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Tropes G to M / Real Life

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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_108c268e	type	Hotter and Sexier
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_108c268e	comment	Hotter and Sexier: Puberty. It involves many players suddenly noticing certain things about the opposite (or same) sex that they hadn't before and vice-versa. They may also find themselves aroused by things that previously had no effect on them. This is of course averted for players with Asexuality as one of their character stats. Defied by some aces to get people to leave them alone by deliberately not looking attractive (though usually not ugly).
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_1263f698	type	Main Character Final Boss
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_1263f698	comment	Main Character Final Boss: You've spent your last moments succumbing to your inner demons and committing heinous atrocities as a result.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_13d2ffe1	type	Humanity Is Superior
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_13d2ffe1	comment	Humanity Is Superior: We've already conquered one planet to some degree, and there are plans on the table to add several more. Eventually.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: invokedDepending on the season, server, and player, you can get everything from action, drama, romance (which now and then might even include an occasional brief scene of erotica and pornography), comedy, tragedy, post-modernism, in the space of a few seasons. Many actors and actresses however have complained that their genres don't change feeling stuck in Melodrama and Stepford Suburbia arc, or in Wrong Side of the Tracks with studios and agents telling them they don't have money for the Vacation Episode, the talents for the Musical Episode, and are stuck in Typecasting as The Everyman or Unlucky Everydude Butt-Monkey, rather than The Hero arc that gets them better roles, or higher billing. invokedMany try to break out of this, sometimes becoming a Breakout Character or Ensemble Dark Horse, or otherwise trying to invoke Evil Is Cool, but usually becoming a Hate Sink for an Anvilicious Drugs Are Bad message. On the other hand, many note that The Everyman characters over time attract a small but devoted Cult following who end up becoming Vindicated by History.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_1950b76f	type	A Good Way to Die
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_1950b76f	comment	A Good Way to Die: Subverted. Dying pretty much sucks no matter how you go out. Even dying of natural causes is a downer, although most players agree that dying in one's sleep is the most preferable. Anyone who commits a Heroic Sacrifice is usually hailed by the rest of the PCs.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_1aa08f77	type	Multiple Endings
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_1aa08f77	comment	Multiple Endings: Every character has a different way their different chapters and adventures close, though people say the very, very end is an 'equalizer' - and even that has a large amount of possibility. In general a character has many, many Bad Ending and Downer Ending options.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_1b36b313	type	Mandatory Motherhood
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_1b36b313	comment	Mandatory Motherhood: Until recently, it was nearly impossible to get very far on the Sex Life quest chain without automatically starting the Parenting quest chain. These days, many servers have implemented options that let you choose if and when to initiate the latter, irrespectively of where you are on the former. Some bugs remain that can make the game default to the old behaviour, though.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: "She". Your character never meets her, but a lot of other characters know her, and she sure is talkative, and has an odd habit of Foreshadowing other characters' lines. She also says a lot of suggestive things, and apparently, many youth in the United States, especially young males, have had some sort of run in with her, being that most people will remember what she said at any given moment. If you ask who "she" is, you will be informed that she is, in fact, Your Mom. See also: "Them" or "They".
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_1be36a63	type	Immortal Procreation Clause
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_1be36a63	comment	Immortal Procreation Clause: Played straight with all species if infant mortality is factored in (a few long-lived species, such as trees, can reproduce in great numbers, but most of their offspring die young). If birth control is available, human birthrates actually drop as the environment gets more conducive to good health, maintaining the inverse ratio of procreation to life expectancy.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_1d6fa62a	type	Gas Chamber
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_1d6fa62a	comment	Gas Chamber: While they are known as very horrible ways of execution, in the recent arcs they are used to test gas mask equipment and prepare soldier class players for the possible event of chemical warfare.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_1dad7003	type	In the Hood
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_1dad7003	comment	In the Hood: Averted. In most environments, wearing a hood tends to draw curiosity, if not outright suspicion. If the local culture or weather makes hoods commonplace, a hood won't cause a character to stand out, but it won't make her any less noticeable, either. In the Seattle server, there's a joke that locals can be distinguished from tourists by their reaction to the rain: tourists tend to grab an umbrella, locals tend to simply wear a hood.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_1eefabd2	type	Late for School
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_1eefabd2	comment	Late for School: Most players are late for school at least once in their play-through. Averted with (most) players who choose the homeschooling path.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_1ff3b1d6	type	Harmful Healing
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_1ff3b1d6	comment	Harmful Healing: People with the celiac's disease debuff hurt their intestines when ingesting gluten. If they stop eating gluten to heal themselves, their weight and cholesterol stats skyrocket. In a worst case scenario this may cause the diabetes status effect.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_20d965e	type	Gentleman Thief
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_20d965e	comment	Gentleman Thief: This class was once considered one of the better ones in the game, since it allowed exploits that kept your social status high despite regular criminal activities. A series of patches to Law Enforcement have sadly nerfed it into oblivion.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_21c05222	type	Long-Runners
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_21c05222	comment	Long-Runners: 12,000 years of human civilization measured from the start of the Neolithic, with many Missing Episodes along the way. 13.7 billion years back to the presently held beginning though, the Big Bang, which itself could be questionable. Several other series set in the Real Life-verse are also Long-Runners - stromatolites, jellyfish, sharks and spiders to name just a few. Some long-running fan-favorites, including the dinosaurs and mammoths were eventually Killed Off for Real... but spin-off and Expy characters such as birds and elephants were kept around. And of course, bacteria, some of the very first characters to appear, still make up more than half of the cast list.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_24bc06a	type	I Fought the Law and the Law Won
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_24bc06a	comment	I Fought the Law and the Law Won: If you commit serious and/or high-profile enough crimes, you'll suddenly find LOTS of law enforcement agencies will be out take you down any way they can.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_2534ee67	comment	Any time a player moves, changes schools, jobs, clubs, etc they are typically started off In Medias Res. Expect a lot of info dumping.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_276ad49e	type	Karma Meter
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_276ad49e	comment	Beggars, for a more Karma Meter version of this, station themselves in busy areas to ask passing players for handouts. As this is a very inefficient method of item farming, it's usually only done as a desperate interim measure until something more viable comes along.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_29312bf3	type	Healthy Green, Harmful Red
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_29312bf3	comment	Healthy Green, Harmful Red: At stop lights, red means stop and green means go. Green is healthy because you can safely continue driving and red is harmful because we all know the health issues that come from getting T-boned by a semi. Inverted with many red, edible fruits which tend to be green and unpalatable or even inedible prior to fully ripening.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_2a019fef	type	Gay Option
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_2a019fef	comment	Gay Option: While your character has less options available in the romance sidequest if they're gay and some servers consider pursuing such an option a bannable offense, recent patches to many servers have been making it easier for same-sex characters to marry and adopt children. It's generally now considered that the option is randomly hardcoded into a certain percentage of players at character creation and trying to mod it, either internally or externally is a case of Failure Is the Only Option.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: Art, especially comedy. And this wiki, of course.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_2a6b9a7a	type	Minigame Zone
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_2a6b9a7a	comment	Minigame Zone: These, called arcades, used to be very popular in the 80s. Some restaurants even have these.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_2b8295a1	type	Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_2b8295a1	comment	Many items with the "Capsaicin" affix are designed to cause this in the form of feeling as though you're taking extreme damage and false "debuffs" of the afflicted part being heat burned and/or acid burned. Pepper and spice items that share this affix only affect mucus membranes in most cases (which oh so unfortunately includes your eyes). Anything to the point that it can affect other parts are weaponized as pepper-spray and a short burst is enough to inflict several debuffs to leave you in a state of Controllable Helplessness until they wear off for most people.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_2cbadc	type	The Good Guys Always Win
