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* [[Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder]]: Joshua's running away from his problems confused Ness enough to awkwardly accept a love confession from Hana. Temporarily. Both realized that it ''really'' wasn't a smart idea and just added to their own massive heap of problems.
* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]] / [[Clean Cut]] / [[Implausible Fencing Powers]]: Justified in several cases, as many of the swordsmen in the game are also [[Magic Knight|magically inclined]].
* [[Acceptable Breaks From Canon]]: The ''[[Bleach]]'' cast, disillusioned with the way the canon was going, decided to make the characters grow in a different direction towards maturity, keep the female characters competent and important, and allow the [[Big Bad]] to remain an interesting character rather than the [[Boring Invincible Villain]] he became.
** [[Character Rerailment]]
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* [[Adaptational Angst Upgrade]]: Really inevitable for a lot of characters, though the opposite happens just as often for characters from grimdark canons.
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Consciously averted here.
* [[Adventure Towns]]
* [[Adventure-Friendly World]]
* [[Aerith and Bob]]: A given from its panfandom nature. It happens with the NPCs as well, though the majority fall on the realistic side.
* [[All Deserts Have Cacti]]: Played with -- the Badlands don't have too many cacti, but they do have [[Final Fantasy|cactuars]].
* [[All Gays Are Promiscuous]]: Inverted, actually, since most of the promiscuous characters are straight and a lot of the gay characters border on [[Single-Target Sexuality]].
* [[All Nations Are Superpowers]]: Averted with Erealia, Kropmork and Nahk.
* [[All Work vs. All Play]]: The military ships especially had these contrasts all over the place.
* [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]]: Given that the ships serve as the home bases of the crew, this has happened a significant number of times.
* [[Allergic to Routine]]: [[Gintama|Gintoki]], often to the aggravation of his crew.
* [[Aloof Big Brother]]: [[Pokémon|Red]] has this covered. Poor [[Earthbound|Ness]].
* [[Already Done for You]]: Hey, ''Serenity'', you only have to save one guy. The ''Convoy'' did the rest already! {{spoiler|Well... most of it.}}
* [[Already Met Everyone]]: With the amount of relatives, childhood friends, and former shipmates in the game (and new relations forged all the time), it often turns out like this.
* [[Alternate Universe]]: It's an AU, yes, but it also has ''tons'' of different AUs of itself. Some of the most prominent include an [[After the End]] [[Crapsack World]] (which now has its ''own'' AU community cutting ties with the original game), a ''[[Persona 4]]''-based AU, and numerous [[For Want of a Nail|"what ifs"]] for various characters.
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** [[WAFF]]: Shoujoverse.
** [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: The variations upon Zombieverse.
* [[Always Save the Girl]]: Ichigo was late to the snake battle because Watanuki got lured away and knocked out for his blood.
* [[Ambiguous Innocence]]: "You're supposed to count?" For those who missed the scene, that was a response from a kid with [[No Social Skills]] to a question of ''how many people she had killed.''
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** "Go to bed" was invoked repeatedly when Kurumi posted to the network drunk.
* [[An Asskicking Christmas]]: Generally averted, as Lunasa plots tend to be less action-packed; the Lunasa bombing plot ''subverted'' what might have become a Vicky-4423 grudgematch by downing all three ships without a fight, the Gearship Motors Plane Races were generally peaceful aside from the Luppi-Ichigo-Watanuki subplot, and the Hanami festival's fighting tournament was friendly and nonlethal. Long Night plots, however, which run around the time of IRL Christmas, usually ''are'' battle-oriented.
* [[At the Opera Tonight]]: The ''Winding Way'' put on plays geared towards a high-class audience to facilitate their [[Just Like Robin Hood|side business]], with the exception of the street fair. When [[Lawful Good|L]] became captain and forbade any more stealing, the ''Way'' started to widen their audience.
* [[The Atoner]]: '''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|Nena freakin' Trinity.]]''' What's more, she does it well.
* [[Author Appeal]]: You can tell which mods are running a plot by more than which ships are involved.
{{quote|'''Fae:''' ...of ''course'' it'd be (Jormungandr). Mademoiselle Norse Mythos is a mod.}}
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Sheila de Argentine. Of course, it's a pseudonym, and her real name's [[Fail O'Suckyname|Jane Baker]].
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Some of the characters are chaos and madness incarnate, ''literally,'' much to the constant dismay of other characters. It makes you wonder who was responsible for hiring these guys.
* [[Bad Guy Bar]]: Whenever one shows up, expect a [[Bar Brawl]] to happen. A glorious one.
* [[Bad Powers, Bad People]]: Traditionally "monstrous" or "dangerous" demihumans get more discrimination than those who are closer to human or appear more harmless, in a vague analogue to colourism.
* [[Badass Crew]]: There's always one ship that gets nicknamed The [[Shonen]] Ship because it's a magnet for shonen heroes and other badasses. Of course, don't underestimate those other ships, either...
* [[Badass Family]]: What, you want to count the examples? We'd be here all day.
* [[Badass Normal]]: Magic, magitech and exceptional demihumans are often the ones dominating the combat in this game, but there's also a number of more shounen-inclined, non-magic-using humans who don't need any of that to kick ass.
