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Here are the main titles in the franchise so far:

* '''''The Sims''''' (2000). The first game introduced the core features of the franchise: simulation of households; a large neighborhood of families you could control and intercontrol; purchasing increasingly-expensive and increasingly-efficient household objects; a comprehensive house-building feature which even trained architects enjoy using; Sim personalities based loosely on the astrological signs of the [[Western Zodiac]]; an engine that is very receptive to [[Game Mod|Game Mods]]. Having said that, there was no aging in the game: children remained children forever, nobody died (unless you [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|caused them to]]), and once you had made your Sims fat and rich there wasn't much else to do to or with them.

* 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 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 Medieval (Video Game)|The Sims Medieval]]''''' (2011) is a standalone [[Game Mod|Total Conversion]] that put the Sims in a [[Medieval European Fantasy]]. The game departs from ''The Sims'' formula to some extent, increasing the strategy and roleplaying aspects and removes the daily hindrances, such as the need to urinate, but still retains much of ''The Sims'' gameplay. The "Sim" the player nurtures throughout the game is the kingdom itself, though the populace can be customized as well. It is also one of the more violent games, featuring Religion, Alcoholism and Murder, themes not present in the older series without mods.

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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.

* [[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.

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** In the console ports, your Mom calls out Malcolm Landgrabb with a pixellated [[Flipping the Bird|middle finger]] and [[Sound Effect Bleep|bleeped]] Simlish.

* [[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.

* [[~~Spot Light~~ 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.

* [[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.

* [[Stealth Pun]]: ''The Sims 2'' introduces the possibility of giving birth to twins, and ''The Sims 3'' allows triplets.

* [[Variable Mix]]: Each expansion for ''The Sims 2'' remixed the original or ''University'' theme in a way relevant to that expansion's new musical genre; Club, [[Retraux|New Wave]], Country, New Age, World, Indie Wave and Techno. In ''The Sims 3'' this theme goes orchestral.

* [[~~Videogame~~ Caring Potential]]: Generally the point of the games.

* [[Video Game Caring Potential]]: Generally the point of the games.

** [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: Some people ignore the point of the games and just spend their time killing their Sims.

* [[Video Game Perversity Potential]] - There are tons of sites dedicated to [[Game Mod|Game Mods]] for this, from just making females have nipples to [[Hot Coffee Minigame|hardcore sex mods]].

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* [[Being Evil Sucks]]: The Emperor of Evil is one of the best-paying jobs in the game in terms of salary-to-work-hours ratio. It also causes your Sim to emit a red glow that causes their relationship with all nearby Sims to steadily plummet. This causes the Emperor to slowly lose all their friends, especially if they're in the Emperor's household and therefore near him or her a lot of the time.

** Additionally, Evil Sims, if left on auto-pilot, will periodically insult or attack nearby Sims (even their friends!), which really hurts their relationship values.

* [[Big ~~Boos~~ Haunt]]: Goth Manor in ''The Sims Bustin' Out''. Your objective is to exorcise the ghosts [[The Power of Rock|with organ music]].

* [[Big Boo's Haunt]]: Goth Manor in ''The Sims Bustin' Out''. Your objective is to exorcise the ghosts [[The Power of Rock|with organ music]].

* [[Big Fancy House]]: The ultimate objective in the console ports.

* [[Boring but Practical]]: Benches for naps. Showers in the gym. Fruit and veggies in the community garden lots. Friends who have places you can Stay Overnight.

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** 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 On the Tin]].

*** 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.)

*** 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.

** [[~~Everythings~~ Better With Llamas|EnableLlamas]]

** [[Everything's Better With Llamas|EnableLlamas]]

* [[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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* [[Hobos]]: Bobo the bum appears in the console versions. He will show at your door asking for food.

* [[Instant Home Delivery]]: There's no need to wait for your furniture, major appliances, or even your entire house to be delivered and installed.

* [[~~Its~~ 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.)

* [[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 On the Tin|aptly-named]] ''Seasons'' expansion pack of ''The Sims 2''.

* [[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.

* [[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 ''[[Sim City]]''.

** The seventh (''FreeTime'') expansion for ''[[The Sims 2]]'' [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this---one of the phrases is "Writing Startup Scrolling Text Strings".

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* [[Relationship Values]]

* [[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.

* [[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 tryint to cheer up, this only makes things worse.

