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The Alloy of Law

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The Alloy of Law	comment	First book in the Wax and Wayne series, a Sequel Series to Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn: The Original Trilogy.Waxillium Ladrian is a lawman out in the Roughs, the untamed land beyond the mountains. On the day he receives a summons back home (which he intends to ignore), the insane outlaw Bloody Tam tricks him into shooting his girlfriend, Lessie.Five months later, with nothing else left in his life, Wax returns to Elendel to take up the Ladrian family name and return the house to solvency following his uncle's carousing and poor business deals. He enters into an arrangement with a young woman for a marriage of mutual benefit, firmly resolving to put his past behind him, no matter how much he wishes he could just fly into the night, fighting criminals and saving people. His house depends on him, and the city has enough lawmen of its own.But criminals called the Vanishers are staging high-drama robberies and kidnapping women. Despite his attempts to stay out of it, Wax is soon drawn in by his friend Wayne, and finds that the scheme hits closer to home than expected.The Alloy of Law was published in 2011. The sequel, Shadows of Self, was released in October of 2015.
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The Alloy of Law / int_11bc87bc	type	Comic-Book Fantasy Casting
The Alloy of Law / int_11bc87bc	comment	Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Illustrator Ben Mcsweeney says he drew Allomancer Jak (in the broadsheet illustration) to resemble a cross between Teddy Roosevelt and Wild Bill Hickock.
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The Alloy of Law / int_12c65d9b	type	Abnormal Ammo
The Alloy of Law / int_12c65d9b	comment	Abnormal Ammo: The Vanishers have aluminum bullets, designed to be used against an Allomancer, since the bullets would not be affected by allomancy. Later Wax get a few special bullets of his own, each bullet designed to work against a specific type of Allomancer by behaving differently then a normal bullet when the Allomancer uses their allomancy on it.
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The Alloy of Law / int_16fbce44	type	Liquid Assets
The Alloy of Law / int_16fbce44	comment	Liquid Assets: Feruchemical abilities work on a basis of this. Store a liquid asset you don't want and use it later. This can allow saving up healing by staying constantly sick to use it when badly wounded, or storing weight to make yourself light to expand it later to become extremely heavy.
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The Alloy of Law / int_18bf4326	type	Anti-Magic
The Alloy of Law / int_18bf4326	comment	Anti-Magic: Aluminum acts as anti-magic to allomancy, resisting its effects. This leads to Aluminum being highly valued resource worth stealing.
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The Alloy of Law / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The Alloy of Law / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Hoid, Sanderson's Legacy Character who appears in every other book in the overarching multiverse of his setting, briefly appears at the wedding party, though not directly referenced by name, instead being mentioned as a shabby-looking fellow in black who might have been a beggar. The wedding in question is of two Seventeenth Shard (conspiracy) worldhoppers, according to Sanderson. The newlyweds are themselves a cameo of two members of the Seventeenth Shard fansite, who are indeed married in real life.
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The Alloy of Law / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Alloy of Law / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: When Marasi and Wax are trying to looking for a motive, Wax mentions the extensive genealogical resources in his uncle's library, and they discover that all of the kidnapped hostages were descended from the Lord Mistborn. It turns out that his uncle was using those same records to scout said hostages. After his steward tries to assassinate him, Wax doesn't even bother trying to hunt down his old weapons, because he'd given them to the man to store. Guess what show up in the final fight?
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The Alloy of Law / int_2311e2de	type	Accidental Aiming Skills
The Alloy of Law / int_2311e2de	comment	Accidental Aiming Skills: Wax jokes that he once hit a criminal in the eye with a throwing knife while aiming for his balls. Wax later confessed was just trying to hit the man, since his aim with knives isn't very good.
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The Alloy of Law / int_2b7d29e1	type	Artifact Title
The Alloy of Law / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: This book contains three Twinborn and one Misting, but no Mistborn, unless one counts the brief appearance of Ironeyes in the epilogue.
