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• Mad Scientist: The Lab Ray Scorchio and Dr Sloth. Not to mention the Lab Ray Scorchio's Petpet, a Kookith that runs the Petpet Lab Ray.
• Magic Potion:
  • Morphing potions will change a Neopet's colour and species. For example, a Blue Acara Morphing Potion will turn any pet who drinks it into a blue Acara.
  • Transmogrification potions will turn the pet who drinks it into a mutant of the particular species (for instance, a Lenny Transmogrification Potion will turn the drinker into a Mutant Lenny).
  • Edna the witch sends users to fetch ingredients for her potions, which are always called "Potion of [species] [participle]", e.g. "Potion of Grundo Shrinking".
• Magic Wand: Many varieties in the Battledome, but very noticeable in Neoquest I, since this is the only kind of weapon that the player can wield (although it is not too surprising since just about anything that is capable of talking in this game is a mage).
• Medical Game:
  • One plot had a sub-plot about treating Neopets who'd turned into wraith-like creatures, as well as Neopets (and Queen Fyora) who'd sustained injuries in battle.
  • One April Fool's joke had everybody's Neopets get a disease called the "Scourgies" and it could only be cured by other people, so users were buying the cures and sending them to other users.
• Medicinal Cuisine: Numerous Neopet illnesses are treated with food.
  • Chickaroo, which causes the infected pet to think they're a chicken, is cured with herbal scrambled eggs.
  • Neoblues, which is similar to depression, is cured with a tasty pie.
  • Neopox is cured with "neopox pizza".
  • Sneezles, which causes a runny nose and sneezing, is cured with a magic cookie.
• Memory Match Mini-Game: There used to be a mini-game called Kiko Match, which involved picking cards that had matching Kiko. on later levels, the card color also becomes important where if two cards have the same Kiko but one card is red while the other is blue, then they are not counted as a match.
• Merchandising the Monster: Neopets has had numerous plotlines over the years, and without failure, there will be a ton of items with the villains' likeness, from toys to clothing to novelty food. The resident Barbie Expies, Usuki, will usually be the first to do so, but others will as well, even (and especially) in areas where said villain did the most direct damage. For instance, Lord Kass was so twisted that even the overtly-demonic land of Darigan Citadel considered him a tyrant, but that won't stop the local toy store from selling yo-yos with his face on them. Dr. Frank Sloth was an alien invader who enslaved the entire Grundo race and made it his goal to force Neopians into becoming his personal army of grotesque mutants, but that won't stop the local cafe from selling ice cream in the shape of his head. Etc. They aren't being forced to do this, either; the former is dead, and the latter is sealed in a coin floating somewhere in deep space. Nor is it Gameplay and Story Segregation, as the affected people (especially the Grundos) will be seen using these items.
• Messy Maggots: The website has a variety of foods that are either maggot-infested or straight up maggots. A majority of this food falls into the "Gross Foods" category. Oddly enough, the "Fly and Maggot Pizza" is considered a standard Pizza category food, while the "Maggot Pizza" is labeled under "Gross Foods" instead.
• Metal Muncher: Some food you can give the pets contains metal, such as nuts and bolts. These are said to be palatable but unpopular for most of the pets, except the robots.
• Micro Dieting:
  • The Healthy Food item Thimble of Soup has the description "It's the perfect portion if you are a Petpet..."
  • The Space Food item Dehydrated Ice Cream is a tiny solidified cube of Neapolitan ice cream that is said to be good for those who hate how messy regular ice cream is.
• Mindless Sheep: In one of the April Fool's pranks, Nick Neopia refers to people who reject his conspiracy theories as "Babaas" (a sheep-like Petpet) to imply they're close-minded.
• Missed Meal Aesop: Parodied in the random event where you get more stats. Aethia claims that it's the result of a balanced breakfast.
• Mistaken for Insane: Implied for one of Lord Darigan's prisoners, known as "Number Five". He is thought to be insane and locked up in the prison due to ranting about a place called Jelly World, however, Jelly World actually does exist but a Running Gag is the creators denying it.
