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Serge Storms

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Serge Storms	comment	Tim Dorsey (born January 25, 1961) is a Floridan author known for his series of 'comedic crime novels' mostly taking place in and around his home state. Dorsey loves Florida and all its weirdness, and it's on full display in his books.The novels follow the story of Sociopathic Hero (or Anti-Hero, depending on your view) Serge A. Storms, a proud Floridian, history lover and incredibly inventive Serial Killer, along with his many companions. There are many recurring characters, and there's enough continuity that books will sometimes reference the events of previous books, but each novel is a stand-alone story, and can be read in any order without too much trouble.
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Serge Storms / int_1086f287	type	Sure, Let's Go with That
Serge Storms / int_1086f287	comment	Sure, Let's Go with That: In When Elves Attack, Serge tells Coleman that City and Country are only making out because City is horny, never has sex with Serge, and her only other option is the unappealing Coleman. Coleman interprets this as them wanting to put on a Girl on Girl Is Hot show for his benefit, and Serge halfheartedly tells him to keep thinking that.
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Serge Storms / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Serge Storms / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Warning: If you ever show up in one of Dorsey's novels, you will die. Painfully, and in a highly imaginative manner.
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Serge Storms / int_12575a9f	type	Friendly Sniper
Serge Storms / int_12575a9f	comment	Friendly Sniper: In Orange Crush, Sergeant Rock Tex Jackson is A Father to His Men and is willing to fight numerically superior enemies to keep civilians from being massacred. The sniper part isn't overly emphasized, but in one scene he climbs a tree with his rifle and the narration notes that he's relying on his experience as a deer hunter. His platoon mates hear three shots, and are still trying to figure out if Tex shot their pursuers or got shot by them when he appears behind them and says to start moving.
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Serge Storms / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Serge Storms / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Some of Serge's victims are loosely based on national and state-level celebrities, who tend to receive the appropriate Karmic Death related to their terrible on-air personas. The political parody Orange Crush has cameos by Real Life political figures Lawton Chiles and Jimmy Carter, and Expy appearances of the Bush family, Katherine Harris, and other figures involved with the 2000 Election debacle. Sterling Hanover from Pope of Palm Beach is an obvious stand in for Martin Shkreli, as he's a CEO famous (say better infamous) for raising the cost of life saving medicine from 14 dollars to 700.
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Serge Storms / int_15f42962	type	Parents in Distress
Serge Storms / int_15f42962	comment	Parents in Distress: Nicole Davenport is a Bratty Teenage Daughter for most of When Elves Attack, but one of her first Took a Level in Kindness moments comes from jumping on her boyfriend's back to try to stop him from beating up her dad over a minor slight.
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Serge Storms / int_16cff2b7	type	The Queenpin
Serge Storms / int_16cff2b7	comment	In Gator-a-Go, The Queenpin known as Madre once ran her cartel along with her two older brothers before the informant she spends the book chasing mucked things up a few years before the story. Specifically, when a Dirty Cop told Madre that one of her brothers passed on information to the authorities but she didn't know which, she cheerfully ordered the murders of both of her brothers to make sure she punished the right one.
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Serge Storms / int_1762455b	type	Sheep in Sheep's Clothing
Serge Storms / int_1762455b	comment	Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: A fair amount of Atomic Lobster seems to hint that Jim Davenport may actually be Agent Foxtrox, given Foxtrot's actual identity this trope comes into play.
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Serge Storms / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Serge Storms / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: In Shark Skin Suite, Serge paralyzes a conman (who tricks parents into thinking that their teenaged children have been horribly injured in car accidents and that he won't call an ambulance in time to save their lives unless they wire him $10,000) and lets him get Eaten Alive by a python, but real-life pythons are known for constricting their prey to death before swallowing.
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Serge Storms / int_19fc58a2	type	A Lighter Shade of Black
Serge Storms / int_19fc58a2	comment	A Lighter Shade of Black: Serge is not a good person, but the people he goes after are usually worse than he is — or at least, less likable, so the audience can root for him anyway. If the choice is between an eccentric, amusing Serial Killer and someone whose a Corrupt Corporate Executive and/or a complete jerkass to boot, the serial killer tends to win.
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Serge Storms / int_1aa30797	type	Single Woman Seeks Good Man
Serge Storms / int_1aa30797	comment	Single Woman Seeks Good Man: If there's a single woman major character, odds are she'll be frustrated by the jerks in her life... and meet up with either Serge who'll unleash her inner Bad Girl, or with the Nice Guy character trying to survive Serge's latest scheme who will politely ask her out on a romantic date.
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Serge Storms / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Serge Storms / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Serge and Coleman in the first book, where surprisingly they aren't really protagonists. Fulbright and Boudreaux, two members of the governor's military unit in Orange Crush, provide some comic relief and constantly appear together.
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Serge Storms / int_1dea3034	type	Cool Shades
Serge Storms / int_1dea3034	comment	Cool Shades: Recurring Femme Fatale Sharon often wears opaque sunglasses.
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Serge Storms / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Serge Storms / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: The Author's and Publication Notes at the end of each novel go into incredibly bizarre descriptions, and in one book Serge and Coleman try to sneak their way through the Author's Notes to avoid getting arrested in the novel proper.
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Serge Storms / int_2196347f	type	Action Politician
Serge Storms / int_2196347f	comment	Action Politician: Downplayed with Governor Conrad, who has this reputation in Orange Crush, as he served in the National Guard during his tenure as lieutenant governor and saw combat in the Balkans. However, he is more of a bumbling Action Survivor during that engagement, which is shown in flashbacks. He does pull out his gun and stand between a death squad and a civilian family after all of his men are killed or wounded, but his hands are shaking, and he probably would have been gunned down without killing any of his opponents if not for the arrival of The Cavalry. Also in Orange Crush, a group of government employees acting as the campaign staff of aspiring governor Grover Tatum get into a fight with several wrestlers. Most of them fare poorly, but a tax attorney and a group of state auditors do well enough that their opponents need reinforcements.
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Serge Storms / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Serge Storms / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Much of the humor comes from how absurd and over-the-top Serge's crimes are, as well as how absurd and over-the-top he is.
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Serge Storms / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Serge Storms / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Early in Shark-Skin Suite, Serge says he'd like to get a T-shirt gun because of the effect it has on the onlooking crowd. During the climax, he pulls one out and uses it to good effect.
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Serge Storms / int_25c60be7	type	Only in Florida
Serge Storms / int_25c60be7	comment	Only in Florida: Dorsey, like certain other Floridian humorists, loves this trope.
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Serge Storms / int_25c7875f	type	Practically Different Generations
Serge Storms / int_25c7875f	comment	Practically Different Generations: In Atomic Lobster, Rachael is exactly a decade younger than her only confirmed sibling (the Ambiguous Syntax of her comment that she once had "a sister in Tampa" could indicate a larger family), a sister who she is implied to have looked up to before the other woman's death. In Mermaid Confidential, Mercado Benzappa, an Affably Evil cartel member, is 7-12 years younger than his only brother AJ (Mercado was in high school when AJ turned 25), who Mercado looks up to. Mercado mentions that they have at least three sisters, all between them in age.
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Serge Storms / int_26beee71	type	Taught by Experience
Serge Storms / int_26beee71	comment	Taught by Experience: After nearly having been tracked down and attacked by someone his consulting company was brought onboard to fire in Triggerfish Twist Jim Davenport uses a fake name while firing people in When Elves Attack.
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Serge Storms / int_27adb17a	type	Train Job
Serge Storms / int_27adb17a	comment	Train Job: The climax of The Stingray Shuffle begins when Ivan and Zigzag learn that a briefcase of drug money is on a mystery theater train and borrow some horses from a racetrack to catch up to the moving train (the passengers think their pursuit is All Part of the Show), board it, and try to take the money at gunpoint.
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Serge Storms / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
Serge Storms / int_2854b56d	comment	A man who was trying to keep a bunch of baby sea turtles from making it safely to the ocean for laughs has his feet tied to the turtles' parents, who drag him into the ocean, where they will likely either drown him by diving in deep water or draw and quarter him by swimming in different directions.
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Serge Storms / int_2c3a7a97	type	Cast as a Mask
Serge Storms / int_2c3a7a97	comment	Cast as a Mask: A subdued version of this is present in the Audiobook of Atomic Lobster. When we see Agent Foxtrot being debriefed after their final mission, Foxtrot speaks in a flat accentless manner to prevent the listener from discovering their identity early.
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Serge Storms / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Serge Storms / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Coleman, considering his knowledge of fluid dynamics, advanced physics, college-level chemistry, and philosophy. Which he uses solely to get drunk and high. The only times violent Femme Fatale Sharon shows interest in anything but drugs, sex, and money in the first book are when she gets interested in one of Serge's monologues about rocket ships, calls a psychic hotline for criminal advice, and enjoys watching a baseball game while reflecting that she has always wanted a World Series Ring (which she gets by robbing a player). In Atomic Lobster, Rachael, a Pretty Freeloader and Addled Addict with a Hair-Trigger Temper, knows enough about computers to create and run a profitable website. Granted, it's a porn site with pictures of herself, but Serge is surprised she even knows how to turn a computer on (especially since the book is set in 2008). She also has a unicorn tattoo and loves the band Good Charlotte.
