History Franchise / Noob

* TheTeam: Every single PlayerParty.

The story follows the eponymous Noob Guild, a RagtagBunchOfMisfits that is the worst guild of a [[FictionalVideoGame fictional]] {{MMORPG}} named ''Horizon'' (nothing to do with [[LightNovel/LogHorizon the anime]]) in early installments, then can't get rid of their reputation as such even as they make slow but steady progress. The team is mostly held together by the fact that it's near impossible to reach level 100 without being part of a guild, resulting in both TeethClenchedTeamwork and WithFriendsLikeThese. The cast quickly expands beyond the Noob Guild alone as the ambitions held by each of its members make them establish relationships, both good and bad, with other players. These connections, as well as their leader's attention to detail, get the Noob Guild more involved in major game events that one would expect for a low-level guild whose numbers never go beyond seven plus a HonoraryTrueCompanion.

** Someting similar happens in some battlegrounds for the player randomly chosen to command the troops according to the comic.

* AluminiumChristmasTrees: Since elements of ''Horizon'' can be anywhere between a ShoutOut to an existing MMORPG to completely made up, this trope is assured to happen on a regular basis.

** In the webseries and comic, thanks to Sparadrap, the Galamadriabuyak tower is also known as the Buyabuyak tower. Thanks to Golgotha, we have Gaga, Arthéfion, l'homme gazelle (literally "the gazelle man"), Sparamoule and Tenshicaillou. Fantöm and Amaras have some too, but they would be GettingCrapPastTheRadar if the franchise had a radar. Just know that French also has a pejorative for homosexuals that starts with "f" (for Fantöm) and that the equivalent to the S-word starts with "m" (for Amaras).

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Lost Levels'', a previous series made by Fabien Fournier, in which the game was a virtual reality rather than a classic MMORPG. Among the characters where a top player named Phantom, a ManInWhite named Omega Zell, a magic user named Gaea, a hacker named Tenshirock and a player killer named Dark Avenger. Their ''Noob'' expys go from [[InNameOnly in name (and actor) only]] to someone closer to the ''Lost Levels'' version.

* GoodColoursEvilColours: There are different colored cursors for the members of each player faction (yellow for the Empire, red for the Coalition, green for the Order). The cursor turns grey if a player gets kicked out of their faction, which means they can be attacked by all three. EarlyInstallmentWeirdness gave Game Masters blue ones.

!!! Go [[Film/NoobLaCroiseeDesDestins]] for tropes exclusive to the third movie

* ''Noob Reroll'' planned in LightNovel form, is basically a setting-wide SpinOffspring in which ''Horizon'' has been ported to virtual reality under the name ''Horizon Reborn''. It starts in 2060, where most of the original cast is either very old or has been claimed by old age. Its current format is a downloadable for free prologue for the first LightNovel.

* ArcWelding: The first novel did this to some episodes of the webseries, making it part of of the ''Horizon'' storyline. When an episode of Season 1 needed to show a character doing a FetchQuest (which happened three or four times out of twenty often stand-alone episodes) the QuestGiver always happened to be InTheHood and dressed in a BlackCloak, something that could easily be normal for the game and/or due to NoBudget. The first novel, chronologically set after the first season, reveals that [[spoiler: the black cloak is actually a trademark for a group that is after the DismantledMacGuffin central to the first novel; some of the pieces were used as decoration for random objects that they sometimes couldn't go get themselves without attracting attention, hence the fetch quests]].

* BlandNameProduct: Such brands appear mainly in the comics. They are rare but not completely absent in the other media.

* CaughtOnTape: Gloating about being the one behind the [[WhamEpisode Wham Episode / Novel Chapter / Comic]] events in front of someone who regularly makes embarrassing videos of one of her guild mates, [[spoiler:especially when you framed her so everyone would think she is responsible for said events]] is a bad idea.

* CombatMedic: Bound to happen in the MMORPG setting. On the Empire's side, Ystos fits the bill best, both because he's actually the best of the game and the two other Empire healers introduced are part of the Noob guild. Only one healer has been introduced in the Coalition and two in the Order (the novels mention that Kary is one too [[spoiler:, which is quite ironic]]).

** Morgan Lavande aka Omega Zell. The feminine version is actually spelled "Morgane", but is still a perfect homophone. And yes, his last name ''is'' French for "Lavander".

