet site. The basic idea is you are a Neopian -- i.e., an owner -- with a limit of four Neopets per account. Owners can take care of their pets by feeding them and playing with them, but there are a number of things they can do -- buy and sell items, play games, discuss on the Neoboards, explore Neopia, train and battle with their Neopets, and design a webpage. Some Neopians strive to become rich, others use it as a place to post Neopets fanwork, and still others use it to win contests.
The site has since evolved into a
▲Neopets has a lot of fiction: encyclopedia articles, short stories, a rich world, comics, game premises, and ongoing [[Story Arc|Story Arcs]] (known as "plots") which crop up every so often. And, if in need of inspiration, The Neopets Team lets talented users post Neopets-related articles, novellas and comic strips.
▲The site has since evolved into a franchise -- video games have been released, as well as [[Nickelodeon]] shorts and a breakfast cereal. Neopets also provides a simple, efficient way of advertising -- sponsor games. These games give easy Neopoints, so they're played by a lot of Neopians every day, which provides some good advertising. It's also rather successful with merchandise; McDonald's and Burger King even had Neopets plushies as part of their kids' meals some years ago.
Special mention goes to the ''[[Neo Quest]]'' series of RPGs, which have so many tropes they all have their own page. The [[NTWF|Neopian Times Writers Forum]] (NTWF for short) also has its own page, just be careful of the insanity. Lastly, a [[Gaiden Game]] to the main Neopets site, ''[[Petpet Park]]'', [[Petpet Park|also has a page]].
For Neopets' spin-off game, ''[[Treasure Keepers]]'', go [[Treasure Keepers|here]].
=== ''[[Neopets]]'' provides examples of: ===▼
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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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* [[Brick Joke]]: [http://www.neopets.com/ntimes/index.phtml?section=editorial&issue=540 Editorial 540].
* [[Caption Contest]]
* [[Carnivore Confusion]]: Neopets eat each other as well as Petpets,
** Chias have a longstanding rivalry with Lupes due to the latter's tendency to eat them. This does not take into account the factor that Chias tend to be prized for their unique food-like colorations to begin with.
** Draik eggs are considered gourmet food. Yum...
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** Justified somewhat with Scorchios, dragon-like Neopets which prefer high temperatures.
* [[Cosmetic Award]]: The various competitions on the site, as well as getting top scores in most games, reward you with spiffy trophies for your profile.
* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: When you get right down to it, Neopia's a pretty depressing place to live, what with the countless wars, attempted genocides, and multiple [[Fate Worse Than Death|fates worse than death]], the only reason none of the inhabitants have lost hope is that they have enough [[Badass]] [[Knight in Shining Armor|Knights In Shining Armor]]/[[Lovable Rogue
* [[Creepy Doll]]: Malevolent Sentient Poogle Plushies.
** As well as Malevolent Sentient Plushie Poogles.
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* [[Fishing for Sole]]: Boots and cans in the ruins in Maraqua.
* [[Fishing Minigame]]: See above.
* [[Fun with Autocensors]]: Often crosses with [[Take That]]. For instance, the current update of the filter renders it impossible to say "''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]''" or "[[Stephenie Meyer]]" without them being turned into [[My Little Pony]] or [[The Simpsons (animation)|Krusty the Clown]].
** Just saying "Edward" - no, not "Edward Cullen", just "Edward" - gets turned into Roxton Colchester III (a main character in more than one of the plots and ''very'' different from Mr. Cullen).
** And Taylor Lautner became the infamous [[Totally Radical|Nick Neopia]] from [http://www.neopets.com/index_fake.phtml an old prank].
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** Here's a canon example. The description for the Steam Horn is along the lines of ''Now you can play some steamy music.''
** Though it was deleted about an hour after the update, the [http://www.neopets.com/nf.phtml?nf_date=2010-07-12 Kiko Day News] had "[[bash.org|I put on my]] [[Robe and Wizard Hat]]!"
** Some owners get away with having pets who are [[Wholesome Crossdresser
** In the ''Hannah and the Ice Caves'' plot, when Kanrik kills Galem, the panel is shown in silhouette, but the placement of Kanrik's dagger and the blood spray makes it look like he ''[[Gorn|ripped Galem's heart out]]''. And keep in mind this was after the site became [[Lighter and Softer]].
* [[Giant Eye of Doom]]: The Mark of Ta-Kutep is the outline of an eye symbol that appears in a pointless random event causing the user to flee in fear.
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* [[Healing Spring]]: There's one in Faerieland. The water faerie that supervises it, though, isn't all that too consistent with how well one's neopets are healed.
