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The Tripods

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The Tripods	comment	The Tripods refers to a young adult trilogy-and-a-prequel series of Science Fiction novels written by British author John Christopher. This series of novels tells the story of the conquest of Earth by alien invaders inspired by the Martians of The War of the Worlds (1898), as well as its eventual liberation by a band of resistance fighters.The novels are as follows: The White Mountains (1967) The City of Gold and Lead (1968) The Pool of Fire (1968) When the Tripods Came (1988), the prequel to the first three books.In The White Mountains, the Tripods have ruled the world for a hundred years, mankind having been reduced to a medieval state, and kept docile by "caps" which the Tripods surgically attach to their skulls around their fourteenth birthday. Will, an English boy, suspicious of the Tripods, and wanting to escape the mind-controlling Caps, flees with his cousin, Henry, to the eponyomous White Mountains, in Switzerland. En route, whilst in France, they meet up with Jean-Paul, known to them as Beanpole, an intelligent boy who fears that being Capped will stifle his curiosity, and who joins them on their quest for freedom.In The City of Gold and Lead, Will, Beanpole, and Fritz, a German boy from the White Mountains resistance, compete in "the games", an Olympic-style competition whose winners are selected to serve in the domed, environmentally controlled cities of the "masters" who operate the Tripods. Having been selected, they infiltrate the Tripods' European headquarters, located in Germany, and learn valuable information about the masters' biology, and their long-term plan to terraform Earth to their standards (and eradicate humanity in the process).In The Pool of Fire, The White Mountains resistance embarks on a race against time to free the world from the Tripods, in the few years left to them before the terraforming ship arrives.When The Tripods Came tells the story, introduced in a flashback in the second novel, of how the Tripods invaded and enslaved the world in the 1980s, using television and the mass media to win popular support for themselves and to instigate war between the human governments.The Tripods was also adapted into a live action television series, produced jointly by The BBC and the Australian Seven Network. Two seasons, covering the first two books, were broadcast in 1984 and 1985 respectively. A script for the third season was written, but never filmed (Michael Grade of Doctor Who cancellation fame also cancelled this). A theatrical film is now in pre-production, although it seems to be stuck squarely in Development Hell. It was also serialized in comic form for the Boy Scout magazine Boys' Life (since renamed Scout Life) from 1981 to 1986.
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The Tripods / int_1049848f	type	Aliens Speaking English
The Tripods / int_1049848f	comment	Aliens Speaking English: Cleverly justified in the novels - it's easier for the Masters to learn the language of their slavesnote which is actually German since the Masters' city is near the ruins of Berlin and they "recruit" locally than vice versa. Humans will only survive a few years in a Tripod city anyway. It's a subtlety lost in the TV series, where everyone just speaks English.
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The Tripods / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
The Tripods / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Including Henry. Subverted with Fritz, though.
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The Tripods / int_125e12c4	type	Second-Hand Storytelling
The Tripods / int_125e12c4	comment	Second-Hand Storytelling: Infuriatingly done at the beginning of The Pool of Fire. While Will and Fritz are wandering over Europe and the Middle-East starting resistance cells, Beanpole heads an effort to rediscover as much technical knowledge as possible and get it weaponized. At the same time another group sails ACROSS THE FRIGGING ATLANTIC to North America and makes contact with another resistance group!
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The Tripods / int_12f078f3	type	Artistic License – Linguistics
The Tripods / int_12f078f3	comment	Artistic License â€“ Linguistics: In early editions of When the Tripods Came, the phrase "Hail the Tripod!" is translated as "Heilen dem Dreibeiner!, which, not conjugated, simply means "To heal the Tripod". Averted in subsequent editions. A bit curious, since "Heil" is a rather famous German word.
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The Tripods / int_132d93f1	type	Human Shield
The Tripods / int_132d93f1	comment	Human Shield: A variation in the prequel. The military can't take out the second wave of Tripods immediately because Trippies are swarming all around them. Though the Tripods are eventually taken out anyway.
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The Tripods / int_13f7da6	type	Instant Expert
The Tripods / int_13f7da6	comment	Instant Expert: While riding on a barge Beanpole quickly works out the steam engine, and how to make a poultice for the bargemaster's sick wife.
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The Tripods / int_14789f16	type	Giant Foot of Stomping
The Tripods / int_14789f16	comment	Giant Foot of Stomping: Fortunately our heroes are in a cleft of rocks that protects them from being squashed. In the first episode of Season Two however, a freeman gets killed this way when he runs near the Tripod to divert its attention from his friends.
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The Tripods / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
The Tripods / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Will's removal of Eloise's turban is almost treated as some kind of sexual assault. The depiction of the Trippy Show sounds like the controversy and moral panic surrounding various fads through history. In addition, in the Prequel, some of the reactions to Cappings, including the school assemblies warning against them, are reminiscent of anti-drug campaigns. On the way to the games, Will is able to buy a beer, and no one questions his age because of his false Cap... not entirely unlike how his adolescent forefathers might have once obtained booze with a fake ID. The mix of contempt and patronizing benevolence shown by Will's Master is similar to the attitude of a white European from the 19th Century towards 'lesser' races.
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The Tripods / int_173909	type	Brainwashed and Crazy
The Tripods / int_173909	comment	Brainwashed and Crazy: The Capped. Not so much crazy, though, unless you start insulting or acting against the Tripods. Vagrants are capped people who have gone insane as a result. Although tolerated and given food, they're kept out of villages and can be violent. In the TV series the boys encounter a woman who traveled widely before being capped, and still has a compulsion to collect items from faraway places. She herself assumes this is just a kind of mental illness that the Cap fortunately restrains.
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The Tripods / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
The Tripods / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: In The Pool of Fire, the resistance uses newly-recreated scuba gear to get inside the City, and they are described by Will as "bottles with the part of air that humans actually use isolated inside them". Scuba tanks never use pure oxygen, as it is harmful to humans under pressure. Depending on the circumstances, a diver might use ordinary compressed air, an air mixture enriched with extra oxygen, or mixtures with oxygen/nitrogen/helium in various proportions.
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The Tripods / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Tripods / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: All three books of the trilogy.
