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[[Gaiden Game|Sequel spinoff]] to ''[[Kamen Rider: Hour of the Void]]'', set [[Exty Years From Now|sixty years later]] in a slightly alternate reality. Yet another play-by-IRC on Rizon, this one using <nowiki>#RideAloneComplex</nowiki> and DM'ed by the [[Blatant Lies|illustrious]] [[Power Perversion Potential|Haken_Browning]] of Team Phantom Tiger and /m/erotica fame, it serves as a testbed for the [http://utohpia.pbworks.com/w/page/33038675/FrontPage uTOHpia] [[Toku]]-themed e-splat for ''[[Mutants and Masterminds]]'' (itself drafted by those KRV players carrying over to RAC who mourned the loss of the system in its shift to near-pure freeform).
 
RAC functions more as a "Good End" to the previous game (when it isn't busy reading more like [[Author Tract|a scathing in-character critique thereof]]); the heroes won, and some serious efforts on [[Idiosyncratic Ship Naming|FangOreo's]] part have brought [[Kamen Rider Kuuga|Grongi]], [[Kamen Rider Kiva|Fangires]], [[Kamen Rider Faiz|Orphenochs]], and [[Kamen Rider Kabuto|Worms]] [[Five Races|out into society under their own power]] - especially Fangires, with a FangOreo-backed Development & Pioneer engineering a [[Life Energy]] feeding substitute (and Coca-Cola [[Expy]]) known as FN-TAU.
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Find it [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/34299673/FrontPage here.]
 
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=== As usual, tropes referring specifically to one character's assets go on the [[Ride Alone Complex/Characters|character sheet]]. Anyway, Ride Alone Complex provides examples of: ===
 
* [[Age-Appropriate Angst]]: [[Zig Zagged]] with Kenoko. Counting summers, she's 78 years old, but she's still 18 years old physically due to having an unaging body. She angsts ''about'' the fact that most of her old friends are gone with the ''attitude'' of an 18-year-old. Michelle, on the other hand, subverts it, by acting like a nineteen-year-old girl who is having too much fun.
** Please note that Michelle is a 97-year-old Showaborg who looks like she's about one-third her actual age. That would give most 97-year-old women a reason to act like that.
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** Now including Saki and Stuart (two people from Kenoko's past), and the recently-Showaborg'd Miyami (one person from Kenoko's present.)
* [[Author Appeal]]: One for every contributor, it seems:
** [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|Haken]]: [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] of practically every sort (particularly to [[Play StationPlayStation]] 1/2-era video games). Also [[Yuri Fanboy]] and [[Ethical Hedonist]] (mostly [[Ethical Slut]]) of the highest order.
** [[Almighty Janitor|Athon]]: [[Subverted Trope|Subverting expectations]] and [[Surprisingly Good English]] for one of the game's two Brazillian players.
** [[Bromantic Foil|Advent]]: [[Yuri Fanboy]] with romantic twist.
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** [[Badass Biker]]: [[Biker Babe|Kenoko primarily.]]
** [[Badass Bookworm]]: Akebara.
*** On the metascale, Axel and Raven are type-2 [[Vitriolic Best Buds]] who turn into [[Badass Bookworm|Badass Bookworms]]s if you screw with the other one. Actually, that describes [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Axel's attitude]] [[Big Brother Instinct|towards most of the other players]].
** [[Badass Bystander]]: Xander.
** [[Badass Grandma]]: Haruka, Yukari, Kaoru, and Aelita. (Akebara, Kenoko, and Michelle, in spite of the age, lack the temperament that goes with it.)
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** [[Badass Teacher]]: Aelita.
** [[Colonel Badass]]: Haruka.
** [[Little Miss Badass]]: Haru, Ake, and Aelita [[BadassLittle LolitaMiss Badass|sort of]].
** [[Submissive Badass]]: Off-duty Haruka, considering the whole [[Gravity Master|Sirknight]] [[Badass|Fangire]] [[The Power of Love|thing]].
