Web Video / SMPLive

aka: Tekkit Live

"Every week it becomes more and more mind-boggling that nothing on this server has ever been scripted."

SMPLive was a survival Minecraft multiplayer server created by CallMeCarson and cscoop on March 1, 2019. The server required you to be live every time you were playing on it, and viewers could place hits for streamers to kill other players. It mixes elements of comedic improvisation and roleplay, focusing on the various nonsensical conflicts and situations the characters manage to get themselves into.

It is often credited as one of the main reasons Minecraft video content blew up in popularity again, being the Genre Popularizer for livestreamed SMP series, and many creators went on to join SMPEarth and/or the Dream SMP. In turn, SMPLive itself takes a lot of inspiration from Hermitcraft and the various Minecraft roleplay series created by the Yogscast, and is very open about said inspiration, with homages to both being a common sight.

The server also has two "spin-off" servers — SMP Classic is a server where the members play on an old version of Minecraft, and there's also an unnamed Tekkit Classic server dubbed TekkitLive by fans.

All tropes listed on this page apply solely to the in-game characters and not the streamers behind them.

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Tropes that apply to the main server:

Tropes A-G

• Aborted Arc:
  • Schlatt & Co.'s coffee shop never comes up after it's first built, besides to get robbed by Poke on the same day.
  • Cooper's attempt to create an illegal drug ring also only gets brought up once and never elaborated on.
• Accidental Misnaming: At first, Ant mispronounces Joko's name as "Jocko", something which greatly pisses him off. Ant later apologizes for this.
• Added Alliterative Appeal: The Wacky Wheel at spawn.
• Aerith and Bob: By nature of being a Minecraft server. Compare names like "Connor" and "Josh" to the likes of "Altrive", "Beef" and "Technoblade".
• Always a Live Transmission: SMPLive plays with this trope in a meta sense. Most popular SMP series prior to its debut were in the form of pre-recorded and edited videos uploaded to YouTube. On the other hand, SMPLive made it a requirement that any player online on the server was livestreaming their perspective at every given moment. Even if you logged on for a few minutes to do a single mundane task, you had to be live. This becomes downplayed by the end as this requirement became less enforced.
• And Call Him "George": Connor gives his pet parrot a cookie as a treat, unaware of the fact that cookies are poisonous to parrots and kill them instantly in Minecraft. He proceeds to have a Heroic BSoD.
• ...And That Would Be Wrong: Connor says this about stealing diamonds from the police station when he and Schlatt are trying to convince Wilbur to do it.
  Connor: Now we, as good businessmen, we would never take those. That would be wrong.
• Anti-Humor: During the SMPLive Talent Show, Schlatt reads out jokes without the punchlines.
• Anvil on Head: Joko attempts to drop an anvil on Schlatt, but fails due to signs being in the way.
• Arboreal Abode: While no one resides in it, the Spawn Tree is hollowed out to act as an Overworld equivalent to the Nether Hub, even housing the portal that connects the two.
• Artistic License – Law: The court system is completely unorganized in regards to how things are settled. Either it's popular vote based on players' chats... Or things get violent.
• Artistic License – Law Enforcement: Police officer is a role held by one or two server members at time and passed around weekly.
• Assassination Attempt: The server's hit system almost always results in players trying to assassinate each other. A particularly hilarious example is when Grunk attempts to take out Schlatt, only to get adopted instead.
• Ass Shove: Frequently discussed. Thankfully, we are spared from seeing the results due to the limits of Minecraft.
  Poke: I'm gonna put you inside of my ass!
• Assumed Win: Connor and Joko both assume that they've won the Assassin Event until they learn that neither have, as Carson has declared the event a failure.
• Audience Participation:
  • Viewers can donate to streamers and tell them a player they want them to kill or prank.
  • Court cases are often decided by Twitch chat.
• Author Avatar: Because of being a Minecraft server with roleplay elements, the in-game characters do still represent the streamers a noteworthy amount.
• Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: The server cop role, which is given out to different members each week. They are always either corrupt or incompetent, usually creating bizarre laws just to have a reason to boss people around and attack them.

