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I'm thinking like [[spoiler:the Zeekeeper]] from ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam''.

* FanDisservice: Both competitions so far have had focus on Ezekiel's hairy ass. ''World Tour Rewrite'', while he was never naked in person (strangely), has Harold's DreamSequence at the beginning of the chapter, where he's standing by the edge of the bathtub asking if he can join Harold and the girls, and ''Zeksmit Plains'' has the sixth chapter, which has the contestants constantly commenting on how it's possible to have a butt ''that'' hairy. It doesn't help that he's not exactly the cleanest individual around -- lampshaded in the former scene, where after jumping in the tub, the water instantly darkens and basically becomes mud. (Granted, ''it was a dream'', but still.)

Changes for the pairing 8 update:
* D. Meulin's "initial guide" through the ring, and what exposits to Equius, is no longer Rose. Instead, I'm thinking Aradia or one of the Serkets. Or even Feferi. She and the other five trolls who didn't get lines (Tavros, Sollux, Terezi, Gamzee, and Eridan if memory serves) should get lines in the prologue. Also, it would be a nice way to get rid of that "aracial" joke where Rose would look eyeless thanks to how ghosts work, since I'm retconning them to have their skin be colored similarly to their eyes/text.
* Just about everything from Karkat's memo to the B1 group onwards will be changed.
* New sprite combos for the B2 Prospit kids. Damara-Horuss and Mituna-Cronus-Meenah instead of Damara-Mituna and Horuss-Cronus-Meenah.
* Pairing 8 is planned to be the first one ''not'' published on a holiday. (Valentines Day (twice), April Fools, Halloween.)

Plot-related updates (spoilers?)
* We'll get back to B2 after the main romance of pairing 10. This is kind of because it would mark the end of Act One Act One.
* Some of the characters who were prologue exclusive will make a reappearance.
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** The ''Steven Universe'' installment is possibly slightly more "normal" and its base work, considering that the new additions are all science fiction-stuff and all of the magic elements (the cross-worlds portal, etc) are either things that appeared in the show prior or things that appeared in its prequel.

* DemotedToExtra: While several characters from canon neglect to make an appearance, this is actually the norm for many of the author's other ''Homestuck'' fanworks. However, this is notably the first time the ''trolls'' are absent from the main story and their only appearance is as (humanized) implied cameoes in crowd scenes, such as when Dave and Roxy are grilling. And, confusingly, they are mixed in with completely new characters who just act in the background.

* SeriousBuisiness: Surfing seems to be regarded very highly on the island the story takes place.

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* SeriousBuisness: Surfing seems to be regarded very highly on the island the story takes place.

* FishOutOfWater:

* D. Meulin's "initial guide" through the ring, and what exposits to Equius, is no longer Rose. Instead, I'm thinking Aradia or one of the Serkets. Or even Feferi. She and the other five trolls who didn't get lines (Tavros, Sollux, Terezi, Gamzee, and Eridan if memory serves) should get lines in the prologue.