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The Alloy of Law / int_3456f3c5	type	Good Thing You Can Heal
The Alloy of Law / int_3456f3c5	comment	Good Thing You Can Heal: Both Miles and Wayne take beatings that would have killed most folks. Miles in particular will not even try to avoid taking damage because of how much he trusts his healing factor, while Wayne has to store up his healing beforehand, and tries to conserve it as much as he can.
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The Alloy of Law / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Alloy of Law / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: The Vanishers should NOT have shot the old constable offering himself as a hostage in exchange for Marasi and Steris.
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The Alloy of Law / int_362bdb30	type	Out-Gambitted
The Alloy of Law / int_362bdb30	comment	Out-Gambitted: Miles is eventually Out-Gambitted by Wax after several rounds of going back and forth with the gambits.
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The Alloy of Law / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
The Alloy of Law / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Being born a Cadmium Misting means one is technically an Allomancer, but only having the ability to slow down time around oneself, an ability almost entirely useless.
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The Alloy of Law / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
The Alloy of Law / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex machina: Played with. Wax is uncertain if Harmony can actually hear him or cares about what's going on, but it certainly seems like he's providing some help during the climax. The epilogue confirms that Harmony (formerly Sazed) is definitely actively influencing events.
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The Alloy of Law / int_403f1a36	type	Steal the Surroundings
The Alloy of Law / int_403f1a36	comment	Steal the Surroundings: How the train robberies are being carried out. Miles and his gang are using a crane to lift the loaded railway cars off the tracks and replacing them with identical, empty duplicates.
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The Alloy of Law / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Alloy of Law / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Everybody Lives, but the Man Behind the Man gets away, and Wax rejects Marasi. Also, the first four hostages (and possibly Wax's sister) are still missing.
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The Alloy of Law / int_49f8c18f	type	Ace Custom
The Alloy of Law / int_49f8c18f	comment	Ace Custom: Wax starts the story with his two Sterion revolvers, then ends it with those and the Vindicator, all specially designed revolvers.
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The Alloy of Law / int_4cbc7f95	type	Blasting It Out of Their Hands
The Alloy of Law / int_4cbc7f95	comment	Blasting It Out of Their Hands: Done by Wax to Miles repeatedly. The reason he is able to do this multiple times is because Miles has a Healing Factor that lets him regenerate his hand each time Wax ruins it. It also makes shooting the gun out of his hand one of the only effective techniques, as shooting Miles is little more than inconvenient.
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The Alloy of Law / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
The Alloy of Law / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Wayne, for his criminal past and for accidentally shooting and killing a man. He now supports the man's family financially to make up for their loss.
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The Alloy of Law / int_57cfcbdd	type	Meta Twist
The Alloy of Law / int_57cfcbdd	comment	Meta Twist: A rich minor nobleman brings along a 'cousin' to the city, and pays for her education. Meanwhile, tales of mysterious thieves interrupt the conversation. Unlike Vin and Lord Renoux, Lord Harms isn't in league with the Vanishers, and Marasi is not The Mole.
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The Alloy of Law / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
The Alloy of Law / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: The Roughs are an equivalent of the 19th century American West: small towns inhabited by people who've had enough of city life (and laws of civilized societies), lawkeepers wearing dusters and hats who hunt bandits for bounties, and savage koloss as a fantasy equivalent of Native American tribes.
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The Alloy of Law / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
The Alloy of Law / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: The epilogue is pretty much one giant Sequel Hook.
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The Alloy of Law / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
The Alloy of Law / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: Marasi was trained in law and is an expert shot with a rifle. While Wax and Wayne rely heavily on their Allomancy in battle she manages to contribute through multiple fights without any Allomancy. It's later revealed that she is an Allomancer as well, but her ability is not nearly as useful in a fight, thus her relying on Badass Normal approach.
