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* CallBack: The Southlanders and their "AHA" puns are recalled two separate times during Day 1, first by Grian and Mumbo when their secret tasks cause them to engage in a pun battle, and again by Jimmy and Scar when the former offers the latter a spyglass.
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* HurricaneOfPuns: Day 1 kicks off with Grian and Mumbo's assigned tasks being complementary to each other, and both are soon able to complete the tasks by making one bad pun after another with each other in relation to their items and the environment.
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* HurricaneOfPuns: Day 1 kicks off with Grian and Mumbo's assigned tasks being complementary to opposite each other, and both are Mumbo is soon able to complete the tasks his task by making one bad pun after another with each other Grian in relation to their items and the environment.environment, while Grian is ''unable'' to complete his task for another while due to Mumbo laughing at every single one of the puns he makes.
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** When Scar reaches his last life during Season 1 and becomes the first person ever to go Red, everyone else ''freaks out'', especially those on bad terms with the Red Desert, resulting in many hasty alliances being made to try and ensure their safety.
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* MassOhCrap: When Scar reaches his last life and becomes the first person ever to go Red, everyone else ''freaks out'', especially those on bad terms with the Red Desert, resulting in many hasty alliances being made to try and ensure their safety.
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** Martyn's first episode of the season is titled "[[WebOriginal/MinecraftChampionship THE SANDS OF TIME]]".
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** Martyn's first episode of the season is titled "[[WebOriginal/MinecraftChampionship "[[WebVideo/MinecraftChampionship THE SANDS OF TIME]]".
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** In 3rd Life, Etho loves to make fun of the size of the Crastle to annoy Bdubs, as well as Bdubs' real-life height, which is actually average despite his testiness about it. After Etho gets Cleo to do the same, she [[LampshadeHanging points out that this trope is in play]].
** On Day 1 of Secret Life, Cleo deftly stops Bdubs and Mumbo from naming their faction "[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII The Axis]]".
** In 3rd Life, Etho loves to make fun of the size of the Crastle to annoy Bdubs, as well as Bdubs' real-life height, which is actually average despite his testiness about it. After Etho gets Cleo to do the same, she [[LampshadeHanging points out that this trope is in play]].
** On Day 1 of Secret Life, Cleo deftly stops Bdubs and Mumbo from naming their faction "[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII The Axis]]".
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In 3rd Life, Etho loves to make fun of the size of the Crastle to annoy Bdubs, as well as Bdubs' real-life height, which is actually average despite his testiness about it. After Etho gets Cleo to do the same, she [[LampshadeHanging points out that this trope is in play]].
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%% In the trope main page examples, please mark spoilers relating to deaths, season endings, and the backstory unless the page has a spoilers-off policy.
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%% In the trope main page examples, please mark spoilers relating to deaths, season endings, and the backstory unless the page has a spoilers-off policy. DON'T MAKE A SECRET LIFE PAGE REDIRECT. EACH SEASON WILL GET ITS OWN PAGE WHEN IT IS OVER.
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The Life SMP is a Hardcore ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' survival series started by Grian, and featuring [=YouTubers=] such as LetsPlay/{{InTheLittleWood}}, [=SolidarityGaming=], Smajor, [=LDShadowLady=], and several members of ''WebVideo/{{Hermitcraft}}'', like Rendog, [=GoodTimesWithScar=], [=ZombieCleo=], [=TangoTek=], LetsPlay/{{Etho|sLab}}, and [=impulseSV=].
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The Life SMP is a Hardcore hardcore ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' survival series started by Grian, and featuring [=YouTubers=] such as LetsPlay/{{InTheLittleWood}}, [=SolidarityGaming=], Smajor, [=LDShadowLady=], and several members of ''WebVideo/{{Hermitcraft}}'', like Rendog, [=GoodTimesWithScar=], [=ZombieCleo=], [=TangoTek=], LetsPlay/{{Etho|sLab}}, and [=impulseSV=].
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* HurricaneOfPuns: Day 1 kicks off with Grian and Mumbo's assigned tasks being complementary to each other, and both are soon able to complete the tasks by making one bad pun after another with each other in relation to their items and the environment.
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* AGoodNameForARockBand: The alliance name 'Gem and the Scotts' is joked to be a good name for an '80s rock band.
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The fifth season, Secret Life, alters the formula once more, starting with the return of two once-absent members and one new member. While everyone is back down to three lives this season, players had 30 hearts (i.e. triple the health) per life but no natural regeneration. To regain hearts, they had to complete a secret task given to them at the start of the session and visit the Secret Keeper, and be rewarded with 10 hearts if they succeed and receive nothing if they fail; while the health nominally caps at 30 hearts, the Secret Keeper can alternatively reward players with over 20 hearts with material gifts usually unobtainable in the series. Players can also reroll their assigned task for a harder one in order to gain 20 hearts, but will lose 10 hearts if they fail the rerolled task. %%The penalty for ''failing'' to keep one's task a secret before completing it is to reroll for the harder task; it has not been confirmed what the penalty for failing to keep the harder task a secret is. In addition, similar to the life-giving mechansisms of Seasons 2 and 4, players are allowed to give away one heart to another player per session.This season is a variant of the ultra hardcore (UHC) gamemode
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The fifth season, Secret Life, alters the formula once more, starting with the return of two once-absent members and one new member. While everyone is back down to three lives this season, players had 30 hearts (i.e. triple the health) per life but no natural regeneration. To regain hearts, they had to complete a secret task given to them at the start of the session and visit the Secret Keeper, and be rewarded with 10 hearts if they succeed and receive nothing if they fail; while the health nominally caps at 30 hearts, the Secret Keeper can alternatively reward players with over 20 hearts with material gifts usually unobtainable in the series. Players can also reroll their assigned task for a harder one in order to gain 20 hearts, but will lose 10 hearts if they fail the rerolled task. %%The penalty for ''failing'' to keep one's task a secret before completing it is to reroll for the harder task; it has not been confirmed what the penalty for failing to keep the harder task a secret is.is(?). In addition, similar to the life-giving mechansisms of Seasons 2 and 4, players are allowed to give away one heart to another player per session.This season is a variant of the ultra hardcore (UHC) gamemode
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The fifth season, Secret Life, alters the formula once more, starting with the return of two once-absent members and one new member. While everyone is back down to three lives this season, players had 30 hearts (i.e. triple the health) per life but no natural regeneration. To regain hearts, they had to complete a secret task given to them at the start of the session and visit the Secret Keeper, and be rewarded with 10 hearts if they succeed and receive nothing if they fail; while the health caps at 30 hearts, the Secret Keeper can alternatively reward players with over 20 hearts with material gifts usually unobtainable in the series. Players can also reroll their assigned task for a harder one in order to gain 20 hearts, but will lose 10 hearts if they fail the rerolled task. %%The penalty for ''failing'' to keep one's task a secret before completing it is to reroll for the harder task; it has not been confirmed what the penalty for failing to keep the harder task a secret is. In addition, similar to the life-giving mechansisms of Seasons 2 and 4, players are allowed to give away one heart to another player per session.This season is a variant of the ultra hardcore (UHC) gamemode
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The fifth season, Secret Life, alters the formula once more, starting with the return of two once-absent members and one new member. While everyone is back down to three lives this season, players had 30 hearts (i.e. triple the health) per life but no natural regeneration. To regain hearts, they had to complete a secret task given to them at the start of the session and visit the Secret Keeper, and be rewarded with 10 hearts if they succeed and receive nothing if they fail; while the health nominally caps at 30 hearts, the Secret Keeper can alternatively reward players with over 20 hearts with material gifts usually unobtainable in the series. Players can also reroll their assigned task for a harder one in order to gain 20 hearts, but will lose 10 hearts if they fail the rerolled task. %%The penalty for ''failing'' to keep one's task a secret before completing it is to reroll for the harder task; it has not been confirmed what the penalty for failing to keep the harder task a secret is. In addition, similar to the life-giving mechansisms of Seasons 2 and 4, players are allowed to give away one heart to another player per session.This season is a variant of the ultra hardcore (UHC) gamemode
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* EldritchLocation: The Secret Keeper, an area of stone and moss with the sounds of WhisperingGhosts where the sky goes dark to anyone who gets close enough. It is the only thing able to ignore the AntiRegeneration that prevents players from healing.
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* EldritchLocation: The Secret Keeper, an area of stone and moss with the sounds of WhisperingGhosts WhisperingGhosts, where the sky goes dark to anyone who gets close enough. It is the only thing able to ignore the AntiRegeneration that prevents players from healing.
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* EldritchLocation: The Secret Keeper, an area of stone and moss with the sounds of WhisperingGhosts. It is the only thing able to ignore the AntiRegeneration that prevents players from healing.
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* EldritchLocation: The Secret Keeper, an area of stone and moss with the sounds of WhisperingGhosts.WhisperingGhosts where the sky goes dark to anyone who gets close enough. It is the only thing able to ignore the AntiRegeneration that prevents players from healing.
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* UnfortunateNames: Bdubs suggests that he, Mumbo, and Cleo could be called the "Axis" because they were going to have a theme of rotated houses. Cleo is quick to nip it in the bud, and it takes a few seconds for the other two to figure out [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII why it would be a bad idea]].
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* AntiRegeneration: The gimmick of the series; each player has a whopping ''30'' hearts, but they are completely incapable of healing.
* EldritchLocation: The Secret Keeper, an area of stone and moss with the sounds of WhisperingGhosts. It is the only thing able to ignore the AntiRegeneration that prevents players from healing.
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* AntiRegeneration: The gimmick of the series; each player has a whopping ''30'' hearts, but they are completely incapable of healing.
* EldritchLocation: The Secret Keeper, an area of stone and moss with the sounds of WhisperingGhosts. It is the only thing able to ignore the AntiRegeneration that prevents players from healing.
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The fifth season, Secret Life, alters the formula once more, starting with the return of two once-absent members and one new member. While everyone is back down to three lives this season, players had 30 hearts (i.e. triple the health) per life but no natural regeneration. To regain hearts, they had to complete a secret task given to them at the start of the session and visit the Secret Keeper, and be rewarded with 10 hearts if they succeed and receive nothing if they fail; while the health caps at 30 hearts, the Secret Keeper can alternatively reward players with over 20 hearts with material gifts usually unobtainable in the series. Players can also reroll their assigned task for a harder one in order to gain 20 hearts, but will lose 10 hearts if they fail the rerolled task. In addition, similar to the life-giving mechansisms of Seasons 2 and 4, players are allowed to give away one heart to another player per session.%%This season is a variant of the ultra hardcore (UHC) gamemode
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The fifth season, Secret Life, alters the formula once more, starting with the return of two once-absent members and one new member. While everyone is back down to three lives this season, players had 30 hearts (i.e. triple the health) per life but no natural regeneration. To regain hearts, they had to complete a secret task given to them at the start of the session and visit the Secret Keeper, and be rewarded with 10 hearts if they succeed and receive nothing if they fail; while the health caps at 30 hearts, the Secret Keeper can alternatively reward players with over 20 hearts with material gifts usually unobtainable in the series. Players can also reroll their assigned task for a harder one in order to gain 20 hearts, but will lose 10 hearts if they fail the rerolled task. %%The penalty for ''failing'' to keep one's task a secret before completing it is to reroll for the harder task; it has not been confirmed what the penalty for failing to keep the harder task a secret is. In addition, similar to the life-giving mechansisms of Seasons 2 and 4, players are allowed to give away one heart to another player per session.%%This This season is a variant of the ultra hardcore (UHC) gamemode
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The fifth season, Secret Life, alters the formula once more, starting with the return of two once-absent members and one new member. While everyone is back down to three lives this season, players had 30 hearts (i.e. triple the health) per life but no natural regeneration. To regain hearts, they had to complete a task given to them at the start of the session and visit the Secret Keeper, and be rewarded with 10 hearts if they succeed and receive nothing if they fail; while the health caps at 30 hearts, the Secret Keeper can alternatively reward players with over 20 hearts with material gifts usually unobtainable in the series. Players can also reroll their assigned task for a harder one in order to gain 20 hearts, but will lose 10 hearts if they fail the rerolled task. In addition, similar to the life-giving mechansisms of Seasons 2 and 4, players are allowed to give away one heart to another player per session.%%This season is a variant of the ultra hardcore (UHC) gamemode
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The fifth season, Secret Life, alters the formula once more, starting with the return of two once-absent members and one new member. While everyone is back down to three lives this season, players had 30 hearts (i.e. triple the health) per life but no natural regeneration. To regain hearts, they had to complete a secret task given to them at the start of the session and visit the Secret Keeper, and be rewarded with 10 hearts if they succeed and receive nothing if they fail; while the health caps at 30 hearts, the Secret Keeper can alternatively reward players with over 20 hearts with material gifts usually unobtainable in the series. Players can also reroll their assigned task for a harder one in order to gain 20 hearts, but will lose 10 hearts if they fail the rerolled task. In addition, similar to the life-giving mechansisms of Seasons 2 and 4, players are allowed to give away one heart to another player per session.%%This season is a variant of the ultra hardcore (UHC) gamemode
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* {{Geas}}: The Boogeyman curse of Last Life and Limited Life function along the lines of one: to kill another player by the end of the day, or have their life prematurely shortened, by either being forcibly dropped to their final life (Last Life) or have their life-time cut short by up to a third of its original length (Limited Life). Across both seasons, exactly one person has refused to commit the mandatory murder and accepted the penalty, and they were Yellow anyway and so only lost one life.
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** The Boogeyman curse of Last Life and Limited Life function along the lines of one: to kill another player by the end of the day, or have their life prematurely shortened, by either being forcibly dropped to their final life (Last Life) or have their life-time cut short by up to a third of its original length (Limited Life). Across both seasons, exactly one person has refused to commit the mandatory murder and accepted the penalty, and they were Yellow anyway and so only lost onelife.life.
** The personalized secret tasks in Secret Life must be fullfilled. If they are failed, the player loses 10 hearts, which won't regenerate. Since each player has 30 hearts, that's 1/3 of their hearts gone.
** The Boogeyman curse of Last Life and Limited Life function along the lines of one: to kill another player by the end of the day, or have their life prematurely shortened, by either being forcibly dropped to their final life (Last Life) or have their life-time cut short by up to a third of its original length (Limited Life). Across both seasons, exactly one person has refused to commit the mandatory murder and accepted the penalty, and they were Yellow anyway and so only lost one
** The personalized secret tasks in Secret Life must be fullfilled. If they are failed, the player loses 10 hearts, which won't regenerate. Since each player has 30 hearts, that's 1/3 of their hearts gone.
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The fifth season, Secret Life, alters the formula once more, starting with the return of two once-absent members and one new member. While everyone is back down to three lives this season, players had 30 hearts (i.e. triple the health) per life but no natural regeneration. To regain hearts, they had to complete a task given to them at the start of the session and visit the Secret Keeper, and be rewarded with 10 hearts if they succeed and receive nothing if they fail. Players can also reroll their assigned task for a harder one in order to gain 20 hearts, but will lose 10 hearts if they fail the rerolled task. In addition, similar to the life-giving mechansisms of Seasons 2 and 4, players are allowed to give away one heart to another player per session.%%This season is a variant of the ultra hardcore (UHC) gamemode
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The fifth season, Secret Life, alters the formula once more, starting with the return of two once-absent members and one new member. While everyone is back down to three lives this season, players had 30 hearts (i.e. triple the health) per life but no natural regeneration. To regain hearts, they had to complete a task given to them at the start of the session and visit the Secret Keeper, and be rewarded with 10 hearts if they succeed and receive nothing if they fail.fail; while the health caps at 30 hearts, the Secret Keeper can alternatively reward players with over 20 hearts with material gifts usually unobtainable in the series. Players can also reroll their assigned task for a harder one in order to gain 20 hearts, but will lose 10 hearts if they fail the rerolled task. In addition, similar to the life-giving mechansisms of Seasons 2 and 4, players are allowed to give away one heart to another player per session.%%This season is a variant of the ultra hardcore (UHC) gamemode
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The fifth season, Secret Life, alters the formula once more, starting with the return of two once-absent members and one new member. While everyone is back down to three lives this season, players had 30 hearts (i.e. triple the health) per life but no natural regeneration. To regain hearts, they had to complete a task given to them at the start of the session and visit the Secret Keeper, and be rewarded with 10 hearts if they succeed and receive nothing if they fail. Players can also reroll their assigned task for a harder one in order to gain 20 hearts, but will lose 10 hearts if they fail the rerolled task. In addition, similar to the life-giving mechansisms of Seasons 2 and 4, players are allowed to give away one heart to another player per session.
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The fifth season, Secret Life, alters the formula once more, starting with the return of two once-absent members and one new member. While everyone is back down to three lives this season, players had 30 hearts (i.e. triple the health) per life but no natural regeneration. To regain hearts, they had to complete a task given to them at the start of the session and visit the Secret Keeper, and be rewarded with 10 hearts if they succeed and receive nothing if they fail. Players can also reroll their assigned task for a harder one in order to gain 20 hearts, but will lose 10 hearts if they fail the rerolled task. In addition, similar to the life-giving mechansisms of Seasons 2 and 4, players are allowed to give away one heart to another player per session.%%This season is a variant of the ultra hardcore (UHC) gamemode
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The second season, Last Life, began with three new members, a new name, and new rules. Unlike in Season 1 where everyone has 3 lives, each member of the server is randomly assigned between 2 and 6 lives, and the ability to transfer lives between players was introduced. In addition, each episode starts with the server randomly assigning a "Boogeyman", who needs to kill a player with more than one life left before the end of the day, or lose all but one of their lives. After Day 2, the Boogeyman has been given a protective buff after being cured so they would have an easier time escaping from their victim's teammates.
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The second season, Last Life, began begins with three new members, a new name, and new rules. Unlike in Season 1 where everyone has 3 lives, each member of the server is randomly assigned between 2 and 6 lives, and the ability to transfer lives between players was introduced. In addition, each episode starts with the server randomly assigning a "Boogeyman", who needs to kill a player with more than one life left before the end of the day, or lose all but one of their lives. After Day 2, the Boogeyman has been given a protective buff after being cured so they would have an easier time escaping from their victim's teammates.
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The fifth season, Secret Life, alters the formula once more.more, starting with the return of two once-absent members and one new member. While everyone is back down to three lives this season, players had 30 hearts (i.e. triple the health) per life but no natural regeneration. To regain hearts, they had to complete a task given to them at the start of the session and visit the Secret Keeper, and be rewarded with 10 hearts if they succeed and receive nothing if they fail. Players can also reroll their assigned task for a harder one in order to gain 20 hearts, but will lose 10 hearts if they fail the rerolled task. In addition, similar to the life-giving mechansisms of Seasons 2 and 4, players are allowed to give away one heart to another player per session.
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** In 3rd Life, Etho loves to make fun of the size of the Crastle to annoy Bdubs, as well as Bdubs' real-life height, which is actually average despite his testiness about it. After Etho gets Cleo to do the same, she [[LampshadeHanging points out that this trope is in play]].
** On Day 1 of Secret Life, Cleo deftly stops Bdubs and Mumbo from naming their faction "[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII The Axis]]".
** In 3rd Life, Etho loves to make fun of the size of the Crastle to annoy Bdubs, as well as Bdubs' real-life height, which is actually average despite his testiness about it. After Etho gets Cleo to do the same, she [[LampshadeHanging points out that this trope is in play]].
** On Day 1 of Secret Life, Cleo deftly stops Bdubs and Mumbo from naming their faction "[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII The Axis]]".
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Etho loves to make fun of the size of the Crastle to annoy Bdubs, as well as Bdubs' real-life height, which is actually average despite his testiness about it. After Etho gets Cleo to do the same, she [[LampshadeHanging points out that this trope is in play]].
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The fifth season, Secret Life, alters the formula once more. While everyone is back down to three lives this season, players had 30 hearts (i.e. triple the health) per life but no natural regeneration. To regain hearts, they had to complete a task given to them at the start of the session and visit the Secret Keeper, and be rewarded with 10 hearts if they succeed and receive nothing if they fail. Players can also reroll their assigned task for a harder one in order to gain 20 hearts, but will lose 10 hearts if they fail the rerolled task.
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3rd Life began on April 20th, 2021, and ended on June 8th, 2021. A second season -- later dubbed Last Life -- was announced in Grian's final episode of Season 1, officially started on September 21st, 2021 and ended on November 16th, 2021. Grian uncertainly teased a third season at the end of his last Season 2 episode, later confirmed Season 3 in his 12th episode of Hermitcraft Season 9, and Double Life started airing on June 17th, 2022 and ended on July 22nd, 2022. Grian confirmed there would be a fourth season taking place, and Limited Life started on March 3rd, 2023 and ended on April 21st, 2023.
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3rd Life began on April 20th, 2021, and ended on June 8th, 2021. A second season -- later dubbed Last Life -- was announced in Grian's final episode of Season 1, officially started on September 21st, 2021 and ended on November 16th, 2021. Grian uncertainly teased a third season at the end of his last Season 2 episode, later confirmed Season 3 in his 12th episode of Hermitcraft Season 9, and Double Life started airing on June 17th, 2022 and ended on July 22nd, 2022. Grian confirmed there would be a fourth season taking place, and Limited Life started on March 3rd, 2023 and ended on April 21st, 2023. The fifth season, Secret Life, started on October 20th, 2023.
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The Life SMP is a Hardcore ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' survival series started by Grian, and featuring [=YouTubers=] such as LetsPlay/{{InTheLittleWood}}, [=SolidarityGaming=], Smajor, [=LDShadowLady=], and several members of ''[[LetsPlay/HermitcraftServer Hermitcraft]]'', like Rendog, [=GoodTimesWithScar=], [=ZombieCleo=], [=TangoTek=], LetsPlay/{{Etho|sLab}}, and [=impulseSV=].
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The Life SMP is a Hardcore ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' survival series started by Grian, and featuring [=YouTubers=] such as LetsPlay/{{InTheLittleWood}}, [=SolidarityGaming=], Smajor, [=LDShadowLady=], and several members of ''[[LetsPlay/HermitcraftServer Hermitcraft]]'', ''WebVideo/{{Hermitcraft}}'', like Rendog, [=GoodTimesWithScar=], [=ZombieCleo=], [=TangoTek=], LetsPlay/{{Etho|sLab}}, and [=impulseSV=].
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The Life SMP is a Hardcore ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' survival series started by Grian, and featuring [=YouTubers=] such as LetsPlay/{{InTheLittleWood}}, [=SolidarityGaming=], Smajor, [=LDShadowLady=], and several members of ''WebVideo/{{Hermitcraft}}'', like Rendog, [=GoodTimesWithScar=], [=ZombieCleo=], [=TangoTek=], LetsPlay/{{Etho|sLab}}, and [=impulseSV=].
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The Life SMP is a Hardcore ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' survival series started by Grian, and featuring [=YouTubers=] such as LetsPlay/{{InTheLittleWood}}, [=SolidarityGaming=], Smajor, [=LDShadowLady=], and several members of ''WebVideo/{{Hermitcraft}}'', ''[[LetsPlay/HermitcraftServer Hermitcraft]]'', like Rendog, [=GoodTimesWithScar=], [=ZombieCleo=], [=TangoTek=], LetsPlay/{{Etho|sLab}}, and [=impulseSV=].
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* MythologyGag: A few to WebVideo/{{Hermitcraft|Server}}:
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* DownerEnding: As expected by both the season's mechanism and the nature of the series, everyone dies. After hours of battles and fluctuating alliances, the final battle comes down to the remaining members of T.I.E.S. (Impulse and Etho) and the Nosy Neighbours (Pearl) fighting against the Mean Gills, who are still going strong at this point and manage to decimate the competition. With Impulse left under 10 minutes left by the end, the three negotitate to have a three-way, fair play DuelToTheDeath on roughly even time... which ends with Martyn going full-on CombatPragmatist before the duel even starts [[spoiler:under the Watchers' influence]], killing both his Day 1 ally and their former enemy, then waits one last hour and a half for his life-timer to tick down.[[note]]Out-of-universe, Scott has Grian /kill Martyn after everything is said and done, but it's not present in Martyn's perspective of events.[[/note]]
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* DownerEnding: As expected by both the season's mechanism and the nature of the series, everyone dies. After hours of battles and fluctuating alliances, the final battle comes down to the remaining members of T.I.E.S. (Impulse and Etho) and the Nosy Neighbours (Pearl) fighting against the Mean Gills, Gills (Scott and Martyn), who are still going strong at this point and manage have managed to decimate the competition. With Impulse left under 10 minutes left by the end, the three negotitate negotiate to have a three-way, fair play DuelToTheDeath on roughly even time... which ends with Martyn going full-on CombatPragmatist before the duel even starts [[spoiler:under the Watchers' influence]], killing both his Day 1 ally and their former enemy, then waits one last hour and a half for his life-timer to tick down.[[note]]Out-of-universe, Scott has Grian /kill Martyn after everything is said and done, but it's not present in Martyn's perspective of events.[[/note]]
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The Life SMP is a Hardcore ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' survival series started by Grian, and featuring [=YouTubers=] such as LetsPlay/{{InTheLittleWood}}, [=SolidarityGaming=], Smajor, [=LDShadowLady=], and several members of the WebVideo/HermitcraftServer, ''WebVideo/{{Hermitcraft}}'', like Rendog, [=GoodTimesWithScar=], [=ZombieCleo=], [=TangoTek=], [[LetsPlay/EthosLab Etho]], LetsPlay/{{Etho|sLab}}, and [=impulseSV=].
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The Life SMP is a Hardcore ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' survival series started by Grian, and featuring [=YouTubers=] such as LetsPlay/{{InTheLittleWood}}, [=SolidarityGaming=], Smajor, [=LDShadowLady=], and several members of the WebVideo/HermitcraftServer, like Rendog, [=GoodTimesWithScar=], [=ZombieCleo=], [=TangoTek=], [[LetsPlay/EthosLab Etho]], and [=impulseSV=].
