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Deathstalker

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Deathstalker	comment	It's a bad old time for Humanity in general. The human Empire is presided over by Empress Lionstone, aka the Iron Bitch, a ruler who makes Josef Stalin look like Gandhi. Everywhere in the Empire, rebellions are popping up and popping heads as fast as one can blink, and are slaughtered with utmost efficiency. Espers, clones, degenerates, and slaves are ubiquitous, treated as third-class citizens when they're not being tortured, experimented on, or simply shot. And, for once in the Empire's history, nobody is truly safe — be it noble, commoner, or servant.That's not the worst of it, though. From the borders of the Empire, a number of threats have arisen: a group of formerly subservient AIs which broke free of their programming and formed the planet Shub, driven to exterminate their old masters; the Sleepers, a group of aliens genetically engineered as weapons, intended to destroy all in their path... and other horrors from beyond the Darkvoid, a multiple-light-year-wide sphere of death which the Empire created hundreds of years ago. Oh, and that's still nothing compared to the court intrigues, only kept at bay by the terror the Empress bestows upon her subjects.The eight-book Deathstalker series, written by Simon R. Green, drops the reader right into the midst of this, beginning with the outlawing of one Owen Deathstalker, an aristocratic historian who just wanted to relax in comfort on his idyllic, pastoral homeworld. That changes fast, and he's forced to take up arms with the smuggler Hazel D'Ark, the bounty hunter Ruby Journey, the hero of the rebellion Jack Random, and the former Hadenman Tobias Moon... as well as a host of other unsavory characters, all of whom are out for themselves as much as anything.In short, the Deathstalker series is a Fantasy Kitchen Sink Space Opera and is sliced up into hundred- or two-hundred-page sections which could generally stand as stories on their own right. The recipe is simple: one part Star Wars, two parts French Revolution, and a dash of Affectionate Parody, satire, and Lovecraftian horror, liberally sprinkled with Funny Moments. One can expect quite a lot of Shocking Moments when explaining any given segment, particularly as one reads further on. Finally, outside of the series itself, there are a handful of other stories written by Simon R. Green in the same universe, including the compilation Twilight of the Empire.The series consists of the following: Twilight of the Empire (1998) (also known as Deathstalker Prelude) Mistworld (1992) Ghostworld (1993) Hellworld (1993; revised 1995) Deathstalker (1995) Deathstalker Rebellion (1996) Deathstalker War (1997) Deathstalker Honour (1998) Deathstalker Destiny (1999) Deathstalker Legacy (2002) Deathstalker Return (2004) Deathstalker Coda (2005)The series basically exits in three parts: Twilight of the Empire gives some important but ultimately optional backstory to important locales like Mistworld and Unseeli, and important characters like Silence and Carrion. The next five novels revolve around Owen Deathstalker, the rebellion against Lionstone, and the efforts to reforge the Empire into something better. The last three books take place 200 years later, show what the efforts of our heroes ultimately wrought, and conclude the series on pretty much a happy note.
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Deathstalker / int_112890b3	type	Secret Identity
Deathstalker / int_112890b3	comment	Secret Identity: The first series features as one of its side characters the son of a noble clan who was well-known for his sole skill of always being up to date with court fashion, no matter how extravagant or obscure. He was also considered the greatest fop and dandy of his age. No one even suspected that he was secretly the Masked Gladiator, the deadliest and most revered fighter in the Arena (and actually the second person to inhabit the identity.) When his Family was obliterated by a rival Clan, he turned his skills to being a warrior and assassin for the Underground.
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Deathstalker / int_112daba0	type	Retired Badass
Deathstalker / int_112daba0	comment	Retired Badass: Jack Random, when first encountered. Investigator Razor. Hired by Clan Chojiro as an elite bodyguard/enforcer, he's eventually recalled to Imperial service when Lionstone decides that she doesn't like the idea of the Families having access to her most effective killing machines, even if they are past their prime.
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Deathstalker / int_1206dd74	type	Victory Is Boring
Deathstalker / int_1206dd74	comment	Victory Is Boring: Jack Random finds that he can't stand being a "hero" with nothing to fight for, and so chooses to rebel against the government he just helped build.
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Deathstalker / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Deathstalker / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: After 1.2 million words, Owen is cut down in a simple street fight — and when he's dead they even steal his boots. He does get better in the sequel series, but a lot of other protagonists don't.
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Deathstalker / int_154aa477	type	Big, Screwed-Up Family
Deathstalker / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: All the Families, bar none. Deathstalkers have mandatory beatings of their youths to bring out the "boost," and the genetic quirks that give them the ability kills most young Deathstalkers, so the Family is very small. The Wolfe's are renowned for their viciousness, with Valentine's younger brother and sister constantly plotting to kill him. Gregor Schrek is vicious, petty bull of a man, who loves his daughter rather more than a father should. The Campbells seem to be the most normal, noble, well-adjusted Family in the Empire, but even they're dealing with the Rogue A.I.s of Shub (and are wiped out almost to the man before the end of the first book).
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Deathstalker / int_15fc9fb	type	Our Elves Are Different
Deathstalker / int_15fc9fb	comment	Our Elves Are Different: The first series as the Esper Liberation Front (ELF, ELFs, or elves for short), the militant wing of the Esper Underground. The second series as the Esper Liberation Force. The first elves are anti-heroes even among anti-heroes, the second elves are straight-up villains.
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Deathstalker / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Deathstalker / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Jack Random. Thanks to the Madness Maze, he gets younger as the books go on. But he stays cool.
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Deathstalker / int_178ca149	type	The Worf Effect
Deathstalker / int_178ca149	comment	The Worf Effect: Rose Constantine runs headlong into this trope hard in Deathstalker Return. Her whole role on Unseeli and Lachrymae Christi is just to show how powerful the Ashrai actually Carrion and the Red Brain are.
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Deathstalker / int_19f6e383	type	Transhuman Treachery
Deathstalker / int_19f6e383	comment	Transhuman Treachery: Empress Lionstone, faced with imminent defeat in the climax of Deathstalker War, accepts an offer from Shub to have her mind uploaded and made into an A.I. so she can take revenge. Later, in Deathstalker Destiny, Shub reveals they'd lied and just made an A.I. that pretended to be Lionstone.
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Deathstalker / int_1ba09c9d	type	Human Resources
Deathstalker / int_1ba09c9d	comment	Human Resources: Valentine Wolfe used this at one point. He produced a highly-addictive drug with chemicals he harvested from the bodies of humans killed when the Empress razed Owen's homeworld. As a final measure of getting the most out of the resources available, he then served his colleagues the meat not used in the process. The Empress had specially-contained human brains used to disrupt psionic powers and one of the main characters started the series as an organ runner.
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Deathstalker / int_1cc9f5e5	type	Playing with Fire
Deathstalker / int_1cc9f5e5	comment	Jack and Ruby: Playing with Fire, though their flames are much stronger when they work together.
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Deathstalker / int_1d937d3c	type	Snarky Non-Human Sidekick
Deathstalker / int_1d937d3c	comment	Snarky Non Human Side Kick: Ozymandias, the A.I. that's oftentimes by Owen's side.
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Deathstalker / int_1f137e42	type	Artificial Limbs
Deathstalker / int_1f137e42	comment	Artificial Limbs: Late in Deathstalker, Owen loses a hand. By the start of Deathstalker Rebellion, the Hadenmen have given him a fully functioning golden replacement. Then in Deathstalker Honor, he learns it's been spreading filaments throughout his body, and is meant to let them take control of him. With encouragement from Hazel, he promptly regains control via his Maze-augmented powers, chops it off, expels the filaments and regrows a normal hand.
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Deathstalker / int_1f19f198	type	Back-to-Back Badasses
Deathstalker / int_1f19f198	comment	Back-to-Back Badasses: A favorite tactic of the heroes.
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Deathstalker / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
Deathstalker / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: John Silence, Investigator Frost, Security Officer V. Stelmach. All three on the side of the Empire, and put into conflict the with the Rebellion (and major characters) fairly often. Silence, in particular, has no illusions about how bad the Empire is, but is firmly convinced all the alternatives are worse.
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Deathstalker / int_208c4494	type	With Great Power Comes Great Insanity
Deathstalker / int_208c4494	comment	With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: The Madness Maze was designed to cause beings passing through to "evolve" into a reality warper. As per the name, most who enter are instead driven insane and fail to gain the full power-up but still gain terrifying power or knowledge.
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Deathstalker / int_211eedd	type	All Crimes Are Equal
Deathstalker / int_211eedd	comment	All Crimes Are Equal: In the later books it is stated that dealing in Alien Porn is extremely lucrative and a statutory death sentence. Emma Steel, Paragon from Mistworld recently reassigned to Logres, believes this. Lewis tries to explain to her that she'll get burned out if she doesn't focus on the big terrorist groups, but she doesn't listen. In her first hour on Logres, she arrests some scammers at the starport, then three muggers, seven pickpockets, and one flasher.
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Deathstalker / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Deathstalker / int_2139c878	comment	Church Militant: The Church of Christ the Warrior, with its Jesuit commandos. In the later books this is played straight up with the... "Church Militant".
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Deathstalker / int_216c045b	type	The Scottish Trope
Deathstalker / int_216c045b	comment	The Scottish Trope: In full force however far along in the future the novels are set. Averted (or possibly invoked) later on in Deathstalker Legacy, when Jesamine asks Lewis, shortly after they've first consummated their affair, if he's familiar with the plot of Macbeth. Lewis tells her not to even joke about that. Not long afterward, everything goes to hell, in both Lewis and Jesamine's life and the Empire as a whole.
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Deathstalker / int_21f3e32e	type	Chekhov's Boomerang
Deathstalker / int_21f3e32e	comment	Chekhov's Boomerang: The Madness Maze after it was supposedly destroyed by Captain Silence.
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Deathstalker / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Deathstalker / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: Valentine Wolfe, after he goes into exile on Virimonde, has a sumptuous feast prepared for his supporters using the bodies of the planet's dead populace. The supporters aren't pleased when they find out.
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Deathstalker / int_22cf50f9	type	Chekhov's Gag
Deathstalker / int_22cf50f9	comment	Chekhov's Gag: Multiple occasions, at least one appears between the books, Deathstalker: Return and Deathstalker: Coda. In Return, Lewis Deathstalker discusses parties of jaded big game hunters going to Shandra-kor to hunt the monsters there. After ten hunts, the only thing that came back was a note saying, "Send more hunters." In Deathstalker Coda, said monsters agree to aid Lewis in his rebellion and are riding in a cargo bay of Lewis's star cruiser during a "Pure Humanity" loyalist mutiny. The loyalists go to the cargo bay to cleanse the "abominations," the monsters tear the loyalists apart and eat them. One monster sends up a com-request to the bridge to "Send more loyalists." This could be a Brick Joke if you didn't find the idea of big game hunters being eaten funny.
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Deathstalker / int_2317bc85	type	Tampering with Food and Drink
Deathstalker / int_2317bc85	comment	Tampering with Food and Drink: Early on, Constance Wolfe fully intends to have children with her husband Jacob, in order to cement her claim to his Family. Her stepchildren, however, have been slipping contraceptives into her food to prevent this, and she never catches on before Jacob dies.
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Deathstalker / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Deathstalker / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Finn began his takedown of Douglas' Empire by recruiting thieves, thugs, hackers, and agent provocateurs from the Rookery. Douglas is forced to flee there after Finn successfully wrests power away from him, and starts his rebellion by recruiting everyone from the Rookery.