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_2cbadc	comment	The Good Guys Always Win: Sadly Zig-Zagged on account of Rotating Protagonists and the lack of Plot Armor. Listing examples would be highly controversial.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_2f253c94	type	Glass Cannon
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_2f253c94	comment	Glass Cannon: Humans are far from the toughest creatures on the face of the planet, but have invented powerful weapons to compensate for their poor defense. Thus, a human with a shotgun has a decent chance of slaying the 'bear' monster in a fight, but if that bear manages to take the damage and keep going, despite heavy penalties to movement and HP, then it can quickly wipe out the human who attacked it.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_30cffab7	type	Illegal Gambling Den
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_30cffab7	comment	Illegal Gambling Den: There are a lot of Mafia-operated bookies where the Mafia loves getting people Trapped by Gambling Debts to get their hooks into indebted businesses. The Yakuza is theorized to have started out as guilds of street peddlers who ran illegal gambling rings, as "ya-ku-za" is the worst possible hand in the Japanese card game oicho-kabu. The Wah Mee club in Seattle started as a legitimate nightclub, but fell on hard times and became this. It culminated in three men setting up a violent armed robbery where they planned to kill everyone inside and take all the money they could grab (as it was an illegal operation, everything was cash-only). It ended with thirteen dead and a Sole Survivor (one of the club's dealers, who identified the robbers). Molly Bloom ran illegal poker games for show business major figures until the FBI got her.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_3126c34a	type	Insufferable Genius
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_3126c34a	comment	Insufferable Genius: A debuff as a result of high levels in the Intelligence stat. May cause the â€œAnnoyedâ€� effect when the intelligent character attempts to perform a social interaction with certain classes.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_316e9da2	type	Memetic Mutation
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_316e9da2	comment	Memetic Mutation: In-Universe. The primary medium for these to occur in. For instance, if someone says "Magneto was right" outside the Marvel universe, chances are good they will be a player character in Real Life.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_3202932e	type	Money Sink
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_3202932e	comment	Money Sink: Some of which are required to survive. Real estate is a popular one whose necessity for survival is somewhat debatable, as is haute couture fashion.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_347e35d6	type	Grim Up North
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_347e35d6	comment	Grim Up North: Very few characters live in the Arctic Circle at all, and among the creatures that live there are fierce white-furred bears. Also inverted, as the South Pole is much worse.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_35a24c16	type	Geo Effects
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_35a24c16	comment	Geo Effects: Plenty of those. Terrain, temperature, atmospheric conditions, everything can impair how things work.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_36249acd	type	Lethal Joke Character
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_36249acd	comment	See even wider-reaching examples under Lethal Joke Character and The Singularity.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_3e92ed3e	type	Groupie Brigade
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_3e92ed3e	comment	Groupie Brigade: Members of the Artist class and/or Musician subclass will be pursued for sex or relationships by members of the Groupie Class. Although it seems to have tamed in later years.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_3f0310d6	type	Magikarp Power
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_3f0310d6	comment	Magikarp Power: Thanks to a process called "Puberty", which begins the prestige class minigame, even the wimpiest young player can develop into a hardcore badass. See that kid mutilating classic rock songs on his new guitar? Remember his name. See that Troper over there? Remember his name too. You know that nerd you always pick on in class? Someday he will be your boss. Unless, of course, the one picking on that nerd realizes grinding mental, physical, and social stats are all possible in this setting and prevent crippling overspecialization. A single group of players, thanks to the talent trees unlocked by thumbs with oppositional movement and large brains, could wipe dozens of servers out forever, maybe even eliminate every player in existence.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_424d15ad	type	Love Hurts
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_424d15ad	comment	Love Hurts, but also Love Redeems, and sometimes frequently Love Makes You Crazy. All of these may be experienced by the same character at various points, in some cases multiple times.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_4252fdf6	type	Hyperactive Metabolism
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_4252fdf6	comment	Hyperactive Metabolism: Mostly averted, though a few lucky characters subvert it by being Big Eaters that don't gain much weight.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_44bd31e2	type	Trope Codifier
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_44bd31e2	comment	The "Theologian" and "Philosopher" classes also work along these lines and were the Trope Codifiers for the first several thousand seasons. In fact, the Scientist and Engineer classes developed from these two older classes and there was significant overlap until roughly 250 seasons ago. Theologians and Philosophers are still very common today.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_44f79734	type	Jump Physics
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_44f79734	comment	Jump Physics: Applies in the pole vaulting minigame.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_45e41b66	type	It's a Wonderful Failure
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_45e41b66	comment	It's a Wonderful Failure: When someone dies, it's often customary for their loved ones to hold a funeral for them and mourn over the loss of the deceased.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Some characters believe they can talk to the other god/being/whatevertheycallittoday. Also, this is not a page about a TV series or an MMORPG.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_4cca4ac7	type	Trapped by Gambling Debts
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_4cca4ac7	comment	There are a lot of Mafia-operated bookies where the Mafia loves getting people Trapped by Gambling Debts to get their hooks into indebted businesses.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_5105d2a	type	Munchkin
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_5105d2a	comment	Munchkin: The "Scientist" and "Engineer" classes are a variant. Their class abilities consist of memorizing the complex equations and rules that govern Real Life so they can squeeze every last possible advantage out of them, including figuring out even more of the rules. Unlike other munchkins, however, they rarely make much direct use of their discoveries themselves — they tend to act as support classes, providing knowledge and equipment to more active players — and as such their work carries with it the potential for respect and prestige. The "Theologian" and "Philosopher" classes also work along these lines and were the Trope Codifiers for the first several thousand seasons. In fact, the Scientist and Engineer classes developed from these two older classes and there was significant overlap until roughly 250 seasons ago. Theologians and Philosophers are still very common today. For minigames and some PvP events, the "Attorney" class (also related to the others, although somewhat more distantly) specializes in memorizing the extremely complicated legal codes, precedents and cultural leanings of various guilds and servers, in order to be able to provide the strongest possible justifications or attacks for actions in internal disputes. They can make quite a lot of money by selling their services to other players. Stephen Hawking is a particular instance of this. After getting hit with a particularly bad Debuff that dropped all physical stats to near 0, he compensated by grinding his INT through the roof.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_53ecf83f	type	Lensman Arms Race
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_53ecf83f	comment	Lensman Arms Race: Humanity's entire story arc has seen us go from crude rafts and sticks with sharp stones attached to nuclear weapons and space flight. Evolution. The winners survive. Parasitism. The game of move-countermove between parasites and disease-causing organisms and their victims is stunningly complex. Some players spend their whole lives in a class studying the defenses of one species, the human immune system, and all those players have to have very high INT stats just to get the class. Antibiotics. Penicillins break cell walls. Beta-lactamases break penicillins. And we're off to the races.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_5466ae28	type	His and Hers
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_5466ae28	comment	His and Hers: While often parodied in television and film, numerous products of this type can be found in the world.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_549cd62d	type	Level Grinding
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_549cd62d	comment	Level Grinding: It can take decades of grinding to achieve levels in most Prestige Classes. Most skills require some Level Grinding to raise to the point where they are at all useful, though there are exceptions.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_54cc6b24	type	Le Parkour
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_54cc6b24	comment	Played straight for your first level or so. All non-twinks have the choice to avert this trope for a long time, but as your level reaches the max cap it becomes enforced again. Many players are so acquainted to this trope that they never attempt to break it. Some players on the other hand...
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_54e3f941	type	Hikikomori
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_54e3f941	comment	Hikikomori: Some characters with low CHA stats and levels in the Social skill set will take this class.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_5534431f	type	Money for Nothing
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_5534431f	comment	Money for Nothing: Averted. There's just so much stuff to be bought with the in-game currency that you will never have too much money. Oh sure, the other players may say you do, especially indulging in Conspicuous Consumption, there's always charities to give that money to. On a more literal level, you can get Money for Nothing. It's called "arbitrage" and only really works if you already have a lot of money in the first place.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: Every single player lives out his own story, so other players in relation to him is this.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_5a4aa505	type	Government Conspiracy
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_5a4aa505	comment	Government Conspiracy: There are some unconfirmed theories and several confirmed ones throughout the ages. Many are extensively disproven.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_65244998	type	Lightning Can Do Anything
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_65244998	comment	Lightning Can Do Anything: Captive, artificially-generated lightning is used to run various machines, from children's toys to supercomputers.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_665f500e	type	Give Me Your Inventory Item
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_665f500e	comment	Give Me Your Inventory Item: The Mugger career specializes in forcing other players to give them equipment and items. Beggars, for a more Karma Meter version of this, station themselves in busy areas to ask passing players for handouts. As this is a very inefficient method of item farming, it's usually only done as a desperate interim measure until something more viable comes along.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_66755d29	comment	Subverted that one time. However, this might again be the case of an Unreliable Narrator...
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_66f763c0	type	Interface Screw
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_66f763c0	comment	Interface Screw: A surprising number, either involuntary or self-imposed: Involuntary examples: optical illusions, mental illnesses, cognitive biases, bad eyesight. Inventory items can reduce the penalties on some of these. Self-Imposed Challenge examples: alcohol, hallucinogens, sleep deprivation. Many items with the "Capsaicin" affix are designed to cause this in the form of feeling as though you're taking extreme damage and false "debuffs" of the afflicted part being heat burned and/or acid burned. Pepper and spice items that share this affix only affect mucus membranes in most cases (which oh so unfortunately includes your eyes). Anything to the point that it can affect other parts are weaponized as pepper-spray and a short burst is enough to inflict several debuffs to leave you in a state of Controllable Helplessness until they wear off for most people.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_68913e61	type	Hello, [Insert Name Here]
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_68913e61	comment	Hello, [Insert Name Here]: Averted. Players generally do not get to choose their character's name at creation, though renaming is an option later. Some classes (such as the Writer, Musician, Exotic Dancer, Identity Thief and Gang Member classes) may also involve the use of names other than the one you were given.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_6bcecad1	type	Make the Bear Angry Again
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_6bcecad1	comment	Make the Bear Angry Again: The 21st century seasons, especially the high-point in the Southern Ossetia arc in the middle of season 2008, and taken to new heights in the Ukraine arc of 2022.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Generally subverted. Even on servers where new characters's names' meanings are taken into consideration at registration, it can be hard to tell whether this isn't a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, as undeveloped characters are quite suggestible. Can be Double Subverted by characters who inherited their name from seasons where this trope was Played Straight, who also coincidentally inherited the relevant trait.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_6c3d1777	type	Magic A Is Magic A
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_6c3d1777	comment	Magic A Is Magic A: The "laws" of physics are long-standing models which operate reliably enough for the practitioners to "act" as if they were true. We're still a long way from direct manipulation of the system code.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_6ec03ba1	type	Mook Maker
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_6ec03ba1	comment	Mook Maker: The infamous Ant Queen. Sometimes she is a neutral party who only fights other insect-type enemies, but many players will treat her like an enemy if her children appear in their homes.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_6ec989d8	type	Guide Dang It!
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_6ec989d8	comment	Guide Dang It!: And to make it worse, there are lots of different guides with conflicting advice! It's gotten to the point that to work out anything new about The 'Verse, you're actually expected to spend several years studying the fan community's extensive archive of guidebooks.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_70e34c75	type	Player Versus Player
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_70e34c75	comment	For minigames and some PvP events, the "Attorney" class (also related to the others, although somewhat more distantly) specializes in memorizing the extremely complicated legal codes, precedents and cultural leanings of various guilds and servers, in order to be able to provide the strongest possible justifications or attacks for actions in internal disputes. They can make quite a lot of money by selling their services to other players.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_714741cc	type	Like Reality, Unless Noted
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_714741cc	comment	Like Reality, Unless Noted: The Trope Namer. Played straight to the most part, except for the 'unrealistic' bits...
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: Happens to members of the criminal class who aren't careful in selecting their prey, especially if they mess with someone who possesses self-defense items, or invested in self-defense skills, or is of a prestigious class. One of the very rare instances of Laser-Guided Karma, a trope that Real Life generally doesn't use.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Alcohol is often used to this end, as are the frequent appearances of Love Makes You Dumb. You don't want to combine the two.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_7451e686	type	It Came from the Fridge
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_7451e686	comment	It Came from the Fridge: Kefir grains swell, divide, and move around in milk like a macro-scale colony of cells. The glob of goo (scoby, short for "symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast") used to make kombucha (fermented tea) moves around in the liquid; rising, sinking, flipping over, and occasionally gaining so much bouyancy that it looks like it's trying to escape. Some homebrewers get attached to and name theirs, treating it as a pet Blob Monster that lives entirely on room-temperature sweet tea. When put up for storage, the resultant jar of grey biomass floating in amber liquid looks like something you'd find on the set of a horror movie. Any foodstuffs that aren't consumed all at once is liable to produce this, especially if it's stored in an translucent or opaque container. Trope Namer (see the note under Fridge Brilliance above)
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_74828aea	type	Killer Rabbit
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_74828aea	comment	Killer Rabbit: Many animals (and people) fall under two categories: those that don't look dangerous but can kill or injure someone at various levels, and those that do look dangerous and can kill or injure at various levels. Some people look meek but have such an "animal" inside them. Exceptions could count in gentle giants that are not provoked and many types of smaller life forms that, if not carrying diseases, lack the weaponry and/or aggression to actually cause any significant harm. Subverted with rabbit characters, who can scratch and bite, but will take some time to injure you horribly, giving you time to defy this trope by calming them down or otherwise remove yourself from the situation. During the early stages of the Human server there were carnivorous relatives of animals which would today be thought of as harmless or nearly harmless. Two examples being the "Killer Kangaroo" and what has been called the "Demon Duck of Doom" [1] No killer rabbits though - that we know of. Played straight, however, with the 'rabies' status effect. It makes normally harmless bunnies — or puppy dogs, kitties, and so on — into fearsome carriers of guaranteed death, unless an antidote is quickly applied.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_75987da9	type	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_75987da9	comment	A band of refugees, thieves, debtors, runaway slaves and whoever get it into their heads to build a small town around seven hills in Italy. Then an Etruscan prince insulted one of their women, with results that were less than pleasant for the Etruscans. As a result the most famous empire in history is formed, and most of the most powerful nations in the world call themselves a Res-pub-lic-a
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_79588aeb	type	Joe Sent Me
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_79588aeb	comment	Joe Sent Me: An annual Roaring Twenties themed fundraiser at Salt Lake City's Catholic high school is called Joe Sent Me. Truth in Television in some clubs. They'll let you in if you happen to know the owner's name.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_7ad0e492	type	Imaginary Friend
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_7ad0e492	comment	Imaginary Friend: Many players will create another fictional character as a feature. This is most common during the first dozen or so years of gameplay. It can happen at later points in the game too, but this is usually considered a sign of the "Mental Illness" status ailment.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_7b144404	type	Mental World
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_7b144404	comment	Mental World: Players who grind enough levels on the "Dreaming" skill and complete the required quests which take a fairly long time depending on the playerâ€™s commitment unlock the "Lucidity" perk, which gives them more control over the environment and NPCs during the "Sleep" minigame. It is unknown why, but experiencing this gives the character a "Happy" buff after completing the minigame, which is one of the reasons why many players desire it, other than that characters who are experts in that field have proven that performing a skill while in the minigame causes them to have a higher level in whatever it was in the main world. There are multiple methods to unlock the achievement, some of which are more reliable than others, though it is recommended that players in pursuit of it perform as many of them as possible to minimise the time taken. Players have only recently begun to work out the code behind this feature, meaning that there are only a limited amount of in-game guides to help them with the quest.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_812ee32b	type	Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_812ee32b	comment	Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards: The Nerd class has a really hard time going through the early levels, especially High School and the PVP, while "jocks" can mostly go around doing what they like unhindered, but eventually the jocks tend to end up working for the nerds. However, it's possible for the Jock class to take levels in nerding, and vice versa. The Nerd class is not only often a self-imposed challenge, but all of its class specifics can be freely taken up by any other class without hindrance to physical and social abilities. Genius Bruiser, Badass Bookworm, and Hospital Hottie are freely available to those who are blessed with talent and the opportunity to take those classes.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_83edb5ab	type	Difficulty by Region
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_83edb5ab	comment	This Difficulty by Region results in Easy-Mode Mockery by forcing you to do it again if you switch locales to one where the school system is harder. Some universities donâ€™t even accept IB credit, compared to AP credit. No, really.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_853e45d1	type	Mistaken for Pregnant
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_853e45d1	comment	Mistaken for Pregnant: Every woman of childbearing age is apparently pregnant when there's a sign of a full belly. One should never mind such possible explanations of bloating, gas, obesity/being overweight, eating a big meal, or any medical situation that does not involve pregnancy.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television in some clubs. They'll let you in if you happen to know the owner's name.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_884e513b	type	Medium Awareness
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_884e513b	comment	Medium Awareness: Well... we do have this page.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_8a9989ae	type	Mini-Game
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_8a9989ae	comment	Minigame: There's all sorts of these scattered around, but they require a fair chunk of in-game currency to play. Some of these even contain minigames within themselves! It's even possible for the player to take a path which allows them to design new mingames. You can learn about the tropes of these minigames here.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_8b5e8731	type	Kudzu Plot
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_8b5e8731	comment	Kudzu Plot: So complicated, even the characters "in charge" don't know what the hell's going on most of the time. Whether the author(s) do(es) themselves is hotly debated among the fans (apart from the issue of whether the author/s even exist). Entire academic disciplines are dedicated to making just a little sense of the storyline.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_8b93a168	type	Macross Missile Massacre
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_8b93a168	comment	Macross Missile Massacre: Favorite tactic of militaries across the world, heavily used in air and naval combat. Combined with nukes to make a superweapon called the ICBM, and the Cluster Bomb to make the staggeringly destructive MIRV warhead. The Macross Missle Massacre has become less popular as newer strategies emerged, especially in light of recent developments in the manner of war.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_8d4fcaa5	type	Self-Imposed Challenge
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_8d4fcaa5	comment	Self-Imposed Challenge examples: alcohol, hallucinogens, sleep deprivation.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_8d6c8737	type	Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_8d6c8737	comment	Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence: Played straight for your first level or so. All non-twinks have the choice to avert this trope for a long time, but as your level reaches the max cap it becomes enforced again. Many players are so acquainted to this trope that they never attempt to break it. Some players on the other hand... Also a non-literal example for players with the Shyness attribute, where comparatively simple social interaction becomes an Insurmountable Fence.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_8dc2b0f2	type	Hard Mode Perks
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_8dc2b0f2	comment	Hard Mode Perks: In some countries, if your work hours exceed a certain amount per day, week, or other period of time, you will earn an "overtime" bonus that gets you bonus pay on top of your usual pay. This can be quite exhausting, but can allow one to splurge on some extra luxuries or pay off much-needed bills.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_8efbd9d2	type	Meaningful Funeral
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_8efbd9d2	comment	Meaningful Funeral: Every character sees at least one, most likely. The "Fun" in "Funeral": Sometimes occur, considering how commonplace funerals are, ie. Monty Python's Graham Chapman.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_9108b2c9	type	Grid Puzzle
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_9108b2c9	comment	Grid Puzzle: Escape rooms often feature Sudokus that, when solved, reveal the correct sequence to series of buttons needed to exit the place.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_96181ea7	type	Loads and Loads of Loading
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_96181ea7	comment	Loads and Loads of Loading: Played straight with gestation, but otherwise averted. All textures and cutscenes load instantaneously. Even the splines reticulate so fast you'd barely notice them at all. It turns out the video engine runs faster than the viewer is physically able to perceive it - which seems like a real waste of processing power. Played straight during the "School" and "Employment" arcs if your character has the "Heavy Sleeper" trait, as well as any location where server capacity is limited and you have to wait for a lengthy time for service (known as "queues" or "lines" in one common form)
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_9885d4ab	type	Min-Maxing
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_9885d4ab	comment	Min-Maxing: Largely averted, as the most successful people are usually those who have bothered to build up their Charisma alongside whatever technical knowledge needed, and a great many people who have focused on building knowledge at the expense of social networking haven't done as well. For the most common objectives, this is true. However, there are plenty of alternate objective and victory conditions allowing for many different min maxing options.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_98a19d7f	type	Money, Dear Boy
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_98a19d7f	comment	Money, Dear Boy: invokedSome players would do anything just to get a lot of money (even taking it from other players without the other one's knowledge, something illegal in most servers).
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_98b1dc8f	type	Luck-Based Mission
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_98b1dc8f	comment	Luck-Based Mission: If you pick the Gambler or Entrepreneur class, there are a lot of these that affect how much money you have. But at least they tend to keep you alive, unlike the Soldier class during wartime. However, if you have money, it's well-known that you can more easily turn luck toward your favor. To be honest, though, the entire game is like this—everything from finding a job to attaining fame to surviving the Plague.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_99bda90b	type	Gourmet Pet Food
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_99bda90b	comment	Gourmet Pet Food: This is taken to an extreme with many treats for both cats and dogs. Semisolid snacks are especially egregious offenders: colorful and fancifully shaped (into bacon strips, little burgers, hearts, fish, et al.), they clearly are made to appeal to the owner's aesthetic sensibilities. This helps to hide the fact that they are usually little more than overpriced soy or wheat flour.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_9a5ae2a2	type	More Teeth than the Osmond Family
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_9a5ae2a2	comment	More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Sharks have three rows; certain deep-sea fish are even worse.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: Some in-game religions have a character in their lore who is the source of evil in the world. An example is Satan from the Christian faction. However, no known way of meeting these characters has been discovered yet so they will not directly threaten you.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_9c1c527b	type	Hub City
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_9c1c527b	comment	Hub City: Several, though the main ones are New York, Moscow, London, Tokyo, Mexico City, Paris, Hong Kong, Washington D.C., and Berlin. Jerusalem, Istanbul, Rome, and Beijing are still secondary hubs but are no longer the focus of gameplay.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Trope Namer; a form of Applied Phlebotinum called "fire" has been adapted into various forms of Depleted Phlebotinum Shells (flaming arrows, black powder bombs, flamethrowers, napalm, fuel-air bombs and laser-guided thermobaric missiles, to name just a few) in order to kill them all. In one of the earlier seasons the Toba volcanic event caused a near reboot of the human server. Many non-human players were also affected. On a higher scale some have speculated that the earlier Chicxulub cosmic event ended the dinosaur story arc.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_9dfd7154	type	Fridge Logic
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_9dfd7154	comment	On a more literal level, you can get Money for Nothing. It's called "arbitrage" and only really works if you already have a lot of money in the first place.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_9f39630a	type	Laborious Laziness
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_9f39630a	comment	Laborious Laziness: Who hasn't torn their room apart looking for a missing TV remote control when they could just walk over to the TV and change the channel that way? This is void, of course, for some "too modern" TVs that require the remote to operate on them. Many players have also reported spending hours looking for the keys to their car just to drive down to the grocery store for a few daily supplies, when it would have been much faster (and easier) just to walk instead. Of course, this often turns into a "Shaggy Dog" Story, since often the keys turn out to have been in the exact place the player expected them to be in, only they missed them the first time they looked.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_a10f3840	type	Heaven
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_a10f3840	comment	Heaven: Different characters disagree on whether real life averts this trope or plays it straight. Those who believe it's played straight may disagree on whether or not it's a Fluffy Cloud Heaven, or even if there is more than one heaven.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_a16102d2	type	Meat Moss
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_a16102d2	comment	Meat Moss: Biofilm. There's also a cave formation known as "Snottites", which are long strings of Meat Moss feeding on toxic cave water. They filter out all the nutrients and water, and leave a drop of pure sulphuric acid to drip down.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_a5e02e9e	type	Infinity +1 Sword
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_a5e02e9e	comment	Infinity +1 Sword: Again, the nuclear bomb. Restricted to people who hit the maximum Job Level for Politics, and with a lot of restrictions on it even then. That said, there are persistent rumors of bugs in the code that might allow unlevelled characters to gain access to assorted Infinity Plus One Swords. None have yet been demonstrated, but the rumors alone have made many in the fan base quite upset, especially a few seasons ago.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_a5fb0d24	type	Healing Factor
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_a5fb0d24	comment	Healing Factor: Sadly, players possess a healing factor that takes time and cannot heal all wounds, but creatures such as worms, microscopic hydras, and some other simple creatures can regenerate from decapitation. Fortunately they are too small to harm the player, or the game would become unbalanced.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_a63cfe4a	type	Meta Fiction
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_a63cfe4a	comment	Meta Fiction: The philosophy genre gets more meta with every iteration. It started with fanfics about the ideas behind the code and evolved into fan discussions about what a Player Character even is.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_a7325f9e	type	The Many Deaths of You
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_a7325f9e	comment	The Many Deaths of You: Averted, in that death is usually one-time and permanent. However, there are a lot of different ways to do it. Suffocation, bleeding out, decapitation, broken neck, cancer, drowning, heart attack, stroke, dismemberment, impalement, being hit by a car, Immolation (Burning to death), deadly predators, murder, suicide, murder-suicide, AIDS/HIV, being in the wrong place at the wrong time, falling from too high a height, shock, crushed, being too hot, being too cold, lethal injection, and gassed. That is just the tip of the massive iceberg that is death. Also includes death by ice-berg.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_a78aead3	type	Hide Your Pregnancy
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_a78aead3	comment	Hide Your Pregnancy: In-Universe. Available for female characters, but this Self-Imposed Challenge is not generally a good idea. Hits to your Social points or Relationship values are not worth the trauma and fatigue — to say nothing of the real risks: the unpatched Labor system can crash your game and prevent the noob from completing chararacter generation.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_a8559a9f	comment	So far, this has held true in Real Life, from slings and stones, to bows and arrows, crossbows and bolts, cannons and shells (and guns and bullets), and more recently, guided missiles. And in the future, mass drivers like railguns and Gauss cannons provide a logical path for even further advancement of kinetic weapons. Energy Weapons have also existed for quite a while, in the form of fire, and recently a couple of experimental lasers as well, but have never been so prominent.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_a9850481	type	Meganekko
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_a9850481	comment	Meganekko: Also well-represented. Glasses are popular enough that people wear them when they don't even need them.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_aa2bd65c	type	Mordor
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_aa2bd65c	comment	Mordor: Often the result of warfare, strip-mining, and/or chemical contamination. Reducing a playzone to this status is much faster than restoring them to their previous condition, but this doesn't seem to matter to the characters involved.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_aa92a5d2	type	Mega Neko
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_aa92a5d2	comment	Mega Neko: Lots! Lions, tigers, cougars, jaguars, leopards ... but they rarely make good pets.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_abd29ad8	comment	Puberty. It involves many players suddenly noticing certain things about the opposite (or same) sex that they hadn't before and vice-versa. They may also find themselves aroused by things that previously had no effect on them. This is of course averted for players with Asexuality as one of their character stats.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Although most episodes and seasons are referred to by number, often in the format "episode number-arc/act-season number", there are systems which use more poetic naming, especially with regard to the acts. Notably, the China server uses a cycle of twelve repeating animal-themed seasons, and the Islamic-based system counts the standard arcs from "forbidden" to "the one of pilgrimage". Code inherited from the Ancient Roman server shows that this was attempted by naming in-game time cycles for gods, but it petered out into naming the last seven for their numbers. The attempt was briefly revived when two Emperors named time periods for themselves, but this project was abandoned and the last five are still named for their numbers.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_ac7cbf8d	type	Myth Arc
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_ac7cbf8d	comment	Myth Arc: Somewhat of a subversion, considering the plot has grown so convoluted that some are beginning to question if there even is one, though some religions would beg to differ.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_aec19d54	type	Hyperlink Story
