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* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Hoban and Linae.
* [[Big Bad]]: Dr. Frank Sloth, although he hasn't been doing a whole lot lately. He's recently been upgraded to [[Sealed Evil in A Can]].
* [[Big Good]]: Queen Fyora and the faeries in general (barring the occasional [[Obviously Evil]] one) are considered this, complete with [[Hundred -Percent Adoration Rating]].
** Maybe not [[Hundred -Percent Adoration Rating]]. At least two pets hate the Faeries, so there may be more out there like them in the future.
* [[Binary Bits and Bytes]]: To demonstrate a Lawyerbot Costume Pack, Neopets used a binary description <ref>010010010111010000100111011100110010000001001100011000010111011101111001011001010111001001100010011011110111010000100001</ref> which translates to "It's Lawyerbot!".
* [[The Blank]]: The original faeries.
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* [[Choose Your Own Adventure]]: Neo Adventures allow users to make their own. There was formerly a spotlight competition centered on these.
* [[Circus of Fear]]: The Deserted Fairground.
* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: Inevitable with the release of the lava-themed world of Moltara. Roxton and Cog can fly just a few feet over a magma without any ill effects, and none of the Neopets fixing the machine spitting a large plume of magma inside a cavern ringed with a magma river feel anything.
** Justified somewhat with Scorchios, dragon-like Neopets which prefer high temperatures.
* [[Cosmetic Award]]: The various competitions on the site, as well as getting top scores in most games, reward you with spiffy trophies for your profile.
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** Impossible too for most new users, as some of the avatars were plot rewards and thus unattainable.
* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Rarely done in-universe, but is pretty much necessary for the Neoboards due to the strict filters. Saying "hell" can occasionally get you a warning.
* [[Guide Dang It]]: Some of the requirements to get high scores in certain games are pretty ridiculous. For example, to get the sub-2000 distances for high scores in ''Kass Basher'', you have to hit the plush Kass with a([[Luck -Based Mission|n incredibly rare]]) '''[[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|tree]]''' ( Even so, there's still the possibility that you could miss... ). Beyond that, to get on many of the high score tables for games, you have approach the game in very unorthodox ways, such as losing on purpose in order to rack up points (generally on games that have a fixed number of levels, like ''Wrath of the Snowager''), or taking advantage of in-game cheats that you can only learn (other than from guides, of course) by getting a lucky spin on the [[Money Sink|Wheel of Knowledge]].
** Many of the secret avatars can be this, especially the ones that are gotten at random. One avatar in particular took almost 2 years to figure out the solution.
* [[Healing Spring]]: There's one in Faerieland. The water faerie that supervises it, though, isn't all that too consistent with how well one's neopets are healed.
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* [[An Interior Designer Is You]]: Neohomes.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: ''"Skeith plus Zafara equals... Ixi??"'' It's actually rarer at times to see family members of the ''same'' species.
** Justified in that most Neopet children are [[Happily Adopted]]. For a while Neopets seemed to be playing the line that ''all'' children were adopted. It made the [[Suddenly -Suitable Suitor|sudden revelation]] that Nabile was an [[Generation Xerox|identical copy]] of a royal ''ancestor'' very jarring.
* [[Jerkass]]: Team Maraqua's Elon Hughlis, who infamously won the "Most Selfish Player" award during ACI. Despite this, he's still the Team Captain, and he has many fans in and out of Team Maraqua.
** King Skarl also counts, mainly because his Marrow Tax means that a Random Event can take your hard-earned Neopoints. He's also technically to blame for two wars between Meridell and the Citadel, as well. However, he's more of a [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold|Jerkass With A Heart of Gold]] despite his flaws.
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* [[Mayincatec]]: What Geraptiku was before… whatever caused it to be abandoned.
* [[Medieval European Fantasy]]: Meridell and Brightvale.