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Serge Storms / int_3056adad	type	Witness Protection
Serge Storms / int_3056adad	comment	The Atomic Lobster neighbors include two men in Witness Protection and a Genocide Survivor turned plastic surgeon.
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Serge Storms / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
Serge Storms / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: In Mermaid Confidential, Serge hears about a man taking part in a study of how long it is possible for him to survive without ever leaving his apartment and instead simply using the internet and various apps to have all his food and other necessities delivered to his door. Serge instantly questions what practical use such a study could have. The joke is made yet more explicit at the tail end of the novel when it is directly stated that the book takes place in December 2019
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Serge Storms / int_34960f22	type	Vapor Wear
Serge Storms / int_34960f22	comment	Vapor Wear: Early in Atomic Lobster, Serge and Coleman observe that Rachael has gone braless under her favorite t-shirt so often that her nipples have made stretch marks in the fabric.
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Serge Storms / int_35e077	type	Fourth-Date Marriage
Serge Storms / int_35e077	comment	Fourth-Date Marriage: In Torpedo Juice Serge suddenly gets the urge to get married, stop his murderous rampage against Jerkass Floridians, and settle down. He quickly latches onto a mousy-looking but cute librarian named Molly, dates her once (and kills a guy in front of her), and promptly marries her. She quickly turns out to be a Black Widow (no not the comic book character) who kills her husbands not for money but for the sadistic kick. When they realize they each married a Serial Killer with opposing philosophies over why they kill, they separate. They're technically still married by the time of Shark Skin Suite (mainly because Molly won't sign the divorce paperwork)...
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Serge Storms / int_39dc76ee	type	Pop Punk
Serge Storms / int_39dc76ee	comment	In Atomic Lobster, Serge is quite peeved when his companion Rachael, who lives for the hedonism of the moment, turns out to prefer the modern Pop Punk band Good Charlotte and turns off "House of the Rising Sun" to listen to one of their hits. Although he forgets his annoyance after she starts doing an erotic dance to the music.
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Serge Storms / int_3a967286	type	Handsome Lech
Serge Storms / int_3a967286	comment	Handsome Lech: the Recurring Character of Johnny Vegas the Accidental Virgin, a total hunk who's never had sex and all of his attempts to do so keep failing spectacularly.
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Serge Storms / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
Serge Storms / int_3f11ef74	comment	At the beginning of Tropic of Stupid, Nathan Sparrow is an ambulance-chasing workaholic lawyer and fundraiser for slimy politicians. The sudden death of his Parental Substitute and a disgruntled client trying to ruin Nathan's daughter's career makes Nathan reevaluate his life. He quits his job, makes restitution to people he has wronged, destroys the career of the man who went after his daughter, and takes up a Call to Agriculture.
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Serge Storms / int_3f319f89	type	WronglyAccused
Serge Storms / int_3f319f89	comment	City and Country, two college girls fleeing from a crime they didn't commit. Their massive drug consumption (the two women are worse than Coleman) is why - despite the great sex - Serge keeps dumping the pair on the side of the road first chance he gets.
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Serge Storms / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Serge Storms / int_469e3e2f	comment	Acknowledged In-Universe with regards to Sly McGraw from Triggerfish Twist also known as the Courteous Crook who is extremely polite even in the middle of a hold up or hostage situation. When he crosses paths with Serge, the two have an even handed discussion about if the entire country is getting worse or if Florida is a unique case and Sly even admits that he and his brother's behavior is evidence that support's Serge's argument in favor of Florida being especially wild and unrly.
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Serge Storms / int_46b5a2f2	type	Historical Character's Fictional Relative
Serge Storms / int_46b5a2f2	comment	Historical Character's Fictional Relative: In Electric Barracuda, Molly's supposed son with Serge was really fathered by real-life Florida photographer Lucky Cole. Tropic of Stupid reveals that Serge is a distant cousin of real-life retired baseball player Bill Lee.
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Serge Storms / int_479f9ad0	type	Characterization Marches On
Serge Storms / int_479f9ad0	comment	Characterization Marches On: The characters do age between the stories. Serge is well into his late-40s after Hurricane Punch, and recurring characters City and Country have gone from innocent college-age girls from their introduction to jaded 20something women in the more recent novels. Detective Mahoney is a fairly normal police officer when we chronologically first meet him in Triggerfish Twist, but before long he winds up locked up in an asylum thanks to spending too much time trying to figure out Serge. This eventually gives way to him being sane enough for duty again, but now is prone to speaking and acting like a police officer or private eye from a Film Noir piece making him just as weird as Serge, but in a distinctly different way. The two older Davenport kids from Triggerfish Twist are in college by Gator A-Go-Go.
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Serge Storms / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Serge Storms / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Johnny Vegas suffers improbable cock-blocking misfortunes every time he appears.
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Serge Storms / int_486b0458	type	Draft Dodging
Serge Storms / int_486b0458	comment	Draft Dodging: The Lt. Governor in Orange Crush never registered for the draft. To get around the scandal of a member of a senior government official technically being a draft dodger, his handlers arranged for him to join the state National Guard, with the intent of then filing fraudulent medical forms invalidating him from actually going into the field. They hadn't gotten around to filing said forms when his unit was called up to serve a tour of duty in Kosovo.
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Serge Storms / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Serge Storms / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: One subplot in Atomic Lobster involves a mysterious Famed In-Story Retired Badass undercover operative, Agent Foxtrot, who comes out of retirement to foil a terrorist plot. The epilogue of the book has a recurring character, stay-at-home mom turned empty nester Martha Davenport, the wife of resident Butt-Monkey Jim Davenport call someone on an encrypted satellite phone and say "This is Foxtrot."
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Serge Storms / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Serge Storms / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Florida Roadkill only has two or three deaths caused by Serge; Serge, Coleman, and his associate Sharon are outwardly more villainous and less sympathetic than in later books; The focus of the story are two unrelated protagonists who get caught in the crossfire between Serge and the Mierda Cartel; and Serge seems a lot more interested in getting his money, offing people, and protecting himself than with the more public-centered goals of later books.
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Serge Storms / int_4f62bde6	type	Kavorka Man
Serge Storms / int_4f62bde6	comment	Kavorka Man: Serge is described as reasonably attractive, but my god does he get the ladies. Supposedly his mental issues give him incredible charisma. And stamina. In later novels Dorsey introduced another satellite character, a plain-looking middle-aged guy tired of women constantly falling for him... whose personal confidence and attitude makes him a target for women constantly falling him. And yes, he's ruined more than one date for Johnny the Accidental Virgin.
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Serge Storms / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Serge Storms / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Most of the victims are assholes, but some don't seem to deserve death. Serge's victims tend to be greedy or rude, or worst of all in Serge's view vandalize some part of Florida's history or ecosystem.
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Serge Storms / int_53407671	type	Action Survivor
Serge Storms / int_53407671	comment	Downplayed with Governor Conrad, who has this reputation in Orange Crush, as he served in the National Guard during his tenure as lieutenant governor and saw combat in the Balkans. However, he is more of a bumbling Action Survivor during that engagement, which is shown in flashbacks. He does pull out his gun and stand between a death squad and a civilian family after all of his men are killed or wounded, but his hands are shaking, and he probably would have been gunned down without killing any of his opponents if not for the arrival of The Cavalry.
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Serge Storms / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Serge Storms / int_537dd8fe	comment	In Mermaid Confidential, Mercado Benzappa, an Affably Evil cartel member, is 7-12 years younger than his only brother AJ (Mercado was in high school when AJ turned 25), who Mercado looks up to. Mercado mentions that they have at least three sisters, all between them in age.
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Serge Storms / int_5501256b	type	Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated
Serge Storms / int_5501256b	comment	Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Sergio is still alive and healthy.
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Serge Storms / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
Serge Storms / int_55af5099	comment	Rube Goldberg Device: Most of Serge's murder devices.
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Serge Storms / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Serge Storms / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: In Tropic of Stupid, we see a flashback to one of Serge's ancestors being arrested by the police and calling them fascists. Except this event takes place right at the outbreak of the Spanish American war in 1898, and at the earliest, the Fasces of Revolutionary Action were founded in 1915, so the ancestor would be using a word that wouldn't actually mean anything. Given the general Shown Their Work approach this series has to history the best explanation is probably that since Serge directly invokes this flashback, Unreliable Narrator is at play.
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Serge Storms / int_56635771	type	Recurring Character
Serge Storms / int_56635771	comment	Recurring Character: City and Country, two college girls fleeing from a crime they didn't commit. Their massive drug consumption (the two women are worse than Coleman) is why - despite the great sex - Serge keeps dumping the pair on the side of the road first chance he gets. Also Johnny Vegas. And the E-Team. And the Davenports. Characters from an early book will cameo in the following story to provide some continuity.
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Serge Storms / int_57b74bd4	type	Achievements in Ignorance
Serge Storms / int_57b74bd4	comment	In Coconut Cowboy, colege student Matt Pugliese finds a website Serge sets up that convinces him that Serge and his endless flow of trivia will be a boon for Matt's thesis about the decline of the American Dream. He looks at Serge's posts, calculates the next place Serge will likely go to talk about his current subject, and is waiting when Serge gets there. As a wanted fugitive (unknown to Matt), Serge is shocked that a civilian was able to predict his movements that way when the authorities couldn't.
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Serge Storms / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
Serge Storms / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: Many books have supporting or minor characters who have colorful pasts and are involved in their own adventures that Serge has little to no role in (although some would be more of an Anti-Hero of another story). This is most notable with Serge's neighbors during his brief periods of living in suburban neighborhoods or condos (all of whom are introduced in a rambling tangent alongside other more important characters in each book). The minor neighbors in Triggerfish Twist include an inventor who has spent twelve years building a plane in his garage, another is a surviving member of Doolittleâ€™s Raiders, and a third claims to be a former Negro League baseball pitcher. The Atomic Lobster neighbors include two men in Witness Protection and a Genocide Survivor turned plastic surgeon. The Bit Character condo dwellers in Mermaid Confidential and The Maltese Iguana include board game tournament champion Jen-Jen, Joey (an expelled Scholarship Student football star who was expelled from school for breaking into a chemistry lab and is on the run to avoid process servers out to make him repay the scholarship funds), Alfred and Hazel (who use fake names for reasons no one is quite sure of), Professor Fontaine (an academic testing how long it's possible to live off of delivered goods without ever stepping out of his apartment), Mr. Kelley (who has spent years faking an injury while being spied on by insurance company detectives) and Sit Aston Neville ("the last heir of an infertile lineage on a cluster of North Sea islands dominated by rookeries").
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Serge Storms / int_5aa4ec8a	type	Ambiguous Syntax
Serge Storms / int_5aa4ec8a	comment	In Atomic Lobster, Rachael is exactly a decade younger than her only confirmed sibling (the Ambiguous Syntax of her comment that she once had "a sister in Tampa" could indicate a larger family), a sister who she is implied to have looked up to before the other woman's death.
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Serge Storms / int_5ac47fa6	type	Erudite Stoner
Serge Storms / int_5ac47fa6	comment	Erudite Stoner: Coleman, combined with Genius Ditz, as while he clearly understands physics, mathematics, and chemisty seems to only understand how to use these things to get high.
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Serge Storms / int_5db59a03	type	Brown Note
Serge Storms / int_5db59a03	comment	A rude Hummer owner blasting out rap music from his car gets tied up within an empty skyscraper that Serge converts into the world's largest speaker... and then Serge plugs in his guitar...
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Serge Storms / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Serge Storms / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: The series isn't written in chronological order. For example, the amnesia Serge suffered in Orange Crush wasn't explained until Stingray Shuffle which was published two novels later. And some novels will rely heavily on flashbacks.
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Serge Storms / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Serge Storms / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Serge and Coleman usually have no idea the size and scope of the schemes around them, but every book wind they wind up dismantling them as people try to figure out who they are.
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Serge Storms / int_6168d81c	type	Mistaken Confession
Serge Storms / int_6168d81c	comment	Mistaken Confession: In Torpedo Juice, when two cops accost Anti-Hero vigilante/Serial Killer Serge, he wearily says that he bets they've come to talk about "all those murders" and, after a brief chat with them, confirms the death penalty looks likely. Then, it turns out that they aren't talking about, Serge's murders, but a crime spree committed by Serge's new wife Molly (they approached him to check his car for booby traps). Unlike most examples of the trope, Serge manages to keep the cops from realizing that they were talking about two different sets of murders and avoids arrest.
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Serge Storms / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Serge Storms / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: The young Republican Governor at the beginning of Orange Crush had been groomed since birth to become the next great (corrupt) conservative leader of the state. He's pretty much a spoiled rich brat even in his thirties. Events conspire to send him off to Central Europe during the Balkan civil wars where he bonds with poor-class troops and a badass sergeant, most of whom die in a heavy engagement before the governor gets rescued. His shell-shock wakes him up and he tries to become a better governor, but events (and the political status quo) keep screwing him over... The Mole for The Cartel in Gator-a-Go dies rather than participate in one final atrocity. In Pineapple Grenade, Ted Savage is introduced as a CIA agent stirring up guerillas to destabilize an honest South American president (indirectly on behalf of Corrupt Corporate Executives) but goes on to help Serge protect the president from an assassin after feeling betrayed by his handlers, and seems invested in his new mission. In Coconut Cowboy, one of the errand boy trio for the Small-Town Tyrant clan gradually becomes friendly with their Unwitting Pawn turned scapegoat, helps him out of a jam, and decides to go to trade school. In The Pope of Palm Beach, a group of Dirty Cops are outraged enough by the murder of a Man of the City and two of their colleagues to kill the cartel goons responsible and then work to protect a witness to the crime rather than try to kill him and steal the millions of dollars he ended up instinctively taking from the crime scene. In No Sunscreen for the Dead, New-Age Retro Hippie Tofer Baez was a high-profile Soviet spy for much of the Cold War. However, he has come to acknowledge the worst aspects of the Russian government and would have quit before the end of the Cold War if he wasn't being blackmailed. When old Russian contacts still in America start being murdered, he sets out to warn people who he had manipulated into giving information that they may be in danger as well and assists Serge and various other guest characters in the climactic shootout. At the beginning of Tropic of Stupid, Nathan Sparrow is an ambulance-chasing workaholic lawyer and fundraiser for slimy politicians. The sudden death of his Parental Substitute and a disgruntled client trying to ruin Nathan's daughter's career makes Nathan reevaluate his life. He quits his job, makes restitution to people he has wronged, destroys the career of the man who went after his daughter, and takes up a Call to Agriculture. In Mermaid Confidential, cartel member Mercado inserts himself into the life of hospice worker Julie to provide for her and her patients to atone for the one time he personally killed someone (a Badass Bystander near a botched drug deal).
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Serge Storms / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Serge Storms / int_61b8f9e2	comment	As part of Bunny-Ears Lawyer stoner Ziggy Blades' Establishing Character Moment in Shark Skin Suite, his radio is blaring "Lawyers, Guns, and Money," a loud, angry song about living on the edge.
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Serge Storms / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
Serge Storms / int_62fd5552	comment	Bavarian Fire Drill: In The Triggerfish Twist, Serge shows up at a college, gives an invigorating and detailed lecture about the history of Florida, and is invited to be the next commencement speaker before the Dean figures out that he doesn't work there. Likewise in Hurricane Punch he's able to steal an ATM machine in broad daylight, via the advanced technique of... having a clipboard and asking the clerk manning the store in question to sign for it while pretending to be doing some kind of inspection.
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Serge Storms / int_63bfa45e	type	You Go, Girl!
Serge Storms / int_63bfa45e	comment	You Go, Girl!: The main subplot of Naked Came the Florida Man is Academic Athlete Chris, who has always been a faster runner than her male classmates but hasn't gotten much respect for it, joining her school's football team with the help of Team Dad Coach Calhoun.
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Serge Storms / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Serge Storms / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Perhaps the one retroactive nice thing established about drug-abusing thief and murderer Sharon is that Atomic Lobster indicates that she had a good relationship with her younger sister Rachael despite them being Practically Different Generations. Sharon let Rachael (who grows up to be a less cold-blooded carbon copy of Sharon) crash with her sometimes. Ten years after Sharon's death, Rachael returns to the apartment due to a drug trip messing with her memories and making her think it is still a place where she's welcome. Rachael is also furious to learn that Serge and Coleman killed Sharon.
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Serge Storms / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Serge Storms / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Hurricane Punch: The killer is actually McSwirley's split personality. Cadillac Beach: The extremely unlucky foursome of condiment salesmen on conference are actually hired actors by the very mob that is trying to kill Serge.
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Serge Storms / int_6c62b1a8	type	Covered in Gunge
Serge Storms / int_6c62b1a8	comment	Covered in Gunge: In Atomic Lobster, during a bad trip that makes her think there are snakes in her hair, Addled Addict Rachael runs into a tree, tears at her hair, and then rolls on the ground, getting covered with blood and dirt, especially on her face. An observing Serge and Coleman agree that Beauty Is Never Tarnished is very much not in play.
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Serge Storms / int_6d0a1b85	type	The Shut-In
Serge Storms / int_6d0a1b85	comment	The Shut-In: The Pope of Palm Beach features an author who became this after witnessing a organized crime related murder and spends several decades without leaving his home, all while growing progessively more paranoid.
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Serge Storms / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Serge Storms / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Serge's name is a play on "storm surge."
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Serge Storms / int_6db06839	type	The Stoner
Serge Storms / int_6db06839	comment	The Stoner: Coleman or Lenny, depending on the book. They meet in Atomic Lobster, and soon build the world's largest bong out of an aquarium. Then between books some Australians top that with a bong made out of a phone booth, so they reclaim their record by breaking into a university physics lab and making a bong out of a particle accelerator. This gets Coleman and Lenny the title of 'The Bong Brothers', and Coleman is regarded the ultimate dope guru, who other stoners go to for advice on all their drug-related problems (That is, problems with drugs, not problems caused by using drugs). A lot of other characters are heavy users, as well. If they hang around Coleman long enough, by the end of the novel they will be.
