Roleplay / Alpha Team: Mission Deep Freeze RPG

Alpha Team: Mission Deep Freeze RPG, or simply Alpha Team RPG, is a text-based Role-Playing Game based upon the third and final mission of LEGO Alpha Team.

The premise is simple: Evil Ogel has returned and is plotting to freeze Earth with his new Ice Orbs, and it is up to Alpha Team to defend the world against this new threat.

Alpha Team RPG was created by BZPower member Victor Draven (then known as Barda the Builder of Brickbar) on December 21, 2004, and was largely inspired by BZPRPG and Manifest Destiny's Knights' Kingdom RPG. Alpha Team RPG quickly became the most successful and popular LEGO-based RPG on the forum and was directly responsible for a ton of new LEGO RPGs created in its wake, including Dino Attack RPG.

Unfortunately, as Victor Draven drifted away from BZPower, the RPG was left to flounder about without a guiding force. The fight against Ogel could never progress or reach a resolution, so players came up with new subplots and villains that eventually made it so complex that it became difficult to follow everything going on. Eventually, most of its players dropped out. Less than two years after it started, the RPG was considered dead due to inactivity.

Despite this, Alpha Team RPG is largely considered by the BZPower LEGO TBRPG community to be a prime example of how to make a successful RPG. Its legacy lived on through the many RPGs it inspired, and it even received a Spiritual Successor in 2010 in the form of Alpha Team RPG: Ogel's Last Stand, created by former players PeabodySam and TakunuvaC01 as a tribute to the classic RPG.

Along with the rest of the pre-2011 BZPower Archive, Alpha Team: Mission Deep Freeze was ravaged by a hacking incident. Even a nearly-complete archive on the Wayback Machine mysteriously vanished from its servers. Fortunately, an incomplete but decently-sized archive was compiled by PeabodySam as a 361-page Word document, which you can download here. To mark the RPG's 18th anniversary on December 21, 2022, PeabodySam released a more organized downloadable archive that also includes its Expanded Universe and Alpha Team RPG: Ogel's Last Stand, which you can download here.

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Alpha Team RPG contains examples of:

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• Aborted Arc: The Flight of the Rahkshi was never published beyond its first chapter.
• Ace Pilot: Capt. Falcon and Cash, whose skills include flying anything.
• Actually a Doombot: General Evil was killed by Frozeen at one point, but it was later revealed that it was only a decoy.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: Little Bot did not originally appear in the RPG until after General Evil faked his death, but he appears in Family Feud during Frozeen's first battle against General Evil.
• Adaptational Sympathy: General Evil is still a villain in Family Feud, but he's at least presented in a more sympathetic light with a tragic backstory and Freudian Excuse, compared to how he was merely a one-dimensional pure evil villain in the original RPG.
• Adaptation Expansion: In the original Alpha Team line, Dash says that Alpha Team needs to recruit more agents in Mission Deep Freeze. It was Victor Draven's vision that this RPG would focus on those new recruits. Whereas Diamond Tooth, Arrow, and maybe Zed were the only new recruits in the original line, the RPG features dozens of player characters as new recruits.
• Adaptation Name Change:
  • The toyline's Super Ice Drone is instead called a Black Drone in the RPG.
  • Frozeen's real name is Samuel Yoir in the RPG, but Family Feud follows Dino Attack RPG canon and therefore names him Peter Abody instead.
• Adaptive Ability: If a Spiderobot is destroyed by an attack, the other surviving Spiderobots will adapt and learn to avoid, block, or even No-Sell that attack. This forces PBB, Databoard, and others to constantly improvise new ways of fighting them since the same trick never works twice.
• Adoptive Name Change: In the original RPG, it's stated that Frozeen was originally named Brickstealer, but his adoptive parents named him Sam Yoir. In Dino Attack RPG canon and Family Feud, his birthname is Brickthief and his adoptive name is Peter Abody instead.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Frozeen felt bad over Slayer's death after the latter was killed by General Evil's decoy.
• All Animals Are Dogs: Chompy, who is a T-Rex, shows his affection towards Frozeen by licking his face and wagging his tail. Frozeen decided to raise Chompy because he had experience with a pet dog.
• All Your Base Are Belong to Us: There were numerous times in which Ogel's forces launched a major attack upon the Alpha Team Antarctic Base.