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* AbsenteeActor: As mentioned in MinimalistCast below, the trolls have been silently becoming less and less relevant across his general ''Homestuck''-related works. Even with that aside, there are some notable examples:
** ''The Homestuck Thanksgiving Special''/[[spoiler:''Kids Fight the Zombies'']] has Karkat as the only troll making any sort of appearance. [[spoiler:And he's even farther derailed than he or anyone else usually is. All he serves is as a sudden BiggerBad and the cause of the ZombieApocalypse, and he turns into a Godzilla expy shortly after his appearance.]]
** The three ''Steven Universe'' thusfar (not counting ''[=SBIGlets=]'') try to invoke ContinuityCalvacade by including... practically everyone on the [[Characters/StevenUniverse character sheet]], especially since the latter two both involve Desert City, a parallel universe with its own answers to the cast (which is more necessary to include characters. Limiting the Desert cast to just the Crystal Gems would be weird and kind of counterproductive). Fryman and his counterpart have been absent in the first two stories even though at least two of his sons and their counterparts have appeared in both ''Carl Stevens Universe'' and ''Desert City'', and [[MayorPain Dewey]] hasn't been in the first two. (His counterpart ''has'' been mentioned in the second, however.) There's a story idea where the cast is limited to the four Gems, but there's no real word on that becides this.
** ''Carl Stevens Universe'': [[spoiler:Bobby Hill does not appear, even though Hank and Peggy both do and he has been mentioned by Hank. Him being a major character in the only ''Steven Universe'' SBIG story thusfar might be an answer to this.]]
* [[AdoredByTheNetwork Adored by the Author]]: '''''Total. Zeksmit.''''' At no point in its long and ongoing history has it yet to exceed the popularity of its spiritual preceedor ''Total Drama World Tour Rewrite'' (which had recently concluded, to boot), or for that matter to rub salt in the wound once TDWTR's side-fic ''Total Drama Race'' got past its third chapter it skyrocketed past TZ as well. Many of the major characters are seen as forgettable or annoying (fortunately most of the side characters are another story), compared to TDWTR, TDR, or hell ''anything else he writes'' the pacing is glacially slow, and the plot is needlessly convoluted but at the same time far more simplistic than some of his other works: ''Everburn'', ''the Real Story'', and ''496 Reasons...'' being some examples. And yet it's often his top priority, he's a lot more zip-lipped about its future developments than any other fan fic, and the amount of fine-details put into it as well as the refining and editting is ludicrus compared to almost anything else he writes. It doesn't help that after finishing ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'' (which took nearly a year and a half of ''four (five about a fourth of the way) pages a day updates'') he put way more focus on this than many of his other works until he published chapter 3. Whereafter he put it on hiatus, but ''as soon as that ended'' he worked on it non-stop until making it up to chapter 6. This doesn't seem like much, but the average update rate per that period of time was one chapter every two weeks.
** Lampshaded/parodied during the teaser for ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'' Season 4. The very beginning is Ezekiel about to announce some "new twists and features" to TZ (by this point ''Zeksmit'' was still very early in its history so obviously these features have yet to happen) before Rose runs up to him and punches him. The fact that HHC itself hasn't updated all year in spite of the arc in question claimed to be started on December ''of the last year'', combined with how the trailer was posted right after chapter 3 of TZP really helps drive the point in.
** ''Also'' lampshaded during a scene in ''Carl Stevens Universe'', after the second match where the Gems are desperately trying to turn their television away from the news broadcast of Carl bragging about the power of his Pikmin. ''Total Zeksmit'' is the last show flipped to, and this ''very lengthy'' paragraph follows:
--->Finally, the electronic was turned off. Nobody really liked that last particular show, even if there wasn't much in it to connect to Carl or Hellsing. It seemed very bland, took too long, and the main character was obnoxious. Plus during the rare times the Gems decided to glance around at the TV they found networks always advertising it, even though it only lasted three episodes before going on some big hiatus. Actually it wasn't just networks either; billboards, smart phone ads, very eager people with fliers, and even works of literature that had the audacity to shove a blatant reference to it in their words. Hopefully that hiatus will end soon, because the sooner that gets back on the road, the sooner it will end, and the sooner everything will finally shut up about it.
** Speaking of ''496 Reasons'', let's. After the Jake/Terezi hiatus, it pretty much has an average of an update (chapter counts ranging from one to... usually six maximum) per week. It usually takes more than that time for him to get one chapter (or a two-chapter primere, those are getting increasingly common starting from its origins in ''496'' itself) of anything else out. He also openly pimps it everywhere on his user pages, and it is right up there with TZ itself as being the [[SeriesMascot "mascotfic"]] of what he writes. Fittingly, promotional images (and his Tumblr backgrounds) usually have either a character from ''496'' (if a canon character, they bear changes obviously only applying to ''496'') and ''Total Zeksmit'' (again, canons have their appearance-changes visible, like Ezekiel's Kamina shades) pit in the center duking it out with eachother surrounded by stuff from other works, or are mostly ''just'' TeamShot[=s=] of one of his worlds. Guess which two are the most common.[[note]]Aside from the two obvious choises, other things GPF is fond of drawing group shots of include ''Housestuck'', ''Everburn'', ''Real Story'', and ''Swyyx Project''/''Blue Sun Chronicles''.[[/note]]
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation[=/=]GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Works its way into ''all'' of his original works in some way or another, whether through one particular race having no definite palette or the main characters fitting under this. To give examples of both original and fan fiction:
** ''Soap'':
** ''Blue and Yellow'' Series: Their entire race. It isn't limited to solid colors, either: There are also mixtures, whether they have patterns or not.
** ''This Game is Sexist'': For some reason, the babes Duck saves. [[spoiler:That "reason," it turns out, is because they're demons.]]
** ''Blue Sun'': Again, the main characters (at least of the first series). Their race is basically like humans, but with even more physical variety in... everything.
** ''Total Zeksmit'': Genes associated with elemental classes can give people natural skin and hair colors unusual by our standards. Bearing these colors do not necessarly mean you have the class though.
** Any ''Homestuck'' fan fic (that's ''[[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness not]]'' Sweet Jade and Hella John): The human "player" characters, ''if'' race is mentioned (this isn't always the case; HHC doesn't reveal their races, partly because the issue is a large ShrugOfGod for that particular story), makes them have the same color as their eyes/text. Sometimes it's dodged around by even the narrative describing them in their blank-slate white color. ''496 Reasons'' does both, the prologue flat-out describing Rose's skin as being "open to interpretation" and even commenting on how the white skin combined with the MilkyWhiteEyes makes her look [[EyelessFace eyeless]]. Later on the prose casually mentions their skin as being whatever their eyes are (dropping the araciality), leading to such (half-intended) {{narm}} as "He glanced at his blue face" [[spoiler:and an attempt at getting a jump when [[BigBadEnsemble the dreamselves]] get involved more and colors that do ''not'' correspond to any of the humans are listed.]]
* AmericaTakesOverTheWorld: Actually ''Canada'' does in the ''Total Zeksmit'' world, with China as the only remaining definite other country. This is also a near-possibility in ''Everburn'', but ultimately doesn't really happen.
* AnyoneCanDie: Omnipresent. Especially in SBIG. This has lessened a bit in serious works starting from when shorter stories began getting published, but his works are generally infested with HeroKiller[=s=] and the PlotArmor has paper-thin defenses. A general rule is: Is the character in a situation where they would likely die? Or get voted off in competitions? If they are -- this being the only thing considered, the answer is "yes" regardless of their importance and screen time prior. This isn't just because he's using other people's characters, either, as most of his [=OCs=] have been killed in one work or another, and all of his original fictions bar ''Blue Sun'', ''This Story is Sexist!'' [[spoiler:some plans for the future aside]], and maybe ''Blue and Yellow'' (if the description is anything to go by) have had at least two major deaths. [[spoiler:And maybe TSIS, if you count Wichita or Frank the Gray as "major" and assume that they're dead for good. As Wichita did come BackForTheDead once.]]
** Most ''Homestuck''-involving works and notably ''Everburn'' seem to be exceptions. ''Everburn'' is noteworthy because given [[TakeOverTheWorld the setting]], [[DeathByOriginStory the opening]] and [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters the higher cast leaving plenty of potential for death]], very few of even the villains have died and almost none of the deaths of anyone named are permanent. They do, however, carry weight, as often temporary deaths are given to major assets of the surviving team, which screws up their plans.
** Not counting [[PostHumousCharacter Rose or her Desert-verse counterpart,]] as of now no ''Steven Universe'' characters have died in any of his stories. Though the first and third one are too lighthearted for that, and the second would push it into much darker territory than it already is depending on the victim.
* ApocalypseHow:
** [[spoiler:''Sweet Jade and Hella John'']] has a regional class 5. [[spoiler:'''''All''''' of Texas, as well as both its immediate surroundings and most of the Mario session (eight of the nine Marioplanets, Prospit, and Derse) have been annhialated by Rip's reckoning save for two very specific areas protected by the Tricksters]].
** [[spoiler:''Total Drama Race'']], of all things (both due to being LighterAndSofter to already comparatively light [[spoiler:''Total Drama World Tour Rewrite'']] and for being a [[spoiler:''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'']] fan fiction), features at least a global class 1. [[spoiler:Thanks to Duncan accidentally breaking Cody's panacea project, ''all clothing in the world is dissolved''. This includes ''anything'' that could even '''slightly''' be used as clothes, and many, many types of inorganic material. FridgeHorror kicks in to the point of InferredHolocaust considering what this means (as very, very little after the incident is shown that isn't directly centered on the main characters), seeing as earlier this same story featured several background characters in cold climates: Antarctic scientists, mountain climbers, skiiers, etc., and that's not getting into other scenarios such as people in deep, toxic caves or anyone wearing any kind of protective suits in locations where it would be vital]].
** ''Everburn'' has this as a [[DoomedHometown central plot point]]. [[spoiler:Regional class 2 after Johnny gets the upgrade to his Permafrost, easily wiping out most of the central United States and turning it into a tundra wasteland. The rest of the world, however, quickly prepares, and sets itself up a defense system to hold him back in case he tries to escape. It works, but at he cost of trapping the main characters in the area for a long period of time.]]
** [[spoiler:''Soap'' ends with a WorldOfWeirdness[[EarthShatteringKaboom -Shattering Kaboom]]]].
* ArcFatigue:
** ''496'' was terrible with this in the beginning, because of the storyline being based on a randomly generated list. It takes Jake about seven chapters to [[spoiler:finally ''start'' working for Vriska]], John nearly ten to get out of the coma he was knocked into at the end of the 100th pairing [[TheScrappy (not that anyone's really complaining)]], the amount of time it took for all the flashback chapters to finally cover over what happened with Jack is overkill, etc etc. And there's the extreme length of the first day (fortunately some chapters flash ahead at this time, but mostly stay within the span of the first week), to the extent that it was often mocked for having "''Day 1.''" at the beginning of each couple even when it seemed unnecessary.
** ''Total Zeksmit'' is odd because, similar to ''496'', its issues with this were more common towards the beginning than towards the middle. The whole first season was already considered very slow after the pilot, but the final four is regarded as telling something in the span of three chapters that could barely thicken out one. And there's the events of the second Aftermath and the special, the character arcs in both being more easily fit into season 2.
** ''Total Drama World Tour Rewrite''[='=]s final "arc," which has more chapters than the first three (8 compared to 6 each, counting Aftermaths) and each chapter on-average is longer. And it's more noticable because of the comparable lack of action: so much more of the events could be considered filler, it doesn't focus on a three-way conflict like the prior seasons did as the only arguable "arc-specific" villain (Gwen) is directly working for the overarching BigBad, Harold ceases [[TookALevelInBadass taking levels in badass]] and slowly getting out of DesignatedProtagonistSyndrome as he's suddenly shot into relevance, [[spoiler:none of the eliminations are "permanent" -- the fact that they all hang around in the cargo hold after and get unnecessary screentime after that cheapens their vote-offs, especially when they start participating in the challenge in "Raining Cats and Dollars" instead of being dropped off in Hawaii]], and overall it takes the author's usual cliches and [[ClicheStorm slams them in again]] [[UpToEleven times eleven.]] The fact that just prior [[spoiler:Cody had been eliminated]] doesn't really help.
** ''Homestuck Rewrite'' is the only work so far which is commonly said to invert the pacing problems with almost anything else he writes: Its beginning is ''very'' quick to the point of being hard to follow, but around the time the cast enters the post-scratch session everything comes to a grinding halt.
*** The meteor trip arc specifically takes three chapters. One for each year. And it was borderline filler, anyway, only really serving to develop the harem's dynamics more and Aradia, Equius, Jake, Dirk, Karkatsprite, and Solluxsprite [[spoiler:before they all die. Twice, in Aradia/Aradiasprite's case.]] The only really important part was the fact that [[spoiler:Vriska came back to life, and even then, it was originally going to deliberately use WhatHappenedToTheMouse and Vriska's arc was supposed to be "forgotten" in the original plan.]]
** ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'' has season five, the Felt Tower Invasion. It might tie with season seven in being the shortest in terms of chapter number, but the chapters are ''pretty damn long''. Before the titular invasion is "Road Trip," the first half of which was inspired by ''How I Met Your Mother's'' final season (this can be seen back in season four; this was the reason why the RC's rides were all destroyed or, in the case of the plane Team One took, stolen) in starting with the cast's trip back to their treehouse. While everybody else and their guardians/ancestors get back fairly early and each group even manages to kill a Felt member along the way, John and Jade take almost half of them chapter to get there on Giant David Hasselhoff. ''Then'' they make it into the tower, just to screw around with their counterparts. The next chapter, "The Truths AND Dares?" They ''leave'', talk more with the Chicago citizens, return to play Truth or Dare, and only get a total of three Felt members killed. "Escaping" is the only one that isn't so full of padding that it ''feels'' like filler, but even then, the fact that Scratch [[spoiler:pulls a YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle despite the leadup to what seemed like at least a FinalBossPreview and sends them against a GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Stickdawg]] ruins the moment.
* ArchivePanic: As of November 2014, the total number of words in the sum of each fic is well into the octuple digits.
** ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'' is one of the longest MSPA fan adventures, measuring at '''2,496''' pages. (''One'' page is the beginning ran through bad translator, and there's a few gag pages early on that don't particularly cover any of the comic's events, but the number of pages with multiple images more-than covers up for it.) While the author described each arc on its own as being a "fast read," put alltogether it's next to impossible to get through two of the longer subacts[[note]]Pretty much Intermission Act Two, Intermission Act Three, Intermission Act Four, Act Two Act One (to a lesser extent; only slightly), '''Act Two Act Two''', and Act Three[[/note]] in one sitting. ''And the storyline is '''rushed''''', with many of the arcs being flattened short or cut off anticlimatically due to a pseudo-CosmicDeadline; should there be a storyline accurately accounting for every villain and non-background alter ego, and there's potential that the story may be longer than ''Homestuck'' itself.
** ''Total Zeksmit'', after the "Something New" hiatus, quickly exploded into a complicated universe. Three competition seasons to which it originates from (with a planned fourth), each nearly multiplying in chapter count from 13 to 27 to an estimated ''40''; collection of side CrackFic[=s=] ''Side Stories'' that currently has nearly 30 chapters and shows no signs of ending anytime soon; and countless filler comic strips and ficlets. Reading each chapter of ''Plains'' takes an average of twenty to thirty minutes; they get much longer in ''Island'' and ''Woods'', with the upcoming fourth's planned to be so long they will have to be ''split''. Something the author almost ''never'' does.
** ''496 Reasons Why Multidating is More Complicated than it Seems''. By the sheer premise alone: It's a fan fiction dedicated to writing ficlets of every possible ''Homestuck'' pairing counting the eight kids and twenty-four trolls. With the twist that they all take place in the same story (and -- when it comes to the actual shipping -- the characters ''are'' the same selves, not doomed offshoots), intertwining the continuity. There is also ''[=OT32=] Shenanigans'', numerous one-shots which features the "[[{{Polyamory}} OT32]]" in some way or another.
** SBIG as a whole is worse than ''Sweet Jade and Hella John''. Why? Because it not only ''includes'' SJAHJ itself, but every other parody fan fiction, and as a whole counting each [=SBIGlet=] there are more stories of this "superseries" or "multiseries" than there are not. (And that's after he starting writing one shots that dragged the "not" count up!) Sure, the first chapter of ''[=EDventure=]'' or ''Zombie Attack!'' or even all of ''Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals'' isn't that bad, but there's ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'', with its latter seasons that can each take around an hour to read. And the second chapter of ''[=EDventure=]'', which isn't really anything short in of itself. And ''[=SBIGlets=]'', a huge and partially interwined series of short stories that get longer, more complicated, and less comprehensible in terms of plot as they go on, with no signs of stopping. And unlike every other example here, SBIG isn't neatly organized on the author's fanfiction profile, spanning onto the MSPA Forums and the author's Tumblr page.
* ArtifactTitle:
** Averted with ''Simpsons Meets Brandy and Mr. Whiskers''. As the Simpsons weren't really that important to the first story at all and were only added because that was the initial concept Pikmin Fan thought of while younger, the sequel drops them completely outright, and renames itself ''Brandy 2: Bound to the Blade''.
** ''Total Zeksmit'', both in-universe and out (as out universe it's the same name as the reality show), stops making sense when in the second season, [[spoiler:Ezekiel decides to give up the "Zeksmit" nickname.]] Geoff lampshades this often.
** ''Ed, Edd n Eddy's Awesome Edventures'' stops making sense during the Eds' Game episode. It makes even less sense from the second game onward.
* AscendedExtra:
** Invoked in ''Total Zeksmit'', as a form of ChekhovsGunman. [[spoiler:Chris goes from having one appearance in the first chapter and never appearing in non-"recordings" (IE Ezekiel's films, the auditions, etc) to making enough cameoes in season two to be the "Kathy" of the season, to being a real thorn in Ezekiel's side in season three, and arguably the BiggerBad of the entire series. His role in season four is currently up in the air.]]
** The demons in ''This Story is Sexist!'' are confirmed -- and shown -- to get increasing roles in the storyline. How many of them will get some spotlight is under decision, and the author joked that if he was really devoted he could go forth and fully develop all 360 of them.
** In-story, Ed (Not the ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' one) went from getting a few simple mentions and lines in the background of one chapter to [[spoiler:being possessed by TheDragon]] in the transition from ''Simpsons Meets Brandy and Mr. Whiskers'' to ''Brandy 2: Bound to the Blade''. The same sequel does this in a more canon-to-fic manner, ascending Tiffany and Sandy to Brandy's extremely odd sidekicks.
** Geno went from two-chapter joke character in ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'' to [[spoiler:one of the major villains... for some reason]] in the "Green Mario" [=SBIGlet=].
** While ''Desert City'' takes place in a different timeline from its preceedor ''Carl Stevens Universe'' and succeedor ''I Thought Those were the Ingredients'', over the three stories Connie went from only appearing at the tail end to showing up about halfway and after her counterpart (who is [[spoiler:the story's arguable BigBad]]) to debuting near the ''beginning'' and being the ''first'' person Steven recruits for his FiveManBand intervention group. Really, similar things can be said about Lars, Sadie, and Peedee.
** Alucard finally, ''finally'' becomes a full-fledged protagonist in ministory ''Hecksing the Dusk not Twilight Because that Sucks'', considering how the closest role he had prior only lasted four chapters out of a thirteen-chapter story.
** See BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor for an example of this trope played for annoyance.
* BackForTheFinale: Most of his stories.
