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{{quote|''Elsewhere in paradox space, we examine another planet, forgotten by time. But we will strive to remember. What was this planet's name?''}}
Long before the formation of planet Earth, there was a world called Alternia. Alternia was a world ruled by the [[All Trolls Are Different|trolls]], a species who, [[Human Outside, Alien Inside|at least externally]], [[Rubber Forehead Aliens|look like humans]] with [[Amazing Technicolor Population|grey skin]], [[Fangs Are Evil|fangs]], [[Eyes of Gold|yellow eyes]], and striped [[Horned Humanoid|horns]]. The trolls, too, have found Sburb (or rather, Sgrub), and over the course of the adventure we meet twelve troll children who play it together, split into two sessions of six. However, sometime during the course of their quest, [[Game Breaking Bug|something goes very wrong]], and they begin a campaign of [[Trolling|petty internet harassment]] against the kids, who they blame for the incident. Despite their monstrous looks, [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|sinister screennames]], and [[Evil Counterpart|character profiles composed of mixes and inversions of traits from one or more of the kids]], the trolls [[Dark Is Not Evil|mostly aren't that bad]]; they were introduced properly in their own sub-adventure arc in Act 5 Act 1, also known as Hivebent, before essentially becoming part of the main cast on par with the kids in Act 5 Act 2.
== The Troll players in general ==
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*** Which was outright stated by Sollux to be their fate under two weeks after the beginning of Act 5, that everyone would die; the fans and the trolls simply thought it meant just their dreamselves.
** [[Plot Armor]]: Only happens to the more [[Out of Focus]] and minor trolls though, aside from Vriska (who's character arc was built around her eventual demise).
* [[Ax Crazy]] / [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: Trolls are basically an [[Ax Crazy]] species, but most of the high bloods fall into fits of rage constantly. Feferi is the only exception to this, as Gamzee goes insane later on. Even the lower blooded trolls are not beyond this, as the fits of rage from Kanaya showcase. Aradia also rages occasionally, but these occurred while she was in a robot fueled by blue blood.
* [[Blue and Orange Morality]]: Killing sprees are actually a lauded behavior for the higher-ups, hetero/homosexuality and incest are not taboos, but ''buckets'' elicit the same reaction one would have from seeing an used condom.
* [[Breakout Character]]: They were not even mentioned until Act 3, and even then they were a written version of [[The Voice]] until Karkat was seen at the end of the Midnight Crew Intermission. A few more trolls appeared in Act 4, but the entire cast of trolls was only revealed in Act 5. Yet the way the fandom treats them, they were around from the very beginning. Which in-universe they were.
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* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Tavros, Nepeta, Equius, Eridan, and Feferi have a fair amount of spotlight during Act 5 Part 1, and Tavros was one of the first troll characters introduced, even in Act 4, but all of them were killed off midway through Act 5 Part 2 and have been scarcely mentioned since, save for their deaths being motivation for revenge.
** [[Ascended Extra]]: Gamzee was even more minor than the others, yet he takes a central role in Act 5 Part 2
* [[Doomed Protagonist]]/[[Foregone Conclusion]]: In Act 5, Sollux prophesies that all the trolls will die. See [[Prophecy Twist]] for more details.
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: Even without their individual issues, the insane pressures of their oppressive, brutal society combined with the 4-way mess of romantic entanglements, some of which feed off of hatred, means that there was no way they could be anything but this.
* [[Famous Ancestor]]: See [[Generation Xerox]] below. Much like how John created the kids' genetic parents, Karkat made infant paradox clones of these ancestors in an ectobiology lab, who then [[Stable Time Loop|traveled back in time to become themselves]].
* [[Five-Token Band]] : Actually more of a 12 token band. The group includes trolls from every caste on the haemospectrum, who have a wide variance in cultural backgrounds, social classes, et cetera. Heck, it even has the obligatory "plucky kid in a wheelchair" role. They're pretty much based on internet stereotypes for that matter as well.
** {{color|#a10000|A}}: [[The Stoic]] -> [[Plucky Girl]]
** {{color|#a15000|T}}: [[The Load]]
** {{color|#a1a100|S}}: [[The Smart Guy]] -> [[The Lancer]]
** {{color|gray|K}}: [[The Hero]] -> [[Failure Hero]]
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** {{color|#008141|K}}: [[The Chick]] -> [[Team Mom]]
** {{color|teal|T}}: [[The Lancer]] -> [[Action Girl]]
** {{color|#004183|V}}: [[Anti-Villain]] -> [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Well Intentioned]] [[Dark Action Girl]]
** {{color|#000056|E}}: [[Those Two Guys]] / [[The Big Guy]]
** {{color|indigo|G}}: [[The Fool]] -> [[Monster Clown]]
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* [[Legacy Character]]: As it turns out, every single one. Their ancestors are the previous batch from an even less successful session.