• Mistaken for Undead: On the 2022 Festival of Neggs, several Neggs (egg-like fruit) had been drained dry, and there were footsteps, fur, destruction, and luminescent goo everywhere. Several characters wondered if this was the work of a ghost (understandable, since the woods are explicitly haunted), but it was actually a newly-discovered petpet.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: Quite a few Neopets, including Peophins (hippocampus), Eyries (griffins), Elephantes (bipedal elephants with little bird wings), and Aishas (catlike with thicker tails and an extra set of ears). And most pets painted Maraquan (scales and/or a fish tail) or Faerie (a more delicate appearance plus wings).
• Money Sink:
  • The shops run by NPCs in Neopia as well as the Lever of Doom in the Virtupets Space Station, the Wheel of Extravagance and the "Save the Wheels" event from July to early August 2010.
  • In early 2011, the game implemented a new sink: old, retired stamps are occasionally auctioned off by a dummy account, effectively removing millions of NP from the economy as well as returning near-extinct, one-use items into circulation.
• Multiple Head Case: The Bearog, a Spooky Petpet bear/dog cross with three heads (although when painted mutant it loses the other two). A Mutant Hissi also grows an extra head.
• Mutagenic Food: A few foods are able to turn your pet a different color when eaten.
  • A pet who eats a Glowing Jelly has a small chance of turning the Glowing color.
  • When a Chia eats a Magical Chia Pop, it will turn into the fruit or vegetable color that matches the flavor of that Chia Pop.
  • A jug of Mutox Syrup will turn a Grundo into a Mutant Grundo.
  • In a couple of editorials, TNT has stated that feeding a Chia a chocolate item would have a very small chance of turning it the Chocolate color, and that feeding a Kiko or Jubjub a garlic item could turn them Garlic. However, even though those editorials were published in 2005, there has never been a documented case of a Chia who turned Chocolate from eating chocolate, or a Kiko or Jubjub who turned Garlic from eating garlic, so they may have been joking.
• My Little Panzer: Take one look in the Darigan Citadel toy shop. Among the treasures there: a Jeng- er... Block Stack Game with acid oozing out, a lawn sprinkler that turns the water into purple goo, a water balloon filled with thorns, and a purple and green checkerboard.
• My Rules Are Not Your Rules: The single-player Battledome opponents can use all their abilities whenever they want, ignoring use limits and cooldowns. They can also use multiple healing, freezing or stealing items despite human players being limited to one of each.
• Mysterious Purple: In the initial art for Darigan Citadel, the city is made up of purples and blues, and most of the Darigan painted pets are also primarily dark purple. The Citadel was initially introduced as being Dark Is Evil and attacking the innocent Meridell out of spite, but it was then revealed that the true conflict is really much more ambiguous, as they were merely trying to get the life-giving orb Meridell stole from them in the first place. The original leader of the Citadel, Lord Darigan, was presented as a morally gray Anti-Villain just trying to do what was right for his people, and who later became a mysterious "monster" living in someone's barn after he lost the war. In the second war, the ones who compelled Lord Kass to turn evil were a group of mysterious, malevolent, and manipulative spirits who took no actual sides in the war.
• Mythology Gag: In Ice Cream Machine, the power-up ice cream scoops to turn Adee smaller or larger are decorated with silhouettes of what she used to look like in the game's predecessor Ice Cream Factory.

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• Nature Lover: Illusen. She lives in a glade, is often seen playing with rabbit-like creatures, and gives out prices related to leaves and flowers. Being a nature lover comes in handy when your superpower is making plants grow.
• Needlework Is for Old People: Elderly female Ogrins come with knitting wool.
• Nerf: Seldom ever happens to Battledome weapons, mainly if they happened to be over centralizing to the metagame. Most notably happened to the Shuriken, originally a low rarity item that did damage and had a chance to freeze, later having a steep rarity jump and being changed to dealing damage or freezing.
• Nerf Arm: This game's Infinity +1 Sword equipment tends toward the bizarre- while there are plain old magic swords available, you are better off wielding a pharaoh's burial mask, a Killer Yoyo, an evil rubber duckie, or the Carrotblade.
  • When a game's Boring, but Practical one-shot weapons are enchanted snowballs and muffins, you know you aren't in Kansas anymore.
• Nested Ownership: Neopets are capable of having petpets, who in turn are capable of having petpetpets.
• Never Say "Die":
  • Enforced. "Kill", "die", et cetera. are blocked words on any text entry in-site.
  • In one instance in a Neopedia article about Hannah's confrontation with the pirate Bloodhook.
    Bloodhook: Hello, Hannah dear. What are you doing here?
