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* {{Elseworld}}: At least a few stories in each collection put various characters in different time periods than their respective canons.
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* {{Elseworld}}: At least a A few stories in each collection put throughout various collections put fictional characters in different time periods than their respective canons.
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* ThrowItIn: Not every story is E350's own idea, as every year he accepts requests from his readers.
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* CerebusRollercoaster: Each collection alternates between comedic entries (on even numbered days) and darker action/drama/horror pieces (on odd numbered days). This pattern was apparently unintentional early on in [=HU1=], but once it was pointed out to him, E350 codified it.
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* AscendedExtra: Ovard Grim, who only appeared twice in the last Unspectacular, becomes [[spoiler: a member of the BigBadEnsemble]].
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''Halloween Unspectacular'' is a series of fanfics by E350, each containing thirty-one one-shots, one for each day of October. While each is an anthology, {{Story Arc}}s run through each, and {{Myth Arc}}s have grown out of those. It's been a yearly tradition on his Website/FanfictionDotNet account since 2010, excluding 2015, as he had tried to wrap up the series with the fifth addition edition only to come back to it in 2016.
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* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: Many entries are meant to be, or can serve as, jumping off points for stories of their own. In the case of "Time to Send in the Troops" from [=HU1=], it actually [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6447961/1/Eureka paid off]].
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* AfterTheEnd: "Masters of War" follows a nuclear war which devastates America and much of the rest of the world, and the aftermath.
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* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: A threat in most of the major story arcs, and a few of the individual stories.
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* ArcWelding: During the climax, [=ReGenesis'=] destruction of the world somehow causes the main timeline and the "Legendaries" one to start bleeding into each other. This leads to WWII generals armed with Pokemon joining the established heroes in the fight to save the world.
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* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: [=ReGenesis=] starts destroying the world almost immediately after being created. [[spoiler: He almost totally finishes the process before the Doctor convinces him to use his powers to hit the ResetButton (at the cost of his own life).]]
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* CloningGambit: [[spoiler: Richtofen kills Insano to get the Fiddley Thing, only for it to turn out to have been a clone decoy.]]
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* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: [[spoiler: The fight for control of the Fiddley Things causes the universe to collapse. The ResetButton gets hit when the heroes win.]]
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* AfterTheEnd: "South Point" is set years after an AlienInvasion resulted in humanity being enslaved and taken off planet. The only people known to have escaped this fate are Danny, Dani, and Jazz.
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* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: [[spoiler: Galahad's plan to collapse the multiverse. Tammy comes from a BadFuture where it backfired and unleashed a horde of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s which destroyed the world.]]
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* OfficialCouple: [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Mabel and Pacifica]] in some one-shots.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Vlad walks out of the Syndicate due to their deal with Terminus in "A Terrible Thing to Lose".
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* AntagonisticGovernor: The unnamed Governor of the Gaol serves as the BigBad of that arc [[spoiler: and is the leader of the villain alliance in the main arc.]]
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Governor is never named.
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** "The Most Patient Man On Radio" is based on the "Most Patient Man On Television" skit from ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver''.
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''Halloween Unspectacular'' is a series of fanfics by E350, each containing thirty-one one-shots, one for each day of October. While each is an anthology, {{Story Arc}}s run through each, and {{Myth Arc}}s have grown out of those. It's been a yearly tradition on his Website/FanfictionDotNet account since 2010.
2010, excluding 2015, as he had tried to wrap up the series with the fifth addition only to come back to it in 2016.
* AuthorAvatar: E350 is often a character in these stories.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When it's not being outright [[BreakingTheFourthWall broken]].
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** In the fourth one, there's an arc centered on a prison only referred to as "the Gaol" (an alternate spelling for jail). [[spoiler: It turns out to be connected to the MythArc.]]
** The fifth one has a three-part FreakyFridayFlip story.
** The sixth one had a two-part story about [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Ford]] and [[WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall Wirt]] getting trapped in a strange land.
** The fifth one has a three-part FreakyFridayFlip story.
** The sixth one had a two-part story about [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Ford]] and [[WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall Wirt]] getting trapped in a strange land.
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** In the fourth one, there's an arc centered on a prison only referred to as "the Gaol" (an alternate spelling for jail). jail), and another involving several villains coming together to destroy the heroes. [[spoiler: It turns out to be both are connected to the MythArc.]]
** The fifth one has a three-part FreakyFridayFlipstory.
story. And the MythArc comes to a conclusion as [[spoiler: the previous {{Big Bad}}s ally under Galahad's banner.]]
** The sixth one had a two-part story about [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Ford]] and [[WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall Wirt]] getting trapped in a strange land. The new MythArc begins, as PURITY prepares to make its move.
** The seventh one has PURITY preparing a new plan.
** The fifth one has a three-part FreakyFridayFlip
** The sixth one had a two-part story about [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Ford]] and [[WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall Wirt]] getting trapped in a strange land. The new MythArc begins, as PURITY prepares to make its move.
** The seventh one has PURITY preparing a new plan.
* BigBad: Dan in the ''Batavia'' arc, [[spoiler: Zombie King James I]] in the main one.
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* BigBadEnsemble: Vlad Masters, Mr. Cromwell, Morgan le Fay, and a mysterious cloaked person ([[spoiler: the Governor from the Gaol story]]) for the overarching plot.
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* BigBadEnsemble: BigBadDuumvirate: Vlad Masters, Mr. Cromwell, Morgan le Fay, and a mysterious cloaked person ([[spoiler: the Governor from the Gaol story]]) for the overarching plot.
* SequelHook: The cliffhanger that ends the story has [[spoiler: a new villainous alliance being formed]] that the heroes will clearly have to deal with.
* TakeThat: Many towards the infamous ending of ''Mass Effect 3''.
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* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler: [=ReGenesis=], Dan Phantom, King James I, Ovard Grim, and the Governor all team up. Except they're all being played by Galahad.]]
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* BigBadEnsemble: BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler: [=ReGenesis=], Dan Phantom, King James I, Ovard Grim, and the Governor all team up. Except they're all being played by Galahad.]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Grim does this at the end of the story, talking to the reader to address the dangling plot threads.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: In "The Sea of Switching", a sea spirit turns Gaz into a member of the crew she's been tormenting, leaving her at their mercy.]]
* BigBad: General Rausseman
* EvilIsPetty: In "Alien!", it turns out that Zim is the one who convinced the government agents that Gaz was an alien. He was apparently hoping they'd dissect her, for no other reason than it'd upset Dib.
* MistakenForAliens: In "Alien!", government agents become convinced Gaz is an alien and bring her in for interrogation. [[spoiler: They almost dissect her before they realize their mistake.]]
* TheRemnant: PURITY arose from a group of Nazis who escaped the war to hide out in Alaska.
* SequelHook: [[spoiler: An arrested Rausseman is offered an alliance by people within the US government.]]
* BigBad: Rausseman again.
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* CorruptPolitician: [[spoiler: President Fulton.]]
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* CorruptPolitician: [[spoiler: President Fulton. He starts as a Donald Trump parody, then sells out to PURITY out of both FantasticRacism and a desire for more power.]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: The final fates of Dipper and Mabel's parents isn't explained.]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: The final fates fate of Dipper and Mabel's parents isn't explained.]]
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** The second parody has Professor Calamitous create a thinly-veiled parody of UsefulNote/DonaldTrump. [[spoiler: Who then turns into an EldritchAbomination and is swiftly defeated offscreen by [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Kamala Khan]], WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom, and [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse the Crystal Gems]].]]
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** The second parody chapter has Professor Calamitous create a thinly-veiled parody of UsefulNote/DonaldTrump. [[spoiler: Who then turns into an EldritchAbomination and is swiftly defeated offscreen by [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Kamala Khan]], WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom, and [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse the Crystal Gems]].]]
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* PhysicalGod: ReGenesis.
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* PhysicalGod: ReGenesis.[=ReGenesis=].
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* CarFu: [[spoiler: Unintentionally utilised by the police against the Underworld King, who then name-drops it: "''Only'' '''I''' ''may utilise the Car Fu!''"]]
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* CarFu: [[spoiler: Unintentionally utilised by the police and two members of the Nicktoons' apartment's private security force against the Underworld King, who then name-drops it: "''Only'' '''I''' ''may utilise the Car Fu!''"]]Fu!''"]]
* DrivesLikeCrazy: After the above instance of CarFu, Harrison and David (who drove the police car and jeep, respectively) are banned from ever driving again by their respective partners.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: After the above instance of CarFu, Harrison and David (who drove the police car and jeep, respectively) are banned from ever driving again by their respective partners.
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* HeroKiller: [[spoiler: PURITY, through mind control, kills off Hawkeye, War Machine, Black Widow, a good chunk of the people at Xavier's School for Gifted Children, a number of Inhumans, ''Garnet''[[note]]Actually, they poof her, and Captain America is only able to rescue Sapphire[[/note]], and who knows how many others.]]
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* HeroKiller: [[spoiler: PURITY, through mind control, PURITY kills off Hawkeye, War Machine, Black Widow, a good chunk of the people at Xavier's School for Gifted Children, a number of Inhumans, ''Garnet''[[note]]Actually, they poof her, and Captain America is only able to rescue Sapphire[[/note]], and who knows how many others.]]
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* ShoutOut: "Enemy Unknown" references ''VideoGame/XCOM''.
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* ShoutOut: "Enemy Unknown" references ''VideoGame/XCOM''.''VideoGame/{{XCOM}}''.
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* BerserkButton/DisproportionateRetribution: For Lancer, it's butchering Shakespeare. He demands that his class ''bring him the head'' of whoever wrote the parody from "Parody", and, to prove he's serious, pulls out a machine gun.
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* BerserkButton/DisproportionateRetribution: BerserkButton / DisproportionateRetribution: For Lancer, it's butchering Shakespeare. He demands that his class ''bring him the head'' of whoever wrote the parody from "Parody", and, to prove he's serious, pulls out a machine gun.
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* BadassNormal: A French cafe´ owner manages to get the EldritchAbomination print version of last year's ''Halloween Unspectacular'' out of Paris by yelling at it for disturbing his customers.
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* BadassNormal: A French cafe´ cafe owner manages to get the EldritchAbomination print version of last year's ''Halloween Unspectacular'' out of Paris by yelling at it for disturbing his customers.
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** Chapter 24 is labeled [[Film/LittleShopOfHorrors Little Shop of Parodies]]" and features references to ''Franchise/{{Tron}}'', ''Franchise/{{Warhammer}}'', Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos, and ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''.
