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[[Gaiden Game|Sequel spinoff]] to ''[[Kamen Rider: Hour of the Void]]'', set [[Exty Years From Now|sixty years later]] in a slightly alternate reality. Yet another play-by-IRC on Rizon, this one using <nowiki>#RideAloneComplex</nowiki> and DM'ed by the [[Blatant Lies|illustrious]] [[Power Perversion Potential|Haken_Browning]] of Team Phantom Tiger and /m/erotica fame, it serves as a testbed for the [http://utohpia.pbworks.com/w/page/33038675/FrontPage uTOHpia] [[Toku]]-themed e-splat for ''[[Mutants and Masterminds]]'' (itself drafted by those KRV players carrying over to RAC who mourned the loss of the system in its shift to near-pure freeform).

RAC functions more as a "Good End" to the previous game (when it isn't busy reading more like [[Author Tract|a scathing in-character critique thereof]]); the heroes won, and some serious efforts on [[Idiosyncratic Ship Naming|FangOreo's]] part have brought [[Kamen Rider Kuuga|Grongi]], [[Kamen Rider Kiva|Fangires]], [[Kamen Rider Faiz|Orphenochs]], and [[Kamen Rider Kabuto|Worms]] [[Five Races|out into society under their own power]] - especially Fangires, with a FangOreo-backed Development & Pioneer engineering a [[Life Energy]] feeding substitute (and Coca-Cola [[Expy]]) known as FN-TAU.

The bright future has its dark spots, however: though the kaijin races are mostly integrated into society, they bring with them a whole new grade of criminal activity against both humans and their own kind. To counter their threat, the FangOreo construct a "public security firm" (more like "[[Law Enforcement, Inc.|privately-owned military]]"), "[[Fun with Acronyms|Justice Unlimited Nocturne-Kinetic Elimination Riders]]", or [[Snatcher|JUNKER]], which is sort of a "good guy" version of ZECT, complete with various "trooper" level mooks and more elite Riders, represented by PCs and NPCs across the spectrum...to say nothing of the various foreign and domestic henshin tech rivals cropping up amid the [[Kamen Rider Decade|All-Riders]] expo.

Find it [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/34299673/FrontPage here.]

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* [[Age-Appropriate Angst]]: [[Zig Zagged]] with Kenoko. Counting summers, she's 78 years old, but she's still 18 years old physically due to having an unaging body. She angsts ''about'' the fact that most of her old friends are gone with the ''attitude'' of an 18-year-old. Michelle, on the other hand, subverts it, by acting like a nineteen-year-old girl who is having too much fun.
** Please note that Michelle is a 97-year-old Showaborg who looks like she's about one-third her actual age. That would give most 97-year-old women a reason to act like that.
* [[Arc Words]]: "[[Code Lyoko|A World Without Danger]]" is rapidly cropping up as something a lot of characters are looking for.
* [[Artificial Human]]: Kenoko and Michelle (yes, Alexice's mother), and that's just the PCs.
** Now including Saki and Stuart (two people from Kenoko's past), and the recently-Showaborg'd Miyami (one person from Kenoko's present.)
* [[Author Appeal]]: One for every contributor, it seems:
** [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|Haken]]: [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] of practically every sort (particularly to [[PlayStation]] 1/2-era video games). Also [[Yuri Fanboy]] and [[Ethical Hedonist]] (mostly [[Ethical Slut]]) of the highest order.
** [[Almighty Janitor|Athon]]: [[Subverted Trope|Subverting expectations]] and [[Surprisingly Good English]] for one of the game's two Brazillian players.
** [[Bromantic Foil|Advent]]: [[Yuri Fanboy]] with romantic twist.
** [[The Last DJ|Axel]]: Martial arts stuff and [[Deadpan Snarker|snarky commentary.]] His [[Signature Style]] is characters who are [[Byronic Hero|powerful combatants but emotionally crippled]].
** [[Lucky Bastard|Raven]]: [[Indy Ploy]] with a lesser [[Deadpan Snarker]] attitude than Axel. Or [[Hot-Blooded]]. Or a [[Keet]]/GenkiGirl. It's hard to tell sometimes. [[The Ladette|Though]] [[The Stoic|those]] [[Badass Bookworm|aren't]] [[Ax Crazy|all]] [[Ditzy Genius|he]] [[Magnificent Bastard|enjoys]].
*** [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Perspective:]] Raven is a somewhat-[[Hot-Blooded]], optimistic [[Deadpan Snarker]]; Axel is [[Jade-Colored Glasses|a highly cynical]] [[Aloof Big Brother]] [[The Snark Knight|Snark Knight]].
** [[The Chick|Nahd]]: Taking up Haken's MGS reference specialization of old.
** [[New Meat|Verloren]]: Not-blissful-at-all [[Did Not Do the Research|complete ignorance]] of the KRV/RAC cosmology.
** [[Ascended Fanboy|Cole]]: Characters who are [[Smarter Than You Look|Smarter Than They Look]], or who utilize either [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] or [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]].
* [[Badass]] (more specifically, [[World of Badass]], with the plot focusing on a [[Badass Crew]]):
** [[Asskicking Equals Authority]]: What appears to be a primary motivation for tapping new Riders, considering how Rebecca and Haru got in and how eagerly Xander was lifted to OsuTrooper.
*** [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: The OTHER motivation for tapping new Riders - namely inspiring them into this trope, considering how Kenoko got on board. May also play a factor in retention, if Pacifica's debut is any indication.
** [[Badass Abnormal]]: Haru, Kenoko, Michelle,  {{spoiler|Xander}}, and implied with Luca.
** [[Badass Automaton]]: How about Punchy?
** [[Badass Biker]]: [[Biker Babe|Kenoko primarily.]]
** [[Badass Bookworm]]: Akebara.
*** On the metascale, Axel and Raven are type-2 [[Vitriolic Best Buds]] who turn into [[Badass Bookworm]]s if you screw with the other one. Actually, that describes [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Axel's attitude]] [[Big Brother Instinct|towards most of the other players]].
** [[Badass Bystander]]: Xander.
** [[Badass Grandma]]: Haruka, Yukari, Kaoru, and Aelita. (Akebara, Kenoko, and Michelle, in spite of the age, lack the temperament that goes with it.)
