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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 Roulettenote 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. (2013)Never Say Dienote Retitled as Steel Claw in some countries (2017)Secret Weaponnote 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" (2019)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, with at least one more book in the series to come (tentatively pencilled in for 2023).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 has been commissioned that adapts Eagle Strike.
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Alex Rider / int_1207d30	type	Villain's Dying Grace
Alex Rider / int_1207d30	comment	Villain's Dying Grace: It is very implicit, possibly unintentional, and doesn't earn him any sympathy from the good guys in the wake of everything else revealed before he dies. But when Ash regains consciousness long enough to reveal that he had been a mole for Scorpia all alongâ€”and more than that, that he had been the one to kill Alex's parentsâ€”Major Yu, who held Alex at gunpoint, chose to put off shooting Alex until the exposition was finished, which bought just enough time for Alex's reinforcements to save him. He was beyond Alex's forgiveness, but his last actions still saved Alex's life.
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Alex Rider / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
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_131ca891	type	Literal Surveillance Bug
Alex Rider / int_131ca891	comment	Literal Surveillance Bug: Scorpia Rising, when Smithers disguises an electronic bug as a dead cockroach.
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Alex Rider / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
Alex Rider / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: Fiona Friend ends up having a crush on Alex after he saves her life, although he very much doesn't reciprocate her feelings. This leads to a Woman Scorned moment when Fiona nearly blows Alex's cover, before he shoots her with a tranquilliser gun.
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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_14d633ed	type	If I Wanted You Dead...
Alex Rider / int_14d633ed	comment	If I Wanted You Dead...: Inverted when Alex is sent to shoot Mrs Jones in Scorpia; she gets him to stall for several minutes, and notes that she thinks he is too smart ever to pull the trigger. He takes the shot, and though Mrs Jones is protected by an invisible glass screen, it later turns out that the shot would have missed anyway, because Alex simply wasn't capable of going through with it.
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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_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Alex Rider / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Ash's name was never revealed in Snakehead (ASH are his initials); after much requests, Horowitz included it in a bonus chapter for the paperback release.
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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	The Sociopath: Abdul-Aziz Al-Rahim ("Razim"), and how. He has all the telltale symptoms of a bona fide psychopath - particularly his utter lack of emotions or empathy - and has committed various acts of evil from the day he took his first steps. As a toddler, he stabbed one of his nannies in the thigh because she told him off for teasing his sister. At the age of 12 he nonchalantly strangled his own dog. At fourteen he arranged the death of his own parents, who were conspiring against Saddam Hussein. Now, after spending time in Al Qaeda, in his spare time he inflicts unbearable amounts of pain upon random people in an attempt to create a measurable unit of pain, using a variety of horrific instruments like scalpels and syringes. Possibly his worst act of evil involves this, as he blows up Jack Starbright right in front of Alex's eyes, in an experiment concerning emotional, rather than physical, pain. Afterwards, he nonchalantly notes that the pain meter rose higher than he had thought possible, and that he would possibly have to create a second scale of measurement. Julius Grief is a much more unfortunate case. He was raised and conditioned by a father with a sick mind, and as a result had absolutely no morals.
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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_1b7d59b6	type	Death by Materialism
Alex Rider / int_1b7d59b6	comment	Death by Materialism: Literally played straight in Eagle Strike when Charlie Roper is trapped inside a bottle-shaped room and then killed when Damian Cray fills the room with two million dollars worth of quarters (the two million dollars Roper was due to be paid for betraying his country). In other words, 8,000,000 quarters. The American edition makes it even more painful by changing the quarters to nickels. Do the math. Forty million. "Blood Money!"
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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_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Alex Rider / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: The entire plot of Ark Angel only takes place because Nikolei Drevin sends four men to abduct his son from a hospital, but fails to provide them with a photograph of him or any information about what he looks like.
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Alex Rider / int_1c4e3202	type	The Spook
Alex Rider / int_1c4e3202	comment	The Spook: The Nondescript man who delivers a letter in chapter 12 and then vanishes without a trace. He has no identifying features — no accent, no fingerprints. Soon after he makes his delivery, a taxi picks him up and drops him off at a train station, where he disappears into the crowd, having changed his hair colour and clothes. According to the narration, he would never be seen again.
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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_1cc2ea8d	type	Villain Ball
Alex Rider / int_1cc2ea8d	comment	Villain Ball: When Nightshade discover who Alex is, they arrange for him to be dumped in Brighton and framed as Julius Grief so the whole country will be looking for him, with the idea being that he will provide a distraction whilst their attack on London is executed. Transporting Alex to just an hour's journey by train from the site of their Evil Plan when he was previously in the wrong country altogether, and leaving him there on his own, is by some margin the stupidest thing any Alex Rider villain has ever done.
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Alex Rider / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Alex Rider / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Nadia Vole is killed by her boss's Portuguese Man-Of-War. A non-major villain example, Charlie Roper, an ex-CIA agent is locked in a small glass room shaped like a bottle, and his ''blood money'' of two million dollars is dropped into the room in coins. Damian Cray, who gets sucked into a jet engine. His remains are described as a "red gas" that simply disappears into the atmosphere. Dr. Grief wants to perform an unanaesthetized vivisection on Alex. In layman's terms, he wants to give his class a biology lesson using Alex while he's still awake.invoked Agents Troy and Carver get Impaled with Extreme Prejudice underwater after discovering too late that General Sarov does know about the secret route into his base of operations after all. The beauty of Invisible Sword...dropping dead for no particular reason is definitely both cruel and unusual. How about Major Yu's plan to slowly kill Alex by harvesting his organs? Major Yu himself, who gets turned into a boneless, fleshy mass by a bomb's shock-wave. Razim gives lots of absolutely horrible and disgusting deaths to innocent people in his sadistic "experiments". And of course he later receives probably the worst death of all: falling into a salt pit and slowly being crushed to death. Conrad threatens to put Alex through a sugar mill's crusher if he doesn't talk at one point in Skeleton Key. Sarov stops him in time, thankfully.
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Alex Rider / int_1e7f218c	type	Drowning Pit
Alex Rider / int_1e7f218c	comment	Drowning Pit: In Scorpia, The Dragon Nile knocks Alex unconscious and locks him in a cellar that is filling with water as a result of one of Venice's storm surges.
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Alex Rider / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Alex Rider / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: At the climax of Ark Angel, Alex has to go up into space to defuse the bomb that has been sent to the titular space hotel. He is able to do this because a second rocket was going to be sent up, containing an orangutan as part of an experiment in weightlessness. Alex realises that there is something wrong, because there was no reason to send up the second rocket because the hotel would have been destroyed shortly after it arrived, but he does not voice this concern and nobody else seems to realise. It is not until Alex arrives on board Ark Angel that he realises that it would be impossible to send an armed bomb into space, so they had to send Kaspar up with it to activate it once they arrived, and the "weightlessness experiment" was a cover for the real reason for sending up the second rocket: it was the only way home for Kaspar.
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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_229c2ec8	type	Uriah Gambit
Alex Rider / int_229c2ec8	comment	Uriah Gambit: In Scorpia Rising, Zeljan Kurst has Levi Kroll killed and false evidence placed on his cadaver in order to lure MI6 — and Alex — into a trap.
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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	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_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Alex Rider / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: The school in Point Blanc claims to specialize in dealing with teenage boys who have this problem. Given two (technically one due to the other being Alex's cover identity) of the enrolled are arsonists and a third shot a teacher, they might not be far off. Fiona's friends, who "don't bother with rules in the countryside", own hunting shotguns and smoke cigarettes despite being minors in Britain. One of them also mentions the nearest police station is 40 miles away from where they live.
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Alex Rider / int_235289d	type	Conveyor Belt o' Doom
Alex Rider / int_235289d	comment	Conveyor Belt o' Doom: Sarov's henchman puts Alex on a conveyor belt that feeds into a sugar grinding machine and threatens to grind him up unless he gives information.
