Line #60 Radio/TrollCops


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3	''Troll Cops: The Radio Play'' is a radio adaption of the ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' fanfic AU FanFic/TrollCops. Unlike the AU, which has many different canons DependingOnTheWriter, the Radio Play has a consistent canon based around the canon of the most prolific FanFic/TrollCops author, Wigmund, and any story that doesn't conflict with it.
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5	Currently on hiatus, but WordOfGod also says that a podcast is in the works so anyone can listen to it anytime, anywhere. [[http://bulletnick.tumblr.com/post/99393671430/the-full-complete-extensive-definite-directors-cut Here]] is a list of all the stories that are part of the radio show's canon in (mostly) chronological order.
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9	!!''Troll Cops: The Radio Play'' provides examples of:
10	* AncientArtifact: The city is chock-full of Skaian artifacts, many of which are suddenly in working condition after the Green Sun incident.
11	* CatFight: One occurs in "Cat Fight", naturally, between Nepeta and Maggie. It ends up devolving into [[MudWrestling a bikini-clad fight in a pool filled with pudding.]]
12	* CowboyCop: Terezi.
13	* DaChief: Police Commissioner Armstrong Righteous. He is the LAW, and the LAW must be obeyed!
14	* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Karkat, Nepeta, and Terezi were orphaned by the Green Sun Disaster; John's mother was killed as well. Bro Strider and Gamzee's and Feferi's families also died under other circumstances.
15	* DieHardOnAnX: ''DOOF Hard'' is a direct ShoutOut to the TropeNamer, with Equius and Egbertman in [=McClane=]'s position while Aradia and AR take Powell and Robinson's places, respectively, on the outside.
16	* DisabilitySuperpower: Terezi, as in the canon (she's [[BlindSeer blind]] but can smell and taste light)
17	** Subverted with Mr. Pupa, who simply has [[ArtificialLimbs bionic legs]] for whenever he feels like walking.
18	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The entire 2013-14 season. The late 2014 retool introduced the [[Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale Night Valian]] community radio show framing device, as well as remastering and partially rerecording 2013 episodes and broadcasting them in a different order. It's almost as though the 2013-14 season never actually happened!
19	* EmbarrassingFirstName: [[spoiler:Ambrose]] "Bro" Strider.
20	* {{Foil}}: Terezi and Mr. Pupa (both handicapped, neither handicapped by their handicaps, both chessmasters).
21	** Also Egbertman and Crowbro. One, a happy-go-lucky, LighterAndSofter hero who [[ThouShaltNotKill refuses to kill]] and flies around helping people during the daytime. The other, a hardened vigilante who operates at night and will not hesitate to murder criminals in cold blood.
22	* GenreRoulette: In Episode 1 alone, we've had romance ("Captor and Culler", "Blinded By Time"), infiltration thriller ("The Raid"), comedy of the most ridiculous order ("The Madman"), and a backstory-filling traditional cop show mini-episode ("Orientation")
23	** Later in Season 1, there's also superhero episodes, a tense mystery thriller, more backstory, and an action-adventure spoof of ''Film/DieHard''.
24	* GoodCopBadCop: Sollux, being bipolar, manages to play both.
25	* GottaCatchEmAll: SEER's mission statement is to recover and keep all dangerous [[AncientArtifact Skaian Artifacts]] out of the wrong hands.
26	* KudzuPlot
27	* {{Magitek}}: Some of the [[AncientArtifact Skaian Artifacts]] seem to operate like this, as well as some of the Harley inventions, notably the transportalizer.
28	* MagpiesAsPortents: The Magpie.
29	* MudWrestling: The titular CatFight in "Cat Fight" devolves into the pudding variant by the end of the episode.
30	* ObfuscatingDisability: The Nefarious and Notorious Mr. Pupa uses his wheelchair to lull his foes into a false sense of security, before escaping on his fully functional robotic legs.
31	* OriginalCharacter: Several. Prominent ones include the Magpie, Mama Captor, [[spoiler:and [[DeathByOriginStory John's mother]]]].
32	* ThePlan: Pretty much everything Mr. Pupa does.
33	* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The Karkitty gang consists of three orphaned trolls. One has anger issues and a powerful BigBrotherInstinct, one is [[KindHeartedCatLover obsessed with cats,]] and one is a perpetually [[TheStoner stoned]] clown who was born into one of the richest families in Alternia City [[spoiler:before they were all murdered before his eyes by a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent rainbow drinker.]]]] It doesn't really get much more ragtag than that.
34	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Mayor WV, [[TheDitz ditziness]] notwithstanding. [[DaChief Commissioner AR]], too. Additionally, Terezi and Equius outrank the other cops, and they may also fill this role... DependingOnTheWriter, of course.
35	** The cops in general fill this role toward the people of the city. Generally, if they're not busy tracking or chasing criminals, they're perfectly happy to stop and help random civilians with their problems. Except for maybe Vriska, but Vriska's a bitch.
36	* RetCon: "S.E.E.ing Double" seems to be just another average, perfectly ordinary day. "A Very Strider Christmas" reveals that it was actually Christmas Eve.
37	* RunningGag: "Terezi Pyrope has been named Officer of the Month...again." Every single month.
38	** What pumpkin?
39	* ShapeShifting: Nepeta can turn into a car.
40	* StreetUrchin: Karkat, Gamzee and Nepeta are three orphans who turned to crime in order to feed themselves.
41	* VigilanteMan: Bro, as Seppucrow. [[spoiler: [[KilledOffForReal It doesn't go so well for him.]]]]
42	* WrongGenreSavvy: Creator/AndrewHussie, oh so much. As Alternia City's resident [[CloudCuckoolander crazy]] [[TheDrifter vagrant,]] he objects to the entire AU's existence and believes everything was meant to play out as it does in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}.'' This frequently lands him in jail or the asylum, for his own safety.

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