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The Tripods / int_1972ef89	type	Railing Kill
The Tripods / int_1972ef89	comment	Railing Kill: Will and Fritz kill three Black Guards during their escape from the Master's city this way.
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The Tripods / int_19c24cb7	type	Super-Fun Happy Thing of Doom
The Tripods / int_19c24cb7	comment	Super-Fun Happy Thing of Doom: The Place of Happy Release.
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The Tripods / int_19da8a03	type	Incurable Cough of Death
The Tripods / int_19da8a03	comment	Incurable Cough of Death: Will notices that during Ulf's time as the warden of Ruki's prison he frequently coughs into a polka-dotted handkerchief, and notes that he only later realised that the "polka-dots" were bloodstains and that Ulf was a dying man.
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The Tripods / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
The Tripods / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Fritz, the German boy who only laughs once in the the entire series.
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The Tripods / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
The Tripods / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: The Masters appreciate beauty. So they have the Capped humans hold beauty contests for young girls. They take the "winners" and kill them, perfectly preserving their bodies forever, like butterflies under museum glass. They honestly don't have any moral problem with this, any more than a butterfly collector who doesn't realize he's killing what he claims to appreciate. In fairness, butterflies are already at the end of their lifecycle. In the adult stage of their life cycle, butterflies only live a couple of weeks at most. Of course, to the Masters, We Are As Butterflies.
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The Tripods / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Tripods / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: The German tradition of "the Hunt" sees convicted criminals hunted down on horseback by a Tripod. If the Tripod catches them (and it usually does), it tears them limb from limb. Will loses his lunch the first time he sees it happen.
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The Tripods / int_20e0d3e8	type	Tanks for Nothing
The Tripods / int_20e0d3e8	comment	The initial encounter between a Tripod and a Challenger tank in the prequel results in a crushing defeat.
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The Tripods / int_21579c25	type	Ancient Artifact
The Tripods / int_21579c25	comment	Ancient Artifacts : The "eggs" (grenades) left behind in a ruined human city.
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The Tripods / int_2164d2a1	type	Energy Beings
The Tripods / int_2164d2a1	comment	Energy Beings: The Cognosc.
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The Tripods / int_22c41566	type	Trilogy Creep
The Tripods / int_22c41566	comment	Trilogy Creep: First, it was a trilogy, then the author added a prequel.
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The Tripods / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Tripods / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The "eggs" (grenades) in The White Mountains, and the hot-air balloons in The Pool of Fire.
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The Tripods / int_2317bc85	type	Tampering with Food and Drink
The Tripods / int_2317bc85	comment	Tampering with Food and Drink: The Weaksauce Weakness of the Masters is discovered accidentally when a drunken guard pours his booze into the food being taken to the captive Master. Attempts have been made to discover their vulnerabilities, but the Master has always detected the poison and refused to eat, so Will just takes the food in, expecting the Master will reject it as usual. He falls into a coma instead. However distilling alcohol in the alien environment of a Domed City presents its own problems.
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The Tripods / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
The Tripods / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: Once they cross the English Channel the boys encounter steam-driven trains and barges. The Masters are using a human-built nuclear reactor to power their city.
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The Tripods / int_280333d4	type	Hollywood Heart Attack
The Tripods / int_280333d4	comment	Hollywood Heart Attack: Fritz finds one of Julius' spies working in the nuclear reactor. He says he's got a heart condition brought on by the high gravity and the stress of working alone as a spy for years, but is given a new lease of life by meeting another freeman. Just when he's about to reveal the plans he's worked out for escape and sabotage, he realises he's late for his shift and collapses from a fatal heart attack. Justified, as Fritz has not only been established to suffer from a heart condition but has also been showing symptoms like shortness of breath beforehand; the shock of him realising his dereliction of his duties could give him away as being an impostor was just the final straw after he had already been overtaxing his strength by taking Fritz on a lengthy tour of the city's facilities.
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The Tripods / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
The Tripods / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Andy.
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The Tripods / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Tripods / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: At least, when not using Translation Convention.
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The Tripods / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
The Tripods / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: The Power Elite in the Masters' city. They had no power or authority over others. They were mere technicians, more educated slaves that ran and maintained the nuclear power plant that powered the city. They did have more comfortable lifestyles however, and were despised by Borman and the other Black Guard due to the fact that they could not be bullied by him in the same way as the general slaves.
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The Tripods / int_2af7961	type	Faster-Than-Light Travel
The Tripods / int_2af7961	comment	Faster-Than-Light Travel: Actually averted. The Master who owns Will tells him that the ship travels almost as fast as light, and that it will be arriving at Earth soon (i.e. within the next few years).
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The Tripods / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
The Tripods / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: Surprisingly, the Tripods themselves in the prequel. While they're almost unstoppable in the main trilogy due to mankind's stunted technology level, the first Tripod that arrived on Earth managed to destroy one tank before being blown to kingdom come by a wing of jet fighters. The reason the Masters had to conquer the Earth by subversion was that, while their war machines are effective at terrorising medieval-level peasants, they were no match for the war machines of 20th century mankind.
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The Tripods / int_2c18b9a3	type	Orphaned Series
The Tripods / int_2c18b9a3	comment	Orphaned Series: The tv series was cancelled after two seasons, despite a third being on the cards, thus ending it on a really depressing cliffhanger.
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The Tripods / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
The Tripods / int_2dddd99d	comment	False Flag Operation: The boys reach the White Mountains, escaping a Tripod hunter-killer team, only to be captured by Black Guards. They're held without food for days and interrogated on their journey before they eventually crack and admit why they've come. Turns out it's just a test by the Resistance to stop Fake Defectors sent to infiltrate them.
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The Tripods / int_2eb94abd	type	Deadly Euphemism
The Tripods / int_2eb94abd	comment	Deadly Euphemism: The Place of Happy Release.
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The Tripods / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Tripods / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Will is exploring other Vichy Earth states besides England. When he arrives in one he comments that English hang murderers because they can't think of what else to do and nobody likes it much. In one German state they have them hunted by Tripods. In other words, English capped may be Les Collaborateurs, but they are not sadistic. When the Masters in the newly-arrived terraforming ship realize the humans have won, they destroy their former cities and depart. This is likely due to their Blue-and-Orange Morality — revenge is not important to them.