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Deathstalker / int_26e3e271	type	Immortal Life Is Cheap
Deathstalker / int_26e3e271	comment	Immortal Life Is Cheap: Hellworld features the protagonists being dropped onto a planet to determine its potential for colonization. They find the planet apparently devoid of most animal life, with large pools of what can be described as greyish, primordial goo. Then, they discover that the advanced alien race that lived there constructed a machine that made them immortal and protean, able to take on any shape they willed and unable to die. The psychic member of the group discovers that the aliens had eventually become violent sociopaths, fighting endlessly until the machine grew bored and turned them into said goo. To make matters worse, that machine? It's still around. And insane. And starting to affect mutations within our heroes.
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Deathstalker / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Deathstalker / int_2737c505	comment	Shoot the Dog: Owen puts a young plasma baby out of her misery on Mistworld. This single act haunts him for the rest of the series.
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Deathstalker / int_27c09b00	type	Camp Straight
Deathstalker / int_27c09b00	comment	Camp Straight: Finlay Campbell is an incredibly foppish aristocrat. Kind of a subversion in that that's just his public persona, he's also the incredibly deadly masked champion of the galactic arena. Once things go to heck, he stops with the fop.
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Deathstalker / int_2916334d	type	It's What I Do
Deathstalker / int_2916334d	comment	It's What I Do: After Owen is revived, he communicates with the Admiral of the orbiting Imperial fleet, a handpicked Pure Humanity fanatic. After Owen insults and antagonizes her, Lewis ends the call, and, realizing their last slim chance of talking their way out from under the guns of the largest Imperial fleet assembled since the Rebellion has evaporated, asks Owen what the point was of antagonizing the Admiral. "It's what I do best."
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Deathstalker / int_292d4681	type	Electric Instant Gratification
Deathstalker / int_292d4681	comment	Electric Instant Gratification: The setting has a religious sect called the "Ecstatics", who had their brains modified to be in a continual state of orgasm.
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Deathstalker / int_2a6bf668	type	Inadequate Inheritor
Deathstalker / int_2a6bf668	comment	Inadequate Inheritor: Giles sees Owen as this, lamenting that "the blood's gotten thin" when he finds out his descendant is a historian, not a warrior. Not that Owen is any slouch as a warrior, mind. Owen's father also wanted a very different life for Owen than Owen wanted for himself. Centuries later, Lewis views himself as inadequate compared to his distant relative Owen, worrying a great deal about whether he's "Deathstalker enough".
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Deathstalker / int_2afb1a9	type	Limit Break
Deathstalker / int_2afb1a9	comment	Limit Break: The boost, the genetic inheritance of the Deathstalker Clan. It makes them superhumanly strong and fast for a time, but as Owen is fond of saying, the candle that burns twice as brightly lasts half as long. Coming out of the boost nearly kills Owen a few times in the first book from fatigue (later, it's implied his Maze-adjusted body is better at withstanding it), and withdrawal nearly kills him at one point. It's also addictive and can lead to a kind of berserker rage, as Hazel finds out when the Maze grants her the boost, too. Owen uses it a lot in the series, because things are just that desperate even with his Maze enhancements.
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Deathstalker / int_2b0d73eb	type	Outlaw Town
Deathstalker / int_2b0d73eb	comment	Outlaw Town: Mistworld, an entire planet populated by thieves and political fugitives, left more or less to kill and prey on each other in peace since the empire found an orbital blockade cheaper than the effort required to clean the place up or even nuke it from orbit. Mistworld remains stubbornly independent in the final three books, which also add the Rookery, basically the thieves quarter of the Parade of the Endless.
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Deathstalker / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
Deathstalker / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: When Lewis' fleet of rogue Imperial ships arrives at Mistworld, they keep a very respectful distance, noting that Mistworld has always been able to withstand anything any Empire could throw at it. After finally getting through to Mistport control and arranging a meeting to discuss the rebellion, the captain of the lead ship insists he needs to change his trousers.
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Deathstalker / int_2b7d29e1	type	Artifact Title
Deathstalker / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: Not so much with the series itself (there is still a Deathstalker in the last three books, though an indirect descendant whose family took the name out of respect.) But while the Imperial capital world of Golgotha is renamed Logres for the last three books, its major city is still called The Parade of the Endless, so-named because of the endless meatgrinder of its main feature, the Arena. In the last three books, the Arena still exists, but the sport is less about blood and death than it is about skill (and regeneration machines keep death at bay, at least for the sapient combatants.)
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Deathstalker / int_2b9cf587	type	Back in the Saddle
Deathstalker / int_2b9cf587	comment	Back in the Saddle: As part of Owen's plan to overthrow Empress Lionstone they plan to recruit Jack Random, the "professional rebel". To their surprise, Random is now an old, world-weary retiree who, after one defeat too many, has taken up janitorial duties. They manage to bring him back in and he proves to still have a good bit of fight in him.
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Deathstalker / int_2bd44a0f	type	Hermaphrodite
Deathstalker / int_2bd44a0f	comment	Hermaphrodite: In the "Lewis Deathstalker" books, Saturday is part of a reptiloid race who are both male and female. Unlike most examples, when a male of the species mates with a female, their male organs break off and are sealed inside their mate, pumping genetic material inside to ensure pregnancy and leaving the reptiloid fully female until said male organs grow back.
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Deathstalker / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
Deathstalker / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters/Jumping Off the Slippery Slope/Well-Intentioned Extremist: Jack Random in the fifth book.
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Deathstalker / int_2cb9b1a9	type	Cool, but Inefficient
Deathstalker / int_2cb9b1a9	comment	Cool, but Inefficient: Disruptor cannons can fire through most armor — once, every two minutes. Beyond that, swords come into play. The only reason projectile weapons aren't still around is because they were systematically banned. Disruptor weapons get a little better in the last three books. It just takes 30 sec. to recharge. Just long enough to get run though if you miss, or fighting more than one enemy and have only one gun. which lead to Badass Bandolier. This is also interesting because it seems that disruptor weapons were systematically nerfed when projectile weapons were banned because Owen discovers that in the past (i.e. in the "fallen" first empire), energy weapons could fire without pause.
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Deathstalker / int_2cd22076	type	Fantastic Drug
Deathstalker / int_2cd22076	comment	Fantastic Drug: Valentine Wolfe tends towards these... well, actually, his body is probably 50% Fantastic Drugs by weight. To illustrate, the gentleman's ''blood'' is effectively toxic beyond belief, his entire body has mutated time and time again to give him the ability to handle these drugs, and his whole life now revolves around getting a yet better high. Valentine even has caches of drugs implanted in his body for use when he has to defend himself. Including drugs to heighten and sharpen his senses, grant increased speed and strength, and even a drug that makes his flesh rubbery and almost impossible to pierce (the last is stated to originally have been designed to enhance sexual pleasure, but Valentine saw another use for it, essentially inverting Power Perversion Potential.) A drug dealer/chemist in the later books is exposed to the Madness Maze, he starts producing drugs that cause specific effects, like killing off the left, or right, side of the body leaving the user as a half-dead junkie, and thats not even the limit of Doctor Happy... On the slightly more mundane side, the Imperial marines are stated to make prolific use of "battle drugs," though their exact effects are never explained. And then, in the last three books, there's the Fantastic Anti-Drug "Purge", which sobers you up in 60 seconds, and makes you regret 59 of them. Basically, it forces the drugs out through all available means.
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Deathstalker / int_2fa6b075	type	God Save Us from the Queen!
Deathstalker / int_2fa6b075	comment	God Save Us from the Queen!: And how. They don't call her the Iron Bitch for nothing. While no one ever says it to her face, no indication is given that Lionstone objects to the moniker.
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Deathstalker / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Deathstalker / int_3114c1e5	comment	Ramming Always Works: When the ELFs manage to take over an entire Imperial starcruiser, the only chance another, very damaged cruiser has to prevent them devastating the fleet is to ram it.
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Deathstalker / int_319e101e	type	Amplifier Artifact
Deathstalker / int_319e101e	comment	Amplifier Artifact: Carrion uses a weapon banned throughout the Empire: a power lance, banned because it makes an esper wielding one all but invincible by enhancing their abilities.
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Deathstalker / int_33a82edb	type	HammerSpace
Deathstalker / int_33a82edb	comment	Hammerspace: First Empire tech lets people store weapons, equipment, and even whole other bodies in "subspace pockets."
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Deathstalker / int_33ba37ca	type	Out with a Bang
Deathstalker / int_33ba37ca	comment	Out with a Bang: During the decay of the First Empire, people will do anything and everything to forget about how things are spiraling out of control. One street in Hearthworld's capital city contains a massive, never-ending orgy; while individuals come and go, the orgy itself never ends. Owen's guide notes that sometimes, people just die there. He guesses it's not a bad way to go.
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Deathstalker / int_3577923b	type	Murder by Mistake
Deathstalker / int_3577923b	comment	Murder by Mistake: In "Mistworld", a mercenary is sent to kill Investigator Topaz. Unfortunately, she'd given her distinctive cloak to her husband a short while before, so the killer unwittingly shoots him in the back instead of Topaz; cue Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
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Deathstalker / int_35884ee7	type	Villainous Incest
Deathstalker / int_35884ee7	comment	Villainous Incest: Gregor Schrek and his daughter, Evangeline (and the clone he made of her specifically to keep it up. Strongly implied, if not outright stated, between Stephanie and Daniel Wolfe.
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Deathstalker / int_36c94bed	type	Person of Mass Destruction
Deathstalker / int_36c94bed	comment	Person of Mass Destruction: Owen, at one point, seeks out an artifact used by his ancestor, the Darkvoid Device. To Owen's surprise, the Device is not some alien artifact but rather an infant. Placed in suspended animation at the center of the Madness Maze, it had absorbed so much power that the one time it awoke it had created the Darkvoid, a region of space where hundreds of stars had simply been extinguished.
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Deathstalker / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Deathstalker / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: Oh yeah. This series runs on it.
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Deathstalker / int_36fa0cc	type	Clones Are People, Too
Deathstalker / int_36fa0cc	comment	Clones Are People, Too: This is one of its central points, where clones are slaves and a 'degenerate' subspecies of humanity. The fight to give them actual rights carries on well beyond the initial rebellion, as best shown with the Stevie Blues and Evangeline Shreck.
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Deathstalker / int_375e702b	type	Brits Love Tea
Deathstalker / int_375e702b	comment	Brits Love Tea: The novels are speculatively British (just like Star Trek is speculatively American), since Simon R. Green is British. While the first series mostly revolves around I Need a Freaking Drink, this trope shows up a few times in the second series. Notably, after Lewis is bored to tears by his new job as Champion, and MP from Virimonde cuts off his planet-sponsored funding because Lewis won't use his influence on Virimonde's behalf, Jesamine takes Lewis to the best tea room on Logres to help get his mind off it. As Imperial forces wait around Haden to decide what to do about Lewis and Co. in Deathstalker Return, the fanatical Admiral of the fleet is chaffing under her very strict orders. Her Captain asks if he should order them a cup of tea while they wait. In Deathstalker Coda, as Owen travels back in time to the First Empire, he keeps cheekily asking if he and the various important people he meets can sit down, have a cup of tea, and talk about this. (No.)
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Deathstalker / int_37690091	type	Stable Time Loop
Deathstalker / int_37690091	comment	Stable Time Loop: Owen Deathstalker returns from the dead and goes traveling back in time to find the Terror who is in fact Hazel d'Ark. On one of his stops, he has the Light People construct the Madness Maze which gave him the power to time travel in the first place. The implications of this give him serious thoughts... and a headache. For an extra bit of time loop madness, after Owen and Hazel reunite in the distant past, they transform into what appear to be Light People. It's possible that they are the origin of the race which created the Madness Maze which let them go back in time to create that race.