• Alone Among the Couples: The early RPG days notably featured love interests for major characters, such as Iris for Subzero and Rebecca for Valcone. Although Frozeen was around in those early days, he never had a love interest in the RPG. This would later motivate PeabodySam to give him a love interest in Dino Attack: At War's End.
• Alternate Timeline: Future Frozeen created an alternate timeline by going back in time to Set Right What Once Went Wrong, with the point of divergence being Mission Deep Freeze when he rescued the rest of Alpha Team from the assassin robot that killed them in the original timeline.
• Always Chaotic Evil: Ice Drones, with the sole exception of Rebel Drone, are always villains as a result of being Brainwashed and Crazy.
• Ambiguous Robots: The original G.E. Bodies aren't exactly robots and are actually slightly more organic in nature, although this led to some confusion among other players who did not understand how General Evil could have a favorite food.
• Amplified Animal Aptitude: As shown through PBB's translations of Chompy's growls, it's revealed that the young Tyrannosaurus rex is nearly as intelligent as his companions.
• And Now for Someone Completely Different: After a long absence in 2005, Victor Draven returned briefly in early 2006 with a new player character, Cryogen. His previous player character, Subzero, was now a villain and it was Cryogen's goal to defeat him.
• The Artifact: The ranking/vehicles system became this as a result of Victor Draven's inactivity, since he was the only one who could promote a player to elite agent. Rather tellingly, during his brief return in 2006, he said the system was now obsolete and all players were allowed to use the Mobile Command Center and Blizzard Blaster.
• Back from the Dead: Frozeen, Kotua, and Databoard all died at least once but kept coming back. This was also set up for Valcone, but then his player never followed up on it.
• Bad Boss:
  • Ogel has no second thoughts about tossing one of his drones out the window in a moment of anger.
  • General Evil cared very little for Slayer and only exploited him for his wish to seek revenge against Frozeen. He (or, at least, his decoy) made the mistake of insulting Slayer and breaking his promise, which ultimately led to Slayer turning against him. Furthermore, after killing Slayer, General Evil remarks that "There goes another servant", implying that this is not the first minion that he's killed.
• Bad Future: Future Frozeen comes from an alternate future where Ogel successfully took over the world after killing most of the Alpha Team with an assassin robot. PeabodySam once expressed interest in expanding upon this bad future in a short story.
• Badass Driver: Kalius's skill is being a very good driver.
• Bat Out of Hell: PBB fights one Shifting Shadow that takes on the form of a Kreelix, which is described as an enormous bat-like monster.
• Big Bad: Evil Ogel is the main villain, just as in the original toyline.
• Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: Frozeen, PBB, and Chompy encounter a Yeti in Antarctica, of all places. Chompy scares it off by growling at it.
• Big, Stupid Doodoo-Head:
  • Chompy insults a drone in the saurian language, which is translated as calling the drone a "big, dumb... dummy head".
  • Both Frozeen and General Evil tend to use "dumb" as though it is the harshest insult they can think of, which ends up making them seem like they have the vocabulary of an elementary school bully. General Evil's menace is somewhat deflated when he boasts "Your dumb team is doomed!", for example.
• Born as an Adult: After dying multiple times and meeting the "It is time" voice, Kotua and Databoard were reborn in their original adult bodies.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Ice Drones were once ordinary civilians who fell victim to Ogel's Mind-Control Orbs. This also happens on occasion to Alpha Team agents, especially to Kotua or Databoard, who undergo temporary Face Heel Turns.
• Call-Forward: A number of references were made towards Dino Attack RPG (which is set six years later) when both RPGs were running concurrently. For example, at one point, Frozeen and his friends stumble upon Ogel's personal G.E. Body, which was used by Fogel in Dino Attack RPG.
• The Cameo: Sam Race, who was also PeabodySam's primary character in the concurrent Tiny Turbos RPG, made a brief cameo in this RPG.
• Captain Ersatz: Chaos, a legendary beast made of water who was sealed away in a Mayan temple and can assume a powerful form known as "Perfect Chaos" after attaining seven Chaos Emeralds. Sounds familiar?
• Character Customization: Every little trait, be it personality or physical, is up to the players.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Happens to characters when their players drop out due to inactivity.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: When Frozeen goes insane, it's this type of insanity. He believes that everyone around him is a leprechaun out to steal his gold; the cows must be defeated to save the monkeys; and everything has to do with Mexican food.
• Convection, Schmonvection: A Required Secondary Power for Valcone's Magma Man powers, of course, but it doesn't explain why no one else around him was affected by the heat of molten rock.