* [[Mix -and -Match Critters]]: Quite a few Neopets, including Peophins (hippocampus), Eyries (griffins), Elephantes (bipedal elephants with little bird wings), and Aishas (catlike with thicker tails and an extra set of ears). And most pets painted Maraquan (scales and/or a fish tail) or Faerie (a more delicate appearance plus wings).
* [[Money Sink]]: The shops run by NPCs in Neopia as well as the Lever of Doom in the Virtupets Space Station, the Wheel of Extravagance and the "Save the Wheels" event from July to early August 2010.
** In early 2011, the game implemented a new sink: old, retired stamps are occasionally auctioned off by a dummy account, effectively removing millions of NP from the economy as well as returning near-extinct, one-use items into circulation.
* [[Mordor]]: The Darigan Citadel.
* [[Nerf]]: Rarely ever happens, but when it does, it really screws with you.
* [[Nerf Arm]]: This game's [[Infinity+1 Sword]] equipment tends toward the bizarre- while there are plain old magic swords available, you are better off wielding a pharaoh's burial mask, a [[Killer Yoyo]], an [[Morally -Ambiguous Ducktorate|evil rubber duckie]], or the [[Stock Yuck|Carrotblade]].
** When a game's [[Boring but Practical]] one-shot weapons are ''enchanted snowballs and muffins'', you know you [[Not in Kansas Anymore|aren't in Kansas anymore]].
* [[Never Say Die]]: Averted.
* [[Nineties Anti -Hero]]: Magax. Of course, given that it's Neopets, he goes no farther than being a [[Badbutt]]. But other than that, he reeks of this trope.
* [[No Hugging, No Kissing]]: Users are forbidden from including more than a passing mention of romance in submitted work, and for the most part official site plots avoid it as well.
** Inverted with the Lost Desert Plot. See the example for [[Suddenly -Suitable Suitor]].
** Subverted in The Faerie's Ruin Plot. {{spoiler|Brynn}} kisses {{spoiler|Hanso}}, even if it's [[Anywhere but Their Lips|only on the cheek]].
* [[No Name Given]]: The aforementioned Zafara Double Agent. Despite this (Or perhaps because of it), she may even be among ''the'' [[Ensemble Darkhorse|most popular characters]].
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** And before that, ''Hannah and the Ice Caves'' was ''Hannah and the Pirate Caves'' IN TERROR MOUNTAIN!
* [[Revenue Enhancing Devices]]: Buying real-life merchandise can net you in-game items; Lutari Island was only accessible by signing up for Neopets Mobile.
* [[Running Gag]]: Denials of the existence of [[The Not -Secret]] Jelly World. Also the idea that those creepily staring Meepits are plotting to take over.
** "March 3rd has been cancelled due to lack of interest."
** For a little while, the Neopian Times Editorial always ended with "mr. coconut" shouting "''GOOD NIGHT!''" After a few months of that, TNT went meta by retiring mr. coconut and starting a new gag about trying to find a suitable replacement.
* [[Schizo -Tech]]: All over the map - literally; it's dependent on region. There's sticks and stones in [[One Million BC|Tyrannia]], the various [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|Fantasy Counterpart Cultures]] have the tech level you'd expect, Moltara is [[Steampunk]], Neopia Central is closest to real life but has nothing like computers or cars, and then there's the Virtupets Space Station and moon colony on Kreludor…
* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]: The Darkest Faerie; Sloth in the Space Faerie's token. {{spoiler|Xandra.}}
* [[Serious Business]]: Avatar collecting. That is all.
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Loads.
* [[Significant Anagram]]: Eliv Thade, whose spirit haunts a castle: Evil/Vile Death/Hated. Appropriately enough, the game featuring him centers around anagrams. Also: the Sword of Skardsen/Darkness, Grimoire of Thade/Death, Amulet of Thilg/Light, and Shield of Pion Troect/Protection.
* [[Shout -Out]]: Many. To list a few:
** One of the major ones is [[Doctor Who (TV)|Dr_Death]], the operator of the pound.
** Quoth a farmer from the Altador Plot: [[Futurama|"WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!"]] There's even a book given out from the plot titled "The Way Windmills Work" with the following description: ''Windmills do, in fact, work that way.''