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** Chapter 24 is labeled [[Film/LittleShopOfHorrors "[[Film/LittleShopOfHorrors Little Shop of Parodies]]" and features references to ''Franchise/{{Tron}}'', ''Franchise/{{Warhammer}}'', Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos, and ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''.
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* UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories: E350 comes up with one in order to explain the animated universe. Among other things, he claims that [[WesternAnimation/Foster'sHomeForImaginaryFriends Frankie Foster]] and [[WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents Vicky]] are clones and the government has ninjas.
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* UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories: E350 comes up with one in order to explain the animated universe. Among other things, he claims that [[WesternAnimation/Foster'sHomeForImaginaryFriends [[WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends Frankie Foster]] and [[WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents Vicky]] are clones and the government has ninjas.
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* AdaptationalWimp: [[spoiler: ReGenesis is weaker than he was in HU1, though he's still powerful enough to take on a skilled mage.]]
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* PrecisionFStrike: E350 isn't normally one to use swearing in his stories, making the Vice President calling [[spoiler: General Rausseman]] a "sanctimonious jackass]] in "Of Presidents and Purity" this trope.
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* PrecisionFStrike: E350 isn't normally one to use swearing in his stories, making the Vice President calling [[spoiler: General Rausseman]] a "sanctimonious jackass]] jackass" in "Of Presidents and Purity" this trope.
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* ForScience: Professor Membrane will take a home renovation and use it as an excuse for this.
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* ForScience: Professor Membrane will take a home renovation and use it as an excuse for this.
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** "Angry Fandom Shelter" ends with a ''Series/COPS'' reference.
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** In the first one, there's a three-chapter arc about E350 and his friends trying to defeat a witch version of [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Ember McLain]], and an arc concerning the creation -- and rampage -- of a creature only known as ReGenesis.
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* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler: When it looks like ReGenesis is going to destroy Zim, the Doctor comes in and talks him down.]]
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* FacePalm: Vlad does this during the ReGenesis arc as more and more people find their way to his private villa in Australia.
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* FacePalm: Vlad does this during the ReGenesis [=ReGenesis=] arc as more and more people find their way to his private villa in Australia.
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* WhamLine: Zim gets his first full look at ReGenesis, and utters only one word: [[spoiler: "''Dib?''"]]
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* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler: ReGenesis, Dan Phantom, King James I, Ovard Grim, and the Governor all team up. Except they're all being played by Galahad.]]
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* CivilWar: One of these has erupted in Avalon about a year after the Battle of EL Dorado.
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** Eureka. [[spoiler: We learn that Athena was grooming Jazz for her apparent "destiny", where she either has to let ReGenesis send the world into a new Dark Age, or die. Except maybe not, if the appearance of [[KidFromTheFuture Tammy Turner]] says anything...]]
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** Eureka. "Eureka". [[spoiler: We learn that Athena was grooming Jazz for her apparent "destiny", where she either has to let ReGenesis [=ReGenesis=] send the world into a new Dark Age, or die. Except maybe not, if the appearance of [[KidFromTheFuture Tammy Turner]] says anything...]]
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* AlternateHistory: "Legendaries", where the Allies use [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} legenedary Poke´mon]] to win WWII.
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* GangWar: Between groups of clowns in "Send in the Clowns".
* GettingSmilesPaintedOnYourSoul: The mandatory pill that everyone takes in "An Average Day" suppresses all negative emotions.
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* GangWar: Between groups of clowns in "Send in the Clowns".
* GettingSmilesPaintedOnYourSoul:GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: The mandatory pill that everyone takes in "An Average Day" suppresses all negative emotions.
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** The second parody has Professor Calamitous create a thinly-veiled parody of UsefulNote/DonaldTrump. [[spoiler: Who then turns into an EldritchAbomination and is swiftly defeated offscreen by [[ComicBook/MissMarvel2014 Kamala Khan]], WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom, and [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse the Crystal Gems]].]]
** The second parody has Professor Calamitous create a thinly-veiled parody of UsefulNote/DonaldTrump. [[spoiler: Who then turns into an EldritchAbomination and is swiftly defeated offscreen by [[ComicBook/MissMarvel2014 Kamala Khan]], WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom, and [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse the Crystal Gems]].]]
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** The second parody has Professor Calamitous create a thinly-veiled parody of UsefulNote/DonaldTrump. [[spoiler: Who then turns into an EldritchAbomination and is swiftly defeated offscreen by[[ComicBook/MissMarvel2014 [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Kamala Khan]], WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom, and [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse the Crystal Gems]].]]
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* AscendedToAHigherPlainOfExistence: [[spoiler: Mabel and Pacifica, at the end of "The Gift".]]
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* BaitAndSwitch: In "Adapt or Perish", two MPs come to the Pines family's house because they might be harboring a fugitive from another dimension. While they technically ''are'', it turns out that the MPs were looking for [[WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil the Diaz family]] instead.
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* BaitAndSwitch: In "Adapt or Perish", two MPs [=MPs=] come to the Pines family's house because they might be harboring a fugitive from another dimension. While they technically ''are'', it turns out that the MPs [=MPs=] were looking for [[WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil the Diaz family]] instead.
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** ThoseWackyNazis: In chapter 28, E350 categorizes the types of Nazis that he's used in his stories over the years. For him, they tend to fall into three types: A (the breathtakingly incompetent ones), B (the moustache-twirlingly evil ones), and/or C (the gratuitous back-story ones).
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''Halloween Unspectacular'' is a series of fanfics by E350, each containing thirty-one one-shots, one for each day of October. It's been a yearly tradition on his Website/FanfictionDotNet account since 2010.
[[folder:List of Halloween Unspectaculars]]
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6364928/1/Halloween-Unspectacular Halloween Unspectacular]]''
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7426460/1/Halloween-Unspectacular-2-Do-the-Gasmask-Shuffle Halloween Unspectacular 2: Do the Gasmask Shuffle]]''
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8568978/1/Halloween-Unspectacular-3-Terror-Australis-Incognita Halloween Unspectacular 3: Terror Australis Incognita]]''
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9729282/1/Halloween-Unspectacular-4-Mess-Effect Halloween Unspectacular 4: Mess Effect]]''
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10726125/1/Halloween-Unspectacular-5-The-Final-Push Halloween Unspectacular 5: The Final Push]]''
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12171918/1/Halloween-Unspectacular-6-Lair-of-the-Hack-Writer Halloween Unspectacular 6: Lair of the Hack Writer]]''
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12671447/1/Halloween-Unspectacular-7-Watchmeh Halloween Unspectacular 7: Watchmeh]]''
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!!This series contains examples of:
[[folder:Tropes over multiple collections]]
* ArcWords: For the first MythArc, "It always rains". First spoken by [[spoiler: the Governor, after he looks in the box in El Dorado]], before popping up several times afterwards.
* BigBad: Shifted several times with the first MythArc. The second MythArc firmly plants General Rausseman in the role.
* CanonDiscontinuity: The endings of [=HU1=] and [=HU2=] are considered noncanon by the author due to the deaths of major characters.
* EveryEpisodeEnding: Every collection ends with a parody of [[Music/BillyJoel Billy Joel's]] "We Didn't Start the Fire".
* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: Happens quite a bit, most commonly between various [[Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} Nicktoons]].
* MythArc: Two major ones so far:
** The first, officially referred to as the Fiddley Canon, covers just about everything plot-related from [=HU1=] to [=HU5=]. It involves the Fiddley Thing, magic, sorcery, dragons, figures from European myth, and various other things.
** The second and current one, starting in [=HU6=], revolves around a Nazi remnant group that the heroes must defeat.
* OfficialCouple: [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Mabel and Pacifica]] in some one-shots.
* RealityWarper: The Fiddley Thing.
* RunningGag: The Fiddley Thing showing up at some point.
* SelfDeprecation: E350 does this a ''lot''.
* StoryArc: All of the fanfics have this to some extent:
** In the first one, there's a three-chapter arc about E350 and his friends trying to defeat a witch version of [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Ember McLain]], and an arc concerning the creation -- and rampage -- of a creature only known as ReGenesis.
** In the second one, there's Spongebob's attempts to stop the Underworld King, as well as a separate story arc in which a RagtagBunchOfMisfits try to keep the Fiddley Thing away from a German scientist working for [[spoiler: Dan Phantom]].
** In the third one, E350 retells the story of the ship ''Batavia'' with fictional characters. The first MythArc also officially begins with this collection.
** In the fourth one, there's an arc centered on a prison only referred to as "the Gaol" (an alternate spelling for jail). [[spoiler: It turns out to be connected to the MythArc.]]
** The fifth one has a three-part FreakyFridayFlip story.
** The sixth one had a two-part story about [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Ford]] and [[WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall Wirt]] getting trapped in a strange land.
* ThoseWackyNazis: PURITY.
* WeaponOfChoice: E350 has his Anti-Magic Tommy Gun.
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[[folder:Halloween Unspectacular 1]]
* AlternateHistory: "Legendaries", where the Allies use [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} legenedary Poke´mon]] to win WWII.
* BigBad: Witch Ember for her arc, and ReGenesis [[spoiler: aka Dib]] for their arc.
* BittersweetEnding: In the last story. [[spoiler: The world is saved, but not everyone made it out alive.]]
* BodyHorror: The fourth story features, among other things, Tad and Chad getting melted and Francis looking like he'd been put through a blender.
* BrainUploading: Sandy does this in "A Terrible Thing to Lose" [[spoiler: in order to escape Terminus' influence]].
* TheCameo: [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] makes one at the end of the first part of the Witch Ember story, before getting a bigger role for the rest of the arc.
** WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic gets a few cameos in as well before getting an entire chapter to himself.
* CassandraTruth: E350 ends up getting humored by emergency services when he tries to call about [[ItMakesSenseInContext the giant witch on his front lawn.]]
* ContinuityCavalcade: The finale does this, which is especially notable in [[spoiler: the Doctor's speech.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: "Masters of War" is probably the darkest, bleakest one-shot in the collection, dealing with the event and aftermath of America getting nuked.
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler: When it looks like ReGenesis is going to destroy Zim, the Doctor comes in and talks him down.]]
* EnemyWithout: [[spoiler: Timmy's inner darkness made manifest, the main villain of "With Great Power..."]]
* FacePalm: Vlad does this during the ReGenesis arc as more and more people find their way to his private villa in Australia.