Each season of the Life SMP has a different name, and comes with a different twist, but the concept is always the same. Each server member has a set number of lives, indicated by the color of their name, and once they run out of lives, they are out of the series. Players on their final lives gain a red name, and their goal changes from just surviving, to killing as many people as they can.
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[[folder:3rd Life]]
In its first season, 3rd Life, each member of the server begins with three lives, losing one every time they die. When someone is on their last life, their goal shifts from surviving peacefully to taking out as many other players as possible. The world itself is very limited -- only 700 by 700 blocks -- so resources are finite and players must share, cooperate, or steal if they are to survive. The series uses the Voice Proximity mod, so random encounters with others are commonplace.
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[[folder:Last Life]]
The second season, Last Life, began with three new members, a new name, and new rules. Unlike in Season 1 where everyone has 3 lives, each member of the server is randomly assigned between 2 and 6 lives, and the ability to transfer lives between players was introduced. In addition, each episode starts with the server randomly assigning a "Boogeyman", who needs to kill a player with more than one life left before the end of the day, or lose all but one of their lives. After Day 2, the Boogeyman has been given a protective buff after being cured so they would have an easier time escaping from their victim's teammates.
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[[folder:Double Life]]
The third season, Double Life, shakes things up again. Each member of the group is once again granted 3 lives, but this time, they have to share their life counter and their health bar with their soulmate, another player. If their soulmate takes damage, they will as well, and if their soulmate dies, so will they.
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[[folder:Limited Life]]
The fourth season, Limited Life, changes things drastically. Instead of having a limited number of lives, players had 24 hours to live. Killing another player adds half an hour, while dying subtracts an hour. Additionally, Reds are no longer the only ones allowed to initiate [[PlayerVersusPlayer PvP]], as the rules are changed to allow Yellows to attack Greens.[[note]]However, due to this restriction, killing someone on the same colour level does ''not'' grant extra time to the killer unless they're both Red.[[/note]] The Boogeyman mechanic is also returned to the server, where the penalty for not killing by the end of the day is dropping a colour level in hearts (i.e. losing up to 8 hours of their life); anyone who gets killed by them will lose two hours of life as opposed to the standard one, and the Boogeyman will gain one extra hour of time as opposed to 30 minutes.[[note]]Yes, this ''does'' mean that a Boogeyman kill within the first hour can result in a player having ''over'' 24 hours to live.[[/note]] And for the first time in the series, keepInventory is enabled.
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The Life SMP is taped in three-hour recording sessions mostly on Friday, and each person's perspective is uploaded to [=YouTube=] somewhere within the following week.
3rd Life began on April 20th, 2021, and ended on June 8th, 2021. A second season -- later dubbed Last Life -- was announced in Grian's final episode of Season 1, officially started on September 21st, 2021 and ended on November 16th, 2021. Grian uncertainly teased a third season at the end of his last Season 2 episode, later confirmed Season 3 in his 12th episode of Hermitcraft Season 9, and Double Life started airing on June 17th, 2022 and ended on July 22nd, 2022. Grian confirmed there would be a fourth season taking place, and Limited Life started on March 3rd, 2023 and ended on April 21st, 2023.
Despite its name and creator overlap between the series, the ''WebVideo/NewLifeSMP'' is not a season of the ''Life SMP'', due to its drastically different premise and modded nature.
'''Note:''' Unless otherwise specified, all tropes pertain to the '''characters''', not the '''content creators''' that play them.
!!The ''Life SMP'' provides examples of:
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* AerithAndBob: Some members of the server go by their real-life first names, while others go by their internet nicknames, resulting in a sharp contrast between names like Scott, Jimmy and Joel, and names like Grian, Scar and Tango.
* AnyoneCanDie: A given due to the fact that it's a non-scripted Hardcore series. Whether you died in a heroic battle, or by accidentally falling off a cliff, lose all your lives and [[KilledOffForReal you're out of the game]].
* ApologeticAttacker: Happens (most of the time) when a Boogeyman kills one of their allies, or even a non-ally server-member whom they have no beef with.
* BigNo: A ''very'' common set of last words for any death in the series.
* CharactersDroppingLikeFlies: By the DeadlyGame nature of the series, as well as [[SwitchingPOV everyone being a POV character]] (depending on which perspectives the viewers watch), this is a given.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Player names are displayed in different colours depending on how many lives they have, and some also choose to change their skins to reflect their life count. Green indicates three lives, yellow is two, and red is one. In Last Life, players have the possibility of obtaining four or more lives, which is indicated by dark green. In Limited Life, the colours indicate the time range a player has left.
* ConstructionIsAwesome: With a good portion of the players being good builders, it's unsurprising to see beautiful buildings in the server, even with its constricting border.
* CuttingTheKnot:
** On Day 3 of 3rd Life, Bdubs and Martyn (among others) decide to play Tango's minigame, Dare to Flare. After carefully reading the rules and seeing that they prohibit all fire resistance potions, Bdubs uses a golden apple to minimise damage from the lava and Marytn uses Ender pearls to jump straight to the reward chest and back out again. Tango lets both keep the prize but [[ObviousRulePatch bans consumables and Ender pearls from that point forward]].
** On Day 6 of Last Life, Grian and Impulse resolve to gather the three Wither skeleton skulls scattered across the server. After two successful heists at the Shadow Fort and the Snow Fort, they are unable to find the one at the Scottage and eventually conclude that it's inside their Ender chest, meaning that they could never retrieve it. Rather than throw in the towel, Impulse heads to the Nether fortress and grinds Wither skeletons until he finally gets a new skull, which he presents to Grian at the end of the day.
* DeadlyGame: Essentially. While the series tends to start off calm, with alliances and the bare bones of a society being formed, it's only a matter of time before someone turns Red, either through the Boogeyman, a mistake, or just plain bad luck... and that's when all hell breaks loose. Inevitably, the fragile faction system that always emerges on the server collapses as more and more people turn Red or die, and in the end, only one survivor remains.
* TheDreaded:
** In general, the Reds. While they're not the only ones on the server with the capability to kill, they are the only ones allowed to initiate PVP, and have killing everyone else as their explicit goal. On Limited Life, Yellows also fill this role given that they can kill Greens as well.
** In Last Life and Limited Life, the Boogeyman also fills this role. At least one player is assigned this role each session, and they have until the end of the day to kill another non-Red player, or face a severe penalty affecting their survival -- having all but one of their lives taken away, leaving them on Red (Last Life), or dropping a colour grade and having up to a third of their life-time taken away (Limited Life). It's basically the concept of the Reds but with an extra layer of ParanoiaFuel, as the Boogeyman can be ''literally anyone'', and you won't know who until they cave someone's head in. [[invoked]]
* EverybodyDiesEnding: It's a ForegoneConclusion that all but one of the perspective characters die, by the DeadlyGame premise of the series, usually by another player, mobs, by accident, or by mistake. However, there's been a tradition for each season to end on a LastSurvivorSuicide (either directly or by proxy), leaving ''all'' perspective characters dead.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: A good number of players have a separate skin for when they get knocked down to one life left, often being RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver, with [[UndeathlyPallor grey skin]] and [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]]. The list of people ''without'' a Red Life skin[[note]]Etho, Grian, Impulse, Lizzie, Mumbo, Tango[[/note]] is smaller than the people with them[[note]]Bdubs, Big B, Scar, Martyn, Pearl, Ren, Scott, Skizz, Joel, Jimmy, Cleo[[/note]].
* FatalFireworks: While their first major use in combat as explosive projectiles is on Day 6 of 3rd Life, during a skirmish at Dogwarts, it isn't until Last Life when they play a major role in a player's demise.
** For Last Life, Lizzie fills most of her hot-bar with firework-loaded crossbows and uses several to weaken Big B before killing him. Later on Day 7, she unleashes a fair amount of them onto Bdubs when he betrays her. While Lizzie loses her final life, her firework rockets weaken Bdubs enough that he's [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves killed by his fellow Red Names when he tries to run]].
** On Day 9 of Last Life, Grian and Joel arm themselves with firework rockets for their rampage and end up killing Pearl with them. Joel offhandedly mentions that the plan was made in honour of Lizzie.
** In the Double Life finale, Joel decides to utilize the same plan to kill Scott for burning the Relation-Ship in the previous episode, only with ''stronger'' rockets. He credits Lizzie for the idea from the last season.
** From Day 6 of Limited Life, the T.I.E.S. use firework-loaded crossbows as weapons in fights alongside normal bows, melee weapons, and [[AwesomeButImpractical End crystals]]. While other factions like the Bad Boys also use crossbows, the T.I.E.S. are the only ones to use firework rockets as projectiles.
* {{Geas}}: The Boogeyman curse of Last Life and Limited Life function along the lines of one: to kill another player by the end of the day, or have their life prematurely shortened, by either being forcibly dropped to their final life (Last Life) or have their life-time cut short by up to a third of its original length (Limited Life). Across both seasons, exactly one person has refused to commit the mandatory murder and accepted the penalty, and they were Yellow anyway and so only lost one life.
* GlassCannon: PlayedWith.
** Players on their Red Life are the only ones allowed to initiate PVP and directly kill other players, with their explicit goal being to take out everyone else. However, while other players will simply respawn with one life missing, a Red player's death means they're out of the game for good, meaning they have to be ''extremely'' careful about how and when they try to kill other people. Downplayed slightly in Season 4, as a player being Red means they have up to 8 hours of life-time left, so while they technically can have more than one life left and likely won't be out for good if they die, they still have to be ''extremely'' careful about murder.
** Averted with the Boogeyman in Season 2, who is randomly chosen from the pool of Yellow and Green lives, and after Day 2 is granted a temporary buff after making their kill to prevent instantly getting revenge-killed afterwards by their target's allies.
* HealthyGreenHarmfulRed: Players are given a certain number of lives, most commonly three. When they have all three lives, it's represented with green, and when they have only one left, it's represented with red. Their nametags reflect this. In ''Last Life'', when a player has more than three lives, the extra lives are represented with a darker green.
* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: No one on the server wears a helmet. [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]] in that one of the rules of the server specifies that no one is allowed to wear one, presumably so they're more recognizable in others' videos. Tango is executed by firing squad in Season 1 for violating this rule.
* HistoryRepeats: Several recurring incidents have occurred without fail in the first three seasons thus far, so much that they have been called "curses", by the fandom and sometimes the content creators themselves. Most of them returned in Limited Life as well:
** Grian being, in one way or another, responsible for the death of at least one of his allies (or as one may put it, loved ones).
** Jimmy being ''always'' the first to be KilledOffForReal.
** Scott building part of his base, especially the defensive walls, out of wood, prompting Joel to burn it down just because he could. This does not come to pass in Limited Life.
** Scott and Cleo being allied with each other, whether openly or in secret. %%This even extends to their characters in the Witchcraft SMP as well, which canonizes 3rd Life as an alternative timeline.
** Tango DyingAlone for his final life, often in a seemingly "meaningless" way or by no fault of his own.
** ''Someone'' inevitably making a wolf army.
* HouseFire: Griefing other factions' or players' bases by setting them on fire is a very common occurrence, to the point one of the ''de facto'' mottos to live by in the series is "If something ''can'' be burnt, it ''[[ChekhovsGun will]]'' be burnt."
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: While the in-game monsters are dangerous, the various alliances formed along with backstabbing have resulted in much drama and many players losing lives.
* KillTally: [[https://the-life-series.fandom.com/wiki/Series_Records The fan wiki]] keeps track of how many kills/eliminations (and other records) each player has per season via multiple criteria, including and not limited to overall kills, most final kills (having someone KilledOffForReal), most lives lost per session, etc. For relevance to the trope:
** In terms of overall kills, Grian wins in Season 1 with 8 kills[[note]]Scar #1, Jimmy #2, Ren #1, Skizz #2, Bdubs #2, Skizz #3, [=BigB=] #2, and Scar #3[[/note]], Joel wins in Season 2 with 13, Joel wins again in Season 3 with 3 direct kills[[note]]Pearl #1, Scar #2, and Scott #2; when ''indirect'' kills are counted, it's 6 kills with the inclusion of soulmate-induced proxy deaths[[/note]], and Grian wins again in Season 4 with 20 kills.
** In terms of most non-suicide final kills, Scar wins in Season 1 with 3 eliminations[[note]]Ren, Martyn, and Bdubs[[/note]] and Pearl wins in Season 3 with 2 eliminations[[note]]Bdubs and Cleo; if including soulmate-induced proxy deaths, it's 4 eliminations with the additions of Impulse and Martyn[[/note]]. Season 2 has a ''three-way'' tie between Grian[[note]]Jimmy, Mumbo, and Bdubs[[/note]], Ren[[note]]Skizz, Scar, Pearl[[/note]], and Scott[[note]]Impulse, Grian, and Joel[[/note]] with 3 eliminations each, though Scott is also credited in-game with Martyn's elimination via backfired End crystal; Season 4 has a two-way tie between Martyn[[note]]Etho, Scott, and Impulse[[/note]] and Scott[[note]]Joel, Big B, and Pearl[[/note]] at 3 eliminations each.
* KilledOffForReal: Everyone who loses their final life is put into Spectator mode, only able to watch the rest of the game go on.
* MassOhCrap: Every time someone dies, especially when it means they're now on their last life.
** When Scar reaches his last life during Season 1 and becomes the first person ever to go Red, everyone else ''freaks out'', especially those on bad terms with the Red Desert, resulting in many hasty alliances being made to try and ensure their safety.
* AMoltenDateWithDeath: Often {{invoked|Trope}}, as other than TNT and other explosives, one of the most common lethal forms of trap used throughout the series is lava.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: The Boogeyman in Seasons 2 and 4, who is randomly selected out of the living non-Red players and must kill someone to cure themselves or face a penalty relating to their lives the next day -- being reduced to their final life in Last Life, and dropping to the next colour grade in hearts (i.e. losing up to 8 hours of life-time) in Limited Life.
* NoBloodForPhlebotinum: Given that the world is only 700 by 700 blocks big, there's bound to be conflicts over resources.
** In 3rd Life, see Scar and Grian's attempt to create a monopoly over dark oak trees and sand, the server conflict earlier on over villagers, and people begging for and stealing cows.
** In Last Life, there's shortages of sugarcane (used in the server-specific TNT recipe) and villagers (as there was no village, making the only way to get them by curing zombie villagers).
** In Double Life, the sugarcane shortage continues when Grian starts to hoard the server's supply, and when that fails by Day 3, there's a shortage of ''sand'' because there isn't a desert on the server and [[XanatosSpeedChess Grian ends up hoarding most of the server supply of that too]].
** In Limited Life, the cow shortage from Season 1 makes a brief comeback when the Bad Boys start murdering them left and right, or get killed in the middle of Boogeyman attacks, but it's not the main resource everyone is after: the very mechanism of the season enforces ''life-time'' as the primary, non-renewable resource everyone is fighting over. The hunts which the Yellow and Red Names go on to get some extra life-time back result in tremendous amounts of bloodshed, and [[PlayedForDrama serves as the overall motive]] for any non-environmental deaths across the season. As the season inches toward a close, many players even ''want'' to become [[MonsterOfTheWeek the Boogeyman]] just so they can get their hands on more life-time for themselves.
* ObviousRulePatch: In 3rd Life, in spite of being nominally {{Omnicidal Maniac}}s, all of the pre-Day 7 Red Names stayed allied with their Green (or occasionally Yellow) compatriots from before their deaths, allowing the factions to wage devastation across the server. One season later, a rule against Red Names allying with non-Reds is immediately instated, fracturing many alliances in Last Life and giving rise to the non-Red Life hunts in later seasons -- although this rule is weakened in Double and Limited Life, due to soulmates practically requiring everyone to team up and Reds not automatically being down to one death remaining, respectively.
* OmnicidalManiac: What everyone becomes upon being reduced to their last life (or time equivalent thereof in Limited Life); their ultimate goal is to kill everyone else on the server.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: As the series goes on, several of the players have brought up their fellow server-members' behaviour in past seasons, often as a warning to their potential allies. For instance, upon the Nosy Neighbours' team-up in Limited Life, Cleo warns Pearl about Big B's Boogeyman kill on her in Last Life, while Martyn makes an allusion to 5 AM Pearl's... [[SanitySlippage questionable mental stability]] in Double Life.
* PrecisionFStrike:
** On Day 1 of 3rd Life, Martyn drops the F-bomb when a skeleton surprises him in a ravine.
** On Day 7 of Last Life, Impulse and Skizz attack Ren and damage his tower, prompting him to call them bastards.
** On Day 1 of Limited Life, Scott casually describes the Woodland Mansion to burn "like a fucking wildfire". Most of the [=POVs=] cut this part out, but it is somehow ''not'' censored out in [[https://twitter.com/catsnmellohi/status/1632210637941006337 Big B's perspective]] of the conversation... presumably because Scott's accent is fairly prominent.
* RedIsViolent: Those on their last life (or time equivalent in Limited Life) get a red name, and their goal becomes to take out as many people as they can.
* RunningGag:
** As of 3rd Life, Martyn likes to play a Creeper's hiss sound while in groups of people to scare them. So far, he has successfully scared everyone at least once.
** During Last Life, Mumbo repeatedly loses/gives away the spyglasses that Jimmy makes for him, solely to annoy Jimmy.
** Following the massive success of Grian's TNT trap killing three people in 3rd Life, all his subsequent traps aside from the redstone-less bubble elevator trap either fail to work or somehow don't kill anyone when they do work, leading him to be increasingly exasperated at his own lack of redstone expertise. In Season 2, he outright says that it seems to be a running gag for traps to never work, leading to [[MassOhCrap extreme surprise]] on the rare occasion a trap ''does'' work.
** During Last Life, there's an amusing trend of people building secret rooms underground and behind walls with a respawn bed and a chest of supplies in case they die, and when they die and respawn there, discovering that they forgot to leave themselves a pickaxe to get out of the room so they must slowly break their way out by hand.
** In most Season 2 episodes, Martyn and the other Southlanders like to watch Mumbo doing his intro from a distance, often through spyglasses, while Martyn does an impression of Mumbo.
** When Scar changes into his purple wizard robes in Last Life, several people ask why he's dressed as a grape, much to his annoyance.
* SequelEscalation: The first season, 3rd Life, lays the bare-bones groundwork for the sequels. The next seasons have twists that make it much harder to survive.
** The first season, 3rd Life, is hard on its own; a small hardcore world with limited resources where you're given three lives. If you aren't the first one to become a Red Life, then you'll have Red Lives at your throat trying to kill you. When you become Red, then you'll have to balance trying to kill people while also surviving yourself.
** The second season, Last Life, has every player randomly generate with 2-6 lives, meaning some players are given a vast disadvantage from the start. Lives can be given, meaning that they're the most valuable -- but severely finite -- currency on the server. Then there's the Boogeyman mechanic. Each session, at least one non-Red Life is randomly cursed to be a Boogeyman and must kill someone or else they automatically become a Red Life next session. There's also the new rules surrounding the enchanting table. There is one enchanting table set at spawn and players are unable to make any. The table is constantly stolen, traded, held hostage, or profited off of, consequently making enchanting gear and tools a hard task.
** The third season, Double Life, adds the soulmate mechanic. Although the randomly assigned lives, life transfer, and Boogeyman are absent from this season, the new twist ensures that people are twice as likely to die and twice as quick to become Red Lives. Players are randomly assigned a soulmate and the two must share a health bar. It's possible to suddenly die if your soulmate happens to brush too close to a Creeper, but in the case of both soulmates being attacked, the health bar depletes so fast that they're given little time to fight back. The Enchanting Table is given a [[invoked]] DifficultySpike. Like the last season, there's only one, but it's located deep underground in the Ancient City. Not only must players find it, they also must evade the strongest mob in the game, the Warden, or at least make as little sound as possible to not spawn it in (made even more difficult by an addition to Proximity Chat allowing sculk sensors to detect speech when players aren't sneaking). The first session having 4× as many deaths than Last Life's first session (4 versus 1) is a testament to its difficulty[[note]]Even if half of the deaths involved are [[CantLiveWithoutYou proxy deaths]] via the soulmate system[[/note]].
** The fourth season, Limited Life, shakes things up greatly. Everyone has at most 24 hours to live, and lose an hour's worth of life if they die, and ''gain'' half an hour's worth if they kill someone. That much is simple, including the fact that Yellow Lives can kill Green Lives legally now. ''And then'' the Boogeyman system makes a return, with a twist: every Boogeyman kill is worth double the usual amount of life (victim loses 2 hours, killer gains 1), and they drop ''an entire colour'' (i.e. up to eight hours' worth of life-time) if they fail to kill someone by the end of the day. By the time the season is over, it has racked up a total death toll of more than the past three seasons ''combined'', which ultimately serves as a testament to its difficulty.
* ShoutOut:
** One defunct faction from 3rd Life early on is "the Music/VillagePeople". At least one ''YMCA'' joke was made.
** Dogwarts' overall aesthetic and dynamics have been compared to ''Literature/HarryPotter'' turning into ''Series/GameOfThrones'' by the server-members themselves.
** On Day 6 of Last Life, Scott tells Pearl and Cleo that he intends to ambush Jimmy and Lizzie for his Boogeyman kill. Upon leaving, Cleo calls after him, "[[Film/ThePrincessBride Have fun storming the castle!]]"
** Also on Day 6 of Last Life, five people decide to play a game of Red Light, Green Light in the style of ''Series/SquidGame'', meaning anyone caught moving gets shot ([[AnnoyingArrows although a single arrow isn't fatal]]). Martyn even creates his thumbnail to have himself, Etho, Bdubs and Impulse in green jumpsuits and Grian dressed as the giant doll, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfs4WbUXu68 names the episode "Red Light, Green Light".]]
** After Bdubs, Martyn and Scar rescue some Allays from a Pillager outpost on Day 1 of Duble Life, Bdubs compares them to [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Navi]].
** Scar's InSeriesNickname for the Ranchers is "the Jolly Ranchers", after the candy brand.
** When Tango chews out Cleo for her EscortDistraction that cost him and Jimmy their goats on Day 2 of Double Life, he says, "[[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail I blast my horn in your general direction!]]"
** In the finale of Double Life, Grian gathers the other Red Names (and honorary Red Name Pearl) on the server to form "[[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings the Fellowship of the Red]]" to knock the Yellow Names down to Red.
** In Limited Life, the faction based on the Coral Isles is known as "the [[Film/MeanGirls Mean Gills]]", and their strategically-placed dolphins are named 'WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}' and 'Bingo' (with Martyn singing the theme song when he hears this).
** The frog which Jimmy and the Nosy Neighbours feud custody over is named "[[Film/HotFuzz Judge Judy And Executioner]]"; the reference is very much invoked.
** During the mourning period for Bread Bridge on Day 5 of Limited Life, the Bad Boys compare their solemn suits coupled with their sunglasses to the attire of the Franchise/MenInBlack.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Cleo was the only female member of the server during 3rd Life. Later averted in Last Life with the addition of Pearl and Lizzie.
* SwitchingPOV: Every player in the series has uploaded their perspective of the events that unfolded to [=YouTube=], allowing viewers to watch the series from whichever perspective they like.
* VideoGameLives: The core concept of the series. In 3rd Life and Double Life, everyone has 3 lives, and in Last Life, everyone has between 2 and 6. Once you have one life left, [[RedIsViolent your name turns red]] and your primary goal is now to kill everyone else. If you die one more time? You're permanently dead, and are now out of the series.
* YetAnotherStupidDeath: Because the server is on hardcore, there are ''plenty'' of people who die to very stupid and preventable means. For example, Scar became a Red in 3rd Life because he walked blindly off a cliff, Scott dropped to Yellow in Last Life because he accidentally threw an ender pearl instead of eating food, and soulmate duo Etho and Joel were knocked down to Yellow in Double Life because Joel broke the boat that caged an enderman when he tried to kill it.
%%** Following up on Double Life, Etho and Joel also lost their second lives when both of them participated in Grian's [[RodAndReelRepurposed fishing rod game]] at the same time, causing them to take double the amount of damage they would have taken had only one of them participated due to their [[{{Synchronization}} shared health]].
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* NumberOneDime: The Dogwarts banner which Scar steals on Day 5. It's from the first batch of banners created; when everyone else points out they have many more identical banners, Martyn says it holds sentimental value… hence Dogwarts' relentless attempts to kill Scar, since he's stuck the thing on his shield and has constantly held on to it. This culminates into literal ''battles'' where many server-members are killed, sometimes [[KilledOffForReal permanently]], and Dogwarts never end up getting their banner back in the end.
* AccompliceByInaction: Right after Tango is executed by a firing squad, everyone thinks that's that... until Bdubs tells Etho that he too must be punished for not reporting Tango for breaking the rules, causing him to be executed in the same way.
* AllForNothing: In an attempt to gain a monopoly over all the dark oak wood on the server, Grian and Scar spend an hour on Day 1 chopping down a dark oak forest to ensure they'd be the only one with saplings... not knowing that there is a ''second'' dark oak forest in a secluded corner of the map, right by Scott and Jimmy's base. When they hear on Day 2 that Scar scammed both Joel and Cleo out of their items by promising them dark oak saplings sometime in the future, they start distributing free dark oak saplings to everyone else out of spite.
* AnvilOnHead: On Day 6, Joel attempts to {{invoke|dTrope}} this on Scott by setting up a trap at his base while he is away fighting, so that two anvils will fall on his head when he tries to enter. {{Subverted|Trope}} in that the trap was not set up correctly and only succeeds in giving Scott two free anvils.
* BigFancyCastle: Several of them have been built across the server, such as Etho's lava walled wool castle and Bdubs' and Cleo's [[MyNaymeIs Crastle]] with a moat.
* BigYes: Grian shouts this out after successfully killing 3 people with his TNT trap, [[FissionMailed even though it initially failed]].
