History Roleplay / SurvivalOfTheFittest

* PintsizedPowerhouse: Reiko Ishida is 4'9, which has been noted

* ChekhovsSkill: This sometimes happens with the profiles of the characters. Newbies often try to cram in as many potentially useful skills as possible (such as survival training, firearm proficiency and martial arts. Made ridiculous when you consider that the characters are ''supposed'' to be [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Ordinary High School Students]]

* PintsizedPowerhouse: Reiko Ishida is 4'9, which has been noted to technically make her a midget. However, she was an athlete before the island, and eventually racks up a high kill count.
* PleaseWakeUp: This is [[spoiler:Albert Lions']] reaction to finding [[spoiler:Augustus "Dougal" [=MacDougal's=]]] corpse.
--->[[spoiler:'''Albert''']]: DUDE! CUT IT OUT NOW! [[ThisisSparta WAKE! THE HELL! UP!]]
* PointlessBandAid: Orn "Dutchy" Ayers is mentioned as wearing a Band-Aid over the bridge of his nose. [[WordOfGod His profile confirms]] that this is more of a personality quirk/casual accessory than the result of an injury.
* RapunzelHair: Bridget Connolly, who is well-known for having knee-length red hair, though usually tied back. This was until she cut it while on the island, after hearing about [[spoiler: the death of her best friend, Raina Morales.]]
* ReallyGetsAround: Rosa Fiametta is an excellent example, and even comes complete with AnythingThatMoves tendencies. This has been explained as emotional issues, partly due to seeing herself as TheUnfavorite among her siblings.
** Clio Gabriella; the character's creator explained it was also because of abandonment issues; she was once tricked into believing she was in love, and ever since, she has been purposely sabotaging her relationships or picking the worst possible boyfriends to hook up with in order to stop herself from being hurt again.
* RefugeInAudacity: The only thing keeping Milo Taylor from being ventilated by any of the assorted known killers he's antagonized. Particularly obvious in the case of Jackie Broughten, who ignores him because he's clearly mentally retarded.
* RupturedAppendix: [[spoiler: R.J. Lowe]] succumbs to this after several days of escalating symptoms.
* SanitySlippage: Aston Bennett, after her only remaining friend is killed, starts to lose it a little, as evident by [[PaintingTheFourthWall the text.]]
* SelfSacrificeScheme: [[spoiler:Ethan Kent]] manages this by rigging up a power system that would activate the island's only computer, but upon realising he could do it, he also realised that doing so would alert Danya. What he does is [[spoiler: insult Feo Smith, his only travelling companion, into leaving him, writes down the instructions on how to turn on the computer, and smashes all the cameras in the location, thus provoking Danya into blowing his collar. As of this writing Feo has found the location of the island.]]
* ShellShockedVeteran: Alice Blake. Before V4 started, she was in a car accident that killed her parents, as well as leaving her scarred. From that point on, she’s more or less [[TheStoic the quiet type]] around everyone except her few close friends.
* ShoutOut: Damn near everything Micheal Raynor says is a reference to some video game or movie. One character near the start even explodes at him because of the constant shout outs.
* ShrinkingViolet: Gloria Benson. She's always whispering, stuttering, ''and'' blushing when she speaks. Even when she talks to her friends, she's painfully shy/quiet, and keeps apologizing for what she says. Lucy Ashmore, also from v4, qualifies as well. She's just as shy, due to [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer bullying]]. Not to mention sometimes this slides into CuteClumsyGirl territory as well, due to her nervousness.
* SiblingRivalry: Remy Kim and Josee Trembley, who both see themselves as TheUnfavorite to their mother, and have been known to attempt to "regain" her love from the other twin.
* StormingTheCastle: [[spoiler:STAR assaults the terrorist headquarters and actually captures Danya, as part of a rescue attempt.]]
* ''[[DevelopingDoomedCharacters Six Months]]'' [[DevelopingDoomedCharacters With Jerks]]: "Pre-Game" for each version exists to establish character relationships, romances, etc, and takes up about six months before anything remotely game-related happens. [[TropesAreNotBad This isn't necessarily a bad thing]], though, since it has a very large effect on how the game is played, who characters know, and establishing how much they change, which wouldn't be obvious with only knowledge of the character and not what they did.
* SpockSpeak: 'Bounce' speaks with excessive formality, which is possibly because English wasn't her parents' first language, although intelligence plays a part.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Charlene Norris's first thoughts upon realizing she is on SOTF is that "people like her, the popular girls with bodies to die for, were rape targets".
