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* [[Write Who You Know]]: There are a large number of self insert characters or characters who are basically people each handler knows in real life. These characters are typically portrayed realistically, however.
* [[Your Head Asplode]]: Collar detonation. Stay in a danger zone too long, try to remove the collar, suffer an unfortunate impact, get used as an example by Danya to try to scare off SADD or Liz Polanski...
== Version 1 ==
* [[A Boy and His X]]: Cody Jenson, the villain of V1, has this with him and his bike. However, instead of starting him down the path to manhood, it starts him down the [[Ax Crazy|path]] [[Moral Event Horizon|to]] [[Complete Monster|insanity]].
* [[Aerith and Bob]]: The main American high school from this version had students with regular names such as Andrew, Cleo, Duncan and Mallory. It also had students named Venka, Shoar, Umi, Rais and Nevera.
* [[Attempted Rape]]: Johnny Lamika ambushes and tries to rape Adam Dodd. However, before things can get too far, Adam manages to bring out his taser and fend Lamika off, before proceeding to beat him to death.
* [[Car Fu]]: {{spoiler|Stevan Hyde}} is run over by {{spoiler|Lucinda Garnett}}. Repeatedly.
* [[Consummate Liar]]: Cody Jenson (at least pre-psychotic) was a devilish liar, stringing along Adam Dodd for quite some considerable time before the latter even started to get suspicious. (Jenson pretended he was another kid, leading to Adam talking to him about how much he wanted to kill... well, him). When he finds out later who Jenson really is, Adam is needless to say, not pleased.
* [[Dangerous Sixteenth Birthday]]: The day of the school trip (when the abductions took place) is that of Jacob Starr's sixteenth birthday.
* [[Dropped a Bridge On Him]]: Happens to {{spoiler|Amber Phillips}}; a helicopter that's shot down crashes on top of her.
* [[Dual Wielding]]: Done briefly, where after the machete-wielding Andrew Klock is wounded with a corkscrew in his fight with Cole Hudson he pulls it out of himself and attacks Cole with both weapons, eventually lodging the corkscrew in an artery.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' started out... oddly, to say the least. Many handlers are surprised when they read all the way back to version 1, which was more lenient about realism and good writing than the current version. This results in seeing character concepts that wouldn't work nowadays but made it through in a previous version, or seeing deaths that would be laughed off if you tried them now.
* [[Gollum Made Me Do It]]: Cillian Crowe is more or less completely under control of a malevolent alter ego he calls "Haddy" which forces him to kill people and overall act like an extremely dangerous psychopath. This was something that was sometimes parodied with the phrase "Haddy tells me to SMASH!".
* [[Guns Akimbo]]: Two examples came from v1, during the same gun battle. Peri Barclay wielded two revolvers, but this proved completely ineffective as he failed to hit anyone. Jacob Starr later did the same with his gun and one that an ally dropped, but he alternated fire between the two guns and it wasn't really to hit anyone as much as it was to force Peri and his ally Steven to keep their heads down, covering the other group's retreat.
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: Adam Dodd in turns into one of these for a good while during his tenure on the v1 island. His obsession with getting revenge on Cody Jenson leads him to mow down a good six or seven of his fellow students, despite his supposedly heroic motives. In something of a subversion however, he lives to come to realise his actions have been misguided and returns to a more conventional [[Anti Hero]] mold.
* [[Hearing Voices]]: Turns out to be the case with Callum Hadley, who suffered from schizophrenia and constantly heard voices coming from a non-existent girl named "Beth".
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Adam Dodd, after the deaths of Madeleine Shirohara and Amanda Jones and a few other characters.
* [[Ironic Nursery Tune]]: Cillian Crowe singing 'happy birthday' to himself, while not exactly a nursery rhyme, embodies this trope perfectly. That is, if you consider that he was currently thinking about ''killing'' the person he was talking to at the time - insisting on showing him his 'present' (a meat cleaver).
* [[Is This Thing Still On]]: Terrorists McLocke, Kaige and Rice accidentally activate the PA system in their headquarters, treating the students to a charming rendition of a [[Slash Fic]] (involving two ''of'' the students) they found on the web. [[Bad Boss|Danya]] is not pleased, particularly when they go from reading the fic to insulting him and the entire organisation.