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The Alloy of Law / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
The Alloy of Law / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: Marasi looks to be a replacement for Lessie, as she shows the same eagerness on the hunt for the Vanishers as Lessie did bounty hunting with Wax. Wax becomes aware of the trope and consciously avoids it, choosing to let Lessie go and move ahead with his engagement to Steris.
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The Alloy of Law / int_67c3e83b	type	Tinfoil Hat
The Alloy of Law / int_67c3e83b	comment	Tinfoil Hat: Actually an aluminum foil hat, and it turns out they are useful for blocking Allomancy-based mind control.
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The Alloy of Law / int_6c3d1777	type	Magic A Is Magic A
The Alloy of Law / int_6c3d1777	comment	Magic A Is Magic A: As in the original Mistborn Trilogy, the magic is very clearly defined. Each Allomantic or Feruchemical effect is very clearly defined and functions the same always. What metals can be burned by individuals is clearly defined. The only unique variation to this, Miles's ability to burn gold to heal due to him possessing both gold Allomancy and gold Feruchemy, which compound off of each other, is treated as a simple unique effect of two abilities feeding off of each other, and was always part of the world, if not mentioned before - mostly because apart from the Lord Ruler himself there were no people combining these two types of abilities.
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The Alloy of Law / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
The Alloy of Law / int_6ee10e0	comment	My Greatest Failure: Wax can't forget the moment he missed Bloody Tan and accidentally shot his wife Lessie in the head. Even years after, Wayne is still haunted by his Accidental Murder, when he accidentally shot a man he was robbing. As a result, he has troubles using guns, as his hands tend to shake every time he holds one.
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The Alloy of Law / int_7041e520	type	Super Breeding Program
The Alloy of Law / int_7041e520	comment	Super Breeding Program: Hypothesised to be the reason for kidnapping allomancer females.
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The Alloy of Law / int_7c14d0f2	type	Rejected Apology
The Alloy of Law / int_7c14d0f2	comment	Rejected Apology: Wayne has been trying for years to make up for accidentally killing a man during a robbery. Despite his supporting his family financially for years, they have made it clear they do not forgive him.
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The Alloy of Law / int_7d561d58	type	Too Awesome to Use
The Alloy of Law / int_7d561d58	comment	Too Awesome to Use: Part of the reason why Wax and Wayne are able to kill so many of the Vanishers when Steris is kidnapped is that the Vanishers didn't already have their aluminum bullets ready as they were ordered, being reluctant to waste the expensive metal on normal targets.
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The Alloy of Law / int_8344209e	type	BFG
The Alloy of Law / int_8344209e	comment	BFG: Several guns in the book qualify.
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The Alloy of Law / int_83856158	type	Worthless Yellow Rocks
The Alloy of Law / int_83856158	comment	Worthless Yellow Rocks: Inverted Trope; Aluminum is an expensive and rare commodity worth complex robbery schemes to pull off in the series. However, in real life it's a worthless shiny foil. Justified, as in the mid-1800s, aluminum really was more valuable than gold.
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The Alloy of Law / int_8c00901a	type	Creepy Good
The Alloy of Law / int_8c00901a	comment	Creepy Good: Ironeyes is terrifying to look at, and his idea of setting up a meeting is to Pull on Marasi's curiosity so she chases after him in a back alleyway, and then deaden all her emotions so she won't run. But all he wants is to pass on information they'll need.
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The Alloy of Law / int_8e04fdd7	type	Dragon with an Agenda
The Alloy of Law / int_8e04fdd7	comment	Dragon with an Agenda: Miles works for Mister Suit, but his internal monologues make it clear that he has his own agenda and is hesitating between continuing to work for him or betraying him. However, he never gathers enough resources to be able to stop depending on his boss.
