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  • Alternative Character Interpretation: Since the outcome of each season is determined entirely by the RandomNumberGod, it can be very easy to come up with different explanations and motives for tributes’ actions throughout a season, typically by using knowledge of their canon counterpart and what they went through previously in the HGS to theorise what their HGS self could actually be like.
  • Anti-Climax: More often than not, when there's only two tributes left in the game, one of them will kill the other in an instant. Sometimes one of them dies of natural causes. Even with Endgame Events being implemented starting in Reboot Season 371, EEs can still instantly end the season with the last two tributes dying naturally.
  • Archive Panic: Since its creation, the Original Generation hosted 250 seasons across 1,200+ pages while the Reboot has hosted more than 250 seasons across 1,000+ pages and is still going strong.
  • Award Snub: Sometimes external circumstances ruin a tribute's chance at a spot on the Hall of Fame.
    • Many believe Gabby to have been snubbed by Romsca in OG Season 234. Due to an incident where Romsca wound up in an undesirable event with Will Stronghold, causing the original save to be discarded and the season to start over, Gabby was robbed of the win and most kills that she would have had.
    • The original save for OG Season 238 was accidentally lost. In it, Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu would have gotten most kills and Vilgax would have made 3rd place [labelnote:*]the latter in particular would have been monumental because it would have made Vilgax the first Ben 10 Hall of Famer that wasn't a bootleg (for context, legitimate Ben 10 tributes tended to perform very poorly in the OG)[/labelnote]. In the canon save, however, Alec Trevelyan killed BOTH of them, depriving them of a chance at becoming Hall of Famers.
      • Trevelyan himself, however, averted this, since he was 2nd place in the original save and won in the canon save.
    • One of the worst cases of this happened in Reboot Season 94, where Queen Mother V wound up killed by Twoface in a broken event instead of the other way around. To add insult to injury, Twoface ended up winning, meaning that Queen Mother V would've won if the event wasn’t broken. Though this was subverted when the tropers ruled in favor of Queen Mother V winning, thus putting her in Reboot Season 104's Battle Royale.
      • This happened again in Reboot Season 280, where Anago died at the hands of Captain Nemo in a broken event instead of the other way around. Although almost like Twoface, Nemo ended up getting 3rd, since not only did the players rule in favor of putting Anago in Reboot Season 294's Battle Royale, Cutegirl920fire, who nominated Nemo, was given compensation by being allowed to nominate him for the BR.
    • In the original run for Reboot Season 115, the podium finishers were Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez, Metal Sonic, and Lucina, with Swampert racking up the most kills. However, thanks to DookieIdiotNimrod accidentally leaking said run and the season being reran without first allowing the players to vote on whether or not they should've done so, the original Hall of Famers all died much sooner, leaving IchigoMontoya, PlasmaMan2000, and VengefulBale without tributes for the Battle Royale two seasons later. Grimmjow in particular went from the season's champion to the season's very first casualty in the Bloodbath.
  • Captain Obvious Reveal:
  • Crack Pairing: Tributes will often snuggle with each other or hold hands at night, creating some... unusual pairings.
  • Cry for the Devil: The RNG of OG Season 183 invokes this a little too well in the case of Tomura Shigaraki. All of his hardships throughout the season and his genuine reactions to them really struck a chord with the players.
  • Fan Myopia: Since a lot of events are references to various works, chances are that they might just fly over the players' heads if they're not familiar with the works. When suggesting these kinds of events, it's advisable to word them in such a way that even those not familiar with the works can follow along, but sometimes they still fail to get them as well.
  • Foe Yay Shipping: Four/Basco in Reboot Season 55. It began with Basco giving The Stare to Four, who laughed it off. However, later that night, this pairing is suggested by Barracuda, visibly embarrassing Basco. Later, Four hugs Basco after the latter was bullied by Grandma Taters, Captain Vladimir and Neo Zeong Nero, and Basco helps Four direct a PSA on STDs with Akudos Gil and the USS Enterprise. It ultimately ends with Basco defeating and killing Four in a beam struggle.
  • Friendly Fandoms: With Elimination Game Mk. II, another forum game that focuses on eliminating entries until only one is left. It helps that HGS started out as a spinoff of the original iteration of Elimination Game, but with randomization of eliminated entries. The two threads share a few players and sometimes reference each other.
