Basic Trope: Fire, ice, and lightning as the core elements.
- Straight: In the RPG Heroes of Troperia, the three elements are fire, ice, and lightning.
- Exaggerated: Everything in the game, even the Mons, are fire, ice, or lightning-type.
- Downplayed: The three elements have little effect to the gameplay.
- Justified: These three are the most destructive elements in nature and thus are more favourable choices compared to others.
- Inverted: In the RPG Heroes of Troperia, the three elements are earth, wind, and water instead.
- Subverted:
- More elements are used later - Earth and Wind join to make a Five-Man Band and Dark, Light, Poison, Void, Wood, and Water are also elements.
- Fire, Lightning and… Water
- Fire, Ice, and Lightning seem to dominate the magical system until, about a quarter of the way through the game, a Sound mage shows up and brings the noise in a pretty vicious way.
- Double Subverted:
- The world turns out to be made of these three elements, with the other two having little effect in gameplay.
- With the latter also having ice-related abilities.
- When the sound mage faces the players, sound magic is revealed to deal physical damage as opposed to elemental damage like fire, lightning and ice.
- Parodied:
- In the RPG Heroes of Troperia, it has ice-cream that comes in three different flavours: the elements Fire, Lightning and Ice!
- The Hero Blaze is caught in a Love Triangle between Black Magician Girl Nariko and Childhood Friend Yuki. Cue Elemental Rivalry.
- Zig Zagged: Fire, Ice and Lightning are only the first abilities the characters learn. Later, they also learn a bunch of other abilities. However, they still continue to use the three first most often and most effectively.
- Averted:
- There's no system of Fire, Ice, and Lightning in Heroes of Troperia.
- Fire, Ice, and Lightning are just three of several elements in the game, which also include Water, Shadow, Earth, Wind, Light, Metal, Sound, and more. The former three have also never been grouped together.
- Enforced: They make the flashiest special effects.
- Lampshaded: "Why can we only ever control Fire, Ice and Lightning?"
- Invoked: An ancient sage sets up a magic system using the three elements for future mages to use.
- Exploited: The Big Bad built his armor to withstand all three elements.
- Defied: An ancient sage reminds his students that the magic system does not have to be limited to the three elements. He also encouraged them to go ahead and explore all other possible elements and create spells based on them.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Troperia's three main areas as shown on the world map are a volcano, a glacier, and a world beneath giant thundercloud.
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