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TV Tropes is a website where users list tropes in various media. Since Epic is more of a small, private community, it would probably be better to set up a page for it here rather than on TV Tropes itself. The following list of tropes instead links back to TV Tropes for each trope.


Epic General

  • Humans Are White: Black characters in Epic are an incredibly rare occurance, to the point that the number of named black characters can be counted on one hand.
    • That said, Handorans are fairly common in New Epic, so this trope isn't quite as strong as it was before. Black characters still remain rare, however.
  • Friends Rent Control: Housing payment is usually hand-waved, though there have been a few times where it's been lampshaded.


Pre-Epic

CCC2


Old Epic


The August Games


New Epic


The Bratwurst Prophecy


Book of Quests Arc


Lost to History

  • Shout Out:
    • Ben Drowned: Kri-Yut's attacks in the boss fight included "You Shouldn't Have Done That: The counter resets." and "WHO DO YOU THINK I AM: I AM KNOCKING AT YOUR DOOR NEXT. LET ME IN. I WANT TO SPEAK."
  • There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Due to getting Vital Hit, Kri-Yut kills Oujou with an attack which does 4,023 damage. Oujou was only level 1 or 2, and therefore only had around 500 HP.


Slotheim Manor

  • Cut Phone Lines: When the phone line goes dead, everyone immediately looks to Cordelia.
  • Dramatic Thunder: "Lightning struck outside, as if the storm itself was aware that the scene wouldn't quite be appropriate without it."
  • Fictional Mystery, Real Prize: This was Fredrik Eingdahl's intent with his competition, faking his death to pass on his treasure. Unfortunately for him, Aberrant turned it into a real mystery by actually killing the man.
  • Shout Out:
    • Metroid Fusion: When confirming if everyone's okay with Adrien's plan to check the path behind the manor, Danielle checks with Verinne, asking "Any objections, lady?"


SAHBER


250 Clues

  • Shout Out:
    • Doctor Who: Near the end, Morgan smiles at the "camera" and says "And a Merry Sethmas to all you at home," referencing the First Doctor episode "The Feast of Steven".


Secrets in Banivia


The King Keystone Competition

  • Award Snub: Kwan tries his damnedest to ignore the man who won the Preliminary round by a wide margin, simply because he doesn't like him.


Specific Characters and NPCs

"Stranger"

  • Only Known by Their Nickname: Not even Stranger knows his own name.
  • Not A Game: Stranger is kind of a Debbie Downer.
  • Un-Person: Who or whatever made him an archon not only removed all clear evidence of his past and existence in the world, but also his ability to even form a new identity.


Cail Milons


Coen Valentia


Cordelia Malaise

  • Blatant Lies: Cordelia takes compulsive lying to an absurd level.


Earth

  • Older Than They Look: For a while, Earth was unable to age. He's been aging for the past decade, however.


Elentra Arcamenel

  • Badass Damsel: Elentra may look like a scrawny elf girl, but she's overcome trials which would break ordinary men. Perhaps her most well-known feat came from the end of Old Epic, wherein Elentra defeated a level 32 boss on her own despite having three broken limbs.


Ellen Iwamine

  • Split Personality: Due to a glitch in her programming, a new one forms every time she activates combat mode.


Enos

  • Fantastic Drug: He pretty much only cares to take these, as he considers most traditional drugs to be boring and too predictable.


Iana


Isaac "Iota" Vandir


Joanie Kettleson

  • Cloning Blues: She's still trying to deal with the fact that she's a clone of Jolene Ketelsen.


Jolene Ketelsen

  • Pyromaniac: Jolene loves fire a bit too much at times.


Lucia Warren

  • Agent Scully: Lucia had a habit of refusing to admit the existance of anything supernatural, even when displayed right in front of her face.


Lucinda


Marianne Lavelle


Michael Azrael/Streea Barra


Nathan Cobalt

  • Catchphrase: "I'm Nathan Cobalt, Burning Hero for the New Generation!"


Rosalie-Anne Finch

  • Lady of Adventure: Perhaps a bit unwillingly at first, but she seems to have warmed up to it.


Roy Auric

  • A God Am I: Believes he accomplished this by breaking the laws of nature by creating cloned-over life from inanimate objects.


