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* [[Aborted Arc]] - Occurred from time to time when certain people had to duck out of the roleplay for various reasons, leaving a character arc or even a series hanging.
** Also an example of [[Real Life Writes the Plot]].
* [[Ace Custom]] - Regularly happened with characters getting new upgrades for their machines post-series (or sometimes just late in their story), such as Duo's [[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
* [[Adaptation Expansion]] and [[Ascended Extra]]- Bound to happen due to [[Pragmatic Adaptation|not having everyone from every show]]. Prominent examples of people having a bigger role than they did originally include [[Turn
** Also applied to mecha, with the game's willingness to use obscure units, MSVs (especially from SEED), and units that haven't actually appeared yet in the canons the game ''supposedly'' uses, like [[Super Robot Wars|Banpreios]], [[Full Metal Panic!|Laevatein]], and [[Super Robot Wars|Shin RyuKoOh]].
* [[Actor Allusion]] - A common subject of jokes. Also [[Talking to Himself]].
** Occasionally, in memes and OOC chat, OCs alluded to their own PBs; for example, Julius suddenly and inexplicably displaying a [[Tales of the Abyss|fear of women]], or Mila responding to "[[Fresh Pretty Cure|Setsuna]]" by mistake.
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* [[Anime Theme Song]] - Yes. ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh9AMgXhHAM It has its own opening.]''
* [[Apocalypse How]] - Due to the various canons involved, the GDF had to deal with averting everything between Class 0 and Class X.
* [[Ascended Meme]] - <nowiki>*bans Deus*</nowiki>, Deus being a former player, became [[Memetic Mutation]] after many shenanigans in the OoC chat. Then, when the final battle on the Silentium homeworld came around, the heroes discovered that the final boss was a machine named the Deus Imperator. How was it destroyed? By [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Simon]] combining Gurren-Lagann with [[Megas XLR]] and [[
** And it gets better: THIS WAS NOT PLANNED.
* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]] - [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
* [[Badass Army]]
* [[Back for
* [[Battle Couple]] (Besides the reinforcements, the ''[[Parallel Trouble Adventure Dual|Dual]]'' finale was staffed entirely with these. [[The Power of Love|Fitting.]])
* [[Beach Episode]] - The mission Beach Rescue Operation.
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* [[Big Bad]] - Silentium.
* [[Bigger Bad]] - Admittedly a silly variant, but the [[Those Wacky Nazis|Nazis]]. Frequently (especially when involved with the Hildebrand canon), the term "Then the Nazis win" is a catch-all term for [[Godwin's Law of Time Travel|what would happen if something didn't go as it was predicted]]. Even Saturnus and Janus [[Lampshade Hanging|have noted their sheer omnipresence in different realities.]]
* [[Big Bad Wannabe]] - In the ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00
* [[Big Damn Heroes]] - Many instances, but especially Hauwsr during TERMINUS.
** Which was followed up by a [[Gunship Rescue]] by [[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ
* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: [[Bangai-O|Riki's]] [http://bangai-o-go.livejournal.com/2341.html farewell speech]. Played for laughs.
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] - Pretty much every Disgaea mission ever, though especially so in A Netherworld Encore: Evening of Darkness, in which Laharl distracted the mod (Li-Chi) running the mission by mail-ordering her a model of the [[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory|GP-02]]. Another mod (TK) had to finish the mission.
** Li-Chi 'accidentally' apologized in the IC chat before 'realizing' she said it in the wrong chat.
** During Braves! Death At Dawn!, not only did the [[
* [[Break the Game Breaker]] - It's become somewhat of a running gag that the [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00
** The [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Cathedral Terra]] also had to be sealed inside a pocket dimension to keep it from succumbing to the laws of physics.
** And let's not forget the [[Super Robot Wars|Soulgain]]. It gets trashed on just about every single mission Axel sorties in. But thanks to its regenerative abilities, it's usually good to go again by the next mission.
