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A people simulator from Maxis, the creators of the insanely popular ''[[
▲A people simulator from Maxis, the creators of the insanely popular ''[[Sim City]]''. Players are in charge of the lives of everyone in a neighborhood, though you can only play one household at a time. For that household, mind the Sims' needs (food, sleep, entertainment, socialization, hygiene, and the like) as they guide them through the daily grind of dealing with work, chores (and the kids, if you're inclined to get your Sims to start a family). Sometimes things go awry, and your Sims won't listen to you, or they'll have nervous breakdowns. [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|It can be more fun to let this happen if you're feeling sadistic]], or just like to see your Sims implode, have their house catch on fire, or die en masse. Alternately, you can set up your own little [[Soap Opera]], or recreate your favorite fictional characters, or even just play normally.
It's a game about [[Real Life]]. [[It Will Never Catch On]].
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* The second game, '''''The Sims 2''''', was released in 2004. It introduced three interconnected concepts: aging, Wants and Fears, and Aspiration. Sims now age through various stages--infant, toddler, child, teen, young adult, adult, elder--and could be created in any stage except the first. They also came with an "Aspiration," an overall goal for their life: [[True Companions|Family]], [[Really Gets Around|Romance]], [[Money, Dear Boy|Wealth]], [[Popularity Power|Popularity]], [[Freaky Is Cool|Knowledge]], and (eventually) [[The Hedonist|Pleasure]]. Starting with the first expansion pack, this would assign the Sim a ([[Random Number God|randomly-generated]]) Lifetime Wish, which keeps them happy for the rest of their lives if they achieved it. In the meanwhile, it also controlled what Wants and Fears would pop up; these were general life events, from "Have [[First Kiss]]" to "Eat [[Trademark Favorite Food]]". These would contribute not only to a Lifetime Aspiration Score, which could be used to purchase various [[Rule of Fun|loosely realistic]] in-game objects (the most basic of which being a literal Money Tree), but also to the Sim's real-time Aspiration meter. This corresponded roughly to self-esteem or general mood, and could override a Sim's physical-needs total if it was high enough. Of course, it also lost XXX points every few hours, and if it hit bottom the Sim would have a [[Heroic BSOD]] ([[Played for Laughs]]). Fulfilling the Sim's lifetime wish would fill their Aspiration bar to the max for the rest of their lives, but (of course) you get a certain amount of time to do this before they croak. Finally, personality was reworked to a [[Point Build]] system using five scales: Outgoing/Shy, Grouchy/Nice, Playful/Serious, Neat/Sloppy, Active/Lazy.
* '''''The Sims 3''''' (2009), placed more emphasis on the neighborhood by making it all accessible in realtime and making all families age and evolve along with yours, but this could be turned off. It did away entirely with the Aspiration meter and removed Fears; instead, when you fulfill a Want, it just adds a positive "moodlet" to your physical-needs total, thus streamlining gameplay immensely. Lifetime Aspiration Score is retained, but the prizes you get from it are mostly modifications to the Sim's capabilities instead of physical objects ([[Bladder of Steel]], [[The Casanova]], etc). The [[Point Build]] Personality was removed in favor of five "Traits" which had direct and practical effects on gameplay: for example, an Athletic Sim learns the Athletic skill faster and gets more enjoyment out of their workouts; a Clumsy Sim trips everywhere, which can add a ''lot'' to transit times; and an Evil Sim can gain enjoyment from messing with other Sims, or use a coffee machine to [[Rule of Funny|make Evil Lattes]]. Finally, it added significant flexibility to the Sim- and object- design and customization options, though at the cost of very reduced support for user-generated, made-from-scratch objects, clothing and hairstyles.
* '''''[[
* '''''The Sims 4''''' (2014) omitted the open-world aspect and was released with features missing from the previous game, much to the outcry of players who expected features and mechanics from previous games to make a return, something which EA addressed in later expansion packs as well as patches, such as an update which brought back the toddler life stage. The game also attracted controversy in [[Russia]] due to its ability to assign same-sex relationships, a taboo subject in the country, leading to the game being given an 18+ rating. To EA's credit however, the console version of ''The Sims 4'' is a straight port of the Windows and macOS releases rather than a bespoke version of the game developed specifically for consoles, thereby sharing much of the same gameplay and feature set as its personal computer counterparts, including cheats.
All the mainline games have had, as of
If you want altered forms of play, there's ''MySims'' for the [[Nintendo Wii]] and [[Nintendo DS]], which has the dressings of ''[[The Sims]]'' but lacks a lot of the essentials of the game. Instead, it's more like ''[[Animal Crossing]]'', but for people who prefer to work with cute chibi humans instead of a bossy tanuki. There's also ''The Sims Social'' on [[
''The Sims'' is known to be extremely addictive in most and/or all of its variants. The game includes tools which allows you to export your houses, Sims, and neighborhoods as [[Downloadable Content]] for other people; and, as mentioned, there is a huge variety of unofficial [[Game Mod|Game Mods]] which change the way the game functions. It has been used to create several works of fiction: Rooster Teeth Productions, creators of ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'', were employed by EA to make "[[The Strangerhood]]" using ''The Sims 2'' as a marketing effort; and a British college student created a homeless-father-daughter drama blog called "[[Alice and Kev]]" using the third game.
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== Entire series ==
* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Bella Goth.
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* [[Cloudcuckooland]]: The entire 'verse, in the original and both sequels. Planting eggs in your garden and growing "eggplants", garden gnomes that come to life at night, men giving birth to alien babies...and that's just the ''tip'' of the iceberg.
* [[Dastardly Whiplash]]: [[Punny Name|Malcolm Landgrabb, the evil landlord]].
* [[Don't Come a-Knockin']]: Sims [[Unusual Euphemism|WooHoo]] this way in every setting, be it a bed, shower, tent, sarcophagus, photo booth, haystack, or public establishment.▼
* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: Averted in ''The Sims 3''. Let's put it this way: By the time your Sim is promoted to an executive chef, your boss is still going to be a line cook.
** A lot of "aversions" in ''The Sims 2'', as well. Thanks to ''Seasons'', streakers at ''University'' will run around fully clothed if it's cold outside. ''University'' in general was forgotten about a lot in the later expansions.
▲* [[Don't Come a-Knockin']]: Sims [[Unusual Euphemism|WooHoo]] this way in every setting, be it a bed, shower, tent, sarcophagus, photo booth, haystack, or public establishment.
* [[Everyone Is Bi]]: Sims can engage in romantic interactions with members of either sex, although there's a couple of places where, given the same relationship values, it assumes a romantic relationship for opposite-sex pairs and a platonic one for same-sex pairs. ''The Sims 2'' changed this by providing a sliding scale of sexuality. Pregenerated characters start with a given sexuality and the sexuality value is primed for initial pairings in a family, but after that, their interactions with other Sims determine whether their value increases or decreases. Notably, this only impacts a few things, such as their Wants and their autonomous behavior; a player-controlled Sim will ''never'' turn down a romantic interaction, or refuse to do one if directed by the player, with ''anyone'' (aside from direct family members) that they have a sufficient relationship with. A happily married male Family Sim with three children will readily accept his male friend's romantic behavior toward him while his wife is in the room, no questions asked. (Said wife may not be so tolerable of this behavior.)
** There are mods which allow the player to give Sims specific sexualities; Gay, Bi, or Straight and mods to allow checking the internal value.
