RUC in the Style of a TV Tropes Page

This was inspired by seeing the Crashocalypse TV Tropes page.

Also this is good way to make a hypothetical page without having to actually make one on TVtropes. Because why the fuck would you want to.

## Tropes shared by all

**And I Must Scream:** In relation to **Cold Blooded Torture** below, the RUC and Indigo Syndicate really enjoys subjecting their victims to this, one of the most horrifying examples being their "max Coffin Prisons," which are designed to keep a victim trapped, awake, and alive for hundreds of years. And yes, trope applies to all portrayals.

**The Berserker**: Arguably the Titans and Psycho Soldiers.

**Character Filibuster:** A rather notorious trait for both the RUC and Indigo Syndicate. There are times where they talk for a long, long time to gloat at their enemy to mock about their apparent victory, trying to describe someone, or unintentionally buying their enemy enough time to fight back against them.

**Cold Sniper:** Skullface Jack. Oddly enough, this trait is consistent across all portrayals.

**Doublethink:** [etcetc]

**Disproportionate Retribution:** Their punishment for their enemies' "crimes" tend to be... over the top, and usually involve Cold-blooded torture in some way. In one case, people who simply disrupt Popeye Appreciation week are subjected to an entire day of being strapped to a spinning ride while being sprayed with water and abused by onlookers, with the ride only getting faster each time.

**Hellhole Prison**: Both the RUC and Indigo Syndicate use this to their fullest extent. The RUC with their RUCamps to exterminate "Demons" and the Indigo Syndicate with the Hopeful Reformation isles which is known to have Madame Phoenix torture people and if that isn't bad enough, they made a deal with a notorious serial killer, Waylon Joseph Sullivan to essentially feed him prisoners they dislike for him to kill.

- It gets worse, with the Indigo Syndicate's "Max Coffin Prisons" which are indestructible coffins designed to keep a victim alive and awake for at least a century. See also **And I must Scream** above.

**Hypocrite:** It goes without saying. [etcetc] There's also the fact that they like to claim their support for LGBT communities when from the very beginning they've shown unending transphobia in regards to Bern, and have a tendency to portray several of their enemies and "demons" as depraved homosexuals.

**Cold Blooded Torture:** What they usually do to their enemies when they don't outright murder them.

**Human Resources**: Disturbingly, the Liquification project is designed as this, turning people into liquid to power their machines.

**Living Battery**: Quite literally if we are to believe them turning Mr. Jizz of all people into a battery to power a city.

**MacGuffin**: The "Orb Of Alzoth".

**Might Makes Right**

**Non-Indicative Name:** Despite their name being the *Indigo* syndicate, their logo is more dark blue than indigo. This has not gone unnoticed by people.

**Sadist:** Just look at **Cold Blooded Torture** + **And I Must Scream** above. Yes, this applies on their own wiki as well, though they regard their own sadism as "heroic."

**Sigil Spam:** They will plaster their logo everywhere. Buildings, merchandise, you name it.

**Shameless Self-Promoter:** They will do anything to market their products, even in the middle of a battle. The RUC has "#BuyOurProducts" as one of their hashtags, after all.

**Tautological Templar:** [tbd]

**There's no Kill like Overkill**: Whooooo boy. Even in their most positive portrayals on themselves, the RUC and Indigo Syndicate don't just kill their enemies. Oh no, they have to think outside the box to murder them when it could have been more time efficient to just shoot or stab them. This seems to be where most of their creativity brainpower goes to.

## Tropes about the RUC on this wiki and other content

**Ambiguous Situation:** Are Popeye and the RUC really insane and genuinely believe they're fighting evil demons? Or are they just simply using "demons" as a pretense to murder their political enemies? There is evidence that goes both ways.

**Blatant Lies**: It is really obvious when they tell lies. Anything that adds sympathy points to their cause was usually written as just that: A fake tale for sympathy points. Only exceptions are RUC members who are genuinely mistreated by the RUC but even then, you need to replace "Demons" with "RUC" to get the true picture.

**Black and White Insanity:** The RUC seem to believe themselves to be ideal heroes out to save the world from evil, as they commit numerous atrocities and horrific acts.

**Believing their own Lies:** A mix between the insanity theory and the pretense/excuse theory, where the RUC's claims about demons started out as lies, but they began to believe it more and more as they went on.

- In another example, the RUC is known to regularly lie on their own battle reports, which leads to units constantly getting routed and outmaneuvered.

**The Caligula**: This is how many members of both organizations act. Most notably Popeye Jr.

**Confusion Fu**: Due to their insanity, it makes trying to formulate an idea what their next move is difficult. One second they would be trying to create a genocide in a city, the next they would rally their own followers to defend the very same city they attacked wiht their lives.