* [[The Slacker]]: Dudley Landgrabb. His mobile home in ''The Sims Bustin' Out'' is the second rung up from Mom's House.

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* [[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).

* [[Technology Marches On]]: Going back to the first game nowadays, the frequent use of the Comic Sans font will probably annoy you a lot more than it did back in the day.

* [[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]]:

* [[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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** Green - Creates a temporary uncontrollable [[Evil Twin|reversed-personality clone]].

** Blue - [[Healing Potion|Completely refills]] 3 random Need bars.

** Purple - Turns the drinker temporarily into an uncontrollable [[~~Frankensteins~~ 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]].

** 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.

* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]

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* [[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

* [[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.

* [[~~Everythings~~ Better With Sparkles]]: Sparkles, sparkles everywhere.

* [[Everything's Better With Sparkles]]: Sparkles, sparkles everywhere.

** 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...

* [[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.

* [[Form Fitting Wardrobe]]: Some of the clothing mods.

* [[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 bigfoot, [[Came Back Wrong|having a relative resurrected]] [[Our Zombies Are Different|as a zombie]], or getting turned into a [[Our Werewolves Are Different|werewolf]], [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampire]], [[Plant Aliens|plantSim]], [[Functional Magic|witch]], or any other non-standard state. Knowledge Sims utterly embrace all of the above, and [[Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie|all combinations thereof]].

* [[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.

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** [[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.

** [[~~Everythings~~ Worse With Bees]]: Melliflera Attackum sens swarms of bees to attack a Sim.

** [[Everything's Worse With Bees]]: Melliflera Attackum sens swarms of bees to attack a Sim.

* [[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.

* [[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.

** Bubble blowers and nectar bars were introduced in expansions for ''The Sims'', and "Play in Bed" is the equivalent of Woohoo, although you can only do it in a specific one of the beds.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Hey ~~Its~~ That Voice]]: While working as DJs, (some, there are two voice actors) adult male Sims' voices will sound like [[Sam and Max|a certain rabbit detective...]]

* [[Hey It's That Voice]]: While working as DJs, (some, there are two voice actors) adult male Sims' voices will sound like [[Sam and Max|a certain rabbit detective...]]

** Children of both genders are [[Tales of Monkey Island|Morgan LeFlay]].

* [[Hospital Hottie]]: Don Lothario, Pleasantview's local womanizer, works in the medical career path.

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** At least it can be played in windowed mode.

* [[Love Dodecahedron]]: The [http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Pleasantview default neighbourhood] starts with [http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/File:Love_web.JPG one] in place and constructing your own is simple and [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|a lot of fun.]]

** If you want the fun of a [[Love Dodecahedron]] [[~~Videogame~~ 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]].

** 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 Based Mission]]: If you want your Sim to be anything besides a vanilla human, you've only got so much control; regardless of what you want to turn them into, some portion of the process involves waiting (sometimes in a specific place) and hoping that the RNG will smile upon you.

* [[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.

* [[Man Eating Plant]]: Cowplants are totally awesome.

* [[Man-Eating Plant]]: Cowplants are totally awesome.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Angela means angel, Lilith is a <s>[[The Bible|biblical]]</s> demoness. Many, many more, especially in Strangetown. (See below.)

* [[Military Brat]]: The Grunt boys in Strangetown.

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** 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 manaically and treating it like a real baby. The moment is always a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]], which will encourage players ''further'' to [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|be total dicks towards their Sim]] [[For the Evulz|just to see them driven to madness]]

* [[Self Imposed Challenge]]: Players have come up with numerous challenges to make gameplay more interesting. There's the [http://legacychallenge.com Legacy Challenge], the [http://simscout.blogsome.com/mini-challenge-asylum/ Asylum Challenge], the [http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=335038 Prosperity Challenge], the [http://www.legacychallenge.com/apocalypse.html Apocalypse Challenge], and the [http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,2272.0.html Ethiopian Challenge.] And these aren't all.

* [[Self-Imposed Challenge]]: Players have come up with numerous challenges to make gameplay more interesting. There's the [http://legacychallenge.com Legacy Challenge], the [http://simscout.blogsome.com/mini-challenge-asylum/ Asylum Challenge], the [http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=335038 Prosperity Challenge], the [http://www.legacychallenge.com/apocalypse.html Apocalypse Challenge], and the [http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,2272.0.html Ethiopian Challenge.] And these aren't all.

