History Webcomic / Adventurers

* ApatheticCitizens: The Bystandrians, who are doomed to stand idly by instead of taking action in the face of danger -

** Karashi's [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20031225.html IDOUBLDRGN]] attack throws a copy of ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon''.

* WallOfText: Lampshaded in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20021014.html strip #670]], where Endless tries to cram as much expository text into a single panel as possible (before even properly introducing herself).

* WhammyBid: Karn and Ardam get outbid by EleventyZillion when an elemental artifact they want is being auctioned.

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * GoldfishPoopGang: Kemmit and Meck.

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Argent]]

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * HitPoints

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Rio.

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * KillSat: Khrima sure does love his lasers.

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * KnightOfCerebus: Eternion.
%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * LampshadeHanging: And how!
%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * LaserBlade: Lampshaded by how absurd it is.

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * PermanentlyMissableContent: Both parodied and played straight.
%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * LoveInterest: Lumi/Karn, Tesla/Ardam, Karashi/Drecker

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * MindScrew: "This is going to cause message board debates for years."
%% commented out as ZeroContextExample (cont.; + Weblink issue) ** Also, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011128.html "Wait for the sequel."]]
%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * MinionWithAnFInEvil: Khrima, despite being the EvilOverlord.

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * NoEndorHolocaust: Which causes Ardam to give up trying to accept the nonsense.

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * NonActionGuy: Gildward.

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * OnlySmartPeopleMayPass

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * PlotCoupon

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * PunchClockVillain

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * QuirkyMinibossSquad

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * SequentialBoss

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * SmokeShield: Lampshaded/Subverted/Parodied/Inverted.

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Partially subverted.

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * TakingYouWithMe

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * TrapIsTheOnlyOption: "If it's a trap then it's a plot point and we '''have''' to follow the plot."
%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * TrippyFinaleSyndrome
%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * {{Troperiffic}}

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * UnexpectedGenreChange

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * VerbalTic: Chookie.

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * VillainBall
%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * VillainsOutShopping

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * WalkingTheEarth

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * WeaponOfMassDestruction

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * WellIntentionedExtremist: Argent, apparently.
%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer
%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * WorthyOpponent

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * WreckedWeapon: Happens to Gildward once.

%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * PuzzleBoss: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040513.html Whizrorb.]]

%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * GainaxEnding: "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20051224.html This]] is going to cause message board debates for ''years''."

%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * GlobalAirship: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0011.html Don't let Karn fly.]]

%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * HoYay: [[invoked]] Lampshaded by Karn in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20060807.html this strip]].

%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0194.html "Since when did we have giant robots?"]]

%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * ItemCrafting: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0159.html Parodied.]]
%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * ItsAllAboutMe: Yes, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0196.html yes it is, Karn]].

%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * LoadBearingBoss: Khrima, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20051231.html naturally]].

%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * MookChivalry: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0287.html Spoofed.]]

%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * NightmareRetardant: InUniverse examples:
%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples (cont.) ** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040511.html "That is confusion, not fear. Try again."]]
%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples (cont.) ** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0325.html "Look upon the mask and tremble!"]]

%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * OminousLatinChanting: {{Invoked|Trope}}.
%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples (cont.)--> '''Khrima''': Ahem. ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040817.html Cue the choir]]''

%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * ReviveKillsZombie: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0017.html This strip]] illustrates the results.

%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * StatingTheSimpleSolution: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0112.html Here.]]
%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * StayingAlive: [[spoiler:Khrima]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20061006.html here]].

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * StupidityIsTheOnlyOption
%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * SuicidalOverconfidence: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020109.html "What attracts them to us enough to override their self-preservation instincts?]]

%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20021115.html "Any job worth doing with a laser is worth doing with many, many lasers."]]

%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * TimedMission: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020101.html Here]].

%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * VideoGameGeography: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0345.html "The world is not round."]]

%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * {{Wangst}}: [[invoked]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030206.html Subverted.]]
%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * WeaksauceWeakness: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050611.html Getting hit on the head with a piano.]]

%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * AWizardDidIt: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20060707.html That's right. Magic.]]

%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * YouMeddlingKids: Given a ShoutOut [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0181.html here]].

* MaskPower: The Eternals all wear masks.

** Lampshaded (with a literal lampshade) back in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0055.html strip #55]], where Karn strikes an AssKickingPose and draws his sword on a lamp, on the GenreSavvy grounds that it just might be "an evil lamp monster."

* WrongGenreSavvy: Ardam expects the RPGMechanicsVerse to behave like the real world.

** Lampshaded (with a literal lampshade) back in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0055.html strip #55]], where Karn strikes an AssKickingPose and draws his sword on a lamp, on the grounds that it just might be "an evil lamp monster."

* RummageFail: Karashi speds [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050512.html two]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050514.html strips]] searching through the inventory for a party-healing item. No Megahealers, alas, but the inventory does contain such items as 27 Useless Things and 67 pieces of Pocket Lint.

* VisibleSilence: Some of the villains [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20021113.html practice conversing in this]].

* MilestoneCelebration: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0300.html Strip #300]] features a ContinuityCavalcade, and bears the footer caption, "Here's to 300 more!"

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * LostForever: Both parodied and played straight.

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * MysteriousInformant: Imposis.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: In [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150906195105/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020924.html this strip]]:
-->'''Khrima''': I heard that evil is [[HisOwnWorstEnemy its own worst enemy]] so I'm coming up with a plan that's completely me-proof!\\
'''Argent''': That's a metaphor used to imply the folly of evil. It isn't true.\\
'''Khrima''': Oh.\\
''[BeatPanel]''\\
'''Khrima''': Well this was a big waste of blueprint paper.

* AcademyOfEvil: As shown in a flashback, Khrima, after taking some [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0207.html courses in evil subjects]] in senior high, enrolled in [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0208.html Evil University]].

* AcronymAndAbbreviationOverload: Karn [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0081.html outlines a plan]] with an excessive number of acronyms in it that may or may not mean anything.
* ActionBomb: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020306.html Bombats]] explode when the party encounters them in battle.

