Subeta: Difference between revisions
Content deleted Content added
Import from TV Tropes TVT:Main.Subeta 2012-07-01, editor history TVTH:Main.Subeta, CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported license |
No edit summary |
||
| (12 intermediate revisions by 6 users not shown) | |||
Line 1:
{{
[[File:newsreporter_titania_1061.gif|frame|Hello, I'm [[Intrepid Reporter|Titania]] [[Gag Boobs|McGee]] with Channel 5 Action News, your best source for Subetan tropes!]]
'''''Subeta''''' was created in 2004 by teenager Keith Kurson (he was 14 at the time) as a retaliation against the strict rules Viacom was imposing on Neopets and because he failed in finding a better pet site. Like Neopets, people can play games and quests, buy and sell items, and adopt pets. But unlike Neopets, which is aimed at a wider audience, ''Subeta'' strives for an older, more niche audience and focuses more on customizing your human avatar than on customizing the pets themselves.▼
To this day,{{when}} the site has over 100,000 members, with an average of 900 online at the same time, with peaks at 2,000. ▼
▲Subeta was created in 2004 by teenager Keith Kurson (he was 14 at the time) as a retaliation against the strict rules Viacom was imposing on Neopets and because he failed in finding a better pet site. Like Neopets, people can play games and quests, buy and sell items, and adopt pets. But unlike Neopets, which is aimed at a wider audience, Subeta strives for an older, more niche audience and focuses more on customizing your human avatar than on customizing the pets themselves.
▲To this day, the site has over 100,000 members, with an average of 900 online at the same time, with peaks at 2,000.
▲Subeta can be accessed at http://subeta.net .
{{creatortropes}}
* [[Allegedly Free Game]]: Like most pet sites, Subeta has a Cash Shop, where you can buy account upgrades and special items with real money.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: See [[Killed Off for Real]] example.
Line 22 ⟶ 19:
** Certain pet colors fit this, especially Experiments and Graveyard pets.
* [[Camp Cook]]: Pete just ''looks'' like one.
* [[Chained
* [[Clockwork Creature]]: The Steamworks pet color, as well as a few minions.
* [[Cosmetic Award]]: The Avatars, then, the Achievements, and then, the new Achievements, that subvert this by giving prizes when people reach a certain difficulty (which is, generally, really... Difficult).
* [[Cosplay]]: Often done with the Human Avatars in the forums, for contests or just for fun. [[EPI Con]], an event that took place in August 2010 had a full out public contest to go with the other activities and Fan Convention-like like feel.
* [[Crack Pairing]]: [[Portmanteau Couple Name|JaxIan]], Calvin x Sebastian, Shinwa x Maleria, Nico x Manwar... The list doesn't have an end.
* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20100709204557/http://images.subeta.net/merana.gif Merana speaks for herself].
* [[Cuteness Proximity]]: Spoofed by the many minion descriptions.
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Despite the white and black magic practitioners being mostly aligned where they would supposed to, the Element Mage doesn't care about studying Darkness magic, despite being an awfully kind Chai.
Line 33 ⟶ 30:
* [[Double Entendre]]: [http://subeta.net/news/9194 Elwood] is basically a walking That's What She Said joke.
* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]: Questgiver/NPC, [http://subeta.net/news/10754 Major Drills].
* [[Early
* [[Eccentric Millionaire]]: Saggitarius and Blake Steele, though none of these two are exactly nice.
* [[Energy Weapons]]: Certain items of both the [[Laser Blade]] and [[Ray Gun]] variety.
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: The witchdoctor [https://web.archive.org/web/20200124005230/http://www.pausedlife.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=173&pos=38 Matlal] basically stole the show for the 2009 Omen Islands Plot with his all-caps posts and sexual innuendo.
* [[
* [[Evil Is Sexy]]: Somehow or another, it manages to [https://web.archive.org/web/20100702204045/http://images.subeta.net/calvinblackmoonsm.gif be] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130515142443/http://images.subeta.net/maleira.gif self-explanatory].
* [[Evil Weapon]]: There are a lot of them.
* [[Eye Scream]]: Darkside Eye Burrowers.
* [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong]]: The [[Shout
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: The Living and the Unliving minority do ''not'' get on. This is what prompted the Feb '10 plot: when the Living started putting on crude Unliving masks in an attempt to celebrate the anniversary of the Great Epidemic, the Unliving thought they were being racist and attacked anyone who came to Shadowglen Graveyard wearing a mask.
* [[Fair Play
* [[Forgets to Eat]]: Dr. Asmodeus. When he does remember, [[Word of God|he's partial to cheeseburgers and key lime soda.]]
* [[Gag Boobs]]: Poor Titania. All she wants is to be taken seriously as the best source for Subetan news, but her... unfortunate name has lead to plenty of teasing from the user base. Mature? No. Hilarious? Of course.
* [[Gone Horribly Wrong]]: The Experiment pets. Could be [[Gone Horribly Right]] instead if you actually wanted your pet to look like that.
* [[Hey,
* [[Ho Yay]]: Plenty. Given that Keith Kurson is openly gay, and there's no objections against sexuality, it's natural.
** Where does he even admit to being gay? He seems to actively counter this idea, and never answers it if asked live. Troper would link to source?
Line 57 ⟶ 54:
* [[Money for Nothing]]: While not ''completely'' worthless, sP is very easy to make. It got to the point where the staff had to create [[Meat Sinks]] to drain it out of the economy.
* [[Mutants]]: Experiment pets.
* [[Nerds Are Sexy]]: Played straight with [https://web.archive.org/web/20130622161721/http://images.subeta.net/keeper_nico_bytes.gif Nico] and the two aforementioned scientists, but averted with the Computer Quests NPC. [[Furry Fandom|Or]] [[Fetish Fuel|not]].
* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: The Graveyard, Experiment, and [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: Subetan zombies are Type P, but they're all sentient (albeit not too eloquent) and call themselves the Unliving. They live in the Shadowglen Graveyard and resent the Living.
* [[Papa Wolf]]: Dr. Asmodeus apparently does this for Quentin.
Line 64 ⟶ 61:
* [[Rage Against the Mentor]]: A lot. Subeta was created to succeed where Neopets have failed, according to [[Word of God]].
* [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job]]: Saggitarius, although he isn't much of a hero as he is someone that loves to slay dragons and draconic-like pets.
* [[Sealed Evil in
* [[Split Personality Takeover]]: Mori / Nori, ''every single day'', as soon as the sun rises or sets.
* [[Sorry, I'm Gay]]: Not only Jaxon Skelly, but Keith himself.
* [[Star
* [[Steampunk]]: The moon colony of Atebus runs entirely on Steampunk technology. {{spoiler|Technology strong enough to make an ''AI so real it passes for human''. Daaaamn, Vernon!}}
* [[Sure Why Not]]: A couple of users tried to make up a fake holiday on April Fools' Day, and the staff picked up on it... and made it official. Happy Elwood Day, kids!
Line 76 ⟶ 73:
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Mons Series]]
[[Category:Other Sites]]
▲[[Category:Subeta]]
▲[[Category:Trope]]
| |||