* [[Mr. Exposition]]: Part of the point of Hivebent was to show how a different session went. Additionally, Karkat, Kanaya, and Vriska all serve as informants to the kids (and the readers) as veteran players of the game, and Feferi and Aradia pass on info either about dream bubbles or learned from them.
* [[My Future Self and Me]]: Several trolls speak with their future and past selves through Trollian, which allows for [[Time Travel]] chatting. The trolls traveling through the Furthest Ring also meet [[Alternate Timeline]] versions of themselves through dream bubbles.
* [[No Pronunciation Guide]]: Averted, for their first names, at least. Hussie gave pronunciations on his old Formspring account, though he says that he doesn't care if other people pronounce them differently.
{{quote|"When in doubt, be sure to pronounce everything in the least affected manner possible, from an American perspective. <ref>CAR-cat, tuh-REH-zee, GAM-zee, TA-vros (rhymes with HAVE and GROSS), neh-PEH-tuh, eh-QUEE-us, eh-RI-dan (combine names Erin - n + Dan), uh-RAD-ia, fuh-FERRY, SAW-lux, VRISS-kuh, kuh-NIGH-uh</ref>"}}
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* [[Love Dodecahedron|Romantic Dodecahedron]]: Almost inevitable thanks to the extremely complicated, polygamous, four-part system of the troll species' romantic interaction, which covers everything from conventional romantic love to [[Foe Yay|arch-rivalry]], [[Heterosexual Life Partners|close friendship]], and [[There Are No Therapists|mediation between two parties]].
* [[Stock Super Powers]]: All of them play Sgrub and get superpowers, in addition to the few that had psychic powers to begin with. A few alternate timeline iterations of them reached their God Tiers, but the Alpha Timeline has only had Aradia and Vriska reach them as of yet.
** {{color|#a10000|A}} as the '''{{color|#c91409|M}}''' can [[Time Master|manipulate time.]] Additionally, she entered her God Tiers accidentally, and thus had [[Immortality]] Type 3, though in the alpha timeline, she apparently earned a Heroic death fighting Jack Noir to delay him and allow the others to escape, and is currently believed to be dead. She also naturally has [[Mind Over Matter|strong telekinetic abilities]] and [[Talking to the Dead|can commune with the dead]].
** {{color|#a15000|T}} as the '''{{color|#0087eb|P}}''' can [[Blow You Away|manipulate wind]]. He also naturally can [[The Beast Master|commune with animals.]]
** {{color|#a1a100|S}} as the '''{{color|#0f381b|M}}''' has unknown abilities, though they seemingly are his ability to [[Mad Oracle|prophecy]] and [[Blessed with Suck|hear voices of the imminently deceased]]. He also naturally has [[Mind Over Matter|strong telekinetic abilities]] and [[Eye Beams|can shoot beams from his eyes]].
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** {{color|#6a006a|E}}
** {{color|#77003c|F}}
== Trolls: Aradia, Tavros, Sollux, and Karkat ==
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{{quote|''"You once had a number of INTERESTS, which in time you have LOST INTEREST IN. You seem to recollect once having a fondness for ARCHEOLOGY, though now have trouble recalling this passion. It nonetheless has led you to find your PRESENT CALLING, which came through the discovery of these MYSTIC RUINS on which you presently stand, and which you recently DESECRATED OUT OF BOREDOM."''}}
A rather spooky female troll who organized the Troll session. Before the beginning of the story, she was murdered by Vriska, by means of a mind-controlled Sollux. However, prototyping her Kernelsprite with the head of a frog statue and her own ghost brought her back to life.
In Sburb, she is the '''{{color|#c91409|M}}'''. Her trolltag is "{{color|#a10000|a}}".
{{quote|<code>{{color|#a10000|t}}</code>
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* [[Triang Relations]]: Close to Sollux; secretly lusted after by Equius
* [[Uncatty Resemblance]]: Her lusus, seen in flashback, has curly ram horns like hers.
* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]: Easily the most fatalistic character before her revival, both due to her vantage point as the Maid of Time and due to having lived with voices telling her the future much of her "life."