Sami Zenger


Saja Aamodt


Tony Hawk

  • Alternate Self: The Old and New Epic Tony Hawks have teamed up to become an unstoppable skateboarding duo.
  • Mirror Match: When the Tony Hawks first met during the Two Year Gap, they had a battle that was so intense that they had to be reconstructed as Cyborgs, and the town where the battle took place ended up being named after them. Unfortunately, no one can remember this glorious battle firsthand, but it's said that footage of it can be found on the internet.


Verinne, The Impatient

  • Cargo Cult: Inverted. She's created a cult to worship her, but so far, the only known followers are chips from the corner store.

OOC

  • Critical Failure: Whenever someone rolls a 1 or makes a similiarly bad roll, it often results in something hillarious happening.
    • Michael, for instance, once failed an Awareness roll so hard that he merely noticed that the lights are on.


Players



Games

Seth, Aaron, and Janell Series

Please keep in mind that the following section has spoilers.


  • Ascended Meme: The fan titles for the games were eventually used in-game in Universe Game.
    • While not quite an example, the common use of "What a jerk" in Steak Game was secured a catchphrase comeback in Waldo Game and Universe Game by fan request.
  • Guest Star Party Member: Each game starts with you playing as a different party than the Manly Trio, each in Epic itself. Additionally:
    • In Waldo Game, you play as Cajul Derros during Virad Hunter.
    • In another part of Waldo Game, you play as Impact, albeit controlled by the Trio.
    • Shortly after the Tony Hawk fight in Universe Game, Hawk interrupts a cutscene to battle Marianne, who you control for this fight.
  • Shout Out: The entire series has quite a few of these, particularly in Universe Game. Each game has its own seperate Shout Out entry list.


Seth, Aaron, and Janell's Adventure for Steak

  • Funny Background Event: While the players talk amongst themselves at the end of the Tower of Babel sequence, Weapon gets up and kills most of the remaining characters.
  • Magic Floppy Disk: The trio fetches a floppy disk for Jared which holds 2TB of porn on it.
  • The Man Behind the Man: When Clay is defeated, Weapon is revealed to have been the real villain of Another Black all along. And then when Weapon is defeated, Mystik appears and also claims to have been the real villain.


Seth, Aaron, and Janell Find Waldo

  • Giant Space Flea From Nowhere: In Waldo Game, the trio goes through a monster-infested forest to track down Waldo. The final bosses are a series of tanks and a military general, neither of which were alluded to until the ending.
  • Shout Out:
    • Metal Wolf Chaos: General Peral's Missile Punch. His voiced line for using it is even "Suck on this!"
    • NES Ghostbusters: In the fake ending, the ending lines from the NES Ghostbusters game show up.
  • The Stinger: For getting 100%, there is a scene after the credits where Tyler and Bishop have an IM conversation (complete with AIM sound effects) regarding Tyler actually holding an upcoming saga, leading right into Universe Game, where that sets off the game's plot.
  • Unexpected Gameplay Change: Happens a few times:
    • The Planetouched sequence at the start of the game.
    • The Virad Hunter minigame.
    • Playing as Impact
  • Victory Fakeout: Very early in the game, Waldo can be found in Seth's backyard. Checking him rolls credits for a few seconds, until Janell points out it's just a fake Waldo, and the game continues.