* {{Bookends}}: Scar is the first and last to die, killed by Grian in both cases.[[note]]That is, if you exclude Grian's LastSurvivorSuicide.[[/note]]
* {{Cliffhanger}}: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Day 5 ends with an all-out war between the Desert and Renchanting that doesn't see an end in that episode. However, Day 6 starts without this fight... and then it becomes a DoubleSubversion when the fight resumes mid-episode.
* CommonLawMarriage: The "Flower Husbands", who simply have a small love declaration alongside FlowersOfRomance (on Jimmy's part) before settling in the same corner of the map together -- it's not like there's time or resources in the middle of a DeadlyGame for them to have a proper ceremony anyway. They proceed to [[BattleCouple fight alongside each other]] in the brewing war... until things start ''really'' [[KilledOffForReal hitting the fan]], at least.
* DeadlyPrank: The first death on the server is caused by Grian leading a creeper over to a cluster of players to scare them, then setting it off by accident, blowing Scar up. This ultimately kick-starts the plotline of the season.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Etho loves to make fun of the size of the Crastle to annoy Bdubs, as well as Bdubs' real-life height, which is actually average despite his testiness about it. After Etho gets Cleo to do the same, she [[LampshadeHanging points out that this trope is in play]].
* DownerEnding: Everyone dies. That much was a ForegoneConclusion. Grian's perspective really hammers it in: after an entire series of him and Scar wanting to make it big together, their friendship collapses and the two fight to the death. Grian wins, but his victory is hollow -- everyone else is dead, and his only true friend for the entire series is gone at his hands. Grian ends the series by taking his own life: he didn't die with riches, friends, and power -- he died sad, poor, and alone, in the ruins of his and Scar's magnum opus.
* EnemyMine:
** The Crastle (Bdubs especially) was never on great terms with the Sand People, due to hostilities from the Desert's side that resulted in the loss of Bdubs' second life, and even the alliance that Cleo forged between the factions was tenuous at best. However, after the Battle for the Red Desert destroyed the Sand People's home base, and the resulting fight between the Crastle and Dogwarts resulted in the elimination of Cleo, Bdubs realized it'd be foolish to reject the Sand People's allegiance and invited them into the Crastle right before it was besieged.
** The server ended up devolving into politics because of a schism between the Desert and the Flower Forest over the monopoly on dark oak. When things really get down to the wire, however, these two factions end up forming an alliance at the end of Day 5.
* ExplosiveStupidity: The TNT minecart trap on Day 4 (the one that netted Grian the highest kill count on the server) definitely counts. First off, [[EpicFail it doesn't even detonate at first]], meaning Grian misses out on so many more kills. However, as Scott proposes a fairly foolproof idea of detonating the bomb without killing anyone (shooting it from a distance with an arrow), Jimmy spies the TNT. For a myriad of reasons, ranging from greed[[note]]Gunpowder is a fairly uncommon mob drop and Grian and Scar have a monopoly on sand, so TNT is a rare item[[/note]] to generally not thinking things through[[note]]For some reason, Jimmy believed the bomb was disarmed despite ample warnings that it wasn't[[/note]], Jimmy immediately goes to grab it... and nudges the TNT minecart ever so slightly, which ''immediately'' sets off the bomb. Most of the people around the bomb have left by now, but the resulting explosion still kills Jimmy, Skizz, and Ren, placing the former two on their last life and destroying all three players' items ([[AllForNothing including the TNT Jimmy wanted so badly]]).
* FlowerMotifs: The Flower Forest faction and relationship within is represented, both in this series and [[WebVideo/EmpiresSMP beyond]], with gifts of poppies as FlowersOfRomance.
* GilliganCut: On Day 3, Bdubs tells Cleo that he won't participate in Tango's minigame, Dare To Flare, calling it a "stupid little game". The next shot? Bdubs telling Impulse he wants to play.
* AGodAmI: Arguable; the Renchanting slogan that Martyn came up with is "Don't be a dog, be a god."
* GreyAndGrayMorality: None of the people or factions on the server are what you would call morally upstanding. Dogwarts actively seeks to kill everyone on the server and wages war against those who refuse to join them; the Desert scams everyone out of everything and sets up traps for their allies and enemies alike, and its two core members are only truly loyal to each other, not even their allies. Even the Flower Forest, arguably the most peaceful faction, [[NeutralNoLonger joins the Desert after they've been threatened by Dogwarts]], and when Jimmy is killed, Scott goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, vowing to destroy Dogwarts for murdering his husband.
* IronicName: The Pufferish of Peace is gifted and named as a symbol of the alliance between the Red Desert and the Flower Forest, the latter being one of the most peaceful factions on the server. When the warmongering Dogwarts gets ahold of it, with Martyn stealing it from the Flower Forest just before the Battle of the Red Desert, it's repeatedly used [[PainfulPointyPufferfish as a weapon of war]].
* KansasCityShuffle: After Grian sets up a water elevator in Bdubs's castle on Day 5, Bdubs catches Grian with pufferfish and Grian admits that he'd tried to rig the elevator with it. Bdubs is happy that he caught Grian before the trap could be complete... and proceeds to burn to death when he goes up the elevator, realizing too late that Grian ''had'' rigged his trap -- and that said trap was ''lava''.
* MoodWhiplash: On Day 1, a large group meets up in the center of the map to trade resources, exchange information and dance to Bdubs' jukebox... until night falls, and about a dozen phantoms suddenly swoop down on them, sending all of them running for cover.
* PalatialSandcastle: The base Grian built on top of the Monopoly Mountain was a sandcastle that is large enough for him and Scar to reside in the desert for the majority of the season before it was destroyed on Day 6, resulting in Grian and Scar moving away to a bunker.
* PassThePopcorn: As the Red Desert briefly siege the Crastle, Martyn and Ren have just returned from recruiting Etho into Dogwarts; having no stake in the conflict at that point, the two simply stand back to watch the fireworks, with the former discussing eating popcorn during their joint commentary of the attack.
* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: Said to Scar many times by various people, since he chooses to not wear a shirt throughout the season.
* PointOfNoReturn: Grian sticks with Scar even after losing his first life since it's clear there's no way he's avoiding retribution even if he ditches Scar; he's simply become too involved in the politics of the server to back out now.
* ARareSentence: "You don't just climb into a coffin with another man and not be bros for life."
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After Jimmy is killed in the Battle of the Red Desert, Scott -- who up until this point had been trying to stay out of conflict as much as possible -- [[CrusadingWidow vows to get his revenge]] on Ren and the rest of Dogwarts, and joins the Desert in their offensive. This rampage nets him a KillTally of two and a count of arson before he himself gets KilledOffForReal by Dogwarts.
* RuleOfThree:
** Scar goes to burn Etho's base in revenge for Pizza, and it takes him three tries to do it.
** The name of the season is 3rd Life, and each player gets three lives.
* {{Scandalgate}}: {{Parodied|Trope}} near the end of Day 4, when Martyn refers to the TNT minecart triple kill incident as "Gategate".
* ShotAtDawn: Tango is executed by firing squad for violating the "No Helmets" rule.
* SoleSurvivor: Grian wins the final fight between himself and Scar, making him the winner of 3rd Life. [[LastSurvivorSuicide It doesn't last]].
* SuddenlySignificantRule: The "No Helmets" rule, which hasn't been paid much mind, suddenly becomes ''very'' important on Day 5 when Tango breaks it and is sentenced to execution by firing squad.
* ThereWasADoor: Most people opt to break through Dogwarts' wall rather than use the door, much to Ren's annoyance.
* TogetherInDeath: After being KilledOffForReal, TheStinger of Scott's perspective of the finale has Jimmy give him an AfterlifeWelcome in a completed version of the Flower Forest. CanonWelding with ''WebVideo/EmpiresSMP'' Season 1 also gives them a ReincarnationRomance.
* TooDumbToLive: {{Discussed|Trope}} twice.
** On Day 6, Grian rigs the Desert to immediately explode when someone enters the main base. Scar, ''his own ally'', considers stepping on the pressure plate, and Grian notes that if Scar dies, he won't even feel bad because he's been warned so many times. Later in the day, Scar admits he nearly stepped on the plate and only didn't from an accidental bug. He then intentionally sets it off to try and take out his enemies, but only ends up harming (but thankfully not killing) himself and Tango.
** On Day 7, after Jimmy is KilledOffForReal, Grian notes he kind of had it coming since he not only failed to activate a trap despite ample warning, but only ''did'' activate the trap ''when Grian, his own ally, was caught inside''.
* WarIsHell: While the server starts out with faction politics as the main source of conflict, the latter half of the season drives home the point how the escalating conflict as a ''war'' has brought nothing but horrors for everyone. By the last two sessions of the season, even the relatively pacifistic players have had to take up arms, former friends have drifted apart and turned against each other as leading figures on opposite sides, most server-members have lost allies and friends (and in at least one case, suffered from bereavement) before being taken out themselves -- oftentimes without mercy, and even the "winning" faction has destroyed their home in the process and ultimately gets a DownerEnding by the nature of the DeadlyGame itself.
* WhamEpisode: Day 7. Where do we begin...
** Grian, Scott, Martyn, and Impulse each lose their first life, leaving Big B as the only remaining Green Name. Even then, that's only because he was PutOnABus for the episode, and his bright green IGN only serves to put a large target on his back when he returns on Day 8.
** Grian goes back on something he's pledged for the entire series and decides to stick around with Scar in spite of his "first life" rule -- he's past the PointOfNoReturn regarding the collapsing politics of the server, and even if he ditched Scar he'd still be a big target.
** Jimmy, Cleo, and Skizz are KilledOffForReal, making them the first permanent casualties of the server.
** The Red Desert is left a smoking crater in the aftermath of a vicious battle.
* WhenTreesAttack: Cleo gets a scare on Day 1 when a sapling she was standing over grows into a tree, nearly suffocating her inside its trunk.
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[[folder:Last Life]]
* AfterTheEnd: Downplayed, but after Day 7, the world sure starts to feel this way. All major bases were destroyed or abandoned when their members either died, turned Red, or were forced to flee after repeated attacks from the Red Lives. Tentative alliances of Greens and Yellows resorted to roaming the server, looting anything valuable that was left in the ruins of bases, while the Reds got a lot more outwardly hostile, attacking anyone they saw roaming the server instead of relying on traps. The few bases left standing (the Shadow Fort and Magical Mountain) were clumsily patched up and reinforced, serving as strongholds for the survivors, though the Reds managed to sweep through them multiple times, and Martyn's attempt to hide out at Magical Mountain ended in his death as it was overrun.
* AloneWithThePsycho: During Day 3, Grian is snooping through Scott and Pearl's house while they're away, when suddenly Joel reveals his presence as he sets up a trap. Grian's [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl scream]] of pure unadulterated terror is truly something to behold.
* AntiClimax: During Day 7, all but one of Grian's wolves is killed during the chaotic warfare. The SoleSurvivor proceeds to walk into a cactus and die instantly, with the Red Names watching in complete disbelief.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Joel and Lizzie, being a married couple both in- and out-of-universe. In spite of their numerous attempts to [[TilMurderDoUsPart off each other]][[labelnote:*]]from Joel luring Lizzie into a trap as the Boogeyman of Day 2 to Lizzie plotting Joel's demise while both of them were Red Lives on Day 7[[/labelnote]], on Day 7 they share declarations of love in case either one of them died while preparing to lava-trap the Scottage from above.
* BlatantLies: On Day 7, Joel blows up the roof of Scar's wizard hut in an attempt to kill Scott and Cleo. On Day 8, he tells Scar that Bdubs vandalized the roof, who is conveniently eliminated at that point and can't refute it. Scar learns the truth from Pearl, however.
* CassandraTruth: While Mumbo and Grian are building the ghast farm platform together, Mumbo spots Joel, a Red Life, climbing the ladder up to them. Mumbo immediately alerts Grian to this fact, but Grian thinks he's just joking around and trying to scare him, until Joel shoots him off the platform to his death.
* ColourCodedTimestop: [[spoiler:The Watchers]] talking to Martyn is often shown this way, except for the chase at the beginning of Day 8.
* DarkestHour: The end of Day 7. Six people had lost their last lives, and were out of the series permanently. Every major base on the server was destroyed or abandoned as their inhabitants either turned Red or were forced to flee. In the end, the Reds continue to roam the server while Scott, Cleo, Ren and Etho (the last non-Reds aside from Martyn, who had split off from them at some point and was still missing, and Pearl, who missed the end of the day due to a power outage) hunkered down in the lava-casted remains of the Scottage's underground base, struggling for food and other resources, desperately trying to figure out what to do next.
* DifficultySpike: InUniverse. On Day 8, Grian discovered that the server had been set to "Easy" rather than "Hard", as it was intended to be. He changed the difficulty and it had immediate effects, namely Etho's death to a creeper explosion which now caused more damage than he expected, as well as a huge uptick in armored mobs.
* DownerEnding: Once again, everybody dies. After Martyn's death, there are no more Green Lives remaining, meaning the Reds on the server have to duke it out between themselves. Scott, Cleo, Pearl and Ren form an alliance to go after Grian and Joel, and while they lose Cleo during the fight, in the end Grian and Joel go down as well. Scott, Pearl and Ren decide that they don't want to betray one another, and each of the four remaining Reds picks a cardinal direction (Pearl picks north, Scott picks east, [[GoingHomeAgain Martyn picks south]] and Ren picks west), they split off, count down, and each of them charges into the center of the map where they proceed to [[DuelToTheDeath slaughter each other until only one remains]]. The winner of Last Life, Scott, only gets a brief moment to say goodbye to his axolotl Binkie before he too drops dead.
* EpicFail:
** On Day 2, Joel managed to go from four lives down to one. Motivated by his Boogeyman status, he tried killing other players to remove the affliction. He started with a pitfall trap. First, he lured Lizzie there to push her in, but ended up falling into it himself. Later, with a crowd lured in, Grian accidentally discovered the trap, exposing it to the others there. Joel panicked and tried to kill Martyn, which got him killed by Mumbo. As a last resort, he went after Scott and Pearl -- successfully killing Scott but also getting himself revenge-killed by Pearl.
** On Day 5, Scar tries to enter the Southlands' fort and triggers their TNT-lava-PitTrap. The Southlanders are stunned when he survives, meaning they've lost their TNT for nothing as well as Mumbo's redstone door. This flips on Scar when they reset the trap and he triggers it again despite knowing it was there and having several people tell him to not trigger it. He doesn't survive a second time.
* FalseReassurance: Mumbo tries to convince Grian to walk into an obvious trap, but he doesn't do it well.
-->'''Mumbo:''' If you walk through at the same time as me… then… then… then… good things'll happen I reckon.
* FoodAsBribe: When Scar and Grian are trying to get Mumbo to join their respective alliances on Day 1, Grian keeps offering more and more salmon to tempt him.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Cleo seems to have a knack for it this season.
** When Cleo first comes to Lizzie's Fairy Forest on Day 1, she casually remarks on its flammability, as it's made entirely of trees. Come Day 5 and Cleo, now a Red Life, burns the Forest to the ground to dislodge and intimidate her old allies.
** Later on, Pearl shows Cleo and Scott her booby-trapped dance room in the Green Lives club, and Cleo tells her she doesn't think it will kill Martyn or Etho but it would probably get Ren. Sure enough on Day 9, when Pearl lures the three of them into the room and activates the trap for her Boogeyman kill, Martyn and Etho survive it while Ren dies.
* FunWithAcronyms: Team B.E.S.T.'s name is an acronym made up of the first letters of its members' names ('''B'''dubs, '''E'''tho, '''S'''kizz, '''T'''ango). Whenever one of their members turns Red, plenty of jokes are made about having to change the acronym.
* HistoryRepeats:
** Once again, Grian is responsible for the loss of Scar's first life, this time by scamming him into transferring it to him.
** Once again, Jimmy is the first to be eliminated after losing his last life. It even happens on Day 7 again.
--->'''Scott:''' [[LampshadeHanging Why is he always the first one out the series]]?
** Once again, Day 7 marks the complete collapse of the server's fragile alliance system as several players die and many more drop to their Red lives.
* KillSteal: On Day 7, Martyn becomes the Boogeyman after Pearl, the original Boogeyman, left the day early due to a power outage. Martyn attempts to kill his only ally Grian, but unbeknownst to either of them, Joel is watching from the shadows and is able to shoot Grian once before he kills himself with Ender pearl damage. This causes the game to credit Joel with the kill, leaving Martyn friendless and still needing to kill someone.
* IronicEcho: Early on, Grian tried to buy a life off Scar, instead being told he could pre-order one to buy later. Scar ended up walking back on that deal, pissing Grian off immensely. After Grian turned Red on Day 4, he went back to Scar to threaten him, while Scar desperately tried to make a new deal with him. Grian's response was that he could put that deal on pre-order.
* {{Irony}}: On Day 3, Joel sets the Southlands' outer wall on fire. Most of them fail to notice at first because they're too distracted by Mumbo's new redstone door, which he specifically built to help protect them from outside attacks.
* JumpScare: It happens to Scar a lot. So far, Cleo has done it twice and Grian once.
** On Day 7, Skizz did it to Jimmy, Lizzie did it to Mumbo, and Ren did it to Big B, who even put a ScareChord over it.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: On Day 6, Grian attempts to spark infighting among the Red Names so that he doesn't have to deal with a unified Red Team.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: The Boogeyman, who is randomly selected out of the living non-Red players and must kill someone with two or more lives to cure themselves or be reduced to their last life the next day. In all, the Boogeymen were Bdubs (Day 1), Joel and Scar (Day 2), Lizzie (Day 3), Ren and Big B (Day 4), Etho (Day 5), Mumbo, Etho again, Bdubs again, Joel again, Scott, and Jimmy (Day 6), Pearl[[labelnote:*]]she ended up having a power outage, causing her to be exempt from it... but then got a kill from a trap anyway[[/labelnote]] and Martyn[[labelnote:*]]chosen after Pearl's reshuffle[[/labelnote]] (Day 7), Scott again (Day 8), and Pearl again (Day 9).
* MythologyGag: A few to WebVideo/{{Hermitcraft|Server}}:
** Scar recycles a business scheme from Season 7 of Hermitcraft, which is to rename stained glass and sell them as magical crystals while dressed as a wizard.
** On Day 4, Mumbo decides to build a ghast farm not only for gunpowder, but also for ghast tears so he can produce and weaponize End crystals, a gag from Hermitcraft Season 8.
** In addition to events of the last season being mentioned, Scar also points out to a group of people that when Bdubs wears iron leggings and boots with his current skin, he looks like [[Series/SesameStreet Oscar the Grouch]].
** During Day 5, Mumbo says that the way Impulse denied being the Boogeyman seemed sus, "and by 'sus', I don't mean sustainable".
** After Tango loses his last life on Day 8, Grian makes a grave that says "rest in peace love and plants tango".
* NoManShouldHaveThisPower: Martyn steals the Scottage's Wither skeleton skull for this reason, but he gives it back after hearing that Grian also has one, and bringing the Scottage's skull to their base would make it easier for Grian to collect three and summon a Wither. The Scottage have also taken it upon themselves to ensure that no one faction will ever have more than one skull after Scott, Impulse and Mumbo successfully stole Grian's skull from the Team Red base on Day 5, with Scott delivering it to Lizzie after Grian turned back yellow and rejoined the Southlands.
-->'''Scott:''' It's like the [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Infinity Stones]], we just keep them as spread apart as we can.
* NothingIsScarier: Ever since Day 1, hearing the music disc "13", especially from an unknown or hidden source, is taken to mean that someone is about to attack; although the only time it actually happened was Bdubs' Boogeyman kill against Grian on Day 1. Etho exploits this on Day 3 to frighten several people.
* OverlyLongGag:
** The Southlands united when they all got spyglasses and pointed it at each other's faces while going "AHA!" They kept doing this until it came time to build their base, and Martyn let off a HurricaneOfPuns around the "aha" sound, to the point where the others contemplated whether it was worth killing him to make it stop. They even make an "[[TheSwearJar Aha Jahar]]" on Day 2.
--->'''Martyn:''' I'm literally sweating from laughing, that doesn't happen very often. Like, I'm a ''mess''.\\
'''Mumbo:''' What-\\
'''Martyn:''' I need a shower, or a ba-hath!\\
'''Grian:''' STOP!\\
'''Mumbo:''' MARTYN!\\
'''Jimmy:''' Seriously, can we kill him?!
** On Day 2, Mumbo and Grian spend a very long time digging for diamonds and try to one-up each other by pretending to have hidden diamonds nearby and saying, "My diamonds are right… HERE!"
* PetTheDog: Since Scar is absent during Day 7 for health reasons, everyone else decides to not steal the Enchantment Table from Magical Mountain since it wouldn't be fair to him, [[ZigZaggedTrope although they do take the opportunity]] to get free enchants without his supervision.
* PlotDevice: The Enchantment Table. Unlike the first season, the Table is set at spawn and the players are disallowed from crafting another one or any bookshelves. Although it was clearly intended to remain at spawn, there is evidently [[ExactWords no actual rule stating such]]…
** Day 1: Scar and Joel steal the Table and plan to charge others for its use.
** Day 2: Scar and Joel are both assigned to be Boogeymen for that day. Joel tries to lure other players into a trap by saying the Table is in the back of his cave, when in reality the Table is carried in his inventory. His traps fail and he eventually loses the Table when he is killed by Pearl after killing Scott in their base. Scar tries to intimidate the duo into giving him the Table, but they manage to drive him away long enough to sell the Table to Lizzie in exchange for two lives. Scar arrives at Lizzie's Fairy Forest soon after, but he doesn't find where Lizzie hid the Table and ends up getting tricked into following Pearl and Scott again.
** Day 3: Lizzie and the Castle Alliance set up the Table within the Fairy Forest and plan to charge for its use just like Scar wanted to do, but Lizzie agrees to trade the Table to B.E.S.T. in exchange for enchanted diamond pants and a chestplate. B.E.S.T. returns the Table to its original place at spawn attempting to facilitate free use to the whole server once again, but fail to provide sufficient security which enables Scar to steal the Table a second time. Although he allows the people of the Southlands to use it free of charge for a limited time, he's very careful to keep them from taking it. They are successful in stealing Scar's horse, however, and try to create a HostageSituation in which they demand that Scar give them the Table for the horse's safety. Scar defies them, reminding them that it was actually Grian's horse which Scar first stole from him, and holds onto the Table while the horse is dropped into lava.
** Day 4: Bdubs gives Scar a life in exchange for the Table. B.E.S.T. opts to keep the Table in a secret location in the fort, but allow everyone to use it free of charge.
** Day 5: Bdubs and Etho offer the Table to Scar in exchange for giving Bdubs a life which he accepts, however it turns out to be a scam and Etho, that day's Boogeyman, kills Scar right after the transaction and steals back the Table for B.E.S.T. Scar belatedly realises this, and tries to call on his new contract with Bdubs and Etho to get the table back but they've given it to Skizzleman who hasn't signed Scar's contract. Scar then goes to call on his new allies to get the table back from him, only to die while recruiting Grian (to the same trap he'd miraculously survived earlier that day) and end up as a Red name.
** Day 6: Scar attacks B.E.S.T. for the Table but they restore him to yellow and trade it to him for diamonds, as well as the promise that he'll go after Bdubs when he becomes Red again, a request from Tango who had just been killed by Bdubs, one of that day's Boogeymen.
** Day 7: The Table now has lost most of its driving force with the server shifting to much more open warfare, only used for occasional enchanting with not much fighting surrounding it. It completely falls OutOfFocus for the rest of the season.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Much of the intra-faction conflict on the server is caused by a player refusing to inform their allies of their Boogeyman status, and subsequently resorting to betray their own faction-mate to rid themself of the curse. On the other hand, in the instances where a set of allies are honest about their status and refuse to kill anyone from their faction, things tend to end in much more civil terms.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The survivors of Day 7. They all stem from completely different factions (Scott, Pearl and Cleo from the Scottage, Ren from the Shadow Alliance, Etho from Team B.E.S.T. and Martyn from the Southlands), with varying amounts of grief between them, forced to set it aside and work together to make a final stand.
* RedHerring: The Scottage (Scott, Pearl and later Cleo's house) was built as a decoy, and was never actually lived in. Their real base was buried under the ground, with the house serving as a distraction for anyone coming to steal from them or grief them.
* SpookySeance: {{Parodied|Trope}} during Day 8, with Grian and Joel trying to contact Bdubs' "ghost" (Bdubs in spectator mode), in which they succeed when Bdubs responds to their questions in the chat.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: After Grian and Joel use a TNT minecart cannon to damage the Scottage on Day 5, Scott tells them they could have done more damage by just putting the TNT directly on the house and blowing it up. Grian and Joel's argument is that they wanted to [[RuleOfCool act with flair]].
* SwordOfDamocles: After the Southlands collected three Wither skeleton skulls, they planned to use the threat of unleashing a Wither on the server to strongarm others into doing their bidding.
* TemptingFate:
** On Day 3, Scar refused to make a deal when the Southlands held his horse Yellow Snow hostage. Out of earshot of the Southlands, Scar confidently told his viewers that there was no way they'd hurt Yellow Snow...at the ''exact moment'' that Grian was dropping the horse into lava.
** On Day 4, Bdubs trades a life to Scar for the Enchantment Table, bringing himself down to his yellow life. He promises his teammates at B.E.S.T. that he won't be turning Red... only to fall to his death at the end of the day and do just that.
** On Day 7, Grian's wolf army constantly drops like flies, except for one wolf, who kept teleporting back to Grian no matter what. Grian calls this out, saying that that wolf never seems to give up. Literal ''seconds'' later, the wolf runs straight into a cactus and dies instantly.
* ThisIsMySide: Etho divides their shared castle between himself and Bdubs after Bdubs turns Red, by drawing a line of cobblestone down the middle of it.