* AIRoulette: When Eternion agrees to face the party in an RPG battle, he finds that [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040122.html he can't use his most powerful skill a second time]] because RPG bosses choose attacks randomly.

** Imposis specializes in these, creating an "impossible object" [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020614.html when challenged as to the meaning of his name]].
** [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0345.html An NPC declares]] that the WrapAround on each side of the square world map makes their world an "impossible" shape. Apparently he's never heard of a torus.

* AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield: Khrima [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040629.html has one built]] just for the sake of conforming to this trope.

* AmazonBrigade: Karn suggests that, since the party's splitting, Karashi, Tesla and Lumi should form one of these, go off on their own quest and indulge in {{Stripperiffic}} CostumePorn during battles. [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030402.html They don't like the idea.]]

* AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering: When Karn tries to figure out [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0014.html how to escape from a collapsed dungeon]], he decides the key to escaping is the model airplane and completely ignores the cracked wall and explosives...

** Every traveling party must have exactly three people [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020118.html because there's a law that says they can't have more]]. This explains why every TraumaInn has the same number of beds.
** [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040417.html Near the end]] when Cody suggests he might have been able to join the team if they didn't have nine characters already. Since there's only one named OptionalPartyMember, this suggests Cody and Drecker are MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers as well.
** Made fun of [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0133.html in this strip]], in which one party member must stay behind for what turns out to be no reason whatsoever.
* ArtEvolution: The art does improve over time, although it is still very amateurish. Inevitably parodied [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050115.html in this comic]], in which, at the beginning of a flashback, the characters complain about the sudden lack of quality in the art (which is drawn in the style of the early strips).
* AttackItsWeakPoint: Karn decides that a robot's glowing red power core must be its weak spot and attacks it. [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020411.html It doesn't work out the way Karn hoped it would.]]
* AwesomenessIsVolatile: While preparing a really big spell, Ardam says: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050903.html "Incidentally, if I catch on fire or explode or something, that's probably normal."]]

* AwesomeButImpractical: Karn finds out the hard way that a [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0347.html ridiculously-shaped sword he bought]], despite its high ATP, is structurally unsound.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040327.html Argent isn't about to just let a de-powered, mortal Eternion go.]]
* BankruptcyBarrel: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0019.html Karn wears one]] after all of his equipment (including his clothes) is stolen by Drecker.
* BarehandedBladeBlock: A couple of characters manage to [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0358.html pull this off]] by virtue of having robot arms. [[spoiler:Happens again during the final boss fight.]]

* BishonenLine: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050616.html This strip]], in which the characters comment on the relative monstrousness of Khrima's different forms, is the {{Trope Namer|s}}.
* BlahBlahBlah: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050203.html A whole panel full of blather.]]

* BlockPuzzle: The party faces these in every temple they explore, including one temple dedicated to [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020226.html "the annual festival of the pushable cube."]] [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0164.html Everyone but Karn hates them.]]
* BonusBoss: Why does Karn want to fight it? [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0224.html Because it's there!]]

* BottomlessMagazines: Tesla is [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20021002.html quite happy]] that console RPG characters never run out of ammo, ever.
* {{Bowdlerise}}: An early joke is that Drecker, hard-bitten thief that he is, finds himself able to swear only in cutlery once he joins the party. This extends to everyone else (except Eternion) and becomes a RunningGag; when Khrima's [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040720.html about to go through a lot of pain]] in the Final Battle, he says "Oh '''utensil'''."

** In an early strip, the party [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0128.html defeated a microbug and won a piano]]. During the final fight against Khrima, Karashi, realizing that she could throw ''[[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050609.html anything]]''...
** When he finds out that the person who his boss most fears is a [[QuirkyBard bard]] of all things, Cody [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020329.html wonders if he isn't really a superhero in disguise]]. Then fast forward to [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20060911.html the finale]]...
** In an [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0010.html early strip]], as Ardam is dangling over an AcidPool, Karn plays Boggle with Khrima and spots "gorilla". [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0068.html Several strips later]], Khrima spots the same word as he plays Boggle with one of his minions. And again when he fights Eternion.
** [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0029.html Early in the strip]], an Ice Dragon which has painted himself red to make itself look like a Fire Dragon. It [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030103.html later]] appears in the news, complaining about the quality of the paint, which has apparently faded to green.
** A very subtle one: Early in the strip, Ardam [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0102.html spoons up a summon]] and realizes he got the wording wrong. Then during the final battle, [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050728.html he gets it right]]. And when he sends an enemy to the Realm of Calling to be attacked by all his summons at once [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050927.html look for panel eight]].
* ButThouMust: The heroes are [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020107.html rather used to NPCs not taking "no" for an answer]].
* ByThePowerOfGrayskull: The Khaos Generals have to say a phrase to use their Flowgem-granted abilities. [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020206.html "I would have gone with the naked costume change but she doesn't change costume."]]

* ChainsawGood: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050101.html Spybot gets one and is very happy about it]], though it doesn't get put to any use.

** Karn [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020430.html is]] [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20051103.html frustrated]], but he never did have much patience for anything that didn't involve hitting things with swords.

* CharacterNameLimits: Karn is befuddled by these in [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0046.html this strip]]:

* CharacterShill: [[ParodyCommercial Parodied]] - Karn shills for products such as [[AnimeHair "Hero Hair" brand hair gel]], [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0188.html "Ribbon"]] ("Blocks status ailments!") and [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020930.html "Armor-Armor-All" armor protectant]].

** Played straight with Argent. Inverted in [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011130.html this strip]], in which a character is conspicuously introduced and then never seen again.

* ChestMonster: And [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0392.html it's bigger than the box it was hiding in!]]