*** And there are several premade characters that are generally played gay, most notably Pascal Curious (who is actually set as straight), Beau Broke, Nervous Subject, and Frances (Maxis misspelled his name, not me) Worthington III.
***** Frances actually starts out with no sexuality. Him being gay seems to have become fanon though. (Could be the fault of [[Strangetown, Here
***** I've noticed that with Autonomous Casual Romance installed and gender preferences RANDOMIZED Frances is ALWAYS gay in my game.
***** Strangetown especially is a breeding ground for this. Most of the characters there are "passively" bisexual without the player's input(They won't autonomously flirt with someone of the same gender, but will not react negatively to one flirting with them). Buzz and Tank Grunt, as you probably figured, start the game rigidly straight, and they're pretty much the only ones. Nervous Subject, on the other hand, very much prefers men and reacts negatively to women flirting with him.
**** In ''The Sims 3'', [[Arrested Development (TV series)|Gobias Koffi]] is preset as gay (though, as with anyone else, it's possible to have him fall in love with a woman.)
** [http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Same-sex_relationships This page] of The Sims Wiki provides a few more examples of premade Sims with preferences of the same gender
* [[Fictional Currency]]: The simoleon is the series' standard currency and its mark is represented as a section sign (§).
* [[Forum Pecking Order]]: The official forum has its own variations and categories. The Gurus (those on ''The Sims'' team) are highest in the pecking order. Users with popular designs on the Exchange and users with technical know-how are also high rankers (and possibly the most likely to answer posts concerning glitches and bugs).
* [[Gayborhood]]: Possible with ''The Sims 2'' and ''The Sims 3'', though it will only work so far without the use of hacks, mods and/or [[Sim PE]].
* [[I
* [[Levitating Lotus Position]]: Meditating long enough also allows a Sim to levitate.
* [[Man of Wealth and Taste]]: Malcolm Landgrabb. His tuxedo [[Man in White|turns to white]] in ''The Sims Bustin' Out'' and ''The Sims 3''.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Don Lothario.
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** It's a simple matter to remove it, though. There was even a console command to do it at one point, but it was disabled, for [[Moral Guardians|obvious reasons]].
** In the console ports, your Mom calls out Malcolm Landgrabb with a pixellated [[Flipping the Bird|middle finger]] and [[Sound Effect Bleep|bleeped]] Simlish.
* [[Purely Aesthetic Gender]]: With the exception of urinals and pregnancy a Sim's sex is meaningless.
* [[Right Through His Pants]]: Sims do not pull their pants down when using the toilet, and in ''The Sims 2'', they get out of bed after Woo Hoo still wearing underwear. This is strange in that in the ''The Sims'', which had much less [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] (the "Play in Bed" option was only on one type of bed, babies came from lots of kissing, etc.) , people got out of bed after the "Play in Bed" interaction naked.
* [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]]: The Goth family. Hardly a moment goes by when they aren't mentioned in a pop-up, description, or message, and more than half of the entire series' [[Easter Egg|Easter Eggs]] are about them.
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** Taken to almost comedic extremes due to engine limitations in ''The Sims 2''. It's possible for an entire neighborhood, save one person, to go through (to take a completely random number) three generations during the time it takes that one person to have a cup of coffee, and yet they'll still be able to interact with those three generations without aging a second.
*** ''The Sims 2'', plus University and Seasons, equals academic years (Six days) being shorter than weeks (Seven days) which are longer than seasons (Five days).
* [[Making Love in All
** Cars, hot tubs, photo booths and elevators in ''The Sims 2''.
** While touring some of the rabbit holes (the
*** Also now in ''The Sims 3'', you can woohoo in the shower and in the tree house. If you woohoo in the tree house, there's a possibility that the Sims will get a splinter.
* [[Writers Cannot Do Math]]: There are a ''lot'' of age discrepancies with characters who appear in both ''The Sims 2'' and ''The Sims 3''.
* [[You Have Researched Breathing]]: Sims created at higher age levels have no skills, not even basic ones like charisma or cooking that are acquired and built up by everyday actions.
== The Sims (and spinoffs) ==
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*** If you put them in a swimming pool with no ladders, they will swim around until their motives drop, they get exhausted, and sink. They don't even have the artificial intelligence to float on their backs autonomously, which would probably use up less energy.
*** Sims with the "Absent-Minded" trait in ''The Sims 3'' sometimes will "forget what they're doing" ''while they're panicking because there's a fire''. Or forgetting that they are going to the Hospital ''because they're currently in labor''.
*** Sims never seem to have heard of "stop, drop, and roll". It takes them an hour to [[Kill It
*** Playing some game until they're about to wet themselves, and then [[Potty Failure|''do'']] because it takes them an hour to walk inside.
*** And finally, [[Too Dumb to Live|the mother]] [[Artificial Stupidity|of all stupid actions]], ''running directly towards a burning fire or other disaster, then standing shrieking until the fire burns out''. Fire safety is ''not'' big in [[Sim Nation]].
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*** And unlike the previous two games, Sims in ''The Sims 3'' can climb out of pools without ladders. They can't climb out if you surround the pool with objects, though.
** ''The Sims Medieval'' [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this in the opening cinematic. As it turns out, Sims aren't too good at maintaining a civilization without outside help.
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* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: Making and selling lawn gnomes in the first game, with a maxed-out skill level, will allow you to make money faster than you ever could with a typical job. And you can work your own hours. In the second game, it's the snapdragons, which provides all your needs except sleep. In the third game, it's the Moodlet Modifier that provides all your needs period.
* [[Bag of Spilling]]: ''The Sims Bustin' Out'', which is a direct sequel to ''The Sims'' (console version), reduces the player back to being poor and jobless -- only this time, you're [[Basement Dweller|freeloading in your mom's house]].
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* [[The Cameo]]: Drew Carey arrives in his limo if your party is hoppin' enough. Yes, ''that'' Drew Carey.
** [[Marilyn Monroe]] is the awards presenter in ''Superstar''.
* [[Classic Cheat Code]]: This editor won't reveal anything for those who don't want to know, but they involve pressing Ctrl Shift and C simultaneously and typing {{spoiler|[[Citizen Kane
** There are ways to abuse that {{spoiler|"Rosebud"}} cheat code. Typing a series of ";!;!;!;!;!" after that code, without a space, will generate an extra §1000 for each pair of ";!" you have (because each ;! "repeats" the previously-entered cheat). Typing a ":" after the last ";!" string you entered will cause an error and keep the cheat menu from closing, but you'll still get §1000 for each legitimate set of ";!" string. Hold the Enter button and watch your bank account soar. And try not to get bored at the game (since you no longer have to work for anything).
** Or a user can enter {{spoiler|boolProp testingCheatsEnabled true}} in ''The Sims 2''. This enables the player to access NPC clothing, alien traits, and to drag mood, relationship, and skill bars up without having to earn them. (For the former two, press Shift+N in Create-A-Sim after entering the cheat.)
*** this cheat was actually brought into ''The Sims 3'' {{spoiler|testingCheatsEnabled true}} can be entered at anytime and raise moods, and relationships.
** Move_objects on! It lets you have such fun as deleting your Sims then clicking on their portrait to bring them back totally refreshed (Although this will permanently remove a character if done and then saved during ''The Sims 3''), deleting unwanted people and pets, and ''moving objects while your Sims are using them''! And yes, it does count as a nude code. [[Barbie Doll Anatomy|In a sense.]]
