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== Tropes ==

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* [[Academy of Evil]]: Ohtori Institute in the demiworld of Oriphos in the late "Future Imperfect" era of ''[[Undocumented Features]]''. It's actually run by a demon prince -- how much more evil can you get?

* [[Androids Are People, Too]]: If they are certified as sentient by the board on Turing III. (See [[Turing Test]] below.)

* [[Apocalypse How]]

* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: Beyond the "ordinary" technologies of the space opera setting, there is the "Overtechnology" controlled by the Wedge folks, even well into the Future Imperfect period.

* [[Arbitrarily-Large Bank Account]]: Most (if not all) of the Wedge Rats (and their families) have this in the Future Imperfect era and beyond just as a result of being 400+ years old with a reasonably stable galactic economy during all that time -- the simple effect of compound interest alone plus a banking system designed for the kind of cash supply available in an interstellar civilization makes it more or less inevitable. And that doesn't even include stocks, bonds and other investments outside of a plain savings account. MegaZone, in particular, has so much money on hand that early in ''The Symphony of the Sword'' he makes each of the refugees from Cephiro independently wealthy (except Saionji, who declines the offer) as part of building new identities for them in Midgard, and goes so far as to make Juri ''outrageously'' so. This, he explains, he does using bank and investment accounts he's had sitting around unused and half-forgotten for a century or more.

* [[Future Slang]]: Generally averted, unless it comes from one of the sources to begin with.

{{quote|Would you rather I made up painfully awkward, obviously contrived Future Slang the way they do in [[cyberpunk]]-themed [[RPG]]s? [[Shadowrun|Chummer]].|Gryphon}}

* [[Genre Busting]]: What started as a sort of [[Elsewhere Fic]] where heroines from ''[[Dirty Pair]]'' and a villain from ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]'' meet up with [[Self-Insert Fic|self-inserts]] from WPI has expanded to a [[High Fantasy]] [[Space Opera]] [[The Epic|epic]] spanning multiple genres.

** Within [[Fan Fiction]]: ''UF'' starts as [[Self-Insert Fic|Self-Insert]] [[Elsewhere Fic]]. Since many of the [[Author Avatar|Author Avatars]] have bands, [[Song Fic]] (in concert!) was inevitable. [[Recursive Fic]] was soon made, and then added into the canon (some of it [[Film Fic]]). The Exile brings a whole era of [[Dark Fic]]. Once that's over they have children with their waifus to make it [[Kid Fic]], which evolves into full-blown [[Next Gen Fic]] in ''Warriors of the Outer Rim'' and ''Symphony of the Sword'' (itself a [[Continuation]] of ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' ''and'' an [[Alternate Universe Fic]] of ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]''). Then the [[X-Men]] come over from an [[Alternate Universe Fic]] and teach the UF universe's versions of themselves in an [[High School AU]]. Not to mention the in-universe [[Slash Fic]], or [[Patchwork Fic]] of three different versions of ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'', or the [[Fix Fic]] elements that give Darth Vader a second chance. And somehow, it all blends together as a cohesive narrative.

* [[Magic Pants]]: Invoked by name in the Forums-only story ''The Balance'', where the Hulk is given an explicitly magical pair of cargo pants that resize themselves both ways. When the Hulk yields control to Banner at one point, Banner then absently invokes ''and'' [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] the trope while trying to disable a doomsday device.

{{quote|''Memo to self: see about getting a magic shirt to go with the magic pants. Maybe even some shoes.''}}

* [[Mayfly-December Romance]]: Averted with [[Ah! My Goddess|Keiichi and Belldandy Morisato]]; as of the Future Imperfect era, they've passed their 200th anniversary (and still going strong!).

* [[Mechanical Lifeforms]]: The Transformers, who also have [[Heart Drive|Heart Drives]].

 

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* '''I'm With The Band.''' Pick a character, any character. They are, or were, part of a rock band or its hangers-on.

** Princess Amanda of Gamilon? Private band with her brother and their bodyguards.

*** As well as Kait's old guitarist.

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