* [[Brick Joke]] - When [[Super Robot Wars|Masaki]] was dropped, [[Real Life Writes the Plot|the excuse used]] was that [[No Sense of Direction|he had gotten lost]] on his way to [http://duo-death-god.livejournal.com/5294.html pick up a pizza]. Two and a half years later, [http://cosmo-nova.livejournal.com/1232.html he returns]... ''and still has the pizza with him''.
** In a conversation they had following their duel, one of the things Cagalli mentions to Shinn is that he should be glad she's not charging him for the Akatsuki's repairs, referring to a running gag from more than half a year ago where Shinn would have to pay for the repairs the Strike Gundam (technically Orb property at that point) out of his own pocket.
* [[Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu]] - The fate of Loran at the end of [[Turn
* [[Broad Strokes]] - [[Super Robot Wars Advance|Lamia and Axel]]'s canon incorporates a mix of both the plot from [[Super Robot Wars Advance]] and [[Super Robot Wars Original Generation]].
* [[Brought Down to Normal]] - The eventual fate of [[Disgaea|Laharl]], who attempted to [[No Fourth Wall|hack the game]] to the point of being omnipotent, but in the end dropped his level down to a measly 3. More than enough for ''Prinnies'' to take him in a fight.
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** A second one happened, and ''it was awesome.'' But the best part was the ending: A mass team attack ''based off the lyrics to The Twelve Days of Christmas'', topped off by '''Santa himself''' dealing the finishing blow ''via [[Colony Drop]] WITH A GIANT PEAR TREE''.
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]] - Hauwsr: whenever something goes terribly wrong or just gets on his nerves, a steady stream of cursing can be heard from his office.
* [[Combining Mecha]] - [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Gurren-Lagann]] and [[
** And having Gurren-Lagann opens up infinite possibilities. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Like the time it combined with the]] ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
* [[Creepy Doll]] - [[Soukou no Strain|Emily]], according to [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Asuka]]. No one was surprised.
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]] - [[Original Generation|Shiro H]]'s character arc starts as a [[Gender Flip]] of this. ...Basically. ...Plus occasional bouts of insanity, taking the [[Enemy Without]] in as a [[Split Personality]], and lots of model robots.
* [[Demoted to Extra]] - Inverted with [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]] - The final boss of Hildebrandsleid was a Lovecraftian horror from beyond the cosmos; its name was Msspld Cthulu (Misspelled Cthulhu).
* [[Dying Moment of Awesome]] - Hauwsr yet again.
* [[Dynamic Entry]] - Happens all the time.
* [[Early
* [[Everyone Can See It]] - Just about every pairing in the game starts as this, canon and otherwise. They tend to stay that way for long periods of time.
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]] - This tends to happen when you have over a dozen enemy factions all running around at once.
* [[Expy]] - Often referenced as strange coincidences, much like the Actor Allusions.
** [[Char Clone]] - Repeatedly lampshaded by [[Mobile Suit Gundam
* [[First Church of Mecha]] - Played with, then inverted by [[Fan Nickname|Livejournal]] [[Original Generation|Original]] Chanda. Her mecha is at first believe to be Kalki, [[Hindu Mythology|the 10th and final avatar of Vishnu]], but eventually it turns out that {{spoiler|Chanda is the Avatar. Her mecha is Devadatta, Kalki's White Horse.}}
* [[For Want of a Nail]] - The [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
* [[Four Is Death]] - There are four Imperati: Claustrum, Discordia, Janus, and Saturnus.
* [[Four
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]] - Has happened quite a few times, but as [[Mobile Suit Gundam
* [[Godwin's Law of Time Travel]] - Frequently, the time traveling organization GAF (Galaxy Attack Force) answers questions about why they do or do not do various things with the explanation, "Because then the Nazis win."
* [[Going Down
* [[Gondor Calls for Aid]] - the [[Grand Finale]] pulls out all the stops, complete with [[
* [[Grand Finale]] - besides epic dedicated missions for the conclusion of individual plots, there was the two-part climax of the RPG - SILENTIUM and EARTH, the latter of which was the largest mission (by line count) in the whole game by almost 50%.
