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** If the civilizations on Riven (though its people now reside on Tay), Narayan, and Serenia have taught us anything, it's that ''most'' civilizations in this series are [[Human Aliens]].
* [[I Did What I Had to Do]] - There are a few. Gehn in Riven, {{spoiler|Esher}} in Myst V, {{spoiler|Sirrus}} in Myst IV.
* [[Insurmountable Waist
* [[It's Up to You|It's Up To You]] - ''five'' times so far in the original series alone. This really begins to stretch credibility in later games. In ''Myst IV'', Atrus can't participate because he's [[Contrived Coincidence|conveniently stranded]] in some kind of electrical storm. You only find this out if you repair his imager, which is not necessary for beating the game.
* [[It's a Wonderful Failure]]
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** The Garden Ages, the Kadish Gallery and Ahnonay in ''Uru''.
** Taken to the extent that your reward for completing a stage of particular games - individual islands in ''Riven'', complete Ages in ''Exile'' and ''Revelation'' - is a ride around the area you just finished in what might easily be called [[Scenery Porn]] [[Fan Service]]. (Amateria in particular makes no pretensions of being anything ''other'' than [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyQxuk5Jkqc Ending Ride].)
* [[Schizo
* [[Schmuck Bait]]: The Trap Books. Not counting the Linking Book you touched to start the whole adventure, of course...
** ''Riven'' presents some interesting [[Zig Zagged Trope|twists]] on the trope. There are at least two major pieces of [[Schmuck Bait]] in the game, and by the time you've found them, you should have figured out why they're dangerous. And yet, in order to win the game, you must use them anyway.
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* [[Themed Cursor]]: Your hand.
* [[Town With a Dark Secret]]: {{spoiler|Terahnee}} is a ''country'' with a dark secret. {{spoiler|Atrus and company find this out almost too late.}}
* [[Tree
** ''Myst'': The upper levels of the Channelwood Age.
** ''Riven'': The village in the Moiety Age, situated in the middle of a giant tree.
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* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: {{spoiler|"No, you fool! My performance was perfect!"}}
** {{spoiler|You ... IDIOT! Moronic lump of filth! You are nothing! Puh! AHHHHHH! I needed the power! I needed it! D'ni needed ME! You threw it away to this witch and her legion of scum, the demon slaves! You have released the slaves as masters! You've turned the small to great! Curse the Maker ...}}
* [[Wham! Episode]]: The death of Willow "Wheely" Engberg in Uru Live, i.e. the slaughter of a teenaged girl, was roleplayed out over chat.
** When the player behind the character Pepsi in Uru Live died in real life, it came as quite a shock. Years later, in the D'ni Games (a fan-created Olympics-styled event) of Until Uru, the Pepsi Memorial Marathon was named in honor of her.
* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?]]: Yeesha = Yeshua/Jesus.
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* [[Mission Control Is Off Its Meds]]: Sirrus and Achenar.
* [[Sequel Hook]]: The good ending contains several blatant ones for ''Riven''.
* [[Shout
* [[Sound-Coded for Your Convenience]]: The Mazerunner in the Selenitic Age uses sounds to guide you along the correct path. Unfortunately, unless you've already been to {{spoiler|the Mechanical Age}}, you'll have to figure out for yourself what the sounds actually mean. {{spoiler|In the Mechanical age, the same sounds are used to indicate which direction the fortress is rotated, and stand for the same cardinal directions.}}
* [[Take a Third Option]]: {{spoiler|Do you trust the brother without the more obviously 'mad' and 'evil' attributes, or assume it's some sort of misleading trick and trust that one? The answer is to trust neither.}}
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=== Tropes found in ''Exile'' ===
* [[Alphabet Soup Cans]]: Atrus installed them into Amateria and Voltaic, and Wrote them into Edanna. Justified in the fact that all 3 of the ages were (in-universe) meant to be learning experiences, first for Atrus' sons, then for Atrus himself (whom the player [[All Up to You|so conveniently]] goes in place of).
* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: In Voltaic, there is a room that you can fill up with lava. As long as you drain the room before entering, you can waltz inside without waiting for the room to cool down first. You can also stand on a platform suspended just inches above the lava, and suffer no ill effects.
* [[Drop the Hammer]]: Another reason why you shouldn't anger Saavedro.
* [[Follow the Plotted Line]]: The lack of any obvious goal in Edanna, combined with its confusing layout, brings this trope into play. As a result, you find yourself simply solving all the puzzles that present themselves to you, without ever knowing why. In case you're curious, what you're trying to do is {{spoiler|free the Grossamary bird from the giant flytrap, then call it from a cage in the swamp to have it come pick you up and take you to the location of the symbol}}.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Brad "[[Childs Play|Chucky]]/[[Lord of the Rings (Film)|Grima Wormtongue]]" Dourif as Saavedro, in Exile. He joined up mainly because he was a fan of the previous Myst games. [[Nerdgasm|You may have your nerdgasm, now]].
* [[I Lied]]: Saavedro offers to return Releeshahn to the player freely at the end of Myst III when it turns out he can't return home without help. {{spoiler|If you take up his offer directly, he gleefully tosses the book into an abyss and scampers off home.}}
* [[It's Personal]]: Saavedro's motive
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* [[Time Travel]]: Ahnonay. How does one linking book manage to take you to three different eras, when all books up to this point could only ever take you to one? Well, {{spoiler|it doesn't. You eventually discover that the "age" is actually a bunch of three very convincing sets (and one unfinished one) contained in giant spheres connected to an even larger rotating mechanism.}} No doubt Yeesha would be green with envy.
** Why? {{spoiler|She and the Bahro can do it quite well on their own, thanks very much. For proof, see Uru Live's Minkata.}}
* [[
* [[Violation of Common Sense]]: To reach a certain location in URU Live, you have to leap off an island in a drop which must be well over a hundred feet.
=== Tropes found in ''End of Ages'' ===
* [[Symbol
* [[Fungus Humongous]]: Direbo
* [[Treacherous Advisor]]: {{spoiler|Esher is one.}}
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