* {{Filler}}: "The Unspectacular Filler", of course.
* FishPeople: Mrs. Doombringer's plan in "After Action Report" seems to revolve around turning people into these. She manages to do it to Timmy, [[spoiler: Sam]], and who knows how many others.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Project ReGenesis.
* LamePunReaction: During the climax of the Witch Ember arc, after the titular antagonist turns Sandy into a stuffed animal, E350 makes a joke about the group being "stuffed". Linkara only barely manages to keep Zim from throwing him out of the Rocket Van.
* LargeHam: Zim, as usual.
* MagnificentBastard: InUniverse, E350 calls Witch Ember one after she "scams his scam".
* {{MST}}: Done by Squidward twice.
* PhysicalGod: ReGenesis.
* PokeThePoodle: Dr. Insano's attempts to "destroy lives" with the Fiddley Thing only end with the victims being neutral or happy about their transformations.
* PublicServiceAnnouncement: A parody one is used for the October 30 one-shot, giving instructions on what you should do if an EldritchAbomination is attacking.
* SideBet: Mr Krabs and Squidward had one in the ''VideoGame/OregonTrail'' chapter on who's going to die first. Patrick died first, allowing Squidward to win the bet.
* ShoutOut: Witch Ember [[Anime/DigimonAdventure turns Danny, Sam, Tucker, and Timmy into keychains.]]
** E350 is looking after an [[Literature/{{Animorphs}} Andalite morphing cube]] for a friend.
** [[Franchise/MassEffect Reapers]] appear in a couple of stories.
** [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Bender]] and [[Series/DoctorWho a Cyberman]] pop up in the filler chapter to complain about E350's liberal use of "organics-turning-into-machines" plots.
** Witch Ember pulls a page from [[Series/DoctorWho the Master's]] playbook at one point and turns everyone in the city into duplicates of herself.
** "War Never Changes" references ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}''.
* SuperheroEpisode: "Heroics", sort of.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: [[spoiler: How the Doctor defeats ReGenesis.]]
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Sandy says this word-for-word in the second part of the "Witch Ember" storyline.
* UnwillingRoboticisation: A team of villains manage to do this to a good chunk of the Earth's population in the first story.
* WhamLine: Zim gets his first full look at ReGenesis, and utters only one word: [[spoiler: "''Dib?''"]]
* WholePlotReference: The entirety of "You Have Died of Dysentery" is ''VideoGame/OregonTrail'' with ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' characters.
* WickedWitch: Witch Ember.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: ReGenesis, aka Dib Membrane.]]
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[[folder:Do the Gasmask Shuffle]]
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Sandy's fate at the end of "Black Sun".]]
* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: Almost every hero involved in the Fiddley Thing war in the end.]]
* BalefulPolymorph: Everyone that the Underworld King turns into his minions gets subject to this.
* BerserkButton/DisproportionateRetribution: For Lancer, it's butchering Shakespeare. He demands that his class ''bring him the head'' of whoever wrote the parody from "Parody", and, to prove he's serious, pulls out a machine gun.
--> "Hell hath no fury like an English teacher scorned."
* BigBad: The Underworld King for his own arc, and [[spoiler: Dan Phantom]] for the Fiddley Thing arc.
* CarFu: [[spoiler: Unintentionally utilised by the police against the Underworld King, who then name-drops it: "''Only'' '''I''' ''may utilise the Car Fu!''"]]
* EldritchAbomination: The copy of ''Halloween Spectacular'' in the beginning. It also apparently smells like Cthulhu.
* EvilMask: The mask that Sam purchases in "The Peddler" that [[spoiler: turns her into a demon]].
* GenreMashup: Chapter 11 is described as "[[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Tucker]] + LA Noire + Robots".
* HardWorkMontage: Happens when Spongebob gathers everything he needs in order to seal away the Underworld King.
* HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler: What Eliza does to the rest of her traveling companions in "Cairo to the Cape".]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: Dan Phantom, for Richtofen.]]
* {{MST}}: E350 forces a group of characters to read the tropes page for ''Roleplay/DeadlyMistakes'', due to the winner of last year's contest requesting it.
** Squidward does two more for the 23rd and second-to-last stories (the latter targeting ''Fanfic/ThirtyHs'').
* ParentalNeglect: Professor Membrane comes to regret practicing this in "The Hunters" after [[spoiler: Dib becomes an invalid.]]
* PublicServiceAnnouncement: Another parody one, regarding [[RealityWarper the Fiddley Thing.]]
* RageAgainstTheAuthor: Done in response to the above tropes page MST.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Dan Phantom]] is the one that wants Richtofen to get him the Fiddley Thing.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Parodied with the "Parody" chapter.
* RussianRoulette: Done in "Potions" with...well, potions.
* SanitySlippage: Happens to both Jimmy and Jazz in "Cairo to the Cape".
* ShoutOut: After [[spoiler: Sam turns into a wax statue at the end of the second story]], the author's notes say "[[Fanfic/DOOMRepercussionsOfEvil NO SAM YOU ARE THE DEMONS]]".
** "Murdered By Moonlight" is one to ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet''.
* SkewedPriorities: ''All over the place'' in the first story.
* TakeThat: When Timmy gets turned into a vampire in the first story, the narrator notes that "Much to Spongebob's misfortune, he was not of the [[Literature/{{Twilight}} weak sparkling kind]]."
* WaxMuseumMorgue: The setting of the second story.
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[[folder:Terror Australis Incognita]]
* AgentScully: Sandy towards Madame Athena in the second story.
* AnimationAgeGhetto: Invoked with "Thomas Something Something".
* AntiMagicalFaction: [[spoiler: The Witchfinders seek to eradicate every witch and wizard on the planet.]]
* TheApprentice: Jazz is learning magic under Athena.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Jones the dragon, thanks to Excalibur's magic.]]
* BadassNormal: A French cafe´ owner manages to get the EldritchAbomination print version of last year's ''Halloween Unspectacular'' out of Paris by yelling at it for disturbing his customers.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Doctor Insano rescues everyone who came to help Jazz from armed forces. In a flying house. It is awesome.]]
* BrainBleach: In "Bizarre Nonsequitors", Timmy goes to scrub his brain after learning that Cosmo and Wanda dressed up as each other for a convention.
* BrainUploading: Done to various characters in "New Horizons".
* BullyingADragon: As said by E350 when talking about the ending to "Collection": "Well, someone's doomed here, and it ain't [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]]."
* {{Cliffhanger}}: "Purpose" ends with [[spoiler: the Doctor and his team facing a bunch of Daleks]].
* CoolVsAwesome: [[spoiler: Zombie King James I versus King Arthur.]] To quote E350, "PLACE YOUR BETS!"
* DragonRider: Danny does this in ''Down the Mine'' [[spoiler: in order to free a dragon using his intangibility powers]].
* FauxToGuide: The first story is a ''very'' sarcastic (and potentially hypocritical, if Timmy's comment at the end is to be believed) guide on how to write a ''Danny Phantom'' fanfic.
* GilliganCut: In "Fiddling Away" Spongebob and Sandy realize that the Fiddley Thing is officially theirs (Dr Insano gave it to them, long story). Cut to Squidward walking in on [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext a line of square-dancing Sandy duplicates, with Spongebob acting as a disco ball.]]
* InsideAComputerSystem: Sandy in "Computer Problems", thanks to the Fiddley Thing.
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler: The Witchfinders.]]
* LastOfHisKind: Jazz is the last human alive in "South Point".[[note]]Danny and Dani, due to their half-ghost status, apparently don't count.[[/note]] [[spoiler: She dies by the end of the story.]]
* MadArtist: The art collector that turns people into paintings, statues, etc. in "Collection".
* MagiciansAreWizards: Madame Athena, a full-fledged witch, is perfectly happy performing in front of large audiences.
* {{MST}}: Happens once again for the ninth one-shot, this time with E350 doing the riffing (since Squidward [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere locked him in his room and ran for Tobago]]).
* ShoutOut: "Enemy Unknown" references ''VideoGame/XCOM''.
** "My Brother Will Kill Me" is one long pastiche of the ''Power Rangers'' franchise. Calamitous' method of creating a MonsterOfTheWeek is also similar to how Vendetta makes her monsters in ''WesternAnimation/MakingFiends''.
* TakeThat: The center of the universe, according to Doctor Insano, is in Milton Keynes; "Even I'm [not] crazy enough to go through there."
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: King Arthur does this to King James I in order to end the battle.]]
* WhamLine: What Dani finds after reading the warning in the book left by Witchfinders:
--> "This message was [written] [[spoiler: two years ago]]."
* WholePlotReference: E350 apparently intended to write "Unidentified Flying Object" as an ''Film/IndependenceDay'' clone.
* WitchHunter: There was once an entire society of people seeking to stamp out magic users. [[spoiler: As Dani finds out, they're still around]].
* ZombieApocalypse: "Monsters in the Darkness".
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[[folder:Mess Effect]]
* AlternateUniverse: "The Catalyst" is centered around these, giving different fictional characters the final choice the player has to make in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''.
* AuctionOfEvil: "Terror of the Police Auction", which centers around the police auctioning off things that belonged to an evil sorcerer. Among these items are a camera that sends you back in time, a pair of "Binoculars of Fear", and the sorcerer's spellbook, which Sam purchases and uses to send Paulina into space.
* BalefulPolymorph: A number of people have been turned into figurines by the time story 12 happened.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In "Wolf", Timmy thinks it would be cool to be a werewolf. [[spoiler: He probably should have phrased this desire better, considering what happens...]]
* BigBadEnsemble: Vlad Masters, Mr. Cromwell, Morgan le Fay, and a mysterious cloaked person ([[spoiler: the Governor from the Gaol story]]) for the overarching plot.
** The cliffhanger gives us [[spoiler: a team-up between every BigBad up to this point. Yes, even the retconned ReGenesis.]]
* BigGood: [[spoiler: Guinevere.]]
* CallBack: Jazz is still learning magic from Athena.
* TheCameo: Series/{{Torchwood}} makes an appearance in "Report".
** [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Zoidberg]] makes an appearance in "The Inspection", volunteering to be dissected for a high school biology class.
** [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Kang and Kodos]] appear in the convention center, trying to find a bathroom.
* ChekhovsGag: Remember the AuctionOfEvil oneshot that ended with Sam launching Paulina into space? [[spoiler: She still has the spellbook, allowing her to aid the heroes in finding El Dorado.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: The Governor, after seeing...''whatever'' was in the box in El Dorado.]]