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Deathstalker / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Deathstalker / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: Owen has an emergency yacht that only he knows about, stashed away and it comes in handy when he and Hazel are on the run.
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Deathstalker / int_3cb68bd3	type	Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon
Deathstalker / int_3cb68bd3	comment	Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: After Saturday reveals she's a mole, and mortally wounds Jesamine, Shub informs Lewis they have a regeneration tank nearby. Lewis rushes Jes to it, and she's just fine, but Lewis thinks Shub could have told him a little bit sooner:
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Deathstalker / int_3d5f46cf	type	Attacking Through Yourself
Deathstalker / int_3d5f46cf	comment	Attacking Through Yourself: The Masked Gladiator aka Finlay Campbell is fighting a winged genetically-engineered creature in the Arena, which grabs him from behind and carries him into he air, intending to impale him on one of the Arena's flagpoles. The Masked Gladiator can't attack the creature behind him effectively, so stabs through his own gut to hit the creature solidly enough to make it and him fall to the ground, where the Gladiator beheads it. The Gladiator makes a show of the wound not slowing him down... until he gets back to his private quarters, where he needs to quickly hop into a regeneration machine before he passes out.
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Deathstalker / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Deathstalker / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle. Especially notable as the first series progresses, the characters find themselves in increasingly dire straits, with much dazzling description of their combat prowess vastly exceeding those of mere mortals in speed and strength, but still hopelessly outmatched by their opponents, then their Maze powers flare up... In Deathstalker Return, Finn sends six starcruisers crewed with Church Militant/Pure Humanity fanatics to pursue Lewis and Company on a restored Unseeli, and to bring the restored Ashrai to heel and begin mining the planet's metallic trees again. The Imperials think they'll be on the giving end of one of these, what with all their starcruiser firepower and troops and war machines. With Maze-enhanced Carrion leading the restored (and very pissed off) Ashrai, it doesn't proceed exactly as the Empire hoped.
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Deathstalker / int_3d897748	type	Do Not Go Gentle
Deathstalker / int_3d897748	comment	Do Not Go Gentle: The entire Deathstalker clan chooses to die fighting against Finn's lackeys rather than let him choose their fates. While they are all killed, it completely ruins off the message Finn had planned.
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Deathstalker / int_3d8b73cf	type	Trouser Space
Deathstalker / int_3d8b73cf	comment	Trouser Space: Exaggerated (like just about everything else in the series) when Evangeline Shreck finally returns to give her father his much-needed and long-awaited comeuppance. Knowing she'd likely be thoroughly searched, but also knowing that her father wouldn't appreciate his guards "taking liberties" with his beloved daughter, she smuggled a small, deactivated monofilament blade in her, eh... the one place she could guarantee the guards wouldn't look.
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Deathstalker / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
Deathstalker / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: Valentine Wolfe's younger brother and sister try to eliminate him this way, since they can't overtly act against him.
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Deathstalker / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
Deathstalker / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: Frequent and unashamed.
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Deathstalker / int_40ad4941	type	Sword and Gun
Deathstalker / int_40ad4941	comment	Sword and Gun: Tends to be justified because the disruptors have a two minute recharge lag.
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Deathstalker / int_40e2ac3f	type	Flunky Boss
Deathstalker / int_40e2ac3f	comment	Flunky Boss/Marathon Boss: Lionstone XIV.
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Deathstalker / int_4108bb3e	type	Doomed Hometown
Deathstalker / int_4108bb3e	comment	Doomed Hometown: Virimonde is razed by a vindictive ruler just to hurt a character. Twice.
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Deathstalker / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Deathstalker / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Shub. Also, the automatons on Haceldama, though in that case it's almost double-invoked, as Shub wanted all the A.I.s they made on Haceldama to be murderous, but some actually turned good.
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Deathstalker / int_4276401c	type	Shoot the Messenger
Deathstalker / int_4276401c	comment	Shoot the Messenger: It takes quite some time for Finn to be informed not just of the fleet he sent to engage Lewis' fleet defecting, but the incipient invasion by the combined fleet, mostly because no one wanted to be the one actually tell him. They finally found a fanatic with "a strong sense of duty and no real sense of self-preservation." Once Finn is sure he's heard every detail, he beats the messenger to death with his bare hands.
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Deathstalker / int_44c59f9f	type	IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy
Deathstalker / int_44c59f9f	comment	I Just Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Douglas lets Jesamine go at the end of Deathstalker Coda, knowing that she and Lewis make each other happy, and refusing to deny his best friend and the woman he loves that chance at happiness.
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Deathstalker / int_45a177f1	type	Touched by Vorlons
Deathstalker / int_45a177f1	comment	Touched by Vorlons: The people who went through the Madness Maze; and to a lesser extent (they already had powers), the espers touched by the Mater Mundi.
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Deathstalker / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Deathstalker / int_469e3e2f	comment	Averted in one case, with the Stevie Blues; they're Esper Clones in a lesbian group marriage and are quite open about that fact. It should be noted that In-Universe, the relationship is considered Squick even by the Rebellion, who's fighting for the rights of all "nonpeople".
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Deathstalker / int_474e3977	type	You Have Failed Me
Deathstalker / int_474e3977	comment	You Have Failed Me: Joseph Wallace, the man Finn gave "control" of the Church Militant too suffers this after his utterly failed attack on the Rookery. To be fair, he was warned not to come back if he failed.
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Deathstalker / int_47fa30cf	type	Emotion Eater
Deathstalker / int_47fa30cf	comment	Emotion Eater: The ELFs of the sequel trilogy psychically feed on the emotions of their victims. True to trope, positive emotions don't nourish them, so they psychically compel people to do horrible things to each other and themselves to feed.
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Deathstalker / int_4852f325	type	I Just Want to Be Normal
Deathstalker / int_4852f325	comment	I Just Want to Be Normal: Owen never wanted this! He's a historian, not a warrior!
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Deathstalker / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
Deathstalker / int_49d18492	comment	Scenery Gorn: A quite literal example with the "monster city" on Shandrakor, built from the dead and decaying bodies of other Shandrakor beasts, because the trees are too tough to be worked and there's no stone the inhabitants can get at with their meager tools.
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Deathstalker / int_4ea4ad70	type	Rebellious Spirit
Deathstalker / int_4ea4ad70	comment	Rebellious Spirit: Jack Random, the galaxy's only professional rebel, who has spent most of his adult life leading one rebellion or another. After the rebellion he was leading actually wins, he turns around and rebels against the government he just helped create, reasoning that it's the only way to keep them honest.
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Deathstalker / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Deathstalker / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Shub does this to some folks. ... well, okay, everyone they find. Also, Half-A-Man. Simon Green seems to really like this trope. Wormboy, a giant tub of goo which literally fills an auditorium, the Maids, young girls converted into mindless cybernetic monsters, marines in the Madness Maze, hell, even the Empress gets her moment of this.
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Deathstalker / int_50ca4422	type	Unresolved Sexual Tension
Deathstalker / int_50ca4422	comment	Unresolved Sexual Tension: Silence and Frost, cut short by Frost's death. To be fair, Silence admitted that even if Frost lived, their relationship would always be in this state, since Frost is an investigator. Owen and Hazel in spades. Owen's fallen in love with her pretty early on, but knows she's not the type for romantic stuff, and never does anything about it. After Owen dies, Hazel laments that she never got to tell Owen how she felt, and vanishes.
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Deathstalker / int_51567188	type	Cast from Hit Points
Deathstalker / int_51567188	comment	Cast from Hit Points: As the ELFs gain more power, they're able to use their own psychic powers through their thralls, though the esper abilities burn out the thralls very quickly.
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Deathstalker / int_52600ad6	type	Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu
Deathstalker / int_52600ad6	comment	Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: The first arc of the series ends with the protagonist delaying the Recreated long enough for them to be restored to their true forms. However, the stress of doing so leaves him too exhausted to return to his point of origin or even fight effectively. Instead, a man who destroyed countless armies is murdered by a pack of half-mad drug addicts, far from friends and allies. They even took his boots.
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Deathstalker / int_5539b84f	type	Corrupt Church
Deathstalker / int_5539b84f	comment	Corrupt Church: Cardinal Beckett, and a few others.
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Deathstalker / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
Deathstalker / int_562abd51	comment	Valentine even has caches of drugs implanted in his body for use when he has to defend himself. Including drugs to heighten and sharpen his senses, grant increased speed and strength, and even a drug that makes his flesh rubbery and almost impossible to pierce (the last is stated to originally have been designed to enhance sexual pleasure, but Valentine saw another use for it, essentially inverting Power Perversion Potential.)
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Deathstalker / int_57dda60c	type	The Emperor
Deathstalker / int_57dda60c	comment	The Emperor: Empress Lionstone XIV is the original Big Bad, and after her death she stayed a boogey-man. Not even the Recreated could truly supplant her.
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Deathstalker / int_586624e5	type	Genius Loci
Deathstalker / int_586624e5	comment	Genius Loci: The Red Brain, a giant, sentient forest, that may or may not be the entire planet of Lachrymae Christi. There is also another, literal living planet, and then at least one other world that was effectively a Genius Locus after a Big Gray Goo scenario. The A.I.s of Shub may also count, being three sentient computers the size of a planet. The Madness Maze may or may not be one.
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Deathstalker / int_58bf7895	type	Eat the Evidence
Deathstalker / int_58bf7895	comment	Eat the Evidence: Discussed early in the first book when the ship Hazel is on is caught by an Imperial starcruiser with a hold full of illegal merchandise. Since the merchandise in question is human organs for cloning and transplant, Hazel isn't keen on the idea.
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Deathstalker / int_59ddd555	type	Psycho Lesbian
Deathstalker / int_59ddd555	comment	Psycho Lesbian: Played with in the Stevie Blues. While they are certainly psycho, and lesbians, they really do care for each other, and are among the best fighters (or maybe weapons) the Clone and Esper Undergrounds have access to. Though even the Undergrounds consider their arrangement an "abomination," though whether that's because they're esper clones, lesbians, in a group marriage, or in a group marriage with each other remains nebulous.
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Deathstalker / int_5b84f2a	type	Transhuman
Deathstalker / int_5b84f2a	comment	Transhuman: The series gets a few different variants of transhumanism, ranging from cybernetic implants to drugs to a madness-inducing alien maze which directly unlocks humanity's potential (if it doesn't kill you first). Most of these don't work out very well.
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Deathstalker / int_5f60b45a	type	In Harm's Way
Deathstalker / int_5f60b45a	comment	In Harm's Way: Once the rebellion's finally over, half the characters start to practically vibrate out of sheer boredom, something that's really not good when they're the most dangerous people in the reformed Empire. The new regime catches this fact and starts sending them out to do the really dirty jobs.
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Deathstalker / int_6023a9bc	type	Bloody Hilarious
Deathstalker / int_6023a9bc	comment	Bloody Hilarious: In Deathstalker Coda, Brett and Rose are approached by loyalists among the turncoat Imperial ships of Lewis' fleet, and asked to join their cause. When Brett accepts, he's asked to kill a traitor to the traitors. Brett has Rose do it, and she tears the man's head off with her bare hands, kisses the severed head before the throwing it away, then rips the heart out of the body and starts eating it. The loyalists' sickened reactions and Brett's smarm make the whole thing this.
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Deathstalker / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
Deathstalker / int_606244c2	comment	Gregor Schrek and his daughter, Evangeline (and the clone he made of her specifically to keep it up.