• Biting-the-Hand Humor: CaptainSparklez's sword is named "The Demonetizor", a reference to YouTube's tendency to remove monetization from videos including too much swearing.
• Bizarrchitecture: The server is practically a world of it, especially at Spawn City, where there are things like a giant skyscraper built entirely of melons and a giant cube that features a Doge meme on each side.
• Black Market: After the outlawing of potions, Cooper has the idea to create an underground illegal drug ring on the server. Hilariously, this is in spite of the fact that said law was instilled during his time in the server cop role just a week earlier.
• Bowdlerise: Swearing in Connor's highlight videos is censored with a beep.
• Brick Joke: Jokes like these are incredibly common in SMPLive. Cooper's pitfall traps tend to be a recurring cause:
  • At one point, while chasing Poke around the Spawn Tree, Cooper manages to get led into his own trap.
  • The same one in front of the Spawn Tree laters gets used for a gag between Schlatt and Connor, where Schlatt runs up, excitedly telling Connor about how he just saw "Alvin and the Chipmunks 2", only for Connor to step on the Pressure Plate and send him hurtling down into the pit.
• Canon Welding:
  • Schlatt retroactively confirms that SMPLive is at least partially canon to Dream SMP in an episode of Tales from the SMP. This indirectly connects it to Bear SMP as well, and Minecraft Championship.
  • It is also implied at some points during Epic SMP season 2 that it's canon to that server as well.
  • In SMPEarth, it is noted that Wilbur's character wants to reform from his "dirty crime boy" ways on SMPLive, adding yet another layer.
• The Casino: Joko's cruise ship at spawn houses a casino inside.
• City of Gold: Downplayed — several buildings at Spawn City are built out of gold or diamond blocks.
• Clip Show: Pokay has several videos aptly titled "The Clip Show", which contain random clips from his SMPLive streams that he didn't feel like making into a full video.
• Comedic Sociopathy: Nearly all of the SMPLive characters are bad people who do bad things. This isn't meant to teach you a lesson, you're just supposed to laugh at how awful they all are.
• Competing Product Potshot: Until April, Connor's ice shop featured a sign out front that says "cheapest ice in town", a shot at Cooper, who also sold ice at spawn. When Cooper stops selling ice, the sign is changed to read "ONLY ice in town" instead.
• Compilation Movie: Several creators have made a "best of SMPLive" compilation video.
• The Con: Schlattcoin, which Schlatt initially sets up to get diamonds out of anyone dumb enough to fall for his very obvious scheme.
• Confronting Your Imposter: When CaptainSparklez joins the server, Altrive dresses up as him, using his skin. The two stare each other down as the other server members gather around.
• Construction Is Awesome: Construction is so important to the people of SMPLive that entire court cases have actually occurred over players building ugly structures in the vicinity of people's much more elaborate builds. Multiple events have taken place themed entirely around building up Spawn City.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: When Poke and James are the server cops, they decide that Dinkster's punishment for illegal contraband is that he must recite the lyrics of "Revenge" by CaptainSparklez from memory. Dinkster complies, and he sings very quickly due to being under distress and very afraid.
• Courtroom Episode: Court cases are a common occurrence on the server, usually taking place in the Church of Etho at Spawn.
  • Notably, there's People of SMPLive v. Schlattcoin, a court case where Connor sues Schlatt for scamming him out of his diamonds.
  • Poke sues Mikey for no real reason, with poor Angel as his lawyer.
  • Nick is sued for his ugly cobblestone structures by Cooper, and loses, being banned from building anything more at spawn.
  • Angel sues Poke for killing some of her chickens, and he has to pay her back for it.
• Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears: Angel tells Ty to cover his ears before she goes off on Senzu.
• Crazy Enough to Work:
  • James manages to put himself out when on fire in the Nether by quickly crafting a cauldron.
  • Connor frees himself from a glitched boat by shooting it with his bow after chat suggests it. His reaction is "THAT ACTUALLY WORKED?".
• Cross-Referenced Titles: Highlight videos of the same/related events from different perspectives tend to reference each other frequently:
  • The Assassin Event, featuring numerous Assumed Wins has the hilarious trinity of Joko's "I WON THE ASSASSIN EVENT (kinda)", Connor's "Winning the SMP Live Assassin Event", and Gold's "WE WON THE SMPLIVE ASSASSIN EVENT? Sorta..."
  • Michael's "They Think I'm Herobrine..." and Connor's "Killing Herobrine on SMP Live".
  • Travis's "The Great Minecraft Bird Heist" and Gold's "MY FRIENDS OBLITERATED MY BIRD FOR MONEY..."
• Cult: The server has several — Jadarko's Salmonism, ShadowApples's Bread Cult, and Ted Nivison's Void Cult.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: In "INSANE MINECRAFT 1v5", Sneeg vs. Joko, Asaii, Mason, Beef and Gold. Sneeg takes them all out easily.
• Death as Comedy: Given the hit system and the Death Is Cheap nature of the series, it's only natural that death is frequently used for comedic antics. One such example is Cooper's repeated killing of Joko in "Fishing turns deadly", with Connor even saying to kill Joko because it's funnier when Cooper gets a hit on him.
• Death Is Cheap: Since it's Minecraft, you can just respawn. This is downplayed, however, as a death counter is displayed above player's heads, which is often pointed out and joked about.
• Death of a Child: The younger members of the server die just as much as the adults do. For an example, the teenaged Ty is killed by Schlatt the first time they meet.
• Death Trap: The Cuck Shed is designed to make players fall down onto a magma block and burn to death so that Schlatt & Co. can steal their items.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Nick's punishment for building ugly cobblestone buildings at spawn is having to be tormented and forced to work for Schlatt & Co., and later being forced to fight Altrive to the death in the arena.