*** [[Badass Family]]: By extension, Haruka/Yukari/Kaoru and Haru.
** [[Badass Longcoat]]: Kenoko again, especially in Nigo mode.
** [[Badass Long Hair]]: It'll only take one [[Flash Sideways|Alternity Migraine]] for Vincent to turn into this. [[Super Robot Wars G|Assuming it's the right universe, natch.]]
*** And whaddya know, the right universe's counterpart is now a disembodied mentor voice stuck in his head.
** [[Badass Normal]]: Rebecca.
** [[Badass Teacher]]: Aelita.
** [[Colonel Badass]]: Haruka.
** [[Little Miss Badass]]: Haru, Ake, and Aelita [[Little Miss Badass|sort of]].
** [[Submissive Badass]]: Off-duty Haruka, considering the whole [[Gravity Master|Sirknight]] [[Badass|Fangire]] [[The Power of Love|thing]].
** [[Took a Level in Badass]]: Pretty much everyone in KRV that didn't carry over is understood to have done so ([[Reality Subtext|even if Kenoko]] [[Role-Ending Misdemeanor|wasn't around to see it]]). Even [[Idiot Houdini|Aoki]].
*** [[Author's Saving Throw|To some people's disgust.]]
* [[Beat Panel]]: Axel uses it in his writing style, often simply saying [[Visible Silence|"beat".]]
* [[Berserk Button]]: Clearly [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/Judgment-Time the chance of] a [http://tabletopkamenrider2.pbworks.com/Week+13+-+Time+Trippin%27+Wedding mind control-and-kidnapping mix] isn't simply a meta sticking point to the RAC authors.
leads to [[I Have Many Names]] when he's playing in a different game that uses "nickup" rules - "Xiaohu", "Wei_Angxian", and "Fionna" are all Axel as well.
* [[Blatant Lies]]: Everything Tomoe says to Kenoko in [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/Lion%2C-Hopper this scene]. [[Love Makes You Dumb|And Kenoko believes every word.]]
* [[Brick Joke]]: Invoked continuously and furiously by Haken and Axel regarding discarded or swerved-away elements from [[Kamen Rider: Hour of the Void|their]] [[Super Robot Wars G|prior]] [[Musou Verse|games]].
* [[Broken Bird]]: Kenoko's defining trope pre-Calibur, and one Haruka swerves into in places during Week 03. Then there's Henne Valkyria, whose spontaneous ejections of Raven Orphenoch feathers make it a bit too literal.
* [[Casual Danger Dialogue]]: Pink Lemonade do it - but then they're really allowed to, being a [[Game Breaker|Game Breaking]] proto-[[Battle Couple]] of [[Genius Bruiser|Genius,]] [[Lightning Bruiser]]s.
* [[Charm Person]]: This is Akebara's signature non-Rider power.  {{spoiler|As she explains to Haru, everything about her is carefully calculated to evoke this.}}
* [[Come with Me If You Want to Live]]: Haruka's tapping of Kenoko for JUNKER amounts to this, because Kenoko is suffering [[Phlebotinum Breakdown]].
* [[Cool Bike]]: [[Captain Obvious|This being]] [[Kamen Rider]], but Kenoko's Jet Sliger really stands out, given that it can ''drive through the air'' (literally; road appears in the air in the manner of [[Kamen Rider Den-O|the Denliner]]).
** Vincent's MultiRunner/ViRunner has four forms: One street-level, one that can [[Ramming Always Works|Ramming Speed]], one with twin [[BFG]]s, and one that can [[Time Travel]] whilst going ludicrously fast... [[Yu-Gi-Oh!|By using cards to power it up.]]
* [[Cool Car]]: Akebara's [[wikipedia:Pontiac Firebird|1978 Pontiac Firebird]], which she uses in the manner of [[Revolutionary Girl Utena|Akio's Car]]. Ake talks to it to the point of [[Cargo Ship]], too.
* [[Couch Gag]] and/or [[Evolving Credits]]: The workspace's main page often changes, having things struck out and shuffled about as the situation in-character changes.
* [[Creator Breakdown]]: Well, it was bound to happen [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/41468551/Meet%20The%20JUNKERs%20-%20The%20Note%20Page sooner or later]:
{{quote|'''Haken:''' So we got a little more in-depth about this entire mess last night, and we've come to the conclusion that it wasn't [[Don't Make Me Destroy You|Couch]] that was right, but [[Small Name, Big Ego|Gue]]. Furthermore, I have [[He Who Fights Monsters|become Gue]]. Guys. Help me change back. Please.}}
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] (initially [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]): Akebara acts like this at times, being extremely familiar with the Rider Wars of the past. The only problem is that most of the information was imparted to her by [[Unreliable Narrator|Wyll]].
* [[Dare to Be Badass]]: Akebara, to Rebecca, during their first meeting. Which is ironic, because she was on her way to fulfill such a dare from Wyll at the time.
* [[Death Is Cheap]]: So it appears with anyone using the uTOH template for [[Kamen Rider Blade|Undead]] or buying up similar powers. {{spoiler|Including Wyll, who didn't even know he BOUGHT resurrection when brought back through his contract with Leksi.}}
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: Or, in Miyami's case, devotion based off of infatuation due to Kenoko's ranks of the [[Charm Person|Distracting Looks]] feat. This is at least the second time that this has caused a situation involving one of Axel's characters.
** Distracting Looks winds up not even factoring into [[Worthy Opponent|Henne]] and [[Stalker with a Crush|Kyon]] being "Befriended."
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Wyll, to Ake's unnamed father, in her backstory.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/34457010/Rebecca%27s-Riding-Lesson Rebecca's Riding Lesson.] Just... wow.
** It's even funnier when you consider the [[Revolutionary Girl Utena]] [[Shout-Out]] that opens the scene.
** And of course there's Ake's car, which is [[Gameplay and Story Integration|statted out to invoke this.]]
** Kenoko's line of thought [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/35938173/Two-Lions-on-the-Mountain when grappling with Saki]. Axel apparently likes this trope.
