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* [[Abusive Parents]]: This occurs very often, although most of the more obvious examples can be found within the first two games. For some, such as Mariavel Varella, this is a defining part of their [[Backstory]].
* [[All There in the Manual]]: A lot of extra information about the students, including their background and even appearance, is included in their profiles.
* [[Anti
* [[Anti
** For Bobby, whilst he does play the game, he is constantly plagued by his guilty conscience, being painfully aware of everything he is doing.
** Aaron Hughes, on the other hand, is a plain [[Manipulative Bastard]], given the perfect opportunity to kill Nick Reid, a known killer, but leaves him alive [[Batman Gambit|to kill one of his former friends and use his death to turn him into a martyr. And just so he can eliminate the competition.]]
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** Annaliese:
{{quote| '''Annaliese:''' Ray, there’s a zombie in our yard.}}
* [[Cluster F
* [[Co
* [[Deserted Island]]: The main stage of ''Survival of the Fittest''.
* [[Disc One Final Boss]]: Players or villains who are killed off either before the halfway mark or before the story really kicks into high gear fall into this category - Jacob Starr in v1, Blood Boy in v3, Clio Gabriella in v4, and Cristo Ruiz in SOTF: Evolution.
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* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Due to the sick sense of humour of [[Big Bad|Danya]] in ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'', bobble-head dolls and plastic hammers have been known to come into play as assigned weapons.
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: Subverted in the case of the v3 escapees and Burton Harris (the ''first'' time each of them were 'killed', that is)
* [[Kill
* [[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
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Has proven to be quite common. For example:
{{quote| '''Melina Frost''': Go on then... show him why we're called the Poison Angles [sic]. <br />
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* [[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
* [[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
* [[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.
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* [[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.
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* [[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
* [[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.
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* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: Used to escape a dead-end by John Sheppard, Vera Lang and Kyrie Joseph, as killer Harry Tsai was hot on their heels and it was the only way out of the building they had run inside.
* [[Alas Poor Yorick]]: Alice takes the severed head of Guy Rapide and starts talking to it as if Guy were still alive. She then stuffs the head in her daypack.
* [[Aloof Ally]]: Dominica Shapiro's part in [[Five
* [[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:
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* [[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'
* [[Asian Gal With White Guy]]: Adam Dodd ends up getting Izzy Cheung, though considering the [[There Can Only Be One|pre]][[Kill
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Adonis Zorba.
* {{spoiler|[[The Bad Guy Wins]]}}:{{spoiler|J. R. Rizzolo}} is the winner of V3.
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* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]: Carson Baye was a particularly unpopular character in V3 due to his habit of referencing anime, then immediately explaining the references. Although, there were a number of other (mostly [[In and Out of Character|out of character]]) reasons for this too.
* [[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.
* [[
{{quote| '''Danya''': Sometimes, kiddos, you don't have to wait around for the competition to kill you. Some of you are so imperfect that Mother Nature decides to do it herself.}}
* [[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).
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* [[Honor Before Reason]]: Neil Sinclair fits this trope to the letter. The primary example of such behaviour is trusting Dominica Sharpiro by offering her a place in his Pro escape group, despite knowing, for ''certain'' that she {{spoiler|earlier killed another group member}} who became separated from the others.
* [[Hope Spot]]: Laeil Burbank is tortured by Riz, who cuts her eye out and leaves her to bleed out in a burning hanger, only for her to be rescued and patched up. At which point she dies of a heart attack due to massive blood loss. Also counts as a [[Real Life]] [[Hope Spot]], as she wasn't rolled until immediately after she was patched up.
* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: Bobby Jacks, was carrying about his person and in a smallish daypack at one point, the following: An English Claymore, an Armalon Carbine, a SIG Sauer, a scalpel, a syringe (and the pot of insulin that came with it), a pipewrench, ammo for the carbine (implied to be a lot), supplies five or six time the normal amount, an extensive medical kit, and a [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|lock of hair]].
* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: Bobby Jacks's justification of becoming a player in v3: he wanted to survive by any means necessary.
* [[Ignored Epiphany]]: Bobby Jacks. He quickly comes to the realisation that he's one of the bad guys, but immediately after he decides that he's gone too far to try and repent. He even supplements this with a quote from [[Macbeth]] (the ''exact'' same one which Macbeth himself uses in this selfsame situation).
* [[Ironic Echo]]: in a scene that's an homage to [[The Dark Knight|the Joker]], Blood Boy says "Why so serious?" as part of his intimidating speech to Matthew Wittany. {{spoiler|He then attacks Matt, viciously beating him with his gun, as well as killing Matt's friend, Corbin. The tides eventually turn, though, and Matt gets out his own gun and shoots Blood Boy with it. What does he say while shooting? [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|"Why so serious?"]]}}
* [[I Shall Taunt You]]: Happens on two separate occasions with the same characters: Tyson Neills and Bobby Jacks. The first time around, Tyson taunts Bobby in an attempt to provoke a fight with Troy [[Mc Cann]] (to raise his 'street credit'). The second time is on the island itself, in an attempt to make him lose his cool and do something stupid. {{spoiler|It backfires, Bobby ''does'' lose his temper, but in the midst of his rage ''kills'' Tyson.}}
* [[
* [[Instant Death Bullet]]: Usually averted, but played straight in the v3 Endgame when {{spoiler|Rizzolo shoots Lulu in the gut, and she falls dead instantly.}}
* [[Knight Templar Big Brother]]: Lenny Priestly will do ''anything'' to make sure his twin sister Elizabeth is safe. Literally anything, as he kills people for this reason. Though possibly a subversion, as it has been implied that he used her as an excuse to kill, especially since he went [[Ax Crazy]] and stopped being an [[Anti
* [[Locked in A Freezer]]: Alex Steele gets locked in the freezer by Guy Rapide. He tries to escape by [[Shoot Out the Lock|shooting the lock out]], but instead has a bullet ricochet into his chest.
* [[Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter!]]: Sean O'Cann has a 'word' with God. Over the course of V3 up to that point, his best friend, cousin, and boyfriend had all been killed, as well as it being very likely he would go the same way.
* [[Meta Guy]]: Quincy Archer is the resident [[Meta Guy]], writing a blog about the fake SOTF and the tropes it shows, and then commenting through out the stories on the actions of the various villains and heroes. {{spoiler|He commits suicide, but if he hadn't, one of his [[Karmic Death|personal favorite villains]], JR Rizzolo, would have left him to burn.}}
* [[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.}}
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* [[Offhand Backhand]]: Bobby Jacks pulls off the firearm based version with Andy [[Mc Cann]]. Bobby hears the latter cry out behind him and shoots him in the head with a pistol without even turning around.
* [[Paper Cutting]]: Maxie Dasai gets hit in the face [[Annoying Arrows|by an arrow]] and comes away with a minor wound across her cheek, somehow managing to avoid any serious harm.
* [[Pay Evil Unto Evil]]: [[Well
* [[Poisoned Weapons]]: Blood Boy's assigned weapons were an Ida (an African sword) and a vial of poison meant to be applied to the blade.
* [[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
{{quote| '''Lulu''': See this thing, Lenny? Now you take your fucking hands off your handgun or I'll blow a hole through your head.}}
* [[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.}}
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* [[Revenge By Proxy]]: Lenny Priestly kills Gabe McCallum's love interest Viki Valentine. Later on, Gabe gets his revenge on Lenny by {{spoiler|shooting dead his twin sister Elizabeth, who'd had nothing to do with the death}}.
* [[Rope Bridge]]: There's a rope bridge over a ravine, but subverts the collapsing part by having it be about as durable as you'd expect from a bridge on a military base. Gabe McCallum [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this while crossing it and wondering if it'll fall, reminding himself that the military wouldn't risk men and equipment by making a bridge that wasn't sturdy.