* StrangeGirl: Version 4's Anna Chase is... a little off. To get an idea, she is an EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette with some level of PerkyGoth to her, that is obsessed with horror movies, and is a ''massive'' CloudCuckoolander. At one point (in her introductory thread in pre-game) she tells her best friend not to eat her brains (ItMakesSenseInContext... sort of). And that's not even going into some of her other personality traits. Overall, she is generally seen as somewhat eccentric by other characters.
** And then there's Lily Ainsworth, also from v4. She's even ''more'' of a CloudCuckoolander. Her father was a historian, which caused her to grow up in a British castle most of her life due to his work, and she herself has a tendency to ramble off certain facts as an attempt at conversation, while generally having NoSocialSkills. Add in her odd dress sense and her perky nature, and most characters also see her as a little odd.
* SwordCane: Jeremy Franco was given this as his assigned weapon, and provides the page quote.
* SwordFight: The first SOTF swordfight happens in this version, between Nick Reid and Maf Tuigamala.
* TedBaxter: Jimmy Brennan is a mixture of this and MilesGloriosus. He's [[SarcasmMode definitely]] the most {{Badass}}, [[RatedMForManly manly]], and awesome character on the island who can kick ANY ass!
* TeenGenius: Peter [=McCue=] and Jason Clarke, who are seniors at the age of 16.
* TenderTears: Orn "Dutchy" Ayers frequently cries when he reads about the plight of the less-fortunate countries.
* TheAtoner: JJ Sturn, although he wasn't quite as extreme as many examples listed here: He was a [[JerkJock giant asshole]] especially [[TheCasanova towards women]], although he did have his own share of [[KickTheDog more unpleasant actions]].
* TheDogBitesBack: Dorian Pello, having been manipulated into working for and constantly abused by Danya [[spoiler:is the one who finally shoots and presumably kills him during the ninth announcement]].
* TheLoinsSleepTonight: [[{{Casanova}} Dustin Royal]] suffers this embarrassment when attempting to have sex with Maria Graham. Comedic, but also a relief, given he was taking advantage of Maria's highly distressed state at the time to make a move on her.
* ThemeTwinNaming: The Ishida twins, Reiko and Reika.
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Reiko Ishida is [[YouAreNumberSix Female Student no. 13]]. She's also a PsychoLesbian and multi-murderer.
* TooDumbToLive: Along with the students who refuse to defend themselves from deranged killers on principle, we have Remi Pierce, who [[spoiler:tried to cut off his own collar]]. Seems a reasonable reaction...until you look at the thought process behind that:
--->''He lifted it up to his collar, he knew he was told not to mess with them, but if he was going to survive and win, he would need the damn thing off, let him travel through the danger zones.''
* TooKinkyToTorture: A non-sexual variant, where Rein Bumgarner is well-known for enjoying pain, enjoying the adrenaline rush that it gives him. As a result, he actually attempts dangerous stunts partly for this reason.
* TroubledButCute: [[TheAtoner JJ Sturn]], naturally only before he ''became'' TheAtoner.
* UnreliableNarrator: In the profile for Clio Gabriella, it explains several parts of her personality, yet her actions in the game contradict this. Reason? Clio spent nearly all of her teenage life lying to her parents, her therapist, and nearly everyone she knew so that she could put on a demeanor of a normal, well-adjusted teenage girl, when secretly she was a basket case very close to breaking point.
* UseYourHead: The death of [[spoiler:David Anderson]] via a well-placed headbutt to the face, breaking his nose and sending bits of bone into his brain.
* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Pre-game has a bizarre example, where a character puts around ''6 to 8 jello shots'' down her bra. Needless to say, this is treated as SnarkBait among many handlers, to the point of borderline MemeticMutation.