• Distinction Without a Difference: In "The Greatest Court Case of All Time", when Toxxxic asks if she can sue Mason for sending her a dick pic, he quickly clarifies that it wasn't his dick, even though she never actually said it was his.
  Toxxxic: Can I sue you for sending me a picture of that dick?
  Mason: I just need to clarify that this was not my penis, it was ProJared's penis...
• Double Entendre: This exchange between Schlatt and Connor:
  Schlatt: Connor, would you suck Gold dry... Of all his funds?
  Connor: Of his funds?
• Drinking Game: One for the server is outlined by Cooper in "Drinking and Killing CaptainSparklez"...
  Cooper: Death by pigman is a big drink. You see Schlatt walkin'? That's a shot. You get a hit, that's a shot, you fail a hit, you take another one.
• Dual Wielding: In one video, Michael uses both a diamond and iron sword at the same time. This terrifies Schlatt and Connor, who believe he must be Herobrine.
• Dude, Not Funny!: This is Connor's Delayed Reaction when Schlatt starts laughing at the Eat Pant Conar statue again.
  Connor: Are you talking about the... Stop! It's not funny!
• Early-Installment Weirdness: Golden apples and potions weren't made illegal until April when Cooper became the server cop, and as a result it can be a bit odd to see how casually they're treated before then.
• Egging: "Spleggs" are sometimes thrown at other players, particularly at Cooper, due to his protests about the price of said Spleggs.
• Egopolis: The area of land that Schlatt, Connor and a few other players reside in is known as "Schlatttown".
• Elaborate Underground Base: The Home Base of the ACC is one, being built underground and having a lava mural on one of the walls.
• Election Day Episode: Schlatt's mayoral campaign, to which several server members object.
• Enemy Mine: Both Travis and Cooper have a strained at best, negative at worst relationship with Carson, and this can even be seen while they are building the ACC base, with Cooper nearly killing Carson out of annoyance. Despite this, they work together out of a common disgust for the Salmonism cult.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: A survival multiplayer server that's livestreamed at all times.
• Extra-Dimensional Shortcut: Because distance traveled in the Nether is greater than its Overworld equivalent, tunnels in the Nether Hub are used by players to quickly get from place to place.
• Fantasy Kitchen Sink: As a result of the diversity of Minecraft skins, there are plenty of species to see, including pointy-eared humanoids, Fish People, various kinds of Beast Man and Funny Animal, a Cyclops, and more.
• Fictional Currency:
  • Schlattcoin, a fictional cryptocurrency made by Schlatt & Co. — even if it does happen to actually be a scam.
  • In the SMPLive Reunion, there's also Conar Coin, a similar cryptocurrency.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: In "High-Profile Robbery", Cooper announces in chat that he would like to buy Schlattcoin, which Connor points out to Schlatt, who ignores it. Then Cooper comes crashing in just moments later and kills Schlatt by sending him flying with his Knockback sword.
• Foreign Cuss Word: Angel calls Senzu a "pendejo"^note roughly translates to "dumbass" when he tries to get Ty to listen to Stal again.
• Formula-Breaking Episode: The Assassin Event breaks from the typical Slice of Life shenanigans to put the cast in a tournament-esque event where they have to hunt each other down.
• Frame-Up:
  • Carson tries to frame Billy for having potions by throwing them at him.
  • Altrive tries to frame Joko for having potions by planting a brewing stand in his base, but Joko caught him on stream, which led him to move it to Poke's base instead.
• Frivolous Lawsuit: Poke tries to sue Mikey for absolutely nothing, something his poor lawyer, Angel, points out.
  Angel: Yeah, I'm the lawyer, and you didn't give me a fucking case other than that he's a fucking bitch! Like what do you want me to do?
• From Beyond the Fourth Wall: Hits are given to characters by the streamers' donations.
• Gag Penis:
  • Sneeg pranks Schlatt by leading him to unknowingly build an obsidian penis outside his base.
  • CaptainSparklez builds one on top of AntVenom's base, which Ant gets revenge for by convincing Wilbur to go build noise-making machines around Sparklez's base.
• Gameplay and Story Segregation: Because the series is set in Minecraft, a lot of things are subject to the game's limitations.
  • Schlattcoin is depicted as just gold nuggets, though this is later subverted when they use a texture pack to make them appear more like their actual appearance.
  • The server cops use bows renamed "gun", since there's no guns in Minecraft.
  • Body language in Minecraft is a lot more limited, so things like crouching and punching mean a lot of different things in SMPLive.
• Genre-Busting: Describing SMPLive's genre is near-impossible due to its format and all the different perspectives — the simplest possible description would be Let's Play + Sitcom + Reality Show + Gag Series + Slice of Life with elements of Law Procedural... Which isn't simple at all.
• Global Currency: Despite the server having several player-made Fictional Currencies of its own, the currency most used and accepted by all players is diamonds.
• Grappling-Hook Pistol: Fishing rods get used as such by the characters — frequently being utilized to grab and throw other players instead of for their intended purpose.
• G-Rated Drug:
  • Golden apples are illegal contraband on the server, and are treated like drugs, likely due to their in-game buffs that they give when eaten.
  • Potions are also treated like drugs for the same reason, and arguably even more so, as they are frequently used as planted evidence against other players.
• G-Rated Sex: There are numerous gags where players "have sex" by one standing above another on a bed awkwardly, sometimes crouching rapidly.

