Freedom City Play By Post/YMMV

• Alt-Itis: Averted. Players are limited to running 2 active characters at once, and commitment, while not mandatory, is encouraged. There is a rigorous auditing process for new characters, and players who stick with their characters over the long haul earn rewards (including, if they choose, more character slots).
• Complete Monster: Since PC villains are no longer allowed, there are no longer any active PCs who fit this trope. Neither do the NPCs, since there is no Joker Immunity in Freedom City. The closest thing the setting has is Omega, Lord of the Terminus.
  • Back in the day, Belphegor fit this trope rather well. He tortured to death a family (a high school-age boy, his mother, and her father), just so he could make their house available and buy it for cheap for use as his storefront. Far worse than that, though, was when he used mind emotion control to manipulate a man into A) diving headlong back into the alcoholism that had caused him to lose his job as a pilot and his first wife, B) beating his fiancee's baby son (from a previous marriage) to death, C) beating his fiancee to death (while simultaneously making her feel a confusing mix of icy terror and mad love for him), then D) left him to wallow in drunken despair while the cops hauled him off, all because he would not shut up while on a flight they'd shared three months earlier, talking about how good his life was now that he'd found a reason, a loving girlfriend and her baby son, to pull himself out of his alcoholism.
  • Ronin abducted a 10-year-old boy from his foster home, spent seven years putting the kid through Training from Hell, and turned the boy into the sociopath Razorwing. Then, after Ronin had used him for his own ends, Ronin double-crossed him, beat him almost to death, and left him to take the fall. The only silver lining to this dark cloud was that the betrayal fueled Razorwing's Heel Face Turn.
• Crazy Awesome: Geckoman is this trope personified.
  • Four Words: Jack of all Blades.
• Creepy Awesome: Two Words: Dead Head.
  • Avenger has canonically become one of the scariest badasses in the setting. He makes more criminals wet their pants before 12AM than most vigilantes do all night. It helps that he's the most powerful vampire in the setting.
  • Jack Faretti (A.K.A. Avenger) isn't much of a detective, but he can read thoughts, past and present, in the blood that he drinks. This had led to more than one Creepy Awesome scene where he "interrogates" a villain by biting their neck, or "investigates" a crime scene by licking blood off of the ground.
  • Warlock (formerly known as "Kid Cthulhu") is kinda like Captain Marvel. Except instead of the Greek or Egyptian pantheons, he gets his powers from The Great Old Ones.
• Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: When Avenger and Phantom chose to keep their vampire baby. Particularly since dhampirs are generally Nightmare Fuel.
• Jerkass:
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Ace Danger.
  • Jerkass Facade: Jack of all Blades.
  • Jerkass Woobie: Push.
• Memetic Mutation: "I am an Avenger Interceptor! ^{[dead link]} "
• Never Live It Down: There are events in a character's life that seem to stick out to the players. Some good, some bad. Players have long memories.
• Nightmare Fuel: More often than not, any story by AvengerAssembled.
  • "She used the Mask on the Freedom League. That was back on January 2 of last year. She turned them all, using some to turn the others as she made them all her children in darkness. And then..." He closed his eyes, and the screams of thousands seemed to echo in the air. "And then blood ran in the streets. And after that, things were different."
• Unfortunate Implications: The Moderators would prefer that players avoid these as much as possible, both when submitting and portraying their characters.
• The Woobie: Fleur de Joie used to personify this trope. She was a Power Level 6 character who hung out with a bunch of PL10s. And she was unlucky in love, to say the least.
  • Wander represents some overlap between an Iron Woobie and a Stoic Woobie. (And she's from the same player as Fleur.)
  • Dead Head, surprisingly, averts this trope. He is functionally unkillable, and trapped for all eternity in a body full of inert organs which exists in a constant state of putrefaction. And he gets no end of crap for it from the other PCs. One would assume that his steady stream of Gallows Humor is the only thing keeping him from screaming. But Word of God states that that's how he was, back when he first rose, and was active as a GRIMDARK avenger bringing unholy terror to criminal scum, using his frustration and angst to fuel his raging crusade. Over the years, he's come to accept his "condition," adopting a "just go with it" attitude. He's not "always laughing because otherwise he'd never stop crying," he's always laughing because "you livin' people are so utterly ridiculous!" He's like a member of The Addams Family: compassionate and loving, friendly to all he meets, eager to help strangers in times of need, tolerant to a fault...and largely incapable of noticing how creepy and wrong he comes off, or just how badly his "idle fun" (like snapping off a hand and having it crawl around like a spider) unnerves some people.
  • Most of the characters who suffered Death by Origin Story (see above) probably qualify for some variation of this trope.

Alignment

Though there is no alignment system per se in place, some characters do fall roughly into certain categories. Of course, labels such as these are more descriptive than proscriptive, especially given the complex nature of some of the characters.

• Lawful Good: Equinox. Freedom Angel.
• Neutral Good: Dead Head. Doktor Archeville except when he's not. Fulcrum. Geckoman (unless he crosses into Chaotic Good). Midnight.
• Chaotic Good: Arrowhawk. Jack of all Blades.
• Lawful Neutral: Avenger.
• True Neutral:
• Chaotic Neutral: Captain Knievel.
• Lawful Evil: Malice.
• Neutral Evil: Belphegor. Doktor Archeville's "Other Side."
• Chaotic Evil: