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* '''Crimson Owl Immunity''': A lampshaded, in-universe version of [[Contractual Immortality]] governed by the [[Applied Phlebotinum]] of that universe. Usually limited to only one character, and usually involves a [[Curse Escape Clause]] (such as [[Death by Sex|losing one's virginity]].)

* [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=crooked+rainbow Crooked Rainbow]: A [[Character Exaggeration|concentrated]] version of the [[Gayngster|Gay Mafia]]. What happens [[X Meets Y|when you combine]] [[Depraved Homosexual]] with [[Corrupt Church]] / [[Church Militant]] -like loyalty to [[The War On Straw|nearly every left-wing cause in existence]], multiply by [[Super-Persistent Predator]], add in some [[Bomb-Throwing Anarchists]] and [[Dirty Communists]], then [[Opening a Can of Clones|clone the result]] a million times.

** Will almost always be balanced by a [[Fox News Liberal|more civil homosexual character]] who will take pity on the Crooked mob's targets of violence and try to protect them. Expect lots of [[Refuge in Audacity]] and [[Crosses the Line Twice]] with this one. Will sometimes try to justify its portrayal with [[Ripped from the Headlines]] and [[~~But~~ It ~~Really~~ ~~Happened!~~]].

** Will almost always be balanced by a [[Fox News Liberal|more civil homosexual character]] who will take pity on the Crooked mob's targets of violence and try to protect them. Expect lots of [[Refuge in Audacity]] and [[Crosses the Line Twice]] with this one. Will sometimes try to justify its portrayal with [[Ripped from the Headlines]] and [[The Tasteless But True Story]].

** [[Eats Babies]] and [[Extreme Omnisexual]] are optional. Being [[Ax Crazy]] / [[But You Screw One Goat!|depraved]] / suicidal enough [[Bullying a Dragon|to attempt raping angels]] is all but mandatory.

* '''Dandelion Of Doom''': [[Genocide Backfire]] doesn't just happen, it's ''prone'' to happen; because there's an actual force in the universe that ''makes'' it happen. This force could be seen as either God or as something created by him. Regardless its exact nature, the end result is inevitable. The Dandelion Effect is difficult to cheat.

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* [[Adventures in the Bible]]: Several times, the Voyagers find that events from [[Bible Times]] will somehow directly impact their mission to save the universe.

** The Drisalian Curse event is a stand-in for the Tower of Babel.

** A Mikloche Warrior defends the baby Minshus and his parents from a Drismabon seeking to alter the course of history.

** Due to where the Lakeith Pit is buried following Minshus' death and resurrection, the Drismabons seek to invade it in their plot to destroy the universe.

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** Neothode is a giant unholy matrimony of [[City Noir|Cities Noir]] with [[Everything Is an iPod In The Future]] space technology and [[Dungeon Punk|black magic-wielding Pirates and Wizards]]. Somehow, even with some [[Steampunk]] in a few scenes, the setting avoids being [[Raygun Gothic]]. And ''yet'', there's an enclave of [[The Middle Ages]] square in the middle of it all!

* [[An Asskicking Christmas]]: Back to back episodes! [[Kung Fu Jesus|Dragonball Light Show Baby Jesus]], Action Mary, and Joseph the Philosopher feature in the first one, while second one features [[Badass Santa]].

** "Selective Generosity" is about Bishop Niklo DiMyral forging a temporary truce with some [[Arabian Nights Days|Muhmmaldian horsemen]] to hunt down and beat up sex traffickers, who abducted three women from an impoverished old man because they knew there was no way [[How Did You Get It|he came up with that gold for their dowries on his own]].

** "Selective Generosity" is about Bishop Niklo DiMyral forging a temporary truce with some [[Arabian Nights Days|Muhmmaldian horsemen]] to hunt down and beat up sex traffickers, who abducted three women from an impoverished old man because they knew there was no way [[How Did You Get It?|he came up with that gold for their dowries on his own]].

** "Essentials of Nativity" is about Maria DiNazalenth being protected by a Mikloche Warrior bodyguard when a Drismabon travels to Mantith [[Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act|to keep Minshus from being born]]. Think [[The Nativity Story]] [[X Meets Y|meets]] [[Dragonball Z]].