* VisibleSilence: Ivan Kuznetsov is quite fond of these.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Carol Burke, Allen Birkman, and Sierra Manning of all suffer from aquaphobia, while Liam "Brook" Brooks and Rena Peters suffer from hemophobia.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: It's very popular in this version: Violet Druce has purple hair, Maria [[AllDrummersAreAnimals "Animal"]] Graham has blue streaks in her hair, her friend Cassidy Wakemore dyed her hair completely blue, as has Stacy Hart. Katelyn Wescott and Cisco Vasquez both have green hair, Violetta Lindsberg has red, yellow and brown streaks, Dawne Jiang has "christmas" hair, red green and white, and Fiona Sparki has red, green and the aformentioned blue.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: Ramona Shirley in ''Virtua''. Described as being pudgy, she is also a star basketballer.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: ''SOTF-TV's'' Mae St. Clair on the first night of the island. Cesar Perdomo also did it on the second day.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Taken literally in the ''Second Chances'' mini with Carol Burke. In both incarnations it's mentioned that she has a habit of dying her hair various colors. While in her original v4 incarnation it was dyed black, in ''Second Chances'' she is described as having dyed [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair green hair]].
* AGlitchInTheMatrix: In Virtua, there's a locked drawer in the Sheriff's office filled with used sheets of paper. But the programmers forgot to put any writing on them...
* AlternateUniverse: All of the Mini site games qualify to some extent, neither of them in the same continuity as the main site or each other. ''Second Chances'' takes it a step further, in that while the other Minis have original characters, it instead has characters from previous games returning in an alternate continuity.
* AngryBlackMan: ''The Program's'' Bryant Carver.
* AnythingThatMoves: ''The Program's'' Matthew Payne.
* AscendedFan: Katie Tanaka was a big fan of Western movies. Take three guesses as to what the background for Virtua is.
* AxCrazy: While there are a fair portion of killers in SOTF-TV, Harold Smythe is by ''far'' the most batshit out of the lot.
* BackedByThePentagon: An in universe example is present in SOTF-TV, where it is a TV show backed by the Government to keep people entertained.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: According to her profile Evolution character Ashlie Jackson was one of these before coming to the island. Also, from Virtua, Simon Leroy is shaping up to be a male example.
* BodyHorror: Many of the "powers" in ''SurvivalOfTheFittest'' Mini site spinoff ''SOTF: Evolution'' fall into this. Some are pretty "standard" as powers go, such as [[ThePowerOfTheSun solar-powered]] SuperStrength and invisibility, "memory absorption", {{Telepathy}}, and [[ShockAndAwe control over electricity]], while others are pretty [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway pathetic]]. Others, however, include things such as mold growing from the mouth and a character developing cat-like claws that are poisonous. The most notable one, though, goes to Johnny Marsh's "power", in which his ''skin'' is invisible, but the rest of him (muscles, organs, etc.) ''aren't''. This, of course, means that his muscles are completely visible like an anatomical model. This receives a LampshadeHanging when the scientists puts a full-body scuba suit on him to avoid him scaring the other subjects and interfering with the research. And then there's Billy-Jay Clarke's death in which he suffers a power malfunction, causing his [[EyeScream eyes to catch fire and melt out of their sockets]]...
** [[spoiler:Not to mention what happens when Cavery is 'absorbed' by Dr. Botchi...]]
* BringMyBrownPants: In SOTF-TV Bob Lazenby and Todd Hudson after waking up on the island.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Brigadier General David Adams of ''SurvivalOfTheFittest'' spin off The Program. His antics include spontaneously breaking into the American national anthem during an announcement (when he's supposed to be reeling off who died), making bizarre jokes, contradicting himself midsentence and thinking out loud (both also in announcements). For all that, The Program was ''his'' idea, and given the setting, there's no possible way he can be an incompetent leader or tactician.
* CharacterBlog: [[http://sotftv.blogspot.com/ Survival of the Snarkiest]], which is an in-universe TelevisionWithoutPity style blog for SOTF-TV.
* CloudCuckoolander: Nate Chauncey and April Stone from TV.
* CompanionCube: An odd example pops up in TV, with Shawn Morrison and a ''dead'' snake. For bonus points? He also uses it as an ImprovisedWeapon. Virtua has Sycanus Appletin and Tobeyn, her teddy bear.
* CoupdeGrace: [[spoiler:Delilah Rivers]] performs one on [[spoiler:Patrick Reynolds]] by stabbing him in the heart after she sliced through his abdomen.
* CreepyTwins: ''The Program's'' Sophie and Stephanie Mason.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: ''The Program'' is pretty much based entirely on this trope. It's set in a militaristic, extreme nationalist version of [[{{Eagleland}} America]] TwentyMinutesInTheFuture. So, there's a fair amount of this. Most notably, as a result of their nationalist upbringings, many characters are to some extent xenophobic and treat "foreign" looking people not too kindly, which is most prominently seen with Japanese-American [[TheWoobie Marilyn Williams]] and AngryBlackMan Bryant Carver.