** [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: Pretty much everyone in KRV that didn't carry over is understood to have done so ([[Reality Subtext|even if Kenoko]] [[Role -Ending Misdemeanor|wasn't around to see it]]). Even [[Idiot Houdini|Aoki]].
*** [[Author's Saving Throw|To some people's disgust.]]
* [[Beat Panel]]: Axel uses it in his writing style, often simply saying [[Visible Silence|"beat".]]
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leads to [[I Have Many Names]] when he's playing in a different game that uses "nickup" rules - "Xiaohu", "Wei_Angxian", and "Fionna" are all Axel as well.
* [[Blatant Lies]]: Everything Tomoe says to Kenoko in [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/Lion%2C-Hopper this scene]. [[Love Makes You Dumb|And Kenoko believes every word.]]
* [[Brick Joke]]: Invoked continuously and furiously by Haken and Axel regarding discarded or swerved-away elements from [[Kamen Rider: Hour of the Void|their]] [[Super Robot Wars G|prior]] [[Musou Verse|games]].
* [[Broken Bird]]: Kenoko's defining trope pre-Calibur, and one Haruka swerves into in places during Week 03. Then there's Henne Valkyria, whose spontaneous ejections of Raven Orphenoch feathers make it a bit too literal.
* [[Casual Danger Dialogue]]: Pink Lemonade do it - but then they're really allowed to, being a [[Game Breaker|Game Breaking]] proto-[[Battle Couple]] of [[Genius Bruiser|Genius,]] [[Lightning Bruiser|Lightning Bruisers]]s.
* [[Charm Person]]: This is Akebara's signature non-Rider power. {{spoiler|As she explains to Haru, everything about her is carefully calculated to evoke this.}}
* [[Come with Me If You Want to Live]]: Haruka's tapping of Kenoko for JUNKER amounts to this, because Kenoko is suffering [[Phlebotinum Breakdown]].
* [[Cool Bike]]: [[Captain Obvious|This being]] [[Kamen Rider]], but Kenoko's Jet Sliger really stands out, given that it can ''drive through the air'' (literally; road appears in the air in the manner of [[Kamen Rider Den-O|the Denliner]]).
** Vincent's MultiRunner/ViRunner has four forms: One street-level, one that can [[Ramming Always Works|Ramming Speed]], one with twin [[BFG|BFGs]]s, and one that can [[Time Travel]] whilst going ludicrously fast... [[Yu-Gi-Oh!|By using cards to power it up.]]
* [[Cool Car]]: Akebara's [[wikipedia:Pontiac Firebird|1978 Pontiac Firebird]], which she uses in the manner of [[Revolutionary Girl Utena|Akio's Car]]. Ake talks to it to the point of [[Cargo Ship]], too.
* [[Couch Gag]] and/or [[Evolving Credits]]: The workspace's main page often changes, having things struck out and shuffled about as the situation in-character changes.
* [[Creator Breakdown]]: Well, it was bound to happen [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/41468551/Meet%20The%20JUNKERs%20-%20The%20Note%20Page sooner or later]:
{{quote| '''Haken:''' So we got a little more in-depth about this entire mess last night, and we've come to the conclusion that it wasn't [[Don't Make Me Destroy You|Couch]] that was right, but [[Small Name, Big Ego|Gue]]. Furthermore, I have [[He Who Fights Monsters|become Gue]]. Guys. Help me change back. Please.}}
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] (initially [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]): Akebara acts like this at times, being extremely familiar with the Rider Wars of the past. The only problem is that most of the information was imparted to her by [[Unreliable Narrator|Wyll]].
* [[Dare to Be Badass]]: Akebara, to Rebecca, during their first meeting. Which is ironic, because she was on her way to fulfill such a dare from Wyll at the time.
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* [[Dramatic Ellipsis]]: Kenoko and Akebara's player (best known as Axel) is ''really prone to this''. [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on results.