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Serge Storms / int_6e27397	type	Missed Him by That Much
Serge Storms / int_6e27397	comment	Missed Him by That Much: In Hurricane Punch we see that Serge and Detective Mahoney go to different therapists in the exact same building, and frequently even have sessions at the same time.
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Serge Storms / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
Serge Storms / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: When Elves Attack, covering Thanksgiving through Christmas.
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Serge Storms / int_6f44042b	type	The Immodest Orgasm
Serge Storms / int_6f44042b	comment	The Immodest Orgasm: Serge's various romantic partners tend to loudly and expressively indicate when they near the end of lovemaking while Serge himself is distracted watching sunrises or chatting about local trivia.
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Serge Storms / int_708614d3	type	Killer Outfit
Serge Storms / int_708614d3	comment	Killer Outfit: In Florida Roadkill, a man is murdered by fashion. His girlfriend Sharon drugs him, slips a pair of tight jeans onto him, and then carefully soaks and dries out the pants until the fabric shrinks to the point where it cuts off all blood circulation below his waist.
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Serge Storms / int_71ff7f0d	type	Cooked to Death
Serge Storms / int_71ff7f0d	comment	Cooked to Death: In The Stingray Shuffle, a pair of frat boys who like to beat up bums suffer perhaps the most horrifying deaths in the series when Serge ties them across ultareflective sun blankets on top of a roof during the middle of a sunny summer and then sprinkles salt over them. Their bodies have shriveled down to seventy pounds apiece by the time the cops find them, with the medical examiner describing them as having been turned into human pieces of jerky. A less horrific version of this trope (at least compared to the above example) shows up in Hurricane Punch when Serge uses the combined heating packets of a great many military grade MREs (Meals Ready to Eat) in order to kill someone who was using the approaching hurricane as an excuse to price gouge people.
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Serge Storms / int_7204fa60	type	George Jetson Job Security
Serge Storms / int_7204fa60	comment	George Jetson Job Security: Jim Davenport's job is to induce this. First he gets hired by companies to perform mass layoffs to make their stock go up. Then, when they realize that they can't meet their business commitments because they're critically understaffed due to unnecessary mass layoffs, they hire him as a headhunter, at which point he rehires all the people he had fired a few weeks earlier.
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Serge Storms / int_737a65f4	type	The Watson
Serge Storms / int_737a65f4	comment	The Watson: A large part of Coleman's role is to be someone Serge can talk to about the workings of his Death Traps, his travel plans, and his opinions about societal events, Florida, or other people.
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Serge Storms / int_738d1a0f	type	Because You Were Nice to Me
Serge Storms / int_738d1a0f	comment	Because You Were Nice to Me: In the last act of Coconut Cowboy, Fall Guy Peter is discretely helped by a Butt-Monkey member of a Small-Town Tyrant clan due to being the only person to call the local youth by his real name and tell him he's smart instead of calling him "Slower" (referring to his supposed unintelligence). Peter saving his life during a cave-in also helps.
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Serge Storms / int_745a43fc	type	Fun T-Shirt
Serge Storms / int_745a43fc	comment	Fun T-Shirt: In the tenth book, recurring Motor Mouth suburbanite Gladys wears a pink t-shirt that says "Diva in Training".
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Serge Storms / int_76df59f1	type	Thicker Than Water
Serge Storms / int_76df59f1	comment	Thicker Than Water: This trope finally ends Mahoney's career of chasing Serge. When the two turn out to be half brothers, Mahoney doesn't have the heart to arrest Serge. Future novels show he completely quit the force and now works as a private investigator who helps Serge finds victims to help/villains to punish.
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Serge Storms / int_784a71d0	type	Crime of Self-Defense
Serge Storms / int_784a71d0	comment	Crime of Self-Defense: A nonfatal version occurs in the backstory of Naked Came the Florida Man. College football player Lamar Calhoun reflexively punched an abusive coach while trying to get free after about a minute of being strangled by the man. Calhoun was promptly arrested for battery (although he was let out of jail without serving any time in exchange for his silence), kicked off the team, and blackballed from the NFL and a career in P.E. (until he eventually lied on a job application) to cover up the coach's actions.
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Serge Storms / int_798a9e41	type	Auto Erotica
Serge Storms / int_798a9e41	comment	Auto Erotica: In Atomic Lobster, Serge and Rachael have sex in the backseat of his car at least twice within a day of meeting each other and then proceed to argue about whether to follow this up with doing drugs or driving to a nearby tourist definition.
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Serge Storms / int_7a265daa	type	Eagleland
Serge Storms / int_7a265daa	comment	Kyle Lovitt from Naked Came the Florida Man is a Type I Eagleland kind of guy who proudly plays "This Land is Your Land" in the face of a Politically Incorrect Villain.
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Serge Storms / int_7a570c0	type	The Good Chancellor
Serge Storms / int_7a570c0	comment	The Good Chancellor: in Orange Crush an amnesiac Serge gets a job on the governors staff and provides him quality advice (and protection from assassins) while getting him to see more of Florida and understand the people better.
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Serge Storms / int_7aa989ea	type	Token Evil Teammate
Serge Storms / int_7aa989ea	comment	Token Evil Teammate: Evil-er teammate in this particular case. Looking at the starting trio in Florida Roadkill Serge has the redeeming features of truly loving Florida and doesn't intentionally target the truly innocent Coleman simply bumbles his way through life in a friendly manner but Sharon Rhodes is a cocaine obsessed Femme Fatale who repeatedly and cheerfully commits cold=blooded murders for money and utterly lacks any redeeming qualities. In Atomic Lobster, the character of Rachael is a Suspiciously Similar Substitute to Sharon and is just as rude, preoccupied with snorting coke (to Addled Addict levels) and unhelpful toward Serge and Coleman as Sharon, although she's less prone to robbing and killing people and only tends to be actively malicious and dangerous toward people who seriously antagonize her first.
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Serge Storms / int_7c4ae6b0	type	Hot Librarian
Serge Storms / int_7c4ae6b0	comment	Hot Librarian: Molly, in Serge's love-lorn opinion. Which proves correct once they get married and Molly turns out to be as sexually powerful and adventurous in bed as Serge. too bad Molly turns out to be a Serial Killer with a different agenda than Serge's...
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Serge Storms / int_7f080f98	type	Vague Age
Serge Storms / int_7f080f98	comment	Vague Age: Serge is a subtle victim of this due to the series extended nature. He was born in the sixties and the series started in 1999. By the time of Hurricane Punch (2007) he was in his mid forties. Each book in the series tends to take place roughly a year or two before its real life publishing date. This means that Serge should be effectively in late fifties/early sixties by the time of Maltese Iguana (which we can tell takes place in 2021 because Serge gets a freshly available COVID-19 vaccine) but if that's the case there's nothing in the books (other than the date of his birth) to suggest it.
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Serge Storms / int_7f514dd1	type	AwesomeByAnalysis
Serge Storms / int_7f514dd1	comment	Awesome by Analysis: In Coconut Cowboy, colege student Matt Pugliese finds a website Serge sets up that convinces him that Serge and his endless flow of trivia will be a boon for Matt's thesis about the decline of the American Dream. He looks at Serge's posts, calculates the next place Serge will likely go to talk about his current subject, and is waiting when Serge gets there. As a wanted fugitive (unknown to Matt), Serge is shocked that a civilian was able to predict his movements that way when the authorities couldn't. Data-mining firm analyst Benmont Pinch from No Sunscreen for the Dead identifies a criminal who stole several DVDs (among other things) by checking rentals of the sequels to any of the stolen films. Benmont also notices how other clients seeking to find out Social Security information are up to no good based on the content of the information they want and compares the Social Security numbers those people are seeking with those of recent murder victims to confirm that the data is being used for some kind of target list.
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Serge Storms / int_80b5924	type	Left Hanging
Serge Storms / int_80b5924	comment	Left Hanging: While Pineapple Grenade ends with Serge killing the Big Bad, nothing gets mentioned about whether the corrupt generals back in Costa Gorda suffer any comeuppance and will be in a position to try to continue with their plans to undermine their president and allow oil drilling near protected coral reefs.