* WhamEpisode: A four-parter in days 4, 5, 6 and 7:
** Day 4: Grian, Cleo, and Bdubs all reach their last life, which deals crippling blows to their respective former factions (although technically Cleo had already left the Castle Alliance shortly before turning Red).
** Day 5: Although the Red Lives are restored to Yellow, the Fairy Fort is burned to the ground, the Scottage is blown up, and the Southlands are betrayed by Jimmy, dealing a massive blow to their alliance. Scar is threatened into giving up his remaining lives to the Reds, putting him on yellow, shortly before falling into a trap and becoming Red himself.
** Day 6: There are not one, not two but ''six'' Boogeymen, three of which are Boogeymen for the second time. After numerous kills throughout the day there are six Red Lives, including the entirety of the Magical Mountain faction, and the Scottage is the only faction to survive with all its members still on green. The Southlands are officially disbanded, and as the three remaining members torch their base to put their old alliance to rest, they remain victorious in that they now have three Wither skeleton skulls (although Martyn doesn't know that).
** Day 7: The Scottage is submerged in lava by Lizzie and Joel, B.E.S.T.'s snow fortress is destroyed by a Wither spawned by the now-Red Grian and Impulse, six players are KilledOffForReal and the six remaining non-Reds are forced to band together to survive.
*** Furthermore the entire dynamic of the server shifts noticeably. Where before the Reds were more focused on trapping and harassing yellow and green names, they now shift to actively hunting them down. Every faction save for the Scottage is destroyed or disbanded as their members have either died, turned Red, or were forced to flee their homes after repeated attacks from the Reds. In the end, Scott and Cleo resort to gathering the few remaining non-Reds together (save Martyn, who they couldn't find, and Pearl, who missed the second half of the day) and hiding them away in the Scottage's now-destroyed underground base. From this point forth, the Survivors spend most of their time looting the remains of abandoned bases, trying to fortify the few structures still left standing to protect themselves, and hiding away from the Reds to avoid being hunted down and slaughtered.
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[[folder:Double Life]]
* AchievementsInIgnorance: Martyn and Joel end up accidentally killing the "Ranchers' Revenge" Warden with fall damage on Day 4 while playing around with fishing rods.[[note]]It had already lost most of its health in the previous episode from drowning when Tango brought it up to the surface.[[/note]]
* ArrowsOnFire: On Day 6, while Scott and Pearl are sieged on top of Pearl's tower base, Martyn and Cleo briefly shoot arrows through fire at the Red Lives in an attempt to set them alight.
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Throughout Day 5, the Red Names have absolutely ''zero'' qualms threatening or killing Scar's Jellie Pandas or burning down the Sanctuary Scar built for them to try to cow Scar into submission, and later shoot Scar's pet Allay while using it for target practice. In the finale, Joel and Scar also casually blow up Pearl's dogs for no reason other than the fact they can, solidifying her stance against the Red Names.
* BigNo: Grian's reaction when he realizes he's linked to [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Scar]].
* BlowThatHorn: In Grian's first episode, he collects several goat horns in a mountainous corner of the world to test out their sounds, and gives away the "bad" ones (e.g. the Seek variant, which makes a noise identical to the sound that plays during Pillager raids) to other players. These players later unofficially form a group called the Horn Club/Gang, where they would respond by blowing their own Goat Horns when a member blows theirs, mainly out of amusement.
** On Day 5, the horns turn into the Horns of Destruction type when the Reds use it as a rallying cry when hunting down Grian and Scar.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Scar's description for his third episode goes as follows:
-->Welcome to Last Life season 3 renamed Double Life SMP - episode 3! We start Double Life [=Ep3=] by opening the Jellie / Panda reserve and couples retreat. The first visitor is Mart[y]n and Cleo and I try to bring them back together. We became the worst paper salesman and play Grian's snow bucket challenge with Bdubs. Who will win, Bdubs or me? You will have to find out. Also, Tango lets a Warden out onto the map...
* CallBack: A group of players find an amethyst geode on Day 1, and Martyn wastes no time in making a spyglass and an "aha" pun. [[OhNoNotAgain The others tell him to not bring that back]].
* CantLiveWithoutYou: By the {{synchroniz|ation}}ed nature of soulbound pairs, when one player dies, their soulmate dies as well immediately afterward.
* ChekhovsGun:
** On Day 4, Ren and [=BigB=] rig a trap using a zombie spawner, and use their generated zombie "army" to crash Bdubs and Impulse's pool party at the end of the episode, killing them in the chaos that ensued. This returns as a ChekhovsBoomerang on Day 5, when Scar digs into the zombie pit and loses his and Grian's first life trying to escape.
** The modded mechanism where Skulk Sensors can be triggered by the sound of someone's voice. At first, it's just an obstacle for anyone venturing into the Ancient City to get enchantments in order to avoid spawning the Warden in, but on Day 5, Joel and Etho rig a TNT trap using one, killing Scar (and thus Grian) while he was trying to invite everyone to a funeral for Jimmy and Tango (who had been KilledOffForReal earlier the same episode).
** At the start of Day 5, Grian attempts to prank Scar using a falling dripstone stalactite, which almost kills the both of them. At the end of the episode, he skewers Ren with a falling stalactite and causes him and Big B to be KilledOffForReal with the same trick.
** At the end of Day 5, Grian makes a grave in the mountains for Big B after accidentally killing him by proxy. Scott stumbles across it on Day 6 and he later [[RobbingTheDead steals the sand from the grave-site]] to make TNT, which is later used to either distract the two Wardens the Red Lives ferried up to the surface... or to die from suicide at the end of the series.
* DownerEnding: As usual, everyone dies. Once the Red Lives hunt down the remaining Yellow Lives, two of the five remaining soulbound pairs at the time end up dying as a result of their own or their partners' stupidity (in oddly ironic/symbolic ways to boot). After Pearl kills the remaining two enemy soulbound pairs, she meets up with Scott. She gets a few moments to relax with her dogs… before Scott blows himself up, instantly killing them both due their {{synchronization}}.
* DramaticIrony: On Day 5, while discussing how Scar stole the Enchanting Table the previous day and how they'd have to find a way to get it from him, Martyn remarks, "There's no way he's not buried it in the Panda Sanctuary, by the way, it's just gonna be underneath a couple of, like, dirt blocks or something for sure." As it turns out, according to [[SwitchingPOV Scar's episode]] for Day 4, that's ''exactly'' what he did, and that's what the Reds find when they start griefing the Panda Sanctuary.[[note]]As the four spy on the griefing from just beyond its walls, Martyn lampshades that he called it.[[/note]]
* DueToTheDead: ZigZaggingTrope.
** While members of the server hold or attend unofficial funerals and make small memorials for those who are KilledOffForReal, even if they themselves were the killers, most have no issue stealing from the dead's bases like they would have done anyway if they were alive.
** [[RobbingTheDead Robbing the dead's inventory-items]] if they're not on their final life is more grey territory than anything; putting the dead's items in a double-chest is usually considered basic courtesy, especially if the people in question just turned Red and can freely murder item-thieves as revenge.
* ExactEavesdropping: At the start of Day 5, Scott and Cleo learn about Team Rancher's plan to kill Grian and Scar, the last Greens left at the time, by eavesdropping on the Reds' meeting the Ranchers called. Martyn also happens to eavesdrop on them at the same time, and the three gather to seek out Pearl, believing WorkingWithTheEx to be the best option for them.
* {{Foil}}: Scar and Scott, on a small scale. While both of them build an animal-related structure claiming it can help to bring soulmates closer together (the Jellie Panda Reserve/Petting Zoo and the Relationship Ranch, respectively), Scar seems genuine in his attempts, while Scott does so with the explicit intention of {{gaslighting}} soulbound pairs into falling apart. This ultimately doesn't last due to CerebusSyndrome.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Likely unintentionally. On Day 5, Joel swears that if the Relation-Ship burns, everything burns. In the episode after, him and his soulmate lose their last life by burning in lava in Martyn and Pearl's trapped Nether portal after their portals linked up.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: On Day 3, Tango attempts to get revenge on Grian and Scar burning down their ranch by ferrying a Warden up into their base, which just results in the Warden roaming the server and terrifying everyone. The resulting chaos indirectly causes the death of soulmate pair Ren and [=BigB=] near the end of the session, making the first Red Lives.
* GotVolunteered: Tango and Jimmy get roped into defending Grian and Scar from the wrath of the rest of the server on Day 4 because they happened to come up to their safety platform so Tango could enchant his boots just before everyone else shows up to lay siege on them.
-->'''Grian:''' ''(in the chat)'' tango and jimmy are going to defend us to the end\\
'''Jimmy:''' Grian, I don't think we agreed on that.
* HistoryRepeats: On Day 5, Jimmy becomes the first to permanently die on the server. ''[[RuleOfThree For the third time]].''[[note]]This time by losing a fight with an Enderman.[[/note]] Naturally, this is lampshaded by everyone, including his content creator counterpart.
* HostageSituation: PlayedForLaughs on Day 5 when the so-called "Divorce Quartet", the only Yellow Names at the time, take [[ButtMonkey Jimmy]] hostage and trap him in a cobbled deepslate and dirt box in his own Ranch just to mess with him.
* {{Irony}}: After Bdubs betrayed Impulse and took his last life at the end of 3rd Life, and Impulse helped summon the Wither that brought Bdubs down to Red and directly resulted in him losing his last life in Last Life, the two are now partners in Double Life and must keep each other alive.
* JokeAndReceive: When off adventuring in caves with Pearl, Martyn jokes about the possibility that both of their soul-linked partners have also teamed up. Later, it turns out they have, and their partners quickly tire of waiting for Martyn and Pearl and [[ScrewDestiny abandon them]].
-->'''Martyn:''' I think whoever we're soulbound with, I think they're also hanging out together. I would love that parallel, seeing what we're doing and what they're doing at the same time.\\
'''Pearl:''' I know. Imagine if both the people we're partnered with, yeah, if they're linked. You'd see two [=POVs=] of both of us wondering who they're partnered with.
* KickTheDog: Just about everyone bullies Jimmy and Tango. On Day 2 alone, Scott leads an effort to stop them getting goat horns and then gets everyone to stop responding to their horn calls after they get horns, then gets Cleo to do an EscortDistraction so he can steal their goats, which directly results in Scar burning down their base since they stole his horse while they were falling for Cleo's trick.
* LoveLetter: Grian, unsatisfied with his own soulmate, secretly has eyes on [=BigB=]. At the end of Day 2, he breaks into Box and builds a not-so-secret heart. He attaches a sign saying "[[BetterPartnerAssertion Get yourself a soulmate who doesn't die to endermen <3]]". He also gifts a chest full of bread with a sign reading "I baked you this bread, it's made of GRAIN", a hint for [=BigB=] since "grain" is a misspelling of 'Grian'.
* MegaNeko: The Jellie Pandas, to some degree. While they are functionally Panda mobs, exclusively from Scar's perspective, they're retextured to look like his cat Jellie, resulting in huge "cats" the size of giant pandas.
* MickeyMousing: {{Discussed|Trope}}. During the memorial held for the Relation-Ship, the attendees play the music disc "otherside" while watching the structure burn, and make a joke about the Relation-Ship ''exploding'' the moment the beat drops in the tune.
* NoYou: When Pearl and Martyn try to make a trade with Impulse and Bdubs, Pearl suggests to Martyn that they could find better deals elsewhere, saying that they're "scraping the bottom of the barrel". Bdubs angrily tells Pearl that it is her, not them, at the bottom of the barrel.
* PapaWolf: On Day 4, the sight of Joel and Etho threatening his Jellie pandas was enough to motivate Scar into jumping down from a tall platform. And surviving with [[SoftWater the water bucket trick]]. Joel and Etho actually left Scar alone for the rest of the siege in shock that Scar was able to pull a move like that off.
* PortmanteauCoupleName: In-universe. While Joel refers to him and Etho as [[IdiosyncraticShipNaming "Boat Boys" or "Boat Gang"]], on Day 1, Grian calls them "[=SmallEtho=]".
-->'''Grian:''' Well, you can't be "[=EthoBeans=]"!
* ProfessionalKiller:
** On Day 4, several soulbound-pairs of the server consider the idea of hiring the resident Red Lives to kill their enemies ''for'' them. For example, Scott and Cleo hire Joel and Etho, who had just turned Red earlier that episode, to kill Team Rancher in an established feud. Joel and Etho contemplate this, but accept the offer upon learning Tango has access to the enchanting table that Scar stole at the start of the episode.[[note]]In a twist of fate, at the start of Day 4, Team Rancher also try to hire Ren and [=BigB=], the first Red Lives of the season, to kill Scott for them because they felt him and his Relationship Ranch was stealing their brand, but the plan ultimately fell through.[[/note]]
** On Day 5, one idea bounced around in the Red Lives' meeting is to get Cleo (a Yellow Life at the time) to attack Scar and Grian for them.
* RedStringOfFate: The main gimmick of the season is that two soulbound players [[{{Synchronization}} share a health bar]], and realize someone is their soulmate when the other takes damage (or in the case of Jimmy with Tango, ''[[CantLiveWithoutYou when the other dies]]''). As a result, there's a tendency on Day 1 for players to hit each other to see if the other is their soulmate. This is eventually PlayedForDrama on Scott and Cleo's side as they decide to ScrewDestiny, among many other twists and turns related to this.
* RelationshipSabotage: Many players try to do this in order to weaken other partnerships and alliances.
** Bdubs and Impulse try to get people alone to give them vague warnings about their soulmates trash talking about them behind their backs, although it doesn't always work due to some people knowing that their soulmate couldn't possibly have had time to gossip, and some people already being on bad terms with their soulmate, making Bdubs' and Impulse's efforts unnecessary.
** Grian tries to get Big B to break up with Ren by making himself out as a secret admirer to Big B. It somewhat works since Big B was willing to secretly ally with Grian, and the "affair" has put some strain on Big B and Ren's relationship.
** Scott creates the "Relationship Ranch" on Day 3, which he markets as a couples' retreat meant to strengthen relationships with trust exercises. Its true purpose, however, is for Scott to {{gaslight|ing}} the couples by AccentuatingTheNegative in supervising the activities and inciting concern between the couples.
* RodAndReelRepurposed: Much of Day 4 is dedicated to every other person on the server playing around with fishing rods by flinging entities far into the air with them. While it is indeed fun, it carries a strong risk to it in that the entity in question can be [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou killed]] if they don't land in SoftWater or have enough health to survive the fall -- first demonstrated by the "Ranchers' Revenge" Warden at the start of the episode, then Etho and Joel in the middle of it, causing the two to become Red Names.
* ScrewDestiny: Due to their soulmates having gone adventuring to the Deep Dark and the Nether in the very first episode, Scott and Cleo decide to ''choose'' to become pseudo-soulmates purely because their own soulmates refuse to show up to player gatherings, and they call their soulmates out for this at the end of the episode. Unfortunately, Pearl doesn't take this well, due to not exactly ''volunteering'' to go adventuring in the first place, and perceives it as abandonment in turn.
-->'''Scott:''' I like Cleo. I don't need a ''soulmate''. [[LampshadeHanging I pick my own destiny]], Big B!
* StickyFingers: This applies to just about ''everyone'' when it comes to ''everything''; everyone's base is pretty much free game when it comes to robbing valuables.
* StylisticSuck: Ren and Big B's Box was designed to be as unappealing as possible so people would be deterred from visiting/attacking. As its name implies, it's a giant cobblestone box with facial features being added as the series progresses.
* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic:
** During the pool party at the end of Day 4, Impulse (the "DJ") puts on the music disc "13", a creepy ambient track, when armed zombies begin rising from the pool thanks to Ren and [=BigB=]'s trap. The music plays as night falls and Bdubs is chased by the pair until he is killed.
** Averted at the memorial held for the burning Relation-Ship, since the only music disc the attendees had was "otherside", a light and upbeat march.
* {{Synchronization}}: The premise of this season. Each player's health-bar is linked to another, if one takes damage so will the other, and [[CantLiveWithoutYou if one dies, the other does as well]]. The official series description refers to these duos as "soulmates". Since the game doesn't directly tell people who their soulmate is, most of the first day was spent with everyone running around punching each other to find their partner. (And in Jimmy and Tango's case, they didn't find out until the latter lost his first life.)
* TemptingFate: In Scott's second episode, while discussing the goat horns and the goats living near them, he and Cleo both decide to hide the goats from Jimmy so he can't get a horn. The ''very next scene'' starts with Scott spotting Jimmy leading a couple of goats away.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: After Tango and Jimmy end up getting stuck up on a wooden platform with Grian and Scar while the entire server is out for the latter two's blood, Tango ends up asking a very important question.[[note]]It was actually made out of dirt, but that made little difference when Martyn water-bucketed his way up and lit the platform on fire.[[/note]]
-->'''Tango:''' Is the pillar up to this made out of wood?\\
''(Grian silently looks at Scar)''\\
'''Tango:''' Your awkward silence speaks everything.
* UndergroundCity: The only Enchanting Table allowed on the server begins squirreled away in the Ancient City. Scar steals it on Day 4, causing him to become HatedByAll on the server. The location becomes vital on Day 6 as one of the sites of confrontation between the factions at the time.
* UndignifiedDeath: After being targeted by the Red Names for over half the episode, pulling off the S-tier MLG Water Bucket the previous day, on top of surviving several days in the series without dying, Scar ends up falling into Ren's zombie spawner pit and [[DevouredByTheHorde dying in it]] on Day 5.
-->'''Martyn:''' ''(in the in-game chat)'' yikes, the reds can't do it so the world did
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: On Day 2, Pearl goes to Ren and [=BigB=]'s Box where she jokingly steals their horse. When Ren tries to retrieve it, he accidentally looks at an Enderman and is killed, taking the first life of him and his soulmate, [=BigB=]. This leads to Pearl being banned from Box and Ren branding her as a harbinger of evil and "demoness".
* VisualPun: Joel and Etho, being soulbound to each other, have built a large ship as their base called the Relation-''ship''. Scott burns half of it to ashes on Day 5; combined with Joel's resultant MadnessMantra of "If the ship burns, everything burns", it ends up as unintentional {{foreshadowing}} to Joel and Etho's final death in the finale by burning in lava.
* WhamEpisode: Episode 4, when things really start to hit the fan. By the end of the session, there are ''four pairs'' of Red Lives, and everyone else is Yellow except Grian and Scar, whose base was sieged by literally ''everyone else'' for the stolen enchanting table save Jimmy and Tango, who became one of the Red Life pairs during their defense against the siege.
* WorkingWithTheEx:
** {{Discussed|Trope}} on Day 5. At the start of the episode, when Team Rancher calls the other Red Names to a meeting, Cleo and Scott snoop on them and discuss that if they're forming a Red Alliance, they'd have to team up with their separated assigned-soulmates to stand a chance against them, as by that point, the Red Names consisted of over half the server population.
** It's later played straight when the Ranchers' call turns out to be one to kill Grian and Scar, the last Green Lives left, and the two believe they'd be the Reds' next target as the only Yellow Lives left. As a result, the "Divorce Quartet" do, in fact, team up with their estranged soulmates for Days 5 and 6. However, they stick to primarily working alongside their non-soulbound partners as it made them less vulnerable, forcing enemies to go through two health-bars instead of one.
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[[folder:Limited Life]]
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The '''B'''ad '''B'''oys often make references to having items and builds of a similar naming scheme, like the '''B'''read '''B'''ridge and '''b'''amboo. They also create '''P'''otato '''P'''ier.
* AmnesiaEpisode: Day 6 has Cleo and Pearl mysteriously coming down with an "amnesia-cold" for the duration of the session, and the two are briefly PutOnABus while [=GeminiTay=] and Lizzie substitute in for them temporarily. While the out-of-universe explanation is due to content creator unavailability (Pearl) or technical difficulties (Cleo), the in-universe explanation Martyn gives is that [[spoiler:their emotional states are still fractured from the events of Double Life and need more time to heal, so that [[GreaterScopeVillain the Watchers]] can have a more continuous source of [[EmotionEater snacks]].]]
* AwesomeButImpractical: The Bad Boys' Skynet 2.0, a version of Skynet constructed after the destruction of Bread Bridge, is located at almost build limit and is used for espionage and [[DeathFromAbove TNT minecart]] dropping. Due to it being so high up, it's impossible to see where a person is on the map accurately (unless you massively boost your draw distance), and players can only tell where their targets are via their silhouettes or, at times, other signs of 'human life' like campfires. Alternatively, they may choose to target the people on the T.I.E.S' original Skynet, which consists of a network of narrow walkways and sky-bridges and thus are difficult to aim for accurately. However, when the TNT minecarts hit, they hit ''powerfully'' with a massive blast radius, and [[DifficultButAwesome the Bad Boys have pulled off numerous kills using it]].
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Or more accurately, Better to Be Killed by an Ally than a Non-Ally, which overlaps with MercyKillArrangement to some degree.
** Scott's two deaths on Day 4 are arranged with Cleo and Martyn (in advance and impromptu, respectively) so that they can receive the life-time increase that comes with the kill, as opposed to the temporary Yellow alliance intent on hunting him down. Immediately after this, Skizz and Tango make the same arrangement for the same reason.
** By Day 7, this has evolved into [[HeroicSacrifice a form of self-sacrifice]] where players willingly allow themselves to be killed by their allies so they can have some extra life-time.
* BlowThatHorn: A variation where no goat horns are actually present. The sound of the "Dream" goat horn is used to signify the beginning of the 24-hour time limit at the start of Day 1, making it arguably of the Horns of Destruction variety.
* BreatherEpisode: Zig-zagged. A lot of players believed that Day 5 would be a calmer day focused on building and preparation since everyone were all Yellow Names and had no reason to kill each other, creating a moment of peace. That peace doesn't last long, as the Bread Bridge is destroyed by the T.I.E.S., the Clocker sons are accidentally blown up by Etho, and Scar and Skizzleman become the first Red Names on the server. However, Day 5 ''does'' have the fewest deaths in the season -- at 5 deaths in total (1 Boogeyman kill and 4 accidents), in contrast to the days preceding and following it, which have drastically higher death tolls than it, even setting new records for the number of deaths in the series as a whole[[note]]Day 4 has 16 deaths (the previous record was 17 in the Season 1 finale), Day 6 has 27 deaths, and Day 7 has '''45''' deaths[[/note]].
* CallBack:
** On Day 1, Scott winds up scooping up a "Pufferish of Peace" to give (back) to Jimmy.
** Near the end of Day 1, the Bad Boys get into a HurricaneOfPuns based on their team name, swapping in words that rhyme with 'bad'. Grian compares it to Last Life's 'aha' shenanigans.
* CatchPhrase: The Nosy Neighbours sign off their episode with "Always watching" as their creed.
* ChekhovsGun:
** Early in Day 1, Etho discusses digging holes throughout the server with Martyn, and brings up how many people fall down these holes in other series. Naturally, near the end of the day, Martyn falls to his death in the very hole the discussion was held in. Martyn, being Martyn, takes the time to lampshade it.
** On Day 2, Grian and Joel exploit a mechanism that allows them to go beyond the map border, which they initially use for trolling the rest of the server. By Day 5, the Bad Boys jointly use the same mechanism to sneak to the T.I.E.S. base to disable their mob farm in revenge for them blowing up Bread Bridge. And the reason Bread Bridge gets blown up? Joel killed their cow [[CallBack on Day 1]].
*** This eventually becomes a ChekhovsBoomerang on Day 8 when the Nosy Neighbours, with Grian now among their ranks, decide to attempt [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere the coward's way out]] and sneak outside the world border so that no one can hurt them. Unfortunately for them, it backfires and the Mean Gills and the remainder of T.I.E.S. (or rather, I.E.) are suddenly able to attack and kill them from inside the border.
* DeathFromAbove: Happens frequently this season in the form of dropped TNT minecarts. The T.I.E.S' Skynet, a chaotic network of floating walkways, is the source of many of those.
* DeathIsCheap: Cheap''er'', at least. Although death is still penalized and undesirable, everyone starts out with the rough equivalent of twenty-four lives and [=keepInventory=] is enabled, so it's significantly less painful.
-->'''Grian:''' This mechanic doesn't work; it's given people way too much freedom to die.
* DisproportionateRetribution: T.I.E.S. carpet-bombs Bread Bridge on Day 5 to strike back against the Bad Boys for being the bullies of the server. However, after Day 1, where their behaviour was mostly in PokeThePoodle territory, the Bad Boys had mainly kept to themselves -- apart from Joel's stint as the Boogeyman on Day 2, any antagonistic behavior was either in response to provocation from other factions, or simply Yellow-on-Green violence as intended by the season's premise. Ultimately, the whole attack is an act of revenge for Joel ''killing one of their cows on Day 1'' (although this may be more of a convenient excuse to cause chaos).
* DownerEnding: As expected by both the season's mechanism and the nature of the series, everyone dies. After hours of battles and fluctuating alliances, the final battle comes down to the remaining members of T.I.E.S. (Impulse and Etho) and the Nosy Neighbours (Pearl) fighting against the Mean Gills, who are still going strong at this point and manage to decimate the competition. With Impulse left under 10 minutes left by the end, the three negotitate to have a three-way, fair play DuelToTheDeath on roughly even time... which ends with Martyn going full-on CombatPragmatist before the duel even starts [[spoiler:under the Watchers' influence]], killing both his Day 1 ally and their former enemy, then waits one last hour and a half for his life-timer to tick down.[[note]]Out-of-universe, Scott has Grian /kill Martyn after everything is said and done, but it's not present in Martyn's perspective of events.[[/note]]
* DeathsHourglass: Every player has a timer on their screen showing how much life-time they have left, which is also ColourCodedForYourConvenience. It is technically of the Fatalistic variety, since it's impossible to ''stop'' the timer, but most if not all players interpret it as a Jump to Action to regain life-time by any means possible so they can ''delay'' the inevitable enough to win the season. Fan interpretation on how the timer manifests in-universe may vary.