** All three ''Total Drama'' fan competitions so far have all of the eliminated contestants returning for the final episode. In ''Total Drama Race'', it's more-or-less like a cameo, and they only meet with the final two teams at the very end. In ''Total Drama World Tour Rewrite'' and ''Total Zeksmit Plains'', however, they are actually a part of the final challenge, the latter moreso than the former.
** ''Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals'' has the Captain, who was revived by Rip. He ''was'' an example of this (the author grew attatched to his LargeHam character butchering and his backstory with Rip, and didn't want him to stay dead), before HUC-related series and chapters made him into an AscendedExtra.
** The final season of ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'' has the Rainbow Crew eventually inviting ''every'' non-antagonistic character who is still alive (which is basically every non-antagonistic character, as good guys getting KilledOffForReal in that story is very rare (but still exists, as seen with [[spoiler:Geno]])) and not exclusive to the 1994 era to bombard Doc Scratch's tower by throwing a party. This includes characters who were only previously seen in [[ShowWithinAShow shows within the fic]], like Conker, Ren, Stimpy, and Fry. And Fansworth, though he got a previous physical appearance. [[spoiler:When Doc Scratch teleports the tower to the moon, the "guests" all run out just before it happens, which symbolizes that the fight with Lord English that will follow isn't going to be as flashy as the Scratch showdown (and that's saying a lot; Scratch himself is an AntiClimaxBoss) and serving as a TakeThat to ''Total Drama All-Star''[='=]s finale (the fic downright compares the two, and how only major characters got mention during the fight).]] ''Also'', while it's only the ''penultimate'' chapter, Cartman returns in chapter 25 and even has it named after him, where he serves as the driving force of conflict after a twelve-chapter long absense.
** ''Homestuck Rewrite'': [[spoiler:Caliborn encases the entire session in a dream bubble skin, and then the ghosts of everyone (many trolls, and all of the alpha timeline instances of all the dead characters by that point) show up. However, once Caliborn dies and the bubble pops, the [[BackForTheDead ghosts all]] [[DeaderThanDead fade away.]]]]
* BadassDecay:
** Vriska's first role in any of his stories is in a jokefic where she pulls a small prank on Nepeta. Which Nepeta planned all along, but let's shove that aside. After that, her ride is mostly downhill:
*** Within that same story, ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'', she becomes little more than a karma joke and a complete idiot from then to the end. Even in the epilogue, she's still extremely passive.
*** ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'' equally makes her into a joke. One that nobody really listens to.
*** ''Kids Fit the Trolls'' seems to be going towards an inversion of this with her as the first real villain the trolls face, before she dissapears until the end of the story. From then on and towards its sequel, she's little more than John's girlfriend, and nothing else. (Much like Terezi and Kanaya to Dave and Rose respectively.)
*** ''496'' is the first serious work with her. She begins the story with a plan and... prompty spends most of the early events locked up with Meenah in a faux-jail cell. It doesn't help that her biggest help in getting her out is Jake, something of a dumbass.
*** ''[=OT32 Shenanigans=]'', despite being ''496'' in sit-com land, might be the first time she's taken ''out'' of the decay. Her introduction includes saving Meulin from being stuck on a tree with nothing more than a small dagger, which she might not have even needed. Hey, it's not much, but at least it's ''something''.
* BattleCouple[=/=]BattleHarem:
** The love interest girls of both ''Total Drama World Tour Rewrite'' and ''Homestuck Rewrite'' are both way more active than their respective [[UnwantedHarem unwanted]] attractions. The latter lampshades this and takes a page from the obscure oddball film ''My Five Wifes'' when John does the housework and cooking for all eight of them.
** ''496 Reasons'', ''[=OT32=] Shenanigans'', and ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'', if following a more mutual form of harem.
** All ten couples in the Crackcest Decathalon.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: One of the running themes in SBIG (though this admittedly started as an accident, and was mostly a mix of AuthorAppeal and ShockingSwerve) was basically taking a character who was an EnsembleDarkhorse in the original fanbase and turning them into a [[SpotlightStealingSquad spotlight-stealing]], [[StoryBreakerPower overpowered]], [[RonTheDeathEater evil jackass]]. [[WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball Carrie Kreuger]] is the biggest example, as while her origin story was short (especially compared to pretty much ''every'' SBIG story between GVS and ''Zombie Attack!''), she makes several cameoes and intentionally obnoxious appearances in completely different stories. Some of those stories having ''nothing'' to do with ''Gumball Vs Satan''. Other examples include [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} Nepeta]] ([[Webcomic/SweetJadeAndHellaJohn tw]][[FanFic/HousestuckHurrcainCrconikals ice]]), [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} Rip]] (Downplayed; she was a villain, except she becomes the BigBad of one story), [[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy the Kanker Sisters]] (''[[HijackedByGanon three]]'' times), arguably the Horrorterrors in ''Kids Fit'', and a few examples in [=SBIGlets=]: [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Dark Link]] (''5word'', acting as [[spoiler:TheStarscream]]), [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/YumeNikki Uboa and, later, the spotlight guy]]]] (''Dream House''/''Ascend'' series), and [[spoiler:[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Geno, Rosalina, and the Massif Bros.]]]] (''Green Mario'').
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In general, anything and everything involving Homer Simpson whenever he himself wouldn't tangable to the cast. And yes, this actually happens more often than you would think. This is probably the only author where Homer, in his works, has legitimate potential to be some sort of cross-universe EldritchAbomination. Maybe. Maybe not.
** ''Homestuck Rewrite'' has Roxy hallucinate him at an increasing frequency, before stopping just around [[spoiler:Eridan's death]]. [[spoiler:It's revealed that the ''entire'' story was a coma dream Dave had during a surgery to get rid of a brain tumor, Homer's appearances being a symptom of that.]]
** ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'' has Dave, Dirk, Roxy, and Rose getting high on crack and undergoing hallucinations. Dirk's involved crossing a pit of racism by using "classic literature," Roxy encounters a "canon John" [[WordOfGod (but not really)]] who tells her that he and Jade are siblings in the crack-verse he comes from, Rose gets told by the Burger King to look into a toilet where she sees someone in blackface, and Dave originally saw a Calliope recolor in a touque before it was silently changed to watching Rose melt in front of him (it's hard to tell that she's melting, and the author's word is the only certanty, given SJAHJ's very loose art style). Though for some reason the drugs manage to influence the story ''just a little bit'' (Rose knowing where the chaos emeralds are and Dirk actually becoming possed by racism being the two biggest), but the exact reasons behind how any of this works is never expanded upon.
** ''496 Reasons'' repeats the above, with the same four going into a "self-made sauna" with Roxy adding a genetically engineered plant's pollen into the steam. Jane and Jake would have undergone hallucinations too, but Jake paniced and Jane followed him out. The trips that the remaining group experiences are even ''weirder'' than their SJAHJ counterpart's.
** ''Desert City'': When the Gems are all in Dan's house, Steven has a NightmareSequence he's Sven on a mission with the Desert-Gems. After blowing up a BlobMonster, Sven/Steven re-creates the "Edward save" scene from ''Twilight'' where he saves Connie from a car... before he suddenly ponders her counterpart, and she suddenly multiplies like crazy in a variety of sizes, shapes, and colors [[CallBack (similar to the Dream-Jades and Dream-Johns in John and Jade's dreams respecitvely in SJAHJ,]] [[UpToEleven only on steroids)]] while the other Crystal Gems first turn into half-hybrids of their Beachverse counterparts before turning completely into them, then turning into ''giant dog snakes'' that howl at him. Then he imagines all of the Connie clones swarming over him, before their glasses suddenly glow bright yellow and he wakes up. Believe it or not, if you've read ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'', [[spoiler:this is supposed to foreshadow Bonnie being a ''Crconikals''-Alucard expy. In HHC, the first thing he does is kill the actual Edward while he was making out with Kanaya. ''That'', believe it or not, ''isn't'' a BLAM by HHC standards.]]
** ''Act 5 Vs Act 6'' might not have the strangest moments out of SBIG, but it has the most unexplained and plot irrelevant. Such as during Carnival Night, when the infamous "Barrel of Doom" ''comes to life'' and subjects [[ButtMonkey Dave]] to "the most frustrating gaming moments known to man," where according to the narrative, he's running through a live-action setting having to dodge blue shells and other things with "bad controls like as if he was drunk but not drunk."
** After showing off the new uniforms in ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'', John and Jade complain, which is followed by [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Professor Fansworth]] doing the same. Rose quickly kicks him out of the house, and in spite of HHC being so filled with continuity, this never comes up again.
** Halfway through ''Total Drama Race'', a nude Hank Hill is shot through a window where he looks around, says "This isn't Dallas," and leaves out another window. This isn't explained in the story itself. However, [[spoiler:it's the same Hank from ''In the Flesh: King of the Hill'', and from that story things make slightly more sense in context.]]
* BizarroEpisode:
** The Ex-files from ''Total Drama World Tour Rewrite'', where basically all eight of the female leads have one ''hell'' of a night. This is the chapter where Bridgette encounters a device that induces LiteralSplitPersonality on her by creating numerous clones that each represents a different aspect of her (which lasts until near the end of the chapter [[SnapBack where they all suddenly merge back into the original Bridgette]], meaning that the majority of the episode is spent with a crapload of Bridgette color swaps) including one who always wants to make out with Harold and one that always wants to make out with Izzy (both redheads gladly accept their respective Bridgette persona, the original Bridgette... not so much), Lindsay faces off against a giant mechanical monkey, Courtney gets into a fight with and is implied to have killed [[Wiki/SCPFoundation SCP-682]] or an expy therof, Gwen is transformed into a speedy gopher, Izzy and tyrian-Bridgette get teleported to an alien planet and become worshipped due to resembling a statue design, Heather becomes addicted to an AppliedPhlebotinum, Leshawna gets into an argument with and sucked into (sort of) a rude AI, and finally Beth finds a pencil that turns her ''[[ArtShift art style]]'' into resembling old Filmation-esque cartoons. And [[BigBad Ezekiel]] doesn't care one bit about any of it. It also should be noted that this is the ''only'' chapter [[spoiler:aside from some of the endings]] to have [[AccidentalKiss intended]] girl/girl kisses.
--->'''Chris:''' Okay, I said get something ''weird'', not something off-the-walls crazy!
** Dirk/Rose from ''496 Reasons'', the first incestuous human/human pairing. Also where Dirk, Dave, Rose, and Roxy all get high together and have hallucinations.
** "32 Reasons Why Knockoffs are More Obnoxious than they Seem" from ''[=OT32 Shenanigans=]'', where the 32 encounters shoddy versions of them resembling their ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'' selves created by [[BigBadWannabe Caliborn]]. Even though ''Shenanigans'' is as a whole a CrackFic and this chapter is Pikmin Fan's way of saying "The me who wrote SJAHJ is ''dead''," this chapter is especially bizarre.
** "World of Propane" from ''the Hill King'', a weird episode of an already weird story. Basically take the base premise of [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} the Fansworth Parabox]], place it in the setting of ''King of the Hill'' (oh, and by the way, replace Peggy with [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} Rip Van Winkle]] and make Bobby half-vampire), and add the twist that all of the box creations spawn an EldritchAbomination somehow when one of them leads to an... [[EldritchLocation undesirable]] world.
** SBIG has some that are odd even by its standards. ''Kids Fit the Trolls'' has chapter 6, which completely departs from the story arc about fighting the trolls in favor for making a ShallowParody of ''Back to the Future''. Its sequel continues the tradition with the part where the Act 5 cast has a dance-off against the Act 6 cast, [[spoiler:which is interrupted by WV coming in and rapping against both groups of people saying that Acts 1-4 are better (he even tells off John, Jade, Rose, and Dave, who confusingly ''debuted'' in the first ''three'' acts yet are counted as "Act 5 characters" by the narrative).]]
** Going by pure fandoms alone even if the stories are confirmed by the author to be unrelated to eachother, the most surreal non-parody work out of them is as follows:
*** ''Total Drama'': ''Total Drama Race'', which is both LighterAndSofter and DenserAndWackier than ''Total Drama World Tour Rewrite''.
*** ''Homestuck'': The entire Decathalon. One CrackFic after another, with one universe where two of them take place and another pair where four each take place.
*** ''Steven Universe'': ''Carl Stevens Universe'', his first contribution to the fandom. The other two stories thusfar have been considerably more straightforeward, even if they both effectively double the cast with an AlternateUniverse. This might be because CSU is the only one that involves crossover ([[spoiler:not just with ''Hellsing'' but with a cameo from ''King of the Hill'' of all things]]), not just because a ParodySue Martian rockstar based on Charlie Sheen is involved, but also probably because it drew inspiration from "Asspen" from ''South Park'' and "The Sweaters" from ''the Amazing World of Gumball''. However, it recently has competition with ''I Thought those were the Ingredients'', where Pearl and Amethyst become addicted to cigarettes, the Gems and a FiveManBand formed by Steven have to fight a pair of LargeHam villains who bear a phallic shape when stacked (which they do often), Steven gets his ass kicked by the four main ''Homestuck'' characters and at least one of them [[spoiler:is a Crystal Gem]], and Peedee may or may not be possessed by the sword Steven [[GenreBlind stupididly ignored the red flags for.]]
*** ''Squirrel Boy'': ''The Real Story''.
*** ''King of the Hill'': ''the Hill King''.
* BlackComedy: Even the ''competitions'' cross into this, and they're supposed to be LighterAndSofter as a whole. SBIG is a bad offender.
** ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals''. Where nearly half of the main ensemble is brutally gunned to death and not revived until later, then this happens twice with the other almost-half. Where the boss of the group spends the first three and most of the fourth "seasons" trash-talking and sending ableist insults at her crew. Where a man suddenly being mauled by a shark, another man smoking the remains of his clone, and a teenager being implied to violently threaten a little girl over a book all happen in the same chapter. This is all played for laughs.
** ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'', HHC's spiritual prototype if that makes sense, is far from light itself. Where Jade verbally torments Karkat before one of her alternate selves finally rips him in half, a mentally deranged Dave kills Terezi over a drawing (again, ''she does not get better''), and Kanaya chainsaws Rose after a little debate involving prototype rings giving their wearers the urge to kill Jade heats up (Rose does get better, but it's not a good thing and they both die for real much later). That's only covering the patronships, that's not even getting into how fucked up Roxy's life becomes, Aradia dying [[TooDumbToLive because she thought she was unkillable]], and other fandom in-jokes and favorites that get shattered upon. Again, played for laughs.
** ''Gumball Vs Satan''. A war is going on in a ''middle school'', the titular Gumball dies a third of the way into the story, and his mother reacts to his death by ''laughing'' and saying that she can simply give birth to another one of him.
* BookEnds:
** After all of the contestants are introduced in ''Total Zeksmit Plains'', Ezekiel says "Welcome to Zekitunakwa!" and directs their attention to the direction of the campsite (away from the road). At the end of the special, he cheers "Welcome to Wawanakwa!" and... directs their attention to the direction of the campsite (away from the secluded spot where he was showing them the newcomer's auditions).
* {{Bowdlerize}}: Pikmin Fan sometimes ''self-censors'' his work when making an alternate version.
** The Youtube version of ''Ed, Edd n Eddy's Awesome Edventures'' edits most of the more violent deaths, blanks a few of Eddy's comments, and overall rids several scenes alltogether, making it [[StylisticSuck (more)]] incomprehencible.
** ''496 Reasons'' and its derivatives are editted pretty heavily. There isn't much objectionable content (aside from Jake's comic), but mostly because of how widely referenced this is and some of the sites it's brought up on force a few changes. Notably (though this one is more for laughs if anything, and a nod to how ''King of the Hill'' handles nudity[[note]]FridgeBrilliance: Hank(sprite) himself is around during this scene[[/note]]) Smuppetsprite's puppet-versions of the cast, assuming that the parts involving this aren't cut away completely. While the male characters are [[BarbieDollAnatomy "nak]][[SuperDeformed ed"]] like the smuppets themselves, there's a variant where the female characters have underpants on.
** This also applies for stories that reference other stories. ''496'' is already mentioned before, and there's ''Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals''. ''Carl Stevens Universe'', having a different broad target audience for some reason, skips over the rather "gruesome" details (but doesn't cross into NeverSayDie territory) and doesn't mention the sexual part of Carl's storyline. The foursome at the end of HUC's seventh chapter is refered to as an "agreement" by Rip (though at least she was saying this during a recap to the Crytsal Gems, the young Steven included). '''''And speaking of Rip....'''''
** ''In the Flesh: Homestuck'' tones down Joey's characterization from the murderous sociopath StalkerWithACrush to Jade to a simple, rude AbhorrentAdmirer to Jade who takes nudism the wrong way. Whether this is because of the general audience rating (part of the self-given challenge in the series, to make a bunch of stories with naked people yet can still be rated K), the fact that this isn't SBIG, or because Joey's "typical" actions to Jade would be a lot creepier if they were both nudists is yet to be made clear.
* TheBusCameBack: Usually these are in-universe, as the guy has a habit of having one-shot characters getting far, far bigger roles in the plot, from members of the ensemble to key players.
** While they're not nearly the same story and in fact their origin fandoms are completely different, Geno returns with the same characterization he had in ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'' in the "Green Mario" [=SBIGlet=].
** ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'' in general marks a reappearance of the "new" members to the Millennium; Cartman, Hydra, Waterwraith, Death Mecha, Darkhorse, and Omegra Drew Pickles. In fact, all of them except Cartman and Hydra are part of a group called the [[ThemeNaming Century]], and those two in question are shown to start a group called the [[RuleOfThree Decade]] near the end.
** Borderline cameoes: "Raining Cats and Dollars" is chronologically the first appearance of the protagonist of ''Onionstuck'' since years. Caliborn's ink-knockoffs in ''[=OT32 Shenanigans=]'' are also the first appearance of the ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'' characterizations since mid-2013, over a year ago. Elitaa Sinois made a few cameo appearances in ''Everburn'' before actually being promoted to the Troll Empress's [[TheDragon dragon]] in ''[=OT32 Shenanigans=]'', which is a big deal considering his distain for all of his fantrolls except said empress (and even ''that's'' a bit iffy) and how Elitaa doesn't even get ''minor references'' in ''any'' of the other works aside from said cameoes. (Not even ContinuityPorn-loaded ''Housestuck'' gives the slightest nod to her.)
** ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'' contains several straighter examples, bringing most of the side characters BackForTheFinale.
** ''Simpsons Meets Brandy and Mr. Whiskers'' is the first time that ''Simpsons'' characters make an actual appearance that ''isn't'' because of tieing loose ends (HHC) for quite a while. And it in itself does this to the show's continuity, or at least the sequel: ''Bound to the Blade'' is strongly hinted to feature [[spoiler:the two mutant extra heads Whiskers had once]], as well as Tiffany, Sandy, and ''maybe'' Mr. Frisky.
* CanonDiscontinuity:
** While he flip-flops between whether or not having almost every SBIG story take place in the same general universe (just in different timelines), ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'' definitely always exists in a completely seperate timeline. It doesn't even cross over with anything by means of trans-dimensional travel. And the crossovers Jaka and Rip had were even later retconned to not happening (Jaka just teleports Rip to different locations in the comic, where they have been retroactively added in the background. This also means that Jaka technically the only character who appears in every act or subact except the Shipping Intermission and Act One, as she was added in the subacts either before her appearance or during Act Two Act One, where she spent most of the subact absent and her only dialogue was added retroactively.)
** The same can be said for ''Total Drama World Tour Rewrite'' and ''Total Zeksmit'', which also exist in isolated continuities. ''Total Drama Race'', however, [[spoiler:has a cross-dimensional cameo of Hank Hill from ''In the Flesh: King of the Hill'' teleporting there briefly.]]
* CoversAlwaysLie: In SBIG, a RunningGag is that the images for the particular fan fic's cover feature on ffn are either completely dishonest or gives away some spoilers, however due to Pikmin Fan switching it up and his general [[CrackFic crack]] storylines it's difficult to tell which one is the case.
** ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'' is the first one with a dishonest cover and it is currently the worst offender. It depicts a God Tier John and Vriska standing underneath Skaia while Bec Noir flies between them and said planet, looming over the couple. None of this actually happens: There is no God Tiering or even God Tier equivilent (which is notable considering how most other ''Homestuck'' fan fics in SBIG ''did''[[note]]God Tiering itself appeared in ''Kids Fit'' [[StrictlyFormula multiple times]] and ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'' has the super mode.[[/note]]), none of the Carapases exist let alone Jack in the specific Bec form, Skaia is not present, (the entire fan fic takes place on Earth. [[spoiler:Technically the climax takes place on the moon but, you get the idea]].) and John and Vriska only briefly hook up for less than half a chapter and that's during the "mass coupling" part of the time travel chapter which partially gives the Weird Romance Shit arc its name. What makes matters worse about this cover is that towards the beginning of the story there is a "summary" in-fic that's equally misleading and the details of which actually match up to the details of the cover.
** ''Naruto the guy with the ninja''[='=]s cover is a craptastic, compressed drawing of Naruto pimping out with Sakura and Hinata. This kind of does happen, but a key detail is [[spoiler:how it's portrayed in a positive light and the Naruto-centricness. In reality, the fan fic is a DeconstructiveParody of harem fics, where Naruto is eventually depicted as an omnipotent form of chaos who ruined the lives of villages and only Sasuke and his band of AntiHero[=es=] can stop him]].
** Milder example: Concept art for ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'' sometimes depicts John with his metal legs, and Jade, Jane, and Jake in their super modes, all four of which are seen posing together. At no point in the story are they all together like this; John has real legs when the others first enter super mode, but before he gets the prosthetics Jake is pulled away by Tavros's group and they do not reunite until after Jade and Jane's super modes run out. This manages to be both innacurate and contain mild spoilers.
** The cover for ''The Eds' [=EDventure=]'' is actually based on a scene from ''Movie Day'', a completely different fan fic. This is somewhat confusing for anyone who gets the two mixed up.
** Out of the spoiler ones:
*** ''Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals'': [[spoiler:Gives away three of the last characters alive by the end. Basically all major characters left alive, counting Captain as a special BackForTheFinale exception and Quimby as a side character.]]
*** ''Gumball Vs Satan'': [[spoiler:Notice how neither of the titular guys ''actually'' appear on the cover? Yeah, major sign that they're not that important.]]
***
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: In his entire continuity, Elitaa Sinois and her would-be-dancestor Puerco Sinois have been officially retired from ever making a full appearance in any ''Homestuck'' fanwork unless further noted. Given how Elitaa's "placement" in the story would later fit canon character Kankri Vantas much better, how Puerco was a reference to an outdated fan video series, and how both of their only appearances were in ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'' (a rather forgettable story), this is hardly a big loss.
** Elitaa at least has recieved two cameos thusfar: [[spoiler:In ''496'' during the ministrife ([=AO3=] version and Tumblr concept art only), where she's hidden in the huge pile of duplicates and her only line is "Whats going oN" before only speaking with her simplistic emotes, and a not-visual only scene in ''Everburn'' where she's one of the protestors. It's implied in both of them that she got killed: In ''496'' she's the only "duplicate" who is not teleported away when Alt Meulin attacks, and in ''Everburn'' she seems to be killed when Johnny gets the Water Spawner and begins his reign over the United States]]. Puerco, on the other hand, got nothing.
* ColorContrast: Blue and yellow, completely complementary by the RGB model. Almost almost ''almost'' done the same way with red and azure, aside from how azure is slightly more blueish than red's complementary.
* ContinuityLockout:
** Unlike the canon series, ''Total Zeksmit'' is generally designed to be read with 100[=%=] linearity (''Side Stories'' nonwithstanding), with no skipping whatsoever. The scarcity of recaps, the series's mechanics, and the ChekhovsArmory show this.
** People who haven't read at least the first season of ''Total Zeksmit'' will miss the meaning behind many gags in ''Total Drama World Tour Rewrite'' (post-revising), such as why there's so much Izzy/Bridgette teasing.
** ''496 Reasons'' was intended to avoid this (every pairing could be read out of order, the prologue could be skipped and you could read a brief version instead), but Pikmin Fan realized that it would be somewhat difficult to have so many chapters only devoted to building relationships without getting repetitive, so he had the main plots and subplots be the building blocks and contexts for the shipping. It is still possible to read the pairings in any order, it's just that some of the details would be slightly more confusing.
** The last two chapters of ''Gumball Versus Satan'' make no sense whatsoever if you didn't read ''Zombie Attack!'' Granted, the AN advises to read it, but it's easy to overlook because... well, it's an author's note.
** ''Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals'' and its spinoff ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'' are supposed to be read in whichever order you choose, but HUC explains several aspects of HHC, like how vampire powers work, where Alucard came from (HUC explains about as much as Alucard said but at least he doesn't seem to come out of nowhere since there's a story from his perspective, albeit beginning after the killing), and who shot Homer Simpson.
** ''Homestuck Rewrite'' practically requires you to read at least one other work by him, preferably a "serious" work (so it's easier to tell sooner that this fic is one big StealthParody), and preferably ''Total Drama World Tour Rewrite'' in order to really "get" the story in any way. There is almost no indication of this at all, and his CreatorBacklash to TDWTR in its early days makes matters worse. Plus how there are stories that really are that bad. (The ''degrading'' quality, on the other hand, is a much clearer sign.) Neglect TDWTR alone and the following writing decisions make less sense:
*** Why John has a harem subplot in the first place, and why Dave is quick to lampshade on how forced it feels.
*** Why the harem in question is made of all girls, even though this author wrote a binormative fan fic ''496 Reasons'' which ultimately paired up everyone regardless of the resulting orientation.
*** The bad dubbing scene.
*** Basically everything regarding the end of the three year journey, alluding to TDWTR's ending even though the part in HR is only about 3/4ths into the story.
*** ''The names of the chapters''.
*** The meaning of the ex-battles.
* ContinuityPorn: In general, ''Total Zeksmit'' and ''Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals'' get tons of references in his later works. ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'' originally did, too, but then TZ grew (thus having more content to reference) and HUC had HHC, which also grew, and the author shortly started trying to sweep SJAHJ under the rug.
** ''Total Drama World Tour Rewrite''[='=]s second to last "regular" (IE non-Aftermath, non-ending) chapter featured a number of cameoes from characters who resemble those from other works, either from him or what he has written fan fiction ''of'' by this point. To list them all: [[spoiler:Kathy from ''Total Zeksmit'' (and the old TDWTR), who gives Harold directions to the cannon; Dave Strider, Rose Lalonde, Roxy Lalonde, and Meulin Leijon -- all of whom help out Harold's group and the latter helps out Ezekiel; the Curse Woman/Emily and Dotty Campbell, appearing at the nudist site; ''Zombie Attack!''-inspired Edd, GVS-Carrie (portrayed as a Dave cosplayer, despite an expy of Dave existing), and even a humanized Oliver from the long-unupdated ''Onionstuck'' or Oliver from OS's planned remake ''Roottangled'' (all three of which appear while Ezekiel is on the train); and Alucard Badguy, running the river raft ride.]] Sadly, ''Total Zekmsit Plains''[='=]s suspiciously similar challenge only had crosssover when it came to the expy-interns.
** ''496'' references just about any ''Homestuck'' fanwork he made. If the dreamselves don't account for any existing alter ego, then their clones surely ''will'', and that includes guaridan and ancestor expies (as thanks to the setting, actually incorporating the [[spoiler:non-Leijon]] ancestors into the plot is fairly limited as they are all explicitley dead), of ''both'' canon and their instances in [=HHC/SJAHJ=]. Duplicate Meulin's arc especially is much like Nepeta's arc in ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'' (at first).
** ''Carl Stevens Universe'' -- well, let's go through this step by step...
*** The premise involves crossover with ''Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals'', specifically featuring the "surviving four" characters ([[spoiler:Carl, Seras, Rip, and Captain]]) with a cameo of their Pikmin. Based on a comment made by [[spoiler:Pearl's puppet of Alucard]], it takes place around two years after the events in HUC and possibly in the "present" (IE the same day range it was published on).
*** [[spoiler:Hank Hill appears, and WordOfGod says that every story Rip appears in will have at least ''some'' aknowledgement of Hank. He's unsure if this should apply the other way around. At the time this was a simple nod to ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'', although the Hank-Rip rivalrly/odd relationship was one of the many elements that intended to be a recurring theme which happened to originate in SJAHJ.]]
*** After watching a news video of Carl taking out a powerful monster with Pikmin, the Gems flip through the channels and find two of Pikmin Fan's prior stories with mentions of space (in other news, reminding them of Carl, who is a Martian): ''The Eds' [=EDventure=]'', where Eddy and Peter are flying toward the moon; and ''Kids Fit the Trolls'', where the titular kids are flying to Alternia. Then Vampire Jade transforming Dave in ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'', though taken completely out of context. They also flip to a third show; ''Total Zeksmit'' (the opening line is even copied word-for-word), before turning it off alltogether. The following paragraph lampshades TZP's slow pacing and Ezekiel's unlikability, as well as the hiatus it was on until CSU itself took it off. The channel numbers also match the order they were published (counting off-site works like ''Zombie Attack!'')
*** Shortly after Pearl [[ItMakesSenseInContext drives a car through the glass ceiling of a train station]], a blonde emo girl dressed in red yells her "That is why I warn everyone about windows!" This is a nod to ''Gumball Vs Satan''.
*** To something that's ''not'' his works (well, sort of): Carl [[spoiler:almost gets hit by a train. Both a planned ending for HUC and ''Two and a Half Men'' has Carl/Charlie getting killed by a train.]]
* CrackFic: ''Anything'' he writes, except ''Total Drama World Tour Rewrite'' and ''Movie Day''.
** The ''In the Flesh'' series -- a group of K-rated stories centered around nudism in some way -- is supposed to play around with this, in that the crack-levels of the fic is inversely proportional to the crack-levels of the source work. The ''King of the Hill'' story is a boderline MindScrew about Hank "sliding in a trans-dimensional direction" into alternate universes and features an EldritchAbomination as the BigBad, while the ''Homestuck'' one is incredibly straightforeward, normal (aside from the fact that Earth is mysteriously made up of several islands each no bigger than Austrailia) tale where the villain is the return of Joey the Douchebag Surfer.
* CreatorThumbprint: These usually show up more often in the "legit" works, but cropping up in parodies isn't too uncommon of an occurance.
** It's not-too uncommon to have characters going down a river on something no more advanced than a raft. This begun in ''Movie Day''.
** Ensembles getting ''split'' in the middle of a long trip, spending most of a chapter/something similar trying to reach the destination, either uniting at the goal or before.
** Themes of progression and breaking from bad status quos are very prevelant, to the point where ''Movie Day'' makes a point in avoiding having the characters go back to the Cul-de-sac once the Eds drive away from it. ''Simpsons Meets Brandy and Mr. Whiskers'' does this to an even greater extent; until returning home in Florida, Brandy (nor the Simpsons) ''never'' revisits a specific location she was in before. Her house, the Simpson's crash site, each exhibit at Pigman City, etc.
** Alternate selves are pretty common, and so far have been done to at least ''Steven Universe'' (Desert City; which can technically apply to everybody as it is an entirely seperate world), ''Hellsing'' (Same, only they weren't introduced until much later), ''King of the Hill'' (Alternate universe boxes; the parallel nudist world Hank accidentally steps into), ''Zelda'' (only in SBIG; ''5word'' and ''11word''), ''Adventure Time'' (also only in SBIG; ''No Longer Alone''), ''Mario'' (only in SBIG; ''Green Mario''), and especially ''Homestuck'' (too many to count to the extent that they put even canon to shame).
* DarkerAndEdgier:
** ''Total Zeksmit'' to ''Total Drama World Tour Rewrite'', though this is far from obvious at first given the lighthearted season opening. If the breaking of the "no minor [[spoiler:(''or major'')]] swears" rule or Beth telling the beginning of a rather innapropriate joke aren't clues, than the BigBad's [[NoNonsenseNemesis dead-serious emotional manipulation and deeper changes to the characters]] will be. In addition, the humor is more uncommon and less based on slapstick than conversation.
*** [[WhamEpisode "Beware of Homer"]] specifically is where the story kicked itself up a few notches, ridding almost all of the "lolfanservice" and digging into the depth of the plot. While there have been a few slip ups and even BreatherEpisode[=s=] (the first season special, ironically, being the only definite example out of what remained of the first season) later on, the series as a whole never looked back.
*** ''Island'' is supposed to be somewhat darker than ''Plains'' (which would be something, given aformentioned characteristics about ''Plains''), as even though there's an increase in light atmosphere early on thanks to the drastically expanded cast, later chapters feature a greater theme of paranoia and get into a somewhat in-depth look on popularity. ''Woods'' is planned to be even darker than ''Island'' (with a "mystery" theme throughout the most of the season, until "things are finally answered") but this is unknown. ''Campsites Around the World'', however, has been admitted to be able to fall ''anywhere'' on the spectrum.
** ''Housestuck'' to ''Hecksing'' once season 4 rolls around. Before, it was arguably ''lighter'' than ''Hecksing'', with less dark humor and having a more friendly, populated atmosphere.
* DependingOnTheWriter: Possibly ''invoked'', seeing as while these are all written by the same person, there are a few "alter ego" authors in the SBIG series that crop up. At the very least, ''within'' each story the characters are reletively consistent.
** Carl Stevens is an especially bad offender. He can range from [[TheAce an amazing superstar loved by everyone]] to an arrogant idiot with Seras and Rip as his only real friends (and even Seras doesn't have to be a constant) or anywhere in between depending on what the story calls for. ''Carl Stevens Universe'' appears to '''fluctuate''' between his previous HUC depiction and said "Seras and Rip are his only real friends" before finally settling on a rarer, JerkWithAHeartOfJerk-type characterization for him. In short though, he can't decide if Carl's a parody of Charlie ''[[Creator/CharlieSheen Sheen]]'' or ''[[Series/TwoAndAHalfMen Harper]]''.
** Rip Van Winkle herself is almost never depicted the same way across two stories. She's often somewhere around flat-out sociopath or, oddly, the only character with an ounce of rationality.
** Jade Harley. '''''ESPECIALLY''''' in SBIG. She's so far been a competant fighter, a useless crybaby, some kind of CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass, a secret sociopath, a person who turns from one of the previous to another, ''and so on and so forth''. And there's a notable case in ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'', where she is what is described by the author as "a mix of [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} Dave]], [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Cartman]], and [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Amethyst]] in the absolute worst way imaginable." And that's not even getting ''started'' on her alter egoes, especially given how the alts are generally supposed to have some kind of relationship with the original characterization wise (IE whether they're people the characters ''want'' to be, don't want to be, their inner thoughts, inverses of them, traits mixed, etc). Lampshaded with an image that's a mock-up of the original WebOriginal/{{Creamsicle}} picture, that's a comparason between SJAHJ Jade and a CompositeCharacter Jade. If it wasn't for the glasses and dresses, you'd think they were two entirely different characters who both happen to generally be tall and slender. No, really, [[ the difference is staggering.]]
** Pikmin Fan seems to apply this to dark-haired characters with glasses, or if SJAHJ is taken into consideration [[spoiler:Rip's ectobiological family]], as John fits this as well.[[note]]Carl above fits half of the traits at least with his dark green hair; and there ''was'' a planned gig where it turns out he needed reading glasses...[[/note]] Namely how he reacts to anything involving nudity or sex. He [[PleasePutSomeClothesOn either opposes it outright]] (''496'', HHC), [[NakedPeopleAreFunny doesn't give a shit either way]] (''[=OT32 Shenanigans=]'', "Gym Class"), [[CovertPervert or is a closet pervert about it who is]] NotSoAboveItAll (Just about anything with [[RunningGag red giantesses]], as he is made into a [[TinyGuyHugeGirl macrophile]] as a RunningGag. This includes at least one of the ''[=OT32=] Shenanigans'' stories).
** ...And ''then'' we have Jake, who is either a hopeless dork or an absolute expert at social conversations. The latter started with ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'' season 4 and was supposed to be a joke (in fact the irony of the situation was the ''entire reason'' why Jake of all people was the one who resolves Roxy and Dirk's familial issues), but as the stories go on it gets incorrectly added to his character. His relationship with Jane is another issue (though Jane herself is the only Prospit kid who is actually constant, and this notably even applies to her "primary" alter egoes: her counterpart is always a wild MoodSwinger, and her "guardian" version is always a pervert in some way -- closet or otherwise (SJAHJ being ''one'' exception to the latter, then again she was very much underdeveloped)). So far, the two have been inseperable SickeningSweethearts, ordinary MakeoutKids, platonic/neutral towards eachother (HHC being the biggest example pre-season 4, which is odd because HHC is all about tossing in asinine pairings at random), undergoing a few relationship issues, and in at least one case ''siblings''.
** Homer Simpson is by far the most bizarre example, even and especially before he was "retired" along with the rest of the ''Simpsons'' crew bar some very special exceptions. He has so far been a simple arrogant JerkAss who eventually gets a lot of power through mutation, a wild nudist who loves games, most commonly BigLippedAlligatorMoment ''master'' who shows up in people's thoughts randomly, and an incredibly hyped-up destructive force who is considered a borderline EldritchAbomination in-universe. The latter only applies for a reality show challenge, however, and not the man himself.
** Similar to Homer but more... stable is -- ignoring how ironic it is that it's not the other way around -- Peter Griffin. Whether he's an ally or an obstacle can always be answered with "Whatever the story calls for."
** And similar to the above two is Hank's portrayals. He's a great person bordering on [[TheAce Ace]] ''or'' a mock-magnet in the more serious works, yet in parodies he's... [[CloudCuckooLander goofy]] at best and a dangerous idiot at worst.
** Ezekiel is probably one of the more known examples, given his villainous status in ''Total Drama World Tour Rewrite'', his AntiHero status in ''Total Zeksmit'', and his good-intentions-obnoxious-guy status in ''Total Drama Race''.
* DeusExMachina: Always parodied.
** ''Act 5 Vs Act 6''. [[spoiler:The Master Emerald mock-up turns out to be a portal used by the Crystal Gems. Amethyst finds the group, then not only summons Pearl and Garnet, but blows a "cartoon network whistle" that summons a number of Cartoon Network characters (and Spongebob), who proceed to kick the Horrorterror's ass. In the end, Aradia, Caliborn, Mordacai, and Rigby are the only hero casualties, and the first two are to fulfill a TheyKilledKennyAgain gag, the latter two being something of a jab. At the very least, the horrorterror had it coming, considering that most of what it and its group does is a collab of AssPull[=s=].]]
* DevilButNoGod:
** The ''This Story is Sexist'' verse seems to have no Heaven, and Hell serves as a [[AHellOfATime pretty neutral afterlife.]] While a whopping ''twelve'' ([[AscendedExtra soon seeming to become anywhere from thirteen to twenty-four or higher;]] the lack of other characters [[spoiler:and what little there ''are'' dwindling down]] helps) demons are major characters out of a group of ''360'' co-workers of them, they don't mention anything regarding Heaven at all. Satan, like the other demons seen, is a shapeshifter, except unlike them he commonly takes the form of a giant goat-man hybrid and he is shown to be overworked with his job. The closest we get to a reference to anything Godly is Anti Angel's ''name'', which is confusing because A: [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep that's a self-given name]] and B: he's rebelling against ''Hell''.
** ''Crconikals'' and ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'' mention (the four) Hell(s) far more often than Heaven.
* EarlyBirdCameo: In spite of having a RunningGag of being introduced last, Iris is one of the first of the ''Total Zeksmit Island'' newcommers to make any sort of appearance in any story (With Kathy being the only definite exception; Zelda counting as well depending on how you count the older version of TZP). In this case, ''Long Locks and Lenses''.
** Speaking of her introductions being last, everyone bar her appeared in ''Side Stories'' before season two began, with Iris's intro -- as planned -- not being until the actual season came out.
** Take a shot for every recurring character, gag, and/or theme that actually debuted in ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'' only with a smaller role. Omega Drew Pickles, blue/yellow, raw asscocks, etc. Although considering the storytelling of that, it would seem like they actually started in some story ''prior'' to that.
** ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'' itself retroactively gives Jaka and Rip small cameoes during Intermission Acts One and Two. Their first appearance is way before the Millennium are even ''introduced'', and before Rip's own appearance and even farther before the counterparts were ''talked about''.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The earlier chapters around Act One Act Two onward (and the prologue. ''Especially'' the prologue), after the beginning pairings were mostly focused on "starting up" the plot first thing and setting the general tone of what's gonna happen, had a lot more of a sit-com feel to them, and the characters occasionally acted exaggerated. Now most of these chapters have been redone (the old versions still archived, buried underneath the author's Tumblr posts), but in general he refers to this stuff as "Lolstuck" and rarely if ever does it again.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: According to him: "''Sweet Jade and Hella John'' is almost always the exception and ''never'' the rule," and he feels guilty of writing it as it conflicts a number of his standards.
* EasterEgg: His like for these resulted in an increasing number of them sprinkled throughout his works, and made up a tag on his Tumblr page noting the easter eggs ''that others already pointed out'' (meaning that there are still "several" -- as he said -- hidden around). This ranges from simple things like clouds, rocks, and other things forming the letters "F U" in ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'', to complex subliminal hidden codes in the written works (usually involving taking capital letters used in every paragraph/sentence/a certain series of something) that either reveal urls or form something like "BOYCOTT THE SIMPSONS," to simple abstract references, to oh-god-why-would-you-even-think-about-that types of coding, to very subtly hidden images within the later visual works post-SJAHJ.
* EldritchAbomination: Creatures that might meet the criteria someimes pop up in these stories.
** [[spoiler:Mr. Whiskers himself]] from ''Simpsons Meet Brandy and Mr. Whiskers'', with the additions of the Shadow Figures and possibly Pigman.
** The Waterwraith is sometimes put into light as this in ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'' (in ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'', it was simply taken from a video game), given how in-story the only thing that managed to harm it is the BigGood Onions.
** Stickdawg from the above story, especially since there's no real given explanation as to what the hell he is.
** ''This Story is Sexist!'' homes a few more than the rest:
*** The Jynx Fool is a strange, invincible jester ghost-looking being [[StalkedByTheBell that attacks anyone who stays in the abandoned Laughing Mad Carnival too long,]] essentially acting as a faster, wall-phrasing, laser-shooting version of the Waterwraith. The ghost-''looking'' part is the kicker: Actual ghosts exist in the story, and they look like slightly transperant technicolored versions of whatever died. This, however, looks more like a BedsheetGhost with large beady eyes and a colossal mouth lined with the same strange pink glitter that spells out messages in the carnival. This is the only being that the demons have no idea as to ''what it is'', and as former workers of the afterlife, they ''thought'' they knew everything about the universe.
***
** [[spoiler:Puggo]] is depicted as this in ''the Real Story''. [[spoiler:He's killed off at the beginning of the first chapter, and it's implied that he's just the tip of the iceburg.]]
** [[spoiler:Aranea]] willingly transforms herself into one during ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'' by [[spoiler:eating a juju replica of Plank.]]
** ''Homer Simpson'' is implied to be one in ''Homestuck Rewrite''. H
** The Man from ''Temples''.
* EleventhHourSuperpower: This trope is parodied more often than it is played straight. And it isn't parodied ''that'' often either. He usually likes making the characters take down the rather overpowered antagonist through either strategy, exploiting weaknesses, slowly developing into something stronger over the course of the story, or in worst (and most common) cases using an InfinityPlusOneSword. Physical powerups being applied to the cast themselves isn't used as much as any of those.
** Parodied in ''Total Drama World Tour Rewrite'' where in "Raining Cats and Dollars," [[spoiler:Lindsay falls into a barrel of toxic waste, which gives her... odd effects. Instead of the mutations seen in canon (turning her into a giant like Dakota or giving her acid spit like Ezekiel), she gains flight and [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands super powers]] and starts glowing every color of the rainbow. Pikmin Fan names "Hyper Mode" as a nod to ''Super Metroid''[='=]s Hyper Beam. It's not as cringeworthy as it sounds, considering that Lindsay never uses these powers to do anything more plot-relevant than simply flying to Hawaii ('''during''' the finale she suddenly gets sick from the waste and thus Harold cannot use her powers to help him), and because she would have been tagging with a group heading there anyways had Ezekiel not knocked her into the vat, it actually serves as an excuse to give Lindsay ''less'' screentime yet still find a way for her to get to the finale within reasonable time.]]
** God Tiering is made into this in ''Homestuck Rewrite''. Granted, Dave, Eridan, and Vriska have all hit the Tiers earlier in the story (the latter two even doing so offscreen), and thanks to being merged with Bec Dave's abilities are unquestionably better than most other ascentions, but the eight female leads don't do so until literally ''right'' before the final battle.
** God Tiering ''also'' served this role in ''Kids Fit the Trolls'', where John, Jade (who as the story points out is ''not'' merged with Bec), Rose, and Dave all find convenient Quest Beds lying around Alternia after traveling back from the 1980s. ClothesMakeTheSuperman and justified BagOfSpilling are also applied to this for its sequel, ''Act 5 Vs Act 6'': Jade, Rose, Dave, and Feferi all ''lost'' their God Tier outfits, and John's is stolen at the beginning to mimick the intro to ''Sonic 3 & Knuckles''. [[spoiler:Unlike ''Sonic 3 & Knuckles'', however, Meenah later ''burns'' the outfit she stole from John, making it impossible for ''anybody'' to enter that mode.]]
** SuperMode was this in ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'', if a subversion; it wears off shortly before the final battle, and Jade, Jake, and Jane (John never powers up and even complains about it) don't get the mode until ''after'' defeating their respective rival.
* EliminationHoudini:
** Harold in ''Total Drama World Tour Rewrite''. Out of the final four, he's the one that makes less sense. Ezekiel had strategy, Bridgette was guarded by Ezekiel, and Gwen was just a good player. Harold, on the other hand, relied mainly on his team never losing a third time (once Tyler and Noah were gone -- which happens really early considering the higher number of chapters/episodes before the merge than the previous seasons -- he was a prime target until all five of his teammates warmed up to him), other people being idiots, and Ezekiel pulling off a plan while he turns the girls against ''eachother'' instead of on ''him''.
** Invoked in the backstory of ''In the Flesh: Total Drama'', which takes place during the final three [[spoiler:(and later two)]] of an alternate competition. Ezekiel somehow survived to the final four, and the other semi-finalists were Duncan (reasonable), Justin (there might be some FridgeLogic there), and ''Lindsay'' (doesn't make too much sense, especially since it's implied that Heather was kicked off really early. [[spoiler:She's voted off midway through the story, so that she's new to the events at Playa Des Losers and gets to undergo a parody of horror movies while looking for everybody]]).
* ExtremelyShortTimespan:
** ''Simpsons Meet Brandy and Mr. Whiskers'' takes place over the course of one day, and it doesn't even cross into night. Brandy makes a sword, [[spoiler:enters an evil giant's zoo, replaces the sword with something better (and gets a shield), goes into a town full of shadow monster-people, upgrades her sword to kill said shadow monsters, meets her owner [[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy Eddy]] along with Ed and Edd, the later of which give her a ride to Florida,]] and by '''''noon''''' she's fighting the BigBad. [[spoiler:And everyone on Earth loses their soul during the fight, but after Brandy kills him everyone gets their souls back.]] And then there's the beginning from the Simpson's perspective, which is the events of "Blame it on Lisa" rewritten so that the cablecars were located above the rainforest and the episode's original ending took place at dawn, so that this trope's use would make just a little more sense.
** ''Kids Fit the Trolls'' and its direct sequel ''Act 5 Vs Act 6'' take place in one day as well, but it's different days separated by two months. And that's not counting the TimeTravel back to the 1980s. ''Thanksgiving Special'' takes place over two.
* {{Flanderization}}: Alucard in SBIG. Yes, he was derailed from the start, but he had a more varied and "complicated" personality in his debut in ''Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals'' than most appearances in the series. In addition to being a [[LargeHam hammy]] [[BadassBoast egotist]], he was also something of a DeadpanSnarker, a Facebook/"Fakebook" fan, and even a fairly straightforeward mentor to Seras. Derivatives, such as his appearances in ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'' and his cameo in ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'', mostly ignore the latter three and [[NoIndoorVoice ramp up his hammyness]] to Captain-levels, sometimes even forgetting the more basic aspects of him like how he calls himself a "bishe."
** On the other hand, there's a rare time where his Fakebook liking gets Flanderized instead, seeing as his love for that website was only briefly hinted at at the very beginning and wasn't brought up again until the Hecksing-Rainbow Crew crossover.
* ForgotFlandersCouldDoThat: ''Invoked'' in ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'', where right from the start most of the characters are flanderized or otherwise derailed. It takes until season four before their status quos throughout the story are finally at least ''shaken'', and the events of seasons five up until the first half of six (specifically, until the part in chapter 20 where [[spoiler:John flips out about Carl sleeping with his mother -- after that he's suddenly much more IC, and he's pretty much the last character to "complete" the process]]) before they are finally re-railed for good.
* GaniaxEnding: [[spoiler:''Homestuck Rewrite''. AllJustADream Dave had while on a surgery. The Dave from the ''Temples''/''Time Beetles!'' verse. Seeing how the Decathalon has nothing to do with Sburb, and how it's very CrackFic itself, this only raises more questions than it answers.]]
* GenderIsNoObject:
** ''Blue Sun'' makes a case of this -- all of the characters that are part of the main race can have their genders toggled in the "options" menu, various comics randomly flip whichever sex they are, etc., and the point is there is no difference at all. Not even the changes between the two sexes are consistent for each character:
* GoodColorsEvilColors: A variant. He generally likes to give villains either colors or color ranges that he finds visually unattractive, typically on the RYB model, in contrast to the smoother, bolder, more saturated color schemes of the heroes, typically using the RGB model. Some examples:
** "Evil," ranging from JerkAss[=es=] to downright villains:
*** The Rainbow Sisters in ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'', who are made up of a red, orange, yellow, green, purple, and pink, and as noted several times lack blue. This is emphasized even more when it's made a running gag that "It's not a rainbow unless it has both blue ''and'' yellow in it; otherwise it's just an eyesore." Also, unlike canon, in HHC the main enemies of the Felt are the Rainbow Crew. The RC, being composed of the "player" characters, has a wide variety of ranges that are done with the red-green-blue system, with the Felt's coloring limited to Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, and Brown. And most of them bare a sickly green color.
*** Carl, what with his nasty habit of turning into a Lord English stand-in, is a similar case to the Felt: He has a rainbow associated with him, and sometimes limited to seven colors at that. These colors are described as "A dark dull red, bright sunset orange, pale yellow, neon green, ''Ed, Edd n Eddy''-blueish-cyanish, a pale pink that should be on the other side of the following color, and a decent shade of purple that only emphasizes how ugly the rest of the rainbow is." However, this depends on the story; HHC describes the color of his sonic waves as being very beautiful.
*** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_(color) The web color gold]] is given to most antagonists or antagonist-associates, and it's the default shade for ''Simpsons'' characters' skin. Contrast to the metal its named after, the web color is actually a bright shade somewhere between yellow and orange.
*** In the Archive of Our Own mirror to ''[=OT32 Shenanigans=]'', the SailorEarth parodies are given a similar range of color as those described of Carl's sound waves above, with other obnoxious clashes like bright yellow. WordOfGod says that this is a comment on fanventures with almost-unreadable or otherwise eye-hurting text color choises.
** "Good":
*** Generally associated with blue and yellow. Or one of the colors, with a foil that has the other one.
***
* HalfwayPlotSwitch: Many a story turns into what it didn't start as midway. But this is more common towards the beginning.
** ''[=SBIGlets=]'':
*** ''5word''. The first half is about the five Links saving their respective damsels and getting the medallions needed to enter Ganon's Tower. Then [[spoiler:Dark Link suddenly kills all of them, and said damsels take over from there.]]
*** ''Dream House'' starts with trying to find the diagnosis House forgot through his dreams, then [[spoiler:it becomes a fight against Uboa, with the House-thing being more-or-less just a running gag in House realizing that he was in a dream and, for some reason, forgetting the diagnosis afterward.]]
*** ''Gym Class'' has an exaggerated version, starting out as a NakedPeopleTrappedOutside story before suddenly turning into a mission where the main characters have to kill a dictator. While still naked.
*** ''Dexter Vs the Elementals'' is the last one in this streak (as ''Steven the Secrets Guy'' is surprisingly straightforeward and constant) but it is also the craziest. It starts out as ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin before Dexter gets involved with ''Peter Griffin''.
** ''I Thought Those were the Ingredients'' goes from "Pearl and Amethyst get an addition and Steven goes through a really impractical method to get them both to quit" to "Steven's gang fighting a pair of giant, idiotic weird monster guys." The addiction point comes up again near the end, but until then it's basically second stage. Especially once the CoolSword[=s=] come into play. This was intentional.
** Many a chapter in ''Total Zeksmit'' starts with focus on one team before jumping to another. "Blast to and from the Past" is probably one of the bigger examples.
** ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'' does this often in its chapters, especially from seasons four and on. Chapter 13 starts out about setting up Samus with Solid Snake, before the Darkhorse battle that came out of nowhere, and then it ends with a simple showdown with Solid Snake's evil clones and Snake and Samus have already hooked up. Chapter 12 starts out with the troll's conflicts to eachother, but once the Death Mecha is freed he becomes the priority. And then there's chapter 11, which starts out as a delivery mission that features comparatively deep development to the [=B2=] group before Jake is suddenly kidnapped by a Hydra.
* HijackedByGanon: Usually inverted, with ''Zombie Attack!'' being the '''only''' example in his works thusfar to be played ''completely'' straight.
** Outside of SBIG:
*** ''Total Zeksmit Plains'': [[spoiler:Heather is set up as the main antagonist of the first chapter, but quickly gets dethroned. Then it's a toss-up between Courtney and Eva, before chapter 5 rids any ambiguity that Courtney will be the main villain.]]
*** ''Total Drama World Tour Rewrite'': [[spoiler:Double subverted. The first clear "villain" is Duncan, but after he's voted off Alejandro is geared as the antagonist again, complete with giving an evil speech. ''One chapter'' after Justin, [[BigBadDummarative his rival-turned-partner]], is kicked off, an original villain in the form of ''Cody'' steps in. Then he's gone and Ezekiel takes the role of the antagonist, but by this point he's been established as the bad guy the entire time.]]
*** ''[=OT32 Shenanigans=]'': [[spoiler:Duplicate Meulin, the villain of ''496'' not existing]] aside, most plotlines where Caliborn seems to be behind it turn out to... well, not have him behind it. You can tell if he's behind a plan if the plan is either stupid (like making shoddy ink-monster knockoffs of the cast), simple (putting termites on a wooden boat), or both. In one chapter he even tries to come up with a way ''he's'' behind a plan. It really doesn't help in regards to this trope that he's so far the only ''Homestuck'' villain who both appeared in this AU and [[AdaptationalHeroism stays a villain]]; every other antagonist so far was either an OC or a crossover character.
** ''In'' SBIG:
*** ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'': [[spoiler:Hitler is technically the villain behind both HHC and HUC, but he's killed offscreen. Lord English is a subversion; he seems like Scratch's superior, but it's revealed that he was just some random guy Scratch hired to take over from him.]]
*** ''Act 5 Vs Act 6'': [[spoiler:A horrorterror turns out to have been behind the whole plot, tricking the "Act 6" characters into fighting the "Act 5" characters while it tries to steal the Big Gem. The horrorterrors were also behind the plot of ''Kids Fit the Trolls''.]]
*** ''Gumball Vs Satan'': [[spoiler:''Exaggerated'', as the main villains are the ''Kankers'' -- from a completely different fandom than the one the main story took place, thanks to the ''Zombie Attack!'' crossover storyline. They manage to kill off Eliza (herself a borderline [[TheStarscream Starscream]]), while Carrie was just more-or-less an independant figure.]]
* HotterAndSexier: In general, zig-zagged [[FanDisservice to]] [[NakedPeopleAreFunny hell]] [[InnocentFanserviceGirl and]] [[InnocentInnuendo back.]]
** ''Total Zeksmit'' is a parody. Apparantly the author did not like fan competitions that [[SelfFanservice gratuituously played it straight,]] stating that it felt "weird" and "unfitting" for the game show, so he originally wrote TZ to have it both invoked in-universe and made ten times dumber and more of a shoe-horn, back when it was called ''Total Fan Service''. It toned down after the remake and rename from TFS to TZ, then toned ''up'' again when the second season began, probably due to the larger size of the series and greater number of contestants being able to make room for more goofing off.
** ''Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals'' is a more obvious parody. At first it seemed to be going this way with Seras (who was explicitley stated to have "nice boos"), then suddenly did a kick-flip and turned Rip Van Winkle into the blatant sex symbol, complete with GagBoobs and a randomly revealing outfit.
*** WordOfGod says that Rip's outfit change and over-the-top-sexualization was based on a ''Total Drama'' submit-fic where one of the apps was outright described as having large, bouncy breasts, and she slept in a see-through bra and thong, the sleepwear being what Rip's outfit was based on. (Meaning that Rip's outfit is actually ''more'' conservative than the [=OCs=], even if it's casual wear and not sleepwear.) Pikmin Fan outright checked the character's application -- needless to say, the author of the actual competiton remodled her a little and that was ''not'' what was submitted as her sleepwear.
** HUC's spinoff/sequel ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'' is even worse. In short, the United States (and maybe Brittain/the United Kingdoms of London) is apparantly the only country in this world with anything resembling a nudity taboo, and even then it's extremely relaxed. Between most of the foreign lands visited having some Carnival-expy event, a gross misunderstanding of how the European Union views nudity and sex, the ''Ren and Stimpy'' clips shown here, the subplot of Karkat having a crush on some nudist inn-runner who lives in Hawaii, Porrim (who is an expy of Jillian from ''Family Guy'' -- at least at first), the human lead's swimsuit-clad guardians, and the troll lead's exoticly-looking-dressed and stripperific ancestors, it's safe to say that only reason for clothing still existing in the world is to [[TheissTitillationTheory tease]]. (The other obvious purpose of keeping warm [[ExposedToTheElements doesn't seem to apply]]; for a non-sexual example, there's how the trolls could survive the Colorodo mountains in their casual outfits, and for a sexual example, how their ancestors did the exact same thing.) This doesn't go without lampshading: a running gag is for characters to imagine [[ThinkUnsexyThoughts scenes involving Gandhi and spongebaths]].
*** Aformentioned guardians deserve special mention. Surprisingly, while the ancestors are all rather -- for lack of a better word -- celibate ([[spoiler:all of them being raised as siblings, thus discouraging any ancestor/ancestor dating probably has something to do with that]]), at least half of the guardians have been confirmed to be perverts in some way or another during season 5. John's mother frequently involves herself in one-night stands with random Chicago citizens, and her past self openly expresses her interests in highly messed up fetishes that leaves John speechless. Jane's dad has been revealed as a KavorkaMan who has been in a lengthy, complicated, sexual relationship with Dirk's dad. Jake's ma is a secret [[TheVamp vamp]] who used to sleep with enemies for information, before retiring and taking out her downright sociopathy as a dominatrix. And lastly, there's Jade's father, who was modeled to try to be a gender inverted GoodBadGirl and who has slept with all seven of the other guardians multiple times. None of their kids actually object to what they do, save for one notable part where [[spoiler:John finds out that his mother slept with [[Characters/HecksingUlumateCrconikals Carl]]. Completely because of ''who'' she slept with (around this point Carl's real colors as a total jackass were starting to show to the Rainbow Crew and they all hated him), he undergoes a huge freakout]]. Fortunately, as far as what's been revealed the Derse guardians haven't been subjected to this as much. Roxy's Sis seems too reclusive and more interested in psycology, Rose's mom appears to be mostly talk, Dave's Bro is just crazy, and Dirk's dad seems to care more about looking impressive.
*** According to WordOfGod, public nudity had recently became legal in HUC/HHC's United States and Brittain, however almost everybody in those countries finds the law unconfterable and many buisnesses still enforce mandatory attire, hence why naked people just tend to get laughed/stared at at worst and not suffer any other consequences. (The reason why ''everybody'' was laughing at Hecksing in the end of HUC was because they were simply in one of the most anti-nudity neighborhoods at the time.) People who wear the kinds of outfits the ancestors do would also get laughed at (and the ancestors ''do'' get laughed at for them) or have people ask in curiosity as to how they hell they stick on, understandable since realistically many such costumes would have fallen off.
** From ''Sheldin and Lenard'': "I saw how the show makes Penny into sexy so I thought of doing it even more to get more viewers so here she's in a bikini now."
** ''Homestuck Rewrite'' is another mockery in the vein of ''Total Zeksmit'' in that it was designed specifically to feel jarring, unfitting, and uncomfterable, even if the specific part (only taking into consideration the end of the meteor trip, ''not'' counting Momsprite) was only really for half a chapter. And that chapter was referencing the ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "Sug Night."
** ''496 Reasons'' has Jake's Godawful comic book, yet another parody inspired by of one existing webcomic mentioned below. Thankfully, none of the characters based on the actual meteor crew are subject to sexualization.