** The ''manual'' for ''The Sims 2'' even includes a cheat code: "aging off", which does [[Exactly What It Says
*** EA put it in the manual to ward off the inevitable barrage of [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]] for people who didn't want their Sims dying on them (and who were presumably too incompetent to satisfy the Sims' wants enough to get Elixir of Life.)
**** That, and Elders are restricted in their jobs and interactions. The skill meters and such are also designed for a Sim to build them since infancy, so it makes sense, at least for the first generation.
***** A good alternative is to convert Sims into vampires instead of letting them age into Elders. This "retirement" allows them to stay around to watch future generations of their family grow up and give them the knowledge/rewards they earned.
** [[Everything's Better
* [[Command and Conquer Economy]]: The micromanagement... ''the micromanagement''...!
* [[Cool Car]]: ''The Sims Bustin' Out'' actually grants the player a car. Completing each level [[Cosmetic Award|unlocks a new vehicle]].
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** Averted in ''The Sims Medieval'', where there's not only beer and wine, Sims can also get drunk.
* [[Gasshole]]: Sloppy Sims (or Sims with the "Slob" trait in ''3'') burp and fart randomly.
* [[Genie in
** Never, ever, ever wish for "Fire." The backfire is...literally a fire. At least if "Water" doesn't go as planned Sims only have to mop up a flood.
** It's a quest in ''The Sims Medieval''.
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* [[Instant Home Delivery]]: There's no need to wait for your furniture, major appliances, or even your entire house to be delivered and installed.
* [[It's Always Spring]]: Sim children go to school every day, and the plant life is always leafy and green. (The ''Makin' Magic'' expansion pack breaks the pattern by being set in the fall, although the most you can do to bring the change of season back to the main neighborhood is to use its orange-leafed flora in regular lots.)
** Days of the week exist in the core ''The Sims 2'' and ''The Sims 3'' games, including children not going to school on weekends and every job having at least two days off during the week. Seasons were added in the [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: Malcolm donates the player a spare mansion in the console version, only to evict you in the sequel. He is later chased out of his new house by your mom, allowing the player to move in.
* [[Loading Screen]]: The more expansions you have, the longer it will take. The screen displays various phrases, which start out normal in ''The Sims'', but get sillier and sillier with each additional expansion added on, with the exception of "Reticulating Splines", which has been used as a standard Maxis loading screen phrase since ''[[
** The seventh (''FreeTime'') expansion for ''[[The Sims 2]]'' [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this---one of the phrases is "Writing Startup Scrolling Text Strings".
** Splines get reticulated, re-reticulated, scolded for reticulating...
*** In ''Apartment Life'', they get asked to reticulate more quietly.
*** [[Spore]] takes this gag [[Up to Eleven]] with the loading screen "Reticulating ''[[Just for Pun|Spines]]''".
*** The "Reticulating Splines" thing is silly too; it's a running gag that originated from the loading screen from ''[[
*** In "Teen Style Stuff" the Reticulating Splines line is "Like, totally reticulatiing splines, dude."
*** In ''The Sims 3'', Sims can write books on their computers, where the player selects the genre and a window pops up asking you to write a title, or giving you the option to stick with a pre-generated title. One of the pre-generated titles in the "nonfiction" genre is "Reticulated Splines: A History".
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** The original The Sims has a head in a jar on a vaguely human-body-shaped metal stand that can be bought as a statue.
* [[Modern Stasis]]: It's always [[The Present Day]] in [[Sim Nation]]. This results in a bizarre "timeless" world in which the great-grandparents of the current generation grew up with exactly the same technology.
* [[Most Gamers Are Male]]: One of the greatest subversions of this stereotype. A majority of ''The Sims'' fans [https://web.archive.org/web/20080922042019/http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2008/04/16/2008-04-16_women_really_click_with_the_sims.html are female], and the series has been credited with bringing more women into gaming and breaking down the gender divide.
* [[My Beloved Smother]]: "Mom" in the console version.
* [[Potty Dance]], [[Potty Emergency]], and [[Potty Failure]]
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* [[Remilitarized Zone]]: The [[The Pentagon|Octagon]]. Unlocked if you pursue the Military career in ''The Sims Bustin' Out''.
* [[Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: In the expansions, pleading for a Sim's life would involve playing [[Rock-Paper-Scissors]] with death (though your chance to win was actually based off of how much the pleading Sim loved the dead Sim). The second game replaced this with a [[Shell Game]] type system.
* [[Sad Clown]] - If you have his painting on your wall and one of your Sims gets depressed enough, Sunny the Tragic Clown will show up to try and cheer him or her up. Since Sunny is every bit as depressed as the Sim he's
* [[The Slacker]]: Dudley Landgrabb. His mobile home in ''The Sims Bustin' Out'' is the second rung up from Mom's House.
* [[Speaking Simlish]]: The [[Trope Namer]].
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*** [[Can't Unhear It|And now you'll notice it every time.]] You're welcome.
* [[Sugar Bowl]]: The whole game world. Though one can easily make a [[Crap Saccharine World]] out of it.
* [[Super Serum]]: In the ''Livin' Large'' expansion pack, Sims can create a variety of different potions using a chemistry set, which causes different effects when drunk depending on its [[
* [[Take That]]: The congratulations prompt for attaining the "Broadway Star" job. Maxis can't resist the obvious jab at [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]].▼
* [[Talking Is a Free Action]]: Averted. Not only does it take up ''lots'' of time, but if you want to engage another Sim in a conversation, you can't multitask while doing so (Sims will chat if they find themselves eating at the same table or something, but you can't control the conversation that way).▼
▲* [[Super Serum]]: In the ''Livin' Large'' expansion pack, Sims can create a variety of different potions using a chemistry set, which causes different effects when drunk depending on its [[Colour-Coded for Your Convenience|colour]]:
** Red - Makes the drinker's [[Heel Face Brainwashing|worst enemy]] [[Love Potion|fall in love]] with them.
** Orange - The drinker becomes temporarily [[Invisibility|invisible]], [[Power Perversion Potential|can enter bathrooms undetected]].
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** Purple - Turns the drinker temporarily into an uncontrollable [[Frankenstein's Monster]]. It goes around [[The Jinx|attempting to use every appliance, plumbing fixture and piece of home electronics in the house, causing them to break]], and throws [[Hair-Trigger Temper|temper tantrums]]. For some reason, monsters will also interact with art easels and [[Hidden Depths|paint bestselling pictures with them]].
** White - If the drinker is sick, it [[Magic Antidote|heals]] them.
▲* [[Take That]]: The congratulations prompt for attaining the "Broadway Star" job. Maxis can't resist the obvious jab at [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]].
▲* [[Talking Is a Free Action]]: Averted. Not only does it take up ''lots'' of time, but if you want to engage another Sim in a conversation, you can't multitask while doing so (Sims will chat if they find themselves eating at the same table or something, but you can't control the conversation that way).
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]
** [[Cruel Player Character God]]: Somewhat obvious given that you're taking almost complete control over the lives of several people. You can easily and intentionally kill your Sims through starvation, [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=122 burn their house to the ground] as a result of bad cooking, and if you prefer to keep them alive, prevent them from going to school, force them to flirt with their (attractive or unattractive) neighbors, drive them into bankruptcy, and start familial and neighborhood conflicts that last a lifetime. Also, [http://www.somethingawful.com/d/feature-articles/sims-3-life.php this.] Or [http://meodia.com/article/281/sadistic-ways-people-torture-their-sims/ this list] detailing the various ways you can be cruel, the basement one it rather, disturbing.