* DuelToTheDeath: {{Subverted|Trope}}. The final three discuss having a fair fist-fight like the ending of 3rd Life, only for [[spoiler:the Watchers to drive]] Martyn to pull out a sword and kill both Scott and Impulse in ''about ten seconds''.
-->'''Martyn:''' Nah, I don't wanna play this silly game. ''(kills Scott)'' I wanna do it this way.\\
'''Impulse:''' ''(overlapping)'' WHOA! Whoa! Whoa, whoa! What?! ''(places down a lava bucket)'' No!\\
'''Martyn:''' ''(overlapping)'' I wanna do it exactly this way. It doesn't matter if you're a Mean Gill or a Bad Boy or a-a ''Neighbour-'' ''(kills Impulse)'' -or a Clocker! You're all going down, none of these niceties, this is a death match ''for a reason''. ''(voice deepens)'' '''''OOH, THAT FEELS GOOD! TIME IS DELICIOUS!''''' ''(EvilLaugh)''
* DramaticThunder: Whenever a player is KilledOffForReal, thunder can be heard in the background as lightning strikes the site of their death.
* EatTheDog: {{Discussed|Trope}} on Day 3. When Cleo announces she plans to go feral, Scar "fears" for her safety because if she dies, he and Bdubs would "starve". Cleo replies that she would have a dispenser system set up... then Scar argues that the dispenser might run out of food, to which Cleo half-jokingly says that the two could eat their dogs to survive. Of course, since this takes place in Minecraft, it's physically impossible for a player to eat their dogs anyway.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: {{Discussed|Trope}}. Jimmy claims on Day 5 that the only people the Bad Boys love are their own mothers.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** During the choosing of the third Boogeyman on Day 1, an ominous Boogeyman jingle can be heard from Grian and Tango's perspectives due to proximity chat. Is it any wonder that Martyn, who was standing next to them at the time, turns out to be the next Boogeyman?
** Several remarks have been made early on about how flammable the Woodland Mansion at the heart of the map is. As expected from players in the ''Life'' series, it gets burnt down by the end of Day 1... ''and'' in the later half of Day 2[[note]]it was reset due to the expected mobs not having been present on Day 1, since the world was generated in "Easy" mode[[/note]].
** On Day 8, after Scar returns from ambushing and killing Tango, Cleo compares their life-times and predicts that they'll die together. While it's not by natural causes, the two do indeed end up permanently-dying about 20 seconds apart from each other.
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: A more literal example that usual; while digging straight down to Y-11 on Day 1, Jimmy points out he can hear lava along the way. About five seconds later, he and Joel find where the lava is... [[AMoltenDateWithDeath right underneath their feet]].
* FunWithAcronyms: Much like Team B.E.S.T. from Last Life (and including three of its members), a group of players name their faction T.I.E.S. after the names of its members: '''T'''ango, '''I'''mpulse, '''E'''tho and '''S'''kizz. When Bdubs briefly joins them on Day 5, Impulse says they should be renamed to B.I.T.E.S. to include him.
** During Day 1 while Martyn was considering teaming with the "Skizz Protection Squad", he suggests team T.I.M.E.S. to them with his own initial, although it doesn't come to pass after his Boogey attempt and making an alliance with Scott. He brings the suggestion back on Day 8 for their temporary alliance, though just as T.I.M.E. due to Skizz's unfortunate death in the previous day. He also suggests S.M.I.T.E. in the event he could convince Scott to join them.
* GameOfChicken: The Bad Boys have a game of this on Day 1, where they set fire to a block on the roof of the very flammable Woodland Mansion they call their base, and the last one to put out their fire wins.
* GhostReunionEnding: After all of them are taken out in the finale, the Clockers family reunite as ghosts watching over the action throughout the rest of the server.
* TheGreatFire: Near the end of Day 1, Cleo sets three blocks of the Woodland Mansion on fire, which the Bad Boys have previously established as their base. In minutes, half of its interior has burnt to the ground and the fire itself has spread to the dark oak forests nearby.
* HellBentForLeather: The Bad Boys all wear black leather jackets [[InvokedTrope to reinforce their image as 'bad boys']].
* HighAltitudeBattle: As Grian correctly predicted on Day 4, most of the battles in the final few sessions take place in the sky; more accurately on the various sky bridges (or "[[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Skynet]]" as the players call it), with the players' main form of fighting being trying to shoot or hit each off or dropping TNT minecarts from above. After the season, there is a mutual agreement among the content creators to never use this strategy again.
* HistoryRepeats: {{Discussed|Trope}} on Day 1; six minutes in, Grian messages in the in-game chat if anyone is willing to bet Jimmy will be KilledOffForReal first again, after having the dubious honour of doing so for the ''past three seasons''. On Day 7, this ''does'' come to pass, as Jimmy is indeed the first one out. ''Again.''
* InSeriesNickname:
** Martyn refers to the Bad Boys' Bread Bridge as "Grainbow Road", while Scar calls the Coral Isles the "Knockoff [[ContinuityNod Panda Reserve]]" for its bamboo barrier.
** After the construction of the Bread Bridge, the Bad Boys have occasionally been called the "Bread Boys". Occasionally, even the Bad Boys themselves refer to the group as such in slips of the tongue.
* JacobAndEsau: The Clockers' family dynamic goes as such -- after a messy separation in the "pre-season backstory" (whatever it may be), Cleo shows favouritism to Scar (and vice versa), while Etho dislikes everyone in the family except Bdubs, who prefers to remain "neutral" in familial conflicts.
* KillSteal: {{Discussed|Trope}}. On Day 3, Cleo makes a deal with the Mean Gills that if they are being chased down by a Red Life, they will allow her to intervene and kill them first so that she gets the time increase instead of the Red Life. It's later invoked on Day 4 once the entire server is out for Green Life blood.
* LastOfHisKind: Downplayed; as of the start of Day 4, Bdubs, Impulse, Scott, and Tango are the final Green Names remaining in a server of Yellow Names, many of whom are willing to do anything it takes to get some more life-time. This culminates in half of the server joining the hunt for Green Name blood.
* LastRequest:
** {{Discussed|Trope}} at the start of Day 1, where Martyn, Skizz, and Etho discuss what their preferred final meals would be if they genuinely had 24 hours to live in real life.
** Skizz's final request to the T.I.E.S. before he allows Etho to MercyKill him is that one of T.I.E.S. must make it to the final three of the season. It comes true in the finale as Impulse makes it to 2nd place, with Etho also coming close by making it to 5th.
* MeaningfulName: The faction 'Entertainment Mountain' is so dubbed due to it being located at the heart of the map. This gives them a prime view for any recent respawns and any burnings of the Woodland Mansion nearby. They were later renamed to 'the Clockers' due to their base taking the form of a clock tower.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: The Boogeyman, who is randomly selected out of the living non-Red players and must kill someone by the end of the day, or drop a colour grade and lose up to ''eight'' hours of their limited life. Meanwhile, anyone who ''gets'' killed by the Boogeyman will lose two hours of their life instead of the standard one, basically doubling the gains and losses for any Boogey kills. In all, the Boogeymen were Scott, Bdubs, and Martyn (Day 1), Joel (Day 2), Impulse (Day 3), Tango (Day 4), Tango again (Day 5), Lizzie-as-Pearl (Day 6), and Etho (Day 7); there was no Boogeyman on Day 8 as everyone was on Red by that point already.
* MythologyGag:
** Martyn's first episode of the season is titled "[[WebOriginal/MinecraftChampionship THE SANDS OF TIME]]".
** When Scar and Martyn try to put an AFK Grian on a minecart track on Day 3, Scar starts singing the exact same song from the last time he put an AFK Grian in a minecart in Season 8 of Hermitcraft.
* NoYou: When threatening Entertainment Mountain with a Bread Bridge invasion, Joel says, "You'll see what happens" if they mess with the bridge. In turn, Bdubs replies that the Bad Boys will see what happens if they go through with this. This goes on for about ten seconds.
* NosyNeighbor: Naming themselves after the trope, the Nosy Neighbours faction, consisting of Pearl and Big B, live next door to Entertainment Mountain next to spawn and have a habit of snooping in on the ongoings of the server, involving everything and everyone. This results in a lot of ExactEavesdropping.
* PainfulPointyPufferfish: Since the Mean Gills faction lives in the sea, they [[ExploitedTrope weaponize]] the pufferfish that naturally spawn there as defensive weapons. This tactic has since spread to adjacent alliances like the Clockers.
* PlayingCatchWithTheOldMan: {{Parodied|Trope}} on Day 5 where Etho takes Bdubs and Scar outside to play catch after a family meal... with TNT minecarts. [[ExplosiveStupidity It goes about as well as you'd expect]].
* PokeThePoodle: The self-titled Bad Boys spend their time partaking in abhorrent activities like trampling crops, breaking carpets, washing away torches with water buckets, and digging straight down... [[AMoltenDateWithDeath into lava]]. And also intruding on other factions' territory with their Bread Bridge and sneaking outside the world border.
* RefugeInAudacity: When Joel became the Boogeyman on Day 2, he and the other Bad Boys plotted to get the kill. How? By building the highly visible Bread Bridge from the Woodland Mansion to Entertainment Mountain, complete with an obvious powered railway track.
* RussianReversal: Joel's response after discovering that other players have been stealing from and griefing the Bad Boys' Bread Bridge:
-->'''Joel:''' You come for Bread Bridge, and Bread Bridge comes for you. That's my new motto in life.
* SickeninglySweet: PlayedForLaughs. On Day 6, Impulse and Tango feign nausea from eavesdropping on one of Skizz's "affirmation" sessions of the day. Skizz chalks it up to them being jealous that they haven't had their own sessions yet.
* SunglassesAtNight: Having sunglasses as part of their Bad Boys team-skins, Jimmy, Joel, and Grian wear these no matter what time of day it is. Grian, at the very least, wears them ''on top of'' his head rather than over his eyes, while Joel wears them below his (presumably perched on his nose, but [[InformedAttribute you can't see a nose on his skin]]).
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: More accurately, a Surprisingly Sudden Series of Deaths occur on Day 3. Having turned Yellow early in the episode, Scar spends much of the session attempting murder on the Green Lives. This results in him getting ''five kills'' in quick succession, and that's not even counting Impulse's Boogeyman kill on Pearl, Joel's two revenge kills on Scar and Martyn for messing with his fellow Bad Boys, and [[YetAnotherStupidDeath various miscellaneous deaths]] caused by trivial reasons or accidental murders. From this point onward, there has been [[CerebusSyndrome a massive uptick in deaths]] in the season.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Throughout Day 6, "Cleo" and "Pearl" repeatedly assert they're respectively British and Australian, and that they remember the alliances and events of the series. In actuality, their content creator counterparts couldn't make it to the session and had to be subbed in by the Canadian [=GeminiTay=] and the British Lizzie... who are both [[LockedOutOfTheLoop very, very confused]] about what's going on.
* TeleportationSickness: Ender-pearling results in the loss of 2.5 hearts of health in-game. Because of this, several characters have died ender-pearling away from fights throughout the season, be it physically throwing one or via activating an ender pearl stasis chamber.
* TropicalIslandAdventure: The Coral Isles are constructed with such a setting in mind. While it fits the holiday resort aesthetic for the first few days, it quickly becomes a major battleground on Day 4 when bloodthirsty Yellow Names start circling its Green inhabitant like sharks in a thriller.
* VisualPun: Invoked at the cost of [[SomewhereAHerpetologistIsCrying biological accuracy]]; the frog murals on the Nosy Neighbours tower have visible, poking-out noses as opposed to two nostrils.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: On Day 4, the temporary Yellow alliance certainly consider themselves as this, believing that hunting down the last Green Names can cause the server to return to peace. This is, of course, [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist discounting]] the fact that most of the Yellow Names chose to initiate or join this witch hunt because they want more life-time for themselves.
* WhamEpisode: A two-parter:
** On Day 3, Grian is out sick and AFK for the entire session. This results in a near free-for-all where the Bad Boys try to protect Grian while every other faction tries to kidnap him. 13 deaths rack up over the course of the session, among which 5 are caused by Scar alone. By the end of the day, most of the server has gone Yellow, which builds up to...
** Day 4: Since most of the server has gone Yellow over the past couple of days, many of them quickly go on a killing spree to hunt down as many Green Names as possible to get ahold of their life-time. The bloodthirst and bloodshed over the first hour alone leaves no Green Name unscathed and causes Pearl to believe the rest of the server has collectively gone insane. Apparently, the rest of the server agrees with this sentiment and cuts the recording session short by an hour.
* WrongNameOutburst: On Day 7, Grian nearly refers to Joel as [[TheKlutz Scar]] when he jumps from a lethal height.
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: On Day 5, Grian calls Jimmy "Jimmy" instead of "Timmy" while screaming at him to kill the Enderman attacking him.
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The Life SMP is a Hardcore ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' survival series started by Grian, and featuring [=YouTubers=] such as LetsPlay/{{InTheLittleWood}}, [=SolidarityGaming=], Smajor, [=LDShadowLady=], and several members of the WebVideo/HermitcraftServer, like Rendog, [=GoodTimesWithScar=], [=ZombieCleo=], [=TangoTek=], [[LetsPlay/EthosLab Etho]], and [=impulseSV=].
Each season of the Life SMP has a different name, and comes with a different twist, but the concept is always the same. Each server member has a set number of lives, indicated by the color of their name, and once they run out of lives, they are out of the series. Players on their final lives gain a red name, and their goal changes from just surviving, to killing as many people as they can.
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[[folder:3rd Life]]
In its first season, 3rd Life, each member of the server begins with three lives, losing one every time they die. When someone is on their last life, their goal shifts from surviving peacefully to taking out as many other players as possible. The world itself is very limited -- only 700 by 700 blocks -- so resources are finite and players must share, cooperate, or steal if they are to survive. The series uses the Voice Proximity mod, so random encounters with others are commonplace.
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[[folder:Last Life]]
The second season, Last Life, began with three new members, a new name, and new rules. Unlike in Season 1 where everyone has 3 lives, each member of the server is randomly assigned between 2 and 6 lives, and the ability to transfer lives between players was introduced. In addition, each episode starts with the server randomly assigning a "Boogeyman", who needs to kill a player with more than one life left before the end of the day, or lose all but one of their lives. After Day 2, the Boogeyman has been given a protective buff after being cured so they would have an easier time escaping from their victim's teammates.
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[[folder:Double Life]]
The third season, Double Life, shakes things up again. Each member of the group is once again granted 3 lives, but this time, they have to share their life counter and their health bar with their soulmate, another player. If their soulmate takes damage, they will as well, and if their soulmate dies, so will they.
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[[folder:Limited Life]]
The fourth season, Limited Life, changes things drastically. Instead of having a limited number of lives, players had 24 hours to live. Killing another player adds half an hour, while dying subtracts an hour. Additionally, Reds are no longer the only ones allowed to initiate [[PlayerVersusPlayer PvP]], as the rules are changed to allow Yellows to attack Greens.[[note]]However, due to this restriction, killing someone on the same colour level does ''not'' grant extra time to the killer unless they're both Red.[[/note]] The Boogeyman mechanic is also returned to the server, where the penalty for not killing by the end of the day is dropping a colour level in hearts (i.e. losing up to 8 hours of their life); anyone who gets killed by them will lose two hours of life as opposed to the standard one, and the Boogeyman will gain one extra hour of time as opposed to 30 minutes.[[note]]Yes, this ''does'' mean that a Boogeyman kill within the first hour can result in a player having ''over'' 24 hours to live.[[/note]] And for the first time in the series, keepInventory is enabled.
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The Life SMP is taped in three-hour recording sessions mostly on Friday, and each person's perspective is uploaded to [=YouTube=] somewhere within the following week.
3rd Life began on April 20th, 2021, and ended on June 8th, 2021. A second season -- later dubbed Last Life -- was announced in Grian's final episode of Season 1, officially started on September 21st, 2021 and ended on November 16th, 2021. Grian uncertainly teased a third season at the end of his last Season 2 episode, later confirmed Season 3 in his 12th episode of Hermitcraft Season 9, and Double Life started airing on June 17th, 2022 and ended on July 22nd, 2022. Grian confirmed there would be a fourth season taking place, and Limited Life started on March 3rd, 2023 and ended on April 21st, 2023.
Despite its name and creator overlap between the series, the ''WebVideo/NewLifeSMP'' is not a season of the ''Life SMP'', due to its drastically different premise and modded nature.
'''Note:''' Unless otherwise specified, all tropes pertain to the '''characters''', not the '''content creators''' that play them.
!!The ''Life SMP'' provides examples of:
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* AerithAndBob: Some members of the server go by their real-life first names, while others go by their internet nicknames, resulting in a sharp contrast between names like Scott, Jimmy and Joel, and names like Grian, Scar and Tango.
* AnyoneCanDie: A given due to the fact that it's a non-scripted Hardcore series. Whether you died in a heroic battle, or by accidentally falling off a cliff, lose all your lives and [[KilledOffForReal you're out of the game]].
* ApologeticAttacker: Happens (most of the time) when a Boogeyman kills one of their allies, or even a non-ally server-member whom they have no beef with.
* BigNo: A ''very'' common set of last words for any death in the series.
* CharactersDroppingLikeFlies: By the DeadlyGame nature of the series, as well as [[SwitchingPOV everyone being a POV character]] (depending on which perspectives the viewers watch), this is a given.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Player names are displayed in different colours depending on how many lives they have, and some also choose to change their skins to reflect their life count. Green indicates three lives, yellow is two, and red is one. In Last Life, players have the possibility of obtaining four or more lives, which is indicated by dark green. In Limited Life, the colours indicate the time range a player has left.
* ConstructionIsAwesome: With a good portion of the players being good builders, it's unsurprising to see beautiful buildings in the server, even with its constricting border.
* CuttingTheKnot:
** On Day 3 of 3rd Life, Bdubs and Martyn (among others) decide to play Tango's minigame, Dare to Flare. After carefully reading the rules and seeing that they prohibit all fire resistance potions, Bdubs uses a golden apple to minimise damage from the lava and Marytn uses Ender pearls to jump straight to the reward chest and back out again. Tango lets both keep the prize but [[ObviousRulePatch bans consumables and Ender pearls from that point forward]].
** On Day 6 of Last Life, Grian and Impulse resolve to gather the three Wither skeleton skulls scattered across the server. After two successful heists at the Shadow Fort and the Snow Fort, they are unable to find the one at the Scottage and eventually conclude that it's inside their Ender chest, meaning that they could never retrieve it. Rather than throw in the towel, Impulse heads to the Nether fortress and grinds Wither skeletons until he finally gets a new skull, which he presents to Grian at the end of the day.
* DeadlyGame: Essentially. While the series tends to start off calm, with alliances and the bare bones of a society being formed, it's only a matter of time before someone turns Red, either through the Boogeyman, a mistake, or just plain bad luck... and that's when all hell breaks loose. Inevitably, the fragile faction system that always emerges on the server collapses as more and more people turn Red or die, and in the end, only one survivor remains.
* TheDreaded:
** In general, the Reds. While they're not the only ones on the server with the capability to kill, they are the only ones allowed to initiate PVP, and have killing everyone else as their explicit goal. On Limited Life, Yellows also fill this role given that they can kill Greens as well.
** In Last Life and Limited Life, the Boogeyman also fills this role. At least one player is assigned this role each session, and they have until the end of the day to kill another non-Red player, or face a severe penalty affecting their survival -- having all but one of their lives taken away, leaving them on Red (Last Life), or dropping a colour grade and having up to a third of their life-time taken away (Limited Life). It's basically the concept of the Reds but with an extra layer of ParanoiaFuel, as the Boogeyman can be ''literally anyone'', and you won't know who until they cave someone's head in. [[invoked]]
* EverybodyDiesEnding: It's a ForegoneConclusion that all but one of the perspective characters die, by the DeadlyGame premise of the series, usually by another player, mobs, by accident, or by mistake. However, there's been a tradition for each season to end on a LastSurvivorSuicide (either directly or by proxy), leaving ''all'' perspective characters dead.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: A good number of players have a separate skin for when they get knocked down to one life left, often being RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver, with [[UndeathlyPallor grey skin]] and [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]]. The list of people ''without'' a Red Life skin[[note]]Etho, Grian, Impulse, Lizzie, Mumbo, Tango[[/note]] is smaller than the people with them[[note]]Bdubs, Big B, Scar, Martyn, Pearl, Ren, Scott, Skizz, Joel, Jimmy, Cleo[[/note]].
* FatalFireworks: While their first major use in combat as explosive projectiles is on Day 6 of 3rd Life, during a skirmish at Dogwarts, it isn't until Last Life when they play a major role in a player's demise.
** For Last Life, Lizzie fills most of her hot-bar with firework-loaded crossbows and uses several to weaken Big B before killing him. Later on Day 7, she unleashes a fair amount of them onto Bdubs when he betrays her. While Lizzie loses her final life, her firework rockets weaken Bdubs enough that he's [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves killed by his fellow Red Names when he tries to run]].
** On Day 9 of Last Life, Grian and Joel arm themselves with firework rockets for their rampage and end up killing Pearl with them. Joel offhandedly mentions that the plan was made in honour of Lizzie.
** In the Double Life finale, Joel decides to utilize the same plan to kill Scott for burning the Relation-Ship in the previous episode, only with ''stronger'' rockets. He credits Lizzie for the idea from the last season.
** From Day 6 of Limited Life, the T.I.E.S. use firework-loaded crossbows as weapons in fights alongside normal bows, melee weapons, and [[AwesomeButImpractical End crystals]]. While other factions like the Bad Boys also use crossbows, the T.I.E.S. are the only ones to use firework rockets as projectiles.
* {{Geas}}: The Boogeyman curse of Last Life and Limited Life function along the lines of one: to kill another player by the end of the day, or have their life prematurely shortened, by either being forcibly dropped to their final life (Last Life) or have their life-time cut short by up to a third of its original length (Limited Life). Across both seasons, exactly one person has refused to commit the mandatory murder and accepted the penalty, and they were Yellow anyway and so only lost one life.
* GlassCannon: PlayedWith.
** Players on their Red Life are the only ones allowed to initiate PVP and directly kill other players, with their explicit goal being to take out everyone else. However, while other players will simply respawn with one life missing, a Red player's death means they're out of the game for good, meaning they have to be ''extremely'' careful about how and when they try to kill other people. Downplayed slightly in Season 4, as a player being Red means they have up to 8 hours of life-time left, so while they technically can have more than one life left and likely won't be out for good if they die, they still have to be ''extremely'' careful about murder.
** Averted with the Boogeyman in Season 2, who is randomly chosen from the pool of Yellow and Green lives, and after Day 2 is granted a temporary buff after making their kill to prevent instantly getting revenge-killed afterwards by their target's allies.
* HealthyGreenHarmfulRed: Players are given a certain number of lives, most commonly three. When they have all three lives, it's represented with green, and when they have only one left, it's represented with red. Their nametags reflect this. In ''Last Life'', when a player has more than three lives, the extra lives are represented with a darker green.
* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: No one on the server wears a helmet. [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]] in that one of the rules of the server specifies that no one is allowed to wear one, presumably so they're more recognizable in others' videos. Tango is executed by firing squad in Season 1 for violating this rule.
* HistoryRepeats: Several recurring incidents have occurred without fail in the first three seasons thus far, so much that they have been called "curses", by the fandom and sometimes the content creators themselves. Most of them returned in Limited Life as well:
** Grian being, in one way or another, responsible for the death of at least one of his allies (or as one may put it, loved ones).
** Jimmy being ''always'' the first to be KilledOffForReal.
** Scott building part of his base, especially the defensive walls, out of wood, prompting Joel to burn it down just because he could. This does not come to pass in Limited Life.
** Scott and Cleo being allied with each other, whether openly or in secret. %%This even extends to their characters in the Witchcraft SMP as well, which canonizes 3rd Life as an alternative timeline.
** Tango DyingAlone for his final life, often in a seemingly "meaningless" way or by no fault of his own.
** ''Someone'' inevitably making a wolf army.
* HouseFire: Griefing other factions' or players' bases by setting them on fire is a very common occurrence, to the point one of the ''de facto'' mottos to live by in the series is "If something ''can'' be burnt, it ''[[ChekhovsGun will]]'' be burnt."
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: While the in-game monsters are dangerous, the various alliances formed along with backstabbing have resulted in much drama and many players losing lives.
* KillTally: [[https://the-life-series.fandom.com/wiki/Series_Records The fan wiki]] keeps track of how many kills/eliminations (and other records) each player has per season via multiple criteria, including and not limited to overall kills, most final kills (having someone KilledOffForReal), most lives lost per session, etc. For relevance to the trope:
** In terms of overall kills, Grian wins in Season 1 with 8 kills[[note]]Scar #1, Jimmy #2, Ren #1, Skizz #2, Bdubs #2, Skizz #3, [=BigB=] #2, and Scar #3[[/note]], Joel wins in Season 2 with 13, Joel wins again in Season 3 with 3 direct kills[[note]]Pearl #1, Scar #2, and Scott #2; when ''indirect'' kills are counted, it's 6 kills with the inclusion of soulmate-induced proxy deaths[[/note]], and Grian wins again in Season 4 with 20 kills.
** In terms of most non-suicide final kills, Scar wins in Season 1 with 3 eliminations[[note]]Ren, Martyn, and Bdubs[[/note]] and Pearl wins in Season 3 with 2 eliminations[[note]]Bdubs and Cleo; if including soulmate-induced proxy deaths, it's 4 eliminations with the additions of Impulse and Martyn[[/note]]. Season 2 has a ''three-way'' tie between Grian[[note]]Jimmy, Mumbo, and Bdubs[[/note]], Ren[[note]]Skizz, Scar, Pearl[[/note]], and Scott[[note]]Impulse, Grian, and Joel[[/note]] with 3 eliminations each, though Scott is also credited in-game with Martyn's elimination via backfired End crystal; Season 4 has a two-way tie between Martyn[[note]]Etho, Scott, and Impulse[[/note]] and Scott[[note]]Joel, Big B, and Pearl[[/note]] at 3 eliminations each.