* DoesNotLikeMen: ''The Program's'' Chanel Mortimer.
* {{Eagleland}}: ''The Program'' is very much a type 2, even though they'd say otherwise.
* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Zachariah [[VideoGame/StarFox "Andross"]] Johnston, anyone? Not to mention Mae Myfanwy St. Clair.
* EvilLaugh: Harold Smythe in ''SOTF-TV'' when plotting about "saving" the other players.
* FaceHeelTurn: Jacob Langston of ''SOTF-TV'' recently seems to have ditched his girlfriend and his former friend with benefits so that Zach Johnston can teach him how to kill...after discussing plans to escape with everyone only moments before. Cesar Perdomo is slowly attempting to make one, trying to save the girl he loves, even if it´s at the cost of his own life. Note that said girl is multiple time killer Odile Jones.
* FamousLastWords: Johan Luther of ''The Program'', "There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake."
** From the same, Logan Sorenson's last words, directed at the camera, "[[AbusiveParents Dad]]... before I go, I just want you to know... [[{{Troll}} I know where you buried those hookers.]]"
* {{Fanservice}}: Everyone on the ''SOTF-TV'' island received Fanservice costumes in their packs.
* FemmeFatale: Surprisingly ([[{{Fanservice}} or not]]) this seems to be a fairly common tactic among female characters in SOTF-TV. Marvia Jones, Panya Bishara, Sidney Rice, and to some extent Odile Jones (no relation to Marvia) have all tried to use this sort of method, with varying degrees of success for each. According to [[CharacterBlog Survival of the Snarkiest]], this has happened quite a bit in previous seasons as well.
* FiveManBand: All of the teams in TV.
* FriendsWithBenefits: Sterling Odair and Amber Lyons from TV, along with (apparently) Kevin Fielding with Jeanette Buendia, David Myerez with Sidney Rice, and Jacob Langston with Mikaela Warner. In the latter's case, the "benefits" part of the arrangement ended when Jacob got in a more serious relationship with Madelyn Conner.
* FullFrontalAssault: Jay Harland pulled this off on Ashlie Jackson in ''SurvivalOfTheFittest'': Evolution as his practical solution to his nocturnal invisibility powers [[InvisibleStreaker not extending to his clothes]].
* GentleGiant: While mocking him for it has been hinted to be a BerserkButton of sorts for him, for the most part Michael "Big Mike" Gibraltar has been described this way. He's about 6'3, weighs 225 pounds, plays hockey... and is actually pretty friendly, with a [[RealMenWearPink fondness for fashion and vampire romance stories]].
* {{Goth}}: Kiera [=McDonald=] from ''Evolution'' and Jaqueline "Cameo" Conroy from ''Virtua'', the former of the PerkyGoth variety and the latter played straight to the stereotype.
* HeWhoMustNotBeHeard: Joel Deitrick of ''SurvivalOfTheFittest'': Evolution is notable for not speaking at all during his time on the island, his only lines of actual dialogue coming from flashbacks. Similar from ''Virtua'' is Simon Mattheson, who is also TheSpeechless, and Jaqueline "Cameo" Conroy, who is similar to Joel above.
* ICallItVera: ''The Program'' has Dom Brown's pipe wrench Janice, and Megan Jacobson's weapons - Helmut Von Slappenstien and Winston Choppington.
** ''SOTF: TV'' lately has Skyler Thsani's crossbow, named David [[IncrediblyLamePun Bowie.]]
--> ''David? really?'' he scolded himself, ''Did you just name your crossbow? And what's more, did you name your crossbow David? As in [[DontExplainTheJoke David]] [[DavidBowie Bow-ie?]] [[LampshadeHanging How the fuck did you come up with such a stupid pun on such short notice?'']]
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Kami Steele of ''The Program''. Boy howdy, Kami. She tries her hardest to play, and while she does have a small body count, most characters she runs into don't take her seriously.
* InfectiousInsanity: Sycanus Appletin. Shortly after she had an encounter with Simon Mattheson, she too started to hear voices.
* InstrumentOfMurder: ''The Program'' had John Ferrara use, of all things, a banjo to beat Matthew Gourlay to a pulp.
* KickTheDog: Marvia Jones' first appearance on the island was to get high, drug another woman, have sex with her, and then beat her up before stealing her supplies.
* LighterAndSofter: SOTF-TV is generally considered to be a lot more light-hearted in tone in comparison to the main games and the other Minis, especially when compared to its immediate predecessor ''The Program''. The [[KillEmAll basic premise]] is the same, but a lot of elements (mostly relating to the reality TV aspect) allow more opportunities for humor. YourMileageMayVary if this is good or bad.
