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''[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 -- iNeopian—i.e., an owner -- withowner—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 -- buydo—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.
 
Neopets has a lot of fiction: encyclopedia articles, short stories, a rich world, comics, game premises, and ongoing [[Story Arc|Story Arcs]]s (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 -- videofranchise—video games have been released, as well as [[Nickelodeon]] shorts and a breakfast cereal. Neopets also provides a simple, efficient way of advertising -- sponsoradvertising—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]].
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For Neopets' spin-off game, ''[[Treasure Keepers]]'', go [[Treasure Keepers|here]].
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=== ''[[Neopets]]'' provides examples of: ===
 
* [[Absolutely Happened]]: Inverted; there's "no such thing as [[Level Ate|Jelly World]]." Veterans and noobs alike simply ''adore'' screwing with newbies this way.
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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, apparently -- Neopiansapparently—Neopians can purchase Blumaroo meat, Elephante trunks, Snorkle snouts?
** 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|Lovable Rogues]]s/[[Noble Demon|Noble Demons]]s to deal with them.
* [[Creepy Doll]]: Malevolent Sentient Poogle Plushies.
** As well as Malevolent Sentient Plushie Poogles.
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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|Wholesome Crossdressers]]s, though a few handwave it by saying they're being labbed, which sometimes has the side effect of changing their gender.
** 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 Bastardsthe Real Monsters]]: The Haunted Woods Plot gives a Neopet equivalent of this trope, showing the Neovians as moral cowards who only know to find someone to blame for the malicious potion effect on their bodies and psychology. It is also the reason Sophie is determined to stay away from the town as a lone swamp witch. Granted, Neopets is supposed to be a kid-friendly website!
* [[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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** "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|Fantasy Counterpart Cultures]]s 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…
* [[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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* [[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. <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?"
* [[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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=== Plots provide examples of: ===
* [[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 [[Neopets]] is a textbook example of this. Despite being an [[Obviously Evil]] [[Bat Out of Hell]], he was in fact a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] who was trying to take backwhat rightfully belonged to his people from [[Light Is Not Good|Meridell]] and their [[Jerkass]] ruler, [[Fat Idiot|King Skarl]]. However, even though [[Yank the Dog's Chain|his side won]], their land wasn't restored, and [[Diabolus Ex Machina|he underwent a]] [[Face Heel Turn]] out of nowhere. Then, when he returned, he defeated [[Dragon Ascendant|Lord]] [[Complete Monster|Kass]] and saved Meridell. You'd think he'd be in the Gallery of Heroes now, right? Nope! He's STILL in the Gallery Of Evil and considered a villain, while Skarl is [[Karma Houdini|in the Gallery of Heroes despite being the guy who's at fault for all of that!]]
* [[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}} -- whose—whose description is "Too soon?"
* [[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 Yurble -- aYurble—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.
* [[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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