* CombatantCooldownSystem: Karn [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20031227.html knows all the details of this]], and wonders at one point why he [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050702.html doesn't get to act when his bar fills up]].
* CombatPragmatist: Tesla, when challenged to a duel, [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0362.html starts fighting a little sooner than her opponent expected]].
* CombatTentacles: Dark Doomsceror [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040617.html uses them for counter attacks]]. Drecker notably worries they might be the naughty kind instead.

** [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011119.html Septuple]] [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050820.html Scare]].
** Karn plays Boggle with Khrima in [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0010.html one of the earliest strips]], and [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050514.html still has a Boggle set]] during the final battle.

* ConvectionSchmonvection: Karashi and Tesla train their jumping skills because, as Karashi puts it, [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020320.html "EVERYTHING is protected by floating platforms over lava."]]
* ConvenientQuesting: The Demon Peak Pass becomes passable just when [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030422.html our heroes need to get through it]]. Karn and Ardam sarcastically remark that that's "not predetermined contrivance at all." [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020731.html An earlier strip]] has Ardam complaining about this sort of {{Railroading}}.
* CoupDeGraceCutscene: Karn says that Ardam's plan to have him strike the final blow against Khrima in battle is unnecessary: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20051103.html "It doesn't matter who makes the final hit, the plot says I do it anyway."]]
* CrateExpectations: Karn, trying to solve a PressurePlate puzzle, [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0384.html suggests pushing a crate on top of it]].

* CurbStompBattle: After much epic adventuring, the party has finally managed to confront Eternion, one of the two {{Big Bad}}s, and drag him into an RPG battle. [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20031230.html The result?]] [[TotalPartyKill "Well, that was easy."]] [[spoiler: Subverted: Ardam had a Relife Ring equipped.]]

* CutAndPasteEnvironments: Karn [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030604.html complains about two buildings having the same layout]], though Ardam tries to point out that it makes sense since they're designed for the same purpose.
* CuttingTheKnot: When stuck in TheMaze, Karashi [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0386.html climbs over the walls]] and Tesla [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0387.html breaks through them]].
** Ardam gets frustrated with a puzzle and opts for [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0375.html a simpler solution]].
* DamageOverTime: This is apparently the effect of being poisoned, which [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0084.html isn't as horrible as Drecker thought it would be]].

* DeathGlare: It's a little insensitive to complain about feeling left out to the party's resident {{Butt Monkey}}s, [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030722.html Ardam]].
* DeathIsCheap: Any character that appears to be "dead" inevitably returns. As Karashi [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050813.html puts it]], "the worst part about being dead is all the stuff you miss before you get revived."

* DidntThinkThisThrough: In [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020924.html this strip]]:

* DramaticUnmask: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0181.html Eternion]] when Khrima hits him with the Mallet of Extreme Pain. The fact that the mask ''is'' his face should tell you where it [[AntiClimax heads]].
* DuelBoss: Ardam vs Whizrom, among others. (The author [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020617.html has a rather low opinion of these]].)
* DungeonShop: A temple that supposedly nobody has set foot in for centuries turns out to have a [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0064.html hidden gift shop inside]].

* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Including such elements as [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0268.html "Tastes Like Orange Tang," "Doesn't Taste Like Orange Tang,"]] and "Peanuts." There's also a tree that is [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011206.html healed by fire]] because it's red, and therefore must be weak to water.
* ElevatorFloorAnnouncement: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20031028.html The elevator carrying Garshask up to Eternion]]:

* EleventyZillion: The winning bid in an auction is [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030220.html "seventy billion trillion million gold."]]
* EmphasizeEverything: An NPC 「Soldier」 in [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0127.html strip #127]] insists that 『brackets build character.』

* EventFlag: Brought up in [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0091.html strip #91]]:

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: When the party gets a TimeMachine, it's implied that they ''had'' to use it to [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0147.html go back to the age of dinosaurs]]:

** Anything and everything can attack the party in a RandomEncounter, [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0154.html even a cup of coffee Ardam was trying to drink]].
** [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020314.html The monsters don't need a reason why.]]
** Lampshaded (with a literal lampshade) back in [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0055.html strip #55]], where Karn strikes an AssKickingPose and draws his sword on a lamp, on the grounds that it just might be "an evil lamp monster."

* ExplosiveInstrumentation: Khrima [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050811.html apparently]] built them like this on purpose.
* FakeKing: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0253.html Parodied]]: Karn meets a chancellor and immediately defenestrates him, on the assumption that he's been replaced by a monster. It turns out that was the real chancellor; the monster assigned to replace him was out sick.
* FantasyGunControl: Karn attempts to defy this in [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0087.html strip #87]], where he buys an X500 Plasma Rifle instead of any of the {{Elemental Weapon}}s Ardam thinks they're supposed to buy instead.
* FarSideIsland: Karn and Ardam seem to be [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0400.html stranded on a one-tree desert island]] [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0401.html for a few strips]]... [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0402.html but it isn't really one]].
* FauxSymbolism: [[invoked]] Lampshaded with the holy sword Longinus, which Infinel points out is named after [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040131.html "a loosely named item being enough fundamentally different to make the affair meaningless."]]

* FetchQuest: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0348.html Karn is given a UPS hat when he volunteers to do these.]]
* FightingYourFriend: Karn wants to fight Ardam because [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0239.html he's desperate for the XP]].

* FightWoosh: Ardam hates battle transitions. [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20031206.html Eternion also thinks they're pointless.]]
* FinalBoss: Khrima and Eternion actually get into a [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020130.html PR battle]] over who gets to be FinalBoss. Khrima wins.
* FlechetteStorm: Drecker's [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040624.html "IKNIVES"]] causes him to sprout knives all over his body and hurl them at the enemy for 7777 damage per hit.
* FloatingPlatforms: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050621.html Subverted]] during the final battle, after Khrima's BishonenLine transformation, when Drecker notices the supposedly floating platforms have supports.
* FlockOfWolves: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011120.html One of Khrima's plans]] was to capture all the party members and replace them with robot duplicates, then have the robot duplicates strike when they least suspect it. There are four major flaws with this plan:

* FollowThePlottedLine: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0296.html A road sign says so.]]