Tropes H-Q

• Halloween Episode: Mason has two highlight videos where he decorates Spawn City for Halloween.
• Ham and Deadpan Duo: Poke and James form one with Poke as the Cloudcuckoolander flavor of ham and James as the Deadpan Snarker who loves to annoy him.
• Handshake Substitute: Because of the limitations of Minecraft, players cannot shake each other's hands, so this is usually represented by quick punches to each other instead.
• Hard-Work Montage: When Travis dies to a drowned while AFK and has to redo all his progress, he does it in a montage, complete with inspirational rock music.
• Heroic BSoD: When Connor accidentally kills his parrot by feeding it a cookie, he stares in silence for a few moments as the camera begins to zoom out.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: While chasing Poke around at spawn, Cooper falls victim to one of his own pitfall traps.
• Homoerotic Subtext: SMPLive has a lot... Like, a lot. While mostly Played for Laughs, it is still a constant presence in the series.
  • On Day 1, Schlatt asks AntVenom if he will "go out with him to the End" so they can fight the Ender Dragon, and maybe even sleep in the same bed.
  • Schlatt has this to say about Wilbur:
    Schlatt: I'm gonna beat the shit out of him. And then I'm gonna kiss him.
  • Cooper and Joko tend to fall into shades of Belligerent Sexual Tension, with Cooper sometimes flirting with Joko to irritate him. However, it's not entirely one-sided:
    Joko: Dude, Cooper, kiss me on the neck.
  • Joko frequently refers to Mikey as his "wife".
  • Pokay and Sneeg have this exchange:
    <Pokay> yo
    <Sneegsnag> *kisses you softly*
• Hub City: Spawn City is the server's central area, marked by a huge tree.
• Human Sacrifice: The Void Cult's initiation ritual involves throwing yourself into the Void and allowing it to devour your soul.
• I Banged Your Mom: Joko's response to Cooper trying to find him for a hit. Hilariously backfires on him when Cooper decides to reply by saying he should be fucking him instead.
  Cooper: Joko, where are you?
  Joko: Your mom's house, fucking her!
  Cooper: Listen! That's also my house! I want you to come to my house and fuck me, Joko!
  Joko: Nooo!!
• Immediate Self-Contradiction: In "SMPLive: Fruitcoin", Cooper tells off Poke for fighting in the courtroom, before immediately trying to shoot at Carson with his bow.
  Cooper: Nononononono! We do not battle in the courtroom!
  Cooper: (a few moments later) You think if I Punch bow him, he'll fall in the lava?
• Improv: The whole server runs on this. As said by Schlatt:
  Schlatt: Every week it becomes more and more mind-boggling that nothing on this server has ever been scripted.
• Improvised Weapon:
  • Joko and JC the Caster have a fight where they smack each other with fish.
  • The server cops get "enforcement sticks", which are just literal sticks for them to hit players with.
• Infodump: Connor's video "Touring the Spawn of SMP Live" is one long one, as all he does in it is show his viewers the various structures at spawn and explains what they're for.
• Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube!: Happens when a clip of Connor dying and losing all his items goes viral on r/LivestreamFail, which he laments in one of his first SMPLive highlight videos.
• Invisible Block: Connor finds a glitched invisible block that he calls a "Herobrine Block", and excitedly gets others to come look as he tries (and fails) to break it.
• It Makes Sense in Context: Connor's Silk Touch pickaxe being named "Ice Fucker 3000" makes a lot more sense with the knowledge that he runs a shop at Spawn City that sells ice, which you can only mine with Silk Touch.
• Judge, Jury, and Executioner: In "SMPLive: Hitman", Schlatt declares himself to be acting as the judge, Wilbur's lawyer and the prosecution when he sues Wilbur.
• Kangaroo Court: Almost all court cases on the server devolve into this, usually because of chatters who already have their mind made up.
• Kill It with Fire: Schlatt and Connor attempt to burn Michael alive because they're scared he's Herobrine.
