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* [[Altar the Speed]] / [[Wedding Deadline]]: Not the tropes themselves, but Major Failure is "directing" Zoofights V at the same time as his ''wedding''.
{{quote| '''Gravitas Shortfall''' (on whether Lesko, [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Robotnik]], and the two [[Doctor Who|Doctors]] should continue their roleplay rivalry, and one of them got snippy): I'm sorry you think that MF taking time out from organising and drawing three fights in the week ''before he has to get married'' is a dick move. I know it must be ''terribly'' hard on you.}}
* [[Alternate Universe]]: {{spoiler|Gamma Constrictor has made himself a part of the fabric of time (or something), which has caused many roleplay characters to either become snake-themed, the [[Mirror Universe]] version of themselves (EG the evil [[Star Trek (Franchise)|Capt. Kirk]] and the kindly [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Spiral Entity]]), or as one put it "I've become every [[Space Marine]] ever!".}}
* [[Always Male]]: Each and every fighter is referred to as "he" (or sometimes "it"). The trope persists even when Zoofights 4 introduced Tunguska, an alien queen, and in Zoofights 5, which brought in Blood 4 Oil, a giant mosquito. Only female mosquitoes suck blood. Blood 4 Oil sucks blood. [[Critical Research Failure|Still called a "he"]]. Update: It took until Round 2, but Major Failure did realize, yes, Blood 4 Oil/[[There Will Be Blood|DRAAAAAAINAGE]]/[[Punny Name|Brutish Petroleum]] ''is'' female.
** '''Aversions:'''
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* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Half of all Zoofighters. Even those who are only mentioned in passing or happen to be fan creations tend to have awesome names, like Vuvuzebra, Citizen Cane, Widow Maker and Octopus Crime.
* [[Badass]]: Oh The Huge Manatee, Steamcrab, Once Were Walrus, Ned Killy and Drillz [[Running Gag|(he's the leader!)]] of the Mangolin' Pangolians.
* [[Badass in Aa Nice Suit]]: Bull Market wears an absurdly expensive carbon-fiber suit to fight in.
* [[Badass Normal]]: Zoofights 1 - Retired police chief John Burnell of America's Scariest Police Chases!
* [[Bee-Bee Gun]]: Tsar Bumble.
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** Zoofights 1 - {{spoiler|Swanmass, a disgusting blob of swan and gorilla meat that absorbs dead creatures into itself to grow.}}
** Zoofights 2 - {{spoiler|Das Ziegenmancer, a goat capable of raising the dead. He eventually is replaced by a reformed Swanmass.}}
** Zoofights 3 - {{spoiler|Jack the Ripper, his mutant creation From Hell, and Father [[The West Wing (TV)|Leo McGarry]], a priest fused to a demon's wings}}
** Zoofights 4 - {{spoiler|Elohim, a centipede/alien hybrid, and Seanet, a gathering of psychic cephalopods of various sizes}}
** Zoofights 5 - {{spoiler|Gamma Constrictor, a time manipulating anaconda who has fused with an aircraft carrier filled with hate.}}
* [[Big Creepy -Crawlies]]: Inquisipede, Blood 4 Oil, Sting Kong, Great Leap Forward.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Zoofights 1 - {{spoiler|Sega Gorillesis}}
** Zoofights 4 - {{spoiler|Wolfbike and friends in the Royal Rumble. Subverted when it turns out to just be a Hope Spot.}}
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* [[Dartboard of Hate]]: Robotnik has a Lesko dartboard in his Death Egg.
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: {{spoiler|Gravitee vs. Krustus}}
* [[Defiant to Thethe End]]: Zoofights 4 - {{spoiler|Once Were Walrus standing up to Elohim, and later Elohim standing up to Seanet.}}
* [[Deliberate Injury Gambit]]: Zoofights 3 - {{spoiler|Drillbjorn vs. Ultraphant}} Zoofights 5 - {{spoiler|Punchules the Magnificent vs. Banebarramuni}}
* [[Double Knockout]]: Zoofights 3 - {{spoiler|Pandamander vs. Hellpotamus}}.
