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The Power of Five

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The Power of Five	comment	The Power of Fivenote Gatekeepers in the US is a supernatural thriller series by Anthony Horowitz, author of the New York Times best-selling Alex Rider series. This is in fact a rewrite of his unfinished Pentagram series from the 1980s, consisting in five books: Raven's Gate Evil Star Nightrise Necropolis OblivionThe story focuses on five 14-year-olds (Matt Freeman, Pedro, Jamie and Scott Tyler, and Scarlett) who are the reincarnations of five beings who saved the world from the Old Ones, ancient incarnations of evil who once ruled the world, by sealing them away into a hellish dimension only accessible in certain parts of the world. Unfortunately, a evil organization wishes to unlock those parts to release the Old Ones onto the world once more and become rulers of the world. Now it is up to Matt, Pedro, Jamie, Scott and Scarlet to prevent the world from falling into darkness once more.Raven's Gate: Matt Freeman is sent to a nice village after being arrested for stealing from a warehouse as part of a government program. However, things are not as they seem as a series of strange events leave him in strange danger. He cannot escape, he cannot contact anyone, and the roads out of the town loop. Along with a journalist called Richard Cole he meets, he discovers the townspeople are trying to unleash the Old Ones. Oh, and Matt finds out he is destined to save the world with his newfound telekinetic powers. Eventually they win. The novel as a whole seems inspired by Lovecraft and is essentially a fantasy horror story.Evil Star: Matt and Richard travel to Peru to find the next of the Five. Richard is kidnapped. Matt meets a boy called Pedro who winds up being one of the Five. They find a lost city and try to foil a convoluted plot to bring back the Old Ones using a satellite. This book has a more fantasy themed plot.Nightrise: This book focuses on Jamie and Scott, telepathic twins who work at a playhouse in Reno, Nevada. One night, they are attacked by mysterious assailants. Jamie manages to get away, but Scott isn't so lucky. The former is saved by Alicia McGuire, an aid for a presidential candidate named John Trelawney, who needs Jamie to help her get her son back from prison. With a common goal, the two go to free their lost loved ones from prison, while the reader begins to learn about what life was like when the Old Ones ruled. This is the first book not to focus on Matt, although he does cameo in the ending.Necropolis: Scarlett is introduced here after being teased in the Nightrise. Scarlett goes on a school trip to an ancient English church for her art class. It is there that she sees an apparition of Matt pass through an unusual door at the end of the hall. She follows him, only to find herself in Ukraine and in the hands of a satanic cult called the Monastery for the Cry for Mercy. She manages to escape, only to be plastered all over the news and revealed to the Nightrise organization, forcing her to head to Hong Kong to figure out Necropolis actually is. Meanwhile, the rest of the Five plan to save her when tragedy strikes, forcing Matt and Jamie to split up from Scott and Pedro and head to England.Oblivion: Ten years after the events of Necropolis, the Five are once again separated from one another due to the destruction of the magical door as they were using it. Matt and Lohan are in Brazil, Richard and Scarlett are in Egypt, Jamie is trapped in a closed-off village in England, and Pedro and Scott are captured in Italy, where the Old Ones try to tempt Scott into joining them. The last dregs of humanity are gathering in Antarctica, preparing for the final battle against the Old Ones in the desolate land of Oblivion. But Matt has read his own book in the Library, and he knows that this ending may not necessarily be a happy one...
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The Power of Five / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: Numerous characters weren't in the original Pentagram series, most notably The Nexus and its leaders.
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The Power of Five / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
The Power of Five / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: If you're an adult who has even met the Gatekeepers, you might as well start saying your prayers now. The only significant adult companions of the Five who survive more than one book are Richard Cole and Lohan. In fact, even the Gatekeepers themselves aren't safe - Scarlett and Pedro are the only ones who are never killed and then replaced by their past selves.
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The Power of Five / int_124f3709	type	Green Rooming
The Power of Five / int_124f3709	comment	Green Rooming : The story starts off with Matt, who then vanishes after book 2, gets a brief mention in book 3, and then is gone for the first half of book 4.
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The Power of Five / int_12628662	type	The Call Knows Where You Live
The Power of Five / int_12628662	comment	This inevitably leads to a 'The Call Knows Where You Live' scenario in Raven's Gate. Poor, poor Mallory...
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The Power of Five / int_13e3985d	type	Crucified Hero Shot
The Power of Five / int_13e3985d	comment	Crucified Hero Shot: Matt, when the Old Ones torture him. He even gets a barbed wire necklace in imitation of the Crown of Thorns.
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The Power of Five / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Power of Five / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: While Pentagram was plenty serious and gritty, it was more light-hearted overall, with plenty comedic moments and Richard being a bit of a Butt-Monkey. The Power of Five on the other hand, aims for a much more mature audience. The series was pretty dark from the very start, but Oblivion is notably even moreso.
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The Power of Five / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
The Power of Five / int_1e12b5b7	comment	Sir Ian Ingram is the oldest and most serious person in Holly's village (which has been spared from the recent horrors by its isolation). He is the leader of the seven-member town council and the author of the code of laws they live by. He's a sour ditherer with some Lawful Stupid moments, but the main characters are able to reason with him during his brief page time when it comes to making important decisions.
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The Power of Five / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Power of Five / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: There's quite a few, but Raven's Gate takes the cake. The thug in the beginning, Ms. Deverill's acid bath, being crushed in the hand of your god... Yeah.
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The Power of Five / int_200c009a	type	Mook Lieutenant
The Power of Five / int_200c009a	comment	Mook Lieutenant: Commander Strake and Field Marshall Akkad in Oblivion.
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The Power of Five / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
The Power of Five / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Commander Cain shows some of this, fighting demons with tactics better suited for human opponents, although he’s smart enough to use Scarlett's magic to provide cover in the form of an ice storm.
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The Power of Five / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
The Power of Five / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: The past segment of Nightrise give a glimpse, and Oblivion shows in all its horror what the world looks like under the Old Ones' tyranny. It's an endless string of natural disasters, wars, terrorist attacks, plagues, refugees, crazed despots, dystopian police states and, of course, the occasional Eldritch Abomination attack.
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The Power of Five / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
The Power of Five / int_22071825	comment	There's also a village of cannibals in the last book.
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The Power of Five / int_221a4bf4	type	Iconic Sequel Character
The Power of Five / int_221a4bf4	comment	Iconic Sequel Character: Quite a few, given the nature of the series, including Pedro, Jamie, Scott, Scarlet, Professor Chambers, the Nightrise Chairman, certain members of The Nexus, the Incas, Lohan, Holly, The Traveller, and Commander Cain.