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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming:
** All six chapters of ''Gumball Vs Satan'' follow the original show's use of being titled "The ____." The Newcomer, The Keys, The Tower, The Base, The Zombies, and The Showtime.
** Every chapter of ''[=OT32 Shenanigans=]'' thus far has had a name that's a spin off of the title of the base work, ''496 Reasons why Multidating is more Complicated than it Seems''.
** And speaking of ''496 Reasons'', each chapter of that is simply named after the pairing it focuses on.
** ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'' had a different system each season, for the first three seasons. The first had an IncrediblyLamePun[=/=]CallBack to ''Hecksing'' except for the last one; the second goes something like "[Variant of "More Trolls"]!" followed by a general approximation of the colors of bloods of the trolls picked up; the third has "Pikmin Get Mad/Calm" for their respective two chapters.
** The first six chapters of ''Homestuck Rewrite'' were named after ''Total Drama World Tour'' episodes, with a spin given. The rest of them pretty much avert it, however.
* IdiotBall: While it is a nice break from the [[ButtMonkey torrent of abuse he got from Jade in]] ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'', Karkat makes so many idiotic decisions in this fic that sometimes one might wonder why he was even considered a leader in the first place. For starters, Terezi's able to play him like a fiddle ''without even trying'' near the beginning, and he seems to think that "I saw you naked..." is a reasonable first thing to say to someone in person especially ''after'' you implied that you have the ability to snoop around in a near-limitless cam.
* ItsTheSameSoItSucks: [[InUniverse His reasoning]] for not having Bec Noir be the villain played straight in any SBIG story or normal story. ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals''[='=]s summary and cover parody this. The same applies to Courtney, Heather, and Alejandro for ''Total Drama'' competitions, though the first two did have convincing lead up that they will be the villains early into ''Total Zeksmit Plains'' and ''Island'' respectively. It's just that Courtney was ursurped by Eva and Heather got into a shakey tangle with the ''real'' BigBad of ''Island''.
* LiteralSplitPersonality:
** In ''Total Drama World Tour Rewrite'', one of the Area 51 devices creates a number of copies of Bridgette of a different personality, [[ChekhovsGunman who actually debuted back in Bridgette's mind in "Slap Slap Revolution."]] [[StatusQuoIsGod They all merge back into the original at the tail end of the chapter,]] [[{{Irony}} just as she makes a confessional stating that her split selves are starting to grow on her.]]
--->'''Chris:''' Well, thank goodness [[spoiler:Team Fire ''didn't'' lose. And double thank goodness Bridgette isn't getting voted off yet -- yeah, I know, never woulda thought that would a ''good'' thing. Because I have ''no idea'' how to handle all of these... ''hers''! I mean, should I count them all as new contestants or... kick them off at the next oppertunity or....]]
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Pick a ''Homestuck'' work by him. Except the Decathalon, each story of which rarely dips above the single digets in cast and has only two leads. Or ''Oedipal Rhymes'', with eight people ''total''.
** ''Total Zeksmit'' starts out with only eleven campers, three show staff members, a rival to one of the show staff, and a boyfriend to one of the campers. And even then, only the final seven gets significant development prior to elimination, one of the show staff members is absent for nearly half of the story, the latter two characters don't come into play at all for a while, and thanks to the eliminations the cast dwindles down from that. Midway through, however, spinoff ''Side Stories'' launches and expands the world by ''heaps''. Then some of the characters appear in the competitions for the second season, and the cast ''explodes'' into twenty-four campers. And ''then'' for the third season, Blaineley gets involved, and with the extras from ''her'' show and [[spoiler:Chris making even more indirect marks on Ezekiel]], things ''really'' get convoluted.
** ''Everburn'' is
* {{Meganekko}}: Almost every story features at least one, original or not. His two most commonly used [=OCs=] like this are Iris for ''Total Drama'', and Stacy for general original stories. And arguably the Emily/the Curse Woman, counting her pre-transformation appearances as she does sometimes wear glasses. He even said that he uses so many of them that he could make a band with some of them -- [[CrackFic which is exactly what he does in]] ''Long Locks and Lenses'', where ''every named character'' [[spoiler:with the exception of [[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy Rolf]]]] is one. Including the EarlyBirdCameo of Iris, seen above.
** Well, LLL isn't exactly populated completely with ''meganekkos'' per say, as Rip Van Winkle (and to a lesser extent, Jade. Seriously, she's brutal) doesn't fit the "cute" part at times.[[note]]Long hair and glasses are the only real requirements to making an appearance.[[/note]]
* MindScrew:
** Half of the ''in the Flesh'' stories so far. The ''King of the Hill'' one especially.
** All of SBIG, even after the typo-abolishing from ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'' season five onward. Going through one scene for each of the "main" stories in order: There's an elevator's breaking revealing a missing floor with Peter Griffin hanging out on it; Edd in a StableTimeLoop where he fights himself from the future, then past even though a later part with Stewie ''exploding'' contradicts the possibility of that; [...] And that's not even getting ''started'' on [=SBIGlets=].
* MinimalistCast:
** ''Temples'' has a recurring cast of four: John, Jade, El Puerco, and the Spirit of Broken English. There's also the villain known as "The Man." [[spoiler:Except that the Man is really the Spirit of Broken English. Also, Dave and Rose appear twice in the fan fic frozen in the Spirit Temple's main room, the first is a mere cameo and the second is when John, Jade, and El Puerco start thawing them out. So really ''Temples'' by itself has only six named characters[[note]]There's also the guy in the loby of Dave's appartment when John and Jade are about to enter the Fire Temple underneath it.[[/note]] in all,]] this diminished cast being quite strange compared to the entire rest of the Decathalon which is character-rich. However, this is justified by most of the fan fic taking place in the titular abandoned temples, one scene in particular being in a [[ThirstyDesert lifeless desert.]]
** ''The Eds' [=EDventure=]'' has a grand total of one new character: Girlfriend. And one crossover character: Peter Griffin. This isn't that noticable nor does it feel that odd until the second chapter. The ''long'' second chapter.
** ''Movie Day'' only uses the twelve kids from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', and even goes an extra step by not throwing in Eddy's brother. However, there is one scene towards the end of the first chapter where Edd notices a truck driver, who is described (though through Edd's thoughts) in more detail than canon would with its background characters. [[spoiler:Then this is subverted when the end of the first chapter comes and introduces a few [=OCs=] who only stay in the story partway, and this happens repeatedly. The settings that the kids visit following this point are, contrast to the pre-Gravel Bay areas, bustling with life and have people described roaming around them all the time. This is to show how far the kids are truely going from their familiar and rather empty home area in Peach Creek]].
** ''496 Reasons'', thanks to clones from dreamselves and doomed offshoots, pulls off both this and LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, only focusing mainly on the group inside the meteor (with ''some'' flashbacks elaborating on the Carapases, guardians, etc.)
** The major characters of ''Long Locks and Lenses'' are, as of the current plan, limited to females with long hair and glasses that Pikmin Fan has either written before or intends to write later. [[spoiler:And Rolf, the fact that he doesn't fit in lampshaded in that story's only actual forth wall break.]] Everyone else is just {{Mooks}} or generic background characters. So just Rip, Jade, Vriska, Iris, Connie, and Stacy. And possibly Feferi depending on what you count as "glasses." And also possibly Bonnie (and maybe even [[spoiler:the theoretical Desertverse counterparts to other characters]]), if there's a sensable reason why she would be there. Axing the "long hair" requirement and replacing it with "dark hair" adds Beth, Peggy Hill, and Jane as potential cast members, but would rid the Curse Woman.
** Like the Decathalon only to an even ''bigger'' extent, most of his later ''Homestuck'' fanworks (mainly the serious ones, but the trolls have been getting less and less focus in SBIG and Pikmin Fan even said regarding ''Thanksgiving Special'' that he's starting to get sick of them, or at least the rolls he commonly uses them for) are only focused on the eight human-players. And maybe alternate versions of them. Or (alternate selves and Joey have yet to appear in the same story, but this is likely a coincidence) Joey the Douchebag Surfer.
* MoodWhiplash:
** ''Total Zeksmit'':
*** ''Plains'' by itself has two notable cases. The first four chapters were fairly lighthearted, and so was the majority of chapter 5 -- until the first case, the elimination. [[spoiler:After Bridgette is gone, Beth and Courtney's OddFriendship is completely shaken, Lindsay grows with potential to become the BigBad [[HijackedByGanon (even though the author implied that the final villain will still be Eva)]], Sadie has an emotional breakdown and starts giving up on the game, and all the while Izzy is mocking all four of them and Eva is ''glad'' about the events because almost everyone is playing completely in her hands.]] The second case is "Beware of Homer," which follows a rather silly chapter overflowed with nudity humor and a quick little Aftermath, and is a
*** ''Island''[='=]s opening chapter is lighthearted, until the double elimination.
** ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'' is a... [[IncrediblyLamePun hurricane]] of emotion following season three. Season four is especially cruel due to the gimmick that the chapters can be read in any order: They ''all'' start off with the usual as what could be given by this fic's standards, then -- ''every time'' -- the Derse-dreaming characters get into some kind of issues with their ancestors/guardians, dragging everyone else down with them... Season five seems to lighten things up -- for half of a chapter. After the gender-bending part happens and they leave the Felt's tower, this time the ''Prospit'' dreamers get character development and the season as a whole stays dark aside from a few small scenes and the End of Season fight against Stickdawg. Then again, this ''was'' heavily inspired by ''Majora's Mask''.
*** And ''then'' there's season ''six'', by far the longest season in both chapter number and word count. Observe Zombie Ashton Kutcher going on a date and Roxy not wanting to talk to her past-sister because she knows she can't change the future and that she's afraid of being the reason why they had a shakey relationship, both events happening in the same chapter! And there's a collosal war on its first chapter that kills off almost everybody, however the final chapter ends with the fic's biggest motivational speech (and that's saying a lot) leading up to a proposal and a BigDamnKiss! And finally off the tip of the iceberg is an entire chapter partially devoted to mocking the FanDumb, with the following chapter exploring AlwaysSomeoneBetter in the likes ''Carl Stevens Universe'' did only to an even bigger extent! Fortunately, season ''seven'' is much, much, ''much'' more lax.
** ''First Steps'' is a one-shot consisting of short stories regarding each VideoGame/{{Pikmin}} type relaxing or having fun in ways specific to their type, all because Olimar thought they deserved a break. One might notice that while they are going in the general order they were encountered across the trilogy, red Pikmin are oddly missing. [[spoiler:That's because the "red" story is the last one. And that's because it's about the first Pikmin Olimar ever encountered -- this is the longest story, and it by itself contains mood whiplash. It starts with the Pikmin and Olimar's curiosity towards eachother, then the usual "breaks" given to the other colors, before suddenly cutting to sundown several days later. The Pikmin does not make it back to the base in time, and only looks up as it realizes that Olimar likely doesn't even know which one it really is, and may never know what he did for it. It choses not to complain about it, realizing that Olimar dropping back down to rescue it would risk more than not, and even though Olimar is the one to blame as the Pikmin was only doing his orders, it still spends its last minutes alive looking up to him in honor]].
** Not as much of something suddenly [[DarkestHour going downhill]] but instead a story suddenly not taking itself seriously: ''Oedipal Rhymes'' consists of ten very short fluff poems taking place during a pair of sleepovers. Then at the end is a scene written in a "traditional" way of storytelling; the eight characters all meeting up after the weekend, very carefully trying not to talk about anything before Jake suddenly gives an outburst that gives away the Prospit side's story.
** Similar to the above but even more jarring is ''[=OT32 Shenanigans=]''. The biggest example so far: "120 Reasons Why the Cosmos is More Underappreciated than it Seems" is about some of the eponymous 32 enjoying their trip around deep space as part of a mission Jade has on her job, and convincing those that aren't appreciating the ''Super Mario Galaxy''-inspired scenery into doing so and stop taking thing so seriously. No villains, no other characters (there are alien animals involved, but nothing ''sentient''), just fluff. The very next chapter? "32 Reasons Why Knockoffs are More Obnoxious than they Seem," a DenserAndWackier chapter full of LampshadeHanging, the cast trying to beat shitty ink-made versions of themselves in nonsensical (intentionally) cliche competitions, and Caliborn -- who believe it or not was already this story's ''comic relief'' -- being a complete idiot.
** PlayedForLaughs in ''the Homestuck Thanksgiving Special'', but the fake-author intended this to be serious. The first chapter sets it up as a whacky... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Thanksgiving Special]] where the eight kids drive eachother crazy during the feast. Then John opens the door for guests, and [[TooDumbToLive calmly lets them in.]] What's with the pot hole, you ask? [[spoiler:Those "guests" were actually zombies. It's really a ZombieApocalypse story centered around five (John, Jake, and Dirk are all dead before chapter 3) of the kids trying to find the source and generally survive.]]
* MsFanservice: A number of examples, played straight or parodied, almost every story from ''Hecksing'' onwards has one. ''Hecksing'' itself had Rip, the author's arguable first example. The first MrFanservice wouldn't come until the ''proper'' introduction of the male guardians and ancestors from ''Housestuck'', several years later and even then they are covered only briefly.
* MultipleChoicePast: Vampirism. It's almost ''always'' handled differently in the different stories.
** ''Total Zeksmit'': One of the elemental classes, and definitely the odd one out. Part of standard genetics in its world.
** ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'': Essentially a formed from a paradox. [[spoiler:As revealed through WordOfGod after the story ended, Rip was responsible for inflicting vampirism in the first place. So, rewinding, Meenah prototyped a copy of ''Twilight'' into one of Dave's kernels, which affected the Carapases by giving the royalty vampire powers. Later Jack gets the ring and its powers and bites Jade, creating Vampire Jade. Vampire Jade and John were later used to ectobiologically ''create'' Rip, who as stated before would then infect various virgin men in history, turning them into vampires and starting the "plague." Now, the history and myths of vampirism inspired the ''Twilight'' series... being what started this whole deal in the first place. To make things even ''more'' complicated, Vampire Jade started a mini-chain of transformations on her own with Vampire Dave, Vampire Rose, and Ghoul/Zombie Jade; and Alucard (implied to be a more "standard" vampire who just got really powerful in both here and in Crconikals, none of the atypical transformation in canon applies) was used among another person and two objects to ectobiologically make Lord Major Quimby, who would [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble later/earlier]] clone his DNA into the Simpsonian race. So that's ''two'' races of vampires formed by paradox, one directing the other.]]
** ''Crconikals'': Derived from rainbow drinkers, which was the biological norm in rare trolls.
** ''Everburn'': Like always when it comes to myths in that story, [[RunningGag it's complicated]].
* MythologyGag: In his ''Homestuck'' works (the Shipping Intermission of SJAHJ being an exception because EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, though the comic itself follows the trend as [[spoiler:the deaths]] begin much, much later), [[spoiler:Gamzee and/or Aradia is ''always'' the first one killed off out of the post-scratch trolls and should they die. Though if one dies, that does not mean that the other will follow or even has a garunteed death. ''Homestuck Rewrite'' is an interesting case, as Gamzee is the first troll killed off, yet after several more die he's sprited -- only to die again before any other troll does following his revival, sprite or not-sprite. And HHC got around the rule by having Aradia turn out to have been killed and revived immediately after in a flashback that was told ''after'' some of the trolls have died (and been brought back).]]
* NoPronounciationGuide:
** "Jaka," the name given to genderbent-[[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} Jake]] in the sillier works. Only brief notes and the slightest hints say that it's "Jack-ah," though it's easy to mistake as "Jock-ah," (which the author himself sometimes says) "Jake-ah," (PunnyName fitting with the general series's attempts at SoUnfunnyItsFunny) and could theoretically be pronounced the exact same way as "Jake." However in serious works (yes, there is genderbending in serious works) her name is Jaky, Jackie shortened down to fit the 4 letter naming theme, which is clearer. (And done because he didn't think of the name until ''long'' after writing her introduction in ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'', and opted for the old name out of callbacks and because it's so dumb, while using the new name for serious works because... the old name was so dumb.)
** No real word on "Elitaa," "Sinois," or "Bororo" yet. "Puerco" however is directly taken from a Spanish word, and "Sierda" is just a rhyme of "Mierda" (Shit) so that's not an issue.
** ''496'' is a bizarre example. WordOfGod says that he either reads it "Four-nine-six" if the title is shortened to only include the number itself, yet most of the time (not always though) read out as "Four hundred [and] ninety six" if it's part of the full name. Shortening it to only ''496 Reasons'' can go either way.
* OCStandIn: The pre-scratch troll ancestors. Pikmin Fan had originally delt with the issue of them remaining unknown back in ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'' by making the revealed post-scratch ancestors as sort of "patrons" for both groups of troll kids, similar to what most other fan works do. However, both ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'' and later ''496 Reasons'' suffered from issues when he considered tossing the ancestors in someway. After waiting and [[RealLifeWritesThePlot both wanting to get an update of HHC (the part that's planned to introduce all of the ancestors and guardians) out before 2013 ends and Homestuck entering a Gigapause near the end of said year]], he ran out of patience and basically made twelve fan ancestors ("fancestors"), first with exaggerated personalities to fit in with HHC and later in the rest of SBIG, then serious counterparts that follow the original depictions just enough. At the very least there is ''some'' attempt at GenerationXerox. Pikmin Fan admitted at the end of HHC's thirteenth chapter, their first appearance, that this was a bad idea:
-->'''Great Pikmin Fan:''' Putting them into more and more fanworks is just me piling on a bunch of weights without carrying them -- at first. Once Hussie somehow tells us something about them, ''then'' the weights will be tossed on my shoulders and it will practically kill me editting the stories to fit them more/remove the weights. It would be easier making the B2 ancestors just teleport over to the beach and act as their "patrons" or somehow be in both the beach and the mountains at the same time.\\
I'm also gonna give them nods in ''496''. And ret-conning '''''that''''' is gonna be a chore depending on where in ''496'' the storyline is as of the time of the reveal.\\
Although in a way I ''am'' gonna sorta miss these guys as I replace them all....
* OnceASeason:
** All SBIG installments either had used or were editted to use the phrase "and got married and had kids."
** Both completed ''Total Drama'' competitions thusfar have [[spoiler:had the Jumbo Jet destroyed. Mid-flight, too, for both of them.]] This does not bode well for [[spoiler:''Total Zeksmit'', as Ezekiel is confirmed to get one for the fourth season.]]
* OneSteveLimit:
** Enforced with the new ''Total Zeksmit'' contestants: Andrea was even renamed from Amy after announcements of a character from the canon sixth season that shares first names.
** Averted once crossover is taken into consideration, through implication. Prior to ''Everburn'' Redcorn never shows up, but there have technically been [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} two]] [[WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill Johns]] in ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'' and other HS-KOTH crossovers, as well as [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} two]] [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Daves]] (the ''Family Guy'' Dave being Campbell, who while he never appears in person, his ''wife'' does) in the former specifically. (And heck, any other time they're crossed over.)
** ''Everburn'' itself is an aversion that deserves mentioning. As of the end of Act 1 and the sudden ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' additions with Amethyst's surprise-steal of [[spoiler:the Pikmin Statue]], there could be [[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama two Sadies]] (''Total Drama'' Sadie has been confirmed and even had a few Pesterlogs late into the Act) and [[WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill two Connies]] (KOTH Connie has been in the story since the beginning, although throughout the ''entire'' first Act her and Joseph's status have been unknown). Technically the latter could apply for [[spoiler:''Carl Stevens Universe'', however Hank and Peggy are the only characters from ''King of the Hill'' who make actual appearances and there's only a brief mentioning of even Bobby.]]
** Also averted in-fic as early as ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'' if nicknames are included: There's two Silencers. The doll head, and the new version of Aradia's ancestor.
** Speaking of ancestors (and guardians), while canon has implied that they all share the names of their counterparts across the scratch (calling Handmaid's room "Damara's room" being one of the more obvious examples, but there's at least one more involving John/Poppop), everything has renamed them whenever they are refered to by first name. Even SJAHJ, although before [[AllThereInTheManual closing author's notes]] expand to add the rest in that little detail, only half of the human ancestors had their first names given.
** This could be technically averted even in the beginning. ''The Eds' [=EDventure=]''. An ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' fanwork. Centered around characters named Edward, Edward, and Edward.
* OurMonstersAreDifferent:
** AllTrollsAreDifferent: Both internet trolls and a race of trolls appear in the "Sug Night WITH A TWIST" [=SBIGlet=]. Confusingly, neither of those resemble the ''Homestuck'' trolls in the slightest, even though ''those '''do''''' appear later on as a cameo.
** OurVampiresAreDifferent: See MultipleChoicePast.
* ParodySue: Several.
** Girlfriend from ''The Eds' [=EDventure=]'' was the first.
** Carl from ''Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals'' is the most frequently appearing. He was intended to be an obnoxious jackass who gets away with everything despite being hated by the entire cast, however every season bar [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness the first]] actually gave him some sympathy and, taking away the leadership and "harem," [[SpringtimeForHitler he seemed less like a parody of obnoxious self-inserts that force you to like them and more like a standard character.]]
** Joey from the "suppliment" to ''Act 5 Vs Act 6'', ''Homestuck: Thanksgiving Special'' (AKA [[spoiler:''Kids Fight the Zombies'']]), however, pulled off most of what Carl failed at. Not only does he live up to his title as the "Douchebag Surfer," but he is also a much meaner-spirited parody of SailorEarth[=s=] than Elitaa or anyone else in the continuity. WordOfGod said that traits such as his obsession with very particular works popular on the internet, his {{Yandere}}-ish affection to Jade, his want to be "different and new," and even his "plain" appearance and the "who was a young man standing in his bedroom"[[note]]GPF had been going to great lengths to avoid making a replica of ''Homestuck''[='=]s opening after ''Onionstuck''. To the extent that he doesn't even like re-wording it; OS's remake, ''Roottangled'', had the storyline actually begin with Oliver being quickly named while being woken up, and even StealthParody ''Homestuck Rewrite'' goes around this entirely by making up a new scenario for which John, Jade, and Rose play Sburb (at a sleepover at the latter's house).[[/note]] are mocks at FlatCharacter [=OCs=] in general. Maybe because of how he's much, ''much'' more obnoxious than Carl, [[spoiler:he gets [[CruelAndUnusualDeath suffocated by shit]] while Carl remains alive in his source story and goes to have a minor recurring role in the author's future works. Joey ''does'' reappear himself -- twice, even, one of them not even in SBIG -- but both times he's a direct villain and in one case he dies again outright. (The other story was too lighthearted to kill him off.)]]
** The entire contestant roster of ''Extreme Musical Drama High School'' from the ''Total Zeksmit'' world. Including Ezekiel (of his OCStandIn treatment, and what some of his fans do to him) and Zelda. Amethyst in particular, despite not actually appearing until ''after'' Joey's introduction, took the whole "personality revolves around this thing/these things popular on the internet fad" that Joey the Douchebag Surfer above had and ''ran with it''.
* ProductionForeshadowing[=/=]TheStinger: Every one of his concluded stories (unless they end in a CliffHanger which would be used to directly tie them to another story, like with ''Zombie Attack!'') has a preview for either A: Something completely new or B: A hint that he is, in fact, going to update something he didn't in a '''''long''''' time and that the project hasn't been canned yet. These are usually after the final AN, unless the formatting either prevents it or ''allows'' for something otherwise depending on how you look at cases like SJAHJ where the text ''linked'' to the preview, yet it was within the update where an actual note followed. These are usually very cryptic hints, and by themselves almost no context is given of them.
** ''Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals'': [[spoiler:A short clip about Girlfriend from ''The Eds' [=EDventure=]'' building a revival divice.]]
** ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'': [[spoiler:The "THE END" at the ending links to a gif of Jade telling the readers they just got trolled. The last frame of this gif is Jade teasingly asking who some random character is, this character in question being Eoflit Swyyx from ''Blue Sun''. Granted, she gets redesigned a lot, but it marks the first visual appearance of her.]]
** ''Carl Stevens Universe'': Would have been some silly clip in ''Total Zeksmit'' taking place between chapters 3 and 4 as this fic was what ''finally'' broke TZP and TDWTR out of their "Something New" hiatus, however due to the author thinking it got too much love the idea was scrapped. Instead, [[spoiler:it was a short scene of Aradia doing her "epic look" out in the mountains in ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'', while overlooking the tanks fighting with the Death Mecha's clones in the background, giving another tease at season 4.]]
** ''Desert City'': The only one that hasn't ''quite'' been straightforeward yet. [[spoiler:It seems to be a SequelHook to ''Carl Stevens Universe'' (which is confirmed within this same preview to not take place in the same world as DC), with Amethyst waking up after being shot to downtown and stopping Pikmin from carrying her, as well as Pearl and Greg finding Hellsing packing their things and getting ready to go. It also reveals that Garnet somehow stuck around the train, and actually did see Steven's plan work against Carl the whole time. No actual ''storylines'' are hinted at here, or at least not obviously.]]
** ''Oedipal Rhymes'': [[spoiler:A new rhyme/poem, following the standard six-line format from the rest of the story, explicitly saying that it's a preview for the Decathalon. To be more specific, it talks just a little about ''Temples'' and ''Time Beetles!'' (though not much more than what was already revealed), then implies about the guardians being involved in the eight stories ''after'' them.]]
** ''Gumball Vs Satan'': [[spoiler:Duck from ''This Story is Sexist!'' preparing himself for a fight with Wichita, arming himself with his plasma gun and getting on his mechanized bike.]]
** ''Movie Day'': [[spoiler:Instead, ''this'' is what uses the TZP clip. Instead of taking place between chapters 3 and 4, however, it takes place between 6 and 7, to be more up-to-date with TZ at the time.]]
** ''Sheldin and Lenard'': The first one to be an EasterEgg, or at the very least not openly obvious. [[spoiler:There is a small bit of text at the bottom right corner of the fifth and final comic, specifically linking to some Imgur image. This image turns out to be a fake-poster for the ''Naruto'' SBIG installment.]]
** ''Soap'': [[spoiler:A preview of the ''Blue and Yellow'' series, with Red ordering Green to order Blue and Yellow to guard the fortress while Teal and Magenta go forth and fight.]]
* PutOnABus: [[CatsAreMean Ed the Cat]] from the second season of the Rewrite Trilogy doesn't seem to be making a re-appearance anytime soon, what with the limo driving him to the town's nearest airport.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Generally any group bigger than three will fit under this.
** The Survivors from ''Everburn'' become a particularly large example.
** Steven's "Intervention Group" from ''I Thought Those Were the Ingredients''. Formed from a combination of Steven's fellow Gems both having [[ItMakesSenseInContext to repair a car lightyears away and two out of three of them becoming addicted to cigarette-equivillents (the latter being where this got its title from)]], it contains a half-magic boy on the path to becoming a warrior (himself), a girl with rather protective parents, a pair of high schoolers who work at a donut shop, and a fast food boy with some issues. He gives them all cheap swords. TheyFightCrime [[DeconstructiveParody about as well as you would expect.]] At first.
** Hecksing thins down into this, especially considering [[spoiler:Alucard and Integra's deaths]]. A cop who [[TookALevelInBadass was]] shakey about becoming a vampire, a psychopathic former Nazi who for a ''still'' unexplained reason is HotterAndSexier than her original incarnation, a {{Badass}} werewolf who, depending on the story, either [[TheQuietOne doesn't talk]] or [[NoIndoorVoice doesn't not talk]], and a Martian copy of Charlie Sheen.
** ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'' makes the original four [=B1=]/beta/pre-scratch kids into this. A former JerkJock who enjoys inducing ObfuscatingStupidity and playing mindgames, a borderline StalkerWithACrush who later snaps and starts fighting the status quo, a BadBoss to the entire Crew who later defrosts into a standard {{troll}}, and a hyperactive idiot that serves as the only one out of this group who wants to fight for good and nothing else. Guess who is who. [[spoiler:In order, they are John, Jade, Rose, and Dave.]]
** ''This Story is Sexist''. Only getting into one of [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters the demons]], we have an underpaid BadassNormal, an alien GageteerGenius who was split off from a larger, evil alien, a WrongGenreSavvy stoic demon, and counting HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Witchita, a naked idiot villain.
* RecursiveCanon:
** Starting from ''Carl Stevens Universe''[[note]]Though ''Total Zeksmit'' (back under its old title; it had not been ret-conned as of the time of the update) did get a brief mention in ''Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals'', but the actual clip wasn't shown because it wasn't ready yet (a SelfDeprecation joke on his slow update rate)[[/note]], a RunningGag is the characters watching GPF's other stories on television or through some other form of media. Actually (and possibly in nod to this), CSU ''itself'' is the most common thing being watched. The channel numbers, much like a quick scene in Bob Ross vs Pablo Picasso from ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'', correspond the the story number. WordOfGod says that this is a coincidence in-universe, and each channel may also play something else.
*** A non-canon supplement to ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'' features an odd variation. In a subplot, Carl's hummer's television can show the events of HHC itself, only about ten seconds in the ''future''. He ends up crashing because he was too busy watching TV... and laughing at his future self crashing for not paying attention to the road and instead paying attention to his ''future'' future self not paying attention to the road and so on.
** SBIG contains numerous stories, references of which sometimes appear in other works (''Carl Stevens Universe'' being the most blatant example so far). The relationship between them all gets ''extrordinarly complicated'' pretty fast, especially because some fandoms have more than one installment attatched to them.
** Scrapped example: ''[=The Eds' EDventure=]'', ''Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals'', and the ill-fated ''[=SBIGtermissions=]'' were supposed to have been written by a character within another story in an endless circle. One of the trolls from the intemrissions would write HUC, Rip would write TEE in the epilogue, and a character from TEE would write the intermissions in chapter 2. However, come the epilogue of HUC, Pikmin Fan ''forgot'' about having Rip write the story. Seeing as later on the intermissions were scrapped completely, this turned out to be an accidental good move.
* RunningGag:
** ''Homestuck'' fanworks that...
*** Deliberatly leave how a troll's junk works ambiguous, starting from an exclamation from John in ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals''. Sometimes have oddly shaped and inconsistently used (even regarding the ''same characters'' for the ''same story'') censor bars on the trolls in more visual works.
*** Have characters pointing out dissapointment that sprites are ''not'' actually naked (unless a naked person was prototyped).
** See RecursiveCanon: Characters often watch eachother's works on TV.
** Badasses drive fords![[labelnote:Explanation]]This started in ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'', during a ''Conker's Bad Fur Day'' movie-within-a-fic as an excuse to make a rhyme with "sword." Conker raps [[PainfulRhyme "I'm a badass! I drive a ford! / Your skin may be fire but my dick is a sword!"]] (For reference, this is the part in [[VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay the original game]] with the fire imp, and he's talking about pissing on them to put them out.) Fords have since been associated in his works with "badasses," first exclusive to SBIG before moving out.[[/labelnote]]
** Characters bringing up both "divide and conquer" and being uncertain if the phase goes/should go "the best offense is a good defense" or "the best defense is a good offense." It should be noted that the former's use was legit (in ''Total Drama World Tour Rewrite'', the old edittion) before the author realized how cheesy it was to have the BigBad say that and began using it ironically.
* ScheduleSlip:
** ''Total Zeksmit''... well, let's do this by season. ''Plains'' would go into a long span before pretty much every even-numbered pre-merge chapter, the merge itself and following Aftermath (the second one, on the other hand, updated near-instantanious), and the finale. These were all ''not'' due to being unable to write the more quicker-paced scenes, but rather the opposite: Pikmin Fan hits writers block on the ''breather'' chapters, due to finding it hard to progress in anyway at worst and being unable to write character development in a way that's not boring at best. ''Island'' was extremely choppy in the first half due to Pikmin Fan ''still'' not planning much of the base plot, though the second half was pretty fast until the final four. (''All'' of the chapters starting from the final four itself took a month before publishing.)
** ''496 Reasons...'', span between Jane/Roxy and Kanaya/Roxy aside, actually updates pretty quickly (the ending of ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'' greatly helping), with the exception of anything preceeding a Jake chapter. This is because all Jake chapters begin with an excerpt of his own [[ShowWithinAShow comic book project]] ''The Chronicled[[note]]Sometimes mispelled "Crconikaled" or something along those lines, as a MythologyGag to another StylisticSuck work by GPF with [[FanFic/HecksingUlumateCrconikals a green-themed protagonist with "Carl" in his name and at least one overly sexualized character.]][[/note]] Events of Captain Jacob Carl and His Fearsome Brigade''. Basically the comic is a parody of overtly fanservicey works in general, and inspired by an obscure and pretty much NSFW comic ''Mahou Oh No!'' specifically. As seen with ''Total Zeksmit'' and one of the many reasons why its title changed, however, Great Pikmin Fan is terrible at writting fan service, even and especially the over-the-top and poorly shoved in kind. The upside at least is that since when he's stuck on one chapter, he jumps to more, once he's finished with the Jake chapter there's usually multiple updates on that day. The fact that the chapters are really short helps.
** ''Movie Day'' had a span of over a year between its first two chapters.