* FrickinLaserBeams: Khrima demands that his engineers put lasers on everything, [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0331.html even ballistic missiles]]. He later [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20021111.html fires one of them for inventing a weapon better than lasers]].
%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * GainaxEnding: "[[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20051224.html This]] is going to cause message board debates for ''years''."

* {{Gasp}}: Lampshaded in [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030318.html this strip]]:

* GlobalAirship: In a world that has airships, [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020618.html there are still places you can't get to except by flying on a bird]].
* TheGlomp: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0360.html Tesla glomps Ardam]].
%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * GlobalAirship: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0011.html Don't let Karn fly.]]

* GoodBadBugs: In-Universe. A [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011026.html nod]] to VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI's infamous "Vanish" + [[UselessUsefulSpell "Doom"]] GameBreaker combo.
* GottaCatchThemAll: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011112.html The Elemental Relics]]: Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium...
* GrailInTheGarbage: Karn has found legendary swords in the oddest of places: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0062.html someone's shower]] and [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0168.html a barrel marked "FISH."]]

* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: There may be [[RunningGag many guards in the castle]], but [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0288.html they don't seem that good at keeping their secret passwords actually secret]]. A [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0350.html later strip]] subverts this somewhat.
* GuestStarPartyMember: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0407.html The Guy Who Took the Gold Armor]], the [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0251.html Level 99 Guy]].
* GuideDangIt: Ardam finds out that he and Karn were supposed to perform [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0077.html a ridiculously complicated series of steps]] based only on the clue "GNWG".
* GunsAreWorthless: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0286.html Parodied]] - gun-wielding enemies do very little damage because their weapons fire Nerf balls.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Despite looking completely human, Karn is quarter-[[WingedHumanoid Skyrian]], [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020508.html as revealed]] via painfully straight AsYouKnow; his father is half-Skyrian. The green hair probably should have been a giveaway, unless you count on YouGottaHaveBlueHair. Also, Karashi and her sister are half-dwarf. They get their looks from their father.

* HeadTiltinglyKinky: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0161.html In this strip]], Karn and Ardam have this reaction to Karashi fansites.
* HealingPotion: Ardam [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020227.html speculates]] on the magical ingredients used in these.
* HealthDamageAsymmetry: The result of [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050816.html Khrima not investing in healing research]].
* HelloInsertNameHere: Name entry screens pop up when new characters try to join the party. Drecker [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0023.html complains that he was trying to have a conversation]], and Karashi [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0118.html gets one]] even though Karn just said he already knew her name. [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20021104.html Lumi doesn't get one]] because a few voice clips use her name.
* HelpingGrannyCrossTheStreet: Khrima [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020124.html once helped an old lady cross the street]]... but he still counts it as evil because he didn't use the crosswalk, thus setting her up for a criminal career in ArsonMurderAndJaywalking.

** When an NPC tries to explain the controls for placing flags, Ardam [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011127.html complains]] that he doesn't ''have'' an "X button." (Drecker does, because he stole one from Khrima's keyboard.)
** As Karn's duel with Argent begins, [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030812.html the latter reminds the former about the fighting controls]].

* HeroesPreferSwords: Karn is not very interested in mastering battle techniques other than [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0067.html "hit things with a sword."]]
* HeroicBSOD: Ardam, after being attacked by the [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0343.html Evil Pants.]]
* HiddenElfVillage: Chookie leads the party to [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011115.html Chooktown]], the secret abode of {{Small Annoying Creature}}s. Drecker sees it as a PlaceWorseThanDeath.

* HolidayMode: December 25 puts [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20021225.html Santa hats on dragons]].
* HolyHandGrenade: The Smite spell. Pity Lumi [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20021028.html only has enough MP to cast it once]].
* HonestJohnsDealership: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0111.html Honest Cid's Used Airships]]
%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * HoYay: [[invoked]] Lampshaded by Karn in [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20060807.html this strip]].

** Eternion's [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20031218.html Grief Impulse]] wouldn't work on anyone he couldn't kill in a single turn anyway, but he uses it because he enjoys the cruelty of it regardless.
** Khrima [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040824.html also has one]] that hits the entire party, but due to an abundance of healing options they weren't particularly intimidated.
* HurricaneOfPuns: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030319.html Strip #777]] wants you to know that it has a [[LuckySeven theme]].
* ImpossibleItemDrop: Ardam wonders [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0128.html how a small insect could have been carrying a piano]].

* IndyEscape: Karn and Ardam [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011123.html fail to outrun a boulder]], but they only suffer a few hitpoints of damage from it.

* InexplicableTreasureChests: Treasure chests can be found even in [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0190.html hitherto unexplored places]]. One strip explains them to be the result of [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020115.html tiny robot pirates dancing through caves]]. Karn [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020628.html knows that it's mandatory for them to all look the same]].
* InfallibleBabble: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020424.html Lampshaded]]:

* InformedEquipment: When Karn puts on a new suit of armor, it makes him look [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0126.html exactly the same]].
* InsecuritySystem: Khrima's [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0186.html "Easy-Break" security system]] allows Security Level A to be deactivated by pressing a conveniently located "A" button.
%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0194.html "Since when did we have giant robots?"]]

* IntentionalEngrishForFunny: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020626.html This]] butchered version of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' is implied to be a back-translation.
* InterchangeableAntimatterKeys: Karn [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0395.html insists on using once-only keys]], even though there are other ways of opening locked doors.
* IrrelevantSidequest: A prominent NPC is [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20021003.html concerned with having the heroes bring back his stolen vase]], even when they would rather get on with SavingTheWorld.
%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * ItemCrafting: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0159.html Parodied.]]
%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * ItsAllAboutMe: Yes, [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0196.html yes it is, Karn]].
* IWillShowYouX: Khrima is quick to object that [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0200.html he hasn't been vanquished yet]]:

* JokeItem: Karashi tries throwing a wet sponge at Khrima. [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050331.html It does no damage]], though Khrima is disgusted by it.
* JokerImmunity: Khrima up until the final arc, [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0403.html and the party knows it]].
* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Lampshaded. Khrima tells a captured Karn everything, even though [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0205.html Karn tells him it might not be the smartest thing to do]]. [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0206.html "Whatever, I'll tell you guys anyway,"]] Khrima says.
* KamehameHadoken: Chookie uses [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040710.html Hachooken]]. It's not very effective.

