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* [[Aerith and Bob]]: Character names range from normal names like Lucy, Jake, and Rosie to names like Meerouladen and Prytariel. Alien Aishas and Grundos have a tendency to be Aeriths.

* [[Affably Evil]]: Dr. Sloth, the first major villain in site history, is very affable despite his plans for world domination! It really sets him apart from [[Complete Monster|Lord Kass]] and the like.

* [[Alpha Bitch]]: The Faerie and Fire Cybunnies in the Neopedia article for the Cybunny Beauty Contest.

* [[Amusing Injuries]]

* [[Dung Fu]]: Battle Dung, and its variations.

* [[Dyson Sphere]]: [[Genius Bonus|Once you realize it]], [http://items.jellyneo.net/?go=item&showitem=18922 this item].

** 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.

* [[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.

* [[The Fantastic Trope of Wonderous Titles]]: Prof. Milton Clodbottle's Astounding Habitarium

** Super Happy Icy Fun Snow Shop

* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: Lost Desert = [[Ancient Egypt]]; Altador = [[Ancient Grome|Ancient Greece/Rome]]; Shenkuu = [[Far East]]. Tyrannia probably counts as [[Prehistoria|Pangaea]], too.

** Meridell (and Brightvale to an extent) = Medieval England.

* [[The Good King]]: King Altador.

* [[Gotta Catch Em All]]: Avatars

** Impossible too for most new users, as some of the avatars were plot rewards and thus unattainable.

* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Rarely done in-universe, but is pretty much necessary for the Neoboards due to the strict filters. Saying "hell" can occasionally get you a warning.

** Many of the secret avatars can be this, especially the ones that are gotten at random. One avatar in particular took almost 2 years to figure out the solution.

* [[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.

* [[Humans Are Bastards]]: 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.

* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Pretty much anyone who even enters the Battledome, as well as the NPCs within it.

* [[Ingesting Knowledge]]: It's just a way to keep prices up and intelligence stats coveted, but books mysteriously disappear when you read them to your pet.

* [[An Interior Designer Is You]]: Neohomes.

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: ''"Skeith plus Zafara equals... Ixi??"'' It's actually rarer at times to see family members of the ''same'' species.

* [[Mordor]]: The Darigan Citadel.

* [[Nerf]]: Rarely ever happens, but when it does, it really screws with you.

** 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]].

* [[Never Say Die]]: Averted.

* [[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.

** Inverted with the Lost Desert Plot. See the example for [[Suddenly Suitable Suitor]].

** 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]].

* [[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]].

** 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.

* [[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.

* [[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 [http://www.wacky-packages.org/neopets/Tatsu.htm Tatsus] apparently rose from an even earlier design called the [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.

* [[Pirate]]: Krawk Island

* [[Player-Generated Economy]]: and how!

* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]: The Darkest Faerie; Sloth in the Space Faerie's token. {{spoiler|Xandra.}}

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

* [[Significant Anagram]]: Eliv Thade, whose spirit haunts a castle: Evil/Vile Death/Hated. Appropriately enough, the game featuring him centers around anagrams. Also: the Sword of Skardsen/Darkness, Grimoire of Thade/Death, Amulet of Thilg/Light, and Shield of Pion Troect/Protection.

* [[Shout Out]]: Many. To list a few:

** The [http://images.neopets.com/items/petpet_robo_griefer.gif Griefer Petpet] seems [[Star Wars|oddly]] [[Hero Killer|familiar]]...

*** [http://items.jellyneo.net/images/olditems/navibot.gif The Navibot] looks [[Mega Man (Video Game)|familiar, too]]...

** 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!"]]

** The "Kougra:[[Zero Wing|Cats"]] shopkeeper bears a [[Whole Costume Reference|certain resemblance]] to a certain Zero Wing character...

** And, as mentioned above, the curious case of the Bruces...

* [[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.

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

** Considering that there are games in which you play as a ''Petpetpet''?

* [[Widget Series|Weird American/Welsh Site]]: Although the plots tend to be a bit more [[Cerebus Syndrome|serious]], the site itself has a LOT of weirdness. And that's why we love it.

* [[Word of God]]: The Editorial section of the Neopian Times is used for this.

* [[Batman Gambit]]: In the Fairies' Ruin plot, {{spoiler|Hanso's false betrayal to Xandra. He even drags his conflict with Brynn into it as a fake motivator}}.

* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Between {{spoiler|Brynn}} and {{spoiler|Hanso}}.