* [[Sad Clown]]: Sean O'Cann, to which the page quote applies almost perfectly. Prior to the point in the game (Day 3) that he found out his best friend, boy friend, and cousin died (three different people, before anyone says anything) he still cracked a joke every now and then. Afterward though, Sean begins making all sorts of remarks, not all of which are in the best taste, and sometimes are [[Dude, Not Funny|just plain offensive.]]
* [[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.
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** Kathleen Martin too.
{{quote| '''Kathleen''': "Oh Adam, there's no way you could shoot me with that gun. You see, people like you aren't fit for these kinds of situations. Sure, you're basically a big load of muscle with more than enough attitude to compensate, but compared to people like me, you're nothing. Ultimately, it's the smart, the beautiful, and the well-prepared that are going to make it far in this game, and when it comes to you-"}}
* [[Shell
* [[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.
* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]: [[Huge Schoolgirl]] Dacey "Dawson" Ashcroft pretends to be a guy due to the negative attention she received in her previous school, feeling it easier to get through highschool if everyone believes her to be a man. Luckily, she doesn't look all that feminine, and unlike some of the other female Southridge students lacks large breasts.
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* [[The Stoic]]: Bobby Jacks very much embodied this trope, at least in pregrame. During version 3, he has, however, shown emotion a couple of times. On the other hand, most of these occurrences happened either when he was alone or internally - so other characters wouldn't be privy to the same knowledge as readers. The three occasions where Bobby shows real emotion are [[Justified Trope|justified]] however. Once because he had just been shot, the other two times because his [[Berserk Button]] was pushed.
* [[The Unfavourite]]: Lyn "Laeil" Burbank. While actually a niece rather than a daughter, her uncle and aunt still give her the same unfavorite treatment, treating her like something that just has to be tolerated, while lavishing all their attention on her [[Jerk Jock]] cousin, Anthony, who regularily makes her life hell. Once she's on the island, though, it isn't long before she gets [[Cain and Abel|bloody revenge]] on him.
* [[The Unpronounceable]]: Vilhjalmur Sigurbjornsson. Though his first name is often shortened down to [[Some Call Me... Tim|Will]], his last name still causes problems for Danya.
* [[Victoria's Secret Compartment]]: Maxie Dasai does this with a gun.
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: During the big stand-off between SADD and Bobby Jacks, Arty Williams stumbled onto the scene with a password-locked cell phone, upon which he tossed SADD the cell phone (telling them the password,) telling them it might be their ticket to getting off the island before running off to get himself killed in a (failed) attempt to save Ivan Roeghmills from a hostage situation. SADD decides to honor his noble sacrifice by never mentioning him or the phone ever again.
* [[While Rome Burns]]: A particularly notable version occurs, where Carson Baye plays on his DS while a gunfight is starting around him.
* [[Whip It Good]]: Brendan Bredard is assigned a bullwhip as a weapon, which he later uses to strangle Luis Chezinski to death.
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* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: {{spoiler|STAR, who took Danya hostage and boating a portion of the students out, who all manage to make it back to America.}}
** On a smaller scale, Joe Rios interrupts a shootout between Aston Bennett and {{spoiler|Quincy Jones}} by sneaking up on {{spoiler|Quincy}}, kneecapping him with a borrowed pistol, and '''clocking him in the jaw with his own gun.'''
* [[Big Screwed
* [[Bi the Way]]: There's a lot more fluid sexuality in the class of v4 this time around. Mainly, compared to v2's 1 bisexual, v3's 1 bisexual, there are heaps more bisexual students than thought possible. Peter Siu, Brendan Wallace, Madelyn Prowers, Felicia Carmichael, Orn "Dutchy" Ayers, Charlene Norris, Megan Nelson, [[Word of God|Dawne Jiang]], Colin Falcone, Hayley Kelly, William Hearst...to say this is an overabundant trope says the least about its prevalence.