* [[Baka]]: Okay, there's no [[Gratuitous Japanese]], but with how often "idiot" is thrown around...
* [[Balance of Power]]: The bad guys' objective is to send it out of whack to start a war.
* [[Band of Brothels]]: The Seamstresses' Guild, one of many elements of the setting ported from ''[[Discworld]]'' because [[Author Appeal|the initial mod team liked the series]].
* [[Band of Brothers]]: Most crews end up turning into these eventually.
* [[The Barnum]]: Low Key, naturally, and he enjoys every minute of it.
* [[Barrier-Busting Blow]]: Milk and Jean do this to a boulder during the Tulgim cave-in.
* [[Bathtub Bonding]]: Bound to happen more than once per trip to the Licere hot springs.
* [[Battle Couple]]: Many of the pairings. Those that have only one actiony participant tend to have them train the other to defend themselves, if not be completely awesome in doing so.
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* [[Belly of the Whale]]: The ''4423'' being blamed for the poisoning of Doma.
* [[Better Living Through Evil]]: Most of the villains who aren't lab rats got their jobs this way.
* [[Bi the Way]]: "That's why I like [[Unusual Euphemism|peanut butter cups]]. Makes things easier." Best statement ever, [[Persona 4|Souji]].
* [[Biblical Bad Guy]]: Inverted -- Sam's a good guy. One of the most helpful, in fact, due to his magic and network of information, and [[Oh, and X Dies|the one with dibs on killing]] one of the game's major villains.
* [[The Big Bad Shuffle]]: [[The Unfought|Delphine]]? [[President Evil|Wilsborough]]? [[Villain with Good Publicity|Bradley]]? [[Physical God|Low Key]]? The only major storyline villains we knew the final confrontation ''wouldn't'' be with are Gin, Aizen, and Kefka, and only because they were dropped long ago! {{spoiler|In the end, all the loose ends were cleaned up.}}
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* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: A late plot is ''officially named'' such.
* [[The Big Damn Kiss]]: [http://community.livejournal.com/theskytides/560847.html Here it is.]
* [[Blessed with Suck]]: Quite a few characters. One example would be [[Mega Man (video game)|Rock]], whose powers are tied to his immune system. Too much use of them, and it will crash and burn.
* [[Blood Magic]]: Near the end of the game, Watanuki is kidnapped for a ritual involving this due to his [[Supernaturally Delicious and Nutritious]] nature.
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* [[Broad Strokes]]: Nearly every character who appears in multiple media has their characterization taken in bits and pieces from each, and backstories are written as vague analogues to their canon counterparts.
* [[Broke Episode]]: The ''4423'' did this a few times, as did the ''Way'' when they threw a carnival to pay off Kurt's debt.
* [[Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu]]: ''Lost'' your arm, in some cases. Or your eye.
* [[Broken Bird]]: Some of the characters have this going on. [[Revolutionary Girl Utena|Anthy]] in particular stands as one, much like in canon.
* [[Brought Down to Normal]]: [[Bleach|Ichigo]], [[I Knew It!|before canon did it]].
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Bradley's mun-given title is "Captain Bunny Ears".
* [[The Bus Came Back]]: Destined to happen whenever characters are re-apped by their previous muns.
* [[But I Can't Be Pregnant]]: [[Naruto|Anko]] had a pregnancy scare early on, though it turned out she was safe.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Some of these characters have ''nothing'' go right. Ever.
** [[Lunar|Leo]] deserves a special mention. During a plot with [[Standard Status Effects]], he managed to get inflicted with just about every one in the book. And in another plot, he was entered into a plane race only to have his plane sabotaged to the point of exploding in midair. Don't worry, though, [[Determinator|he bounces back quickly]].
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* [[The Centerpiece Spectacular]]: All three Lunasa events count to some degree. (The Gearship Motors Place Race is commonly counted as the 2009 Lunasa event, despite taking place ''before'' Lunasa.)
* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: Beginning with the Kropmork assassinations.
* [[Character Blog]]: The journal network, naturally.
* [[Character Development]]: This is the game where, while everyone starts as their canon selves, [[The World Ends With You|Joshua Kiryuu]] becomes a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]], [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|Nena Trinity]] becomes [[The Atoner]], [[xxxHolic|Watanuki Kimihiro]] ''doesn't'' spiral into a self-hating mess, and [[Gintama|Hijikata Toshirou]] learns to care for other people again without the [[Reset Button]] coming into play. Guess what? It ''works''.
* [[Chased by Angry Natives]]: Ocelot's cover story when he boarded the ''Way'' in Kagatau.
* [[A Chat with Satan]]: The [[Evil Counterpart]] variety especially.
* [[Chef of Iron]]: Jean, and, to an extent, Shinjiro.
* [[Chekhov's Boomerang]]: The ''Fiertia''. It, like the rest of the first set of PC ships, played its role and was written out of the story, given a one-off mention about having become a cheesy tourist trap in Kropmork. Then the ''Convoy'' was stolen, stranding its crew in Kropmork. Guess which ship they stole to chase down the thieves?
