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** Almost any neopet with high battledome stats.

* [[Badass]]: Any hero or villain that isn't a Faerie.

* [[Bedsheet Ghost]]: Taken to an extreme with Ghostkerchiefs, which are ghost(-like?) Petpets that haunt pockets.

** [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]: Nothing is particularly consistent about them.

* [[Begone Bribe]]: There's a random event where a rendingly mewling Mutant Kadoatie appears and "you pay its owner 5000 Neopoints to take it away."

* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Hoban and Linae.

* [[Big Good]]: Queen Fyora and the faeries in general (barring the occasional [[Obviously Evil]] one) are considered this, complete with [[Hundred-Percent Adoration Rating]].

** Maybe not [[Hundred-Percent Adoration Rating]]. At least two pets hate the Faeries, so there may be more out there like them in the future.

** In a more explicit sense, the Altador Cup has gone through this. The first installment of the 'Cup was very different than the event organized today. Yooyuball was the only game, and there were no other games to back it up. The game itself was played from a top-down perspective, more primitive than today's isometric verision, and it was also much slower. Perhaps the most important changes were in the way the tournament was played: it was done knockout-style, which every team was eliminated after a game, and you could join another team immediately after the first team you joined up with was eliminated. There were also other differences, such as injuries to several of the teams (which probably wouldn't be able to be done with today's version of YYB), differences in trophies, and how points were given out. Most of these oddities were changed before Altador Cup II, but it wasn't until the 3rd cup where things began to look like they do today.

* [[Ear Notch]]: Kougras all have these.

* [[Easter Egg]]: Some games have these. Appearances from the Phantom Orange Shirt Guy are the most common.

* [[Eat That]]: A lot of Spooky Food, and, oddly, some Gourmet Foods. Brain Kebab, Dung Slushie, Edible Tar Pizza...

** Not to mention Gross Food. Scab Cake, anyone?

** There's also a paint brush for it.

* [[Everythings Funkier With Disco]]: Disco pets.

* [[Fishing for Sole]]: Boots and cans in the ruins in Maraqua.

* [[Fishing Minigame]]: See above.

** 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].

** Justified in that most Neopet children are [[Happily Adopted]]. For a while Neopets seemed to be playing the line that ''all'' children were adopted. It made the [[Suddenly-Suitable Suitor|sudden revelation]] that Nabile was an [[Generation Xerox|identical copy]] of a royal ''ancestor'' very jarring.

* [[Jerkass]]: Team Maraqua's Elon Hughlis, who infamously won the "Most Selfish Player" award during ACI. Despite this, he's still the Team Captain, and he has many fans in and out of Team Maraqua.

* [[Joke Weapon]]: Unfortunately, about 99% of Battledome items seem to fall into this category nowadays.

* [[Jump Scare]]: {{spoiler|How the Lair of the Beast ends if you keep clicking}}. [[Nightmare Fuel]], indeed.

** As well as Mr. Krawley, and, [[Your Mileage May Vary|arguably]], King Skarl.

* [[Kobayashi Mario]]: Many of the Flash games.

* [[Land of My Fathers and Their Sheep]]: The founder was of Welsh descent and quite proud of it. As such, St David's day is sometimes an in-game event.

* [[Laughably Evil]]: Most villains are this, especially in Defenders of Neopia. [[Big Bad|Plot]] [[Knight of Cerebus|villains]], [[Complete Monster|however...]]

* [[Nerf Arm]]: This game's [[Infinity+1 Sword]] equipment tends toward the bizarre- while there are plain old magic swords available, you are better off wielding a pharaoh's burial mask, a [[Killer Yoyo]], an [[Morally-Ambiguous Ducktorate|evil rubber duckie]], or the [[Stock Yuck|Carrotblade]].

** When a game's [[Boring but Practical]] one-shot weapons are ''enchanted snowballs and muffins'', you know you [[Not in Kansas Anymore|aren't in Kansas anymore]].