* ItsAllUpstairsFromHere: The Galamadriabuyak tower, that his necessary to raise the guild's level cap. A PickUpGroup is necessary to get inside for the game's rare solo players.

* PerpetualPoverty: Both Gaea in real life and the Noob guild. Gaea has a few money making/saving schemes, but all benefits go into her ''Horizon'' subscription and all the manga-related stuff in her room. The Noob guild is broke in part because of Gaea constantly weaseling her way out of contributing and the only one noticing also being the one who always has a bad word towards her anyway. In addition, the few game credits they have are split between Sparadrap buying useless things and Golgotha deciding she wants to be paid right when the fact that she frequently tags along on her own may actually be useful.
** And the previous is just what the webseries mentions, as the novels and the comic make matters even worse: Sparadrap's guild contribution is hinted to be better known as his "feed the pets" fund, Omega Zell's is revealed to be so sporadic that him promising Arthéon to pay without fault each week for a whole year was more than enough to convince the latter to [[spoiler:not make any moves towards inviting Couette into the guild]] during said year.
* PetBabyWildAnimal: Baby cochoboules are mentioned to be part of Sparadrap's pet collection in both the novels and comics. Adult cochobules are a recurring enemy in the comic and Gaea has one as her main summon creature.

* PlayerParty: The franchise-wide ones are the Noob guild, team Fantöm (Justice guild), team Amaras (Roxxor guild), Relic Hunter guild. Roxana is seen forming a party with Dark Avenger, Précieux and Papy PK in the eigth comic. Gaea also has a choice of an alternate set of human shields uh... teammates thanks to the existence of Gaea Worshipper's guild.

* RecognizableBySound: [[spoiler:In the webseries and novels, when Fantöm first makes his second avatar but tries to play on his own, he runs into the Noob guild. One of its members asks him if he's the real Fantöm (since he could also have been someone copycating the Online Alias and appearance) and he aswers "No" in hope of getting rid of them. Unfortunately, most of the Noob guild knows him just well enough to recognize his voice]].
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Coalition members are conspiciously more prone to wearing red and black than players of other factions; when they wear only black, the red comes from the cursor. Also happens to be colors of Gaea's dress starting Season 2, as well of those in the outfit she gets near the end of ''Film/NoobLeConseilDesTroisFactions''.
* RedOniBlueOni: Gaea (blue) and Golgotha (red) fit the trope quite well. A case can also be made of Omega Zell being red to Arthéon's blue.

* RememberTheNewGuy: One of the consequences of keeping the timeline overlap to a minimum. The novel is the only media giving Ivy a formal introduction while she appears out of thin air in the webseries and comic. The novels have that happen to Tenshirock and Nazetrîme, who got a proper introduction in the webseries and the comic.

** Golgotha and Sparadrap: While she started out apparently as annoyed by his attitude as Gaea and Omega Zell, she clearly has a soft spot for him by Season 2 and claims to miss both him and Gaea when they get kicked out of the game (but has no word for Arthéon that she was somewhat replacing at the time). She also energically cheers Sparadrap on a few select occasaions. Their cooperation during the Season 5 tournament added an extra layer [[spoiler:that included Spardrap putting himself between Golgotha and an enemy blast]]. Add the fact that their actors are a married couple in the mix.
** Golgotha and Omega Zell: While Omega Zell was quite mad at Arthéon for recruiting Couette and Ivy, he never complains when Golgotha joins the group and once asked if she could join him in a quest when nobody else was available. She's also the only person aside of him that seems fully aware of Gaea's excessive greed. When he has to interview a female gamer for his job and Gaea happens to be the closest, the first thing he asks after making sure he's at the right place if Golgotha is present. In the comic, he even states that he considers her to be a man stuck in a woman's body as justification of her not being included in his sexism. Some scenes have them stand next to each other for no apparent good reason, one of which had Omega Zell step away from Golgotha the second Gaea came to hide behind her.
** Omega Zell and Gaea: Their general realtionship can be seen as BelligerentSexualTension. While the interview arc makes them meet in real life, the biggest tease they get is in the Season 4 episode during which they have a fight that makes Gaea sound jealous of Fantöm [[spoiler: and Omega Zell leave the guild, which seems to upset her quite a lot]]. Gaea also once suggested Omega Zell that he may like her to tease him. The recurring element not helping is that they have shown to be able to have quite consructive casual conversations when they forget to fight.