*** Joe/Joseph being a [[Badass]] [[Papa Wolf]] in [[The Nativity Story]] is parodied and subverted in this, as he is constantly [[Mind Over Matter|getting thrown around]] whenever he tries to fight supreme evil beings. First, Ruktarusk does this to him when Joe tries to stop Ruktarusk from killing Maria. Then, when Ruktarusk is fully distracted by Thestor, {{spoiler|the Devil himself}} throws Joe against a wall to tempt the young mother. Of course, it doesn't work. Joe is even a bit of a [[Butt Monkey]] for good angels, as Gabon's way of setting him straight when he considers deserting his bride-to-be is to show him visions of a [[Bad Future]], in a very [[Mind Rape]]-y type way that looks like [[Heroes (TV series)|Tim Kring]] meets [[Charles Dickens]]. ([[Bad News, Irrelevant News|Before telling him that he needn't be afraid of Gabon himself]]!)

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* [[The Call Knows Where You Live]] / [[The Call Has Bad Reception]]: Everyone, but especially Pextel, who gets pretty roughed up by the Call without any warning or provocation. He becomes [[Resigned to the Call|resigned to it]] when he [[Unwilling Roboticisation|awakes as a robot]] and decides refusing the Call would be a waste of time.

** Pextel wasn't so much delivered the Call by [[The Herald]] as he was pretty much kidnapped and metaphorically raped by said herald. Who, only afterwards, decided to let one of his underlings explain what the hell was happening.

* [[Cast ~~From~~ Hit Points]]: [[Our Elves Are Better|Whiteouts]] may learn Mikloche, which gives them incredible powers no other Stationery race has. Downside: the more they use it, the more [[Power Incontinence|unstable]] it becomes. And the more it [[Power Degeneration|wears on their]] [[Heroic RROD|well-being]], until it [[Superpower Meltdown|turns them into bombs]]. Granted, they have to abuse the power an ''awful lot'' before they become a [[Walking Wasteland]]; but traveling to Mantith and being physically/magickally abused tends to accelerate the side effects. The Jaldanian leaders in ''Extreme Passions'' get [[Curb Stomp Battle|Curb Stomped]] in public by [[Our Angels Are Different|Levio, Gabon, Maurice, and Filforth]]; when the leaders [[Too Dumb to Live|had Thestor whipped]] for his [[Pals with Jesus|mere association with Minshus]]. They [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds|almost blew up their own city]] in the process; and the town [[Who Would Be Stupid Enough...?|couldn't believe their ears]]. Most Whiteouts [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique|never bother to learn Mikloche]]. They fear they'll end up like Syuthan, becoming a [[Action Bomb|Glowmatti]]. Liquidon [[Lampshade Hanging|realizes]] this is happening to him in ''Night of the Whiteout.'' [[Love Martyr|It doesn't stop Cindy from being romantically attracted to him]].

* [[Cast from Hit Points]]: [[Our Elves Are Better|Whiteouts]] may learn Mikloche, which gives them incredible powers no other Stationery race has. Downside: the more they use it, the more [[Power Incontinence|unstable]] it becomes. And the more it [[Power Degeneration|wears on their]] [[Heroic RROD|well-being]], until it [[Superpower Meltdown|turns them into bombs]]. Granted, they have to abuse the power an ''awful lot'' before they become a [[Walking Wasteland]]; but traveling to Mantith and being physically/magickally abused tends to accelerate the side effects. The Jaldanian leaders in ''Extreme Passions'' get [[Curb Stomp Battle|Curb Stomped]] in public by [[Our Angels Are Different|Levio, Gabon, Maurice, and Filforth]]; when the leaders [[Too Dumb to Live|had Thestor whipped]] for his [[Pals with Jesus|mere association with Minshus]]. They [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds|almost blew up their own city]] in the process; and the town [[Who Would Be Stupid Enough...?|couldn't believe their ears]]. Most Whiteouts [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique|never bother to learn Mikloche]]. They fear they'll end up like Syuthan, becoming a [[Action Bomb|Glowmatti]]. Liquidon [[Lampshade Hanging|realizes]] this is happening to him in ''Night of the Whiteout.'' [[Love Martyr|It doesn't stop Cindy from being romantically attracted to him]].