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* [[Darkest Hour]]: Many characters had individual Darkest Hours during the hiatus -- Pip, Edgeworth, we're looking at you two. However, the start of the game's true Darkest Hour is {{spoiler|the Hegua Lake explosion, which left a number of characters without their homes, families, and friends}} -- and remember, this is just the beginning.
* [[The Day of Reckoning]]: [http://tidesnpc.livejournal.com/12237.html The endgame plot in its final stages.]
* [[Dead Serious]]: Hughes, until his death was suddenly undone.
* [[Deadly Gas]] / [[Psycho Serum]]: The Fiertia was hired to transport a load of Fear Gas for NPC revolutionary Joseph Falls. Fortunately, the ship had a change of mind and disposed of it instead.
* [[Death by Origin Story]]: Ichigo's/Utena's and Roxas' original crews, all killed in the Lunasa bombings.
* [[Decade Dissonance]]: Erealia is a land with a distinctly Medieval style, in contrast with the Victorian Steampunk that dominates the rest of the setting.
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* [[Enforced Cold War]]: [[Fan Nickname|vK]] and Edgeworth are on the same ship again, after the AU equivalent of 1-4. This is awkward.
* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: The page quotations are just the beginning.
* [[Ethical Slut]]: If a character happens to be promiscuous, don't immediately assume they're evil. You'll probably be wrong.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Ocelot was sickened by what Kefka did to Doma, despite the two of them being [[Siblings in Crime]].
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* [[Expanded Universe]]: In the hypothetical alternate universe where TST is a real show (inspired by [[Super Robot Wars Unlimited Generation|another game's]] [[Let's Play]] posts with the same premise), the series has ''tons'' of EU. Much of the most interesting stuff is [[All There in the Manual]].
* [[Experimental Archeology]]: The ''Way'' searching for (and finding) Candy Mountain.
* [[Eye Scream]]: Again, [[Ace Attorney|Manfred von Karma]] getting shrapnel to the eye during the Lunasa bombings.
* [[Eyepatch After Time Skip]]: Averted, which is pretty surprising considering the number of people with them; either they always had one or lost the eye onscreen.
* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: Aside from the canon ones, there's also [[Ace Attorney|Manfred von Karma]] as of the Lunasa bombings.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: If you need something to do on a rainy afternoon, make a chart comparing who left their home nation and who actually ''stayed''.
* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]: Jean Morris ([[Turbine Blender|thrown into the engine]]), Hughes (death by [[Razor Floss]], then hung from the mast)
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* [[Flynning]]: Usually averted, though it sometimes shows up when characters are just sparring rather than trying to kill each other.
* [[Fog of Doom]]: Aside from the canon examples ported from ''[[Persona 4]]'', there's also Antrim.
* [[For Massive Damage]]: The ships get beat up and in need of repairs fairly regularly. Usually, the worst damage is suffered thanks to reckless members of the crew. For example, [[Fairy Tail|Erza]] once tore off an entire deck of the Fiertia, and [[Re Boot|Hexadecimal]] demolished all the cabins of the Convoy...
* [[Forbidden Zone]]: Antrim. Although it's been a part of the established setting since the beginning, it was only visited once, during the last all-ship event of the game.
* [[Forceful Kiss]]: Linked above, Ichigo and Watanuki on the deck of the ''Amestris'' -- an example where the Forceful Kiss is initiated by both parties as a love confession at the same time.
* [[Forging Scene]]: Rarely does a scene actually taking place in the forge not turn into one of these. Unless Milk's in there. Then it's a fifty-fifty chance.
* [[Four Is Death]]: Adding a fourth ship came at the same time as [[Cerebus Syndrome]] hit the plot. Also, after the end of the first five ships, taking the number down to four was debated, but in the end, the mods went with [[Power Trio|three]].
* [[Freudian Trio]]: The original three ships and the three post-hiatus ships. It carries over to the characters, too -- look how much overlap there is between the sets!
** '''Ego:''' the ''Winding Way'', the ''Convoy''
** '''Superego:''' the ''Victoria II'', the ''Amestris''
** '''Id:''' the ''4423'', ''Serenity''
* [[Friend to All Children]]: A notable number of characters. For example, there's [[Bleach|Ukitake]] and, debatably, [[Peacemaker Kurogane|Souji]].
* [[Friendship Moment]]: Often with a side of [[Ho Yay]].
* [[Fun with Acronyms]]: The abbreviated version of the '''B'''adlands '''U'''nification '''M'''ovement happens to be BUM. And then there's the '''D'''ignified '''E'''nsemble of '''R'''eial's '''P'''roletariat - better known as DERP.
* [[Fundamentally Funny Fruit]]: Durians.
* [[Funny Background Event]]: Watch those NPCs.
* [[Future Imperfect]]: Whatever legends exist about the time before Reial, nobody knows for sure about ''anything'' that happened, despite it only being 500 years ago. The legends and the truth turn out to be deeply related to Delphine's plot.
* [[Gay Bar Reveal]]: Luffy, being Luffy, didn't even know what a gay bar was when he figured out that he was in one. Of course, he only cared that they had good meatloaf there. He proceeded to ask the journal network afterward.
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* [[GMPC]]: Used to great effect, and we don't just mean the mods' actual player characters.
