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Alex Rider

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Alex Rider	comment	Before Charlie Higson sat down to write the Young Bond books, this was the answer to the question, "What was James Bond like as a kid?"The series, written by Anthony Horowitz, follows the adventures of Alex Rider, a fourteen-year-old boy living in Chelsea who gets coerced into working for MI6 after the death of his uncle, Ian Rider, who told him that he worked for a bank but was actually a spy. When Ian dies, MI6 gives Alex a "proposal": either he works for them, or his American housekeeper Jack Starbright gets sent straight back to America and Alex goes into a state home.There have been eleven books in the main series, plus a prequel and a collection of short stories which are both included in the series' numbering:Stormbreaker (2000)Point Blancnote Published as Point Blank in the US (2001)Skeleton Key (2002)Eagle Strike (2003)Scorpia (2004)Ark Angel (2005)Snakehead (2007)Crocodile Tears (2009)Scorpia Rising (2011)Russian Roulette (2013)note Russian Roulette is a Prequel focusing on the character of Yassen Gregorovich. Subsequent reprints have identified it as the tenth book in the series and have the Alex Rider logo.Never Say Die (2017)note Retitled as Steel Claw in some countriesSecret Weapon (2019)note A collection of short stories. Features revised versions of "Secret Weapon" (originally published in the Sunday Times in 2003), "High Tension" (originally published as "Incident in Nice" in the Times in 2009) and "The Man with Eleven Fingers" (originally published as "A Taste of Death" for World Book Day in 2012), "Christmas at Gunpoint" (originally published in the Daily Mail in 2007), plus three new stories: "Alex in Afghanistan", "Tea with Smithers" and "Spy Trap"Nightshade (2020)Nightshade Revenge (2023)Although Scorpia Rising was long intended to be the series' Grand Finale, Horowitz had a change of heart whilst working on a book of short stories set in Alex's universe. He decided to revive the series with Never Say Die; the short story collection was published in 2019 as Secret Weapon. Another novel, Nightshade, was released the following year, followed with finale Nightshade Revenge.There are also several short stories and extra chapters (many of which were rewritten for inclusion in Secret Weapon): "Christmas at Gunpoint" (2007) (pre-series; included in some editions of Stormbreaker, Alex Rider: Mission Files, and Secret Weapon) "Resistance to Interrogation" (bonus chapter in some editions of Stormbreaker and the paperback edition of Never Say Die) "A Taste of Death"note Also known as "London Down" (2012) (post-Point Blanc, spring. Revised and expanded version published in Secret Weapon as "The Man with Eleven Fingers") "Incident in Nice"note Also known as "Quite a Ride" (2009) (post-Point Blanc, summer. Revised version published in Secret Weapon as "High Tension") "Secret Weapon" (2003) (post-Skeleton Key. Revised and expanded version published in Secret Weapon) "Alex Underground" (2008) (post-Ark Angel) "Coda" (bonus chapter in the paperback edition of Snakehead, later republished in Alex Rider Undercover: The Classified Files as "Double Agent") "The White Carnation" (2013) (tie-in to Russian Roulette, later republished in Alex Rider Undercover: The Classified Files) "The Man With the Wrong Shoes" (2020) (Story for World Book Day, included as part of Alex Rider Undercover: The Classified Files) "Metal Head" (2020) (Story for World Book Day featuring Yassen Gregorovich, included as part of Alex Rider Undercover: The Classified Files)There are also two supplementary materials, Alex Rider: The Gadgets (featuring blueprints of the gadgets Alex uses), and Alex Rider: Mission Files, featuring assorted in-universe correspondence, diagrams, blueprints and miscellany from the first seven books; and a World Book Day book to mark the 20th anniversary, Undercover: The Classified Files, released in 2020. The books are also being adapted as a series of graphic novels (that reached Ark Angel in 2020) that form a different canon to the books.Stormbreaker was adapted as a movie in 2006, and despite much mass marketing and merchandise with beliefs that the film would kickstart a franchise, it failed to make its budget back and got unfavourable critical reception. A second attempt at adapting the show for the screen came in the form of a Show of the Books, Alex Rider, which launched in June 2020 with a first series principally adapting Point Blanc. A second series that adapts Eagle Strike was released in December 2021, and a third, which adapts Scorpia, is due to release in April 2024.
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Alex Rider / int_1235f055	comment	From the same book we're given an unusual example in the tabloid journalist Harold "Harry" Bulman. Though hardly an evil person, he's a Dirty Coward Smug Snake with a daft and vacuous sort of narcissism who cares more about his own journalism prospects than Alex's dignity and privacy (to the point of staging an attempt on Alex's life just to observe him in action). Other stray details like his dishonorable military discharge and his implied intention to court Jack further paint a contemptible picture of the man, and watching MI6 exact their calculated wrath upon him through the chilling Invisible Man project to protect Alex is grimly satisfying.
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Alex Rider / int_129402f5	type	GlasgowSmile
Alex Rider / int_129402f5	comment	Stormbreaker has Mr. Grin, who has a Glasgow Smile.
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Alex Rider / int_14a8e0a2	type	Villain Opening Scene
Alex Rider / int_14a8e0a2	comment	Villain Opening Scene: Skeleton Key and Scorpia Rising, which actually devotes several chapters to its Villain Opening and splits the book into two sections - one titled "Scorpia" and one titled "Alex". Point Blanc, Ark Angel and Crocodile Tears all open with acts of murder arranged by the villain.
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Alex Rider / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Alex Rider / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: As the series progresses, Alex becomes this. The series as a whole becomes this; initially at least, Alex is generally threatened and held captive by villains but they never actually follow on any of their nasty fates because he escapes first. By the time of the final book, he actually gets waterboarded, by the CIA no less. Nightshade has been advertised as being tougher and more adult than the rest of the series, with the intention being that as well as appealing to the series' target market, it will also be enjoyed by readers who read the first books when they originally came out 20 years ago.
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Alex Rider / int_15385326	type	You Can't Thwart Stage One
Alex Rider / int_15385326	comment	You Can't Thwart Stage One: The climaxes of at least half of the books.
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Alex Rider / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Alex Rider / int_1777688d	comment	Julia Rothman of Scorpia also averts this, as she pointedly doesn't tell Alex what her plan is, leaving him to figure it out by himself. Although he manages to do so, Rothman is the most Genre Savvy villain of the series, and her plan ultimately fails for reasons largely beyond her control.
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Alex Rider / int_181cb26c	type	Cartoonish Supervillainy
Alex Rider / int_181cb26c	comment	On the villainous side, most of the villain's acts fit under the genre typical Cartoonish Supervillainy, with over the top doomsday devices and overly elaborate plans. But just check the length of the Complete Monster section on the YMMV page — the series plays both the kind of person who's willing to kill millions with Doomsday Device and the actual terror and destruction using one would cause completely straight.
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Alex Rider / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Alex Rider / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Happens Once an Episode. Stormbreaker: It's the name of the computers Sayle is selling. Point Blanc: In the UK: it is The Place title. Namely, the academy Alex is sent to. In the USA: When Grief is killed: "The makeshift torpedo hit its target full-on. Point blank." Skeleton Key: The Place title again. This time, it's the island Alexei Sarov lives on. Eagle Strike: The name of Cray's master plan. Scorpia: The name of the Nebulous Evil Organization introduced in the book. Ark Angel: The Place title yet again. In this case, the name of the hotel IN SPACE that Drevin is working on. Snakehead: Type of Chinese gang involved in human smuggling, one of which Alex investigates. Crocodile Tears: A slight break in tradition, as it isn't the name of a plot element; rather, the book defines the term "crocodile tears" at the beginning, and the Big Bad refers to them later. They refer to his supposed conversion to Christianity following his imprisonment for fraud, and literally appear late in the book. Scorpia Rising is the exception to the rule; it basically describes the book's entire premise, but is never dropped in context. Russian Roulette: Vladimir Sharkovsky forces Yassen to play the game in his office. Yassen plays again, in the same office, when he comes to assassinate Sharkovsky. Never Say Die reflects Alex's refusal to believe that Jack (after receiving an email using Something Only They Would Say) is dead. And in the chapter with that title, he is proven correct, and Jack drops the title.
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Alex Rider / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
Alex Rider / int_19851b86	comment	Played straight in Scorpia Rising with Razim, who wants to create a measurable unit of pain and slowly kills people with various horrific instruments, like knives, syringes and many more, to measure the pain that they feel. He tortures a French spy; the author manages to spare the readers the details, though. ...Unless you want to read about that stuff. It's later mentioned that he does several more "experiments" with Julius. Again, the details are thankfully spared.
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Alex Rider / int_1989b0c	type	Comic-Book Time
Alex Rider / int_1989b0c	comment	Comic-Book Time: The first book was released in the year 2000 with Alex aged 14. As of Crocodile Tears, Alex is just 15 and all eight books have taken place within a year, despite the gadgets moving from Nintendo Game Boys to iPhones and Snakehead explicitly making reference to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (giving the exact date). The same book still lists Alex as having been born in the 1980s. Crocodile Tears has references to the iPhone (January 2007), Assassin's Creed II (2009), and the Great Recession (started in 2007 but didn't really get going until fall '08). And in Scorpia Rising, the BP Oil spill is mentioned, bringing it around to 2010. He also has an iPhone 3GS. They also mention the London Olympics setting it around 2011-2012. In Nightshade, Alex watches the 2015 film The Martian, moving up the year in the story even further. One of Alex's canonical birth dates is 15th of February 1996.
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Alex Rider / int_198bef8	type	ManBehindTheMan
Alex Rider / int_198bef8	comment	Man Behind the Man: Scorpia's admitted to being behind book one's villain's plan by selling him the virus strain he implanted in the stormbreakers. It's very possible that they're behind some of the other villain's actions if not all of them.
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Alex Rider / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Alex Rider / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: It seems that the author enjoys going into detail about the male characters' musculature. Especially prevalent in Ark Angel, when the soccer player is examining himself... and spends a good deal of time complimenting his body. Discounting Stormbreaker, the author seems to make it a point to have Alex appear shirtless at least once in each book.
