History Roleplay / ResidentEvilRoleplaying

%%* HeroesWantRedheads: Parker

* FeedItABomb: An new BOW type described as a cross between a licker and an Ooze with extra arms and extremely thick armor is defeated in this manner. It then gets [[ShoutOutThemeNaming named a]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda Dodongo.]]

%%* ADateWithRosiePalms: HUNK.

%%* BadassInCharge: Lupo and Wesker

%%* CoitusEnsues

* HotScientist: Excella, Bertha, and Four Eyes.

%%* AnAxeToGrind: Parker

%%* WeaponOfChoice

%%* BlindingBangs: Rachel

* AdultFear: So many times.
** Including Rebecca having a man break into her home and steal her underwear.
** Alfred installing cameras everywhere.

* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: [[spoiler: Beltway and Rebecca end up shooting a bunch of civilians for no reason.]]

%%* {{Asexuality}}: HUNK. Does not stop the Anons from insinuating other things...

* AbortedArc: Due to many people leaving the group, there've been some major changes.
* AbominationAccusationAttack: Keith to Bertha, but he quickly recants after seeing her face.

* TheAlcoholic: RPD. Parker has shades of this.

* {{Asexuality}}: HUNK. Does not stop the Anons from insinuating other things...
* AskAStupidQuestion: Much of the cast does this from time to time.
* BackFromTheDead: Forest Speyer, Veltro, Excella Gionne, [[spoiler: Rachael]] and Albert Wesker.
* BadassBiker: Claire Redfield
* BadassBookworm: Four Eyes, Quint Cetcham
* BadassInCharge: Lupo and Wesker
* BadassNormal: HUNK, the members of the BSAA and STARS that aren't infected, and the members of the Wolfpack.
* BadBoss: Wesker, oh so very much.

* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: Excella's plan to kill Wesker.]]
* BearHug: Parker does these a lot.
** Joseph also gives one to Rebecca.

** If one is not completely and unquestioningly loyal to Wesker...
** You do not constantly tease Chris about the notion that he's on steroids for too long...
** Parker does not take kindly to people killing civilians for fun.
** You do not threaten peoples' children in front of either Lupo or Excella. They will end you if they can.
** You do not insult Keith's mother.
** [[spoiler: Raymond does not appreciate the idea of having to put down close friends/lovers if they are BOWs.]]

* BigBad: Albert Wesker, just like he is in canon.

* TheBigBadShuffle: Albert Wesker, Alex Wesker, and Veltro. Maybe.

* BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler: RPD, after he gets beat up by Wesker.]]
* BodyHorror: Par for the course.
* BoldInflation: A lot of characters. It gets a LampshadeHanging by the HUNK roleplayer in OOC chatter.

* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Billy and Rebecca.
* BullyingADragon: Keith when he taunts Bertha.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Beltway, Four Eyes, and Quint

* CarpetOfVirility: Parker as Type 2. He's described as being like a big, cuddly teddy bear. [[HoYay By HUNK.]]

* CharacterDevelopment: Many of the characters undergo this due to the events of the story.
* ChekhovsBoomerang: The architecture of Wesker's facility.
* ChekhovsGun:
** [[spoiler: RPD's mind control headband.]]
** [[spoiler: Parker's BSAA radio transmitter.]]
** [[spoiler: Veltro's PDA.]]
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Wesker, as per {{canon}}.
* ClickHello: How Lupo is introduced.

* ContinuityReboot: This plotline is actually the result of one.

* CosmicPlaything: Most of the cast. (It is lampshaded often by Billy)
* CoughSnarkCough: Parker saying anything about Chris being on steroids.

* DarkActionGirl: Lupo, Four Eyes, Bertha, [[spoiler: Jessica]]...
* DarkIsNotEvil: RPD and several of the Wolfpack have shades of this.

* DealWithTheDevil: Anyone who makes a deal with Wesker has this issue in a non-supernatural version of this trope.

* DestructoNookie: [[spoiler: Bertha and Keith]]

* DidTheyOrDidntThey: Sometimes shows up. Some of the roleplayers keep certain topics more ambiguous.

* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: The story is headed in this direction...]]