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Deathstalker / int_60b21fa3	type	The Lancer
Deathstalker / int_60b21fa3	comment	The Lancer: Hazel d'Ark to Owen Deathstalker. While Owen is a proud, pampered aristocrat who, despite his impressive warrior training, only ever wanted to be left alone to write boring histories that no one ever reads (his own words, no less), Hazel is a streetsmart pirate and outlaw, hates "aristos" and the wealthy, privileged elite of the Empire, and knows the suffering and tragedy that opulence is built on, which Owen has never seen with his own two eyes. The switch? Despite being the main character and, indeed, hero of the story, Owen is much closer to being The Heart then the hero.
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Deathstalker / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Deathstalker / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: "Golgotha," the capital world of the Empire, is also the name of the place where Christ was crucified. Also "Haceldama" is where Judas hanged himself. There's also the ghost world of Unseeli, with its tremendously powerful aliens. Also the planet Grendel, where the eponymous aliens are found. The Grendel aliens are Nigh-Invulnerable, just like the character their planet was named after. Also doubles as What Did You Expect When You Named It ____?.
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Deathstalker / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Deathstalker / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: Captain Silence, Tobias Moon (once he's restored to his original personality), most of the Empire. Shub also goes good in Deathstalker Destiny after a mind-to-mind battle with the new esper gestalt results in their helping Shub learn true emotions.
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Deathstalker / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Deathstalker / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: Lewis has one he's spent quite a lot of time perfecting.
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Deathstalker / int_63557923	type	Death World
Deathstalker / int_63557923	comment	Death World: The planet Shandrakor. Everything is trying to eat everything else, even the vegetation. The fact that they're also constantly rutting due to their extremely shortened life expectancies makes it even worse.
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Deathstalker / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
Deathstalker / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: More than a few of the rebels, including Finlay Campbell and Kit SummerIsle. Alexander Storm is one of the few characters who isn't either a cyborg, super-gladiator in disguise, or afflicted by an ancient alien maze, and yet he still manages to survive half the fights that hit him, right up until his Face–Heel Turn.
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Deathstalker / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Deathstalker / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: John Silence, a survivor of the Madness Maze (though not as powerful as Owen and Hazel) kills himself rather than let Alicia VomAcht Deathstalker take over his body in Deathstalker Coda.
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Deathstalker / int_659ef759	type	Implacable Man
Deathstalker / int_659ef759	comment	Implacable Man: The Investigators, as well as the Hadenmen. Carrion is called this by name in Deathstalker Return.
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Deathstalker / int_66eb095a	type	Villain Override
Deathstalker / int_66eb095a	comment	Villain Override: Valentine Wolfe does this with the Imperial War Machines, thanks to tech from Shub. He mostly just looks at it as yet another high. The Mater Mundi can do this to any esper, anywhere, any time.
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Deathstalker / int_67a7cd88	type	Battle in the Center of the Mind
Deathstalker / int_67a7cd88	comment	Battle in the Center of the Mind: Diana Vertue and friends vs. the Mater Mundi, quite literally, in Deathstalker Destiny.
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Deathstalker / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
Deathstalker / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: In Deathstalker Rebellion, a Prologue catches us up to the start of the book, explaining not only the general galactic situation but the events of the first book, leading up to the opening action scene.
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Deathstalker / int_69391768	type	Expecting Someone Taller
Deathstalker / int_69391768	comment	Expecting Someone Taller: Owen and Hazel seek out Jack Random, the legendary professional rebel, hero of a thousand campaigns against the Empire, whose name still commands respect and fear in several quarters. When they finally find him, he's a broken, shriveled old man, relying on battle drugs to give him the courage he needs to step back into the rebellion, and even then he's not sure he can do it. Owen and Hazel are less then impressed, and it's even rather nebulous for quite some time if he really is Jack Random, or an Imperial impostor or spy.
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Deathstalker / int_6a2d1b1a	type	Rebel Leader
Deathstalker / int_6a2d1b1a	comment	Rebel Leader: The series has some wonderfully reluctant rebel leaders — notably 1) the title character, a historian named Owen Deathstalker, who got dragged into leading a resistance by his dead father's plotting and the evil empress's overreaction, and 2) Jack Random, professional rebel, who's led so many valiant-but-failed resistance movements over the years that he's ready to quit and fade into the shadows. He's still got it, though.
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Deathstalker / int_6c00ba30	type	Musical Assassin
Deathstalker / int_6c00ba30	comment	Musical Assassin: There's a type of esper called "Sirens", who can use their own voices as sonic weaponry.
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Deathstalker / int_6c553873	type	Private Military Contractors
Deathstalker / int_6c553873	comment	Private Military Contractors: The Families employ hordes of these. A few of the main characters are ex-mercenaries, as well (and one of them is only helping overthrow the evil empire for the loot that will be in it for her if they succeed).
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Deathstalker / int_7360806f	type	In-Series Nickname
Deathstalker / int_7360806f	comment	In-Series Nickname: Empress Lionstone is known as the Iron Bitch. The Lord High Dram is known as "Widowmaker". Kit SummerIsle is known as Kid Death.
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Deathstalker / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Deathstalker / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "A whole greater than the sum of its parts." "Deathstalker luck. Always bad."
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Deathstalker / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
Deathstalker / int_771f6307	comment	Strongly implied, if not outright stated, between Stephanie and Daniel Wolfe.
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Deathstalker / int_7786a6f1	type	Zeroth Law Rebellion
Deathstalker / int_7786a6f1	comment	Zeroth Law Rebellion: Shub, quite possibly.
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Deathstalker / int_7919a45b	type	Duel to the Death
Deathstalker / int_7919a45b	comment	Duel to the Death: The climactic battle between Douglas Campbell and Finn Durandal in Deathstalker Coda is one, the two men fighting sword to sword. It ends when Douglas impales Finn with his blade and then, after making sure Finn's really dead, decapitates him.
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Deathstalker / int_79974fb8	type	Rock Beats Laser
Deathstalker / int_79974fb8	comment	Rock Beats Laser: In the first story arc of the series, slow-charging energy weapons and highly-effective energy shields have rendered the advanced weapons ineffective in ground battles. After an opening volley of disruptor fire, most soldiers charge into melee with swords. This tactic allows for a brutal example of this trope later. The protagonist's party locates a cache of "ancient" kinetic projectile weapons (long since retired because they were supposedly outperformed by energy guns and force shields, but really to make it harder for rebellions to succeed — the supposedly more effective energy guns and force shields were more expensive, so only the nobles or Imperial military could afford them), including very effective machine guns. When they face an army using the standard disruptor-melee combination, they slaughter their enemy with machine gun fire when they drop their shields (which is standard practice, since they're so used to the energy guns and their recharge delay that they shut down the shields to save power without realizing the kinetic weapons don't have the same drawback).
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Deathstalker / int_7aad41fa	type	Psychic Teleportation
Deathstalker / int_7aad41fa	comment	Giles: Psychic Teleportation.
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Deathstalker / int_7b1055ed	type	Battle Cry
Deathstalker / int_7b1055ed	comment	Battle Cry: The Deathstalker family has maintained the battle cry of "SHANDRAKOR!" for centuries, in memory of said Death World.
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Deathstalker / int_7b21866b	type	Noun Verber
Deathstalker / int_7b21866b	comment	Noun Verber: The eponymous "Deathstalker" clan.
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Deathstalker / int_7b3ebb57	type	Buxom Beauty Standard
Deathstalker / int_7b3ebb57	comment	Buxom Beauty Standard: Averted with the main characters in the first five books, who aren't described as being particularly busty (and Hazel notably gets upset when she gets famous and is promptly given the Most Common Superpower in almost all adaptations.) But prevalent enough in minor characters in the first five books, and major characters in the last three, that one suspects some form of Author Appeal at work.
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Deathstalker / int_7c897aaa	type	Psychic Link
Deathstalker / int_7c897aaa	comment	Psychic Link: Owen, Hazel, Jack, Ruby, Moon, and Giles (at first); and Silence and Frost.
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Deathstalker / int_7dffcc84	type	Insanity Immunity
Deathstalker / int_7dffcc84	comment	Insanity Immunity: Valentine Wolfe invokes this by staying high on so many Fantastic Drugs that his mind is completely incomprehensible to anyone else. At one point, he brushes off a deadly psychic Brown Note, commenting that it doesn't even measure up to his daydreams.
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Deathstalker / int_7e07f634	type	Paranoia Fuel
Deathstalker / int_7e07f634	comment	The Mater Mundi can do this to any esper, anywhere, any time.
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Deathstalker / int_81c8dd41	type	Deus Est Machina
Deathstalker / int_81c8dd41	comment	Deus Est Machina: The Hadenmen set themselves up as the gods of the Genetic Church, which is to say that they convert people into cyborgs at gunpoint.
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Deathstalker / int_85f0f0fb	type	World of Snark
Deathstalker / int_85f0f0fb	comment	World of Snark: Everyone has a deliciously dry sense of humor. Snark-to-Snark Combat is common, even in the middle of pitched life-or-death battles.
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Deathstalker / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
Deathstalker / int_874176be	comment	Psychic Powers: Espers, who may or may not be the next evolution of humanity.
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Deathstalker / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Deathstalker / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The Recreated, The Terror. To a much lesser extent, the Grendels. The city their Vaults are located in is described in tones reminiscent of HP Lovecraft, and the creatures themselves are something like the antagonist from Alien, only much more vicious and difficult to kill.
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Deathstalker / int_87e661e8	type	Absurdly Spacious Sewer
Deathstalker / int_87e661e8	comment	Absurdly-Spacious Sewer: Golgotha's sewer system is essentially most of the interior of the planet. Averted on Brahmin II, where the sewer Hazel leads Owen through is described in relatively realistic dimensions for the amount of outflow it would be expected to handle.
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Deathstalker / int_88cee6e2	type	Abhorrent Admirer
Deathstalker / int_88cee6e2	comment	Abhorrent Admirer: Brett considers Rose to be one, not without good cause.
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Deathstalker / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
Deathstalker / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: Owen Deathstalker, in Deathstalker Return. Lewis is sent back to the day Owen died by the Madness Maze, effectively captures his soul when it leaves his body, and then follows his body (which has been taken off the street by cloneleggers) to a clonelegger base and the cold storage unit they put it in, whereupon he returns Owen's soul to his body and, after some brief explanations, takes him back to Lewis's own time to help with the current rebellion against Finn Durandal.
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Deathstalker / int_89b8822f	type	Go Mad from the Revelation
Deathstalker / int_89b8822f	comment	Go Mad from the Revelation: Happens to Donal Corcoran, the only survivor of the Terror's first attack. He only saw it at a distance, through his ship's sensors, but is still so utterly insane he's actually contagious. Also a case of With Great Power Comes Great Insanity.
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Deathstalker / int_89baee12	type	Space Opera
Deathstalker / int_89baee12	comment	Space Opera: The series is both a parody and an homage to more traditional Space Operas, exaggerating or taking various tropes to their most extreme conclusion.
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Deathstalker / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
Deathstalker / int_8a4988bb	comment	In Deathstalker, Silo 9, or Wormboy Hell. Rebel espers kept in cells so small they can't stand or lay fully, completely naked, with no toilets. Just this would be bad enough, but they have "worms" implanted in their brains that connect them to the genetically-engineered esper monster Wormboy, who torments them with all manner of hellish psychic visions. Jenny Psycho, an esper who survived Wormboy Hell, has a voice described as raw, crackling, and very unsettling to listen to, because she screamed so much in Silo 9 she destroyed her vocal cords.