* [[Shout Out]]: Many. One of the jobs in the adventurer career track is [[Austin Powers|"Multi-Regional Sim of Some Question."]]

** In final job in the Law career track your Sim [[Judge Dredd|becomes the law]].

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* [[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.

* [[~~Videogame~~ Caring Potential]]: Or [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]] depending on your style.

* [[Video Game Caring Potential]]: Or [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]] depending on your style.

* [[Virtual Paper Doll]]: It's Barbie: The Next Generation!

* [[Western Zodiac]]: Sims are now assigned an astrological sign depending on what their personality-point totals are.

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== The Sims 3 (and expansions) ==

* [[Absent Minded Professor]]: Any Sim with the "Absent-Minded" and "Genius" traits.

* [[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''

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* [[Bumbling Dad]]: To an extent, Dustin Langerak and Beau Andrews.

* [[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.

* [[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.

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* [[Feelies]]: The Collector's Edition comes with a plumbbob-shaped flash drive.

* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Any redheaded Sim given the Hot-Headed trait, really. Claire Ursine is a premade example.

* [[Free Range Children]]: Sim children are able to go everywhere the town alone with a 10:00 pm curfew. (In ''The Sims 2'' kids had to go with an adult or teen)

* [[Free-Range Children]]: Sim children are able to go everywhere the town alone with a 10:00 pm curfew. (In ''The Sims 2'' kids had to go with an adult or teen)

* [[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.

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* [[Grumpy Bear]]: It's a trait.

* [[Hand in The Hole]]: These show up in some tombs in ''World Adventures''. Some contain treasure, some contain switches that deactivate (or activate!) traps, and some contain bugs that will freak out all but the bravest Sims.

* [[Hell Bent for Leather]]: Oh-so-possible, since you can put a leather texture on just about anything you like.

* [[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.

* [[Hotter and Sexier]]: [[Fan Service|Breast-size sliders]] for female Sims and [[Carpet of Virility|body hair]] on male Sims...

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** Look at the description of the Festus 44 stove in Buy Mode. It ends with: [[Dirty Harry (Film)|"You've got one question to ask yourself; 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do you, punk?"]]

** 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-[[~~Everythings~~ Worse With Bears|bear]]-hands that you may have a severe case of [[Mood Whiplash]]. Being translated into gibberish, all of it is mainly inaudible, except for the main verse, which is a simple [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|'Asuka!']]

** 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 With Bears|bear]]-hands that you may have a severe case of [[Mood Whiplash]]. Being translated into gibberish, all of it is mainly inaudible, except for the main verse, which is a simple [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|'Asuka!']]

** 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 the Hands of Fate|Torgo]] [[Mystery Science Theatre 3000|Pendragon]].

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** One of the books your Sims can read is called ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird|To Mock A Killing Bird]]''.

** Another Time Machine [[Shout Out]] - your Sim spots [[Alice in Wonderland|a white rabbit]], but wisely decides to leave it for "some other sucker" to chase.

** When writing a novel, two of the default Sci-Fi titles are [[Ender's Game|"Blender's Fame"]] and [[Nineteen Eighty Four|"1948".]]

** 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 (Video Game)|Comrade Cube]].

** One of the moodlets for pets is "[[~~LO Lcats~~|I Can Haz?]]"

** 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]]''.

** One of the NPCs is named Justine Keaton, which is possibly a portmanteau of Justine Bateman and her ''[[Family Ties]]'' character Mallory Keaton.

* [[Sibling Yin Yang]]: Oh boy... Miraj and VJ Alvi, Connor and Jared Frio, Ethan and Lisa Bunch...

* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Oh boy... Miraj and VJ Alvi, Connor and Jared Frio, Ethan and Lisa Bunch...

* [[Skip of Innocence]]: Children can do this. Some Sims can do it in adulthood if they have enough playful points. Oddly enough, they do it with a very stoic face.

* [[Slobs Versus Snobs]] - Both "Slob" and "Snob" are traits, but this is actually averted; the trait that conflicts with Slob is "Neat" and the trait that conflicts with Snob is "Easily Impressed," so not only could two Sims with each trait get along (depending on their other traits), a single Sim could have ''both''.

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* [[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 ~~Its~~ 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 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 ~~Its~~ Not Heinous]]: Similarly, Sims with the Evil trait can do things like "Take Evil Bath" or "Evil Slumber".

* [[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]]?