* [[Dramatic Ellipsis]]: Kenoko and Akebara's player (best known as Axel) is ''really prone to this''. [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on results.
* [[Face Palm]]: Wyll does one in-character when the [[Chewing the Scenery|Proto Driver]] mispronounces the [[Kamen Rider ZX|ZX]] henshin as "Zed-Ex" - it's meant to be "Zeh-Cross". Kenoko is also occasionally fond of them.
* [[Fever Dream Episode]]: [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/I%27m-Still-In-A-Dream Haruka slogging through] [[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater|The Sorrow's river]], accosted by [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|KRV's Maya vi Inoue]] and saved only though the intervention of her fellow Riders and some Cobra Unit Emotion Gaia Memory weirdness. {{spoiler|Initially intended as foreshadowing for a potential [[Mid-Season Upgrade]], but A) [[Ironic Echo|Axel bitched backstage about the idea of Haruka having a Midseason Upgrade]], and B) the [[Parasite Eve]]-themed upgrade that [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/Moment-of-Humanity Haruka eventually settled on] had better [[Brick Joke]] value.}}
* [[Firing One-Handed]]: Oh how very mocked by Korin and Aelita in [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/Smart-Brains-And-Sagarcs-Butt-Heads the former's Faiz initiation duel]:
{{quote|'''Psyga!Aelita:''' *following Korin missing with Single Mode* Rule Number 1: One-handed shooting is for [[Gangsta Style|gangstas]] and faggots. Don't be either!
''(Psyga's Flying Attacker flips into Blaster Rifle mode)''
'''Aelita:''' Corollary 1A! Underslung weapons are just plain ridiculous! ''(lets loose with BURST MODE...and misses)''
'''Faiz!Korin:''' [[Self-Demonstrating Article]], Aelita-san! }}
* [[First-Name Basis]]: Kenoko with everybody because that's just how she is. Akebara's own habit (barring calling Kenoko [[Sempai-Kohai|Senpai]]) seems like a mistake (being born and raised in Japan), until you realise she was taught by Wyll, [[Fridge Brilliance|who isn't Japanese to begin with.]]
* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Much of Axel's writing style seems to rely on it - for example, Nigo's threats to the FangOreo are more [[Narm]] than anything... until you find out that Nigo is just everything Kenoko represses, and she was never any good at making threats.
** Also Wyll's themesongs - the out-of-universe [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j0g2oG_w2g Throw Your Arms Around Me], a bittersweet [[Anti-Love Song]] about a one-night stand, and the in-universe [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaxuDUcu55M Scott Pilgrim-by-Plumtree] that he uses as his alarm clock - the given themesong of an apparent [[Non-Action Guy]] who is in fact a dangerous fighter and has a reputation as a [[The Charmer|ladykiller]].
* [[Funetik Aksent]]: [[Kamen Rider Kuuga|Grongi]] [[British Accents|Cockney]]. Now more than ever, given an actual non-American is writing the lesser Grongi characters now.
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: Ake to Kenoko after Haruka's attempt [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|misfires]], snapping her out of her [[Heroic BSOD]].
** Also used by Aelita towards Rebecca, just before she makes the switch from [[Kamen Rider Black|BLACK]] to [[Kamen Rider Decade|a Decade]] from some [[Crapsack World]] [[Timey-Wimey Ball|alternate future]] where SHOCKER wins. Seen [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/Trolling-at-30%2C000-Feet here.]
* [[Good Guy Bar]]: It's heavily implied that Wyll's bar is this, seeing as how he never quite manages to charge JUNKER personnel.
** If Alex is manning the bar though, you're paying for your drinks, JUNKER or not. [[Insists on Paying|Just as well Haruka wants to pay off the freebies.]]
** Along with [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Bronze]]-expy 365 serving as the [[Local Hangout]].
* [[Good People Have Good Sex]]: Variant explored between Haru and Akebara - Ake is normally apathetic to the idea of sex and is implied to have engaged in it lovelessly for reasons of subterfuge. When Haru kisses her, the ''emotional'' response blows Ake away.
** Further deconstructed when [http://tinyurl.com/RAC-OF005 a Haruka/Yukari/Ake threesome (NSFW)] [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/Heavy+Petting+-+Haken%27s+Notes (SFW summary and commentary)] goes awry, and Ake gets an eyeful of [[What You Are in the Dark|What Haruka Is In Bed]].
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Kenoko has one when [[Break the Badass|Haruka threatens to send her back to THI.]]
** As does Haru following Ake's [[Unperson|treatment of her]] post-Fangout.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: [[Knight in Sour Armor|Wyll]] and [[Knight in Shining Armor|Alex]]. Although Alex switch-hits and Wyll is practically asexual except where [[If It's You It's Okay|certain people are involved]] (or if it's for a job).
* [[Hollywood Healing]]: Averted in Axel's writing style - when his characters get hurt, it shows until they heal (though Kenoko has [[Healing Factor]]).  {{spoiler|The fact that Xander manages to [[Walk It Off|walk off a broken arm]] is [[Foreshadowing]] of his status as a Native.}}
* [[Ho Yay]]: Axel and Haken, according to some members of the fanbase - mostly the people who see Axel as [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]].
* [[Fundamentally Female Cast]]: There are... what, 3 male PCs and one male DMPC? And then there's so damn many female characters that it'll hurt too much to count them.
** Thankfully manages to avert the girls-only [[Competence Zone]] that plagued its predecessor.
** With the addition of three new male PCs (Masaki, Joe, and Adriel), this is starting along the path to being less than accurate.
* [[Ignore the Fanservice]]: Axel elevates this to the level of [[Crowning Moment of Indifference]] when Haken propositions him (or rather, his characters). Ironic given that he's playing [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant|Akebara.]]
* [[In-Joke]]: Wyll calls the [[Trademark Favorite Food|Kinder Surprises]] he gets for Aelita "suicide capsules", which is only funny if you know Axel personally ([[Weaksauce Weakness|he's hypoglycemic]] [[Write Who You Know|and so are two of his characters]]).
* [[Indy Ploy]]: Ake declares that she will do this in [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/35161948/Ake-Gets-Grilled this session].