    Hannah: Hello, Uncle Bloodhook. You know what I'm here for.
    Bloodhook: The Mermaid's Tear. That little bauble is mine.
    Hannah: It was my grandfather's! You stole it from him, just before you...
  • Occasionally averted, especially in older site content before things became Lighter and Softer. For example, the Neopedia entry for the Amulet of Thilg specifically states that one of the former rulers of the Lost Desert worked many of his subjects to death while attempting to build the greatest pyramid in history.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: A sort of meta example: Neopets was launched around the same time as the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (coming into effect in early 2000), meaning that it was one of the first major websites to have to deal with laws concerning the collection of personal information from minors. Specifically, users under 13 had to have their parents fax a signed form indicating that the child had permission to sign up and use certain futures of the site (such as Neo Mail). The prompt and decisive response from the preteen would-be userbase was to simply lie about their age when creating their accounts. Fast forward to circa 2006: Neopets implements a birth date check in their login form. Now, what fake birth date did you enter on a whim some long-passed Wednesday back in 5th grade? ...Yeah. Cue the anguished cries of thousands of nostalgia-seeking teenagers as they're simultaneously locked out of their childhood. Oops.
  • Luckily, there is a way to get your birth date back by sending a ticket to the staff. Unluckily, the staff don't always respond to tickets.
• '90s Anti-Hero: MAGAX. Of course, given that it's Neopets, he goes no farther than being a Badbutt. But other than that, he reeks of this trope.
• No Cartoon Fish: Yes, and no. While non-anthro fish exist as food, users can have fish-like Neopets (Koi) and Petpets (Pepito, Noak, etc).
• No Hugging, No Kissing: Users are forbidden from including more than a passing mention of romance in submitted work, and for the most part official site plots avoid it as well. Which begs the question of how Habitarium Petpetpet nesters, even newborn ones, are able to lay eggs when placed in a nest without needing any, ah, assistance.
  • Inverted with the Lost Desert Plot, where Nabile confesses her love for Jazan. They even get married!
  • Subverted in The Faerie's Ruin Plot. Brynn kisses Hanso, even if it's only on the cheek.
• No Name Given: The aforementioned Zafara Double Agent. Despite this (or perhaps because of it), she may even be among the most popular characters.
• Non-Indicative Name: Since it's impossible to change a Neopet's name after it's changed, a Neopet may end up with one if its name refers to a certain species, color, or other trait that was changed after it was born. For example, it's possible to create a Skeith with "skeith" in its name, then zap it with the Lab Ray and have it change to a Kacheek.
• Non-Standard Character Design:
  • Currently, baby pets, Maraquan pets, mutant pets, 8-bit pets, mallow Grundos and fruit/vegetable Chias have unique designs instead of being recolors of standard "template" pets. Pre-Customization, Faerie, royal, plushie, Darigan, and grey pets had unique designs as well. The original Starry Korbat was a strange case, as it was drawn hanging upside down from the circle background by its tail instead of flying in midair.
  • Between 2007 and 2024, A good number of old pets created before the customization update retained their unconverted artworks if their owners allow it, giving them distinct poses at the cost of fully customizing them. Following the Styling Studio update in 2024, anyone can enforce this trope by applying whatever pet style they currently have on any Neopet, depending on the species and regardless of the pet's current color. Like the original UC pets, they can't be fully customized. As of writing, the Ogrin, Lutari, and Vandagyre have no access to pet styles as they never had unconverted options to begin with.
  • By contrast to other ice-colored pets, ice Bruces stand out for not looking like it's made of ice, but rather designed to resemble ice cream, or in unconverted form, the Strawberry Brucicle item, which is a strawberry-flavored Popsicle treat resembling a Bruce.
  • All baby pets are basically smaller and cuter versions of existing pets, but baby Buzzes, Nimmos, and Pteris all have unique designs; baby Buzzes look like insect larva, baby Nimmos resemble tadpoles, and baby Pteris are unhatched eggs.
• No-Sell: The Thyora's Tear, Thick Smoke Bomb, and Downsize Power Plus are the only items in the game that can block all damage dealt by the opponent.
• Nose Nuggets:
  • One of the rare colors with no associated Paint Brush is Snot, which causes pets to appear to be made out of snot.
  • Some foods are made out of snot.