** [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004490 From a memo addressed to her past, future, and alternate selves]:
{{quote|[[color:#a10000:PAA: and here i was thinking we were finished taking 0rders fr0m v0ices!
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* [[Prophet Eyes]]
* [[Soul Power]]
* [[Stringy
{{quote|'''[[Word of God|Andrew]]''': ''She's basically every girl from every Japanese horror film ever. [[Sarcasm Mode|Whoops canon I guess.]]''}}
* [[The Stoic]]: This is her attitude, "I'm 0K with it" is sort of her catch phrase.
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* [[Letters 2 Numbers]]: Averted. she drops the quirk once she is brought back to life for real and opts to talk like this!
* [[Man On Fire|Maid Of Time On Fire]]: Done to her dreamself by Bec Noir, and how she [[Came Back Strong]]
* [[Ms. Exposition]]: On a couple of occasions, starting [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004490 here] and [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005494 here].
* [[Nightmare Fetishist]]: Ever since her god-tier revival, she has display a fascination with death after spending so much time in the dream bubbles, to the point of getting excited over having a "Corpse Party" for Sollux's dead body. Sollux calls her out on this, and Terezi thinks it's charming and funny she's become such a {{color|#008282|"}}.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: In a sense; the more insane a troll, the more odd their quirk is, and Aradia post-revival has no quirk at all and speaks perfectly normally.
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A rather awkward troll with huge horns, who is paralysed from the waist down; he has a childish disposition and upbeat personality regardless.
In Sburb, he is the '''{{color|#0087eb|P}}'''. His trolltag is "{{color|#a15000|a}}".
He has allocated his [[Weapon of Choice|STRIFE SPECIBUS]] with the [[Blade on a Stick|LANCEKIND]] [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice|ABSTRATUS]].
For a brief period of time later in the story he became [[Homestuck/Characters/Sprites|Jane's sprite, along with Vriska]]. [[Came Back Wrong]] applies heavily here. See that character's section for tropes applying to it.
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* [[Butt Monkey]]
* [[Characterization Marches On]]: Compare his [[Smug Snake|smug]] first appearance to his [[The Pollyana|more optimistic]] personality seen later on.
* [[Cheerful Child]]: Stays pretty upbeat despite a lot of things. Later eventually starts emoting more at the end of the Troll's session as it gets worse.
* [[Chew Toy]]: The poor guy gets forced to walk off a cliff, [[Handicapped Badass|paralyzed from the waist down,]] [[Back-Alley Doctor|gets his legs]][[Chainsaw Good|chainsawed off,]] has a Yandere, [[Manipulative Bitch]] frenemy, and gets run through with his own spear.
* [[Cool Chair]]: [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004264 It's a] [[Flying Car]]!
* [[Cyborg]]: After their session of Sburb Equius makes him some robot legs that allow him to walk... once Kanaya has [[Chainsaw Good|chainsawed]] [[Back-Alley Doctor|off]] his old ones.
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*** He eventually ends up dropping all of the pretense entirely.
* [[Famous Ancestor|Infamous Ancestor]]: He is a descendant of The Summoner, who was the one who ended up slaying Mindfang (and was her matesprit, and led the rebellion that resulted in an order to exile all troll adults off Alternia. A far cry from then and now.
* [[Informed Attribute]]: He tells Jade that the only time that he really enjoyed Sgrub was when he was asleep, but he [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004269 seems to be having fun] in the Land of Sand and Zephyr. Of course then Vriska was yelling at him and then it got awkward.
* [[Jerkass Facade]]: The facade is rather transparent, though. He ran out of mean things to say after his seventh line of dialogue. He seems to be a ''lot'' more friendly when he's [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003836 talking to Jade].
* [[Jive Turkey]]: He practices the ancient art of Alternian Slam Poetry, but isn't that good at it at all.
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* [[Stealth Pun]]: Why is he such a Woobie? Because he's being [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Bull]]ied.
* [[Sure Why Not]]: The reason why he's in a wheelchair, as that was a fan theory popular at the time.
* [[Take That]]: [[Word of God|The Author]] has indicated that his [[The Woobie|perpetually victimized woobie]] status is partly a [[Take That]] at some of the early criticism by the [[Fan Dumb]] (with [[Trolling|Vriska]] playing the part of the critics.)
** Although he did also say he might have done it anyway, because fans are either sympathetic to him or [[Crosses the Line Twice|amused]], and it's important that a story invokes an "emotional response" in its readers.
* [[Ted Baxter]]: Has a lot more confidence in his trolling abilities than [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003495 actual talent.] Subverted so hard it's not even funny. [[Harsher in Hindsight|Literally.]]