** Ystos and Fantöm: In Season 3, [[spoiler:he bursts into tears along with Omega Zell when Fantöm's name is prounounced in a quite empty Centralis. Later, he's basically the one who gets Fantöm to start playing again, believes the Noob guild's info that he could be innocent while admitting Saphir and Heimdäl may need solid evidence and welcomes him back into ''Horizon'']]. The new character he creates in Season 4 is an assassin, the class Fantöm was playing before [[spoiler: the first time]] he became a Twilight warrior.
** Gaea and Fantöm: Fantöm was in the ad that got Gaea to buy the game and he appears in her YaoiFangirl fantasies. She also seems hung up on blackmailing Fantöm specifically, going up to [[spoiler:getting Omega Zell to interview him for his job, perfectly knowing he'll have to bring her along to ask questions]] to be able to blackmail him again in Season 3 after she was forced to stop in Season 2. Also one of the real life couples from the cast.

** A straigheter case in ''Film/NoobLaQueteLegendaire'', during the mini-fluxball game when the NonPlayerCharacter team makes an obviously illegal move:
--> '''Balakior:''' As a compeltely objective referee [[EveryManHasHisPrice who didn't get any bribes]] I... (leaves)

* ThereAreNoTherapists: Implied and played with in a few situations that get developped in the story:

** Near the end of Season 5, we find out about a father and his teenage son who's an avid ''Horizon'' player. The wife/mother has recently died, no indication is given of how avid a player the son was ''before'' her death and the father seems to be trying to keep the household together on his own. The father tries to get on his son's good side by creating an ''Horizon'' avatar and only telling him once he's among the top three players, but the son is so embarassed he ends up leaving both the game and home. Only then is the father seen... reading a magazine whose front page article is apparently about abusive practices in psychothereapy. The father then turns out to have diagnosed the condition that possibly lead to his wife's death in one of his guildmates and to have done the effort to go visit him in real life to talk and give him her doctor's number. Considering that these people are [[spoiler: Tenshirock and Judge Dead]] in present day, they could probably both still use that therapy: the finale reveals that [[spoiler:Judge Dead's issue was a good old Inferiority Superiority Complex that his father becoming one of the ''Horizon'' top three only made worse]].

** Master Zen's jail turns out to be either next door or sharing a building with a psych ward. That set-up would in theory give him easy access to a therapist, [[spoiler:but the time he ended up spending there was only just enough to befriend Elyx and not enough to get effective treatment. Elyx is now the closest thing he has to therapist and to her credit, she briefly seemed to have induced some kind of progress in the webseries.]].

* TotalPartyKill: Happened to the Noob guild too many times to count.

** [[spoiler:Omega Zell's transfer from Noob to Justice, Gaea's Face Heel turn and Arthéon reaching his Rage Breaking Point]] were all shown onscreen in Season 4 of the webseries while the fourth novel starts about a week after the last of these happens and repearing the damage is already underway.
** The novels all take place around one of these for the NonPlayerCharacter part of the story. Three facts had however held true despite this: [[spoiler:Lys and Ark'hen are powerless due to their strength being drained when the Stone of Ages exploded, all neogicians are magic-incapable and the Empire needs the magic from the Sources to keep most of its technology working]]. All three of these status quo stop holding over the course of the fourth novel.

** The three last of Season 5 each have their own Wham moment: [[spoiler:Tenshirock turns out to be Judge Dead's estranged father who wants to make up with him. He also turns out to be the one who made Spectre stop playing when they were teammates, because the reason for which Spectre is that good is also a threat on his player's health. Finally, Fantöm turns out to have intended to make Amaras win their battle with Spectre all along to make up for the trouble he went through while he was cheated without knowing it]].

** The fourth novel explains that when he named the guild, he was planning to have it reach the top despite the name as a TakeThat to the guilds the refused to recruit him when he started playing. However, there's [[HairTriggerTemper a good reason]] [[BadBoss Arthéon's leadership was an improvement over his]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Sometimes gets answered by multi media following.