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The Power of Five / int_2222a43e	type	Nebulous Evil Organisation
The Power of Five / int_2222a43e	comment	Nebulous Evil Organisation: Nightrise.
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The Power of Five / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Power of Five / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Richard is given a tumi knife by the Incas at the end of Evil Star, with the warning that he would come to "hate them" when he had to use it. Its purpose is unrevealed until the end of Oblivion, where Richard has to use it to kill Matt to spare him further suffering at the hands of the Old Ones after they were both captured. This allows Matt's past self to be summoned to the present, whose presence is instrumental to the second and final downfall of the Old Ones. Also, the way the Old Ones were tricked the first time is, with a little variation, also their downfall the second time.
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The Power of Five / int_238ea4c6	type	Voluntary Shapeshifting
The Power of Five / int_238ea4c6	comment	Voluntary Shape Shifting: Some of the mightiest Old Ones are able to assume a human aspect.
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The Power of Five / int_25101d1a	type	Post-Victory Collapse
The Power of Five / int_25101d1a	comment	Post-Victory Collapse: Probably in several instances, but most notably with Matt at the end of Evil Star. Even put him in a Convenient Coma, to show off Pedro's power.
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The Power of Five / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
The Power of Five / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: The first war against the Old Ones happened 10,000 years ago, but humankind didn't invent writing until about 5,000 years ago, let alone steel swords and plate armor. This falls under Acceptable Breaks from Reality.
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The Power of Five / int_270c1778	type	Blood Magic
The Power of Five / int_270c1778	comment	Blood Magic: One of the things required to open Raven's Gate is Matt's blood, exactly the reason why he was adopted by Mrs. Deverill.
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The Power of Five / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
The Power of Five / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Sir Michael Marsh, Fabian and Anne Keyland.
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The Power of Five / int_28114487	type	Bald of Evil
The Power of Five / int_28114487	comment	Susan Mortlake in Nightrise, with Colton Banes as her own Dragon.
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The Power of Five / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
The Power of Five / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: Several of Holly's fellow villagers, such as Sir Ian Ingram and the Flint's, aren't killed onscreen, although it's heavily implied she was the only survivor.
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The Power of Five / int_285f34c7	type	World of Symbolism
The Power of Five / int_285f34c7	comment	World of Symbolism: Matt is Jesus, the dream world is Heaven, and the lady that Scar saw in the Library is the Virgin Mary. Scott could also be seen as Judas.
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The Power of Five / int_28e90e30	type	More than Mind Control
The Power of Five / int_28e90e30	comment	More than Mind Control: This is what Susan Mortlake does to Scott in Nightrise, essentially.
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The Power of Five / int_2b42db02	type	The Omniscient Council of Vagueness
The Power of Five / int_2b42db02	comment	The Omniscient Council of Vagueness: Downplayed with the Nexus (who become the backers of the heroes). In Raven's Gate, they meet to discuss the signs that the Old Ones are returning. Their conversation, goals, and allegiance are initially cryptic, but are established by the end of the scene and fully explained by the end of the book.
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The Power of Five / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
The Power of Five / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: The Egyptian freedom fighters in Oblivion, to Richard's disgust.
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The Power of Five / int_2cbaa888	type	Empty Shell
The Power of Five / int_2cbaa888	comment	Empty Shell: Scott Tyler is one of these at the end of Nightrise. Probably understandable, considering he spent most of the book being tortured, both physically and mentally.
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The Power of Five / int_2fd7200b	type	Dead Guy Junior
The Power of Five / int_2fd7200b	comment	Dead Guy Junior: The epilogue of Oblivion reveals that Richard named his son "Matt" in memory of his friend. Holly notes that the boy does bare a striking resemblance to his namesake.
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The Power of Five / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Power of Five / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: The Triads may smuggle drugs and serve as assassins, but they're not about to let the Old Ones take over the world so easily. Michael Marsh claims he doesn't like hurting children unnecessarily. This is fifteen minutes before he tries to cut Matt's heart out. Lohan has this reaction when he sees a vivisected child being prepared for use as a 'drug mule'. He admits to using kids to smuggle drugs, but compensates them generously. The treacherous Fabian objects to Salamanda's men wanting to kill Matt in Evil Star. It gets him killed faster than you can say Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves, or No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.
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The Power of Five / int_3318a1cb	type	Distant Finale
The Power of Five / int_3318a1cb	comment	Distant Finale: The epilogue to Oblivion features Holly, decades later and now an old woman, reminiscing on the time she spent with the Five and what became of them after they disappeared.
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The Power of Five / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
The Power of Five / int_34dd5f3	comment	La Résistance: The Nexus, combined with a bit of Omniscient Council of Vagueness.
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The Power of Five / int_352def2a	type	Burn the Witch!
The Power of Five / int_352def2a	comment	Burn the Witch!: Pulled off at the end of Raven's Gate in a dramatic fashion: with nukes!
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The Power of Five / int_36c94bed	type	Person of Mass Destruction
The Power of Five / int_36c94bed	comment	Person of Mass Destruction: Scarlett definitely gives off this vibe at the end of Necropolis, when she all but destroys Hong Kong. Matt can become this - when Richard sees his older, more experienced past incarnation in Oblivion, he sees no reason to assume that the kid is incapable of parting the seas or rending apart the sky.
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The Power of Five / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
The Power of Five / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: Matt.
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The Power of Five / int_38f1a7ed	type	Defector from Decadence
The Power of Five / int_38f1a7ed	comment	Defector from Decadence: Commander Cain provides an excellent example of this in Oblivion, having an inner monologue describing how America has been falling apart since the Old Ones returned, which is why he didn’t’ hesitate to abandon his official duties and go North to fight them. It's implied that this is also true of most of the other members of the World Army.
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The Power of Five / int_39684516	type	Kill the Ones You Love
The Power of Five / int_39684516	comment	Kill the Ones You Love: What Richard has to do with the Tumi.
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The Power of Five / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
The Power of Five / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Surprisingly, the later servants of the Old Ones do this. This is probably to show the difference between the rather quaint Lesser Malling folk and serious players like Nightrise Corp: Father Gregory calmly walks out of a window when he is informed that he has failed the Old Ones by letting Scarlett escape. The Chairman simply stands, sipping his fine cognac, watching his death coming all the while. Colton Banes is nonchalantly prepared to accept being executed as punishment for his failure to capture Jamie, admitting he did make a few mistakes, which is why Susan Mortlake chooses to spare him and instead kill his Never My Fault partner. Heroic examples of this trope are Professor Chambers and Matt.
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The Power of Five / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Power of Five / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The final book, "Oblivion", ends like this: the Old Ones have finally been defeated for good, but half the world's population has been wiped out in the process, including Matt and Scott, and it'll probably take humanity a long time to recover from the destruction the Old Ones caused. Also, all Five Gatekeepers decide to leave the world behind for the dream world.
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The Power of Five / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
The Power of Five / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: Scott does an effective version of this to Jonas Mortlake in Oblivion by using his powers to hurt him while pointing out to him that Scott is far less expendable for Nighrise's purposes than Mortlake himself.
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The Power of Five / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
The Power of Five / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: All over the place. Most often, the kids get beaten up by whatever adults are gunning for them. But they also get more specific too. In Nightrise, Scott gets sleep-deprived and drugged until he becomes compliant, and in Oblivion, Pedro and Scott are captured by the Old Ones and deliberately starved and beaten instead of just killed.
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The Power of Five / int_4478c66d	type	Flashback Nightmare
The Power of Five / int_4478c66d	comment	Flashback Nightmare: Scott had several of these, after a nice spell of Mind Rape and Cold-Blooded Torture.
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The Power of Five / int_47d35854	type	Intergenerational Friendship
The Power of Five / int_47d35854	comment	Intergenerational Friendship: Matt and Richard's friendship could be viewed this way. It doesn't end well.
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The Power of Five / int_4852f325	type	I Just Want to Be Normal
The Power of Five / int_4852f325	comment	I Just Want to Be Normal: All five of the kids wish this at some point. Richard occasionally does this too, as it's implied he has some role in taking down the Old Ones. It turns out that his role was actually to stab his best friend in the heart.
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The Power of Five / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
The Power of Five / int_4a852458	comment	Big Good: Susan Ashwood, the de facto leader of Nexus.
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The Power of Five / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
The Power of Five / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: Jones Mortlake makes this argument in Oblivion. The series plays the trope straight with Nightrise and worshippers of the Old Ones, but averts it just as well with Nexus and the allies, showing humanity's best and worst aspects at the same time.
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The Power of Five / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
The Power of Five / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Pedro endures a lot of this in Oblivion, what with witnessing Scott's betrayal and being forced to swim though raw sewage. He then almost dies from poisoning when another of his supposed allies betrays him. There's only so much The Heart can take.
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The Power of Five / int_4cb7f0d8	type	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
The Power of Five / int_4cb7f0d8	comment	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome/ Sacrificial Lion: Professor Chambers.
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The Power of Five / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Power of Five / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Evil Star, and Necropolis. Nightrise, less so.
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The Power of Five / int_4fa65449	type	Dream Land
The Power of Five / int_4fa65449	comment	Dream Land: The place where the Five can gather and speak no matter the distance and the language spoken. It contains the Magical Library compiling the destiny of everything and everyone.
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The Power of Five / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
The Power of Five / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Diego Salamanda forcibly mutilated as a baby. His head was put between two planks and forced to grow up. By adulthood, his head was nearly twice as long as the average man and his face is equally deformed.
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The Power of Five / int_50f5dabe	type	Reincarnation
The Power of Five / int_50f5dabe	comment	Reincarnation: The Five have lived ten thousands years ago, and are reborn now, with the exact same looks and powers but without the memories. When one dies in his time, their double from the past or the future replaces them.
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The Power of Five / int_5230d420	type	Cosmopolitan Council
The Power of Five / int_5230d420	comment	Cosmopolitan Council: The Nexus has identified members from England, Germany, America, Australia, France, China, Peru, and India. By the fifth book, Susan Ashwood mentions that they have agents in Egypt, Argentina and Saudi Arabia, and had also set up outposts in Japan and Turkey before those were wiped out.
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The Power of Five / int_52600ad6	type	Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu
The Power of Five / int_52600ad6	comment	Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: Sapling had to die to trick the Old Ones the first time. When Matt incapacitated them in Evil Star, he almost died (and would have, had Pedro not been present). When the Old Ones are finally defeated for good, it requires a Heroic Sacrifice from Scott and a Kill the Ones You Love from Richard to Matt.
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The Power of Five / int_53407671	type	Action Survivor
The Power of Five / int_53407671	comment	Action Survivor: Richard. Small-town journalist drawn into saving the world because Matt once called out telepathically for help. But he has followed Matt all over the world and done his best to protect him, without the benefit of training or powers, and is still alive as of the Bittersweet Ending of Oblivion.
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The Power of Five / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
The Power of Five / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Jayne Deverill in Raven's Gate. Captain Rodriguez in Evil Star. Susan Mortlake in Nightrise, with Colton Banes as her own Dragon. The Chairman is the Big Bad in Nightrise and Necropolis, but he is this to the Old Ones. the new Chairman in Oblivion, with Jonas Mortlake as his own Dragon.
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The Power of Five / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Power of Five / int_558f5da6	comment	There is even a Librarian who guards the records and life stories of every being that's ever existed. Naturally, he isn't very helpful, at least in Necropolis.
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The Power of Five / int_55d919f7	type	Lovecraft Lite
The Power of Five / int_55d919f7	comment	Lovecraft Lite: Powerful and incomprehensible as the Old Ones are, the Five and their allies can occasionally whoop dey asses. Case in point, they end up defeated.
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The Power of Five / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
The Power of Five / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: Most of the members of Nexus for the series as a whole, and The World Army in Oblivion.
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The Power of Five / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Power of Five / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Zigzagged. David Tarrant is a senior member of Scotland Yard who sits on the Nexus council and is a a competent ally, and Superintendent Mallory from Raven's Gate is a Reasonable Authority Figure with a good head on his shoulders. But most of the other cops who appear (especially outside of England) are loyal to Chaos.
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The Power of Five / int_5b057eae	type	Animalistic Abomination
The Power of Five / int_5b057eae	comment	Animalistic Abomination: Most of the Old Ones are described as being vaguely similar to real animals, albeit building-sized, twisted and nightmarish, rather than being truly incomprehensible. That's why the Nazca Lines look so weird.
