Survival of the Fittest: Difference between revisions

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Mitch Gunther, Anna Kateridge, Cisco Vasquez, Lily Ainsworth, Maria Graham, and Annaliese Hanson are definitely this:

** Mitch:

** Anna:

** Cisco:

'''Cisco:''' Oh...that's...a bit disappointing. }}

** Lily:

** Maria:

** Annaliese:

* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Adam Dodd in V1, Dorian Sanders in V3 and Kris Hartmann in V4, the lattermost in three different languages. Jimmy Brennan, on the other hand, should get points for sheer ''density''.

* [[Co-Dragons]]: Steven Wilson, Jim Greynolds, Melvin Carter and Sonia Ngyuen, collectively known as the Big Four. {{spoiler|As of Day 8 in v4, it's more like the Big ''Three''.}}

* [[Kill the Cutie]]: Hey! Is there a character you like in ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]''? It's almost definite they won't make it to the end, thanks to the [[Kill'Em All|premise]].

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Has proven to be quite common. For example:

'''Jeff Marontate''': Poison Angles, huh? Oh, I'll give you a whole new set of angles in a minute, my darling. }}

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Each game has over one hundred students, and one of the test runs had two hundred, as did v3. V4 had ''276'' characters altogether. These character counts aren't including the terrorists themselves, adults, or side characters who don't make it into the games.

* [[The Power of Friendship]]: Subverted to hell in many, many instances. Sydney Morvran, winner of V0 (the final 'test run') is the most prominent example of this. He ends up being the sole survivor of his first game by using his best friend as a human shield after all the rest of his friends started attacking one another in a paranoid fit. Then Syd was put into the next game as punishment for not killing anybody.

* [[Out with a Bang]]: Happens to a few characters in V1 and in V2. As Mr. Danya put it during his announcement of Matt Drew's death at the hands of [[Femme Fatale|Sera Wingfeld]]:

* [[Rare Guns]]: The SPAS-12, Auto-Mag, Desert Eagle, and even the two-of-a-kind full-auto Pancor Jackhammer, all make multiple appearances.

* [[Realism]]: The ultimate direction SOTF has been trying to take as of late. It serves as a double-edged sword a lot of the time, though; realism for the characters is the biggest focus, as it eliminates common [[Mary Sue]] traits and focuses more on the concept that any ''normal'' high-schooler, rather than the kid with an explicably good reason, can start killing their friends, but when it's applied to the setting and possible storylines, the whole thing starts to fall apart...

* [[Angry Black Man]]: Troy McCann tends to drop into this from time to time. Notably, he ''intentionally'' made himself out this way in order to be more like the rap stars he idolizes.

* [[A Plague on Both Your Houses]]: Anna Vaan to Lenny Priestly:

* [[Apologetic Attacker]]: Bobby Jacks apologizes to Ivan Roeghmills before cutting his throat.

* [[Asexuality]]: Bobby Jacks has been clearly shown to hold absolutely no attraction to anybody. Even when he suspects a fellow classmate has a crush on him his reaction can be summed up as 'Hm. Interesting'

* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: Mods are often forced to do this to inactive characters. A massive wave of inactivity in V3 forced the admins to (allegedly) kill off a large number of characters off screen en masse, including major characters such as Neil Sinclair, Julie Mikan, Darnell Butler, and even Adam Dodd.

* [[Everything's Worse with Bees]]: Katherine Blanco dies after a severe allergic reaction from a bee sting. [[Big Bad|Mr. Danya]] is less than sympathetic.

* [[Extremity Extremist]]: Bobby Jacks almost invariably resorts to his fists in combat. He is, however, a boxer, so that isn't a huge surprise. He doesn't seem to have many compunctions about using his head either. It's mostly a case of sticking to what he's good at. (In fact, the one time he tried to kick somebody he immediately got his ass kicked).

* [[Genius Bruiser]]: professional boxer Bobby Jacks stands at 190-1 cm and weighs in at 93 kg. He's also shown to be very intelligent, capable of trickery, fighting very tactically, and being able to quote [[Shakespeare]] (relevantly) purely from memory.

* [[Morality Chain]]: Elizabeth Priestly is this to twin brother Lenny. When she's not around him, he acts even ''more'' of a complete bastard to get her back/find her. {{spoiler|The only thing that really changes once she dies is that he has no excuse for his kills now.}}

* [[Motive Rant]]: Melina Frost does this before attacking Dacey Ashcroft and Herman Johnson. Ironically, [[Bifauxnen|Dacey]] [[Sweet Polly Oliver|isn't a guy]].

* [[Mushroom Samba]]: James Brown accidentally ends up with Beth Vandelinder's acid pills when he wakes up, under the impression that they were aspirin.

* [[My Nayme Is]]: Ivye Dewley and Khrysta Lawrence.

* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: Simon Wood mistakes Darnell Butler for a player of the game (not altogether unreasonable, as he is holding a bloodied sword) and attacks to [[Heroic Sacrifice|buy his girlfriend time to escape]]. Before Darnell can get the chance to explain, he has {{spoiler|accidentally killed Simon.}}

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Used spectacularly. Yes, while most characters [[Cluster F-Bomb|swear like sailors]], cute, [[Meganekko]], sugary sweet Louise "Lulu" Altaire manages to pull this off. When she meets [[Complete Monster|Lenny]] for the third time, after he has just killed her friends the previous times, this time she's prepared. She's killed people, she has a gun and isn't afraid to use it.

* [[Psycho Lesbian]]: Lyn "Laeil" Burbank of [[Survival of the Fittest]]'s third version. After confessing her love to a female friend, she gets bullied by her classmates for being a "dyke". Once she gets on the island, she kills her cousin (who was one of her major bullies) by [[Groin Attack|stabbing him in the groin repeatedly]]. Afterwards, she decides that she was going to die anyways, and that she was going to [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|get revenge on everyone who ever bullied her]]. {{spoiler|The last thing she sees before she dies is a hallucination of forementioned female friend forgiving her.}}

* [[Quicksand Sucks]]: Shows up in v3, where it's used to kill both {{spoiler|Melina Frost}} and {{spoiler|Beth Vandelinder}}, one getting stuck in the sand long enough to be stabbed, the other being [[Taking You with Me|pulled in head-first by Melina and drowned.]]

* [[Satellite Character]]: Elizabeth Priestly, who plays the satellite to her twin brother, Lenny. Most of what she does consists of following Lenny around and angsting about his psychotic behavior.

* [[Sedgwick Speech]]: Josh Goodman.

** Kathleen Martin too.

* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]: Adam Dodd, {{spoiler|the only survivor of version one}}.

* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: An odd variation (a non-villain example), from ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' is Matthew Wittany, V3's resident [[Woobie]]. A fan of photography, he carried around an album filled with pictures of boys he found attractive. Anderson Walker, the subject of most of these pictures, was not best pleased when he discovered this. Neither was his boyfriend, Sean O'Cann.

* [[Axe Crazy]]: {{spoiler|Jimmy Brennan, Liam "Brook" Brooks, and Cisco Vasquez.}}

* [[Badass]]: Aston Bennett starts out relatively unassuming, but when she gets revenge on {{spoiler|Quincy Jones}} for an earlier misfortune, she gets ''scary.''

'''Aston:''' "Hand slipped. The next one won't miss." }}

* [[Battle Amongst the Flames]]: The fight between Maria Graham and Maxwell Lombardi takes place inside a burning bunker.

* [[Face Your Fears]]: Allen Birkman, an aquaphobe, does this {{spoiler|during the rescue attempt by STAR}}. When {{spoiler|Andrea Raymer}} is badly injured and lying face-down in the water, he jumps in to pull {{spoiler|her}} to safety.

* [[Facing the Bullets One-Liner]]: when {{spoiler|Eve Walker-Luther}} is about to be killed by {{spoiler|Sarah Atwell}}:

* [[Fan Service]]: Invoked by Andrea Raymer when Danya begins randomly detonating students' collars in retaliation to Liz Polanksi.

* [[Flare Gun]]: {{spoiler|Maria Graham}} recieved a flare gun as an assigned weapon. Later, she shot somebody with it, and while it ends up bouncing off his chest, it ricocheted into the girl next to him and got caught in her shirt, [[Kill It with Fire|burning a hole right through her before igniting and vaporizing her torso, and then burning down everything in a 20 yard radius.]]

* [[French Jerk]]: Alice Boucher is an example of this [[Trope]]: one of her biggest regrets about being in America is that she doesn't know any insults in English. Due to [[Character Development]] after being put on the island (as well as a change in writer), she grows out of this '''''very''''' quickly though.

* [[Instant Fanclub]]: Reiko Ishida got one of these due to her success in ice skating, often referred to as her "entourage". Bit of a subversion, though, as, unlike most characters that have found themselves in this trope, she's actually quite close friends with them.

* [[I'm Standing Right Here]]: Happens constantly between Isabel Guerra and Dave Morrison, mostly involving racist remarks towards Isabel:

'''Isabel''': "I can hear you still." }}

* [[Instrument of Murder]]: Isabel Guerra making a shiv out of a trumpet and broken piece of glass. [[I Call It Vera|It's called Partario]].

* [[Mismatched Eyes]]: A fair amount of students have heterochromia: Dave Morrison, Charlene Norris, Clio Gabriella and Rose Codreanu. [[Word of God|According to his handler]], Allen Birkman was also originally planned on having different colored eyes, though this was changed due to the number of students already having the condition.