* [[Face Palm]]: Wyll does one in-character when the [[Chewing the Scenery|Proto Driver]] mispronounces the [[Kamen Rider ZX|ZX]] henshin as "Zed-Ex" - it's meant to be "Zeh-Cross". Kenoko is also occasionally fond of them.
* [[Fever Dream Episode]]: [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/I%27m-Still-In-A-Dream Haruka slogging through] [[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater|The Sorrow's river]], accosted by [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|KRV's Maya vi Inoue]] and saved only though the intervention of her fellow Riders and some Cobra Unit Emotion Gaia Memory weirdness. {{spoiler|Initially intended as foreshadowing for a potential [[Mid-Season Upgrade]], but A) [[Ironic Echo|Axel bitched backstage about the idea of Haruka having a Midseason Upgrade]], and B) the [[Parasite Eve]]-themed upgrade that [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/Moment-of-Humanity Haruka eventually settled on] had better [[Brick Joke]] value.}}
* [[Firing One-Handed]]: Oh how very mocked by Korin and Aelita in [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/Smart-Brains-And-Sagarcs-Butt-Heads the former's Faiz initiation duel]:
{{quote| '''Psyga!Aelita:''' *following Korin missing with Single Mode* Rule Number 1: One-handed shooting is for [[Gangsta Style|gangstas]] and faggots. Don't be either!<br />
''(Psyga's Flying Attacker flips into Blaster Rifle mode)''<br />
'''Aelita:''' Corollary 1A! Underslung weapons are just plain ridiculous! ''(lets loose with BURST MODE...and misses)''<br />
'''Faiz!Korin:''' [[Self-Demonstrating Article]], Aelita-san! }}
* [[First-Name Basis]]: Kenoko with everybody because that's just how she is. Akebara's own habit (barring calling Kenoko [[Senpai KouhaiSempai-Kohai|Senpai]]) seems like a mistake (being born and raised in Japan), until you realise she was taught by Wyll, [[Fridge Brilliance|who isn't Japanese to begin with.]]
* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Much of Axel's writing style seems to rely on it - for example, Nigo's threats to the FangOreo are more [[Narm]] than anything... until you find out that Nigo is just everything Kenoko represses, and she was never any good at making threats.
** Also Wyll's themesongs - the out-of-universe [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j0g2oG_w2g Throw Your Arms Around Me], a bittersweet [[Anti-Love Song]] about a one-night stand, and the in-universe [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaxuDUcu55M Scott Pilgrim-by-Plumtree] that he uses as his alarm clock - the given themesong of an apparent [[Non-Action Guy]] who is in fact a dangerous fighter and has a reputation as a [[The Charmer|ladykiller]].
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* [[Hollywood Healing]]: Averted in Axel's writing style - when his characters get hurt, it shows until they heal (though Kenoko has [[Healing Factor]]). {{spoiler|The fact that Xander manages to [[Walk It Off|walk off a broken arm]] is [[Foreshadowing]] of his status as a Native.}}
* [[Ho Yay]]: Axel and Haken, according to some members of the fanbase - mostly the people who see Axel as [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]].
* [[Improbably-Fundamentally Female Cast]]: There are... what, 3 male PCs and one male DMPC? And then there's so damn many female characters that it'll hurt too much to count them.
** Thankfully manages to avert the girls-only [[Competence Zone]] that plagued its predecessor.
** With the addition of three new male PCs (Masaki, Joe, and Adriel), this is starting along the path to being less than accurate.
* [[Ignore the Fanservice]]: Axel elevates this to the level of [[Crowning Moment of Indifference]] when Haken propositions him (or rather, his characters). Ironic given that he's playing [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant|Akebara.]]
* [[In -Joke]]: Wyll calls the [[Trademark Favorite Food|Kinder Surprises]] he gets for Aelita "suicide capsules", which is only funny if you know Axel personally ([[Weaksauce Weakness|he's hypoglycemic]] [[Write Who You Know|and so are two of his characters]]).
* [[Indy Ploy]]: Ake declares that she will do this in [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/35161948/Ake-Gets-Grilled this session].
