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* [[No Fourth Wall]]: Not for Robert, anyway.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: A few references to adventures not shown on screen. This troper's personal favorite is the imagery brought up by this line.
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* [[Powers That Be]]: Several mythical pantheons, the authors, and God. We're still not sure who controls what, or the various levels of power between them. They don't seem to acknowledge each others' existance, though the authors seem more like reality-warpers than actual gods.
* [[Rouge Angles of Satin]]: In particular, then/than confusion.
* [[Running Gag]]: Noel and getting thrown through windows. Robert's terrible luck getting a girlfriend. Mortimer the sludge monster showing up and fighting the Titans every time they get a new member (implied, since it's only been shown to happen twice).
** Three as of Flashing Lights and Sounds, though Nigel's battle with Mortimer was never shown. Also, the entire team preventing themselves from cursing in front of Starfire and her failure at doing it correctly when she does.
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* [[Shout-Out]]: Quite a lot, including some you'd never expect, like Grant Morrison's ''Doom Patrol'' run.
** This troper's favorite, for sheer strangeness, was when a story actually referenced the infamous exploitation film ''I Spit On Your Grave''.
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Gauntlet at times, though he did get [[Bored with Insanity]] when he was put in isolation for observation by the Titans and instead began reciting the ''Illiad''.
* [[Crazy Enough to Work]]: When the Titans need fire to combat Mortimer the sludge creature in ''The Epic of Gauntlet'', Robert solves the problem by having the Titans create a fire tornado... with fire extinguisher fluid.
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'''Gauntlet:''' Simple, old bean. The carbon dioxide from the extinguisher, when mixed with the high octane fuel that most men who are 'small' put in their over-compensatory vehicles, done burns good.
'''Savior:''' No! It doesn't! It's a basic fact of chemistry! Carbon Dioxide is the end result of burning! It doesn't burn! That's why it's in ''fire extinguishers.'' }}
* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Brick. (It's his name for a reason.)
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** Boogeymen IV: John Kramer, AKA the Jigsaw Killer.
* [[Chekhov's Boomerang]]: In Boogeymen IV:
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** It's immediately presented that the Titans had tests to pass... they never thought that the "choices" they'd have to make about teammates could be unrelated.
** Also, {{spoiler|Noel's jacket}} in Boogeymen IV.
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* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]]: {{spoiler|Nightwalker being revealed as a girl in ''Boogeymen II.''}}
* [[Dramatic Gun Cock]]: In BMIV, {{spoiler|Noel}} does this after deciding to go through with the test and reloading the gun.
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'''''(click-clack)'''''
'''Tape''': Live or die by it. }}
* [[Foreign Language Title]]: ''Dolorum Ipsum Quia'' roughly means "sorrow for it's own sake" in Latin.
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*** Also, {{spoiler|when Noel gives the jacket to Starfire, he says, "It still has armor. Hopefully enough, if someone decides to shoot through the door or...something." Why would he assume someone would shoot through the door when there's been only bladed weapons so far... unless he's seen (or even ''has'') one?}}
** This particular subtle example from chapter 4:
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* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Specifically ''Boogeymen III'', which features or will feature just about every horror movie character there was, including one scene where the protagonists are attacked by no less then 100 "slashers" from nearly as many movies. You know the drill.
* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: {{spoiler|Savior's}} [[Always Save the Girl|motive]] for [[Sadistic Choice|betrayal]] in {{spoiler|''Boogeymen IV: Dolorum Ipsum Quia''}}.
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** This happens to Noel again in ''Silent Night'' after rumors spread concerning an offhand compliment he gives to Batgirl concerning her skills in martial arts. The rumor spreads quickly and leads to a lot of dumping on Noel by angered allies.
* [[Take That]]: There's a brief one in ''Silent Night'' against the ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' series.
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== The Cutting Edge ==
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* [[Da Chief]]: Garry Turnquist becomes this after his former chief was dealt with by Cauterize.
* [[Distracted by the Sexy]]: During the story, Terra and Beast Boy are awkwardly avoiding each other/trying to get together. Terra does a strut through the main room of the hotel they're staying at while Beast Boy is playing a videogame against Scalpel.
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'''Beast Boy''': Yeah.
'''Scalpel''': In fact you just lost, I crossed the finish line.
'''Beast Boy''': Good for you.
'''Scalpel''': I just broke your high score you worked on for three months to achieve.
'''Beast Boy''': Great.
'''Scalpel''': You know, I ate someone today.
'''Beast Boy''': Sounds like fun.
'''Scalpel''': (flicks Beast Boy with his metal fingers)
'''Beast Boy''': OW!
'''Scalpel''': Ah, he lives. }}
* [[Everyone Is a Suspect]]: Several people are presented as possibly being Cauterize.
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* [[Rousing Speech]]: When Robin asks Noel to pull one of his motivational speeches out of his ass, Noel gives a speech comparing the Titans' situation of defending Metropolis from an oncoming army of supervillain escapees to the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BCE.
** A speech which was shamelessly swiped, and even stated so:
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'''Savior: '''Don’t thank me, thank Frank Miller. I mostly stole it from him. }}
* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: The {{spoiler|Lord of the Night}} versus Superboy-Prime and Alexander Luthor.
* [[Power Levels]]: Played straight as minor anti-villain Peregrine has a device later in the story that gives a 'rudimentary combat numerical reading' of various characters AND Lampshaded/Homaged as it leads directly into an [[Memetic Mutation|'Over 9000']] joke which several of the background characters openly laugh at.
* [[Shout-Out]]: A handful throughout the story, but one really sticks out as awesome.
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== Danny's Inferno ==
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* [[Morality Chain]]: Played with a bit. Crystal Collins is arguably one as she kept Noel from being corrupted by his father, but it is her ''death'' that ultimately causes him to become a hero.
* [[Motive Rant]]: Done rather ruthlessly (and tragically) by Eyesore first to one of her teachers then again in a later chapter to a mob outside the school {{spoiler|after she's forced several dozen students and administrators to kill themselves}} in ''Wings of the Eagles''. The end of her rant is just below.
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** Cauterize aka {{spoiler|Elijah Versaw}} also gives a ''very'' lengthy one when he's uncovered at the end of ''Cutting Edge''.
* [[Musical Episode]]: Legend Maker makes a 6 part musical as a [[Parody Episode]] of the ''Buffy'' episode ''One More, With Feeling''.
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* [[SMURFING]]: Used as a censor in ''Villain Cafe'' (a noncanon humor story) for a while.
** Also lampshaded by the Lord of the Night, the owner of the cafe, who then changes the censor to nonsense words.
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'''Lord of the Night:''' You know that smurf thing has run its course. Changing the censors. (snaps his fingers) Anyway, yes?
'''Sizzle:''' You made us all kinds of promises! And then you {{spoiler|leave us to rot}}! Fuchu! You sock-sucking son of a witch! }}
* [[Sound Effect Bleep]]: In ''Adeste Fidelis'', all curses are censored with BLEEP.
** Also subverted in ''Boogeymen III: House of 1000 Cliches''.
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'''White Hole:''' From the body I would be continuing to do unpleasant by most terms things if that guy hadn't fallen over and started shooting at me... wait, why was THAT curse censored? Asshole. Fuck. Shit. Cocksucker. Okay really, why did that happen? }}
* [[Squirrel Girl]]: [http://terraine114.deviantart.com/art/Destroyer-of-All-That-Breathes-177955695 The Lord learns there are no exceptions to her rule.]
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