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Alex Rider / int_23781532	type	Ironic Name
Alex Rider / int_23781532	comment	Ironic Name: The Friend family is anything but friendly.
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Alex Rider / int_255cc9bd	type	Nephewism
Alex Rider / int_255cc9bd	comment	Nephewism: The series does this... twice. First, when Alex's parents die, he gets sent to live with his Uncle, Ian Rider, and when he dies, he gets to live with Jack Starbright, who isn't actually family, subverting the trope, the second time.
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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_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Alex Rider / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: The series' long-retired original tagline, "Alex Rider - the reluctant teenage spy" is quoted by a character near the end of Scorpia Rising.
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Alex Rider / int_26cd8688	type	Won't Get Fooled Again
Alex Rider / int_26cd8688	comment	Won't Get Fooled Again: In Eagle Strike, Alan Blunt refused to believe Alex's insistence that Damian Cray could be a criminal mastermind due to how prominent a philanthropist he was. Well aware that he was wrong that time, when Alex claims that the bad guy this time is another prominent philanthropist, Desmond McCain, Blunt believes every word without hesitation.
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Alex Rider / int_2726d167	type	The World Is Just Awesome
Alex Rider / int_2726d167	comment	The World Is Just Awesome: Alex is in space on a space station about to explode. He needs to get out quickly. He runs for the rocket but on the way he stops. Why? There's a window facing the Earth. He stops to stare at it. Let's face it, who would really want to waste an opportunity to do that?
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Alex Rider / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Alex Rider / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Damian Cray is an interesting case: beneath the bighearted public persona he has, he's a complete psychopath who has no qualms about having people murdered if they try making a fool of him. But at the same time, he truly believes that he's doing good work, and his motivations can even be called altruistic. The problem is that he doesn't care how many people have to die for it.
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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_283d8c21	type	Forklift Fu
Alex Rider / int_283d8c21	comment	Forklift Fu: A triad member attempts to kill Alex with a forklift in Skeleton Key.
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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_2c7f645b	type	Gas Leak Cover-Up
Alex Rider / int_2c7f645b	comment	Gas Leak Cover Up: The French police initially tell the public that the accident that almost cost Edward Pleasure his life was a gas leak. Later, they drop the explanation after an obviously bogus "terrorist organization" takes responsibility.
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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_2e22f7d4	type	Minimalistic Cover Art
Alex Rider / int_2e22f7d4	comment	Minimalistic Cover Art: The original UK edition of Scorpia Rising featured the Scorpia logo, with the title and Horowitz's name transparent to the point of invisibility.
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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_2ffb4a4d	type	The Nondescript
Alex Rider / int_2ffb4a4d	comment	The Nondescript: In chapter 12, a man walks into Downing Street to deliver a letter. He is described as about 30 years old, with short, fair hair and "no accent of any kind." He leaves no fingerprints on the letter, explained as his own fingerprints having been surgically removed. The policeman who takes his letter describes him thusly: "It was just someone... He was young. Fair-haired. Wearing a suit."
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Alex Rider / int_303b78d8	type	Animal Espionage
Alex Rider / int_303b78d8	comment	Animal Espionage: Referred to in passing when Byrne talks about putting a cat in a Korean embassy to spy on them. He claims that the Koreans ate it, although it's possible he was joking.
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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_31b47c7e	type	Paying in Coins
Alex Rider / int_31b47c7e	comment	Paying in Coins: Cray uses a lethal variant of this to execute on of his henchmen who screws up - paying him his $2million bribe in quarters then crushing him to death with them.
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Alex Rider / int_339f6950	type	Paid Harem
Alex Rider / int_339f6950	comment	Paid Harem: Some hot Cuban chicks accompany the Russian President on his vacation in Skeleton Key; it's implied he had sex with them behind the scenes.
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Alex Rider / int_3429147e	type	When the Clock Strikes Twelve
Alex Rider / int_3429147e	comment	When the Clock Strikes Twelve: In Snakehead, the planetary alignment Major Yu needs to make his fantastic scheme work happens to be occurring exactly at midnight. Therefore Alex has until midnight to stop him.
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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_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Alex Rider / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: How Alex manages to get through the MI6 agents posted in the reception area of Mrs Jones' apartment block.
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Alex Rider / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
Alex Rider / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: Lampshaded and Subverted by Alex in the climax.
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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_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Alex Rider / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Ethan Brooke, the head of ASIS. When Alex coincidentally lands off the Australian coast after Ark Angel, he immediately launches a gambit to see how Alex does in the field, much to the horror of his subordinates, and manipulates Alex into entering a dangerous mission with Alex's godfather. Alex theorizes at the end that Brooke strongly suspected that Ash was The Mole for Scorpia and the snakeheads, and paired him with Alex in a bid to flush him out.
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Alex Rider / int_40d15d7a	type	Spoiler Cover
Alex Rider / int_40d15d7a	comment	Spoiler Cover: Throughout most of Eagle Strike, Alex is completely in the dark about what the titular operation actually is. The original cover prominently featured a missile launch, and the revised version was no better with an image of the Great Seal of the United States.
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Alex Rider / int_40d1bc9d	type	Ambiguous Clone Ending
Alex Rider / int_40d1bc9d	comment	Ambiguous Clone Ending: The end of Point Blanc. The Big Bad had been creating clones of himself and then using plastic surgery to make them look like the sons of famous, wealthy, influential businessmen with the intention of impersonating them. As Alex was posing as the son of one of these businessmen, a clone is made to look like him. Said clone shows up at the climax of the book to murder Alex and take his place. After a struggle that results in a fire, only one Alex escapes from the fire. It's left deliberately ambiguous as to which Alex survived, although the very existence of later books in the series reveals that the real Alex did even before the clone returns in Scorpia Rising.
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Alex Rider / int_4108bb3e	type	Doomed Hometown
Alex Rider / int_4108bb3e	comment	Doomed Hometown: Yassen's home of Estrov, wiped out by a chemical weapon accident and its people killed by soldiers covering the incident up.
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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_41a3e267	type	Hidden in Plain Sight
Alex Rider / int_41a3e267	comment	Hidden in Plain Sight: A particularly brilliant one in the opening chapter of Never Say Die: a stolen helicopter is disguised - by tilting it vertically and covering the fuselage with plywood - as a windmill.
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Alex Rider / int_423f5a19	type	Killed Offscreen
Alex Rider / int_423f5a19	comment	Killed Offscreen: a CIA operative oversees Alex diving into the sea. When Alex returns, the man has a knife in his back and Conrad is waiting.
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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_43964f3	type	Worst News Judgment Ever
Alex Rider / int_43964f3	comment	Worst News Judgment Ever: A two-paragraph article on the death of a journalist with no close family or friends manages to make page 1 with a prominent headline. Justified in that it was part of an MI6 trap.
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Alex Rider / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
Alex Rider / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: The CIA agents Troy and Carver get this in Skeleton Key, leaving Alex to finish the mission.
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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_4508b16b	type	The Guards Must Be Crazy
Alex Rider / int_4508b16b	comment	The Guards Must Be Crazy: In Scorpia Rising, Jack wonders if her escape from her cell is too good to be true; she makes a huge amount of noise, but nobody comes, and she only has to deal with one guard. She's right, as her entire escape is stage-managed to lead her into a deathtrap.
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Alex Rider / int_4783acfa	type	Bait the Dog
Alex Rider / int_4783acfa	comment	Bait the Dog: Ash in Snakehead does this to Alex by promising to protect him, since Alex is his godson, and tell him about John Rider, while allowing for Master Yu to nearly kill Alex several times and disarming him of a distress signal. He has the gall to be regretful when Master Yu forces him to reveal the ruse to Alex when Ash is fatally shot.
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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_4852f325	type	I Just Want to Be Normal
Alex Rider / int_4852f325	comment	I Just Want to Be Normal: Alex.