* [[City Noir]]: Nabijab City plays this one completely straight. Thanks to Astrabolo, most of the rest of Neothode is [[Crapsack World|not that different]].

* [[Cloudcuckooland]]: All the worlds view each other this way to an extent. Ironically, the fanatical politics and religious wars between a tiny minority of non-compromised church intellectuals and an entire world of paranoid anti-theists that makes up the human world of Mantith ends up fitting this ''better'' than worlds that are run by Pens and Markers trying to battle sex-crazed terrorist-pirates. Almost all parts of Inktacto have a few too many [[Red Shirt]] characters to truly qualify any of them as a [[World of Badass]].

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* [[Double Standard Rape (Divine on Mortal)]]: Averted with Maria DiNazalenth in "Essentials of Nativity." [[The Bible]] has its explanation of how this trope is averted expanded on in a way that [[It Makes Sense in Context|makes it fit the story's universe]].

** Instead of Mary/Maria simply waking up one day pregnant, [[Negative Space Wedgie|the Muellex]] stops time save for one isolated locale, and a Chasm Tube opens up where the Trimalus strikes her like a bolt of lightning. [[Lightning Can Do Anything|A "divinospermato" instantly forms]], and with the aid of no other sperm cells, is able to fertilize an egg the same way sperm fertilizes an egg during artificial insemination.

** Actually makes her explanation for what happened ''[[Up to Eleven|even more]]'' of a [[Cassandra Truth]] to her parents, [[Go Mad ~~From~~ the Revelation|until]] [[Broken Masquerade|an alien crashes into the neighborhood and starts teleporting everywhere]].

** Actually makes her explanation for what happened ''[[Up to Eleven|even more]]'' of a [[Cassandra Truth]] to her parents, [[Go Mad from the Revelation|until]] [[Broken Masquerade|an alien crashes into the neighborhood and starts teleporting everywhere]].

*** And some Teachers of the Law [[Flat Earth Atheist|aren't even sold after]] ''[[Flat Earth Atheist|that]]'' [[Flat Earth Atheist|happens]]!

* [[Every Car Is a Pinto]]: Played around with. Mitchell and Eliot's car pretty much ''is'' a Pinto. But when their cabin is attacked by arsonist-assassins, it's one of the few things that ''doesn't'' [[Made of Explodium|catch fire]]!

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* [[Genocide Backfire]]: Because of this series, it could just as easily be called the [[Doomy Dooms of Doom|Dandelion Of Doom]]. Literally any time the Dandelion Effect is invoked, it is a reference to this. Not limited to just attacks [[Nice Job Breaking It, Herod|on babies]]. Is even [[Space Whale Aesop|compared]] to the [[Butterfly of Doom]], [[Anvilicious|just to get the point across]] to any villains who might be [[Genre Savvy]] [[Evil Overlord List|enough to listen]].

* [[Going Cosmic]]: Zigzagged. The series is heavy-handed from the very get-go. Becomes ''slightly'' [[Inverted Trope|less philosophical]] and more action-oriented with time, though [[Subverted Trope|at the expense]] of getting [[Satire|more political]].

* [[Haunted Technology]]: [[Do Androids Dream?|Librions]] are quite literally robots with [[Our Souls Are Different|souls]] [[Ghost in the Machine|inside them]]. They interact with a cybernetic brain interface that, due to being artificial, disrupts their [[wikipedia:Pre-established harmony|cosmic orientation]]. Due to the way that interface works, they constantly blur the lines between a literal [[Our Ghosts Are Different|ghost]] and a [[Virtual Ghost]]. Their [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|quasi-immortality]] inside their robotic selves [[AI Is a Crapshoot|tends to be very prone]] to developing [[Heroic BSOD|mental]] [[Ax Crazy|illness]].