• Cool Airship: The Voltage, Dr. Voltage's personal airship that would later be taken by Kotua. Ogel also had impressive airships at his disposal, including one that was captured by PBB and would eventually become his personal airship.
• Cool Car: The Tundra Tracker, a car that can transform into a Drill Tank and is available to all players.
• Cool Plane: The Blue Eagle, a jet that proved to be one of the most popular vehicle choices among players.
• Cranium Chase: PBB had his head knocked off during one fight against General Evil, and the villain was able to escape while the bot's body was trying to find his head and pick it back up.
• Crisis Crossover: While primarily based upon LEGO Alpha Team, the RPG has multiple crossovers with other LEGO themes, notably including LEGO Adventurers, LEGO Island, Knights' Kingdom, and especially BIONICLE. Licensed LEGO themes are also featured, such as Harry Potter, Spider-Man 2, Star Wars, and Batman.
• Cunning Linguist: Polar is able to translate and decode with ease, and PBB was programmed with six languages.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Slayer's one and only fight against Frozeen is incredibly short. Frozeen just kicks him and ties him up.
• Death Is Cheap: Frozeen, Kotua, and Databoard all died at least once, but that did not stop them from coming back in various forms. As Kotua and Databoard discovered after dying multiple times, the only thing you need to do when you see a bright light and hear a voice tell you that your time has come is to say "But my friends need me!", and then that voice will let you off the hook.
• Decomposite Character: In The Banned, BZPower members and their respective RPG characters are treated as the same individual, with one exception. When Subzero meets FOX234, he does not recognize the BZPower member as agent Slick, suggesting that they are separate characters in this story.
• Dem Bones: Ice Drones, possibly. We don't know for sure whether or not they have flesh beneath those uniforms.
• Demolitions Expert: Henry, whose skill is demolition.
• Destination Defenestration: Ogel has a bad habit of doing this to his drones.
• Detachment Combat: PBB once took his head off and threw it as a projectile, knocking out Kotua and disabling a Robo-Kotua. He needed Frozeen's help to re-attach the head, though.
• Deus ex Machina: Characters on the brink of death would be confronted by a mysterious voice telling them "it is time" but could be convinced to bring people back. This was basically invented by Kotua in Space as a means of getting his character, who had been reduced to a ghost forced to possess vehicles in order to stay in this world, back into a physical human body in an easy and feasible manner. This happened several times with the same people. Given the context, this might very well be a literal case of Deus ex Machina.
• Did You Die?: In Family Feud, Frozeen asks if General Evil killed him. Since he's heavily drugged up with morphine at the time, the prose notes that he is still not thinking clearly enough to realize the obvious answer to that question.
• The Dog Bites Back: General Evil promised Slayer that he would replace his missing hands. When Slayer was no longer useful to him, General Evil (or rather, his decoy) called him a "freak" and said that Slayer would never receive his promised prosthetic hands. In turn, Slayer turned against him and tore apart the decoy's G.E. Body's wings, which proved instrumental in its defeat.
• The Dragon: General Evil to Evil Ogel. While they are both very intelligent, Ogel was the mastermind while General Evil was the muscle.
• Dressing as the Enemy: Frozeen occasionally donned an Ice Drone uniform to infiltrate Ogel's Mountain Fortress.
• Drill Tank: The Tundra Tracker's Alpha Mode: the Magma Drill.
• Earth Is a Battlefield: As Ogel has spread his Ice Orbs all over the planet, Alpha Team takes the fight to him at various locations across the globe, including Antarctica, Adventurers' Island, World City, Boston, and Mexico.
• Elite Mook: The most common Elite Mooks are Meda-Drones, which are Mecha-Mooks that are stronger, tougher, and smarter than the average drone. There are also other one-off elite versions of drones, including Elite Drones commanded by Tyrus, the Black Drone with freezing powers, and the Drone Chief that successfully captures Frozeen.
• Enemy Mine: The Ice Snake King forged a brief alliance with Alpha Team in order to take down Lord Salvatore Lazardas, who had taken over his clan of ice snakes.
• The Engineer: Subzero, Databoard, and Kotua are skilled mechanics and engineers.
• Ensemble Cast: The Alpha Team RPG has no single main protagonist.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: When General Evil faked his death, his brother Evil Ogel showed a rare moment of humanity by expressing grief. He mourned his brother enough to have his Ice Drones and prisoners build a shrine in his memory.
