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Alcatraz Series

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Alcatraz Series	label	Alcatraz Series
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Alcatraz Series	comment	Alcatraz Smedry is an orphan who has been passed around the foster care system for his thirteen years of life due to his habit of breaking anything he touches. It's nothing intentional, it's just that things he touches have a tendency to fall apart. Door handles, pots, ovens ... one time he picked up a chicken, only for it to lose all its feathers and only eat cat food from then on.On his 13th birthday, he receives a letter from his parents, bequeathing his inheritance to him: a bag of sand. The next day, Alcatraz's grandfather arrives (late, as usual) to take him on an adventure to recover the sands from his evil Librarian caseworker Ms. Fletcher.You see, the world is much larger and stranger than we've been led to believe. One-quarter of the world is actually controlled by a cult of evil Librarians, who rewrite history in their conquered lands to remove things like strange powers, magical glass, and talking dinosaurs. Despite what they teach, most of the world is not ocean—those "empty spaces" on the map are actually the Free Kingdoms, which the Librarians keep hidden from the Hushlands. Australia is a recent Librarian acquisition, and Hawaii is an outlying island of the continent of Mokia, also recently conquered.Alcatraz — as a Smedry — has a Talent. In his case, the Talent to break things. His grandfather is always late, his father can lose things, his uncle can lose himself, his cousins can trip, or wake up really ugly, or speak nonsense. All these are important and powerful Talents that they use to fight the Librarians and preserve the freedom of the world.The Alcatraz series is a stand-alone series written by Brandon Sanderson, unconnected to his Cosmere. The series at present consists of six books: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (2007) Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones (2008) Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia (2009) Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens (2010) Alcatraz Versus the Dark Talent (2016) Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians (2022)Not to be confused with The Alcatraz (mostly). Or the television series Alcatraz.
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Alcatraz Series / int_10a1641d	type	Pink Is for Sissies
Alcatraz Series / int_10a1641d	comment	Pink Is for Sissies: While he agreed that the dragon shaped flying glass ship was awesome, Alcatraz was not very happy about having to travel in the pink butterfly shaped glass ship, complaining that they could have found something more masculine.
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Alcatraz Series / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Alcatraz Series / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: The fifth book is overall much darker and more serious than the books leading up to it.
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Alcatraz Series / int_161fa3b8	type	Hidden Agenda Villain
Alcatraz Series / int_161fa3b8	comment	Hidden Agenda Villain: Not even the other Librarians seem sure what Ms. Fletcher is up to, but Alcatraz assumes it's nothing good. Finding out she's his mother, Shasta Smedry, just makes her mysterious motives harder to deal with.
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Alcatraz Series / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Alcatraz Series / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Almost nothing Alcatraz says can be taken at face value. Some things he tosses in just to make a joke about the format, sometimes he goes onto long rambles about something that doesn't seem to mean anything, and sometimes he outright lies in the text to make a point.
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Alcatraz Series / int_1a237409	type	Order Versus Chaos
Alcatraz Series / int_1a237409	comment	Order Versus Chaos: The overall nature of the conflict between the Hushlands, where the Librarians control everything and everyone supposedly for their own good, and the quirky, colourful Free Kingdoms and the eccentric, heroic Smedry family in particular. The latter are pretty clearly the good guys, but the picture is made somewhat more complicated by the addition of sympathetic Librarian dissenters (showing that a little order can be good) and at least one Free Kingdomer, Attica Smedry, whose recklessness and yearning for personal heroism make him a villain (showing that too much chaos can be bad).
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Alcatraz Series / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Alcatraz Series / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: In the second book, Alcatraz spends one chapter telling the reader that he's a fish. Then he explains that, by telling such a Blatant Lie, he hid a smaller lie about the color of his sneakers. He makes a lesson that you should look past the fish and notice the shoes. The fish, then, is a Red Herring. In the fifth book, Alcatraz meets a dinosaur whose species he can't quite identify and who keeps helpfully explaining the meaning of difficult words to her friends. He asks in a footnote if the reader has figured out what sort of dinosaur she is yet. She's presumably a thesaurus.
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Alcatraz Series / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
Alcatraz Series / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: The Smedry family, although they gave up their actual royalty long ago.