** "He kicks cute things" is the theme of one [[SlaveToPR PR campaign]] to prove Khrima's [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020315.html villain cred]]. It's not a terribly effective way of showing evil, given that Karn habitually [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0001.html beats up defenseless animals]] for the sake of LevelGrinding.
** Mizuna tries to prove she's evil enough to Khrima: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030408.html "I've been practicing! I kicked a kitten just a few days ago!"]]
* KillerRabbit: Ardam falls victim to a [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0302.html DevilRabbit]].

* KleptomaniacHero: Karn is unapologetic about [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0330.html being the sort of hero]] who habitually [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020517.html ransacks people's houses]] and [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20021009.html castles]] for useful items.

* LazyBackup: When Karn gets switched out of the active party, he can't do a thing to help them in battle, [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0130.html not even give them some of the soda he's sipping]].
* LetsSplitUpGang: The party has to divide into three groups to attack the Khrimalith. [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040422.html Ardam gets stuck in a group with Chookie and Gildward.]]
* LevelGrinding: Yeah, they've got to do lots. It's a [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011022.html compulsive behavior]] for Karn.
* LimitedWardrobe: Karn's outfit doesn't change regardless of what he equips. Also subverted in [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0390.html this strip]], in which Khrima is wearing something different from his usual dark robes...
%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * LoadBearingBoss: Khrima, [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20051231.html naturally]].

* LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0030.html Here]] and [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0083.html here]]/
* LockAndKeyPuzzle: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020715.html A mandatory part of dungeon design.]]
* LookBothWays: Invoked by Khrima when he uses a [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0212.html Scroll of Summon City Bus]] to win a WizardDuel.

* MacrossMissileMassacre: Spybot [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050521.html inflicts one]] on Khrima. The missiles only do 100 damage each, but there's a ''lot'' of them.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Karn can testify that [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050719.html "getting killed hurts."]]

* MeaningfulName: The city of [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030211.html Doomdia]], and the Bystandrians. Arguably, Gildward, whose name is a composite of "Gilbert" and "Edward", the Japanese and English names for the [[QuirkyBard Spoony Bard]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV''.

* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Khrima attempts to explain evil: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0299.html "You see, evil is like... it's like a bowl of oranges..."]]
* MilestoneCelebration: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0300.html Strip #300]] features a ContinuityCavalcade, and bears the footer caption, "Here's to 300 more!"
* MillionToOneChance: Ardam doesn't even want to guess the impossible odds of finding the gold key needed to open a LockedDoor. [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0378.html The next moment]], the Keeper of the Gold Key appears and hands it over.

%% commented out as ZeroContextExample (cont.; + Weblink issue) ** Also, [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011128.html "Wait for the sequel."]]

* TheMole: The aptly named [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0156.html Killer Evil Death Spybot 5000]], who, incidentally, is never seen spying again.
* {{Mon}}: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0063.html Humorously averted.]] Karn catches a "giant snake monster" which does nothing for him but try to chew his arm off.
* MoneyForNothing: Karn grows disappointed in finding only gold when he [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030403.html opens treasure chests]].
* MonumentalDamage: Blanc's [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20041009.html justification]] for targeting landmarks with the [[KillSat Khrimalith]]: "Have you seen their ticket prices?"
%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * MookChivalry: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0287.html Spoofed.]]
* MotionBlur: Parodied in [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0150.html this strip]], where motion blur effects just make everything harder to see for the characters.
* MotivationOnAStick: A variation with a treadmill and a sign reading "plot" is used to keep Karn occupied in [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011022.html strip #415]].
* MundaneUtility: Khrima uses a KillSat to [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030430.html make toast]].
* MusclesAreMeaningless: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020114.html Webrunner explains]] that muscularity has no real relation to strength: "Often scrawny kids can be strong enough to destroy ''gods'' without getting any visible muscle tone."
* MusicalSpoiler: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020110.html Subverted.]] Tesla hears "dramatic plot music" and expects a plot point, but it turns out that it's just Gildward playing.

* NerfArm: Karn finds that [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0292.html a rolled-up newspaper]] and [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020927.html a stick]] do great damage.

** A dimensional distortion swallows Argent and Garshask while they were fighting. Karn insists that since no bodies were found, [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020510.html they're obviously still alive]]. [[spoiler:He's right.]]
** And in [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0403.html another incident]], after BigBad Khrima accidentally destroyed a magic crystal, wrecking a sizable part of his fortress, Drecker mentions that Khrima hasn't been heard from in months. Ardam speculates that he might have died in the accident, and wonders if they've seen the last of him. There is a pause, then both heroes burst out laughing.
* NighInvulnerability: Whizrom claims [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040513.html immunity to both physical and magical attacks]] in his [[{{Unobtainium}} Crystallium]] sphere form.

%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples (cont.) ** [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040511.html "That is confusion, not fear. Try again."]]
%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples (cont.) ** [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0325.html "Look upon the mask and tremble!"]]

* NoHeroDiscount: Ardam [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020104.html tries and fails]] to get an NPC vendor to give Karn a 2 GP discount on a 50,000 GP sword after saving the town.

* NonLethalKO: After Ardam takes a little too much damage in battle, Karn, having no revive potions on hand, [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0220.html carries him back to town in a wheelbarrow]], claiming he's "fainted."

* NoSell: A supposedly "powerful" attack of Khrima's is [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050618.html "Totally Blocked!"]] by Karn.
* NoSneakAttacks: Parodied multiple times. On one occasion, one monster persuades another to attack the party in their sleep... only to discover their tent is [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0258.html electrified]].
* NotSoDifferent: Khrima tries to play this card on Karn. [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20051122.html It doesn't work.]]