• Everything's Deader with Zombies: Spy Fiction isn't usually associated with zombies, but the Ice Drones fill that role.
• Evil Counterpart: General Evil to Frozeen, made especially clear since they both used G.E. Bodies.
• Evil Gloating: Most villains, including Ogel, General Evil, and Dr. Voltage, are fond of gloating to their helpless (or not-so-helpless) enemies.
• Evil Is Hammy: Again, this applies to most villains. Ogel in particular was known for shouting a lot.
• Evil Knockoff: At one point, Ogel reverse-engineered Alpha Team's vehicles and created his own red and black versions to attack Alpha Team agents.
• Evil Old Folks: General Evil is in his seventies, and therefore this trope also presumably applies to his brother, Evil Ogel.
• Evil Plan: Ogel's plan is to cover the world with snow and ice. Although this is never revealed in the RPG itself, his ultimate goal is to freeze time itself.
• Evil Sounds Deep: A trait carried by both Ogel and General Evil is that they have deep baritone voices.
• Expanded Universe: During the RPG's run, its host Victor Draven wrote three side-stories set within the RPG's universe: Rahkshi VS Vahki, The Banned, and The Flight of the Rahkshi. Almost two decades later, PeabodySam would offer his own contribution with a short story, Family Feud.
• Exploring the Evil Lair: Alpha Team agents often have to do this in Ogel's various compounds.
• Expy:
  • General Evil combines elements of General Grievous and Hopper.
  • Slayer is a very blatant expy of Dinatius.
• Eyepatch After Time Skip: While not stated in the RPG itself, Future Frozeen has an eyepatch over his left eye, as depicted on the Dino Attack RPG Wiki.
• Face–Heel Turn: In his final appearance in the RPG, Subzero had become a villain who was being hunted down by Victor Draven's new player character, Cryogen.
• Fake Defector: Valcone pretends to betray Alpha Team and return to Ogel's service, but his true loyalties still remain with Alpha Team.
• Fallen Hero:
  • Subzero, after his Face–Heel Turn, goes from being one of Alpha Team's greatest heroes to Alpha Team's number two enemy.
  • General Evil forces Frozeen to fight a giant spiny lizard-like creature, which is heavily implied to be a former heroic member of Libo's Army.
• Friendless Background: Frozeen and Patrick (aka Slayer) had very few friends in their youth.

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• Gender-Inclusive Writing: In Family Feud, none of the scientist agents under Frozeen and Dr. Rex's command are referred to with gendered terms, leaving it up to the reader's imagination whether they are male or female.
• Giant Squid: The Vinscale Octomus resembles a giant cephalopod.
• Grammar Correction Gag: In the middle of a battle, Slayer felt the need to correct General Evil's grammar after the latter used a double negative. According to Frozeen, Slayer always was a Grammar Nazi.
• Grand Theft Prototype: After the supposed death of General Evil, Alpha Team was able to steal his personal vehicle, a unique silver armored Scorpion Orb Launcher, and use it in the fight against Ogel.
• Harmless Freezing: Whenever Alpha Team agents are frozen in a block of ice by an Ice Orb, they are always just fine once thawed or broken free.
• Haunted Technology:
  • The original interpretation of G.E. Bodies (before they were retconned to a more mundane Powered Armor by Dino Attack RPG) is that they were robotic (maybe?) bodies possessed by the ghost of a deceased character.
  • After Kotua and Databoard died, their ghosts possessed a Robo-Blade and an Ice Blade, respectively.
• Hero Killer: In the original timeline, Ogel's assassin robot killed almost every Alpha Team agent, including well-known heroes such as Subzero, Databoard, and Kotua.
• Heroic Safe Mode: Frozeen's safe mode results in Unstoppable Rages. One such instance was when he thought Kotua killed Chompy and he responded by brutally tearing Kotua's Robo-Blade apart.
• Hook Hand: In place of Ogel's left hand, just like in the toyline.
• Humongous Mecha: The Blizzard Blaster is a large two-legged mech, available only to Elite Agents due to being such a powerful vehicle.
• Hypocritical Humor: Frozeen has a crippling fear of ghosts and refused to believe Kotua and Databoard when they were possessing a Robo-Blade and an Ice Blade, respectively. This is coming from the guy who, at the time, is a ghost possessing a G.E. Body.
• Ice Palace: The den of the Ice Snakes.