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** Sims' cats can be trained using the same techniques as dogs. While real-life cats ''can'' be taught to do tricks, they usually need a bigger incentive than just "Master wants me to do it."
** [[Somewhere an Ornithologist Is Crying|All Birds Are Parrots]]: There are five possible bird "species" to stock your birdcage with. Four do, in fact, resemble species of parrot. One, however, resembles a falcon. Yet it's still possible to "Teach Birdname to Talk" and "Play With Birdname" although in real life you would not play with a falcon without protective equipment, nor can you teach one to talk.
* [[Anal Probing]]: The (actually light green) [[The Greys|Greys]] in ''[[The Sims]] 2'' have pollination technicians, who abduct, probe, and impregnate [[Mister Seahorse|Sim men]].
* [[Back
** In the Gamecube version of ''The Sims 2'', it is very easy to kill your Sims. But a dead Sim is fully playable as a ghost Sim, and can barter for their life back from the Grim Reaper who hangs around a dead Sim's house. The contest of choice? A Fiddle Duel.
* [[Banana Republic]]: The "Tropical" holiday destination. It has [[Mayincatec]] ruins, a rainforest location but has hula dancing and
* [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]]: What goes on underneath the pixelation, if you use a hack to remove it.
** Leading to a situation where men have nipples, yet women do not.
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* [[Christmas Episode]]: The Holiday expansion and packs.
* [[Comic Book Time]]: You can play for 20 generations but the game still retains [[Mundane Fantastic|(mostly)]] early 21st century technology and aesthetics.
* [[Cursed
* [[Dark-Skinned Redhead]]: Nina Caliente▼
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]] / [[Light Is Not Good]]: Angela and Lilith Pleasant are pretty much the same, only different because of their uneven treatment by their parents. Angela's described as "patient and dutiful", and even her name means "angel", while Lilith's name means "demon from the night" and she's a rebellious teenager who wears dark clothes and spike bands. Despite that, Lilith's seen as a [[The Woobie|woobie]] by most players while Angela's seen as an annoying [[Mary Sue]] ([[A Worldwide Punomenon|just like her mother!]])
* [[Darkskinned Blonde]]: Ophelia Nigmos and Dina Caliente
▲* [[Dark-Skinned Redhead]]: Nina Caliente
* [[Dead Artists Are Better]]: Paintings increase in value after the painter dies.
* [[Death From Above]]: If a Sim spends too much time Stargazing without a Telescope, they might get crushed by a satellite. Which can then be sold for §1,000.
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* [[Elevator Failure]]
* [[An Entrepreneur Is You]]: The ''Open for Business'' expansion.
* [[Everything's Better
** With the ''Seasons'' EP, this is taken literally: If you have fresh produce in your fridge, you'll make sparkly food that raises the food motive faster.
** Played Straight and Subverted with the Witches, both the extremely good and extremely bad witches have a sparkly aura.
* [[Eye of Newt]]: In one case, literally.
* [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong]]: Alien abduction, which for adult males (like Pascal Curious) leads to [[Mister Seahorse]].
* [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]]: The second game takes this one even farther: your Sims can plead with [[The Grim Reaper]] for the life of a fellow Sim, get abducted by aliens (and become pregnant [[Mister Seahorse|if they're male]]), become a werewolf, vampire, or zombie, get swallowed by a [[Man-Eating Plant]], find Bigfoot (and even ask him to move in with you), learn ninja teleportation, have wishes granted by a genie...▼
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: How else to describe how normal non-knowledge Sims feel about the other life states?
** In Strangetown stories, the Grunt-Smith rivalry is almost always portrayed as caused by General Buzz's racism (specieism?) against aliens.
▲* [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]]: The second game takes this one even farther: your Sims can plead with [[The Grim Reaper]] for the life of a fellow Sim, get abducted by aliens (and become pregnant [[Mister Seahorse|if they're male]]), become a werewolf, vampire, or zombie, get swallowed by a [[Man-Eating Plant]], find Bigfoot (and even ask him to move in with you), learn ninja teleportation, have wishes granted by a genie...
* [[Form-Fitting Wardrobe]]: Some of the clothing mods.
* [[Freaky Is Cool]]: The core philosophy of a Knowledge Sim. Most Sims fear [[Alien Abduction|alien abductions]], encountering
* [[Frothy Mugs of Water]]: Kegs and Bars are always described as "juice." Juice that under the hood reduces the relationship value needed for romantic interactions to succeed.
* [[Functional Magic]]: ''Apartment Life'' lets Sims become witches and warlocks.
** [[Playing
*** (Un?)Fortunately, you can only use Inflammo outdoors and only on home lots, which greatly limits its potential fun.
** [[Time Stands Still]]: Tempus Interruptus stops time for all but the magical kind.
** [[Summon Magic]]: Appello Cattus Amicus summons a cat familiar. You can also summon other Sims, even when they're at work.
** [[Everything's Worse
* [[Fur Against Fang]]: [[Poke the Poodle|"Bleh!" "Grr!"]]
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: In order to keep the game rated T, themes that would be considered adult were replaced with 'kid-friendly' substitutes. The word "woohoo" was used in place of "have sex." Hookahs were presented as bubble blowers that actually made bubbles, but also made Sims literally [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|float while using them]]. Kegs and bars are always referred to as "juice kegs" and "juice bars," or "nectar" in the case of the wine bar.
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* [[Gold Digger]]: Dina Caliente. Also, It's a lifetime wish in the 3rd Installment.
* [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!]]: Olive Specter is known for being one of the most beautiful Sims in the game, despite already being an elder. Jennicor Tricou, the matriarch of the mysterious deceased Tricou family, is also quite a looker.
* [["Happy Holidays" Dress]]: The [[Mrs. Claus]] outfit in the holiday packs.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Aspiration failure. When a Sim's worst fears come true, they'll have a gibbering breakdown from which they have to be rescued by an imaginary psychiatrist. Who gives them a brief pep talk and then gets them to do something silly.
* [[Hospital Hottie]]: Don Lothario, Pleasantview's local womanizer, works in the medical career path.
* [[Humble Goal]]: In ''The Sims 2'', it's possible to change a Sim's Lifetime Aspiration to "Grilled Cheese".
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Sims who don't have a knowledge aspiration react this way if you get them turned into a monster. Even a witch, which makes a Sim [[Cursed
** [[I Just Want to Be Special]]: Knowledge aspiration Sims tend to have wants like this. See [[Nightmare Fetishist]] below.
* [[I Love the Dead]]: You can choose zombies as one of a Sim's turn-ons.
* [[Instant Book Deal]]: in ''The Sims 2''▼
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: The Cow Plant ''kind of'' causes this. It eats people, then produces milk which can be drunk. Some Sims will express a desire to drink milk made from certain Sims they don't like.
* [[The Inspector Is Coming]]: Critics can review your establishment in the ''Open for Business'' expansion pack, and they can give you either positive or negative reviews.
▲* [[Instant Book Deal]]: in ''The Sims 2''
* [[I Was Told There Would Be Cake]]: Overlaps with [[The Cake Is a Lie]] - the cow plant reward taunts Sims with a slice of cake, only to eat them instead. It then produces milk that extends a Sims' life.
* [[The Jimmy Hart Version]]: Averted in ''The Sims 2: Open For Business'', where a new radio station is added entitled "New Wave", which features acts such as Depeche Mode and Howard Jones - who actually rerecorded their 80s hits in Simlish for the game.▼
* [[Kiss of the Vampire]]: Sims are
* [[Loads and Loads of Loading]]: At least they kept the old "reticulating splines" joke.