* [[Gratuitous Latin]] - Silentium, full stop. Individual Original canons also gave us Gratuitous Hebrew and Surprisingly Good Sanskrit.
* [[Guest Star Party Member]]- {{spoiler|During the [[Gurren Lagann]] finale, [[Getter Robo|Ryouma Nagare]] returned with the Tengen Toppa Getter Emperor.}}
** During the Disgaea ''post''-finale mission, [[Full Metal Panic!|Chidori Kaname]] showed up mainly to translate Bonta-kun's words for everyone [[Lampshade Hanging|while complaining that Sousuke had all the time in the world to fix that defect.]]
* [[Heel Face Turn]] - Aside from all the canon ones, the vengeful Silentium soldier Anguis eventually decided to stop being a [[Jerkass]] and help the Earthlings overthrow his government.
* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]] - The [[Chars Counterattack]] canon put a surprising number of people through one, particularly [[After War Gundam X
* [[Hero of Another Story]] - The usual in-game excuse for when a character is dropped prior to the conclusion of their plot is that they were transferred to a different GDF base, where presumably their stories continue on.
* [[Huge Holographic Head]] - Subverted in ''Hildebrandsleid''. Boss Head, the leader of GAF, appears to be huge, floating, disembodied, half transparent blue head wearing Indiana Jones' hat and a clown nose. You can squeeze the nose. It honks.
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** Interestingly enough, not every series represented is a mecha anime/video game. Notable exceptions include ''[[Digimon Tamers]], [[Disgaea]]'', and ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''. The first two were allowed because of the game's need for players when it first opened, the last because... really, who can say ''Nanoha'' isn't /m/?
* [[Indy Ploy]] - Happens a LOT.
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]] - During the ''[[Turn
** Prof's OOC comment about this moment is rather amusing. It was something to the effect of, "I like how this scene means that in UG, at some point Gym Ghingham looked at his cockpit and thought 'This cockpit needs something ... I know! SWORDS.' " The best part is, Gym Ghingham is crazy enough for this to not be hard to imagine.
* [[Killed Off for Real]] - Out of player characters, there was [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00
* [[Large Ham]] - Hauwsr.
* [[Lethal Chef]] - [[Original Generation|Shiro]] with anything not an apple-based dessert confection. As it turns out, though, this is [[Troll|entirely intentional on his part]].
** [[After War Gundam X
** During the April Fools Day mission I Hunger, the Earth was attacked by Unicron, [[Planet Eater|Galactus]], and [[Sinistar]]. They considered the option of feeding them [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Nia's cookies]].
* [[Let's Play]] - Yes, there is an LP treating this like a video game. Started by Prof (mod, plays [[Full Metal Panic!|Sousuke Sagara]], [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00
* [[Made of Explodium]] - The game continuously lampshades this, narration giving such crafts the nickname "made of [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
* [[Made of Indestructium]] - When [[Super Robot Wars Original Generation|Ryuusei]] became a [[
* [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink|Mecha Kitchen Sink]] - Even if we just include the original canons, we have two groups of aliens with entirely different [[MOS]], multiple mercenary organizations, creatures from Hindu mythology, and then there's [[Widget Series|everything dealing with Hildebrand.]]
* [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]] - Par of the course, this being ''[[Super Robot Wars]]''. However, the finale takes it to the next level, with the Silentium fleet of enslaved thralls including units of [[Firefly|the Reavers]], [[
* [[Mega Manning]] - [[Original Generation|Julius]] stole and copied some Silentium super-beam-saber tech. This [[Subverted Trope|actually wound up turning against the people using the copies]], since the [[Final Boss]] knew how to just...turn them off. In a straighter example, Asuka also held onto the copy-Lance of Longinus that her Eva got stabbed with and used it until the end of the game.