Seth, Aaron, and Janell Save the Universe

  • Badass Bystander: During the final confrontation with Edjejre, just as it seems the Manly Trio will be prevented from going to get the Manly Steak they need to break their stalemate with Edjejre, Nick Cobalt charges in and punches Edjejre in the face, rallying the rest of the crowd into holding him off so they can buy the trio the time they need.
  • Battle Theme Music: An edited version of the unofficial theme song of Epic, Crazy Sunshine, plays during the final boss battle.
  • Berserk Button: For Aaron, forest mazes.
    • Alicia gets a bit upset when Rosalie mentions Nero.
  • Chekhov's Gunman: By the end of Universe Game, the entirety of Waldo Game seems useless in the grand scheme of things compared to the rest of the series. And then Waldo shows up to give the Manly Trio the Manly Steak they need to defeat Edjejre.
  • Continuity Nod / Mythology Gag: Both of these happen quite a lot in this game in particular. A few examples include:
    • An NPC in Eutropia notes that things are looking good for the city, as it's finally coming back to life after being wrecked during the Battle of Eutropia. Doubles as a Development Gag, in that due to the changeover from Old Epic to New Epic that had already occured, we will never see the Old Epic version of Eutropia finally back in action.
    • In the Vacant Sky Universe, Garas Beach is a near-identical recreation of its appearance in Vacant Sky, right down to the incorrectly placed pans on the hill, the Save Book, and the door that says "SORRY NOT IN DEMO".
    • CCCoH is one of the universes visited.
    • Hieiroth's destruction of CCC2 is referenced by Hieiroth himself.
    • Iota questions the trio's ability to travel to other universes, asking Seth "Are you a wizard?", referencing the original Epic "Podcast", wherein Iota was declared to be the Are You a Wizard Guy after a round of Akinator.
    • In the final Losenna scene near the end of the game, Nick Cobalt announces his idea to form a guild of superheroes, and that Epic Aaron can lend them his castle as a temporary headquarters.
  • Easter Egg: There is a hidden conversation during the final phase of the Ace Attorney segment if you present a certain incorrect piece of evidence, wherein Seth and Aaron argue about money and beer.
  • Failed a Spot Check: Cajul Derros, hunting for Virad, fails to spot one standing right behind him.
    • As everyone reacts to Edjejre nearly breaking open the fourth wall in the final confrontation, everyone looks at it and reacts in surprise. Marianne, however, with her negative Awareness, merely has a question mark pop over her head.
      • Luffy reacts in confusion as well, but that's just because he's Luffy. The near-blind Kristen is confused at first, but even she notices it quickly enough.
  • Fridge Horror: As noted in the Right for the Wrong Reasons entry below, the Thuwadian guards at TTT Corp. attack the trio not being James Crawford, under the reasoning that James Crawford is never on time. In other words, if they hadn't bumped into him and took his card, he would have been attacked by Thuwadians for being on time for work.
  • Humans Are White: Because of the signifigant lack of black characters in Epic, Seth is shocked to find a black NPC in Eutropia.
  • Meaningful Background Event: In the final scene in Losenna where the Manly Trio returns everyone to Epic, Earth can be seen hopping into the Alpha. This later becomes signifigant in the follow-up quest "Three Years Ago".
  • Mistaken Identity: Iota joins the group because he hears Hawk referring to the villain as "Edje-something" and thinks he's referring to Edge. He doesn't learn the truth until the final confrontation with Edjejre.
Seth: "Does Drago even HAVE flame breath?"
Drago: "I DO NOW"
  • No Big Deal: Seth only seems mildly concerned about the possibility of Sarah messing with the fuse box "again".
  • Nonstandard Game Over: Taken to its logical extreme: If you lose to Edjejre in the penultimate boss fight (before he becomes Infinite Edjejre), he prepares to fully open the hole to the real world...only for the way to be blocked by the Game Over screen.
  • Not Playing Fair With Resources: Played with. In the final battle, Edjejre heals himself to max halfway through it. The party proceeds to complain about the unfairness of this and level the playing field by doing the same thing.
  • One Hit Kill: Hieiroth has a one-shot kill move: Sephiroth's Heartless Angel attack. Fortunately, like Heartless Angel, it's only used when he's nearly out of HP, and therefore rarely shows up.
    • Edjejre attempts to do this at the end of the final battle. The party doesn't let him.
  • Paper-Thin Disguise: Kevin, Steve, and Tyler trick a couple of robots into thinking they're Seth, Aaron, and Janell just by claiming to be them. One of the robots almost sees through the disguise by pointing out that one of them should be a girl, until Steve claims Tyler's the girl.
    • "That explanation was flawless!"
  • Production Throwback: The entirety of the Chippe! universe and the characters from it.
    • In a related note, in the Chippe! Universe, there is a chef in the lobby of the Sears Tower, asking if the trio has seen an eskimo anywhere. This is a reference to Enter the Eskimo, a video made in the early 2000s by the same group of people Chippe! originated from.
  • Recursive Canon: In the Internet Cafe, one of the computers has Seth, Aaron, and Janell Save the Universe running, with the player currently in an internet cafe.
  • Right for the Wrong Reasons: At TTT Corp, the Thuwadian guards' rationale for the trio not being James Crawford is that James Crawford is never on time, not that they're three people who are all clearly not James Crawford.
  • Shout Out: Numerous, including:
    • Resident Evil 4: "Edjejre, you're small-time!"
    • John Dies at the End: In Universe Game, Aaron claims that he and Seth once had to fight off a "fat, gay computer that wanted to take over everything." Seth quickly points out that wasn't actually them.
    • Sonic the Hedgehog: Outside Rampager's Fortress, a robot has hammered a sign into the ground reading "NO FUN ALLOWED".
    • Drago's character art in Universe Game has the Deal With It shades, a line which Drago says at one point late in the game.
    • The Legend of Zelda: "If all else fails, use fire."
    • Um Jammer Lammy: When Tertaga Herk Herk complains that he can't perform Sgt. Mumbles without a guitar, Aaron says that Herk doesn't need one, because the guitar is in his mind.
      • "Like the casino?"
    • In the Losenna graveyard, one tombstone is for William O'Williamson, which reads "He ran fast, and died a virgin."
    • Ben Drowned: If you lose to Edjejre in Universe Game's penultimate boss fight, the message "You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?" appears before the game asks if you wish to try again.
    • Final Fantasy I: "I, Edjejre, will knock you all down!"
  • The Stinger: After the credits, there's a scene of Seth, Aaron, and Janell getting the paper.
    • If you get 100%, there is a scene after this where it cuts back to Rampager's Fortress one week after the final boss, showing the useless chess piece object that was sitting around. It activates, searching for the closest universe with an Edjejre counterpart, heading for the New Epic Universe and leading directly into the Three Years Ago quest.
  • Take That: The infamous Planetouched sequence from Waldo Game gets bashed a few times in Universe Game, once even by the character for Bishop himself.
    • The code's so bad that Edjejre uses it as an attack in the final battle.
  • Title Drop: Not for the game itself, but for one of the songs in the game. Upon meeting Tony Hawk, he proclaims that there's "no messing around" this time. This was deliberately a title drop of the main battle theme of the SAJ Real Universe.
  • Warp Zone: While not originally intended as this, Janell makes use of the Lost Grounds rules in Old Epic (They appeared in a different location every day) to teleport from Banivia to the UP by waiting inside one while it changes its location.
  • What Could Have Been: The original plans for Universe Game included a Pokemon universe, but it was scrapped due to not wanting to program yet another new gameplay type after the Ace Attorney segment.
  • Who Would Be Stupid Enough: Seth complains that Janvier cannot be Janvier, as he has no red armor. Janvier says it's a disguise, to which Seth asks how "different colored armor" counts as a disguise. Janvier's response? "Worked on you, didn't it?"