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Alcatraz Series / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
Alcatraz Series / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: In the fourth book, Alcatraz wonders if Aydee is really that bad at math, or has just learned to blurt out the first number that pops into her head in order to activate her Talent. He spends a few paragraphs musing that he might be reading too much into a clever look in her eyes ... before realizing, as he's writing, that he can just go and ask her. He does, and she confirms she's doing it on purpose.
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Alcatraz Series / int_1fdc1aa	type	See the Invisible
Alcatraz Series / int_1fdc1aa	comment	See the Invisible: The Oculator's Lens allows Oculators to see the general energies of a building, as well as sense what sort of powers different glasses have.
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Alcatraz Series / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Alcatraz Series / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Not only is the trope played straight a number of times, Alcatraz explicitly mentions the trope by name in the second book, and references it again in the fourth (although that time he was talking about Chekhov's Blue Teddy Bear).
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Alcatraz Series / int_22fdc3e3	type	Single-Use Shield
Alcatraz Series / int_22fdc3e3	comment	Single-Use Shield: Bastille wears a jacket made from spun fibers of Defender's Glass. It can take one blow that by rights should kill her, but then it's ruined and she has to get another.
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Alcatraz Series / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
Alcatraz Series / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res/Action Prologue: The opening of the first book starts with Alcatraz about to get sacrificed on an alter of outdated encyclopedias, but then he skips to a story of his childhood growing up and leaves the reader hanging.
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Alcatraz Series / int_259dd888	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Alcatraz Series / int_259dd888	comment	Set Swords to "Stun": Actually, swords are some of the few weapons that don't have a stun setting.
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Alcatraz Series / int_2673425b	type	Kid Hero
Alcatraz Series / int_2673425b	comment	Kid Hero: Alcatraz Smedry, though he constantly insists that he's not as heroic as people think.
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Alcatraz Series / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Alcatraz Series / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Near the beginning of The Dark Talent, Shasta is seen reading a book. While nothing specific is mentioned in the text, the illustration shows that the book is Mistborn. Lenses can normally only be used by Oculators, who are born to specific families. Lenses forged in the blood of an Oculator, however, can be used by anyone. Sounds like Hemalurgy exists in every universe after all. Windstormer's Lenses make wind that blows away from the user, and the lens with a pulling wind is called Voidstormer's Lens. The opposite of a Highstorm in The Stormlight Archive is a Voidstorm, and it blows in the opposite direction. Alivened are a kind of golem animated from parts of the creator's soul, like compassion. The Lifeless in Warbreaker are also made from parts of soul, but safely taken from others who can live without it.
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Alcatraz Series / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Alcatraz Series / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Alcatraz grew up thinking he was an orphan, only to eventually find out that both his parents are Well-Intentioned Extremist types: one of them fighting for the Librarians, and the other one pursuing a plan that might inadvertently destroy the world. Also, neither have much in the way of parental skills.
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Alcatraz Series / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
Alcatraz Series / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: The Shamefillers' Lens makes things so embarrassed that they explode.
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Alcatraz Series / int_339b3062	type	Quintessential British Gentleman
Alcatraz Series / int_339b3062	comment	Quintessential British Gentleman: The dinosaurs. Even when they're captured by evil Librarians and about to be murdered.
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Alcatraz Series / int_36249acd	type	Lethal Joke Character
Alcatraz Series / int_36249acd	comment	Lethal Joke Character: Literally everyone with a Smedry Talent. For instance, Grandpa Leavenworth has a Talent for being late, and makes himself virtually invincible by doing things like arriving late to a spot where bullets are going to be, and cousin Australia can be a Master of Disguise using her Talent for waking up ugly.
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Alcatraz Series / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Alcatraz Series / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Will Alcatraz Smedry be sacrificed by evil Librarians? Will he be killed by a Dark Oculator? Will he die when he breaks his own flying dragon ship? Will he be killed in the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them? Of course not, because he's still alive to tell the story. The suspense comes from finding out how he overcomes obstacles and whether or not anyone else dies.Of course, Bastille totally dies at the end of book 2.
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Alcatraz Series / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Alcatraz Series / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Grandpa Smedry and Draulin allude to one in The Dark Talent.
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Alcatraz Series / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
Alcatraz Series / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck or Cursed with Awesome: All the Smedry Talents contain elements of both, to one degree or another. They take what seems like a major disadvantage and turn it into something that can be useful. For example, Grandpa Smedry is always late, which is usually a real pain, but it has also saved his life on multiple occasions because he keeps showing up too late for his own death.
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Alcatraz Series / int_3c51db1c	type	Zany Scheme
Alcatraz Series / int_3c51db1c	comment	Zany Scheme: Smedrys are full of them.
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Alcatraz Series / int_3c700857	type	Guys Smash, Girls Shoot
Alcatraz Series / int_3c700857	comment	Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Averted with Alcatraz and Bastille. Bastille tends to smash things apart with her huge Crystin sword, while Alcatraz, being infinitely more squishy than a super-powered teenage girl, prefers to hang back as the strategist or adopt more cunning solutions to his problems. In addition, his main weapons are Oculatory Lenses, where the offensive ones shoot rays of various substances at the target.
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Alcatraz Series / int_3e848d5c	type	Cast of Snowflakes
Alcatraz Series / int_3e848d5c	comment	Cast of Snowflakes: Every single Smedry is special in some way or another, mostly due to their Talents. However, most of them have plenty of other unique traits and foibles.
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Alcatraz Series / int_3eb9e19f	type	Child of Two Worlds
Alcatraz Series / int_3eb9e19f	comment	Child of Two Worlds: Alcatraz is a Free Kingdomer raised in the Hushlands, so that he could properly infiltrate the Librarians. While he's generally ignorant of things Free Kingdomers would consider commonplace, he has a fresh perspective on all their customs and abilities. For example, it's common knowledge that science is stuff that anyone can do and magic is what's restricted to certain people. To Alcatraz, Free Kingdomer science seems just as magical as their magic — which is why he can see that it's the same thing.
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Alcatraz Series / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Alcatraz Series / int_3ed23024	comment	Averted in book five, where Grandpa Smedry is shot in the face. On hindsight, it makes a lot of sense, since the Smedry Talents are broken in that book, but the series spends so much time playing this trope straight that when Surprisingly Realistic Outcome occurs it's completely unexpected.
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Alcatraz Series / int_3f4613f8	type	Smart People Wear Glasses
Alcatraz Series / int_3f4613f8	comment	Smart People Wear Glasses: True for both the heroes and the villains. Alcatraz and other Oculators have, of course, their variety of Lenses, and all are pretty intelligent people, while you can usually recognize a Librarian by their horn-rimmed glasses.
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Alcatraz Series / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Alcatraz Series / int_40bb59d0	comment	An entire chapter is lost at one point, and the awesome events contained within are continually referred to. Of course, the entire thing is Blatant Lies.
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Alcatraz Series / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Alcatraz Series / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Book 4. The Librarians are defeated and Mokia is safe. However, the Smedry Talents seem to be out of commission, they have no way of waking the wounded, and they're about to head into the heart of the Librarian operation. Things have never looked bleaker for our heroes.
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Alcatraz Series / int_41a3e267	type	Hidden in Plain Sight
Alcatraz Series / int_41a3e267	comment	Hidden in Plain Sight: The Highbrary has defenses that will make anyone using Disguiser's Lenses glow, giving them away. How does Alcatraz's father avoid this? By disguising himself as a Curator of the Library of Alexandria, which are supposed to be glowing.
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Alcatraz Series / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Alcatraz Series / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: The Torturer's Lens that Blackburn uses allows the user to cause the victim extreme pain to the point that prolonged use causes the victim's muscles to start tearing themselves apart.
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Alcatraz Series / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Alcatraz Series / int_474a2a5e	comment	Cultural Posturing: Most Free Kingdomers are convinced that every piece of technology they use is superior to the Hushlands equivalent. This extends to considering stairs more advanced than elevators (people can go up and down a flight of stairs at the same time, while an elevator can only go in one direction!). Sometimes justified by the fact that Free Kingdoms technology tend to be more advanced than it seems—e.g., torches that never burn out and that spread heat if and only if you want them to are arguably better than electric lights. Sometimes semi-justified by Free Kingdomers not actually knowing that much about the Hushlands and assuming that their technology hasn't advanced since the middle ages—e.g., they think swords are superior to guns because to them a "gun" is something like a flintlock pistol and a "sword" is a silimatic Absurdly Sharp Blade. A lot of the time, though, it's simply that Free Kingdomers absolutely refuse to believe that Librarian slave-states could ever do anything as well as them. Defied by the Mokians. When Alcatraz, Basille, and the King of Mokia discuss the reed huts, Alcatraz wonders if the weave is stronger than steel (it's not; it's just a normal reed hut), and Bastille insists that the huts are more advanced than skyscrapers because they allow free air conditioning without electricity. The King tells them that they don't care if their way of life is considered primitive or advanced; they live in reed huts because that's what they like.
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Alcatraz Series / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Alcatraz Series / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: Make sure to read The Dark Talent all the way to the end. All the way to the end, just like staying through the credits in a movie.
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Alcatraz Series / int_48da376b	type	Game Changer
Alcatraz Series / int_48da376b	comment	Game Changer: Attica's findings in the third book, which lead him to believe he can give everyone a Smedry talent. This results in Alcatraz teaming up with his evil Librarian mother in the fifth book to stop his father from bringing about the end of the world.
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Alcatraz Series / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Alcatraz Series / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Because Alcatraz does all his narration in first person, there's no fourth wall for him. Sometimes, even within the dialogue, he'll make a reference to how the events of the story would appear if he wrote them as his memoirs.
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Alcatraz Series / int_4b9f810d	type	Great Big Library of Everything
Alcatraz Series / int_4b9f810d	comment	Great Big Library of Everything: The Library of Alexandria is a massive dungeon-like place with almost every book in the world. However, it is run by undead librarians that try to steal your soul.
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Alcatraz Series / int_4bfcfa7c	type	Kansas City Shuffle
Alcatraz Series / int_4bfcfa7c	comment	Kansas City Shuffle: How Attica sneaks into the Highbrary. All Lenses glow when being used inside. So he uses Disguiser's Lenses to disguise himself as a Curator of Alexandria, which are supposed to be glowing. When everyone's scrambling to wonder why there's a Curator of Alexandria in the Highbrary, nobody wonders if he's a spy.
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Alcatraz Series / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Alcatraz Series / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The fifth book ends with Biblioden completing a ritual by killing Alcatraz's father (offered up by Alcatraz himself because he was afraid to die), Grandpa Smedry dead, the massive assault on the Hushlands covered up, and Biblioden's plans continuing without a hitch. Alcatraz is insensate by the end of it, and absolutely refuses to write any more. On a brighter note, the very end of the book is a letter from Bastille, saying that Grandpa Smedry managed to survive by reclaiming his Talent at the last second to arrive late to the bullet (though it will kill him sooner rather than later), and that she'll be writing the last book in the series. And she signs it "Bastille Smedry."
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Alcatraz Series / int_4f672bfe	type	Elegant Weapon for a More Civilized Age
Alcatraz Series / int_4f672bfe	comment	Elegant Weapon for a More Civilized Age: The crystal swords used by the Knights of Crystallia. From the Free Kingdomer point of view, Sing's guns also qualify.
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Alcatraz Series / int_5963b221	type	Eviler than Thou
Alcatraz Series / int_5963b221	comment	Eviler than Thou: In the fifth book, Alcatraz sees the souls of the series' three recurring villains, showing them to have very different motivations for their actions: Ms. Fletcher/Shasta Smedry sees herself as the Only Sane Woman trying to maintain the peace between two warring factions she sees as equally good or bad. Attica Smedry wants to unleash forces that could cause The End of the World as We Know It, because he thinks that will break the Librarians' control and make everyone adore him as the hero who saved the Free Kingdoms. Biblioden wants a World of Silence where nothing strange or irregular is allowed to exist. He is clearly shown to be the worst of the three—while Alcatraz grudgingly admits that the first two mean well in their own way and have some degree of human feelings, the sight of Biblioden's soul horrifies him. Biblioden is also the one who stands victorious at the end of the book, having killed Attica and stolen his research for his own ends.
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Alcatraz Series / int_59e24999	type	Supernaturally Marked Grave
Alcatraz Series / int_59e24999	comment	Supernaturally Marked Grave: Allekatrase the First exists in a state of perfect stasis, owing to Allekatrase using his Breaking Talent on time itself there.
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Alcatraz Series / int_6005b56c	type	Muggle Foster Parents
Alcatraz Series / int_6005b56c	comment	Muggle Foster Parents: Alcatraz went through dozens of sets of Muggle Foster Parents. None of them would keep him for long because of his unfortunate tendency to break their most valued possessions.
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Alcatraz Series / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
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Alcatraz Series / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Alcatraz Series / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Just about every Smedry. They're smart and mostly academics, but they're ... well, Smedrys.
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Alcatraz Series / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Alcatraz Series / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Parodied. The last page of book two involves a tearful death scene for Bastille, put there just in case you skipped to the end. Played straight in book 5, when Attica gives himself up to Biblioden as a human sacrifice to save his son.
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Alcatraz Series / int_66ea7e5c	type	Brought Down to Normal
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Alcatraz Series / int_6a2486cd	comment	Graying Morality: The series gradually blurs the lines between good and evil, leading Alcatraz to eventually question if the Librarians could actually be on to something with the whole obfuscating information thing.
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Alcatraz Series / int_6d6945da	type	Minovsky Physics
Alcatraz Series / int_6d6945da	comment	Minovsky Physics: The various types of glass. And brightsand.
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Alcatraz Series / int_7095c87e	comment	The Masquerade: The Hushlands are controlled by evil Librarians who use their control of information to teach all sorts of lies about history, economics, geography, physics, etc. The Free Kingdoms are continents that have not yet been conquered by the evil Librarians, so they don't even appear on Librarian-approved maps. For example, one of the Free Kingdoms is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. You didn't really think there was nothing but water and tiny islands in all that space, did you?
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Alcatraz Series / int_723be11b	comment	Villain Has a Point: The Librarians are usually wrong about the dangers of letting silimatic technology be commonly used. However, they are unfortunately right about how giving everyone in the world Smedry Talents like Alcatraz's dad wants to do would be the worst idea ever. Also, despite what the Free Kingdomers would tell you, there are advantages to organizing information.
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Alcatraz Series / int_754d4507	type	Both Order and Chaos are Dangerous
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Alcatraz Series / int_7605334	type	Evil Librarians
Alcatraz Series / int_7605334	comment	Evil Librarians: Duh.
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Alcatraz Series / int_76102e79	type	Chaos Is Evil
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Alcatraz Series / int_78be795b	type	Changeling Fantasy
Alcatraz Series / int_78be795b	comment	Changeling Fantasy: Pretty standard (though repeatedly lampshaded). Alcatraz is a poor orphan who is constantly thought to be worthless, only for it to turn out that he's from a family of practically aristocratic magic wielders.
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Alcatraz Series / int_7bd8307f	type	The Infiltration
Alcatraz Series / int_7bd8307f	comment	The Infiltration: Played straight in Book 1, where Alcatraz infiltrates the local library. Mostly played straight in Book 5, where they infiltrate the Highbrary, though that time the Librarians are on high alert, since they didn't make the quietest entrance.
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Alcatraz Series / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Alcatraz Series / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The first sentence of the series is Alcatraz explaining that he is tied to an altar about to be sacrificed, before cutting to the beginning of his adventures. The entire series is then a lead-up to that moment.
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Alcatraz Series / int_828a5ca8	type	Roaring Rampage of Rescue
Alcatraz Series / int_828a5ca8	comment	After Bastille is woken up from her coma, Alcatraz doesn't have a good angle to see what she's doing, but her Roaring Rampage of Rescue is enough to alarm Biblioden.
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Alcatraz Series / int_82d2715f	type	Magitek
Alcatraz Series / int_82d2715f	comment	Magitek: Silimatic technology might be considered either this or Magic from Technology. Just don't let a Free Kingdomer hear you call it "magic."
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Alcatraz Series / int_857d1626	type	Power Glows
Alcatraz Series / int_857d1626	comment	Power Glows: In Book 5. Any time a Smedry touches glass, it glows with the sheer amount of power being pumped into it.
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Alcatraz Series / int_884e513b	type	Medium Awareness
Alcatraz Series / int_884e513b	comment	Medium Awareness: Not so much in the first few books, but Medium Awareness starts showing up a lot in the Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens. For example, characters would refer to the "last chapter" or say that a trip took several chapters to complete. Of course, the fourth book is bizarre even by the standards of this series and this could be in large part because of Alcatraz's sterling narration.
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Alcatraz Series / int_8871bbd8	type	Eye Beams
Alcatraz Series / int_8871bbd8	comment	Eye Beams: Any Oculatory lens with "-bringer's" in the name (e.g. Firebringer's Lenses, Frostbringer's Lenses, etc).
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Alcatraz Series / int_88ebaa00	type	WalkingTechBane
Alcatraz Series / int_88ebaa00	comment	Walking Tech Bane: Alcatraz. Not just technology, but pretty much everything. Alcatraz even broke a chicken once. And it's not only him; Smedry Talents in general tend to be particularly effective against Hushlander technology, due to the large number of moving parts.
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Alcatraz Series / int_8afadb7e	type	Department of Child Disservices
Alcatraz Series / int_8afadb7e	comment	Department of Child Disservices: Alcatraz's child services worker was always telling him how useless he was. Turns out, she's his mother. And she's the nicer of his parents.
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Alcatraz Series / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Alcatraz Series / int_8b67aba7	comment	Cerebus Retcon: The book's tendencies to go on long rambles before returning to the plot takes a dark atmosphere when Alcatraz himself admits that he's making the books longer to avoid getting to the Awful Truth.
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Alcatraz Series / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
Alcatraz Series / int_8b6e8d7	comment	The very beginning of the first book, which doesn't happen until sometime in the fifth.
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Alcatraz Series / int_8c1ac05e	type	Guinea Pig Family
Alcatraz Series / int_8c1ac05e	comment	Guinea Pig Family: The Smedrys were this to the Incarna.
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Alcatraz Series / int_8c678d33	type	Death by Newbery Medal
Alcatraz Series / int_8c678d33	comment	Death by Newbery Medal: This trope isn't used so much as it's repeatedly mocked. Alcatraz insists that authors must hate mothers and dogs because they are always trying to write meaningful books that kill off one or the other, or sometimes even both.
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Alcatraz Series / int_8f9f71a8	type	Crazy Enough to Work
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Alcatraz Series / int_938e9bc0	type	Absent-Minded Professor
Alcatraz Series / int_938e9bc0	comment	Absent-Minded Professor: A lot of the Smedrys are intelligent academics while at the same time being eccentric, absentminded, or just plain strange.
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Alcatraz Series / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
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Alcatraz Series / int_9d3b4703	type	This Is Reality
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Alcatraz Series / int_9e2c893	type	Black Magic
Alcatraz Series / int_9e2c893	comment	Black Magic: Dark Oculary is an evil form of Oculary comparable to necromancy.
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Alcatraz Series / int_9e9e8623	type	It Is Beyond Saving
Alcatraz Series / int_9e9e8623	comment	It Is Beyond Saving: Most of the Free Kingdoms thinks this of Tuki Tuki. Alcatraz is dead set on proving them wrong.
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Alcatraz Series / int_a4f2570d	type	Muggles
Alcatraz Series / int_a4f2570d	comment	Muggles: Hushlanders.
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Alcatraz Series / int_a63cfe4a	type	Meta Fiction
Alcatraz Series / int_a63cfe4a	comment	Meta Fiction: By the bucketful. For example, Alcatraz constantly comments on his own Narrative Devices, usually as a way to convince the reader how unheroic he is.
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Alcatraz Series / int_a7544a0f	type	Beneath the Earth
Alcatraz Series / int_a7544a0f	comment	Beneath the Earth: The Highbrary is mostly under Washington, D.C., and the Library of Alexandria is a massive underground labyrinth.
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Alcatraz Series / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Alcatraz Series / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Inverted. The Librarian minions can generally shoot just fine. It's just that Smedry Talents can make them almost impossible to hit. For example, Grandpa Smedry is always late to where the bullets are going to be, and guns tend to spontaneously fall apart when fired at Alcatraz.
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Alcatraz Series / int_a9f2e259	type	Mole in Charge
Alcatraz Series / int_a9f2e259	comment	Mole in Charge: Archedis, a Librarian spy, is this to the Knights of Crystallia.
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Alcatraz Series / int_aa8940ee	type	Destructive Saviour
Alcatraz Series / int_aa8940ee	comment	Destructive Saviour/Nice Job Breaking It, Hero/Person of Mass Destruction: Alcatraz is constantly breaking things. Usually this works out in his favor, but he still does quite a bit of collateral damage in the process. This comes to a head at the end of the fourth book, when he defeats an invading army, but breaks the city he was trying to defend as well as Smedry Talents in the process.
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Alcatraz Series / int_af157b58	type	First-Person Smartass
Alcatraz Series / int_af157b58	comment	First-Person Smartass: Alcatraz again. He'll often go off onto smartass tangents with no bearing on the plot.
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Alcatraz Series / int_afe98316	type	Talkative Loon
Alcatraz Series / int_afe98316	comment	Talkative Loon: Quentin, one of Alcatraz's cousins, has the power to say utter nonsense. It makes him an excellent spy, since he can arrange to be literally unable to reveal information no matter the torture without actually having to kill himself.
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Alcatraz Series / int_b136ed26	type	Big Fancy Castle
Alcatraz Series / int_b136ed26	comment	Big Fancy Castle: Nalhalla is full of them. There are three notable castles: the massive black one that is home to the Smedrys, the fancy turret one that belongs to King Dartmoor, and the huge glass mushroom that is better known as Crystallia.
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Alcatraz Series / int_b1619b3c	type	Omnicidal Maniac
Alcatraz Series / int_b1619b3c	comment	Omnicidal Maniac: Biblioden is a PG version of this. He hates everything "weird" and uncontrollable. Talking dinosaurs, magic glass, and especially the Smedrys. He wants to crush the Free Kingdoms to create a perfect, calm utopia where everyone obeys his will. When Alcatraz looks at him through the Shaper's Lens, this is represented by a pure black void.
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Alcatraz Series / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Alcatraz Series / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: Librarians are fond of speaking in half-truths on purpose.
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Alcatraz Series / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Alcatraz Series / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The first book ends with Grandpa Smedry delivering a bit of a rant about how silly it would be to leave Alcatraz for a whole summer at a boring place he hates to live at, with people who aren't his real family and don't know anything about the magical world he's become a part of, and where his enemies know where to find him. Also, after the dinosaurs ate themselves through the fiction M section to create a diversion, expect the almost stock anti-sparkle quip.
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Alcatraz Series / int_c63e5338	comment	It Runs in the Family: "A family full of eccentric, weird, and sometimes insane relatives..." The Smedrys are especially known for being reckless, which annoys their bodyguards to no end.
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Alcatraz Series / int_c66cb5a9	comment	Human Sacrifice: The very beginning of the first book, which doesn't happen until sometime in the fifth. We finally see it in the fifth book. Biblioden has returned, and wants a willing sacrifice to make his ritual more powerful. He tells Alcatraz and Alcatraz's father that they can choose which one lives and dies. Alcatraz's father volunteers ... at the same moment Alcatraz offers up his father as well.
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Alcatraz Series / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out "I hadn't forgotten how my mother'd given Himalaya up to be executed, nor how she'd sold me her own son to Blackburn, the one-eyed Dark Oculator. Or how she killed Asmodean". Quentin's nonsense phrases include "Wasing not of wasing is" and "Churches, lead, very small rocks, and ducks." "At this rate, it wonâ€™t be long before this story departs speaking of evil Librarians, and instead turns into a terribly boring tale about a lawyer who defends unjustly accused field hands. What do mockingbirds have to do with that, anyway?" Alcatraz uses Plato and the Platonic Cave concept to explain why Hushlanders never realize that they are being kept ignorant. He also uses Plato to proof that somewhere, there must be a perfect slice of cheesecake. At one point, a dinosaur says "Honestly, claiming that velociraptors were the smartest dinosaurs. I knew a velociraptor in college, and he failed chemistry!" "Never get involved in a land war in Asia." In one chapter, everyone speaks entirely in quotes from Hamlet. Leavenworth's exclamations invoke the name of a wide variety of famous authors. The fourth book uses wildly varying chapter numbers, one of which is 4815162342. The third book claims that characters use the bathroom offscreen between chapters, and Alcatraz feels sorry for Terry Pratchett characters. Most Discworld books don't use chapters, instead breaking the books with line breaks. "I stared at the ground. And no, it didn't want to be friends with me."
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Alcatraz Series / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: The Smedrys in general. Leavenworth Smedry deserves special mention, though.
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Alcatraz Series / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: Shattering Glass! Grandpa Smedry tends to use alliterative exclamations like "Clustering Campbells," (every one taking the form of "verb-ing last name of a sci-fi or fantasy author!") and Kaz will use various words likes curses. Even the oft-uttered "gak!" is occasionally used almost like a swear.
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Alcatraz Series / int_d88e125e	comment	Our Dragons Are Different: Of course, Our Dragons Are Different. For example, the Dragonaut is a dragon shaped flying ship, with six wings, and six legs. Oh, and it's made of glass, of course. Other dragons are serving prison sentences in Nalhalla by acting as taxicabs.
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Alcatraz Series / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Bastille is a perfect example of this. She is a 13-year-old knight and an expert fighter. Specifically, she's of the Little Miss Badass variety.
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Alcatraz Series / int_daef39ee	type	Elaborate Underground Base
Alcatraz Series / int_daef39ee	comment	Elaborate Underground Base: The Highbrary is located deep underneath Washington, D.C. It is by far the most complex library the heroes have infiltrated yet.
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Alcatraz Series / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
Alcatraz Series / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: There's a note at the very end of Alcatraz Vs The Dark Talent, signed "Bastille Smedry".
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Alcatraz Series / int_dd9fba61	type	A Rare Sentence
Alcatraz Series / int_dd9fba61	comment	A Rare Sentence: In The Dark Talent, Alcatraz notes that his life lends itself to these. Case in point:
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Alcatraz Series / int_ddac33c8	type	The Nudifier
Alcatraz Series / int_ddac33c8	comment	The Nudifier: Stuff-eater teddy bear grenades are weapons being used against the Librarians. Guess who gets hit with it? Alcatraz.
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Alcatraz Series / int_e0b6edec	comment	Ms. Fletcher/Shasta Smedry sees herself as the Only Sane Woman trying to maintain the peace between two warring factions she sees as equally good or bad.
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Alcatraz Series / int_e3bd3475	type	Stock "Yuck!"
Alcatraz Series / int_e3bd3475	comment	Stock "Yuck!": Alcatraz insists that fish sticks are the most disgusting thing in the world. He had to invent a word (crapaflapnasti) to describe something that disgusting. This, of course, means that crapaflapnasti can only be used to describe fish sticks.
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Alcatraz Series / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: There are most definitely no libraries in the Free Kingdoms. Those big buildings full of books are archives, all right? The Royal Archive in Nalhalla even has a sign over the door saying "The Royal Archives (not a library!)".
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Alcatraz Series / int_e6f18344	type	Humongous Mecha
Alcatraz Series / int_e6f18344	comment	Humongous Mecha: The Evil Librarians have giant robots (and robats. Yes. Really.) as part of their arsenal. Bastille claims they are Awesome, but Impractical, but they still pose a real threat in Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens.
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Alcatraz Series / int_e82bc849	type	Milkman Conspiracy
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Alcatraz Series / int_e993da98	comment	Equal-Opportunity Evil: The Librarians will take in just about anyone.
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Alcatraz Series / int_e9d6eff8	comment	Cool Airship, or maybe Cool Plane: The Dragonaut isn't technically an airplane that uses jet engines or an airship that uses oversize balloons to fly, but it is cool and it flies.
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Alcatraz Series / int_eb4ee9eb	comment	Guns Are Worthless: Seriously, you've got better luck with a knife if you're going up against the Smedry Talents, as they work best defensively. In the fourth book, an entire firing line shoots at Aydee, Kaz, and Alcatraz. Some of the guns don't fire because the soldiers miscounted the bullets and didn't load any, some of the soldiers get lost on the way to raising their guns to fire, and the rest of the guns just break. Averted in book five, where Grandpa Smedry is shot in the face. On hindsight, it makes a lot of sense, since the Smedry Talents are broken in that book, but the series spends so much time playing this trope straight that when Surprisingly Realistic Outcome occurs it's completely unexpected.
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Alcatraz Series / int_ebb900a7	comment	Resignations Not Accepted: Librarians are not very kind to those that defect from their ranks. They tend to remove them. Permanently.
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Alcatraz Series / int_eea93c96	comment	Windstormer's Lenses make wind that blows away from the user, and the lens with a pulling wind is called Voidstormer's Lens. The opposite of a Highstorm in The Stormlight Archive is a Voidstorm, and it blows in the opposite direction.
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Alcatraz Series / int_f1716087	comment	Goggles Do Something Unusual: Oculators use Lenses that have a variety of powers. Each type of Lens has its own function. These include Lenses that can track a person's footprints, Lenses that shoot laser beams, Lenses that generate whirlwinds, etc.
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Alcatraz Series / int_f8ec3418	comment	Someone Has to Die: Biblioden enforces this trope at the end of Book 5.
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Alcatraz Series / int_f9fc071	comment	My Little Panzer: Teddy bears that double as hand grenades.
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Alcatraz Series / int_fd7267dd	comment	Master of Disguise: Disguiser's Lenses allow the wearer to change their outward appearance. The only catch is they'll always be wearing the Lenses in whatever appearance they choose.
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Alcatraz Series / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: Inverted. The Librarians aren't named after mountains, and their enemies aren't named after prisons. The mountains and prisons are named after the people.
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