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Alex Rider / int_1c21e3fb	type	The Place
Alex Rider / int_1c21e3fb	comment	Ark Angel: The Place title yet again. In this case, the name of the hotel IN SPACE that Drevin is working on.
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Alex Rider / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
Alex Rider / int_1c5002bc	comment	Cool, calculating, emotionless Razim has one at the end of Scorpia Rising.]
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Alex Rider / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
Alex Rider / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good Is Not Nice: MI6 can act like this at times. The final novel goes up to eleven when it's revealed at the end that Alan Blunt arranged for the sniper to attack Alex at his school solely for the purpose of getting an excuse to put Alex on another assignment. That's right, he arranged a school shooting in order to coerce a fifteen-year-old boy into working as a spy again.
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Alex Rider / int_21f7ff0f	type	Knight in Sour Armor
Alex Rider / int_21f7ff0f	comment	Knight in Sour Armor: Alex Rider.
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Alex Rider / int_2222a43e	type	Nebulous Evil Organisation
Alex Rider / int_2222a43e	comment	Nebulous Evil Organisation: Scorpia. They're the villains of three books.
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Alex Rider / int_22c41566	type	Trilogy Creep
Alex Rider / int_22c41566	comment	Trilogy Creep: As noted above, Horowitz intended Scorpia Rising to be the final book, but not including the prequel and short story collection there will now be at least three further entries in the series.
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Alex Rider / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Alex Rider / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Word of God stated that Smithers has had a gadget that has appeared, unknown to the reader, in every book to up to the 8th book, Crocodile Tears. This was finally revealed in Scorpia Rising, book 9. And that gadget is Smithers' own fat. In fact, he's very thin and fit but has been wearing a special suit that has made him look fat all along. Nearly every book has a gun, often a gadget. Stormbreaker has the jellyfish tank and the Bomber Boy cartridge, for example. Point Blanc: the ski jump. The Gun in Skeleton Key is unusual as it is introduced late, still seemingly cast aside as useless, yet proves important at the end. It's Alex's telephone call that got interrupted by the security guard. At the end of the book, it's revealed that the guard was wearing a microphone, so the police heard the conversation and realized that Alex was telling the truth when the guard later turned up dead. More traditionally, there's also the stick of expanding gum. Eagle Strike has one in the form of a gadget: the bulletproof jersey. Ark Angel had a Gun in the form of the second rocket. Supposedly for a "weightlessness experiment" using Arthur the ape, it's actually intended to be Kaspar's escape vehicle from the space hotel. There was another example of this in Snakehead: the battery from the tracking device in his shoe, which Alex uses to power his watch/homing device, allowing MI6's copters to rescue him. The trope is also Zig-Zagged by the belt Smithers gives Alex, which has a knife hidden in the buckle and a jungle survival kit inside. When Alex is captured, Yu confiscates the belt, seemingly making it the first gadget in the series to be a Red Herring. However, the fact that it was taken away and Alex's other gadgets weren't proves to be an important plot point. There's also one in Crocodile Tears: the explosive black pen Smithers gave him, which Alex had on hand when McCain's men kidnapped him and smuggled him to Kenya. In the final confrontation, it saves his life: Alex attaches the pen to a barrel of fuel before kicking the drum over to McCain, who monologues just enough to run out the timer Alex set. The Gun in Scorpia Rising is the salt pile used for brick-making, into which Razim falls and is cooked from the inside out. To a lesser extent, the picture of a coat hook also qualifies as a Gun. Russian Roulette: the Power Plus battery transmitter, revealing John Rider to Yassen as an MI6 double agent. Never Say Die continues the tradition with Jane Vosper's thermos. In Nightshade, it's the radio jammer from the MI6 safehouse.
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Alex Rider / int_25b7257f	type	Red Right Hand
Alex Rider / int_25b7257f	comment	Red Right Hand: All but two novels have one. Stormbreaker has Mr. Grin, who has a Glasgow Smile. Skeleton Key has Conrad, who is probably the most extreme example on the list. He was blown up by one of his own bombs and then surgically put back together with metal parts added. The operation was not completely successful, resulting in mismatched body parts. Scorpia has Nile, who has vitiligo, resulting in having various blotches of white skin. Ark Angel has Kaspar, who had his entire head tattooed to look like Earth. Snakehead has Major Yu, who has osteoporosis. Crocodile Tears has Desmond McCain, who has a misaligned jaw.
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Alex Rider / int_2673425b	type	Kid Hero
Alex Rider / int_2673425b	comment	It also rips the Kid Hero trope apart, demonstrating how traumatic, psychologically scarring and generally awful the whole ordeal has been for Alex. His consistent Refusal of the Call (and MI6 frequently finding ways to twist his arm into working for them anyway) is practically a darkly humorous Running Gag as the series goes on.
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Alex Rider / int_278a8f2b	type	ChildSoldier
Alex Rider / int_278a8f2b	comment	Child Soldier: As Alex reflects, "...he'd never been given a choice. Nowadays, spies weren't employed. They were used."
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Alex Rider / int_27b9c950	type	Road-Sign Reversal
Alex Rider / int_27b9c950	comment	Road-Sign Reversal: In Stormbreaker, a new sign is posted on the footpath to Port Tallon to send Alex into an ambush. In Skeleton Key, General Sarov switches off the runway lights as the two people who sold him uranium are beginning to depart, then turns on a second set of runway lights which are at a different angle to the real ones (it is the middle of the night and the plane is turning as this happens, which stops the pilot from realising what has happened). This causes the plane to drive directly into a swamp while attempting to take off.
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Alex Rider / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
Alex Rider / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: The entire series (up to Never Say Die) spans around 19 to 20 months. The first three books cover Alex's spring and summer term; Eagle Strike and Scorpia take place over the summer holidays and the very beginning of the new school year; Ark Angel and Snakehead cover September to December; Crocodile Tears takes place early in the New Year; Scorpia Rising and Never Say Die are set over the summer term and start of the autumn term. To put it in context, the entire series so far takes place in a slightly shorter timespan than the first two Harry Potter books, and quite a lot of that is accounted for by the Time Skip of five months between Crocodile Tears and Scorpia Rising.
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Alex Rider / int_2881d45e	type	Gaining the Will to Kill
Alex Rider / int_2881d45e	comment	Gaining the Will to Kill: Played with. While the Big Bad of the book usually ends up dead, and mostly because of Alex, he rationalizes them away as accidents (in that he didn't intend any of them to die or directly have a hand in their deaths). Alex's willingness to kill is treated by the series as a Moral Event Horizon that he has no intention of crossing—when SCORPIA manipulates him into trying to kill Ms. Jones by showing her ordering his father's death, Alex still has trouble shooting. Eventually, he does shoot, but later is told that his shot would have missed despite being at point-blank range, meaning he really can't kill. In the last two books, Alex begins to lose this innocence, doing things that would definitely kill the recipients—in Crocodile Tears, he cuts open a mook's protective suit while in a toxic biodome and attaches an explosive to a fuel barrel before rolling it over to the main villain. Finally, in Scorpia Rising, the last book he shoots Julius Grief point-blank in the head while the former was at his mercy, but scrambling for a gun. Unusually, this is treated as a good thing, kind of. Ms. Jones states later that due to Julius' personality and appearance, Alex also symbolically killed off the part of his mind that MI6 created—in other words, the part that killed Julius in the first place.
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Alex Rider / int_2a015a74	type	Beauty Equals Goodness
Alex Rider / int_2a015a74	comment	Beauty Equals Goodness: Played almost entirely straight with the villainous characters - particular with the Dragons, who are nearly always hideously scarred or deformed in some way, or just simply stated to be ugly. Even Julius Grief, who looks otherwise identical to the explicitly-attractive Alex, has self-inflicted claw marks on his face by the time he takes up a major villainous role in Scorpia Rising. The most blatant exception is Julia Rothman in book five, who is repeatedly compared to a movie star.
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Alex Rider / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Alex Rider / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshaded in the prequel Russian Roulette.
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Alex Rider / int_2b3937ef	type	Our Hero Is Dead
Alex Rider / int_2b3937ef	comment	Our Hero Is Dead: The ending of the penultimate chapter and beginning of the final chapter of Skeleton Key imply that Alex is dead before it turns out that Sarov killed himself, not Alex. The end of Scorpia was not intended to be this as Horowitz believed the audience would assume Alex would be fine. There's a bit of this in Point Blanc too, with MI6 organising a sham funeral to trick Stellenbosch and Dr Grief into thinking Alex was really dead.
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Alex Rider / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
Alex Rider / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: Alan Blunt. He even recites the quote to Mrs. Jones at the end of Scorpia Rising, when he resigns and she's promoted to his position. Mrs. Jones defies the trope in Scorpia. Although she had the chance to correct Alex about how his father died she didn't because she didn't want to use him the way Julia Rothman did.
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Alex Rider / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Alex Rider / int_2d4fa515	comment	Scorpia condemned Damian Cray as a madman.However, this is a debateable example, as their comments could be based on his Utopia Justifies the Means mentality (some SCORPIA Members are implied to be involved in the Drugs trade, which Cray plotted to eradicate in Eagle Strike) as much as his crimes.
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Alex Rider / int_2eac5753	type	Narrative Profanity Filter
Alex Rider / int_2eac5753	comment	Narrative Profanity Filter: Filters explicit stuff, until Scorpia Rising, where we are basically just told that Alex tells the CIA to go fuck themselves.
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Alex Rider / int_2f94135c	type	Thou Shalt Not Kill
Alex Rider / int_2f94135c	comment	The Thou Shalt Not Kill trope, which is almost invariably in place in the Young Adult Literature genre, is consistently defied throughout the series. While Alex has never actually directly shot anyone in cold blood (until Scorpia Rising), almost every book has one instance of him knowingly and deliberately acting to disable the villains in some way that he knows will most likely result in their deaths, often in extremely brutal ways. Such colorful methods of dispatching the villains include, but are not limited to: hiding a scorpion in a pack of cigarettes and asking the villain for a smoke (Scorpia Rising), attaching a delayed explosive to an oil barrel and rolling it over to the villain (Crocodile Tears), shoving a dinner cart into the villain and knocking him out the door of Air Force One, where he is sucked into a jet engine (Eagle Strike), and quite possibly the most audacious of all, stopping the villain from escaping in a helicopter by launching a snowmobile into it (Point Blank).
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Alex Rider / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Alex Rider / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Yassen is a professional assassin, but even he refuses to kill children and anyone not strictly on his list of targets. One of Scorpia's senior members is disturbed by them developing a bioweapon that specifically targets children and accordingly makes plans to retire from the organization. Scorpia condemned Damian Cray as a madman.However, this is a debateable example, as their comments could be based on his Utopia Justifies the Means mentality (some SCORPIA Members are implied to be involved in the Drugs trade, which Cray plotted to eradicate in Eagle Strike) as much as his crimes.
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Alex Rider / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
Alex Rider / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: Several of Alex's gadgets; Smithers notes when giving him the exploding pens in Crocodile Tears that he "likes his explosions". Lots of explosions in the books. Particularly the exploding snowmobile that killed Dr. Grief.
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Alex Rider / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Alex Rider / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Scorpia manipulates Alex into nearly killing Ms. Jones, and plans to kill him along with a lot of children using the Invisible Sword. MI6 has done this on a regular basis to Alex by manipulating him into accepting missions, though towards the end of the series Ms. Jones sees that Alex is cracking from the trauma and tries to give him a break. ASIS tests Alex's skills on the field by leading him into a field where a training exercise is going on. The agents involve freak out when Alex is nearly killed by gunfire and a landmine, and they spend a lot of time apologizing to him after driving him back. They also manipulate him into helping them with snakeheads by letting him work with his godfather.
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Alex Rider / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
Alex Rider / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Sarov intends to kill millions of people by nuking a nuclear submarine repair shipyard, making it look like an accident, and blaming it on the Russian government's incompetence.
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Alex Rider / int_3f1aadeb	type	Strictly Formula
Alex Rider / int_3f1aadeb	comment	Strictly Formula: After about the first 3 books you can pick out the main villain as soon as they enter. This is particularly evident in Crocodile Tears, the most formulaic so far. Anthony Horowitz has likely noticed this, because in the ninth book two of the three villains are revealed nonchalantly without even bothering to surprise the reader. Also, did anyone else notice that Alex tends to always beat the grownups in some game, then they try to kill him? However, later books in the series deliberately try and change certain parts of the formula, or move them around; for example, Eagle Strike is based around Alex going rogue after MI6 refuse to believe him when he comes to them rather than vice-versa, the seeming Big Bad of Ark Angel turns out to be a decoy created by the true villain of the piece.
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Alex Rider / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
Alex Rider / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: The series follows the third way to the letter just like the James Bond movies. A teenage spy is sent into a mission with a small collection of gadgets. Of course he uses them all to save his own neck just in time and stop the current madman from destroying the world.
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Alex Rider / int_416a2a0d	type	Torture Always Works
Alex Rider / int_416a2a0d	comment	Torture Always Works: Torture isn't even used much in the novel, and is usually avoided or interrupted. In Skeleton Key when Conrad places Alex on a Sugar Grinder conveyor belt and threatens to grind him up if he doesn't talk. At first Alex attempts to lie but once that fails he spills everything. Conrad being the guy that he is, decides to... grind him him up anyways. Alex is only saved when Sarov interrupts. In Ark Angel when Alex tells Kaspar that he's not Paul Drevin when one of the nameless Mooks attempts to cut off one of his fingers. Kaspar threatens to kill Alex if it turns out he's not really Paul Drevin but they purposely allow him to escape the death trap they built for him as it is all part of Nikolei Drevin's master plan. And the time in Crocodile Tears where Alex was dangling over a pool of crocodiles and told Desmond McCain EVERYTHING rather quickly. Alex is only saved when Ravi interrupts. And then there was the time Alex spilled his guts to a few CIA agents in Scorpia Rising to prevent this. They torture him anyway. He is only saved when their superior Joe Bryne (who knows Alex) intervenes.
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Alex Rider / int_423f5a19	type	Killed Offscreen
Alex Rider / int_423f5a19	comment	Killed Offscreen: The two CIA agents, Troy and Turner, in Skeleton Key. Alex watches as they dive into the sea, looking for the underwater passage into General Sarov's complex, and the narration notes that this is the last time Alex ever sees them alive. Alex dives in himself later, and upon discovering the passage is lethally booby-trapped when he sees it take out a great white shark, he realises what must have happened to them, but by that point they have not only been dead for several hours but the trap's disposal system has destroyed their remains. Henryk, the pilot who helped Damian Cray hijack Air Force One, appears to be a case of What Happened to the Mouse?, as he disappears from the narrative after the plane crashes. Alex later asks Mrs Jones what happened to him, simply because it was the only thing he didn't know, and she says he broke his neck when the plane crashed.
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Alex Rider / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Alex Rider / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Subverted several times. The bad guys seem to prefer bragging about what they're going to do to their victims instead of actually doing it (see Bond Villain Stupidity). Played straight in Scorpia Rising with Razim, who wants to create a measurable unit of pain and slowly kills people with various horrific instruments, like knives, syringes and many more, to measure the pain that they feel. He tortures a French spy; the author manages to spare the readers the details, though. ...Unless you want to read about that stuff. It's later mentioned that he does several more "experiments" with Julius. Again, the details are thankfully spared. And later on the CIA actually waterboard Alex, though he is later apologized to by Joe Byrne. The same people use torture for..."good" later to obtain a password so they can enter and storm Razim's fortress.
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Alex Rider / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Alex Rider / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: In Point Blanc, Smithers gives Alex an exploding ear-stud, and in Skeleton Key a flash grenade disguised as a keyring and bubblegum which will expand to enormous sizes when chewed. All of these are in direct contravention of his instructions from Alan Blunt, who does not want Alex to have anything that could be classed as a weapon, and all three are directly responsible for saving Alex's life. In Eagle Strike, upon hearing Alex is going off on his own after MI6 fail to take him seriously over Damian Cray, Smithers gives sends him a specially modified bicycle with about a dozen different gadgets hidden in it.
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Alex Rider / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Alex Rider / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Poor Alex can hardly take a breath of fresh air without being whisked away on another life-threatening, trauma-inducing mission.
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Alex Rider / int_4aa98555	type	Evil All Along
Alex Rider / int_4aa98555	comment	In Snakehead, we meet Ash, Alex's godfather, and get to learn more about John Rider before finding out that Ash was Evil All Along; too much snubbing from MI6 after a mission that was an Epic Fail, he became a mole for Scorpia. And how did he earn their trust? He was the one who killed Alex's parents.
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Alex Rider / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Alex Rider / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Point Blanc ends with Alex and his pseudo-clone Julius fighting on the rooftop of Alex's school. The last few paragraphs only refer to them abstractly, as "one Alex Rider" and "the other Alex Rider," and with one being pushed off the roof to their death. It isn't clear which was which until you notice that the other books, well, exist. Julius survived anyway, as per Scorpia. Skeleton Key. The penultimate chapter ends with Alex informing the defeated Sarov that he'd rather be dead than have a father like him, and the narration saying that Sarov "raised the gun and fired a single shot". The final chapter is called "After Alex" and opens with Mrs Jones telling Alan Blunt that they've "lost" Alex; it is not clarified for several pages that Alex is alive, Sarov shot himself, and Mrs Jones has been arguing with Blunt that they should not use Alex again. Scorpia ends with Alex getting shot by a sniper with no indication that he survives. You only know he does because there are four more books. Nightshade Revenge and probably the series, end on Mrs. Jonesâ€™ son dying still estranged and Alex walking away from the spy world forever, fully disillusioned with it.
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Alex Rider / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Alex Rider / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: From Eagle Strike: From Snakehead:
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Alex Rider / int_4f773434	type	Wise Beyond Their Years
Alex Rider / int_4f773434	comment	Wise Beyond Their Years: Alex has been described as this by other characters due to the psychological damage he has taken from his missions, enduring horrors that nobody should have to go through and watching people die.
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Alex Rider / int_4f828b45	type	Post-Climax Confrontation
Alex Rider / int_4f828b45	comment	Post-Climax Confrontation: Alex's fight with his doppelganger at the end of Point Blanc. It happens again in Scorpia Rising.
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Alex Rider / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Alex Rider / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: In the first book, Herod Sayle planned to kill millions of innocent schoolchildren as revenge for the Prime Minister bullying him at school. Then we have Damian Cray in the fourth book, who arranged the death of a journalist who objected to the violence in his video games, and later told Alex he planned to kill him before he found out he was a spy, on the basis that Alex had done too well at what was supposed to be an extremely difficult game. And then in Scorpia Rising we have Razim, who, as a child, stabbed his nanny in the leg when she told him off for teasing his sister. Yeah, Anthony Horowitz is fond of this trope.
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Alex Rider / int_50b1855d	type	Spy Fiction
Alex Rider / int_50b1855d	comment	Spy Fiction: Mostly Martini flavour, but with a strong Stale Beer after-taste. While it revels in the outward trappings of a Martini (exotic locales with adventurous activities, disfigured villains with ludicrously evil schemes, and high-tech gadgetry), Alex himself is frequently shaken by the moral implications of his work and quickly develops an extremely cynical and gloomy attitude about it.
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Alex Rider / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
Alex Rider / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: Alex's development into Darker and Edgier is shown by some serious abuse of this trope.
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Alex Rider / int_5262c2bd	type	Bullet Holes and Revelations
Alex Rider / int_5262c2bd	comment	Bullet Holes and Revelations: The end of Stormbreaker: Sayle has a gun pointed at Alex and two shots are fired. But they went from Yassen's gun into Sayle's chest. Skeleton Key sports this trope as well; the penultimate chapter ends with the statement that Sarov, face to face with Alex, "raised his gun and fired a single shot". A few pages into the next chapter, it's revealed that Sarov shot himself after Alex rejected him as a father figure.
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Alex Rider / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Alex Rider / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Both Stormbreaker and Russian Roulette end with Herod Sayle's assassination by Yassen Gregorovich, but from the perspectives of Alex and Yassen, respectively.
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Alex Rider / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Alex Rider / int_537dd8fe	comment	General Alexei Sarov, an Affably Evil Well-Intentioned Extremist, who wants to adopt Alex.
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Alex Rider / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Alex Rider / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon Stormbreaker: Gregorovich (who turned on Sayle at the end) and Mr. Grin Point Blanc: Mrs. Stellenbosch Skeleton Key: Conrad Eagle Strike: Yassen Gregorovich (again, though Cray shoots him for refusing to kill Alex & Sabina) Scorpia: Nile Ark Angel: Kaspar/Magnus Payne Snakehead: Possibly either Captain de Wynter (although, barring Yassen, he's the first Alex doesn't kill, instead being killed by Major Yu when he fails to stop Alex escaping the Liberian Star) or Ash Crocodile Tears: Myra Bennett, although, again, Alex isn't responsible for her death Scorpia Rising: Julius Grief, the last clone from Point Blanc, and to a lesser extent Erik Gunter. Never Say Die: Frankie Stallone
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Alex Rider / int_543a0278	type	Villain Respect
Alex Rider / int_543a0278	comment	Villain Respect: Major Yu happily admits that Alex is clearly very capable, and when Alex turns up alive again after his escape from the snakehead's hospital he admits that he is "very difficult to kill." Desmond McCain also indicates a grudging respect for him, although this chiefly manifests itself in subjecting Alex to the worst torture he can imagine for his interrogation because he knows Alex is brave and clever enough to deceive him.
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Alex Rider / int_569a95e9	type	The Teetotaler
Alex Rider / int_569a95e9	comment	The Teetotaler: Alex has been offered alcohol on numerous occasions, but always refuses.
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Alex Rider / int_588d766f	type	BlackAndGreyMorality
Alex Rider / int_588d766f	comment	In fact, every intelligence service in the series often has darker shades of this. The CIA's director leans toward Pragmatic Hero while the head of ASIS is pretty much a Nominal Hero.
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Alex Rider / int_5937a87c	type	No Honor Among Thieves
Alex Rider / int_5937a87c	comment	No Honor Among Thieves: Doing business with the Big Bad often comes with a short life expectancy, especially when you try to blackmail them for more money.
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Alex Rider / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Alex Rider / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Nile's Death by Irony. Didn't help that he was on fire when he fell either. Razim suffers from a variation. He survives the fall, but dies immediately afterwards due to landing in an unstable pile of salt, which acts like quicksand and sucks him under and cooks him from the inside once it gets through his skin.
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Alex Rider / int_5c5d0032	type	Eyepatch of Power
Alex Rider / int_5c5d0032	comment	Eyepatch of Power: Subverted in Eagle Strike with Marc Antonio. Not only is he a mere photographer, but he's killed in the first and only chapter he's in. Played straight with Levi Kroll, whose gun went off while he was sleeping and shot him in the eye.
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Alex Rider / int_5d6f4033	type	Agonizing Stomach Wound
Alex Rider / int_5d6f4033	comment	Agonizing Stomach Wound: Yassen Gregorovich and Ash both spend several minutes slowly dying from taking bullets to the stomach.
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Alex Rider / int_5fc3eff4	type	Time Bomb
Alex Rider / int_5fc3eff4	comment	There's also one in Crocodile Tears: the explosive black pen Smithers gave him, which Alex had on hand when McCain's men kidnapped him and smuggled him to Kenya. In the final confrontation, it saves his life: Alex attaches the pen to a barrel of fuel before kicking the drum over to McCain, who monologues just enough to run out the timer Alex set.
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Alex Rider / int_605cf3f	type	Something Only They Would Say
Alex Rider / int_605cf3f	comment	Never Say Die reflects Alex's refusal to believe that Jack (after receiving an email using Something Only They Would Say) is dead. And in the chapter with that title, he is proven correct, and Jack drops the title.
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Alex Rider / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Alex Rider / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Doctor Grief, anyone? Or, y'know Herod Sayle? Or Damian Cray?
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Alex Rider / int_6503afa0	type	Teen Superspy
Alex Rider / int_6503afa0	comment	Teen Super Spy: Alex, obviously. This gets gradually deconstructed over the course of the series — the psychological impacts of getting involved in dangerous political games, learning to kill and going up against heavily armed murderers while being only 14 isn't glossed over, and Alex often has to be actively coerced to go on missions.
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Alex Rider / int_6552b710	type	The Syndicate
Alex Rider / int_6552b710	comment	The Syndicate: SCORPIA is basically the series' version of SPECTRE.
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Alex Rider / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Alex Rider / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Stormbreaker features a Big Bad named Herod Sayle, whose Evil Plan involves murdering thousands of children. Word of God says it's actually a pun on "Harrods sale". The Big Bad of Skeleton Key is named Alexei Sarov, and fittingly enough, he's the villain emotionally closest to Alex - or at least, he tries to be. He even lampshades the similarity of their names.
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Alex Rider / int_6c0e5342	type	No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine
Alex Rider / int_6c0e5342	comment	No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine: This happens frequently with Alex. He's dined with almost every one of the Big Bad's in each book. Taken to its logical extreme in Skeleton Key where the villain more or less tries to adopt him and treats him like his now-dead biological son, after Alex ends up getting captured. Much of the book is the Big Bad letting (or rather, forcing) Alex to live with him in his luxury home, getting him to take part in various activities (like horse riding) and telling Alex We Can Rule Together. And dining with him, of course. He even forbids his Mooks and The Dragon from harming him (the latter glefully disobeys) When Alex finally foils his Evil Plan and puts himself at his mercy, he chooses to shoot himself rather than kill him.
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Alex Rider / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Alex Rider / int_6d332aea	comment	Skeleton Key sports this trope as well; the penultimate chapter ends with the statement that Sarov, face to face with Alex, "raised his gun and fired a single shot". A few pages into the next chapter, it's revealed that Sarov shot himself after Alex rejected him as a father figure.
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Alex Rider / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Alex Rider / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Lots. Horowitz has confirmed that since the series takes a lot of inspiration from Bond, several female characters have punny names (though since this is a young adult series, obviously teen-friendly ones). Sabina Pleasure ("it's been a pleasure") is the most notable; others include Fiona Friend ("phone a friend"), Tamara Knight ("tomorrow night"), and Diana Meacher ("dying to meet you"). It's not just females: the Big Bad of Stormbreaker, Herod Sayle, is a pun on "Harrods sale." In Snakehead, the captain of the Liberian Star is Herman de Winter ("home in the winter") and the head doctor of the organ-harvesting camp is Bill Tanner ("bull tanner"). On the good guys' side, ASIS's disguise specialist is Chloe "Cloudy" Webber ("cloudy weather"). There's an unintentional one in Crocodile Tears, as jerkass journalist Harry Bulman is certainly a "horrible man." However Horowitz named him after a friend of his son.
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Alex Rider / int_6dc99d2a	type	Deadly Delivery
Alex Rider / int_6dc99d2a	comment	Deadly Delivery: In Scorpia, Alex does this to try to kill Mrs. Jones. Fails miserably in Scorpia Rising when Smithers uses an X-Ray scanner to prove that the delivery man was carrying a gun and the package was empty. He then gets rid of him with a trapdoor under a welcome mat.
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Alex Rider / int_6fdd991c	type	Overt Operative
Alex Rider / int_6fdd991c	comment	Overt Operative: This isn't a perfect example of this, in that the whole reason for using Alex Rider as a spy is that bad guys are supposed to think that he is Just a Kid. However, somehow the bad guys almost always find out who is really is and who he is working for, often by looking up his file in their Magical Database. Given how many times that his cover has been blown, it is amazing that he is still considered useful for covert operations. He remains useful due to his unique psychology - though he's an experienced and blooded agent, he doesn't act like one consistently. His enemies are used to Child Soldiers, but they aren't used to one being so stable. Alex's lifestyle and worldview(a schoolboy who keeps getting blackmailed into covert operations rather than a covert operative who takes time off to go to school) keep him psychologically healthy enough for people to keep seeing the "schoolboy" and forget that they're looking at a fighter capable of disabling men three times his size with his bare hands and causing millions in property damage with the contents of the average closet. Ironically enough, the fact that Alex is forbidden from ever carrying or using a gun is also a factor that probably contributes to his success. Without the recourse of direct violence to fall back on, Alex is constantly forced to think outside the box and resort to ideas and tactics that villains are unlikely to expect. It is noted in Crocodile Tears that Alan Blunt disapproves of the fact that Alex has gotten taller, because as he loses his youthful features he steadily becomes less useful to MI6 in this way. The CIA also seem to act like this: In Book 3, Turner carries a receipt from Langley, VA in his pocket, while the Creative Ideas Animation store provides such bad service that it's surprising no one's picked up on it. Plus, the fact that they use "C.I.A." as the initials of their front companies isn't exactly subtle. The terrorist organization that "took responsibility" for the bombing in Eagle Strike has the same initials, CST, as Damian Cray's videogame development company.
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Alex Rider / int_71e8a5c5	type	Trauma Conga Line
Alex Rider / int_71e8a5c5	comment	Trauma Conga Line: Alex's entire life, especially after becoming a spy. By the end of Scorpia Rising he has lost the only adult he truly trusted and is unlikely to ever really recover.
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Alex Rider / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Alex Rider / int_729c69f3	comment	Dr. Grief from Point Blanc is a pro-Apartheid, fascist-admiring white supremacist whose ultimate goal is to install the regime worldwide by seeding a brood of cloned heirs into positions of global power.
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Alex Rider / int_7570a10c	type	Bond Villain Stupidity
Alex Rider / int_7570a10c	comment	Alex lampshades this in Snakehead by saying in the narrative that the worst part about being a criminal is not being able to tell people about your crimes. And the villains usually bust out the Bond Villain Stupidity when they think that they're about to kill Alex.
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Alex Rider / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Alex Rider / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: Alex. He's been shot at, forced to watch people die, and stood face-to-face with pure evil. To add insult to injury, Jack is killed, and he is forced to shoot a person who looks just like him. All this has profoundly psychologically damaged him.
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Alex Rider / int_7bb844ec	type	Villain Decay
Alex Rider / int_7bb844ec	comment	Villain Decay: In-Universe example; Scorpia's credibility is seriously affected when a fourteen-year-old boy destroys two of their operations and (indirectly) kills two of their executives within a few months. The failure of their plan in Scorpia Rising results in the organisation disbanding.
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Alex Rider / int_7c0bfb83	type	Obviously Evil
Alex Rider / int_7c0bfb83	comment	In Skeleton Key when Conrad places Alex on a Sugar Grinder conveyor belt and threatens to grind him up if he doesn't talk. At first Alex attempts to lie but once that fails he spills everything. Conrad being the guy that he is, decides to... grind him him up anyways. Alex is only saved when Sarov interrupts.
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Alex Rider / int_7d49d74a	type	Cultural Translation
Alex Rider / int_7d49d74a	comment	Cultural Translation: The US editions persist in including Americanisms despite the fact that books 3 and 6 actually take place in America (and the CIA appear in book 9). Among other things, the exploding keyring of Michael Owen in Skeleton Key becomes one of Tiger Woods.
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Alex Rider / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Alex Rider / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Alex's been through a lot of crap, but he still manages to be Bad Ass. In Scorpia Rising, he gets his revenge on Razim after he kills Jack.
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Alex Rider / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Alex Rider / int_863fa679	comment	Henryk, the pilot who helped Damian Cray hijack Air Force One, appears to be a case of What Happened to the Mouse?, as he disappears from the narrative after the plane crashes. Alex later asks Mrs Jones what happened to him, simply because it was the only thing he didn't know, and she says he broke his neck when the plane crashed.
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Alex Rider / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Alex Rider / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: Although Alex has strong morals, MI6 (the people Alex serves) are cold and calculated, and black-mailed Alex into their service instead of actually letting him decide whether he wanted to serve or not. It's made even more appropriate by the fact that Alan Blunt, head of MI6 until the last book, is portrayed as being almost emotionless and entirely colourless; grey suit, grey hair, grey lips, grey eyes, grey life...
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Alex Rider / int_87b8f581	type	Refusal of the Call
Alex Rider / int_87b8f581	comment	Refusal of the Call: Alex refuses Blunt's initial request in the first book, but is forced to change his mind when Blunt outlines what will happen otherwise. Three books later in Eagle Strike, Alex decides that whatever Yassen is planning is not his business, but changes his mind when he realises that Yassen had been hired to assassinate Sabina's father. Alex expressly refuses to work for MI6 again in Nightshade, although he changes his mind when Mrs Jones reveals her personal connection to the eponymous organisation.
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Alex Rider / int_87e459b1	type	Shoehorned Acronym
Alex Rider / int_87e459b1	comment	Shoehorned Acronym: SCORPIA: Sabotage, CORruPtion, Intelligence, Assassination. More than half the letters are taken, more or less randomly, from one word. It's lampshaded and justified when they make their debut: "it was a fanciful name...but they had to call themselves something", and as a global network of spies they wanted a name that works in several different languages.
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Alex Rider / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Alex Rider / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Despite not being Horowitz's original intention, the series gradually becomes a deconstruction of the entire idea of spying being a cool or desirable occupation. It also rips the Kid Hero trope apart, demonstrating how traumatic, psychologically scarring and generally awful the whole ordeal has been for Alex. His consistent Refusal of the Call (and MI6 frequently finding ways to twist his arm into working for them anyway) is practically a darkly humorous Running Gag as the series goes on. The Thou Shalt Not Kill trope, which is almost invariably in place in the Young Adult Literature genre, is consistently defied throughout the series. While Alex has never actually directly shot anyone in cold blood (until Scorpia Rising), almost every book has one instance of him knowingly and deliberately acting to disable the villains in some way that he knows will most likely result in their deaths, often in extremely brutal ways. Such colorful methods of dispatching the villains include, but are not limited to: hiding a scorpion in a pack of cigarettes and asking the villain for a smoke (Scorpia Rising), attaching a delayed explosive to an oil barrel and rolling it over to the villain (Crocodile Tears), shoving a dinner cart into the villain and knocking him out the door of Air Force One, where he is sucked into a jet engine (Eagle Strike), and quite possibly the most audacious of all, stopping the villain from escaping in a helicopter by launching a snowmobile into it (Point Blank). On the villainous side, most of the villain's acts fit under the genre typical Cartoonish Supervillainy, with over the top doomsday devices and overly elaborate plans. But just check the length of the Complete Monster section on the YMMV page — the series plays both the kind of person who's willing to kill millions with Doomsday Device and the actual terror and destruction using one would cause completely straight.
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Alex Rider / int_8c49c29e	type	Zig-Zagging Trope
Alex Rider / int_8c49c29e	comment	The trope is also Zig-Zagged by the belt Smithers gives Alex, which has a knife hidden in the buckle and a jungle survival kit inside. When Alex is captured, Yu confiscates the belt, seemingly making it the first gadget in the series to be a Red Herring. However, the fact that it was taken away and Alex's other gadgets weren't proves to be an important plot point.
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Alex Rider / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Alex Rider / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: In Eagle Strike, we find out Yassen worked together with Alex's father, and tells him MI6 are the ones who killed him. In Scorpia, we meet Scorpia, the organization that hired John Rider, and learn more about his past, and then discover John was actually a mole for MI6; they faked his death so he could leave Scorpia. In Snakehead, we meet Ash, Alex's godfather, and get to learn more about John Rider before finding out that Ash was Evil All Along; too much snubbing from MI6 after a mission that was an Epic Fail, he became a mole for Scorpia. And how did he earn their trust? He was the one who killed Alex's parents. Being originally intended as the final book (before being relegated to Series Fauxnale status after Horowitz decided to revive the series), Scorpia Rising is naturally this, but the Wham Chapter is unquestionably "Hell is Here". Horowitz said before the book was released that somebody who had appeared in all eight books previously would die in this one, and it's in this chapter that it happens: Jack is killed off.note Although she is later revealed to have actually survived in Never Say Die, it is clear that Horowitz absolutely intended her death to be real and retconned her survival in to NSD Although deaths were hardly uncommon in the series, Jack is the only major recurring character ever to die (unless you include Yassen), and the way in which she is killed off — it happens as part of an experiment so Razim can see how much emotional pain hurts — is far crueller than anything else that ever happens in the series, not least because it provides a Hope Spot by switching to her perspective before it is revealed her escape is all part of Razim's experiment. In any other book the reader might have expected she would escape, but not this time.
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Alex Rider / int_8e92e125	type	Lawyer-Friendly Cameo
Alex Rider / int_8e92e125	comment	Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: The Prime Minister in Stormbreaker. Whilst never named, the tie-in book Alex Rider: The Mission Files states that "Education is at the heart of his government's manifesto". The newly-elected, incompetent Prime Minister in Crocodile Tears (released a few months before the 2010 General Election) is, if not David Cameron, clearly intended as a Conservative. And the US secretary of State from Scorpia Rising is obviously Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Alex Rider / int_8ee823b6	type	Knife-Throwing Act
Alex Rider / int_8ee823b6	comment	Knife-Throwing Act: Mr Grin in Stormbreaker used to be part of a knife-throwing act in which he would catch a knife between his teeth during the act's finale. As a result of the act going horribly wrong, he now sports a Glasgow Grin and has difficulty speaking properly.
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Alex Rider / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Alex Rider / int_9245d989	comment	Desmond McCain from Crocodile Tears is a Sinister Minister who insidiously wields a public image of faith and goodwill to accrue capital with his fake charity First Aid, usually through engineered disasters like a C4-triggered nuclear explosion. His plot in the book? To kill millions with Ricin-laced crops just so he can profit from the fallout.
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Alex Rider / int_95265081	type	Leeroy Jenkins
Alex Rider / int_95265081	comment	Leeroy Jenkins: Alex sometimes veers into this, especially in between missions. It's lampshaded in book two when he causes a lot of damage with a crane. Albeit because he didn't finish what he planned and things just fell out of shape.
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Alex Rider / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Alex Rider / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Sayle at the end of Stormbreaker holds Alex at gunpoint while screaming at him for ruining his decades-long Evil Plan. Nikolei Drevin in Ark Angel after accidentally shooting his own son. Desmond McCain goes through this at the end of Crocodile Tears. After having his plan to unleash a devastating plague across the face of Africa foiled by Alex, he confronts Alex with a gun, demanding that just for once, Alex grovel and cry in front of him like the child he's supposed to be. Some people just can't handle having a kid get the better of them. It was mentioned in Scorpia Rising that Julius Grief suffered from this a few times, and at one point tried to destroy his face with his own nails. He also has a miniature one at the end of Point Blanc, screaming to Alex about how he had ruined everything and killed his father, but quickly recovers and tries to kill Alex. Eva Stellenbosch does this as well. Cool, calculating, emotionless Razim has one at the end of Scorpia Rising.]
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Alex Rider / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Alex Rider / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: How exactly Scorpia found out John Rider was still alive is posed in at least two of the books, but is never answered.
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Alex Rider / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Alex Rider / int_970c790a	comment	And the time in Crocodile Tears where Alex was dangling over a pool of crocodiles and told Desmond McCain EVERYTHING rather quickly. Alex is only saved when Ravi interrupts.
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Alex Rider / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Alex Rider / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: A lot of Julia Rothman's (and the other Scorpia members) actions take on a new meaning on a second reading of Scorpia, as do Force Three in a reread of Ark Angel and Ash in Snakehead.
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Alex Rider / int_98ce21fe	type	Long-Running Book Series
Alex Rider / int_98ce21fe	comment	Long-Running Book Series: Has been around since the turn of the millennium, with ten entries in the main series, one prequel, a short story collection, several tie-ins and more books in the main series still to come as of 2020.
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Alex Rider / int_9afa05c7	type	Family-Unfriendly Death
Alex Rider / int_9afa05c7	comment	Family-Unfriendly Death: The books, have had some very graphic and almost cringe-worthy deaths. Some of these include being stung to death by a Portuguese man-o-war, falling sixty stories down an elevator shaft, being blown up in a helicopter by a flying snowmobile, being impaled by a set of underwater spikes, having their back broken by a large magnet because of all the metal in their body and then drowning because of the weight, being crushed in a giant bottle by falling quarters, getting sucked into the engine of Air Force One with the remains being described as a "cloud of red gas," being stung by a suitcase full of scorpions, being sent back to Earth from space after being hit with a giant fireball, being crushed by a falling hot air balloon platform, having a hole blown in their chest by a medallion made of cesium while showering, having the top half of their plane fall on them before it explodes, and the most out-therenote Literally! death of them all: floating backwards into a zero-g floating knife which impales him through the back of his head. Anthony Horowitz is one sick individual. The main villain of Snakehead, meanwhile, is killed by having every bone in his body smashed to bits by the vibrations of a bomb going off underwater as he's riding away in a yacht. The result is described as still looking like a human for roughly half a second before collapsing into an unrecognisable heap of skin and gore. In the first chapter of Crocodile Tears alone, a devastating nuclear disaster is set off. We hear what happens to those in the room where the first explosion is triggered. Graphically. The first chapter. (Then the book's Dragon gets eaten by crocodiles, and the Big Bad himself gets blown up by a drum full of jet fuel. Really, child's play for Horowitz.) The Dragon of Scorpia Rising gets stung by a scorpion AND smashed in the nose with a gun AND breaks his neck in a fall. Of course Horowitz one-ups that with the book's Big Bad cooking from the inside out in a pile of salt.
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Alex Rider / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
Alex Rider / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: Zeljan Kurst, leader of Scorpia.
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Alex Rider / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
Alex Rider / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: Nile from Scorpia has acrophobia. Take a wild guess how he dies. Out of all the ways for Major Winston Yu to die, it was his osteoporosis that got to him.
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Alex Rider / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Alex Rider / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Especially glaring in Never Say Die. So, the Grimaldi brothers have captured Alex, and have him tied to a chair. Both of them are ex-members of SCORPIA who knew several of the members whom Alex had entangled with in the past, even name dropping some of them like Julia Rothman and Razim. They both blame Alex for the downfall of said organisation. How do they decide to kill him? By having Stallone drive him to a remote cliff, and using "Cement Shoes" to drop him to the bottom of the ocean. Naturally, Alex is saved from drowning by awaiting MI6 agents. What makes it worse is that both brothers admit that they should just put a bullet through Alex, but don't, because "They were brought up in a proper Mafia family."
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Alex Rider / int_a0a838fe	type	Bait-and-Switch Gunshot
Alex Rider / int_a0a838fe	comment	Bait-and-Switch Gunshot: In Stormbreaker, Sayle is about to shot Alex on a rooftop. Alex closes his eyes and hears two shots. When he realises he hasn't been shot, he opens his eyes and discovers that Yassen has just executed Sayle. At the climax of Skeleton Key, Sarov pulls the trigger. We then find Sarov shot himself.
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Alex Rider / int_a1d70162	type	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
Alex Rider / int_a1d70162	comment	Played straight with Levi Kroll, whose gun went off while he was sleeping and shot him in the eye.
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Alex Rider / int_a2b998a0	type	Wouldn't Hurt a Child
Alex Rider / int_a2b998a0	comment	Yassen is a professional assassin, but even he refuses to kill children and anyone not strictly on his list of targets.
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Alex Rider / int_a32334b4	type	Canon Discontinuity
Alex Rider / int_a32334b4	comment	The short story "Alex Underground", originally published in a newspaper, inexplicably features the return of a minor villain from Ark Angel who was killed off in full view of Alex. There is also nowhere it can fit into the series' canon, as there is no opportunity for it to take place between any of the books from Ark Angel onwards (although given the series has since been revived, it could possibly go after Never Say Die). It was likely omitted from the two short story collections for these reasons, perhaps rendering it Canon Discontinuity.
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Alex Rider / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Alex Rider / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Zig-Zagged by Jack, who is a minor character in the first three books, sometimes only appearing for a single one-page scene, promoted to a major character in Eagle Strike, Demoted to Extra in Scorpia, then plays a middling role in the next three books (not as big as in Eagle Strike, but still considerably more than the others), then has a major part again in Scorpia Rising. The question of whether or not she is still alive is the driving force behind Never Say Die, and she reappears at the climax.
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Alex Rider / int_a8a4b41e	type	Not So Stoic
Alex Rider / int_a8a4b41e	comment	Not So Stoic: Razim displays strong emotions for the first time in his life during his Villainous Breakdown. Alex notes that when Alan Blunt gets angry over his accusations against Damian Cray in Eagle Strike, it is the first time he has ever shown any emotion at all (and it occurs to him that not many people disagree with Blunt to his face). Later, in Scorpia, Blunt is visibly afraid about what will happen if Scorpia's plan succeeds, and it is this that finally coerces Alex to agree to help him again; he compliments Alex for the first time after the COBRA meeting; and when he tells Alex the truth about how his parents died at the end of the book there is audible pain in his voice, and he attempts to comfort Alex for the only time in the series. In Snakehead, when Alex confronts him over how his treatment of Ash lead him to defect to Scorpia, he has the good grace to look embarrassed.
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Alex Rider / int_ac320c0e	type	Nuke 'em
Alex Rider / int_ac320c0e	comment	Nuke 'em: The crux of Damian Cray's eponymous plan in Eagle Strike. Sarov intends to kill millions of people by nuking a nuclear submarine repair shipyard, making it look like an accident, and blaming it on the Russian government's incompetence.
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Alex Rider / int_ad9559e6	type	Arc Villain
Alex Rider / int_ad9559e6	comment	Arc Villain: Each book's Big Bad serves as the villain for that book alone; even though Scorpia, the Big Bad of the entire series, are the villains of four of the books, in each case there is one member of their executive board charged with carrying out a scheme who serves as that book's specific Big Bad.
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Alex Rider / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Alex Rider / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Alex makes it a point to casually make jokes and insults about the Big Bads just to make them angry. By the end of Scorpia Rising, however, he seems to have stopped.
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Alex Rider / int_aec63727	type	Pragmatic Hero
Alex Rider / int_aec63727	comment	Alex Rider: Pragmatic Hero -> Unscrupulous Hero
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Alex Rider / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
Alex Rider / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: Conrad, The Dragon of Skeleton Key, is said to have been blown up by a bomb whilst he was carrying it and surgically put back together. Horowitz seems to have later decided this was too extreme to be credible (especially given the Shown Their Work nature of the series), as the Mission Files tie-in book altered it to a bomb in the boot of his car detonating whilst he was driving it to an army base he was planning to plant it in. Horowitz also seems to think that Dr Grief's name was a little too on-the-nose, as the same book reveals his real name is Johannes de Leede. In "Never Say Die", it is revealed Jack's death was a fabrication of Razim's, and the film of her death Alex was shown was edited, then played to Alex to make it look like it was happening live. Whilst this explanation is credible with the chapter that actually depicts her death, it is harder to reconcile her survival with Julius and Razim both repeatedly stating later on that they killed her at a point when there is no reason to continue the charade.
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Alex Rider / int_b25b4758	type	Collapsed Mid-Speech
Alex Rider / int_b25b4758	comment	Collapsed Mid-Speech: One victim goes out this way.
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Alex Rider / int_b26cc887	type	Just Between You and Me
Alex Rider / int_b26cc887	comment	Just Between You and Me: Every book. The exception is Scorpia, where Alex and the COBRA cabinet manage to work out the plan themselves.
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Alex Rider / int_b39b94da	type	Born Lucky
Alex Rider / int_b39b94da	comment	Born Lucky: Alex is clever and resourceful, but there have been more than a few times where he's escaped from life or death situations by luck alone: During the climax of Skeleton Key, Alex is only able to survive his encounter with Conrad because the latter's body is held together with metal plates, and the magnetic crane being used for the Evil Plan is in exactly the right spot to attract them. In Scorpia, Alex is able to dodge a sword thrown at his throat because he catches a glint of sunlight reflecting off the blade. During the ending, he is shot by a sniper, but survives because he stepped off a sidewalk at the moment the bullet would have hit his heart. Alex's luck becomes a point of contention over the villains' plan in Scorpia Rising:
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Alex Rider / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Alex Rider / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: In the CIA and ASIS, the secret intelligence agencies for the US and Australia respectively, most of the subordinates are horrified to work with or test a teenager out in the field, though they follow orders. CIA Agent Troy admits that she's being a jerk to Alex because he's the same age as her nephews.
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Alex Rider / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Alex Rider / int_b53077b3	comment	And later on the CIA actually waterboard Alex, though he is later apologized to by Joe Byrne. The same people use torture for..."good" later to obtain a password so they can enter and storm Razim's fortress.
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Alex Rider / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
Alex Rider / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: Alex's father, John Rider falls into this territory, although he's also a Posthumous Character. Every description of him and his work as a soldier/spy/assassin is full of practically nothing but praise, and even Alan Blunt is described as having a soft spot for him.
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Alex Rider / int_b6203862	type	Interquel
Alex Rider / int_b6203862	comment	Interquel: Although the main body of Russian Roulette is a Prequel, the Framing Device is set immediately before, and during, the final chapter of Stormbreaker. All of the stories in Secret Weapon are set between, or even during, other books in the series (apart from "Christmas at Gunpoint", which is set shortly before Stormbreaker).
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Alex Rider / int_b7d2dbed	type	Tonight, Someone Dies
Alex Rider / int_b7d2dbed	comment	Tonight, Someone Dies: Anthony Horowitz's description of Scorpia Rising promised the death of a major character, one who had appeared in each and every book so far. As it turns out, the book led readers to believe that this would be Smithers, but it ended up being Jack Starbright. Inverted by Scorpia, where the reaction to the ending required Horowitz to publicly confirm that Alex was not dead and begin work on Ark Angel straight away.
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Alex Rider / int_bd6bde69	type	Villain Reveals the Secret
Alex Rider / int_bd6bde69	comment	Villain Reveals the Secret: Most of the Big Bads are guilty of Just Between You and Me, but a few others are guilty of giving away other secrets. Yassen ends up revealing to Alex that his father was a member of Scorpia at the end of Eagle Strike, prompting his Faceâ€“Heel Turn in Scorpia. Later in Snakehead, it is Ash who is forced by Yu to reveal how he killed Alex's parents.
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Alex Rider / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Alex Rider / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Alex Rider: Pragmatic Hero -> Unscrupulous Hero MI6: Varies, but if the situation requires blackmail or violence, they'll do it without hesitation. In fact, every intelligence service in the series often has darker shades of this. The CIA's director leans toward Pragmatic Hero while the head of ASIS is pretty much a Nominal Hero.
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Alex Rider / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Alex Rider / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: SCORPIA: Sabotage, CORruPtion, Intelligence, Assassination. In fairness "corruption" can be abbreviated "CORR" in a computing context, but the P is a bit of a stretch. The narration remarks at one point that whoever came up with the name "had probably read too much James Bond". Lampshaded in the prequel Russian Roulette. The CIA's various regional headquarters in different countries and states are named with the exact same initials—Centurion International Advertising in Miami, Creative Ideas Animation in New York, and Cairo Islamic Authority in, well, Cairo.
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Alex Rider / int_c3b760ed	type	ZigZaggedTrope
Alex Rider / int_c3b760ed	comment	Zigzagged with Major Yu. His reasons for not immediately killing Alex the first time are understandable (albeit risky), since Alex's attacks on his various underworld businesses up to that point have made a heavy dent in his profits and his plan will allow him to recoup some of his losses. Much less excusable is their second encounter, where he wastes precious time allowing Ash to explain his betrayal, giving Alex the time he needs for reinforcements to arrive and thwart his plot.
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Alex Rider / int_c3db1619	type	ZigZagged
Alex Rider / int_c3db1619	comment	Zig-Zagged with Nikolei Drevin and his son Paul. Alex is horrified when Nikolai admits that he arranged for Paul's kidnapping, and was going to have Paul lose a finger since no one would suspect a father of hurting his beloved child. On the other hand, Drevin suffers a Villainous Breakdown when he shoots Paul while aiming for Alex, though Paul survives.
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Alex Rider / int_c5ccf60f	type	Internal Reveal
Alex Rider / int_c5ccf60f	comment	Internal Reveal: In Scorpia Rising, the reader is aware from the beginning that Alex's mission is a trap to deliver him to Scorpia. In Snakehead, the reader learns that Major Yu already knows that Alex is disguised as an Afghan boy long before Alex himself does.
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Alex Rider / int_c7eaae49	type	Renegade Russian
Alex Rider / int_c7eaae49	comment	Renegade Russian: Yassen Gregorovich, a contract killer who appears in Stormbreaker and Eagle Strike. General Alexei Sarov, a disillusioned former Soviet general who wants his country back.
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Alex Rider / int_c82e751f	type	Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Alex Rider / int_c82e751f	comment	Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Some of Alex's escapes. In Scorpia Rising, he escapes because he had a scorpion hidden in a cigarette packet which he'd captured whilst in his cell, which he then placed in the van and tricked Erik Gunter into opening. The only thing the reader knows about this before it happens is that there is a nest of scorpions in Alex's cell.
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Alex Rider / int_c9c756a8	type	Child Soldiers
Alex Rider / int_c9c756a8	comment	He remains useful due to his unique psychology - though he's an experienced and blooded agent, he doesn't act like one consistently. His enemies are used to Child Soldiers, but they aren't used to one being so stable. Alex's lifestyle and worldview(a schoolboy who keeps getting blackmailed into covert operations rather than a covert operative who takes time off to go to school) keep him psychologically healthy enough for people to keep seeing the "schoolboy" and forget that they're looking at a fighter capable of disabling men three times his size with his bare hands and causing millions in property damage with the contents of the average closet.
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Alex Rider / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
Alex Rider / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: Perhaps as a result of being the first entry in the series after a long hiatus, Never Say Die contains several of these: the characters of Wolf and Fox are conflated, and their previous meeting is referred to as when Alex took on "the gang known as Snakehead", when — as the original book made clear — a snakehead is a type of gang. The Sequel Hook at the end also mentions that MI6's captive is currently being held hostage at the secret facility on Gibraltar from Scorpia Rising, even though at the end of that book Mrs Jones decided to shut the facility down, although the short timeframe of the series means it is possible it just hasn't been closed down yet. (The first of these was corrected when the book was reprinted.) Russian Roulette directly contradicts what is revealed about Yassen in the main series multiple times, as the book leaves nowhere that the operation in Mdina described by Ash in Snakehead can possibly take place, and also reveals that Yassen was aware that John Rider was secretly a double agent, which Eagle Strike suggests he never knew.
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Alex Rider / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Alex Rider / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Word of God says it's actually a pun on "Harrods sale".
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Alex Rider / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Alex Rider / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: The first time Alex tries to tell Sabina the truth about his double life, she thinks he's joking. The second time, in the aftermath of Damian Cray's attempted assassination of her father, she accuses him of being a fantasist and attempts to break off all contact with him, and it is only when Cray abducts her to blackmail Alex that she realises he was telling the truth.
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Alex Rider / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Alex Rider / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Yassen, a Hitman with a Heart, who Wouldn't Hurt a Child. General Alexei Sarov, an Affably Evil Well-Intentioned Extremist, who wants to adopt Alex.
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Alex Rider / int_d1fc4a16	type	Please Spare Him, My Liege!
Alex Rider / int_d1fc4a16	comment	Alex seems to be this for Yassen, who in Eagle Strike first arranges him to "die" in a bullfight so that Alex can escape and then tries Please Spare Him, My Liege! on Damian Cray.
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Alex Rider / int_d2b18a18	type	Holiday in Cambodia
Alex Rider / int_d2b18a18	comment	Holiday in Cambodia: In Snakehead, Alex has to inflitrate a Southeast Asian people smuggling ring. He travels to Bangkok where, in addition to to dealing with the people smugglers, he is forced to fight in an underground Muay Thai tournament.
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Alex Rider / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Alex Rider / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Not uncommon for the antagonists in the series. Nadia Vole is stung to death by the Portuguese Man-of-War that she tried to use to kill Alex. Julia Rothman is flattened by the satellites on the hot air balloon needed to initiate Invisible Sword. Kaspar gets a knife from Ark Angel to try and kill Alex, only to get fatally stabbed by it. Winston Yu is killed by the same bomb he was planning to use in his scheme. Myra Bennett tries to feed Alex to several crocodiles in a pool of water. Guess who falls in the pool? Hint: not Alex. Razim ends up getting sucked into/cooked from the inside out by his own salt pit.
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Alex Rider / int_d3aad64a	type	Morally Ambiguous Doctorate
Alex Rider / int_d3aad64a	comment	Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Dr Hugo Grief. There's also a Scorpia member named Dr Light.
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Alex Rider / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Alex Rider / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Basically the main reason Alex works so well as a spy for MI6, as nobody heâ€™s investigating would expect a teenage boy to even be a spy in the first place, let alone be so good at it; even when he has â€˜rematchesâ€™ with Scorpia, the agents dealing with him continue to underestimate his capabilities.
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Alex Rider / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Alex Rider / int_d7b34c31	comment	In Ark Angel when Alex tells Kaspar that he's not Paul Drevin when one of the nameless Mooks attempts to cut off one of his fingers. Kaspar threatens to kill Alex if it turns out he's not really Paul Drevin but they purposely allow him to escape the death trap they built for him as it is all part of Nikolei Drevin's master plan.
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Alex Rider / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
Alex Rider / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	There was another example of this in Snakehead: the battery from the tracking device in his shoe, which Alex uses to power his watch/homing device, allowing MI6's copters to rescue him. The trope is also Zig-Zagged by the belt Smithers gives Alex, which has a knife hidden in the buckle and a jungle survival kit inside. When Alex is captured, Yu confiscates the belt, seemingly making it the first gadget in the series to be a Red Herring. However, the fact that it was taken away and Alex's other gadgets weren't proves to be an important plot point.
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Alex Rider / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Alex Rider / int_dbca2c99	comment	In Scorpia Rising, all of the gadgets end up being Red Herrings, as they are designed by Smithers so Alex can spy on Gunter at the CICAE, which is itself a Red Herring designed to lure Alex out to Cairo. They disappear from the narrative entirely once Alex and Jack have been captured by Razim. The sole exception is the one Alex uses to break into Gunter's office (which is not given to him with the rest when Smithers first arrives, but sent later when Alex asks him for help), as the fact that Alex would do that (and find the photographs which lead him to the secret passage in the Grand Hall) was apparently not anticipated.
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Alex Rider / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Alex Rider / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Julius Grief, with a six-book gap between his unknown fate at the dÃ©nouement of Point Blanc and his reappearance as The Dragon in Scorpia Rising. Within Crocodile Tears, Rahim qualifies in a heroic sense, saving Alex's life once at the beginning of the book and twice towards the end. A villainous example in Ark Angel: Kaspar, both his reappearance in the disguise of Magnus Payne and his presence on Ark Angel. The Gunman in Russian Roulette is Vladimir Sharkovsky, who appears at the end is as Yassen's first assassination.
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Alex Rider / int_ddbbcf6a	type	Idiosyncratic Cover Art
Alex Rider / int_ddbbcf6a	comment	Idiosyncratic Cover Art: The most recent set of UK reprints.
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Alex Rider / int_df2b3ec	type	Kindly Housekeeper
Alex Rider / int_df2b3ec	comment	Kindly Housekeeper: Jack is a bit younger than most examples of this trope, but she still fits.
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Alex Rider / int_df41acb	type	Casual Danger Dialogue
Alex Rider / int_df41acb	comment	Casual Danger Dialogue: Alex is quite nonchalant sometimes about the various deathtraps and problems he faces...
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Alex Rider / int_df582b0b	type	Continuity Snarl
Alex Rider / int_df582b0b	comment	Continuity Snarl: In Eagle Strike, when Yassen is telling Alex about his father, Alex outright asks him if he worked for MI6, and Yassen answers "no" - which, in light of Scorpia, suggests that Yassen was never aware of who John Rider was really working for. However, Russian Roulette shows that Yassen at the very least had strong reason to suspect that he did know the truth about John, and the only way to reconcile this with the earlier books is to say that Yassen was outright lying on that point in Eagle Strike, even though it doesn't tally with anything else he says. The short story "Alex Underground", originally published in a newspaper, inexplicably features the return of a minor villain from Ark Angel who was killed off in full view of Alex. There is also nowhere it can fit into the series' canon, as there is no opportunity for it to take place between any of the books from Ark Angel onwards (although given the series has since been revived, it could possibly go after Never Say Die). It was likely omitted from the two short story collections for these reasons, perhaps rendering it Canon Discontinuity.
