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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 2 ==
* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: A sanitary sewer like this appears on the island used for version 2, spanning the entire island ''underground'', but from the vague descriptions it's implied that people can only just barely move across the walkways on the sides, and that otherwise it's fairly cramped.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: A notable example is that of Seth Mattlock rescuing Bryan Calvert and Tori Johnson from a player - pulling it off in the true spirit of the trope: just in the nick of time. Amusingly, this is because he ''waited'' before pulling off the save, although he was, admittedly, trying to get the best possible shot on the bad guy. {{spoiler|It also turns into an unintentional [[Heroic Sacrifice]].}}
* [[Cain and Abel]]: {{spoiler|Deliah Dollop}} gets killed by {{spoiler|her twin sister Debrah}}
* [[Car Fu]]: Subverted with Andrew Ponikarovsky: he nearly runs over Penelope Withers after getting hold of a car, but manages to swerve out of the way in time. {{spoiler|He crashes the car and is killed himself}}.
* [[Cue the Sun]]: The last night of version two doesn't end until {{spoiler|Bryan Calvert}} has finally won and is being airlifted off the island. Only then does the sun finally start to rise, as if confirming that {{spoiler|his}} fight for survival is over.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Right near the very end, {{spoiler|Ricky Callahan}} kills himself after {{spoiler|Whitney Acosta}}, who he'd been trying to protect throughout the entire game, is killed.
* [[Dying Declaration of Love]]: {{spoiler|Lavender Heart}} gives one to {{spoiler|Mariavel Varella}}.
* [[Evil Teacher]]: Steven Wilson, the principle of Bathurst High School, is actually one of Danya's terrorists and is responsible for abducting his ''own'' students.
* [[Flat What]]: Danya, in [http://sotf.wikia.com/wiki/Caitlin_Evans Caitlin Evans's post-game evaluation].
* [[Four Is Death]]: The "Big Four", who [[Co Dragons|answer only to Danya]], debut in this version. They are Steven Wilson, Melvin Carter, Sonia Nguyen, and Jim Greynolds and are responsible for the high school students' abductions.
* [[Hell Hotel]]: One of these cropped up in this version. It became one of the bloodiest places in the game - no fewer than ''fifteen'' students met their ends somewhere within it. Escapades taking places there included (and were not limited to): murder, castration, evisceration and ''necrophilia''.
* [[I Love the Dead]]: Sam Sorenson.
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: Shae Arnav thought it would be a good idea to cut up and eat one of the corpses. {{spoiler|Bryan Calvert thought otherwise and killed him}}.
* [[Kill the Ones You Love]]: Bryan Calvert has to [[Mercy Kill]] his best friend, Seth Mattlock, en route to to fighting Mariavel Varella, a former friend turned psycho.
* [[Laser Sight]]: One of the guns had a laser sight, though it went unused.
* [[Ludicrous Gibs]]: {{spoiler|Caitlin Evans}} spontaneously explodes due to a violent chemical reaction inside her stomach.
* [[Murder By Mistake]]: Bryan Calvert shoots at who he believes to be principal murderess Mariavel Varella. He shoots and kills {{spoiler|Whitney Acosta}} by mistake instead.
* [[My Nayme Is]]: Andi Ayala, Derrin Istoli and Greggory Archer.
* [[No Ending]]: V2 ends with {{spoiler|Bryan Calvert receiving a [[Hannibal Lecture]] by [[Big Bad|Danya]]. Bryan attacks Danya,}} and... well, nothing. As of v5, people ''still'' don't know what happened after that. There was supposed to be a part two, but at this rate we'll never know other than [[Big Bad|Danya]] and [[The Dragon|Wilson]] got out of the situation alive. A final end may or may not be upcoming, however.
* [[Street Urchin]]: Cathalie Meguro and Mitch Gunther, though they lived in an orphanage instead of on the streets.
* [[Teen Genius]]: Brandon Cuthbert, who is in the 11th grade at the age of ''12''.
* [[Wretched Hive]]: The students' hometown of Denton, New Jersey. Criminal gangs are everywhere in the city, which is practically run by the most powerful of them instead of by the Mayor himself. Like any other gangs, they've divided the city up between themselves, and they maintain a tense peace between them, as the bloodshed brought by a gang war is bad for business. Even then, though, shootouts and gang brawls are common, while anyone who sticks their nose in the wrong place turns up dead. This is considered highly unusual in SOTF's world, though, and no other city that has been seen is quite as bad as Denton. This came about as an attempt to justify all the gang members in Pregame, and the city apparently disintegrated into full-scale warfare after v2.
== Version 3 ==
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