  • There is a recurring character named Meuka, who is a Meerca made of snot. There is a random event where Meuka appears and turns one of your inventory items into snot.
• No Such Thing as Dehydration:
  • Zig-zagged. While Neopets cannot die, even from hunger, and drinks do exist, they only have a hunger meter, not thirst (despite occasionally claiming to be thirsty). If you give your Neopet a drink, it will treat it like food. Also, there is a random event where they ask for a specific "food" that is occasionally actually a drink.
  • In the game "Petpetsitter", the petpets can get hungry, bored, sleepy, and need to pee (and the robots can break down), yet they can't get thirsty.
  • Inverted in the games "Slushie Slinger" and "Meepit Juice Break", which are all about serving drinks.
  • With petpets, both food and drink is optional.
• The Notable Numeral: Before they started changing team members like the rest, Team Tyrannia was known as The Forsaken Five.
• Not Allowed to Grow Up: Pets painted Baby do not naturally grow up into "adult" pets unless painted with a different Paint Brush.
• Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: The Darigan Citadel. Yes, the Dariganites all have Spikes of Villainy and they made their presence known by attacking Meridell, but the Meridellians stole their Orb from them and caused their Obviously Evil appearance in the first place.
  • Granted, Darigan did go Ax-Crazy after getting the orb back. Of course, when he came Back from the Dead, he saved Meridell from Kass.
• Not the Intended Use: Zapping a pet with the Lab Ray has a chance to change their color, species, gender, and/or Battledome stats. Some users with access to the Lab Ray, instead of using it on their own pets, adopt basic-colored pets from the Pound and zap them until they turn into an exotic paintbrush color, then send them back to the Pound to increase their chances of being adopted.
• Nuns Are Funny: The "Goody Two Shoes" Usuki doll.

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• Odd Job Gods: Most Faeries that don't belong to one of the six basic elemental types tend to be themed around a specific domain, some more oddly-specific or less glamorous than others. Kari the Negg Faerie, the Soup Faerie, and the Tooth Faerie's roles speak for themselves, Bree was dedicated to overseeing the former Key Quest subgame, and the Meridell Rubbish Dump even receives donations from an unseen Dung Faerie.
• Offstage Villainy: Some of the most feared villains have never been shown doing anything evil.
  • Justified for Jhudora. Her entire schtick is that she gets to run around scot-free because no-one has ever caught her doing anything bad.
• Older Than They Look: Pets of any age can be painted with the Baby Paint Brush. Since it's pretty expensive, even pets that are the right age for the look are probably committed to it indefinitely.
• Once for Yes, Twice for No: Clop, the first opponent in Cellblock, is a Moehog prisoner whose only method of communication is banging his hooves on the floor. The other prisoners think that once means yes, twice means no, and three times means that he's hungry, but they haven't yet worked out what four and five mean.
• One-Gender Race: Faeries, as confirmed in this editorial, which begs the question of how they reproduce.
• Orphaned Etymology: There are several tiger-themed items, a Petpet called the Tigermouse, and the Tigersquash is said to give your pet the ability to roar as loud as a tiger, even though there is no evidence that actual tigers exist in Neopia.
• Otherworldly Technicolour Hair: Some faeries have purple hair to signify that they're magical. Among them are Queen Fyora and Jhudora.
• Overly Long Gag:
  • Members giving TNT food (mostly cookies) in the editorial of the Neopian Times.
  • The Wheel of Monotony. Some users report that it after 24 hours it is still spinning. Most give up by then.
  • The negation of the existence of a Jelly World.

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• Paper-Thin Disguise: The "Happiness Faerie" (Dr. Sloth). Amusingly, the site staff appears to fall for it.
• The Parody Before Christmas: One Christmas site theme came with the message "'Twas the week before Day of Giving when all through the site, not a Petpet was stirring, not even a Tigermouse. The stockings were stufftacular and hung with great care, in hopes that a holiday theme would be near; when out in the preferences there arose such a clatter. So, go take a look, to see what's the matter!"
• Pathetic Drooping Weapon: The Sword Of Lameness is a subversion. While its design with the blade drooping over looks pathetic, it's actually a very expensive Infinity +1 Sword and one of the only weapons that can heal you or freeze your opponent multiple times. The implication is that its name refers to it striking your opponents lame, not the quality of the sword itself.