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The Alloy of Law / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Alloy of Law / int_9b34ee31	comment	Marriage of Convenience: House Ladrian needs an influx of money to continue running much longer, so one of Wax's first reluctant goals is to find a suitable partner, but his ambivalence ends up offending many. Lesser but richer House Harms ends up being one of his last hopes, and Steris is so aware of the obvious need for this trope, she spends their first meeting detailing her written contract, which outlines their courting period, eventual marriage, her financial planning, and allowances for the inevitable affairs. The end of the book implies that they might be able to come to a more equitable arrangement, founded at least on mutual respect.
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The Alloy of Law / int_9b9397bb	type	Difficult, but Awesome
The Alloy of Law / int_9b9397bb	comment	Difficult, but Awesome: The Pulser power (burning Cadmium), which slows time for everything in a pretty wide area...including yourself. For the user, everything outside that area just seems to radically speed up. At first blush it seems useless. In fact, it's an ideal means of keeping people in place and is crucial to capturing Miles.
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The Alloy of Law / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Alloy of Law / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Steris's marriage contract includes a clause for mistresses, which comes into play when it turns out that Marasi is her half-sister by her father's mistress. It's also an implicit way of telling Wax that she's fine with whatever he does in his personal life.
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The Alloy of Law / int_9edbda07	type	Elite Mooks
The Alloy of Law / int_9edbda07	comment	Elite Mooks: The Vanishers with aluminum guns.
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The Alloy of Law / int_9f7769a2	type	The Gunslinger
The Alloy of Law / int_9f7769a2	comment	The Gunslinger: Nearly all the main characters qualify, but Wax stands out for his Improbable Aiming Skills.
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The Alloy of Law / int_a148f27b	type	Living Legend
The Alloy of Law / int_a148f27b	comment	Living Legend: Marasi views Wax this way, even referring to him explicitly as such in her internal monologue. By the end of the book, it's clear his reputation from the Roughs has started to spread in the City as well. It started when he and Wayne killed 31 Vanishers and captured 5 more in the middle of a crowded wedding reception with the wedding guests receiving some minor injuries ''and no fatalities''. Of course, by the end of the book they've completely vanquished the Vanishers and recovered Wax's fiancÃ©e, and the city has granted them privileged lawman status.
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The Alloy of Law / int_a3515d6	type	Contrasting Sequel Antagonist
The Alloy of Law / int_a3515d6	comment	Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: The Vanishers are this to the Final Empire. Where the Empire had massive amounts of manpower and resources, the Vanishers are a single bandit group, albeit one backed by a rich conspiracy. The difficulty in fighting the Empire was splitting up the armies, but the difficulty in fighting the Vanishers is finding where they are. Perhaps the most apparent contrast is when Wax, Wayne, and Marasi kill or capture around thirty Vanishers during the wedding robbery; the Vanishers are on their last legs and can't just send reinforcements.
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The Alloy of Law / int_a431b0e6	type	The Butler Did It
The Alloy of Law / int_a431b0e6	comment	After his steward tries to assassinate him, Wax doesn't even bother trying to hunt down his old weapons, because he'd given them to the man to store. Guess what show up in the final fight?
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The Alloy of Law / int_a5fb0d24	type	Healing Factor
The Alloy of Law / int_a5fb0d24	comment	Healing Factor: Possessed by Wayne and Miles, though Miles's is much stronger.
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The Alloy of Law / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Alloy of Law / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Mr. Suit, mastermind and shadowy organization leader, gets away with nothing to implicate him but Wax's hearsay and theories.
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The Alloy of Law / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
The Alloy of Law / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Wax's uncle, to a degree that makes him an instant Chessmaster. Incompetent noblemen gambling and carousing their houses into financial ruin is a plot point that shows up often enough that even most readers wouldn't bother to question it.
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The Alloy of Law / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
The Alloy of Law / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: Alumminum bullets are a threat to Allomancers due to their ability to No-Sell an Allomancer's attempts to defend against them, flying straight at the target without being redirected somewhere safer by the allomancer.