- One of their only strengths during the Peninsula War, besides their Determinator status. Due to their downright deranged and suicidal tactics, it can be difficult to predict what those idiots will do, and the next thing you know, one of them is standing next to you and your friends while holding a grenade in hand.

**Demonization**: Taken to the most literal and extreme with them. They will call their enemies "Shapeshifting demons" who must be purged.

**Determinator:** Even when they have statistically no way of winning, they refuse to give up. This can either be seen as a matter of pride, inability to surrender peacefully, them taking the idea of heroism to an obnoxious degree, or even that they believe they're actually winning when they're clearly not. Due to this, they become very annoying to fight.

**Detrimental Determination**: There are many, many incidents that show that there would have been better outcomes for the RUC if they simply learned to give up instead of stubbornly standing their ground. (Examples?)

**False Flag Operation**: Attempted many times during the war. The most notorious example was when Felix dragged Garfield, Polish Yeti, (And Boomstick) to cause chaos in a city to put the blame on Steve and O'ryan. The only ones who fell for it were Felix and the RUC themselves.

**Fascist, but inefficent**: Are the RUC brutal as hell? Yes. Do the RUC run a competent government? Far from it. Case in point, many RUC captured cities don't even bother or acknowledge the miriad of dead corpses on the ground and are known to execute people, even RUC loyalists randomly and for the most random reasons.

**From Nobody to Nightmare:** Effectively started out as a roving street gang in The Republic, they then grew to a large enough size with enough military force to actively begin conquering the Peninsula (though not without a lot of outside help to make up for their many shortcomings)

**Grevious Harm with a Body**: Expect the RUC to quite literally throw themselves to fight someone.

**Her Code Name was "Mary Sue"**: It should come to no surprise that the RUCs propaganda make them into full-on Mary Sues and see their idealized world as them being heroes.

**Kick the Dog**: The RUC and Indigo Syndicate don't just kill you. They make sure you are either humiliated, broken mentally, or both before they kill you.

**Knight Templar**: Pretty much the poster group for this trope. They are quite possibly one of the most exceedingly violent and sadistic groups you can think of, and the crazy part is: they think they're pure and good heroes for it!

**Murder is the Best Solution**: They never give any other option a chance unless it's slavery. Their first course of action is violence.

**My Country, Right or Wrong**: Some soldiers on both groups are loyal to them even if they know how cruel the groups can be. It can be because they have power or they like to harm others.

**Pathetically Weak**: Some RUC or Syndicate members may qualify for this but despite what propaganda says, Popeye Jr. is physically unrealistically weak. No joke, he lifts weights with pencils and he can be held down with a mere feather!

**The Pirates Who Dont Do Anything**: A majority of members of the RUC or Indigo Syndicate get fancy titles and positions but have little to no skill to back it up. If anything, they may as well be seen as brutish soldiers with fancy titles in an attempt to differentiate them.

**Too Dumb to Live:** The RUC, for all of their size and abundance of weaponry, are really not the most competent military force, to say the least. For one thing, they fail to even establish basic supply lines, ensuring that their troops will run out of ammo and food in almost every battle.

**Only Sane Man:** Characters such as Garfield and Pink Panther are noted to not be into the RUC's psychotic actions, and in the former case even calls them out at several points. It's no surprise these two eventually end up deserting the RUC.

- A more villainous example would be Lazlo of the Indigo Syndicate. Unlike the two above, Lazlo is actually supportive of the Syndicate and RUC-affiliate's goals, he just so happens to be more pragmatic in a sharp contrast to the utter derangement that is RUC-associated organizations. Unfortunately for him, he is **Surrounded by Idiots.**

**Suicidal Overconfidence:** When they're not being **Dirty Cowards** they're this, rushing headlong into danger without any regard to their own lives, being met with expected results.

**Van Helsing Hate Crimes:**

## Tropes found on the RUC wiki

**Artifact of Doom:** Surprisingly a few. The Crown of Madness and the Orb of Alzoth being two notable ones.

**Always Chaotic Evil:** Demons, who are portrayed as a race of inherently evil beings who regularly commit horrific acts **For the Evulz**.

**Black and White Morality:** As far as the wiki is concern, there are two sides. The "Good" being themselves and their allies and the "Evil" being Demons and anyone against the RUC, even if they happen to be allies who question their methods.

**Character Shilling:** You can expect a lot of this on any article covering their own members. They will talk non-stop about how kind and heroic and powerful each and every member is.

**Crapsack World:** Let's see, the world is constantly under threat by overpowered demons who can apparently destroy all of reality and is constantly **R\*ping, pillaging, and burning** anywhere humans live, and the "heroes" (**Designated Heroes**) are the only ones who can apparently fight back against them, but have been known to commit horrific acts themselves (which they claim is "heroic" [**Moral Myopia**]), and are massive narcissists to boot. This sounds like a terrible world to live in.