• Perpetual Storm: Lutari Island was previously a bonus area awarded to those who subscribed to the Neopets Mobile service and was the sole habitat of the exclusive Lutari species. Ever since the service shut down in 2009, though, attempting to visit the island would greet you with a brutal and constant maelstrom. Things don't look good for the inhabitants, either, as they remain the rarest species on the site and cannot be transferred to other users.
  "Between the whirlpools, water spouts and lightning it has been advised that no Neopets are allowed to visit its shores. Even the sea life seems to be staying away..."
• Personal Raincloud: Pre-customization, a Cloud Jubjub would turn grey and drip rain from its body when it was sad.
• Pimped-Out Dress: Several female Royal pets, especially in the old pre-Customization poses.
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: On user/pet lookups and user forum posts, the gender attribute display uses blue text for "Male" and pink text for "Female". (The "Other" gender option for users that was later added uses black text.)
• Pirate: Krawk Island is populated by mostly pirates.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: The Gelert who runs the hospital is seen in a doctor's uniform, but he never seems to do any actual healing (all the actual healing seems to be done by Marina).
• Player-Generated Economy: And how!
  • The site currency, Neopoints (NP), enters the economy mainly via games. Players are awarded with NP as they play the on-site games. Some NP enters via Random Events and "daily" activities such as talking to a discarded plushie, collecting bank interest, or spinning a wheel.
  • Players can keep their Neopoints safe by opening a bank account, and can earn interest from stored money. If kept in hand, money can be lost to random events; rarely, random events can cause you to end up with a negative amount of Neopoints on hand.
  • Most items enter the economy via site shops run by NPCs. Items can also enter the economy through random events, daily activities, certain games, and site events such as plots or the Altador Cup among other means. Rarer items such as Morphing Potions have an extremely low chance of appearing in site shops. The site's rarest items, like Paint Brushes, never appear in site shops and can only be obtained through random events or other unusual means.
  • Players can keep their items safe by placing them in their Safety Deposit Box. The maximum number of items that can be kept in hand is 50, after which it becomes impossible to buy from user or site shops. Items can be lost to random events, or to some other occurrences like having them turned to sludge by an unlucky spin of the Wheel of Misfortune or dropping them while apple bobbing.
  • Items in the site shops cost from a few dozen NP to tens of thousands of NP. For the vast majority of items the supply in site shops is greatly limited however, the stock of site shops is randomized every several minutes, and items sometimes disappear from shops even if nobody buys them. This enables restocking, where players buy high demand items from site shops and resell them at significantly higher prices, with the added convenience of allowing the resellers' fellow players to rapidly find the items using the Shop Wizard (which searches user shops but not site shops). High demand items can fetch a price of hundreds of thousands, even several millions of NP.
  • High demand items include most importantly one-use items such as food (especially avatar-related food), books, training currency (Codestones and Dubloons), Neggs (which can be either eaten or traded in for other useful items), and Neopet-modifying items such as Paint Brushes and Morphing Potions, and collectable items such as stamps that cannot be removed from user albums once added.
  • As the flow of money into the system is virtually unlimited, the site maintainers have specifically created money sinks to keep the inflation somewhat in check. Such would be the Lever of Doom and the Wishing Well, which can both give out a site avatar, but demand money in turn (and cannot be predicted), and the late site event Save the Wheels, which gave out items in turn for donations.
  • Neopets has a stock market where players can buy and sell stock in various in-universe companies, including some shops - stock prices used to be influenced by the number of items players bought from certain NPC-run site shops, but were later changed to be random.
• Player Personality Quiz: Faerieland offers a "Faerie Personality Quiz" that assigns you one of the six basic types of Faerie, which has no effect on gameplay and is taken just for fun (and to acquire an embeddable image of whichever Faerie you get). The answers to the questions make it very obvious which results they lead to; for example, your options posed by the question "Which of these words appeal to you most?" are Flame, Wind, Land, Waves, Sunlight, and Darkness.
• Playing Sick: This Neopian Times article for how to deal with a boring book has one tip to shove the book down your throat and pretend to have Ugga-Ugga (a kind of Neopian throat infection).
• Plot Allergy:
  • Skeiths are allergic to cheese (but strangely, not to other dairy), and it gives them a Polka-Dot Disease called Neezles.
  • Tonus get Neezles from a certain type of Neopian fruit called "Neggs".