• Kill Tally: Inverted. Players have a count of the amount of times they've died on the server displayed under their nametags.
• Lava Adds Awesome: The Anti-Cult Coalition's base features a giant wall of lava on one side.
• Lawman Baton: Or rather, "enforcement sticks", as the server cops tend to refer to them.
• Lemming Cops: When Joko is the server cop, he pursues Twomad through the Nether, being led into a pit of lava. Somehow, he manages to survive.
• Limited Wardrobe: Most characters on the server fall into this due to the nature of Minecraft skins, and even the characters that do use multiple skins tend to only use one or two more. This is averted with Cooper, however, who has a wide range of different outfits.
• Lured into a Trap: The Cuck Shed is designed to kill players so Schlatt can steal their items.
• Makes Just as Much Sense in Context:
  • Schlatt and AntVenom's argument over banning Barack Obama from the KFC Dome.
    Ant: So long as Obama is banned from the KFC Dome, you enjoy dick and balls.
  • Schlatt and Connor trapping Michaelmcchill in wool and threatening to burn him alive because they think he's Herobrine.
• Match-Three Game: Dinkster builds a working Tic-Tac-Toe game using redstone.
• Misplaced Retribution: Joko kills both Macro and Angel after he falls into a trap set by them, believing they had a hit on him. It turns out, in actuality, that Macro was being attacked by a witch, and Angel set up the trap to catch the witch. Joko apologizes profusely and offers the duo his help.
• Mission Control Is Off Its Meds: When BasedBeefy joins the server, he is toured around by Joko, Cooper, and Travis, who all happen to be really bad at this job.
• Mythology Gag: Fallen Kingdom, a giant castle built for CaptainSparklez based on his song of the same name.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted and downplayed. The server has Fitba, FitMC and Fitz.
• Open Secret: Due to the series's livestreamed nature, it's hard for players to keep secrets from each other without chatters informing them. Sometimes these chatters are simply ignored by the person the secret's meant to be kept from, for the sake of telling a more interesting narrative, and sometimes the information is used to throw a wrench in someone's plans.
• Le Parkour: There's a bamboo parkour course set up inside the arena. Connor struggles with it, to Schlatt and Michael's amusement.
• Parody Product Placement: "JokoPods", a parody of Apple AirPods.
• Player Killing: Players on SMPLive frequently kill each other, usually for hits, but sometimes just for fun or for revenge.
• Please Subscribe to Our Channel: Several players have taken to carrying around a map in their offhand that says to subscribe using Twitch Prime.
• Police Brutality: The role of server cop is swapped between members regularly, but always results in this. When Schlatt & Co. become server cops, they take it to an extreme, harassing and attacking other players.
• Police Pig: When Schlatt and Connor are server cops, someone builds a giant wool pig statue on their property.
• Portal Network: There's a notably large one set up in the Nether Hub, allowing for players to quickly travel wherever they please on the server.
• P.O.V. Cam: Most of the time the viewer will be seeing the events through the perspective of any one player.
• Pressure Plate: Frequently used by players within traps, especially in Cooper's many pitfall traps scattered across the map.
• Professional Killer: Given the hit system, nearly every player on the server tends to be one.
• Put on a Bus: Some characters went absent for a bit with no in-universe explanation. This is because their real life counterparts were all at TwitchCon.
• Quirky Town: Exaggerated with the entire server. Spawn City has a strip club and a crack house right across from the church, someone built an entire castle out of melons, the Nether is haunted by strange recreations of Sonic made out of blocks that chase the players down... Nothing on this server is ever normal.