* LoveDodecahedron: Cesar Perdomo loves Odile Jones, who loves both him and Amber Lyons, who in turn loves both her and Sterling Odair. The fact that the latter three are bisexual (and the first one is mentioned as biromantic) might help.
* LoveTriangle: In SOTF-TV we have the triangle of Shawn Morrison, Zachariah Johnston, and Mae St. Clair
* LoveMartyr: Zachariah Johnston.
* MadArtist: ''The Program's'' Madeline Harris, who is killing people to fill the gallery in her mind. She is very [[SerialKiller prolific]].
* MadeOfIron: [[AllThereInTheManual According to]] [[http://s1.zetaboards.com/SOTF_Mini/topic/4193307/ the lore]], one of SOTF-TV's past winners was one Archibald "Archie" Stewart, who was this. Subverted slightly when he turned out to be wounded too badly to leave the arena (a shopping mall) under his own power, and nearly died in hospital.
* ManInAKilt: Benny Lightfield from Virtua. Definitely not of the fanservice flavor, though.
* ManipulativeBastard: While only being in a few threads so far, Odile Jones from SOTF: TV is definitely showing shades of this.
* MaleGaze: In SOTF-TV, Zach Johnson to Mae's [[BabyGotBack butt]] and Bobby Goldman to Amber's breasts.
* PersonalityPowers: Despite the fact that the powers are completely randomized, some of the mutations on ''SurvivalOfTheFittest: Evolution'' ended up coincidentally fitting the characters' personalities. The most notable example would be Cristo Ruiz, a drug addict, having hallucinogenic venom secreting from under his fingernails. Lampshade hung in his profile's conclusion:
--> '''Conclusion''': So the drug addict now secretes a hallucinogen. Hm.
* PlayingWithSyringes: What The Organisation does in ''SurvivalOfTheFittest'' Evolution to induce the superpowers in the students. The SuperSerum is a success, although the powers created have varying values of 'super'.
* ProductPlacement: In-universe SOTF-TV gets a lot of endorsements, due to it being a reality show. It reaches the point where one of the mentors has a habit of asking contestants to throw in a line to advertise Verizon.
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: ''Evolution's'' Kate Black and Taryn Gregory, to a tee.
* SassyBlackWoman: Ramona Shirley in ''Virtua''.
* ScaryBlackMan: ''The Program's'' Bryant Carver.
* ScholarshipStudent: Mikaela Warner in ''SOTF-TV''.
* SorryBillyButYouJustDontHaveLegs / ICouldaBeenAContender: Virtua character Clarisse Huntingdon was gearing up to become a model in her backstory. However, in the same car accident that killed her friends she broke her nose, rendering her incapable of modelling.
* TheSpeechless: Simon Mattheson in ''Virtua''. He has a severe social phobia, rendering him incapable of speech [[spoiler: until he bludgeons another character to death]].
* StoutStrength: The same winner as in TV's MadeOfIron example was a very large man, a bit on the pudgy side but still very strong and a highly skilled wrestler. He ended up losing a good bit of the extra weight during his recovery.
* SuperSerum: Every single character in ''SurvivalOfTheFittest'' Evolution that takes part in the game gets their power via an injection of chemicals. Some of the powers are... questionably useful, though.
* TakeThatKiss: [[AnythingThatMoves Matthew Payne]] from ''The Program'' delivers one to [[spoiler:Luke Mendoza, after the latter fatally wounds him.]]
* {{Troll}}: In-universe examples would be Logan Sorenson of ''The Program'' and Sidney Rice of SOTF-TV, who have both been described this way IC and OOC.
* TroubledFetalPosition: In ''The Program'', Marilyn Williams does this in reaction to being thrown into the compound, under a bed, no less.
* UnusualEuphemism: [[AxCrazy Harold Finston Smythe]] (SOTF-TV) tends to describe the act of killing someone as [[DeadlyEuphemism "saving"]] them. Similarly, in Virtua [[GenkiGirl Katie Tanaka]] quickly developed the habit of calling players "bandits".
* UselessSuperpowers: Most of the Evo powers.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: The mentors in SOTF-TV, who occasionally give advice to the players. In terms of usefulness they range from actually pretty helpful to making CaptainObvious statements to not really all that helpful advice at all to ''suggesting the players advertise their product''.
* WildWest: The setting for Virtua.
* YouCantFightFate: In ''The Program'', Durriken Lovel, as the youngest child of a Gypsy family is [[GypsyCurse cursed]] to have terrible luck. Of course, he's put in the Program.
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* ChekhovsSkill: This sometimes happens with the profiles of the characters. Newbies often try to cram in as many potentially useful skills as possible (such as survival training, firearm proficiency and martial arts. Made ridiculous when [[FridgeLogic you consider]] that the characters are ''supposed'' to be [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Ordinary High School Students]]