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The Tripods / int_31c5e7fb	type	Starfish Aliens
The Tripods / int_31c5e7fb	comment	Starfish Aliens: The Masters; three-metre tall conical-beings with three short legs, three tentacles, three eyes, and two mouths. One for eating the other for breathing. Here's◊ how they're illustrated in Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials. The TV series changes them a bit, but they're still non-humanoid. There, they look like three-legged Ghomas with one single eye, and plant-like physiology.
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The Tripods / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
The Tripods / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: At least, after the end of Modern civilization, for the first three books.
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The Tripods / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Tripods / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: In the prequel, when a Tripod first appears, it abducts a farmer, demolishes said farmer's house with his wife still inside, and, sure enough, picks up their dog and flings it to its death. While crossing the English Channel a Tripod threatens to swamp their vessel by deliberately steering close to it. In The City of Gold and Lead it becomes obvious that the aliens are not evil per se; there are simply those who abuse their power and those who don't.
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The Tripods / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
The Tripods / int_34dd5f3	comment	In The City of Gold and Lead when Will discovers that the Masters will start their terraforming project in just four years when La RÃ©sistance assume that entire generations will pass before they're in a position to overthrow the Masters.
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The Tripods / int_35f57671	type	Minion with an F in Evil
The Tripods / int_35f57671	comment	Minion with an F in Evil: Subverted; Will is adopted by a kindly Master who's built a special room for his slave and gives him time off to explore the city, especially after Will nurses him through an illness. However Will realises that his role is that of a favorite pet, and that his Master's attitude towards humanity is at best patronising. When the Master reveals their plan to terraform the Earth killing everyone on it, his view is that some humans should be preserved in zoos, rather than that genocide is wrong.
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The Tripods / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
The Tripods / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Definitely on the cynical side.
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The Tripods / int_37c6c0f3	type	William Telling
The Tripods / int_37c6c0f3	comment	William Telling: Involving Will with a knife thrown at his head, and having to duck just in time so the knife splits the apple into two halves, that Will catches in each hand.
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The Tripods / int_393a1e86	type	But What About the Astronauts?
The Tripods / int_393a1e86	comment	But What About the Astronauts?: Addressed in the story. The Masters on Earth are basically the first wave which will eventually end with terraforming the Earth to the Masters' biology. It's stated that the main ship is currently en-route, and more Masters still live elsewhere in the universe. When the ship finally does show up, it simply nukes the remains of the three cities (presumably to prevent any of the Masters' advanced technology from falling into human hands). It then departs, presumably having decided Earth isn't worth the effort. This is in keeping with the Masters' belief in fate: if they failed to conquer the Earth after a certain amount of effort, they weren't meant to.
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The Tripods / int_3a90dc63	type	Aliens Are Bastards
The Tripods / int_3a90dc63	comment	Aliens Are Bastards: Played straight with the Masters, who enslave humans with no regard for their well-being, and plan to exterminate the entire species.
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The Tripods / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
The Tripods / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid : Invoked. In When the Tripods Came the Swiss are shown as having a nationalism that verges on fascism, including a distasteful hatred of outsiders. The father says that under the circumstances that could give them a better chance for surviving free of the Tripods. As it happens they don't and are conquered by the French and German capped. But they do have an offstage Dying Moment of Awesome at least.
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The Tripods / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: Most people live happily, and the Masters couldn't be bothered to actively control everyone; it is enough to put a mind block against resisting the Masters. In fact, you think, what's so bad about it? Until you realize that just to start with, it is not being able to think that is the matter. Also, roughly one out of every twenty people that gets Capped is driven insane, becoming Vagrants. Vagrants basically have the mental capacity of a medieval Village Idiot, wandering around from town to town to beg. Most people feel both sorry for and ashamed of them, but none of the Capped people ever question why this has to happen.
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The Tripods / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Tripods / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: If you read the original trilogy before the prequel came out, you know the Tripods win.
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The Tripods / int_3bce9346	type	RagnarÃ¶k Proofing
The Tripods / int_3bce9346	comment	RagnarÃ¶k Proofing: Despite a worldwide civil war and a century of abandonment, a great deal of equipment and knowledge is salvaged from deserted human cities.
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The Tripods / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Tripods / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: The initial encounter between a Tripod and a Challenger tank in the prequel results in a crushing defeat. On the other hand, after the destruction of the tank, the military hits the Tripod with a volley of missiles from a wing of jet fighters and it is easily annihilated. In The City of Gold and Lead Will's master explains to him that the Masters had a healthy respect for humanity's military, well aware that if they tried to take mankind head-on they'd lose.
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The Tripods / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
The Tripods / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: After Will kills his Master, he makes it look like the Master died in the bath of a drug overdose. After Will escapes, Fritz tells everyone he found the body and decided to commit suicide at the Place of Happy Release.
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The Tripods / int_4023b8c8	type	First-Name Basis
The Tripods / int_4023b8c8	comment	First-Name Basis: Julius and Martin to everyone.
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The Tripods / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Tripods / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Of course, the Tripods are defeated, never to return. Unfortunately, Julius is voted out of power, the Conference of Man fails to achieve a consensus in uniting humanity, and there are rumors of war.
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The Tripods / int_4508b16b	type	The Guards Must Be Crazy
The Tripods / int_4508b16b	comment	The Guards Must Be Crazy: Will and Henry sneak out of a French prison past a guard who at one point is standing in a position that meant he'd be looking into the (now empty) cell they've just escaped from. While searching Fritz's room, the Guards somehow miss William who's hiding in the shower stall. In general, Will and the other spies and freemen are often horrible at blending in and carefully aping the behaver of the capped population to avoid suspicion - even in the Masters city. Especially in the Masters city. Even when literally talking right in front of a guard that they are drawing suspicion from said guard for how unusual they are acting!
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The Tripods / int_4536fd29	type	Energy Weapon
The Tripods / int_4536fd29	comment	Energy Weapon: Not in the novels, but in the TV series after the boys destroy the Tripod with a grenade, red-painted military Tripods are sent out to find them, and shoot up the countryside in an effort to flush them out. This happens again at the end of Season 2, after our heroes and the circus children flee into the woods to escape capping. Which leads to a Fridge Logic moment; if Season 3 had been made, what was to stop the Tripods from simply shooting down the balloons?