* EnthrallingSiren: [[spoiler: The monster that kills the shore party in "Report".]]
* FusionDance: Sandy and Ember get hit with this at the convention thanks to a teleporter mishap.
* GilliganCut: At their hotel, Dani mentions that there's an incident going on in the lobby and that it's nothing serious. Cut to a bunch of peasants in the lobby dragging Paulina away, having misinterpreted E350 calling her a WitchWithACapitalB.
* InsultBackfire: [[spoiler: The Governor calls Dani "worse than my convicts". She promptly thanks him for the compliment.]]
* MindScrew: A mild version happens in "Writing"; in the end, we don't know what's "real" and what's fictional.
* MrExposition: Jimmy explains some of the events from the last Halloween Unspectacular to Carl in one chapter.
* {{MST}}: More of this from Squidward in story 13.
* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler: Mr. Cromwell thinks that the whole trip to El Dorado was this. He's wrong.]]
* ShoutOut: Plankton tries to get E350 to reenact the ending of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' with him, Danny, and Cosmo in the beginning.
** Chapter 24 is labeled [[Film/LittleShopOfHorrors Little Shop of Parodies]]" and features references to ''Franchise/{{Tron}}'', ''Franchise/{{Warhammer}}'', Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos, and ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''.
* TemptingFate: Done to hell and back by the group that's going to Comic-Con. [[spoiler: Which is why it's no surprise when the cloaked figure kidnaps them.]]
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[[folder:The Final Push]]
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Gaz has this among the ship's crew in "The Sea of Switching". [[spoiler: Which is why it's ''enormously'' satisfying to them once [[LaserGuidedKarma karma hits her hard]].]]
* AdaptationalWimp: [[spoiler: ReGenesis is weaker than he was in HU1, though he's still powerful enough to take on a skilled mage.]]
* AffectionateParody: E350 sings a parody of "One Day More" from ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' in the beginning.
* AlternateContinuity: For the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' stuff, this story was written some time before "Not What He Seems" aired; therefore, E350's explanation as to who wrote the journals has long been disproved.
* AscendedExtra: Ovard Grim, who only appeared twice in the last Unspectacular, becomes [[spoiler: a member of the BigBadEnsemble]].
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Galahad.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler: ReGenesis, Dan Phantom, King James I, Ovard Grim, and the Governor all team up. Except they're all being played by Galahad.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Jones saves the Mystery Shack crew from the [=GiW=] in "Dragons of Oregon".]]
* ClearMyName: Jazz and Athena end up having to clear Dr Insano's name when he's accused of murder in "The Piccadilly Caper". As it turns out, [[BalefulPolymorph it wasn't even murder to begin with]].
* CivilWar: One of these has erupted in Avalon about a year after the Battle of EL Dorado.
* UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories: E350 comes up with one in order to explain the animated universe. Among other things, he claims that [[WesternAnimation/Foster'sHomeForImaginaryFriends Frankie Foster]] and [[WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents Vicky]] are clones and the government has ninjas.
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: [[spoiler: Gus, the apparently innocent magic performer, was behind the businessman's transmogrification. Oh, and he's actually the Governor.]]
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Spongebob, much to the detriment of Mrs Puff and her go-kart track in chapter 16.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Grim is an unpleasant sociopath, but at least he's ''honest'' about it, as he points out to [[spoiler: Athena while criticizing her plans.]]
* EvilChef: The Muffin Man from chapter 2, overlapping with IAteWhat
* FamousAncestor: [[spoiler: The Fentons are descended from King Arthur himself. And so are either Dipper and Mabel or Wendy, by way of Morgan le Fay.]]
* FlippingTheBird: Implied with Athena in "The Middleman", who shoots Ovard a "lewd finger gesture" as she leaves his office.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: As it turns out, the "Wild Mass Guessing" chapter was only E350 setting up for some ''major'' reveals in the next chapter, with at least one involving -- you guessed it -- Wild Mass Guessing.
* FreakyFridayFlip: Dipper ends up in one with Wendy at the end of chapter 8, thanks to [[ItMakesSenseInContext a pair of socks]].
* GrandFinale: For the Fiddley Canon MythArc.
* GroinAttack: A guard offers to do this to Robbie in "The Other Sock Drops".
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Galahad is done in by the very event he tried to control.]]
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Athena, after hearing Cochrane's "demolition team" plan, grabs a glass of wine and drains it.
* KidFromTheFuture: [[spoiler: Tammy Turner.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: The Fiddley Thing. It gets a funeral on the moon...[[SubvertedTrope and then shows up again in the next ''Unspectacular'']].]]
* MindControlDevice: The titular ring in "Remy's Ring".
* MirrorUniverse: Where "The Other Side of the Mirror" takes place. Starring [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Aang as a tyrannical dictator and Azula as a heroic freedom fighter]], to boot!
* {{MST}}: Squidward gets one last one in chapter 18
* NeverMyFault: Robbie blames Dipper for Wendy breaking up with him, despite the fact that the breakup was mostly his own fault.
* OnlySaneMan: Timmy in "For Want of a Bit".
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In "Hey Fiddle Fiddle", Spongebob becomes worried when Mr Krabs doesn't open the Krusty Krab for the first time in ''25 years''.
* TheReveal: See FamousAncestor above. Also, [[spoiler: Jeremiah Fenton wrote [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls the journals, and took on the alias Fiddleford McGucket]] in order to escape detection from the government]].
* SanitySlippage: Jimmy suffers from this ''big'' time in "The Infernal Machine".
* SeriesFauxnale: Meant to be the GrandFinale for the series until E350 changed his mind.
* ShipTease: [[spoiler: Tammy Turner's mother is Dani, as a corporal figures out.]]
* ShoutOut: "The Piccadilly Caper" starts off with a parody of [[Franchise/StarWars Star Wars']] famous opening crawl.
** [[Fanfic/DOOMRepercussionsOfEvil AND THEN SQUIDWARD WAS A HALF-GHOST]]
** The closing author's note for "Eureka" simply says "[[Franchise/{{Terminator}} COME WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO LIVE.]]"
* SkewedPriorities: When facing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt and learning that no one's running the Mystery Shack in his absence, Stan complains about all the money he's going to lose.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: The author's notes in "Missing Midnight" pokes fun at the spirit's plan to turn everyone into chess pieces:
--> "Dude, couldn't you just, like, ''buy'' a chess set?"
* TrappedInTVLand: [[spoiler: Danny, Jimmy, Timmy, Cosmo, and Wanda at the end of "For Want of a Bit".]]
* UnmanlySecret: According to Mr Turner, Timmy liking Enya music is one of these.
* WhamEpisode: "The Middleman". [[spoiler: Athena's plans and allegiances are thrown into doubt, and we learn that A) Danny's paternal grandmother is the director of the Guys in White, and B) that Dipper and Mabel's parents are working for the villain Ovard Grim.]]
** Eureka. [[spoiler: We learn that Athena was grooming Jazz for her apparent "destiny", where she either has to let ReGenesis send the world into a new Dark Age, or die. Except maybe not, if the appearance of [[KidFromTheFuture Tammy Turner]] says anything...]]
* WhamLine: Chapter 12: [[spoiler: "They had killed the Fiddley Thing."]]
** Timmy (to [[spoiler: [[KidFromTheFuture Tammy]]]]): "Good luck. And just a heads-up -- [[spoiler: mess with time again and I'm grounding you]]."
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: The final fates of Dipper and Mabel's parents isn't explained.]]
** Lampshaded with [[spoiler: Doctor Insano, who's still stuck in jail.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: Athena gets subject to this several times regarding her plans for Jazz. Even Grim gets in on this.]]
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[[folder:Lair of the Hack Writer]]
* AlternateUniverse: [[spoiler: The setting of "Hanging Tree".]]
* {{Anvilicious}}: InUniverse, the author admits that the aesop of "The Fable of the Two Castles" is this.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Ant-Man rescues Soos when a PURITY soldier is about to shoot him.]]
* BloodierAndGorier: Well, more violent at the very least, but "Hanging Tree" is this.
* ChooseYourOwnAdventure: Parodied in two chapters by just presenting us with the endings.
* UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories: More of these pop up in "Twenty Terrible Theories".
* DoNotAdjustYourSet: [[spoiler: General Rausseman takes over the airwaves to order the surrender of the remaining "abnormals" to him.]]
* EasyAmnesia: [[spoiler: Mabel and Pacifica lose their memories once Percivale turns them into a painting in "The Picture".]]
* FantasticRacism: PURITY hates anyone who either has powers or isn't human.
* ForScience: Professor Membrane will take a home renovation and use it as an excuse for this.
* GangWar: Between groups of clowns in "Send in the Clowns".
* GettingSmilesPaintedOnYourSoul: The mandatory pill that everyone takes in "An Average Day" suppresses all negative emotions.
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: In "A Living", Vicky turns poor, homeless people into meat for her soup kitchens. She gets the Chair for it.]]
* JackassGenie: Desiree (as per the norm for her) in "Genies are Jerks". The narrator makes the argument that all genies are like this.
* JumpScare: Attempted by [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Zoidberg]] in "The Interview". It doesn't really work in text format.
* LifeDrain: In "The Picture", Percivale Northwest keeps himself alive by turning his victims into paintings and doing this.
* LoopholeAbuse: In "Genies are Jerks", Desiree says that the Crystal Gems may have one wish each. [[spoiler: Lapis gets around this by using a run-on sentence to voice multiple wishes.]]
* MindScrew: "The Cafe".
* MonsterClown: Several in "Send in the Clowns".
* NoodleIncident: Exactly ''what'' lead to some of the endings in the "Choose Your Own Ending" chapters.
* PrecisionFStrike: E350 isn't normally one to use swearing in his stories, making the Vice President calling [[spoiler: General Rausseman]] a "sanctimonious jackass]] in "Of Presidents and Purity" this trope.
* PsychicLink: Mabel and Pacifica get one between them in "The Picture".
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: The Alaskan PURITY base is this, distracting the military while the organization goes for the president. Only [[{{Seers}} Garnet]] saw it coming.]]
* Rule63: Occurs in the first "Choose Your Own Ending" chapter.
* SeenItAll: After [[spoiler: breaking into the White House in order to stop PURITY]], Kamala meets [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Spongebob, Sandy]], [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Peridot, Amethyst, Stevonnie]], and [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Mabel]]. She considers it pretty normal.