* [[Go Back to the Source]]: Happens a ''lot'', whether characters are brought home by chance or take temporary leave from their ships. For example, Nena's [[My God, What Have I Done?]] moment leading to her [[Heel Face Turn]] came when she left the ''Silvana'' and came upon a town she and her brothers had destroyed.
* [[Go for the Eye]]: Gaara's tactic during the Jormungandr fight.
* [[Go Mad From the Isolation]]: Mars McKuu of Candy Mountain is either this, or he was already insane to begin with.
* [[Godzilla Threshold]]: Dam VS Low Key, Ichigo VS Bradley.
* [[Goggles Do Something Unusual]]: The [[Persona 4]] cast, whose glasses have the same function as in canon of clearing cloudy vision caused by the Shadows, as well as fog and other weather-related problems.
* [[Going to See the Elephant]]: The reason that half of the characters joined their initial ships.
* [[Good Guy Bar]]: Gunsmoke, when the ''Way'' was operational.
* [[Got Volunteered]]: A perfectly acceptable and normal way to handwave characters' presence in dangerous operations.
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* [[Harem Seeker]]: Rikku, Minato, and Souji in memes and SD... actually, Souji may or may not be a Harem Seeker ''in-game'', since it's hard to tell if he's joking about that.
* [[Harmful to Minors]]: Averted. Games of sex dice and memes like the Love Potion Meme usually have the players consciously keeping characters under sixteen out of them. The age-listing rule has since locked ''muns'' under eighteen out of those same things.
* [[Head-in-The-Sand Management]]: President Wilsborough sees no reason whatsoever to actually ''do'' anything about the terrorist group threatening the continent. Better to just pretend they don't exist and blame everything on his political enemies.
* [[Heroes Gone Fishing]]: Nearly every plot starts out as this, and though most turn into [[Busman's Holiday|Busman's Holidays]], some don't.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: And how.
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* [[How the Character Stole Christmas|How Team Fail Stole Lunasa]]... and Amicus, too, just for good measure
* [[Humanity Ensues]]: When the ''Convoy'' was [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us|stolen]], [[Transformers Generation 1|Optimus Prime]] had his mind temporarily transferred to a human (or at least humanoid) body.
* [[I Have No Son]]: Taking a minor character's backstory for lack of his own canon one, Hijikata Toshirou was disowned by his family.
* [[I Never...]]: Joshua was introduced starting up a game of this in a bar. It's reoccurred since then as a meme.
* [[I Want Grandkids]]: Isshin, just a tip: you're never going to get them if this keeps up. [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Although it's been suggested on and off that this is his entire plan.]]
* [[Identical Stranger]]: Re-apped and rebooted characters do not retcon out the existence of their predecessors. Rather, the previous version of the character is retconned to "someone else" and not mentioned by name, but still existed in the story. The strongest example, due to having been a long-running character, is [[Kingdom Hearts|Axel]], who had two different muns playing his first incarnation and then a third who played a different Axel, forcing the first Axel to be "Reno's brother" and not specifically Axel. And ''now'' we've got a Lea...
* [[If It's You It's Okay]]: Ichigo/Watanuki, nearly verbatim.
* [[IKEA Erotica]]: Joshua has apparently never tried to write ''good'' porn.
* [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]: Hisoka calls out the Dark Fall science team and their guards on this.
* [[Impressive Pyrotechnics]]: Rikku's various makeshift bombs.
* [[Improbable Food Budget]]: Averted quite a bit, especially since the chefs can only buy food supplies when the ships are docked.
* [[In the Name of the Moon]]: Canon examples are used, and you ''bet'' they're lampshaded, too.
{{quote|'''Watanuki:''' You have an ''introduction speech!'' Who honestly and unironically ''actually has an introduction speech!? And why does it have to include [[Something About a Rose|throwing around]] [[Petal Power|stupid petals]] that leave blue stains everywhere when you step on them and wilt and leave a ridiculous mess!?''
'''Kurumi:''' Hey! [[Genre Savvy|All great heroes have introduction speeches!]] }}
* [[In Vino Veritas]]: When they all got drunk at the ''Convoy's'' party, Prime became emotional and gave a [[Rousing Speech]] to his crew over the network, Milk flitted between carelessly revealing her long-held secret worries and rambling on about skyfish, and Beat was... Beat, but worse.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Characters and players alike love their awful puns. They make up half the usernames.
* [[Incurable Cough of Death]]: There's a lot of fatal and not-so-fatal coughing going on.
* [[Inept Mage]]: Sophie started as this.
* [[Infallible Babble]]: Particularly (and justifiably) from mod-controlled characters and newspaper columnists not named Lorena.
* [[Informed Deformity]]: Many characters who sustain appearance-altering injuries don't show it in their icons, simply because it would be a lot of work.
* [[Innocuously Important Episode]]: The race at Doma was just a [[Broke Episode]], right? Just filler? No, no, it wasn't.
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: [[Bleach|ISSHIN]], to everyone's grief.
* [[In-Series Nickname]]: "Sketch-kun" for Ichigo. Thanks, Nena.
* [[Instant Plunder, Just Add Pirates]]: The game is best known for its inclusion of sky pirates as PCs and NPCs, though there ''is'' a lot more to the setting than that.