** Also Raven and Axel's preferred method of strategy, with Raven preferring a [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|relaxed approach]] whereas Axel [[Magnificent Bastard|switches plans at the speed of light.]] Tends to cause massive amounts of frustration when one of his plans is blocked only for him to use the blocking method [[Xanatos Speed Chess|as leverage for something else.]]
* [[Kidnapped by an Ally]]: This is how Haruka eventually taps Kenoko. Kenoko is not pleased.
** Somewhat subverted with Tenpai later "kidnapping" Becca, in that no one (except maybe Axel) knew if he's really an ally, due to his preferences towards [[The Ubermensch|doing things his own way.]] Not to mention that she stayed with him willingly. Once again, Kenoko is not pleased.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: The page with all the [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/34327113/Preludes preludes] lampshades how hard Kenoko got shafted in KRV proper.
* [[Large Ham]]: The majority of Haken's characters. Yes, even Aelita.
** The Proto Driver is this in the Pink Lemonade preludes. [[Word of God]] is that Wyll toned it down for RAC proper.
{{quote|Proto Driver: >>[[Say My Name|KIIIIIIIIIIIIIING COOOOOOBRRRAAAAAAAA]]<<}}
* [[Last Girl Wins]]: Used as an almost-cruel subversion of [[First Girl Wins]] - after doing a [[Ship Tease]] (and then some) with Alice and [[Ho Yay|Alex]] for all of KRV (plus some playful flirting with [[Pair the Smart Ones|Haruka]] and more serious attempts with [[Will They or Won't They?|Faruko]])... Wyll apparently ends up with Aelita.
** Played more of its own accord with Kenoko settling with Rebecca after all of her KRV relationships wind up irrevocably burnt. (Excepting maybe Haruka, but then she's already married and constantly barred from using [[Charm Person]] to set the mood.)
*** Though Kenoko merely points out that she doesn't have to use it to set the mood...
* [[Les Yay]]: [[One True Threesome|Yukari, Haruka, and Kaoru]], obviously.
** Kenoko and Rebecca started off as an [[Official Couple]], but with their Tenpai-induced breakup it seems Kenoko's moved on to a more swinging-friendly setup.
** The Ake-Haru-Korin-Miyuki [[Love Triangle]] discussed below.
** Kyon's infatuation with Henne is played as an over-the-top [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstruction]] of Haruka's infatuation with Yukari.
* [[Lethal Joke Character]]: Haruka [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/Working-From-Bed constantly] [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/The-Next-Decade touts] [[Masked Rider|Black RX Unit 2]] as one of these. Only time will tell if it takes.
** Given that Masaki [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/Set-a-Mask-to-Kill-a-Mask is now its owner], that's half of it settled, at least.
* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: Wyll, of all people, demonstrates this in Akebara's backstory - after doing nothing for all of the prequel, he turns up and [[Buffy-Speak|dusts]] a Fangire in a heartbeat with his never-seen-in-KRV Proto-Decade Driver. There's also the part where he and Aelita ''completely rolled'' SHOCKER's Alaska facility singlehandedly, mowing through pseudo-Riders like mooks and making [[Armored Core|Nineball]] look like trash.
** Akebara demonstrates her own during, of all places, her seduction of Haruka... where the ''entire thing'' is carefully plotted on her part. [[Manipulative Bastard|Watch that girl.]]
* [[Love Triangle]]: Haru-Korin-Miyuki-Xander-Ake is a weird setup where:
** Xander [[Shipper on Deck|ships Haru and Korin]] but [[Matchmaker Crush|crushes on Haru]],
** Miyuki [[Subordinate Excuse|"works" for Haru]], [[Shipper on Deck|ships Haru and Korin]], but [[Matchmaker Crush|crushes on Korin]],
** Korin is into Haru in a big way (but totally willing to reciprocate Miyuki's crush on her), and
** Ake is completely unaware that this setup exists and exhibits [[Single-Target Sexuality]] towards Haru, who is the initiator of their one intimiate moment (thus far) that is [[Safe, Sane, and Consensual]].
*** Further, while Xander and Miyuki both exhibit [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]], Miyuki has shades of [[Die for Our Ship]] - she and Korin both briefly consider (and are told by Punchy [[Conversational Troping|in those exact words]]) stooping to [[Murder the Hypotenuse]] when they see Haru and Ake holding hands.
*** And then, Korin turns out to be pseudo-tsundere for Xander. The entire situation gets talked out and has a thorough [[Lampshade Hanging]] when [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/38924157/Observing-Hypercubes Xander and Korin go over it.]
** Kenoko actively averts a love triangle situation between herself, Becca, and newcomer [[New Old Flame|Saki]] [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/35950947/More-LionHill-Pillowtalk when she realises the trope could come into play].
* [[Major Injury Underreaction]]: Kenoko does this in her introduction chapter, being blown up and [[Incendiary Exponent|set on fire]] by a robot monster. Not only does she ignore it, she ''[[Smoking Is Cool|chains her smoke off the robot's burning corpse]]''.
* [[Mauve Shirt]]: Rebecca basically starts as this, turns out to be [[Crazy Awesome]], and gets an instant promotion to main character.
** And still more on the way, as [[Ascended Extra|the extras from the Preludes just keep on Ascending]].
* [[Motive Rant]]: Kenoko has one after Haruka refuses to let her turn down a "job offer", related to her time as the brainwashed SHOCKER Rider-2. Hearing her admit to [[Evil Feels Good|enjoying herself during it]] is creepy, as well as her bleeped out threat concerning Yukari and Kaoru.
** Despite a general "Neutral Zone" tone throughout the game wiki, Haken's own liner notes eventually [[Author Filibuster|spiral towards this]] regarding the foundation of RAC and a few loose ends in KRV that this game finds itself scrambling to gloss over/swerve away from.
* [[Mundane Utility]]: Ake has spent years learning how to [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulate people's emotions for reasons of subterfuge (and gambling)]], but also uses it to help snap Kenoko out of a [[Heroic BSOD]] (and give advice on hopefully helping her).
* [[Nerds Are Sexy]]: Haruka and Wyll.
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: Not any specific character (barring Haruka, of course), but ''the setting itself''.