* [[Mood Whiplash]] - Several missions due to putting silly and serious canons together in the same mission. One of the best examples is [[Digimon Tamers|Lionheart]], which took the early episode of [[
* [[Name's the Same]] - Shiro Hawthorne, one of the original characters, just so happens to have a mother with the name [[Phoenix Wright|Dahlia]].
* [[Noodle Incident]] - Subverted with the infamous [[Turn
* [[No One Could Survive That]] - [[Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team|Shiro Amada]] and [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
** [[Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team|Shiro Amada]] died so many times that during the [[Bangai-O]] finale Mrs. M summoned 'the spirit of your fallen comrade Shiro Amada' to give them advice. Everyone was very confused, except Riki. "Oh, no! Shiro! I'll never forget you! I knew the alcohol would be your downfall!"
** On the other hand [[B't X
* [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup]] - Averted with the [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
* [[Non
* [[Oh Crap]] - Silentium's first appearance.
** {{spoiler|[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|"Humanity has achieved Spiral Danger Level Three."]]}}
** Near the end of the recent Earth Cradle mission, things were looking good. The only guy left to worry about was Archibald in a fairly basic Ashsaber while everyone else, though worn out, would have plenty of strength to beat him. {{spoiler|And then [[Xenosaga
** Really, this goes for ANY time that Grahf has given someone the power. This also occurred with [[Mobile Fighter G Gundam
** The [[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
*** Which is oddly heartwarming when you remember that [[Continuity Nod|the Big Zam was Mineva's dad's pet project]].
** And one for the players, too! In the first phase of TERMINUS, Janus and Saturnus fused their equipment and abilities to form Totus Mundi. And thanks to their powers to bend time and space, the
* [[One Steve Limit]] - Certainly not followed. The game had three or four Shiros, for one.
* [[Original Generation]] - Besides the Banpresto originals, a collection of original characters with their own canons were developed for the roleplay.
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* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]] - Generally every NPC whose name isn't [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Gendo]] [[The Chessmaster|Ikari]] or [[Super Robot Wars|Lee]] [[The Neidermeyer|Linjun]].
* [[Redemption Equals Death]] - After being captured after [[Chars Counterattack|his attempt to drop Axis on the Earth]], Char sorties one final time in ESCALATION, only to be killed a ways into the battle.
* [[Revenge Before Reason]] - [[Original Generation|Anguis]]. He wants to inflict as much pain upon [[Super Robot Wars|Bullet]] as possible for killing his lover to the point that he focuses exclusively on him. He can afford to,
** To put this in perspective: It had a [[Full Metal Panic!|Lambda Driver that overpowered the Arbalest's]], and it withstood a team attack made by the [[Super Robot Wars|Raikou Kai, the Grungust Type-3]], the [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
* [[Rotating Protagonist]] - Lots of canons. Lots of main characters.
* [[Rouge Angles of Satin]] - Happens occasionally during mission descriptions, including the ''infamous'' line "The shit (meant to be shot) pierces-"
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* [[Rule of Drama]] - Averted. More than a few missions will feature a serious plot event and a more humorous one (usually [[Disgaea]]) at the same time.
* [[Screw Destiny]] - The general state of mind of the GDF; but when you have so many [[Super Robot]] series, it's not surprising.
** However, the most recent (and to date, most triumphant) example in the RP belongs to none other than ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Shinji]]'' ''[[Precision F-Strike|fucking]]'' ''[[Took a Level
** In a more literal sense, [[Better Than Canon|what they're doing to]] [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
** Happened once again in EARTH, with two people. First, Saturnus used his causality reversal to declare that the [[After War Gundam X
** The second time, though, was to determine that their shield would hold. Needless to say, it didn't. {{spoiler|It was pierced by [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Kittan's]] [[Dying Moment of Awesome]].}}
* [[Settled for Gay]] - Alex married Julius so he could '''do her taxes for her'''.
* [[Ship Tease]] - The aforementioned [[Super Robot Wars Original Generation|Katina]]''/''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Viral]] [[Crack Pairing]] counts, but the main source of ship tease has actually been [[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
* [[Shout
* [[Sinister Geometry]] - Silentium, obviously. Their [[Fan Nickname]] is "GEOMETRY".