* [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him]]: Zoofights 3 - {{spoiler|Father Leo Mcgarry}} and Zoofights 5 - {{spoiler|Ned Killy}}. Both are killed "offscreen", without a picture.
** Also from Zoofights 5 - {{spoiler|Bar-tending squid Gezora and Akumu, who helped run the Loser's League, had an AIRCRAFT CARRIER FULL OF HATE dropped on them. Averted when they got better.}}
* [[Drop the Hammer]]: Odinkaru, The Greatest Shark on Earth
* [[Duel to Thethe Death]]}}: Virtually every battle ended with someone dying, but in the earlier rounds they get a second chance in the loser's bracket, so machinery and new flesh is grafted on and added to get the monstrosities working again.
* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Reanimammut, Tapogres, {{spoiler|Great White Shitkicker}}, Smash Gordon, Barbarrimundi
** Subverted with Dreadnautilus - he is described as very dim when in fact it is his teammates (three humans commanding him via walkie-talkies) that are the stupid ones. When their connection cuts out Dreadnautilus is shown to be quite clever.
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** Zoofights 4 - {{spoiler|Shaolin Monkey, Wrasslopod, Once Were Walrus, The Penguin, Raptorcycle, Wolfbike, Cheetahbike, and Dogbike team up to face Elohim. Subverted hilariously when Ned Killy responds to Dred Zeppelin's peace offering with a steel girder to the face.}}
** Zoofights 5 - {{spoiler|Ro-Boto Cop and Sega Gorillesis Mk II become friends and form a tag team.}}
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Dinosaurs]]: Grapplesaurus Rex, Imperaptor, Glaciosaur.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Monkeys]]: Gibbons with Clubs for Arms, Chimp My Ride, Riot Yeti, Sting Kong.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Penguins]]: The Penguin.
* [[Everything's Deader Withwith Zombies]]: {{spoiler|The European Onion.}}
* [[Messy Pig]]: Porky Punisher
* [[Everything's Squishier Withwith Cephalopods]]: Mechos, The Delegation, {{spoiler|Seanet}}. Slammonite is also a cephalopod, but is definitely not that squishy.
** {{spoiler|Elohim}} may also qualify.
** In Zoofights 5, Dreadnautilus. Granted, he's a nautilus and so not that squishy, but still.
* [[Everything's Worse Withwith Bears]]: Drillbjorn, Pandamander, Huggles T. Bear
* [[Everything's Worse Withwith Bees]]: {{spoiler|Tsar Bumble}}
* [[Everything's Even Worse Withwith Sharks]]: Flying Tiger Sharks, Dakuvanga, and Bastard Shark
* [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]: Entrant 12 in Zoofights 3 had the official name of {{spoiler|"A MOTHERFUCKING '''MARTIAN'''"}}. Which, really, is rather to the point.
* [[Eye Beams]]: Hippos with Lasers for Eyes, Star Truck.
* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: Oh The Huge Manatee, {{spoiler|Snake Pilgrim}}, Gadadhara
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* [[High-Class Glass]]: Steamcrab.
* [[Hive Queen]] / [[Mother of a Thousand Young]]: {{spoiler|Seanet}}
* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]: Zoofights 5's final saw {{spoiler|an angry Croctopus tear off Fists O'Batahan's arm and brain him with his own elbow, the bat's signature move.}}
* [[Holy Hand Grenade]]: The secret weapon of {{spoiler|Centipope}} is a Holy Hand Grenade.