  • "Funny Aneurysm" Moment:
    • In OG Season 179, on Day Two, Flabébé went on an angry tirade about how she hated Fidget, Azmuth, and Shinmyoumaru Sukuna, and that they drove her to drink. When Azmuth did her in on Day Five, this became much less funny. It seems that Flabébé had a really good judge of character.
    • Meta example: Before OG Season 98 began, TroperNo9001 jokingly suggested that Heather[note]who was Bacon Zorp at the time[/note] should nominate Dr. Livings because the former suggested a necrophilia event for the tribute. Heather granted her request, but the event itself wasn't added. OG Season 154 then showed why said event wasn't added back in Season 98 in the first place: the players (9k1 included) were Squicked out by several tributes making out with the corpses of fallen tributes.[note]The event however, was suggested by TheGamechanger during Season 152, which was tame in comparison to 9k1's, which involved the tribute fading to black with the corpse.[/note] As a result, the event was sent back to the morgue from the next season onwards.
    • Another meta example: In OG Season 125, President Stalkeyes died of flesh-eating bacteria. IchigoMontoya commented on how he wished the former was still active to see the shenanigans that was going on with them, only to diss it as anticlimactic for them. But in OG Season 190, when a hawk and the Scary Maze Game died of the same infection on the same night, 4fterthought got triggered by it because of their hypochondria. As a result, the event got sterilized from the next season onwards.
  • Harsher in Hindsight:
    • In OG Season 98, Undyne got stuck in a ditch with all of humanity. TroperNo9001 got worried, since in her game, Undyne hated humanity for trapping all the monsters Underground. Then in OG Season 208, Undyne killed half of the population (specifically the females), all for killing her father.
    • In OG Season 131, Emmet Brickowski underwent Adaptational Villainy by teaming up with Walrus Jamie Hyneman to kill iDubbbzTV and his girlfriend Lucy aka Wyldstyle, racking up enough kills to become the most murderous. While OG Season 137 revealed that he never had a soul to begin with when he tried selling it for wealth and power, it's possible that this Emmet was actually the one who became Rex Dangervest, who took the path of villainy following his abandonment in order to toughen up, as advised by Lucy.
      • History Repeats for him in Reboot Season 32, where he also went hardcore and killed several tributes, even corrupting Dinosaur Ryuzaki. While he made the podium again (this time in 3rd Place as opposed to winning), he wasn't the most murderous, with the honor going to Ryuzaki and Valerio Calvados instead. Lucy also appeared in this season, but he didn't kill her. Instead, she was beaten up by an invincible Caim.
    • In a gag reel of OG Season 195, Riley Andersen tried not to cry, only to end up crying a lot. This is harsh :due to the fact that Riley believes that she shouldn't be sad for her parents' sake, and Inside Out's conflict is directly influenced from this belief. Fortunately, she grew out of it.
    • In OG Season 207, Héctor teamed up with Eve and the Elite Beat Agents for a Battle of theBands against Reddit, Godzilla and Zamasu, only for them to lose. Then the next day, he got fired from his job via FedEx. While this is already bad enough, it gets worse when you remember that he was a singer/songwriter in his movie, and Ernesto de la Cruz killed him and stole all of his songs just for fame and fortune.
    • In Reboot Season 51, 1977!Elliott called Vanya Hargreeves by an Embarrassing Nickname, to her frustration. However, she would canonically transition into Viktor long after that season, coming back in Reboot Season 281 under his new identity, making this come off as Elliott deadnaming him in hindsight. Ironically, Viktor's actor, who is a trans man, goes by Elliot Page.
  • HilariousInHindsight:
  • HoYay:
  • Mis-blamed: In OG Season 186, Kanaya Maryam drew ire from the players by shooting Ichabod, an "innocent" dog, and laughing about it for the rest of the day. However, it was discovered several seasons later (in OG Season 210) upon rereading the summary of that Season that Kanaya actually had a legitimate reason to kill Ichabod. Prior to his death, Ichabod had poisoned Kanaya's fellow troll, Terezi, and teamed up with Eijirou Kirishima to kill two other tributes. With this in mind, Ichabod wasn't so innocent after all!