* FridgeLogic: A fair bit. Any number of cool scenes can fall into this trap. Say for example, Adam Dodd's killing of terrorist Elijah Rice. Basically, Adam cuts his opponent in half. ''Awesome.'' But wait, this guy is wearing body armour, it isn't a particularly strong sword and Adam is an exhausted, not very muscular teenager. The whole scene falls down.

* CarFu: Subverted with Andrew Panturescu: he nearly runs over Penelope Withers after getting hold of a car, but manages to swerve out of the way in time. [[spoiler:He crashes the car and is killed himself]].

* ScheduleSlip: Every version has had the occasional slip in schedule, but this is most prevalent in v3, where there was a 5-month hiatus in between Eddie Sullivan's death (7th place), and James Brown and Alexis Machina's death (6th and 5th place), then a seven-month hiatus between then and endgame being released. This extended period of time allowed for ''one-and-a-half-years'' of [[TwentyMinutesWithJerks pre-game]].

* HighSchoolDance: the lead up to and eventual event of the HighSchoolDance in v4 is ultimately what takes up most of the [[TwentyMinutesWithJerks Pre-Game]].

* InformedLoner: Brendan Wallace is introduced as a somewhat cynical [[LandDownUnder Australian]] NewTransferStudent with social anxiety. However, by the end of [[TwentyMinutesWithJerks pre-game]] he is a member of an activist club, previously had a SecretRelationship with one character, is currently in a relationship with another, has a ManicPixieDreamGirl best friend, and is a tech guy for a band. However, this can be justified by CharacterDevelopment / CharacterizationMarchesOn very easily.