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Alex Rider / int_497bdeec	type	Sexy Surfacing Shot
Alex Rider / int_497bdeec	comment	Sexy Surfacing Shot: Alex first meets Fiona Friend when he finds her swimming at the pool, just as she's hoisting herself out of the water, and he can't help notice how attractive she is.
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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_4aaffbd5	type	I Never Said It Was Poison
Alex Rider / int_4aaffbd5	comment	I Never Said It Was Poison: In Scorpia, Alex lets slip that he knows that Invisible Sword will kill children; he attempts to backpedal, but Julia realizes that Alex and the British government know the truth about their plan.
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Alex Rider / int_4c1ae434	type	Compromising Memoirs
Alex Rider / int_4c1ae434	comment	Compromising Memoirs: Discussed briefly after Alan Blunt is forced to retire in Scorpia Rising.
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Alex Rider / int_4c23b50f	type	Land Mine Goes "Click!"
Alex Rider / int_4c23b50f	comment	Land Mine Goes "Click!": In Snakehead, Alex steps on a land mine in an Australian SAS training area and hears it go click. A nearby soldier tells him that it is now armed and will go off if he moves his weight in any way. However, the mine also has a time delay fuse and will explode in 15 minutes even if he doesn't move. The soldier goes to get help. When he doesn't return, Alex eventually escapes by throwing himself down the slope of the hill away from the mine. The whole thing was a Secret Test of Character to see how Alex handled himself in stressful situations, and he was never in any real danger.
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Alex Rider / int_4d396c3e	type	Last Villain Stand
Alex Rider / int_4d396c3e	comment	Last Villain Stand: With his plans ruined beyond any chance of salvation and his fiancÃ©e and best men all dead, the visibly unhinged McCain confronts Alex personally, determined to see him kneeling before him before killing him.
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Alex Rider / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Alex Rider / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: 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. Similarly, 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. Toyed with in 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.
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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_4f5fcec2	type	Space Is Slow Motion
Alex Rider / int_4f5fcec2	comment	Space Is Slow Motion: The end of Ark Angel makes a point of avoiding this.
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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: 'Secret Weapon' ends with Alex and his friend Tom fighting Skoda on top of the crane that Alex used to incapacitate Skoda at the start of 'Point Blanc.'
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Alex Rider / int_5017da77	type	Church of Saint Genericus
Alex Rider / int_5017da77	comment	Church of Saint Genericus: In book 5, the Church of Forgotten Saints.
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Alex Rider / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Alex Rider / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: At the climax of McCain's Last Villain Stand:
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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_519f108a	type	Throwing Your Sword Always Works
Alex Rider / int_519f108a	comment	Throwing Your Sword Always Works: In Scorpia, The Dragon Nile draws a sword from under his coat and Alex thinks Nile is about to kill him. Nile instead throws his sword at Dr. Liebermann. The sword enters at his neck and goes upwards into his brain.
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Alex Rider / int_51f46e82	type	JerkassFacade
Alex Rider / int_51f46e82	comment	Jerkass FaÃ§ade: Alex has to act like one of The Upper Crass teenage rebels that get sent to a disciplinary school like Point Blanc, with a bit of Obfuscating Stupidity such as pretending to not know French.
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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_52db461d	type	Significant Anagram
Alex Rider / int_52db461d	comment	Significant Anagram: Mrs. Jones points out in the final chapter that Unwin Toys is a rearrangement of Winston Yu. The way she asks "Did you notice that it was an anagram?" seems directed at the readers as well as Alex.
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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	Damian Cray, who gets sucked into a jet engine. His remains are described as a "red gas" that simply disappears into the atmosphere.
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Alex Rider / int_53c5f30e	type	Happy Ending Override
Alex Rider / int_53c5f30e	comment	Happy Ending Override: Scorpia Rising, which was intended to be the final book in the series at the time it was written, ends with Alex finally escaping MI6 and starting a new life in America with the Pleasure family. A few years down the line, however, Anthony Horowitz decided to revive the series, and Never Say Die opens with Alex miserable and unable to accustomise to his new life, still traumatised by the events of the previous book.
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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_5411cf1e	type	Kids Love Dinosaurs
Alex Rider / int_5411cf1e	comment	Kids Love Dinosaurs: An Exploited Trope, as in one later edition the exploding keyring of Michael Owen was changed to an exploding keyring of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
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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_55365db5	type	City Mouse
Alex Rider / int_55365db5	comment	City Mouse: Alex the "city boy" quickly comes to dislike living with the Friends in the countryside, not helped by his "family" antagonizing him.
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Alex Rider / int_56352cc6	type	Animal Assassin
Alex Rider / int_56352cc6	comment	Animal Assassin: Mrs Rothman gives Max Grendel, a member of the board of Scorpia who has decided to retire, a 'present': a gift-wrapped box full of venomous scorpions.
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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_5abc8612	type	Unholy Matrimony
Alex Rider / int_5abc8612	comment	Unholy Matrimony: Desmond McCain mentions he plans to marry Mad Scientist henchwoman Myra Bennett after his plan succeeds in Crocodile Tears.
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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_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Alex Rider / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Nile, The Dragon in Scorpia, is afraid of heights.
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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_5e323fa8	type	The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life
Alex Rider / int_5e323fa8	comment	The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life: In a desperate attempt to make Sabina believe him, Alex leads her to the secret MI6 headquarters. However, all the employees uphold The Masquerade, making Alex look like an utter fool, and Sabina ditches him afterwards.
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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_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Alex Rider / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Alex plays this role in the book, having stumbled upon the villain's plot completely by accident.
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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_607a8bd2	type	Beastly Bloodsports
Alex Rider / int_607a8bd2	comment	Beastly Bloodsports: Alex involuntarily becomes a matador during a bullfight in Eagle Strike.
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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_61356a74	type	Almost Dead Guy
Alex Rider / int_61356a74	comment	Almost Dead Guy: Yassen plays this role for Alex in the post-climax, holding on just long enough to utter the Wham Line and some further explanations.
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Alex Rider / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Alex Rider / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Yassen, arguably, in the end of the fourth book when he tried to stop Damian Cray from killing Alex and got shot in the process. He dies in Alex's arms after Damian Cray dies. Hazy-Feel Turn: Another possible interpretation of Yassen's actions. It's never made clear how much of his "I don't kill children" shtick is Even Evil Has Standards and how much is his unwillingness to kill his mentor's son in cold blood.
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Alex Rider / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
Alex Rider / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: In Eagle Strike, Damian Cray kidnaps Sabina Pleasure to force Alex's cooperation and prevent him from going to MI6 with the flash drive.
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Alex Rider / int_6331ba26	type	Plot Hole
Alex Rider / int_6331ba26	comment	Plot Hole: A minor one. Alex immediately blows his cover within Conrad's earshot on Garcia's boat, but then insists on his cover story in the subsequent interrogation, seemingly completely forgetting about the episode. Conrad doesn't comment on that either, but maybe he's just been enjoying an opportunity for Cold-Blooded Torture too much.
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Alex Rider / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Alex Rider / int_641cf81d	comment	Viewers Are Geniuses: Anthony Horowitz didn't expect anyone to believe Alex was really dead at the end of Scorpia because the gun used by the assassin is completely unsuited to assassination attempts.
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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_659235a4	type	Train Escape
Alex Rider / int_659235a4	comment	Train Escape: Alex crosses in front of an oncoming tram in order to escape the cars pursuing him on bike.
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Alex Rider / int_67e9df66	type	Empty Quiver
Alex Rider / int_67e9df66	comment	Empty Quiver: Although not stolen per se, much of the plot of Skeleton Key centres around General Sarov obtaining black market plutonium to manufacture his own dirty bomb, and what he intends to do with the nuke once he has it.
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Alex Rider / int_67f56a51	type	Thrown from the Zeppelin
Alex Rider / int_67f56a51	comment	Thrown from the Zeppelin: In Scorpia Rising, the trap by the eponymous organisation is initiated by having a sniper shoot Levi Kroll at a routine meeting, and throwing his body in the Thames, after he attempts to back out of their scheme.