    • That being said, however, the players had their own reason to give their ire, since while Ichabod wasn't completely innocent, Kanaya went over the top by laughing about it for the rest of the day. That was why most participants thought Kanaya's death the same night (due to meth cooking gone wrong) was a karmic retribution.
  • No Yay: As cracky as pairings go, there are some that are way too disturbing, a few notable examples being Giygas[labelnote:*]an EldritchAbomination[/labelnote]/Mikey[labelnote:*]a kid in a wheelchair[/labelnote] in Season 32, Legion/The Meta in Season 40, Angewomon/The Burger King[note]who was somehow impregnated by the former, who was likewise impregnated by Azula the day before[/note] in Season 93, Satoko Houjou[labelnote:*]a prepubescent young girl[/labelnote]/Rick Sanchez[labelnote:*]an alcoholic grandfather[/labelnote] in Season 94, the World's Sharpest Knife(TM)/Kefka Palazzo in Season 96, Godzilla/Deidara in Season 146, Oddjob/Private[note]A freaking penguin[/note] in Season 172, Justin Bieber/Marlin and Nemo[labelnote:*]A pair of clownfish, with one of them being the equivalent of a human child[/labelnote] in Season 174, BTS[note]a 7-member boy band of 20-somethings[/note]/Riley Andersen[note]A 12-year-old preteen girl[/note] in Season 195, Nemo/Bilbo Baggins[note]both of them somehow had a child together, and the former is a child himself[/note] in Season 211, The Joker/Beppi the Clown in Season 215 and Gundam Tanaka/Star Swirl the Bearded in Season 230.
    • In fact, Season 215 has a surprising number of this. There's a reason dave_the_assassin nicknamed it as "the NoYay Season".
  • Older Than They Think: Oftentimes, players nominate tributes without realizing that they were nominated many seasons before, whether or not they were originally from the OG. Not that this is a problem, since all tributes are free-for-all.
  • Overshadowed by Controversy: OG Season 230 saw StarAndroidJaguar getting his first champion, Natu. However, all participants have unanimously agreed that it was the most infamous Season to date. This Season saw an extremely Squicky event happen between Gundham Tanaka and Star Swirl the Bearded. Events such as this have happened many times before, but this one ended up being the straw that broke the camel's back. The Reboot came to be as a direct result from this "Gunstargate" fiasco, and further steps were taken to be sure that no such events occur in future Seasons, with continuous checks over the new rules remaining active.
  • Paranoia Fuel: The "timewrecking" event, where a tribute kills another with almost every possible fatal event in existence, is the only one of its kind. Given the sheer pain and horror the victim goes through, no direct variants of this event[note]although "smaller timewreckings" such as one event where the tribute is killed just 100 different times exist[/note] are allowed, to preserve its novelty. Each season sees more events added by the dozens, further reducing the probability of this event happening; as a result, not counting the dubious timewrecking of Kain in the "smokes weed and dies in a random fatal event" event[note]AlbertThompsonJr, formerly dave_the_assassin, who was the host of Reboot Season 81, rolled for the random fatal event Kain died in. After he was banned in 2022 for rigging seasons, the "randomized" fatal event was scrutinized because it was possible that he didn't roll for it and instead deliberately chose the timewrecking just for shock value.[/note], it took approximately three years after Reboot Season 60 for the next timewrecking to happen. Not even the January 2025 Event Pruning, which was done because the Resim Glitch presumably was caused by event overload, has made the next timewrecking happen any sooner. And since the event has been agreed to never be pruned from the sim, every season has an extremely low but nonzero chance of it happening to anyone, when the players least expect it.
  • Rooting for the Empire: In OG Season 183, the players found themselves feeling bad for Tomura Shigaraki, of all people. It isn't every day that you have the players legitimately feeling sorry for a tribute as nasty as Tomura is in canon. Just about everyone was cheering for him and hoping that he would win, and the players rejoiced when he actually ended up winning. This kind of thing was pretty much inevitable, seeing as all of the tributes for that season were villains[note]except for Eric Cartman[/note].
  • The Scrappy:
  • Scrappy Mechanic:
    • Most suicides, particularly the Suicide Pact and the failed double suicide, to the point that they have been removed from Season 19 and on, since they tend to kill off too many tributes early. It doesn't help that both of them are programmed to happen even during the bloodbath in the vanilla version of the sim. The standard singular suicide has since been re-implemented, but not within the bloodbath, although variants such as the tribute killing themself in stupidity have been suggested without a problem.
      • The suicide pact event was eventually restored in the Reboot, first appearing in Reboot Season 84. At this time, there have been a plethora of events since the last time it happened, so it doesn't occur as frequently as before. Additionally, only three tributes do the deed, with the fourth one questioning it.
    • Arena events can shake up seasons, but when they happen on the first day, they tend to wipe out massive numbers of tributes before they can do anything interesting, oftentimes ending seasons too quickly or dragging them out too long with deathless days. Because of the incident in OG Season 87, where the Phantom Ghandi Arena Event brought up Day 1's death count to 39, Arena Events have been banned from occurring on the first two days.
    • Also, the inability to set the likelihood of arena events. In the simulator, you can set the likelihood of fatal events to low, moderate, or high, but this cannot be done for arena events. They can only be enabled or disabled. Because of this, a good save can be hard to come by when early arena events keep popping up.
    • In general, any event that involves one tribute dying while killing another, because the killer's own death is registered as an extra kill. Due to the way the kill system works, it's impossible to code such events without this problem. Because of this, some of the mass murderers were disqualified from competing in Murderers' Death Battles.
      • In addition, if the event is worded such that any tribute other than the first one dies first, the placements would be messed up due to the way the death order works.[note]When multiple tributes die in the same event, the order of deaths is numerical, so P1 always dies first, followed by P2, etc.[/note]
      • Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Ever since the updated simulator was implemented in Reboot Season 258, the Killed By feature rectifies the excess kills because the kills can be assigned independently of each other.
    • The "long, drawn-out battle" event, where one tribute kills another before being killed by a third tribute, was first added in OG Season 25, but later seasons showed how problematic that was. Not only did it register excess kills for both killers, resulting in mass murderers being unfairly qualified for Murderers' Death Battles, but it also resulted in incorrect placements due to the way deaths are ordered.[note]The event had the second tribute dying first.[/note] This event reared its ugly head in OG Seasons 36 and 89, where Es and George Washington should've switched places for 3rd in the former, and Big the Cat and Kellam likewise should've switched places for 3rd in the latter. Even after the event was reworded in OG Season 146, it still had the "excess kills" problem, and it was ultimately retired in OG Season 182.
      • Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Said event was reworded in OG Season 186, where this time, one tribute ambushes two others after they both collapse from their long, drawn-out battle, with no indication that one of the fighters killed the other. Likewise, the steel chair event was made clear that one tribute kills another with the chair to protect a third tribute. Originally, it was worded in such a way that this situation wasn't implied, and it was also coded so that the one being saved somehow died for no reason.[note]This was because when Alexius08 added the event before OG Season 128 (which was suggested by SunGuyThe3rd), he was confused with the ambiguous wording of the event and assumed that the chair wielder killed both tributes. The players just went along with that interpretation until one of the participants called out on it when one of their tributes was killed in the event. As of OG Season 217, there's now a variant of the steel chair event that goes by Alex's interpretation, and this time, it's made clear that the chair wielder killed both tributes with it.[/note]
    • The "therapist" event, where two tributes think that two other tributes are therapists, but end up saying that there should be a space between the E and R. It was removed for obvious reasons.
    • Over the years, the BrantSteele simulator, which is used for the thread, has amassed so many events, even after the excess ones were pruned in January 2025 due to the assumption that it has prevented it from resimulating (which is essential for running), the sim couldn't load on some devices, not even the latest, most powerful gaming computers. Not only is this inconsistent since some older, less powerful devices such as mobile phones can still load it just fine, but it also limits who can set up the save, causing delays in season production.
    • Through circumstances beyond the HGS community's control, the Killed By feature was removed and replaced by a Kills feature. As such, multiple events have become broken, causing people to have to manually fix many events that needed to use this feature just so the sim could display a correct kill tally.
  • The Woobie: Funny as the HGS can be most of the time, there are some tributes that many of the participants feel really need a hug based on their hardships in the seasons they were involved in. Notable OG examples include Fluttershy[note]In OG Season 11, at least. Not as much in OG Season 225[/note], Korra, Toothless, Kazuichi Souda, Tomura Shigaraki, Erisolsprite, and Julio. And to lesser extent, Kairi.
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