** Also Raven and Axel's preferred method of strategy, with Raven preferring a [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|relaxed approach]] whereas Axel [[Magnificent Bastard|switches plans at the speed of light.]] Tends to cause massive amounts of frustration when one of his plans is blocked only for him to use the blocking method [[Xanatos Speed Chess|as leverage for something else.]]
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* [[Large Ham]]: The majority of Haken's characters. Yes, even Aelita.
** The Proto Driver is this in the Pink Lemonade preludes. [[Word of God]] is that Wyll toned it down for RAC proper.
{{quote| Proto Driver: >>[[Say My Name|KIIIIIIIIIIIIIING COOOOOOBRRRAAAAAAAA]]<<}}
* [[Last Girl Wins]]: Used as an almost-cruel subversion of [[First Girl Wins]] - after doing a [[Ship Tease]] (and then some) with Alice and [[Ho Yay|Alex]] for all of KRV (plus some playful flirting with [[Pair the Smart Ones|Haruka]] and more serious attempts with [[Will They or Won't They?|Faruko]])... Wyll apparently ends up with Aelita.
** Played more of its own accord with Kenoko settling with Rebecca after all of her KRV relationships wind up irrevocably burnt. (Excepting maybe Haruka, but then she's already married and constantly barred from using [[Charm Person]] to set the mood.)
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*** And then, Korin turns out to be pseudo-tsundere for Xander. The entire situation gets talked out and has a thorough [[Lampshade Hanging]] when [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/38924157/Observing-Hypercubes Xander and Korin go over it.]
** Kenoko actively averts a love triangle situation between herself, Becca, and newcomer [[New Old Flame|Saki]] [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/35950947/More-LionHill-Pillowtalk when she realises the trope could come into play].
* [[Major Injury Underreaction]]: Kenoko does this in her introduction chapter, being blown up and [[Incendiary Exponent|set on fire]] by a robot monster. Not only does she ignore it, she ''[[Smoking Is Cool|chains her smoke off the robot's burning corpse]]''.
* [[Mauve Shirt]]: Rebecca basically starts as this, turns out to be [[Crazy Awesome]], and gets an instant promotion to main character.
** And still more on the way, as [[Ascended Extra|the extras from the Preludes just keep on Ascending]].
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* [[Nerds Are Sexy]]: Haruka and Wyll.
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: Not any specific character (barring Haruka, of course), but ''the setting itself''.
** DM'S NOTE: The official line is "[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha|Nanoha StrikerS]] meets [[Shadowrun]] meets [[Kamen Rider]]".
*** The official line seems to have been refined to "[[Touhou Project]] meets [[Kamen Rider]]" by the middle of Week 04: everyone not on the "Evil" chunk of the alignment chart is friendly to one another, even when they're tearing into each other with vicious debates and/or henshin firepower that pushes M&M's limits.
* [[No Ending]]: Cancelled right after the gigantic clusterfuck of a Christmas feast thanks to the new hires being insufferable to schedule around. [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/Kill-Notice Haken's postscript] indicates the original ending plans involved [[Trash the Set|making QUITE the mess of the set]].
* [[Out with a Bang]]: How room got cleared out for the crew's new Kuuga:
{{quote| '''Haken:''' Oh no, this isn't [[Author's Saving Throw|an appeasement thing.]] [[Rule of Funny|This is just me finding Aoki being fucked to death hilarious.]]}}
* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: Mostly to do with talking Devices and attacks, co-opting KRV's [[Depending on the Writer|on-again, off-again]] tradition of TV-Nihon [[Rainbow Speak]]:
** Punchy's speech is written <nowiki>{{LIKE THIS}}</nowiki>.
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** Now confirmed {{spoiler|[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/Equinox-of-Insanity at least for the latter], Haruka ragequitting KRV explicitly cited as the reason the RAC timeline exists as is}}.
* [[The Power of Love]]: Wyll and Ake believe heavily in it.