* {{spoiler|[[Bittersweet Ending]]: Sure, a ''lot'' of the students die, but unlike previous versions many of the students were rescued and made it back to America, [[Big Bad|Danya]] is seemingly dead, and the terrorists have been dealt an almost crippling blow.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Black Dude Dies First]]:}} {{spoiler|Melvin Carter}} is the first of the terrorist leaders to die.
* [[Blind Without
* [[Book Ends]]: Both Allen Birkman and Brendan Wallace in their final threads {{spoiler|before they're rescued}} remark that they're standing in the same place where they first woke up on the island.
** When she first wakes up, Tiffany Baker discards her gun into a puddle in the swamp. Some time later she returns to the exact same area and fishes out the gun. {{spoiler|She then gets shot and killed by Jason Harris, who thinks she's trying to attack with said gun}}.
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* [[Canon Immigrant]]: Yelizaveta 'Bounce' Volkova started off as a character in the 'In-Universe Chat' (a chatroom where SOTF members could RP being members of the show's audience). After some time, she was brought into the version four pregame as a fully-fledged character.
* [[Casanova]]: Dustin Royal. Also may come off as a [[Handsome Lech]].
* [[Cold
* [[Companion Cube]]: Jake Crimson and his cinderblock.
* [[Crash Into Hello]]: Reiko Ishida and Sarah Xu meet this way.
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* [[Drop What You Are Doing]]: Reiko Ishida does something like this with a piece of bread she had been eating when she finds out that [[Dull Surprise|her twin sister Reika has been killed]]. This quickly reached [[Memetic Mutation]].
* [[Dying Declaration of Love]]: {{spoiler|Tiffany Baker}} admits her feelings for {{spoiler|Peter Siu}} as she's dying. Unfortunately, {{spoiler|Liam Brooks}} had feelings for her as well, so for him it was a Dying Declaration of ''Unrequited'' Love, {{spoiler|and partly what causes him to go down the [[Axe Crazy]] route}}.
* [[
** Of course, when Version 4's {{spoiler|Megan Nelson}} was [[Sure Why Not|due to die]]...
* [[Evil Brit]]: Maxwell Lombardi fast became one of these after killing {{spoiler|1=Augustus MacDougal, Harold Fisher}} and {{spoiler|Vera Osborne}}. At the time of his death, he had more than quadrupled his body count. [[Complete Monster|Without provocation.]]
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* [[Face Palm]]: Aileen Borden seems to do this pretty often. To be fair, it fits her [[Deadpan Snarker|normal personality]].
* [[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
{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Eve Walker-Luther:'''}} ''"Come on! I deserve better than this! Kill me properly!"''}}
* [[Fan Service]]: Invoked by Andrea Raymer when Danya begins randomly detonating students' collars in retaliation to Liz Polanksi.
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* [[High School Sweethearts]]: Janet Claymont and Chadd Crossen. Turns out it was somewhat one sided though, as Chadd spent his dying moments forgiving Janet for cheating on him, whilst Janet spent hers regretting that she couldn't think of something more worthwhile than him.
* [[Huge Schoolgirl]]: Raina Morales is the standout example at 6'6".
* [[Human Shield]]: Occurs early on, where Gracie Wainright attempts to rob Anna Chase (who is [[Blind Without
* [[I Call It Vera]]: Appears often. Hayley Kelly actually calls her gun Vera.
* [[Informed Loner]]: Brendan Wallace is introduced as a somewhat cynical [[Land Down Under|Australian]] [[New Transfer Student]] with social anxiety. However, by the end of [[Developing Doomed Characters|pre-game]] he is a member of an activist club, previously had a [[Secret Relationship]] with one character, is currently in a relationship with another, has a [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]] best friend, and is a tech guy for a band. However, this can be justified by [[Character Development]] / [[Characterization Marches On]] very easily.
* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja]]: Richard Han, while not actually a ninja, goofs off and pretends to be one for most of his time on the island. Which makes his first appearance on the island (being stuck in a tree) and {{spoiler|his death by misstepping and falling off a mountain}} that much more funnier.
* [[Ironic Nickname]]: Meredith Hemmings is occasionally referred to as "Merry". [[Emo Teen|She isn't]].
* [[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.
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** From the same version is Charlotte Cave, [[Good Old Fisticuffs|a more traditional example]].
** Another possible example is Alice Blake. She belongs both to a fencing and gymnastics club, though her involvement in gymnastics is more of an [[Informed Ability|informed ability]] considering it hasn't really been mentioned outside her profile.
* [[Little Dead Riding Hood]]: Carol Burke is usually seen wearing a red hoodie. Said character is a [[Wide Eyed Idealist]] in a [[Kill
* [[Looking for Love In All The Wrong Places]]: Rosa Fiametta. She managed to wise up a bit, but that just made future searches for Mr/Miss Right even worse.
* [[Love Freak]]: Orn "Dutchy" Ayers. At one point, he makes a speech to the [[Sinister Surveillance|cameras]] that he and his friends will prevail over Danya and the game due to [[The Power of Friendship]], saying that friendship will always win over evil. Worth noting, though, is during this speech he is showing the camera (which is broadcasting to live television) the island's map, in an attempt to help any rescuers find where they are. He's also portrayed a lot more sympathetically than most.
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* [[Madness Mantra]]: Kris Hartmann has, with variation, "Voice. Jump. Spin. Squeeze. Bang. Dead." She never actually says it, but it comes up in her thoughts frequently, starting from her [[Accidental Murder]] of {{spoiler|Reika Ishida}}.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Ladies and gentlemen, Aaron Hughes. This is a guy who, instead of killing an attacker, lets his ally get killed by said attacker, and goes back to his other allies portraying the poor victim as dying in a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] in an attempt to encourage them to get revenge on the murderer. Yikes.
* [[Meaningful Rename]]: Spoofed with Meredith Hemmings, who, after identifying herself as a "goth" (she isn't; she's just a poser who is acting out what she thinks goths act like) renames herself "Pandora Black" and repeatedly insists that it's her soul name whenever anyone questions it. Jake Crimson also renamed himself from "Gomez", apparently after his parents' divorce (that, and [[Rule of Cool]]). Remy Kim is another character who has gone through this, originally having the last name "Trembley" before his parents separated and having it changed to his mother's maiden name sometime after. This serves to symbolize [[Sibling Yin
* [[Miles Gloriosus]]: Jimmy Brennan is built almost entirely on this trope, pissing his pants and losing his shit in one thread, and bragging about all the ass he's already kicked in the next.
* [[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.
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{{quote| '''Ema:''' I'm Ema, Ema Ryan. Sounds like the normal but only one 'm'. My parents were hipsters, I guess.}}
* [[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
* [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]: {{spoiler|Luke Templeton}} talks {{spoiler|Clio Gabriella}} out of commiting suicide and generally helps her out. How does she repay him? By shooting him in the chest and head.
* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: {{spoiler|Rose Codreanu's}} death. She goes to sleep in a danger zone during the announcements but before it's announced as one, and has a calm, happy, introspective dream... with a constant beeping increasing in frequency throughout. Then, in the middle of a sentence, it cuts off with the notice that she's deceased. Very much a break from the usual [[Gorn]] deaths.
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* [[Off Screen Breakup]]: [[Loners Are Freaks|Jonathan Jarocki]] and [[Perky Goth|Anna Chase]] broke up before they got on the bus, as revealed in Anna's opening post, mainly due to the fact that [[Strangled By the Red String|the pairing was almost unanomously hated among the writers]].