Several cycles are planned. The first one, whose plot starts with Noob's recruitment of Gaea, consists of :

The events seen in the different media are organised in the following rough chronological order :

* First novel : ''Saison 1.5 : La Pierre des âges'' (Season 1.5 : The Stone of ages)

* Comics 1 to 3 :
** ''Tu veux entrer dans ma guilde ?'' (You want to join my guild?)
** ''Les filles, elles ne savent pas jouer d'abord !'' ([[MostGamersAreMale Girls don't know how to play, first of all!]])
** ''Un jour, je serai niveau 100 !'' (One day, I'll be level 100!)
* Video game project : ''La légende du Comte de Paröw'' (The legend of the Count of Paröw)
* Second novel : ''Saison 2.5 : Le Continent sans Retour'' (Season 2.5 : The Continent without Return)
* Comics 4 and 5 :

* Comic 6 : ''Desordre en Olydri'' (Disruption in Olydri)

* A franchise-wide WhamEpisode and its aftermath that includes a memorable GuestStarPartyMember for the Noob Guild, covered by all three media that focus on different aspects :
** '''Season 3 of the webseries (episodes 6 to final)''' (mostly the Noob guild's point of view of events, focus on the direct aftermath ; ends with the Empire-Coalition war)
** First half of the third novel : ''Saison 3.5 : Les fantômes du passé '' (Season 3.5 : Ghosts of the past) (Added Justice Guild, Roxxor Guild and NonPlayerCharacter perspective, otherwise covers same periods as Season 3)
** Comics 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 (Additional focus Noob Guild's GuestStarPartyMember)  :

*** ''Retour à la case départ'' (Back to the starting square)

* Fourth novel : ''Saison 4.5 : La faction du Chaos'' (The faction of Chaos)

A third cycle is covered in the form of webseries named ''Noob Rush''. It takes place after ''La croisée des destins'', but got its early episodes relased before it due to being much less in need of special effects. The main characters from before get DemotedToExtra while secondary characters get [[AscendedExtra a little more focus]].

Several spin-offs are planned. Three of them have been released in some form :

!!Tropes present in several media include :

** Noob Guild : Nuker (Gaea / Ivy), Tank (Arthéon), DPS (Omega Zell), Healer (Sparadrap / Couette). [[spoiler:Later: Nuker (Ivy), Tank (Spärädräp / [=EarthBuild=]!Couette), DPS (Ystös), Distance DPS (Gaëa), Healer (Sparadrap / Couette).]]

* ArcWelding: The first novel did this to some episodes of the webseries, making it part of of the ''Horizon'' storyline. When an episode of Season 1 needed to show a character doing a FetchQuest (which happened three or four times out of twenty often stand-alone episodes) the QuestGiver always happened to be InTheHood and dressed in a BlackCloak, something that could easily be normal for the game and/or due to NoBudget. The first novel, chronologically set after the first season, reveals that [[spoiler: the black cloak is actually a trademark for a group that is after the DismantledMacGuffin central to the first novel ; some of the pieces were used as decoration for random objects that they sometimes couldn't go get themselves without attracting attention, hence the fetch quests]].

* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever :

** Played with in the [[spoiler:Tenshirock and Judge Dead]] storyline. The webseries explains that the father tried this after the death of his wife, but the two of them happened to have the worse possible personality combination for that kind of thing: WellDoneSonGuy and InferioritySuperiorityComplex. As a result, it just made them grow even more apart. The father decided to secretly go ArchnemesisDad on his son because he considered that better than not interacting with him at all and the son didn't want to talk to him at that point.

* BattleCry: For each of the factions : "Les ennemis de l'Empire doivent perir" (Enemies of the Empire must perish), "Coalition! Destruction!" and "L'Ordre dominera Olydri! L'Ordre est infini!" (The Order will dominate Olydri / The Order is infinite ; made official in fourth novel).

* CardboardPrison: A character whose backstory explictly includes being recently sent to jail for AccidentalMurder in the webseries and novels has a character sheet [[spoiler:in two of the factions]].
* CaughtOnTape: Gloating about being the one behind the [[WhamEpisode Wham Episode / Novel Chapter / Comic]] events in front of someone who regularly makes embarassing videos of one of her guild mates, [[spoiler:especially when you framed her so everyone would think she is responsible for said events]] is a bad idea.

* CommLinks: The game can be set so members of a guild can hear each other without accounting for distance between avatars. Noob and Justice however both have a roleplay practioner as a Guild Master, so the setting is usually on the "off" position unless long-distance verbal communication is essential to make whatever is going on work.