* [[Pungeon Master]]: Haken himself, and his penchant for [[Multiple Reference Pun|Multiple Reference Puns]]s. To wit:
** Haruka, the resident [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]], who's more or less an [[Revolutionary Girl Utena|Utena]] [[Pokémon|Gardevoir]] [[Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker|Strangelove]] wearing [[Phantasy Star Portable|Ursula Replica]] and [[Final Fantasy VIII|wielding a Do Anything Gunblade]].
** Aelita, who's shifted from being the [[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater|The Boss]] to Haruka's Strangelove to being the Laguna to her Squall - not to mention the [[Tron Lines]].
** Jack, the mecha otaku with a name recycled from Haken's [[Kamen Rider Dragon Knight|Torque backup]] for KRV (in and of itself an approximation of [[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater|Naked Snake's real name]]) and a personality/demeanor that can best be described as [[Zettai Hero Project|"Pirohiko Ichimonji without the dying right off the bat"]].
** Korin being some blender of [[Persona 3]]'s original red-headed Takeba (whose given name is [[One Steve Limit|being hijacked by Yukari]]), the [[Meganekko]] of the same name from the [[Hentai]] ''Nightmare Campus'', and a fuzzy mix of the [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]] regulars of ''[[Code Geass]]''.
** Even the [[Mauve Shirt|Mauve Shirts]]s get a turn; Zu-[[Mazinger Z|Gara-Da]] [[Pokémon|"Gary" Oku]] managing to earn a [[Memetic Mutation|"MOTHERFUCKING"]] between his first and last names, and Ivan [[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon|Pupurin]] straddling the line between [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] and [[Ax Crazy]].
** And then there's Wyll's [[Addiction Displacement]], itself a [[Stealth Pun]] that relies on [[Genius Bonus]] and was never picked up in either KRV or RAC until Axel realised that he'd forgotten to and explained it OOC. Wyll smokes self-rolled lemongrass cigarettes. [[wikipedia:Cymbopogon#Anti-cancer properties|Citral, found in lemongrass, causes apotosis in cancerous cells in sufficient quantities.]] [[Don't Explain the Joke|So Wyll is smoking anti-cancer cigarettes.]]
* [[Rage Quit]]: Casualties so far include [[Yuri Fanboy|XAN]] and [[Guest Star Party Member|Couch]].
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** Not meta example: Miyuki's [[Highly-Visible Ninja]] status.
** Back on the meta scale: Hakenruka's assortment of character body pillows (ostensibly for those nights when Haruka can't have the real deal), pulled out with each IRC signoff. Usually a point of contention, but [[Actually Pretty Funny]] when the right [[Snark Bait]] is laid:
{{quote| '''Haken:''' *pulling out a Royce bodypillow*<br />
'''Axel:''' You could have picked something with a little more class.<br />
'''Haken:''' That would [[Ship Tease|leave you without]] [[Hot for Teacher|an Aelita pillow]].<br />
'''Axel:''' [[Don't Explain the Joke|I like the double-layered 'class' pun.]] }}
* [[Ship Tease]]: Every goddamn Pink Lemonade-centric session.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Oh man, where to begin. Haken and Axel both really like [[Revolutionary Girl Utena]], Wyll's [[Good Guy Bar]] is a Whole-Setpiece-Reference to [[Callahan's Crosstime Saloon|Callahans Crosstime Saloon]], [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/34546625/The-Last-Days-of-SHOCKHOUND The Last Days of SHOCKHOUND] prelude is a whole-title reference to ''[[The Last Days of Foxhound]]'' and a [[Whole-Plot Reference]] to the Laguna portions of ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' (with the awareness caveats of the [[Let's Play|Altimate Rewrite]] version), and another suggested title for it was "The Man With The Proto Driver" (a reference to Laguna's [[Crowning Music of Awesome]] [[Battle Theme Music]], "The Man With The Machine Gun")... [[Four Chan4chan|with]] [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|this]] [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|group]], it's probably not going to stop anytime soon.