Tropes R-Z

• Racing Minigame: There is a boat racing track in Spawn City for players to conduct races on.
• Rage Quit: When Travis lets Joko get blown up by a creeper:
  Joko: I'M GETTING OFF!!
• Random Events Plot: Unlike a lot of other SMP series, SMPLive does not have a large overarching plotline, instead focusing on the random shenanigans the characters get up to.
• Rapid-Fire Comedy: Bits and gags in SMPLive seem to pop up one after another, non-stop, with old ones getting discarded quickly.
• Reference Overdosed: Due to being a Minecraft server — many players have skins of existing fictional characters, many builds are based on other works, and of course, many conversional references will be dropped. Check the Shout-Out page to see the many references.
• Religion Is Wrong: The main ideal of the Anti-Cult Coalition as their goal on the server is to combat religious groups that pop up.
• Reunion Show: SMPLive came back for one day as part of Michaelmcchill's Raising the Bar charity event.
• Rewatch Bonus: There's often so much happening that you're bound to miss small details the first time around, especially things like in-game chat and various Funny Background Events.
• Rules Lawyer: Most members of the server won't follow the rules themselves, but still know them very well. When they see an opportunity to get someone else in trouble, they won't hesitate to take it.
• The Sacred Darkness: The Void Cult worship the dark, endless nothingness of the Void.
• Scenery Porn:
  • Luemas's videos showing off her builds are filled with cinematic shots of her elaborate creations.
  • The Fallen Kingdom finale is also filled to the brim with scenery porn, showcasing all the little details of the Big Fancy Castle.
• Severely Specialized Store: The vast majority of Spawn City's shops sell only one item.
  • Cooper has a shop that strictly sells concrete.
  • At first, this is subverted with Cooper's Slime, which at first sells ice as well, but he eventually stops selling ice and only sells slime instead.
  • Connor's Family Friendly Ice Emporium sells a couple of different types of ice, but still just ice nonetheless.
• Shamu Fu: JC and Joko have a fight where they smack each other with raw fish.
• Shaped Like What It Sells: The Loaf, a bread store at spawn, is shaped like a loaf of bread.
• Slice of Life: The series primarily focuses on the everyday occurrences of the SMP and whatever weird conflicts and problems the characters get themselves into.
• Soft Water: Characters frequently use water buckets to break falls from heights. Occasionally this fails spectacularly.
• Spin-Off: SMP Classic and TekkitLive are two servers with much of the same cast, but different gimmicks. The latter is an Alternate Continuity with the roleplay aspects being much more overt.
• Stand-Up Comedy: Schlatt's act during the SMPLive Talent Show can best be described as "stand-up anti-comedy".
• Staring Contest: Schlatt and Twomad have a heated staring contest in the Nether Hub.
• Suicide as Comedy: Goes hand-in-hand with death being cheap due to respawning. This most frequently occurs as a comedic overreaction to a minor inconvenience or annoyance.
• Super Drowning Skills: Connor once allows himself to sink to the bottom of the ocean while dramatically yelling at Michael to help him.
• Surreal Humor: A major element of the series, with bits like "æ", "Bean Yoda", conflicts over banning Obama from Minecraft restaurants, Pokay's "sea pickle" Running Gag...
• Take That, Audience!: A Running Gag on the server is to make fun of chatters who ask when Carson will be streaming in other players' chats.
• Talent Contest: The SMPLive Talent Show, as the name implies, was an on-server talent show held in the The theater built by Carson.
• The Teaser: Schlatt's videos typically start with a teaser clip before his intro plays.
• Tempting Fate: When players are recieving their first hits for the Assassin Event, Connor says he'll start crying if he gets Sneegsnag. Naturally, that's exactly who he gets.
• That Came Out Wrong: Connor accidentally implies he and Schlatt are married to AntVenom, which he teases them for.