* [[Instant Sedation]]: Mamma drugged Isako with a sedative because she wouldn't sleep otherwise; she took ''half'' the recommended dose and still fell asleep. Man, Isako was tired.
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** The mods have pulled another fast one on us: {{spoiler|Edgeworth may have remained on the list, but that didn't mean that the person we were seeing was the ''real'' Edgeworth.}}
* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: [[Lunar|Leo]] and [[Tokyo Mew Mew|Bu-ling]].
* [[Internal Reveal]]: Inevitable, really, with anything relating to player characters and things imported from their canons -- the entire game knew the identities of every [[The Mole|Mole]] long before the other characters suspected. That doesn't mean there's no suspense, though, and there are certainly still plenty of [[Wham! Episode|shocks]].
* [[Internalized Categorism]]: Susan "Racist-tan" Ivanova was a demihuman herself. Many of the players unfamiliar with her canon weren't even aware.
* [[Intoxication Ensues]]: Parties and pity parties both.
* [[Involuntary Group Split]]: Beat, Greed, and Winry falling off the ''4423'' before the Lunasa bombings; Pip and Greed falling off the ''4423'' again and ending up on the ''Fiertia''; the five ships closing and the cast splitting off into three new ships.
* [[Ironic Echo]]: [http://community.livejournal.com/theskytides/437202.html?thread=15870418#t15870418 This] to [http://community.livejournal.com/theskytides/353400.html?thread=12311672#t12311672 this], although it's cut short when [[Tsundere|Rose]] realizes who she's quoting [[Never Say That Again|and is absolutely mortified by the prospect]].
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* [[It's a Small Net After All]]: The same people just keep finding the same network posters...
* [[It's Personal]]: One of two ways (the other being convenience) that the more neutral-aligned and cynical ships got into plots of the good-versus-evil variety.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Joshua becomes this after a ''lot'' of character development.
* [[Jumped At the Call]]: Most people didn't join their ships to fight, but you won't find many of them complaining about it when they need to help people. Unless the person's name is Joshua.
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* [[Love Confession]]: A good number of them across the game, in some form or another. {{spoiler|One of the last ones would be when Pip finally conveys to Erza his feelings to her after the near end-of-the-world.}}
* [[Love Dodecahedron]]: Isshin's impression of Ichigo's love life, which he proudly shares with the world. [[Chaste Hero|The]] [[Oblivious to Love|reality]], [[Just Friends|however]]...
* [[Love Redeems]]: For years now, Joshua has been pulling out all the stops to [[Defied Trope|prevent this from happening to him]], but it seems to be happening anyway.
* [[Love-Obstructing Parents]]: Hello, Isshin, how are you today?
* [[MacGuffin Escort Mission]]: Mew, the fear gas, Prince Humperdinck... it happens a lot. Subverted when the ''Convoy'' had to escort Caulcher and his priceless items to Kropmork; {{spoiler|his stuff ''wasn't'' as important as players and characters had been led to believe, and was in fact a [[Red Herring]] allowing him to creep around the ship and steal Optimus Prime's body.}}
* [[Mad Lib Fantasy Title]]
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* [[Morality Pet]]: [[Gintama|Hijikata Toshirou]] has collected a number of animals and animal-like characters attaching onto him without his permission. [[Chi's Sweet Home|Chii]] is the most prominent, but he also has his own [[Pokémon]] and, pre-hiatus, a [[Tales of the Abyss|rappig]].
* [[More Hero Than Thou]]: Mhm, it happens, and way too often at that.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Quite a few of the characters. The military men, in particular, are practically an Estrogen Brigade Bait Brigade.
* [[Multinational Team]]: Pretty much every ship, ''including'' the ''Vicky'' and ''4423'' due to the game's disproportionate number of expatriates.
* [[My Country, Right or Wrong]]: Numerous characters, to one of the setting's nations.
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* [[Name's the Same]]: Can get somewhat confusing, especially with surnames and [[Everyone Is Related]]. [[Gintama|Hijikata Toshirou]] and [[Peacemaker Kurogane|Hijikata Toshizou]] were related, but [[Bleach|Kurosaki Ichigo]] and [[Yami no Matsuei|Kurosaki Hisoka]] are not.
* [[Naughty Tentacles]]: [[Persona 4|Souji's]] ever-elusive porn stash... yeah.
* [[Near-Death Experience]]: [[Persona 4|Yosuke]], who until now still believes that he really ''did'' die - though you really can't fault him, since he did take a knife to the heart. Good thing [[Bleach|Inoue]] happened to be with him at that time....
* [[Nebulous Evil Organization]]: Denouement, the game's [[Big Bad]] group. To add to the [[Oh Crap]] factor, they're run by [[Last Exile|Delphine Eraclea]] and tied inextricably with [[Metal Gear Solid|the Philosophers]].
* [[Neutral No Longer]]: Most of the ''Way'' reacted like this when von Karma planned to destroy Isako and her crew while the ''4423'' was defenseless. The way things turned out, though, left all three ships far too busy to fight.
* [[News Monopoly]]: Often, every news station and newspaper is saying the exact same thing.
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* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: You want it, ''TST'' had it, adapted for the setting, of course.