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The Power of Five / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
The Power of Five / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: In Raven's Gate, Mrs. Deverill falls to her doom when she is pushed by Richard off a railing into a tank of acid. Noah falls through a hole in the floor that Matt made by loosening nails and covered with a rug, where he lands on his sickle and dies.
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The Power of Five / int_5c059fbd	type	Twin Telepathy
The Power of Five / int_5c059fbd	comment	Twin Telepathy: Jaime and Scott Tyler's power; both can read minds but decided to read each other's minds instead of other people's because of the evil thoughts humanity can possess.
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The Power of Five / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
The Power of Five / int_5c219298	comment	Phony Psychic: All of the other performers in Scott and Jamie’s show in Nightrise (Two acts are even the same fraud with the guy using a fake beard in one of them). Subverted with the twins themselves, and Susan Ashwood, who are the real deal.
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The Power of Five / int_5fda26b1	type	Time Skip
The Power of Five / int_5fda26b1	comment	Timeskip: The beginning of Oblivion features a 10-year time skip from Necropolis.
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The Power of Five / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
The Power of Five / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: Richard has moments where he's at least as competent as any of the Five. Oh, and then there's Lohan in the final book, who casually (and efficiently) murders his way across South America in his quest to survive and help Matt.
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The Power of Five / int_6459cc02	type	I See Dead People
The Power of Five / int_6459cc02	comment	I See Dead People: The Big Good Susan Ashwood is a powerful medium, who can chat with the dead as easily as with any visitor.
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The Power of Five / int_66d13ab9	type	Talking in Your Dreams
The Power of Five / int_66d13ab9	comment	Talking in Your Dreams: The Five can do this. They all meet in their dreams before any of them meet in real life.
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The Power of Five / int_67f56a51	type	Thrown from the Zeppelin
The Power of Five / int_67f56a51	comment	Thrown from the Zeppelin: Downplayed early on Oblivion. The Dragon gathers his faction's various wealthy supporters, lays out his plan, and shoots the first man to protest. Of course, his plan involves drafting all of them as soldiers and subjecting them to painful and potentially fatal surgical augmentations before sending them on suicide missions (largely For the Evulz). Also, the people who aren't shot don't so much agree as wail helplessly while they're dragged from the room by force.
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The Power of Five / int_686cac9f	type	Flies Equals Evil
The Power of Five / int_686cac9f	comment	Flies Equals Evil: When they are part of the Old Ones and can assemble to shape-shift, you bet they do.
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The Power of Five / int_6aa5bcb8	type	Vice President Who?
The Power of Five / int_6aa5bcb8	comment	Vice President Who?: The epilogue implies that Commander Cain became one of these in the aftermath of the Old Ones defeat.
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The Power of Five / int_6b27162d	type	The Remake
The Power of Five / int_6b27162d	comment	The Remake: The Power of Five is actually a rewrite of Horowitz's earlier series Pentagram, originally published in the late eighties; specifically, Raven's Gate was a rewrite of The Devil's Doorbell, Evil Star of The Night of the Scorpion, Nightrise of The Silver Citadel and Necropolis of Day of the Dragon. (The Pentagram Chronicles ended prematurely without the final book being released, so Oblivion has no original counterpart.)
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The Power of Five / int_6b5a92dc	type	Uncanny Valley
The Power of Five / int_6b5a92dc	comment	Uncanny Valley: Shape changers pretending to be humans have this effect. Of the few that are mentioned, not a single one has maintained their deception for any length of time: One lets his disguise slip when he meets Scarlett, the other has a freakishly round head, one can't speak, one doesn't notice cutting his own thumb off, and one doesn't notice an enormous insect crawling over his eye. The best impersonation so far has been "Audrey Cheng", and even it gave the game away when it forgot to eat. Scarlett rumbled it when she realized the only time she had ever seen "her" express hunger was looking at a fishmonger's slab.
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The Power of Five / int_6b6556ee	type	Mentor Occupational Hazard
The Power of Five / int_6b6556ee	comment	Mentor Occupational Hazard: Professor Chambers is mortally wounded by zombies and dies not too long into Necropolis.
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The Power of Five / int_6de71c57	type	Disc-One Final Boss
The Power of Five / int_6de71c57	comment	Disc-One Final Boss: Colton Banes is The Dragon for most of Nightrise, but dies at almost the exact halfway point - immediately after shooting Jamie.
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The Power of Five / int_71d3801a	type	Reality-Writing Book
The Power of Five / int_71d3801a	comment	Reality-Writing Book: Matt finds a library in the dreamworld that contains already-written biographies of everyone on Earth. He has the chance to read his own, but holds off for fear of what it will say. Eventually, he reads it to find out what he has to do. He's rather saddened by the fact that it isn't even one hundred and fifty pages.
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The Power of Five / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
The Power of Five / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: Rule number 1 of this series. There is even a Librarian who guards the records and life stories of every being that's ever existed. Naturally, he isn't very helpful, at least in Necropolis.
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The Power of Five / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
The Power of Five / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: Occurs early in Raven's Gate,when someone tries to mug Mrs. Deverill, Matt's new foster parent. She's a Wicked Witch who mind rapes him into committing suicide with his knife. One inch at a time.
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The Power of Five / int_776a06eb	type	All Myths Are True
The Power of Five / int_776a06eb	comment	All Myths Are True: Played with. More like "all cultures' ancestral magic is real."
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The Power of Five / int_777699d4	type	Overshadowed by Awesome
The Power of Five / int_777699d4	comment	Over Shadowed By Awesome: The World Army is made up of elite soldiers from every country in the world who came to Antartica to fight the Old Ones and restore balance, but the story belongs to the Gatekeepers, and not them.
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The Power of Five / int_7916f22e	type	Creepy Changing Painting
The Power of Five / int_7916f22e	comment	Creepy Changing Painting: There's one in Jayne Deverill's house in Raven's Gate. It's supposedly of her distant ancestor...
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The Power of Five / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
The Power of Five / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: Scott, with good reason.
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The Power of Five / int_7aa989ea	type	Token Evil Teammate
The Power of Five / int_7aa989ea	comment	Token Evil Teammate: Lohan in Oblivion. Arguably Scott, too.
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The Power of Five / int_7d3da681	type	The Legions of Hell
The Power of Five / int_7d3da681	comment	The Legions of Hell: The Old Ones.
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The Power of Five / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
The Power of Five / int_7e6c0522	comment	Mrs. Cheng has her head chopped off by two Triad hitmen.