** DM'S NOTE: The official line is "[[Lyrical Nanoha|Nanoha StrikerS]] meets [[Shadowrun]] meets [[Kamen Rider]]".
*** The official line seems to have been refined to "[[Touhou Project]] meets [[Kamen Rider]]" by the middle of Week 04: everyone not on the "Evil" chunk of the alignment chart is friendly to one another, even when they're tearing into each other with vicious debates and/or henshin firepower that pushes M&M's limits.
* [[No Ending]]: Cancelled right after the gigantic clusterfuck of a Christmas feast thanks to the new hires being insufferable to schedule around. [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/Kill-Notice Haken's postscript] indicates the original ending plans involved [[Trash the Set|making QUITE the mess of the set]].
* [[Out with a Bang]]: How room got cleared out for the crew's new Kuuga:
{{quote|'''Haken:''' Oh no, this isn't [[Author's Saving Throw|an appeasement thing.]] [[Rule of Funny|This is just me finding Aoki being fucked to death hilarious.]]}}
* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: Mostly to do with talking Devices and attacks, co-opting KRV's [[Depending on the Writer|on-again, off-again]] tradition of TV-Nihon [[Rainbow Speak]]:
** Punchy's speech is written <nowiki>{{LIKE THIS}}</nowiki>.
** Proto Driver and [[Kamen Rider W|Gaia Memory]] calls are >>LIKE THIS<<. Except when the latter get written-out <nowiki>[<ASCII>///]=</nowiki> Memories.
** {{color|orange|<nowiki>[Kivat]</nowiki>}} and {{color|purple|<nowiki>[Kivaara]</nowiki>}} get colored text in single squarebrackets.
** Now joining the pack is a talking [[Kamen Rider 555|Autovajin]] with +speech noted in plus signs+.
** Vincent's [[Super Robot Wars J|OrgDriver]] seems pretty fond of being written /Like This\.
** Leo, as well as Lydia and Tricia's mental communications with him and each other, are written <<like this>>.
** Xander's [[Kamen Rider OOO|Birth]] equipment calls are bordered with ()empty parentheses() to denote Cell Medals.
*** Going a bit further, dropping a /whois on Haken or Axel will reveal that their identities on rizon are set to kamenritt@JUNKER.DevPio.jp.rac and ascherw@Boss.RSF.au.rac respectively.
*** Add Raven to the list, with ALukles@mist.iwatodai.uk.rac.
* [[Pair the Spares]]: Miyuki and Korin.
** Slightly later, Xander and Korin.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Let's see. Kenoko's parents are dead (and she had all but run away from home in KRV to begin with), Miyuki and Korin have been kicked out (well, Korin ragequit, but it was totally justified because her parents ''sucked''), Xander doesn't have any ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]), Rebecca's are presumably in America, Ake's are both dead (see [[Self-Made Orphan]] on her page), Leksi's unseen uncle foists her off on the "Peanut Gallery" at the earliest opportunity...
** And now Vincent joins the fray. as even Alex claims to not know who provided that X chromosome.  {{spoiler|He does know. He's just staying quiet at her request.}}
* [[Physical God]] / [[Reality Warper]]: Ace and Sieg's take on how the RAC timeline came to differ from that of the SHOCKERverse whose future they came from seems to paint Haruka as this. {{spoiler|Between the oft-mentioned cavorting with Oscar Mike, the IC motive behind [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/Omake%3A-Haruka%27s-Last-Stand Haruka's (and possibly the whole FangOreo's)] [[Rage Quit|tactical hiatus]] from KRV, and [[Reality Subtext|Haken simply being the DM]], they're probably right.}}
** Now confirmed {{spoiler|[http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/Equinox-of-Insanity at least for the latter], Haruka ragequitting KRV explicitly cited as the reason the RAC timeline exists as is}}.
* [[The Power of Love]]: Wyll and Ake believe heavily in it.
* [[Pungeon Master]]: Haken himself, and his penchant for [[Multiple Reference Pun]]s. To wit:
** Haruka, the resident [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]], who's more or less an [[Revolutionary Girl Utena|Utena]] [[Pokémon|Gardevoir]] [[Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker|Strangelove]] wearing [[Phantasy Star Portable|Ursula Replica]] and [[Final Fantasy VIII|wielding a Do Anything Gunblade]].
** Aelita, who's shifted from being the [[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater|The Boss]] to Haruka's Strangelove to being the Laguna to her Squall - not to mention the [[Tron Lines]].
** Jack, the mecha otaku with a name recycled from Haken's [[Kamen Rider Dragon Knight|Torque backup]] for KRV (in and of itself an approximation of [[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater|Naked Snake's real name]]) and a personality/demeanor that can best be described as [[Zettai Hero Project|"Pirohiko Ichimonji without the dying right off the bat"]].
** Korin being some blender of [[Persona 3]]'s original red-headed Takeba (whose given name is [[One Steve Limit|being hijacked by Yukari]]), the [[Meganekko]] of the same name from the [[Hentai]] ''Nightmare Campus'', and a fuzzy mix of the [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]] regulars of ''[[Code Geass]]''.
** Even the [[Mauve Shirt]]s get a turn; Zu-[[Mazinger Z|Gara-Da]] [[Pokémon|"Gary" Oku]] managing to earn a [[Memetic Mutation|"MOTHERFUCKING"]] between his first and last names, and Ivan [[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon|Pupurin]] straddling the line between [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] and [[Ax Crazy]].
** And then there's Wyll's [[Addiction Displacement]], itself a [[Stealth Pun]] that relies on [[Genius Bonus]] and was never picked up in either KRV or RAC until Axel realised that he'd forgotten to and explained it OOC. Wyll smokes self-rolled lemongrass cigarettes. [[wikipedia:Cymbopogon#Anti-cancer properties|Citral, found in lemongrass, causes apotosis in cancerous cells in sufficient quantities.]] [[Don't Explain the Joke|So Wyll is smoking anti-cancer cigarettes.]]
* [[Rage Quit]]: Casualties so far include [[Yuri Fanboy|XAN]] and [[Guest Star Party Member|Couch]].