* DifficultButAwesome: Seems to be the case of the elementalist class. It starts out as a JackOfAllStats, then the player can choose different paths while keeping minor spells from the other elements : [[GlassCannon fire]], [[TheMedic water]], [[StoneWall earth]] or [[FragileSpeedster air]]. Once at level 100, they can take another specialization, making the number of different combinations no less than six. Roxana, whose ranking among players was never lower than number five during the story, has fire as first and water as second, making her a GlassCannon who can heal herself, while [[spoiler:Fantöm]] made the staying a JackOfAllStats up to level 100 work on his second avatar. [[{{Noob}} Couette]], on the other hand, leveled up as water and switched to earth later. That makes her good at staying alive, but gives her very little damage dealing power; T-Man shows that she can literally be beaten by someone hitting her long and hard enough. In addition, the fact that double specializations work basically as MultiFormBalance means that she has to switch back and forth between being able to heal and being damage-resistant.

* EnsembleCast: Equal importance is given to all the members the Noob guild had during the two first seasons of the webseries, the first novel and four fist comics. Once recruited, Ivy becomes a fifth member of the ensemble. The Justice guild main roster eventually became a {{Deuteragonist}} ensemble.
* EquipmentBasedProgression: Presumably the case of all level 100 characters. The Justice guild main roster is frequently seen renewing a piece of equipment or another.

* GoodColoursEvilColours: There are different colored cursors for the members of each player faction (yellow for the Empire, red for the Coalition, green for the Order). The cursor turns grey if a player get kicked out of their faction, which means they can be attacked by all three. EarlyInstallmentWeirdness gave Game Masters blue ones.

* GuysSmashGirlsShoot :

** Quite a few male characters are shooters also : Sparadrap, Ystos and Battos as healers, Master Zen, Précieux and Heimdäl as mages, and Amaras and Fantöm have distance attacks in their arsenal as Twilight Warriors. That makes both aspects of the trope are downplayed, with the "girls shoot" part closest to being played straight.
* HangingJudge: Arthéon has that view of Judge Dead and Game Masters in general. His backstroy had him lose a high-level gaming avatar because it was permanently banned for RealMoneyTrade, which he considers a FelonyMisdemeanor. He now seems conviced that calling a Game Master for one of the problems they're actually supposed to solve will somehow get his new gaming avatar and those of his guildmates banned. The only moment this was ever somewhat justified in the whole franchise was a webseries-only plotline in which his guild ended up with an illegally modified gaming item they couldn't get rid of thanks to TheCracker and had used it several time before discovering what it actually was.

** Sparadrap for Noob, being the nicest member and possibly the only one genuinely considering that his guilmates TrueCompanions.
** Ystos for Justice, who was helping out the Noob guild members even during the time at which his guildmates were a little snobbish towards them.
* HiddenDepths: This will come into play half the time someone's real life is exposed.
* HonoraryTrueCompanion: Golgotha, who won't join the Noob guild due to being a mercenary but hangs around with them ''a lot'' despite this. This is best shown in Season 3 of the webseries when Arthéon needs to be replaced, where stepping in doesn't cross her mind despite perfectly knowing of the situation. However, when Arthéon wants to test a team configuration with Sparadrap as a warrior and Ystos as the healer, she insists on participating and acts surprised she wasn't asked to come along.

** Sparadrap has made himself look like one early on due to his source a revenue keeping him away from his computer for only a very short time each day.

* OnlineAlias: As the story is set in an onlie game, this is the only means by which most characters are known.

* OnlySaneMan: Arthéon is the most adjusted member of the guild as long as Game Masters don't get involved. The quirks of the other members affect their behaviour on a much more frequent basis. Ivy is a close second when she's awake [[spoiler:and takes the mantle after Arthéon reaches his RageBreakingPoint]].
* PerpetualPoverty: Both Gaea in real life and the Noob guild. Gaea has a few money making/saving schemes, but all benefits go into her ''Horizon'' subscription and all the manga-related stuff in her room. The Noob guild is broke in part because of Gaea constantly weaseling her way out of contributing and the only one noticing also being the one who always has a bad word towards her anyway. In addition, the few game credits they have is split between Sparadrap buying useless things and Golgotha deciding she wants to be paid right when the fact that she frequently tags along on her own may actually be useful.
** And the previous is just what the webseries mentions, as the novels and the comic make matters even worse : Sparadrap's guild contribution is hinted to be better known as his "feed the pets" fund, Omega Zell's is revealed to be so sporadic that him promising Arthéon to pay without fault each week for a whole year was more than enough to convince the latter to [[spoiler:not make any moves towards inviting Couette into the guild]] during said year.

