Logan's Sandbox is a Fan-Fiction Epic, that revolves around a man who has his own imaginary world and the life of a King. He uses his imagination to create things both great and terrible. One such world is one of fanfiction.
That's pretty much how I think about it.
Let's fire Tropes up!!:
- Adults Are Useless: Downplayed, Although many characters, including the narrator, Misty from the Pokémon Anime, are Free-Range Children, it's a little difficult to call Lion-O, Goku, and He-man "useless".
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Averted, Logan's severe ADHD is portrayed realistically. Logan has a short attention span when it comes to stuff he's not interested in, and will frequently switch between tasks.
- Batman Cold Open: Zig-zagged Frequently. For Example, Banjo from Banjo-Kazooie is seen in a 23-year-old form, disabling a nest of sentries of a enemy force, using a Sniper Rifle. It has no bearing on the plot of the episode whatsoever. However, three episodes later, the same nest is shown decimated and Raven from the original Teen Titans walking up the castle steps. She is completely unfettered by sentry gunfire.
- Big Brother Instinct: Exaggerated with Yakko. Yakko, being the eldest and most combat savvy, will usually put himself between any threat and his siblings.
- Catchphrase: Logan's: "Let's fire things up!" Logan calls this out before he fights, before he plays a game, or arrives at a party.
- Calling Your Attacks: Justified, as when using any power invoking imaginenergy, there is a verbal component.
- Character Check: Terra from the Original Teen Titans. While she remembers the events of the series, is friendly with the Titans, and still has her powers. Also with characters like Sora Takenouchi from Digimon and Ariel from the Little Mermaid with their Used to Be a Tomboy and the Animaniacs with their Flanderization. Sora and Ariel display tomboyish behavior, and the Animaniacs are more Karmic Tricksters and are reluctant to prank people without reason.
- Crossover: Logan's blatant Nepotism has him choosing from the following pool for quests: Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh, BIONICLE, Avatar: The Last Airbender, MacGyver 2016, Megaman NT Warrior, Code Lyoko, Super Mario, Harry Potter, Fall Out 4, TF2, W.I.T.C.H., The Dragonlance Chronicles, and Percy Jackson. Other franchises that make a frequent appearances are: The Original Teen Titans, other facets of Rick Riordan's Mytho-verse, Chaotic, The Cluefinders, Alpha Team, Overwatch, Digimon, Legend of Korra, WOW, Hunger Games, Divergent, Fablehaven, Maze Runner, Beyblade, B-Daman, Bakugan, The Weekenders, Cyberchase, and Monster Buster Club.
- Death Is a Slap on the Wrist: No one can die permanently in this realm. An extreme example is when Amy Rose died by being crushed by a rock. Her body disintegrated into a blue powder. Said dust coalesced at her house into a new body with all the memories she had.
- Demoted to Extra: 17 years prior the series's beginning, characters from toddler shows like Dragon Tales and Dora the Explorer were Logan's closest friends. Now that he's 21, they have been pushed into the background.
- Designated Victim: Averted: Peach and Zelda can defend themselves, despite Logan's insisting that women don't belong on the battlefield, The Girls from Totally Spies have special deviations (Sam has a neural implant that prevents her from being mind controlled, which makes her a silver bullet against Logan's Wraith Hand , Clover has an alteration to her Digital DNA that prevents her from being mutated, and Alex has a bracelet that has a miniature buzzsaw.), Yumi and Aelita from Code Lyoko are just simply not targeted as much. Word of God states that the creator hates this trope more than Flanderization.
- Expy: In the mirror world that Logan (the writer) intends to publish. Every character is an Expy that straddles the line between Expy and Captain Ersatz.
- Girliness Upgrade: Inverted: Princess Peach is 50/50 Girly Girl and Tomboy; she carries around a guitar and normally wears a denim skirt, and t-shirt, for her casual wear.
- Hufflepuff House: Worker Faction. Most of the characters are in the Worker Faction. Unless you show desire or significant prowess to go into another faction, you will be in the Worker Faction by default.
- It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: Logan and his impulsiveness often lead to a plethora of problems. For example, Logan tried to build a bomb in an enclosed Chemistry Lab; it did not turn out pretty...
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Logan. Logan loves all of his subjects to varying degrees; however, he'll insult and berate them with crude humor.Terra: Does this dress make me look fat?Logan: Oh! I mistook you for a whale!Terra: Hey!Logan: Laughing I'm just messing with ya, you look great!
- Limited Wardrobe: Zig-Zagged.
- Mr. Fixit: Downplayed: Logan has great engineering and repair potential, but his Brilliant, but Lazy gets in the way. For example, Logan was able to reverse engineer Rosie from the Jetsons to create an army of maid and butler robots. However, he was reluctant to fix a circuit board because "I just don't feel like it,".
- Mad Scientist: Logan regards genetic engineering as akin to playing with legos. This recklessness has led to creating monsters, which regularly escape and threaten to wreak havoc on a regular basis.
- Manchild: Logan is a textbook example of a downplayed version: Logan has many childish interests; however, he can behave as an adult when need be. He just likes his cartoons.
- Never Grew Up: Zig-Zagged: Each character has had their "Aging Clocks" put under conscious control. They can manipulate their age according to the different "Stages" they were in the show. (I.E. Sora Takenouchi has a 10 year old form, a 14 year old form and a 17 year old form. Her adult form is a separate entity to take care of her children as seen in the epilogue of Digimon Adventure (02).
- One-Steve Limit: Averted, although this is [[worked around by using a characters full name or the piece of media they are part of as a title.]]Logan: May Kanker, bring me my glove of power.May from Pokemon: I wanted to get your glove of power!Logan: Yeah, but she doesn't get the limelight as much.May from Pokemon: Fair enough.
- Papa Bear: Logan. Logan will attack you if you even look at his troupe funny.
- Rival : Played to a hostile level between "adult" cartoons (Drawn Together, Family Guy, Futurama, South Park, etc.) And Logan's current troupe of friends.Lois Griffin: How did you get into Logan's troupe, sleeping around?Sora Takenouchi: No, but that's how I got your dad to give me his Porsche.Lois begins to attempt to stab Sora.
- Status Quo Is God: Zigzagged. I'll get back to this later.
- Took a Level in Badass: Justified, as in order to graduate 8th grade, you must have at least 1 Semester of self-defense courses. Melody from Little Mermaid II once fended off a nest of Facehuggers with just a trident.
- Urban Segregation: Zig-zagged: You can be in any combination of the Factions you want; however, similar to the Houses of Harry Potter or Factions of Divergent, you are most likely going to be friends with other members of your faction(s). For Example, If you are a Warrior/Worker, you're not likely to hang out with a Sage
- Woobie : Anyone who isn't anime or anime-esque is designed by Word of God to be just Logan's punching bag.