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Alex Rider / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
Alex Rider / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Jack gets pretty angry when Alex is manipulated into joining one mission after another. Master Yu reveals that his mother was this; after working several years as a cleaning lady, she was determined to get him a good education. She became an assassin, and used the money to pay for his private school bills. When one boy was bullying Yu, she killed him by running a car over him. Although Yu was shocked on learning this, he admired his mother a lot.
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Alex Rider / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
Alex Rider / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: Scorpia's symbol is a silver scorpion, and when Max Grendel retires a suitcase full of scorpions is used to assassinate him. Ironically, a scorpion proves to be their downfall in Scorpia Rising when Alex uses the nest of scorpions in his cell as a Spanner in the Works and foils their latest Evil Plan, leaving the organisation such a laughing stock that it disbands.
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Alex Rider / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
Alex Rider / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Alex seems to be this for Yassen, who in Eagle Strike first arranges him to "die" in a bullfight so that Alex can escape and then tries Please Spare Him, My Liege! on Damian Cray. Zig-Zagged with Nikolei Drevin and his son Paul. Alex is horrified when Nikolai admits that he arranged for Paul's kidnapping, and was going to have Paul lose a finger since no one would suspect a father of hurting his beloved child. On the other hand, Drevin suffers a Villainous Breakdown when he shoots Paul while aiming for Alex, though Paul survives. Subverted with Ash; while he is truly regretful on Alex revealing he figured out that Ash was The Mole for ASIS, actually working for Scorpia, showed no qualms about getting Alex involved in a spy operation that nearly ends up fatal. Ash is also forced to reveal that he's the one who killed Alex's parents by planting a bomb in their plane. He does offer Alex a way out without telling him the truth, but Alex stays because he wants to know more about his father.
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Alex Rider / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Alex Rider / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: The series contains several expies (ranging from thinly-veiled to better concealed) of various celebrities and politicians. It can be said that Damian Cray is basically an evil Elton John. Due to his penchant for vivisection and his admiration of Hitler, Dr. Grief may be an expy of Josef Mengele.
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Alex Rider / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Alex Rider / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Pretty much every Big Bad the series introduces is pretty despicable, but a handful (including some secondary antagonists) have qualities that make them stand out among the rest. Dr. Grief from Point Blanc is a pro-Apartheid, fascist-admiring white supremacist whose ultimate goal is to install the regime worldwide by seeding a brood of cloned heirs into positions of global power. Desmond McCain from Crocodile Tears is a Sinister Minister who insidiously wields a public image of faith and goodwill to accrue capital with his fake charity First Aid, usually through engineered disasters like a C4-triggered nuclear explosion. His plot in the book? To kill millions with Ricin-laced crops just so he can profit from the fallout. From the same book we're given an unusual example in the tabloid journalist Harold "Harry" Bulman. Though hardly an evil person, he's a Dirty Coward Smug Snake with a daft and vacuous sort of narcissism who cares more about his own journalism prospects than Alex's dignity and privacy (to the point of staging an attempt on Alex's life just to observe him in action). Other stray details like his dishonorable military discharge and his implied intention to court Jack further paint a contemptible picture of the man, and watching MI6 exact their calculated wrath upon him through the chilling Invisible Man project to protect Alex is grimly satisfying.
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Alex Rider / int_e70127	type	The Mole
Alex Rider / int_e70127	comment	In Scorpia, we meet Scorpia, the organization that hired John Rider, and learn more about his past, and then discover John was actually a mole for MI6; they faked his death so he could leave Scorpia.
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Alex Rider / int_e83f211c	comment	Alex notes that when Alan Blunt gets angry over his accusations against Damian Cray in Eagle Strike, it is the first time he has ever shown any emotion at all (and it occurs to him that not many people disagree with Blunt to his face). Later, in Scorpia, Blunt is visibly afraid about what will happen if Scorpia's plan succeeds, and it is this that finally coerces Alex to agree to help him again; he compliments Alex for the first time after the COBRA meeting; and when he tells Alex the truth about how his parents died at the end of the book there is audible pain in his voice, and he attempts to comfort Alex for the only time in the series. In Snakehead, when Alex confronts him over how his treatment of Ash lead him to defect to Scorpia, he has the good grace to look embarrassed.
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Alex Rider / int_eaa1c5b5	comment	Sequel Number Snarl: Due to debate about whether or not Russian Roulette and Secret Weapon should be counted in the series' numbering, the forthcoming Nightshade has been variously described as the eleventh, twelfth or thirteenth book in the series.
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Alex Rider / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: In Scorpia, Alex is implied to have done this to a bully in the past. During the attempted kidnapping in Ark Angel, Alex hits Spectacles between the legs with a 10 kg oxygen cylinder. Also happens to an unnamed, unlucky mook who runs across Alex during his escape from the Liberian Star.
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Alex Rider / int_ec0bf4a1	type	Take Over the World
Alex Rider / int_ec0bf4a1	comment	Take Over the World: Dr Hugo Grief is the only Big Bad of the series to play this trope straight. Every other villain has a different motive altogether, despite the fact that many of them could easily aim for world domination if they wished (Damian Cray's plan involves him taking control of the entire United States nuclear arsenal, but he intends to use it to destroy the sources of the world's drug supplies,note Although the fallout of Cray's plan could very well have caused the end of the world and even though Invisible Sword could hold the world to ransom it is developed by Scorpia for the purposes of destabilising the British-American "special relationship").
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Alex Rider / int_ef21c962	comment	Hired Help as Family: Alex and Jack's relationship. Several years prior to the start of the series, Jack came to London as a student and was employed by Alex's uncle as a housekeeper and as a babysitter for Alex. She went on to become Alex's close friend and big sister figure. After the death of his uncle, she also becomes his legal guardian.
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Alex Rider / int_f2d8e3c2	comment	Sayle at the end of Stormbreaker holds Alex at gunpoint while screaming at him for ruining his decades-long Evil Plan.
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Alex Rider / int_f51f4509	comment	Tagline: Originally the series' tagline was "Alex Rider, the reluctant teenage spy" (which gets dropped in context in Scorpia Rising). More recently this has changed to the original tagline for Stormbreaker, "Alex Rider - you're never too young to die". Several other books in the series have had their own taglines too: Point Blanc has had at least three, used on various different editions; early reprints used "Alex Rider - we need you again" (where the original just used "From the author of the bestselling Stormbreaker"), although the audiobook used "I cannot be killed, Alex - the world is already mine...", and later versions used "High in the Alps, death waits for Alex Rider". Skeleton Key: "Alex Rider's in deep water" (used on certain reprints, replacing "The thrilling sequel to Point Blanc") Eagle Strike: "Alex Rider has 90 minutes to save the world" Scorpia: "Once bitten, twice as deadly. Alex Rider wants revenge" Ark Angel: "Alex Rider is back - and this time there are no limits" Snakehead: "Alex Rider bites back" Crocodile Tears: "Alex Rider - in the jaws of death..." Scorpia Rising: "One bullet, one life. The end starts here."
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Alex Rider / int_f8600b	comment	Cool Big Sis: Jack is actually Alex's housekeeper, but he appears to think of her more as one of these.
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Alex Rider / int_f88f2449	type	Downer Beginning
Alex Rider / int_f88f2449	comment	Downer Beginning: Stormbreaker opens with Alex learning of the death of his uncle. Russian Roulette begins with Yassen's family and friends all dying horribly, and the village he grew up in being not just destroyed, but quite literally wiped off the map.
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Alex Rider / int_f9c3ecc6	comment	Being originally intended as the final book (before being relegated to Series Fauxnale status after Horowitz decided to revive the series), Scorpia Rising is naturally this, but the Wham Chapter is unquestionably "Hell is Here". Horowitz said before the book was released that somebody who had appeared in all eight books previously would die in this one, and it's in this chapter that it happens: Jack is killed off.note Although she is later revealed to have actually survived in Never Say Die, it is clear that Horowitz absolutely intended her death to be real and retconned her survival in to NSD Although deaths were hardly uncommon in the series, Jack is the only major recurring character ever to die (unless you include Yassen), and the way in which she is killed off — it happens as part of an experiment so Razim can see how much emotional pain hurts — is far crueller than anything else that ever happens in the series, not least because it provides a Hope Spot by switching to her perspective before it is revealed her escape is all part of Razim's experiment. In any other book the reader might have expected she would escape, but not this time.
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Alex Rider / int_fb6b207f	comment	Then in Scorpia Rising it's You Killed My Housekeeper, as Alex goes back to thwart the people who killed the only adult who loved him.
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Alex Rider / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The author often goes into unnecessary amounts of detail, most frequently to describe the model of gun that a soldier/guard/assassin is using or the amount of litres per hour the engine of a vehicle uses. It makes the mistakes stand out a lot. Anthony Horowitz does a great deal of research to get specifics right; he notes that the only things he's been unable to do are visit space and go on board Air Force One.
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Alex Rider	hasFeature	When the Clock Strikes Twelve / int_fe94578f
Alex Rider	hasFeature	Why Are You Not My Son? / int_fe94578f
Alex Rider	hasFeature	Wicked Cultured / int_fe94578f
Alex Rider	hasFeature	Won't Get Fooled Again / int_fe94578f
Alex Rider	hasFeature	Word Association Test / int_fe94578f
Alex Rider	hasFeature	Working Title / int_fe94578f
Alex Rider	hasFeature	Worst News Judgment Ever / int_fe94578f
Alex Rider	hasFeature	Wouldn't Hurt a Child / int_fe94578f
Alex Rider	hasFeature	You Can't Thwart Stage One / int_fe94578f
Alex Rider	hasFeature	You Have No Chance to Survive / int_fe94578f
Alex Rider	hasFeature	Young Adult Literature / int_fe94578f
Alex Rider	hasFeature	You're Insane! / int_fe94578f
Alex Rider	hasFeature	Assimilation Academy / int_fe94578f
Alex Rider	hasFeature	Compulsory School Age / int_fe94578f
Alex Rider	hasFeature	School for Scheming / int_fe94578f
Alex Rider	hasFeature	Teen Superspy / int_fe94578f

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