  • If a Quiggle eats cream (though, again, not all dairy), they will either get Neezles.
  • Kyriis dislike apples and are allergic to them; if they eat apples, they get a disease called Itchy Scratchies.
• Pointless Bandaid: All Kikos have bandaids on their heads as a fashion statement.
• Polka-Dot Disease: Three of the diseases give Neopets spots: they are Hoochie Coochies, Neopox and Neezles.
• Polka-Dot Paint: Some of the Rainbow Pool paintbrushes. Well, they're magic paintbrushes.
• Power Creep: Many of the outstanding, multimillion-neopoint battledome items back in the day have been far outclassed by items that can be picked up for only a few hundred neopoints nowadays. How bad is it? Well, take the Crystal Boomerang, one of the original Hidden Tower weapons — 9.6 million neopoints when it was available and now that it's retired, even higher. It dealt 3-4 icons of damage, had a 5% chance of stealing an enemy's weapon, and had a small chance of breaking. Now, fast-forward. The Purple Sticky Hand, available commonly for less than a fraction of a fraction of the boomerang's original cost, has a 50% chance of stealing. The Ridiculously Heavy Battle Hammer, which was given out for free and can be gotten for less than pocket change now, does 9 icons of damage consistently and never breaks.
• Power Equals Rarity: So, so much. But it's gotten less prevalent over time due to Battledome icon inflation. ^noteWith the Ridiculously Heavy Battle Hammer and the Scroll of Ultranova now as cheap as junk items found at the fishing vortex, and both having 9-10 icons, the standard for icons has been increased, and now any weapon below 9 icons is frowned upon.
• Prehistoric Animal Analogue: Tyrannia, being a prehistoric world once isolated from the rest of Neopia, is hope to many pets and petpets inspired by prehistoric creatures. There are dinosaurs like the Grarrl and Chomby, and petpets that resemble various creatures like a saber-toothed cat, the Velociraptor, and the woolly mammoth. Several pets gain similarities to extinct species when painted Tyrannian, such as the Tyrannian Krawk resembling a dimetrodon. There's even an unnamed "beast" that resembles a pterodactyl.
• Pretty in Mink: Prytariel and Minae Mitora of the Terror Mountain Yooyuball team wear fur hoods and boots, although this is less for fashion purposes and more to demonstrate that they're from a Slippy-Slidey Ice World.
• Premium Currency: Neopets has two forms of currency. The first is Neopoints, which act as regular currency you can get by playing games and selling items, used to purchase the majority of items in the game. The second is Neocash, which requires real world money^note mostly, though it's occasionally possible to get some via events or by winning it from the Qasalan Expellibox and is reserved for purchasing special items at the Neocash mall. However, Neocash can only be used to buy things which give paying players minimal to no advantage over free players, such as special clothing and fortune cookies that speed up activities that can be done for free, and Neocash items cannot be sold in user shops or otherwise transferred between players through any means other than gifting with special gift box items (to ensure they can't become a source of in-game income), so many people opt not to buy any and simply use the free Neopoints instead.
• Princesses Rule: Princess Amira rules Sakhmet after her father (King) Coltzan was assassinated. It's subverted in she's recently taken the title of Queen, though her sister Vyssa remains a princess. There are also Princess Dona from the Darkest Faerie video game (where she's a princess is unmentioned), Princess Fernypoo (who plays the game Cheat, but what land she's princess of is unknown), Princess Lilac (who rules an island off the shore of Terror Mountain), Princess Lunara (who will become Empress of Shenkuu one day), Princess Roberta (niece to King Hagan, but she doesn't seem to be the daughter of King Skarl I), Princess Sankara (sole survivor and thus next in line to the Khonsu Dynasty in Khamtef), and Princess Terrana (Princess Lunara's younger sister).
• Pun: The "Foal in Box" item is sent by players as a gift to tell another user they have a full inbox.
• Pun With Pi: In one April Fool's joke, the staff had Fun with Autocensors to prevent users from talking about the prank and spoiling the surprise. Since the prank involved pies in the face, it censored "pie" into "danger", "pi" into "air", and "3.14" into "numbers".
• Punch-Kick Layout: In the "Meepit vs. Feepit" minigame, players control a Feepit as it's fighting various Meepit across Neopia. While there are several movements that can be made and two combo attacks, the most basic attacks are limited to punching and kicking.