* NumberOfTheBeast: An EnemyScan shows that Eternion has [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20031216.html 666666 HP and 66666 MP]].
* OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs: Karn discovers that the only Adventurers! character to have fansites is Karashi. After [[HeadTiltinglyKinky looking at one]], he says [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0161.html "I suddenly find myself very, very glad that I don't have any fansites."]]

%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples (cont.)--> '''Khrima''': Ahem. ''[[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040817.html Cue the choir]]''
* OneWingedAngel: Khrima. He uses [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0035.html Wing-B-Gone]] to deal with it. He goes through four forms in the final battle.

* OnlyIdiotsMayPass: Upon finding the fourth energy crystal, Karn [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0264.html explains]] that they can't take it unless they first go back to town and talk to a NPC, even though this makes no logical sense.

* OnlySaneMan: Ardam, who can't stand the absurd RPG tropes he has to deal with. [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20060128.html Near the end]] -- [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20060623.html he gives up.]]

* OperationBlank: Cody announces, [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040424.html "Commence mission code name Enter the Khrimalith."]] He's not very imaginative at coming up with these.
* OptionalPartyMember: [[spoiler:Drecker]] is ''not'' pleased to [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040417.html learn he's one]].
* OurHeroIsDead: At one point in the final battle, [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050716.html Karn gets killed by Khrima]]. [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050719.html The next strip]] has Ardam revive Karn while Khrima busies himself with EvilGloating.
* OverratedAndUnderleveled: Karn wants to leave Chookie behind because Chookie [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0260.html joined the party at level one]].

* {{Padding}}: Woo boy, that last arc. [[invoked]] Lampshaded, [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050614.html of course]].
* PaletteSwap: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0042.html Which one's the navy one?]]
* PamphletShelf: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0187.html RPG libraries only have one readable book on each shelf]]; the rest are just empty covers.
* ParodyCommercial: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0270.html Strip #270]] is a commercial for the "game" itself.
* PartyInMyPocket: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0203.html Lampshaded.]]

* PlotlineDeath: Discussed in [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0072.html strip #72]] (implied to be about ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''):

* PokeThePoodle: Most of Khrima's attempts at proving how evil he is... [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0016.html such as]] giving Karn free passes to an amusement park that ''doesn't have any cotton candy''.
* PolishTheTurd: [[invoked]] A marketing department [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030520.html tries its best]] to make wind magic look TotallyRadical and not totally ineffective like it actually is. Ardam isn't taken in.
* {{Precursors}}: "There are ancient, highly advanced civilizations hidden ''everywhere''," Karn [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0250.html claims]].

* PureEnergy: Ardam [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0367.html tries to explain]] to Karn why it's not scientifically possible for a sword to be "made of pure energy." Karn justifies it by invoking the RuleOfCool.
%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * PuzzleBoss: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040513.html Whizrorb.]]

* RagnarokProofing: Ardam is amazed that the machinery in the "thousand-year-old temples" still works, and that mana potions found in 100,000-year-old InexplicableTreasureChests are [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0326.html still good for him to drink]]. [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030117.html Apparently, the construction company that built the ancient temple talked the owners into paying extra for this exact feature...]]
* RandomEncounters: One of the inevitable annoyances of living in an RPGMechanicsVerse. In a GuestStrip, Karn [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0243.html tries to invite these by walking back and forth]].

* RebelliousPrincess: Gildward claims to be one when introducing himself. [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0109.html "I may have exaggerated a little..."]]
* RecurringBoss: Numerous. Khrima, Eternion, Blanc, Mizuna just to name some. Lampshaded in [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020917.html strip #651]]:

%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * ReviveKillsZombie: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0017.html This strip]] illustrates the results.
* RewardingVandalism: Karn [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011207.html destroys a priceless vase]] because it might contain an item, much to its owner's outrage.
* RingRingCRUNCH: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0026.html One strip]] has Karn sleeping at an inn "after a busy day saving the world." An alarm clock rings and he smashes it with his sword.

* RuleOfDrama: "No respect for drama, heroes today," Khrima [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050524.html complains]].

* RummageFail: Karashi speds [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050512.html two]] [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050514.html strips]] searching through the inventory for a party-healing item. No Megahealers, alas, but the inventory does contain such items as 27 Useless Things and 67 pieces of Pocket Lint.
* RunningGag: "Gorilla" is spotted in any word game Khrima plays, whether it's [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0010.html Boggle]] [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0068.html or]] [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020815.html Scrabble]] [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20041202.html or]] RockPaperScissors. In [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20021108.html one panel]], Ardam reads a book titled ''Gorilla: Is It Really Right There?''.
* SavePoint: Karn [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0221.html restores from one]], surprising one of Khrima's henchmen, who says, "I ''knew'' I shouldn't have had that thing installed."
* SaveThePrincess: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011205.html "Princesses usually get kidnapped 3 or 4 times of a week,"]] Ardam says.
* ScrollingText: Unfortunately for Ardam, [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0377.html there's no way to speed it up]].

* SharkPool: Khrima threatens to throw his enemies into a "vat of boiling sharks", but [[FridgeLogic soon realizes]] that it [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0037.html wouldn't work]].
* ShootTheMedicFirst: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050809.html Ardam figures out this strategy]] when Byte-L keeps reviving Khrima.