** [[Fight Club|"The first rule of Punch Club, is that you do not talk about Punch Club."]]
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** On [http://www.neopets.com/games/aaa/staff.phtml?nav=standing the page] for the Daily Dare '10 Staff Tournament, hovering over Jimmy James' picture mentions if anyone has seen his [[The Red Stapler|Red Stapler]].
** On the same page, several victory quotes reference Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.
** The description of the Pink Poogle Toy is a [[Take That]]/[[Shout -Out]] to a fansite of the same name.
** It is very unlikely that the Pirate Xweetok sporting [[One Piece|an horizontal scar under its left eye]] was a simple coincidence.
** [http://www.neopets.com/ntimes/index.phtml?section=editorial&issue=452 The Editorial of Issue 452] gave us this [[Shout -Out]] to [[The Man Your Man Could Smell Like (Advertising)|The Man Your Man Could Smell Like]]:
{{quote| "Hello, TNT. Look at your artists. Now at me. Artists. Me. Artists. Me. Too bad your artists aren't me, but they can smell like me. I'm on a horse."<br />
"Look again. Your horse is now ''diamonds''!" }}
** Several achievements in the Faerie's Ruin plot are Shout Outs: "Son, I am Disappoint" [[Rick RollRickroll|"Never Gonna Shut You Up, Never Gonna Quiet You Down."]], [[Dragonball|"OVER 9000!"]], and one has the description "[[Monkey Island|How appropriate]]. [[You Fight Like a Cow|You fight like a kau]]."
*** Another achievement references [[Questionable Content]]: "She blinded me with library science."
*** For the plot step where you have to block {{spoiler|Xandra}}'s attacks, one of the many things {{spoiler|she}} says is [[Inception|"Tion cep in"]].
** One of the backgrounds is the "Double Rainbow Background", with the item description "But what does it mean!?".
** The [http://images.neopets.com/items/petpet_robo_griefer.gif Griefer Petpet] seems [[Star Wars|oddly]] [[Hero -Killer|familiar]]...
*** [http://items.jellyneo.net/images/olditems/navibot.gif The Navibot] looks [[Mega Man (Video Game)|familiar, too]]...
** The description for the Undead Cheese Wedge reads "[[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|In Haunted Woods, cheese wedge eats you!]]"
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** In the Kadoatery, there a kadoaties named [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Shinji and Misato,]] [[Naruto|Sasuke, Kunai and Kakashi,]] [[Star Trek|Q, Riker and Picard,]] and [[Futurama|Fry, Bender, Leela]] [[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Zoidberg.]]
** [[The Other Wiki]] used to have ''a whole page'' of Shout Outs in Neopets.
* [[Slippy -Slidey Ice World]]: Terror Mountain.
* [[Sssssnaketalk]]: Sssidney
* [[Star -Spangled Spandex]]: The Space Faerie
* [[Steampunk]]: Moltara City.
* [[Super Happy Fun Trope of Doom|Super Happy Fun Trope]]: The Super Happy Icy Fun Snow Shop in Terror Mountain.
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* [[Word of God]]: The Editorial section of the Neopian Times is used for this.
* [[Written in Absence]]: Once Shenkuu joined the Altador Cup in 2007, there were 17 possible teams competing, so an odd team out was always written out (due to training accident or some such) in order to make a nice, neat, 16-team bracket. Now fixed in 2010, as Moltara has joined and made it an even 18 teams.
* [[You Mean "Xmas"]]: There is a holiday-themed land (Happy Valley) [[hottip:*:On the base of [[Slippy -Slidey Ice World|Terror Mountain.]] and an Advent Calendar in the Month of Celebrating (December), but December 25 is the "Day of Giving." Strangely, pets can still be painted "Christmas," which gives them a festive holiday look.