* [[Off With His Head]]: {{spoiler|Hayley Kelly}} is particularly keen on this method early on, decapitating {{spoiler|Steve Barnes}} and {{spoiler|James Mulzet}} with a sword. Some collar explosions are also powerful enough to rip a person's head off.
* [[Pint
* [[Please Wake Up]]: This is {{spoiler|Albert Lions'}} reaction to finding {{spoiler|1=Augustus "Dougal" MacDougal's}} corpse.
{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Albert'''}}: DUDE! CUT IT OUT NOW! [[This Is Sparta|WAKE! THE HELL! UP!]]}}
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* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Aston Bennett, after her only remaining friend is killed, starts to lose it a little, as evident by [[Painting the Fourth Wall|the text.]]
* [[Self Sacrifice Scheme]]: {{spoiler|Ethan Kent}} manages this by rigging up a power system that would activate the island's only computer, but upon realising he could do it, he also realised that doing so would alert Danya. What he does is {{spoiler|insult Feo Smith, his only travelling companion, into leaving him, writes down the instructions on how to turn on the computer, and smashes all the cameras in the location, thus provoking Danya into blowing his collar. It ultimately pays off - a group of students manages to follow the instructions and broadcasts the location of the island, which in combination with Liz Polanski's own attempts to screw with Danya, [[Big Damn Heroes|allows for STAR to rescue a good number of the students.]]}}
* [[Shell
* [[Shout Out]]: Damn near everything Micheal Raynor says is a reference to some video game or movie. One character near the start even explodes at him because of the constant shout outs.
* [[Shrinking Violet]]: Gloria Benson. She's always whispering, stuttering, ''and'' blushing when she speaks. Even when she talks to her friends, she's painfully shy/quiet, and keeps apologizing for what she says. Lucy Ashmore, also from v4, qualifies as well. She's just as shy, due to [[All of the Other Reindeer|bullying]]. Not to mention sometimes this slides into [[Cute Clumsy Girl]] territory as well, due to her nervousness.
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* [[Storming the Castle]]: {{spoiler|STAR assaults the terrorist headquarters and actually captures Danya, as part of a rescue attempt. This almost cripples the terrorists once Danya dies.}}
* [[Spock Speak]]: 'Bounce' speaks with excessive formality, which is possibly because English wasn't her parents' first language, although intelligence plays a part.
* [[So Beautiful
* [[Strange Girl]]: Version 4's Anna Chase is... a little off. To get an idea, she is an [[Eerie Pale
** And then there's Lily Ainsworth, also from v4. She's even ''more'' of a [[Cloudcuckoolander]]. Her father was a historian, which caused her to grow up in a British castle most of her life due to his work, and she herself has a tendency to ramble off certain facts as an attempt at conversation, while generally having [[No Social Skills]]. Add in her odd dress sense and her perky nature, and most characters also see her as a little odd.
* [[Sword Cane]]: Jeremy Franco was given this as his assigned weapon, and provides the page quote.
* [[Sword Fight]]: The first SOTF swordfight happens in this version, between Nick Reid and Maf Tuigamala.
* [[Ted Baxter]]: Jimmy Brennan is a mixture of this and [[Miles Gloriosus]]. He's [[Blatant Lies|definitely]] the most [[Badass]], [[Rated
* [[Teen Genius]]: Peter McCue and Jason Clarke, who are seniors at the age of 16.
* [[Tender Tears]]: Orn "Dutchy" Ayers frequently cries when he reads about the plight of the less-fortunate countries.
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* [[Victoria's Secret Compartment]]: Pre-game has a bizarre example, where a character puts around ''6 to 8 jello shots'' down her bra. Needless to say, this reached [[Memetic Mutation]] very quickly.