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* [[Throw the Dog a Bone]]: In the afterlife, he gets to meet an alternate Dave Strider, whom he apparently thinks is a cool guy, and engages in a one-sided slam-poetry battle whilst bringing incendiaries which require a licensed physician. While Dave is less than enthused about the whole thing, Tavros seems happy.
* [[Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma]]
* [[Western Zodiac]]: Taurus.
* [[Willfully Weak]]: Tavros refuses to use his powers of communion to force the imps to carry him up to his gate. He does later use his powers, probably because his only other option is killing the imps.
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{{quote|''"You are apeshit bananas at computers, and you know ALL THE CODES. All of them. You are the unchallenged authority on APICULTURE NETWORKING. And though all your friends recognize your unparalleled achievements as a TOTALLY SICK HACKER, you feel like you could be better. It's one of a number of things you SORT OF BEAT YOURSELF UP ABOUT for NO VERY GOOD REASON during sporadic and debilitating BIPOLAR MOOD SWINGS. You have a penchant for BIFURCATION, in logic and in life. Your mutant mind is hounded by the psychic screams of the IMMINENTLY DECEASED."''}}
A moody troll afflicted with bipolar mood swings, with an incredible knack for hacking.
In Sburb, he is the '''{{color|#0f381b|M}}'''. His trolltag is "{{color|#a1a100|t}}".
He has not yet allocated his [[Weapon of Choice|STRIFE SPECIBUS]] with any KIND ABSTRATUS, as after all, a [[Mind Over Matter|high-level psionic]] has no need for weapons.
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* [[Fashionable Asymmetry]]: One shoe is black, the other white. His sunglasses are mismatched too, although that's probably just to [[Mismatched Eyes|match his eyes]]
* [[Foreshadow]]: The Ψiioniic died getting the Empress's ship back to Alternia and it looks like Sollux going to die getting the asteroid to the Green Sun.
* [[Glasses Pull]]: [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003971 "You could almost say we need to get moving...] [[One-Liner|ON THE DOUBLE.]] [[Shout-Out|Yeah."]]
** He seems to do the [[Glasses Pull]] / [[Quip to Black]] routine often, as seen in [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004659 this] conversation.
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* [[Goggles Do Something Unusual]]:He starts wearing Feferi's goggles after he goes blind. Odd though that may seem, he's never before needed extra protection so much for that part of his face.
* [[Got Me Doing It]]: After dying and being revived as a dreamself by Feferi, he's sort of taken on Feferi's penchant for fish puns and glubbing, though not as often as her.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: See Determinator, above.
** Does it again by sending the Trolls and their meteor to the Green Sun faster than the speed of light. But see [[Unexplained Recovery]].
** And ultimately averted as he decides to stay behind at the Green Sun and move on, staying dead for real.
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* [[Mad Oracle]]: Bipolar Prophet
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Made a computer code that may depend on two Universes ending.
** His actual name is based on Castor and Pollux, twins in Roman/Greek mythology that were transformed into the constellation Gemini.
** Also, "Sol" and "Lux" mean "sun" and "light" in Latin.
* [[Mind Over Matter]]
* [[Mismatched Eyes]]: His eyes are the same color as his glasses, one red and one blue. Or they were, before he went blind. And are again later.
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* [[Opt Out]]: Decides to do one after he returns as a half-ghost to the asteroid with the surviving trolls, Dave and Rose. He could stick around, but he's tired of the adventure and would prefer to run around with Aradia through dream bubbles.
* [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]: He can be considered this after leaving his dream bubble. Karkat calls him a "half ghost", but [[Unreliable Expositor|he's not the most reliable source.]]
* [[Prophecy Twist]]: For the reader. Early on, Sollux predicts he'll die twice, and that he'll go blind before he dies. At first it looks like the prophecy was fufilled with Sollux's death by the Vast Glub (where he was replaced with his Dersite Dream Self) and the death of his Propitian Dream Self by Jack Noir. Future events would then suggest that neither of those deaths actually counted. When Sollux was blinded by Eridan, several readers interpreted it as the first "death" in his prophecy and that he would be [[Killed Off for Real]] later on. While he did die from a [[Heroic Sacrifice]], he had [[Unexplained Recovery|already left the afterlife]] (due to [[Achievements in Ignorance]] and [[Timey-Wimey Ball]]).
** It seems that Sollux's prophecy doesn't include Dream Self deaths or [[Came Back Strong|God-Tier ascensions]]. As such, it's hard to say if he died once or twice for the purposes of the prophecy - the Sollux that piloted the meteor to the Green Sun was technically his Dersite Dream Self.