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The Power of Five / int_805deb6e	type	Small Role, Big Impact
The Power of Five / int_805deb6e	comment	Small Role, Big Impact: William Morton is a fairly minor character, only appearing a few times in Evil Star, but it was his discovery of Joseph Cordoba's diary which led to Chaos's followers finding the second gate once they got the diary, and he it is the test he demands of Matt that also lets both Matt and the readers witness the power of the gatekeepers for the first time.
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The Power of Five / int_8183248	type	Never Mess with Granny
The Power of Five / int_8183248	comment	Never Mess with Granny: Professor Chambers breaks out a gun when servants of the Old Ones come for Matt, Pedro and the twins.
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The Power of Five / int_8288929a	type	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
The Power of Five / int_8288929a	comment	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: So how are the hundreds of people who joined Nightrise and screwed over humanity rewarded? By being horrifically mutilated into soldiers for the Old Ones' army.
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The Power of Five / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
The Power of Five / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: Chaos appears as one in his last two appearances, looking like a huge, featureless humanoid shape in a dark armour, who cuts its way in out of the very fabric of space and absorbs everything around as he moves.
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The Power of Five / int_8618825d	type	Portal Network
The Power of Five / int_8618825d	comment	Portal Network: There are twenty-five doors, all in sacred places around the world, which the Five can use for this purpose. Two in different churches in England, one in a Tuscan monastery, one in the Ukrainian Monastery of the Cry for Mercy, one in a Native American sacred cave, one in an Inca sacred site in Peru, one in a temple in Hong Kong, one in an Italian church, one in the Vatican, one in Mecca, one in the Pyramids of Giza, one in a Brazilian temple, one in a rock wall in Oblivion, Antarctica... which is apparently sacred to someone... and a bunch of others at unspecified locations. They're sacred because the portal networks are there. The reason there's no church in Antarctica is, well, There's no one to find it sacred.
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The Power of Five / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
The Power of Five / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Two crackers from Shang Tsung:
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The Power of Five / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
The Power of Five / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The main villains are the Old Ones, god-like entities clearly inspired by H. P. Lovecraft that used to rule Earth before the humans defeated them ten thousand years ago and sealed them in another dimension. The Nazca Lines were created as the seal, and the animal shapes drawn into the Earth were actually representative of each of the Old Ones. The familiar animals being the closest approximation the human mind could come to the Old Ones' horrifying appearance. Chaos takes the cake, being a mountain-tall, vaguely humanoid being covered in pure darkness, too gigantic to fully see and too Eldritch to fully concieve, who can appear as a constantly changing, gigantic mass of black fog, and whose few features described may just be how the character can process him. He does like to appear as a Humanoid Abomination, but that does not make it any better. The portrait itself acts like a CCTV camera and even directs Matt to go to bed on one occasion. The Diary of St Joseph of Cordoba has this effect on just about everything around it. Many of the denizens of Hong Kong in Necropolis.
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The Power of Five / int_87b8f581	type	Refusal of the Call
The Power of Five / int_87b8f581	comment	Refusal of the Call: Matt tries to do this several times, but no avail. Why? Because he and the others just can't fight fate. This inevitably leads to a 'The Call Knows Where You Live' scenario in Raven's Gate. Poor, poor Mallory...
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The Power of Five / int_88574a	type	Narrator All Along
The Power of Five / int_88574a	comment	Narrator All Along: Holly, at the end of Oblivion.
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The Power of Five / int_88f16cee	type	Go Out with a Smile
The Power of Five / int_88f16cee	comment	Go Out with a Smile: William Morton. after seeing proof that Matt is one of the Five immediately after being fatally stabbed.
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The Power of Five / int_89b8822f	type	Go Mad from the Revelation
The Power of Five / int_89b8822f	comment	Go Mad from the Revelation: Not quite mad, but William Morton is clearly terrified and unhinged after reading the diary of Joseph Cordoba and discovering the truth about the Old Ones and what they'd do to the world if they ever break through the gates. Discoveriving that they have modern followers who want to bring them back and are prepared to kill him for the diary probably didn't help.
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The Power of Five / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Power of Five / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: The rich and powerful of Nightrise who helped the Old Ones bring the apocalypse in Oblivion are rewarded by forcibly mutilated and conscripted into the Old Ones' army.
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The Power of Five / int_901dbf9a	type	Cliff Hanger
The Power of Five / int_901dbf9a	comment	Cliffhanger: Anthony Horowitz must have really wanted to piss his readers off when he was planning out Necropolis, where in the end Scarlett gets shot and it is revealed to the reader that all five gatekeepers, who need to stay together in order to defeat the Old Ones, are going to be separated by even greater distances than before. What made it worse was that we had to wait four years for Oblivion.
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The Power of Five / int_90e2b7b4	type	Theme Twin Naming
The Power of Five / int_90e2b7b4	comment	Theme Twin Naming: Subverted in Jamie and Scott's case; their first names came from the box in which they were found and their last from the doctor who checked them out.
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The Power of Five / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
The Power of Five / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: Planet Earth starts off in Oblivion as a Class 1 then then later becomes Class 2. However it is all but stated, especially in the Distant Finale, that humanity will eventually recover.
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The Power of Five / int_9203bf6	type	Arc Number
The Power of Five / int_9203bf6	comment	Arc Number: Five, of course, corresponding with the number of sides of a pentagram and the number of main characters.
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The Power of Five / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
The Power of Five / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Sir Michael Marsh and both Nightrise Chairmen. They speak perfectly cordially and with quite aristocratic poise, but don't even try to hide their hatred, scorn and fanaticism.
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The Power of Five / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
The Power of Five / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: Played straight and averted with both The Nexus and Nightrise recruiting rich people to their cause. In Oblivion, Nightrise rewards the hundreds of the richest, most famous and most repulsive people that joined them by mutilating them into soldiers for the upcoming battle.
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The Power of Five / int_9633f14b	type	Badass Bystander
The Power of Five / int_9633f14b	comment	Badass Bystander: Richard Cole. He rescues Matt from a bog and sets a Hell Hound on fire.
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The Power of Five / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Power of Five / int_970c790a	comment	The Chairman is the Big Bad in Nightrise and Necropolis, but he is this to the Old Ones.
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The Power of Five / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
The Power of Five / int_973d220f	comment	Colton Banes is nonchalantly prepared to accept being executed as punishment for his failure to capture Jamie, admitting he did make a few mistakes, which is why Susan Mortlake chooses to spare him and instead kill his Never My Fault partner.