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The Alloy of Law / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Marasi is convinced her Allomantic power is useless. In the end they're able to take down Miles by catching him in a slow bubble, allowing Wax and Marasi to stall enough for Wayne to arrive with enough backup to apprehend him.
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The Alloy of Law / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Alloy of Law / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Wax was doing a perfectly fine job of staying out of the Vanishers robberies, even with Wayne's prodding, and up to and during the initial attack on the wedding reception he was at. Then they kill a retired constable, prepare to fire on the crowd, try to take Marasi, and do take Steris. Cue the Curb Stomp Gun Battle, and a personal stake in taking Miles down. Possibly invoked by Suit, who was calling the kidnapping targets and ended up better off with Miles taken down.
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The Alloy of Law / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Faceâ€“Heel Turn: Miles, though his time as a Face was before the book started.
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The Alloy of Law / int_b0fde754	comment	Living Doll Collector: Bloody Tam, the serial killer at the beginning, makes carefully composed scenes using corpses.
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The Alloy of Law / int_b41acf08	comment	Axe-Crazy: Bloody Tan, the villain of the prologue, is a serial killer. Also, several other criminals from Wax and Wayne's Backstory, some of them quite nasty, are mentioned in passing.
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The Alloy of Law / int_b5e63cc4	comment	Shadow Archetype: Miles to Wax, as well as to Kelsier. The Vanishers as a whole are this to the Skaa rebellion in Final Empire. They're both disenfranchised groups who live outside of the law, but where the Skaa join for ideology and usually because they can't live a normal life, the Vanishers mostly join up for money, and one is encouraged to plead guilty and make an honest living. Perhaps the most apparent similarity is the wedding robbery compared to the raid on Holstep Garrison; in both cases, the leader lost control of his men and lost almost everyone, and laments that they're done for.
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The Alloy of Law / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
The Alloy of Law / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: Wax consistently hits his mark in the middle of fire fights, even while flying through the air, as well as pulling off quite a few remarkable shots including shooting a bullet in mid air to redirect it into a target's head (with the help of Wayne slowing time), and blasting multiple guns out of Miles' hand, then blasting the weapon away from him to truly disarm him.
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The Alloy of Law / int_c2afffe	type	Take Me Instead
The Alloy of Law / int_c2afffe	comment	Take Me Instead: Enraged at the Vanishers taking two young women as hostages, a retired constable vehemently demands to be taken instead. He gets shot.
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The Alloy of Law / int_c32ff031	comment	Xanatos Gambit: Turns out that Mr. Suit was running a masterful one throughout the whole book. Miles' robberies of valuable aluminum were intended to sabotage House Tekiel's security and insurance businesses. Unable to pay the steep penalties for all the robberies, the House crashes, letting Suit buy them out cheaply using House Ladrian's embezzled funds. If Miles succeeds, Suit controls both his gang and the security business. If Miles is captured and a majority of the stolen property returned, the security and insurance companies are returned to full power under Suit's control, putting him in even better position. This doesn't even include the side-project of acquiring many women of allomantic heritage, which is also successful and only Wax seems to be paying attention to it, presuming his missing sister is included.
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The Alloy of Law / int_c82e751f	comment	Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Played with: Wax has two plans to deal with Miles. We aren't told much of either in advance, but Plan A fails while plan B works.
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The Alloy of Law / int_c949edd4	type	Magic Pants
The Alloy of Law / int_c949edd4	comment	Magic Pants: Miles sets off dynamite in his hand to escape a net. His shirt is destroyed, but his pants survive.
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The Alloy of Law / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
The Alloy of Law / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: After trying to poison and shoot Wax and failing, Tillaume resorts to blowing up the whole room with dynamite.
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The Alloy of Law / int_cde51255	type	Antagonist Title
The Alloy of Law / int_cde51255	comment	Antagonist Title: It is Miles who fancies himself as the "Alloy of Law," thinking he's maintaining the law while dispensing real justice.