* [[No Delays for the Wicked]]: Subverted. Villains aboard a ship that's having trouble tend to go through that trouble as well, and if they ''caused'' it, they have to find their own way out (for example, [[Final Fantasy VI|Kefka]] framing a [[Bob the Builder]] [[Captain Ersatz]] NPC for poisoning Doma).
* [[No Periods, Period]]: Averted with Anko's pregnancy scare because she was late.
* [[No Social Skills]]: L's [[Character Development]] involved slowly learning them.
* [[Non-Action Snarker]]: Watanuki, though he later receives basic self-defense training.
* [[Normally I Would Be Dead Now]]: Usually averted, as most injured characters are pulled out of the action and handed over to the medics. However, there have been a few instances where characters survived through pure willpower.
** And then brought to reality by one of the muns after a case of acute appendicitis which was discovered very late by the doctors. [[Actor Allusion|Actor Allusions]] indeed.
* [[Not Even Bothering with the Accent]]: Characters are described occasionally as having accents from their home countries (until they've been travelling so long that the accent begins to fade), but nobody has figured out how certain accents sound and, unless the character canonically has a different accent from hir canonmates, nobody [[Funetik Aksent|types them out]]. During her brief stint at the game, [[Yes! Pretty Cure 5|Karen]] was mistaken for Ivonian due to [[Lonely Rich Kid|her personality]] [[Slobs Versus Snobs|and appearance]], to which she replied that her Erealian accent must have weakened after spending a year on the mainland.
* [[Not in This For Your Revolution]]: Both the ''Silvana'' and the ''Convoy'', the ships specifically aware of and in opposition to Denouement, have had crew members like this.
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** Sometimes [http://community.livejournal.com/theskytides/577072.html?thread=23131440#t23131440 against other PCs].
* [[Oh Crap, There Are Fanfics of Us]]: '''''Thank you, Joshua.'''''
* [[Old Friend]]: There can never be too many.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: A fair number of characters have been aged up from their canon ages for the game for some reason or another, usually either because they don't look their age or to avert the ubiquitous [[Adults Are Useless]] and [[Kid Hero]] tropes.
* [[Ominous Fog]]: Antrim.
* [[One Degree of Separation]]: It seems like this sometimes...
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* [[Peer Pressure Makes You Evil]]: Implied with Holly.
* [[Perfect Health]]: Either you never get so much as a cold or you're dying from TB.
* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: Numerous underground experiments have been trying to create them, usually from abandoned children. Sometimes, this has succeeded.
* [[Personal Effects Reveal]]: Cruelly twisted when Gin kills Jean Morris and anonymously auctions off his stuff.
* [[Pettanko]]: [[Yes! Pretty Cure 5|Mimino Kurumi]]. In her canon, it was a feature of the art style and never brought up. Here, it's been mentioned enough that she's developed a complex, especially in memes and non-canon games.
* [[Physical God]]: Lots of them were brought in post-hiatus. They've been officially explained away as "not ''really'' gods, just long-lived and very powerful"... [[Hand Wave|or something like that.]]
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* [[The Power of Acting]]: Surprisingly averted. Though the ''Way'' was the first Shounen Ship, it got that way because much of its crew [[I Know Karate|just happened to know how to fight]], this having nothing to do with their main business.
* [[The Power of Friendship]]
* [[Pretext for War]]: Denouement practically ''manufactures'' these. The war hasn't happened yet, but after successful operations like the Kropmork assassinations, the Lunasa bombings, and the poisoning of Doma, it seems like it's only a matter of time.
** As the ending approaches, [http://tidesnpc.livejournal.com/9690.html it gets worse.]
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* [[Religious and Mythological Theme Naming]]: Considering that the third and final part of the story introduced [[Physical God|Physical Gods]] and wove them tightly into the plot, it's no surprise that {{spoiler|the final [[MacGuffin]] is an airship called the ''Ymir''.}}
* [[Remember the New Guy?]]: Happens a lot due to backstories being altered to accommodate new characters.
* [[Resignations Not Accepted]]: ''Highly'' implied with Denouement, and made outright canon in the conversations Hiruma leaks to the world.
* [[Retcon]]: NPC Grita was initially called Grita de Estrella. However, the NPC section of the wiki, written later, calls her "Grita Repulsive", playing up the [[Expy]] relationship between her and [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|her PB]]. Her castle also went from "Caer Stella" to "Caer Estrella".
* [[Rigged Contest]]: Used and subverted with the Gearship Motors Plane Races. As part of a convoluted plan, a good number of characters, mostly ''[[Bleach]]'' villains, rigged the bets and sabotaged planes so that [[Soukou no Strain|Sara]] would win, unbeknownst to Sara herself. However, in the end, ''[[Bleach|Kensei]]'' won -- in a plane that was falling apart from the aforementioned sabotage, no less -- and Sara got ninth.
* [[The Rival]]: Looking right at you here, [[Pokémon|Green]]. Of course, there are other characters who have this going on as well.
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* [[Shonen Upgrade]]: There are a lot of these, including a plot designed to give a whole group of characters the opportunity to do this.
* [[Shotgun Wedding]]: Vash tried to force one between Hana and Haruhi after he heard Illya teasing the two and took it seriously. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|It was glorious.]]