* [[Haunted Technology]]: [[Do Androids Dream?|Librions]] are quite literally robots with [[Our Souls Are Different|souls]] [[Ghost in the Machine|inside them]]. They interact with a cybernetic brain interface that, due to being artificial, disrupts their [[wikipedia:Pre-established harmony|cosmic orientation]]. Due to the way that interface works, they constantly blur the lines between a literal [[Our Ghosts Are Different|ghost]] and a [[Virtual Ghost]]. Their [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|quasi-immortality]] inside their robotic selves [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|tends to be very prone]] to developing [[Heroic BSOD|mental]] [[Ax Crazy|illness]].

* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: See the [[Stationery Voyagers/Characters|Character Sheet]] for examples.

* [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|Humans Are]] [[Axe Crazy|Rabid, Psychotic, Murderous]] [[Strawman Political|Fanatics Who Exploit]] [[Exaggerated Trope|Every Situation Possible To Advance Their Preferred Ideology]]: And if you dare disagree, beware of the [[Super-Persistent Predator]]. See [[Cloudcuckooland]] above.

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** Subverted in-universe on Neothode, as the population is so used to being bullied by [[Religion of Evil|Astrabolo's cult]] that they are [[Dying Like Animals|too far beyond]] the [[Despair Event Horizon]] [[Apathetic Citizens|to care about]] whether the weirdness in their environment [[The Masquerade|is covered up or not]].

** Inverted in-universe on Mantith: The Bindaf 3000's landing on Mantith was actually ''expected'', with [[Strawman Political|Strawmen Political]] from every ideological camp [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|trying to exploit the situation to their cause]]. It was the ''Voyagers'' who were caught off guard! Even for those causes the Voyagers ''agreed with'', their insistence on wanting to stay on task rubbed many the wrong way.

* [[Power Nullifier]]: [[Our Angels Are Different|Levio the Nullifier]], who functions as both this and [[Anti-Magic]]. Wizards are reduced from casting spells with impunity to any number of side effects: casting spells with [[Call It Karma|karmic backfire]], [[Cast ~~From~~ Hit Points|casting from hit points]], or the humiliation of a specific spell simply not working.

* [[Power Nullifier]]: [[Our Angels Are Different|Levio the Nullifier]], who functions as both this and [[Anti-Magic]]. Wizards are reduced from casting spells with impunity to any number of side effects: casting spells with [[Call It Karma|karmic backfire]], [[Cast from Hit Points|casting from hit points]], or the humiliation of a specific spell simply not working.

** If it were not [[Because Destiny Says So|necessary for Mechanical Pencils to exist to fulfill certain prophesies]], then Levio would be allowed to block the process of [[Unwilling Roboticisation|Artificial Reincarnation]] as well.

** Whiteouts that travel to Mantith by their own means may be able to remain as Stationery beings, but attempting to use Mikloche beyond [[Power Levels|Shell 8]] may lead to [[Cast ~~From~~ Hit Points|casting from hit points]]. Likewise, if a Whiteout ''is'' messed with by a wizard, the chances of them needing to cast from hit points increases exponentially. Whiteouts who travel to Mantith by supernatural means (e.g., [[The Grim Reaper|Maurice the Ferryman]]) slowly become human. They ''can'' use Mikloche once human, but again, only if they cast from hit points.

** Whiteouts that travel to Mantith by their own means may be able to remain as Stationery beings, but attempting to use Mikloche beyond [[Power Levels|Shell 8]] may lead to [[Cast from Hit Points|casting from hit points]]. Likewise, if a Whiteout ''is'' messed with by a wizard, the chances of them needing to cast from hit points increases exponentially. Whiteouts who travel to Mantith by supernatural means (e.g., [[The Grim Reaper|Maurice the Ferryman]]) slowly become human. They ''can'' use Mikloche once human, but again, only if they cast from hit points.

*** Other Stationery beings who travel to Mantith by supernatural means simply become gradually human, except for Mechanical Pencils. Those who travel by technology remain Stationeries, but become gradually more susceptible to catching human diseases.

** Likewise, [[Magitek|muellexic techonlogy]] has allowed for [[Psychic Powers|phantomars]] to be disabled on Stationeries with the aid of certain devices, effectively serving as a sort of replacement for handcuffs in a world of creatures that don't have hands.