** Oh God the [[Hurricane of Puns]] during aforementioned session's final fight: [[Armored Core|Nineball]] gets worn down enough that its AI degrades into that of [[Touhou Project|another (9)]]...only for Aelita to chain its cries of [[This Cannot Be!|"You can't do this to the Strongest!"]] into a riff on [[Kamen Rider Kabuto|Tendou Souji's]] challenge to [[Kamen Rider Stronger|Jo Shigeru]]. One must wonder if it was Wyll calling Aelita a smartass afterwards or [[Reality Subtext|Axel calling Haken one]].
** Given that Wyll is a self-noted super-exaggerated [[Author Avatar]] who has all of Axel's negative traits and none of his positive ones...
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*** Fortunately, ever since Kenoko obtained her [[Mid-Season Upgrade]], she hasn't really had to worry about that.
* [[Taking Up the Mantle]]: My how very [[Deconstructed Trope|Deconstructed]], especially in the wake of later Week 03 Monday sessions and the debut of the new Kuuga.
{{quote| '''Couch/Kouta Tsukamoto:''' Meanwhile, from my standpoint, I'm the new guy. I'm liable to jump to conclusions early on both in and out of character because I -wasn't- there for all the sources of all this bitterness, I just see the aftereffects. So this character's story arc is more about someone who knows in his heart, but can't necessarily articulate, what being a Rider means, and in some cases is likely to know that what he sees isn't it. Thus resulting in more of an externally-driven story arc - reacting to the people around him who've become jaded for one reason or another, attempting to live up to what Kuuga's legacy once was and should be again, and hopefully providing some aid for others in a position to receive it.}}
* [[Talking in Bed]]: Used for the aptly named [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/35468149/KenokOreo-Pillow-Talk Pillow Talk], complete with a [[Lampshade Hanging]].
* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|Wyll is Tenpai.}}
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** That last one leads to a rather hilarious [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]] moment, considering she winds up captured and not killed...
** Axel is guilty of ''requesting'' this, wanting to play anything he stats out (which is why he stats nothing until he's sure he can play it).
** Raven's just as guilty of this too -- Vincenttoo—Vincent was promoted to main character and Luca came into being entirely because he was bored waiting for a bus home a few times.
* [[Turn in Your Badge]]: Invoked by Yukari following Haruka and Ake letting a revitalized Kenoko loose on THI. To say Ake considers it [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished|an insult to Haruka]] would be an understatement.
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Xander and Haru are Type 2.
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*** Diving headfirst by Wednesday of Week 03.
* [[With Friends Like These...]]:
{{quote| '''Haken:''' In a shocking twist, Kenoko's beef with Chiyoko is NOT META AT ALL.<br />
'''Axel:''' ''[[Sarcasm Mode|Thanks.]]'' }}
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Wyll delivers this in the manner of a [[This Is Gonna Suck]] - except the subject matter is the ''[[Monster Hunter]]'' [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs|Velociprey]] and then a [[Our Dragons Are Different|Tigrex]]. (Remember, they're on [[Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker|Isla del Monstruo]] at the time.)
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Now has a [[Film Noir]]-esque [[Darker and Edgier]] [[Alternate Universe]] spinoff, [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/35211635/Hardboiled-Pink-Lemonade Hardboiled Pink Lemonade], set in a [[Crapsack World]] where [[Big Bad|SHOCKER]] [[The Bad Guy Wins|wins]] [[Kill'Em All|and most of the SEES Riders are killed]]. Focuses on [[Knight in Sour Armor|Wyll]] [[Tall, Dark and Snarky|Ascher]] and [[Playful Hacker|Aelita]] [[Action Girl|Schaeffer]], running a [[Private Detective]] agency called [[Mythology Gag|Pink]] [[Title Drop|Lemonade]]. Makes frequent use of the [[Private Eye Monologue]] both to transition between scenes and to let the two characters act seperately while sharing screentime.