* [[Show Within a Show]]: Several, most of which are either on the radio or being performed on stage. ''[[Ace Attorney|Steel Samurai]]'' was adopted into the setting early, for example, and has remained one of the most popular ever since.
* [[Showgirl Skirt]]: Not as common as other wardrobe pieces, but Mamma did host a burlesque show once.
* [[Shrouded in Myth]]: Milk keeps trying to be this, but she keeps coming across people who have never heard of her, which irritates her to no end. When she hears rumours she thought were about her and realizes they were actually about Utena, who ''wasn't'' consciously trying to gain fame, Milk immediately declares Utena a Milky Rose impersonator.
* [[Sibling Team]]: Averted in many cases where there was one in canon; for example, [[Fullmetal Alchemist|Ed and Al]] were on different ships when they were in the game, and [[Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star|Kaoru]] is operating without Michiru, though thye're stated to have been partners. The reverse is true, though, too: [[Final Fantasy VII|Reno]] and [[Kingdom Hearts|Axel]] were twins and worked together.
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* [[Sole Survivor]]: Ichigo for the ''Amadeus'', except...
** [[There Is Another]]: Utena.
* [[Something About a Rose]]: Denouement's symbol is a stylized red rose. On the blue side of things, there's [[Yes! Pretty Cure 5|Milky Rose]] and her [[Petal Power]], played as much for comedy as for dramatic effect. [[Revolutionary Girl Utena|Utena]], being post-canon, is pinged by both of these (and any roses used as somebody's symbol) to the point of past trauma.
* [[Something Completely Different]]: That one plot where the Winding Way went to Candy Mountain.
* [[Son of a Whore]]: A common backstory trait for people from Kropmork. [[Final Fantasy VII|Reno]] and [[Kingdom Hearts|Axel]], [[One Piece|Luffy]], [[Persona 3|Shinjiro]]...
* [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]]: The same villain organization has been around the whole time, but as their motives have slowly been revealed, their goal to create a [[Pretext for War]] has gone from "for our own amusement/because we have to" to "so we can profit from black-market weapon sales" to "so we can destroy civilization" to "so we can cause enough death and suffering to set off [[The End of the World as We Know It]]". Of course, different individual villains want different things...
* [[Space Whale]]: Sky Whales.
* [[Spared by the Adaptation]]: {{spoiler|Minato's}} near-death experience is deliberately set up to resemble his [[Heroic Sacrifice]] in his own canon. He is then punched in the face for not caring enough about his life.
* [[Spared by the Adaptation]]: Minato. He got chewed out by Souji for even thinking of letting himself die, too.
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Denouement is occasionally referred to as "Denouncement", usually by people who don't know that "denouement" is [[Denouement|an actual word]], and even the mod team can't agree on whether the capital of Ivona is Bellcius or Bellicus.
* [[Split Personality]]: [[Re Boot|Hexadecimal]], so damn much, as in canon.
* [[Spot the Imposter]]: The crew of the ''Way'' had to do this during the [[Trigun|Puppetmaster plot]].
* [[Spy-Versus-Spy]]: It's going on between Ivona and Vohemar, but it's rarely brought into play (save for Ocelot [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|doing what he does best]]).
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* [[Sweet Tooth]]: The Winding Way was infamous for attracting these. Between that, and the fact that [[Death Note|L]] was the captain, it's hardly any wonder why the ship took a trip to Candy Mountain...
* [[Taking the Bullet]]: Watanuki throws himself in front of Ichigo during the attack before the plane races. This becomes a major turning point in both their character arcs.
* [[The Talk]]: Isshin enjoys giving it to the entire network. Taiga and Zeetha also gave it to the younger people on the ''Way'' after the network exploded with a sex survey.
* [[Tangled Family Tree]]: When [[Everyone Is Related]], this is what you get...
* [[Taught by Television|Taught By Radio]]: Milk modelled the Milky Rose persona off ''Steel Samurai'' and related shows.
* [[Teasing Creator|Teasing Mod Team]]
* [[Terrible Trio]]: Well, terrible ''duo'' in this case.
* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]: Assumed and sometimes actually invoked when muns link music in logs.
* [[Themed Harem]]: It's been joked nearly since the beginning of the game that the Jesii, past and present, compose Ness' harem. Except maybe Illya, for [[Lolicon|obvious reasons]].
* [[There Are No Therapists]]: Or psych evaluations, for that matter. Just look at those crew lists.
* [[They Walk Among Us]]
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* [[Two Lines, No Waiting]]: At ''least'' a few lines per ship.
* [[Tyke Bomb]]: '''Half the villains'''.
* [[Under the Mistletoe]]: Well, in this setting, it's blackberries.
* [[Underestimating Badassery]]: Grita really had no idea she would be up against when she had her minions kidnap members of the Winding Way.
* [[Unflappable Guardian]]: Hughes was one to the ''Way'', his own personal weirdness aside.
* [[Unfortunate Names]]: [[Soukou no Strain|Ram-Dass]] will never not be funny.