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The Power of Five / int_97522514	type	Heel–Face Revolving Door
The Power of Five / int_97522514	comment	Heel–Face Revolving Door: Scott spends most of Nightrise being tortured by the Old Ones but seemingly redeems himself at the end, only to join Nightrise in the final book, before finally rejoining the Gatekeepers at the cost of his own life.
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The Power of Five / int_98a63dc6	type	Time Abyss
The Power of Five / int_98a63dc6	comment	Time Abyss: The Librarian, and the Old Ones also count.
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The Power of Five / int_99db72ee	type	Immune to Bullets
The Power of Five / int_99db72ee	comment	Immune to Bullets: Holly's first reaction to seeing Chaos is to empty his pistol into him, though it does jack squat to the demon but she scores many points for trying.
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The Power of Five / int_9afa05c7	type	Family-Unfriendly Death
The Power of Five / int_9afa05c7	comment	Family-Unfriendly Death: All over the place. Sir Michael Marsh is crushed to death by the King of the Old Ones, the very one he dedicated his entire life to. Jayne Deverill falls into a vat of acid and is graphically dissolved to death. Claire Deverill is burnt to death by radiation. Diego Salamanda has his neck broken when he falls over and his oversized head hits the ground wrong. Mrs. Cheng has her head chopped off by two Triad hitmen. Both Nightrise chairmen get pretty brutally impaled - one by a boat and one by a falling stactite.
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The Power of Five / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
The Power of Five / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: The Old Ones are the source of all evil and the driving force of the conflict, but they almost never enter the fray by themselves, preferring acting through their corrupt followers.
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The Power of Five / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
The Power of Five / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: Several. Whatever dimension is on the other side of the Gates. Hong Kong is turned into one over the course of Necropolis Anywhere that the influence of the Old Ones is particularly strong begins to smell awful and naturally repel people. The enormous hidden ice palace in Antarctica that the King Of The Old Ones makes its base in after being summoned in Evil Star. The Nazca Desert. Yes, the whole thing.
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The Power of Five / int_9d15f525	type	Made of Evil
The Power of Five / int_9d15f525	comment	Made of Evil: The Old Ones, each and everyone of them no matter the rank. Chaos of course takes the cake, and the whole bakery while he is at it.
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The Power of Five / int_a0e94952	type	TriadsAndTongs
The Power of Five / int_a0e94952	comment	Triads and Tongs: Due to Even Evil Has Standards, they're the good guys for once!
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The Power of Five / int_a122bf2f	type	Blind Seer
The Power of Five / int_a122bf2f	comment	Susan Ashwood, a Blind Seer and member of the Benevolent Conspiracy featured in the previous books, leads a group of people living in a bunker, hiding from the Old Ones and their servants.
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The Power of Five / int_a27c0c2c	type	Artistic License â€“ Religion
The Power of Five / int_a27c0c2c	comment	Artistic License – Religion: Horowitz takes a few liberties with the belief system of the Incas, several Native American myths, some Ancient Chinese legends and even the theology syllabus of Roman universities in order to work the cosmology of the series into them. Also, in a more nitpicky example, he claims that the five-pointed star symbol of the Gatekeepers has "nothing to do with Christianity", which isn't strictly true - a few examples of early Christian artwork do use a similar five-pointed star as a symbol of Christ. It would still be a bit odd to find it carved on a secret door in the Vatican, but it wouldn't be as unbelievable as the book implies. The Incan tumi given to Richard is described as having a sharp point. Tumis do not have points; the blade is semicircular.
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The Power of Five / int_a52faac6	type	Benevolent Conspiracy
The Power of Five / int_a52faac6	comment	Benevolent Conspiracy: The Nexus is a secret gathering of immensely wealthy and influential people, who pull all the strings they can to ensure that the Five Gatekeepers are protected and given the means to save the world.
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The Power of Five / int_a8cff6a	type	Familiar
The Power of Five / int_a8cff6a	comment	Familiar: Asmodeus, Mrs Deverill's cat, is implied to be one as well. And a demonic one at that. It not only perfectly understands English, it apparently survives being shot with a shotgun, is implied to have killed Tom Burgess, and follows Matt around. It is also unaccounted for at the end of Raven's Gate...
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The Power of Five / int_a91078ea	type	Adaptational Jerkass
The Power of Five / int_a91078ea	comment	Adaptational Jerkass: Some characters come across less pleasantly than they did in the Pentagram series. For instance Matt is bullied at the beginning of the second book of The Power of Five, while he didn't have any problem with his classmates before they were frightened by his visions in Pentagram book 2. And in that same book, David Goodage (the original counterpart of William Morton) was far less mercenary, spending a great deal of his own money buying the diary for the purpose of destroying it, rather than picking it up for next to nothing in an old bookstore and then forcing The Nexus to pay for it (although he still wanted them to get it instead of Chaos).
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The Power of Five / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
The Power of Five / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: Averted, most of the prominent adults, such as Richard and the Nexus members, are quite competent and Genre Savvy, it's just that the kids are more competent.
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The Power of Five / int_a971e83c	type	Hidden Elf Village
The Power of Five / int_a971e83c	comment	Hidden Elf Village: the village where Jamie comes through a gate in Oblivion after the Time Skip is an example of one of these fallen on hard times.
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The Power of Five / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
The Power of Five / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Pedro. He's The Medic and The Heart, and the only one of the Five with no combat-useful superpowers. But when he has to, he's perfectly capable of escaping a Nightrise-run prison specifically designed to break his spirit, using a combination of Sherlock Scan, Batman Gambit, Impossible Thief and Groin Attack.
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The Power of Five / int_aac2244a	type	EvilVsEvil
The Power of Five / int_aac2244a	comment	Evil vs. Evil: In Oblivion, the cannibalistic villagers of Little Moulsford attack the Chaos-following policeman. Holly is left wondering it was because they'd heard about the massacre said policemen had carried out and either wanted revenge or feared a similar fate, or if "they saw a year's supply of prime steak inside those blue uniforms".
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The Power of Five / int_ab74122a	type	Wasteland Elder
The Power of Five / int_ab74122a	comment	Wasteland Elder: Several such characters appear in the fifth book, after a Time Skip and ten years of war, famine, and Apocalypse Anarchy. Sir Ian Ingram is the oldest and most serious person in Holly's village (which has been spared from the recent horrors by its isolation). He is the leader of the seven-member town council and the author of the code of laws they live by. He's a sour ditherer with some Lawful Stupid moments, but the main characters are able to reason with him during his brief page time when it comes to making important decisions. Susan Ashwood, a Blind Seer and member of the Benevolent Conspiracy featured in the previous books, leads a group of people living in a bunker, hiding from the Old Ones and their servants. Fifty-ish Major Michael Higham is the leader of a village eking out an existence several miles downriver from Holly's village. It turns out that they've survived by becoming a Cannibal Clan.