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: Thanks to being swamped in coursework, Raven wound up dropping playing Michelle in favour of promoting Vincent to main character. Reactions were... generally sad.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]] (alternatively, [[Refuge in Cool]]): In-universe example - Hardboiled Wyll (see below) [[Show Within a Show|makes a cross-dimensional call into Haruka and Aelita's talk show]], asks RAC!Aelita for tips on picking up HPL!Aelita, ''and gets them''.
* [[The Rival]]: Meta example: Axel to Raven, Haken and Athon; Raven back to him.
* [[Running Gag]]: Meta example: Axel is actually [[Kamen Rider OOO|Ankh]].
** Not meta example: Miyuki's [[Highly-Visible Ninja]] status.
** Back on the meta scale: Hakenruka's assortment of character body pillows (ostensibly for those nights when Haruka can't have the real deal), pulled out with each IRC signoff. Usually a point of contention, but [[Actually Pretty Funny]] when the right [[Snark Bait]] is laid:
{{quote|'''Haken:''' *pulling out a Royce bodypillow*
'''Axel:''' You could have picked something with a little more class.
'''Haken:''' That would [[Ship Tease|leave you without]] [[Hot for Teacher|an Aelita pillow]].
'''Axel:''' [[Don't Explain the Joke|I like the double-layered 'class' pun.]] }}
* [[Ship Tease]]: Every goddamn Pink Lemonade-centric session.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Oh man, where to begin. Haken and Axel both really like [[Revolutionary Girl Utena]], Wyll's [[Good Guy Bar]] is a Whole-Setpiece-Reference to [[Callahan's Crosstime Saloon|Callahans Crosstime Saloon]], [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/34546625/The-Last-Days-of-SHOCKHOUND The Last Days of SHOCKHOUND] prelude is a whole-title reference to ''[[The Last Days of Foxhound]]'' and a [[Whole-Plot Reference]] to the Laguna portions of ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' (with the awareness caveats of the [[Let's Play|Altimate Rewrite]] version), and another suggested title for it was "The Man With The Proto Driver" (a reference to Laguna's [[Crowning Music of Awesome]] [[Battle Theme Music]], "The Man With The Machine Gun")... [[4chan|with]] [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|this]] [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|group]], it's probably not going to stop anytime soon.
** Oh God the [[Hurricane of Puns]] during aforementioned session's final fight: [[Armored Core|Nineball]] gets worn down enough that its AI degrades into that of [[Touhou Project|another (9)]]...only for Aelita to chain its cries of [[This Cannot Be!|"You can't do this to the Strongest!"]] into a riff on [[Kamen Rider Kabuto|Tendou Souji's]] challenge to [[Kamen Rider Stronger|Jo Shigeru]]. One must wonder if it was Wyll calling Aelita a smartass afterwards or [[Reality Subtext|Axel calling Haken one]].
** Given that Wyll is a self-noted super-exaggerated [[Author Avatar]] who has all of Axel's negative traits and none of his positive ones...
*** Same episode, Wyll steals the [[Mazinkaiser SKL]] [[Badass Boast]]. Which is probably pretty damn accurate - see the [[Ride Alone Complex/Awesome|Awesome page]] for details.
** Kenoko refers to someone entering their kaijin form as [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|"vamping out"]].
** [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/FangLemon-Happy-Hour Wyll references] Australian musical comedy trio [http://www.3pod.com.au/ Tripod], using the first line of their song ''The Lonesome/Gregarious Cowboy''.
** Masaki's personality is this to Lucky Star's Anime Tenchou, despite Masaki's passions having a different focus (Rider-tech) than said store manager's (getting Konata to actually ''buy something'').
** And then Haruka goes for the goddamn gold during [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/Primal-Eyes the debut] of [[Parasite Eve (video game)|Kamen Rider Libera]]:
*** Bronze: The Gear is debuted on Christmas Eve.
*** Silver: Its main armament seems to focus on [[Parasite Eve II|PE2-era]] Parasite Energy.
*** Gold: Its activation [[Invocation]] parrots one that [[Code Lyoko|co-creator Aelita]] is all too familiar with.
*** Platinum: Haruka's fighting a frenzied Ake at the time, and is herself a little loose in the head from IXA's initial no-sell being reminiscent of [[Diabolus Ex Machina|the LAST Fangire to wield the Mk.XI]]...who shares a name with PE1's [[Bonus Boss]].
*** Extra Credit: All sessions save one with the development of Libera as a primary or secondary focus share a title with a theme from one of the PE games (yes, including ''[[The 3rd Birthday]]'').
* [[Shown Their Work]]: The location visited in [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/Limonade+Rose-sur-Seine Limonade Rose-sur-Seine] [http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/10/14/ile.seguin.jean.nouvel/index.html?hpt=C2 is based on an actual construction project].
** Axel is this kind of writer, though the anti-cancer cigarettes joke is [[TV Tropes Drinking Game|probably the most]] [[Egregious]] piece of [[Shown Their Work]] ever.
* [[Show Within a Show]]: Dr. Sana-chan and Nurse Zecross's "Body Communication" is [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/35255176/Omake:-Body-Communication-ep01 back, baby]. And even taking multi-dimensional calls.
* [[Shrug of God]]: Particularly hilarious example: AdventFalls (who mostly writes [[Shoujo Ai]]) hadn't decided whether Rebecca was straight/gay/bi by the time he suddenly had to for Akebara's [[Charm Person|Distracting Looks]] feat. So he ''rolled dice for it''.
* [[Sorry I Left the BGM On]]: Akebara. All the time. Either from her headphones or her [[Cool Car]]'s radio.
* [[Spin Offspring]]: Haru, of [[Homosexual Reproduction|the entire]] [[Has Two Mommies|FangOreo]]. (Though Haruka merely counts as an Aunt, due to [[First Girl Wins|Kaoru being Yukari's First Girl]].)
* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: This is why Kenoko is quietly dying of [[Phlebotinum Breakdown]] - she's convinced that if she transforms into [[Kamen Rider the First|Rider-2]], then [[Gratuitous Japanese|"Nigo"]] will come out and start killing people.
** And rightly so - if Nigo was heroic, taking on all three members of FangOreo in their strongest forms ([[Game Breaker|except Haruka]]) and managing to completely kite their strategy until Kaoru ''stopped her personal timeflow'' would probably qualify as a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] in its own right.