* ShoutOut: The first chapter features a parody of "Make a Man out of You" from ''Disney/{{Mulan}}''.
** In "It's Back", Peridot, in her boredom, briefly watches a Creator/{{Jacksepticeye}} video and the music video for "[[Music/RickAstley Never Gonna Give You Up]]".
** Also from "It's Back", Amethyst and Peridot briefly travel to "The Universe That Is Currently Being Sued By [[Film/MadMax George Miller]]".
* SneezeCut: In "Genies are Jerks", Desiree says that, once she's free, she'll wipe "that annoying ghost boy" from existence. Cut to:
--> Far away, Danny Fenton had a sudden feeling of deep foreboding.
* TakeThat: In the above ''Disney/{{Mulan}} parody, E350 talks about writing stories with "the coherency of Creator/DanBrown" and "the quality of an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo''".
** The second parody has Professor Calamitous create a thinly-veiled parody of UsefulNote/DonaldTrump. [[spoiler: Who then turns into an EldritchAbomination and is swiftly defeated offscreen by [[ComicBook/MissMarvel2014 Kamala Khan]], WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom, and [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse the Crystal Gems]].]]
* TemptingFate: [[spoiler: In the finale, when the Crystal Gems realize that they'll need a portal in order to get into the White House, Peridot complains that one isn't just going to pop up out of nowhere. Cue portal, which Jimmy comes through.]]
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: "An Average Day".
* WhamLine: "Alien!", for the most part, is pretty lighthearted. Then comes this exchange:
--> '''Trigger:''' Just a question. How'd you know about this Zim thing?\\
'''Agent:''' Oh, some other government agency just grabbed him. Nothing to worry about.\\
'''Powers:''' What agency? There's nobody else operating in the area!\\
'''Agent:''' Um...[[spoiler: [[ThoseWackyNazis PURITY]].]] Why?
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[[folder:Watchmeh]]
* AffablyEvil: Floyd from "Roommate" is rather nice for an evil wizard.
* AffectionateParody: "Trailers" is one to, well, film trailers -- specifically summer action blockbusters.
** Chapter 30 is one to classic Saturday morning superhero shows, specifically the Adam West ''Batman'' series.
* AllPartOfTheShow: Danny and Sam assume that the battle between the Crystal Gems and the Ruby Squad was a ''really'' elaborate Disneyland show.
* AssholeVictim: The mob in "Angry Fandom Shelter".
* AscendedToAHigherPlainOfExistence: [[spoiler: Mabel and Pacifica, at the end of "The Gift".]]
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Stan, thanks to the Phoenix Force.]]
* BaitAndSwitch: In "Adapt or Perish", two MPs come to the Pines family's house because they might be harboring a fugitive from another dimension. While they technically ''are'', it turns out that the MPs were looking for [[WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil the Diaz family]] instead.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Timmy wishes that he could meet the ghost of a historical person to help with a history report in the eighth chapter. He wasn't specific, so Cosmo summoned UsefulNotes/LizzieBorden. Oops.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: PURITY has control of the USA, many heroes are dead, Ruby's fate is unknown, and Galactus is coming. The only thing that keeps the story from having a ''complete'' DownerEnding is the hope that the heroes gathered in Wakanda will be enough to save the world. And that's not even getting into what might happen with the Phoenix Force, who seems to have allied itself with Lapis, Timmy, and Stan.]]
* BlackComedy: "E350 Presents: Bluebeard".
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Averted in "Robot Wars"; despite the fact that he was effective in getting rid of the monster, Admiral Stereotype was fired for his obvious mental problems. And for destroying Sydney.
* TheCaper: Stan and Ford's subplot in the whole PURITY mess involves breaking into Allsworthy's corporate building in order to figure out what he's keeping in a secret room.
* CorruptPolitician: [[spoiler: President Fulton.]]
* DestructiveSaviour: In chapter 10, the Crystal Gems save Disneyland from the Rubies...and end up banned from the park for destroying the place.
* EldritchLocation: Timmy's house becomes one in "Timmy Turner's House of Terror".
* FanDumb: Happens InUniverse, which is why the Angry Fandom Shelter exists.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Garnet's fate in chapter 14 is a hint towards her...[[spoiler: unfortunate fate later in the PURITY arc]].
* GroundhogDayLoop: Thanks to an alien, the crew at Wright-Patterson Airbase is stuck in one.
* HellHotel: The titular resort in "Guests of the Marblehead", which may also be an EldritchLocation.
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler: PURITY, through mind control, kills off Hawkeye, War Machine, Black Widow, a good chunk of the people at Xavier's School for Gifted Children, a number of Inhumans, ''Garnet''[[note]]Actually, they poof her, and Captain America is only able to rescue Sapphire[[/note]], and who knows how many others.]]
* IncrediblyLamePun: Smoky Quartz gets heckled for this by Cosmo in chapter 10.
* TheInfiltration: [[spoiler: PURITY succeeds at infiltrating the United States government.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Vlad in "House of Cards".]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: In "Karma Punishment". [[spoiler: Gaz used mind control on people, and she ends up under the control of the protagonists in the end.]]
* MindControlDevice: Gaz uses one of these in "Karma Punishment".
** [[spoiler: In the PURITY story, the brain implants that were ordered for the US military are these.]]
* PaperThinDisguise: How the Rubies get into Disneyland in "Scenes from the Gems at Disney".
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: A PURITY platoon's reaction to facing the Hulk in the climax.]]
* RealityWarper: [[spoiler: Mabel at the end of "Dipper Goes to Tir na Nog"]].
* ReferenceOverdosed: Allsworthy in a freaking nutshell.
* RuleOfCool: Pretty much everything about "Robot Wars".
* ShipTease: Between Timmy and Dani in chapter 29.
* ShoutOut: The first chapter features a parody of "The Candy Man" from ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory''.
** "Robot Wars" has references to Kaiju movies, ''Film/PacificRim'', and, of all things, UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell.
** "The Fiftycrumb Tinies" is, obviously, a parody of ''[[Creator/EdwardGorey The Gashleycrumb Tinies]]''.
** "Angry Fandom Shelter" ends with a ''Series/COPS'' reference.
** Sandy calls the haunting in the eighth chapter "a real Franchise/{{Amityville}} situation".
** In the author's notes for "Unidentified Problem", the author sings a snippet of "[[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Let's Do the Time Warp Again]]".
** The title of chapter 18 parodies the infamous fanfic ''Dipper Goes to Taco Bell''.
** "A Sunday Drive Down Fury Road" is one to...well, [[Film/MadMax guess]].
** "Karma Punishment" features [[Series/TheTwilightZone an opening narration from Rod Serling]].
** The title of chapter 23, "House of Cards", is an intentional reference to [[Series/HouseOfCards the series of the same name]].
** Chapter 29 has two MPs looking for [[WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil the Diaz family]].
* TakeThat: In "Robot Wars" Peridot and Lapis accidentally destroy Cleveland. No one notices for years.
** In the above ''Series/COPS'' reference, E350 calls it a "pretty awful show".
** In chapter 10, Doc the Ruby, Dipper and Wendy all hate the "It's a Small World" ride -- the latter two so much that they proceed to destroy the place.
** In "A Sunday Drive Down Fury Road", E350 listens to [[Music/OutKast OutKast's]] "Hey Ya!" in the car before Sandy grabs the CD and chucks it out the window.
** ThoseWackyNazis: In chapter 28, E350 categorizes the types of Nazis that he's used in his stories over the years. For him, they tend to fall into three types: A (the breathtakingly incompetent ones), B (the moustache-twirlingly evil ones), and/or C (the gratuitous back-story ones).
* {{Understatement}}: Pearl admits that they may have caused some minor damage to the Sleeping Beauty Castle and Main Street at Disneyland in chapter 10. "Minor" meaning "collasped much of the front of the castle" and "turned into a smoking ruin, with many things on fire", respectively.
* WouldHurtAChild: The mob in "Angry Fandom Shelter" are perfectly happy with lynching children. [[AssholeVictim Which E350 uses as an excuse to open fire on them with his Tommy gun.]]
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[[folder:List of Halloween Unspectaculars]]
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6364928/1/Halloween-Unspectacular Halloween Unspectacular]]''
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7426460/1/Halloween-Unspectacular-2-Do-the-Gasmask-Shuffle Halloween Unspectacular 2: Do the Gasmask Shuffle]]''
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8568978/1/Halloween-Unspectacular-3-Terror-Australis-Incognita Halloween Unspectacular 3: Terror Australis Incognita]]''
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9729282/1/Halloween-Unspectacular-4-Mess-Effect Halloween Unspectacular 4: Mess Effect]]''
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10726125/1/Halloween-Unspectacular-5-The-Final-Push Halloween Unspectacular 5: The Final Push]]''
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12171918/1/Halloween-Unspectacular-6-Lair-of-the-Hack-Writer Halloween Unspectacular 6: Lair of the Hack Writer]]''
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12671447/1/Halloween-Unspectacular-7-Watchmeh Halloween Unspectacular 7: Watchmeh]]''
[[/folder]]
!!This series contains examples of:
[[folder:Tropes over multiple collections]]
* ArcWords: For the first MythArc, "It always rains". First spoken by [[spoiler: the Governor, after he looks in the box in El Dorado]], before popping up several times afterwards.
* BigBad: Shifted several times with the first MythArc. The second MythArc firmly plants General Rausseman in the role.
* CanonDiscontinuity: The endings of [=HU1=] and [=HU2=] are considered noncanon by the author due to the deaths of major characters.
* EveryEpisodeEnding: Every collection ends with a parody of [[Music/BillyJoel Billy Joel's]] "We Didn't Start the Fire".
* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: Happens quite a bit, most commonly between various [[Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} Nicktoons]].
* MythArc: Two major ones so far:
** The first, officially referred to as the Fiddley Canon, covers just about everything plot-related from [=HU1=] to [=HU5=]. It involves the Fiddley Thing, magic, sorcery, dragons, figures from European myth, and various other things.
** The second and current one, starting in [=HU6=], revolves around a Nazi remnant group that the heroes must defeat.
* OfficialCouple: [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Mabel and Pacifica]] in some one-shots.
* RealityWarper: The Fiddley Thing.
* RunningGag: The Fiddley Thing showing up at some point.
* SelfDeprecation: E350 does this a ''lot''.
* StoryArc: All of the fanfics have this to some extent:
** In the first one, there's a three-chapter arc about E350 and his friends trying to defeat a witch version of [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Ember McLain]], and an arc concerning the creation -- and rampage -- of a creature only known as ReGenesis.
** In the second one, there's Spongebob's attempts to stop the Underworld King, as well as a separate story arc in which a RagtagBunchOfMisfits try to keep the Fiddley Thing away from a German scientist working for [[spoiler: Dan Phantom]].
** In the third one, E350 retells the story of the ship ''Batavia'' with fictional characters. The first MythArc also officially begins with this collection.
** In the fourth one, there's an arc centered on a prison only referred to as "the Gaol" (an alternate spelling for jail). [[spoiler: It turns out to be connected to the MythArc.]]
** The fifth one has a three-part FreakyFridayFlip story.
** The sixth one had a two-part story about [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Ford]] and [[WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall Wirt]] getting trapped in a strange land.
* ThoseWackyNazis: PURITY.
* WeaponOfChoice: E350 has his Anti-Magic Tommy Gun.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Halloween Unspectacular 1]]
* AlternateHistory: "Legendaries", where the Allies use [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} legenedary Poke´mon]] to win WWII.
* BigBad: Witch Ember for her arc, and ReGenesis [[spoiler: aka Dib]] for their arc.
* BittersweetEnding: In the last story. [[spoiler: The world is saved, but not everyone made it out alive.]]
* BodyHorror: The fourth story features, among other things, Tad and Chad getting melted and Francis looking like he'd been put through a blender.
* BrainUploading: Sandy does this in "A Terrible Thing to Lose" [[spoiler: in order to escape Terminus' influence]].
* TheCameo: [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] makes one at the end of the first part of the Witch Ember story, before getting a bigger role for the rest of the arc.
** WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic gets a few cameos in as well before getting an entire chapter to himself.
* CassandraTruth: E350 ends up getting humored by emergency services when he tries to call about [[ItMakesSenseInContext the giant witch on his front lawn.]]
* ContinuityCavalcade: The finale does this, which is especially notable in [[spoiler: the Doctor's speech.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: "Masters of War" is probably the darkest, bleakest one-shot in the collection, dealing with the event and aftermath of America getting nuked.
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler: When it looks like ReGenesis is going to destroy Zim, the Doctor comes in and talks him down.]]
* EnemyWithout: [[spoiler: Timmy's inner darkness made manifest, the main villain of "With Great Power..."]]
* FacePalm: Vlad does this during the ReGenesis arc as more and more people find their way to his private villa in Australia.
* {{Filler}}: "The Unspectacular Filler", of course.
* FishPeople: Mrs. Doombringer's plan in "After Action Report" seems to revolve around turning people into these. She manages to do it to Timmy, [[spoiler: Sam]], and who knows how many others.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Project ReGenesis.
* LamePunReaction: During the climax of the Witch Ember arc, after the titular antagonist turns Sandy into a stuffed animal, E350 makes a joke about the group being "stuffed". Linkara only barely manages to keep Zim from throwing him out of the Rocket Van.
* LargeHam: Zim, as usual.
* MagnificentBastard: InUniverse, E350 calls Witch Ember one after she "scams his scam".
* {{MST}}: Done by Squidward twice.
* PhysicalGod: ReGenesis.
* PokeThePoodle: Dr. Insano's attempts to "destroy lives" with the Fiddley Thing only end with the victims being neutral or happy about their transformations.
* PublicServiceAnnouncement: A parody one is used for the October 30 one-shot, giving instructions on what you should do if an EldritchAbomination is attacking.
* SideBet: Mr Krabs and Squidward had one in the ''VideoGame/OregonTrail'' chapter on who's going to die first. Patrick died first, allowing Squidward to win the bet.
* ShoutOut: Witch Ember [[Anime/DigimonAdventure turns Danny, Sam, Tucker, and Timmy into keychains.]]
** E350 is looking after an [[Literature/{{Animorphs}} Andalite morphing cube]] for a friend.
** [[Franchise/MassEffect Reapers]] appear in a couple of stories.
** [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Bender]] and [[Series/DoctorWho a Cyberman]] pop up in the filler chapter to complain about E350's liberal use of "organics-turning-into-machines" plots.
** Witch Ember pulls a page from [[Series/DoctorWho the Master's]] playbook at one point and turns everyone in the city into duplicates of herself.
** "War Never Changes" references ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}''.
* SuperheroEpisode: "Heroics", sort of.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: [[spoiler: How the Doctor defeats ReGenesis.]]
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Sandy says this word-for-word in the second part of the "Witch Ember" storyline.
* UnwillingRoboticisation: A team of villains manage to do this to a good chunk of the Earth's population in the first story.
* WhamLine: Zim gets his first full look at ReGenesis, and utters only one word: [[spoiler: "''Dib?''"]]
* WholePlotReference: The entirety of "You Have Died of Dysentery" is ''VideoGame/OregonTrail'' with ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' characters.
* WickedWitch: Witch Ember.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: ReGenesis, aka Dib Membrane.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Do the Gasmask Shuffle]]
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Sandy's fate at the end of "Black Sun".]]
* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: Almost every hero involved in the Fiddley Thing war in the end.]]
* BalefulPolymorph: Everyone that the Underworld King turns into his minions gets subject to this.
* BerserkButton/DisproportionateRetribution: For Lancer, it's butchering Shakespeare. He demands that his class ''bring him the head'' of whoever wrote the parody from "Parody", and, to prove he's serious, pulls out a machine gun.
--> "Hell hath no fury like an English teacher scorned."
* BigBad: The Underworld King for his own arc, and [[spoiler: Dan Phantom]] for the Fiddley Thing arc.
* CarFu: [[spoiler: Unintentionally utilised by the police against the Underworld King, who then name-drops it: "''Only'' '''I''' ''may utilise the Car Fu!''"]]
* EldritchAbomination: The copy of ''Halloween Spectacular'' in the beginning. It also apparently smells like Cthulhu.
* EvilMask: The mask that Sam purchases in "The Peddler" that [[spoiler: turns her into a demon]].
* GenreMashup: Chapter 11 is described as "[[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Tucker]] + LA Noire + Robots".
* HardWorkMontage: Happens when Spongebob gathers everything he needs in order to seal away the Underworld King.
* HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler: What Eliza does to the rest of her traveling companions in "Cairo to the Cape".]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: Dan Phantom, for Richtofen.]]
* {{MST}}: E350 forces a group of characters to read the tropes page for ''Roleplay/DeadlyMistakes'', due to the winner of last year's contest requesting it.
** Squidward does two more for the 23rd and second-to-last stories (the latter targeting ''Fanfic/ThirtyHs'').
* ParentalNeglect: Professor Membrane comes to regret practicing this in "The Hunters" after [[spoiler: Dib becomes an invalid.]]
* PublicServiceAnnouncement: Another parody one, regarding [[RealityWarper the Fiddley Thing.]]
* RageAgainstTheAuthor: Done in response to the above tropes page MST.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Dan Phantom]] is the one that wants Richtofen to get him the Fiddley Thing.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Parodied with the "Parody" chapter.
* RussianRoulette: Done in "Potions" with...well, potions.
* SanitySlippage: Happens to both Jimmy and Jazz in "Cairo to the Cape".
* ShoutOut: After [[spoiler: Sam turns into a wax statue at the end of the second story]], the author's notes say "[[Fanfic/DOOMRepercussionsOfEvil NO SAM YOU ARE THE DEMONS]]".
** "Murdered By Moonlight" is one to ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet''.
* SkewedPriorities: ''All over the place'' in the first story.
* TakeThat: When Timmy gets turned into a vampire in the first story, the narrator notes that "Much to Spongebob's misfortune, he was not of the [[Literature/{{Twilight}} weak sparkling kind]]."
* WaxMuseumMorgue: The setting of the second story.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Terror Australis Incognita]]
* AgentScully: Sandy towards Madame Athena in the second story.
* AnimationAgeGhetto: Invoked with "Thomas Something Something".
* AntiMagicalFaction: [[spoiler: The Witchfinders seek to eradicate every witch and wizard on the planet.]]
* TheApprentice: Jazz is learning magic under Athena.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Jones the dragon, thanks to Excalibur's magic.]]
* BadassNormal: A French cafe´ owner manages to get the EldritchAbomination print version of last year's ''Halloween Unspectacular'' out of Paris by yelling at it for disturbing his customers.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Doctor Insano rescues everyone who came to help Jazz from armed forces. In a flying house. It is awesome.]]
* BrainBleach: In "Bizarre Nonsequitors", Timmy goes to scrub his brain after learning that Cosmo and Wanda dressed up as each other for a convention.
* BrainUploading: Done to various characters in "New Horizons".
* BullyingADragon: As said by E350 when talking about the ending to "Collection": "Well, someone's doomed here, and it ain't [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]]."
* {{Cliffhanger}}: "Purpose" ends with [[spoiler: the Doctor and his team facing a bunch of Daleks]].
* CoolVsAwesome: [[spoiler: Zombie King James I versus King Arthur.]] To quote E350, "PLACE YOUR BETS!"
* DragonRider: Danny does this in ''Down the Mine'' [[spoiler: in order to free a dragon using his intangibility powers]].
* FauxToGuide: The first story is a ''very'' sarcastic (and potentially hypocritical, if Timmy's comment at the end is to be believed) guide on how to write a ''Danny Phantom'' fanfic.
* GilliganCut: In "Fiddling Away" Spongebob and Sandy realize that the Fiddley Thing is officially theirs (Dr Insano gave it to them, long story). Cut to Squidward walking in on [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext a line of square-dancing Sandy duplicates, with Spongebob acting as a disco ball.]]
* InsideAComputerSystem: Sandy in "Computer Problems", thanks to the Fiddley Thing.
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler: The Witchfinders.]]
* LastOfHisKind: Jazz is the last human alive in "South Point".[[note]]Danny and Dani, due to their half-ghost status, apparently don't count.[[/note]] [[spoiler: She dies by the end of the story.]]
* MadArtist: The art collector that turns people into paintings, statues, etc. in "Collection".
* MagiciansAreWizards: Madame Athena, a full-fledged witch, is perfectly happy performing in front of large audiences.
* {{MST}}: Happens once again for the ninth one-shot, this time with E350 doing the riffing (since Squidward [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere locked him in his room and ran for Tobago]]).
* ShoutOut: "Enemy Unknown" references ''VideoGame/XCOM''.
** "My Brother Will Kill Me" is one long pastiche of the ''Power Rangers'' franchise. Calamitous' method of creating a MonsterOfTheWeek is also similar to how Vendetta makes her monsters in ''WesternAnimation/MakingFiends''.
* TakeThat: The center of the universe, according to Doctor Insano, is in Milton Keynes; "Even I'm [not] crazy enough to go through there."
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: King Arthur does this to King James I in order to end the battle.]]
* WhamLine: What Dani finds after reading the warning in the book left by Witchfinders:
--> "This message was [written] [[spoiler: two years ago]]."
* WholePlotReference: E350 apparently intended to write "Unidentified Flying Object" as an ''Film/IndependenceDay'' clone.
* WitchHunter: There was once an entire society of people seeking to stamp out magic users. [[spoiler: As Dani finds out, they're still around]].
* ZombieApocalypse: "Monsters in the Darkness".
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mess Effect]]
* AlternateUniverse: "The Catalyst" is centered around these, giving different fictional characters the final choice the player has to make in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''.
* AuctionOfEvil: "Terror of the Police Auction", which centers around the police auctioning off things that belonged to an evil sorcerer. Among these items are a camera that sends you back in time, a pair of "Binoculars of Fear", and the sorcerer's spellbook, which Sam purchases and uses to send Paulina into space.
* BalefulPolymorph: A number of people have been turned into figurines by the time story 12 happened.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In "Wolf", Timmy thinks it would be cool to be a werewolf. [[spoiler: He probably should have phrased this desire better, considering what happens...]]
* BigBadEnsemble: Vlad Masters, Mr. Cromwell, Morgan le Fay, and a mysterious cloaked person ([[spoiler: the Governor from the Gaol story]]) for the overarching plot.
** The cliffhanger gives us [[spoiler: a team-up between every BigBad up to this point. Yes, even the retconned ReGenesis.]]
* BigGood: [[spoiler: Guinevere.]]
* CallBack: Jazz is still learning magic from Athena.
* TheCameo: Series/{{Torchwood}} makes an appearance in "Report".
** [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Zoidberg]] makes an appearance in "The Inspection", volunteering to be dissected for a high school biology class.
** [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Kang and Kodos]] appear in the convention center, trying to find a bathroom.
* ChekhovsGag: Remember the AuctionOfEvil oneshot that ended with Sam launching Paulina into space? [[spoiler: She still has the spellbook, allowing her to aid the heroes in finding El Dorado.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: The Governor, after seeing...''whatever'' was in the box in El Dorado.]]
* EnthrallingSiren: [[spoiler: The monster that kills the shore party in "Report".]]
* FusionDance: Sandy and Ember get hit with this at the convention thanks to a teleporter mishap.
* GilliganCut: At their hotel, Dani mentions that there's an incident going on in the lobby and that it's nothing serious. Cut to a bunch of peasants in the lobby dragging Paulina away, having misinterpreted E350 calling her a WitchWithACapitalB.
* InsultBackfire: [[spoiler: The Governor calls Dani "worse than my convicts". She promptly thanks him for the compliment.]]
* MindScrew: A mild version happens in "Writing"; in the end, we don't know what's "real" and what's fictional.
* MrExposition: Jimmy explains some of the events from the last Halloween Unspectacular to Carl in one chapter.
* {{MST}}: More of this from Squidward in story 13.
* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler: Mr. Cromwell thinks that the whole trip to El Dorado was this. He's wrong.]]
* ShoutOut: Plankton tries to get E350 to reenact the ending of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' with him, Danny, and Cosmo in the beginning.
** Chapter 24 is labeled [[Film/LittleShopOfHorrors Little Shop of Parodies]]" and features references to ''Franchise/{{Tron}}'', ''Franchise/{{Warhammer}}'', Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos, and ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''.
* TemptingFate: Done to hell and back by the group that's going to Comic-Con. [[spoiler: Which is why it's no surprise when the cloaked figure kidnaps them.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Final Push]]
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Gaz has this among the ship's crew in "The Sea of Switching". [[spoiler: Which is why it's ''enormously'' satisfying to them once [[LaserGuidedKarma karma hits her hard]].]]
* AdaptationalWimp: [[spoiler: ReGenesis is weaker than he was in HU1, though he's still powerful enough to take on a skilled mage.]]
* AffectionateParody: E350 sings a parody of "One Day More" from ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' in the beginning.
* AlternateContinuity: For the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' stuff, this story was written some time before "Not What He Seems" aired; therefore, E350's explanation as to who wrote the journals has long been disproved.
* AscendedExtra: Ovard Grim, who only appeared twice in the last Unspectacular, becomes [[spoiler: a member of the BigBadEnsemble]].
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Galahad.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler: ReGenesis, Dan Phantom, King James I, Ovard Grim, and the Governor all team up. Except they're all being played by Galahad.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Jones saves the Mystery Shack crew from the [=GiW=] in "Dragons of Oregon".]]
* ClearMyName: Jazz and Athena end up having to clear Dr Insano's name when he's accused of murder in "The Piccadilly Caper". As it turns out, [[BalefulPolymorph it wasn't even murder to begin with]].
* CivilWar: One of these has erupted in Avalon about a year after the Battle of EL Dorado.
* UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories: E350 comes up with one in order to explain the animated universe. Among other things, he claims that [[WesternAnimation/Foster'sHomeForImaginaryFriends Frankie Foster]] and [[WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents Vicky]] are clones and the government has ninjas.
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: [[spoiler: Gus, the apparently innocent magic performer, was behind the businessman's transmogrification. Oh, and he's actually the Governor.]]
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Spongebob, much to the detriment of Mrs Puff and her go-kart track in chapter 16.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Grim is an unpleasant sociopath, but at least he's ''honest'' about it, as he points out to [[spoiler: Athena while criticizing her plans.]]
* EvilChef: The Muffin Man from chapter 2, overlapping with IAteWhat
* FamousAncestor: [[spoiler: The Fentons are descended from King Arthur himself. And so are either Dipper and Mabel or Wendy, by way of Morgan le Fay.]]
* FlippingTheBird: Implied with Athena in "The Middleman", who shoots Ovard a "lewd finger gesture" as she leaves his office.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: As it turns out, the "Wild Mass Guessing" chapter was only E350 setting up for some ''major'' reveals in the next chapter, with at least one involving -- you guessed it -- Wild Mass Guessing.
* FreakyFridayFlip: Dipper ends up in one with Wendy at the end of chapter 8, thanks to [[ItMakesSenseInContext a pair of socks]].
* GrandFinale: For the Fiddley Canon MythArc.
* GroinAttack: A guard offers to do this to Robbie in "The Other Sock Drops".
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Galahad is done in by the very event he tried to control.]]
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Athena, after hearing Cochrane's "demolition team" plan, grabs a glass of wine and drains it.
* KidFromTheFuture: [[spoiler: Tammy Turner.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: The Fiddley Thing. It gets a funeral on the moon...[[SubvertedTrope and then shows up again in the next ''Unspectacular'']].]]
* MindControlDevice: The titular ring in "Remy's Ring".
* MirrorUniverse: Where "The Other Side of the Mirror" takes place. Starring [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Aang as a tyrannical dictator and Azula as a heroic freedom fighter]], to boot!
* {{MST}}: Squidward gets one last one in chapter 18
* NeverMyFault: Robbie blames Dipper for Wendy breaking up with him, despite the fact that the breakup was mostly his own fault.
* OnlySaneMan: Timmy in "For Want of a Bit".
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In "Hey Fiddle Fiddle", Spongebob becomes worried when Mr Krabs doesn't open the Krusty Krab for the first time in ''25 years''.
* TheReveal: See FamousAncestor above. Also, [[spoiler: Jeremiah Fenton wrote [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls the journals, and took on the alias Fiddleford McGucket]] in order to escape detection from the government]].
* SanitySlippage: Jimmy suffers from this ''big'' time in "The Infernal Machine".
* SeriesFauxnale: Meant to be the GrandFinale for the series until E350 changed his mind.
* ShipTease: [[spoiler: Tammy Turner's mother is Dani, as a corporal figures out.]]
* ShoutOut: "The Piccadilly Caper" starts off with a parody of [[Franchise/StarWars Star Wars']] famous opening crawl.
** [[Fanfic/DOOMRepercussionsOfEvil AND THEN SQUIDWARD WAS A HALF-GHOST]]
** The closing author's note for "Eureka" simply says "[[Franchise/{{Terminator}} COME WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO LIVE.]]"
* SkewedPriorities: When facing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt and learning that no one's running the Mystery Shack in his absence, Stan complains about all the money he's going to lose.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: The author's notes in "Missing Midnight" pokes fun at the spirit's plan to turn everyone into chess pieces:
--> "Dude, couldn't you just, like, ''buy'' a chess set?"
* TrappedInTVLand: [[spoiler: Danny, Jimmy, Timmy, Cosmo, and Wanda at the end of "For Want of a Bit".]]
* UnmanlySecret: According to Mr Turner, Timmy liking Enya music is one of these.
* WhamEpisode: "The Middleman". [[spoiler: Athena's plans and allegiances are thrown into doubt, and we learn that A) Danny's paternal grandmother is the director of the Guys in White, and B) that Dipper and Mabel's parents are working for the villain Ovard Grim.]]
** Eureka. [[spoiler: We learn that Athena was grooming Jazz for her apparent "destiny", where she either has to let ReGenesis send the world into a new Dark Age, or die. Except maybe not, if the appearance of [[KidFromTheFuture Tammy Turner]] says anything...]]
* WhamLine: Chapter 12: [[spoiler: "They had killed the Fiddley Thing."]]
** Timmy (to [[spoiler: [[KidFromTheFuture Tammy]]]]): "Good luck. And just a heads-up -- [[spoiler: mess with time again and I'm grounding you]]."
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: The final fates of Dipper and Mabel's parents isn't explained.]]
** Lampshaded with [[spoiler: Doctor Insano, who's still stuck in jail.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: Athena gets subject to this several times regarding her plans for Jazz. Even Grim gets in on this.]]
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[[folder:Lair of the Hack Writer]]
* AlternateUniverse: [[spoiler: The setting of "Hanging Tree".]]
* {{Anvilicious}}: InUniverse, the author admits that the aesop of "The Fable of the Two Castles" is this.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Ant-Man rescues Soos when a PURITY soldier is about to shoot him.]]
* BloodierAndGorier: Well, more violent at the very least, but "Hanging Tree" is this.