** In the first Meridell Plot, [[Your Mileage May Vary|users argue]] to this day as to whether [[Adipose Rex|King Skarl]] or [[Noble Demon|Lord Darigan]] is this, although since Darigan's side had legitimate grievances against Meridell, [[Light Is Not Good|Skarl]] is the most likely candidate. That is, until the [[Diabolus Ex Machina]] ended with Lord Darigan being forced into a [[Face Heel Turn]]. Regardless, Skarl [[Karma Houdini|got away with no real retribution]].

* [[Big Good]]: Again, plots often have their own Big Goods, such as [[Knight in Shining Armor|Jeran]] and {{spoiler|[[Good All Along|Lord]] [[Dark Is Not Evil|Darigan]]}} from the [[Medieval European Fantasy|Meridell]] wars; The Keeper of Time from Hannah and the Ice Caves; King Kelpbeard from Curse of Maraqua; the deceased King Coltzan from [[Shifting Sand Land|the Lost Desert]]; and King Altador from [[Ancient Grome|Altador]] and The Faeries' Ruin.

* [[Expy]]: The Robot Yurble from the Return of Dr. Sloth plot, an expy of the recurring Orange Yurble.

* [[Fake Defector]]: Hanso.

** They manage to sneak this into the newer plots from time to time.

** ''[http://images.neopets.com/faerieland/crash_fede37c686.jpg THIS]'' ('''HUGE''' spoiler, and you might [[Wham Episode|need an extra pair of underpants afterward]]) Undoubtly a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for, not only {{spoiler|Xandra}}, but the entire site in general.

* [[Face Palm]]: Brynn does this in the first comic of The Faerie's Ruin.

* [[For the Evulz]]: Pretty much every major villain including the famous Dr Sloth.

** However, many plot villains have deeper motives. Razul seemed to be after [[Immortality]] and was [[Immortality Immorality|willing to do ''anything'' to achieve it]]; Kass is driven by vengeance, [[Ambition Is Evil|ambition]] and [[Greed]]; Scarblade seems to have an unknown vendetta agisnt Maraqua; Galem is after the Heart of the Mountain due to his own Greed; The Darkest Faerie is another overly-ambitious character... Honestly, Sloth and the Bringer of Night are the only ones who count. And maybe Krawley.

* [[The Glasses Come Off]]: Xandra loses hers when things go bad {{spoiler|and she reveals herself as the villain}}. Lampshaded by Hanso when he's taunting her, saying she might be able to aim better if she put them back on. And then again when they're offered as a prize, where the item description says that Xandra and {{spoiler|the villain}} [[Clark Kenting|can't be the same person because one wears glasses and the other doesn't]].

** Lord Darigan is a… complicated example of this. A fitting example of [[Dark Is Not Evil]], Lord Darigan's people lived in [[Perfect Pacifist People|peace and prosperity]] before [[Light Is Not Good|Meridell]] stole the [[MacGuffin|Orb]]. As a result, Lord Darigan became a [[Noble Demon]], as did most of his people. Ultimately, the Citadel ended up winning the war due to an odd combination of [[Evil Is Cool]], [[The Woobie]] and [[Good All Along]].

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Hanso}}.

* [[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.

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

* [[Never Say Die]]: Averted.

* [[Not So Stoic]]: {{spoiler|After the others are freed from stone, they happen upon Brynn crying next to a petrified Hanso. Of all people, [[Sour Supporter|Jazan]] is the one who appears to be the most upset}}.

** That's probably because [[Fridge Logic|he's imagining how he would've felt if Nabile would've been petrified.]]

* [[Official Couple]]: Jazan and Nabile from The Lost Desert plot, Brynn and Hanso from The Faeries' Ruin plot.

* [[Pink Means Feminine]]: Dropped to avoid risk of limiting their appeal.

* [[Pixel Hunt]]: Since we're already under the "plots" category, ONE WORD: Altador.

* [[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.

* [[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]].

** Considering how [[Ship to Ship Combat|hardcore]] some shippers can get, some people started straight-up [[Parental Marriage Veto]]-ing those two.

*** Razul did a [[Kill the Cutie|veto]] of his own.

{{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.

* [[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.

* [[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).

** 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.

* [[You Fight Like a Cow|You Fight Like A Kau]]: One of the steps in The Faerie's Ruin involves Hanso (you) insulting {{spoiler|Xandra}}. One of the achievements for this step even has this as the description.