Seth, Aaron, and Janell Play DnD

A fanfic written by Seth in between the releases of Waldo Game and Universe Game. Not actually a game, obviously, but listed with the SAJ Series for consistency.


  • Hillarious In Hindsight: In the fanfic, which was written before Universe Game came out but takes place more than a year after it, the characters seem to have a better understanding of the world beyond the fourth wall than they did in Steak Game or Waldo Game. And then Universe Game came around and showed them learning about just that.
  • Sure, Why Not?: Considered canon in the series by Tyler, despite being written by Seth.


The Tale of Craig Delling

Please keep in mind that the following section has spoilers.


  • Early-Bird Cameo: A book on relations between the Banivian Empire, Ibadia, and Chanvierre can be found in the game. This is the first official mention of Chanvierre in an Epic story, before it even gets mentioned in an actual RP.
  • Easter Egg: Checking the records computer a second time allows you to check the records for Jay Undell.
  • Fake Nationality: Due to a lack of man-bat sprites in RPG Maker XP, a robed man sprite stands in for that of an Alibaas man. This is lampshaded in the game.
  • Flashback Effects: The flashback sequence in the credits is displayed in black and white.
  • Killed Mid-Sentence: Craig finds a note whose author was apparently killed while still writing it.
  • No Big Deal: After going through room after room of maimed bodies, Craig finds yet another one and merely remarks "This is pretty much expected at this point."
  • Production Throwback: If you check a lamp in Craig's house, he notes that it seems to be broken, and says "I guess some things never change." This is a reference to the SAJ Series, where all of the lamps in Seth's house were said to be broken and couldn't be turned on.
  • Rearrange the Song: The music that plays outside Karroth is Sigh of the World from Vacant Sky, but sped up to 150% Pitch. This was actually a mistake on Tyler's part that went unnoticed until the game was released. Bishop himself didn't even recognize it at that pitch, and was confused because he knew the rest of the soundtrack was from Vacant Sky.
  • Recycled Set: The restaurant that appears during the ending credits is the same one used in Steak Game. The credits also feature the Eutropian street and alley from Universe Game.
  • Tear Off Your Face: One corpse is described to have its face missing. Craig speculates that it may be in the stomach of a nearby dead Thuwadian.


Vacant Sky

Already has its own TV Tropes article.

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