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The Tripods / int_457655dd	type	Human Popsicle
The Tripods / int_457655dd	comment	Human Popsicle: Eloise isn't quite dead in this version, but frozen and preserved with other specimens of beauty or scientific interest to be taken to the Master's planet. Will is no less disturbed on seeing this.
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The Tripods / int_45fe3a2e	type	Utopia Justifies the Means
The Tripods / int_45fe3a2e	comment	Utopia Justifies the Means: To the Capped (and Will's Master) the Tripods are benevolent rulers who stopped humanity from fighting wars.
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The Tripods / int_48d9e12d	type	Funetik Aksent
The Tripods / int_48d9e12d	comment	Funetik Aksent: We get "shmand-fair" for chemin-de-fernote A French phrase that literally translates as "iron road", but really means a railroad or railway and (once) "Zhan-Pole" for "Jean-Paul." Somewhat justified, as Will and Henry seem largely unaware of foreign languages.
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The Tripods / int_4b045a8a	type	Villainous Valour
The Tripods / int_4b045a8a	comment	Villainous Valour: In the backstory the Masters voyaged far away from their homeworld and then decided to top that by conquering, well, us.
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The Tripods / int_4b52ff08	type	May Contain Evil
The Tripods / int_4b52ff08	comment	May Contain Evil: The Trippy Show.
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The Tripods / int_4e03e262	type	Wax Museum Morgue
The Tripods / int_4e03e262	comment	Wax Museum Morgue: In The City of Gold and Lead, Will's Master takes him to this place, where he finds Eloise.
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The Tripods / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Tripods / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: In When the Tripods Came, the growing cult of humans who have been hypnotized into worshipping the Tripods (the "Trippies") is progressively getting worse, and they've started using the (early, removable) Brain Cap which allows them to be controlled all the time. The main character looks at three military jets flying through the sky, and spends a long moment calming himself by pointing out that the authorities still have the might of our entire military and civil infrastructure against what are basically hypnotized rioters...then two of the military jets shoot down the other one. Although he never knew which side each plane was on, this is the terrifying moment when the protagonist realizes that the Capped humans have taken over at least part of our frontline military units, and we are truly no longer in control. In The City of Gold and Lead when Will discovers that the Masters will start their terraforming project in just four years when La RÃ©sistance assume that entire generations will pass before they're in a position to overthrow the Masters.
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The Tripods / int_4ebb6a0	type	Insert Grenade Here
The Tripods / int_4ebb6a0	comment	Insert Grenade Here: Will is being hauled up into the alien Tripod by its Combat Tentacles when he is able to toss an Ancient Artifact they found in an abandoned cache through the opening hatch. The damage causes the alien atmosphere to vent into the outside world. In the TV miniseries, the boys find themselves underneath the Tripod which is standing on loose slate. They use the grenade to cause a small avalanche that unbalances it, popping the hatch open so they can throw a second grenade inside.
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The Tripods / int_4f6cf75	type	Mirroring Factions
The Tripods / int_4f6cf75	comment	Mirroring Factions: The humans' overconfidence in When The Tripods Came parallels the Tripods' overconfidence in The Pool of Fire. Both pay dearly for this.
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The Tripods / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
The Tripods / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: The resistance. But then, they have to be.
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The Tripods / int_51c70be6	type	Obliviously Evil
The Tripods / int_51c70be6	comment	Obliviously Evil: Even Will's "good" Master sees nothing wrong with preserving human girls as stuffed specimens, or destroying all of Earth's native life except for a few humans who would be kept in the alien equivalent of a zoo.
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The Tripods / int_51d8f2e3	type	Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering
The Tripods / int_51d8f2e3	comment	Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering: The Conference of Man in the end, foreshadowed by Pierre in the beginning of The Pool of Fire.
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The Tripods / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
The Tripods / int_52871b4e	comment	Vichy Earth: In the aftermath of the invasion, the world is divided into feudal states, ultimately controlled by the Tripods.
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The Tripods / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Tripods / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: The Black Guards are, for the most part, quite polite and even understanding and supportive, all the while in no way deviating from their duties. Averted with a few individual Black Guards, particularly in Germany and in the Masters' city, who are outright nasty and sadistic by comparison, as well as by the Black Guards near the White Mountains, though the latter turn out to be resistance members wearing false caps who are trying to suss out infiltrators who have been hypnotised by the Masters and would thus be obedient even while not wearing caps. Al Pasha, who runs a traveling circus of children — either the offspring of vagrants or children who've run away to avoid capping. Those who don't have the talent to perform he hands over to the Black Guards for money. Will and Beanpole avoid this fate by promising him they know the location of buried treasure (the remains of a gold and silver chess set Beanpole has found). Because he can't take the other children with them into the White Mountains, Pasha arranges for the Black Guards and a Tripod to turn up so they can be capped, with the Guards taking the pick of the bunch.
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The Tripods / int_53b6ab6a	type	Jumped at the Call
The Tripods / int_53b6ab6a	comment	Jumped at the Call: When Ozymandias told Will the larger story, Will didn't need much convincing even before he saw that "Ozy" was not a vagrant but a phony capped normal human. And it helps that Will hated the idea of being capped to begin with.
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The Tripods / int_55ec42d7	type	Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe
The Tripods / int_55ec42d7	comment	Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: The manner of speech affected by Ozymandias, as part of his disguise. Justified in that he is pretending to be brain damaged.
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The Tripods / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
The Tripods / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: The Masters think of humans as livestock or, at best, as pets. Uncapped humans are, not surprisingly, not exceedingly fond of the Masters.
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The Tripods / int_59f0de2a	type	Not Himself
The Tripods / int_59f0de2a	comment	Not Himself: Laurie's first clue that there is something seriously wrong with his Uncle Ian. Will's Master notices strange things about Will, like him failing to bow after a beating (the first time this had happened, and only because the normally kindly Master was high on drugs). This rouses his curiosity, but the precipitating incident comes when Will's Master goes into Will's room and finds out that Will was making notes about the Masters and the City in the margins of his books. In the Master's words, "The cap should forbid that absolutely."