** The Winter Starlight Celebration.
** One Neopian holiday, Illusen Day, takes place on March 17.
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* [[Family-Unfriendly Violence]] / [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]: Hellooooo, Ski Lodge Murder Mystery! (Then again, it ''was'' from when the site was intended more for college students...)
** They manage to sneak this into the newer plots from time to time.
** ''[http://images.neopets.com/faerieland/crash_fede37c686.jpg THIS]'' ('''HUGE''' spoiler, and you might [[Wham! Episode|need an extra pair of underpants afterward]]) Undoubtly a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for, not only {{spoiler|Xandra}}, but the entire site in general.
* [[Face Palm]]: Brynn does this in the first comic of The Faerie's Ruin.
* [[For the Evulz]]: Pretty much every major villain including the famous Dr Sloth.
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* [[Sequel Hook]]: The epilogue of the Faerie's Ruin mentions that the Darkest Faerie [[Taken for Granite|statue]] went missing in the chaos.
* [[Ship Sinking]]: A surprising number of people shipped Tomos and Nabile together, before, all of a sudden, Nabile decided she wanted to marry Jazan. ''[[Big No|NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!]]''
** Considering how [[Ship -to -Ship Combat|hardcore]] some shippers can get, some people started straight-up [[Parental Marriage Veto]]-ing those two.
*** Razul did a [[Kill the Cutie|veto]] of his own.
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: Gorix does this when he finally meets [[Big Bad|Dr. Sloth]]. Subsequently [[Lampshaded]].
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* [[Smooch of Victory]]: {{spoiler|Brynn}} gives {{spoiler|Hanso}} one [[Anywhere but Their Lips|on the cheek]] in Chapter 17 of The Faerie's Ruin.
* [[Stranger in A Familiar Land]]: Several plots end bittersweetly, with the objective accomplished but the more alienated or bitter characters unable to settle (back) into 'normal' life. See Sophie, Bruno, and Caylis.
* [[Suddenly -Suitable Suitor]]: Near the end of the Lost Desert Plot, the [[Loveable Rogue|street thief]] Nabile is revealed to have royal blood. This is thanks to her resemblance to a picture of a princess, which just happens to be on the wall in the room where Jazan and Princess Amira are about to be wed. Nabile then declares her love for Jazan and they get married instead.
* [[Taken for Granite]]: The Faerie's Ruin started when the Faeries were all turned to stone during their festival. Other characters were also petrified as the plot progressed.
* [[Terrible Trio]]: This can be seen with the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|Dark Faerie Sisters]] and [[Our Mermaids Are Different|The Drenched]]. However the normal command structure of this trope seems to be subverted.
* [[That Makes Me Feel Angry]]: Used for comedic effect with the Angry Orange Yurble.
* [[Thirteen Is Unlucky]]: Probably unintentional, but "unlucky" doesn't even begin to describe Chapter 13, the [[Wham! Episode]] of The Faerie's Ruin. From the hero's perspective, at least; to the users (and the site), it's a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
* [[Those Two Guys]]: The Draik and Skeith guards from The Faerie's Ruin.
* [[Too Soon]]: Lampshaded with a wearable trinket -- {{spoiler|Faerieland in flames crashing to earth}} -- whose description is "Too soon?"
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* [[We Can Rule Together]]: The Faeries' Ruin plot villain {{spoiler|Xandra}}, almost word for word.
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: The zombies that terrorize Sakhmet in the Lost Desert Plot can be destroyed by ''heavy blunt objects.'' The only ones who are able to figure this out are some scrappy street thieves, and they get an audience with the princess in order to pass on their discovery.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: The Faerie's Ruin, Chapters 13 and 16.
* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]]: The Angry Orange Yurble -- a foreman (and later, a chef) in the Lost Desert plot, a janitor in the Altador plot and a Librarian in the Faerie's Ruin plot.
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]/[[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: The villain of the Petpet Park plot has been foiled multiple times in his life (including in the plot itself) by ''his insistence on using pens instead of pencils''. In fact, his frustration with this is what drove him to villainy (as opposed to driving him to, you know, just use pencils).
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