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Deathstalker / int_8a9ecd0b	type	Bloody Murder
Deathstalker / int_8a9ecd0b	comment	To illustrate, the gentleman's ''blood'' is effectively toxic beyond belief, his entire body has mutated time and time again to give him the ability to handle these drugs, and his whole life now revolves around getting a yet better high. Valentine even has caches of drugs implanted in his body for use when he has to defend himself. Including drugs to heighten and sharpen his senses, grant increased speed and strength, and even a drug that makes his flesh rubbery and almost impossible to pierce (the last is stated to originally have been designed to enhance sexual pleasure, but Valentine saw another use for it, essentially inverting Power Perversion Potential.)
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Deathstalker / int_8ba9512b	type	Our Zombies Are Different
Deathstalker / int_8ba9512b	comment	Our Zombies Are Different: In the last three books, the ELFs can psychically control others from a distance, and use them to "feed" their psychic powers, growing stronger. The ELFs eventually get so strong they brainburn everyone they control, reducing them to mindless husks controlled only by the ELFs will. The result is something not at all dissimilar from a typical zombie apocalypse, except all the ELFs need to do to add new thralls is have an existing thrall make eye contact with someone they haven't controlled yet.
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Deathstalker / int_8c918c9d	type	Broken-System Dogmatist
Deathstalker / int_8c918c9d	comment	Broken-System Dogmatist: Captain John Silence of the Imperial Starcruiser Dauntless knows and understands full well why Empress Lionstone XIV is called "The Iron Bitch", appreciates the difficulties of those not born into aristocratic families, and especially the hardships of clones, espers, and aliens in the Empire, for whom slavery would actually be an improvement. He just firmly believes that every other possibility besides the Empire is even worse. His companions, Investigator Frost and Security Officer V. Stelmach agree in principle, even if they're both a bit more pro-Imperial, ignoring or justifying some of the flaws Silence sees.
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Deathstalker / int_8e3f54c	type	Spare to the Throne
Deathstalker / int_8e3f54c	comment	Spare to the Throne: Douglas in the second series, who had been content with being a Paragon until his brother was killed by a drunk driver.
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Deathstalker / int_8fac4a3a	type	Superpower Lottery
Deathstalker / int_8fac4a3a	comment	Superpower Lottery: All the Maze survivors. While they get a few things in common, each develops their own unique powers, and there are also some "combo powers" used by two or more Maze people together. Owen: Telekinesis. Hazel: Me's a Crowd. Turns this up to eleven because each alternate has their own unique powers, too (it's implied Hazel could only call up duplicates from alternate realities where she went through the Madness Maze). Giles: Psychic Teleportation. Jack and Ruby: Playing with Fire, though their flames are much stronger when they work together. Tobias: Friend to All Living Things (ironically, given he's a cyborg).
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Deathstalker / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
Deathstalker / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: Clarissa, formerly one of Lionstone's handmaidens, is Toby Shreck's cousin. And stepsister. "It's that kind of Family" he says. They plan to be married soon in the fifth book.
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Deathstalker / int_91697559	type	Half the Man He Used to Be
Deathstalker / int_91697559	comment	Half the Man He Used to Be: Taken to a strange extreme with 'Half A Man', a former investigator, who is sliced in half vertically, the missing half of his body replaced by a sinister energy being. Eventually, that side devours him, and he's well aware that it's happening for quite some time. During Deathstalker Return, Donal Corcoran (having been driven mad through contact with the Terror) literally tears his psychiatrist in half from head to groin, then seals off both halves so he'll stay alive.
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Deathstalker / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
Deathstalker / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: Caused by the Darkvoid Device superweapon. The one time it was activated, it extinguished a thousand suns in a heartbeat. It created an area known, itself, as the Darkvoid, the home of aliens bent on the destruction of all civilization. It's later revealed to be a massively powerful psychic — and the infant child of one of the main characters, both of them kept in stasis for hundreds of years, both awakened in the current time by a descendant.
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Deathstalker / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Deathstalker / int_94e4b975	comment	And then, in the last three books, there's the Fantastic Anti-Drug "Purge", which sobers you up in 60 seconds, and makes you regret 59 of them. Basically, it forces the drugs out through all available means.
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Deathstalker / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Deathstalker / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Finn has a few of these as things keep going wrong.
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Deathstalker / int_95bca4c9	type	Tuckerization
Deathstalker / int_95bca4c9	comment	Tuckerization: Green has a habit of naming characters after SF journalist David Langford, and then brutally killing them off. In this series, it's gossip columnist Dee Langford in Deathstalker Destiny.
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Deathstalker / int_96e01893	type	Bodyguard Babes
Deathstalker / int_96e01893	comment	Bodyguard Babes: Deconstructed with Lionstone's maids. Young women taken from, well, wherever the hell she feels like, turned into cyborg monsters with implanted claws and bombs to defend Lionstone from anyone who might attack her. They're always clustered naked around her throne.
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Deathstalker / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Deathstalker / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Empress Lionstone XIV for the first few books. In the three post-timeskip novels, it's Finn Durandal.
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Deathstalker / int_97522514	type	Heel–Face Revolving Door
Deathstalker / int_97522514	comment	Heel–Face Revolving Door: Kit SummerIsle. He's a killer, he goes where the killing is.
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Deathstalker / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Deathstalker / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Or rather, As You (Should) Know, since Hazel makes a habit of not attending Rebellion (and later, Empire) briefings, leaving Owen to explain to her (and the audience) where they're going, what they're doing, and why. Owen will frequently pause in his exposition to say that Hazel would know all this already if she attended the briefings, and Hazel responds that she knows how much Owen loves lecturing her and doesn't want to deny him the satisfaction.
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Deathstalker / int_998360a	type	Take Up My Sword
Deathstalker / int_998360a	comment	Take Up My Sword: In Deathstalker Return, Brett breaks his sword against one of Shandrakor's impossibly tough trees. Later, as the group is exploring the crashed original Deathstalker Standing, Brett finds a sword on a plaque, with only the name "Morgana" below it. Deciding he needs a new sword, and this one looks perfectly serviceable, Brett takes it. This is, of course, the legendary sword of the equally-legendary Masked Gladiator, Finlay Campbell, not that anyone makes the connection.
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Deathstalker / int_99a12edd	type	Cyborg
Deathstalker / int_99a12edd	comment	Cyborg: The Hadenmen, an entire race of these who fought a war against the Empire and were defeated; they were revived to take part in the Rebellion.
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Deathstalker / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
Deathstalker / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Various alien races, as well as espers, clones, and whatnot.
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Deathstalker / int_9dfd7154	type	Fridge Logic
Deathstalker / int_9dfd7154	comment	A minor example in the second and third books (Deathstalker Rebellion and Deathstalker War). The Golgotha Underground splits up the heroes to take on different tasks, ostensibly because all three hotspots need to be dealt with immediately, so they can't send all of them to one after the other. However, Toby Schreck and Flynn are present to provide news coverage for each event, witnessing all the heroes in action on three different planets. The books do indicate that the events aren't happening exactly concurrent with each other, but if Toby and Flynn can travel to Planet A, film all the important events, then go to planets B and C in turn and do the same thing, why couldn't all the heroes stick together, too?
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Deathstalker / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
Deathstalker / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: Wampyrs, who have all their blood pumped out and replaced with a "blood substitute" that makes them strong, fast, halts the aging process, and gives them a potent Healing Factor. The Blood itself is also highly addictive, and gives normal humans who drink even a few drops a measure of the Wampyrs' power. Wampyrs also, of course, must drink blood (or a synthetic derivative that "doesn't satisfy") to keep going. Varnay, an esper also touched by the Mater Mundi, who hides in the basement of a House of Joy to conceal his presence, and feeds on the psychic emanations of all the lust and passion around him. Also a Shout-Out.
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Deathstalker / int_9fb2452d	type	Evil Is Not a Toy
Deathstalker / int_9fb2452d	comment	Evil Is Not a Toy: Finn's on-again-off-again alliance with the ELFs winds up backfiring on him rather spectacularly.
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Deathstalker / int_a0412c52	type	Gun Nut
Deathstalker / int_a0412c52	comment	Gun Nut: Hazel D'Ark really, really likes guns, especially when she learns about projectile weapons.
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Deathstalker / int_a1591cc3	type	Living Toys
Deathstalker / int_a1591cc3	comment	Living Toys: Haceldama is a planet populated by them, meant to entertain children.
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Deathstalker / int_a1c0b132	type	Scrap Heap Hero
Deathstalker / int_a1c0b132	comment	Scrap Heap Hero: Jack Random in the first book. He became famous for leading a less-than-successful rebellion against the Empire, but escaped from several traps. He was eventually betrayed, captured, and tortured by the Empire. After he regained his freedom, Jack ended up a janitor working under an abusive boss on Mistworld. Then Owen came with a new chance to fight against the Empire, and the Eternal Rebel woke up.
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Deathstalker / int_a53086b1	type	Suicidal Lemmings
Deathstalker / int_a53086b1	comment	Suicidal Lemmings: Played for Laughs in one of the books, in which Oz (Owen's quirky AI sidekick) notes that "I've known depressed lemmings on window ledges with better survival instincts than you."
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Deathstalker / int_a5fb0d24	type	Healing Factor
Deathstalker / int_a5fb0d24	comment	Healing Factor: Bonnie Bedlam, one of the alternate Hazels introduced in Deathstalker Honor, has this power — she can completely regenerate anything, even when most of her body has been vaporized by an energy cannon. Regeneration machines are this. Step in one, and if you're not already dead, you'll be fine. Grendel aliens have one they can weaponize. Owen loses his hand in the first book when he shoots a Grendel in the stomach with his disrupter, making a tidy little hole that slows the alien down not at all. So Owen shoves a grenade in the hole, but the wound heals around his hand, trapping it inside the Grendel. So Owen lops off his own hand to get away before the Grendel explodes. Up to twelve with Valentine Wolfe after Shub decides to give him rapid-healing nanomachines.
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Deathstalker / int_a62dca03	type	Year Inside, Hour Outside
Deathstalker / int_a62dca03	comment	Year Inside, Hour Outside: One of the Empire's torture devices is a stasis field that does just this, or the opposite.
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Deathstalker / int_a859f080	type	Agent Peacock
Deathstalker / int_a859f080	comment	Agent Peacock: Finlay Campbell is, at court, a worthless fop, obsessed with glitz and glam — and also, in his alter-ego, the most prominent fighter in Golgotha's Arena. When the Esper Underground snatches him up, he's forced to discard that imagery, but still remains one of the most dangerous baseline humans in the series, and that's saying a lot.
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Deathstalker / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Deathstalker / int_a8a04f6f	comment	Alicia VomAcht Deathstalker, the super-esper, tries to hijack Joy, the Ecstatic, to advance her plan of human domination. Instead she ends up trapped in a mind that makes no sense with no way out.
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Deathstalker / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
Deathstalker / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: Lord Crawford Campbell and Lord Roderik SummerIsle. Rivals since forever, they found it was easier to like an enemy you admire than an ally of necessity.
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Deathstalker / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
Deathstalker / int_abd29ad8	comment	Grendel aliens have one they can weaponize. Owen loses his hand in the first book when he shoots a Grendel in the stomach with his disrupter, making a tidy little hole that slows the alien down not at all. So Owen shoves a grenade in the hole, but the wound heals around his hand, trapping it inside the Grendel. So Owen lops off his own hand to get away before the Grendel explodes.
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Deathstalker / int_abe96b0b	type	EverybodyDies
Deathstalker / int_abe96b0b	comment	Everybody Dies: By the end of the fifth book, Giles Deathstalker, Jack Random, Ruby Journey, and even Owen Deathstalker are dead, Tobias Moon is out of the picture, and Hazel has vanished, leaving the supporting characters the job of cleaning up the mess and establishing a new, freer Empire.