* [[Nineties Anti-Hero]]: Magax. Of course, given that it's Neopets, he goes no farther than being a [[Badbutt]]. But other than that, he reeks of this trope.

* [[No Hugging, No Kissing]]: Users are forbidden from including more than a passing mention of romance in submitted work, and for the most part official site plots avoid it as well.

** Subverted in The Faerie's Ruin Plot. {{spoiler|Brynn}} kisses {{spoiler|Hanso}}, even if it's [[Anywhere but Their Lips|only on the cheek]].

* [[No Name Given]]: The aforementioned Zafara Double Agent. Despite this (Or perhaps because of it), she may even be among ''the'' [[Ensemble Darkhorse|most popular characters]].

* [[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 From the Dead]], he saved Meridell from Kass.

** 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|Fantasy Counterpart Cultures]] have the tech level you'd expect, Moltara is [[Steampunk]], Neopia Central is closest to real life but has nothing like computers or cars, and then there's the Virtupets Space Station and moon colony on Kreludor…

* [[Serious Business]]: Avatar collecting. That is all.

* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Loads.

*** [http://images.neopets.com/neoboards/avatars/runaway_garlic.gif This one] does too.

*** Not to mention, [http://images.neopets.com/neoboards/avatars/yourlupeasplode.gif this].

** The flavor text on the Lupe Patchwork Chia Doll is pretty much taken straight from a boss in [[World of Warcraft]]: Patchwerk.

** On [http://www.neopets.com/games/aaa/staff.phtml?nav=standing the page] for the Daily Dare '10 Staff Tournament, hovering over Jimmy James' picture mentions if anyone has seen his [[The Red Stapler|Red Stapler]].

** The description of the Pink Poogle Toy is a [[Take That]]/[[Shout-Out]] to a fansite of the same name.

** It is very unlikely that the Pirate Xweetok sporting [[One Piece|an horizontal scar under its left eye]] was a simple coincidence.

{{quote| "Hello, TNT. Look at your artists. Now at me. Artists. Me. Artists. Me. Too bad your artists aren't me, but they can smell like me. I'm on a horse."<br />

"Look again. Your horse is now ''diamonds''!" }}

*** Another achievement references [[Questionable Content]]: "She blinded me with library science."

*** For the plot step where you have to block {{spoiler|Xandra}}'s attacks, one of the many things {{spoiler|she}} says is [[Inception|"Tion cep in"]].

** 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]]...

** 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!"]]

** This [http://items.jellyneo.net/index.php?go=item&showitem=30066 item], a [[This Is a Drill|drill-shaped]] fruit, is called a [[Gurren Lagann|Gurran]]drillge. Doesn't sound like a coincidence to me!

** There's a game called "[[The Usual Suspects|The Usul Suspects]]", although the game has nothing to do with it.

** 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.

* [[Temple of Doom]]: The Deserted Tomb in Geraptiku, although its only real booby trap is an arrow trap. If you're lucky, its free items are there for the taking.

** Although there is that giant, constantly voracious Ghost Hissi that's always running around in there…

* [[Theme Naming]]: The Lost Desert Petpets are named after Egyptian deities.

* [[Totally Radical]]: '''''[http://www.neopets.com/index_fake.phtml Neopetz].'''''

* [[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. <ref>A) Become inexplicably hostile, B) Request an autograph, C) Ask, "If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?", or D) Bribe it with Neocash</ref> Upon executing any of the options, the Cybunny would turn around to reveal itself to be half-robot. If you chose A ("become inexplicably hostile"), it pulls a mirror out of nowhere and says, "ERROR: WHAT HAVE I BECOME?"

** The [[Tear Jerker]] ultimate fate of the Grey Faerie (whether she got her powers back or not) was never solved.

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?]]: Subverted in the stories that circulate, where anyone can be a hero; but read the basic descriptions of the Neopets and you'll notice it's the cute, fluffy, huggable Aishas and Lupes and Boris that seem to be friendly and easygoing, and the less-cute or fluffy pets such as Skeiths or Jetsams that are… less agreeable.

