Give me some Isekai Fantasy Tropes to make satire of.

[Freesia.Cutepearl]

I'm working on a sci-fi and isekai fantasy crossover.

The basic plan is that the isekai world is taking everything very seriously, where as the sci-fi ship crew is being entirely satirical.

I'm writing this for fun and as a sort of celebration with the 2nd anniversary of this place and all the friends I've made here.

So, I'm curious what sorts of tropes you all consider most common, and especially what sorts of things you'd love to see made fun of.

Here's an idea of mine for an example:

The Captain and her Senior officers join the adventurer guild, while trying familiarize themselves with 'local customs', and are tasked with the lowly newbie quest of gathering herbs. However, she doesn't bother to read all the instructions and only what each plant they want is, and they beam ALL the matching plants from the forest into the adventurer guild. Turns out for one of the common plants, they only wanted the flower/seeds as the leaves act like poison ivy, so now everyone inside the adventurer guild is smooshed by wall to wall 'poison ivy' like leaves.

That's just one way to go about it, really, I look forward to what sorts of silly ideas people might have! I'll do my best to make them come to fruition in some way or another.

Cheers, you lovely peeps!

 

[TotallyHuman]

Feel free to use any of the ideas here

The idea that a magical world is technologically underdeveloped. Literally almost every isekai story.

Scifi crew take out investigate something and consult with a wizard and he's like, really really phony-looking: a crow on his shoulder, a skull-shaped staff, weird tattoos etc. The scifi crew try something high-tech looking, like using bloodsplatter analysis with a highly-sophisticated AI thingy and when they explain the results and they use child words and wizard takes a puff outta his pipe with some phony plant in it and goes, sure, you do your thing, imma go home. Comes back home, there's a bunch of magic screens observing the scene and a bunch of other wizards and they laughing their assets off. It turns out the wizards were pranking them and the whole thing was being streamed on some magic form of twitch, with the chat dying outta laughter.

Or skanky female armour.
Sci fi crew witness somebody stab a girl in the abdomen with a sword, the sword breaks cause her abs too strong. And then she wrecks the attacker while acting like a delinquent, not Lady-like at all.

Nobles being arseholes.
Sci fi crew see a bunch of nobles gathering secretly, think it's some kind of cabal - and it is, kinda. They all are secretly radical socialists and they are acting the way the do so that 'the people' don't get a good opinion on nobles, while the people loving them anyway. Like a noble yells and slaps some guy or girl and the other is like "oh yeah, hit me harder Hammon-sama, nosebleed" "damn, he/she got hit by Hammon-sama? I'm so jea- angry and discontent!"

Orcs and goblins being the sexual predator monsters

It turns out to be racist propaganda, with the tribes in question being herbovourous plant-loving hippies who don't hurt nobody.
Can even add a side character who gets on with the crew and acts like a chill comedy relief.

Elves being either peaceful and noble creatures or just beautiful creatures that everybody enslaves for some reason.

Elves, with their long lifespans and natural gifts, have created a very prosperous nation and now they suffer from first world problems like obesity and overconsumarism. The crew comes to their country, being given very old and outdated legends of elves and see what I described.
Can add scenes like: elves were supposed to be elegant and beautiful but... *shows fat elf burping and scratching his ass* I don't see it at all *shows a Karen elf arguing with a fed up manager*

Food (as in, you have isekai MC people spreading their home food)

Ingredients are weird af and more GMO than the crew can imagine because of monster problems and lack of land to work with. You want cow milk? You mean those tentacle monster's saliva? You want wheat? Wazzat, the only grain we have is this phony plant wizard like to smoke. Chicken meat? You like when your meat grows out legs and runs away?

Magic to translate languages:

It's slow, underdeveloped and worse than Google translate.

Humans being speciests(?)

It's elves

Dwarves being good smiths and having an alcohol culture

No scenario given, I just want to have it made fun of.

Humans are humans (like, isekai have humans that are practically identical to Earth's, despite literally having evolved on a different planet)

Make them telepathic with weird antennas growing out of their heads and strange customs, like howling like a wolf when you're satisfied with the meal or just being very awkward yet emotionally expressive
Basically, aliens

Cute girls EVERYWHERE

Plastical surgery EVERYWHERE

Hero and Demon King

The both are old enemies - so old in fact that they appear as old geezers and they don't don't do epic fights, they just act chuuni. And everybody else is like: humans and demons have been best friends for decades but we don't tell them because we don't wanna dissapoint these respected elders.

Metal money: copper, silver, gold coins

Everybody uses bank cards - an elven invention

Lack of baths and hot springs etc

They used to exist but nowadays everybody is hooked on slime baths - cleans well and you don't have to sit in a tub full of your own dirty water

Everybody has swords

You need to get a licence to use swords, and everybody has swords in only one country and it's seen as a societal problem there

Dragon lolitas - they appear so often and their existence itself is so random. And (all) monsters that can shapeshift (into human forms)

Keep it, but make everybody, humans included, shapeshift into tiny dragons and have dragons like - woah, its a human loli! Despite the fact that the human in question was an 80y.o man

Gods being lazy, chill, clumsy or having nothing to do

Make them hardcore workaholics who act like civil servants - suits, ties and all. And there's a super big deity running for some office and wants to tackle a problem - otherworld immigrants: we'll build a wall around our planet! (alright, it's a bad one, I admit)

Magical fights - we have wizards with staffs, throwing fireballs and all, and those fights are common

Nobody, practically nobody, uses magic in fights. Not because its rare or hard to use, its because one has to transform into a magical girl to do it and its super embarrassing

 

[someonesomeguy]

and hilariously short life spans of adventures. With the amount of near death experiences in fantasy it's a miracle anyone survives two years.