* [[Visible Silence]]: Ivan Kuznetsov is quite fond of these.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Carol Burke, Allen Birkman, and Sierra Manning of all suffer from aquaphobia, while Liam "Brook" Brooks and Rena Peters suffer from hemophobia.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: It's very egregious this version: Violet Druce has purple hair, Maria [[All Drummers Are Animals|"Animal"]] Graham has blue streaks in her hair, her friend Cassidy Wakemore dyed her hair completely blue, as has Stacy Hart. Katelyn Wescott and Cisco Vasquez both have green hair, Violetta Lindsberg has red, yellow and brown streaks, Dawne Jiang has "christmas" hair, red green and white, and Fiona Sparki has red, green and the aformentioned blue.
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* [[Fan Service]]: Everyone on the ''SOTF-TV'' island received Fanservice costumes in their packs.
* [[Femme Fatale]]: Surprisingly ([[Fan Service|or not]]) this seems to be a fairly common tactic among female characters in SOTF-TV. Marvia Jones, Panya Bishara, Sidney Rice, and to some extent Odile Jones (no relation to Marvia) have all tried to use this sort of method, with varying degrees of success for each. According to [[Character Blog|Survival of the Snarkiest]], this has happened quite a bit in previous seasons as well.
* [[Five
* [[Friends With Benefits]]: Sterling Odair and Amber Lyons from TV, along with (apparently) Kevin Fielding with Jeanette Buendia, David Myerez with Sidney Rice, and Jacob Langston with Mikaela Warner. In the latter's case, the "benefits" part of the arrangement ended when Jacob got in a more serious relationship with Madelyn Conner.
* [[Full Frontal Assault]]: Jay Harland pulled this off on Ashlie Jackson in ''Evolution'' as his practical solution to his nocturnal invisibility powers [[Invisible Streaker|not extending to his clothes]].
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* [[Kick the Dog]]: Marvia Jones' first appearance in ''SOTF-TV'' was getting high, drugging another woman, having sex with her, and then beating her up before stealing her supplies.
** Jacqueline "Cameo" Conroy from ''Virtua'' was perhaps the only person who Simon Mattheson could trust in their time in the game. She's somewhat okay with the fact that he's murdered four of her classmates; however, once she finds out that he's doing it specifically for ''her'', she cruelly abandons him, causing him to have a mental breakdown.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: ''SOTF-TV'' is generally considered to be a lot more light-hearted in tone in comparison to the main games and the other Minis, especially when compared to its immediate predecessor ''The Program''. The [[Kill
* [[Love Dodecahedron]]: Cesar Perdomo loves Odile Jones, who loves both him and Amber Lyons, who in turn loves both her and Sterling Odair. For bonus points, the latter three are bisexual, while the former is biromantic.
* [[Love Triangle]]: The most prominant one in ''SOTF-TV'' is the triangle of Shawn Morrison, Zachariah Johnston, and Mae St. Clair
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* [[Rape By Proxy]]: [[Attempted Rape|Attempted]] ([[Squick|thank god]]) in a notable scene in ''SOTF-TV''. There's a scene where Sterling Odair and Amber Lyons start to "get intimate", only for [[Moment Killer|their mentor to interrupt humorously]]. It results in [[Mood Whiplash]] when Lou Becker, having seen everything, breaks in and tries to force them to continue. {{spoiler|Only to get a hatchet to the face as a result.}}
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: As of the first announcement, Katie Tanaka has been planning this in regards to Simon Mattheson, and implicitly other major players.
* [[Romantic Two
* [[Sassy Black Woman]]: Ramona Shirley in ''Virtua''.
* [[Scary Black Man]]: ''The Program's'' Bryant Carver.
* [[Scholarship Student]]: Mikaela Warner in ''SOTF-TV''.
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: The ending of ''Evolution'' is that {{spoiler|there is no winner. Kate and Taryn make it to the end as the last two standing and both die from blood loss and dehydration.}}
* [[Sorry, Billy,
* [[The Speechless]]: Simon Mattheson in ''Virtua''. He has a severe social phobia, rendering him incapable of speech {{spoiler|until he bludgeons another character to death}}.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: David Myerez of SOTF-TV is heavily implied to be a Type A example.
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