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Starting in 2010, The Role Play was originally called [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Virtual Battling]], as its purpose was simply a thread where the forum members could engage in fights. Since then, it somehow evolved from a random battle thread with no plot and light-hearted humor to an [[Cerebus Syndrome|epic story with]] numerous arcs and villains. To put this in perspective, the Role Play started off with characters fighting nerds and licensed characters from other media, to a clone destroying the world in an attempt to become a god, to elaborate space battles, and dramas including slavery and rape.

* [[Alcohol-Induced Idiocy]]: Ebony drank [[Up to Eleven|six bottles of vodka]]. [[Hilarity Ensues|It doesn't end well.]]

* [[All Myths Are True]]: ...but few are accurate. Every god of Human Mythology was actually an immensely powerful sorcerer. Interestingly enough, the one to first use this idea in the KG wasn't a troper. Also, many mythological and supernatural creatures are real, with good explanation. Generally.

{{quote|'''Poly Awesome: '''I have control of *glitch* I have control of entire tower. *all lights in the tower turn off* I have all information in tower. He. He. He. He. Can Heroes *glitch* Can Heroes defeat me? I am only AI with no physical body can Heroes defeat me? *a computer in the tower explodes* How can Heroes defeat what they cannot touch? Can Heroes find mole in tower whom uploaded me? He. He. He.}}

* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Some characters have [[Plot Armor]], and some never lose it. Those that don't have it....{{spoiler|One killed off his main character Nikolai , and almost all of the rest of his characters at the time.}}

** More recently, seithr has been used in the creation of more [[Magitek|outlandish devices]].

* [[Artifact of Doom]]: From [[MacGuffin]] to [[Animate Inanimate Object|sentient Cubes]].

* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: Michael, a fan of the fiction from another dimension was brought to the universe that is the main setting of the RP for yet unrevealed reasons.

* [[Attack Drone]]: The Tower has multiple defense robots.

* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: The first [[Big Bad]] is actually named Awesome.

* [[Badass Adorable]]: Flora, a lovable thirteen year old girl, is able to transform into an emotionless, reality warping cyborg.

** Nikolai, before the parasite within him forced him to get prosthetic limbs.

** Xavier, who has no powers to speak of.

* [[Energy Weapon]]: Used very often, one of the most prominent examples being [[Mega Man Zero|Zero's]] [[Laser Blade|Z-Saber]]. These generally tend to be realistic, but some simply run off [[Rule of Cool]].

* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: Virtual Battling included multiple characters from other media and was overall far sillier and cartoony than [[P Da KG]]. Characters also were either exaggerated or had far more Out of Character Moments.

'''Zero''': *punches a moogle* }}

* [[Extra Ore Dinary]]: Lotus, Isaac, and Aleph.

* [[Finagle's Law]]: The characters themselves lampshade this, though they know it as it Murphy's Law. See It Got Worse below.

* [[Genki Girl]]: Rouku. Giant demon attacking the Tower? Fighting off a known psychopath? Got [[Mind Rape|seriously messed up by Cthulhu]]? Not going to stop her sentences from ending with a "♥".

* [[Genre Savvy]]: [[Ascended Fanboy|Michael]], [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|dangerously so.]] Villain, as well as a large portion of the Main Cast.

* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: Rawk has these when he enters Blood Kain.

* [[The Grim Reaper]]: Adalwolfa was ''the'' Grim Reaper, but rarely took her job seriously and was eventually fired for slacking off.

{{quote|'''Villain:''' Hello Bitches.}}

* [[Humongous Mecha]]: An unnamed 200m (656 feet) tall Battle Mech. Owned by [[Gadgeteer Genius|Mia]], hidden in her [[Pocket Dimension]], but yet unused.

* [[Inevitable Tournament]]: The Tournament of the Shooting Stars. Deliberately invoked.

* [[Infant Immortality]]: Averted hard.

* [[It Got Worse]]: Never, ''never'' ask the question, "What's the worst that can happen?" Because [[Murphy's Law|Murphy]] ''will'' answer.

* [[Kick Them While They Are Down]]: Done to Rawk by {{spoiler|Will, Masaru, and Alessio}}. Possibly justified, however, because {{spoiler|he had just allowed a stranger to enter the Tower, done very little to help keep Gaenor from being kidnapped, and ignored a heavily injured Rie in favor of going on a date}}.

* [[Knight Templar Parent]]: Rawk to Flora. She was once called a slut by her former owner. Rawk proceeded to strangle a sizable portion of the man's army. With a ''[[Up to Eleven|spinal]] [[Improbable Weapon User|column]]''.

* [[Literal Split Personality]]: Rawk had ten, complete with unique names, appearances, and personalities. {{spoiler|Averted, however, in that they are really souls which use his body as an anchor.}}

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Over 40 and counting!

* [[The Mafia]]: Rawk and Will both used to be members of the Galactic Mafia.

* [[A Magic Contract Comes with a Kiss]]: Ada's [[Shout-Out|Pactio]] [[Mahou Sensei Negima|system]] runs off of this.

* [[Meta Mecha]]: Mia's armor system's operate off a "Layer" system, with Layer 1 being the basic system that is stored in her bones. Layer 2 is a suit of armor attached on top of her existing armor, and Layer 3's, yet unused, are Mech's piloted by her lower layer.

* [[Mundane Made Awesome]]: Rawk, Will, Masaru, and Alessio took the ''removal of shirts'' and turned it into a spectacle involving low grade explosives and [[Bishie Sparkle|a lot of]] [[Invoked Trope|silver glitter]].

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Kaine, Omega, Demon Awesome, and Big Brother.

** {{spoiler|Alessio and Ebony}} had one just before the largest [[Beach Episode]].

** {{spoiler|Will and Mia}} had theirs recently, though it's debatable how much has really changed.

* [[Shapeshifter Baggage]]: Averted in most cases, as Nayru and a few others require extra (water, biomass etc) to become larger, and shed it to become smaller. The Cubes are explained in that they are basically energy.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Way too many to count....

** Nayru and Zero are character shout outs, referencing [[The Legend of Zelda]] and [[Mega Man Zero]] respectively. Ebony's race is from the [[Elder Scrolls]] Universe.

** Lotus's Holy Knight outfit is a shout out to [[Final Fantasy IX|Beatrix]]. Her magical abilities mainly come from Final Fantasy IX and [[Final Fantasy Tactics]].

{{quote|[[Soul Series|"Souls... Come unto me!"]]}}

* [[Storming the Castle]]: When the Heroes invade Awesome's Tower.

* [[The Power of the Sun]]: Diana/Delta. Her most(?) powerful attack involved creating a massive star many times the size of Earth's Sun. And causing it to go supernova.

* [[They Do]]: {{spoiler|Rawk and Crystal}} are now engaged.

* [[Transforming Mecha]]: '''Genesis Eternal''' (The bold lettering being an official part of the name.) Originally a fighter craft known as the Utter Bastard, it was reworked by Mia and Will into one of these.

* [[Troperiffic]]: Half the people involved in the story are avid tropers, so this is expected. Many times tropes are [[Subverted Trope|subverted]], [[Invoked Trope|invoked]] and [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]].