* KilledOffForReal: Everyone who loses their final life is put into Spectator mode, only able to watch the rest of the game go on.
* MassOhCrap: Every time someone dies, especially when it means they're now on their last life.
** When Scar reaches his last life during Season 1 and becomes the first person ever to go Red, everyone else ''freaks out'', especially those on bad terms with the Red Desert, resulting in many hasty alliances being made to try and ensure their safety.
* AMoltenDateWithDeath: Often {{invoked|Trope}}, as other than TNT and other explosives, one of the most common lethal forms of trap used throughout the series is lava.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: The Boogeyman in Seasons 2 and 4, who is randomly selected out of the living non-Red players and must kill someone to cure themselves or face a penalty relating to their lives the next day -- being reduced to their final life in Last Life, and dropping to the next colour grade in hearts (i.e. losing up to 8 hours of life-time) in Limited Life.
* NoBloodForPhlebotinum: Given that the world is only 700 by 700 blocks big, there's bound to be conflicts over resources.
** In 3rd Life, see Scar and Grian's attempt to create a monopoly over dark oak trees and sand, the server conflict earlier on over villagers, and people begging for and stealing cows.
** In Last Life, there's shortages of sugarcane (used in the server-specific TNT recipe) and villagers (as there was no village, making the only way to get them by curing zombie villagers).
** In Double Life, the sugarcane shortage continues when Grian starts to hoard the server's supply, and when that fails by Day 3, there's a shortage of ''sand'' because there isn't a desert on the server and [[XanatosSpeedChess Grian ends up hoarding most of the server supply of that too]].
** In Limited Life, the cow shortage from Season 1 makes a brief comeback when the Bad Boys start murdering them left and right, or get killed in the middle of Boogeyman attacks, but it's not the main resource everyone is after: the very mechanism of the season enforces ''life-time'' as the primary, non-renewable resource everyone is fighting over. The hunts which the Yellow and Red Names go on to get some extra life-time back result in tremendous amounts of bloodshed, and [[PlayedForDrama serves as the overall motive]] for any non-environmental deaths across the season. As the season inches toward a close, many players even ''want'' to become [[MonsterOfTheWeek the Boogeyman]] just so they can get their hands on more life-time for themselves.
* ObviousRulePatch: In 3rd Life, in spite of being nominally {{Omnicidal Maniac}}s, all of the pre-Day 7 Red Names stayed allied with their Green (or occasionally Yellow) compatriots from before their deaths, allowing the factions to wage devastation across the server. One season later, a rule against Red Names allying with non-Reds is immediately instated, fracturing many alliances in Last Life and giving rise to the non-Red Life hunts in later seasons -- although this rule is weakened in Double and Limited Life, due to soulmates practically requiring everyone to team up and Reds not automatically being down to one death remaining, respectively.
* OmnicidalManiac: What everyone becomes upon being reduced to their last life (or time equivalent thereof in Limited Life); their ultimate goal is to kill everyone else on the server.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: As the series goes on, several of the players have brought up their fellow server-members' behaviour in past seasons, often as a warning to their potential allies. For instance, upon the Nosy Neighbours' team-up in Limited Life, Cleo warns Pearl about Big B's Boogeyman kill on her in Last Life, while Martyn makes an allusion to 5 AM Pearl's... [[SanitySlippage questionable mental stability]] in Double Life.
* PrecisionFStrike:
** On Day 1 of 3rd Life, Martyn drops the F-bomb when a skeleton surprises him in a ravine.
** On Day 7 of Last Life, Impulse and Skizz attack Ren and damage his tower, prompting him to call them bastards.
** On Day 1 of Limited Life, Scott casually describes the Woodland Mansion to burn "like a fucking wildfire". Most of the [=POVs=] cut this part out, but it is somehow ''not'' censored out in [[https://twitter.com/catsnmellohi/status/1632210637941006337 Big B's perspective]] of the conversation... presumably because Scott's accent is fairly prominent.
* RedIsViolent: Those on their last life (or time equivalent in Limited Life) get a red name, and their goal becomes to take out as many people as they can.
* RunningGag:
** As of 3rd Life, Martyn likes to play a Creeper's hiss sound while in groups of people to scare them. So far, he has successfully scared everyone at least once.
** During Last Life, Mumbo repeatedly loses/gives away the spyglasses that Jimmy makes for him, solely to annoy Jimmy.
** Following the massive success of Grian's TNT trap killing three people in 3rd Life, all his subsequent traps aside from the redstone-less bubble elevator trap either fail to work or somehow don't kill anyone when they do work, leading him to be increasingly exasperated at his own lack of redstone expertise. In Season 2, he outright says that it seems to be a running gag for traps to never work, leading to [[MassOhCrap extreme surprise]] on the rare occasion a trap ''does'' work.
** During Last Life, there's an amusing trend of people building secret rooms underground and behind walls with a respawn bed and a chest of supplies in case they die, and when they die and respawn there, discovering that they forgot to leave themselves a pickaxe to get out of the room so they must slowly break their way out by hand.
** In most Season 2 episodes, Martyn and the other Southlanders like to watch Mumbo doing his intro from a distance, often through spyglasses, while Martyn does an impression of Mumbo.
** When Scar changes into his purple wizard robes in Last Life, several people ask why he's dressed as a grape, much to his annoyance.
* SequelEscalation: The first season, 3rd Life, lays the bare-bones groundwork for the sequels. The next seasons have twists that make it much harder to survive.
** The first season, 3rd Life, is hard on its own; a small hardcore world with limited resources where you're given three lives. If you aren't the first one to become a Red Life, then you'll have Red Lives at your throat trying to kill you. When you become Red, then you'll have to balance trying to kill people while also surviving yourself.
** The second season, Last Life, has every player randomly generate with 2-6 lives, meaning some players are given a vast disadvantage from the start. Lives can be given, meaning that they're the most valuable -- but severely finite -- currency on the server. Then there's the Boogeyman mechanic. Each session, at least one non-Red Life is randomly cursed to be a Boogeyman and must kill someone or else they automatically become a Red Life next session. There's also the new rules surrounding the enchanting table. There is one enchanting table set at spawn and players are unable to make any. The table is constantly stolen, traded, held hostage, or profited off of, consequently making enchanting gear and tools a hard task.
** The third season, Double Life, adds the soulmate mechanic. Although the randomly assigned lives, life transfer, and Boogeyman are absent from this season, the new twist ensures that people are twice as likely to die and twice as quick to become Red Lives. Players are randomly assigned a soulmate and the two must share a health bar. It's possible to suddenly die if your soulmate happens to brush too close to a Creeper, but in the case of both soulmates being attacked, the health bar depletes so fast that they're given little time to fight back. The Enchanting Table is given a [[invoked]] DifficultySpike. Like the last season, there's only one, but it's located deep underground in the Ancient City. Not only must players find it, they also must evade the strongest mob in the game, the Warden, or at least make as little sound as possible to not spawn it in (made even more difficult by an addition to Proximity Chat allowing sculk sensors to detect speech when players aren't sneaking). The first session having 4× as many deaths than Last Life's first session (4 versus 1) is a testament to its difficulty[[note]]Even if half of the deaths involved are [[CantLiveWithoutYou proxy deaths]] via the soulmate system[[/note]].
** The fourth season, Limited Life, shakes things up greatly. Everyone has at most 24 hours to live, and lose an hour's worth of life if they die, and ''gain'' half an hour's worth if they kill someone. That much is simple, including the fact that Yellow Lives can kill Green Lives legally now. ''And then'' the Boogeyman system makes a return, with a twist: every Boogeyman kill is worth double the usual amount of life (victim loses 2 hours, killer gains 1), and they drop ''an entire colour'' (i.e. up to eight hours' worth of life-time) if they fail to kill someone by the end of the day. By the time the season is over, it has racked up a total death toll of more than the past three seasons ''combined'', which ultimately serves as a testament to its difficulty.
* ShoutOut:
** One defunct faction from 3rd Life early on is "the Music/VillagePeople". At least one ''YMCA'' joke was made.
** Dogwarts' overall aesthetic and dynamics have been compared to ''Literature/HarryPotter'' turning into ''Series/GameOfThrones'' by the server-members themselves.
** On Day 6 of Last Life, Scott tells Pearl and Cleo that he intends to ambush Jimmy and Lizzie for his Boogeyman kill. Upon leaving, Cleo calls after him, "[[Film/ThePrincessBride Have fun storming the castle!]]"
** Also on Day 6 of Last Life, five people decide to play a game of Red Light, Green Light in the style of ''Series/SquidGame'', meaning anyone caught moving gets shot ([[AnnoyingArrows although a single arrow isn't fatal]]). Martyn even creates his thumbnail to have himself, Etho, Bdubs and Impulse in green jumpsuits and Grian dressed as the giant doll, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfs4WbUXu68 names the episode "Red Light, Green Light".]]
** After Bdubs, Martyn and Scar rescue some Allays from a Pillager outpost on Day 1 of Duble Life, Bdubs compares them to [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Navi]].
** Scar's InSeriesNickname for the Ranchers is "the Jolly Ranchers", after the candy brand.
** When Tango chews out Cleo for her EscortDistraction that cost him and Jimmy their goats on Day 2 of Double Life, he says, "[[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail I blast my horn in your general direction!]]"
** In the finale of Double Life, Grian gathers the other Red Names (and honorary Red Name Pearl) on the server to form "[[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings the Fellowship of the Red]]" to knock the Yellow Names down to Red.
** In Limited Life, the faction based on the Coral Isles is known as "the [[Film/MeanGirls Mean Gills]]", and their strategically-placed dolphins are named 'WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}' and 'Bingo' (with Martyn singing the theme song when he hears this).
** The frog which Jimmy and the Nosy Neighbours feud custody over is named "[[Film/HotFuzz Judge Judy And Executioner]]"; the reference is very much invoked.
** During the mourning period for Bread Bridge on Day 5 of Limited Life, the Bad Boys compare their solemn suits coupled with their sunglasses to the attire of the Franchise/MenInBlack.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Cleo was the only female member of the server during 3rd Life. Later averted in Last Life with the addition of Pearl and Lizzie.
* SwitchingPOV: Every player in the series has uploaded their perspective of the events that unfolded to [=YouTube=], allowing viewers to watch the series from whichever perspective they like.
* VideoGameLives: The core concept of the series. In 3rd Life and Double Life, everyone has 3 lives, and in Last Life, everyone has between 2 and 6. Once you have one life left, [[RedIsViolent your name turns red]] and your primary goal is now to kill everyone else. If you die one more time? You're permanently dead, and are now out of the series.
* YetAnotherStupidDeath: Because the server is on hardcore, there are ''plenty'' of people who die to very stupid and preventable means. For example, Scar became a Red in 3rd Life because he walked blindly off a cliff, Scott dropped to Yellow in Last Life because he accidentally threw an ender pearl instead of eating food, and soulmate duo Etho and Joel were knocked down to Yellow in Double Life because Joel broke the boat that caged an enderman when he tried to kill it.
%%** Following up on Double Life, Etho and Joel also lost their second lives when both of them participated in Grian's [[RodAndReelRepurposed fishing rod game]] at the same time, causing them to take double the amount of damage they would have taken had only one of them participated due to their [[{{Synchronization}} shared health]].
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[[folder:3rd Life]]
* NumberOneDime: The Dogwarts banner which Scar steals on Day 5. It's from the first batch of banners created; when everyone else points out they have many more identical banners, Martyn says it holds sentimental value… hence Dogwarts' relentless attempts to kill Scar, since he's stuck the thing on his shield and has constantly held on to it. This culminates into literal ''battles'' where many server-members are killed, sometimes [[KilledOffForReal permanently]], and Dogwarts never end up getting their banner back in the end.
* AccompliceByInaction: Right after Tango is executed by a firing squad, everyone thinks that's that... until Bdubs tells Etho that he too must be punished for not reporting Tango for breaking the rules, causing him to be executed in the same way.
* AllForNothing: In an attempt to gain a monopoly over all the dark oak wood on the server, Grian and Scar spend an hour on Day 1 chopping down a dark oak forest to ensure they'd be the only one with saplings... not knowing that there is a ''second'' dark oak forest in a secluded corner of the map, right by Scott and Jimmy's base. When they hear on Day 2 that Scar scammed both Joel and Cleo out of their items by promising them dark oak saplings sometime in the future, they start distributing free dark oak saplings to everyone else out of spite.
* AnvilOnHead: On Day 6, Joel attempts to {{invoke|dTrope}} this on Scott by setting up a trap at his base while he is away fighting, so that two anvils will fall on his head when he tries to enter. {{Subverted|Trope}} in that the trap was not set up correctly and only succeeds in giving Scott two free anvils.
* BigFancyCastle: Several of them have been built across the server, such as Etho's lava walled wool castle and Bdubs' and Cleo's [[MyNaymeIs Crastle]] with a moat.
* BigYes: Grian shouts this out after successfully killing 3 people with his TNT trap, [[FissionMailed even though it initially failed]].
* {{Bookends}}: Scar is the first and last to die, killed by Grian in both cases.[[note]]That is, if you exclude Grian's LastSurvivorSuicide.[[/note]]
* {{Cliffhanger}}: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Day 5 ends with an all-out war between the Desert and Renchanting that doesn't see an end in that episode. However, Day 6 starts without this fight... and then it becomes a DoubleSubversion when the fight resumes mid-episode.
* CommonLawMarriage: The "Flower Husbands", who simply have a small love declaration alongside FlowersOfRomance (on Jimmy's part) before settling in the same corner of the map together -- it's not like there's time or resources in the middle of a DeadlyGame for them to have a proper ceremony anyway. They proceed to [[BattleCouple fight alongside each other]] in the brewing war... until things start ''really'' [[KilledOffForReal hitting the fan]], at least.
* DeadlyPrank: The first death on the server is caused by Grian leading a creeper over to a cluster of players to scare them, then setting it off by accident, blowing Scar up. This ultimately kick-starts the plotline of the season.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Etho loves to make fun of the size of the Crastle to annoy Bdubs, as well as Bdubs' real-life height, which is actually average despite his testiness about it. After Etho gets Cleo to do the same, she [[LampshadeHanging points out that this trope is in play]].
* DownerEnding: Everyone dies. That much was a ForegoneConclusion. Grian's perspective really hammers it in: after an entire series of him and Scar wanting to make it big together, their friendship collapses and the two fight to the death. Grian wins, but his victory is hollow -- everyone else is dead, and his only true friend for the entire series is gone at his hands. Grian ends the series by taking his own life: he didn't die with riches, friends, and power -- he died sad, poor, and alone, in the ruins of his and Scar's magnum opus.
* EnemyMine:
** The Crastle (Bdubs especially) was never on great terms with the Sand People, due to hostilities from the Desert's side that resulted in the loss of Bdubs' second life, and even the alliance that Cleo forged between the factions was tenuous at best. However, after the Battle for the Red Desert destroyed the Sand People's home base, and the resulting fight between the Crastle and Dogwarts resulted in the elimination of Cleo, Bdubs realized it'd be foolish to reject the Sand People's allegiance and invited them into the Crastle right before it was besieged.
** The server ended up devolving into politics because of a schism between the Desert and the Flower Forest over the monopoly on dark oak. When things really get down to the wire, however, these two factions end up forming an alliance at the end of Day 5.
* ExplosiveStupidity: The TNT minecart trap on Day 4 (the one that netted Grian the highest kill count on the server) definitely counts. First off, [[EpicFail it doesn't even detonate at first]], meaning Grian misses out on so many more kills. However, as Scott proposes a fairly foolproof idea of detonating the bomb without killing anyone (shooting it from a distance with an arrow), Jimmy spies the TNT. For a myriad of reasons, ranging from greed[[note]]Gunpowder is a fairly uncommon mob drop and Grian and Scar have a monopoly on sand, so TNT is a rare item[[/note]] to generally not thinking things through[[note]]For some reason, Jimmy believed the bomb was disarmed despite ample warnings that it wasn't[[/note]], Jimmy immediately goes to grab it... and nudges the TNT minecart ever so slightly, which ''immediately'' sets off the bomb. Most of the people around the bomb have left by now, but the resulting explosion still kills Jimmy, Skizz, and Ren, placing the former two on their last life and destroying all three players' items ([[AllForNothing including the TNT Jimmy wanted so badly]]).
* FlowerMotifs: The Flower Forest faction and relationship within is represented, both in this series and [[WebVideo/EmpiresSMP beyond]], with gifts of poppies as FlowersOfRomance.
* GilliganCut: On Day 3, Bdubs tells Cleo that he won't participate in Tango's minigame, Dare To Flare, calling it a "stupid little game". The next shot? Bdubs telling Impulse he wants to play.
* AGodAmI: Arguable; the Renchanting slogan that Martyn came up with is "Don't be a dog, be a god."
* GreyAndGrayMorality: None of the people or factions on the server are what you would call morally upstanding. Dogwarts actively seeks to kill everyone on the server and wages war against those who refuse to join them; the Desert scams everyone out of everything and sets up traps for their allies and enemies alike, and its two core members are only truly loyal to each other, not even their allies. Even the Flower Forest, arguably the most peaceful faction, [[NeutralNoLonger joins the Desert after they've been threatened by Dogwarts]], and when Jimmy is killed, Scott goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, vowing to destroy Dogwarts for murdering his husband.
* IronicName: The Pufferish of Peace is gifted and named as a symbol of the alliance between the Red Desert and the Flower Forest, the latter being one of the most peaceful factions on the server. When the warmongering Dogwarts gets ahold of it, with Martyn stealing it from the Flower Forest just before the Battle of the Red Desert, it's repeatedly used [[PainfulPointyPufferfish as a weapon of war]].
* KansasCityShuffle: After Grian sets up a water elevator in Bdubs's castle on Day 5, Bdubs catches Grian with pufferfish and Grian admits that he'd tried to rig the elevator with it. Bdubs is happy that he caught Grian before the trap could be complete... and proceeds to burn to death when he goes up the elevator, realizing too late that Grian ''had'' rigged his trap -- and that said trap was ''lava''.
* MoodWhiplash: On Day 1, a large group meets up in the center of the map to trade resources, exchange information and dance to Bdubs' jukebox... until night falls, and about a dozen phantoms suddenly swoop down on them, sending all of them running for cover.
* PalatialSandcastle: The base Grian built on top of the Monopoly Mountain was a sandcastle that is large enough for him and Scar to reside in the desert for the majority of the season before it was destroyed on Day 6, resulting in Grian and Scar moving away to a bunker.
* PassThePopcorn: As the Red Desert briefly siege the Crastle, Martyn and Ren have just returned from recruiting Etho into Dogwarts; having no stake in the conflict at that point, the two simply stand back to watch the fireworks, with the former discussing eating popcorn during their joint commentary of the attack.
* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: Said to Scar many times by various people, since he chooses to not wear a shirt throughout the season.
* PointOfNoReturn: Grian sticks with Scar even after losing his first life since it's clear there's no way he's avoiding retribution even if he ditches Scar; he's simply become too involved in the politics of the server to back out now.
* ARareSentence: "You don't just climb into a coffin with another man and not be bros for life."
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After Jimmy is killed in the Battle of the Red Desert, Scott -- who up until this point had been trying to stay out of conflict as much as possible -- [[CrusadingWidow vows to get his revenge]] on Ren and the rest of Dogwarts, and joins the Desert in their offensive. This rampage nets him a KillTally of two and a count of arson before he himself gets KilledOffForReal by Dogwarts.
* RuleOfThree:
** Scar goes to burn Etho's base in revenge for Pizza, and it takes him three tries to do it.
** The name of the season is 3rd Life, and each player gets three lives.
* {{Scandalgate}}: {{Parodied|Trope}} near the end of Day 4, when Martyn refers to the TNT minecart triple kill incident as "Gategate".
* ShotAtDawn: Tango is executed by firing squad for violating the "No Helmets" rule.
* SoleSurvivor: Grian wins the final fight between himself and Scar, making him the winner of 3rd Life. [[LastSurvivorSuicide It doesn't last]].
* SuddenlySignificantRule: The "No Helmets" rule, which hasn't been paid much mind, suddenly becomes ''very'' important on Day 5 when Tango breaks it and is sentenced to execution by firing squad.
* ThereWasADoor: Most people opt to break through Dogwarts' wall rather than use the door, much to Ren's annoyance.
* TogetherInDeath: After being KilledOffForReal, TheStinger of Scott's perspective of the finale has Jimmy give him an AfterlifeWelcome in a completed version of the Flower Forest. CanonWelding with ''WebVideo/EmpiresSMP'' Season 1 also gives them a ReincarnationRomance.
* TooDumbToLive: {{Discussed|Trope}} twice.
** On Day 6, Grian rigs the Desert to immediately explode when someone enters the main base. Scar, ''his own ally'', considers stepping on the pressure plate, and Grian notes that if Scar dies, he won't even feel bad because he's been warned so many times. Later in the day, Scar admits he nearly stepped on the plate and only didn't from an accidental bug. He then intentionally sets it off to try and take out his enemies, but only ends up harming (but thankfully not killing) himself and Tango.
** On Day 7, after Jimmy is KilledOffForReal, Grian notes he kind of had it coming since he not only failed to activate a trap despite ample warning, but only ''did'' activate the trap ''when Grian, his own ally, was caught inside''.
* WarIsHell: While the server starts out with faction politics as the main source of conflict, the latter half of the season drives home the point how the escalating conflict as a ''war'' has brought nothing but horrors for everyone. By the last two sessions of the season, even the relatively pacifistic players have had to take up arms, former friends have drifted apart and turned against each other as leading figures on opposite sides, most server-members have lost allies and friends (and in at least one case, suffered from bereavement) before being taken out themselves -- oftentimes without mercy, and even the "winning" faction has destroyed their home in the process and ultimately gets a DownerEnding by the nature of the DeadlyGame itself.
* WhamEpisode: Day 7. Where do we begin...
** Grian, Scott, Martyn, and Impulse each lose their first life, leaving Big B as the only remaining Green Name. Even then, that's only because he was PutOnABus for the episode, and his bright green IGN only serves to put a large target on his back when he returns on Day 8.
** Grian goes back on something he's pledged for the entire series and decides to stick around with Scar in spite of his "first life" rule -- he's past the PointOfNoReturn regarding the collapsing politics of the server, and even if he ditched Scar he'd still be a big target.
** Jimmy, Cleo, and Skizz are KilledOffForReal, making them the first permanent casualties of the server.
** The Red Desert is left a smoking crater in the aftermath of a vicious battle.
* WhenTreesAttack: Cleo gets a scare on Day 1 when a sapling she was standing over grows into a tree, nearly suffocating her inside its trunk.
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[[folder:Last Life]]
* AfterTheEnd: Downplayed, but after Day 7, the world sure starts to feel this way. All major bases were destroyed or abandoned when their members either died, turned Red, or were forced to flee after repeated attacks from the Red Lives. Tentative alliances of Greens and Yellows resorted to roaming the server, looting anything valuable that was left in the ruins of bases, while the Reds got a lot more outwardly hostile, attacking anyone they saw roaming the server instead of relying on traps. The few bases left standing (the Shadow Fort and Magical Mountain) were clumsily patched up and reinforced, serving as strongholds for the survivors, though the Reds managed to sweep through them multiple times, and Martyn's attempt to hide out at Magical Mountain ended in his death as it was overrun.
* AloneWithThePsycho: During Day 3, Grian is snooping through Scott and Pearl's house while they're away, when suddenly Joel reveals his presence as he sets up a trap. Grian's [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl scream]] of pure unadulterated terror is truly something to behold.
* AntiClimax: During Day 7, all but one of Grian's wolves is killed during the chaotic warfare. The SoleSurvivor proceeds to walk into a cactus and die instantly, with the Red Names watching in complete disbelief.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Joel and Lizzie, being a married couple both in- and out-of-universe. In spite of their numerous attempts to [[TilMurderDoUsPart off each other]][[labelnote:*]]from Joel luring Lizzie into a trap as the Boogeyman of Day 2 to Lizzie plotting Joel's demise while both of them were Red Lives on Day 7[[/labelnote]], on Day 7 they share declarations of love in case either one of them died while preparing to lava-trap the Scottage from above.
* BlatantLies: On Day 7, Joel blows up the roof of Scar's wizard hut in an attempt to kill Scott and Cleo. On Day 8, he tells Scar that Bdubs vandalized the roof, who is conveniently eliminated at that point and can't refute it. Scar learns the truth from Pearl, however.
* CassandraTruth: While Mumbo and Grian are building the ghast farm platform together, Mumbo spots Joel, a Red Life, climbing the ladder up to them. Mumbo immediately alerts Grian to this fact, but Grian thinks he's just joking around and trying to scare him, until Joel shoots him off the platform to his death.
* ColourCodedTimestop: [[spoiler:The Watchers]] talking to Martyn is often shown this way, except for the chase at the beginning of Day 8.
* DarkestHour: The end of Day 7. Six people had lost their last lives, and were out of the series permanently. Every major base on the server was destroyed or abandoned as their inhabitants either turned Red or were forced to flee. In the end, the Reds continue to roam the server while Scott, Cleo, Ren and Etho (the last non-Reds aside from Martyn, who had split off from them at some point and was still missing, and Pearl, who missed the end of the day due to a power outage) hunkered down in the lava-casted remains of the Scottage's underground base, struggling for food and other resources, desperately trying to figure out what to do next.
* DifficultySpike: InUniverse. On Day 8, Grian discovered that the server had been set to "Easy" rather than "Hard", as it was intended to be. He changed the difficulty and it had immediate effects, namely Etho's death to a creeper explosion which now caused more damage than he expected, as well as a huge uptick in armored mobs.