* [[Student and Master Team]] - Asuka and Ryouma.
* [[Super Robot]]
* [[Super Robot Wars]]
* [[Sure Why Not]] - More than a few plot twists or deviations from the canons end up being thought-up on the fly during a mission. The most notable was {{spoiler|[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00
** Actually, while a lot of things in missions do follow this trope, the above-listed 'most notable' example was entirely preplanned. But one of many legitimate examples would be ...
** [[After War Gundam X
** "[[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Asuka]] moves over to [[
** [[Super Robot Wars Original Generation|Tasuku]] and [[B't X
** Then there was that time Axel [[Kamen Rider|kicked a door and it exploded]].
* [[The Ghost]] - [[Mobile Suit Gundam
* [[The Other Darrin]] - Sometimes someone will pick up a character after someone dropped them.
* [[Theme Music Power-Up]] - See [[Crowning Music of Awesome]].
* [[Time Skip]] - at the end of the first "season" after the EDF base was destroyed.
* [[Token Minority]] - Parodied in the ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]''-based April Fools' joke mission, where [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Tou]][[An Arm and
* [[Took a Level
* [[Took a Level
* [[Transforming Mecha]]
* [[Transparent Closet]] - Rather shamelessly for some characters, most notably [[
* [[Up to Eleven]]- Both the IC mentality of the GDF, and even extends OoCly to missions. Consider: the mods managed to make [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|End of Evangelion]] ''even weirder''.
** And then they gave the [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Anti-Spiral]] ''even more powers.'' And this was ''before'' the final battle.
** And then the ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' [http://community.livejournal.com/srw_unlimited/296431.html finale itself]. It managed to be EVEN MORE EPIC THAN LAGANN-HEN.
** And THEN came the ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' bonus mission, which managed to MATCH the finale in terms of awesome. How it was done: {{spoiler|1=Simon vs. Captain GARlock.}}
* [[Uptown Girl]] - Teppei/Sara, though the latter's more of a [[Fallen Princess]]... and then we find out that Teppei didn't even find out Sara was rich until the epilogue, because she never thought it was important enough to mention. Awkward.
* [[Village Bicycle]] - A literal case of this. Certain machines were borrowed or used by people who never did use them in the original canon, if they were even around at all. This has happened to [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
** Averted, however, with the [[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
* [[Weddings for Everyone]]''/''[[Babies Ever After]] - almost every single living GDF member with a love interest, canon or game-canon, in the epilogue.
* [[Welcome Back, Traitor]] - A [[Super Robot Wars]] tradition! It worked out better for some characters than others, though...
* [[What Could Have Been]] - [[Original Character]] Mila, an engineer with no actual canon events of her own, was actually a supporting character in a canon thought up by RPer Jisu, and included in the RP rather than the main protagonist simply because of the abundance in original canons already. What's more, [[Cutting Off the Branches|she wasn't even taken from her own route]], but from Ruby Blue, where she had the least significance to the plot.
* [[Wham! Episode]] - '''many''', but none more so than Mission 67 - ENCOUNTER.
* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made
** And then for the finale they fought Cthulhu. Oh, I'm sorry. Msplld Cthulu.
* [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] - [http://community.livejournal.com/srw_unlimited/327186.html here].
* [[White and Grey Morality]] - What the recent Orb mission mainly consisted of. Aside from a small Blue Cosmos detachment, everyone involved (the GDF and even the [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00
* [[Worthy Opponent]] - Saturnus and Janus skirt the line between this and [[Friendly Enemy]], being fairly good sports and choosing to retreat when the GDF's managed to beat them (in spite of the difficulty).
* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]] - Players were led to believe that {{spoiler|the penultimate ''[[Original Generation|Maha Avatara Kalki]]'' mission was that canon's finale. The plot twist wouldn't have worked nearly as well without the OOC statement.}}
** In the [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
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