* [[My Nayme Is]]: Chadd Crossen, Neill Robertson, Remi Pierce, Micheal Raynor and Ema Ryan, the last of which gets lampshaded.

* [[Nice Guy]]: It happens. For example, [[Sacrificial Lamb|Reika Ishida]], in contrast to her [[Psycho Lesbian|sister]]. One of her defining traits was that she was nice and friendly, always trying to help out. However, true to the stereotype, she literally gets killed within almost two minutes once she gets to the island. Danya in the following announcement then called her "the less interesting of the Ishida sisters" for this reason.

* [[Nightmare Fetishist]]: Anna Chase. She is a complete and utter aversion of [[Girls Are Really Scared of Horror Movies]]. She seems particularly fond of psychological horror and slasher movies, and can be described as a bit obsessed over them at times. It has been shown that on a couple of occasions, if something reminds her of a horror movie she could easily have a "Cool!" type reaction, though not always. Occasionally, this, combined with her normal [[Cloudcuckoolander|personality]], sides into [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant]] tendencies, as you might expect.

* [[Pint-Sized Powerhouse]]: Reiko Ishida is 4'9, which has been noted to technically make her a midget. However, she was an athlete before the island, and eventually racks up a high kill count.

* [[Please Wake Up]]: This is {{spoiler|Albert Lions'}} reaction to finding {{spoiler|1=Augustus "Dougal" MacDougal's}} corpse.

* [[Pointless Band-Aid]]: Orn "Dutchy" Ayers is mentioned as wearing a Band-Aid over the bridge of his nose. [[Word of God|His profile confirms]] that this is more of a personality quirk/casual accessory than the result of an injury.

* [[Rapunzel Hair]]: Bridget Connolly, who is well-known for having knee-length red hair, though usually tied back. This was until she cut it while on the island, after hearing about {{spoiler|the death of her best friend, Raina Morales.}}

* [[Thirteen Is Unlucky]]: Reiko Ishida is [[You Are Number Six|Female Student no. 13]]. She's also a [[Psycho Lesbian]] and multi-murderer.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Along with the students who refuse to defend themselves from deranged killers on principle, we have Remi Pierce, who {{spoiler|tried to cut off his own collar}}. Seems a reasonable reaction...until you look at the thought process behind that:

* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: A non-sexual variant, where Rein Bumgarner is well-known for enjoying pain, enjoying the adrenaline rush that it gives him. As a result, he actually attempts dangerous stunts partly for this reason.

* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: In the profile for Clio Gabriella, it explains several parts of her personality, yet her actions in the game contradict this. Reason? Clio spent nearly all of her teenage life lying to her parents, her therapist, and nearly everyone she knew so that she could put on a demeanor of a normal, well-adjusted teenage girl, when secretly she was a basket case very close to breaking point.

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Jacob Langston of ''SOTF-TV'' ditched his girlfriend and his former hookup so that Zach Johnston could teach him how to kill...after discussing plans to escape with everyone only moments before.

* [[Famous Last Words]]: ''The Program'':

** From the same, Logan Sorenson's last words, directed at the camera, "[[Abusive Parents|Dad]]... before I go, I just want you to know... [[Troll|I know where you buried those hookers.]]"

* [[Fan Service]]: Everyone on the ''SOTF-TV'' island received Fanservice costumes in their packs.

* [[I Call It Vera]]: ''The Program'' has Dom Brown's pipe wrench Janice, and Megan Jacobson's weapons - Helmut Von Slappenstien and Winston Choppington.

** ''SOTF-TV'' had Skyler Thsani's crossbow, named David [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Bowie.]]

** Having returned for ''Second Chances'', Megan named her stun gun [[Nicholas Sparks|Nikoletta Sparks]], or Nicky for short.

* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: Kami Steele of ''The Program''. Boy howdy, Kami. She tries her hardest to play, and while she does have a small body count, most characters she runs into don't take her seriously.

** There's also ''Virtua's'' Brian Larke. There's a scene where he's trying not to look at Renee Murphy's hindquarters while she's trotting out of a house.

* [[Personality Powers]]: Despite the fact that the powers are completely randomized, some of the mutations in ''Evolution'' ended up coincidentally fitting the characters' personalities. The most notable example would be Cristo Ruiz, a drug addict, having hallucinogenic venom secreting from under his fingernails. Lampshade hung in his profile's conclusion:

* [[Playing with Syringes]]: What The Organisation does in ''Evolution'' to induce the superpowers in the students. The [[Super Serum]] is a success, although the powers created have varying values of 'super'.

* [[Product Placement]]: ''SOTF-TV'' gets a lot of endorsements [[In-Universe]], due to it being a reality show. It reaches the point where one of the mentors has a habit of asking contestants to throw in a line to advertise Verizon.