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Some plots, particularly The Tale of Woe, The Curse of Maraqua, and The Faeries' Ruin.

* [[Cassandra Did It]]: Caylis from the Curse of Maraqua plot was often a victim of this, since her powers of precognition came though nightmares. Her sister Isca, who foresaw pleasant events in her dreams, benefited from this trope.

* [[Colony Drop]]: Intentional or otherwise— {{spoiler|Averted}} for Darigan Citadel in the "Battle for Meridell" plot, and {{spoiler|''[[Oh Crap|played straight]]''}} for Faerieland in the "Faerie's Ruin" plot.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: The Neggbreaker from the Year 14 Neggfest site event. Its Battledome difficulty rating is listed at ''one hundred thousand'', but the Ancient Negg Amulet Battledome item (created specifically for the event) allowed it to be defeated without the weilder taking a scratch.

** Faerieland has a history of this - The Darkest Faerie tried to drop it onto Meridell in the video game.

* [[Did Not Get the Girl]]: Tomos. And pretty much every other guy in Neopets' plots. Pretty much justified, considering how they usually avert the topic of love… that doesn't stop the shippers, though.

* [[The Dragon]]: Commander Garoo, to Dr. Sloth.

* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: Mayor Thumburt in the Tale of Woe plot, Razul, Oblivion, and... a lot of plot end-bosses are this. From the player's perspective, anyway - unlike most enemies, the bosses' health bars are shared among everyone in Neopia, so while a single pet has almost no chance of beating them, from the bosses' perspective they're suffering a [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]] via a [[Zerg Rush]] of them.

* [[Hostile Show Takeover]]: A fake ending for Hannah and the Ice Caves, where the cast of the then-[[Vaporware]] Return of Dr. Sloth plot attacks out of nowhere because ''their'' plot was canceled.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: Skarl, who as of today is still listed in the Gallery of Heroes and rules Meridell without any question from the people in spite of being at fault in the tragic transformation of what is now the Darigan Citadel back in Champions of Meridell.

* [[Karmic Transformation]]: {{spoiler|[[Taken for Granite|Xandra]]}}.

* [[Mythology Gag]]: Rife in The Faeries' Ruin arc.

{{quote| '''Jazan''': What now, Altador? More star-gazing?}}

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Well done, Brynn and Hanso (plus all the players who participated in the plot). You just helped {{spoiler|Xandra crash Faerieland into Neopia}}.

* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: When Razul arrives and starts destroying Sahkmet, Jazan is initially unable to stop him. But then he presses his berserk button by harming Nabile...

{{quote| '''Sloth''': How dare you interrupt my "[[Resistance Is Futile]]" speech!}}

* [[Smooch of Victory]]: {{spoiler|Brynn}} gives {{spoiler|Hanso}} one [[Anywhere but Their Lips|on the cheek]] in Chapter 17 of The Faerie's Ruin.

* [[Suddenly-Suitable Suitor]]: Near the end of the Lost Desert Plot, the [[Loveable Rogue|street thief]] Nabile is revealed to have royal blood. This is thanks to her resemblance to a picture of a princess, which just happens to be on the wall in the room where Jazan and Princess Amira are about to be wed. Nabile then declares her love for Jazan and they get married instead.

* [[Taken for Granite]]: The Faerie's Ruin started when the Faeries were all turned to stone during their festival. Other characters were also petrified as the plot progressed.

* [[Wham! Episode]]: The Faerie's Ruin, Chapters 13 and 16.

* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]]: The Angry Orange Yurble -- a foreman (and later, a chef) in the Lost Desert plot, a janitor in the Altador plot and a Librarian in the Faerie's Ruin plot.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: {{spoiler|Xandra}}. Surprisingly, she actually has some valid points. We eventually find out Lord Darigan is one, as well.

** When contrasted with Meridell's [[Fat Idiot|excuse for a ruler]], Lord Darigan looks like a [[Big Good]]. At least he doesn't make up stupid things like a Marrow Tax.

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