• An Ice Person:
  • Subzero, who was first mutated by ice spider venom and was later transformed into a Toa of Ice, possessed ice and freezing powers.
  • The Black Drone can shoot ice blasts from its hands, and freezes the floor beneath its feet.
• In the Hood: After being forced to use a G.E. Body, Frozeen started wearing a hooded cloak to easily distinguish his appearance from that of General Evil. Of course, eventually General Evil caught on and started wearing a hooded cloak of his own to infiltrate Alpha Team Headquarters.
• The Infiltration: Due to being Spy Fiction, this happens on occasion. Examples include Frozeen disguising himself as an Ice Drone to infiltrate Ogel's Mountain Fortress and General Evil disguising himself as Frozeen to infiltrate Alpha Team Headquarters.
• Instant Ice: Just Add Cold!: Or rather, just add an Ice Orb. It causes instant freezing and ice.
• It Can Think: General Evil forces Frozeen to fight a giant lizard-like monster that appears to be just a feral beast. However, Rebel Drone reveals afterward that the lizard used to be friends with Little Bot, and it is heavily implied that the lizard was a former member of Libo's Army, both of which would suggest that the lizard was actually sapient.
• Killed Off for Real:
  • Despite Death Being Cheap for other characters, Kalius and Slayer remained dead after they were killed.
  • Double Subversion by Valcone. He was originally Killed Off For Real, but then his player had second thoughts and so Valcone entered a tournament to come back to life and won... but nothing ever came out of that, so as far as the rest of the RPG is concerned, he's still dead.
• The Leader: Although Dash Justice is the leader of Alpha Team, elite commando agent Subzero often filled this role for his fellow RPG characters.
• Losing Your Head: Since PBB is a robot, decapitation is non-fatal. In the original RPG, he even weaponizes it at one point, taking off his head and throwing it as a projectile. In Family Feud, he gets beheaded by General Evil and shows up just fine later on after Pulling Themselves Together off-screen.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Or rather, brother. The Brickster revealed to Ogel that he and Frozeen are siblings, and Frozeen later found out about it by playing back the security footage.

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• Magma Man: Valcone had the ability to create controlled bursts of magma.
• Mecha-Mooks: The Meda-Drones, which Frozeen discovered to be robotic.
• Mini-Mecha:
  • The X-1 Snowbot Defender, the alternate Alpha Mode form of the Chill Speeder, is a small two-legged walker. Unlike the more powerful Blizzard Blaster, it was available to all players, but rarely saw use in the RPG.
  • The Robo-Blade, which is essentially cross between the standard Alpha Team vehicle Ice Blade and a small robot.
• Misplaced Wildlife:
  • A misplaced cryptid, in this instance. For some reason, a Yeti randomly appears in Antarctica instead of the Himalayas. PBB is perplexed by its presence.
  • Dragonflies and mosquitoes are found in Antarctica. However, it is implied that neither of these species are "ordinary" insects (the dragonflies appear to actually be smaller DRAGONflies, and Family Feud mentions Ogel experimenting with genetically-modified mosquitoes) in order to justify their presence. The same can't be said for ordinary ants that were getting inside the base after Frozeen spilled his cocoa.
• Mooks: Ice Drones are the minions of Ogel, and they're killed by the dozen in battles against players.
• Murderous Malfunctioning Machine: Guardian was supposed to be a military robot that would help Alpha Team and LEGOLAND battle Ogel. Since A.I. Is a Crapshoot, it instead went rogue and started attacking everyone, becoming a villain in its own right.
• Mythology Gag:
  • At one point in the RPG, a drone infiltrates Alpha Team HQ by disguising itself as Charge, referencing one of the Red Lens minigames on the LEGO Alpha Team website. This minigame is also referenced by Family Feud, which mentions that multiple drones have disguised themselves as Charge.
  • In Family Feud, General Evil describes himself as a ghost haunting a machine body. It's just a metaphor in Family Feud, but in the original RPG canon, that's literally what he was. Similarly, Frozeen begins to hear the "It is time..." voice and asks if General Evil killed him, referencing the fact that Frozeen did die in the original RPG during this fight.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Villains do not go for subtle names, with some notable examples including XTREMEPOWERMOD/Turaga Doom, General Evil, and Slayer.