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The Tripods / int_5e90d898	type	Prequel in the Lost Age
The Tripods / int_5e90d898	comment	Prequel in the Lost Age: When the Tripods Came.
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The Tripods / int_5f014f7a	type	Sub Story
The Tripods / int_5f014f7a	comment	Sub Story : Alluded to. Some of the last bits of the formal human military forces to be subdued were submarines. These had to be sunk rather then having their crew capped and one almost managed to destroy one of the Masters' cities.
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The Tripods / int_60cc14ba	type	Ruritania
The Tripods / int_60cc14ba	comment	Ruritania : Germany at this time.
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The Tripods / int_62697dee	type	The Master
The Tripods / int_62697dee	comment	The Master: The Masters, of course.
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The Tripods / int_6509bb9f	type	Non-Indicative Name
The Tripods / int_6509bb9f	comment	Nonindicative Name: Or nonindicative nickname — Wild Bill Hockey. "He didn't look wild, and his name wasn't Bill."
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The Tripods / int_663f35c0	type	Only One Name
The Tripods / int_663f35c0	comment	Only One Name: Julius.
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The Tripods / int_666648a3	type	Hostile Terraforming
The Tripods / int_666648a3	comment	Hostile Terraforming: The Masters' plan for Earth.
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The Tripods / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
The Tripods / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Laurie, and soon, Andy.
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The Tripods / int_6774150c	type	If I Can't Have Youâ€¦
The Tripods / int_6774150c	comment	If I Can't Have Youâ€¦: When Eloise starts falling for Will, the man she was supposed to marry arranges for the Tripods to take her.
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The Tripods / int_6b22aace	type	Not So Invincible After All
The Tripods / int_6b22aace	comment	Not So Invincible After All: Will becomes the first human to kill a Tripod. And then the first to kill a Master up close and personal. Resistance leader Julius mentions these facts more than once in efforts to bolster morale.
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The Tripods / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Tripods / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: The Masters' plan to destroy life on Earth to make it habitable for their own species. Also the Masters themselves. After so long of not knowing whether the Tripods were robots or merely vehicles, Will finally gets to see their operators... and he finds them so disgusting and ridiculous that his first urge is to laugh.
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The Tripods / int_6b723294	type	Techno Babble
The Tripods / int_6b723294	comment	Techno Babble: While working as a spy in The City of Gold and Lead, Will tries to encourage his Master to talk about his work, but unfortunately there aren't any human words for the technical terms the Master is using.
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The Tripods / int_70e6a866	type	Inferred Holocaust
The Tripods / int_70e6a866	comment	Though the Tripods are eventually taken out anyway.
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The Tripods / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
The Tripods / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: The result of the Bittersweet Ending.
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The Tripods / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
The Tripods / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: The Masters believe this. It is implied (or hoped, by the human characters) to be the reason they lost interest in Earth after their cities were destroyed.
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The Tripods / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Tripods / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: The Masters tracking Will in The White Mountains. Planting a tracking device on an un-Capped person, possibly acting suspiciously? Good idea. Using a great big hulking Tripod to check up on him and his friends, so they get suspicious? Not so much. Will's Master has discovered that Will is uncapped, and on a previous occasion revealed to Will the Masters' Achilles' Heel. Caught in the Master's grip, Will says "Master, I can show you. Bring me closer"... and doing so is the last thing the Master ever does.
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The Tripods / int_73f79f91	type	Released to Elsewhere
The Tripods / int_73f79f91	comment	Released to Elsewhere: Eloise's ultimate fate.
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The Tripods / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Tripods / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Hail the Tripod!", in the prequel.
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The Tripods / int_768ae1c9	type	Les Collaborateurs
The Tripods / int_768ae1c9	comment	Les Collaborateurs: The Capped, not that they really have a choice.
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The Tripods / int_77666408	type	Combat Tentacles
The Tripods / int_77666408	comment	Combat Tentacles: The Tripod's main weapon.
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The Tripods / int_77d826c7	type	Stern Teacher
The Tripods / int_77d826c7	comment	Stern Teacher: "Wild Bill" Hockey, in the prequel.
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The Tripods / int_79a08ea0	type	Doom as Test Prize
The Tripods / int_79a08ea0	comment	Doom as Test Prize: The girls who win a beauty prize are taken to the Masters' city where they are killed and preserved under glass like butterflies.
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The Tripods / int_7a59a6d6	type	Mass Hypnosis
The Tripods / int_7a59a6d6	comment	Mass Hypnosis: How the Masters take over the world. Firstly, they use television signals that aren't universally effective. Later, they use mind-controlling Caps on the victims of hypnosis, and (once they get a foothold) everyone else.
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The Tripods / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
The Tripods / int_7bd44eb9	comment	Smart People Play Chess: While watching the river to see if his friends escape the alien city, Beanpole plays chess with a gold and silver chess set he's found in an abandoned building.
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The Tripods / int_7f3e75b6	type	Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair
The Tripods / int_7f3e75b6	comment	Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair: Will comes across the wreck of a giant ship on the beach. Lampshaded by Ozymandias' use of Shelley's poem as a Madness Mantra.
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The Tripods / int_7fab3dae	type	Pineapple Surprise
The Tripods / int_7fab3dae	comment	Pineapple Surprise: The boys nearly kill themselves when they come across a cache of grenades left over from the invasion, and don't know what they are.
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The Tripods / int_82fc5bdf	type	Bratty Half-Pint
The Tripods / int_82fc5bdf	comment	Bratty Half-Pint: Will and Henry, in the beginning.
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The Tripods / int_858e593f	type	Atmosphere Abuse
The Tripods / int_858e593f	comment	Atmosphere Abuse: What the Masters plan to do.
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The Tripods / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Tripods / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Despite Jack's capping being the catalyst of Will's journey, he isn't mentioned at all in The Pool of Fire when Will discusses his trip to visit his parents.
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The Tripods / int_86b34ecf	type	"Leave Your Quest" Test
The Tripods / int_86b34ecf	comment	"Leave Your Quest" Test: In The White Mountains, Will faces one of these when he faces the prospect of being welcomed into the Count's family and life with Eloise. Or so he thinks. Likely the reason for every recruit taking the long hazardous trip to the White Mountains instead of staying to form cells in their own countries. It filters out those who don't have the determination or cunning to be a member of La RÃ©sistance. In When the Tripods Came, Laurie faces one of these when he fears his father has abandoned him.
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The Tripods / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
The Tripods / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: The Masters are pretty bad, but the heroes can be downright Machiavellian at times.
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The Tripods / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
The Tripods / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Thanks to Aliens Steal Cable, the Tripods.
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The Tripods / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
The Tripods / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: The reason for Vagrants.
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The Tripods / int_8b1a664	type	Kill All Humans
The Tripods / int_8b1a664	comment	Kill All Humans: What the Tripods ultimately plan for humans, though not out of malice; it's simply collateral damage from their terraforming.
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The Tripods / int_8b442f50	type	Did Not Get the Girl
The Tripods / int_8b442f50	comment	Did Not Get the Girl: Will.
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The Tripods / int_8ee823b6	type	Knife-Throwing Act
The Tripods / int_8ee823b6	comment	Knife-Throwing Act: In the final episode, the protagonists are hiding in a traveling circus. The ringmaster, Evil Foreigner Al Pasha, forces two of the children to train for this act, so Will offers to take the girl's place, but only when the thrower is good enough to hit the Knife Outline a hundred times in a row. To Will's apprehension the knife thrower is able to reach this target before they arrive for a big show in Geneva, and so Will has to do some William Telling as the final act involves him with an apple on his head.
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The Tripods / int_8f37b	type	Medieval Stasis
The Tripods / int_8f37b	comment	Medieval Stasis: Enforced by the Tripods.
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The Tripods / int_901dbf9a	type	Cliff Hanger
The Tripods / int_901dbf9a	comment	Cliffhanger: Season One — the boys are told they'll be sent as spies into the Master's city. Season Two — Will and Beanpole return from their successful mission to find the Freeman base has been destroyed by the Tripods.
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The Tripods / int_91c651a1	type	Guilt-Free Extermination War
The Tripods / int_91c651a1	comment	Guilt-Free Extermination War: No one particularly worries about whether or not the Masters in the cities are civilians. The Masters meanwhile wish to Kill All Humans.
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The Tripods / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The Tripods / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: When the slaves in the Cities can no longer work, they go to the Place of Happy Release.
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The Tripods / int_9600368d	type	Behind the Black
The Tripods / int_9600368d	comment	Will and Henry sneak out of a French prison past a guard who at one point is standing in a position that meant he'd be looking into the (now empty) cell they've just escaped from.
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The Tripods / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
The Tripods / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: The meaning of the Sphere Chase. Just an alien game, or something else? The description sounds like a weird form of basketball, but when a captive Master is questioned about it, he refuses to say anything about it, suggesting it's important in some way.
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The Tripods / int_97df21d3	type	Tripod Terror
The Tripods / int_97df21d3	comment	Tripod Terror: Of course. Probably the second-most iconic example in fiction after The War of the Worlds (1898).
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The Tripods / int_9b1da792	type	Montage
The Tripods / int_9b1da792	comment	Montage: As our heroes are on the barge to the games, Will is hitting a punching bag, Beanpole is working on the steam engine, and Fritz is doing exercises.
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The Tripods / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Tripods / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Henry's concerns toward the end of The Pool of Fire are awfully prescient, considering the Bittersweet Ending. In the prequel, one of the things the first exploring Tripod plucks from the smashed farmhouse to study is a television set.
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The Tripods / int_a02779f2	type	Terra Deforming
The Tripods / int_a02779f2	comment	Terra Deforming: The Masters' Plan for Earth.
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The Tripods / int_a05522e3	type	Alien Abduction
The Tripods / int_a05522e3	comment	Alien Abduction: Inverted. The humans abduct an alien and experiment on him. Also played straight in the prequel, when an exploring Tripod takes a human farmer inside itself for examination.
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The Tripods / int_a119b588	type	Hey, You!
The Tripods / int_a119b588	comment	Hey, You!: Laurie calls his grandmother and his stepmother by their first names. Andy does so with his mother.
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The Tripods / int_a58802b7	type	Happiness in Slavery
The Tripods / int_a58802b7	comment	Happiness in Slavery: Thanks to the Caps, at least.
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The Tripods / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
The Tripods / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: Anything to do with the Tripods. Three initial landings, three waves of the invasion, three-tentacled robots, three Cities, aliens with three legs and three tentacles.
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The Tripods / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
The Tripods / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Beanpole, for most of the books. We only see his real name in print when he is introduced (to the reader), or once when Julius refers to him.
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The Tripods / int_ab2ffd70	type	Foreign Ruling Class
The Tripods / int_ab2ffd70	comment	Foreign Ruling Class: Earth is conquered by alien invaders who order all humans to be implanted with Hypno Trinket "caps" that force them to remain loyal.
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The Tripods / int_ac0f4761	type	Future Imperfect
The Tripods / int_ac0f4761	comment	Future Imperfect: Julius incorrectly believes that the Tripods are an artificial intelligence that Turned Against Their Masters.
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The Tripods / int_ac711709	type	Easily Thwarted Alien Invasion
The Tripods / int_ac711709	comment	Easily Thwarted Alien Invasion: Subverted, in that it only seems* easily thwarted at first.*
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The Tripods / int_acbd5c12	type	Perfect Pacifist People
The Tripods / int_acbd5c12	comment	Perfect Pacifist People: What the Capped claim is the Tripods' plan for humanity.
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The Tripods / int_ade69f7d	type	Heavyworlder
The Tripods / int_ade69f7d	comment	Heavyworlder: The Masters.
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The Tripods / int_ae69516f	type	Artificial Gravity
The Tripods / int_ae69516f	comment	Artificial Gravity: As the Masters are heavyworlders, they use this to increase the gravity in their cities, to the detriment of their human slaves.
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The Tripods / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
The Tripods / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Which includes accepting people's hospitality and stealing their children. Many of the parents would of course have been glad that their children were free...if they were in their right mind. But as they were capped it's awfully tough luck on them. Will feels very guilty about this.
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The Tripods / int_b1c2112	type	Tracking Device
The Tripods / int_b1c2112	comment	Tracking Device: The Tripods implant one in Will's skin, then hypnotize him to forget about it. Fortunately the others discover it in time, but its removal causes the Tripod to come down upon them.
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The Tripods / int_b4fce1ab	type	Obfuscating Insanity
The Tripods / int_b4fce1ab	comment	Obfuscating Insanity: Ozymandias poses as a Vagrant so he can wander from one village to another as a recruiter.
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The Tripods / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Tripods / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: A reviewer of the original books wondered about the Tripods not having infrared lights for night searching. John Christopher included some lines in the prequel book as a response to that, with the psychiatrist saying that even if not all of their technology is advanced, they might be advanced in studies of the mind.
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The Tripods / int_b578811d	type	Scary Dogmatic Aliens
The Tripods / int_b578811d	comment	Scary Dogmatic Aliens
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The Tripods / int_b7475a74	type	Bothering by the Book
The Tripods / int_b7475a74	comment	Bothering by the Book: Will does this with Ulf, with unexpected results.
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The Tripods / int_b8499e1c	type	Hypno Trinket
The Tripods / int_b8499e1c	comment	Hypno Trinket: The Caps.
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The Tripods / int_b905e88c	type	People Jars
The Tripods / int_b905e88c	comment	People Jars: In the second novel, Will wonders why no women are seen in the Tripod city. Then his Master takes him to a place where human females are kept preserved like butterflies.
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The Tripods / int_ba58393f	type	Overnight Conquest
The Tripods / int_ba58393f	comment	Overnight Conquest: Played largely straight, once the Mass Hypnosis sets in.
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The Tripods / int_ba5bd7	type	Ignored Expert
The Tripods / int_ba5bd7	comment	Ignored Expert: Dr. Monmouth in the prequel — at least, for the Cordrays.
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The Tripods / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Tripods / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Never speak or act against the Tripods if someone Capped is around, unless you're well armed. When Will manages to destroy a Tripod with a grenade in The White Mountains, dozens of Tripods flood the area, so many of them that it is most of a day before they can leave their hiding place for even a couple of minutes to stretch their legs, and a full two days before it is safe to travel again.
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The Tripods / int_bf17a64e	type	Germanic Efficiency
The Tripods / int_bf17a64e	comment	Germanic Efficiency: The mission-dedicated Fritz.
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The Tripods / int_c011cd29	type	Path of Inspiration
The Tripods / int_c011cd29	comment	Path of Inspiration: Hinted at in the prequel, but most explicitly done in The Pool of Fire, in the Middle East, where Tripod worship has supplanted Islam.
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The Tripods / int_c09dbbbb	type	Weaksauce Weakness
The Tripods / int_c09dbbbb	comment	Weaksauce Weakness: Even tiny quantities of alcohol render the Masters completely unconscious for hours and they are unable to detect it. However, actually getting the alcohol into the masters water supply proves exceptionally difficult.
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The Tripods / int_c0f87dda	type	Humans Are Warriors
The Tripods / int_c0f87dda	comment	Humans Are Warriors : Subverted. The Alien Invasion comes off almost without a hitch. However it is explained that the planners of the invasion had feared that human military technology might make them difficult prey if the invaders were to fight them directly. Well, humans do all right in the beginning, as the Tripods aren't built to withstand missiles. Then the invaders break out the Mass Hypnosis...
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The Tripods / int_c2288824	type	A Nazi by Any Other Name
The Tripods / int_c2288824	comment	A Nazi by Any Other Name: The Black Guards. In the Master's city, the captain of the Black Guards is even named Borman.
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The Tripods / int_c4b0faae	type	Can't Hold His Liquor
The Tripods / int_c4b0faae	comment	Can't Hold His Liquor: An exaggerated example in the case of the Masters, who are so weak to its effects that even the tiniest trace will knock them out cold for hours.
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The Tripods / int_c515d358	type	America Saves the Day
The Tripods / int_c515d358	comment	America Saves the Day: Averted. The human resistance in Europe is hiding in the Alps, because the Tripods avoid high altitudes with low atmospheric pressure (from what we see of the artificially maintained alien climate in their cities, their own planet seems to be vaguely swamp-like). The European resistance consists of people from all over Europe that fled there as uncapped children, but the main characters are from Britain. In The Pool of Fire, they make contact with a similar resistance group which formed in parallel to the one in the European Alps, but in the American Rockies. The protagonist, who has grown up in the rustic feudal-level society of the Capped humans with no long-distance travel, can't help but remark on how the Americans he encounters for the first time have an extremely bizarre accent. Ironically, despite having a well-organized and long-running resistance movement, their attack against the aliens fails, while the new recruits in Asia succeeded. The idea was to attack each of the three alien cities - one in China, one on the Rhine River, one in Panama - but the attack on the American city failed.
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The Tripods / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Tripods / int_c75df49a	comment	Also, the prequel has a Shout-Out to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, as well as a very subtle one to ALF.
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The Tripods / int_c9c756a8	type	Child Soldiers
The Tripods / int_c9c756a8	comment	Child Soldiers: The recruits of La RÃ©sistance. This is of necessity, of course. Virtually no un-Capped adults exist outside of the Resistance—and the adult members of the Resistance were undoubtedly once Child Soldiers themselves.
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The Tripods / int_cadbe2b3	type	She Is the King
The Tripods / int_cadbe2b3	comment	She Is the King: Straddles the line between Types 2 and 3. In When the Tripods Came, during the stopover in Guernsey, the narrator comments that the islanders hail the Queen as the Duke of Normandy, which, according to The Other Wiki, is her correct style despite her gender.
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The Tripods / int_cb12aacf	type	Deus ex Nukina
The Tripods / int_cb12aacf	comment	Deus ex Nukina : In The City of Gold and Lead we are told that a submarine launched an ICBM at one of the Masters' cities long ago.
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The Tripods / int_cb2d889	type	Won the War, Lost the Peace
The Tripods / int_cb2d889	comment	Won the War, Lost the Peace: The end result of the liberation of Earth; humanity rearms and returns to his divisive ways. The book ends with the protagonists teaming up again to work for peace.