* [[Hope Spot]]: Major Failure loves this trope. Virtually every battle swings back and forth a few times. One of the most ridiculous Hope Spots in all of history was the Loser's League Royal Rumble in Zoofights 4. {{spoiler|All of the combatants realize that Elohim is the one to beat, so they all gang up on him, but he effortlessly sweeps them aside, killing two of the five in the process. Cue Wolfbike and his new companions Cheetahbike and Dogbike, followed by incredibly awesome pictures of the fighters jumping on the "Zoobikes", including a glorious [[Enemy Mine]] that shows Slammonite and Wolfbike putting aside their differences and teaming up and one of the downed warriors returning through a ''dimensional void from an alternate universe where he was stronger''... And in the next drawing Elohim effortlessly kills them all... all but ONE, Once Were Walrus, who gives us ANOTHER Hope Spot, which also ends in brutal annihilation by Elohim.}}
** Name-checked in V, Sting Kong vs. Barbarrimundi. {{spoiler|The moment labeled "HOPE SPOT" is when Sting Kong manages to get in a serious strike on Barbarrimundi. The Hope Spot is shown to be your average Hope Spot when Barbarrimundi won anyway. There's also Wolfbike's reappearance in the Snakefights final as he falls to earth as a meteor... and burns to ashes on reentry.}}
* [[Horny Vikings]]: {{spoiler|Odinkaru}}
* [[Impaled Withwith Extreme Prejudice]]: Oh, The Huge Manatee vs. the Tapogres, {{spoiler|Gravatee vs. From Hell}}
* [[In Medias Res]] [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|Bitches]]: For [http://zoofights.squarespace.com/storage/zoofights6/ll-fight-2/1%20larger.jpg HWAAD vs. Cold Warlrus].
* [[Joke Character]]: Wolfbike, A Cat With One Leg, Bikebike, A Jar of Frog Piss
** In an interview about Zoofights 5, Major Failure gives a few hints of upcoming fighters. One of the creations he names is {{spoiler|a psychic onion}}, which promptly started much joking and hypothesizing among the readers. However, {{spoiler|once actually revealed, The European Onion proved to be no joke at all}}.
* [[Killer Rabbit]]: Zoofights 5 - {{spoiler|Nelson}}
* [[Kill It Withwith Fire]]: Bastard Shark, {{spoiler|Draainage}}
* [[Leitmotif]]/[[Catch Phrase]]: "... a pair of big, muscly arms."
* [[Lethal Joke Character]]: {{spoiler|Two Drunk Guys}}
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* [[Make Me Wanna Shout]]: Mr. Ro-Boto, Sturgeon General
* [[Man On Fire]]: Zoofights 3 - {{spoiler|Steamcrab vs. Odinkaru}}
* [[Mecha -Mooks]]: The Zoofights 4 space station Gravitas Shortfall employed several dozen Mecha-Ants, which were built to repair the ship in the event of an accident. They are also equipped with laser guns to defend the station should it come under attack.
* [[Melee a Trois]]: Zoofights 1's Royal Rumble. Zoofights 4 had a Royal Rumble, but it degenerated into a two-sided conflict instantly when everyone teamed up to fight {{spoiler|Elohim}}.
** Zoofights 5 continued with this tradition, this time having all 8 entries at each other's necks.
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* [[Off-Model]]: Captain Croctopus' hat looks different every time it's shown.
** In Zoofights 6, {{spoiler|Muhammut Kali switches back and forth between having an elephant head and a mammoth head. (He's supposed to have the mammoth head, due to an injection of mammoth genes.}}
* [[Off Withwith His Head]]: {{spoiler|Old Bitey's victory over Tunguska}} ends with this in Zoofights 4.