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Serge Storms / int_81414673	type	AM/FM Characterization
Serge Storms / int_81414673	comment	AM/FM Characterization: Serge's taste in music runs toward classical rock musicians like Jim Morrison, The Animals, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, as befitting his sense of nonstop nostalgia. In Hammerhead Ranch Motel, City and Country happily dance to "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" by The Hollies, a rock and pop band from the same era as many of Sergeâ€™s favorite artists, but one that doesn't have an overlapping fanbase with many of them. This may reference how they can mingle with Serge without the same kind of hostility he had with his previous girlfriend, Sharon, but still have personality conflicts with him. In The Stingray Shuffle, outgoing, assertive, and (generally) rational and logical Jamaican criminal Zigzag finds reggae artists like Jimmy Cliff relaxing while his more high-strung Russian associate can't quite get into it. In Atomic Lobster, Serge is quite peeved when his companion Rachael, who lives for the hedonism of the moment, turns out to prefer the modern Pop Punk band Good Charlotte and turns off "House of the Rising Sun" to listen to one of their hits. Although he forgets his annoyance after she starts doing an erotic dance to the music. As part of Bunny-Ears Lawyer stoner Ziggy Blades' Establishing Character Moment in Shark Skin Suite, his radio is blaring "Lawyers, Guns, and Money," a loud, angry song about living on the edge. Kyle Lovitt from Naked Came the Florida Man is a Type I Eagleland kind of guy who proudly plays "This Land is Your Land" in the face of a Politically Incorrect Villain. Maggie Crenshaw, who is briefly neighbors with Serge in Mermaid Confidential and The Maltese Iguana, fondly listens to jazz music by the Tijuana Brass and has a mellow, easygoing attitude that is reminiscent of their music. Several of Serge's minor neighbors in Mermaid Confidential and The Maltese Iguana have started spending most of their time listening to The Allman Brothers and The Grateful Dead after they gained access to a large amount of medical marijuana and began spending most of their time stoned.
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Serge Storms / int_82d28aa8	type	Cover-Blowing Superpower
Serge Storms / int_82d28aa8	comment	Cover-Blowing Superpower: For a given definition of the term Agent Foxtrot has this problem. Foxtrot is probably the most well trained hand to hand combatant in the series and could easily resolve numerous physical confrontations, but not without revealing that Martha Davenport used to be a highly trained special ops agent for the US government.
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Serge Storms / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Serge Storms / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: There's a series length version in Maltese Iguana as despite recurring character Reevis Tome get his own B-plot, no reference of any kind is made to fellow recurring character Brook Campanella who was dating Reevis when we last saw him in Clownfish Blues.
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Serge Storms / int_86f27af6	type	Bait-and-Switch Tyrant
Serge Storms / int_86f27af6	comment	Bait-and-Switch Tyrant: In Shark Skin Suite, Judge Kennesaw Montgomery Boone is introduced as a rabidly pro-corporate judge and the last person Crusading Lawyers Brook and Shelby want presiding over their case against corrupt bankers. However, their brilliance, the blatant stupidity and criminality of the other side, and some of Serge's trivia gradually win Boone over into an extremely Reasonable Authority Figure who enjoys watching the collapse of the corrupt defense team.
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Serge Storms / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Serge Storms / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: An early chapter in Pope of Palm Beach focuses on a a drug smuggling near emotionless killer leading a small gang who most readers would expect to go onto be one of the main villains of the story. Before the chapter is over he's been successfully framed by his own accountant who takes over the gang and goes onto be the main villain. In Maltese Iguana at one point Serge breaks into a diatribe about how he can't stand someone spending a great deal of time idling in their parking spot instead of leaving it for someone else to use, which might suggest the person in question will soon be his next victim. Instead however he winds up targeting a guy who is price gouging people for toilet paper in response to a pandemic
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Serge Storms / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Serge Storms / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Our hero, the serial killer.
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Serge Storms / int_89dcd4e	type	Small-Town Tyrant
Serge Storms / int_89dcd4e	comment	There are a few sets of brothers in the Small-Town Tyrant clan from Coconut Cowboy. Said clan runs speed traps, illegally pumps more water than allowed by law, engages in voter fraud, moves money around for a drug dealer, and kills a few people.
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Serge Storms / int_8a1215e0	type	Bratty Teenage Daughter
Serge Storms / int_8a1215e0	comment	Bratty Teenage Daughter: Debbie Davenport is 16 during The Triggerfish Twist and is constantly storming out of the house to spend time with her scuzzy boyfriend while refusing to acknowledge her parents. A decade and change down the line in When Elves Attack her younger sister Nicole is now fifteen and likewise is going through a goth phase while dating an older scuzzy boyfriend.
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Serge Storms / int_8a58bb81	type	Meta Guy
Serge Storms / int_8a58bb81	comment	Meta Guy: Serge's mental issues apparently make him able to perceive the fourth wall, and even break through it on occasion, such as the latter half of Pineapple Grenade.
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Serge Storms / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Serge Storms / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: How most of the visiting bad guys in a story overreact when their plans go awry. Subverted with Serge, who only kills those he feels deserve it. While his deathtraps are elaborate, they only target the intended victim. And even then, he gives the victim a way out, usually.
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Serge Storms / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
Serge Storms / int_8b6e8d7	comment	After Sharon is written out of the series (minus one Anachronic Order reappearance), the next book introduces Recurring Character Ingrid "Country" Praline, another blond woman who sometimes does drugs (albeit weed instead of coke), dresses revealingly, and assists Serge throughout various schemes that she is often apathetic to while having regular Coitus Ensues moments with Serge and bickering with him and his friends just as regularly. However, unlike Token Evil Teammate Sharon, Country is a Nice Girl, or a Jerk with a Heart of Gold at worst after some negative Character Development, values her friendships, doesn't commit crimes out of greed, can be more genuinely helpful than Sharon, and avoids the Sex Is Violence aspect of Serge and Sharon's relationship.
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Serge Storms / int_8ea2f1bf	type	Cruella to Animals
Serge Storms / int_8ea2f1bf	comment	In Coconut Cowboy, the proprietor of a crush video website is trampled by a hippo.
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Serge Storms / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Serge Storms / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Anyone suffering Serge's wrath - outside of the first novel - tends to be arrogant Jerkass pulling a serious Kick the Dog moment within Serge's radar. And this being Florida, there is no short supply of Asshole Victims for Serge to confront. Orange Crush has the honor of presenting the biggest Jerkass Dorsey could think of: a corrupt land developer making billions off of shoddy suburban hellholes who intentionally pushes himself into becoming the biggest type of Jerkass in the world. A corrupt sports team owner.
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Serge Storms / int_8f8402a9	type	Behind Every Great Man
Serge Storms / int_8f8402a9	comment	Behind Every Great Man: In Orange Crush the governor's political opponent is being driven by his hyper ambitious fiancÃ©e.
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Serge Storms / int_8f9f71a8	type	Crazy Enough to Work
Serge Storms / int_8f9f71a8	comment	Crazy Enough to Work: As a general rule, the more insane one of Serge's schemes is, the more likely it is to work in the long run, even if it's not quite in the way he expected. Especially when it comes to killing people.
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Serge Storms / int_902b2129	type	Apparently Powerless Puppetmaster
Serge Storms / int_902b2129	comment	Apparently Powerless Puppet Master: The ending of Cadillac Beach reveals that the seemingly drunk and hapless salesmen who accidentally killed a mobster in a Deadly Prank and got dragged along with Serge's adventure are professional hitmen. They deliberately killed the mobster and manipulated Serge into taking them with him, hoping that he'd lead them to some valuable jewels his grandfather stole decades earlier.
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Serge Storms / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
Serge Storms / int_90b66e22	comment	The only times violent Femme Fatale Sharon shows interest in anything but drugs, sex, and money in the first book are when she gets interested in one of Serge's monologues about rocket ships, calls a psychic hotline for criminal advice, and enjoys watching a baseball game while reflecting that she has always wanted a World Series Ring (which she gets by robbing a player).
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Serge Storms / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Serge Storms / int_90d44f44	comment	Tiger Shrimp Tango has a rare accidental Karmic Death after Serge's scheming leads to a pair of con artists (who stole money that was intended for a child with cancer) being chased by a lynch mob. Eventually, the desperate scammers risk darting across an intersection to try to lose their pursuers.
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Serge Storms / int_9633f14b	type	Badass Bystander
Serge Storms / int_9633f14b	comment	In Mermaid Confidential, cartel member Mercado inserts himself into the life of hospice worker Julie to provide for her and her patients to atone for the one time he personally killed someone (a Badass Bystander near a botched drug deal).
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Serge Storms / int_964163e9	type	Mistaken for Profound
Serge Storms / int_964163e9	comment	Mistaken for Profound: At the end of Big Bamboo, director Werner Potemkin's "overindulgent unfocused pile of steaming sh*t" (which among other things included the Death Star Trench Run and the parting of the Red Sea in a film about an Oklahoma oil scam) is praised by Europeans critics as "a delicious self-parody of an obsessed director on the brink of madness"
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Serge Storms / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Serge Storms / int_970c790a	comment	In Pineapple Grenade, Serge kills the Big Bad who got Serge's Girl of the Week killed by tying him to the seat of a vehicle that is rigged to drive straight through an area that would normally be harmless to traverse but is currently on fire because of an ecological disaster that Serge's victim's greed caused.
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Serge Storms / int_9858c391	type	Chick Magnet
Serge Storms / int_9858c391	comment	In later novels Dorsey introduced another satellite character, a plain-looking middle-aged guy tired of women constantly falling for him... whose personal confidence and attitude makes him a target for women constantly falling him. And yes, he's ruined more than one date for Johnny the Accidental Virgin.
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Serge Storms / int_9c4a7090	type	Springtime for Hitler
Serge Storms / int_9c4a7090	comment	Springtime for Hitler: Various criminal gangs and corrupt corporate heads have some scheme to make money off of a hare-brained plan, only for the cover story of the operation creating too much success for them to hide their criminal activity. In Stingray Shuffle the worst cartel in the world has the bright idea of dealing drugs out of a bookstore that sold only copies of works by Ralph Krunkleton - a Giftedly Bad writer of pulp almost-classics - by cutting out the pages and hiding the dime bags inside each book. Thing was, their book orders for Krunkleton's titles attract the attention of the publisher making the company think there's a revival of his writing going on, and they insist on the bookstore hosting an author's signing in the middle of the store's drug sales... In Shark Skin Suite, two law firms involved in a lawsuit against crooked bankers are secretly both business partners with the bank, and the plaintiffs' firm tries to throw the case by doing things like leaking information, assigning inexperienced or eccentric lawyers to try the case, keeping good witnesses off the stand and having bad witnesses testify. To their exasperation, the trial still goes in the plaintiffs' favor because their lawyers are far better than anyone realized (and eventually have Vigilante Man Serge providing behind-the-scenes help) and the defense lawyers are complete morons who make one mistake after another.
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Serge Storms / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Serge Storms / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In Atomic Lobster the Diaz Brothers point out that there are typically two ways that a former government special operative like Agent Foxtrot will behave in civilian life: they'll either start snapping at even the smallest irritation or they'll become a complete pushover. Foxtrot does indeed fit one of these descriptions.
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Serge Storms / int_9da6354b	type	Reality Has No Subtitles
Serge Storms / int_9da6354b	comment	Reality Has No Subtitles: A Separated by a Common Language version of this trope comes into play in the later books. Mahoney frequently speak in outdated Film Noiresque slang producing sentences like "Forty lengths out of the money at Aqueduct." and "Java juice on the tube-steak fader?", but since Serge understands him just fine no translation is provided for the reader.
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Serge Storms / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Serge Storms / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: In Maltese Iguana Serge points out that that people price gouge in response to a pandemic are even worse than those who price gouge during a hurricane. Back during Hurricane Punch Serge gave a bonus round to a hurricane price gouger.
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Serge Storms / int_9e09fbd7	type	New-Age Retro Hippie
Serge Storms / int_9e09fbd7	comment	In No Sunscreen for the Dead, New-Age Retro Hippie Tofer Baez was a high-profile Soviet spy for much of the Cold War. However, he has come to acknowledge the worst aspects of the Russian government and would have quit before the end of the Cold War if he wasn't being blackmailed. When old Russian contacts still in America start being murdered, he sets out to warn people who he had manipulated into giving information that they may be in danger as well and assists Serge and various other guest characters in the climactic shootout.
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Serge Storms / int_9e0d0926	type	Sex Is Violence
Serge Storms / int_9e0d0926	comment	Sex Is Violence: Some of Serge's less healthy relationships (most notably with Sharon and Rachael) involve the couple hitting or threatening each other before and during sex. Coleman thinks Serge and Sharon's lovemaking is too mutually violent to count as actual rough sex and is more of "an alley fight with a quickie worked into the choreography."
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Serge Storms / int_9e74f33	type	Flock of Wolves
Serge Storms / int_9e74f33	comment	Flock of Wolves: Hammerhead Ranch Motel has a scene with a drug ring staffed entirely by undercover agents of three different law enforcement agencies that try to bust each other at the same time. Another book featured a group of Cuban-Americans who try to come up with a plan to overthrow Castro. With the exception of a retired CIA agent, they all work for Cuban Intelligence, and everybody knows it.
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Serge Storms / int_a27c0c2c	type	Artistic License â€“ Religion
Serge Storms / int_a27c0c2c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Religion: At one point Segre gets both a democrat and a republican campaign staffers to take truth serum, and then end up rejecting the idea of having Jesus Christ be their candidate but one of the reasons the Democratic staffer gives is that Jesus teachings of "render unto Ceaser" makes him question if Jessus would support shifting the tax burden to the rich. The problem is that this is pretty much the exact opposite of the passage's meaning. Its actual lesson is that you should be willing to pay your taxes to the government.
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Serge Storms / int_a27da813	type	Stern Chase
Serge Storms / int_a27da813	comment	Stern Chase: Serge and Coleman are on a never-ending road trip across Florida, helping out anyone they view as being deserving of their help and brutally killing anyone who made their new friends need that help (and almost anyone else who offends or antagonizes Serge). How actively pursued they are varies from book to book, but between the fact that they are wanted fugitives and enjoy traveling anyway, they rarely spend two consecutive books in the same town (and even when they do, it is usually because of a major event like COVID quarantine protocols).
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Serge Storms / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Serge Storms / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: The first sign of the Lt. Governor's Heelâ€“Face Turn in Orange Crush is that after returning from the Balkans (where most of his squad were killed), he makes a point of visiting the families of every single one of his dead squadmates before returning to Tallahassee.
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Serge Storms / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Serge Storms / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Serge. The police (and Mahoney) can barely keep up with him.
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Serge Storms / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Serge Storms / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: You'd have to read Florida Roadkill to know that Coleman is actually a nickname the character picked up after spending hours locked in an cooler as a child.
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Serge Storms / int_a806691d	type	Casanova Wannabe
Serge Storms / int_a806691d	comment	Casanova Wannabe: Johnny Vegas, who is handsome, wealthy, fun to be with... and cursed never to lose his virginity. He is always just about to when circumstances (often caused by Serge) intervene.
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Serge Storms / int_a81216dc	type	Too Much Alike
Serge Storms / int_a81216dc	comment	Too Much Alike: Coleman and Lenny start off both thinking the other is a loser. Though unlike most cases of this trope they fairly quickly change their tunes once they realize how deep the other's knowledge of narcotics goes.
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Serge Storms / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Serge Storms / int_a8559a9f	comment	The political parody Orange Crush has cameos by Real Life political figures Lawton Chiles and Jimmy Carter, and Expy appearances of the Bush family, Katherine Harris, and other figures involved with the 2000 Election debacle.
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Serge Storms / int_ab2df806	type	Red Baron
Serge Storms / int_ab2df806	comment	Red Baron: Deconstructed in The Triggerfish Twist. Rufus, Sly, and Willie McGraw were bold career thieves who constantly avoided capture and operated comfortably under the radar until Rufus's B.O., Sly's politeness to his victims, and Willie's fondness for expensive suits resulted in them gaining nicknames like "The Rank Robber", "The Courteous Crook", and "The Dapper Bandit." These nicknames brought them so much notoriety that they were quickly identified and captured. In contrast, their brother Ed, who never did get a nickname, "took forever to catch."
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Serge Storms / int_b0e81c37	type	A Simple Plan
Serge Storms / int_b0e81c37	comment	A Simple Plan: Serge will have some harebrained scheme to either generate money, steal money, kill bad people, or promote the great state of Florida. Sometimes all four at once. They're really not planned out well. And yet, they work. Guest-starring villains of a particular novel have some scheme going on, only for Serge or the overall craziness of Florida itself ruining the scheme halfway through the novel. The innocent people who get wrapped up in Serge's plots or the bad guys' plans have a simple plan themselves: try to survive to the last page of the book.
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Serge Storms / int_b2ed4736	comment	Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: Stripper and amateur porn star Rachael from Atomic Lobster is more sensual than Serge's usual Hot Librarian Girl of the Week and her wardrobe includes a lot of tops that show off her stomach, including baby tee shirt, a skimpy halter top, and a sports bra.
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Serge Storms / int_b3230549	type	419 Scam
Serge Storms / int_b3230549	comment	419 Scam: Serge runs into one during Pineapple Grenade, when he tracks down the one responsible and discovers them to be a nebbish college student he decides only shake them down for a thousand dollars rather than anything more lethal.
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Serge Storms / int_b489805d	type	Hollywood Autism
Serge Storms / int_b489805d	comment	Hollywood Autism: In The Riptide Ultra-Glide a pair of special needs teachers (who thus really should know better) refer to one of their young female students who is explicitly not inspirationally disadvantaged, cries so hard that she gives herself nosebleeds and requires intervention from said teachers to fall asleep as having "one of the mildest forms of autism."
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Serge Storms / int_b5b3599d	type	Amoral Attorney
Serge Storms / int_b5b3599d	comment	Amoral Attorney: There are several throughout the series, but Shark Skin Suite has Serge's scheme to become a legal crusader taking on a firm stealing out mortgages from people. Also in Shark Skin Suite, a former hookup of Serge's has become a lawyer herself... but is an honest crusading one fighting against the crooked banks ruining people over fake mortgage loans.
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Serge Storms / int_b61f1b2b	type	TouchÃ©
Serge Storms / int_b61f1b2b	comment	TouchÃ©: In The Riptide ultra-glide, Serge is Out-Gambitted by two assassins who only spare his life out of Pragmatic Villainy (the continuing police manhunt for Serge will distract the cops from realizing what the assassins did). Serge threatens to reveal the truth, but the assassins point out he's insane and therefore not credible, which Serge concedes with a wry "Touche."