** It gets much, much worse if you have a lot of custom content.
** At least it can be played in windowed mode.
* [[Love Dodecahedron]]: The [http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Pleasantview default
** If you want the fun of a [[Love Dodecahedron]] [[Video Game Caring Potential|without actually breaking Sims' hearts]], download a no-jealousy hack. You can have a Sim kiss someone he isn't married to right in front of someone he is, and she'll ignore it or even [[Yaoi Fangirl|approve of it]].
* [[Love Floats]]: The cinematic that plays when a Sim gets his or her very first kiss has the kissing Sims levitate briefly.
* [[Luck
* [[Machinima]]: Fans of [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|popular TV]] and [[Naruto|anime]] series use the create-a-character tool to recreate their [[Shipping|ships]], no matter how [[Crack Pairing|cracky]].
** [[Machinomics]]: Fans of the game gladly give EA free advertising creating their "original" works using the same software.
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* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: The inhabitants of Strangetown. Except maybe the Smiths.
** The Curiouses might be weird, but they're nice people. The Beakers, on the other hand...
* [[Nightmare Fetishist]]: Knowledge Sims roll wants to make zombies, get abducted by aliens, have a [[Near
** If you have ''Seasons'', they can roll wants to ''get hit by lightning''.
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: ''The Sims 2'' allows the player to have aliens, zombies, vampires, werewolves, plant/human hybrids, and combine them as he/she deems [[Rule of Cool|cool]]. Vampire/werewolf/zombie ''robots'' are even possible. (Click [https://web.archive.org/web/20130721145759/http://thesims2.filefront.com/potd/70889 here] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090321191425/http://forums.worldsims.org/gallery/showimage.php?i=1207&c=2 here] to see.) And add to this the fact that you can learn to teleport from a ninja...
** If only you could give them an eyepatch...
*** [https://web.archive.org/web/20080628184223/http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=175765 Yarr!]
** Vampire
* [[No Flow in CGI]]: Averted with the majority of hairstyles. Played straight with the clothes and many fan-created hairs.
* [[Office Golf]]: The career reward for the business career track in ''The Sims'' 2 is a small golf hole.
* [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]: method of death determines
** Drowned Sims turn blue and leave puddles and may leave bubbles in bathtubs.
** Electrocuted Sims randomly jitter with electric shock.
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* [[Plant Person]]: PlantSims.
* [[Poke the Poodle]]: "Evil" magic spells are not very harmful and are mainly just annoying, even the ones that the most powerful evil Witches and Warlocks can cast.
* [[Powered
* [[Power of Love]]: If two Sims love each other enough, it's trivial to plead with the Grim Reaper.
* [[Pretty in Mink]] / [[
* [[Product Placement]]: By default, the only video game your Sims can play in ''The Sims 2'' is ''[[
** Plus, if you look closely at the scenes in some of the paintings you can buy, you will see places of even a character from the My Sims games.
** Not to mention the IKEA and H&M item packs.
** Ford vehicles are downloadable from the official EA site as add-on custom content.
▲* [[Pretty in Mink]] / [[Its Fake Fur Its Fine]]: One of the expansions offers a fur coat for the ladies.
* [[Punny Name]]: Olive Specter's multiple dead husbands (e.g. Hugh Thanasia), all of whose names are puns for things related to death or murder.
** In ''The Sims 3'', about 90% of the inhabitants of Twinbrook have these as names. For example, there's a newspaper girl named [[Meaningful Name|Dee Liver]]. [[Hurricane of Puns|It gets more and more ridiculous from there.]]
* [[Robe and Wizard Hat]]: Witches and Warlocks. If you get turned into one, your everyday clothes automatically morph into a set.
* [[Runs
* [[Sad Clown]]: If a Party is a disaster, a Sad Clown shows up, [[It Got Worse|and just makes a bad party even worse.]]
* [[Sanity Meter]]: The Aspiration Bar.
** Kind of a combination [[Sanity Meter]] and Happiness Meter, really. Sims at particularly high aspiration levels aren't more sane, just in better moods. When the meter hits rock bottom, they suffer...
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: ... in which they'll collapse in a total gibbering breakdown with deranged laughter, while doing a Aspiration-related lunatic act; for example, a Family-minded Sim will drop to the floor, and start cradling a burlap sack with a face scrawled on it, cooing
* [[Self-Imposed Challenge]]: Players have come up with numerous challenges to make gameplay more interesting. There's the [https://web.archive.org/web/20140517191539/http://legacychallenge.com/ Legacy Challenge], the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130503102941/http://simscout.blogsome.com/mini-challenge-asylum
* [[Shout
** In final job in the Law career track your Sim [[Judge Dredd|becomes the law]].
** The Brick Roll floor tile from one of the later expansions.
*** One of the roof tiles promises [[
** The [[Harry Potter|Prisoner of Azkalamp]].
** To literary classics. In ''The Sims 3'', old (and often valuable) books such as ''The White Flag of Courage'' can be found while searching catacombs.
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*** That's nothing. ''[[The Sims]] 2'' has a trio of outfits that bear an uncanny resemblance to [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Evangelion]] plugsuits the main characters wear. ''That you can wear as well.'' Clearly Will Wright is a NGE fan.
**** The game files refer to those suits as motor racing suits - with oddly-placed plugs.
***** [http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/yy161/ciervovolante/Sims%202/aipr_2-12.png With this screenshot] the [[Shout
** There's another outfit from the 2nd game that is basically Neo's outfit from [[The Matrix]], complete with black trenchcoat.
** Surprised this one didn't come up: for toddlers in ''The Sims 2'', there's a Rip Co. Wobbly [[Looney Tunes|Wabbit]] Head toy
** Socially deprived Sims in ''The Sims 2'' interact with a [[Donnie Darko|large, imaginary, one-eyed rabbit...]]
*** In a similar vein,
**** In ''the Sims Castaway Stories'' spinoff, the "Shipwrecked and Single" game features a island idol that the playable Sim names "Spaulding," also in reference to [[Cast Away]]
** TV shows on the SBN (Sim Broadcasting Network) include: Not-Oprah, Pseudo-[[Survivor]], Un-ER, and the Pleasant twins in some kind of [[Beverly Hills, 90210|generic teen drama.]]
** The windmills that you can use to reduce your Sims' energy bill have a buy-mode description that suggests that you not try to use them to cool off, as "they [[Futurama|do not]] [[Memetic Mutation|work that way.]]"
** The Time Machine has a few. One that stand out is that, when traveling to the future, you can get a message about your Sim arriving amidst a big crowd, but that nobody noticed your Sim because everybody was cheering about a [[Mass Effect|shepherd that saved the galaxy from an ancient god-machine]].
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** One of the wall hangings is titled "The Fifth Element."
** There's also the "[[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|Unlikely Whale Sculpture]]".
* [[Singing Simlish]]: Also the [[Trope Namer]]- any songs played on a radio or CD player will be like this.▼
* [[Smart People Play Chess]]: Playing chess increases your logic stat.
* [[Speaking Simlish]]: The [[Trope Namer]]. Sims speak in a made-up language called "Simlish." This "language" was made up on the spot by the recording artists. There's even a sound clip that's supposed to sound like the Sim is speaking a French variant of Simlish. ''Written'' Simlish is usually represented by Zodiac symbols, a little Greek, and a few that seem to have been made up by the creators.