• No Ending: When the RPG died from inactivity in 2006, the fight against Ogel was still far from finished. Granted, the original toyline never actually had an ending either, but it ended with the final showdown beginning between Zed's Blizzard Blaster and Ogel' Scorpion Orb Launcher, which is assumed to take place quite some time after the RPG ended. The RPG's successors Dino Attack RPG and Alpha Team RPG: Ogel's Last Stand do fill in some of the gap but intentionally leave the details very vague.
• Non-Human Sidekick: Frozeen's sidekicks, Chompy and PBB.
• Not Me This Time: While Frozeen goes insane, Kotua grows sick of Frozeen acting like Gollum. When he hears an Evil Laugh, he assumes it's just Frozeen and tells him to knock it off, but Frozeen reacts with confusion. Turns out it was actually Dr. Voltage who was laughing.
• Obviously Evil: Everything that has to do with Evil Ogel. Giant skulls, skeletal minions, red and black color schemes, even the word "Evil" in his title!
• Old Save Bonus: Alpha Team RPG: Ogel's Last Stand was created in 2010 as both a tribute to LEGO Alpha Team and this RPG. Veteran players of Alpha Team: Mission Deep Freeze RPG could begin at Standard Agent rank rather than Rookie Agent.
• Our Dragons Are Different: Two very different kinds of dragons appear in Antarctica:
  • The DRAGONfly appears to be an enormous dragonfly with draconic features. Fortunately, it is benevolent and gladly assists Alpha Team after Frozeen (accidentally) saves its life. It is accompanied by swarms of smaller dragonflies, which are implied to be its kin rather than ordinary dragonflies.
  • PBB encounters an ancient mutant dragon guarding the antidote for Ogel's poison. It is said that whoever kills the mutant dragon must also die. It is capable of speech, and although it initially poses a threat to PBB, it teams up with him against a greater threat, the Shifting Shadows.
• Our Time Machine Is Different: Future Frozeen's time machine is a flying boat, apparently based upon the Flying Time Vessel from LEGO Time Cruisers.
• Player Headquarters: The Alpha Team Antarctic Base serves this role as Alpha Team's main base, unlike the Mobile Command Center in the toyline.
• Production Foreshadowing: An early incarnation of the Shifting Shadows, which would later make their formal debut in PeabodySam's 2009 BIONICLE fanfic Vakama's Secret, make an appearance as minor enemies in this RPG in 2005. Similarly, the giant lizard monster that fights Frozeen in General Evil's pit appears to be based on the same BIONICLE MOC as Karak from The Story of Frosam, which was written later that year in 2006.
• Pulling Themselves Together: As long as PBB does not take critical damage, he can put himself back together if he is dismembered.
• Race Lift: Frozeen was originally envisioned by PeabodySam as a "cool" Black man. However, this was never made clear in his writing, so Victor Draven instead imagined Frozeen as a redhead (who is, naturally, white... or, in the case of LEGO characters, yellow), and that is the image that ultimately stuck.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: The color scheme of Ogel's bases, vehicles, and Ice Drone uniforms. Rather notably, when he copied Alpha Team's vehicles, he changed their color schemes from blue and white to red and black.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: One of Evil Ogel's eyes is red, just as in the toyline.
• Reformed Criminal: Valcone used to be a warrior working for Evil Ogel, but he abandoned Ogel's cause and joined Alpha Team to become a hero.
• invokedRescued from the Scrappy Heap: In-universe example. When PBB was first created, he was seen as incredibly annoying by Alpha Team agents (including his own creator Frozeen) since he would never shut up and would either drone on in excruciating boring detail or make unfunny attempts at humor. As PBB eventually dropped these annoying traits and became more serious and helpful, the Alpha Team agents came around and began appreciating him as a valuable ally.
• Revenge by Proxy: In Family Feud, General Evil tries to kill Frozeen as punishment for being left for dead by Frozeen's father.
• Rewrite: About half of Family Feud is a rewrite of Frozeen's first encounter with General Evil, now updated to match the modern canon of Dino Attack RPG.
• Robot Buddy:
  • Kotua used to have one until it was abducted by Dr. Voltage and fused with his Ice Blade, thus creating the first Robo-Blade.
  • Frozeen custom-built PBB as his own personal robot buddy.
  • Rebel Drone was accompanied by a little robot named Little Bot... although, as would be revealed in Dino Attack RPG, Little Bot's true nature may not be so robotic.
• Robot Me:
  • Dr. Voltage built robotic copies of Alpha Team agents to serve as Mecha-Mooks. After he was defeated, Kotua took command of the robotic Alpha Team copies and used them to fight alongside the real Alpha Team.