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_aec19d54	comment	Hyperlink Story: invoked Most of real-life is one giant story of multiple story-arcs with large casts of multiple languages without any real main characters. Some even argue that attempts to present main characters such as the "Great Man of History" fad popular in the Romantic arc is either Blatant Lies or Fanon.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_afd68598	type	Inventory Management Puzzle
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_afd68598	comment	Inventory Management Puzzle: A recurring mini-game in the form of school bags, camping/canoeing trips, shopping bags, holiday packing, road trips, moving into a smaller apartment, and a woman's purse (which may verge on Bag of Holding). Averted by a small number of people who take vows of poverty, but this is unusual and often considered deviant. At the opposite extreme, characters with very high levels of money scatter their funds across many servers in an effort to keep their Financial score from suffering 'decay'. This is, so far, an unpatched exploit.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_b25df244	type	Jesus Taboo
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_b25df244	comment	The execution of a certain minor Jewish leader in first-century Judea, eventually sparked off one of the great world religions.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_b496b681	type	Cops and Detectives
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_b496b681	comment	Any scenario where a player doesn't know who to trust, or who, if anyone, is telling the truth. Lots of he-said-she-said can result in mind screw, though players with sufficiently good investigative stats can serve as Mind Screwdrivers.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_ba236071	comment	It Makes Sense in Context: It's commoc for communities to have their own language and terms that outsiders may not get. For example, the soccerball fandom has terms like "hat trick", when a player scores three goals in a signle game.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: It is highly likely to come across someone being selfish while playing around in this Wide-Open Sandbox, and most hide it better than others... and most also don't even notice this trait of theirs.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_bce728ca	comment	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Bad Bosses who cross the line often have this happen to them.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_bd035892	type	Motion Parallax
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_bd035892	comment	Motion Parallax: In real life, it's a measurable physics phenomenon that helps us calculate stuff like astronomical distances. For one, parsecs; i.e., the distance where the parallax angle is measured from opposite sides of Earth. For another, determining the distance of Stars is done by trigonometric parallax, which computes the relative movements of objects against a "fixed" background of far-off stars and galaxies. In other words, the closer a star is, the more it will seem to move, which is very noticeable when one does a star trail photograph.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_bd2812b5	type	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_bd2812b5	comment	Many factions claim that the game ends with Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence, the number of characters will eventually bring on a system crash, and there is no indication that character death by timing-out provides any higher final score than death by any other means. Yet one still finds very few characters willing to undertake a Dying Moment of Awesome.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_bd922dda	type	Gentleman Adventurer
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_bd922dda	comment	Gentleman Adventurer: A class built around exploration achievements. It was never easy to qualify for, and the decreasing number of unclaimed achievements eventually did it in.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_bddb820f	type	Must Have Caffeine
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_bddb820f	comment	Must Have Caffeine: Coffee is second only to petroleum for gallons consumed per year, since it gives great buffs to Alertness.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_bdddc73e	type	Yakuza
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_bdddc73e	comment	The Yakuza is theorized to have started out as guilds of street peddlers who ran illegal gambling rings, as "ya-ku-za" is the worst possible hand in the Japanese card game oicho-kabu.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_be8cb2da	type	Missing Episode
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_be8cb2da	comment	Missing Episode: invokedThe reason why the "Archaeologist," "Anthropologist," "Paleontologist," "Forensic Scientist" and other similar classes are available. There appear to be no ways to revisit any previous level, nor to stream video footage of those levels in play. As such, multiple player guilds and careers have developed specifically to gather together, analyze and discuss the fragmentary traces and records of older arcs.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_bea43fc4	type	Malignant Plot Tumor
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_bea43fc4	comment	Malignant Plot Tumor: Quite a few. By no means a complete list: A band of refugees, thieves, debtors, runaway slaves and whoever get it into their heads to build a small town around seven hills in Italy. Then an Etruscan prince insulted one of their women, with results that were less than pleasant for the Etruscans. As a result the most famous empire in history is formed, and most of the most powerful nations in the world call themselves a Res-pub-lic-a The execution of a certain minor Jewish leader in first-century Judea, eventually sparked off one of the great world religions. A Wacky Wayside Tribe of Arab nomads in-between Persia and Rome during the Ancient World arc go on to dominate half the known world (and invent another major religion) during the Medieval arc. Dividing up the Middle East seemed almost like an afterthought at the close of World War I, but it has led to no end of headaches in recent seasons. A handful of rebellious British North American colonies ended up establishing the Modern World arc's superpower. The Japan server for the most part was concerned only with its minigame until around 150 seasons ago, then featured prominently in the World War II story arc and remains one of the more influential forces in the game today. Players on it insist it be kept to players who started out with it only, and constant PvP incidents have led to it causing friction with the other Asian servers. See even wider-reaching examples under Lethal Joke Character and The Singularity.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_bef696dd	comment	The inability to access in-game help or get a response from the mods or devs has become a Mind Screw in the eyes of some players, who join the Atheism faction or opt out of the religious aspect of the game entirely.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_bfae65a4	type	Guilt-Based Gaming
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_bfae65a4	comment	Guilt-Based Gaming: Most religions consider cancelling your subscription to be bad.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_c0d1354b	type	Metaplot
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_c0d1354b	comment	Metaplot: An enormous number of independent stories exist in the Real Life universe, but metaplots about world affairs happen sometimes (such as the two world wars and the Cold War).
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_c0f87dda	type	Humans Are Warriors
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_c0f87dda	comment	Humans Are Warriors: We have several millennia of experience with warfare, and while it's not a trait we're always proud of, we are very, very good at war. Whether or not a member of the military prestige class is proud of their status has a lot to do with whether or not they've had a chance to use their class features in a combat situation. Also, whether or not the Military class even is a prestige class depends on the server. In many servers, characters are forced to take the Soldier class: in a few, they're not even allowed to finish the tutorial levels first.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_c190165	type	"How I Wrote This Article" Article
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_c190165	comment	"How I Wrote This Article" Article: An academic journal of psychology once published a scholarly study entitled "The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of Writers' Block". Peer reviewers commended the author for showing his results in great detail while being admirably concise. Of course, everything except the title is blank.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_c309f9d1	type	Science Marches On
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_c309f9d1	comment	The time limit has gotten higher due to advances in science and medicine.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: While there's life, there's hope, even if another danger may be near after surviving one.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_c513249	type	Harder Than Hard
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_c513249	comment	Harder Than Hard: The International Baccalaureate high school program, said to exceed the difficulty of Honors and Advanced Placement classes. And of course, difficulty also depends on region This Difficulty by Region results in Easy-Mode Mockery by forcing you to do it again if you switch locales to one where the school system is harder. Some universities donâ€™t even accept IB credit, compared to AP credit. No, really. Not to mention that many players don't even get the chance to enter the School career path, instead being forced into the Work or War levels with inadequate preparation or just unlucky rolls in character creation...
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_c57b21f9	type	Global Currency
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_c57b21f9	comment	Global Currency: Massively averted. Almost every server has its own currency, although these can usually be exchanged. The euro, one recent step toward a multi-server currency, is as of 2011 suffering a serious crisis because all the servers treated it differently. Making things worse, there are a bewildering variety of minigames, each of which has its own currency. These minigame currencies can in some cases be exchanged for Real Life money, but doing so is against the House Rules on most servers. There are proposals for a global reserve currency though, so this may become true sooner than expected.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_c960dde7	type	Melodrama
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_c960dde7	comment	Many actors and actresses however have complained that their genres don't change feeling stuck in Melodrama and Stepford Suburbia arc, or in Wrong Side of the Tracks with studios and agents telling them they don't have money for the Vacation Episode, the talents for the Musical Episode, and are stuck in Typecasting as The Everyman or Unlucky Everydude Butt-Monkey, rather than The Hero arc that gets them better roles, or higher billing.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_cbd2bfa3	type	Glory Days
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_cbd2bfa3	comment	Glory Days: To most people, it was their childhood. Literally.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_ccab244d	type	Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_ccab244d	comment	Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better: So far, this has held true in Real Life, from slings and stones, to bows and arrows, crossbows and bolts, cannons and shells (and guns and bullets), and more recently, guided missiles. And in the future, mass drivers like railguns and Gauss cannons provide a logical path for even further advancement of kinetic weapons. Energy Weapons have also existed for quite a while, in the form of fire, and recently a couple of experimental lasers as well, but have never been so prominent. The top-tier move "Rod From God" has been found in the code and would allow for the destruction of entire bases and settlements in one go, but no one has unlocked it yet.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_cd3703a2	type	Genre Mashup
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_cd3703a2	comment	Genre Mashup: It is not uncommon for storylines to mix elements of different genres. For instance, much of the military fiction crosses over into science fiction, and space travel seems so far to be a subplot of the military genre. Romantic storylines will be interspersed with workplace drama and sitcom, and so on.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_cd8ca67a	type	DoubleSubverted
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_cd8ca67a	comment	Double Subverted. If your heart suffers physical damage, you'll lose HP and eventually die, but your personality is unlikely to change. Replacing parts of the heart (or even taking out the whole thing and putting in a pump) does not alter people in any way that would be noticeable without a medical exam. However, damage to the brain(!) may cause many of the effects normally associated with this trope.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_cda501da	type	Killed Off for Real
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_cda501da	comment	Killed Off for Real: Not just common, though some have beliefs that the dead return in some way - enough players will tell others that ghosts linger in the living world and can contact the living. Occasionally averted with last-minute desperation tactics, such as defibrillation and CPR, but it has yet to be seen that one stave off Character Death indefinitely. Subverted that one time. However, this might again be the case of an Unreliable Narrator... The time limit at which enforced Character Death becomes more likely was once much higher, if you believe The Bible. The time limit has gotten higher due to advances in science and medicine. Many factions claim that the game ends with Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence, the number of characters will eventually bring on a system crash, and there is no indication that character death by timing-out provides any higher final score than death by any other means. Yet one still finds very few characters willing to undertake a Dying Moment of Awesome.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_cdc4a218	type	Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_cdc4a218	comment	Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act: The developer(s) have given no indication that there are plans to introduce a Time Travel mechanic. Considering the massive amount of Retcon involved, and the high risk that powergamers would abuse the mechanic and cause a system crash, this is probably just as well. For more musing about the moral and temporal issues, visit the trope page.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_cedeae6a	type	Wacky Wayside Tribe
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_cedeae6a	comment	A Wacky Wayside Tribe of Arab nomads in-between Persia and Rome during the Ancient World arc go on to dominate half the known world (and invent another major religion) during the Medieval arc.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_d1dd0628	type	Metapuzzle
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_d1dd0628	comment	Metapuzzle: Crossword books sometimes have solutions that can only be derived when solving individual crosswords and riddles beforehand.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_d3aad64a	type	Morally Ambiguous Doctorate
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_d3aad64a	comment	Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Played with. The vast majority avert this trope, but those that play it straight tend to gain extreme levels of infamy.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_d4031bde	type	RoaringTwenties
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_d4031bde	comment	An annual Roaring Twenties themed fundraiser at Salt Lake City's Catholic high school is called Joe Sent Me.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_d933263	type	Have a Nice Death
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_d933263	comment	Have a Nice Death: A thoughtful obituary is almost a given. Some lucky souls even receive two or three post-death debriefings, with dramatic displays costing large amounts of currency. But unless beliefs about reincarnation are true, you only get to die once. Some players have reported a Good Bad Bug that lets you preview the Have a Nice Death screen if you suffer serious trauma. This seems to be extremely rare though, and many consider it an Urban Legend of Zelda. There's another bug in which NPCs have been known to publish an obituary for a player that hasn't died. This is particularly interesting, as players do not normally get to see their own obituaries.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_da0eeab5	type	Breakout Character
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_da0eeab5	comment	invokedMany try to break out of this, sometimes becoming a Breakout Character or Ensemble Dark Horse, or otherwise trying to invoke Evil Is Cool, but usually becoming a Hate Sink for an Anvilicious Drugs Are Bad message. On the other hand, many note that The Everyman characters over time attract a small but devoted Cult following who end up becoming Vindicated by History.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_db33bc7e	type	Ludicrous Gibs
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_db33bc7e	comment	Ludicrous Gibs: Entirely possible with certain weapon or object interactions with players. Such interactions generally cause an instant Permadeath and can lead to psychological debuffs for other players who witness them or their aftermath.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_dceca6f8	type	Missing Man Formation
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_dceca6f8	comment	Missing Man Formation: Frequently used to honor fallen members of the Pilot class.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_e132a0f7	type	Joins to Fit In
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_e132a0f7	comment	Joins to Fit In: Thousands of clubs exist for characters with similar interests to bond over these interests. Especially for characters who have chosen the Musician class, this is practically necessary in order to make the class a viable career-path. That said, there are some who decide to go alone, but even they need to hire a group of other characters in order to perform and earn money.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_e2767d5c	type	House Rules
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_e2767d5c	comment	House Rules: Many groups of fans have come up with their own sets of rules for playing, some considerably more restrictive than others. The game may well be more fun without them, but they are convinced that following these extra rules is worth more points. Disagreements about these different play styles have led to many nasty Flame Wars.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_e3226029	type	Bag of Holding
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_e3226029	comment	A recurring mini-game in the form of school bags, camping/canoeing trips, shopping bags, holiday packing, road trips, moving into a smaller apartment, and a woman's purse (which may verge on Bag of Holding).
