History WebVideo / Hermitcraft

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Prior to his successful attempt, when trying to trap xB with a drop into stalagmites, SmallishBeans ends up falling into the very same trap he set up due to his desperation and dying from it.

* LoopholeAbuse: Grian vowed to not take part in the resistance against King Ren, so he opens "Resistance Assistance" and becomes a consultant for Impulse's resistance.
** Later exploited by Ren himself, who hires Grian to [[RebelliousRebel resist the resistance]].

* KansasCityShuffle: How [[spoiler:BDubs]] eventually goes out in Demise. [[spoiler:After realizing that the Crafting Table near Hypno's Failed Potion Trap was rigged with an Observer, [[ProperlyParanoid BDubs avoided it]]. Iskall and Beef, who helped Ren rig the table with [[RidiculouslyPotentExplosive 6 TNT Minecarts]], then attempt to lure BDubs over near the trap so that Ren can set it off manually. This fails too when Ren gets spotted sneaking over to it. However, while talking about the trap with BDubs afterwards, they trick him into believing it's a pufferfish pit trap, which causes BDubs to confidently attempt to figure out if the trap would have killed him had he not noticed it. This causes BDubs to set off the trap, blasting him and Ren into the stratosphere, and securing the victory for False.]]

** Perhaps unintentional, but to kick off the meeting in which he declares himself the Minister of Ministries, Ren jumps off his tall tower, misses the water bucket clutch and falls to his death, which spawns him all the way back at the world spawn, echoing when he first logged in as RentheKing in Season 9.

--> '''Cleo:''' The horrifying, terrifying monstrosity that you have built.
--> '''Iskall:''' I have not built it! Actually, you have built it.
* FailedASpotCheck: Invoked by Mumbo, who wants to see how long it'll take Iskall to notice him placing extra blocks on his base (Iskall's base being an inconsistent mess of blocks already, courtesy of his idea to have every Hermit contribute to it). It takes a total of 25 blocks over the course of a whole conversation for Iskall to finally catch on to what Mumbo was doing.

** [[https://youtu.be/ZZPhy61n1iE?t=1755 Bdubs demonstrating his 'manually controlled' TNT launcher]].

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** As is in Season 9, Scar makes things difficult with another Hermit who is suffering from a glitch using falling sand block.

* EpicFail: Crossed over with HoistByHisOwnPetard, Ren organises a caving competition in Episode 1 for seventeen of the Hermits, with the caveat that any Hermit who dies while caving doesn't get a cut of the resources gathered during the competition. Not only is Ren one of only two Hermits to die, but he is killed by a creeper when organising chests at his team's (supposedly safe) camp whilst the rest of his team were ''actually'' caving. Even worse, a lot of the gathered resources ended up burning in a campfire.

* ContinuityCavalcade: Mumbo's transition cards contain references to multiple past seasons including: a Mumbo for Mayor sticker, a Sahara coin, a ticket inviting him to season 2, an ODEA instruction manual, the key to his horse bike, an incident report regarding Grian putting a potato in Sahara's redstone, a letter regarding his application to be the richest Hermit, and random binary output from Grumbot.

--->'''[[spoiler:Iskall]]:''' but seriously\\

* BerserkButton: Do NOT [[MakesSenseInContext touch Doc's bush]]. You could literally hear his blood pressure rise when [[spoiler:[[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Grian vandalised it]] [[https://youtu.be/XVzaG2_dCeE?t=563 with copies of his head]]]].

* HelloInsertNameHere: Due to the nature of Minecraft death messages, this gets abused on occasion, such as the time Mumbo was [[MakesSenseInContext killed by a charged creeper fired out of Team STAR's cannon.]]

** Another example would be how Iskall finally met his Demise at the end of Season 6:

* KaizoTrap: Most traps laid in Demise easily fit for this. [[spoiler:Taken to the logical extreme with the final trap against Doc, a giant cube of lava encased in obsidian around his login location... which, in of itself, is a deceptive kaizo trap--that was a fib, and the ''real'' trap was TNT minecarts that would kill him no matter what. Unsurprisingly, this kills Doc]].
* LovableRogue: Most of the hermits fit into this.
** Grian and Tango robbing the stock exchange, which has been referred to by most hermits and even the recap as a scam.

* HumanMail: [[https://youtu.be/FsO3z-ZI6cE?t=1130 Mumbo's 'message' for Grian]] in episode 13 of his series.

* SplitPersonality: Played for laughs; many hermits have alter-egos that they use for no other reason than either as a framing device for their plans for the episode, or purely [[RuleOfFunny for the sake of a quick laugh]]. Nobody takes this quite as seriously as Rendog, however, who has no less than ''six'' alter-egos, two of which both play pivotal roles in arcs in Season 6 ([[NewAgeRetroHippie Renbob]] for the Area 77 arc, [[TheGrimReaper Grimdog]] for the Demise arc, and Tomato Yoshi (the outlier with no explicit arc.). During season 7 he created Ren the Kid who [[spoiler:was killed by the end of the Game of Life arc]], the Renperor (the supposed Main/BigBad of Ren's Star Wars arc), and Long Ren Silver.
** Oddly enough, averted for Ren the King (for whom Ren created an entirely separate Minecraft account), who was never treated as a separate character from Rendog.

* TheMultiverse: Aside from the fact that any given Minecraft world is a miniature multiverse in and of itself[[note]], featuring TheOverworld, [[FireAndBrimstoneHell the Nether]], and [[EldritchLocation the End]][[/note]], this is more or less confirmed by the Hermits frequently using portals to travel between seasons, or at least from Season 5's end onwards.
** Largely established with Doc building the Infinity Portal in Season 6, which takes the user to any place they desire. Doc uses it to go to the Mindcrack server to revisit his friends over there, as well as to visit a world from an old series of his. [[spoiler:The portal is eventually used to go to season 7, though given Grian used a rocket to get there instead, the 6 and 7 worlds are probably in the same "universe".]]

* TheHermit: Despite what the title would lead you to believe, this is mostly subverted; most Hermits often interact with one another, and full-on server-wide events such as the Civil War and the Demise game in season 6 tend to unite them all very easily.
** Notably, the closest Hermit ''to'' a Hermit would've been Tinfoilchef, but even he downplayed it and, come Demise, does have a few interactions with others courtesy of them trapping his base. [[spoiler:This humoring does end up costing him the victory, but he was more than okay with it]].

* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: False, Stress, and Cleo's Minecraft skins are these respectively. The real-life False is blonde, and Stress dark, but Cleo has never revealed her face on her channel, so we don't know her actual hair color.
** Season 8 addition [=GeminiTay=] is confirmed to be a redhead in game and in [[RealLife real life]].

* ArtifactTitle: When one thinks about it, the name "Hermitcraft" seems a little contradictory, as the server is based on...well, being a server. Which means members interact with each other on a regular basis. The name comes from the founder, generikb, who named it after his reputation as the "gaming hermit". He played up the concept by building a base far, far away and making it as difficult to get into as possible as an intentional challenge to other members. Members of the server have always called themselves "hermits", despite generikb leaving the group shortly before the end of Season 1 and having never returned.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Many of the early seasons of Hermitcraft are quite different. First of all, almost all of the most popular hermits are missing from the first season - Mumbo Jumbo joined in Season 2, [=GoodTimesWithScar=] in Season 4, and Grian in Season 6. Secondly, there's very few "mega-builds", which would only come once the Hermits gained years of experience with the game and server. Finally, some of the early episodes of Hermitcraft actually include profanity, which you certainly won't find today, as the server has taken an entirely family-friendly direction.