 

[DreamOfRen]

A truck-kun class adventurer whose only task is to go around taking out other adventurers. [its truck-kun]

Gods and goddesses with betting pools on which world / species / adventurer will die first. [shitty goddess trope]

Gods and Goddesses who never check their "celestial inbox" so when people send "thoughts and prayers", they are returned to sender. [blessing of God trope]

Demon king runs for president (and wins) by convincing all the other races that humans are a parasitic extraterrestrial species and therefore need to be exterminated with extreme prejudice. [demons are bad trope]

An entire episode where an alien life form boards the ship and the ship is constantly trying to warn them of the S class danger -- only to have them fall prey to it. What's the threat? A creature that eats the last 10 minutes of memory from a person's brain. So in effect, they keep finding the creature, spotting it or discovering it only to have their brains munched. [Any isekai where a high level threat appears]

Ditzy, busty character who seems completely harmless is actually the criminal mastermind behind the protag's troubles. [ditz trope]

Villain who tries really, really hard to be evil -- but no matter what he does it ends up being praised and eventually he's heralded as the world's greatest hero. [anti-hero trope]

Just a few ideas off the top of my head.

 

[Freesia.Cutepearl]

and hilariously short life spans of adventures. With the amount of near death experiences in fantasy it's a miracle anyone survives two years.

This just made me think of 'redshirts' and now I have to do something with the two, lol.

That also spun off to an idea like...
'God they drop like flies, how do you have so many adventurers? You must breed like rabbits!'
'Oh no, we summon a lot of them from other worlds! Like this!'
A big show of summoning an otherworlder takes place, then, at it's climax
*Crewmember gets summoned 10 feet away, looks around, then walks back.
*insert comedic remark I haven't thought of yet

 

[someonesomeguy]

This just made me think of 'redshirts' and now I have to do something with the two, lol.

That also spun off to an idea like...
'God they drop like flies, how do you have so many adventurers? You must breed like rabbits!'
'Oh no, we summon a lot of them from other worlds! Like this!'
A big show of summoning an otherworlder takes place, then, at it's climax
*Crewmember gets summoned 10 feet away, looks around, then walks back.
*insert comedic remark I haven't thought of yet

seriously chance of dying in medieval war was only 10% but here adventurers though

 

[someonesomeguy]

Lots of people selling potion which only makes you high and doesn't do shit. These people out compete actual alchemist cause adventurers are so expendable that there patronage doesn't mean shit. So selling pain numbing weed to idiot newbies works best they are going to be dead in a few days anyway.

 

[SuperBort]

Summoned hero always seem to be better than the locals. They end up with those cheat powers and seem to out level the locals while doing the seem things. So maybe have a local always outpace the growth of a summoned hero.

Most isekai seem to be set in medieval times with slavery and feudal overlords bossing everyone around. You have to wonder how such systems can stay intact when the average person can get their hands on adventurer gear and gain some levels by doing simple things. Peasant revolts could easily include magic users that would become quite powerful in short order.
Also what self respecting adventurer is going to listen to a noble one tenth of their level without good reason? Those adventures are likely commoners from said revolting villages and those would be involved with fighting oppression by the noble class.
So really why isn't the government more of a liberal (also bite me Americans that can't understand what liberal really means in this context) setup with personal rights and freedoms?

Many of the summon hero type isekai use underaged heroes as pretty much child soldiers. You have to wonder about the tastes of the summoner, and how others would react to such a young hero being conscripted.

Why are there "monsters" as a group of beings? Shouldn't they just be normal animals for the locals? Sounds like whoever's behind the classification is a little bias. Maybe a manticore owns him money?

All the intelligent races are always very humanlike. Where's the hyper intelligent land squids at? Or the intelligent tree people that are actually trees and not humanoid in form?

Why is the summoning one way? Maybe the summoners could instead travel to the modern world and attend postsecondary education. Then they could return home and share said knowledge with their people. They could also share their knowledge of things like magic with modern academics as well.
They could also search for someone better suited to be a hero than some random high schooler or neet.

Traveling between realms is likely not something mortals are meant to do. So why not have it drive the summoned insane like if they looked at Cthulu. Heck what if Cthulu or a similar eldritch being noticed the summoning and decided to tag along for shits and giggles?

 

[The_Long_Serpent]

Consider that if there is a massive pantheon of gods in your world that do exist, consider how that would affect the world plausibly. Also consider that not everyone who will travel into a different world will enjoy it, much less survive and thrive there.

 

[Feather]

I was reincarnated as a loli space ship ai girl in a fantasy world but for some reason my goddess waifu keeps kidnapping beast girls into my harem so i cant live quietly while take revenge on my bully classmates who were summoned here as heroes.

Title over

Edit: maybe jealous goddess and also slave waifus

 

[Feather]

One more title:
"Help, I keep imagining hitting people with my truck, but no one is ever there as if they disappeared."
A tale about a very unfortunate truck driver.

 

[Valthan]

Super horny beast girls
- Sure, but it only happens for only one week out of the whole year, which is at a different date for each and every one. At all other times they act like they've got PMS and glare at any man who even looks at them funny.

"Adventurers" being a thing in the first place (Real life already had them, they're called mercenaries.)
- have really convoluted rules that determine which is which, but they're constantly changing and nobody agrees on any of it. Often the cause for many drunken barfight arguments

 

[yunano34a1]

The enemies actually have brains this time. They don't miss or waste any opportunity