* DramaticEllipsis: Show up from time to time. Forest in particular tends to use them often.
* DramaticIrony: A lot of stuff that happens has shades of this. Part of this encompasses avoiding metagaming.
* DrinkingGame: Occasionally shows up in RP.
* DrinkingOnDuty: Several members of the Wolfpack. Lupo, naturally, does not approve of this.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: RPD, but it is also an Interrupted Suicide.]]

* EasyAmnesia: [[spoiler: RPD, due to being controlled. He gets better.]]
* TheEasyWayOrTheHardWay: Excella says this at one point to Parker.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Albert Wesker, RPD

* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex: For a time.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: HUNK's crush on Quint.

* EvilVirtues: Several of the {{Anti Villain}}s have things they ''will not do.''

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Parker (though he's mutinous now).]]
* FanDisservice: Shirtless Parker. ItMakesSenseInContext

* FemmeFatale: Bertha, Lupo, Ada
** Owl: [[spoiler: Excella, since she has a plan involving how to kill Wesker.]]
** Hippo: [[spoiler: Sergei Vladimir, since he is one of the people that could take Wesker head-on in a fight and not die instantly.]]
*** [[spoiler: Now, thanks to Charlotte, Veltro also falls under this category.]]
** Wolf: [[spoiler: Lupo. Her codename is hilariously coincidental, given that she's the Wolfpack's leader, Lupo means Wolf in several Romantic languages, and she fits the description of a Wolf.]]
** Mockingbird: [[spoiler: RPD, because that's how he is.]]
** Beaten Dog: [[spoiler: Pretty much everyone working for Umbrella who has turned against Wesker.]]
** Platypus: Any character that falls under multiple descriptions above.
* {{Fingore}}: [[spoiler: Parker ends up jamming a grenade in a BOW's mouth. In the process, its' teeth ripped up his hand badly enough to require stitches.]]

* GirlOnGirlIsHot: The general consensus on the Femslash pairings, particularly amongst the Anons.
* GlamourFailure: Wesker's red eyes.

* GovernmentConspiracy: Birkin, up until he was stopped from delivering a vaccine by Vector.

* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Lampshaded by RPD after Joseph ends up in an Umbrella facility.

* HappinessIsMandatory: Whenever one character is upset, the others immediately jump on trying to cheer him or her up
* HealingFactor: The sentient infected characters. How well it works and if there are any side effects varies from character to character.
* HearingVoices: The chains...
* HeartbrokenBadass: HUNK, when finding out that Quint has a thing for Jessica.

* InstantBandages: Averted. [[spoiler: When HUNK gets injured and is bleeding out on the floor, Parker ends up ripping up his own shirt to make into bandages.]]

* IWantGrandkids:
** Averted by Lupo to her Wolfpack. She doesn't want kids running around when the Wolfpack still has missions they need to do.
** Also averted by Excella.
* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: Parker early in says this trope by name.
* IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: Wesker does this a lot.

* JustAFleshWound: Averted by [[spoiler: HUNK.]]
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Wesker does this a lot.

* KissingUnderTheInfluence:
** Sheva and Alexia.
** RPD/Parker.
** Billy/Hunnigan
* KnowledgeBroker: Seems to be Rachel's profession.

* {{Leitmotif}}: Several of the roleplayers have music players on their pages that act as this.
* LeonineContract:
** Parker ends up in one [[spoiler: with Wesker. Wesker, naturally, has the upper hand.]]
** [[spoiler: RPD also ends up in one with Wesker.]]
* LimaSyndrome: Lupo at the beginning of the story.
* LivingLieDetector:
** Wesker can hear the slight changes in heart rate that could be indicative of lying.
* TheLoad: Ashley, as per canon.

* LoveMakesYouEvil: Occasionally causes or continues several of the {{FaceHeelTurn}}s in this roleplay.
** [[spoiler: Rebecca.]]
** [[spoiler: Parker.]]

* LoveTriangle: Unavoidable, given all the shipping everywhere.

* MamaBear: Lupo to her Wolfpack, Excella

* TheMatchmaker: Charlotte, Professional Matchmaker and Troll.

* TheMedic: Rebecca Chambers.
* MercifulMinion: Multiple characters are not as antagonistic as their alegances would normally imply.

