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Hero Forge is a website where users can create custom miniatures for tabletop games. Featuring a wide and ever-expanding library of customization options, the site can be used to create unique miniatures for nearly any game setting. Users can purchase physical or digital versions of the minis they create, though the site is equally useful as a free character creation tool.

Hero Forge contains examples of the following tropes:

• '60s Hair: The description of the Large Afro notes its popularity in the 60s.
• '80s Hair: Represented by the Eighties Bob hairstyle.
• Added Alliterative Appeal: Alliteration is present in the names of many selectable options. It’s most common among cloth colors, with most of them having alliterative names if they don’t already have rhyming ones. To list one for each letter that has one: Affluent Aqua, Bulky Beige, Copious Carmine, Elegant Emerald, Fleecy Forest, Granite Grandiose, Judgy Jade, Luxury Lavender, Millionaire Mink, Orange Opulence, Plentiful Pewter, Royal Red, Supreme Sky, Tangerine Treasure, and Weighty White.
• Adhesive Bow Tie: The Wide Clown Bow Tie does not come with a neck wrap, so it can be applied to characters who aren’t even wearing shirts.
• Alas, Poor Yorick: The Poor Yorick pose is designed to let minis contemplate an item of their choosing, with a skull being one option.
• All Trolls Are Different: Trolls are among the selectable species.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: A large variety of fantastic skin tones are available.
• Anchors Away: The description of the Ship's Anchor alludes to its use as a weapon.
• Animal Eyes: Minis can have eyes with slit, horizontal, or curved pupils.
• Anime Hair: The Anime Spike hairstyle consists of geometric spikes.
• Arrows on Fire: The Siege Arrow is a flaming arrow that can be added to a drawn bow.
• Arsenal Attire: Heroes can wear their weapons with the Wrist-Mounted Blade, Sentry, Grappling Hook, and Rocket Launcher, as well as the Bladed Gauntlet, the Gatling Glove, the bladed Ninja Gauntlets, and the various clawed gauntlets.
• The Artifact: Many of the beard options contain the words "Sans Mustache" in their names and allude to the lack of mustache in their descriptions, despite the fact that the mini bearing these options may very well have a mustache. This is a remnant of changes to the facial hair system over time. In the past, only one facial hair option could be selected, so in order to have a beard with a mustache, they were combined into one item. Mustacheless versions of some of the beards were later added. Later on, mustaches and beards were given their own separate selection menus, but the descriptions of the "Sans Mustache" beards remained.
• Artificial Limbs: A variety of prosthetic limbs, both realistic and futuristic, are selectable.
• Bad with the Bone: Minis can wield both standard bones and bone-based weapons, like the Bone Blade, Skeletal Dagger, Bone Bow, Brutal Crossbow, and Horse Spine Whip.
• Banana Peel: The description of the Banana mentions using its peel for tripping.
• Barbie Doll Anatomy: Take the clothing off of a mini, and you'll see that they lack genitals and nipples.
• Barefoot Cartoon Animal: This trope is true by default for minis with most types of animalistic legs, as shoes are disabled for these legs (though a few ankle wraps are selectable).
• Basement Dweller: The description of the Shaggy Beard notes that it’s a common look for “dwarves who still live in their mom’s basement.”
• Bat People: Batfolk, humanoids with vampire bat features, are one of the default species.
• Bear Trap: The Bear Trap is available as a base item.
• Beast Man: A large number of humanoid animals are present on the list of species options. To list them all: there's anthro-canines, anthro-felines, apefolk, batfolk, bears, catfolk, centaurs, colliefolk, crocofolk, dogfolk, elephantfolk, elk beastfolk, fauns, fennec fox beastfolk, foxes, frogfolk, giggle-dogs, half-dragons, horsefolk, huskyfolk, insects, kobolds, lionfolk, lizardpeople, minotaurs, rabbitfolk, raccoonfolk, ratfolk, ravenfolk, ribbets, satyrs, serpentfolk, simiah, stoatfolk, turtlepeople, weavers, and wolffolk.
• Bedsheet Ghost: The Tiny Ghost item is a ghost depicted in this way.
• Bio-Armor: The Soldier's Cyber Suit outfit is made up of "techno-organic" armor pieces. The Techno-Organic Leg Armor and Kneepads' descriptions say that they're made from bio-metals, and the Techno-Organic Pauldrons' description says that it's hard to tell whether they were made or grown.