* DownerEnding: Once again, everybody dies. After Martyn's death, there are no more Green Lives remaining, meaning the Reds on the server have to duke it out between themselves. Scott, Cleo, Pearl and Ren form an alliance to go after Grian and Joel, and while they lose Cleo during the fight, in the end Grian and Joel go down as well. Scott, Pearl and Ren decide that they don't want to betray one another, and each of the four remaining Reds picks a cardinal direction (Pearl picks north, Scott picks east, [[GoingHomeAgain Martyn picks south]] and Ren picks west), they split off, count down, and each of them charges into the center of the map where they proceed to [[DuelToTheDeath slaughter each other until only one remains]]. The winner of Last Life, Scott, only gets a brief moment to say goodbye to his axolotl Binkie before he too drops dead.
* EpicFail:
** On Day 2, Joel managed to go from four lives down to one. Motivated by his Boogeyman status, he tried killing other players to remove the affliction. He started with a pitfall trap. First, he lured Lizzie there to push her in, but ended up falling into it himself. Later, with a crowd lured in, Grian accidentally discovered the trap, exposing it to the others there. Joel panicked and tried to kill Martyn, which got him killed by Mumbo. As a last resort, he went after Scott and Pearl -- successfully killing Scott but also getting himself revenge-killed by Pearl.
** On Day 5, Scar tries to enter the Southlands' fort and triggers their TNT-lava-PitTrap. The Southlanders are stunned when he survives, meaning they've lost their TNT for nothing as well as Mumbo's redstone door. This flips on Scar when they reset the trap and he triggers it again despite knowing it was there and having several people tell him to not trigger it. He doesn't survive a second time.
* FalseReassurance: Mumbo tries to convince Grian to walk into an obvious trap, but he doesn't do it well.
-->'''Mumbo:''' If you walk through at the same time as me… then… then… then… good things'll happen I reckon.
* FoodAsBribe: When Scar and Grian are trying to get Mumbo to join their respective alliances on Day 1, Grian keeps offering more and more salmon to tempt him.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Cleo seems to have a knack for it this season.
** When Cleo first comes to Lizzie's Fairy Forest on Day 1, she casually remarks on its flammability, as it's made entirely of trees. Come Day 5 and Cleo, now a Red Life, burns the Forest to the ground to dislodge and intimidate her old allies.
** Later on, Pearl shows Cleo and Scott her booby-trapped dance room in the Green Lives club, and Cleo tells her she doesn't think it will kill Martyn or Etho but it would probably get Ren. Sure enough on Day 9, when Pearl lures the three of them into the room and activates the trap for her Boogeyman kill, Martyn and Etho survive it while Ren dies.
* FunWithAcronyms: Team B.E.S.T.'s name is an acronym made up of the first letters of its members' names ('''B'''dubs, '''E'''tho, '''S'''kizz, '''T'''ango). Whenever one of their members turns Red, plenty of jokes are made about having to change the acronym.
* HistoryRepeats:
** Once again, Grian is responsible for the loss of Scar's first life, this time by scamming him into transferring it to him.
** Once again, Jimmy is the first to be eliminated after losing his last life. It even happens on Day 7 again.
--->'''Scott:''' [[LampshadeHanging Why is he always the first one out the series]]?
** Once again, Day 7 marks the complete collapse of the server's fragile alliance system as several players die and many more drop to their Red lives.
* KillSteal: On Day 7, Martyn becomes the Boogeyman after Pearl, the original Boogeyman, left the day early due to a power outage. Martyn attempts to kill his only ally Grian, but unbeknownst to either of them, Joel is watching from the shadows and is able to shoot Grian once before he kills himself with Ender pearl damage. This causes the game to credit Joel with the kill, leaving Martyn friendless and still needing to kill someone.
* IronicEcho: Early on, Grian tried to buy a life off Scar, instead being told he could pre-order one to buy later. Scar ended up walking back on that deal, pissing Grian off immensely. After Grian turned Red on Day 4, he went back to Scar to threaten him, while Scar desperately tried to make a new deal with him. Grian's response was that he could put that deal on pre-order.
* {{Irony}}: On Day 3, Joel sets the Southlands' outer wall on fire. Most of them fail to notice at first because they're too distracted by Mumbo's new redstone door, which he specifically built to help protect them from outside attacks.
* JumpScare: It happens to Scar a lot. So far, Cleo has done it twice and Grian once.
** On Day 7, Skizz did it to Jimmy, Lizzie did it to Mumbo, and Ren did it to Big B, who even put a ScareChord over it.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: On Day 6, Grian attempts to spark infighting among the Red Names so that he doesn't have to deal with a unified Red Team.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: The Boogeyman, who is randomly selected out of the living non-Red players and must kill someone with two or more lives to cure themselves or be reduced to their last life the next day. In all, the Boogeymen were Bdubs (Day 1), Joel and Scar (Day 2), Lizzie (Day 3), Ren and Big B (Day 4), Etho (Day 5), Mumbo, Etho again, Bdubs again, Joel again, Scott, and Jimmy (Day 6), Pearl[[labelnote:*]]she ended up having a power outage, causing her to be exempt from it... but then got a kill from a trap anyway[[/labelnote]] and Martyn[[labelnote:*]]chosen after Pearl's reshuffle[[/labelnote]] (Day 7), Scott again (Day 8), and Pearl again (Day 9).
* MythologyGag: A few to WebVideo/{{Hermitcraft|Server}}:
** Scar recycles a business scheme from Season 7 of Hermitcraft, which is to rename stained glass and sell them as magical crystals while dressed as a wizard.
** On Day 4, Mumbo decides to build a ghast farm not only for gunpowder, but also for ghast tears so he can produce and weaponize End crystals, a gag from Hermitcraft Season 8.
** In addition to events of the last season being mentioned, Scar also points out to a group of people that when Bdubs wears iron leggings and boots with his current skin, he looks like [[Series/SesameStreet Oscar the Grouch]].
** During Day 5, Mumbo says that the way Impulse denied being the Boogeyman seemed sus, "and by 'sus', I don't mean sustainable".
** After Tango loses his last life on Day 8, Grian makes a grave that says "rest in peace love and plants tango".
* NoManShouldHaveThisPower: Martyn steals the Scottage's Wither skeleton skull for this reason, but he gives it back after hearing that Grian also has one, and bringing the Scottage's skull to their base would make it easier for Grian to collect three and summon a Wither. The Scottage have also taken it upon themselves to ensure that no one faction will ever have more than one skull after Scott, Impulse and Mumbo successfully stole Grian's skull from the Team Red base on Day 5, with Scott delivering it to Lizzie after Grian turned back yellow and rejoined the Southlands.
-->'''Scott:''' It's like the [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Infinity Stones]], we just keep them as spread apart as we can.
* NothingIsScarier: Ever since Day 1, hearing the music disc "13", especially from an unknown or hidden source, is taken to mean that someone is about to attack; although the only time it actually happened was Bdubs' Boogeyman kill against Grian on Day 1. Etho exploits this on Day 3 to frighten several people.
* OverlyLongGag:
** The Southlands united when they all got spyglasses and pointed it at each other's faces while going "AHA!" They kept doing this until it came time to build their base, and Martyn let off a HurricaneOfPuns around the "aha" sound, to the point where the others contemplated whether it was worth killing him to make it stop. They even make an "[[TheSwearJar Aha Jahar]]" on Day 2.
--->'''Martyn:''' I'm literally sweating from laughing, that doesn't happen very often. Like, I'm a ''mess''.\\
'''Mumbo:''' What-\\
'''Martyn:''' I need a shower, or a ba-hath!\\
'''Grian:''' STOP!\\
'''Mumbo:''' MARTYN!\\
'''Jimmy:''' Seriously, can we kill him?!
** On Day 2, Mumbo and Grian spend a very long time digging for diamonds and try to one-up each other by pretending to have hidden diamonds nearby and saying, "My diamonds are right… HERE!"
* PetTheDog: Since Scar is absent during Day 7 for health reasons, everyone else decides to not steal the Enchantment Table from Magical Mountain since it wouldn't be fair to him, [[ZigZaggedTrope although they do take the opportunity]] to get free enchants without his supervision.
* PlotDevice: The Enchantment Table. Unlike the first season, the Table is set at spawn and the players are disallowed from crafting another one or any bookshelves. Although it was clearly intended to remain at spawn, there is evidently [[ExactWords no actual rule stating such]]…
** Day 1: Scar and Joel steal the Table and plan to charge others for its use.
** Day 2: Scar and Joel are both assigned to be Boogeymen for that day. Joel tries to lure other players into a trap by saying the Table is in the back of his cave, when in reality the Table is carried in his inventory. His traps fail and he eventually loses the Table when he is killed by Pearl after killing Scott in their base. Scar tries to intimidate the duo into giving him the Table, but they manage to drive him away long enough to sell the Table to Lizzie in exchange for two lives. Scar arrives at Lizzie's Fairy Forest soon after, but he doesn't find where Lizzie hid the Table and ends up getting tricked into following Pearl and Scott again.
** Day 3: Lizzie and the Castle Alliance set up the Table within the Fairy Forest and plan to charge for its use just like Scar wanted to do, but Lizzie agrees to trade the Table to B.E.S.T. in exchange for enchanted diamond pants and a chestplate. B.E.S.T. returns the Table to its original place at spawn attempting to facilitate free use to the whole server once again, but fail to provide sufficient security which enables Scar to steal the Table a second time. Although he allows the people of the Southlands to use it free of charge for a limited time, he's very careful to keep them from taking it. They are successful in stealing Scar's horse, however, and try to create a HostageSituation in which they demand that Scar give them the Table for the horse's safety. Scar defies them, reminding them that it was actually Grian's horse which Scar first stole from him, and holds onto the Table while the horse is dropped into lava.
** Day 4: Bdubs gives Scar a life in exchange for the Table. B.E.S.T. opts to keep the Table in a secret location in the fort, but allow everyone to use it free of charge.
** Day 5: Bdubs and Etho offer the Table to Scar in exchange for giving Bdubs a life which he accepts, however it turns out to be a scam and Etho, that day's Boogeyman, kills Scar right after the transaction and steals back the Table for B.E.S.T. Scar belatedly realises this, and tries to call on his new contract with Bdubs and Etho to get the table back but they've given it to Skizzleman who hasn't signed Scar's contract. Scar then goes to call on his new allies to get the table back from him, only to die while recruiting Grian (to the same trap he'd miraculously survived earlier that day) and end up as a Red name.
** Day 6: Scar attacks B.E.S.T. for the Table but they restore him to yellow and trade it to him for diamonds, as well as the promise that he'll go after Bdubs when he becomes Red again, a request from Tango who had just been killed by Bdubs, one of that day's Boogeymen.
** Day 7: The Table now has lost most of its driving force with the server shifting to much more open warfare, only used for occasional enchanting with not much fighting surrounding it. It completely falls OutOfFocus for the rest of the season.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Much of the intra-faction conflict on the server is caused by a player refusing to inform their allies of their Boogeyman status, and subsequently resorting to betray their own faction-mate to rid themself of the curse. On the other hand, in the instances where a set of allies are honest about their status and refuse to kill anyone from their faction, things tend to end in much more civil terms.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The survivors of Day 7. They all stem from completely different factions (Scott, Pearl and Cleo from the Scottage, Ren from the Shadow Alliance, Etho from Team B.E.S.T. and Martyn from the Southlands), with varying amounts of grief between them, forced to set it aside and work together to make a final stand.
* RedHerring: The Scottage (Scott, Pearl and later Cleo's house) was built as a decoy, and was never actually lived in. Their real base was buried under the ground, with the house serving as a distraction for anyone coming to steal from them or grief them.
* SpookySeance: {{Parodied|Trope}} during Day 8, with Grian and Joel trying to contact Bdubs' "ghost" (Bdubs in spectator mode), in which they succeed when Bdubs responds to their questions in the chat.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: After Grian and Joel use a TNT minecart cannon to damage the Scottage on Day 5, Scott tells them they could have done more damage by just putting the TNT directly on the house and blowing it up. Grian and Joel's argument is that they wanted to [[RuleOfCool act with flair]].
* SwordOfDamocles: After the Southlands collected three Wither skeleton skulls, they planned to use the threat of unleashing a Wither on the server to strongarm others into doing their bidding.
* TemptingFate:
** On Day 3, Scar refused to make a deal when the Southlands held his horse Yellow Snow hostage. Out of earshot of the Southlands, Scar confidently told his viewers that there was no way they'd hurt Yellow Snow...at the ''exact moment'' that Grian was dropping the horse into lava.
** On Day 4, Bdubs trades a life to Scar for the Enchantment Table, bringing himself down to his yellow life. He promises his teammates at B.E.S.T. that he won't be turning Red... only to fall to his death at the end of the day and do just that.
** On Day 7, Grian's wolf army constantly drops like flies, except for one wolf, who kept teleporting back to Grian no matter what. Grian calls this out, saying that that wolf never seems to give up. Literal ''seconds'' later, the wolf runs straight into a cactus and dies instantly.
* ThisIsMySide: Etho divides their shared castle between himself and Bdubs after Bdubs turns Red, by drawing a line of cobblestone down the middle of it.
* WhamEpisode: A four-parter in days 4, 5, 6 and 7:
** Day 4: Grian, Cleo, and Bdubs all reach their last life, which deals crippling blows to their respective former factions (although technically Cleo had already left the Castle Alliance shortly before turning Red).
** Day 5: Although the Red Lives are restored to Yellow, the Fairy Fort is burned to the ground, the Scottage is blown up, and the Southlands are betrayed by Jimmy, dealing a massive blow to their alliance. Scar is threatened into giving up his remaining lives to the Reds, putting him on yellow, shortly before falling into a trap and becoming Red himself.
** Day 6: There are not one, not two but ''six'' Boogeymen, three of which are Boogeymen for the second time. After numerous kills throughout the day there are six Red Lives, including the entirety of the Magical Mountain faction, and the Scottage is the only faction to survive with all its members still on green. The Southlands are officially disbanded, and as the three remaining members torch their base to put their old alliance to rest, they remain victorious in that they now have three Wither skeleton skulls (although Martyn doesn't know that).
** Day 7: The Scottage is submerged in lava by Lizzie and Joel, B.E.S.T.'s snow fortress is destroyed by a Wither spawned by the now-Red Grian and Impulse, six players are KilledOffForReal and the six remaining non-Reds are forced to band together to survive.
*** Furthermore the entire dynamic of the server shifts noticeably. Where before the Reds were more focused on trapping and harassing yellow and green names, they now shift to actively hunting them down. Every faction save for the Scottage is destroyed or disbanded as their members have either died, turned Red, or were forced to flee their homes after repeated attacks from the Reds. In the end, Scott and Cleo resort to gathering the few remaining non-Reds together (save Martyn, who they couldn't find, and Pearl, who missed the second half of the day) and hiding them away in the Scottage's now-destroyed underground base. From this point forth, the Survivors spend most of their time looting the remains of abandoned bases, trying to fortify the few structures still left standing to protect themselves, and hiding away from the Reds to avoid being hunted down and slaughtered.
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[[folder:Double Life]]
* AchievementsInIgnorance: Martyn and Joel end up accidentally killing the "Ranchers' Revenge" Warden with fall damage on Day 4 while playing around with fishing rods.[[note]]It had already lost most of its health in the previous episode from drowning when Tango brought it up to the surface.[[/note]]
* ArrowsOnFire: On Day 6, while Scott and Pearl are sieged on top of Pearl's tower base, Martyn and Cleo briefly shoot arrows through fire at the Red Lives in an attempt to set them alight.
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Throughout Day 5, the Red Names have absolutely ''zero'' qualms threatening or killing Scar's Jellie Pandas or burning down the Sanctuary Scar built for them to try to cow Scar into submission, and later shoot Scar's pet Allay while using it for target practice. In the finale, Joel and Scar also casually blow up Pearl's dogs for no reason other than the fact they can, solidifying her stance against the Red Names.
* BigNo: Grian's reaction when he realizes he's linked to [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Scar]].
* BlowThatHorn: In Grian's first episode, he collects several goat horns in a mountainous corner of the world to test out their sounds, and gives away the "bad" ones (e.g. the Seek variant, which makes a noise identical to the sound that plays during Pillager raids) to other players. These players later unofficially form a group called the Horn Club/Gang, where they would respond by blowing their own Goat Horns when a member blows theirs, mainly out of amusement.
** On Day 5, the horns turn into the Horns of Destruction type when the Reds use it as a rallying cry when hunting down Grian and Scar.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Scar's description for his third episode goes as follows:
-->Welcome to Last Life season 3 renamed Double Life SMP - episode 3! We start Double Life [=Ep3=] by opening the Jellie / Panda reserve and couples retreat. The first visitor is Mart[y]n and Cleo and I try to bring them back together. We became the worst paper salesman and play Grian's snow bucket challenge with Bdubs. Who will win, Bdubs or me? You will have to find out. Also, Tango lets a Warden out onto the map...
* CallBack: A group of players find an amethyst geode on Day 1, and Martyn wastes no time in making a spyglass and an "aha" pun. [[OhNoNotAgain The others tell him to not bring that back]].
* CantLiveWithoutYou: By the {{synchroniz|ation}}ed nature of soulbound pairs, when one player dies, their soulmate dies as well immediately afterward.
* ChekhovsGun:
** On Day 4, Ren and [=BigB=] rig a trap using a zombie spawner, and use their generated zombie "army" to crash Bdubs and Impulse's pool party at the end of the episode, killing them in the chaos that ensued. This returns as a ChekhovsBoomerang on Day 5, when Scar digs into the zombie pit and loses his and Grian's first life trying to escape.
** The modded mechanism where Skulk Sensors can be triggered by the sound of someone's voice. At first, it's just an obstacle for anyone venturing into the Ancient City to get enchantments in order to avoid spawning the Warden in, but on Day 5, Joel and Etho rig a TNT trap using one, killing Scar (and thus Grian) while he was trying to invite everyone to a funeral for Jimmy and Tango (who had been KilledOffForReal earlier the same episode).
** At the start of Day 5, Grian attempts to prank Scar using a falling dripstone stalactite, which almost kills the both of them. At the end of the episode, he skewers Ren with a falling stalactite and causes him and Big B to be KilledOffForReal with the same trick.
** At the end of Day 5, Grian makes a grave in the mountains for Big B after accidentally killing him by proxy. Scott stumbles across it on Day 6 and he later [[RobbingTheDead steals the sand from the grave-site]] to make TNT, which is later used to either distract the two Wardens the Red Lives ferried up to the surface... or to die from suicide at the end of the series.
* DownerEnding: As usual, everyone dies. Once the Red Lives hunt down the remaining Yellow Lives, two of the five remaining soulbound pairs at the time end up dying as a result of their own or their partners' stupidity (in oddly ironic/symbolic ways to boot). After Pearl kills the remaining two enemy soulbound pairs, she meets up with Scott. She gets a few moments to relax with her dogs… before Scott blows himself up, instantly killing them both due their {{synchronization}}.
* DramaticIrony: On Day 5, while discussing how Scar stole the Enchanting Table the previous day and how they'd have to find a way to get it from him, Martyn remarks, "There's no way he's not buried it in the Panda Sanctuary, by the way, it's just gonna be underneath a couple of, like, dirt blocks or something for sure." As it turns out, according to [[SwitchingPOV Scar's episode]] for Day 4, that's ''exactly'' what he did, and that's what the Reds find when they start griefing the Panda Sanctuary.[[note]]As the four spy on the griefing from just beyond its walls, Martyn lampshades that he called it.[[/note]]
* DueToTheDead: ZigZaggingTrope.
** While members of the server hold or attend unofficial funerals and make small memorials for those who are KilledOffForReal, even if they themselves were the killers, most have no issue stealing from the dead's bases like they would have done anyway if they were alive.
** [[RobbingTheDead Robbing the dead's inventory-items]] if they're not on their final life is more grey territory than anything; putting the dead's items in a double-chest is usually considered basic courtesy, especially if the people in question just turned Red and can freely murder item-thieves as revenge.
* ExactEavesdropping: At the start of Day 5, Scott and Cleo learn about Team Rancher's plan to kill Grian and Scar, the last Greens left at the time, by eavesdropping on the Reds' meeting the Ranchers called. Martyn also happens to eavesdrop on them at the same time, and the three gather to seek out Pearl, believing WorkingWithTheEx to be the best option for them.
* {{Foil}}: Scar and Scott, on a small scale. While both of them build an animal-related structure claiming it can help to bring soulmates closer together (the Jellie Panda Reserve/Petting Zoo and the Relationship Ranch, respectively), Scar seems genuine in his attempts, while Scott does so with the explicit intention of {{gaslighting}} soulbound pairs into falling apart. This ultimately doesn't last due to CerebusSyndrome.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Likely unintentionally. On Day 5, Joel swears that if the Relation-Ship burns, everything burns. In the episode after, him and his soulmate lose their last life by burning in lava in Martyn and Pearl's trapped Nether portal after their portals linked up.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: On Day 3, Tango attempts to get revenge on Grian and Scar burning down their ranch by ferrying a Warden up into their base, which just results in the Warden roaming the server and terrifying everyone. The resulting chaos indirectly causes the death of soulmate pair Ren and [=BigB=] near the end of the session, making the first Red Lives.
* GotVolunteered: Tango and Jimmy get roped into defending Grian and Scar from the wrath of the rest of the server on Day 4 because they happened to come up to their safety platform so Tango could enchant his boots just before everyone else shows up to lay siege on them.
-->'''Grian:''' ''(in the chat)'' tango and jimmy are going to defend us to the end\\
'''Jimmy:''' Grian, I don't think we agreed on that.
* HistoryRepeats: On Day 5, Jimmy becomes the first to permanently die on the server. ''[[RuleOfThree For the third time]].''[[note]]This time by losing a fight with an Enderman.[[/note]] Naturally, this is lampshaded by everyone, including his content creator counterpart.
* HostageSituation: PlayedForLaughs on Day 5 when the so-called "Divorce Quartet", the only Yellow Names at the time, take [[ButtMonkey Jimmy]] hostage and trap him in a cobbled deepslate and dirt box in his own Ranch just to mess with him.
* {{Irony}}: After Bdubs betrayed Impulse and took his last life at the end of 3rd Life, and Impulse helped summon the Wither that brought Bdubs down to Red and directly resulted in him losing his last life in Last Life, the two are now partners in Double Life and must keep each other alive.
* JokeAndReceive: When off adventuring in caves with Pearl, Martyn jokes about the possibility that both of their soul-linked partners have also teamed up. Later, it turns out they have, and their partners quickly tire of waiting for Martyn and Pearl and [[ScrewDestiny abandon them]].
-->'''Martyn:''' I think whoever we're soulbound with, I think they're also hanging out together. I would love that parallel, seeing what we're doing and what they're doing at the same time.\\
'''Pearl:''' I know. Imagine if both the people we're partnered with, yeah, if they're linked. You'd see two [=POVs=] of both of us wondering who they're partnered with.
* KickTheDog: Just about everyone bullies Jimmy and Tango. On Day 2 alone, Scott leads an effort to stop them getting goat horns and then gets everyone to stop responding to their horn calls after they get horns, then gets Cleo to do an EscortDistraction so he can steal their goats, which directly results in Scar burning down their base since they stole his horse while they were falling for Cleo's trick.
* LoveLetter: Grian, unsatisfied with his own soulmate, secretly has eyes on [=BigB=]. At the end of Day 2, he breaks into Box and builds a not-so-secret heart. He attaches a sign saying "[[BetterPartnerAssertion Get yourself a soulmate who doesn't die to endermen <3]]". He also gifts a chest full of bread with a sign reading "I baked you this bread, it's made of GRAIN", a hint for [=BigB=] since "grain" is a misspelling of 'Grian'.
* MegaNeko: The Jellie Pandas, to some degree. While they are functionally Panda mobs, exclusively from Scar's perspective, they're retextured to look like his cat Jellie, resulting in huge "cats" the size of giant pandas.
* MickeyMousing: {{Discussed|Trope}}. During the memorial held for the Relation-Ship, the attendees play the music disc "otherside" while watching the structure burn, and make a joke about the Relation-Ship ''exploding'' the moment the beat drops in the tune.
* NoYou: When Pearl and Martyn try to make a trade with Impulse and Bdubs, Pearl suggests to Martyn that they could find better deals elsewhere, saying that they're "scraping the bottom of the barrel". Bdubs angrily tells Pearl that it is her, not them, at the bottom of the barrel.
* PapaWolf: On Day 4, the sight of Joel and Etho threatening his Jellie pandas was enough to motivate Scar into jumping down from a tall platform. And surviving with [[SoftWater the water bucket trick]]. Joel and Etho actually left Scar alone for the rest of the siege in shock that Scar was able to pull a move like that off.
* PortmanteauCoupleName: In-universe. While Joel refers to him and Etho as [[IdiosyncraticShipNaming "Boat Boys" or "Boat Gang"]], on Day 1, Grian calls them "[=SmallEtho=]".
-->'''Grian:''' Well, you can't be "[=EthoBeans=]"!
* ProfessionalKiller:
** On Day 4, several soulbound-pairs of the server consider the idea of hiring the resident Red Lives to kill their enemies ''for'' them. For example, Scott and Cleo hire Joel and Etho, who had just turned Red earlier that episode, to kill Team Rancher in an established feud. Joel and Etho contemplate this, but accept the offer upon learning Tango has access to the enchanting table that Scar stole at the start of the episode.[[note]]In a twist of fate, at the start of Day 4, Team Rancher also try to hire Ren and [=BigB=], the first Red Lives of the season, to kill Scott for them because they felt him and his Relationship Ranch was stealing their brand, but the plan ultimately fell through.[[/note]]
** On Day 5, one idea bounced around in the Red Lives' meeting is to get Cleo (a Yellow Life at the time) to attack Scar and Grian for them.