* ''[[TwentyMinutesWithJerks Six Months]]'' [[TwentyMinutesWithJerks With Jerks]]: "Pre-Game" for each version exists to establish character relationships, romances, etc, and takes up about six months before anything remotely game-related happens. [[TropesAreNotBad This isn't necessarily a bad thing]], though, since it has a very large effect on how the game is played, who characters know, and establishing how much they change, which wouldn't be obvious with only knowledge of the character and not what they did.

** [[spoiler: In a game finishing move, Illario Fiametta]]

Version 3 has now reached its conclusion, while Version 4 of SOTF is in the endgame with only two students still alive, and the Pre-Game for Version 5 is now in progress.

SOTF can be found [[http://s10.zetaboards.com/SOTF_V2/index/ here]]. [[TheWikiRule The wiki]] can be found [[http://sotf.wikia.com/wiki/Survival_of_the_Fittest_Wiki here]]. Unfortunately, this recently suffered an error which cost it significant amounts of data, including a large number of student profiles. Board members are currently concentrating on updates for version 4.

* EyeScream: There's [[spoiler:Charlotte Cave's]] eye being sliced apart with a cat claw wielded by [[spoiler:Phillip Ward]], then [[spoiler:Vivien Morin]] being stabbed in the eye with a pencil courtesy of [[spoiler:Liam Brooks]]. [[spoiler:Nick Reid]] thrust a sword hilt right into [[spoiler:William Sear's]] eye, and then later on was a victim himself, being stabbed there by [[spoiler:Maf Tuigamala]].

Version 3 has now reached its conclusion, while Version 4 of SOTF is in the endgame with only three students still alive, and the Pre-Game for Version 5 is now in progress.

* BattleAmongstTheFlames: Part of the endgame takes place inside a burning building, although no-one actually dies inside it.

* BattleInTheFlames: Part of the endgame takes place inside a burning building, although no-one actually dies inside it.

* BattleInTheFlames: Part of the endgame takes place inside a burning building, although no-one actually dies inside it.

* HighSchool: Since the involved characters are high school students, the pregames versions two, three, and four took place in the schools the characters attended (Bayview Secondary in v4, Southridge in v3, Bathurst, Hobbsborough, Franklyn Senior, and PJ Gilroy Academy in v2) and the cities they lived in (St. Paul for v4, Highland Beach for v3, [[WretchedHive Denton]] for v2).

Version 3 has now reached its conclusion, while Version 4 of SOTF is in the endgame with only five students still alive.

As of March 2010, [=SOTF=] also has a spin off site, known as [[http://s1.zetaboards.com/SOTF_Mini/index/ [=SOTF=] Mini]], geared towards faster games and newer writers, as well as being the site for 'official' larger-scale AlternateUniverse [=RPs=]. The first Mini, The Program v1 is reaching its conclusion, the second Mini, SOTF TV, has recently passed halfway, and the third Mini, Virtua-SOTF, has just begun.

* AirVentEscape: Used to escape a dead-end by John Sheppard, Vera Lang and Kyrie Joseph, as killer Harry Tsai was hot on their heels and it was the only way out of the building they had run inside.

* MeLoveYouLongTime: Adam Dodd ends up getting Izzy Cheung, though considering the [[ThereCanOnlyBeOne pre]][[KillEmAll mise]] and the [[BolivianArmyEnding ending]], it's hard to say what really happened next.

* {{Goth}}: Kiera McDonald from ''Evolution'' and Jaqueline "Cameo" Conroy from ''Virtua'', the former of the PerkyGoth variety and the latter played straight to the stereotype.

* FrenchJerk: Alice Boucher of SurvivalOfTheFittest is an example of this {{trope}}: one of her biggest regrets about being in America is that she doesn't know any insults in English. Due to CharacterDevelopment after being put on the island (as well as a change in writer), she grows out of this '''''very''''' quickly though.

* Alice Boucher of SurvivalOfTheFittest is an example of this {{trope}}: one of her biggest regrets about being in America is that she doesn't know any insults in English. Due to CharacterDevelopment after being put on the island (as well as a change in writer), she grows out of this '''''very''''' quickly though.

* FrenchJerk: Alice Boucher is an example of this {{trope}}: one of her biggest regrets about being in America is that she doesn't know any insults in English.