Tropes

*This is a meta article, and is therefore written from outside the view of Map Lore's continuity.*

**Tropes** are commonly recurring or overused literary and rhetorical devices, motifs or clichés in creative works. Map Lore has many tropes.

The following is an incomplete list of tropes, as defined by TV Tropes, encountered in Map Lore.

A

* Alliance of Alternates - In Jakenobi's 2023 April Fools special, past and present, male and female, Tekin unify to fight against a common enemy.
* Alternate Timeline - Map Lore, is, as a whole, an alternate timeline, with the point of diversion from our timeline being 2020.

B

* Bizzare Alien Reproduction - Both the Domolaki and Trivolors have unusual reproduction techniques. Domolaki are aesexual, whereas Trivolor intercourse involves three parties.
* Bizzare Alien Sexes - Trivolors have three genders: male, female, and neuter.
* Bury Your Gays - Filip Mekkervich, an expendable gay character, is killed.

C

* Call to Agriculture - Following the Third World War, Supreme Marshal Tarasov retired and lived on a farm.
* Canon Discontinuity - A very frequent event, notably in the annual April Fools tradition.
* The Cassanova - This is very much Ekrim Tekin in his later years.
* Civil War v. Armageddon - The Domolaki invade in the middle of a conflict between Tekin's Human Commonwealth and Ibsen's Confederation (which is also tense with Indomalaya/The Realm).
* Crippling Castration - This happens several times. Usually involving Tekin clones. The original batch of clones were all castrated at birth, and the clone Tekin's genitaelia were destroyed following the Moonbase bombing.

D

* Disguised in Drag - Tekin enters a female clone body to hide from the invading Domolaki.
* Does Not Like Men - Cassia Tsatsos, to an extent. But maybe this is because most of her enemies - namely Tekin - happens to be a man.

E

* Earth Drift - Map Lore started as being set on an Earth that diverged in 2020. Fully grounded in reality. Events started becoming more outlandish, including a sex-crazed Turkish man cloning himself, an AI President, and an alien invasion.

F

* False Prophet - Ekrim Tekin posed as, among other things, the second coming of Christ, a new Islamic prophet, and a messenger for a new God.
* Fembot - In Jakenobi's 2023 April Fool's, Freya Ibsen is described as very feminine...
* Foe Romance Subplot - This is very, very thinly alluded to between Tsatsos and Tekin. Maybe one day.
* The Fundamentalist - appears very frequently. Many characters are this, whether the many General Secretaries of GUISS, to Wolfgang, Tekin, and even Ibsen, to a degree.

G

* General Failure - Albert Jach
* Glorified Sperm Donor - Ekrim Tekin fathered Lesedi Mabaso, but never took any accountability.

H

* Hates Their Parent - Emine Tekin turned on her father after his death. Adam Bronstein's children turned on him following his divorce, though they eventually reconciled. Benito Brossi had a rift with his mother, but they too reconciled. Lesedi Mabaso resented her biological father.
* Heart Trauma - In the 2220s, Tekin has issues with his heart. Following this, he becomes increasingly sporadic and irrational, destroying the Eiffel Tower and randomly killing his subordinates.
* He-Man Woman Hater - Ekrim Tekin. No explanation needed.
* Hijacked by Ganon - The Fellowship of the Radiants are a terrifying mysterious group- oh, never mind, Tekin's here.
* Hormone-Addled Teenager - Teenage Ekrim Tekin, Jakenobi's 2023 April Fools.

I

* I'm a Man; I Can't Help It - Ekrim Tekin....

J

K

L

* Loose Canon - Multiverse schenanigans, Space Lore, distant future maps and plotting (including the Jezran short story).

M

N

* No Heterosexual Sex Allowed - a 2270s Human Commonwealth policy severely restricted sex as part of its eugenics programme, with the plan being only partners approved by the state permitted to engage in activity.

O

P

Q

* Questionable Consent - the many wives of Felonius Tekin.

R

* Retcon - just a few...
* The Reveal - Dmitri Milosovic is publicly revealed to be a Fellowship of the Radiants creation, whereas the clone of Tekin is revealed to have amassed control of the shadowy group. Bloodshed ensues.
* Revision - Frequently. Includes the creation of Netem Samtem, and the pothumous expansion of practically everybody's lives.
* Royal Brat - Emperor Oliver

S

* Sexy Scandinavian - Freya Ibsen. 'nuff said... Especially in Jakenobi's 2023 April Fools.

T

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W

* White Male Lead - initially, every nation's leader was a white male (as, after all, they were author-inserts). This is no longer the case.

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Z