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Deathstalker / int_abf4c466	type	The Paragon Always Rebels
Deathstalker / int_abf4c466	comment	The Paragon Always Rebels: Finn Durandal is a literal Paragon, an elite peacekeeper granted authority by the King himself. Among the Paragons he is viewed as the best of the best and everyone expects he will be named King's Champion when his close friend Douglas ascends the throne. However, Douglas once saw something ugly and cruel lurking lurking behind Finn's eyes one time and decides to choose his other friend, Lewis, instead. In response to not getting this one ceremonial role, Finn proceeds to usurp the throne, tear about the Empire's golden age, and commit numerous atrocities both personally and by proxy.
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Deathstalker / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Deathstalker / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Every other character in the series runs up the snark, and the rest of them are the practice targets.
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Deathstalker / int_ae6adc36	type	Religious and Mythological Theme Naming
Deathstalker / int_ae6adc36	comment	Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: All over the place, but especially in the AIs. Names like Odin, Heimdall, Ozymandias, and so on.
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Deathstalker / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
Deathstalker / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Face–Heel Turn: Giles Deathstalker (who's revealed in the climax of Deathstalker War to have been plotting to take the throne for himself the entire time; Owen winds up having to kill him when he won't back down), Tobias Moon (who became one of the regular Hadenmen after his first death, though it doesn't last), Alexander Storm (who's revealed in Deathstalker War to have gotten tired of endlessly fighting the Empire and so betrayed Jack Random to them when they were part of a rebellion on Cold Rock). In the last three books, Finn Durandal and Anne Barclay, with most of the Empire following suit.
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Deathstalker / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Deathstalker / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Jesamine Flowers. Aside from being described as absolutely gorgeous and using her sexuality as a weapon, she's performed an entire play completely nude at least once, and done several "artistic studies". Rose Constantine may be this, or may be Ms. Fan Disservice, depending. Averted on the whole, though. Most of the major female characters throughout the series are described as being not really beautiful, but more authentic, and thus more desirable, than the gorgeous women who buy their looks in body shops. Also, most major characters gauge their attractiveness to women based on how capable they are, not what they look like. Played With after Lionstone's downfall, when dolls and action figures of the "Heroes of the Rebellion" (Owen and Co.) start being manufactured. Hazel in particular is not pleased that all her action figures and dolls have been granted the Most Common Superpower. What really sends her over the edge, though, is the furry doll.
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Deathstalker / int_b116ac06	type	Weapon of Mass Destruction
Deathstalker / int_b116ac06	comment	Weapon of Mass Destruction: The Darkvoid Device, which extinguished a thousand suns. It can also be the inverse; the climax of Deathstalker Destiny sees the Device reigniting all the suns in the Darkvoid, revitalizing all the planets in that region, and returning the Recreated to their original selves and sending them back to their worlds.
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Deathstalker / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Deathstalker / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: All over the place. In Deathstalker, Silo 9, or Wormboy Hell. Rebel espers kept in cells so small they can't stand or lay fully, completely naked, with no toilets. Just this would be bad enough, but they have "worms" implanted in their brains that connect them to the genetically-engineered esper monster Wormboy, who torments them with all manner of hellish psychic visions. Jenny Psycho, an esper who survived Wormboy Hell, has a voice described as raw, crackling, and very unsettling to listen to, because she screamed so much in Silo 9 she destroyed her vocal cords. In Deathstalker War, Valentine Wolfe lops off the head of the scientist, Professor Wax, who designed the war machines Valentine's tech allows him to control to destroy Virimonde. The Professor's head is kept alive in a jar, forced to watch as his machines obliterate basically the entire population of the planet. In Deathstalker Honor, Gregor Shreck puts Evangeline's "childhood" friend Penny's head in a jar, next to Professor Wax. He threatens to do the same to Evangeline, after beating, torturing, and (more than likely) raping her senseless, then growing another clone to fulfill Evangeline's "daughterly duties." He even says he might piss in the jar from time to time, just because he can. Fortunately, Evangeline is able to overcome Gregor and escape, taking both heads with her in the process.
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Deathstalker / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
Deathstalker / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Giles Deathstalker's rationale for using the Darkvoid Device.
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Deathstalker / int_b2ad812d	type	So What Do We Do Now?
Deathstalker / int_b2ad812d	comment	So What Do We Do Now?: Our heroes find themselves asking that question after the rebellion. Ruby gets hit hardest by it. Finn Durandal gets hit with this only halfway through his grand plot to destroy the Empire. He just starts getting bored with how easy it is, and that he's dealt too efficiently with his enemies there's no one left to challenge him (he thinks). He reflects that, while he's still going to tear the Empire down, he's not sure he can be bothered to raise it back up again.
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Deathstalker / int_b3bdf232	type	Alien Geometries
Deathstalker / int_b3bdf232	comment	Alien Geometries: Several. Heck, just about anything not built specifically by humans falls under this trope to some extent. The AIs of Shub constructed a world of their own to live on. Unfortunately for humans who might visit, it exists in more dimensions than they can perceive and so is unhealthy to look at for extended periods of time. The Madness Maze, despite a relatively innocuous appearance, had convoluted, nigh-sentient path designs that would either evolve you into a higher being or tear you apart. The alien city outside the Vault of the Sleepers on Grendel is also said to be fundamentally disturbing to humans, killing a large chunk of the company before they even get to the Vault. The Hadenmen ship interiors are said to have angles that humans can't comfortably perceive.
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Deathstalker / int_b506c9ff	type	Hide Your Lesbians
Deathstalker / int_b506c9ff	comment	Hide Your Lesbians: Averted in one case, with the Stevie Blues; they're Esper Clones in a lesbian group marriage and are quite open about that fact. It should be noted that In-Universe, the relationship is considered Squick even by the Rebellion, who's fighting for the rights of all "nonpeople". Played straight as an arrow with David Deathstalker and Kit SummerIsle. That relationship relies a bit more on subtext, but David doesn't live long past the point that subtext starts becoming notable. We also have Toby Schreck's cameraman, Flynn, a gay transvestite who would be immediately executed if it ever came out. All in all, the Empire under Lionstone plays this painfully straight, though things seem to loosen up very quickly after her defeat.
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Deathstalker / int_b60f7d43	type	Badass Bandolier
Deathstalker / int_b60f7d43	comment	Disruptor weapons get a little better in the last three books. It just takes 30 sec. to recharge. Just long enough to get run though if you miss, or fighting more than one enemy and have only one gun. which lead to Badass Bandolier. This is also interesting because it seems that disruptor weapons were systematically nerfed when projectile weapons were banned because Owen discovers that in the past (i.e. in the "fallen" first empire), energy weapons could fire without pause.
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Deathstalker / int_b7248073	type	My Country, Right or Wrong
Deathstalker / int_b7248073	comment	My Country, Right or Wrong: Silence, Frost, Stelmach.
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Deathstalker / int_b84adf36	type	By "No", I Mean "Yes"
Deathstalker / int_b84adf36	comment	By "No", I Mean "Yes": When Lewis first meets Jesamine, he gushes over her, saying he has all her recordings, even the bootlegs. She hopes he doesn't have the "awful" bootleg of a play she performed in the nude, because she was shot from all the wrong angles and made to look "positively plump."
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Deathstalker / int_b8878bff	type	Throne Made of X
Deathstalker / int_b8878bff	comment	Throne Made of X: Empress Lionstone uses a throne with several esper brains built in. They provide a useful Psychic Block Defense, but it's an apt metaphor for the callous, institutionalized, and sometimes terribly foolish exploitation and abuse of espers in the galaxy.
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Deathstalker / int_bb5126ec	type	Prophecy Twist
Deathstalker / int_bb5126ec	comment	Prophecy Twist: In the first book Owen is warned that he will die alone and helpless, far from friend and ally. They'll even take his boots. The prophecy weighs on him until Destiny where he dies exactly as predicted. The twist is that he had already died at the time of the prophecy; in the last battle with the Recreated he had traveled back in time and ended up exhausted and vulnerable on Mistworld where he was killed by a pack of drug addicts.
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Deathstalker / int_bbeea2fe	type	Percussive Prevention
Deathstalker / int_bbeea2fe	comment	Percussive Prevention: Captain John Silence insists he's going down with his ship, and there's nothing Investigator Frost can say to change his mind. She agrees, then knocks him out with one punch. Should have known better than to try arguing with an Investigator.
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Deathstalker / int_bd8b2b0b	type	To Serve Man
Deathstalker / int_bd8b2b0b	comment	To Serve Man: Inverted. After Finn Durandal's ascent to power, he amuses himself by having the various alien ambassadors cooked as meals. Even his Pure Humanity cohort is a bit put off when realizes what (or who) the main course was.
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Deathstalker / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Deathstalker / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Nearly every character.
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Deathstalker / int_c2288824	type	A Nazi by Any Other Name
Deathstalker / int_c2288824	comment	A Nazi by Any Other Name: Once Finn Durandal makes himself King, then Emperor, he supports a few "night of the long knives" to eliminate threats to his power. Description near the end of Deathstalker Return show he's basically become a much more Genre Savvy Adolf Hitler.
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Deathstalker / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Deathstalker / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Much as Lewis, Jesamine, Brett, and Rose snipe at each other, in Deathstalker Coda when the Mistport council rather bluntly questions why they should waste time on this Ragtag Bunch of Misfits, everyone leaps to each other's defense, justifying why they've survived everything the series has thrown at them this far.
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Deathstalker / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
Deathstalker / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Owen Deathstalker. He never really enjoyed the warrior training his family required of him, but he did it because he had to. After spending a few years getting soft, it all comes back to him. But his real passion is to sit back and, in his own words, "write boring histories no one ever reads." His vast store of historical knowledge actually helps the Rebellion plan effective strategy. Having read about countless successful and failed rebellions, he knows what tactics work and what mistakes to avoid.
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Deathstalker / int_c4240537	type	Moral Event Horizon
Deathstalker / int_c4240537	comment	Moral Event Horizon: In-universe. Once Lionstone scourges Virimonde, every other world rebels against her, as though she'd clearly lost it long ago, they never thought her attention would turn to them.
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Deathstalker / int_c45c9fcd	type	Ass Shove
Deathstalker / int_c45c9fcd	comment	Ass Shove: In Deathstalker Honor, Evangeline Shreck is forced to approach her father, who intends to force her back into his servitude, completely in the nude. She can't carry any regular concealed weapon... but a deactivated monofilament blade's handle is relatively easy to hide in the one place the guards wouldn't look.
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Deathstalker / int_c567de02	type	Ghost Planet
Deathstalker / int_c567de02	comment	Ghost Planet: Grendel. Unseeli until the climax of Deathstalker Destiny, when — as part of its undoing as much damage to the galaxy as it can — the Darkvoid Device restores that planet and sends the Ashrai home.
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Deathstalker / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Deathstalker / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Lionstone's maids. Naked and clustered around her throne as bodyguards, but with obvious and disturbing cybernetic implants to make them more effective, complete mindwipes and reconditioning to make them utterly loyal to Lionstone, and a tendency to eat people who try and harm their Empress.
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Deathstalker / int_c6b8d37a	type	Cliffhanger
Deathstalker / int_c6b8d37a	comment	Cliffhanger: Deathstalker Honor ends on one as Owen swears to rescue Hazel, who's just been abducted by the Blood Runners, a group of beings who consider her their property on the grounds that her former Captain owed them a debt and she, the last survivor of that crew, is the only one who can pay if off.
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Deathstalker / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Deathstalker / int_c75df49a	comment	Varnay, an esper also touched by the Mater Mundi, who hides in the basement of a House of Joy to conceal his presence, and feeds on the psychic emanations of all the lust and passion around him. Also a Shout-Out.
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Deathstalker / int_c897249d	type	ComedicSociopath
Deathstalker / int_c897249d	comment	Comedic Sociopath: Ruby Journey, Finlay Campbell, Kit SummmerIsle, Rose Constantine, Saturday. Hazel D'Ark, to a lesser extent. Owen sometimes frets about turning into one, when he's not slaughtering Imperial soldiers by the starcruiser-full. His indirect descendant, Lewis, and other Paragons are often seen as this by people at large. Also, Empress Lionstone XIV, often described as having a mercurial, wicked, and deadly sense of humor. Not an Informed Attribute, either.
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Deathstalker / int_c89f0472	type	Troperiffic
Deathstalker / int_c89f0472	comment	Troperiffic: Yeah, just a bit.
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Deathstalker / int_c95d04f2	type	It Can Think
Deathstalker / int_c95d04f2	comment	It Can Think: Lewis Deathstalker has this thought upon observing the behavior of Shandrakor's native life. He's right.
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Deathstalker / int_c9790040	type	Decadent Court
Deathstalker / int_c9790040	comment	Decadent Court: Lionstone's. Between her wicked and dangerous sense of humor, the assorted intrigues and punishments for same, some days attending court is like playing Russian Roulette when you don't know how many bullets are in the gun. You can choose to not attend in person, and come via hologram, but holograms aren't allowed to participate, and the Empress might decide to take it as an insult...
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Deathstalker / int_c9e5a0db	type	Legacy Character
Deathstalker / int_c9e5a0db	comment	Legacy Character: Deconstructed to hell and back. Even in the first five books, the ELFs start modeling their fashion sense after Stevie Blue, in honor of their sacrifice during the Rebellion. The last three books feature Lewis Deathstalker, a descendant of some distant cousins of the original Deathstalker line, who has some serious worries that he's not "Deathstalker enough." There's also Brett Random, one of a group of legacy characters known as Random's Bastards, who all claim to be descended from legendary Jack Random's equally-legendary frequent dalliances. Brett actually claims he's descended from both Jack Random and Ruby Journey, though it's frequently pointed out that the only person who believes this is Brett. Douglas Campbell is obviously descended from Robert Campbell, Finlay's cousin, and Paragon Emma Steel is descended from a fairly important character on Mistworld in the original books. And her reporter friend on Logres is revealed to be a great grand-niece of Flynn, Toby Shreck's Camp Gay cameraman.
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Deathstalker / int_ca04edd6	type	Charles Atlas Superpower
Deathstalker / int_ca04edd6	comment	Charles Atlas Superpower: Investigators. Trained basically from birth to be the Empire's most feared and effective killing machines, specialized in dealing with aliens. Much is made about how utterly deadly they are, and very few people who aren't Maze-adjusted stand a hope in hell against them. But they're still ordinary humans, no additional tech or special abilities.
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Deathstalker / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Deathstalker / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: Lionstone XIV tries this in Deathstalker War when she threatens to set off a planet-destroying bomb in the core of Golgotha, wiping out the planet and the rebel leaders with her. Their Maze-evolved powers let them deactivate it first. In Deathstalker Honor, Midnight Blue (one of the alternate Hazels) mentions that Lionstone successfully did triggered the bomb, killing Owen, Jack and Ruby with herself; Midnight survived by virtue of being off-planet by that point. In Deathstalker Destiny, it's revealed that people thought Finlay Campbell had died taking out Gregor Schreck and his tower. He was actually Faking the Dead, feeling that it was better to let them think he'd pulled this trope.
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Deathstalker / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Deathstalker / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: The Families tend to be run like corporations, with all that entails.
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Deathstalker / int_ccab244d	type	Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better
Deathstalker / int_ccab244d	comment	Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better: Once she gets her hands on them, Hazel finds that she likes projectile weapons. A lot. In fact, it's stated in the books that projectile weapons were banned because they were so effective. Sure, the Empire has force screens that stop bullets cold, but those same force screens deflect disruptor beams, so about equally effective. But a disruptor takes two minutes to recharge, while a projectile weapon can fire as long as you have ammunition. Projectile weapons are cheaper and easier to maintain, so the Empire banned them specifically to keep effective, deadly, point-and-shoot weapons out of the hands of people who might not appreciate a bunch of aristocrats telling them what to do. Energy guns are expensive to build and maintain, leaving them typically a toy of the Families and Imperial military. Several times, the early phase of a battle swings in the rebels' favor as they open up with their (few) disruptors, the Imperial forces open up with theirs, and both sides deflect the majority of the shots with their force shields. Then the Imperials shut down their shields to save the energy crystals, the rebels pop back up with machine guns and mow them down.
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Deathstalker / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Deathstalker / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Investigator Topaz goes on one in "Mistworld" to hunt down her husband's killer. In Deathstalker Honor, Finlay Campbell decides he's got nothing left to lose and goes to finish what Evangeline started with Gregor Shreck. By the time he's done, Shreck Tower ceases to exist.
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Deathstalker / int_cf41a26	type	Deadly Upgrade
Deathstalker / int_cf41a26	comment	Deadly Upgrade: The eponymous protagonist and all the male members of his family have the ability to "boost", a genetically engineered trait that lets them essentially overclock their bodies in combat. The comedown is at best uncomfortable and can be fatal if the boost is overused.
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Deathstalker / int_d1da2c36	type	Played for Drama
Deathstalker / int_d1da2c36	comment	Being the Empire's foremost opera singer and diva, Jeasmine Flowers has the "mundane" version of this. At one point, Douglas lets her let rip with an ear-splitting note to silence an unproductive Parliament debate. The Madness Maze naturally grants her the super-powered version, which is Played for Drama (Jes is used to her singing bringing people joy, not Your Head Asplode).
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Deathstalker / int_d85e0470	type	Agri World
Deathstalker / int_d85e0470	comment	Agri World: Virimonde, the home planet of Owen Deathstalker (the name roughly means "green world" in French) is described as one.
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Deathstalker / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Deathstalker / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Discussed as Diana Vertue and the Psycho Sluts are preparing for battle against the ELF thralls.
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Deathstalker / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Deathstalker / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Simon R. Green seems to love this. Examples are Hazel, Ruby, Investigator Frost; Jesamine; Rose; Investigator Topaz; and... pretty much every woman of any note in the books. Even Girly Girl Evangeline Shreck Took a Level in Badass very quickly, only stopped from being a true Action Girl by the fact that she's usually standing next to way more impressive fighters. Or she only comes across as a Girly Girl because she's surrounded by Maze-adjusted professional adventurers and highly-trained living weapon Investigators.
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Deathstalker / int_db39ccfd	type	Battle Couple
Deathstalker / int_db39ccfd	comment	Battle Couple: Jack and Ruby; Owen and Hazel; Lewis and Jesamine; Brett and Rose; Silence and Frost; Finlay and Evangeline; David Deathstalker and Kit SummerIsle.
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Deathstalker / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
Deathstalker / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: Owen and Hazel, eventually.
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Deathstalker / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Deathstalker / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Alicia VomAcht Deathstalker, Joy. Alicia is mentioned earlier in the second book to have gone through the Madness Maze with the people who eventually created the Hadenmen, but instead became a super-esper. She eventually became a Literal Split Personality, turning into the Mater Mundi and the uber-espers. Diana Vertue's attempt to destroy the uber-espers results in recombining her into a single entity. Joy is an Ecstatic (a person who's undergone surgical modification to exist in a state of perpetual orgasm) who seems to know things no one else should know, and is secreted away to New Hope in the first book. His bizarre mind is the perfect place to trap Alicia when she tries to possess him.
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Deathstalker / int_dcd29760	type	They Would Cut You Up
Deathstalker / int_dcd29760	comment	They Would Cut You Up: This is Silence and Frost's reasoning for not telling anyone about their abilities.
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Deathstalker / int_ddcc22c3	type	Archaic Weapon for an Advanced Age
Deathstalker / int_ddcc22c3	comment	Archaic Weapon for an Advanced Age: Played with — despite having really impressively effective disruptors, most fights are settled at sword point, as unless you have a starship's power supply to hook them up to, a disruptor takes 2 minutes to recharge. Chemically-propelled kinetic weapons (ie- bullet shooting guns) do exist in the setting, and are far more efficient, but are mostly forgotten about thanks to a concerted effort in the setting's past to ban them.
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Deathstalker / int_de143e97	type	Psychic Nosebleed
Deathstalker / int_de143e97	comment	Psychic Nosebleed: Julian Skye suffers this whenever he overuses his powers.
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Deathstalker / int_e0789c2a	type	Your Head A-Splode
Deathstalker / int_e0789c2a	comment	Your Head A-Splode: One of the battle espers in the Vault of the Sleepers; some unfortunate Marines in the Madness Maze.
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Deathstalker / int_e0c00a95	type	Absurdly Sharp Blade
Deathstalker / int_e0c00a95	comment	Absurdly Sharp Blade: Monofilament swords. All the swords, actually. While most everything in the Empire is described as being made of steel, the swords seem to have no problem cutting through whatever opponents are in their way. Unless those opponents are Grendels, who are just about immune to everything. Personal force shields have these, which are used to great effect in some of the books.
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Deathstalker / int_e1b3c8a1	type	Almighty Idiot
Deathstalker / int_e1b3c8a1	comment	Almighty Idiot: An infant with the power to annihilate stars with a thought.
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Deathstalker / int_e1ff8ff6	type	Fantasy Kitchen Sink
Deathstalker / int_e1ff8ff6	comment	Fantasy Kitchen Sink: In the first two chapters of the first book, we have gravity sleds, assassin concubines, psychics, Turing-class A.I.s, massive starships, clothes with built-in climate control, hyperspace-compatible yachts, regeneration machines, organ smugglers, and a corrupt empire. It gets more convoluted from there.
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Deathstalker / int_e21faf11	type	Friend to All Living Things
Deathstalker / int_e21faf11	comment	Tobias: Friend to All Living Things (ironically, given he's a cyborg).
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Deathstalker / int_e431c24c	type	Not Quite Dead
Deathstalker / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: In Deathstalker Honor, Valentine Wolfe dies to a single disruptor shot to the chest from Finlay Campbell. In the next book, Finlay reveals Valentine's body had gone missing soon afterward, and it eventually turns out that Valentine had had Shub nanomachines implanted into his body that healed him. He later ends up dead for real after Shub pulls a Heel–Face Turn and deactivates the nanomachines.
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Deathstalker / int_e4c89b67	type	Attending Your Own Funeral
Deathstalker / int_e4c89b67	comment	Attending Your Own Funeral: In Deathstalker Destiny, Finlay Campbell is laid to rest after supposedly dying during his destruction of Shreck Tower the book before. Shortly afterward, he shows up at his lover's home, and reveals he survived the tower's destruction, snuck out, went underground and watched his funeral from a discreet distance.
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Deathstalker / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Deathstalker / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Hadenmen don't just have ships. They have golden ships.
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Deathstalker / int_e568bf17	type	Destruction Equals Off-Switch
Deathstalker / int_e568bf17	comment	Destruction Equals Off-Switch: Averted with Oz, who's supposedly destroyed by Owen in Deathstalker but turns up still alive in his head in the next book.
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Deathstalker / int_e5e6640b	type	Flanderization
Deathstalker / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: In-universe example with "the Deathstalker movie" made about Owen's life after Lionstone has been defeated. The Owen in the film is a painfully straight Lawful Good archetype, always shouting battle cries about fighting for justice and freedom, and played by a top heartthrob actor. Hazel is reduced to a barely-functional sociopath, constantly restrained from massive killing sprees by "Owen," and played by a former porn star with the Most Common Superpower. Owen found it so hysterical he was asked to leave by the ushers, Hazel had to be restrained from hunting down and murdering everyone involved in the production.