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The Power of Five / int_ac4cc68d	type	HellGate
The Power of Five / int_ac4cc68d	comment	Hell Gate: What the Five Gatekeepers are there to guard and - when necessary - create.
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The Power of Five / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
The Power of Five / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: It's explicitly mentioned that the Old Ones literally feed on human misery - so they don't just want to destroy mankind, but to make sure that humanity's end is as drawn-out and agonizingly painful as possible.
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The Power of Five / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Power of Five / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Richard Cole.
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The Power of Five / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Power of Five / int_b02f996a	comment	Town with a Dark Secret: Lesser Malling in the first book. The secret is that all the villagers are working to open a gate which will let the Old Ones, and the protagonist is one of the five tasked with making sure that such things don't happen. There's also a village of cannibals in the last book.
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The Power of Five / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Power of Five / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: It is revealed in Matt's backstory that when he was taken under the 'care' of his Aunt Gwenda and her boyfriend, they spent all of his inheritance; after they lost all his money, they started beating him up. In Jamie and Scott's backstory, when things start to go bad for their adoptive parents, they start abusing them to the point where Scott snaps and tells the father figure to 'go hang himself'. Considering that the twins have the power of telepathy and mind control, this ends very badly. Oh, and let's not forget wonderful Uncle Don...
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The Power of Five / int_b1619b3c	type	Omnicidal Maniac
The Power of Five / int_b1619b3c	comment	Omnicidal Maniac: The modus operandi of the Old Ones, who not only wish to wipe out all life on earth but to also draw it out as long as possible.
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The Power of Five / int_b22261ef	type	Kidnapped by an Ally
The Power of Five / int_b22261ef	comment	Kidnapped by an Ally: Richard in Evil Star by the Inca. although to Matt, it looks like a straight-up kidnapping.
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The Power of Five / int_b42e16fb	type	Feathered Fiend
The Power of Five / int_b42e16fb	comment	Feathered Fiend: The Old Ones influence hundreds of condors to attack the heroes in Evil Star.
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The Power of Five / int_b454d74b	type	Sixth Ranger Traitor
The Power of Five / int_b454d74b	comment	Sixth Ranger Traitor: Scott is an arguably sympathetic example.
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The Power of Five / int_b77a6d82	type	Evil Is Deathly Cold
The Power of Five / int_b77a6d82	comment	Evil Is Deathly Cold: The Old Ones have this effect.
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The Power of Five / int_b7e74b77	type	Five-Token Band
The Power of Five / int_b7e74b77	comment	Five-Token Band: Matt is the only white Gatekeeper. Pedro is South American, Scarlett is Chinese, and Jamie and Scott are both Native Americans.
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The Power of Five / int_ba5bd7	type	Ignored Expert
The Power of Five / int_ba5bd7	comment	Ignored Expert: Zigzagged in Oblivion, when The Traveller whose also a ember of Nexus, and therefore not only far more knowledgeable about the situation than they realize, but also invested in keeping Jamie safe. gives a speech about what it's like outside the village and why they shouldn't remind the outside world that they exist by contacting anyone. Sir Ian Ingram reluctantly agrees and casts the deciding vote in Jamie's favor, but one of the other council members contacts Eleanor Strake anyway, bringing the Chaos-following policemen to the village.
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The Power of Five / int_bb03c099	type	Cool Gate
The Power of Five / int_bb03c099	comment	Cool Gate: The Gates that keep the Old Ones at bay are kinda cool, once you look past how terrifying the entire concept is.
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The Power of Five / int_bd2812b5	type	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
The Power of Five / int_bd2812b5	comment	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: All Five Gatekeepers, once the Old Ones are defeated for good, leave and live in the Dream World, which is implied to be the Afterlife.
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The Power of Five / int_c011cd29	type	Path of Inspiration
The Power of Five / int_c011cd29	comment	Path of Inspiration: Every great religion becomes this after the Old Ones openly take over, with their highest hierarchy worshipping them. Granted, it is not known whether they do it out of survival or conviction, and many lower ranked shepherds still go against them.
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The Power of Five / int_c092a59b	type	Tomes of Prophecy and Fate
The Power of Five / int_c092a59b	comment	Tomes of Prophecy and Fate: The dream world has a library that holds the book of every persons who has ever lived (and possibly who will live). Each book tells the entire life story of that person from birth to death. Matt reads his in order to find out how to defeat the Old Ones.
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The Power of Five / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
The Power of Five / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Matt and Richard develop into this. After meeting in the first book, Richard accompanies him everywhere, ostensibly for writing material, but really because someone needs to look after these kids.
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The Power of Five / int_c324a7d	type	Cannibal Clan
The Power of Five / int_c324a7d	comment	Fifty-ish Major Michael Higham is the leader of a village eking out an existence several miles downriver from Holly's village. It turns out that they've survived by becoming a Cannibal Clan.
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The Power of Five / int_c3e4a2f0	type	Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo
The Power of Five / int_c3e4a2f0	comment	Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo: Richard executes this successfully in Oblivion with two identical cars, one of which contains a bomb.
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The Power of Five / int_c515d358	type	America Saves the Day
The Power of Five / int_c515d358	comment	America Saves the Day: Defied. The Old Ones are well aware of this trope, and rig the US presidential election so that it doesn't happen. Despite this, the World Army that fights the Old Ones in South America is led by American Naval personal, although it's downplayed given that they don't end up contributing much compared to the main characters.
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The Power of Five / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Power of Five / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In Evil Star Matt goes to a school with teachers named Mr. King, after Stephen King, and Mr. O'Shaugnessy, named after the real name of Darren Shan.
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The Power of Five / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
The Power of Five / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Both Nightrise chairmen. The CEO, however, just gets normal-impaled.
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The Power of Five / int_c98b7916	type	Messianic Archetype
The Power of Five / int_c98b7916	comment	Messianic Archetype: Matt. Both of him. Also played with in the dreamworld. Matt finds a library, and the librarian is a friendly Middle Eastern man with shoulder-length dark hair, a beard, and sandals. He then provides some straightforward and helpful advice about how the books work, but leaves it up to Matt to choose. The implication is obvious.