* [[Spell Construction]]
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: ''The Sims Social'' to ''The Sims Online''
▲* [[Singing Simlish]]: Also the [[Trope Namer]]- any songs played on a radio or CD player will be like this.
* [[Super Fun Happy Thing of Doom]]
* [[Superhero]]: The final stage of the Law Enforcement career path is this. [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|The only Super power your Sim gets is flight and can only be used to go to work.]] What a rip-off.
* [[Tangled Family Tree]]: There is one in Strangetown: Glarn Curious married Glabe (either that or they are siblings), then he was impregnated by Pollination Tech 9. After having the twins Lola and Chloe, he left Glabe and married Kitty Hoglegs. After having 4 kids by Kitty, the oldest, Jenny, marries Pollination Tech 9 and has kids (Johnny and Jill) by him...which means that her kids are also her
** Not to mention how ''The Sims 3: Ambitions'' and ''The Sims 2'' for PSP adds more relatives and more tangled-ness. [http://images.wikia.com/sims/images/6/6d/Curious-Smith_Family_Tree.png Here's the family tree for those interested].
* [[Teleporters and Transporters]]: As of the last expansion pack, ''Apartment Life'', there are at least three ways of in-game teleportation. In the base game, meditating for 24 hours lets you teleport anywhere, even to places the next two types can't. The ''Bon Voyage'' expansion lets you learn teleportation from a ninja, complete with puff of smoke. The ''Apartment Life'' expansion lets Sims become witches or warlocks, and the spell Magivestigium teleports you faster than the first two. Then there's the fan-made content...
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* [[The Thing That Would Not Leave]]: Due to some kind of bug in the game, a guest might stay until three in the morning, and then the player would get this dialogue with the guest's portrait in it that says "You invited me to spend the night, but then you didn't let me get any sleep! I'm leaving!", just because the player didn't say 'goodbye'.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Sims left to their own devices tend to either do nothing on their own or do incredibly stupid stuff. ''Medieval'' flat out tells you in the intro that the Sims are "dumb" and have a tendency to doom themselves and their civilization without your guidance.
▲* [[The Jimmy Hart Version]]: Averted in ''The Sims 2: Open For Business'', where a new radio station is added entitled "New Wave", which features acts such as Depeche Mode and Howard Jones - who actually rerecorded their 80s hits in Simlish for the game.
* [[The Unfavorite]]: Lilith Pleasant.
** Ripp Grunt appears to also fall under this trope.
* [[Unfortunate Names]]: Mary Sue. It's highly unlikely that the creators of the game are familiar with the fannish term, but if it was intentional it was meant to be ironic. Still, plenty of players have decided that anyone named Mary Sue must be one, even though her biography simply describes her as an optimistic workaholic mother, which would be a pretty unusual type of Mary Sue to see in a fanfic.
** Also Nawwaf Leela''porn'', a premade [[Unfortunate Implications|headmaster]] in Belladonna Cove.
* [[Urban Segregation]]: Belladonna Cove. There is an inner city area with run down, small apartments, a trailer park, and tower blocks, leading into the
▲* [[Urban Segregation]]: Belladonna Cove. There is an inner city area with run down, small apartments, a trailer park, and tower blocks, leading into the suberbs which are nicer and wealthier. Overlooking on a hill is a glossy, wealthy area.
* [[Vampires Are Rich]]: Moving In a Grand Vampire will bring in $50,000. Plus, they are parodies of Dracula, with all of their names being preceded by Count or Contessa.
* [[Vampires Own Nightclubs]]: Not exactly, but the only way to find Grand Vampires is at Downtown lots at night.
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== The Sims 3 (and expansions) ==
* [[Absent-Minded Professor]]: Any Sim with the "Absent-Minded" and "Genius" traits.
* [[Affably Evil]]: Any Sim with a combination of the "Evil" and "Friendly" traits. Premade examples include Vita Alto.▼
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Kaylynn Langerak was just an NPC in ''The Sims 2'', but has a family and backstory in ''The Sims 3''▼
* [[Adult Child]]: Any adult with the Childish trait. They play with toys, play tag, and things only kids would do. Premade examples include Zelda Mae, Madison Van Watson and Molly French.
* [[Adventurer Archaeologist]]: You get to play as one with the ''World Adventures'' expansion.
▲* [[Affably Evil]]: Any Sim with a combination of the "Evil" and "Friendly" traits. Premade examples include Vita Alto.
* [[Alternate Reality]]: The neighborhood the game ships with is set 25 years prior to the events the first Sims game, but there are a few differences that make ''The Sims 3'' universe irreconcilable with the other two games (see below.)
** It's worth adding that you can play those 25 years, or the generations equivalent to that time. You can play, for instance, Bella Goth through all her life until she dies of old age surrounded by grandsons, while never having married Mortimer nor moved out of her home town, nor having gone mysteriously missing. Thus creating an undeniable alternate reality where the people and towns of the other games never existed.
*** Methods of resurrecting the dead have been around since the base game. Add to that the introduction of [[Fountain of Youth|youth potions]] (in ''Generations'') and [[Time Machine|Time Machines]] (in ''Ambitions'') and anything is possible.
** You can create this yourself, any
* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]: The game ships with red, blue, and green skintones.
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: [[Punny Name|Gobias Koffi]] from Sunset Valley. Ayesha Ansari, also of Sunset Valley, is Ambiguously Lesbian.
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*** He could alternately be interpreted as a [[Legacy Character]].
** Also, the introduction of laptops when they are canonically absent in [[The Sims|TS1]] and [[The Sims|TS2]].
** Egyptian mummies in China and France. Slightly justified for France, given that Napoleon ordered the
*** [[The Mummy Trilogy|Shout out, perhaps?]]
▲* [[Ascended Extra]]: Kaylynn Langerak was just an NPC in ''The Sims 2'', but has a family and backstory in ''The Sims 3''.
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Ambrosia, which when eaten increases lifespan by a huge amount, gives the second best moodlet in the game, and turns playable Ghost Sims into regular Sims-- but it requires a Life Fruit (rare, requires Gardening skill of at least seven), a Death Fish (easy to find, hard to catch, requires a very high fishing skill or suitable bait, which requires suitable bait , which requires suitable bait, which requires suitable bait, though the starting bait in the series is easy to get) and a Cooking skill of ten, plus the recipe costs 12,000 Simoleons! With some work, though, you can guarantee yourself a steady supply of the ingredients.
** By spreading the work amongst a few Sims it becomes very doable. Of course, the family will still have to acquire the recipe and ingredients and reach the necessary skill levels, but no one Sim needs to have all the requisite skills or ingredients. However, it's completely possible for an individual Sim to create ambrosia before they even age to adult, without cheats or any help from other Sims.
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* [[Butt Monkey]]: Unlucky Sims and/or Loser Sims. See also [[The Woobie]].
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: The Evil trait, complete with the ability to steal candy from babies.
* [[Cast Full of Gay]]: This can happen sometimes in ''The Sims 3'' as the AI for NPC Sims seems to norm to whatever orientation the player's Sim(s) might be (possibly from reacting favorably to low-level "Romantic" interactions such as being complimented on their personalities or casually asked if they're single), which can result in neighborhoods with a ''lot'' of same-sex couples after a while.▼
* [[The Casanova]]: Hank Goddard, Parker Langerak, and Xander Clavell all aspire to be this.