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Alex Rider / int_687c78ff	type	Railroad Tracks of Doom
Alex Rider / int_687c78ff	comment	Railroad Tracks of Doom: In Point Blanc.
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Alex Rider / int_691de918	type	Death by Looking Up
Alex Rider / int_691de918	comment	Death by Looking Up: Julia Rothman looks up to see the satellite dish-laden hot air balloon basket from their doomsday machine about to fall on top of them. They don't even have time to scream before they're crushed.
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Alex Rider / int_6a85e9e1	type	Dub-Induced Plot Hole
Alex Rider / int_6a85e9e1	comment	Dub-Induced Plot Hole: In the US printing of Skeleton Key, the names of the two CIA agents, Turner and Troy, were changed for unknown reasons. They are mentioned in passing three books later in Ark Angel, but the renaming was forgotten about and their original names were used, which would have been confusing for anyone not aware of the change.
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Alex Rider / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Alex Rider / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Dominic Royce is anything but pleasant, but has a point with Mrs Jones knowingly endangering Alex by sending him on a mission, even though Royce himself later endangers Alex's life by cutting off their communications with him. Turns out that he is not as benevolent as he seems.
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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_6da4d56e	type	Conspicuously Public Assassination
Alex Rider / int_6da4d56e	comment	Conspicuously Public Assassination: Scorpia's plot in Scorpia Rising.
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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_6efdfe5c	type	Money Mauling
Alex Rider / int_6efdfe5c	comment	Money Mauling: One of Cray's henchmen agrees to work for him in exchange for a $2 million bribe. When the henchman screws up and attracts unwanted attention from a journalist, Cray locks him in a bottle-shaped chamber and gives him his money - $2 million in quarters, crushing him to death.
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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_704d7e91	type	No Ontological Inertia
Alex Rider / int_704d7e91	comment	No Ontological Inertia: The "self-destructed" missiles sort of disappear into thin air on orbit. No debris from them is ever mentioned.
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Alex Rider / int_71268450	type	Adaptation Title Change
Alex Rider / int_71268450	comment	Adaptation Title Change: Point Blanc was retitled Point Blank in the US, presumably to make the Punny Name more obvious.
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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_72757e0d	type	"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer
Alex Rider / int_72757e0d	comment	"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: Yassen gives one of these in Russian Roulette when he talks about how people who couldn't afford vodka would use shoe polish as a drug.
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Alex Rider / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Alex Rider / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Amongst other things, Hugo Grief is also an utterly unrepentant White Supremacist. He His ultimate plan involves surgically altering loyal, racist clones of his back to their wealthy and influential parents, so that when they inherit their assets by hook or by crook, they'll eventually restore apartheid - this time, on a global scale. He also dislikes British schoolchildren.
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Alex Rider / int_72c07237	type	Swiss-Cheese Security
Alex Rider / int_72c07237	comment	Swiss-Cheese Security: Subverted—The airport security at Cayo Esqueleto is designed to look run-down but is actually quite sophisticated and good at catching spies. The head of security only allows Troy, Carver and Alex to pass since he doesn't want to (publicly) arrest a child.
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Alex Rider / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Alex Rider / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The reprinted cover of Russian Roulette prominently includes the massive new Alex Rider logo, and the cover illustration is of the one and only scene in the book where Alex actually appears.
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Alex Rider / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
Alex Rider / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: The final scene of Russian Roulette is the ending of Stormbreaker, but from Yassen's point of view instead of Alex.
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Alex Rider / int_74a08ab1	type	Sky Heist
Alex Rider / int_74a08ab1	comment	Sky Heist: The villains mount a kidnap plot in this way by snatching a school bus of children from an exclusive private school whilst it's on a motorway, using a helicopter with a magnetic hoist.
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Alex Rider / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Alex Rider / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: During Alex's talk with Mrs Jones, she mentions that both Alan Blunt and Smithers have left MI6 since Alex had last worked for them. Alan Blunt has resigned, while Smithers simply left. This also means that, for once, Alex's 'gadget' (his modified laptop) is instead provided by Shadia of the Egyptian State Security Service.
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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_76d167c0	type	Hazy-Feel Turn
Alex Rider / int_76d167c0	comment	Hazy-Feel Turn: Another possible interpretation of Yassen's actions. It's never made clear how much of his "I don't kill children" shtick is Even Evil Has Standards and how much is his unwillingness to kill his mentor's son in cold blood.
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Alex Rider / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Alex Rider / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: Sarov's plan would've succeeded hadn't Alex had gotten involved in two incidents: The investigation into a break-in at Wimbledon that leads to Alex being suggested to take the Skeleton Key mission in the first place due to angering the Chinese Red Circle. During a failed attempt to escape from Sarov during a plane refueling stop in Edinburgh, Alex runs into a security guard who doesn't believe him over the events, only for Conrad to arrive and shoot him dead. It turns out that his superiors were listening to this event over his radio, who then contacted MI6 after finding his body, leading to the Russian Army and Navy arriving in the climax to help Alex. Earlier, if a great white shark didn't attack Alex when it did, he would've most probably died the same way as Turner and Troy.
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Alex Rider / int_79ba6777	type	Pocket Protector
Alex Rider / int_79ba6777	comment	Pocket Protector: In Never Say Die, Alex is saved from a poisoned needle fired by Dragana Novak when the dart hits the passport and wallet in his pocket — where Alex had manipulated her into aiming.
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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_7d53bc0b	type	Hollywood Silencer
Alex Rider / int_7d53bc0b	comment	Hollywood Silencer: Averted in Ark Angel by one of the Force Three goons. The narrative describes him shooting at Alex sounding like a cough.
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Alex Rider / int_7d78995d	type	Blofeld Ploy
Alex Rider / int_7d78995d	comment	Blofeld Ploy: In "Eagle Strike", Damian Cray orders Yassen to kill Alex and Sabina. Yassen refuses, saying he "does not kill children". Flustered, Damian snatches his gun, and instead of shooting Alex and Sabina, turns the gun on Yassen.
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Alex Rider / int_7e415ab5	type	Hospital Epilogue
Alex Rider / int_7e415ab5	comment	Hospital Epilogue: The book ends with Jack reuniting with Alex when he's in hospital.
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Alex Rider / int_7e5b0184	type	Time-Delayed Death
Alex Rider / int_7e5b0184	comment	Time-Delayed Death: Invisible Sword, the project that is the impetus behind Scorpia, is a variation—Scorpia can deliver the method of death, but then not activate it until a moment of their choosing. It works through gold-coated nanoshells filled with cyanide, which are covertly delivered through vaccinations, and then broken up through terahertz beams from a satellite.
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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_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Alex Rider / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: MI6 as a whole during Ian's funeral as they talk to Alex concerning said death and calling it an "accident", setting up a Red Herring that they might be the big bads that killed Ian in the first place. For a more in-depth one, Mr. Blunt shows off the Good Is Not Nice aspect by threatening to deport Jack should Alex refuse to join MI6.
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Alex Rider / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
Alex Rider / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: Crocodile Tears is the first entry in the series in which Alex is conventionally recruited by MI6 since Point Blanc, doesn't feature any major revelations about Alex's past, and doesn't feature a climax on the scale of Ark Angel (which also had to resolve the cliffhanger of Scorpia).
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Alex Rider / int_8288929a	type	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
Alex Rider / int_8288929a	comment	A non-major villain example, Charlie Roper, an ex-CIA agent is locked in a small glass room shaped like a bottle, and his ''blood money'' of two million dollars is dropped into the room in coins.
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Alex Rider / int_83445b04	type	Pun
Alex Rider / int_83445b04	comment	"Blood Money!"
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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_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Alex Rider / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: In Russian Roulette, John Rider becomes this for Yassen Gregorovich after Yassen finds an MI6 gadget in John's luggage, revealing that John was a British spy who had intentionally tried to get Yassen to quit being an assassin.