* MoodSwinger: Sheva. It even gets a LampshadeHanging from Joseph in-story.

* MoralityChain: Excella fulfills this role for Wesker.

* MisterSeahorse: Brought up at one point by Sergei as a joke.

* MuggedForDisguise: Sheva and Leon pull this off.
* MultinationalTeam: The Wolfpack and the BSAA both fall under this.

* MythArc: Some plot threads are implied to be like this. More specifically:
** [[spoiler: "The Let's Kill Wesker" arc.]]
** And the [[spoiler: BOW army with control devices arc.]]
** [[spoiler: Stuff involving a massive outbreak and/or Alex Wesker seem to now be on the table.]]

* NeverGetsDrunk: Beltway and Wesker (it takes a ''lot'' to get them drunk).

* NonuniformUniform: The Wolfpack

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Played straight with most of the roleplayers (See FunetikAksent entry above)
* NotHimself: Never a good sign on any of the characters.

* {{NSFW}}: Things under the "Read More" tag are this. [[SubvertedTrope Except when they're really Revelations spoilers.]] Now that it's been over a month since Revelations came out, spoilers are not hidden.

* {{Otaku}}: Four Eyes displays some traits, given that she normally spends her time researching in an underground lab.
* OutDamnedSpot: [[spoiler: RPD is triggered into this when HUNK is bleeding all over him.]]

* PoisonIsEvil: [[spoiler: Lupo uses a rare poison on Leon.]]

* RevealingCoverup: The police station evidence room gets blown up.

* SexIsViolence: The whole premise of [[spoiler: Keith and Bertha's relationship]]

* ShoutOut: Holy crap...

* SlasherSmile: Wesker and [[spoiler: Parker when his infection takes over]].

* StalkerWithACrush: Quint does this to Jessica, as per {{Canon}}.

* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: Earlier in the story.
* TaintedVeins: [[spoiler: Chris while mind-controlled.]]

* TeamMom / TeamDad: Lupo and Parker both fulfill this for their groups.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork:
** Some of the Wolfpack ''really dislike'' Wesker.
** [[spoiler: And the BSAA members, STARS members, and USS members possibly working together to kill Wesker.]]

* TransparentCloset: Raymond, Nicholai, and Veltro.

* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Multiple plot threads with different characters, all going on at roughly the same time.

* VolleyingInsults: Keith and Bertha constantly snark at one another
* WackyCravings: Excella occasionally has these.

* WallCrawl: RPD, due to being a Licker.

* WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma: Occasionally, due to typos.

* WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut: HUNK ends up removing a bullet from Parker's leg.
* WellExcuseMePrincess: Keith says this to Bertha after she insults the BSAA.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** Sometimes things get dropped for no reason.
** Notably {{Averted}} with Chujitsuna (a pet licker that tends to be friendly to certain people).
* WhatIsEvil: Excella brings up this up.

* {{Workaholic}}: Sergei and Four Eyes.
* WouldHitAGirl: Keith, if they really go out of their way to piss him off.
* WouldntHurtAChild: Jill and Parker
* WrittenInAbsence: Characters note when another character is gone for a long while.

* TheNotLoveInterest: Excella's relationship with Wesker.

* OnionTears: Mentioned in passing by Leon.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness

* PeoplePuppets: [[spoiler: Chris (before his reboot) and RPD.]]

* PopCulturedBadass: Quint, like in {{canon}}.

* PregnantBadass: Excella Gionne

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Wesker and [[spoiler: Parker.]]
* RealMenGetShot: Joked about repeatedly.

* {{Retcon}}: Occasionally needed to deal with plotholes and shifts in the story.

* SayMyName: Used often.

&&* EvilCostumeSwitch

* EvilVirtues: Several of the AntiVillains have things they ''will not do.''

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Excella and Sergei were going to have an RP where they eventually devolved into complaining about Wesker. They didn't for a time, because this trope page exists. They eventually did go back and do the plotline.
** Due to characters being reset, there are shades of this.
** Due to the various improvisational aspects of certain plotlines and plot twists, there are a lot of times where this could be employed.

* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: A necessity for all the roleplayers. Unexpected plot twists help this along.