  Connor: That's just the reality of marriage.
  Schlatt: Wait, the- Connor, don't give Tumblr material. You know better.
  Connor: In the company. In the company.
  Ant: No.. You said you're married. I mean, that's all you had to say.
  Schlatt: Nope. Didn't happen. Never happened.
  Connor: That is not what I said. That is not what I said. I did not say "we are married".
• That Was Objectionable: In the trial for the kidnapping of Rye, Travis objects to Burren's statements multiple times, despite Burren being his lawyer.
• There Should Be a Law: A law is made that says that Nick cannot build ugly cobblestone structures at spawn anymore after he is sued by Cooper.
• Title Confusion: The official website and logo stylize the title as one word, SMPLive, while some creators confusingly refer to it by two, SMP Live. The former is officially considered the correct stylization.
• Toilet Humor: There is a "poop store" at spawn.
• Totally Radical: VoiceOverPete tends to fall into this due to being the oldest member of the server and someone who isn't super aware of modern slang and memes. He will frequently overuse or misuse slang and tends to refer to the other players as "gamers".
• Tournament Arc: The Assassin Event, which is an event where players have to hunt their assigned target down until only one is left. Except it doesn't go as planned, and no one wins.
• Trial by Combat: Ted tells Schlatt he can contest his guilty ruling by fighting Connor.
• Troll: Many players can be considered trolls due to their love of pranking and generally bothering one another.
• Tsundere: Played for Laughs in Connor's video of the Assassin Event when he insists he didn't want to "be Katniss and Peeta" with Sneeg anyways... Something he brought up unprompted and then proceeded to ask Sneeg about in a whisper just moments later.
  Connor: I won't have Sneeg helping me. And that's okay. We won't be Katniss and Peeta. And that's fine. That's fine. I didn't even wanna be Katniss and Peeta. I didn't even want to, to be honest, chat! I don't even care, honestly! I'm not even upset!
• Unintentionally Unwinnable: Due to various technical and organizational issues, the Assassin Event ended without a winner.
• Universal Group Reaction: Everyone reacts with visceral disgust the first time Schlatt uses his distorted "funny mic". Some choice reactions include "What the fuck is that?" and "I'm physically ill."
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Because every POV was streamed, you can watch from (almost) every player's perspective — and they're all terrible people who do terrible things to each other to make you laugh.
• Vandalism Backfire: Schlatt agrees to help Sneeg vandalize someone's property with a giant obsidian Gag Penis... But is shocked when Sneeg takes him on a long, winding journey that ends at Schlatt's own base. He still agrees to help anyways, since he needs the gold blocks Sneeg offers in return.
• Visual Pun: Ty builds a "complaint chest" for Schlatt & Co. that has a mechanism that gets triggered when a book is placed inside, sending the person down into a pit made of bone blocks with a sign that reads "talk shit get boned".
• White Void Room: Altrive creates one as a prank on Jschlatt using blank maps and item frames.
• World of Ham: As much as SMPLive can be called a World of Snark, it can be called a world of ham even more, as nearly every character has their hammy moments, and the shenanigans the characters tend to get up to are so bizarrely over-the-top.
• World of Snark: Downplayed. Although not every SMPLive character fits the Deadpan Snarker bill, the vast majority of them have their moments of slipping into the role, and a large portion of the cast makes snarky comments on the regular.
• Yet Another Stupid Death: Players often die in silly and humiliating ways, with the count of deaths they have being listed under their nametags for all to see.
• You Are What You Hate: Despite being set up to fight cults on the server, the ACC is structured much like a cult itself, which is even lampshaded in the description of one video:
  "we started the ACC (Anti-Cult Coalition) - It's definitely not a cult"