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Alex Rider / int_8765802e	type	Tightrope Walking
Alex Rider / int_8765802e	comment	Tightrope Walking: In Ark Angel, Alex escapes from a burning high rise by walking across a cable attaching a banner to the neighbouring building, using some 'props' left behind by a building crew for balance. Author Anthony Horowitz explains in an afterword that the physics of what Alex does would work, but tells readers Don't Try This at Home.
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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_8816272b	type	Blinded by the Light
Alex Rider / int_8816272b	comment	Blinded by the Light: In Ark Angel, Alex blinds The Dragon Kaspar by opening the window shutter on the sun-side of the space station as Kaspar is facing the window.
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Alex Rider / int_889cff96	type	Quirky Miniboss Squad
Alex Rider / int_889cff96	comment	Quirky Miniboss Squad: The four henchmen whose real names were never once mentioned in Ark Angel.
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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_8c96ae78	type	No One Could Survive That!
Alex Rider / int_8c96ae78	comment	No One Could Survive That!: Said after Julius Grief drives a jeep off a cliff which then explodes and falls into the ocean. While a lowly guard might buy it, Alan Blunt really should have known better.
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Alex Rider / int_8df14c99	type	One-Hit-Point Wonder
Alex Rider / int_8df14c99	comment	One-Hit-Point Wonder: Alex clearly understood that he was one in the real-life copy of Cray's computer game.
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Alex Rider / int_8e0ceaf5	type	Finger in the Mail
Alex Rider / int_8e0ceaf5	comment	Finger in the Mail: Invoked. Alex swaps rooms with a friend he made in hospital to protect him from kidnappers (the friend's father is rich). The kidnappers then threaten to cut off Alex's fingers and mail them once they finally show up, forcing him to admit the truth.
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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_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
Alex Rider / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Mrs Rothman.
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Alex Rider / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Alex Rider / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: If it wasn't for the shockwave from the bomb he was gonna use, Major Winston Yu would've gotten away.
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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_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Alex Rider / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Mrs Rothman has Dr. Liebermann killed after he's finished working on Invisible Sword. She also planned to dispose of Alex together with other London children, regardless of whether he succeeded in his mission.
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Alex Rider / int_94332264	type	Busman's Holiday
Alex Rider / int_94332264	comment	Busman's Holiday: Alex just went for a summer vacation - only to be dragged into another crazy villain's plot. Heck, MI6 were actually trying to keep him out of it this time.
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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_95713538	type	Outside Ride
Alex Rider / int_95713538	comment	Outside Ride: In Eagle Strike, Alex sneaks into the Dutch facility by using magnetic clamps to attach himself to side of a truck that is entering (posing as the ninja that is painted on the side of the truck). Later, he escapes by climbing on top of a truck that is on its way out.
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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_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Alex Rider / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: As Alex notes, the kindness of the staff at the hospital where Yu plans to kill him by harvesting his organs is what makes them so damn creepy.
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Alex Rider / int_95ef5b0d	type	Symbol Swearing
Alex Rider / int_95ef5b0d	comment	Symbol Swearing: In Scorpia Rising, Alex tells Lewinsky, his accidental abductor, to "go and ----- yourself"note Likely a reference to the original James Bond novels, which would censor swearing in the same way. (The audiobook uses a Sound-Effect Bleep.)
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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_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Alex Rider / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Curiously, Yassen, for Cray's entire plot. If he hadn't shown himself so openly on the deck of the yacht when he arrived to Saint-Pierre, Alex would have never tried to investigate him and stumbled upon Cray's involvement.
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Alex Rider / int_9abe931d	type	Quicksand Sucks
Alex Rider / int_9abe931d	comment	Quicksand Sucks: This is basically how Razim from Scorpia Rising goes out.
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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_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Alex Rider / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Alex steals gasoline from the sea-plane and Dr. Tanner's own cigarette lighter to burn down the organ harvesting camp as he escapes.
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Alex Rider / int_9cc1a329	type	Upper-Class Twit
Alex Rider / int_9cc1a329	comment	Upper-Class Twit: The Friend family, especially Fiona and her friends, dismiss Alex as a Lower-Class Lout "London boy". Even their servants are openly contemptuous of him.
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Alex Rider / int_9cc7c9fe	type	A Nuclear Error
Alex Rider / int_9cc7c9fe	comment	A Nuclear Error: In Skeleton Key, General Sarov plans to detonate a nuclear bomb atop the rusting Russian nuclear submarines in the naval base, which are armed with nuclear missiles. Sarov intends this disaster to appear to be an accident, caused by the current Russian government failing to properly maintain its nuclear fleet. The resulting fallout cloud will contaminate most of Western Europe and allow Russia to return to the glory of its Soviet days, or so Sarov believes.
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Alex Rider / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Alex Rider / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Smithers mentions offhand that he had once met Cloudy Webber in disguise at a party, and the pair of them chatted for half an hour before they recognized each other. One wonders how someone who makes her living on disguises wouldn't recognize Smithers right away just from his obesity. Scorpia Rising reveals that his fat was another gadget; he's actually a lean Irishman.
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Alex Rider / int_9d7a3ac4	type	Shield Surf
Alex Rider / int_9d7a3ac4	comment	Shield Surf: In Point Blanc, Alex escapes from the school by snowboarding down the mountain on a cut-down ironing board.
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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_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Alex Rider / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: McCain does this is a surprisingly calm way while speaking to Alex during his Villainous Breakdown:
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Alex Rider / int_9fbf8969	type	Cut Lex Luthor a Check
Alex Rider / int_9fbf8969	comment	Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Inverted. The main mystery of the novel is why a very successful and well-beloved man with several legitimate sources of huge income suddenly got involved in shady deals and atrocities.
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Alex Rider / int_a0a364d5	type	Intimate Lotion Application
Alex Rider / int_a0a364d5	comment	Intimate Lotion Application: The opening scene has Alex and his girlfriend Sabina at the beach together. She has been repeatedly making him apply sunscreen to her back as an obvious excuse to have him touch her.
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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_a21d8982	type	Assassination Attempt
Alex Rider / int_a21d8982	comment	Assassination Attempt: A failed one kicks off the entire plot.
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Alex Rider / int_a2b998a0	type	Wouldn't Hurt a Child
Alex Rider / int_a2b998a0	comment	Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Yassen says repeatedly that he will not kill children. That doesn't stop him from endangering Alex, however, or threatening Sabina with garden scissors.
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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_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Alex Rider / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: In Snakehead, Alex is given three exploding coins by Smithers. As he prepares to use the last one, he notes that if everything goes to plan all three will have saved his life.
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Alex Rider / int_a6e8221e	type	Status Quo Is God
Alex Rider / int_a6e8221e	comment	Status Quo Is God: An interesting example with Never Say Die. The book itself is an heavily exaggerated example, undoing nearly everything that had changed at the end of Scorpia Rising, including a major character's death, the collapse of Scorpia and MI6 never using Alex again. Scorpia Rising had been intended to be the last book ever, and that stood for six years until Horowitz decided to write a new one, and he felt the need to invoke this trope despite the fact that previous volumes pointedly hadn't.
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Alex Rider / int_a7016efe	type	Lonely Rich Kid
Alex Rider / int_a7016efe	comment	Lonely Rich Kid: Paul Drevin.
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Alex Rider / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Alex Rider / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Scorpia's Middle Eastern client who hired them to break relations between the UK and USA leading to the plot is never known, let alone caught.
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Alex Rider / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Alex Rider / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: SAS trainees only go by "code names". Alex's squadmates are Wolf, Fox, Eagle, Snake, with him being called "Cub" and the Embarrassing Nickname of "Double 0 Nothing".
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Alex Rider / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Alex Rider / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Major Yu's plan to dispose of Alex: Slowly have his organs removed and sold on the black market, starting with his corneas and eventually reducing him to a husk on life support.