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• Random Event: "Something has happened!"
• Randomized Transformation: While most methods of altering your pets informs you of what the transformation will be, there are a few ways to get a completely random result:
  • The most famous way is to just go to the Secret Lab and let your pet be experimented on, with a chance of having their color or species changed. The same is true of Petpets and the Petpet Lab Ray. The ray is one of the only way to get certain colors.
  • One of the discontinued random events involved getting drenched with random paint water from the sky. This painted your pet a random color.
  • While fishing, you can find a "Flask of Rainbow Fountain Water", which also grants a random color. There's also the "Mysterious Swirly Potion" which can change your pet to a random limited-edition species.
  • A few items have a more limited effect, turning your pet into one of the four base colors (red, blue, green, or yellow) at random. These items include Turnip Tonic, Rainbow Swirly Potion, the Kaleideonegg, and the Vortex Negg.
  • The Witchy Negg has the option to turn your pet into a Lenny, Tuskaninny, or Moehog.
• Read the Fine Print: The Terms and Conditions, which have to be signed to access the site, have some... odd wording. such as "...or incorporate such materials into any form, medium, or technology (now known or hereafter developed or devised) throughout the universe."
• Real Men Wear Pink: Male Neopets are perfectly happy playing with girls' toys such as Usuki Dolls, receiving cutesy-looking Petpets, wearing feminine articles of clothing or even being painted colors such as Faerie or Pink.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Most Acaras' eyes assume a reddish tone when they're angry. Ghost Neopets have this by default.
• Reduced to Dust: Some random events can turn your items or Petpets into piles of ash.
  • The Petpet Lab Ray has a possibility of blasting your Petpet into a pile of soot with eyes.
    Your eyes recover quite quickly after the giant explosion, but that's more than you can say for your Petpet. The Kookith is kind enough to sweep up [Petpet's Name] for you and you head home.
  • Sometimes when Donny is fixing a toy for you, it will explode and turn into a Pile of Sludge or Pile of Rubble.
  • In a random event, Sloth can fire his ray gun at you and turn one of your items into a Pile of Sludge.
  • Landing on the "pile of ash" spot on the Wheel of Misfortune may turn one of your items into a Pile of Sludge.
• Rent-a-Zilla: Maraqua is protected by a giant monster named "Chiazilla".
• Retractable Appendages: In at least one fun image, Cybunnies can apparently retract their heads into their body.
• Revenue-Enhancing Devices: Buying real-life merchandise can net you in-game items; Lutari Island was only accessible by signing up for Neopets Mobile.
• Rhyming Title: Some of the mini-games have rhyming titles, such as "Jubble Bubble".
• Riddle for the Ages: The site has several, and fans of the site often try to explain them in the Neopian Times.
  • What was the incident that caused the Deserted Fairground to be deserted? Though TNT did write a Neopedia article about it.
  • How did Jhudora and Illusen became rivals in the first place?
  • What caused so many people to believe that a world made out of jelly could possibly exist?
  • What crimes did Magax commit against the Faeries that he is now trying to atone for?
  • What was the unsolvable puzzle that Eliv Thade's servant gave to him that drove him to madness?
  • What species is Dr. Sloth? (All we know is that he's not a Neopet and hates being called one.)
  • Why are you not supposed to feed carrots to a Floud?
• Ridiculously Alive Undead:
  • Turning your pet into a zombie or a ghost only changes its appearance, so the pet will still get hungry and will still be able to catch diseases.
  • One Random Event has the ghost of King Coltzan having Kikoughela (a type of throat disease that Neopets can get).
• Rubber-Band A.I.: In Yooyuball, the more goals you score, the more aggressive the AI becomes, and after a while, the accuracy of their tackles and shoots becomes practically cheating.
• Running Gag:
  • Denials of the existence of the not-Secret Jelly World. Also, the idea that those creepily staring Meepits are plotting to take over.
  • "March 3rd has been cancelled due to lack of interest."
  • For a little while, the Neopian Times Editorial always ended with "mr. coconut" shouting "GOOD NIGHT!" After a few months of that, TNT went meta by retiring mr. coconut and starting a new gag about trying to find a suitable replacement.
  • Occasionally in the Advent Calendar, among your rewards is THE ROD OF SUPERNOVA! ...Then the Pant Devil steals it from you.

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