  • Data2, an evil copy of Databoard, was revealed to be a Meda-Drone in disguise. Given that Meda-Drones are Mecha Mooks, this confirms that Data2 is a robot.
• Rogue Drone: Rebel Drone, as his name implies, is an Ice Drone who broke free of Ogel's mind-control and is now working with Alpha Team. In Dino Attack RPG: Director's Cut, it's explained that his Mind-Control Orb was tampered with by Libo.
• Rotating Protagonist: Every post in Alpha Team RPG shifts the perspective to another character, especially since players are not allowed to post twice in a row due to BZPower forum rules. It can even happen in just one post; many players in the RPG have a number of NPCs besides their main character, and a single post will often shift between the perspectives of different characters.

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• Sailor Earth: According to Victor Draven, the RPG was partially inspired by one of Dash Justice's lines in a LEGO Magazine comic, wherein he says that Alpha Team is hiring new recruits for Mission Deep Freeze. This RPG focuses on those new recruits by giving many players the opportunity to create their own characters in the Alpha Team.
• Saved by Canon:
  • Canon LEGO characters could not be killed for this reason.
  • Thanks to Dino Attack RPG, which is set six years later but ran concurrent to this RPG, it's hard to feel any real dramatic tension for characters like Frozeen, Databoard, or Kotua when you know they'll be just fine.
• Sea Monster: The Vinscale Octomus, giant kraken-like monsters that dwelt in Antarctic waters. Unfortunately, with Ogel lowering the world's climate, they've started to migrate north, and one was even found attacking the coastline of World City.
• Secret Underground Passage: Frozeen and Ice discovered a secret tunnel that led into Ogel's Mountain Fortress.
• Shoulders of Doom: Evil Ogel's outfit features large shoulder armor, just as in the toyline.
• Shout-Out:
  • One of the first player characters is named Capt. Falcon. For bonus points, his vehicle of choice is the Blue Eagle.
  • Professor Ignatius Voltage made an appearance in the early days of the RPG.
  • Several Shout-Outs were made to LEGO Island, including Adventurers' Island making an appearance and the Brickster being revealed to be Frozeen's brother.
  • The Robo-Blade, given its mech-like design and its use of beam weaponry, is likely a reference to the Gundam franchise.
  • Chaos is rather obviously based upon the villain of Sonic Adventure.
  • PeabodySam made a number of comments noting that The Lord of the Rings definitely influenced his writing, especially in big battle scenes. The Vinscale Octomus is based upon the Watcher in the Water from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Frozeen also ends up in two separate reenactments of the scene from The Fellowship of the Ring where a character hastily puts out a campfire that has already been noticed by their enemies. Frozeen and PBB find a lock that says "Say code to enter", and Frozeen realizes the code is the word "code".
  • PeabodySam's writings contain multiple references to The Lost Years of Merlin, including a creature called a Kreelix and a sword-handed villain known as Slayer.
  • In the volcano base, Frozeen overhears a couple drones apparently watching Finding Nemo.
  • Frozeen and PBB uncover a plot by Ogel to launch a rocket that would drop a ball-like robot to attack a city, followed by a countdown and a triggered alarm system. The whole scene is very clearly based upon The Incredibles. Later, General Evil uses Electric Torture on Frozeen in a manner reminiscent of Syndrome's interrogation of Mr. Incredible.
  • In Family Feud, after Frozeen declares that Dr. Rex killed General Evil, Dr. Rex's response is "Good!"
• Shrine to the Fallen: After General Evil fakes his death, several of Ogel's prisoners (including Kotua) are forced to work on a shrine dedicated to General Evil's memory.
• Sissy Villain: Ogel, especially in the early days of the RPG. He was caught sleeping with a bunch of stuffed animals and later claimed that he paid for his golden visor with two months' worth of his allowance.
• Slippy-Slidey Ice World: Pretty much the entire planet is covered with snow and ice, thanks to Ogel's Ice Orbs.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Both General Evil and Frozeen died in the original RPG, with their spirits possessing G.E. Bodies. Due to Reimagining the Artifact in later Dino Attack RPG canon, the G.E. Bodies are changed to Powered Armor instead of Haunted Technology, and therefore the rewrite Family Feud changes it so that General Evil and Frozeen were explicitly Only Mostly Dead instead of actually dead.