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The Alloy of Law / int_ce21f442	comment	Mage Killer: Any Vanishers armed with aluminum bullets effectively becomes one of these. Luckily the bullets are Too Awesome to Use so the Vanishers don't always load them. Ranette has also been designing Hazekiller bullets to go after specific kinds of Allomancers, such as a bullet with a ceramic tip to go after Coinshots (the tip won't be affected by their Push, so it'll keep going and kill them).
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The Alloy of Law / int_cf7bd78d	comment	Steampunk: The technology used in this period of Scadrial's history features this aesthetic very strongly.
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The Alloy of Law / int_d01cffbc	type	Badass Longcoat
The Alloy of Law / int_d01cffbc	comment	Badass Longcoat: Half mist-cloak, half duster, all badass.
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The Alloy of Law / int_d1b4f0ef	type	Everybody Lives
The Alloy of Law / int_d1b4f0ef	comment	Everybody Lives: Despite the book's high body count, the only non-villain to die is the pompous nobleman, Peterus, who dies insisting that the law must be followed and he won't stand by and allow the Vanishers to kidnap two women.
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The Alloy of Law / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
The Alloy of Law / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry: Wayne arrives at the head of a small army of constables to take down Miles in the finale, having been sent to fetch them at the start of the final confrontation, before Marasi started slowing down time.
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The Alloy of Law / int_d9ffec82	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Alloy of Law / int_d9ffec82	comment	Curbstomp Battle: Miles gives one to Wax near the end. Of course Wax was just trying to buy time as part of a Batman Gambit...
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The Alloy of Law / int_db39ccfd	comment	Battle Couple: Wax and Lessie until Lessie dies in the prologue.
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The Alloy of Law / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
The Alloy of Law / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: Miles, who due to his gold compounding can survive virtually any damage to his body. So much that he has to be shot several times by the firing squad - and this with his gold metalminds already taken off, although the observing character assumes he must still have one hidden somewhere.
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The Alloy of Law / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
The Alloy of Law / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Ranette the gunsmith is mentioned early in the book; it's no surprise when she shows up nearer the end. As part of a bit of world-building, Marsh aka Ironeyes, showing up right at the end.
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The Alloy of Law / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
The Alloy of Law / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Wayne says that Wax was lying about not bringing a gun. Wax replies that he didn't bring a gun and draws a second one. After Steris asks that people stop talking about shooting people and hitting them with bricks, Marasi brings up throwing knives at them.
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The Alloy of Law / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
The Alloy of Law / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Wax's uncle Edwarn Ladrian is not, as reported, dead of a carriage accident, nor did he gamble his house into deep debt - he embezzled all of House Ladrian's money to invest in a criminal enterprise, including Miles' gang, then faked his death so he could run the new organization from the shadows. Oh, and took Wax's sister along too.
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The Alloy of Law / int_fa9b0b5c	type	Informed Poverty
The Alloy of Law / int_fa9b0b5c	comment	Informed Poverty: Lampshaded. House Ladrian is desperate, and Wax feels guilty about buying luxuries when they can barely afford to pay their workers. A lot of it has to do with how their debts are so great that abstaining from Wax's purchases wouldn't make a difference.
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The Alloy of Law / int_fceae121	type	Alternate Self
The Alloy of Law / int_fceae121	comment	Alternate Self: Miles's other ability besides healing is to burn gold, allowing him to see his past self and who he could have become. His Knight Templar Lawman alternate self hates him, but the process lets him take on some of those mental qualities.
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The Alloy of Law / int_fd497706	type	Accidental Murder
The Alloy of Law / int_fd497706	comment	Even years after, Wayne is still haunted by his Accidental Murder, when he accidentally shot a man he was robbing. As a result, he has troubles using guns, as his hands tend to shake every time he holds one.
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The Alloy of Law / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
The Alloy of Law / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Miles thinks of himself as one, as he believes he's fighting the "real" criminals, aka the aristocrats.
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