** Happens again in Zoofights 5 - {{spoiler|Great Leap Forward vs. The Snapture}}.
** And again in Zoofights 6 - {{spoiler|The Berlin Walrus' American head is taken off every time it fights.}}
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* [[Reveal Shot]]: Zoofights 6 - {{spoiler|In the final, Vighneshvara and Armour Dio are shown in a close-up shot pummeling each other. Then the next picture pulls back the view to reveal that [[Magnificent Bastard|they are unknowingly being surrounded by]] [[Actually a Doombot|six lobster-controlled mechs.]]}}
* [[Rock Beats Laser]]: Zoofights 5 - {{spoiler|Great Leap Forward vs. The Snapture}}
* [[Role Playing Game]]: The voters have included several [[Doctor Who|Doctors]], [[Fan Nickname|"Sad]] [[The Road|Aragorn"]], [[Steampunk]] [[Theodore Roosevelt]], [[Lucifer (Comic Book)|Lucifer]], [[Escape Fromfrom New York|Snake]] [[Escape From LAL.A.|Plissken]], [[The Dark Crystal|Aughra]], (irradiated) Marie Curie, (mutated) [[Niccolo Machiavelli|Machiavelli]], [[Freud Was Right|Sigmund Freud]], the [[Robot Monster]], the cockroach from ''[[Wall WALL-E]]'', Alexander the Great, Kim Jong-Il (who was oddly silent during Great Leap Forward's round), [[Star Trek (Franchise)|Capt. Kirk]], [[There Will Be Blood|Daniel Plainview]], [[Deadwood|Al Swearingen]] (co-bartended with Gezora in Zoofights 4), [[The Sopranos|Paulie Walnuts]], [[Transmetropolitan|Spider Jerusalem]], [[Preacher (Comic Book)|The Saint of Killers]] (who almost got into a fight with one of the more nihilistic Doctors), [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Dr. Robotnik]], [[Event Horizon|Dr. Weir]], [[Futurama|Scruffy the Janitor]], Elohim's [[The Pope|Pope]] (Benedict XVI -- no 'shopping necessary!), [[The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension|Buckaroo Banzai]], [[Time Travel|Time]] [[Santa Claus|Santa]] and his pal [[Back to The Future|Doc Brown]], an African warlord, an [[Blade Runner|eye doctor]], countless videogame and comicbook characters, random (photos of) real people, quite a few original characters, and several [http://www.keiththompsonart.com/pages/slaver.html Keith Thompson] characters. Oh, [[My Friends and Zoidberg|and]] Tim Buckley<ref> I'm surprised that with all the Keith Thompson characters no one used [http://www.keiththompsonart.com/pages/necromancer.html this ingenious lady] as Lilah/Brittany</ref>. However, there's a rule that the role-playing shouldn't get too out of hand least it get in the way of the actual fighting, which apparently happened in one of the earlier rounds [[Old Shame|to everyone's detriment]].
* [[Rule of Cool]]: The entire series, really. There's a train with a bison attached to it, for crying out loud.
* [[Running Gag]]: '''GEZORA DOES NOT UNDERSTAND WHISPERING.'''
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* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Star Wars]] and the Sega Genesis are favorites.
** Zoofights 5's round two match between {{spoiler|Punchules the Magnificent and Banebarrimundi}} contained several [[Batman]] references, specifically {{spoiler|"I WILL BREAK YOU". Remarkably fails to take down Punchules, who has a spare spine that he uses ''to strangle Banebarrimundi''.}}
** Zoofights 6: PW Botha of [[District 9 (Film)|Johannesburg]] got an [http://i54.tinypic.com/sdcp5h.jpg invitation.] Bull Market has a sleazy [[Wall Street|gecko]] sidekick.
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Oh the Huge Manatee, The Snapture.
** In Zoofights 5, Major Failure at one point notes that the Zoofights corporation has received a large number of cigars as a "gift" from the BRUT-05 team. He then encourages everyone to smoke. A dozen or so roleplayers obligingly edited their role-play pictures to make their characters smoke.
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** Zoofights 5 - ''Twice''. {{spoiler|The story opens with Seanet having successfully returned and taken over the planet. They make an attempt to keep their hold over the earth by hijacking Aggronaut's mind, but failed. Later, Gamma Constrictor altered reality to make himself a god-king, perhaps intending to take on Seanet after squashing what was left of the Zoofighters.}}
** Zoofights 6 - {{spoiler|It seems Kray Fish's been getting some ideas from ''Heart of Darkness'' and The Snapture has returned...}}
* [[Taking You Withwith Me]]: {{spoiler|Elohim's final "screw you" to Seanet, Dred Zeppelin, Ned Killy, Jupiter, and everyone on board the ship the final battle is taking place on.}}
* [[The Last Dance]]: {{spoiler|Hydrafficus}}
* [[The Messiah]]: In a way, {{spoiler|Croctopus}} in Zoofights V.
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