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_e49686	type	The Hero
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_e49686	comment	The Hero: Look in the mirror.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_e4f48a7f	type	The "Fun" in "Funeral"
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_e4f48a7f	comment	The "Fun" in "Funeral": Sometimes occur, considering how commonplace funerals are, ie. Monty Python's Graham Chapman.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_e542549e	type	GMPC
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_e542549e	comment	GMPC: According to one Player's Handbook, one who was able to Fudge creation stat randomization (rolling a massive CHARISMA and HOLY /FAITH score), auto-critical Item Crafting and Swim checks, and ignore perma-death, more or less in that order.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_e54326a2	type	Hell
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_e54326a2	comment	Hell: Different characters disagree on whether real life averts this trope or plays it straight. Those who believe it's played straight may disagree on whether or not it's a Fire and Brimstone Hell, or even if there is more than one hell.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_e63317eb	type	Green Hill Zone
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_e63317eb	comment	Green Hill Zone: Yards, prairies, and public parks. The first level was most likely eastern Africa, which looks like it should qualify, but this may be a subversion since it's somewhat of a Death World as well.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_e8bb3043	type	Kill It with Water
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_e8bb3043	comment	Kill It with Water: Trope Namer. According to some, the Game Master decided after the first few seasons that the characters and plot were going completely Off the Rails. The GM felt that the best course of action was to drop a flood on everyone except for a few of the characters; just enough for a Reboot. Ironically, water is a key component for every lifeform in the entire series and will remain so for the foreseeable future.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Due to what is widely perceived as a design flaw for male characters, this move can result in a Single-Stroke Battle. While onlookers sometimes feel it can be Played for Laughs, it is never considered so by the target.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_eb002293	type	Shrinking Violet
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_eb002293	comment	Also a non-literal example for players with the Shyness attribute, where comparatively simple social interaction becomes an Insurmountable Fence.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_ec02c97e	type	Defied Trope
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_ec02c97e	comment	Defied by some aces to get people to leave them alone by deliberately not looking attractive (though usually not ugly).
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_ee19d278	type	Blob Monster
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_ee19d278	comment	The glob of goo (scoby, short for "symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast") used to make kombucha (fermented tea) moves around in the liquid; rising, sinking, flipping over, and occasionally gaining so much bouyancy that it looks like it's trying to escape. Some homebrewers get attached to and name theirs, treating it as a pet Blob Monster that lives entirely on room-temperature sweet tea. When put up for storage, the resultant jar of grey biomass floating in amber liquid looks like something you'd find on the set of a horror movie.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_ee8807f9	type	LawOfConservationOfDetail
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_ee8807f9	comment	Law of Conservation of Detail: Played With. There are so many details that some have to avert this trope, but can be an Enforced Trope if characters are macgyvering resolutions to their personal arcs, and at other times a Defied Trope, such as when an important-seeming detail like a religion-themed item turns out to be purely aesthetic. Played straight in the math level.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_ef20d7bc	type	A Minor Kidroduction
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_ef20d7bc	comment	A Minor Kidroduction: Downplayed, each character's tutorial section is usually at least 10% of their entire playtime.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_f005700f	type	Conspicuous Consumption
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_f005700f	comment	Averted. There's just so much stuff to be bought with the in-game currency that you will never have too much money. Oh sure, the other players may say you do, especially indulging in Conspicuous Consumption, there's always charities to give that money to.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_f1c80313	type	High School Rocks
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_f1c80313	comment	High School Rocks: But only for those who manage to be popular because of good looks (usually), funniness and/or some respected talent. For others, high school is four consecutive Scrappy Levels. It can also rock for those who willingly embrace (and in some cases even celebrate) their unpopularity. This is rare, but it happens.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_f3c2fec5	type	Jungle Japes
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_f3c2fec5	comment	The first level was most likely eastern Africa, which looks like it should qualify, but this may be a subversion since it's somewhat of a Death World as well.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_f6722211	type	Hit Points
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_f6722211	comment	Hit Points: Lifeforms are too complex to sum up their vitals in a number — the game uses a number of very complex wounds systems instead — but many hospitals manage to condense a few properties to numbers; although it's not a true damage tracker, they do help to provide a useful status shot.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_f7567671	type	Game Within a Game
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_f7567671	comment	Game Within a Game: Too many to count, of literally every genre. Most have no effect on gameplay as a whole, however, unless you're really good at one - and even then, it requires extreme talent and luck, or an economy system that isn't completely broken. That fact doesn't stop many players from ignoring the main game to focus on these minigames though. The fact that there's an entire class built around the creation of new minigames underscores the popularity of those.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_f90927	type	Heart Trauma
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_f90927	comment	Heart Trauma: Double Subverted. If your heart suffers physical damage, you'll lose HP and eventually die, but your personality is unlikely to change. Replacing parts of the heart (or even taking out the whole thing and putting in a pump) does not alter people in any way that would be noticeable without a medical exam. However, damage to the brain(!) may cause many of the effects normally associated with this trope. The psychological trauma associated with cardiological incidents can have mind altering effects.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_f9977015	type	My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_f9977015	comment	My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours: A necessary skill if you ever have to fight your corner before a court or tribunal. Members of the "Lawyer" class may be enlisted to employ this skill on your behalf, but this can be extremely resource intensive.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_fb8f6a95	type	Memory-Restoring Melody
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_fb8f6a95	comment	Memory-Restoring Melody: Forgetful characters feel the power of remembrance when listening to certain special songs. Probably has something to so with the songs themselves being familiar to the characters in some way.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_fc23757	type	Honest Rolls Character
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_fc23757	comment	Honest Rolls Character: Every single one. You get what you get. The character generator can absolutely screw you. A significant number of characters, perhaps as many as 40%, are killed by spontaneous miscarriages (or if it's by choice on the mother's part, abortion) before finishing generation. If the character generator decides you should be born tall, good looking, brilliant, with a wealthy, loving family, an amicable personality, prodigious talent, and no diseases, so be it. If it decides to saddle you with a chromosomal abnormality, your mother's HIV infection, and a spinal cord that sticks out a hole in your spine, you get no reroll. At best you can ally yourself with one of the health-insurance factions (and pay substantial guild dues) to have some of the penalties reduced. There are Scientist-class players working on cybernetic augmentation, genetic engineering, and bioenhancement procedures to modify these, but they currently firmly at the theoretical level.
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Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_ff34c05a	type	Item Crafting
Tropes G to M / Real Life / int_ff34c05a	comment	Item Crafting: Features an extensive system tied in with the Tech Tree — so extensive, in fact, that a viable strategy for some players is to devote themselves to gaining levels in one particular aspect and selling their craftsmanship to other players. New formulas are being discovered all the time.
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