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The Power of Five / int_cc374ba6	type	It's Up to You
The Power of Five / int_cc374ba6	comment	It's Up to You: Generally averted, as all five of the Gatekeepers need to be present in order to defeat the Old Ones. It is subverted at the end of Oblivion, when the only one who can save the Five is, of all people, Scott, who pulls a Heroic Sacrifice to unlock the doors and allow Jamie and Pedro to reach Oblivion.
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The Power of Five / int_cc4d190a	type	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
The Power of Five / int_cc4d190a	comment	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: This is what the Five are destined to do with the Old Ones. They pulled it off in their previous incarnation by sealing them behind the Gates. Matt, with a little help from Pedro, manages to single-handedly incapacitate them for a little while when they finally break free. Finally, due to a quirk of timing at the climax of Oblivion, the Five banish the Old Ones one last time and - just before the portal closes - the British Navy accidentally nukes Hell, and this seemingly kills or permanently imprisons them. Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: Sapling had to die to trick the Old Ones the first time. When Matt incapacitated them in Evil Star, he almost died (and would have, had Pedro not been present). When the Old Ones are finally defeated for good, it requires a Heroic Sacrifice from Scott and a Kill the Ones You Love from Richard to Matt.
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The Power of Five / int_cedeae6a	comment	Wacky Wayside Tribe: Several of the villains who impede the collective progress of the Five in Oblivion aren't even working for the Old Ones; they're just taking advantage of the chaos they cause. Examples include the Sheik who tries to marry Scarlett, the cannibals, the slave-drivers who capture Matt and Lohan, and the priest who tries to kill Pedro.
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The Power of Five / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: The Catholic priest from Oblivion who poisons Pedro stands out as pretty-much the only villain in the series to be tragically misguided rather than selfish or inherently evil.
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The Power of Five / int_d013cd12	comment	Lovable Rogue: Zack Martins, in Oblivion, an Australian smuggler who flew guns for at least one faction of freedom fighters, dreams of retiring in Alice Springs, and flies Richard and Scarlett to Antartica with his pilot, Larry. Larry himself is mostly a subversion, being an Ungrateful Bastard, but he is impressed enough by Scarlett's powers to see the necessity of taking them there, and also says goodbye to the two later on.
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The Power of Five / int_d03fc3f1	comment	Good Shepherd: a rarity in the series, but one of the Nexus leaders is a Catholic Bishop, and is dedicated to their cause despite doubting the existence of the Old Ones. Also, Reverend Johnstone, one of the villagers in Oblivion, while a bit of a ditherer, is a kind-hearted man who votes against turning Jamie over to the Dirty Cop.
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The Power of Five / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Professor Joanna Chambers, the world's best expert on the Nazca Lines. As it turns out, however, the cool factor isn't quite enough to fend off the Old Ones. Jayne Deverill is a villainous example.
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The Power of Five / int_d46f812	comment	Tastes Like Friendship: In Evil Star, when Pedro and Matt first meet; granted, Pedro tried to steal Matt's watch, so...
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The Power of Five / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: The Chairman of Nightrise Corporation is a pretty impressive example of this - he rigs a US presidential election, manages to capture two of the Five, takes over Hong Kong and already has a business empire that controls most of South East Asia. Matt Freeman is perhaps the best example in the series, outwitting both the King of the Old Ones and the aforementioned Chairman. The Master of the Mountain is another heroic example.
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The Power of Five / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In Raven's Gate, a museum security guard flees at the first signs of dark magic rather than try to fight it or spread the alarm. This saves his life. In Necropolis, many residents of Hong Kong are fleeing the city and refusing to say why as the Old Ones take over.
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The Power of Five / int_db38d6ca	comment	Torture Technician: Susan Mortlake.
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The Power of Five / int_dbea254f	comment	Chosen Ones: The Gatekeepers are this. With all the perks and mostly the downsides included in the package.
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The Power of Five / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: The Nexus members, who do whatever they can to help The Five, and also come up with some plans and strategies of their own. Commander Cain tries to be this in Oblivion but has limited success. Reverend Johnstone and the Flint's for the village council. The Native American shaman, Inspector Mallory, Han Shan Tung and the Inca elder are also authority figures who aid the five.
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The Power of Five / int_dd3d1f69	comment	Wicked Witch: Jayne Deverill, full stop.
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The Power of Five / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
The Power of Five / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: The main character experience a few, and Commander Cain is left pretty shaken and defeated after seeing half of his army wiped out by magic and Matt captured.
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The Power of Five / int_ddfb4e53	type	A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read
The Power of Five / int_ddfb4e53	comment	A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: Scott and Jamie don't like to read minds for exactly this reason. Considering they're both fourteen and have lived in abusive families for most of their lives, it's understandable.
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The Power of Five / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: He isn't happy about it, but Commander Cain pulls out of Antartica near the end of Oblivion due to his army having lost half of their soldiers and most of their morale in a defeat at the hands of Chaos, and running low on food and medical supplies for everyone whose left. Although he does authorize a parting missile launch at the Old Ones citadel.
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The Power of Five / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
The Power of Five / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: In Raven's Gate Superintendent Mallory and Mr. Burgess the neighboring farmer both help Matt against the villagers of Less Malling but die for it. Also, several members of the Nexus throughout the series.
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The Power of Five / int_ec0bf4a1	comment	Take Over the World: The goal of Nightrise.
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The Power of Five / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted; there are two separate characters named Susan.
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The Power of Five / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
The Power of Five / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: After betraying the other Gatekeepers to the Old Ones, Scott regrets his actions and sacrifices himself to open the portal at Antarctica after it was sealed by the Old Ones, allowing Pedro and Jaime to reach the other Gatekeepers and put a stop to the Old Ones.
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The Power of Five / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Present!Matt is killed this way by Richard, after being captured and tortured by the Old Ones.
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The Power of Five / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
The Power of Five / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: The children of Lesser Malling.
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The Power of Five / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
The Power of Five / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Albert Remy, one of the few Nexus members to appear in person, is this to Nexus Council member Danton (although apparently both served on the council at the same time and Remy was just never singled out before Oblivion).
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The Power of Five / int_f6b7820b	comment	Cosmic Keystones: The Gates.
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The Power of Five / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Played straight with Matt, Pedro, Jamie, and Scott. Subverted with Scarlett, whose had the nicest life out of all five Gatekeepers.
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