* ChooseYourOwnAdventure: Parodied in two chapters by just presenting us with the endings.
* UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories: More of these pop up in "Twenty Terrible Theories".
* DoNotAdjustYourSet: [[spoiler: General Rausseman takes over the airwaves to order the surrender of the remaining "abnormals" to him.]]
* EasyAmnesia: [[spoiler: Mabel and Pacifica lose their memories once Percivale turns them into a painting in "The Picture".]]
* FantasticRacism: PURITY hates anyone who either has powers or isn't human.
* ForScience: Professor Membrane will take a home renovation and use it as an excuse for this.
* GangWar: Between groups of clowns in "Send in the Clowns".
* GettingSmilesPaintedOnYourSoul: The mandatory pill that everyone takes in "An Average Day" suppresses all negative emotions.
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: In "A Living", Vicky turns poor, homeless people into meat for her soup kitchens. She gets the Chair for it.]]
* JackassGenie: Desiree (as per the norm for her) in "Genies are Jerks". The narrator makes the argument that all genies are like this.
* JumpScare: Attempted by [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Zoidberg]] in "The Interview". It doesn't really work in text format.
* LifeDrain: In "The Picture", Percivale Northwest keeps himself alive by turning his victims into paintings and doing this.
* LoopholeAbuse: In "Genies are Jerks", Desiree says that the Crystal Gems may have one wish each. [[spoiler: Lapis gets around this by using a run-on sentence to voice multiple wishes.]]
* MindScrew: "The Cafe".
* MonsterClown: Several in "Send in the Clowns".
* NoodleIncident: Exactly ''what'' lead to some of the endings in the "Choose Your Own Ending" chapters.
* PrecisionFStrike: E350 isn't normally one to use swearing in his stories, making the Vice President calling [[spoiler: General Rausseman]] a "sanctimonious jackass]] in "Of Presidents and Purity" this trope.
* PsychicLink: Mabel and Pacifica get one between them in "The Picture".
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: The Alaskan PURITY base is this, distracting the military while the organization goes for the president. Only [[{{Seers}} Garnet]] saw it coming.]]
* Rule63: Occurs in the first "Choose Your Own Ending" chapter.
* SeenItAll: After [[spoiler: breaking into the White House in order to stop PURITY]], Kamala meets [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Spongebob, Sandy]], [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Peridot, Amethyst, Stevonnie]], and [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Mabel]]. She considers it pretty normal.
* ShoutOut: The first chapter features a parody of "Make a Man out of You" from ''Disney/{{Mulan}}''.
** In "It's Back", Peridot, in her boredom, briefly watches a Creator/{{Jacksepticeye}} video and the music video for "[[Music/RickAstley Never Gonna Give You Up]]".
** Also from "It's Back", Amethyst and Peridot briefly travel to "The Universe That Is Currently Being Sued By [[Film/MadMax George Miller]]".
* SneezeCut: In "Genies are Jerks", Desiree says that, once she's free, she'll wipe "that annoying ghost boy" from existence. Cut to:
--> Far away, Danny Fenton had a sudden feeling of deep foreboding.
* TakeThat: In the above ''Disney/{{Mulan}} parody, E350 talks about writing stories with "the coherency of Creator/DanBrown" and "the quality of an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo''".
** The second parody has Professor Calamitous create a thinly-veiled parody of UsefulNote/DonaldTrump. [[spoiler: Who then turns into an EldritchAbomination and is swiftly defeated offscreen by [[ComicBook/MissMarvel2014 Kamala Khan]], WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom, and [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse the Crystal Gems]].]]
* TemptingFate: [[spoiler: In the finale, when the Crystal Gems realize that they'll need a portal in order to get into the White House, Peridot complains that one isn't just going to pop up out of nowhere. Cue portal, which Jimmy comes through.]]
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: "An Average Day".
* WhamLine: "Alien!", for the most part, is pretty lighthearted. Then comes this exchange:
--> '''Trigger:''' Just a question. How'd you know about this Zim thing?\\
'''Agent:''' Oh, some other government agency just grabbed him. Nothing to worry about.\\
'''Powers:''' What agency? There's nobody else operating in the area!\\
'''Agent:''' Um...[[spoiler: [[ThoseWackyNazis PURITY]].]] Why?
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[[folder:Watchmeh]]
* AffablyEvil: Floyd from "Roommate" is rather nice for an evil wizard.
* AffectionateParody: "Trailers" is one to, well, film trailers -- specifically summer action blockbusters.
** Chapter 30 is one to classic Saturday morning superhero shows, specifically the Adam West ''Batman'' series.
* AllPartOfTheShow: Danny and Sam assume that the battle between the Crystal Gems and the Ruby Squad was a ''really'' elaborate Disneyland show.
* AssholeVictim: The mob in "Angry Fandom Shelter".
* AscendedToAHigherPlainOfExistence: [[spoiler: Mabel and Pacifica, at the end of "The Gift".]]
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Stan, thanks to the Phoenix Force.]]
* BaitAndSwitch: In "Adapt or Perish", two MPs come to the Pines family's house because they might be harboring a fugitive from another dimension. While they technically ''are'', it turns out that the MPs were looking for [[WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil the Diaz family]] instead.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Timmy wishes that he could meet the ghost of a historical person to help with a history report in the eighth chapter. He wasn't specific, so Cosmo summoned UsefulNotes/LizzieBorden. Oops.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: PURITY has control of the USA, many heroes are dead, Ruby's fate is unknown, and Galactus is coming. The only thing that keeps the story from having a ''complete'' DownerEnding is the hope that the heroes gathered in Wakanda will be enough to save the world. And that's not even getting into what might happen with the Phoenix Force, who seems to have allied itself with Lapis, Timmy, and Stan.]]
* BlackComedy: "E350 Presents: Bluebeard".
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Averted in "Robot Wars"; despite the fact that he was effective in getting rid of the monster, Admiral Stereotype was fired for his obvious mental problems. And for destroying Sydney.
* TheCaper: Stan and Ford's subplot in the whole PURITY mess involves breaking into Allsworthy's corporate building in order to figure out what he's keeping in a secret room.
* CorruptPolitician: [[spoiler: President Fulton.]]
* DestructiveSaviour: In chapter 10, the Crystal Gems save Disneyland from the Rubies...and end up banned from the park for destroying the place.
* EldritchLocation: Timmy's house becomes one in "Timmy Turner's House of Terror".
* FanDumb: Happens InUniverse, which is why the Angry Fandom Shelter exists.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Garnet's fate in chapter 14 is a hint towards her...[[spoiler: unfortunate fate later in the PURITY arc]].
* GroundhogDayLoop: Thanks to an alien, the crew at Wright-Patterson Airbase is stuck in one.
* HellHotel: The titular resort in "Guests of the Marblehead", which may also be an EldritchLocation.
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler: PURITY, through mind control, kills off Hawkeye, War Machine, Black Widow, a good chunk of the people at Xavier's School for Gifted Children, a number of Inhumans, ''Garnet''[[note]]Actually, they poof her, and Captain America is only able to rescue Sapphire[[/note]], and who knows how many others.]]
* IncrediblyLamePun: Smoky Quartz gets heckled for this by Cosmo in chapter 10.
* TheInfiltration: [[spoiler: PURITY succeeds at infiltrating the United States government.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Vlad in "House of Cards".]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: In "Karma Punishment". [[spoiler: Gaz used mind control on people, and she ends up under the control of the protagonists in the end.]]
* MindControlDevice: Gaz uses one of these in "Karma Punishment".
** [[spoiler: In the PURITY story, the brain implants that were ordered for the US military are these.]]
* PaperThinDisguise: How the Rubies get into Disneyland in "Scenes from the Gems at Disney".
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: A PURITY platoon's reaction to facing the Hulk in the climax.]]
* RealityWarper: [[spoiler: Mabel at the end of "Dipper Goes to Tir na Nog"]].
* ReferenceOverdosed: Allsworthy in a freaking nutshell.
* RuleOfCool: Pretty much everything about "Robot Wars".
* ShipTease: Between Timmy and Dani in chapter 29.
* ShoutOut: The first chapter features a parody of "The Candy Man" from ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory''.
** "Robot Wars" has references to Kaiju movies, ''Film/PacificRim'', and, of all things, UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell.
** "The Fiftycrumb Tinies" is, obviously, a parody of ''[[Creator/EdwardGorey The Gashleycrumb Tinies]]''.
** "Angry Fandom Shelter" ends with a ''Series/COPS'' reference.
** Sandy calls the haunting in the eighth chapter "a real Franchise/{{Amityville}} situation".
** In the author's notes for "Unidentified Problem", the author sings a snippet of "[[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Let's Do the Time Warp Again]]".
** The title of chapter 18 parodies the infamous fanfic ''Dipper Goes to Taco Bell''.
** "A Sunday Drive Down Fury Road" is one to...well, [[Film/MadMax guess]].
** "Karma Punishment" features [[Series/TheTwilightZone an opening narration from Rod Serling]].
** The title of chapter 23, "House of Cards", is an intentional reference to [[Series/HouseOfCards the series of the same name]].
** Chapter 29 has two MPs looking for [[WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil the Diaz family]].
* TakeThat: In "Robot Wars" Peridot and Lapis accidentally destroy Cleveland. No one notices for years.
** In the above ''Series/COPS'' reference, E350 calls it a "pretty awful show".
** In chapter 10, Doc the Ruby, Dipper and Wendy all hate the "It's a Small World" ride -- the latter two so much that they proceed to destroy the place.
** In "A Sunday Drive Down Fury Road", E350 listens to [[Music/OutKast OutKast's]] "Hey Ya!" in the car before Sandy grabs the CD and chucks it out the window.
** ThoseWackyNazis: In chapter 28, E350 categorizes the types of Nazis that he's used in his stories over the years. For him, they tend to fall into three types: A (the breathtakingly incompetent ones), B (the moustache-twirlingly evil ones), and/or C (the gratuitous back-story ones).
* {{Understatement}}: Pearl admits that they may have caused some minor damage to the Sleeping Beauty Castle and Main Street at Disneyland in chapter 10. "Minor" meaning "collasped much of the front of the castle" and "turned into a smoking ruin, with many things on fire", respectively.
* WouldHurtAChild: The mob in "Angry Fandom Shelter" are perfectly happy with lynching children. [[AssholeVictim Which E350 uses as an excuse to open fire on them with his Tommy gun.]]
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