▲* [[Cast Full of Gay]]: This can happen sometimes in ''The Sims 3'' as the AI for NPC Sims seems to norm to whatever orientation the player's Sim(s) might be (possibly from reacting favorably to low-level "Romantic" interactions such as being complimented on their personalities or casually asked if they're single), which can result in neighborhoods with a ''lot'' of same-sex couples after a while.
* [[Cats Are Mean]]: Cats with the Aggressive trait.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Any Sim with the Genius and Insane traits.
* [[Continuity Snarl]]/[[They Just Didn't Care]]: One of the biggest complaints among older fans in ''The Sims 3''. Many characters origins are off, ages are inconsistent with TS2, and the preference for random new Sims and time-
** In ''The Sims: Hot Date'', Agnes' deceased husband was Robert Crumplebottom, a famous puppeteer. In ''The Sims 3'', he's a completely unremarkable man named Erik Darling.
** Frida Goth, Gunther's sister in ''The Sims 2'', does not appear in ''The Sims 3''. At all.
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* [[Creepy Child]]: Any Baby/Toddler/Child with the Evil trait. Premade examples include Belisama Hemlock.
* [[Creepy Doll]]: A bad CC item known as "The Girl Dressed Doll" or "The Girl Doll Dressed" can be considered this.
** In fact, it IS considered this amongst many simmers, mainly due to the damage it does rather than its appearance.
** For some simmers, the imaginary friend doll newborn
* [[Cursed
* [[Cute but Cacophonic]]: Any pet with the Noisy trait.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Sims with both the Grumpy and Inappropriate traits.
* [[Did Not Do Research]]: In the ''World Adventures'' expansion, ''most'' of the monuments are given their appropriate names. However, the model that the game uses as the Great Pyramid is actually based off of the Pyramid of Khafre, which is smaller.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Performing mostly harmless pranks in ''Generations'' (like placing a whoopee cushion on a chair) will sometimes result in a severe punishment such as revoked privileges or being grounded for two days without being able to leave the house at all, even ''to go to school''.
* [[Dropped a Bridge
* [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]]: There are two "Harajuku Fashion" packs for ''The Sims 3'' -- they're identical, except that one is for adults, and the other is for children and teens. The female outfits from them fall into this category.
* [[Expy]]: Gobias Koffi is Tobias from ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]''. The name comes from when Gob and Tobias came up with a business plan to invest in coffee shops under the moniker Gobias industries. The name was an unintentional portmanteau of Gob and Tobias and was said as "Go buy us some coffee."
* [[Extreme Doormat]]: Bessie Clavell is strongly implied to be one.
* [[Fan Service]]: So much more in this installation. Starting from bunk beds and strollers to breast sliders and body hair.
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* [[Free the Frogs]]: It's one of the pranks a teenager can pull in their school in ''Generations''.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: If adult Sims don't take good care of their kids, they'll wind up with the Evil trait.
* [[Global Currency]]: With the ''World Adventures'' expansion, your Sims can travel to China, France, or Egypt. No matter where they are, Simoleons are the currency of choice.
** Which becomes Universal Currency with the new Lunar Lakes neighborhood, since it is located on an alien planet.
* [[Global Currency Exception]]: With the ''World Adventures'' expansion, each of the three foreign locations features a Special Merchant who sells adventure-related items, ranging from pemmican to a luxury tent. The payment they each require is Ancient Coins, which are gained by going on adventures and exploring tombs. Also an example of Global Currency, because ancient coins gained in one country are no different from those gained in another.
* [[Gotta Catch Them All]]: Among other things, gems and insects.
* [[Grumpy Bear]]: It's a trait.
* [[Hand in
* [[Hell-Bent for Leather]]: Oh-so-possible, since you can put a leather texture on just about anything you like.
* [[Hikikomori]]: Any Sim with the "Hates the Outdoors" and "Loner" traits. The most notable premade characters having these traits are Beau Merrick and Wogan Hemlock, both are vampires from Bridgeport.
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* [[Humanity Ensues]]: You can make an [[Imaginary Friend]] into a real human with the help of a [[Applied Phlebotinum|potion]]. The Imaginary Friend turned human will become a part of the household and get moodlets for doing "human things" for the first time such as eating or using the toilet.
** You can also gather several canopic jars in World Adventures to get a mummy to join your house, and then have them sleep in a Blessed Coffin of the Kings until they become human again.
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: One can have two different types of Sims to produce and offspring that's a hybrid. This is further expanded in ''Supernatural'', where one can have a create a vampire, werewolf, ghost, or a fae and have them mate with a sim of either of a different since it's seems to be the only way to create a hybrid offspring.
* [[Hybrid Overkill Avoidance]]: [[Robot Buddy|SimBots]] cannot become vampires. Mummies cannot become vampires. SimBots and vampires cannot become mummies, although one of their traits [[Discard and Draw|turns into the Evil trait]] if they try anyway. Any of the above, however, can be turned into ghosts and then made playable with an opportunity. Of course, this can be averted somewhat with a core mod.
* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: Any Sim with a combination of evil and loser/unlucky traits.
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** Also, [[The Grim Reaper]] will occasionally point and laugh at a Sim that just died.
* [[Jerk Jock]]: Any Sim with the Athletic and Mean-Spirited trait.
* [[Jerk
* [[Jerk
* [[Kid From the Future]]: If a Sim travels in time in the ''Ambitions'' expansion, it's possible they might end up with one of these.
** Or the past. Which can look strangely like their parent, leading us to...
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** This is also how the offspring of [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampires]] or [[Creepy Doll|imaginary friends]] inherit their traits. If both of them are paired together, you can even have Imaginary Friend-Vampire hybrid children.
** Sometimes hair and eye colors can appear in children even if their parents (or any related family member) don't have them.
*** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130624035214/http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Melundell/SimsJunk/a00.png This is] a couple that has and always had dark hair. Their two older children have dark hair but their youngest child is blonde.<ref>The white-skinned Sim on the far right of the picture is unrelated to the family, but the blond kid in the middle is a game-generated child.</ref>
* [[Legitimate
* [[Miser Advisor]]: Any Sim with both the Friendly and Mooch traits.
* [[Misplaced Wildlife]]: You can find a wide array of fauna ranging from tropical birds to falcons in the wild all in your base neighborhood.
* [[Neat Freak]]: Neat or Snob Sims will gain stronger negative moodlets from messes than other Sims.
* [[Nervous Wreck]]: Any Sim with the Neurotic trait.
* [[Non
* [[No Sense of Humor]]: This is a trait you can give your Sims; it causes them to respond badly to being told jokes.
* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]: The Mysterious Mr. Gnome secret item moves to different parts of your house lot when you're not looking. A possible [[Shout
* [[Ominous Pipe Organ]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3o9xmcgriA The Grim Reaper Theme]
** Which sounds suspiciously like the [[Star Wars|Imperial March]] at some points. [[Shout
* [[One Game for
** The Sims 3 expansions Late Night and Showtime each contain half of the content of The Sims 2: Nightlife.
* [[Online Alias]]: There is a Sim in Sunset Valley who goes only by his online alias, "Cycl0n3 Sw0rd".
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* [[Pet the Dog]]: ''The Sims'' Pets expansions (''Unleashed'' in ''The Sims'' and just ''Pets'' in ''The Sims 2'' and ''The Sims 3'') make this literal.
* [[Pixel Hunt]]: Looking for seeds scattered on the ground around the town often turns into this.