* RedStringOfFate: The main gimmick of the season is that two soulbound players [[{{Synchronization}} share a health bar]], and realize someone is their soulmate when the other takes damage (or in the case of Jimmy with Tango, ''[[CantLiveWithoutYou when the other dies]]''). As a result, there's a tendency on Day 1 for players to hit each other to see if the other is their soulmate. This is eventually PlayedForDrama on Scott and Cleo's side as they decide to ScrewDestiny, among many other twists and turns related to this.
* RelationshipSabotage: Many players try to do this in order to weaken other partnerships and alliances.
** Bdubs and Impulse try to get people alone to give them vague warnings about their soulmates trash talking about them behind their backs, although it doesn't always work due to some people knowing that their soulmate couldn't possibly have had time to gossip, and some people already being on bad terms with their soulmate, making Bdubs' and Impulse's efforts unnecessary.
** Grian tries to get Big B to break up with Ren by making himself out as a secret admirer to Big B. It somewhat works since Big B was willing to secretly ally with Grian, and the "affair" has put some strain on Big B and Ren's relationship.
** Scott creates the "Relationship Ranch" on Day 3, which he markets as a couples' retreat meant to strengthen relationships with trust exercises. Its true purpose, however, is for Scott to {{gaslight|ing}} the couples by AccentuatingTheNegative in supervising the activities and inciting concern between the couples.
* RodAndReelRepurposed: Much of Day 4 is dedicated to every other person on the server playing around with fishing rods by flinging entities far into the air with them. While it is indeed fun, it carries a strong risk to it in that the entity in question can be [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou killed]] if they don't land in SoftWater or have enough health to survive the fall -- first demonstrated by the "Ranchers' Revenge" Warden at the start of the episode, then Etho and Joel in the middle of it, causing the two to become Red Names.
* ScrewDestiny: Due to their soulmates having gone adventuring to the Deep Dark and the Nether in the very first episode, Scott and Cleo decide to ''choose'' to become pseudo-soulmates purely because their own soulmates refuse to show up to player gatherings, and they call their soulmates out for this at the end of the episode. Unfortunately, Pearl doesn't take this well, due to not exactly ''volunteering'' to go adventuring in the first place, and perceives it as abandonment in turn.
-->'''Scott:''' I like Cleo. I don't need a ''soulmate''. [[LampshadeHanging I pick my own destiny]], Big B!
* StickyFingers: This applies to just about ''everyone'' when it comes to ''everything''; everyone's base is pretty much free game when it comes to robbing valuables.
* StylisticSuck: Ren and Big B's Box was designed to be as unappealing as possible so people would be deterred from visiting/attacking. As its name implies, it's a giant cobblestone box with facial features being added as the series progresses.
* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic:
** During the pool party at the end of Day 4, Impulse (the "DJ") puts on the music disc "13", a creepy ambient track, when armed zombies begin rising from the pool thanks to Ren and [=BigB=]'s trap. The music plays as night falls and Bdubs is chased by the pair until he is killed.
** Averted at the memorial held for the burning Relation-Ship, since the only music disc the attendees had was "otherside", a light and upbeat march.
* {{Synchronization}}: The premise of this season. Each player's health-bar is linked to another, if one takes damage so will the other, and [[CantLiveWithoutYou if one dies, the other does as well]]. The official series description refers to these duos as "soulmates". Since the game doesn't directly tell people who their soulmate is, most of the first day was spent with everyone running around punching each other to find their partner. (And in Jimmy and Tango's case, they didn't find out until the latter lost his first life.)
* TemptingFate: In Scott's second episode, while discussing the goat horns and the goats living near them, he and Cleo both decide to hide the goats from Jimmy so he can't get a horn. The ''very next scene'' starts with Scott spotting Jimmy leading a couple of goats away.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: After Tango and Jimmy end up getting stuck up on a wooden platform with Grian and Scar while the entire server is out for the latter two's blood, Tango ends up asking a very important question.[[note]]It was actually made out of dirt, but that made little difference when Martyn water-bucketed his way up and lit the platform on fire.[[/note]]
-->'''Tango:''' Is the pillar up to this made out of wood?\\
''(Grian silently looks at Scar)''\\
'''Tango:''' Your awkward silence speaks everything.
* UndergroundCity: The only Enchanting Table allowed on the server begins squirreled away in the Ancient City. Scar steals it on Day 4, causing him to become HatedByAll on the server. The location becomes vital on Day 6 as one of the sites of confrontation between the factions at the time.
* UndignifiedDeath: After being targeted by the Red Names for over half the episode, pulling off the S-tier MLG Water Bucket the previous day, on top of surviving several days in the series without dying, Scar ends up falling into Ren's zombie spawner pit and [[DevouredByTheHorde dying in it]] on Day 5.
-->'''Martyn:''' ''(in the in-game chat)'' yikes, the reds can't do it so the world did
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: On Day 2, Pearl goes to Ren and [=BigB=]'s Box where she jokingly steals their horse. When Ren tries to retrieve it, he accidentally looks at an Enderman and is killed, taking the first life of him and his soulmate, [=BigB=]. This leads to Pearl being banned from Box and Ren branding her as a harbinger of evil and "demoness".
* VisualPun: Joel and Etho, being soulbound to each other, have built a large ship as their base called the Relation-''ship''. Scott burns half of it to ashes on Day 5; combined with Joel's resultant MadnessMantra of "If the ship burns, everything burns", it ends up as unintentional {{foreshadowing}} to Joel and Etho's final death in the finale by burning in lava.
* WhamEpisode: Episode 4, when things really start to hit the fan. By the end of the session, there are ''four pairs'' of Red Lives, and everyone else is Yellow except Grian and Scar, whose base was sieged by literally ''everyone else'' for the stolen enchanting table save Jimmy and Tango, who became one of the Red Life pairs during their defense against the siege.
* WorkingWithTheEx:
** {{Discussed|Trope}} on Day 5. At the start of the episode, when Team Rancher calls the other Red Names to a meeting, Cleo and Scott snoop on them and discuss that if they're forming a Red Alliance, they'd have to team up with their separated assigned-soulmates to stand a chance against them, as by that point, the Red Names consisted of over half the server population.
** It's later played straight when the Ranchers' call turns out to be one to kill Grian and Scar, the last Green Lives left, and the two believe they'd be the Reds' next target as the only Yellow Lives left. As a result, the "Divorce Quartet" do, in fact, team up with their estranged soulmates for Days 5 and 6. However, they stick to primarily working alongside their non-soulbound partners as it made them less vulnerable, forcing enemies to go through two health-bars instead of one.
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[[folder:Limited Life]]
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The '''B'''ad '''B'''oys often make references to having items and builds of a similar naming scheme, like the '''B'''read '''B'''ridge and '''b'''amboo. They also create '''P'''otato '''P'''ier.
* AmnesiaEpisode: Day 6 has Cleo and Pearl mysteriously coming down with an "amnesia-cold" for the duration of the session, and the two are briefly PutOnABus while [=GeminiTay=] and Lizzie substitute in for them temporarily. While the out-of-universe explanation is due to content creator unavailability (Pearl) or technical difficulties (Cleo), the in-universe explanation Martyn gives is that [[spoiler:their emotional states are still fractured from the events of Double Life and need more time to heal, so that [[GreaterScopeVillain the Watchers]] can have a more continuous source of [[EmotionEater snacks]].]]
* AwesomeButImpractical: The Bad Boys' Skynet 2.0, a version of Skynet constructed after the destruction of Bread Bridge, is located at almost build limit and is used for espionage and [[DeathFromAbove TNT minecart]] dropping. Due to it being so high up, it's impossible to see where a person is on the map accurately (unless you massively boost your draw distance), and players can only tell where their targets are via their silhouettes or, at times, other signs of 'human life' like campfires. Alternatively, they may choose to target the people on the T.I.E.S' original Skynet, which consists of a network of narrow walkways and sky-bridges and thus are difficult to aim for accurately. However, when the TNT minecarts hit, they hit ''powerfully'' with a massive blast radius, and [[DifficultButAwesome the Bad Boys have pulled off numerous kills using it]].
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Or more accurately, Better to Be Killed by an Ally than a Non-Ally, which overlaps with MercyKillArrangement to some degree.
** Scott's two deaths on Day 4 are arranged with Cleo and Martyn (in advance and impromptu, respectively) so that they can receive the life-time increase that comes with the kill, as opposed to the temporary Yellow alliance intent on hunting him down. Immediately after this, Skizz and Tango make the same arrangement for the same reason.
** By Day 7, this has evolved into [[HeroicSacrifice a form of self-sacrifice]] where players willingly allow themselves to be killed by their allies so they can have some extra life-time.
* BlowThatHorn: A variation where no goat horns are actually present. The sound of the "Dream" goat horn is used to signify the beginning of the 24-hour time limit at the start of Day 1, making it arguably of the Horns of Destruction variety.
* BreatherEpisode: Zig-zagged. A lot of players believed that Day 5 would be a calmer day focused on building and preparation since everyone were all Yellow Names and had no reason to kill each other, creating a moment of peace. That peace doesn't last long, as the Bread Bridge is destroyed by the T.I.E.S., the Clocker sons are accidentally blown up by Etho, and Scar and Skizzleman become the first Red Names on the server. However, Day 5 ''does'' have the fewest deaths in the season -- at 5 deaths in total (1 Boogeyman kill and 4 accidents), in contrast to the days preceding and following it, which have drastically higher death tolls than it, even setting new records for the number of deaths in the series as a whole[[note]]Day 4 has 16 deaths (the previous record was 17 in the Season 1 finale), Day 6 has 27 deaths, and Day 7 has '''45''' deaths[[/note]].
* CallBack:
** On Day 1, Scott winds up scooping up a "Pufferish of Peace" to give (back) to Jimmy.
** Near the end of Day 1, the Bad Boys get into a HurricaneOfPuns based on their team name, swapping in words that rhyme with 'bad'. Grian compares it to Last Life's 'aha' shenanigans.
* CatchPhrase: The Nosy Neighbours sign off their episode with "Always watching" as their creed.
* ChekhovsGun:
** Early in Day 1, Etho discusses digging holes throughout the server with Martyn, and brings up how many people fall down these holes in other series. Naturally, near the end of the day, Martyn falls to his death in the very hole the discussion was held in. Martyn, being Martyn, takes the time to lampshade it.
** On Day 2, Grian and Joel exploit a mechanism that allows them to go beyond the map border, which they initially use for trolling the rest of the server. By Day 5, the Bad Boys jointly use the same mechanism to sneak to the T.I.E.S. base to disable their mob farm in revenge for them blowing up Bread Bridge. And the reason Bread Bridge gets blown up? Joel killed their cow [[CallBack on Day 1]].
*** This eventually becomes a ChekhovsBoomerang on Day 8 when the Nosy Neighbours, with Grian now among their ranks, decide to attempt [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere the coward's way out]] and sneak outside the world border so that no one can hurt them. Unfortunately for them, it backfires and the Mean Gills and the remainder of T.I.E.S. (or rather, I.E.) are suddenly able to attack and kill them from inside the border.
* DeathFromAbove: Happens frequently this season in the form of dropped TNT minecarts. The T.I.E.S' Skynet, a chaotic network of floating walkways, is the source of many of those.
* DeathIsCheap: Cheap''er'', at least. Although death is still penalized and undesirable, everyone starts out with the rough equivalent of twenty-four lives and [=keepInventory=] is enabled, so it's significantly less painful.
-->'''Grian:''' This mechanic doesn't work; it's given people way too much freedom to die.
* DisproportionateRetribution: T.I.E.S. carpet-bombs Bread Bridge on Day 5 to strike back against the Bad Boys for being the bullies of the server. However, after Day 1, where their behaviour was mostly in PokeThePoodle territory, the Bad Boys had mainly kept to themselves -- apart from Joel's stint as the Boogeyman on Day 2, any antagonistic behavior was either in response to provocation from other factions, or simply Yellow-on-Green violence as intended by the season's premise. Ultimately, the whole attack is an act of revenge for Joel ''killing one of their cows on Day 1'' (although this may be more of a convenient excuse to cause chaos).
* DownerEnding: As expected by both the season's mechanism and the nature of the series, everyone dies. After hours of battles and fluctuating alliances, the final battle comes down to the remaining members of T.I.E.S. (Impulse and Etho) and the Nosy Neighbours (Pearl) fighting against the Mean Gills, who are still going strong at this point and manage to decimate the competition. With Impulse left under 10 minutes left by the end, the three negotitate to have a three-way, fair play DuelToTheDeath on roughly even time... which ends with Martyn going full-on CombatPragmatist before the duel even starts [[spoiler:under the Watchers' influence]], killing both his Day 1 ally and their former enemy, then waits one last hour and a half for his life-timer to tick down.[[note]]Out-of-universe, Scott has Grian /kill Martyn after everything is said and done, but it's not present in Martyn's perspective of events.[[/note]]
* DeathsHourglass: Every player has a timer on their screen showing how much life-time they have left, which is also ColourCodedForYourConvenience. It is technically of the Fatalistic variety, since it's impossible to ''stop'' the timer, but most if not all players interpret it as a Jump to Action to regain life-time by any means possible so they can ''delay'' the inevitable enough to win the season. Fan interpretation on how the timer manifests in-universe may vary.
* DuelToTheDeath: {{Subverted|Trope}}. The final three discuss having a fair fist-fight like the ending of 3rd Life, only for [[spoiler:the Watchers to drive]] Martyn to pull out a sword and kill both Scott and Impulse in ''about ten seconds''.
-->'''Martyn:''' Nah, I don't wanna play this silly game. ''(kills Scott)'' I wanna do it this way.\\
'''Impulse:''' ''(overlapping)'' WHOA! Whoa! Whoa, whoa! What?! ''(places down a lava bucket)'' No!\\
'''Martyn:''' ''(overlapping)'' I wanna do it exactly this way. It doesn't matter if you're a Mean Gill or a Bad Boy or a-a ''Neighbour-'' ''(kills Impulse)'' -or a Clocker! You're all going down, none of these niceties, this is a death match ''for a reason''. ''(voice deepens)'' '''''OOH, THAT FEELS GOOD! TIME IS DELICIOUS!''''' ''(EvilLaugh)''
* DramaticThunder: Whenever a player is KilledOffForReal, thunder can be heard in the background as lightning strikes the site of their death.
* EatTheDog: {{Discussed|Trope}} on Day 3. When Cleo announces she plans to go feral, Scar "fears" for her safety because if she dies, he and Bdubs would "starve". Cleo replies that she would have a dispenser system set up... then Scar argues that the dispenser might run out of food, to which Cleo half-jokingly says that the two could eat their dogs to survive. Of course, since this takes place in Minecraft, it's physically impossible for a player to eat their dogs anyway.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: {{Discussed|Trope}}. Jimmy claims on Day 5 that the only people the Bad Boys love are their own mothers.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** During the choosing of the third Boogeyman on Day 1, an ominous Boogeyman jingle can be heard from Grian and Tango's perspectives due to proximity chat. Is it any wonder that Martyn, who was standing next to them at the time, turns out to be the next Boogeyman?
** Several remarks have been made early on about how flammable the Woodland Mansion at the heart of the map is. As expected from players in the ''Life'' series, it gets burnt down by the end of Day 1... ''and'' in the later half of Day 2[[note]]it was reset due to the expected mobs not having been present on Day 1, since the world was generated in "Easy" mode[[/note]].
** On Day 8, after Scar returns from ambushing and killing Tango, Cleo compares their life-times and predicts that they'll die together. While it's not by natural causes, the two do indeed end up permanently-dying about 20 seconds apart from each other.
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: A more literal example that usual; while digging straight down to Y-11 on Day 1, Jimmy points out he can hear lava along the way. About five seconds later, he and Joel find where the lava is... [[AMoltenDateWithDeath right underneath their feet]].
* FunWithAcronyms: Much like Team B.E.S.T. from Last Life (and including three of its members), a group of players name their faction T.I.E.S. after the names of its members: '''T'''ango, '''I'''mpulse, '''E'''tho and '''S'''kizz. When Bdubs briefly joins them on Day 5, Impulse says they should be renamed to B.I.T.E.S. to include him.
** During Day 1 while Martyn was considering teaming with the "Skizz Protection Squad", he suggests team T.I.M.E.S. to them with his own initial, although it doesn't come to pass after his Boogey attempt and making an alliance with Scott. He brings the suggestion back on Day 8 for their temporary alliance, though just as T.I.M.E. due to Skizz's unfortunate death in the previous day. He also suggests S.M.I.T.E. in the event he could convince Scott to join them.
* GameOfChicken: The Bad Boys have a game of this on Day 1, where they set fire to a block on the roof of the very flammable Woodland Mansion they call their base, and the last one to put out their fire wins.
* GhostReunionEnding: After all of them are taken out in the finale, the Clockers family reunite as ghosts watching over the action throughout the rest of the server.
* TheGreatFire: Near the end of Day 1, Cleo sets three blocks of the Woodland Mansion on fire, which the Bad Boys have previously established as their base. In minutes, half of its interior has burnt to the ground and the fire itself has spread to the dark oak forests nearby.
* HellBentForLeather: The Bad Boys all wear black leather jackets [[InvokedTrope to reinforce their image as 'bad boys']].
* HighAltitudeBattle: As Grian correctly predicted on Day 4, most of the battles in the final few sessions take place in the sky; more accurately on the various sky bridges (or "[[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Skynet]]" as the players call it), with the players' main form of fighting being trying to shoot or hit each off or dropping TNT minecarts from above. After the season, there is a mutual agreement among the content creators to never use this strategy again.
* HistoryRepeats: {{Discussed|Trope}} on Day 1; six minutes in, Grian messages in the in-game chat if anyone is willing to bet Jimmy will be KilledOffForReal first again, after having the dubious honour of doing so for the ''past three seasons''. On Day 7, this ''does'' come to pass, as Jimmy is indeed the first one out. ''Again.''
* InSeriesNickname:
** Martyn refers to the Bad Boys' Bread Bridge as "Grainbow Road", while Scar calls the Coral Isles the "Knockoff [[ContinuityNod Panda Reserve]]" for its bamboo barrier.
** After the construction of the Bread Bridge, the Bad Boys have occasionally been called the "Bread Boys". Occasionally, even the Bad Boys themselves refer to the group as such in slips of the tongue.
* JacobAndEsau: The Clockers' family dynamic goes as such -- after a messy separation in the "pre-season backstory" (whatever it may be), Cleo shows favouritism to Scar (and vice versa), while Etho dislikes everyone in the family except Bdubs, who prefers to remain "neutral" in familial conflicts.
* KillSteal: {{Discussed|Trope}}. On Day 3, Cleo makes a deal with the Mean Gills that if they are being chased down by a Red Life, they will allow her to intervene and kill them first so that she gets the time increase instead of the Red Life. It's later invoked on Day 4 once the entire server is out for Green Life blood.
* LastOfHisKind: Downplayed; as of the start of Day 4, Bdubs, Impulse, Scott, and Tango are the final Green Names remaining in a server of Yellow Names, many of whom are willing to do anything it takes to get some more life-time. This culminates in half of the server joining the hunt for Green Name blood.
* LastRequest:
** {{Discussed|Trope}} at the start of Day 1, where Martyn, Skizz, and Etho discuss what their preferred final meals would be if they genuinely had 24 hours to live in real life.
** Skizz's final request to the T.I.E.S. before he allows Etho to MercyKill him is that one of T.I.E.S. must make it to the final three of the season. It comes true in the finale as Impulse makes it to 2nd place, with Etho also coming close by making it to 5th.
* MeaningfulName: The faction 'Entertainment Mountain' is so dubbed due to it being located at the heart of the map. This gives them a prime view for any recent respawns and any burnings of the Woodland Mansion nearby. They were later renamed to 'the Clockers' due to their base taking the form of a clock tower.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: The Boogeyman, who is randomly selected out of the living non-Red players and must kill someone by the end of the day, or drop a colour grade and lose up to ''eight'' hours of their limited life. Meanwhile, anyone who ''gets'' killed by the Boogeyman will lose two hours of their life instead of the standard one, basically doubling the gains and losses for any Boogey kills. In all, the Boogeymen were Scott, Bdubs, and Martyn (Day 1), Joel (Day 2), Impulse (Day 3), Tango (Day 4), Tango again (Day 5), Lizzie-as-Pearl (Day 6), and Etho (Day 7); there was no Boogeyman on Day 8 as everyone was on Red by that point already.
* MythologyGag:
** Martyn's first episode of the season is titled "[[WebOriginal/MinecraftChampionship THE SANDS OF TIME]]".
** When Scar and Martyn try to put an AFK Grian on a minecart track on Day 3, Scar starts singing the exact same song from the last time he put an AFK Grian in a minecart in Season 8 of Hermitcraft.
* NoYou: When threatening Entertainment Mountain with a Bread Bridge invasion, Joel says, "You'll see what happens" if they mess with the bridge. In turn, Bdubs replies that the Bad Boys will see what happens if they go through with this. This goes on for about ten seconds.
* NosyNeighbor: Naming themselves after the trope, the Nosy Neighbours faction, consisting of Pearl and Big B, live next door to Entertainment Mountain next to spawn and have a habit of snooping in on the ongoings of the server, involving everything and everyone. This results in a lot of ExactEavesdropping.
* PainfulPointyPufferfish: Since the Mean Gills faction lives in the sea, they [[ExploitedTrope weaponize]] the pufferfish that naturally spawn there as defensive weapons. This tactic has since spread to adjacent alliances like the Clockers.
* PlayingCatchWithTheOldMan: {{Parodied|Trope}} on Day 5 where Etho takes Bdubs and Scar outside to play catch after a family meal... with TNT minecarts. [[ExplosiveStupidity It goes about as well as you'd expect]].
* PokeThePoodle: The self-titled Bad Boys spend their time partaking in abhorrent activities like trampling crops, breaking carpets, washing away torches with water buckets, and digging straight down... [[AMoltenDateWithDeath into lava]]. And also intruding on other factions' territory with their Bread Bridge and sneaking outside the world border.
* RefugeInAudacity: When Joel became the Boogeyman on Day 2, he and the other Bad Boys plotted to get the kill. How? By building the highly visible Bread Bridge from the Woodland Mansion to Entertainment Mountain, complete with an obvious powered railway track.
* RussianReversal: Joel's response after discovering that other players have been stealing from and griefing the Bad Boys' Bread Bridge:
-->'''Joel:''' You come for Bread Bridge, and Bread Bridge comes for you. That's my new motto in life.
* SickeninglySweet: PlayedForLaughs. On Day 6, Impulse and Tango feign nausea from eavesdropping on one of Skizz's "affirmation" sessions of the day. Skizz chalks it up to them being jealous that they haven't had their own sessions yet.
* SunglassesAtNight: Having sunglasses as part of their Bad Boys team-skins, Jimmy, Joel, and Grian wear these no matter what time of day it is. Grian, at the very least, wears them ''on top of'' his head rather than over his eyes, while Joel wears them below his (presumably perched on his nose, but [[InformedAttribute you can't see a nose on his skin]]).
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: More accurately, a Surprisingly Sudden Series of Deaths occur on Day 3. Having turned Yellow early in the episode, Scar spends much of the session attempting murder on the Green Lives. This results in him getting ''five kills'' in quick succession, and that's not even counting Impulse's Boogeyman kill on Pearl, Joel's two revenge kills on Scar and Martyn for messing with his fellow Bad Boys, and [[YetAnotherStupidDeath various miscellaneous deaths]] caused by trivial reasons or accidental murders. From this point onward, there has been [[CerebusSyndrome a massive uptick in deaths]] in the season.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Throughout Day 6, "Cleo" and "Pearl" repeatedly assert they're respectively British and Australian, and that they remember the alliances and events of the series. In actuality, their content creator counterparts couldn't make it to the session and had to be subbed in by the Canadian [=GeminiTay=] and the British Lizzie... who are both [[LockedOutOfTheLoop very, very confused]] about what's going on.
* TeleportationSickness: Ender-pearling results in the loss of 2.5 hearts of health in-game. Because of this, several characters have died ender-pearling away from fights throughout the season, be it physically throwing one or via activating an ender pearl stasis chamber.
* TropicalIslandAdventure: The Coral Isles are constructed with such a setting in mind. While it fits the holiday resort aesthetic for the first few days, it quickly becomes a major battleground on Day 4 when bloodthirsty Yellow Names start circling its Green inhabitant like sharks in a thriller.
* VisualPun: Invoked at the cost of [[SomewhereAHerpetologistIsCrying biological accuracy]]; the frog murals on the Nosy Neighbours tower have visible, poking-out noses as opposed to two nostrils.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: On Day 4, the temporary Yellow alliance certainly consider themselves as this, believing that hunting down the last Green Names can cause the server to return to peace. This is, of course, [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist discounting]] the fact that most of the Yellow Names chose to initiate or join this witch hunt because they want more life-time for themselves.
* WhamEpisode: A two-parter:
** On Day 3, Grian is out sick and AFK for the entire session. This results in a near free-for-all where the Bad Boys try to protect Grian while every other faction tries to kidnap him. 13 deaths rack up over the course of the session, among which 5 are caused by Scar alone. By the end of the day, most of the server has gone Yellow, which builds up to...
** Day 4: Since most of the server has gone Yellow over the past couple of days, many of them quickly go on a killing spree to hunt down as many Green Names as possible to get ahold of their life-time. The bloodthirst and bloodshed over the first hour alone leaves no Green Name unscathed and causes Pearl to believe the rest of the server has collectively gone insane. Apparently, the rest of the server agrees with this sentiment and cuts the recording session short by an hour.
* WrongNameOutburst: On Day 7, Grian nearly refers to Joel as [[TheKlutz Scar]] when he jumps from a lethal height.
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: On Day 5, Grian calls Jimmy "Jimmy" instead of "Timmy" while screaming at him to kill the Enderman attacking him.
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