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* [[Art Evolution]]: Newer readers are regularly amazed when they see the writing... er, ''quality''... back in V1, considering where the game is now.
* [[Big Bad]]: Victor Danya, head of the terrorist group behind SOTF. {{spoiler|At least until v4's Day Ten...}}
* [[Bloodstained
* [[Break the Cutie]]/[[Break the Haughty|Haughty]]: This happens ''a lot...'' Though given the nature of the story and the game, is that really so surprising?
* [[Bulletproof Vest]]: Subverted for the most part - in SOTF, these tend to be treated very realistically. However, this is also played straight in the case of Shannon McLocke, who takes a close range shotgun blast to the chest and gets up with barely a scratch.
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* [[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
* [[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}}.
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* [[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
* [[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.
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* [[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.
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== Version 3 ==
* [[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-Man Band|SADD]] was very much one of these, although she was slowly becoming more and more of a part of the team.
* [[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.
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* [[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.
* [[Near
* [[Never Bring a Knife To A Fist Fight]]: Subverted when Ric Chee and Bobby Jacks fight with [[Good Old Fisticuffs]]. When Bobby realises that, conversely to his expectations, he is getting beaten down mercilessly (by a guy with no combat expertise whatsoever) he pulls out a scalpel and {{spoiler|immediately fatally stabs Ric.}}
* [[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.
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* [[Not So Harmless]]: Jimmy Brennan, who started out as a [[Miles Gloriosus]] type who ran around the forest screaming and [[Bring My Brown Pants|pissing his pants]] in the first thread he appeared in, and bragging about being a [[Badass]] in the next. For the most part, his antics are fun in a [[Crosses the Line Twice]] sort of way, up until he {{spoiler|beats resident [[Jerk Jock]] Philip Ward to death with a branch}}.
* [[Not the Fall That Kills You]]: [[Played for Laughs]] / [[Rule of Funny]] with {{spoiler|Richard Han}}'s death. He falls off a mountain, and screams as he falls... only for him to enter another thread as he falls, apparently screaming the entire time and only stopping when he hits the ground and dies. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|It's actually pretty funny as hell]].
* [[Obfuscating Insanity]]: When she first appears on the island, Liz Polanski's first actions are to make herself appear as [[Ax Crazy]] as possible to ward off potential attackers. How does she do this? By, among other things, smearing her face with make-up and severing the head off one of her classmates' corpse and [[Alas, Poor Yorick|carrying it around for a while]]. It works, for the most part. Except on [[Cloudcuckoolander|Milo Taylor.]] [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* [[Off
* [[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-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.
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* [[Ruptured Appendix]]: {{spoiler|R.J. Lowe}} succumbs to this after several days of escalating symptoms. {{spoiler|Helen Wilson}} suffers a similar fate, only {{spoiler|she manages to [[Squick|perform an appendectomy on herself just before it gets worse.]] Unfortunately, she dies of blood loss [[Hope Spot|right before she makes it to the escape boats.]]}}
* [[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
* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]: Alice Blake. Before V4 started, she was in a car accident that killed her parents, as well as leaving her scarred. From that point on, she’s more or less [[The Stoic|the quiet type]] around everyone except her few close friends.
* [[Shout
* [[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.
* [[Sibling Rivalry]]: Remy Kim and Josee Trembley, who both see themselves as [[The Unfavorite]] to their mother, and have been known to attempt to "regain" her love from the other twin.
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* [[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 "M" for Manly|manly]], and awesome character on the island who can kick ANY ass!
* [[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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* [[Backed By the Pentagon]]: An in universe example is present in ''SOTF-TV'', where it is a TV show backed by the Government to keep people entertained.
* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: According to her profile, ''Evolution'' character Ashlie Jackson was one of these before coming to the island. Also, from ''Virtua'', Simon Leroy is a male example.
* [[Body Horror]]: Many of the "powers" in ''Evolution'' fall into this. Some are pretty "standard" as powers go, such as [[The Power of the Sun|solar-powered]] [[Super Strength]] and invisibility, "memory absorption", [[Telepathy]], and [[Shock and Awe|control over electricity]], while others are pretty [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|pathetic]]. Others, however, include things such as mold growing from the mouth and a character developing cat-like claws that are poisonous. The most notable one, though, goes to Johnny Marsh's "power", in which his ''skin'' is invisible, but the rest of him (muscles, organs, etc.) ''aren't''. This, of course, means that his muscles are completely visible like an anatomical model. This receives a [[Lampshade Hanging]] when the scientists puts a full-body scuba suit on him to avoid him scaring the other subjects and interfering with the research. And then there's Billy-Jay Clarke's death in which he suffers a power malfunction, causing his [[Eye Scream|eyes to catch fire and melt out of their sockets]]...
** {{spoiler|Not to mention what happens when Cavery is 'absorbed' by Dr. Botchi...}}
* [[Bring My Brown Pants]]: In ''SOTF-TV'', Bob Lazenby and Todd Hudson both engage in this after waking up on the island.
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* [[Five-Man Band]]: All of the teams in ''SOTF-TV'' to an extent.
* [[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
* [[Gentle Giant]]: While mocking him for it has been hinted to be a [[Berserk Button]] of sorts for him, for the most part Michael "Big Mike" Gibraltar in ''Virtua'' has been described this way. He's about 6'3, weighs 225 pounds, plays hockey... and is actually pretty friendly, with a [[Real Men Wear Pink|fondness for fashion and vampire romance stories]].
* [[Goth]]: Kiera McDonald from ''Evolution'' and Jaqueline "Cameo" Conroy from ''Virtua'', the former of the [[Perky Goth]] variety and the latter played straight to the stereotype.
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** [[Kevlard]]: the official explanation why he was [[Made of Iron]].
* [[Super Serum]]: Every single character in ''Evolution'' that takes part in the game gets their power via an injection of chemicals. Some of the powers are... questionably useful, though.
* [["Take That!" Kiss]]: [[Anything That Moves|Matthew Payne]] from ''The Program'' delivers one to {{spoiler|Luke Mendoza, after the latter fatally wounds him.}}
* [[Troll]]: In-universe examples would be Logan Sorenson of ''The Program'' and Sidney Rice of ''SOTF-TV'', who have both been described this way IC and OOC.
* [[Troubled Fetal Position]]: In ''The Program'', Marilyn Williams does this in reaction to being thrown into the compound, under a bed, no less.
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