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** Michuru shows up to fight {{spoiler|Apocatastasis after he [[Took a Level In Badass]].}}

* [[Big Damn Villains]]: {{spoiler|Apocatastasis}} punks out {{spoiler|his father, Abaddon}} when the two finally meet for the first time in six thousand years.

* [[Blood Knight]]: Deimos

* [[Brought Down to Normal]]: {{spoiler|Deimos willingly injects himself with Knitter, losing his abilities for a time before the drug wears off. David Meinstein loses his Iron Man armor but he gets the Speed Force soon after.}}

* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Several examples:

** Sclera is such an amazing martial artist that he's not expelled from the Trials after he clearly demonstrates that he is bat-crap crazy.

*** Similarly, said slaughter was in no way, shape, or form ordered by {{spoiler|Adonis}}.

* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Apocatastasis until Lodestone hands him the [[Idiot Ball]].

* [[Character Development]]: Frostbite, or rather Coldfire now, has fluctuated in character a great deal since his introduction to the story. His longstanding everyman, do-gooder persona is slipping away in favor of an angry, angsty attitude. Whether this works or not is up to individual interpretation.

* [[Character Tics]]: Plenty.

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Noah Meinstein when he's not being a [[Mad Scientist]]. Which isn't often. Why is Patriot Robotics still around anyway?

* [[Crapsack World]]: Crap in heaven the Oubliverse is not a fun place to live in. Rogue Demons run rampant, having their way with the women of the world, [[Gambit Roulette|all part of a sick plan to control Hell]]. The Nephilim are for the most part total [[Jerkass|Jerkasses]], Neo-Sapiens are treated like pond scum [[Fridge Logic|despite having the power to melt faces]]. Interpersonal relationships are torn apart on a daily basis due to [[Unfortunate Implications|constant infidelity]]. It's sad that only admittedly happy and normal person with a good relationship seen so far is an expy of [[Fullmetal Alchemist|Edward Elric]].

* [[Crazy Prepared]] Michuru81 himself deserves acknowledgement of this, having planned out the framework of his games to last for literally years to come.

* [[Creator's Pet]]: Rumble. Loved by the author, check. Hated by fans and players alike, check.

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Even before {{spoiler|his death/big promotion}}, Drew is shown to be more creative with everyone's powers than they are.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Take your pick.

** Eventually Rumble picks this up too. [[Mary Sue|What a surprise.]]

* [[Culture Clash]]: Copycat's obsession with ganguros and later Brass and Split have a talk about sex in Japan.

* [[Dream Land]]: Twice to date, Blanche Gareth has come in and [[Mind Raped]] the heroes by manipulating their dreams... all the while listening to Coheed & Cambria.

* [[Driven to Villainy]]: The White War never would have happened had it not been for [[What the Hell, Hero?|Lodestone]].

* [[Doesn't Like Guns]]: The Author has stated this about himself several times.

* [[Easy Amnesia]]: {{spoiler|Abaddon ever since Apocatastasis drained his INT, WIS and CHA to 1}}.

* [[Embarrassing Middle Name]]: During their high school graduation it was revealed that Adonis Skraag's middle ame is "Michelle."

* [[Enemy Within]]: Michuru, Deimos, Chienne, Gabriel, Gabrielle, Phobos... Hell, if your eyes glow, you're a card-carrying member of this Trope.

* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: While the cast is an ensemble one by nature, Frostbite remains one of the most popular characters in the series.

** Hikari, arguably: He comes from the future to warn the heroes of an impending threat that will cause said future. Trains them to fight the threat. [[Dragonball Z|Sound familiar]]?

*** This troper always took Hikari to be [[X-Men|Bishop]]: he comes back in time from a terrible future, ranting about a traitor. While Hikari's {{spoiler|"Hi, everyone! I'm Michuru and Halogen's kid!"}} parallels Trunks' being the son of Vegeta and Bulma, the X-Men reference seems more appropriate given the other references to Marvel's merry mutants.

** Iris: Hinata from Naruto.

** Mirage: Rock Lee from Naruto.

** Silverback: Marvel Comics' Beast

** Split: Naruto from Naruto - both duplicate and The Author has said "Kom cie!" is Cambodian for "believe it!"

* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: Deimos gets one of these {{spoiler|after a stray beam takes out his eye}}.

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Several characters:

* [[Narm]]: Anything Rumble says about her religious beliefs. {{spoiler|Adonis's}} talk of the need to cull weak Neo-Sapiens.

** Adonis' speech that occurred recently in the campaign. Michuru81 posted it on the ATT recently. For some reason he choose not to include Bulwark's constant heckling throughout it. I wonder why.

* [[Our Demons Are Different]]: The cosmology behind the Nephilim and Neo-Sapiens.

* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: For several books, Wilt is shown to have the Neo-Sapien power to suck...the life out of those he touches. By Et Spe this has developed into full-on vampirism and the reveal is that vampires are actually an ancient dynasty of Neo-Sapiens.

* [[The Plan]]: All the Fallen have tried these to varying degrees of success or utter failure. Abaddon appears to be having the most success so far.

* [[Pretentious Latin Motto]]: Every book is titled with one of these.

* [[Purity Sue]]: Rumble, [[Creator's Pet|for obvious reasons]]. She remains essentially a perfect, incorruptibly [[Informed Attractiveness|"sweet"]] girl and her only foray into evil wasn't really her.

* [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]: First it was the foreigners who participated in the Trials, then it was the Nephilim Apocatastasis resurrected in Et Spe. The new trend seems to be the Zodiac as the the Vindicators have thus far fought Libra, Gemini, Scorpio and Capricorn.

* [[Reckless Sidekick]]: Blur

* [[Railroading]]: As the focus shifted from basing the stories off of the campaigns to basing the campaign off the stories, railroading is a common sight.

* [[Red Herring]]: "Don't trust Mi-"

* [[Reed Richards Is Useless]]: Slightly justified in that the resident genius of the world, <s> Hank McCoy</s> Dr. Howell has been unable to secure any funding for his experiments because he is a Neo-Sapien despite [[Fridge Logic|managing to have the ability to cure cancer]].

** On the other hand is the recently started Oubliette County, it has no connections whatsoever (that we know of) with Universe 137. Players in the game currently wonder why they are bothering.

* [[Story-Breaker Power]]: Rift until the conclusion of the Apocatastasis arc, Sclera, Rumble, Quintessence, Taegan, and Apocatastasis.

* [[Suddenly Sexuality]]: Characters in the story come out at odd moments. Taegen just before his death, Prof. Incendiary in Chimera's backstory.

* [[Super Dickery]]: Paragon, justified as this is the entire point of his character.