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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_aa07ca54	type	Obfuscating Disability
Alex Rider / int_aa07ca54	comment	Obfuscating Disability: Alex has been kidnapped and several agencies are looking for him. The bad guys need to get him through an airport without arousing suspicion. How do they do it? They drug him to make him look like a disabled person, they note that no one looks twice at a disabled person, working this to their advantage.
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Alex Rider / int_aa0ed8a9	type	Look Both Ways
Alex Rider / int_aa0ed8a9	comment	Look Both Ways: Julius Grief.
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Alex Rider / int_ab1659d5	type	Hero Stole My Bike
Alex Rider / int_ab1659d5	comment	Hero Stole My Bike: In Skeleton Key, Alex snatches a skateboard from a group of teenagers and uses it in an attempt to catch a yacht that is pulling away from the dock. He ramps off the jetty and manages to land on the yacht, but the skateboard plunges into the ocean.
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Alex Rider / int_abcb9af1	type	Eaten Alive
Alex Rider / int_abcb9af1	comment	Eaten Alive: Dr. Myra Bennett becomes the final victim of McCain's crocodile pit.
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Alex Rider / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
Alex Rider / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: This is implied when General Sarov is Driven to Suicide in Skeleton Key; it is more overt in the graphic novel adaptation, where he seems visibly distressed by Alex's final rejection and sheds a tear as he puts the gun to his head.
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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_ac6ea68c	type	Near-Villain Victory
Alex Rider / int_ac6ea68c	comment	Near-Villain Victory: The villain actually succeeds in every part of his plan, even getting to launch the nuclear missiles. But then, in a fit of rage, he executes his own Dragon, allowing Alex and Sabina to save the day.
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Alex Rider / int_aca54dad	type	Discreet Drink Disposal
Alex Rider / int_aca54dad	comment	Discreet Drink Disposal: In Stormbreaker, Alex dumps the overly sweet supermarket cola into a pot plant while Blunt is out of the office.
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Alex Rider / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Alex Rider / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Cray was so angry at being spotted by a journalist at his meeting with Roper that he immediately ordered said journalist's assassination. This got Alex Rider involved, and the rest is history.
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Alex Rider / int_ad295cc3	type	Weaponized Car
Alex Rider / int_ad295cc3	comment	Weaponized Car: In Eagle Strike, Smithers provides Alex with a weaponized bicycle that includes missiles, an Oil Slick, a Smoke Screen, a blinding magnesium flare, and an Ejection Seat.
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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_aeec99a9	type	Immediate Sequel
Alex Rider / int_aeec99a9	comment	Immediate Sequel: Snakehead begins immediately after Ark Angel.
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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_b3eecaae	type	Colony Drop
Alex Rider / int_b3eecaae	comment	Colony Drop: The villain of Ark Angel plans to set off a bomb on the eponymous space hotel, which has gone massively over-budget while still in construction, and blame it on a fictitious terrorist group. Not content with space-age insurance fraud, he wants to time the explosion so the station will be knocked out of orbit and land in Washington (specifically, the Pentagon, although he notes the shockwave will probably destroy the rest of the capital as well), destroying all the government's evidence of his other criminal activities.
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Alex Rider / int_b486877f	type	Squick
Alex Rider / int_b486877f	comment	Dr. Grief wants to perform an unanaesthetized vivisection on Alex. In layman's terms, he wants to give his class a biology lesson using Alex while he's still awake.invoked
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Alex Rider / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Alex Rider / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Fiona's friends shoot in Alex's vicinity to try and scare him, then stop when they realise they might've gone a wee bit far. Alex gets the drop on one of them and steals his gun, but stops after realising he almost shot a scared teenage boy, and throws the gun into a nearby lake.
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Alex Rider / int_b4de919d	type	Make an Example of Them
Alex Rider / int_b4de919d	comment	Make an Example of Them: A football team is killed to show the power of Invisible Sword.
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Alex Rider / int_b51128fa	type	Gilded Cage
Alex Rider / int_b51128fa	comment	Gilded Cage: Sarov keeps Alex in a very nice place during his captivity. Sarov even comments on this.
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Alex Rider / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Alex Rider / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The Big Bad blames the financial mishandling of the Ark Angel space hotel on the British government's bureaucracy, stating that their poor budget management is bleeding him dry in ways that the CIA could only dream of and would have ruined him long before they could arrest him.
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Alex Rider / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Alex Rider / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Max Grendel resigning from Scorpia is seen as this by the rest of the executive board.
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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_b6f6226	type	Snobby Hobbies
Alex Rider / int_b6f6226	comment	Snobby Hobbies: Paul Drevin, the son of multibillionaire oligarch Nikolei Drevin, enjoys an incredibly extravagant lifestyle, with pastimes including go-karting (on a private track, of course), playing table tennis (on a Boeing 747), windsurfing and scuba diving... None of this stops him being absolutely bored out of his mind as security concerns all but prevent him from having any friends.
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Alex Rider / int_b7c312ff	type	Cacophony Cover-Up
Alex Rider / int_b7c312ff	comment	Cacophony Cover Up: In Snakehead, Alex uses a peal of thunder to cover up the explosion he uses to blow a float off a seaplane. Later, he uses another peal of thunder to mask the sound of him smashing the plane's window.
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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_b7efeb58	type	Magical Defibrillator
Alex Rider / int_b7efeb58	comment	Magical Defibrillator: Subverted. Alex attacks a character with a defibrillator. Given the misuse in other works, and the whole thing being preceded with something along the lines of "he knew what they did, he'd seen a lot of television", those must have been some pretty accurate television shows.
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Alex Rider / int_b8dbe475	type	Blood from the Mouth
Alex Rider / int_b8dbe475	comment	Blood from the Mouth: Alex fakes this at one point to fool the guards in the real-life replica of the game.
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Alex Rider / int_b95cc514	type	Turbine Blender
Alex Rider / int_b95cc514	comment	Turbine Blender: Eagle Strike has the insane pop star turned into Pink Mist. The metal cart that he was on, however, causes it to explode.
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Alex Rider / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
Alex Rider / int_b9af5ef3	comment	The Film of the Book: Was subjected to an unusual variant of Executive Meddling in that one of the executives Horowitz worked with turned out to be a crook, resulting in the film not being as widely screened as it should have been, ensuring there wasn't enough profit for a sequel. (The fact that the movie was poorly received by critics didn't help matters.)
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Alex Rider / int_ba99f924	type	We Care
Alex Rider / int_ba99f924	comment	We Care: Desmond's company First Aid. Not only do they not care, but they're actually responsible for all the crises the public believes they aid.
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Alex Rider / int_bb0197af	type	Cool Bike
Alex Rider / int_bb0197af	comment	Cool Bike: Alex investigates Damian Cray without MI6's approval, but Smithers sticks his neck out for Alex and gives him a tricked-out Canondale bicycle so he won't be defenseless. Aside from the frame and tires being engineered to be nearly indestructible, the seemingly incongruous bell is a control panel for five gadgets: the bike pump is a smokescreen, the water bottle is an oil slick, the handlebars contain a pair of heat-seeking missiles, the headlight is a magnesium flare, and last but not least, the saddle is an ejector seat...complete with a snarky message:
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Alex Rider / int_bb08509e	type	Underwear Flag
Alex Rider / int_bb08509e	comment	Underwear Flag: Herod Sayle, the villain, was subjected to severe bullying after he moved from Egypt to England at age 7, which included his underpants being run up the flagpole.
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Alex Rider / int_bc103f8b	type	Subverted
Alex Rider / int_bc103f8b	comment	And then somewhat subverted at the end of the novel - the Russian government, on a very short notice, sends in The Cavalry that relatively easily overpowers Sarov's forces.
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Alex Rider / int_bce16d24	type	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
Alex Rider / int_bce16d24	comment	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Major Yu lampshades this while holding Alex at gunpoint before sending him off to the organ-harvesting camp.
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Alex Rider / int_bd65ee92	type	Girl Scouts Are Evil
Alex Rider / int_bd65ee92	comment	Girl Scouts Are Evil: Two teenage assassins pose as Girl Scouts selling muffins in order to poison a target.