** The webseries had Donteuil discussing important matters with other people in-game, where passing-by players could hear him and the other person.

* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Coalition members are conspiciously more prone to wearing red and black than players of other factions ; when they wear only black, the red comes from the cursor. Also happens to be colors of Gaea's dress starting Season 2, as well of those in the outfit she gets near the end of ''Film/NoobLeConseilDesTroisFactions''.

* TheRoleplayer: The cumulated info from the media make Arthéon, Heimdäl and possibly the rest of the Justice guild main roster qualify.

** Omega Zell and Fantöm : Supported in-universe by Gaea's YaoiFangirl side and the alternate interpretation of the fact that Omega Zell slips into CannotSpitItOut in Fantöm's presence. WordOfGod stated that Omega Zell is "not homosexual" and Fantöm didn't seem to like the idea of a guy having a crush on him the two times Gaea suggested it. The events of Season 3 altered the situation towards [[spoiler: Fantöm getting along with the Noob guild (and even explicitly considering them true friends in the third book), Omega Zell included]]. In Season 4, [[spoiler: Fantöm not only pressures Saphir to let Omega Zell into Justice guild, but signs him up into its main roster behind her back, under the pretext it gives him the opportunity to pay the Noob guild back for its help]].
** Gaea and Golgotha : They're already established as old friends that have known each other since childhood according to the books and comic. A few facts hint to it being more than friendship at least on Golgotha's side between her general overprotectiveness towards Gaea in-game, the fact that she suddenly decided to move in with Gaea (which meant crossing half of France) over loss of in-game contact and her hugging Gaea's arm when they show up at the guild's real-life meeting.[[spoiler: She even seems to easily forgive Gaea killing her in-game and even gets enthuastic at the idea of eventually fighting against her when she joins the Coalition.]] Also, penny-pinching Gaea is letting someone who [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength seems to not know her own strength]] live in her appartement. HeterosexualLifePartners is another possible explanation.
** Golgotha and Sparadrap : While she started out apparently as annoyed by his attitude as Gaea and Omega Zell, she clearly has a soft spot for him by Season 2 and claims to miss both him and Gaea when they get kicked out of the game (but has no word for Arthéon that she was somewhat replacing at the time). She also energically cheers Sparadrap on a few select occasaions. Their cooperation during the Season 5 tournament added an extra layer [[spoiler:that included Spardrap putting himself between Golgotha and an enemy blast]]. Add the fact that their actors are a married couple in the mix.
** Golgotha and Omega Zell : While Omega Zell was quite mad at Arthéon for recruiting Couette and Ivy, he never complains when Golgotha joins the group and once asked if she could join him in a quest when nobody else was available. She's also the only person aside of him that seems fully aware of Gaea's excessive greed. When he has to interview a female gamer for his job and Gaea happens to be the closest, the first thing he asks after making sure he's at the right place if Golgotha is present. In the comic, he even states that he considers her to be a man stuck in a woman's body as justification of her not being included in his sexism. Some scenes have them stand next to each other for no apparent good reason, one of which had Omega Zell step away from Golgotha the second Gaea came to hide behind her.
** Omega Zell and Gaea : Their general realtionship can be seen as BelligerentSexualTension. While the interview arc makes them meet in real life, the biggest tease they get is in the Season 4 episode during which they have a fight that makes Gaea sound jealous of Fantöm [[spoiler: and Omega Zell leave the guild, which seems to upset her quite a lot]]. Gaea also once suggested Omega Zell that he may like her to tease him. The recurring element not helping is that they have shown to be able to have quite consructive casual conversations when they forget to fight.
*** This one specifically seems to be a fan favorite, [[http://www2.pixule.com/resultats/203076523666_comment-doit-se-finir-duel-gaea-vs-omega-zell.html this]] survey shows it : among six outcomes for a [[spoiler:second]] duel between them, the top two answers are [[spoiler:the loser of the first duel]] winning followed by them having a love story.
** Omega Zell and Sparadrap: On the blatant end, they once (twice including a crossover with ''Series/FlandersCompany'') ended up in a dancing duet thanks to Tenshirock. Thanks to "gay" commonly keeping its "joyful" meaning in French, Sparadrap claimed to qualify for the latter while Gaea was actually asking Omega Zell if he was the former. On the more subtle end, when Sparadrap had to make a second avatar in Season 2, Omega Zell gave him technical reasons he couldn't join the guild in Arthéon's absence before seeming to come back to his senses and basically telling him to get lost. Later, while feeling lonely, he hallucinated Sparadrap coming to speak to him. In Season 3, Omega Zell called Gaea a horrible person for having a money-oriented reaction to an event that greatly saddened Sparadrap . In Season 4, [[spoiler:Sparadrap considered Omega Zell leaving the guild a bad enough matter to go tell Arthéon in real life while it looks like he only found out about Gaea after Kary having exams enabled him to join Sparadrap for a dungeon]].
** Ystos and Fantöm : In Season 3, [[spoiler:he bursts into tears along with Omega Zell when Fantöm's name is prounounced in a quite empty Centralis. Later, he's basically the one who gets Fantöm to start playing again, believes the Noob guild's info that he could be innocent while admitting Saphir and Heimdäl may need solid evidence and welcomes him back into ''Horizon'']]. The new character he creates in Season 4 is a assassin, the class Fantöm was playing before [[spoiler: the first time]] he became a Twilight warrior.
** Gaea and Fantöm : Fantöm was in the ad that got Gaea to buy the game and he appears in her YaoiFangirl fantasies. She also seems hung up on blackmailing Fantöm specifically, going up to [[spoiler:getting Omega Zell to interview him for his job, perfectly knowing he'll have to bring her along to ask questions]] to be able to blackmail him again in Season 3 after she was forced to stop in Season 2. Also one of the real life couples from the cast.