** The override command to activate Spybot's [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040608.html Cannon Mode]] is "[[Anime/{{Macross}} MAC-R-0-55]]".
** [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030221.html "That stupid rich kid bought the model airship I wanted,"]] just like in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI''.
** Karashi's [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20031225.html IDOUBLDRGN]] attack throws a copy of ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon''.
** The footer caption for a KillerRabbit [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0302.html encounter]]: [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail "What, behind the rabbit?"]]
* ShowWithinAShow: In addition to Khrima's [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0368.html daytime TV]] and various other shows, the entire comic turned out to be a ShowWithinAShow - or more accurately, Game Within A Comic - in the final comic, where it's revealed [[spoiler:Wrench of ''Webcomic/AntiheroForHire'']] has been playing it the whole time.
* SideEffectsInclude: A ParodyCommercial [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020313.html for magic]] ends with the warning: "Magic has been linked to [[SquishyWizard low physical strength]] in test subjects. If after using magic you have any abnormal reaction, contact your local item shop."
* {{Sidequest}}: Karn [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030320.html recommends taking sidequests]] as "an efficient way to increase our battle efficiency through equipment and experience."
* SirSwearsALot: Eternion [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20031021.html demonstrates]] that, as an extradimensional being, he isn't bound by the world's rules against cuss words.

* SlaveToPR: Khrima wants to be seen as an evil supervillain because EvilIsCool. [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0089.html He is hypocritical about his devotion to evilness, though.]]

* SoLongAndThanksForAllTheGear: A GuestStarPartyMember runs off with the expensive gold armor Karn bought for him, [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0407.html much to his annoyance]].
* SoloSequence: Karn must [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030303.html go into the Vine Forest on his own]], without the PartyInMyPocket to invisibly accompany him.
* SoMuchForStealth: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0157.html Karn's plan for a secret infiltration]] marks the spot where the party will get ambushed. Ardam raises the obvious objection:

* SpikeballsOfDoom: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0307.html Strip #307]] gives one of these a speaking role.

* SpikesOfDoom: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020823.html It's someone's job to keep the spike traps in perfect shape.]]
* SpoofAesop: The lesson Gildward learns from being kidnapped: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0249.html "But most of all I learned never to tick off a ninja."]]

** If you're on fire, [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0370.html being doused with water]] will make you wet but won't stop the burning.
** Getting "Berzerked" makes Karn [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020702.html glow red and hit monsters over and over]]... though the latter is what he usually does anyway.
** [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0098.html The various items for curing these effects don't make much sense.]]

%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * StatingTheSimpleSolution: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0112.html Here.]]
%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * StayingAlive: [[spoiler:Khrima]] [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20061006.html here]].
* StealthPun: In [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020806.html this strip]]:

* SteamPunk: No matter how anachronistic it seems, [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0193.html all machinery and technology is powered by steam]].
* StockAnimalDiet: Ardam complains about being [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020109.html swarmed by rabbits]] while Karn obliviously snacks on a bag of carrots.
* StrategyGuide: Karn is seen [[NoFourthWall reading a walkthrough]] when he gets [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0195.html stuck in a puzzle]].

%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * SuicidalOverconfidence: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020109.html "What attracts them to us enough to override their self-preservation instincts?]]
* SummonMagic: Ardam uses this, and so do a few other characters. [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0102.html He sometimes gets it wrong, though.]] The theory behind it is explained in [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050910.html this comic]].

* SuspectIsHatless: Maxima Termis, trying to find Karn, puts out a call for [[AnimeHair large-haired]] heroes, a description which turns out to be [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011019.html nowhere near specific enough]].
* SuspiciouslyCrackedWall: Karn [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020704.html blows up a cracked wall]] because he thinks there could be some treasure behind it. There isn't.
* TakeThat: "[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Squall]] belongs to Square. [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0336.html They can keep him.]]"
* TakeYourTime: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0196.html Made fun of]] [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011116.html repeatedly]]. In [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020516.html one of the more ridiculous examples]], Karn runs off to TalkToEveryone at the bar while Ardam is fighting a boss.
* TakenForGranite: Khrima [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050215.html hits Karn with a stoning attack]] during the final battle, [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050222.html forcing the party to use a remedy]].

* TalkToEveryone: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020318.html This is]] [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020121.html rule #1]] of adventuring.

* TenPacesAndTurn: Tesla and a villain [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0363.html attempt this]], but are foiled by the RPG battle system.
%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20021115.html "Any job worth doing with a laser is worth doing with many, many lasers."]]
* ThingOMatic: Khrima immobilizes Karn by sneakily deploying the [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0201.html Bindomatic Mark VII]].
* ThisCannotBe: Eternion's final words: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20040316.html "NO! It cannot be! I am invincible!"]] The next panel shows the party members gaining experience for defeating him.

* ThrowAwayCountry: Khrima [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020412.html magically obliterates a village the heroes have been to]]. He couldn't do that to a village the heroes are actually ''in'', since that wouldn't be fair.
%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * TimedMission: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020101.html Here]].

* TimmyInAWell: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0008.html One early strip]] has Ardam unable to communicate except through VisibleSilence. He tries to tell Karn, "Help, giant octopus! Run!" Karn, hearing "...!!!", responds: "Jimmy fell into the old well?" He runs off to the well as CombatTentacles close in on Ardam.
* TookAShortcut: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0398.html How the NPCs get there first.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Dirlend, an evil bard, learns to play [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0357.html Heavy Metal music]] and is no longer [[SquishyWizard Squishy]].
* TooManyBelts: Decker thinks lots of belts make him look cool. Ardam says it makes him look stupid. [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020228.html Karn already went too far with them.]]
* TotalPartyKill: {{Save Point}}s make these little more than an [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0371.html inconvenience]].
* TrapDoor: Khrima can activate one of these from a button on his desk. However, he [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0349.html can't use it to get rid of a Skyrian ambassador]] because Skyrians have wings.

* TraumaInn: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0379.html "Just sleep it off, you'll be fine."]]
* TreasureIsBiggerInFiction: Subverted. The [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0099.html "world's largest cut diamond"]] turns out to be a cardboard cutout.
* TwoGamersOnACouch: Parodied in a one-off SomethingCompletelyDifferent [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030401.html strip]], with Karn and Khrima as teenagers laughing too much at ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}''.
* UltimateBlacksmith: The TropeNamer is [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20041014.html this strip]], where he wonders why the party hasn't followed the confusing clues to find his very out-of-the-way shop, GuideDangIt.
* UndergroundMonkey: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050122.html Discussed]]:

* UnderwaterBossBattle: Karn is [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020724.html eager for the party to follow a monster into the water and battle it there]]. Ardam wonders how they'll breathe.