* [[Leaning On the Furniture]]: David Jackson does this in a flashback, leaning back in his chair so it rises onto its back legs, and putting his legs on the table. However, this wasn't so much to be rude as to relax, as he was exhausted from [[Training From Hell|practice]] earlier. Amusingly, he is sitting back to back with Jack O'Connor, his teammate, so not only is his chair resting against Jack's, but they converse (with a [[Shout Out]] to [[Battle Royale]]) without even facing each other.
* [[Made of Iron]]: While there were other examples, Jacob Starr has been the most egregious example by far. The SOTF community's term for this trope - the Jacob Treatment - was even named after him.
* [[My Greatest Failure]]: Adam Dodd doesn't only have one of these, but two. The first of these is allowing himself to become separated from the other members of his group - among them his girlfriend and other close buddies of his. {{spoiler|They all proceed to be killed, and in one case, raped}}. Adam, of course, blames himself for this. His second stems from an incident where his (mentally unstable) brother attacked him. Adam regrets throughout version 1 his failure to forgive his older brother {{spoiler|until one of the very last scenes of the V1 endgame}}.
* [[My Nayme Is]]: Gabrielle Minase, where a normally female name has been given to a male student. There's also Cillian Crowe (pronounced kill-yan, not sill-yan), Peri Barclay, Stevan Hyde, Cyndi Pullman and Angharad Davies (pronounced ann-harrud)
* [[Naked First Impression]]: Marie Zaid walks in on a showering Adam Dodd. It's... awkward.
* [[Parasol of Prettiness]]: Clemence Ceillet de Rousseau owned one such parasol. She quickly abandons it, though, considering "''She had no time to bother with petty things''".
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Adam Dodd swears vengeance against Cody Jensen after Cody's definitive crossing of the [[Moral Event Horizon]], {{spoiler|raping and murdering his friend Madelaine Shirohara and accidentally killing his love interest, Amanda Jones, in the middle of trying to kill Sidney Crosby}}. After drifting for a while in a [[Heroic BSOD]], Adam takes down everyone who tries to kill him one by one, and when Adam and Cody finally face off, Adam fulfills his vow of vengeance by putting a sword through Cody and then carving the word "rapist" into his chest.
* [[Self Made Orphan]]: Cillian Crowe and Daphne Rudko both murdered their own parents, though Cillian was confined to an insane asylum due to his actions while Daphne got off scot free.
* [[Shoot the Dog]]: Adam Dodd was forced to euthanise his friend Marcus Roddy, as he had fallen into a coma. Most of the rest of his group didn't agree with the action, but Adam pointed out that had they left him catatonic, somebody else would have just come along and done the same, or he would have just been eaten by animals or some equally gruesome fate.
* [[Stout Strength]]: Ian Hargrave, though relegated to an [[Informed Ability]] because he never gets to use it.
* [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]: This occurs with the death of {{spoiler|Adam Dodd's girlfriend, Amanda Jones,}} at the hands of Cody Jenson. Arguably, it was overshadowed by the simultaneous death (and rape) of {{spoiler|Madelaine Shirohara}}.
* [[Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome]]: Sydney Morvran, the winner of Version 0 (the prequel to Version 1), is put into the following game as punishment for not actively killing anyone. He becomes one of the first fatalities.
* [[Ten Paces and Turn]]: Happens in the climax. Interestingly, {{spoiler|''both'' combatants cheat, but because of a slope Dodd failed to take into account, it's moot either way.}}
* [[Tongue Trauma]]: One of [[Psychopathic Manchild|Cillian Crowe]]'s kills in ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' v1 has him rip out a guy's tongue, and then slicing open his skull.
* [[Turbine Blender]]: A variant. {{spoiler|Ken Mendel}} tried to swim away from the island, but winds up being shot by the patrol boats and then sucked into the propellers. While he's still alive as well.
* [[Twang Hello]]: The duel between Jacob Starr and David Jackson starts with Jacob throwing his knife at David, only for it to miss and hit the tree David was standing in front of.
* [[What the Hell Hero]]: Adam Dodd receives a horrified reaction from his friends after he shoots a comatose member of his group in the head. Needless to say, just about everybody there called him out on it.
** Not to mention that during the final two, the other finalist Jack O'Connor brutally called him out on all of his murders throughout the game.
== Version 2 ==
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