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Serge Storms / int_b892dd2d	type	Girl of the Week
Serge Storms / int_b892dd2d	comment	Some of Serge's Girl of the Week characters also tend to get hit on by a lot of men besides Serge and have strong sex drives, such as Sharon Rhodes from the first and fourth books and Rachael from Atomic Lobster, who Serge declares "Fucks like a hurricane."
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Serge Storms / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Serge Storms / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Woe to any Jerkass who breaks or ruins a piece of Florida history while Serge is watching.
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Serge Storms / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Serge Storms / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero Serge himself constantly subjects anyone who upsets his sense of right and wrong to a Cruel and Unusual Death that may be drawn out over hours or days. He's also an earnest conversationalist who will go to great lengths to help his friends and anyone whose victimization rankles his sense of justice.
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Serge Storms / int_c04550fe	type	The Pornomancer
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Serge Storms / int_c1c600cc	type	Morality Chain Beyond the Grave
Serge Storms / int_c1c600cc	comment	Morality Chain Beyond the Grave: In Tropic of Stupid all it takes is a single letter from the recently deceased Father Al echoing some of the advice he gave years ago to convince Nathan Sparrow to quit his job, sell his house, give the money to charity, and otherwise start being a better person.
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Serge Storms / int_c2e77f17	type	Siblings in Crime
Serge Storms / int_c2e77f17	comment	Siblings in Crime: The McGraw Brothers from Triggerfish Twist are a group of dangerous rednecks with long rap sheets. A carjacking victim killing one of the brothers in self-defense in Triggerfish Twist sets the rest of the family on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge that doesn't go as planned. In The Big Bamboo, Serge joins his newly discovered half-brother Ford in a scheme to con two corrupt movie producers and then engineer their deaths. In Gator-a-Go, The Queenpin known as Madre once ran her cartel along with her two older brothers before the informant she spends the book chasing mucked things up a few years before the story. Specifically, when a Dirty Cop told Madre that one of her brothers passed on information to the authorities but she didn't know which, she cheerfully ordered the murders of both of her brothers to make sure she punished the right one. There are a few sets of brothers in the Small-Town Tyrant clan from Coconut Cowboy. Said clan runs speed traps, illegally pumps more water than allowed by law, engages in voter fraud, moves money around for a drug dealer, and kills a few people.
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Serge Storms / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Serge Storms / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Serge's grandfather's old crew of con artists are among the most closely-knit characters in the series, sticking together for decades even as several of their members begin dying of natural causes, with their various kids and grandkids also being part of their circle, which is most prominently depicted in Electric Barracuda.
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Serge Storms / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Serge Storms / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: The guest protagonist(s) of any of the novels will usually be some innocent, hard-working, personally affable person or couple... getting dumped on by outside forces (usually greedy bosses or corrupt politicians). They'll be unflinchingly nice no matter what.
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Serge Storms / int_c5ef2d50	type	Cringe Comedy
Serge Storms / int_c5ef2d50	comment	Cringe Comedy: A frequent hallmark of any plot featuring the Davenports, something bad will happen to Jim who will fail to assert himself in response to it, and fairly frequently Martha's spitfire personality will only end up making it worse.
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Serge Storms / int_c5fe6c81	type	Strong Family Resemblance
Serge Storms / int_c5fe6c81	comment	Strong Family Resemblance: Sharon from the first and fourth books and Rachael from Atomic Lobster turn out to be sisters and are described almost exactly the same way. Both are six feet tall and have large breasts, long blonde curls, full lips, shapely legs, and freckles. Furthermore, there is a ten-year age gap between them and Serge and Coleman meet them ten years apart, causing them to comment on the resemblance (and the two women's similar temperaments and circumstances in life) long before the relationship is revealed.
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Serge Storms / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Serge Storms / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Any movie or book based in Florida will get referenced by Serge.
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Serge Storms / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
Serge Storms / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: Mahoney and Serge are half brothers, something which was a surprise to both of them. Mahoney actually gives up the chase when he learns about this.
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Serge Storms / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Serge Storms / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Florida Roadkill indicates that Coleman's obsession with doing drugs over socializing and his complacency in following Serial Killer Serge around stems from an abusive childhood. His father stuck him in a cooler for several hours for interrupting his viewing of a football game, and his classmates mocked him for years afterward whenever they hard the story.
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Serge Storms / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
Serge Storms / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: In Triggerfish Twist, Serge realizes that Mahoney is an undercover cop when Mahoney makes a mistake about the geography of the area that Serge grew up in. Later on however in Electric Barracuda, we find out that Serge and Mahoney were born in the same hospital and grew up roughly two blocks apart, so Mahoney would need to have been mistaken about what part of Florida his own home town was in to make this error. A smaller one can be found in The Riptide Ultra-Glide where Serge reveals he has a pair of T-shirts based on a series of events in the Florida Keys that we saw unfold in several books ago. Coleman is unsure about how Serge could have gotten such shirts, despite Torpedo Juice being the book where the two were reunited, so he was very much present when Serge became an unwilling cult leader. Though unlike in Mahoney's example Coleman's long history of drug abuse makes it easy to believe he wouldn't actually remember those particular events.
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Serge Storms / int_cb9aeb6a	type	Vigilante Man
Serge Storms / int_cb9aeb6a	comment	In Shark Skin Suite, two law firms involved in a lawsuit against crooked bankers are secretly both business partners with the bank, and the plaintiffs' firm tries to throw the case by doing things like leaking information, assigning inexperienced or eccentric lawyers to try the case, keeping good witnesses off the stand and having bad witnesses testify. To their exasperation, the trial still goes in the plaintiffs' favor because their lawyers are far better than anyone realized (and eventually have Vigilante Man Serge providing behind-the-scenes help) and the defense lawyers are complete morons who make one mistake after another.
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Serge Storms / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Serge Storms / int_cbe687ab	comment	Serge makes Sterling Hanover, a Corrupt Corporate Executive who arbitrarily jacked up the prices of life-saving drugs, ingest brain-eating amoeba. Serge releases Sterling near a drugstore but doesn't leave him enough money to pay for the treatment drug at its current unreasonable price, with Sterling getting No Sympathy and no help from the pharmacists and paramedics who could help him but have seen people die because of his greed. A freak accident caused by his confusion and desperation kills him before the amoeba can, though.
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Serge Storms / int_cce399	type	This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman
Serge Storms / int_cce399	comment	This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Ziggy Blade is by and large a horrible lawyer but his knowledge of case law as it relates to illicit substances is second to none.
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Serge Storms / int_ce0d2ab8	type	Familial Foe
Serge Storms / int_ce0d2ab8	comment	Familial Foe: After Jim Davenport tricks Skag McGraw (an armed robber threatening Jim's baby daughter) into being killed by a defective car feature, Skag's brothers and cousins make repeated Avenging the Villain attempts on Jim's life throughout The Triggerfish Twist and Atomic Lobster, with Jim killing two more members of the family while Serge Storms defends him from others.
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Serge Storms / int_ce104b8e	type	Serial Escalation
Serge Storms / int_ce104b8e	comment	Serial Escalation: Which eventually leads to particle accelerator bongs and skyscrapers used as murder weapons.
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Serge Storms / int_ce147566	type	Weak Boss, Strong Underlings
Serge Storms / int_ce147566	comment	Weak Boss, Strong Underlings: By the time of Mermaid Confidential, long-time drug cartel leader Raffy Benzappa is a senile old man who is preoccupied with watching 1960s sitcoms, has his sons (who he rarely recognizes anymore) handle the family business, and, during his lucid moments, displays occasional disappointment at how violent the escalating cartel wars are. His younger son Mercado is Good with Numbers but a Non-Action Guy who rarely even talks about the cartel's killings. On the other hand, the family's scores of fiercely loyal enforcers are skilled gunfighters and strategic assassins who are merciless to their enemies.
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Serge Storms / int_ce9d25a6	type	Shady Scalper
Serge Storms / int_ce9d25a6	comment	In Maltese Iguana at one point Serge breaks into a diatribe about how he can't stand someone spending a great deal of time idling in their parking spot instead of leaving it for someone else to use, which might suggest the person in question will soon be his next victim. Instead however he winds up targeting a guy who is price gouging people for toilet paper in response to a pandemic
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Serge Storms / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Serge Storms / int_ceec4df5	comment	The McGraw Brothers from Triggerfish Twist are a group of dangerous rednecks with long rap sheets. A carjacking victim killing one of the brothers in self-defense in Triggerfish Twist sets the rest of the family on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge that doesn't go as planned.
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Serge Storms / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Serge Storms / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Serge is a Serial Killer, and in some stories openly admits it. His good points are A) his victims tend to be jerkasses, B) his genuine love for his home state, and C) his determination to protect innocent lives.