* [[Historical In-Joke]]: More of a literal version of this trope, but the [http://pets.neopets.com/cp/snwfct4o/1/4.png Royal Boy Tuskaninny] looks just like [http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=henry%20viii&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi Henry VIII].
* [[Humans Are
* [[I Just Want to Be Beautiful]]: One of the minor villains, Vira, was cursed into ugliness.
** The faeries as a whole are very vain creatures.
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* [[Lethal Chef]]: Bonju, at least to Hoban.
* [[Lethal Joke Item]]: The occasional high-level item is pretty silly. For example, the greatest reward for one of the story arcs is a hat. It's a weapon. And it's decent.
** Most of the decent battle items seem to fall under this. To wit: four of the most powerful weapons on the site are [https://web.archive.org/web/20101010085200/http://idb.finalhit.org/indepth/id/91 a pea], [https://web.archive.org/web/20110112031836/http://idb.finalhit.org/indepth/id/1407 a pea wearing a Christmas hat], [https://web.archive.org/web/20110225014037/http://idb.finalhit.org/indepth/id/2338 a pea wearing a tiny cape], and [https://web.archive.org/web/20101123153944/http://idb.finalhit.org/indepth/id/148 a slingshot that shoots acorns]. And [https://web.archive.org/web/20110530141156/http://idb.finalhit.org/indepth/id/3412 grapes].
* [[Lethal Lava Land]]: Moltara Caves.
* [[Let Us Never Speak of This Again]]: A category for the third annual Neopies has this for a name.
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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.
* [[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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* [[Noodle Incident]]: The site has several, and fans of the site often try to explain them in the Neopian Times. Some of the more infamous examples include the incident that caused the Deserted Fairground to be [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|deserted]] [http://www.neopets.com/neopedia.phtml?neopedia_id=196 (though TNT did write a Neopedia article about it)], how Jhudora and Illusen became rivals in the first place, and what caused so many people to believe that [[Running Gag|a world made out jelly could possibly exist]].
* [[Not Evil, Just Misunderstood]]: The Darigan Citadel. Yes, the Dariganites all have [[Spikes of Villainy]] and they made their presence known by attacking Meridell, but the Meridellians stole their Orb from them and caused their [[Obviously Evil]] appearance in the first place.
** Granted, Darigan did go [[Ax Crazy]] after getting the orb back. Of course, when he came [[Back
* [[The Notable Numeral]]: Team Tyrannia was known as The Forsaken Five.
* [[Offstage Villainy]]: Some of the most feared villains have never been shown doing anything evil.
** 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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* [[Prehistoria]]: Tyrannia
* [[Randomly Drops]]: "Something has happened!"
* [[Read the Fine Print]]: The Terms and Conditions, which have to be signed to access the site, have some... odd wording. such as "...or incorporate such materials into any form, medium, or technology (now known or hereafter developed or devised) '''[[The Simpsons (animation)|throughout the universe]]'''."
* [[Recycled in Space]]: ''Hannah and the Kreludor Caves'' is ''Hannah and the Pirate Caves'' ON THE MOON!
** And before that, ''Hannah and the Ice Caves'' was ''Hannah and the Pirate Caves'' IN TERROR MOUNTAIN!
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** "March 3rd has been cancelled due to lack of interest."
** For a little while, the Neopian Times Editorial always ended with "mr. coconut" shouting "''GOOD NIGHT!''" After a few months of that, TNT went meta by retiring mr. coconut and starting a new gag about trying to find a suitable replacement.
* [[Schizo-Tech]]: All over the map - literally; it's dependent on region. There's sticks and stones in [[One Million BC|Tyrannia]], the various [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture
* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: The Darkest Faerie; Sloth in the Space Faerie's token. {{spoiler|Xandra.}}
* [[Serious Business]]: Avatar collecting. That is all.
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** One of the major ones is [[Doctor Who|Dr_Death]], the operator of the pound.
** Quoth a farmer from the Altador Plot: [[Futurama|"WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!"]] There's even a book given out from the plot titled "The Way Windmills Work" with the following description: ''Windmills do, in fact, work that way.''
** [[Fight Club (film)|"The first rule of Punch Club, is that you do not talk about Punch Club."]]
{{quote|In a secluded alley behind the Colosseum are gathered a group of Neopets... [http://images.neopets.com/altador/colosseum/punch_club_main_d1606c0f61.gif This is Punch Club.]
{{spoiler|"Would you like some punch?"}} }}
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** One of the backgrounds is the "Double Rainbow Background", with the item description "But what does it mean!?".
** The [http://images.neopets.com/items/petpet_robo_griefer.gif Griefer Petpet] seems [[Star Wars|oddly]] [[Hero-Killer|familiar]]...