• Bird People: Ravenfolk are one of the default species. The Eagle Head and Owl Head can also be used to make an avian humanoid.
• The Blank: The Smooth face option removes all the orifices from the face, and the Featureless option makes the face entirely barren, removing even the indents where the features would be.
• Blood Sucking Bats: Both batfolk and the bat familiar are based explicitly on vampire bats. Slightly downplayed by the inclusion of markings from non-vampiric bat species as decals.
• Blue Means Cold: Awed Ice, Dicey Icey, Frost (both skin and eye colors), Frost Demon, Ice Spark, and Winter are all blue ice-themed colors.
• Books That Bite: The Mimic Book is a Chest Monster shaped like a book with a visible eye and teeth.
  A dangerous book that might bite your fingers off if you're not careful!
• Bucket Helmet: One of the hat options is the Cooking Pot.
  Classic improvised headwear.
• Bulletproof Vest: Available as a clothing option.
• Caltrops: Caltrops are an available base item.
• Carry a Big Stick: A variety of clubs are available as weapons.
• Cartoon Cheese: The Cheese Wedge item is a large wedge of cheese with holes in it.
• Cat Folk: The catfolk, lionfolk, and anthro-felines are all this.
• Censor Box: The Censor Bar clothing items for the torso and legs are this, as are their wooden variants.
• Chainmail Bikini: Lampshaded in the description for the Plate Bikini clothing.
  Chest armor which inexplicably leaves the stomach exposed.
• Chain Pain: Chains are among the available weapons.
• Chainsaw Good: Hero Forge's chainsaw weapons come in many flavors: Chainsaw, Heavy Chainsaw, Scrappy Chainsaw, Dual-Bladed Chainsaw, and Chainsaw Sword.
• Chairman of the Brawl: Peep the description of the Folding Chair:
  The ideal improvised blunt force weapon.
• Character Customization: The website is essentially one big character customization screen.
• Chest Insignia: Some chest clothing items, including superhero-themed ones, allow users to add a decal to the chest.
• Chest Monster: The Mimic Chest is a base item resembling a treasure chest with a toothy mouth.
• Chocolate of Romance: A miniature can hold the Valentine’s Chocolates item, which comes complete with a heart-shaped box.
• Classical Cyclops: The cyclops is one of the species options.
• Color-Coded Stones: The gem colors include red Ruby, white Diamond, blue Sapphire, and green Emerald, along with some lesser-known gemstones.
• Combat Stilettos: Many of the armored boot options come in high-heeled variants.
• Compressed Hair: Hairstyles are not shown when a mini is wearing most types of head clothing, making it possible for a huge hairstyle like the Large Afro to completely disappear under a hat.
• Cone of Shame: The Recovery Cone is based on this trope.
• Contrapposto Pose: Available as a default pose, even titled Contrapposto.
• Crowbar Combatant: The description of the Crowbar ends by saying that it's "also good for busting heads in a pinch."
• Crown of Horns: A set of small horns is designed specifically for this purpose.
• Crystal Weapon: The Crystalline Sword, Maul, Bow, Arrow, and Staff all fill this role.
• Cyberpunk: Multiple items are labeled as cyberpunk.
• Cyclops: The Cyclops Features are a set of facial features with only one eye.
• Dem Bones: Skeletons are available as species.
• Dire Beast: The Dire-Goat Brown bone color alludes to this trope.
• Domesticated Dinosaurs: Raptors, which resemble large raptor dinosaurs such as Utahraptor, are available as mounts for humanoid minis.
• Draconic Humanoid: The half-dragon species is this.
• Dual Wielding: A held item can be equipped in each hand, allowing a mini to dual-wield any weapon.
• Ear Fins: One of the ear options is a set of ears resembling fins.
• Ear Notch: Present in the Damaged Hyena Ears, the Goblinoid Notched Ears, and the Torn Ears.
• Edible Theme Naming:
  • All the colored hair colors are named after fruits, with the exception of Mint. To stretch the theming for the blues, these names include Rubus Leucodermis and Expensive Dyed Plantain.
  • The natural hair colors are almost all named after foods as well, though four of the white/gray colors are excluded from this.
• Elemental Armor: The Rimeweaver's Garb outfit consists mainly of ice crystal armor.
• Energy Weapon: Many are available, including the Energy Pistol, Blast Rifle, and Lunar Pistol.
• Epic Flail: Numerous flails can be selected as held items.
• Every Pizza Is Pepperoni: Narrowly averted. While Pepperoni Pizza is an item, there's also Mushroom Pizza.
• Extra Eyes: Possible via the Forehead Spider Eyes.
• Fauns and Satyrs: Both fauns and satyrs are present as species options.
• Finger Gun: Encouraged via the Finger Guns! hand pose.
• Fire-Breathing Weapon: Various flamethrowers are equippable. Additionally, spell effects can be used to make nearly any ranged weapon shoot fire.
• Fire Is Red: Embers, Fire Spirit, Flame, and Ignistone are all fire-themed red color options.
• Flaming Skulls: The Skull and Flaming Skull Spell Effects let minis conjure flaming skulls from their hands.
• Flipping the Bird: The site is subtle about it, with the offending hand pose dubbed Pointing Alt and lacking any reference to the gesture's ruder meaning, but it's not unlikely that this pose was implemented for the primary purpose of bird flipping.
• Fox Folk: Foxes (humanoid and otherwise) are among the selectable species, as are fennec fox beastfolk.
• Frog Men: Frogfolk are one of the species options, as are ribbets (another type of frog people) for those with access to the Downloadable Content.
• Frying Pan of Doom: Alluded to in the description of the Frying Pan:
  A cast iron skillet. It is great for cooking, and serves as a blunt weapon in a pinch.
• Garden Garment: The Leaf Druid's Armor, Fairy Armor, and Aquatic Armor consist mainly of plants.
• Gemstone Assault: The Crystalline Casting spell item allows minis to fire crystals from their hands.
• Grenade Launcher: One of the heavy weapons is the Grenade Launcher.
• Grievous Bottley Harm: The Smashed Bottle is meant to evoke this, with its description even calling it an improvised weapon.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Among the species options are half-orcs, half-elves, half-dragons, half-demons, and half giants.
• Handbag of Hurt: The Vintage Handbag's description mentions its usefulness as a bludgeon.
• Hand Blast: The blasting spell effects are all designed to be blasted from the hand.
• Happy Harlequin Hat: The Jester's Hat is a classic four-tailed harlequin hat. There's also the two-tailed Jester's Hood and the tentacle-bearing Hat of Heckna.
• Healing Potion: Health Potion Pink and Yellow Healing Potion are two available glass colors.
• Hellish Horse: The nightmare, a malevolent horse-like steed with a flaming mane and tail.
• High-Tech Hexagons: Used for the futuristic Hex Shield.
• Hobbits: Along with other Standard Fantasy Races, halflings are included on the species list.
• Hook Hand: A mini can be given a hook hand via the Hook Attachment hand selection.
• Horned Humanoid: Any mini can be given horns.
• Horns of Villainy: The Horned Obsidian Helm is described as fitting an evildoer.
• Horse of a Different Color: Besides horses and their variants, minis can ride camels, lions, leopards, bears, boars, elk, rams, snails, slugs, giant wild cats, large dogs, wargs (giant wolves), griffons, and raptor dinosaurs.
• In the Hood: Numerous hoods are available.
• Javelin Thrower: The Javelin is a wieldable weapon, and one pose is designed after a javelin throwing pose.
• Jet Pack: Multiple jet packs are included as back items.
• Jousting Lance: The Lance is an available weapon, with its description referencing jousting.
• Least Rhymable Word: Many of the cloth colors have rhyming names. One of the orange cloth colors is called ORANGE DOESN’T RHYME. The purple cloth color Purple… Circle… Cotton also uses this trope.
• Little Bit Beastly: Animal ears and tails can be added to an otherwise humanoid mini, resulting in this.
• Lizard Folk: Lizardpeople are among the selectable species.
• Love Potion: Love Potion Pink is one of the glass color options.
• Mad Scientist: The Mad Science Green glass color references this trope, as does the description of the Wild Hair.
• Magic Cauldron: A cauldron is available as a base item, with a description alluding to its use by witches.
• Magic Potion: A number of potion bottles are available as items.
• Magic Staff: A plethora of magical staffs are offered, complete with optional spell effects to add magical flair.
• Magic Wand: Offered in both thick rod with ornamental topper and slender wooden stick varieties, with a few variants of each.
• Mana Potion: Mana Potion is one of the default glass colors.
• Martial Arts Staff: Multiple types of martial arts staffs are available.
• Mechanical Animals: One of the species options is a robotic dog.
• Medusa: Two selectable hair options are made of snakes.
• Mercury's Wings: Wings are present on the Paladin's Helm, Paladin's Visored Helmet, Winged Sandals, and Winged Heeled Sandals.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: One of the companions available is a meerbat, a meerkat with bat wings. Users can also create their own mix-and-match critters by combining the bodies, ears, horns, wings, and tails of different animals.
• Molotov Cocktail: Represented by an item of the same name.
• Multiple-Tailed Beast: Minis can have up to nine tails.
• Mystical High Collar: A number of magical torso clothing items bear high collars: The Ornate Robe Top, the Tattered Hexweaver Collared Mantle, and the Unknowable Invoker High Collar Robes.
• Nanomachines: The Nanotech Cane is a high-tech futuristic cane with a structure that can shift in real time to support its user.
• No Brows: Eyebrows are optional on miniatures.
• No Mouth: The Mouthless face option has eyes, but no mouth (or nostrils).
• Non-Human Undead: In addition to the standard skeleton, users can create skeleton horses and skeletal snake familiars.
• Oral Fixation: The Chewin' Straw mouth clothing option allows a mini to chew on a piece of wheat.
• Our Centaurs Are Different: Centaurs are included in the list of species.
• Our Dwarves Are All the Same: Dwarves are selectable species, and resemble traditional dwarves.
• Our Elves Are Different: Elves and half-elves are among the species options.
• Our Gnolls Are Different: Among the present species are giggle-dogs, humanoid hyenas.
• Our Goblins Are Different: The site offers four variants of goblins among their species presets: fairytale goblins (bearing long noses and ears), feral goblins (with sharper and more ragged features), goblinoids (with wide faces and more triangular ears), and hobgoblins (human-sized, and resembling their depiction in Dungeons & Dragons).
• Our Gryphons Are Different: Griffons are one of the options for mountable species.
• Our Kobolds Are Different: Like recent versions of Dungeons & Dragons, the kobolds of this platform have reptilian features, long snouts, and canine noses.
• Our Minotaurs Are Different: Minotaurs can be made using the bovine head.
• Our Zombies Are Different: Zombies are a species option.
• Pipe Pain: The description for the Broken Pipe is "A classic improvised weapon."
• Plague Doctor: The Plague Doctor Mask and Plague Doctor's Staff allow users to create minis of this variety.
• Pointy Ears: Numerous ear options are available, with many of them being pointed.
• Powered Armor: Multiple pieces of high-tech powered armor are available for minis, including a retro-futuristic outfit simply dubbed Powered Armor.
• Powerful Pick: The Horseman's Warpick is a pickaxe designed for battle.
• The Prankster: The description for the satyr species notes their love of pranks.
• Prehensile Tail: Most available tails can be equipped with a held item.
• Propeller Hat of Whimsy: The Propeller Hat can be equipped for this purpose.
• Pumpkin Person: Can be created through the Pumpkin head clothing.
• Rainbow Manipulation: One item allows minis to hold a rainbow above their heads.
• Raptor Attack: Downplayed. Raptors are available as a species, and are mountable. They do come in a featherless depiction similar to many inaccurate pieces of media, but a feathered variant body is also present.
• Rascally Raccoon: The raccoonfolk species is described as suited to banditry.
• Rat Men: One of the species options is ratfolk.
• Ray Gun: The held items selection includes numerous ray guns, including one simply called the Ray Gun.
• Regal Ruff: The Elizabethan Ruff, designed to evoke a noble look.
• Rhyming Names: The names of many of the cloth colors rhyme. To name a few: Auburn Concern, Blush Flush, Coal Goal, Dicey Icey, Floral Coral, Goldenrod Squad, Hello Limoncello, Keen Aubergine, Loud Cloud, Mahogany Androgyny, Orion Iron, Pink Stink, Scarlet Starlet, and Taupe Trope.
• Rise from Your Grave: The Army of the Dead base item shows undead arms emerging from the ground.
• Robot Buddy: Three of the available species are the Robot Buddy, Robot Helper, and Robot Drone, all small robots.
• Robot Hair: While robot miniatures can be given any hairstyle, the Tech Hawk and Data Jack Mohawk are the most aptly themed, consisting of metal technology in the shape of mohawks.
• Rock Monster: Mohsnians are a default species with bodies made of rock.
• Runic Magic: A variety of magical runes are available as decals.
• Sawed-Off Shotgun: One of the rifle items is the Sawn-Off Shotgun.
• Scarred Equipment: Certain armor and weapons are available in various stages of disrepair.
• Scorpion People: While no scorpion head is available, minis can have scorpion tails.
• Seashell Bra: The Shell Bikini is available as a chest clothing item.
• Serpent Staff: The Cobra Staff bears a topper in the shape of a cobra's head. And for extra snakery, the Wisdom of the Six is a staff topped with no fewer than six snake heads.
• Shamu Fu: The description of the Floppy Fishie suggests using it as an unusual weapon.
• Shaped Like Itself: Among the rock paints is a red paint called Red Rock Red.
• Shock and Awe: Heroes can wield the power of lightning thanks to the Lightning Bolt, Lightning Orb, Summon Lightning, Summon Burning Lightning, and various smaller lightning affects that can be applied to held items.
• Shoulder-Sized Dragon: Available as a familiar.
• Skeletal Appendage: Otherwise non-skeleton minis can be fitted with one or more skeletal limbs.
• Skeletons in the Coat Closet: The Bone Helmet, Ox Skull, Spiky Bone Pauldrons, Ram Skull Shoulders, Bone Chest Armor, and Bone Wrist Guards allow heroes to dress up in bone.
• Skull Cups: The Skull Goblet turns a skull into a formal goblet.
• Skull for a Head: Thanks to the site's mix-and-matchable parts, any humanoid mini can have a skull head.
• Snake People: Nagas and serpentfolk are available as species.
• Sniper Rifle: The Sniper Rifle item, along with multiple variants of it.
• Spell Book: A variety of spell books are available, complete with unique attachable spell effects.
• Steampunk: Multiple items are labeled as steampunk, such as the steampunk top hat.
• Suffer the Slings: The Sling is one of the available held weapons.
• Sword Cane: One of the available sword varieties.
• Sword Plant: Multiple planted swords are available as base items.
• Technicolor Toxin: Toxic Bolt and Toxic Fuse are two green poison-themed colors. There's also a magenta flower color called Poisonhollow.
• Tentacle Hair: The Short Tentacles and Long Tentacles hairstyles consist of smooth tendrils rather than hair.
• This Banana is Armed: The Banana Gun looks like an ordinary banana, but is held like a gun, and can be outfitted with a muzzle flash effect.
• Three-Point Landing: The Three Point Landing pose is this, naturally.
• Tooth Strip: Most teeth options have individually defined teeth, but the Standard Teeth consist of simple, solid shapes, and the Legacy Vampire Teeth are a fanged variant of the same.
• Unicorn: Unicorns are available as a species, and can serve as mounts for humanoid minis.
• Vampire Hickey: Vampire neck bite marks are available as decals.
• Vertebrate with Extra Limbs: Minis can have up to six arms.
• Virtual Paper Doll: Minis can be dressed in a wide variety of outfits.
• Water Is Blue: Aquatic Elixir, Channeling Calm Ocean Blue, Oceanforce Blue, Running Sea, Sea Crawler Blue, Seafoam Elixer, Water Bottle, and Water Wip are all blue water-themed colors.
• Whale Egg: This trope is lampshaded by the description of the Hatched Chocolate Bunny:
  Wait..how did it get in there?
• Winged Humanoid: Any humanoid mini can be given wings of various varieties.
• Wizard Beard: The Wizard’s Beard, a long beard, is exactly this.
• Wolf Man: In Hero Forge, they're known as wolffolk. Anthro-canines are a more humanoid version.
• Wooden Stake: The Wooden Stake held item is exactly this.
• Wreathed in Flames: Minis can be created with flames engulfing their hands, arms, and/or legs.
• Wrench Whack: Referenced in the description of the Pipe Wrench:
  A plumbing tool and an impromptu blunt weapon.
• Xylophones for Walking Bones: Referenced in the description of the Skeleton Torso:
  One of the benefits of being undead is that you can play your ribcage like a xylophone.
• Yellow Lightning, Blue Lightning: Lightning and Scorchbolt are two lightning-themed magic colors, both yellow.