Fluke/Tropes

Fluke is an American science-fiction comedy video game series created by Diane Schmidt, being developed by and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment since October 13th, 2017.

Tropes

 * Actor Allusion:
 * [Cortana/Lena Austin]
 * One of the Cellings' vocals resembles a bit the voice of.
 * Adorkable: Fluke.
 * Animated Adaption: the 2020 cartoon.
 * Badass Adorable: Anna.
 * Black Bead Eyes: Fluke and the other virus/bacteria-like creatures have these (except Erad).
 * Daisy from the TV series also has these.
 * Black Comedy: TBD
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Fluke is this.
 * Escaped from the Lab: Basically, the beginning of the game showed Fluke escaping.
 * Evil Knockoff: Nexus qualifies as one, since he was made to resemble Fluke, therefore, becoming his nemesis.
 * Freak Lab Accident: Fluke.
 * Getting Crap Past the Radar: Just like other WBIE, there has been adult jokes here and there. For example...
 * Christoph Dumas. Look at his last name. Now, add a "B" and a second "S"...
 * Heterosexual Life-Partners: Erad and Purge.
 * Jerkass: Christoph Dumas.
 * Mad Scientist: Lena Austin.
 * Mega-Microbes: Since Fluke and the other virus/bacteria-like creatures are basically modeled after... well, viruses and bacteria, they would count as this.
 * Ms. Fanservice: Anna Lois is considered to be a pretty hot character.
 * Official Couple: Anna and Luke, starting in New Breed.
 * Private Detective: Anna Lois.
 * Stalker Without a Crush: Daisy is this as she is shown stalking Anna since she is a huge fan of private detectives.
 * The Comically Serious: TBD
 * The Comically Serious: TBD

Trivia

 * Creator's Favorite: In an interview, Diane stated that her favorite character of the franchise is... well, Fluke himself.
 * Dawson Casting: The young adults in this are voiced by full-grown adults.
 * Fan Nickname: TBD
 * Playing Against Type: Mark Hamill as Fluke, the primary source of comic relief, especially considering he's better known for playing heroes like and  and villains like  and.
 * Rule 34 - Creator Reactions: Diane has admitted to have seen "icky stuff" across the internet featuring her characters, mainly Anna. She limited to reply "nothing against it, but it sorta weirds me out. But hey, it's the Internet after all and I've seen worse than that".
 * When she discovered that Stella McDonnell did some, she drew a short comic with Charlotte doing "secret stuff". She also added a comment saying "Stella, I know it's your stuff, but couldn't you keep them private?".
 * What Could Have Been:
 * While Fluke was in production, Diane tweeted that she originally planned Anna to be either a regular college student or a fry cook at a fast food restaurant.
 * Before that, Fluke was intended to be an evil alien who wants to take over his own planet, but has to deal with his rivals who also want to take it over. However, those plans were later scrapped because Diane thought it would be too similar to Invader Zim.
 * Diane once tweeted that she once considered voicing Anna Lois and Dr. Lena, before Warner Bros. insisted on professional voice actors for both of them.
 * Diane once tweeted that she once considered voicing Anna Lois and Dr. Lena, before Warner Bros. insisted on professional voice actors for both of them.

YMMV

 * Accidental Innuendo: TBD
 * Best Known for the Fanservice: TBD
 * Cargo Ship: Anna/her hat.
 * Complete Monster: Nexus, Erad and Purge.
 * Crack Pairing:
 * Luke/Lena.
 * Fluke/.
 * Fluke/Nexus/Erad/Purge.
 * Crossover Pairing:
 * Ensemble Dark Horse:
 * Dr. Lena became rather popular among the Fluke fanbase due to her sexy appearance and TBD.
 * Evil Is Sexy: Dr. Lena Austin is considered to be pretty hot.
 * Fandom Rivalry: When Fluke first came out, the interactions with fans of both this and Veronica was a mixed bag. While they do the franchises, some fans have trouble getting along due to both of them being TBD.
 * Fanfic Fuel: TBD
 * Foe Yay Shipping: Anna/Lena.
 * Friendly Fandoms:
 * Fans of this have got along with those who are fans of Collin the Speedy Boy, mainly due to the fact that Diane previously worked for it.
 * Fans of Howler got along with fans of this.
 * Fans of Adventure Time and Steven Universe got along well with fans of this and adored the franchise. It helps that one of the writers of AT is making a TV series for it.
 * Fans of this have shown to get along with that of Kirby, with some comparing both titular characters to each other due to their roundness.
 * Fans of this and SpongeBob SquarePants have shown to have a healthy relationship with each other. It helps that Kent Osborne, who develops the TV series, worked for SpongeBob.
 * Fanbases of this and Myth of the Monkey King have shown to get along well.
 * Ho Yay Shipping:
 * Anna/Joan.
 * Memetic Mutation:
 * "Fluke is Luke (Skywalker) with an F" became a popular shitpost.
 * Lena Austin herself became a meme because of Cortana.
 * The characters, Fluke and Nexus, started becoming popular throughout the meme community due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, with memes being made out of them.
 * No Yay: Fluke x Anna is a rather controversial ship in the Fluke fanbase, basically due to it possibly being what fans call "zoovirophilia".
 * One True Threesome: Anna/Luke/Lena.
 * What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: TBD
 * WTH, Casting Agency?: Anna Lois is Caucasian, yet she is voiced by a Japanese American voice actor.
 * X Meets Y: TBD meets TBD.
 * No Yay: Fluke x Anna is a rather controversial ship in the Fluke fanbase, basically due to it possibly being what fans call "zoovirophilia".
 * One True Threesome: Anna/Luke/Lena.
 * What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: TBD
 * WTH, Casting Agency?: Anna Lois is Caucasian, yet she is voiced by a Japanese American voice actor.
 * X Meets Y: TBD meets TBD.
 * X Meets Y: TBD meets TBD.

WMG
These are fan theories for Fluke.
 * Fluke (excluding Nexus) wasn't the only attempt to create an artificial creature.
 * This ended up being true, as it has revealed in The Lost Lab that there are other artificial creatures like Fluke in a lab that was abandoned after an incident caused by Erad and Purge.