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[[folder:(Scrappy through Z)]]

* TheScrappy:[[invoked]]
** Rip Van Winkle, who in her SBIG incarnations is almost always a complete and utter camera hog. She survives the entirety of ''Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals'' for practically no reason and is the designated main villain of ''Sweet Jade and Hella John''. In the former fanwork, her characterization is highly inconsistant (notable since following season 1 ''at the latest'' everyone else is dead set into certain character types, disregarding how these types are OOC they're at least ''stable'') as she flip-flops between a ditz, a brash egotist, or the absolute OnlySaneMan, the latter is bad by itself because it's Great Pikmin Fan retroactivley going back on his word on how he hates the trope. Her latter mentioned appearance isn't much better as she's a rather one-dimensional antagonist over the arguably more interesting and more "final boss" worthy Dave[[note]]Whether or not ''Homeredux'' making him the final villain makes up for this -- or was even done right by itself -- is another story.[[/note]], a feat which was [[RealLifeWritesThePlot only kept within the story]] because of the author's prior word before making Dave into a villain and to make an unfunny jab at Lord English's lack of direct relation with the main ''Homestuck'' protagonists in canon. ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals''[='=]s {{crossover}} arc alleviated this by giving Rip plenty of NotSoAboveItAll moments and actually keeping her consistant, but the damage in the prequel had already been done. She was a CreatorsPet in HUC, but that ended along with the fan fic.
*** One of the reasons (SJAHJ) Dave himself is more "final boss" worthy than Rip, mind you, is because he's one of the few antagonists who manages to be more obnoxious than her. He's an egotist, self-centered jackass GodModeSue in the first half of the story who treats his friends as tools, and a flat, inconsistent, creepy, egotist, self-centered VillainSue in the second half. It doesn't help that Pikmin Fan loves expy-ing the hell out of him, as "Dave undergoing a breakdown and turning into a hostile threat" has been done later in ''Homestuck Rewrite'' (to a much lesser degree, and he's still a hero) and Carrie Kreuger from ''Gumball Vs Satan'' who is pretty much his inverse. And last but ''definitely'' not least, there's the deal with ''Homeredux''...
** Speaking of SBIG, pick any incarnation of Jade Harley. Any. Great Pikmin Fan doesn't seem to know how to or care about writing Jade in the parodies IC, so he derails her. Usually as a form of mocking the fandom, to boot. Herself in ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'' is whiny and near-[[TheLoad useless]], and she does ''very'' little other than fawning on John. (John's ''actual partners'' don't do this, whoever he's hooked up with at the time.) Herself in ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'' is a highly rude, brash, and as revealed in the epilogue ''really'' [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking untidy]] (Pikmin Fan notably otherwise avoids characters who are gross in the way Jade is) bully whose verbal abuse is implied to be the reason everything started. Anyone who opposes her is killed off, though at least Jade herself doesn't kill them unless it's in self-defense. She frequently whines that she's never important enough towards the end and needlessly angsts about many details, and most of those details are her own fault. John, Jane, and Jake, who all normally heavily believe in morality in their own ways, ''just roll with it''. Other incarnations include ''Kids Fit...'', where her roles include [[DistressedDamsel getting kidnapped and getting kidnapped]], and the "Gym Class" ''[=SBIGlet=]'', which is bascially her SJAHJ self but with more toilet humor and without the implied [[FreudianExcuse familial issues]] that ''could'' explain her actions. Finally there's herself in ''Homestuck Rewrite'', which because of the [[spoiler:StealthParody elements]], basically combines everything terrible about her as all of those above negative traits are shown one at a time. And unlike Rip, she seems to be a perpetual author pet.
*** Monoe, whose appearances are only limited to two out of the current seven [=SBIGlets=] so far (and one took place in the same world as another), is an expy of her SJAHJ[=/=]Gym Class self. However, she's a bit more tolerable because A: She gets away with a lot less and B: [[spoiler:she dies halfway through the latter story she appears in, and it's implied that there will be a third one involving the ghost-hunting crew so she will be left out for good unless ''VideoGame/YumeNikki'' characters appear later again for some reason]]. But note the phrase "a bit ''more'' tolerable."
** For something that's ''not'' in SBIG, Kathy from ''Total Zeksmit''. Her "riddles" in the first season are obnoxiously obvious or [[InterfaceSpoiler given away through some form of the fan fic's formatting]], and it's clear that they're being shoved in to try to make ''Plains'' more complicated than it really is. While this may work with the later ''Zeksmit'' seasons or ''Total Drama World Tour Rewrite'' (make of that if you will), it doesn't work for the rather linear plotline in TZP. It's even worse when she's a contestant; as an active regular [[spoiler:until a thankfully early elimination]], her only role amounts to creeping the other campers out and leading them to plotlines that prove to be completely worthless. "Coincidentally," her final design[[note]]As in, after Pikmin Fan ret-conned the old ''Total Drama World Tour Rewrite'' in the Halloween Update, which contained a detailed description of her[[/note]] can be described as a maroon-themed PaletteSwap of Rip Van Winkle (Pikmin Fan admitted that the suits were accidental), just without the glasses and with less complicated hair. And with needless GagBoobs. To add a final nail to the coffin, she is just about the only character on this list who has yet to have a true TakeThatScrappy moment.
*** Pikmin Fan confessed that he won't let her die because she was one of his earliest ''Total Drama'' OC designs, and [[PropRecycling didn't want that to go to waste]]. He also liked the idea of having a would-be season 2 contestant cameo at various points in season 1, and couldn't find anyone more appropriate or easier to fit in than a character who has a big theme of appearing out of nowhere in dark spaces to be cryptic.
*** Also what sparked some ire was a certain twist near the end of ''Total Drama World Tour Rewrite''. [[spoiler:Out of all of the season 2 newcomers, ''she'' got to make a cameo appearance during "Raining Cats and Dollars" as part of the mass cameo (see ContinuityPorn above), over more popular characters like [[DeadpanSnarker Kandi]], [[SmallGirlBigGun Andrea]], or [[CloudCuckoolander Sonia]]. What makes matters worse what that the cameo in question was very negligible and it was just as easy -- if not easier -- to have someone else fill her place]].
*** Zelda also gets a lot of heat. Fans of certain popular ''Total Drama'' fan fiction hate her for being an obvious and [[TakeThat rather harsh jab]] at fanon Ezekiel, and people in general including aformentioned fans hate her because she's a sympathy baiting (worse than Ezekiel), hypocritical, self-centered Kankri Vantas ripoff with little to no redeemable traits.
*** The canon lineup isn't safe either. Bridgette gets dislike due to her completely unnecessary MPD subplot, being overpowered in general when she's in her "evil" personality, and her niceness [[GoodIsDumb leading to scenes where she blindly follows the antagonistic campers and endangers her stay on the game as well as many other's stays]].
*** Speaking of the canon lineup, there's Ezekiel himself. He's a jackass 90% of the story, his descriptions of the challenges are bland and drag on compared to the fast pace of the rest of the series, his desperate affection to Bridgette (again, another Scrappy) is hardly considered amusing, he [[spoiler:harshly fired Geoff (probably the nicest staff member he has; the only one out of his main then-three assistants who was genuinely supportive of him) for being a "bad host" even though he's hardly any better]] halfway through the first season, his issues steal the spotlight from the other show staff member's more interesting storylines, and while he does develop it takes so. Damn. ''Long'' for it to really happen. (About five chapters before he has the slightest notable change in personality.) At the very least, many of these things have been lampshaded and toned down highly after the lampshade has been done.
*** Lindsay has been described by the author as "the Zelda of season one." While they are almost nothing alike generally, they both have one thing in common: They were written with much less sympathy than most of the other characters and come off as annoying and too childish. Her adittude towards Beth from the second half of chapter four of ''Plains'' [[spoiler:after she thinks about giving Courtney a second/third/possibly-fourth chance]] until near the season's end borders of Heather-levels of AlphaBitch, except unlike Heather she rarely if ''ever'' actually does any strategizing during the events of TZ so far. Granted, she does have a few redeeming moments, such as giving away her immunity to Gwen for thinking she would make a better leader than her, but those are far and few in between, and many of them [[CharacterizationMarchesOn take place in the earlier chapters.]] Given how the author fully admitted to not liking characters who "are so dumb you can't even have a real conversation with them," this is likely a case of RonTheDeathEater.
** The dreamselves (yes, all 34 of them) in ''496 Reasons Why Mutlidating is More Complicated than it Seems'' get some flack for being rather annoying in general and pretty two-dimensional (one-dimensional in the case of most of the dream trolls) compared to their waking selves. That's not even mentioning how their abilities get really creepy and/or overpowered, really fast, especially when they start using them on other people ''including'' the realselves. Many readers who don't like canon/OC romance in general -- which GPF admitted to not minding as long it's not self-inserty -- don't like how all of them except Dream Jade seem like fronts for original characters. Why is Dream Jade an exception? That's another Scrappy qualifier. ''Because she's based off of '''Jadesprite'''''. And is a semi-regular following the first several chapters. Let that sink in. Notably it's been mentioned that dreamselves, once they split from their real personas, tend to be very unbearable ''to their waking counterparts'', similar to the inner selves in ''Sweet Jade and Hella John''. SJAHJ-Dave loathes Dove, but John got along with her just fine, just as 496-Dave thinks his dreamself is socially uncrackable, while John and Rose (among others) are interacting with him without as much trouble.
*** WordOfGod said that during the huge Jake/Terezi hiatus he decided to make the dreamselves the real villains of the story after considering how annoying they might become and how they symbolize the exact kind of people the heroes do ''not'' want to become, with [[spoiler:Duplicate Meulin]] (the original character who would fill that role) more or less just presenting a fancy final battle and [[spoiler:being an excuse for how the heroes got helped out -- at first]].
*** ''496'' has the honor of being one of the few ''Homestuck'' fanworks that arguably makes ''John'' into this at some periods of time, thanks to his fun-policing attitude providing a jarring contrast with the story's general habit of pushing everything to the absolute limits and beyond. This is also notable considering the extra badassery added to his fellow Prospit dreamers Jade, Jane, and Jake and their incredibly high role in the plot, while most of what John does amounts to goofing off, creepily lusting after someone else, angsting, or getting himself into problems and in one case actually being ''locked up'' (something only reserved for the "fishiest of people with the nack for fucking shit up," AKA Vriska and Meenah) for his actions.
** El Puerco from ''Temples'' is generally seen as "forgettable," "unnecessary," or "obnoxious," which is a ''huge'' deal considering that 1: In contrast to ''Temples''[='=]s character-filled sisterfic ''Attack of the Killer Time Beatles!'' (or hell, anything else in the Decathalon) ''Temples'' only has [[MinimalistCast four recurring characters]] and he's one of them and 2: Thanks to loose Ampora traits, he is the closest thing the entire Decathalon has to a troll making an appearance.
** El Puerco has an odd case of NamesTheSame with Puerco Sinois from ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'', who also qualifies along with her sister Elitaa due to only serving as a reference to [[FanFic/BartTheGeneral a now-obscure fan video of]] ''Simpsons'' and to dig at ''Simpsons'' itself respectivley. Even Pikmin Fan himself hates them and their only appearances -- which is so far limited to Elitaa -- were ''very'' brief cameoes [[spoiler:that always ended in her death]]. Also, Kankri's introduction in canon retroactivley/effectivley made Elitaa redundant, due to being characters in the spot of Vantases who take extreme and selfish methods of blood-related "social justice" ''and'' bearing blood colors that would normally get them killed/hunted on Alternia, which is how the SJAHJ verse's trollworld goes by. (Elitaa was made up before the reveal that limebloods were hunted to extinction on Alternia.)
** The Troll Empress from ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals''. Walking plot device (for not just around half the chapters of season 6 depending on how you count it but ''all'' of season 4), SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute to[=/=]ReplacementScrappy of the Condesce, wafer-thin ParodySue design contrast to the more developed "leaders" of villain groups, and generally obnoxious "over the top"/"lolrandom"/generic "crazy" personality all rolled in one.
** Hank Hill. Not only is ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' just not that popular unironically by the fan bases of some of the fandoms he writes in, but Pikmin Fan has a very bad habit of shoving him into stories even if he doesn't really fit. If he's an antagonist or an AntiHero, expect him to be something of a gross ShallowParody of himself that comes off as more of a TakeThat than a tribute (even though the author claims he likes the show and makes a bunch of references to specific episode storylines). If he's a hero, expect him to be a borderline MartyStu that almost everybody likes.
* SheIsAllGrownUp:
** Parodied in a short original story involving his "Tyler and Stacy" pair of characters, specifically the first. The gist is that Stacy was one of Tyler's childhoos friends among ''nine'' other girls, and they were all ridiculously clumsy and frequently losing their clothes. He reunites with the ten at the beginning of the story, and spends most of the story angsting that what he used to laugh at (regrettingly; it was bad stuff happening to his friends after all) now sends him [[ThinkUnsexyThoughts other signals.]]
* SheIsAllGrownUp: '''Jane''' quickly and suddenly becomes the MsFanservice in the last hundred or so chapters, and during flash forewards of the last two or so years on the meteor. While it is common for other characters to crush on her, shortly after hitting puberty she is stated to be near-irresistable by everyone and it gets even worse from there.
** At times it seems like the characters react this way to ''anyone'', because puberty seems to hit them all (bar John) like a ton of bricks. Nudity goes from being laugh-worthy to flush-worthy, the
* ShipSinking: He likes to make it clear when popular pairings aren't going to happen. The number of breakups in his works in general are abnormally high by fan fiction standards. Some notable examples include:
** ''Total Drama World Tour Rewrite'' not only has several couples undergoing sudden breakups near the beginning, but also sinks Izzy/Noah through an extremely casual, sudden line from Izzy where it's stated that she doesn't like his "boring" adittude and pits him as equals with Tyler (who first she thought was already dating someone else, then after the news of his breakup came in thinks of him as not getting over Lindsay -- she's right, by the way) in terms of males on her team.
** There's around over two dosen ships that get at least nods in ''Sweet Jade and Hella John''. The number that actually hooks up and stays together is in the single digits, and that's with [[spoiler:John and Jade's "pitty [for the readers] hookup"]] and arbitrary couples like Karkat/Equius dragging it up.
** ''496 Reasons Why Multidating is More Complicated than it Seems'' is supposed to avert this. No pairing, no matter how dumb it is, how hated it is, how canon-conflicting it would be, how polygamy-disagreeing it might be should everyone be decent, how {{Squick}}[=y=] it may be, or -- and the most important factor -- how little Pikmin Fan can stand it, is to be broken up by the end of the fan fic. (Or moved to a quadrant becides flushed.) After all, the fan fic is supposed to be more of "Everyone makes it up to everyone in the end, [=OT32=] makeouts!" and less of a guessing game to see which couples will "work" and which wouldn't, and the whole point of having everyone hook up with everyone and stay that way was so that Pikmin Fan can write out of his comfort zone. (And mostly an excuse to write more Dave/Rose and harem shenanigans.)
* SpotlightStealingSquad:
** The guardians (the ancestors are... another story) from ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'', '''especially''' their kid forms, get a lot more promotional art and stories than the actual main characters. The fact that they are easily more divergent and recognizable as individuals than the portrayal of their children probably has something to do with it.
** Ezekiel from ''Total Zeksmit''. Yes, he's the host, except for how the ''other'' show staff supposedly have their own subplots on their own. You wouldn't know that from how Ezekiel's anti-Chris Bridgette-love Blaineley-worship/hate storylines get in the way of Justin's scheming and Geoff's hero adittude.
** John Egbert. Especially noticable in ''[=OT32 Shenanigans=]'', where all of the first three stories begin with either focus on him or have the other characters mention him in someway. The author tries to tone down on this later by having the humanized-trolls get more screentime than the human-humans (who by themselves could be considered examples, ''especially'' the Prospit dreamers), but the evidence is still there.
*** While John is the most notable offender, the other Prospit dreamers do deserve more mention. John, Jade, Jane, and Jake have all gotten way more screentime than their Derse counterparts, and they were in fact the heroes of ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'' while the other four are DemotedToExtra [[spoiler:before becoming villains]]. Then there's their ''counterparts'', which are supposed to be equal with the ''main'' Derse dreamers, while ''their'' counterparts are essentially fodder at best or non-existant in the case of SJAHJ.
* SpringtimeForHitler:
** He describes Carl as this. He was trying to make a character extremely obnoxious, but failed and only made him... average. Much of SBIG could be seen as this too.
** ''Homestuck Rewrite'' was the author's attempt at mocking his own writing through a colossal story that's written by the seat of his pants, and full of what he normally tries to avoid like [[ReferenceOverdosed too many pop culture references,]] [[NakedPeopleAreFunny random nudity]] [[ClothingDamage and clothing damage,]] [[OutOfCharacter derailed characters,]] [[AnyoneCanDie demoting and then killing previously major characters for no reason other than shock value,]] [[AuthorAppeal the author's emotions and oppinions on the source completely and utterly getting in the way of the writing,]] [[AntiClimax plot points with a lot of buildup yet have very let-down of resolutions,]] and [[ShallowParody commenting on something without researching much of it.]] It ended up being one of his most popular works.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Almost always averted. To give you an idea, one of his earliest story ideas was a ''WesternAnimation/BrandyAndMrWhiskers'' fic where Brandy actually leaves the Amazon by the end and returns to Florida successfully. (The ''entire'' story from the end of the first chapter is about her trip, mixed with [[EldritchAbomination other things]].) Even ''This Story is Sexist!'', which is supposed to be the closest thing he has to writing a sit-com, is very dynamic and makes a point in how things change.
** According to the author's notes of ''Desert City'', however, Carl's life is pretty fixed when it comes to this trope and chapters 1-12 of ''Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals'' will be the biggest changes in his life.
* StylisticSuck: "SBIG." Everything about it. Except maybe [[spoiler:chapters 11 onward of ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'', which is (''very'') surreal character development.]]
** Whenever ''Ren and Stimpy'' appears within SBIG, the clips are usually so bad they make the origin fic look believable. This also began the running gag of him using "'''[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Getting Carp Past the Radar]]'''" [sic, in fact sometimes it's mispelled as "Gettig"] to jokingly refer to anything with more questionable content than the rest of the story, years after the clip it originated in.
** Speaking of "Getting Carp Past the Radar," according to the 'definition' of it Jake's comic in ''496 Reasons'' is ''full'' of both [=GCarpPtR=] ''and'' StylisticSuck. See ScheduleSlip above for more information.
** ''Homestuck Rewrite'' contains [[spoiler:itself, as it is the first work that isn't claiming itself as a parody until the very end. Pikmin Fan took advantage of his own obscurity and made a Tumblr post the day before publishing it saying that it ''is'' a parody and ''not'' meant to be taken seriously as a saving throw, then wrote it to be increasingly crappy to mess with everybody who didn't get the joke. The joke is that it is one colossal StealthParody of the author's own writing, taking up his usual habits to complete extremes. Such as the random nudity, convoluted and anticlimatic plot devices, rehashing, (this time deliberately) flipping around the general fandom opinions on characters[[labelnote:Hoo boy, this is long. ''Just'' covering the kids here]]John is a wimpy, ObliviousToLove StraightMan; Jade is ''very'' tempermental to the point of {{Yandere}} levels; Rose manages to be the equivilent of the stuck up "popular girl;" Dave, in spite of being the strongest character in whole story, is by far the designated ButtMonkey and always gets the short end of the stick; Jane is some kind of beauty Goddess that everyone finds attractive; Jake is incredibly wise and a top-tier listener (this was gotten from ''Housestuck''); Roxy is an incompetant lunatic nobody really cares for; and Dirk is a wannabe badass (this was possibly gotten from SJAHJ)[[/labelnote]] and crack pairings for no reason]].
** The main antagonists of ''I Thought Those were the Ingredients'' are a parody of both Pikmin Fan's own style and the entire DarkerAndEdgier trope, and were done very badly on purpose. The former shows in the ThemeColorNaming (he nearly used a method of [[ThemeColorNaming characters named after colors]] in two different stories, before changing one), hammy dialogue, indeciciveness, and bizarre actions. Then there's independant elements, like the fact that when they're stacked, they resemble a penis. [[spoiler:Their phallic shape is lampshaded at the very end.]]
--->'''Amethyst:''' Remember when the things we fought didn't talk? I miss those days....
* SurpriseCreepy:
** ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'' is about the titular two characters dicking around, while the Millennium from ''Hellsing'' are also dicking around as expies of the Felt and one member of which is set up as the comic's obvious main antagonist. Most of the danger comes from random crossover happenings in the story, but regardless the kids always make it out just fine. That's how it is for the first half. Starting when Jack puts on the Queen's ring and starts thinking about what he's been prototyped with, [[spoiler:he eventually gets the sudden urge to kill Jade, which leads to Kanaya questioning Dave and Rose (as their "dreamselves" (not the same as ''Homestuck'' dreamselves) were prototyped as well and influenced Jack), which leads to Dave suddenly ordering Rose to ''kill her''. After that, and a brief intermission establishing Aranea as a hostile threat, the trolls start dying like flies and the Derse kids turn evil. It gets so bad that by the end there are only '''''SIX''''' notable characters left alive ''in the entire story'', not counting duplicates (as they never recieved much characterization), out of over one hundred]].
** ''Everburn'' starts out as a ClicheStorm and writes itself as though it was the crossover adventure of Bobby Hill being awesome and trying to avenge his parents' deaths. For the most part, this is actually accurate, with one little detail: [[ThisLoserIsYou Bobby Hill is definitely]] ''[[TheLoad not]]'' being awesome, [[IJustWantToBeBadass and spends practically the whole story playing second fiddle to all his fellow Survivors (who are hardly better off themselves) as he tries to make himself worthy of getting the titular gun.]]
** ''Soap'' is the worst so far in terms of how dark the result is. It goes from cheap ''Adventure Time'' knockoff to [[spoiler:a story featuring depressing dystopian societies where the two ''main'' characters are permanently killed off half way through, ending with the entire world being blown up]] within its entire span. Which, by the way, consists of only six chapters.
*** WordOfGod said that this was actually due to a WriterRevolt. He set out to write an original fiction that was incredibly pointless, depressing, and most importantly ''uncreative'' in some attempt to "disprove" something. According to him, this was both to try to ward off anyone from saying that he should write more original works ("just in case") and to show that it's easier to fics sometimes instead. He did this with ''Soap'' because the concept already lost his interest years ago when he couldn't think of any way to make it stand out from what it was ripping off, so he decided to raise the little ship just to sink it. He later did this again with ''Ant Invasion!'', only this story was more "Bad B-movie" than "Everyone suffers." It wasn't until ''This Story is Sexist!'' that he actually tried writing some legit original web fiction. (Not counting how ''Blue Sun'' technically pre-dates all three stories; a badly-drawn Eoflit making a cameo at the end of ''Sweet Jade and Hella John''.)
** ''Simpsons Meets Brandy and Mr. Whiskers'' might not have the darkest turn, but it definitely has the most sudden and unexpected (in a ShockingSwerve sort of way, not in a WhamEpisode way). The entire first chapter presents it as though it's an ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin adventure of the Simpson family's wacky hijinks with... Brandy and Mr. Whiskers, if there's a few things off about the Amazon. Then the gang actually ''leaves'' the rainforest and gets into Pigman City. Almost immediately after that, Whiskers [[spoiler:''sucks Bart's soul out and reveals that he was secretly an EldritchAbomination'', setting the stage for the entire remainder of the story.]] It goes without saying that not even the author can take that seriously anymore (it should be noted that he says he was around seven or eight when he got the original idea) and this moment was heavily lampshaded after it happened.
* TakeThatScrappy Every Scrappy example listed above (bar Kathy) has one:
** Rip? [[spoiler:Dies a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grahams_number ridiculously large number]] of times in SJAHJ, in HHC she's always getting subject to the RC's slapstick (and is the first member of Hecksing to be told off), and in ''Carl Stevens Universe'' the cast finds her as obnoxious as Carl himself and she's depicted as a SmallNameBigEgo idiot]].
** Dave? Even back in the Mario session, he still has his hatebase of Eridan. Vampire Jade gives him a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Reason You Suck Speech]] near the end of Act Two Act One.
** Jade? Almost always insulted by other characters, especially Karkat.
** Monoe? [[spoiler:Dies. Brutally]].
** Zelda and Lindsay? Borderline HateSink[=s=].
** Bridgette? [[spoiler:Heather completely screws her over in the Aftermath, exposing that she is NotSoAboveItAll.]]
** Ezekiel? He's mocked by the entire cast almost all the time.
** The dreamselves? Targetted by mainly John, Jade, and even the own alter egoes they create.
** John? As mentioned on his entry, he gets locked up along with Dream Meenah (the only prisoner who wasn't released by the time he got "arrested"), who was very eager to taunt the hell out of him.
** El Puerco? Jade insults him all the time.
** The Sinoises? [[spoiler:Killed anti-climatically, Elitaa was not "assimilated" with Aranea because she found her too horrid/useless/something like that to get her to work for her. They rarely come back in future works, only to die ''again'']].
** The Troll Empress? [[spoiler:Gets brutally ripped in half by a submarine. Technically by accident, no less]].
** Hank? [[spoiler:Gunned down to death by Aranea (and he stays dead, too)]] in ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'', and Hanksprite from ''496'' is very often mocked by Smuppetsprite. He's the only character on this list who is accused in-universe of being a CreatorsPet, as seen in an interlude of ''This Story is Sexist!'' where Wichita's ShapeshiftingSeducer act goes to the AuthorAvatar and she turns into Hank to spite him.
* ThemeInitials: "EFS." Sometimes shortened to just "ES," or as of ''Curse'' [[spoiler:it could also be lengthened to EFFS]].
* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: Invoked? He generally does this with anything "unpopular" or whose popularity "faded."
** He provides rather unironic takes on ''Creamsicle'', considering how even the original image was a parody. Even in ''Global! The Strobes that Glow Like Chernobyl'', their storyline [[spoiler:and relationship]] is taken more seriously than most of the character arcs [[spoiler:and when half of the Fox Crew get wiped out, Sunglasses and Snowflake are two of the eight survivors.]]
** Half of the stuff crossed over in ''Everburn'', including (unfittingly) aformentioned ''Creamsicle'' as well as ''Epic Battle Fantasy'', has their characters mostly treat the setting pretty... realistically, whereas others (including the BigBad) are fourth wall leaning, wise-cracking jokesters.
** His motivation for doing both ''Temples'' ("I don't care how much I start hating the plot, ''I'm still sticking to it''") and ''the Real Story'' (though this was more because he liked the idea of creating a convoluted adventure story centered around a show that was already dying when it launched).
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil:
** ''Homestuck Rewrite'': One of the "next chapter quote previews" makes it extremely obvious that [[spoiler:Vriska will come back to life]]. Pikmin Fan shot himself in the foot by [[spoiler:putting her name in the titles of the chapters that ''follow'' the one with the revival. But this is intentional, and a nod to when ''Total Drama'' did the same thing (Blowing that Owen will return in "Rock and Rule" and putting his name in the following ''two'' episodes).]]
* UnfortunateImplications:
** Generally he has said to be pro-nudist. However, almost every nudist or [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl nudist-like]] character to appear in his works is either a villain (pretty much every naked character in SJAHJ bar Dotty), somewhere on the AntiHero spectrum (Dotty being one example, Redglare from HHC possibly being another), completely friggin' insane (Roxy from ''Homestuck Rewrite'', although according to WordOfGod her nudity and insanity were applied for two completely different reasons), or meant to be laughed at (any nude-loving characters in ''496''). Kandi from ''Total Zeksmit'' is probably the least offensive thus far, and even she's very [[InsufferableGenius arrogant.]]
** ''Homestuck Rewrite'' is a goldmine of these, [[spoiler:StealthParody or not]]. Let's start with John's UnwantedHarem, which is completely unlike its parallel of Harold's from ''Total Drama World Tour Rewrite''. While the girls around Harold actually have some kind of subtlety to falling for him and never go to ridiculous levels with it (at least after the story was remade), by the beginning Jade's ''already'' been shrank to a character close to FanDumb bastardizations of her and she's hopelessly pinning after him. On the plus side, she's the only character out of the harem who can be considered a true SatelliteLoveInterest, and early after the other girls enter the picture it gets okay, and like TDWTR the girls ''do'' in fact have their own arcs and take down some villains completely independant from John. Then [[spoiler:Aradia and Vriska -- the ''only'' girls not pinning after him -- die]], and the slight misogynic elements (at their peak at the spoiled incident) suddenly take a turn for the [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale reverse]]. The other girls start using John for almost ''everything'' until the meteor ride arc, where it flips ''again'' and stays that way for the rest of the story [[spoiler:unless you count the fact that it was a hallucination from Dave as an exception]]. During the meteor ride, the girls are willing to do almost ''anything'' for him, cumulating in the Sug Night homage where they let themselves go through a number of rather strange things in efforts of replicating John's dreams, like watching a movie none of them like, or grilling bread.
*** According to the author, it was originally planned that Eridan would sneak into the ectobiology lab after the kids are born and sneak in some kind of hormone to John that will make him irresistable to any girl that meets him in person, but he thought that would be a dumb idea even by the standards of HR. While it was a good thing that that never went through, the fact that it would answer some of the girl's more questionable actions is unsettling.
** Almost all alcoholics, '''''especially''''' in ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'', have been villains. Granted, there are some reasons to oppose drinking -- sending a message to kids, for one -- but drinkers being almost constantly portrayed as genocidal lunatics is going a bit overboard, don't you think?
** Most social rights activists so far, SBIG or not (Zelda from TZ, arguably Lisa from HHC, "Bobby"/[[spoiler:Largeock the Hard]] from "Steven the Secrets Guy") have been parodies of either Social Justice "Warriors" or otherwise completely unreasonable and psychotic. Considering Social Justice Warrior's infamy, there's not much wrong with this, aside from the fact that ''reasonable'' activists are either next to non-existant or they're bland and still somehow unlikeable like [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome Elitaa]], and instead of trying to act for rights in a more proper manner, the other characters practically [[WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill Hank Hill]] them and go "Man, those guys are ''weird''." The "Steven the Secrets Guy" [=SBIGlet=] is the absolute worst offender. Kankri's entire arc in ''496 Reasons'' seems to be built around avoiding this trend's continuation.
** ''Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals'': The only confirmed gay characters in the entire story are Flanders and Anderson, who betrayed Hecksing, formed a Hitler Revival Group with "First Boss," and started killing innocent people ''for practically no reason''. Its sequel, ''Housestuk Hurrcain Crconikals'', is trying to avoid this by invoking EveryoneIsBi (in addition to invoking it to make the LoveDodecahedron[=s=] even ''more'' confusing).
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic:
** While most of the contestants in ''Total Zeksmit'' who were heroes of the first season could be considered this during the early events of that same season, Ezekiel stands out and fulfills this throughout the entire series. He's a colossal hypocrite who likes to think that he can get away with anything as long as it's not like something Chris would do. While he does develop, it takes a while before it even really starts (usually thanks to his own arrogance), and his "backstory" of having to put up with Chris isn't too much of an excuse considering that A: Pretty much everyone from canon dealt with Chris already and B: ''He's inflicting a same-but-less version of Chris's game to other people, down to increasingly risky challenges''.
** Bonnie from ''Desert City''. [[spoiler:It's kind of hard to feel sorry for her when the people she used to try to kill before her HeelFaceTurn were shown (way before Bonnie herself's appearance, mind you, this is actually somewhat important) to be a scared, appologetic, friendly family, and not evil versions of the Gems as the DarkWorld setting would imply. The reason why is because of her dislike to the Crystal Gems, which adds definite FantasticRacism (of a race that's implied to be nearly extinct, too) to the point where she doesn't even give anybody a chance. She thinks Steven is a clone of Sven somehow and tries to kill him on sight. The fact that she's the closest thing the story has to a villain makes it worse]], as well as how she's one of the few characters whose life is arguably ''better'' than the initial life of her Beach City counterpart. (Which, considering what a screwed up CrapsackWorld Desert City is, is saying something.)
* WalkingSpoiler:
** Pretty much everyone in ''Total Zeksmit'', as almost everything after the first season gives away their eliminations and their plot roles in said season. Some of the worst offenders being [[spoiler:Ezekiel, Heather, Lindsay, Bridgette, Courtney, her boyfriend, Izzy, Sadie, Natalie, Andrea, Emerald, Justin, Geoff, and Chris.]]
** Jade Harley is usually made into this. Whether it's how [[spoiler:she and Dave are the top reasons why the Rainbow Crew turn around]] in the second half of ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'', or [[spoiler:that she's Rip Van Winkle's ecto...altermom or that she kills Karkat]] in ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'', or even a seemingly-unrelated one: [[spoiler:that she makes a cameo in ''I Thought Those were the Ingredients'' (alongside John, Rose, and Dave) '''and''' outright shows to Steven that she's a Crystal Gem too.]]
** [[spoiler:Mr. Whiskers]] from ''Simpsons Meet Brandy and Mr. Whiskers''. Pretty much everything he does after chapter ''one'' is either a spoiler, or this could go to the extent that it's part of the fic's premise. The fact that the summary mentions nothing of this does lean to the former.
*** [[spoiler:Ed Otter]] from the same story, as his only major role is [[spoiler:being possessed by TheDragon right before the sequel.]]
** Any DecoyProtagonist or SacrificialLion, for [[KilledOffForReal obvious reasons.]] Like in SBIG, [[spoiler:Alucard and Integra from HUC, Geno from HHC, Gumball from GVS, and to a lesser extent the three Eds from TEE.]]
** [[spoiler:Duplicate Meulin]] from ''496 Reasons''. [[spoiler:She drops from BigGood to BigBad at the drop of a hat.]]
** Connie's AlternateSelf from ''Desert City'', Bonnie. To the extent that even the events involving her before her proper introduction are plot-pivotal spoilers. The only things that aren't spoilery about her is her appearance as having a different colored outfit and hair to her counterpart, and that she prefers wearing pants under her dress. And even the pants [[spoiler:hints at her role in combat.]]
* WhamLine:
** Five words one might not expect in a fan fic all about fluffy relationship developing: "[[spoiler:I'm breaking up with you]]." [[spoiler:They make it up though, much later, to stay true to the premise]].
** "Next up: '''Jade/John'''," [[InterfaceSpoiler at least before the actual chapter came out and could be viewed through the scroll list]].
*** To elaborate: Pikmin Fan has had a history of John and Jade's hookups being [[SerialEscalation increasingly]] [[BigDamnKiss dramatic]] in the order that they're written.[[labelnote:Spoilers, obviously]]''Sweet Jade and Hella John'' has a simple kiss at the top of a staircase, though the panel its in is exceptionally large. ''Temples'' has them "officially" become a couple right when they kill Morpha and beat the temple they struggled the most on, celebrating during its death sequence. ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'' has Jade giving a long, emotional speech about how the Rainbow Crew shouldn't give up so quickly, and that their actions as heroes have changes their lives for the better and led to such big contributions, before ending it with proposing to him, their kiss freeing Calliope. In ''Homestuck Rewrite'' their kiss occured while [Meh I'll think of something later][[/labelnote]] So the implication here was that the pattern would continue, even though WordOfGod has thought of shrinking it down a bit.

** Halfway through ''Total Drama Race'', a nude Hank Hill is shot through a window where he looks around, says "This isn't Nazi Germany," and leaves out another window. This isn't explained in the story itself. However, [[spoiler:it's the same Hank from ''In the Flesh: King of the Hill'', and from that story things make slightly more sense in context.]]

*** ''Steven Universe'': ''Carl Stevens Universe'', his first contribution to the fandom. The other two stories thusfar have been considerably more straightforeward, even if they both effectively double the cast with an AlternateUniverse. This might be because CSU is the only one that involves crossover ([[spoiler:not just with ''Hellsing'' but with a cameo from ''King of the Hill'' of all things]]), not just because a ParodySue Martian rockstar based on Charlie Sheen is involved, but also probably because it drew inspiration from "Asspen" from ''South Park'' and "The Sweaters" from ''the Amazing World of Gumball''.

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** Pretty much everyone in ''Total Zeksmit'', as almost everything after the first season gives away their eliminations and their plot roles in said season. Some of the worst offenders being [[spoiler:Ezekiel, Heather, Lindsay, Bridgette, Courtney, her boyfriend, Sadie, Andrea, Emerald, Justin, Geoff, and Chris.]]

** The ''This Story is Sexist'' verse seems to have no Heaven, and Hell serves as a [[AHellOfATime pretty neutral afterlife.]] While a whopping ''twelve'' ([[AscendedExtra soon seeming to become anywhere from thirteen to twenty-four;]] the lack of other characters [[spoiler:and what little there ''are'' dwindling down]]) demons are major characters out of a group of ''360'' co-workers of them, they don't mention anything regarding Heaven at all. Satan, like the other demons seen, is a shapeshifter, except unlike them he commonly takes the form of a giant goat-man hybrid and he is shown to be overworked with his job. The closest we get to a reference to anything Godly is Anti Angel's ''name'', which is confusing because A: [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep that's a self-given name]] and B: he's rebelling against ''Hell''.

** ''Soap'' is the worst so far. It goes from cheap ''Adventure Time'' knockoff to [[spoiler:a story featuring depressing dystopian societies where the two ''main'' characters are permanently killed off half way through, ending with the entire world being blown up]] within its entire span. Which, by the way, consists of only six chapters.
*** WordOfGod said that this was actually due to a WriterRevolt. He set out to write an original fiction that was incredibly pointless, depressing, and most importantly ''uncreative'' in some attempt to "disprove" something. According to him, this was both to try to ward off anyone from saying that he should write more original works ("just in case") and to show that it's easier to fics sometimes instead. He did this with ''Soap'' because the concept already lost his interest years ago when he couldn't think of any way to make it stand out from what it was ripping off, so he decided to raise the little ship just to sink it. He later did this again with ''Ant Invasion!'', only this story was more "Bad B-movie" than "Everyone suffers." It wasn't until ''THE BEST FAMILY'' that he actually tried writing some legit original web fiction. (Not counting how ''Blue Sun'' technically pre-dates all three stories; a badly-drawn Eoflit making a cameo at the end of ''Sweet Jade and Hella John''.)

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** "32 Reasons Why Knockoffs are More Obnoxious than they Seem" from ''[=OT32 Shenanigans=]'', where the 32 encounters shoddy versions of them resembling their ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'' selves created by [[BigBadWannabe Caliborn]]. Even though ''Shenanigans'' is as a whole a CrackFic as this chapter is Pikmin Fan's way of saying "The me who wrote SJAHJ is ''dead''," this chapter is especially bizarre.

* {{Flanderization}}: Alucard in SBIG. Yes, he was derailed from the start, but he had a more varied and "complicated" personality in his debut in ''Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals'' than most appearances in the series. In addition to being a [[LargeHam hammy]] [[BadassBoast egotist]], he was also something of a DeadpanSnarker and even a fairly straightforeward mentor to Seras. Derivatives, such as his appearances in ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'' and his cameo in ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'', mostly ignore the latter two and [[NoIndoorVoice ramp up his hammyness]] to Captain-levels, sometimes even forgetting the more basic aspects of him like how he calls himself a "bishe."

** Joey from the "suppliment" to ''Act 5 Vs Act 6'', ''Homestuck: Thanksgiving Special'' (AKA [[spoiler:''Kids Fight the Zombies'']]), however, pulled off most of what Carl failed at. Not only does he live up to his title as the "Douchebag Surfer," but he is also a much meaner-spirited parody of SailorEarth[=s=] than Elitaa or anyone else in the continuity. WordOfGod said that traits such as his obsession with very particular works popular on the internet, his {{Yandere}}-ish affection to Jade, his want to be "different and new," and even his "plain" appearance and the "who was a young man standing in his bedroom"[[note]]GPF had been going to great lengths to avoid making a replica of ''Homestuck''[='=]s opening after ''Onionstuck''. To the extent that he doesn't even like re-wording it; OS's remake, ''Roottangled'', had the storyline actually begin with Oliver being quickly named while being woken up, and even StealthParody ''Homestuck Rewrite'' goes around this entirely by making up a new scenario for which John, Jade, and Rose play Sburb (at a sleepover at the latter's house).[[/note]] are mocks at FlatCharacter [=OCs=] in general. Maybe because of how he's much, ''much'' more obnoxious than Carl, [[spoiler:he gets [[CruelAndUnusualDeath suffocated by shit]] while Carl remains alive in his source story and goes to have a minor recurring role in the author's future works. Joey ''does'' reappear himself -- twice, even, one of them not even in SBIG -- but both times he's a direction villain and in one case he dies outright. (The other story was too lighthearted to kill him off.)]]

** Hank? [[spoiler:Gunned down to death by Aranea (and he stays dead, too)]] in ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'', and Hanksprite from ''496'' is very often mocked by Smuppetsprite.

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*** ''[=OT32 Shenanigans=]'', despite being ''496'' in sit-com land, might be the first time she's taken ''out'' of the decay. Her introduction includes saving Meulin from being stuck on a tree with nothing more than a small dagger, which she might not have even needed.

** ''Sweet Jade and Hella John'' has Dave, Dirk, Roxy, and Rose getting high on crack and undergoing hallucinations. Dirk's involved crossing a pit of racism by using "classic literature," Roxy encounters a "canon John" [[WordOfGod (but not really)]] who tells her that he and Jade are siblings in the crack-verse he comes from, Rose gets told by the Burger King to look into a toilet where she sees someone in blackface, and Dave originally saw a Calliope recolor in a touque before it was silently changed to watching Rose melt in front of him (it's hard to tell that she's melting, and the author's word is the only certanty, given SJAHJ's very loose art style). Though for some reaason the drugs manage to influence the story ''just a little bit'' (Rose knowing where the chaos emeralds are and Dirk actually becoming possed by racism being the two biggest), but the exact reasons behind how any of this works is never expanded upon.

** ''Desert City'': When the Gems are all in Dan's house, Steven has a NightmareSequence he's Sven on a mission with the Desert-Gems. After blowing up a BlobMonster, Sven/Steven re-creates the "Edward save" scene from ''Twilight'' where he saves Connie from a car... before he suddenly ponders her counterpart, and she suddenly multiplies like crazy in a variety of sizes, shapes, and colors [[CallBack (similar to the Dream-Jades and Dream-Johns in Jade and John's dreams in SJAHJ,]] [[UpToEleven only on steroids)]] while the other Crystal Gems first turn into half-hybrids of their Beachverse counterparts before turning completely into them, then turning into ''giant dog snakes'' that howl at him. Then he imagines all of the Connie clones swarming over him, before their glasses suddenly glow bright yellow and he wakes up. Believe it or not, if you've read ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals'', [[spoiler:this is supposed to foreshadow Bonnie being a ''Crconikals''-Alucard expy. In HHC, the first thing he does is kill the actual Edward while he was making out with Kanaya. ''That'', believe it or not, ''isn't'' a BLAM by HHC standards.]]
** ''Act 5 Vs Act 6'' might not have the strangest moments out of SBIG, but it has the most unexplained and plot irrelevant. Such as during Carnival Night, when the infamous "Barrel of Doom" ''comes to life'' and subjects [[ButtMonkey Dave]] to "the most frustrating moments known to man," where according to the narrative, he's running through a live-action setting having to dodge blue shells and other things with "bad controls like as if he was drunk but not drunk."

[[folder:I through Pre-Scrappy]]

[[folder:WARNING: Opening this folder will give you cancer! (Everything before the Scrappy)]]

[[folder:(The Scrappy, and everything after)]]

** SBIG has some that are odd even by its standards. ''Kids Fit the Trolls'' has chapter 6, which completely departs from the story arc about fighting the trolls in favor for making a ShallowParody of ''Back to the Future''. ''
* BlackComedy: Even the ''competitions'' cross into this, and they're supposed to be LighterAndSofter as a whole. SBIG as a whole is a bad offender.

** This also applies for stories that reference other stories. ''496'' is already mentioned before, and there's ''Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals''. ''Carl Stevens Universe'', having a different broad target audience for some reason, skips over the rather "gruesome" details (but doesn't cross into NeverSayDie territory) and doesn't mention the sexual part of Carl's storyline. The foursome at the end of HUC's seventh chapter is refered to as an "agreement" by Rip (though at least she was saying this during a recap to the Crytsal Gems, the young Steven included).

** The major characters of ''Long Locks and Lenses'' are, as of the current plan, limited to females with long hair and glasses that Pikmin Fan has either written before or intends to write later. [[spoiler:And Rolf, the fact that he doesn't fit in lampshaded in that story's only actual forth wall break.]] Everyone else is just {{Mooks}} or generic background characters. So just Rip, Jade, Vriska, Iris, Connie, and Stacy. And possibly Feferi depending on what you count as "glasses." Axing the "long hair" requirement and replacing it with "dark hair" adds Beth, Peggy Hill, and Jane as potential cast members, but would rid the Curse Woman.

** Joey from the "suppliment" to ''Act 5 Vs Act 6'', ''Homestuck: Thanksgiving Special'' (AKA [[spoiler:''Kids Fight the Zombies'']]), however, pulled off most of what Carl failed at. Not only does he live up to his title as the "Douchebag Surfer," but he is also a much meaner-spirited parody of SailorEarth[=s=] than Elitaa or anyone else in the continuity. WordOfGod said that traits such as his obsession with very particular works popular on the internet, his {{Yandere}}-ish affection to Jade, his want to be "different and new," and even his "plain" appearance and the "who was a young man standing in his bedroom"[[note]]GPF had been going to great lengths to avoid making a replica of ''Homestuck''[='=]s opening after ''Onionstuck''. To the extent that he doesn't even like re-wording it; OS's remake, ''Roottangled'', had the storyline actually begin with Oliver being quickly named while being woken up, and even StealthParody ''Homestuck Rewrite'' goes around this entirely by making up a new scenario for which John, Jade, and Rose play Sburb (at a sleepover at the latter's house).[[/note]] are mocks at FlatCharacter [=OCs=] in general. Maybe because of how he's much, ''much'' more obnoxious than Carl, [[spoiler:he gets [[CruelAndUnusualDeath suffocated by shit]] while Carl remains alive in his source story and goes to have a minor recurring role in the author's future works.]]

** Most social rights activists so far, SBIG or not (Zelda from TZ, arguably Lisa from HHC, "Bobby"/[[spoiler:Largeock the Hard]] from "Steven the Secrets Guy") have been parodies of either Social Justice Warriors or otherwise completely unreasonable and psychotic. Considering their infamy, there's not much wrong with this, aside from the fact that ''reasonable'' activists are either next to non-existant or they're bland and still somehow unlikeable like [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome Elitaa]], and instead of trying to act for rights in a more proper manner, the other characters practically [[WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill Hank Hill]] them and go "Man, those guys are ''weird''." The "Steven the Secrets Guy" [=SBIGlet=] is the absolute worst offender. Kankri's entire arc in ''496 Reasons'' seems to be built around avoiding this trend's continuation.

** Any ''Homestuck'' fan fic (that's ''[[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness not]]'' Sweet Jade and Hella John): The human "player" characters, ''if'' race is mentioned (this isn't always the case; HHC doesn't reveal their races, partly because the issue is a large ShrugOfGod for that particular story), makes them have the same color as their eyes/text. Sometimes it's dodged around by even the narrative describing them in their blank-slate white color. ''496 Reasons'' does both, the prologue flat-out describing Rose's skin as being "open to interpretation" and even commenting on how the white skin combined with the MilkyWhiteEyes makes her look [[EyelessFace eyeless]]. Later on the prose casually mentions their skin as being whatever their eyes are (dropping the araciality), leading to such (half-intended) {{narm}} as "He glanced at his blue face" [[spoiler:and an attempt at getting a jump when [[BigBadEnsemble the dreamselves]] get involved more and colors that do ''not'' correspond to any of the humans are listed]].

** ''Everburn'' has this as a [[DoomedHometown central plot point]]. [[spoiler:Regional class 2 after Johnny gets the upgrade to his Permafrost, easily wiping out most of the central United States and turning it into a tundra wasteland. The rest of the world, however, quickly prepares, and sets itself up a defense system to hold him back in case he tries to escape. It works, but at he cost of trapping the main characters in the area for a long period of time]].

** Bonnie from ''Desert City''. [[spoiler:It's kind of hard to feel sorry for her when the people she used to try to kill before her HeelFaceTurn were shown (way before Bonnie herself's appearance, mind you, this is actually somewhat important) to be a scared, appologetic, friendly family, and not evil versions of the Gems as the DarkWorld setting would imply. The reason why is because of her dislike to the Crystal Gems, whichs adds definite FantasticRacism (of a race that's implied to be nearly extinct, too) to the point where she doesn't even give anybody a chance; she thinks Steven is a clone of Sven somehow and tries to kill him on sight. The fact that she's the closest thing the story has to a villain makes it worse]], as well as how she's one of the few characters whose life is arguably ''better'' than the initial life of her Beach City counterpart. (Which, considering what a screwed up CrapsackWorld Desert City is, is saying something.)

* RunningGag: ''Homestuck'' fanworks that...
** Deliberatly leave how a troll's junk works ambiguous, starting from an exclamation from John in ''Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals''.
*** Sometimes have oddly shaped and inconsistently used (even regarding the ''same characters'' for the ''same story'') censor bars on the trolls in more visual works.
** Have characters pointing out dissapointment that sprites are ''not'' actually naked (unless a naked person was prototyped).