* [[The Unfought]]: Double subverted with {{spoiler|Maestro Delphine}}. With villain duty going to Low Key and Bradley during the "third season", the players didn't hear a word from or about {{spoiler|her}} the entire time, {{spoiler|up until the very last plot of the game, when many had already thought she would be forgotten. Her return and the revelation of what exactly she wanted and why brought her back in full force as an enemy.}} But then? {{spoiler|1=She was killed ''offscreen''. By ''nameless NPCs''. Need I mention that almost three years' worth of story had set her up as the final boss?}}
* [[Unlimited Wardrobe]]: Quite averted. When Hex trashed the ''Convoy'', many of its inhabitants either had only the clothes they were wearing at the time or had to salvage only a few pieces.
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: As told by one [[Persona 4|Seta Souji]] to explain the [[Everyone Is Bi]] situation - 'peanut butter cups'.
* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: Gin had plenty, and his successors have gathered their own. Technically, the entire crew of the ''Ammy'' is composed of Bradley's.
* [[Upper Class Twit]]: Lots of Erealian nobles and Ivonian bureaucrats and politicians are treated this way. On the other hand, a lot of them are quite competent.
* [[Useless Boyfriend]]: Consciously inverted. When a useless guy gets into a relationship, his partner usually ends up training him to fight, rather than having a competent guy be overshadowed and become useless.
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* [[Violence Is the Only Option]]: Averted in some cases, especially in the case of the ''Convoy'' during the [[Twilight (novel)|Sparklepire]] plot.
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Watanuki and Ichigo.
* [[Waif Fu]]: Half of the small, young (or young-looking) girls in the game are capable of punching out full-grown soldiers.
* [[Walk the Plank]]: Frequently threatened by Isako.
* [[Walking the Earth]]: Some characters ended up spending the hiatus doing this.
* [[We Really Do Care]]: When Hanatarou and Haruhi had a fight, Haruhi nearly left the ''Way'', but for the rest of the crew catching her before the ship landed and showing her that they did care.
* [[Weapon of Choice]]: So common that one of the ships now even has a "Weapon Master" position, and those who hold it divide their work up.
* [[Weddings for Everyone]]: Engagements, anyway. One couple was to be married on the ship in the middle of the finale, but sadly, that did not work out.
* [[Welcome Episode]]: The beginning of the game and the start after the timeskip both had new characters joining up with established crews to facilitate lots of introductions.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: Too, too many.
** The Kropmork assassinations.
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** What happened to the falling islands? (Although that's likely to have been a discarded plot thread that was going to be important after the mods changed the ending plans. That or they were {{spoiler|eaten by Jormungandr}}.)
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: It's a family trait for at least two families. Some of them were born that way, others just went grey ridiculously early.
* [[Who Dunnit to Me?]]: The motive behind Jean Morris' haunting of the ''Silvana''.
* [[Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?]]: Awesomeman Sakata, Jean and Gintoki's non-canonical [[Kid From the Future]] originating from a [[Kink Meme]] story, and all of his 15... 16... 30 siblings. They adopted half an orphanage somewhere along the line.
** He has a companion in Bass Bitou, who originated on Plurk but got his own [[Kink Meme]] story later on. (Bass is just a nickname, though, and Penelo put her foot down and named the rest of her children normally.)
* [[Whole-Episode Flashback]]: Lots.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Inverted. Although she briefly associates it with her former master and quickly discards the idea before it can give her [[Nightmare Fuel]], Anko thinks the appearance of {{spoiler|Jormungandr}} is ''awesome''.
* [[Why Don't You Marry It?]]: Jokes that Ichigo is "[[Cargo Ship|planesexual]]" have been thrown around OOCly for years. Joshua finally brought it into game canon in a failed attempt to counter-troll Isshin.
* [[Wicked Witch]]: NPC villain Grita.
* [[The Wiki Rule]]: The first one was declared an overall flop, so they introduced a new one, found [http://theskytides.pbworks.com/ here]. Editing is players-only.
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* [[Witch Hunt]]: The town of Jinkston goes a ''little'' overboard in searching for the thief of the Golden Fleece. Subverted later when they allow the ''Way'' to leave after Grita steals the children (and various childlike adults), leaving their entire plot thread unresolved.
* [[With This Ring]]: Okay, the rings Ichigo and Watanuki wear are meant to keep spirits away from them, but Yuuko specifically did her best to make it ''look'' like they'd gotten engaged, just to mess with them.
* [[A Wizard Did It]]: The justification for the Candy Mountain plot, verbatim.
* [[Working with the Ex]]: With Hana and Ness both doctors, the infirmary of the ''Way'' became ''very'' awkward.
* [[World in the Sky]]: And they don't know what's beneath the blanket of clouds.
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* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: {{spoiler|That poor, poor repentant scientist.}}
* [[You Mean "Xmas"]]: The counterpart holidays have different customs -- decorating rocks on Christmas, for example -- and they occur at different times of the year, but they are very clearly Valentine's Day, Christmas, and Halloween.
* [[You Shall Not Pass]]: In the end, {{spoiler|Optimus dies fighting Bradley so his crew can escape.}}
* [[Young and In Charge]]: Isako.
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Nena and Sara have this going on in almost all their outfits, adapted for the period. One actually did wear more proper Victowardian clothing in the past and discarded it for the disguise, and the other has been forced into it in memes and fanart.
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