**Eats Babies:** Pretty every villain on the RUC wiki.

**Incorruptible Pure Pureness:** Most of the RUC members are portrayed as this to an extent, but the most brazen example is Chalice, who is described [etcetc]

**Invincible Villain:** Mike comes off as this, being given every single power that makes one wonder how he hasn't just snapped the RUC out of existence yet.

**Informed Attribute:** Lots for both sides here, either [RUC stuff], or demons such as Mike having tons of overpowered abilities, but never actually displaying any of them in any of the RUC's ~~propaganda~~ stories/videos.

**Gratuitous R\*pe:** Combined with **R\*pe as Drama, t**here are so many instances of r\*pe being mentioned in the RUC's lore, mostly in regards to their enemies, it'd be easier to list pages where they don't mention it at all.

**Guilt-Free Extermination War:** Effectively the RUC's solution to the Demon problem, which is to kill every last one of them on sight.

**Pay Evil Unto Evil:** They like to emphasize how they perform horrifying and sadistic forms of torture on only the most "evil and violent" prisoners they have.

**Poe's Law:** It's difficult to tell just how genuine the entire wiki and lore is. [etcetc]

**Reality Warper**: Mike has been described as able to destroy the fabric of reality just by blinking.

**Tom the Dark Lord:** The name of the demonic reality-warping world-destroying overlord? Mike.

**Sociopathic Hero:** If one were to take their word that they are "heroes," they are particularly psychotic ones, going above and beyond in engaging in acts such as **Cold-Blooded Torture, Pay Evil unto Evil**, and (???), yet the narrative still continue to insist on what kind and ideal heroes they are.

**Villain Protagonist:** I mean this one's a cheeky addition, but

### YMMV section

**Alternative Character Interpretation:** There are many to consider when it comes to the RUC.

- Do they genuinely believe in the demon menace and their crusade or is it just a cover up for their own, hateful beliefs? There's not only evidence that point to boith sides but there are various members who believe in either case. There is a third thought(**Take a Third Option**) where they started off using it as an excuse until they genuinely believed it.

- Why do they hate Mike to the point of him being the "Demon overlord" in their eyes? Is it simply because he was associated with the protestors and needed a leader to justify their defeat? Did Mike make fun of them during their humiliating defeats and they never let go of it? Or did they genuinely see some reality warping demon when they first met him?

-[Other examples listed]

**Complete Monster:** Mike, and the demons... at least, if one takes what the RUC writes at face value. According to the RUC, they [etcetc]

**Designated Hero:** The RUC themselves, whose actions include torturing their enemies or executing them in over the top and needlessly sadistic ways (Roscow being a prime example). There's also the fact that they run and maintain several prison camps and facilities [etcetc]. Chalice's "program to exterminate demons," [etcetc] There's also the fact that they tend to portray members such as Viral creeping on Ashe as "cute" or "romantic," even though many would likely find this to be predatory.

**Inferred Holocaust**: The RUC wiki doesn't bring up the aftermath of what'll happen if their conquest of peace succeeds by slaying every demon. Just how many "Non demons" will be killed accidentally or otherwised in their conquest? And it doesn't entail the societal, economical, and mental aftermaths if their conquest is finished either.

**Narm**: Many instances of this can be seen, especially in their videos. Whether its due to childish terms in otherwise serious moments or their Text to speech in their videos breaking, its evident. The World Heroes has many examples of this. [List some examples?]

**Nightmare Fuel:** Lots of examples, ranging from the wiki's descriptions of the "demon"s' actions, to some of the extreme torture methods employed by the "heroes" of the story.

**Never Live It Down:** A few examples of RUC or Indigo Syndicate failing in such pathetic ways that people never stop making fun for it.

- Felix the Cat getting hit by a train

- Julius Royson getting knocked out by a single punch by a sickly man in a wheelchair.

**So Bad it's Good:**

**Unintentionally Sympathetic:** Roscow, who, while the RUC insists that he's an evil demon who tried to blow up an orphanage, he wanted to broker a peace treaty between humans and his species, which was destroyed by the RUC when they decided to murder every single demon and imprison every human who agreed to the treaty, because "demons are evil and cannot be trusted." Even worse was the RUC's fate they had in store for him: they murdered his entire family, and forced him to kill his own baby son before murdering him as well, and THEN [**Up to Eleven**] FORCE FEEDING HIS REMAINS TO ANOTHER DEMON THEY HAD IMPRISONED. It's hard not to feel sorry for the guy.

**Unintentionally Unsympathetic:** The RUC and Indigo Syndicate themselves to many degrees. Even if the backstories they gave them happen to be true and tragic as they claim, it does not excuse how far they take their demon hunting. This would make all of them no better than the "demons" they are supposedly fighting.

## Tropes on the RealRUC wiki's lore(?)

no idea yet. may just be merged with the first section.