* [[Playing
** A [[Unicorn]] in the ''Pets'' expansion pack can also ignite anything they want to at the cost of magic points.
* [[Poke the Poodle]]: Evil Sims can... TAKE EVIL SHOWERS! And then they can MAKE EVIL WAFFLES, and wash it down with an EVIL LATTE! MUAHAHAHA!!!▼
* [[Pregnant Badass]]: There is [[Good Bad Bugs|nothing]] stopping a heavily pregnant International Super Spy from raiding the 'secret' criminal base.
* [[Prequel]]: Set about 20 years before the first game, the default neighborhood features Bella Goth (neé Bachelor), Mortimer Goth, and Kaylynn Langerak as kids, and Michael Bachelor as a teenager. <s>Mrs.</s> Miss Crumplebottom is a playable adult.
** Riverview continues this with Betty Newbie (neé Simovitch) and Bob Newbie as teens and Skip Broke as a child.
* [[Put
▲* [[Poke the Poodle]]: Evil Sims can... TAKE EVIL SHOWERS! And then they can MAKE EVIL WAFFLES, and wash it down with an EVIL LATTE! MUAHAHAHA!!!
* [[Sadist Show|Sadist Writer]]: Mean spirited Sims seems to be VERY good at writing stories that are focused on
▲* [[Put On a Bus]] / [[Character Outlives Actor]]: Unplayed Sims can randomly "move away", being deleted from the neighborhood, or randomly die. A mod to fix this (and a lot of other quirks) arose almost immediately, and in the tool to customize said mod, Pescado used to reference these tropes directly ("nobusdeaths", etc.)
▲* [[Sadist Show|Sadist Writer]]: Mean spirited Sims seems to be VERY good at writing stories that are focused on belitting or making fun of people and/or their political affilitration
* [[Screw Yourself]]: There is a bug that creates two copies of a person in one town. When they then meet at work or school, they quickly become best friends due to having the same exact interests. Naturally, this leads quickly to romance.
* [[Shirley Template]]: One of the pre-made Sims in the Roaring Heights world for ''The Sims 3'' is Shirley Templeton, a [[Composite Character|composite]] of both Temple and [[Little Orphan Annie]], perhaps playing on the popular misconception that Shirley once played the role of the comic strip icon.
* [[Shout
** Also, likely to the joy of many a Troper - There is a [[Arrested Development (TV series)|Never Nude]] trait, as well as a Funke family. I lol'd.
*** Gobias Koffi, as well, is practically a walking shout out to [[Ambiguously Gay|Tobias]].
** And the Bethany Miranda painting, which shows a little girl hugging Death, which will surely delight [[Discworld]] fans.
** One of the Large Paintings you can make is undoubtedly an alien done in the style of [[Spore]].
** In the ''World Adventures'' expansion pack, you can find a peculiar stone in Egypt: {{spoiler|[[Command
*** Also, leave any form of it in a Sim's inventory for a significant time and they get a moodlet ({{spoiler|Visceroidal Nausea}}) with special flavor text that furthers the shout out.
*** One opportunity has you deliver a sample to the science lab, and when you do a message comes saying you met a representative called {{spoiler|Mr. Kane}}.
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** Toddlers can also read [[Green Eggs and Ham|Bluish Eggs with a Side of Pastrami]] and [[Green Eggs and Ham|Frank I'm Not]].
** From level five and up of the music skill, there's a chance that your musically gifted Sim will play the [[Diablo|Tristram theme.]]
** The whole Ghost Hunter career contains a mix of [[Ghostbusters]] and [[
** Look at the description of the Festus 44 stove in Buy Mode. It ends with: [[Dirty Harry
** An NPC named [[One Hundred Years of Solitude|Pilar Ternera]] may show up in your neighborhood.
** This may be accidental, but a pop song on the radio has an extremely [[Tsundere]] female singer, with so much switching between a nice voice and a rip-your-head-off-with-my-[[Everything's Worse
** One of the houses in Bridgeport from the ''Late Night'' expansion is named [[Back to The Future|Back to the Fuscia]].
** One of the pizza delivery boys is named [[Manos:
** Another book your Sims can purchase is ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire|A Game of Thorns]]''.
** There is a seven book children's series, ''[[Harry Potter|Jimmy Sprocket]]'', which includes ''[[Harry Potter and
** One of the books your Sims can read is called ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird|To Mock A Killing Bird]]''.
** Another Time Machine [[Shout
** When writing a novel, two of the default Sci-Fi titles are [[Ender's Game|"Blender's Fame"]] and [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|"1948".]]
** One of the lights in the Future Shock furniture set is the [[Portal (
** One of the moodlets for pets is "[[LOLcats|I Can Haz?]]"
** Possibly coincidential, but Agnes Crumplebottom bears a strong resemblence to actress Barbara Stanwyck, particularly Stanwyck in ''[[Double Indemnity]]''.
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* [[Undead Child]]: It is quite possible to have so-called "ghost babies" by either having a female sim get impregnated by a male ghost or by killing off a female sim while she's pregnant.
* [[Unicorn]]: Available in the ''Pets'' expansion pack, but they are rare.
* [[Unnamed Parent]]: Quite a few, such as Miraj and VJ Alvi's mother and Leighton Sekemoto's father. A family created with a single parent will fill have that parent's memories populated by a "mystery sim".
* [[Useless Useful Spell]]: Several skill challenges give rewards that are redundant with the skill level needed to acquire them. Repairing 10 electrical items makes a sim immune to being electrocuted, but repairing 10 electrical items alone will give a sim high enough handiness to not worry about it.
* [[Vegetarian Vampire]]: [[Shaped Like Itself|Vampires with the vegetarian trait]]. There are "plasma fruits" they can harvest and eat instead of drinking Sims' blood. Even more traditional vampires can't kill Sims they drink from, nor can they accidentally turn them.
* [[Video Game Cruelty Punishment]]: Sims in the Criminal Career could end up in jail, which happens at random. Same goes with Vampires if they get caught raiding a hospital and grocery for plasma.
** Detention are present if a child or teen gets caught breaking a rule, like sleeping in class or forgetting homework.
** In the Generation pack, a teen sim can pulls a serious prank at school, which runs the risk of the police taking action. Teen Sims can also do neighborhood pranks, but they could get caught.
* [[Virtual Paper Doll]]: There's even more customization options than in the first two games, and the ''Ambitions'' expansion pack lets your Sim become a stylist and change some of your neighbors' outfits.
* [[Weapons That Suck]]: The Banshee Banisher from Ambition's Ghost Hunter career.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Sims with the Daredevil trait can do things like "Take Extreme Shower until Extremely Clean," and "Have Extreme Half Soy Chai with Cinnamon Sprinkles".
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?]]: Similarly, Sims with the Evil trait can do things like "Take Evil Bath" or "Evil Slumber". Also the above mentioned evil lattes and evil chai.
* [[Wild Mass Guessing]]: Just who the heck is [[Cute Ghost Girl|Lolita Goth]]?
** Maybe an [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]]?
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* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: More like Vampire in the latest expansion and you can make it happen. Start off with a Young Sim and set the life span to epic. You then start making friends with everyone. Then you turn that Sim and host a party. You then start offering to turn everyone. Now you have half the town as Vampires. As vampires can't drink from each other, you may end up starving everyone.
** They could live on plasma fruits, though.
** In The Supernatural, a zombie outbreak can occur during a full moon. There are also potions to turn someone in a zombie, though it can be easily cured.
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