Tropes that apply to the spin-off servers:

TekkitLive

• Alternate Continuity: TekkitLive places some of the primary cast members of SMPLive into a Schizo Tech world with nuclear weaponry, cannons, computers, and more. This leads to some drastically different character traits compared to the main server.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: Fitz's skin is a swirly rainbow slime creature of some kind.
• Annoying Background Event: For some reason, Connor really loves to cause these.
  • He continuously plants a sapling between Schlatt and Fitz while they're having a conversation, irritating Fitz greatly.
  • He also tries to break into Sun Whale's base several times while Schlatt is trying to make a deal with them. This leads Cooper offering him redstone in exchange for him to just stop.
• BFG: Noah uses an amusingly large cannon to threaten Exploding Babies Inc.
• Canon Foreigner: Kryoz is the only member of TekkitLive who is not a SMPLive member.
• Comically Small Bribe: Cooper's offer for Connor to stop breaking into Sun Whale's house is a mere 13 redstone, which Connor cheerfully takes.
• Corporate Warfare: TekkitLive is primarily about competing companies using actual warfare and nuclear weapons against each other.
• Gotta Have It, Gonna Steal It: Sneeg and Poke need oil, and they steal it from Schlatt & Co.
• Hired Guns: Schlatt hires Technoblade to take out the competition.
• The Intern:
  • Just like in the main series, Ty is Schlatt & Co.'s unpaid intern.
  • James is Exploding Babies Inc.'s intern and is constantly called such by Poke and Sneeg.
• Lensman Arms Race: The different groups continuously one-up each other when it comes to how advanced their weaponry is.
• Like an Old Married Couple: Fitz and Kryoz act like a stereotypical married couple.
• Mad Bomber: All three members of Sun Whale Defense Solutions have a tendency towards explosive methods of negotiation. While all of Sun Whale fall under this, Noah notably once built a "pile of bombs".
• Mischievous Body Language: Connor crouching outside Sun Whale's base while trying to mine a hole in their wall, something that immediately alerts Cooper he's up to something.
• No Blood for Phlebotinum: All players want to get their hands on valuable resources and aren't afraid to get their hands dirty. One of the first conflicts on the server takes place when Sneeg and Poke need oil, and decide to try and steal some from Schlatt & Co.
• Perpetual Poverty: Schlatt & Co. are allegedly tens of thousands of dollars in debt, but never really face significant downsides from this.
• Schizo Tech: As a result of the Tekkit modpack, there is a wide range of overly complex technology at players' disposal, which clashes with the much more rustic nature of vanilla Minecraft.
• Shout-Out: Sun Whale's jumpsuit uniform is based on Fallout's Vault Boy.
• Small Role, Big Impact: In one of the most climactic moments of the series, Technoblade shows up on hire from Schlatt to take out the competition, and then leaves, not returning again.
• Switching P.O.V.: Unlike the main series, TekkitLive videos often have the perspective of multiple allied players edited together, swapping between them as needed. For example, Schlatt's videos also feature segments from Connor's streams, and Fitz's videos also feature segments from Kryoz's.

SMP Classic

• Genre Throwback: The series uses various old versions of Minecraft with the intent of invoking imagery of old school Let's Play series of the early 2010s.

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