* SlippySlideyIceWorld: Polaris. It's so cold there that ''stopping to move for a few seconds'' can make one freeze.

* StrawMisogynist : Omega Zell, for the reasons mentioned in PoliticallyIncorrectHero.

* TooMuchAlike: Omega Zell is a misogynist and Gaea a woman who doesn't like being demeaned. Gaea, on the other hand, displays behaviours that Omega Zell tends to [[EveryoneHasStandards not approve of in general]]. Aside from this, the two don't get along simply from both being self-centered, ambitious and taking every opportunity they can to bring their goal closer. The situation is such that if one of them has a opportunity to make a big step toward their objective, they (often correctly) assume that the other has the same idea in mind.

** Deconstructed : Fantöm is the fourth player to hold that position since ''Horizon'' got released according to the novels (Mist > Spectre > Amaras > Him). Since Amaras is still around and now number two, he frequently gets challenged by him and got close to losing to him at least once. Also, fear and respect are not the only reactions that the position generates: annoying fans and blackmailers exist too.
** Downplayed : The fame aspect is shared with the other members of his party. The "someone one of the main characters already knows in real life" bonus is actually held by one of them rather than by Fantöm himself. Amaras is pretty much Fantöm's Coalition equivalent, and he has a party also. ''And'' Spectre comes back in Season 3.
** Justified : For those who know how the story goes, that fact that [[spoiler:the game's creators have been enhancing Fantöm's stats behind his back each time he got in enough trouble to put his number one rank at risk]]. This also deconstructs the trope a little further.

* WhatDidYouExpectWhenYouNamedIt: Just look at Master Zen's backstory. He names his guild "Noob", ends up having an actual noob in it, said noob end up pissing him off to the point that the infamous ApplianceDefenestration happens ; this is especially strange given that [[spoiler: Master Zen later comes up with a much better name for his new guild]]. Gaea even lampshades the lousy name choice the first time she hears it in the series.

* YaoiFangirl : Gaea's imagination tends to run wild when it comes to Omega Zell's hero worship of Fantöm.

** Comics 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 (Additional focus on Relic Hunter guild and the Noob Guild's GuestStarPartyMember)  :

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* LostForever: Heavily implied to happen, ''Horizon'' being a MMORPG that regularly gets its setting updated. One set of characters moved from QuestGiver to {{Mook}} in the first novel, while ephemeral quests get mentioned in the comic. There are also secret quests, whose outcome actually influences the game's plot. Once someone finds and accepts them, NothingIsTheSameAnymore.

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* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Fantöm and Spectre seem to have this going on ''for each other''. Fantöm admires Spectre's LivingLegend status and Spectre is impressed by Fantöm's accomplishments, even though he hasn't reached his own level quite yet.

** Arthéon [[spoiler:and eventually Sparadrap]] for Noob
** Heimdäl for Justice