*** Fortunately, ever since Kenoko obtained her [[Mid-Season Upgrade]], she hasn't really had to worry about that.
* [[Taking Up the Mantle]]: My how very [[Deconstructed Trope|Deconstructed]], especially in the wake of later Week 03 Monday sessions and the debut of the new Kuuga.
{{quote|'''Couch/Kouta Tsukamoto:''' Meanwhile, from my standpoint, I'm the new guy. I'm liable to jump to conclusions early on both in and out of character because I -wasn't- there for all the sources of all this bitterness, I just see the aftereffects. So this character's story arc is more about someone who knows in his heart, but can't necessarily articulate, what being a Rider means, and in some cases is likely to know that what he sees isn't it. Thus resulting in more of an externally-driven story arc - reacting to the people around him who've become jaded for one reason or another, attempting to live up to what Kuuga's legacy once was and should be again, and hopefully providing some aid for others in a position to receive it.}}
* [[Talking in Bed]]: Used for the aptly named [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/35468149/KenokOreo-Pillow-Talk Pillow Talk], complete with a [[Lampshade Hanging]].
* [[The Reveal]]:  {{spoiler|Wyll is Tenpai.}}
* [[The Tease]]: FangOreo. All of them. Even after the siring of Haru via yet-unexplained means of [[Homosexual Reproduction]].
** And Akebara, ''wow''. Though given her backstory and way of conduct, this actually has darker undertones...
* [[That Man Is Dead]]: Invoked in the semi-canon "20 years ago" omake, by Kenoko to Haruka, RE herself.
* [[This Is Gonna Suck]]: Invoked in those exact words by Kenoko when Haru-as-Shark-Fangire actually notices her. She then [[Curb Stomp Battle|knocks Haru flat in one punch.]]
* [[Throw It In]]: Haken's modus operandi for creating short-notice rollplay/freeform encounters. You can tell which ones are born from thus due to being lifted from various video games ([[Parasite Eve|Crab Yummy]], [[Armored Core|Nineball]] and [[Monster Hunter|Tigrex]], [[Pokémon|the Roserade Fangire]], and so on).
** That last one leads to a rather hilarious [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]] moment, considering she winds up captured and not killed...
** Axel is guilty of ''requesting'' this, wanting to play anything he stats out (which is why he stats nothing until he's sure he can play it).
** Raven's just as guilty of this too—Vincent was promoted to main character and Luca came into being entirely because he was bored waiting for a bus home a few times.
* [[Turn in Your Badge]]: Invoked by Yukari following Haruka and Ake letting a revitalized Kenoko loose on THI. To say Ake considers it [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished|an insult to Haruka]] would be an understatement.
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Xander and Haru are Type 2.
** [[A Boy and His X|Kenoko and Punchy]], [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Alex and Wyll]]... Axel really like this trope, probably because most of his friendships seem to be like this.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: Tuesday evening of week 2. [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/35280677/Def-Jam Kenoko hospitalizes Ake for using Becca as a guinea pig], [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/I%27m-a-Shark Haru vamps out into Shark Fangire form] [[Fantastic Racism|in front of Ake]], [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/The-Lion-Wished-For-Courage and we find out what's behind Kenoko's trust/esteem issues as well as what completely terrifies her].
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Wyll's belt put-on, taken straight from Den-O.
** Tenpai does it, too. {{spoiler|Then again, considering they're one and the same...}}
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Akebara and Vincent. Ake seems to be shaping up. This [[Character Development|used to be Wyll's schtick]].
** ''Used to be''? Miyuki sure asked that question, if in different words, straight to Wyll's face at least once during Week 03.
** Haruka is quite possibly [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/Ake-O%27s+Car+-+Revenge+Road descending into it].
*** Diving headfirst by Wednesday of Week 03.
* [[With Friends Like These...]]:
{{quote|'''Haken:''' In a shocking twist, Kenoko's beef with Chiyoko is NOT META AT ALL.
'''Axel:''' ''[[Sarcasm Mode|Thanks.]]'' }}
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Wyll delivers this in the manner of a [[This Is Gonna Suck]] - except the subject matter is the ''[[Monster Hunter]]'' [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs|Velociprey]] and then a [[Our Dragons Are Different|Tigrex]]. (Remember, they're on [[Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker|Isla del Monstruo]] at the time.)
* [[You Are Not Alone]]: Haruka's response to Kenoko's [[That Man Is Dead]]. Unfortunately it doesn't stick.
** More effective [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/37607590/Working-From-Bed when Haruka does it with Ake] later.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have White Hair]]: [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|Oh God]] [[White-Haired Pretty Girl|it's back]]. Haruka and Wyll seem to be the only legacies packing it, but then the new class has Rebecca, Miyuki, maybe Xander...not to mention Akebara having a streak-dye job akin to her mother's.
** Xander's hair is grey, so close.
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Now has a [[Film Noir]]-esque [[Darker and Edgier]] [[Alternate Universe]] spinoff, [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/35211635/Hardboiled-Pink-Lemonade Hardboiled Pink Lemonade], set in a [[Crapsack World]] where [[Big Bad|SHOCKER]] [[The Bad Guy Wins|wins]] [[Kill'Em All|and most of the SEES Riders are killed]]. Focuses on [[Knight in Sour Armor|Wyll]] [[Tall, Dark and Snarky|Ascher]] and [[Playful Hacker|Aelita]] [[Action Girl|Schaeffer]], running a [[Private Detective]] agency called [[Mythology Gag|Pink]] [[Title Drop|Lemonade]]. Makes frequent use of the [[Private Eye Monologue]] both to transition between scenes and to let the two characters act seperately while sharing screentime.

== [http://ridealonecomplex.pbworks.com/w/page/35211635/Hardboiled-Pink-Lemonade Hardboiled Pink Lemonade] provides examples of ==

* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Haken [[Lampshade Hanging|hangs a lampshade]] on how [[Film Noir]] everything is in his very first line.
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Wyll and Aelita in their various styles.
* [[City Noir]]: A cross between this and [[Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain]]. Despite the city itself being lit up like a Dutch brothel, it's perpetually thunderstorming overhead, and Wyll can tell it's towards evening because the sky starts letting loose bolts of [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|green lightning.]] Oh, and the city's name? [[Meaningful Name|Neon]].