*** [https://web.archive.org/web/20111113204816/http://items.jellyneo.net/images/olditems/navibot.gif The Navibot] looks [[Mega Man (video game)|familiar, too]]...
** The description for the Undead Cheese Wedge reads "[[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|In Haunted Woods, cheese wedge eats you!]]"
** The description for the Miniature Wheel of Monotony: [[Memetic Mutation/Other Internet|"We heard you liked spinning the Wheel of Monotony... Now you can spin the Wheel of Monotony while spinning the Wheel of Monotony!"]]
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** Trying to use the Qasalan Expellibox more than once a day produces the message "What are you doing?! You can't just dump them in there! It's a [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/series-of-tubes series of tubes!]"
** The description for the Pink Doughnut.
{{quote|A doughnut with pink icing. [[The Simpsons (animation)|Mmmm, Homers favourite]].}}
** In the Kadoatery, there a kadoaties named [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Shinji and Misato,]] [[Naruto|Sasuke, Kunai and Kakashi,]] [[Star Trek|Q, Riker and Picard,]] and [[Futurama|Fry, Bender, Leela]] [[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Zoidberg.]]
** [[The Other Wiki]] used to have ''a whole page'' of Shout Outs in Neopets.
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* [[Star-Spangled Spandex]]: The Space Faerie
* [[Steampunk]]: Moltara City.
* [[Super Fun Happy
** 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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* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: Faeries are ostensibly the most powerful species in all of Neopia. They are regularly bottled by a scraggly mutant-wolf with ''no'' magical powers, sold away, freed, then caught again a few weeks later.
* [[What Does This Button Do?]]: The Lever of Doom is marked "Do Not Pull." It exists to steal your money. Most people who use it repeatedly know exactly what it does, but pulling it over and over is the only way to get a certain avatar.
* [[What Have I Become?]]: Played for laughs in the Petpet Park Mini-Plot. You come upon an adorable Cybunny with the choice of four options.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Where did Hoban go after the Cyodrake's Gaze plot was finished?
** The [[Tear Jerker]] ultimate fate of the Grey Faerie (whether she got her powers back or not) was never solved.
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** One Neopian holiday, Illusen Day, takes place on March 17.
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* [[Abandoned Hospital]]: The Meepit Oaks Sanitorium for the Psychologically Fragile, a part of the Tale of Woe plot where you have to find the way through a creepy hospital building.
* [[Almighty Janitor]]: The Yurble foreman eventually ended up as this. His temper followed, but not his toenail painting habit.
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* [[Portmanteau Couple Name]]: 'Brynnso' for Brynn/Hanso, later used by TNT in the name of one of the plot prizes (Brynnso Plushie Set), making it an in-universe example.
* [[Recurring Extra]]: The Angry Orange Yurble.
* [[Reformed but Rejected]]: [[Noble Demon|Lord Darigan]] from
* [[Reset Button]]: Always averted, since plots introduce changes into Neopia. This is why the destruction of worlds, such as Maraqua {{spoiler|and Faerieland}}, come as a shock. The area may be rebuilt afterward, but things are never quite the same.
* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: In the Faerie's Ruin plot, both King Altador and King Jazan actively got involved in investigating who [[Taken for Granite|turned the faeries to stone]].
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* [[Thirteen Is Unlucky]]: Probably unintentional, but "unlucky" doesn't even begin to describe Chapter 13, the [[Wham! Episode]] of The Faerie's Ruin. From the hero's perspective, at least; to the users (and the site), it's a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
* [[Those Two Guys]]: The Draik and Skeith guards from The Faerie's Ruin.
* [[Too Soon]]: Lampshaded with a wearable trinket -- {{spoiler|Faerieland in flames crashing to earth}}
* [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]]: Grarrls, one of the few species to be designed as "[[Badass]]" rather than "cute".
* [[Vampiric Draining]]: The creepy glowing purple wraiths in the Faeries' Ruin plot drain the [[Life Energy]] of their captives.
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* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: The zombies that terrorize Sakhmet in the Lost Desert Plot can be destroyed by ''heavy blunt objects.'' The only ones who are able to figure this out are some scrappy street thieves, and they get an audience with the princess in order to pass on their discovery.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: The Faerie's Ruin, Chapters 13 and 16.
* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]]: The Angry Orange
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]/[[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: The villain of the Petpet Park plot has been foiled multiple times in his life (including in the plot itself) by ''his insistence on using pens instead of pencils''. In fact, his frustration with this is what drove him to villainy (as opposed to driving him to, you know, just use pencils).
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: {{spoiler|Xandra}}. Surprisingly, she actually has some valid points. We eventually find out Lord Darigan is one, as well.
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