* [[Psychic Powers]]
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Thanks to his [[Mismatched Eyes]] and [[Mood Swinger|BIPOLAR MOOD SWINGS]], Sollux plays this trope ''by himself.''
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{{quote|''" You have a passion for RIDICULOUSLY TERRIBLE ROMANTIC MOVIES AND ROMCOMS. You should really be EMBARRASSED for liking this DREADFUL CINEMA, but for some reason you are not. You like to program computers, but you are NOTORIOUSLY PRETTY AWFUL AT IT. Your programs invariably damage the machines on which they are executed, which is just as well, since you like to believe you specialize in COMPUTER VIRUSES. When you mature, you aspire to join the ranks of the most lethal members of your society, the THRESHECUTIONERS."''}}
An ambitious, misanthropic young troll who is almost always angry at everyone, but most especially at himself.
He is the '''{{color|#482314|K}}''', and is the leader of the Troll Session. His trolltag is "{{color|#626262|c}}".
He has allocated his [[Weapon of Choice|STRIFE SPECIBUS]] with the [[Sinister Scythe|SICKLEKIND ABSTRATUS.]] He was the first troll to be introduced, both visually and over Pesterchum, and is the "main" Troll protagonist.
{{quote|<code>{{color|#626262|T}}</code>
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* [[Adorkable]]: He has his moments.
* [[Adult Fear]]: He does NOT take his friends dying very well, especially Sollux.
** He's afraid of Gamzee for two reasons: Because he's going to kill his friends, and that the only way to stop this is to kill someone he considers deep down to be a best friend.
* [[A God Am I]]: Karkat tries to give John one of these speeches. It doesn't go the way he expects.
** Later on he tries it out on Jade and gets [[White Knighting|told off by his own future self]].
* [[Anime Hair]]: Moreso than other trolls.
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* [[Break the Cutie]]: The events from when Eridan kills Feferi and Kanaya onwards have not been taken well by Karkat.
* [[Broken Pedestal]]: Possibly with Bec Noir - he recognizes Jack (assuming him to be ''his'' Jack), and [[Tear Jerker|looks absolutely devastated]]. It makes sense considering that's one of the few people that he really connected with.
* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]:
** Early in the story, Karkat refuses to elaborate on anything he tells John, since from his perspective he's already told everything and is sick of repeating himself. Even though telling those things at that early (late for Karkat) point would mean he wouldn't ''have to'' repeat himself. Ironically, midway through he points out that John gave him the very same treatment when he started trolling, in John's future...
** He also clearly has a problem talking about recent tragedies or emotional events. Even when people are simply worried about him and want to know what happened or is happening, he is frequently in too much pain to even let them know, let alone talk about anything in depth. Seen unable to tell past Feferi about [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005260 her own future death], unable to tell past Eridan about [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005261 his own future murders, at least beyond "HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO THEM" and "I THOUGHT YOU LOVED HER"], and unable to tell John about [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005765 Vriska's death] and [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005767 what happened to Gamzee].
* [[Cassandra Truth]]: Winds up on the wrong end of these constantly, due to him being the only troll who bothers to keep up with events with his time-traveling memos. Takes a heartbreaking turn when he's being playfully teased by friends in the past who have presently gone insane or gotten killed.
* [[Clone Jesus|Clone Troll Jegus]]: Well, not quite, but close enough due to how Ectobiology works.
** [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]]
* [[Cooldown Hug]]: To sober!Gamzee.
* [[Contemplate Our Navels]]: Gets pretty introspective when he's traveling through the Furthest Ring, mostly because of meeting dead trolls and dead [[Alternate Timeline]] trolls.
* [[Dark Messiah]]: Sort of, in that it's not conscious on Karkat's part: The Sufferer's last prophecy was about his successor who will signal the end of the world.
* [[Deer in the Headlights]]: Shows this look [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005259 here] after reading a threatening message from a [[Power Limiter|slime]]-[[Obfuscating Stupidity|sobered,]] [[Ax Crazy|ax-crazed,]] [[Super-Powered Evil Side|split]]-[[From Nobody to Nightmare|personality]] [[Mad Artist|Gamzee.]]
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* [[Locked Out of the Loop]]: In Hivebent, none of the other trolls really care about him enough to tell him about any of this end of the world business, and again as everything falls apart at the end of their session. He just goes along with Jade's plans because there's nothing else to do. To top it off, Jade won't tell him what's going on either, as she is trying to avoid an [[Temporal Paradox|Information-based Ontological Paradox]].