* [[Cool Guns]]: Wyll uses a [[Hand Cannon|Smith & Wesson .500 magnum]], and Aelita prefers a [[Metal Gear Solid|Five-seveN]].
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: To both RAC core and [[Kamen Rider W]].
* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]: There's a few lines here and there which imply that everything is in black and white. Possibly inspired by ''[[The Saboteur]]'' or ''[[Infamous (video game series)|In Famous]]''.
* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: Implied with Kenoko. Gets worse when you think about why her [[Elite Mook]] cohorts are completely used to it, and why they feel the need to stand and around and watch.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Kenoko, showing what could have happened if her psyche had unbalanced in the other direction - she ran back to [[Big Bad|SHOCKER]], because they wanted her and Tomoe didn't.
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: [[One True Threesome|FangOreo]] end up stuck in the [[Horny Devils|succubus-filled]] caboose of [[Grim Reaper|Django's]] Liner, with the implication that by this stage they've been broken into what amounts to mindless dolls... making Aelita's message even worse (see [[Tear Jerker]] below).
** Not quite: [[Word of God]] calls it a perverse [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]]. Remember, figurative [[Horny Devils]] (written by incorrigible [[Yuri Fanboy]]s) being uplifted into actual ones and all that.
*** This is something of a case of in-character [[Your Mileage May Vary]], doubling as a [[Continuity Nod]] back to Wyll's fear of loss of self-control.
* [[Film Noir]]: The first thing you'll notice, obviously.
* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: Kenoko vs. anyone at this stage.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: So, so many to [[Rider Quest]] and some meta stuff that never got into KRV or RAC:
** Wyll's [[Hand Cannon|weapon]] of [[Revolvers Are Just Better|choice]] is the same model as the too-big-to-use [[Kamen Rider Decade|Daiki]] that Jack toted in [[Rider Quest]].
*** Which causes a rather amusing averted reference to it where Wyll asks if Aelita knows what he likes about it... "[[Compensating for Something|Apart from the obvious]]?" "Actually, [[BFG|pretty much the obvious]]."
** Aelita's use of a [[Cool Guns|Five-seveN]] is a reference to <s>her status in KRV and RAC as [[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater|The Boss]]</s> actually just her being French and needing a spiffy European-made semi-automatic answer to [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Wyll only having five shots to his name at a time]].
** The detective agency takes on the Wyll/Aelita pairing name.
** Wyll and Aelita being a devastatingly competent tagteam was brought up in KRV (and, in fact, was part of Wyll's plans [[Role-Ending Misdemeanor|before he was]] [[Put on a Bus]]), and hinted at briefly in RAC, but here we get to see it at full force.
** Wyll finds a clue that's in hex - a la the binary and hex messages in [[Musou Quest]].
* [[No Name Given]]: The [[Femme Fatale]] who walks into the agency.
* [[Playful Hacker]]: Aelita, but with the "playful" turned down [[The Cracker|a long way]].
* [[Private Detective]]: Wyll and Aelita, obviously. And the trope is played straight with a vengeance.
* [[Private Eye Monologue]]: Found in the first episode and on the archive page, and implied to be the lead-in to each episode. Also used as a narrative device to allow Wyll and Aelita to do their own thing in different places while sharing screentime.
* [[Retool]]: Somewhat of [[Rider Quest]].
* [[Ronin]]: The word is used, but it appears to be [[Future Slang]].
* [[Ship Tease]]: [[Captain Obvious|For the]] [[Pair the Smart Ones|Pink Lemonade]] [[Captain Obvious|ship]].
* [[Show Some Leg]]: Aelita to Kenoko to get her Gear back in action. Kenoko never was the sharpest tool in the shed.
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Wyll's [[Addiction Displacement|lemongrass habit]] is back, [[Film Noir|naturally.]]
* [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]]: Wyll, to go with his [[Knight in Sour Armor]] view.
* [[Tempting Fate]]: Wyll asks Aelita not to early on, [[Ironic Echo|and then realises at the end of the first episode that he did it too.]]
* [[Tron Lines]]: Aelita.
* [[Word Salad Title]]: And intentionally, once Axel noted that it [[Inherently Funny Words|felt amusing to say out loud]].
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Even after a thorough polishing to remove large swaths of IC natter, the [http://utohpia.pbworks.com/w/page/33038675/FrontPage uTOHpia] e-splat remains quite tropable as its proprietors take on the nuances of M&M2e along with several oddities from RAC, KRV, and even canon Kamen Rider.

== The uTOHpia splat provides examples of ==

* [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other]]: [http://utohpia.pbworks.com/w/page/33550995/Drawbacks,%20Flaws,%20and%20Complications%20-%20Staff%20Commentary You be] [[Ho Yay|the judge.]]
* [[Conversational Troping]]: Oh my yes.
* [[Grappling with Grappling Rules]]: TerminAxel goes out of his way to [http://utohpia.pbworks.com/w/page/33394659/Fighting+for+Squishy+Humans+-+Commentary pinpoint all the right feats to break Grappling].
* [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]]: The splat, while being rooted in Kamen Rider, contains (or will contain) sections dedicated to [[Ultraman]], [[Metal Heroes]], [[Garo]], [[Super Sentai]], [[Power Rangers]], and other more esoteric series, like [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]].
* [[Product Placement]]: Right there on the mainpage... except the "products" are [[Idiosyncratic Ship Naming|named for ships from the primary game.]]
* [[Player Archetypes]]: Somewhat more foggy, but still quite noticeable. Terminal-slash-Axel is [[The Real Man]] and uses a [[Badass Normal]] template in [[Charles Atlas Superpower]] style (check out his feat setups). Haken is [[The Loonie]] and prefers [[Genius Bruiser]]s running thematic variants of the [[Flying Brick]]. Both are [[The Munchkin]] of the highest order, but also have a sense of scale about it.
* [[All the Tropes Will Ruin Your Vocabulary]]: [http://utohpia.pbworks.com/w/page/34191740/Acknowledgments And gain Special Thanks credits for it too].

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