* XanatosSpeedChess

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Employed by Bertha. Often.

* AffablyEvil: Several of the AntiVillains.

* BreakTheCutie

* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: RPD

* Government Conspiracy: Birkin, up until he was stopped from delivering a vaccine by Vector.

* GrayingMorality
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy:
** Lampshaded by RPD after Joseph ends up in an Umbrella facility.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Parker
* HeWhoFightsMonsters

* HugeGuyTinyGirl
* HybridOverkillAvoidance: RPD

* InAndOutOfCharacter

* InTheHood: Vector

* InvisibilityCloak: Vector

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: RPD

* KindheartedCatLover: HUNK.

* LampshadeHanging

* LawOfInverseFertility
* UsefulNotes/TheLawsAndCustomsOfWar: Wesker completely ignores it. Parker even asks him whether or not he has even heard of the Geneva Convention.

* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Bertha.

* MadScientistLaboratory

* MarriedToTheJob: Sergei.
* MasterOfUnlocking: Jill.

* MindScrew
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal

* MoodWhiplash

* MoralityKitchenSink
* MorningSickness: Excella

* MrViceGuy: RPD

* MultipurposeTongue: RPD
* MurderersAreRapists: Averted.

* NighInvulnerable: Wesker

* NobodyPoops

* NoodleIncident

* NonActionGuy: Charlotte.

* NothingIsScarier

* TheOtherDarrin: The Billy roleplayer, Jessica roleplayer, Sheva roleplayer, Beltway roleplayer, Four-Eyes roleplayer, Ashley roleplayer, Leon roleplayer, and the Wesker roleplayer changed in the course of the story.

* OutOfOrder

* PowerTrio

* ReluctantMadScientist / MadScientist: Four Eyes. [[ContinuityNod This is a reference to her ORC profile,]] in which she just cares about researching ForScience, to the point that she'll end up impeding missions in the {{Canon}}.

* {{Seme}} / {{Uke}}: Averted. Sergei/Nicholai (nicknamed Sergolai by the roleplayers) does not have this dynamic and [[DefiedTrope the Raymond and Parker roleplayers are intentionally averting it.]]

* StandardEvilEmpireHierarchy

* StoryArc

* SuddenlySober

* TalkingInYourSleep: Four Eyes
* TeamChef: Lupo

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Some of the Wolfpack ''really dislike'' Wesker.

* ThereAreNoTherapists
* ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil
* ThoseTwoGuys

* TooDumbToLive: Anons

* TriggerHappy: Jessica

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Wesker
* VampireVords: Bertha
* VillainessesWantHeroes
* VillainousDemotivator

* WallOfText: Some posts

* WeaponOfChoice

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Sometimes things get dropped for no reason.

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield

* YouGoGirl: Forest uses a variation of this often.

* ActionDressRip: Bertha
* ActionGirl: Jill, Rachel, Sherry, Lenoire...

* AdaptationalBadass: Most of the cast
* ADateWithRosiePalms: HUNK.

* AerosolFlamethrower: Rebecca
* AFatherToHisMen: O'Brian and Lupo.

* AGodAmI: Wesker.

* [[spoiler: AMatchMadeInStockholm: Four Eyes and Parker first meet when she's his guard when he's the Wolfpack's prisoner. [[CrackShip They end up together for a time.]]]]

* AnAxeToGrind: Parker

* ArcWelding: Occasionally

* BadPowersGoodPeople: RPD

* BecomingTheMask
* BeigeProse[=/=]PurpleProse: Sometimes roleplayers lapse into this. Script IC is necessarily BeigeProse, due to the style.
* BeingEvilSucks
* BeingGoodSucks

* BewareTheHonestOnes
* BewareTheNiceOnes
* BigBad: Wesker. Obviously.

* BigNo: HUNK once.

* BlindingBangs: Rachel

* BoldInflation: A lot of characters.
** It gets a LampshadeHanging by the HUNK roleplayer in OOC chatter.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy:
** [[spoiler: RPD at one point.]]

* ButNotTooBi / ButNotTooGay: Sometimes, DependingOnTheWriter

* CoitusEnsues
* CombatMedic: Bertha

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Occasionally.