 
=== [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/35211635/Hardboiled-Pink-Lemonade Hardboiled Pink Lemonade] provides examples of: ===
 
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Haken [[Lampshade Hanging|hangs a lampshade]] on how [[Film Noir]] everything is in his very first line.
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* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Kenoko, showing what could have happened if her psyche had unbalanced in the other direction - she ran back to [[Big Bad|SHOCKER]], because they wanted her and Tomoe didn't.
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: [[One True Threesome|FangOreo]] end up stuck in the [[Horny Devils|succubus-filled]] caboose of [[Grim Reaper|Django's]] Liner, with the implication that by this stage they've been broken into what amounts to mindless dolls... making Aelita's message even worse (see [[Tear Jerker]] below).
** Not quite: [[Word of God]] calls it a perverse [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]]. Remember, figurative [[Horny Devils]] (written by incorrigible [[Yuri Fanboy|Yuri Fanboys]]s) being uplifted into actual ones and all that.
*** This is something of a case of in-character [[Your Mileage May Vary]], doubling as a [[Continuity Nod]] back to Wyll's fear of loss of self-control.
* [[Film Noir]]: The first thing you'll notice, obviously.
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** Wyll's [[Hand Cannon|weapon]] of [[Revolvers Are Just Better|choice]] is the same model as the too-big-to-use [[Kamen Rider Decade|Daiki]] that Jack toted in [[Rider Quest]].
*** Which causes a rather amusing averted reference to it where Wyll asks if Aelita knows what he likes about it... "[[Compensating for Something|Apart from the obvious]]?" "Actually, [[BFG|pretty much the obvious]]."
** Aelita's use of a [[Cool Guns|Five-seveN]] is a reference to <s>her status in KRV and RAC as [[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater|The Boss]]</s> actually just her being French and needing a spiffy European-made semi-automatic answer to [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Wyll only having five shots to his name at a time]].
** The detective agency takes on the Wyll/Aelita pairing name.
** Wyll and Aelita being a devastatingly competent tagteam was brought up in KRV (and, in fact, was part of Wyll's plans [[Role -Ending Misdemeanor|before he was]] [[Put on a Bus]]), and hinted at briefly in RAC, but here we get to see it at full force.
** Wyll finds a clue that's in hex - a la the binary and hex messages in [[Musou Quest]].
* [[No Name Given]]: The [[Femme Fatale]] who walks into the agency.
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Even after a thorough polishing to remove large swaths of IC natter, the [http://utohpia.pbworks.com/w/page/33038675/FrontPage uTOHpia] e-splat remains quite tropable as its proprietors take on the nuances of M&M2e along with several oddities from RAC, KRV, and even canon Kamen Rider.
 
=== The uTOHpia splat provides examples of: ===
 
* [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other]]: [http://utohpia.pbworks.com/w/page/33550995/Drawbacks,%20Flaws,%20and%20Complications%20-%20Staff%20Commentary You be] [[Ho Yay|the judge.]]
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* [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]]: The splat, while being rooted in Kamen Rider, contains (or will contain) sections dedicated to [[Ultraman]], [[Metal Heroes]], [[Garo]], [[Super Sentai]], [[Power Rangers]], and other more esoteric series, like [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]].
* [[Product Placement]]: Right there on the mainpage... except the "products" are [[Idiosyncratic Ship Naming|named for ships from the primary game.]]
* [[Player Archetypes]]: Somewhat more foggy, but still quite noticeable. Terminal-slash-Axel is [[The Real Man]] and uses a [[Badass Normal]] template in [[Charles Atlas Superpower]] style (check out his feat setups). Haken is [[The Loonie]] and prefers [[Genius Bruiser|Genius Bruisers]]s running thematic variants of the [[Flying Brick]]. Both are [[The Munchkin]] of the highest order, but also have a sense of scale about it.
* [[All the Tropes Will Ruin Your Vocabulary]]: [http://utohpia.pbworks.com/w/page/34191740/Acknowledgments And gain Special Thanks credits for it too].
 
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