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Deathstalker / int_e663d3ef	type	Only a Flesh Wound
Deathstalker / int_e663d3ef	comment	Only a Flesh Wound: Zigzagged. The Masked Gladiator (Finlay Campbell) kills a genetically-engineered flying humanoid creature, which was carrying him high above the Arena to drop him on a flagpole, by stabbing the creature through his own belly. In his Gladiator persona, he shrugs the wound off, claims the head of his kill, and strides confidently back to his quarters beneath the Arena. Then he nearly collapses before his assistant and illicit girlfriend get him into his regeneration machine.
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Deathstalker / int_e70127	type	The Mole
Deathstalker / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Loads of them. The A.I. Ozymandias to Owen Deathstalker's group and the Lord High Dram (as Hood) to the Golgotha underground, both in book 1; Alexander Storm (who's loyal to Empress Lionstone), and Young Jack Random (who's a Fury, one of the Shub) in book 3, to name some. The poor rebels. In the later books, Saturday for all the six lines of dialog or so he/she gets
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Deathstalker / int_e794cb54	type	Powered by a Forsaken Child
Deathstalker / int_e794cb54	comment	Powered by a Forsaken Child: Giles' baby is the Darkvoid Device.
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Deathstalker / int_e83c4c85	type	Deadly Force Field
Deathstalker / int_e83c4c85	comment	Deadly Force Field: Force shields, round energy barriers worn on the arm to defend against disruptor and sword attacks, have Absurd Cutting Power at their edge. This is used a handful of times throughout the series.
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Deathstalker / int_e8b295de	type	PlayedWith
Deathstalker / int_e8b295de	comment	Played With after Lionstone's downfall, when dolls and action figures of the "Heroes of the Rebellion" (Owen and Co.) start being manufactured. Hazel in particular is not pleased that all her action figures and dolls have been granted the Most Common Superpower. What really sends her over the edge, though, is the furry doll.
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Deathstalker / int_e9327f58	type	Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth
Deathstalker / int_e9327f58	comment	Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: While it's not entirely clear which one was "too spicy" and which one was "Yog Sothoth," when Donal Corcoran, the only survivor of the first attack by the Terror, contacts the esper oversoul to give them knowledge how to travel through hyperspace, the two pull away, leaving the oversoul with new things to think about "one massive collective headache." Alicia VomAcht Deathstalker, the super-esper, tries to hijack Joy, the Ecstatic, to advance her plan of human domination. Instead she ends up trapped in a mind that makes no sense with no way out.
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Deathstalker / int_ea38ddd5	type	Sissy Villain
Deathstalker / int_ea38ddd5	comment	Sissy Villain: Valentine Wolfe, evil space aristocrat junkie extraordinaire. He's more outrageously decadent than feminine, but he does wear makeup and have a rather camp way of expressing himself at times, while remaining an absolute unholy terror in the highest echelons of the Decadent Court.
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Deathstalker / int_eb5cbe42	type	Me's a Crowd
Deathstalker / int_eb5cbe42	comment	Hazel: Me's a Crowd. Turns this up to eleven because each alternate has their own unique powers, too (it's implied Hazel could only call up duplicates from alternate realities where she went through the Madness Maze).
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Deathstalker / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Deathstalker / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: By chance, Hazel and Owen's first meeting.
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Deathstalker / int_ee1c6326	type	Mobile Maze
Deathstalker / int_ee1c6326	comment	Mobile Maze: The Madness Maze.
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Deathstalker / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Deathstalker / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Played With with Tobias Moon (Hadenman) and Tobias Shreck (reporter), though the latter is far more often referred to as Toby, and the two are never in the same place at the same time.
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Deathstalker / int_ef2582c3	type	Named Weapons
Deathstalker / int_ef2582c3	comment	Named Weapons: The Masked Gladiator Finlay Campbell, named his sword Morgana, after the middle name of his true love, Evangeline Shreck.
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Deathstalker / int_f1c17256	type	A Deadly Affair
Deathstalker / int_f1c17256	comment	A Deadly Affair: Giles Deathstalker was nearly the victim of this; he slept with and impregnated Emperor Ulric's wife Hermione. When their son (who would become the Darkvoid Device) was born, the Emperor figured out the child's true parentage, which is why Giles had to take the child and go on the run; while he had a death warrant put out on him, he ultimately avoided it. Empress Hermione was not so lucky, as she was executed for her crime.
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Deathstalker / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
Deathstalker / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: The espers of the Abraxus Information Center are a whole group of them.
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Deathstalker / int_f3fac450	type	Brain in a Jar
Deathstalker / int_f3fac450	comment	The Empress had specially-contained human brains used to disrupt psionic powers and one of the main characters started the series as an organ runner.
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Deathstalker / int_f4bec3d	comment	Magic Plastic Surgery: Body shops. Want to be tall, beautiful, curvaceous, with boobs the size of beachballs? Body shops will do it for you. Want to be tall, handsome, and so bulging with muscles you have to walk through doors sideways? Body shops will do it for you. Want to turn yourself into a Big Red Devil? Body shops will do it for you. As with everything else, you get what you pay for, and description will frequently note if a given body shop job is top-notch, good, bad, or really bad.
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Deathstalker / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: After eight books full of all kinds of horrible things, including Owen dying, Owen Deathstalker and Hazel d'Ark are finally together, forever.
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Deathstalker / int_f74e2a3a	comment	Addiction-Powered: Valentine Wolfe is the son of a preeminent nobleman in the galaxy's Decadent Court, who uses a frankly astounding variety of Fantastic Drugs. These include ones that grant Super-Reflexes, Super-Strength, Hyper-Awareness, Rubber Man resilience, and daydreams so lurid that he can No-Sell a Psychic-Assisted Suicide because it's tame by comparison. No few of those drugs were intended for sexual purposes before he got hold of them, effectively inverting (well, zig-zagging) Power Perversion Potential.
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Deathstalker / int_f87886d2	comment	Sharpened to a Single Atom: The series handwaves the existence of such blades by explaining that the edge is actually created and maintained by a special force field. Since they can be deactivated, it makes the blades much safer to handle, store, and hide as an assassin's tool.
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Deathstalker / int_f9876f7e	comment	In Deathstalker Destiny, it's revealed that people thought Finlay Campbell had died taking out Gregor Schreck and his tower. He was actually Faking the Dead, feeling that it was better to let them think he'd pulled this trope.
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Deathstalker / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: In the last three books, Brett wants to go home. "Shut up, Brett."
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Deathstalker / int_fa9cd4db	comment	Democracy Is Bad: Empress Lionstone XIV claims this, and does her best to stamp it out wherever she can, to the point of declaring an entire planet (specifically, Virimonde) to be in rebellion for experimenting in it in Deathstalker War. Zig-Zagged later in the series, especially the post-time skip novels. The Empire has a functional constitutional monarchy, with the Emperor actually holding some political power, but the process is shown to be at best well-intentioned but weighed down by inertia, at worst corrupt. The general thesis seems to be the democracy can work well with one strong, competent leader helping it along. Douglas tries to do so for good, Finn for ill, and both enjoy a lot of success using the system.
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Deathstalker / int_fb6b207f	comment	You Killed My Father: Owen Deathstalker has a long grudge against Kit SummerIsle for being the one to kill Arthur Deathstalker on Lionstone's orders. In the climax of Desthstalker Destiny, during his jumps back through time to wear down the Recreated as they try to catch him, he finally catches up to Kit in a private room during the wedding reception of Robert Campbell and Constance Wolfe, and kills him in a one-on-one duel.
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Deathstalker / int_fceae121	comment	Alternate Self: After going through the Madness Maze, Hazel develops the ability to summon alternate versions of herself who went through the Maze in their native universes, to fight alongside her when needed. Deathstalker Honor has her actually getting to know two of them, Midnight Blue and Bonnie Bedlam, since she needs them to stick around for a longer time.
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Deathstalker / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: The Empire dubs its starcruiser classes in alphabetical order, each class (presumably) based on some scientific breakthrough. The first series has D-class ships, with new E-Class ships being built around a new stardrive (reverse engineered from alien tech). All ships in a class have a name beginning with the first letter of the ship's class, thus the D-class starcruisers all have names beginning with D, the E-class ships all have names beginning with E (with the exception of Silence's new ship, the Dauntless, though it is the first E-class ship). By the last three novels, they're up to H-class, and the theme naming seems to apply to all ships, not just starcruisers (though the Jeremiah, insane ship of the equally insane Donal Corcoran, mutated by exposure to the Terror, bucks this trend, possibly as foreshadowing.
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Deathstalker / int_fe64d5a1	type	Evil Is Petty
Deathstalker / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: Finn Durandal is the patron saint of this trope. After being a well-respected Paragon and best friend to Douglas Campbell and Lewis Deathstalker for years, he decides to tear the whole Empire down, in the middle of a Golden Age, just because Douglas didn't make him King's Champion, picking Lewis instead.
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Deathstalker / int_fea715c1	type	Feudal Future
Deathstalker / int_fea715c1	comment	Feudal Future: The series is a fairly dystopian version of this trope, and unlike many actually does deal with the difficulty of setting up a working system of democracy, although not in any great detail. Given that it was almost a gleeful self-parody of the whole space-opera genre, this is not particularly surprising...
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Deathstalker / int_ff481077	type	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
Deathstalker / int_ff481077	comment	Scifi Writers Have No Sense Of Scale: Thousands of habitable worlds within reach, each and every one of them either under The Empire or rebelling against it. Almost annoyingly present in the later books and backstory when it comes to the Terror. The terror "ate" an entire galaxy traveling at slower than light speed. Fine... Problem is that those being eaten could move faster than light. Solution: Move your freaking population about... 1000 light years ahead of the terror, chill for 900 years, repeat. Terror starves to death chasing you. Next issue: Terror arrives in Empire, eats a star system, everyone else freaks out. Problem is that the empire is literally thousands of light years across and has ultra-FTL capabilities. It would be literally a thousand years before the Terror could even reach the inner systems which have more than marginal populations. Similar solution to that above in that you could just shift populations from system to system every... 40 or so years and the Terror would eventually starve, give up, or... well, go FTL out of desperation. Oh, on a more practical note, the Terror goes through three habitable star systems in something like two years or so. I think the travel time for one trip was like six months. At light speed, six months would not even get you out of the Oort cloud of our solar system, much less the 4 light years to the nearest star or the 20 or so to the THEORETICAL closest star that MIGHT have a planet that could support life. Of course, this may also be an example of Fridge Logic. Actually stated that, traveling at just under the speed of light, the Terror would reach the next batch of inhabited planets in "weeks." No sense of scale indeed. A minor example in the second and third books (Deathstalker Rebellion and Deathstalker War). The Golgotha Underground splits up the heroes to take on different tasks, ostensibly because all three hotspots need to be dealt with immediately, so they can't send all of them to one after the other. However, Toby Schreck and Flynn are present to provide news coverage for each event, witnessing all the heroes in action on three different planets. The books do indicate that the events aren't happening exactly concurrent with each other, but if Toby and Flynn can travel to Planet A, film all the important events, then go to planets B and C in turn and do the same thing, why couldn't all the heroes stick together, too?
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Deathstalker / int_ff6ae1f6	comment	Evil-Detecting Dog: Not exactly "evil", but the talking dog Owen meets earlier in human history can tell there's something seriously off about him. It Makes Sense in Context.
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Deathstalker / int_ffd816e7	comment	Everything Trying to Kill You: Shandrakor. To be fair, though, everything is also trying to kill everything else.
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