* ContinuityLockout: Averted with the rules. All plotlines have to make a good amount of sense. There's also a plotline page, which is a general summary of what happens to the characters. There's also the chance that there will be a timeline page at some point.

* CuddleBug / NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Parker
* CurbStompBattle: Wesker versus RPD. Wesker wins.
** Wesker versus anyone.

* DangerousDeserter: [[spoiler: Parker.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: RPD, among others

* DeliverUsFromEvil: Excella.

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment

* {{Determinator}}: Multiple characters

* DitzyGenius: Quint

* TheDragon: Lupo

* DrowningOurRomanticSorrows: Occasionally.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Just ask about the plotline before the reboot.
** Or early into the main storyline. [[spoiler: Wesker turning into a small child at random is one of the more egregious examples.]]

* EthicalSlut: Multiple characters.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes / EvenMooksHaveLovedOnes

* EvilCostumeSwitch

* EvilutionaryBiologist: Wesker

* FollowTheLeader: It seems like certain plotlines have shades of this. One roleplayer will come up with something, then other roleplayers start doing similar things to it.

* FoeYay:
** Lupo/Chris
** HUNK having a crush on Quint
** [[spoiler: Keith/Bertha]]
* ForeignCussWord
* ForeignLanguageTirade: Excella
* ForgetsToEat: Four Eyes.

* FromBadToWorse

* GasMaskMooks: Many times.

* GentlemanAndAScholar / CulturedWarrior: Parker. Between the Divine Comedy quotes on occasion, fondness for opera, and multiple literary allusions, the politeness, and the fighting, he's somehow a mix of these two tropes.

* GermanicEfficiency: Bertha

* ActingForTwo:
** The Parker roleplayer is also the Veltro roleplayer.
** The Excella roleplayer is also the Nicholai roleplayer.
** The Jake roleplayer is also the Party Girl roleplayer.
** The Charlotte roleplayer is also the Raymond roleplayer.
** The Wesker roleplayer is also the Harold roleplayer.

* IgnoranceIsBliss: How the other characters treat Alyssa.

** [[http://the-devils-queen.tumblr.com/post/13799074499/forrest-i-find-your-lack-of-faith-disturbing Excella quotes]] [[StarWars Darth Vader.]]

* ShowerScene:
** Between Claire and Leon
** Between Raymond and Parker
* SickeninglySweethearts: Some pairings can come across as this, though it's relatively mild compared to some of the other examples on the trope page.
* SirSwearsALot: RPD

* NotSoDifferent/ JustLikeUs: Both sides give that impression.

* BadDreams

->[[HangoverSensitivity "SHUT THE FUCK UP SOME OF US HAVE A FUCKING HANGOVER, ALRIGHT?!"]] -RPD
->[[AGodAmI "May I remind you that I am not a person?... I am a god!"]] - Albert Wesker
->[[DeadlyDoctor "For mezhods, I razher enjoy hamstringing or kneecapping."]] - Bertha

** Disney/TheLionKing: Alyssa refers to a zombie tropical bird as Zazu.

* BiTheWay: Some of the characters. DependingOnTheWriter, the focus given to it and when it is focused on varies. To wit:
** [[VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations Parker Luciani]]
** [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 Excella Gionne]]: She is pansexual.
** [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 Chris Redfield]]
** [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 Albert Wesker]]
** [[VideoGame/ResidentEvilOperationRaccoonCity Party Girl]]

* NobodyOver50IsGay: Averted. Nicholai, Sergei, and [[spoiler: for people who haven't played Revelations yet, Veltro]] are gay.

* DrinkOrder:
** Wesker prefers more [[WickedCultured sophisticated]] alcoholic drinks, such as various wines.
** Rebecca prefers Whiskey.
** Parker prefers beer.
** RPD will drink Whiskey, Vodka, beer... Anything, really.

** LordOfTheRings

* CharacterAlignment

* TroperWorks: There are three tropers who are roleplayers.

* StrangeBedfellows: [[spoiler: The BSAA, STARS, and members of Umbrella, including the USS team, fighting against Wesker.]]

* GermanDialects: Bertha's roleplayer uses a generic German Accent.