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Serge Storms / int_d2b33bef	type	Meet Your Early-Installment Weirdness
Serge Storms / int_d2b33bef	comment	By the time of Atomic Lobster (book 10), Serge tends to date women of a higher intellectual caliber than Sharon and Country (with his occasional reunions with Country being among the rare exceptions to this). However, like Sharon, his Meet Your Early-Installment Weirdness Girl of the Week Rachael is a blond stripper with criminal inclinations (although Rachael is more of a Shameless Fanservice Girl petty crook compared to Sharon's status as The Vamp and an Ax-Crazy armed robber and Black Widow with a high body count), a preoccupation with doing coke, a fiery temper, and a Sex Is Violence relationship with Serge. Serge and Coleman lampshade the trope and comment it's like the two women were separated at birth. They only reconsider this opinion at the end of the book, upon learning that Sharon and Rachael are actual sisters rather than Identical Strangers. Rachael also has a dancing style that is nearly identical to Country's.
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Serge Storms / int_d40d7fc1	type	Hypno Fool
Serge Storms / int_d40d7fc1	comment	Downplayed in The Stingray Shuffle, where Preston loves Hypno Fool Jerkassery that extends to Bed Trick sexual assault, with the only question about his inevitable death being whether one of the many guest characters he has wronged will kill him before Serge can. Preston's cause of death is Serge hypnotizing him into having a shock-induced heart attack and then breaking his neck to Make Sure He's Dead.
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Serge Storms / int_d7f6f486	type	The Other Darrin
Serge Storms / int_d7f6f486	comment	The Other Darrin: Coleman gets replaced by Lenny pretty early in the series when Dorsey kills off Coleman by drug dealers after Serge's stolen insurance money. But Dorsey quickly regretted the move and has Coleman return by explaining his death in the most contrived way possible. Lenny removes himself by getting arrested and placed under house arrest, only showing up for later cameos.
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Serge Storms / int_e2023325	type	StrawmanPolitical
Serge Storms / int_e2023325	comment	The young Republican Governor at the beginning of Orange Crush had been groomed since birth to become the next great (corrupt) conservative leader of the state. He's pretty much a spoiled rich brat even in his thirties. Events conspire to send him off to Central Europe during the Balkan civil wars where he bonds with poor-class troops and a badass sergeant, most of whom die in a heavy engagement before the governor gets rescued. His shell-shock wakes him up and he tries to become a better governor, but events (and the political status quo) keep screwing him over...
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Serge Storms / int_e502e268	type	Family Theme Naming
Serge Storms / int_e502e268	comment	Family Theme Naming: In Mermaid Confidential, Vixen (aka Vix) and her brothers Prancer, Comet, and Cupid were named after Santaâ€™s reindeer by their Christmas-obsessed parents. This resulted in Vix having a childhood full of teasing and beatings that led to her becoming a Christmas-hating, Ax-Crazy thief, murderer, and drug addict who will attack anyone who inquires about her name.
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Serge Storms / int_e5d8460d	type	Unexplained Recovery
Serge Storms / int_e5d8460d	comment	Unexplained Recovery: Serge and Coleman actually died at the end of the first book. Next book, they were back, and it was never really explained how they survived.
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Serge Storms / int_e6a901a3	type	Meaningful Rename
Serge Storms / int_e6a901a3	comment	Meaningful Rename: When Nathan Sparrow decides to become a better person he starts going by "Bobby" based on his middle name (Robert) again just like he did when he was younger and less jaded, rather tellingly even the narrator instantly starts calling the character "Bobby" and never refers to them as "Nathan" again for the rest of the book.
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Serge Storms / int_e70127	type	The Mole
Serge Storms / int_e70127	comment	The Mole for The Cartel in Gator-a-Go dies rather than participate in one final atrocity.
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Serge Storms / int_e7b0229a	type	Laser-Guided Amnesia
Serge Storms / int_e7b0229a	comment	Laser-Guided Amnesia: Serge suffers it at the beginning of Orange Crush. Even though he spends most of the novel thinking he's someone "sane", he still goes off on his occasional rampages whenever someone threatening his beloved state (and the reformed governor he's trying to get re-elected) shows up on his radar.
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Serge Storms / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Serge Storms / int_e88e8a8f	comment	Writer on Board: Dorsey attended Auburn University. One of his villains is a former football player from the University of Alabama, Auburn's rival. Cue one very unsympathetic (and idiotic) villain. As a journalist-turned-author, Dorsey is sympathetic to the newspaper publishing industry. Especially in Hurricane Punch and Shark Skin Suite. He worked for the Tampa Tribune, and a lot of novels are based or have scenes in that metro.
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Serge Storms / int_e899b102	type	Sidekick
Serge Storms / int_e899b102	comment	Before retconning stoner Sidekick Coleman's death in the first book, the author had Serge acquire a second stoner sidekick, Lenny, for several books. In Gator-a-Go, when City and Country meet Coleman for the first time, they immediately compare him to Lenny. Serge replies, "Coleman's the original: Lenny, beta version, initial glitches intact."
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Serge Storms / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
Serge Storms / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: Oh, Serge... Murder? Fine, if it's for a good reason. And he just so happens to think that destroying a piece of Florida history is a really good reason.
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Serge Storms / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
Serge Storms / int_eb251937	comment	In The Pope of Palm Beach, a group of Dirty Cops are outraged enough by the murder of a Man of the City and two of their colleagues to kill the cartel goons responsible and then work to protect a witness to the crime rather than try to kill him and steal the millions of dollars he ended up instinctively taking from the crime scene.
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Serge Storms / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
Serge Storms / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Orange Crush has the honor of presenting the biggest Jerkass Dorsey could think of: a corrupt land developer making billions off of shoddy suburban hellholes who intentionally pushes himself into becoming the biggest type of Jerkass in the world. A corrupt sports team owner.
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Serge Storms / int_eeaee38c	comment	Geeky Turn-On: Serge and history. Especially Florida history. Whenever Serge is bedding a hot woman, he can't stop talking about whatever historic topic he's currently fixated on.
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Serge Storms / int_f068cba	comment	Oddball in the Series: Orange Crush easily stands out compared to all the others. It's still a wacky romp set in Florida, but it is much more character driven piece and the only novel in which Serge doesn't appear. At least at first. To a lesser extent, The Big Bamboo still focuses on Serge, but it trades the normal zany madcap Florida antics for zany madcap Hollywood antics.
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Serge Storms / int_f178203a	comment	Inspector Javert: Detective Mahoney, a homicide cop assigned to the string of deaths that Serge leaves all across Florida. A parody of noir gumshoes, Mahoney can never get enough solid evidence to nail Serge for his murder spree or in other circumstances because Serge helps stop an even worse criminal.
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Serge Storms / int_f362cf07	comment	Mercy Lead: Mahoney has Serge more or less dead to rights at the end of Triggerfish Twist but given that Serge just helped him rescue an entire party full of people from the McGraw brothers, Mahoney settles for asking Serge for some more advice on where to grab his next meal. Though he promises that he'll arrest Serge properly in the future.
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Serge Storms / int_f3d84bc4	comment	In Stingray Shuffle the worst cartel in the world has the bright idea of dealing drugs out of a bookstore that sold only copies of works by Ralph Krunkleton - a Giftedly Bad writer of pulp almost-classics - by cutting out the pages and hiding the dime bags inside each book. Thing was, their book orders for Krunkleton's titles attract the attention of the publisher making the company think there's a revival of his writing going on, and they insist on the bookstore hosting an author's signing in the middle of the store's drug sales...
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Serge Storms / int_f5a3e496	comment	In Atomic Lobster, the character of Rachael is a Suspiciously Similar Substitute to Sharon and is just as rude, preoccupied with snorting coke (to Addled Addict levels) and unhelpful toward Serge and Coleman as Sharon, although she's less prone to robbing and killing people and only tends to be actively malicious and dangerous toward people who seriously antagonize her first.
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Serge Storms / int_f912a750	comment	Immune to Drugs: Just about everyone except Serge, who uses no drugs whatsoever. Including his medications... Except in Gator-A-Go-Go where Serge accidentally ate a tray-full of Coleman's "herb-enhanced" brownies. Likewise Serge gets dosed with a unspecified but small amount of MDMA/Molly in Coconut Cowboy and has a very extreme reaction to it.
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Serge Storms / int_fd8edf01	comment	The Bit Character condo dwellers in Mermaid Confidential and The Maltese Iguana include board game tournament champion Jen-Jen, Joey (an expelled Scholarship Student football star who was expelled from school for breaking into a chemistry lab and is on the run to avoid process servers out to make him repay the scholarship funds), Alfred and Hazel (who use fake names for reasons no one is quite sure of), Professor Fontaine (an academic testing how long it's possible to live off of delivered goods without ever stepping out of his apartment), Mr. Kelley (who has spent years faking an injury while being spied on by insurance company detectives) and Sit Aston Neville ("the last heir of an infertile lineage on a cluster of North Sea islands dominated by rookeries").
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Serge Storms / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Dorsey knows his Florida history, and a lot of what Serge talks about actually happened in the state. His novels can double as travelogues to some of the more unique and interesting places to visit. Some plots involve specific events that take place in Florida. In the first novel Serge and Coleman attend Game 7 of the 1997 World Series. Orange Crush and Hurricane Punch followed real-life events like Election 2000 and the 2004 hurricane season that saw four major storms smash into Florida.
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