** He blocks Terezi after believing she's been killed by Gamzee (he only found her glasses), and doesn't know she's going to confront Vriska until he runs into her right after she does it.
* [[Loving a Shadow]]: Inverted; Karkat watched John grow up and immediately hated him, but he never interacted with him until Sburb/Sgrub.
* [[Mad Libs Catchphrase]]: {{color|#626262|$}} Shared with Terezi.
** Dropped to a large extent as he actually develops as a character and stops antagonizing the kids.
* [[Man On Fire]]: Seen for a brief moment in [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004827 [S] Jade:Enter], before the demon engulfs Prospit and Karkat's dreamself in green fire, [[Tear Jerker|after he heartbreakingly recognizes]] [[Blood Brothers|Jack Noir]] [[Tear Jerker|as the demon.]]
* [[Meaningful Name]]: [[wikipedia:Karkata (astrology)|Karkata]] is the equivalent sign to Cancer in Indian astrology. On top of that, [[wikipedia:Histrelin|Vantas]] is a pharmaceutical used to treat prostate cancer.
** Also, the Hindu name for the Cancer sign is "Karka".
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** His title "Knight of Blood" is at first simply [[Blood Knight|a vicious-sounding name]], but once you take into consideration the importance of the trolls' blood color based caste system (and where Karkat is placed in relation to it), it is pretty relevant.
** A [[wikipedia:Carcinogen|carcinogen]] is something that causes cancer. A geneticist that causes cancer. Karkat created himself through ectobiologic cloning.
*** And now it was revealed that by [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005877 giving up the search for the final frog], the Genesis Frog [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005905 became imperfect]. In other words, Karkat [http://mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005917 gave THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE cancer].
** carcinology is also the study of crustaceans.
* [[Motor Mouth]]: At one point during Act 6 Intermission 1, he makes a point of shutting up when told to. A page later he gasps for air because he apparently wasn't aware that you don't have to hold your breath not to talk.
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* [[Narcissist]]: Inverted. Karkat practically is his own kismesis with his future & past selves, whom he loathes intensely, something that unsettles him when he thinks about it and provides fodder for mockery by Terezi and others.
* [[Never My Fault]]: Zig-zagged. Karkat is less likely to accept responsibility for his actions and more likely to blame his [[I Hate Past Me|past or future selves.]] [[Mind Screw|Even though they're him.]] But when REALLY bad things happen, he blames himself for it if he had even the slightest involvement in it.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]:
** He executes Sollux's code. You know, the one that ''curses everyone the user knows''. The result is [[Wham! Episode|not pretty]]. However he really didn't have a choice in it; Aradia went back and corrected the timeline so he had to. If she hadn't Gamzee would have gone crazy much earlier and killed all the Trolls.
** His haste in beating the game without properly understanding the frog breeding process gave the kids' ''entire universe'' cancer.
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* [[Please Wake Up]]: [[Heroic BSOD|PLEASE TELL ME THAT'S]] [[Alien Blood|JUST HONEY]].
** {{color|#626262|K}} [[Madness Mantra|PLEASE JUST BE GRUB SAUCE PLEASE JUST BE GRUB SAUCE PLEASE JUST BE GRUB SAUCE]].
* [[The Power of Blood]]:
** He befriends (pre-Spades Slick) Jack after he finds out they have the same blood color.
** The only person we know Karkat tried to kiss back to life is Kanaya. It couldn't work due to her dead dream self, but she awoke as a troll vampire anyway.
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* [[Screw Yourself]]: A running theme (and possible fetish), see [[Freudian Slip]]. There's also this:
{{quote|{{color|#4ac925|G}} (chiding past-Karkat for deliberately misremembering her password, which was){{color|#4ac925| }}}}
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]] / [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: Can occasionally lapse into this while swearing.
* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Ships John/Rose and Dave/Jade [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004690 here].
** Actually closer to the opposite, as he only 'ships' that because he think [[Interspecies Romance]] would be gross.
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* [[Which Me?]]: Uses "past me" and "future me" to refer to those selves.
* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]: Karkat tries to warn the past trolls about horrible things that will happen in the future. [[Cassandra Truth|They don't believe him]]. Apparently even when a future Gamzee shows up and offers false reassurance, though it remains to be seen if this is true.
** Karkat is bothered by this when he travels through the dream bubbles and meets deceased [[Alternate Timeline]] trolls who went God Tier.
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