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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_bd79d896	type	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
Alex Rider / int_bd79d896	comment	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: Twofold. First, Edward Pleasure inadvertently discovers that Damian Cray gave a large bribe to an NSA official. Then, Yassen's attempt on Edward's life forces Alex, who just happened to take a vacation in the very same house, to investigate.
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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_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Alex Rider / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: An ambulance drove to the supply area where Sabina was being attacked by a man posing as a doctor. However, it was short-lived - the ambulance came to help her kidnapper, not her.
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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_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
Alex Rider / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: Alex while undercover in Skeleton Key gets to briefly enjoy having a family. Agents Troy and Carver, who are pretending to be his parents, get killed during the mission.
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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_c6074d96	type	I Am Spartacus
Alex Rider / int_c6074d96	comment	I Am Spartacus: Alex saves Paul Drevin in Ark Angel by making his kidnappers think that he is Paul, and incapacitating most of them.
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Alex Rider / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Alex Rider / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Dr. Grief's ultimate plan is essentially The Boys from Brazil taken up to eleven.
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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: Subverted hard with Alex's plan to exchange the flash drive for Sabina. The villain just threatens to cut Sabina's fingers one by one if Alex doesn't cooperate.
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Alex Rider / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Alex Rider / int_c93a6560	comment	Agents Troy and Carver get Impaled with Extreme Prejudice underwater after discovering too late that General Sarov does know about the secret route into his base of operations after all.
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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_cad80824	type	Artistic License â€“ Arachnids
Alex Rider / int_cad80824	comment	Artistic License â€“ Arachnids: Cossack has a close encounter with a black widow spider that's described as being big enough to touch the corner of his mouth with one leg while the others remain on his neck - ie, the spider is covering half the lower part of his face - big enough for him to actually see its eyes, and heavy enough for him to feel the weight of it on his shoulder and mistake it for a tarantula. However, black widows are only around 10-15mm in size. Not only would Cossack not have felt it through his clothes, it's very unlikely that Hunter could have shot it off of Cossack's neck like he does in the book.
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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_cf36f69d	type	Reed Snorkel
Alex Rider / int_cf36f69d	comment	Reed Snorkel: To escape a Hunting "Accident", Alex hides beneath the surface of a lake, breathing through the barrel of a shotgun.
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Alex Rider / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Alex Rider / int_cf92fea8	comment	During a failed attempt to escape from Sarov during a plane refueling stop in Edinburgh, Alex runs into a security guard who doesn't believe him over the events, only for Conrad to arrive and shoot him dead. It turns out that his superiors were listening to this event over his radio, who then contacted MI6 after finding his body, leading to the Russian Army and Navy arriving in the climax to help Alex.
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Alex Rider / int_cfc52d52	type	Spoiled Brat
Alex Rider / int_cfc52d52	comment	Spoiled Brat: Point Blanc is supposedly an elite school for the rebellious and spoiled children of the super-rich elite of the world, making most of their students qualify as spoiled brats. To get Alex into Point Blanc, he's given the identity of Alex Friend, who has a history of criminal behaviour and has been expelled from Eton for setting fire to the library.
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Alex Rider / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Alex Rider / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Frederick Meadowes in 'The Man with Six Fingers' had no involvement with the villains and was actually being kidnapped by them. It is later revealed that he planned to donate the money he made from his 'salami slicing'-style fraud to charity.
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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_d2437b08	type	Short-Lived Aerial Escape
Alex Rider / int_d2437b08	comment	Short-Lived Aerial Escape: In Ark Angel, Alex prevents Nikolei Drevin's escape by tying two canoes to the floats of his plane. When Drevin attempts to turn the plane around, the canoes get tangled up in the trees and the plane is torn in half before crashing.
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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: When Alex is trapped on the cargo ship the Liberian Star in Snakehead, Major Yu orders the entire ship's crew to begin searching for him. To avoid detection, Alex decides to hide in Yu's quarters, specifically under his bed, as Yu's quarters are the one place the crew aren't allowed to enter. It's even lampshaded when Alex realises how incredibly stupid he'll look if Yu finds him.
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Alex Rider / int_d66cd0e6	type	Training from Hell
Alex Rider / int_d66cd0e6	comment	Training from Hell: To prepare him as their Teen Superspy, MI6 sends Alex to the SAS for 2 weeks. Even with allowances made for his age and size, it's no summer camp.
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Alex Rider / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Alex Rider / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Four Mooks from Ark Angel were always referred to as "Spectacles", "Steel Watch", "Combat Jacket", and "Silver Tooth".
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Alex Rider / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
Alex Rider / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: In the movie version of Stormbreaker, Herod Sayle becomes a kid from a redneck "trailer park" family who moved to England.
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Alex Rider / int_d83b8507	type	Barely-There Swimwear
Alex Rider / int_d83b8507	comment	Barely-There Swimwear: In Eagle Strike, Sabina's bikini is described as being "made out of so little material that it hadn't bothered with a pattern".
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Alex Rider / int_d9c4365c	type	Reset Button
Alex Rider / int_d9c4365c	comment	Reset Button: Never Say Die goes to great pains to undo every development made by "Scorpia Rising", which had previously stood as the series' Grand Finale for six years until Horowitz decided to revive it. By the end the status quo is exactly as it was before that book.
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Alex Rider / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
Alex Rider / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry: In Skeleton Key, Alex is about to be killed by The Dragon when the Russian navy storm the base. Although Alex still has to defeat The Dragon by himself, the raid provides the necessary distraction for him to do so, and disposes of the rest of Sarov's Mooks.
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Alex Rider / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Alex Rider / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: When Alex first touches down in Cairo, the reader is treated to a scene where a man is informed that Alex has arrived, and angrily tells his agent to bring Alex to him, setting him up to be a major antagonistic force. He turns out to be Colonel Manzour, whose tracking of Alex manages to save him from a group of Razim's old goons, and provides Alex with valuable help in tracking down Jack
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Alex Rider / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Alex Rider / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Sir Graham Adair, who acts for the good of his country and has a personal stake in helping Alex.
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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_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Alex Rider / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: In the final novel, Razim makes Alex cross this by arranging for Jack, who's been caring for Alex since he was seven years old, to be blown up just as she thought she was escaping from his secure facility. Alex spends a good chunk of the rest of the book in a Heroic BSoD before bouncing back to win the day, but the end of the novel shows that he's still majorly traumatized by that (which is really understandable). Not to mention having shot Julius Grief—who looks just like him—in the head mostly in cold blood.
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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_de9fd393	type	Piano Drop
Alex Rider / int_de9fd393	comment	Piano Drop: Herod Sayle from Stormbreaker was a street urchin until he saved some rich English tourists from a piano dropped from a fourteenth story window. He was then adopted and brought to live with them.
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Alex Rider / int_dee56696	type	Innocuously Important Episode
Alex Rider / int_dee56696	comment	Innocuously Important Episode: Crocodile Tears is largely a Breather Episode. However, it does establish that there has recently been a general election which resulted in a new government being voted in. At the time, this just seems to be a way of inconveniencing MI6, as the new Prime Minister isn't aware of who Alex is and Blunt has to struggle to get Alex's warnings about the Big Bad to be taken seriously. However, the Prime Minister's obvious discomfort with the idea of a minor working as a spy has a big payoff at the beginning of the next book, where he has forbidden Blunt from using Alex again and decided to have him retired as head of MI6.
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Alex Rider / int_df1793de	type	Updated Re-release
Alex Rider / int_df1793de	comment	Updated Re-release: The book collects all the previously published Alex Rider novellas and short stories (many of which were not previously available in print) and rewrites most of them to make them a bit more substantial, and includes a few new stories to boot.