* UnexplainedRecovery: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0049.html Leaving the party is always temporary.]]
* UniversalPoison: Lampshaded in [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0084.html strip #84]], where Drecker receives a poisonous snakebite and finds that the effects aren't as bad as he thought they would be.

* TheUnpronounceable: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0139.html Strip #139]] has Karn as the host of a kids' show asking the audience if they can say the name of the evil demon Kh'htrrild58dj@dhf.

** One strip in the final boss battle gives us "Slash! Cleave! Bisect!" Another from earlier has [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030610.html "That sound ninjas make when they jump silently!"]], and then later [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030612.html "That same sound from the last comic about jumping ninjas!"]]
** [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020725.html Sound associated with a falling safe!]]

* UrbanLegendOfZelda: [[invoked]] Karn decides to stare at a spot on a wall for 45 hours, having heard that this will unlock a great weapon. Ardam [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0124.html doesn't put much stock in these kinds of rumors]].
* UselessUsefulSpell: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0167.html De-Lificate]] proves to be ineffective when cast on enemies. It seems that [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0332.html most of Gildward's abilities]], which supposedly "can cause status ailments," are equally useless.
* UselessUsefulStealth: The narration of [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0312.html Strip #312]] brings Karashi to the realization that "stealth doesn't mean much in a turn-based battle system."
* VaguenessIsComing: Lampshaded in [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0134.html this]] strip, in which a mysterious hooded NPC warns that "'It' is about to rise, and the 'Time' is upon us," and Ardam asks him if he could possibly be more vague.

%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * VideoGameGeography: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0345.html "The world is not round."]]

** The use of this in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' is [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030404.html parodied]]: Drecker, the resident thief, destroys a robot by stealing a grenade, and notes that all robots are built around one. When Ardam asks if that's dangerous, Drecker replies "Only if you pull the pin".
** And [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20020419.html earlier than that]], when he steals a sword from someone threatening them with a knife.

* VisibleSilence: Some of the villains [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20021113.html practice conversing in this]].
* WalkingDisasterArea: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0289.html Parodied.]] Karn wonders why a town he shows up in has been destroyed--it's because he landed his airship too close.

* WallOfText: Lampshaded in [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20021014.html strip #670]], where Endless tries to cram as much expository text into a single panel as possible (before even properly introducing herself).
%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * {{Wangst}}: [[invoked]] [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030206.html Subverted.]]
%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * WeaksauceWeakness: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050611.html Getting hit on the head with a piano.]]

* WelcomeToCorneria: Parodied repeatedly. In the comic's RPGMechanicsVerse, it's apparently in the [=NPC=]s' job descriptions to [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0225.html walk back and forth shouting one line to passersby]]. Repeating one line over and over again may be boring, but [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0082.html at least one NPC doesn't take kindly to being questioned about it]]. The line [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0066.html "There are many guards in the castle"]] became a RunningGag, especially as seen [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011121.html here]].

* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Argent. [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0255.html Ardam immediately guesses he's evil upon seeing him.]]

%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * AWizardDidIt: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20060707.html That's right. Magic.]]
* WordSchmord: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0349.html Strip #349]] is titled "Skyrian Shmyrian."

* WrapAround: On the world map, [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0345.html a scientist discovers]] that you teleport to the south side of the world when you go past the northern boundaries.

* WrittenSoundEffect: Lampshaded with the "FOOM!" effect in [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0338.html strip #338]].

* YouALLLookFamiliar: To Karn, Lucinda [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20021008.html seems to be important because she has a unique character sprite]].
* YouCantFightFate: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0296.html The characters follow the plot, because that's what you do in an RPG.]]
* YouHaveFailedMe: [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0057.html Strip #57]] has Khrima doing this to a white-haired minion who has run out of excuses:

%% commented out as WeblinksAreNotExamples * YouMeddlingKids: Given a ShoutOut [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0181.html here]].

The storyline is now finished and the comic no longer updates. You can start at the beginning [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0001.html here]].

* GuestStarPartyMember: The Guy Who Took the Gold Armor, the [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0251.html Level 99 Guy]].

'''Karn''': Well, yeah, multiple times. There can't be more than a few dozen.

* RewardingVandalism: Karn [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20011207.html destroys a priceless vase]] because it might contain an item.

The storyline is now finished and the comic no longer updates. You can start at the beginning here: http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0001.html.

* AbortedArc: Nate Wars, among a several recurring comics during the first 100 strips.

* {{Cameo}}: Hero and Cherry from ''Webcomic/{{RPG World}}'' appear in the background when Maxima Termis calls for 'a spiky-headed hero and his sidekick'. The later when Eternion announces in a newspaper that he's making a bid for Final Boss, another article in the newspaper is titled "Galgarion to gardners: Prune or Die." In turn, Khrima made a cameo in ''RPG World'', appearing in the hallway at Eviltown U.

** A very subtle one: Early in the strip, Ardam [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0102.html spoons up a summon]] and realizes he got the wording wrong. Then during the final battle, [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050728.html he gets it right]]. And when he sends an enemy to the Realm of Calling to be attacked by all his summons at once [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050927.html look for panel six]].

** A very subtle one: Early in the strip, Ardam [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0102.html spoons up a summon]] and realizes he got the wording wrong. Then during the final battle, [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20050728.html he gets it right]].

* FourIsDeath: Khrima has four forms.
--> '''Khrima''': Fourth time's a '''charm'''.

* OneWingedAngel: Khrima. He uses [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0035.html Wing-B-Gone]] to deal with it.

* ConvenientQuesting: The Demon Peak Pass becomes passable just when [[http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030422.html our heroes need to get through it]]. Karn and Ardam sarcastically remark that that's "not predetermined contrivance at all."