• Speaks Fluent Animal: PBB, making him an ideal translator for Chompy.
• Spell My Name With An S:
  • In his first appearance, the French newbie's name is Bounjoir. But in his second appearance, it's Bonjoir instead.
  • The Vinscale Octomus is originally spelled "Vinscale Octumus" when Frozeen first names it.
• Spider Tank: The Scorpion Orb Launcher, as well as General Evil's personal variant, the Silver Scorpion Orb Launcher.
• Supervillain Lair: Ogel's Mountain Fortress, along with his various outposts throughout Antarctica.
• Take Over the World: Ogel's plan, of course! His goal is to freeze time to overthrow the world's governments and take over the world, and he even succeeds in an Alternate Timeline where he becomes Supreme Overlord.
• Take That!: One drone sarcastically comments on the Big Dig supposedly being meant to help Boston.
• Talk Like a Pirate: When PBB was first created, he would randomly switch languages and accents on a whim, including speaking with a stereotypical "pirate accent" where he would call people "mateys" and tell them to walk the plank.
• Tentacled Terror: The Vinscale Octomus, a species of giant tentacled monstrosities.
• Theme Naming:
  • In Family Feud, Atom's bombs are called Panrahk 98 and Panrahk 2000. When combined with Panrahk XP from the original RPG, it clearly forms a pattern of naming the bombs after Microsoft Windows computers.
  • In Family Feud, since Frozeen and Dr. Rex's squad consist of scientists, many of their codenames refer to scientific terms, such as Atom, Dalton, Infrared, Ultraviolet, Thermo, Sigma, and Cell; the last three are also intended as references to Thermo Fisher Scientific, Sigma-Aldrich, and Cell Signaling Technologies, which are companies in the life sciences field.
• This Is a Drill: Alpha Team agents such as Frozeen often employed the Magma Drill in their fight against Ogel, whether it was drilling through ice or through Snow Crawlers.
• This Was His True Form: After PBB kills a Shifting Shadow in the form of a Kreelix, it shapeshifts back to its original form.
• Through the Eyes of Madness: While Kotua was brainwashed by the drones' machine, his posts are told from his unreliable perspective, including Databoard being perceived as an evil drone taunting him while he's in an oven.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Chompy Used to Be a Sweet Kid, but he became a lot grouchier and more sarcastic after having to endure a brief period of blindness.
• Tunnel King: Frozeen, who was a Rock Raider before joining Alpha Team, and can usually be found carrying handheld drills or driving the Magma Drill.
• Vengeance Denied: Slayer seeks revenge against Frozeen, but keeps having it denied. First, he believed that General Evil killed Frozeen, leaving him unable to do the deed himself. Later, when he finally gets to face Frozeen in a fight, it's a Curb-Stomp Battle and Slayer is almost instantly defeated.
• Volcano Lair: Frozeen once had to infiltrate an Ogel base that was located inside an antarctic volcano, where the Ice Drones planned on redirecting the lava flow to Alpha Team's base.
• Voluntary Shapeshifter: Ogel allies with a race of monsters known as Shifting Shadows, which are capable of shapeshifting into other forms at will.
• Whole-Plot Reference:
  • The Expanded Universe story Rahkshi VS Vahki is one big Shout-Out to Alien vs. Predator.
  • The Future Frozeen Story Arc seems to be inspired by Terminator, since it concerns a time traveler from a Bad Future going back in time to stop a robot assassin.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Frozeen is terrified of ghosts.
• Xenomorph Xerox: The Kraata are portrayed as a combination of facehuggers and chestbursters in The Banned: they latch onto their victim's face, enter their body, and burst out their chest. Then, just as a chestburster grows into a more powerful drone, the Kraata enter their Rahkshi exoskeleton and become Kurahk. Furthermore, in the title of Rahkshi VS Vahki, Rahkshi take the place of "Alien" in Alien vs. Predator.
• Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: When PBB was first created, he would randomly switch languages and accents on a whim, including speaking with a "Knights' Kingdom accent" where he would speak with an exaggerated and incredibly inaccurate representation of Old English.
• You Do Not Want To Know: When PBB is asked how he got to Antarctica from Boston, he refuses to answer and simply says that you do not want to know.
• You Just Had to Say It: During the Adventurers' Island mission, Frozeen notes that they haven't encountered any Scorpion Orb Launchers yet, only for a bunch of them to suddenly appear. Shadow scolds Frozeen, telling him not to say that next time.

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