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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_dfa40c1b	type	Didn't See That Coming
Alex Rider / int_dfa40c1b	comment	Didn't See That Coming: The entirety of the events of Scorpia Rising are stage-managed by Razim, with every move Alex makes being controlled by his guidance. However, Alex does two things which Razim does not expect him to do. The first is breaking in to Gunter's office and discovering the photographs in a secret drawer, and the second is stealing an empty cigarette packet from Razim and hiding a scorpion from the nest in his cell in it.
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Alex Rider / int_dfbf8667	type	Right Under Their Noses
Alex Rider / int_dfbf8667	comment	Right Under Their Noses: When Major Yu finds out about Alex's escape on the Liberian Star, he orders everyone on the ship to search for him. A day later, they've made no progress. Yu isn't surprised that Alex managed to evade them...but he still fails to draw this conclusion, despite the fact that the only place nobody has searched is his own living quarters.
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Alex Rider / int_e11f9686	type	Improvised Parachute
Alex Rider / int_e11f9686	comment	Improvised Parachute: In Scorpia, Alex uses a slowly deflating hot air balloon as an improvised parachute to reach the ground.
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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_e3cee2e7	type	Empathic Environment
Alex Rider / int_e3cee2e7	comment	Empathic Environment: At the end of Skeleton Key, Alex is in low spirits; as he heads out for a walk, the sky is gray and cloudy, even though it was forecasted to be sunny. Then Sabina shows up unexpectedly and invites him to join her family on vacation; he accepts, and as they walk off together, Alex notices the sun is out. Earlier, when Turner and Troy are about to be Killed Offscreen, "the whole sky was turning to blood".
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Alex Rider / int_e409de66	type	Manipulative Editing
Alex Rider / int_e409de66	comment	Manipulative Editing: Sarov records an interview with the Russian President while the latter is fantastically drunk and doesnâ€™t care about anything. He plans to edit this to make the President look bad when the dust has blown over.
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Alex Rider / int_e431c24c	type	Not Quite Dead
Alex Rider / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: Alex himself, at the beginning of the sixth book.
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Alex Rider / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Alex Rider / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: The Russian president is a strange amalgamation of Vladimir Putin (looks), Boris Yeltsin (first name and habits) and Sergey Kiriyenko, one of Yeltsin's prime ministers before Putin (last name).
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Alex Rider / int_e4ce314	type	The Triads and the Tongs
Alex Rider / int_e4ce314	comment	The Triads and the Tongs: In the beginning of Skeleton Key, a triad known as "Big Circle" serves as the Starter Villain to Alex, seeking retribution after he injured and captured two of their members, which forces him to leave Britain. They're dealth with offscreen after MI6 returns the two men and convinces them to back off.
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Alex Rider / int_e502e268	type	Family Theme Naming
Alex Rider / int_e502e268	comment	Family Theme Naming: Tom and his brother Jerry. Jerry didn't appreciate it.
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Alex Rider / int_e53a34aa	type	Death Course
Alex Rider / int_e53a34aa	comment	Death Course: In Eagle Strike, Alex is thrown into an exact replica of an Aztec level of a video game by the game's creator. This features darts, slippery surfaces, a robot snake which is a real snake in body armor and three Aztec gods (guards in costume).
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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_e63228a7	type	InfoDump
Alex Rider / int_e63228a7	comment	Info Dump: Almost the entire chapter on the COBRA meeting, where a medical officer and a nanoscience researcher explain Scorpia's plan.
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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_e75d4959	type	Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World
Alex Rider / int_e75d4959	comment	Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World: Averted. Alex misses most of his schooling due to his missions. It's gotten to the point that everyone, both student and faculty, somehow knows that there's something wrong with him and that there's more to him than just "illnesses."
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Alex Rider / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
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_e96e7845	type	Ramp Jump
Alex Rider / int_e96e7845	comment	Ramp Jump: The chase scene with Alex on the bike ends with him crossing an opening bridge, using the Ejection Seat to give him the boost he needs to cross the gap.
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Alex Rider / int_eaa1c5b5	type	Sequel Number Snarl
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	type	Groin Attack
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_ebb900a7	type	Resignations Not Accepted
Alex Rider / int_ebb900a7	comment	Resignations Not Accepted: The opening chapter of Scorpia has one of the titular organisation's senior members offed in this fashion. He refuses to participate in Scorpia's latest project: a biological weapon that specifically targets children. He is given a "retirement present" from his former co-workers, which turns out to be a box filled with deadly scorpions.
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Alex Rider / int_ebd01bc5	type	Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me
Alex Rider / int_ebd01bc5	comment	Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me: A rare male example, Sharkovsky orders his men to make sure the captured young Yassen has washed himself thoroughly before being in his presence as Yassen was living on the streets at the time.
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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_ec1ec2dc	type	Non-Protagonist Resolver
Alex Rider / int_ec1ec2dc	comment	Non-Protagonist Resolver: Alex delivers the final blow to the villain, but is too weak to even stand afterwards. Sabina is the one who actually saves the world by destroying the nuclear missiles.
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Alex Rider / int_ece27800	type	Kill and Replace
Alex Rider / int_ece27800	comment	Kill and Replace: Dr. Grief's "Gemini Project" aims to replace all the super-rich students with his own clones, thus being able to take over their family business down the line.
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Alex Rider / int_ef21c962	type	Hired Help as Family
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_efbfe117	type	Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like
Alex Rider / int_efbfe117	comment	Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: Inverted in Crocodile Tears. Rahim saves Alex from near-death on more than one occasion. After the second time, he starts complaining about how Alex was simply screwing up his own personal mission against McCain, even though Alex himself was very grateful for the rescue.
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Alex Rider / int_f068cba	type	Oddball in the Series
Alex Rider / int_f068cba	comment	Oddball in the Series: Apart from being consciously styled as Darker and Edgier (although less gory) than usual, also the first book in the series to not have a conventional Big Bad, the first not to have any gadgets, and the first that is not a self-contained story in its own right, ending on a Sequel Hook with Mrs Jones' son and the other Numbers still missing, and Nightshade planning to come after Alex.
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Alex Rider / int_f2d8e3c2	type	Evil Plan
Alex Rider / int_f2d8e3c2	comment	Evil Plan: Scorpia is given a Â£â€Ž100 million assignment to turn the US and Britain against each other, and plan to accomplish this through a project called "Invisible Sword", which will kill thousands of children in London.
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Alex Rider / int_f3f1a9e2	type	Not My Driver
Alex Rider / int_f3f1a9e2	comment	Not My Driver: At the end of Stormbreaker, Sayle abducts Alex by posing as a taxi driver.
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Alex Rider / int_f51f4509	type	Tagline
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_f6370d13	type	Organ Theft
Alex Rider / int_f6370d13	comment	Organ Theft: Snakehead uses this as a justification for the villain keeping Alex alive yet again. He has Alex taken to a hidden facility where his various organs will be removed one-at-a-time (finishing with the heart) and sold to wealthy customers, allowing him to recover what Alex has cost him. Alex doesn't stick around.
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Alex Rider / int_f6d623ca	type	Eco-Terrorist
Alex Rider / int_f6d623ca	comment	Eco-Terrorist: The terrorist organisation Force Three in Ark Angel. They turn out to be a subversion, as they're being bankrolled by Nikolei Drevin, and their environmentalist goals are just a Red Herring to stop anyone drawing a connection between the two.
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Alex Rider / int_f70bcdc3	type	External Combustion
Alex Rider / int_f70bcdc3	comment	External Combustion: Attempted by Cray's minions on Marc Antonio in Eagle Strike. He noticed a wire and didn't start the car.
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Alex Rider / int_f7588306	type	Reverse Psychology
Alex Rider / int_f7588306	comment	Reverse Psychology: Alex falls for this near the end of Point Blanc. After nearly killing himself at least three different ways to get out of the school, he refuses to help out in the attack... until Wolf comes in and tells him he's Just a Kid. Alex immediately demands to go with them, then realises what he's done five seconds too late.
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Alex Rider / int_f8600b	type	Cool Big Sis
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_f97df10b	type	The World's Expert (on Getting Killed)
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