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The Tripods / int_cfc52d52	type	Spoiled Brat
The Tripods / int_cfc52d52	comment	Spoiled Brat: Angela in the prequel.
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The Tripods / int_d13c403a	type	Competence Zone
The Tripods / int_d13c403a	comment	Competence Zone: Sort of. Most of the people who get things done are teenagers. At fifteen or sixteen, Beanpole has already become a head scientist, and Fritz soon after becomes a mission commander. Only partially justified by the fact that fourteen is the age of majority.
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The Tripods / int_d280a296	type	Teen Genius
The Tripods / int_d280a296	comment	Teen Genius: Beanpole
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The Tripods / int_d2c0e2ed	type	Schmuck Bait
The Tripods / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	Schmuck Bait: Double-subverted by the "DANGER: 6,600 VOLTS" sign in the beginning of The White Mountains. The reason for the warning sign had long since become a non-issue, "but the notion of danger, however far away and long ago, was exciting."
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The Tripods / int_d50e7e13	comment	White Void Room: Where Will meets Coggie.
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The Tripods / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
The Tripods / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Masters, except for Ruki.
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The Tripods / int_d8ec79d5	comment	Benevolent Alien Invasion: Subverted. It often looks idyllic and it builds up a big shock when we learn that they plan to Kill All Humans. The aliens think of themselves this way. They consider turning the humans into uncreative, unambitious cattle to have been helping them by stopping wars, and they think taking humans as slaves (who they beat, abuse, and shorten the lifespans to a few years) and decorations (killing them and preserving the bodies for display) to be an honor... for the humans. The Capped agree.
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The Tripods / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Julius. Also, Fritz, briefly.
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The Tripods / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Ilse in When the Tripods Came. Her nationality and parentage become very important to the plot. Ulf. Just when you think you see the last of him in The City of Gold and Lead, he comes back in The Pool of Fire, and sets up a conflict with Will that has unexpected results.
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The Tripods / int_e06d3a98	comment	In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves: Will's Master claims that this is why they had to conquer the Earth, though as moments before he said that humanity was on the verge of developing the technology to expand across the galaxy, it's possible they were actually seeking to destroy a potential rival.
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The Tripods / int_e0e52562	type	Loves the Sound of Screaming
The Tripods / int_e0e52562	comment	Loves the Sound of Screaming: Fritz' master in The City of Gold and Lead, who clearly beats him for fun. In contrast, Will's is Affably Evil, giving him a slightly larger living area than most slaves get, and asking Will polite questions about his life.
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The Tripods / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
The Tripods / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: What the aliens ultimately do once Earth is freed.
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The Tripods / int_e1cc36	type	The Bait
The Tripods / int_e1cc36	comment	The Bait: In order to capture one of the Masters, the protagonist rides a green-painted (to catch their attention) horse past one of their Tripods, and when it gives chase lures it into a hidden pit.
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The Tripods / int_e22feb9c	comment	Mind-Control Device: The Caps.
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The Tripods / int_e35ab565	comment	Indy Ploy: In The Pool of Fire, resistance infiltrators succeed in putting all the Masters in the Domed City into a coma, but have to find some way of actually destroying the city before they wake up, with no idea of how to do so.
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The Tripods / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: Laurie does this over his father's refusal to rescue Andy.
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The Tripods / int_e66e9bfb	comment	New Era Speech: The Trippies are fond of these in the prequel. After Switzerland falls, there is an indirect quotation of one, saying that "everlasting peace had come to Switzerland as it had already to the rest of the world".
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The Tripods / int_e8763c7e	comment	Aliens Never Invented the Wheel: Although the Tripods have near-lightspeed craft, they have no means of detecting light outside the visible spectrum, and have no aircraft. Justified with regard to the latter, as the gravity and atmosphere of their planet was such that aircraft wouldn't work.
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The Tripods / int_e8e56799	comment	When the Masters in the newly-arrived terraforming ship realize the humans have won, they destroy their former cities and depart. This is likely due to their Blue-and-Orange Morality — revenge is not important to them.
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The Tripods / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger Than They Look: A chilling example in The City of Gold And Lead. Will mistakes the first slave he meets in the City for a decrepit old man, but soon learns that the slave is a teenage game champion like himself, ground down to his current state after only a couple of years' toil for the Masters!
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The Tripods / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: Coggie resents its immortality, so much so it's willing to turn a blind eye to Will being a member of La RÃ©sistance.
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The Tripods / int_eac7bacb	comment	Gratuitous Disco Sequence: Given the Medieval Stasis setting, something of an Anachronism Stew moment occurs when Fritz walks into the Pink Parrot, and finds a light ball shining multi-coloured beams over dancing men and women.
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The Tripods / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: Will can be this way, at times. (Flawed protagonists were something of a Christopher specialty.) So can Henry, in the beginning he's the local bully, but he quickly grows out of it. Fritz' Master also qualifies, as the alien not only beats him constantly for fun, but deliberately gives him tasks that are beyond his strength.
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The Tripods / int_edb6dd67	comment	We Will Have Euthanasia in the Future: At least, in the Masters' cities.
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The Tripods / int_f0982bbf	comment	Aliens Steal Cable: How the Tripods are able to infiltrate Earth, after their failed invasion.
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The Tripods / int_f13a0451	comment	Suicide Attack / Taking You with Me: The hot-air balloon bombing assault on the last of the Masters' Cities fails because the bombs either detonate in midair or keep bouncing off the dome. Henry jumps out of his balloon, lands at the edge of the dome, and holds his bomb against it to make sure the blast will shatter it.
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The Tripods / int_f23c26ab	comment	Food Slap: The wife of the bargemaster is ill, possibly from The Plague. Will tries to take her a mug of water but Fritz blocks his way, so Will tosses the water in his face.
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The Tripods / int_f32d85ab	comment	20 Minutes into the Future: The setting of the prequel. Given that it was written in The '80s, some amount of Zeerust, particularly because of Failed Future Forecast.
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The Tripods / int_fa7c3288	comment	Humans Are Ugly: Surprisingly averted, albeit to horrifying effect; despite their utterly alien anatomy compared to ours, the Masters have an aesthetic appreciation for the human form and keep the most beautiful human women preserved on display in their cities like butterflies pinned to a board.
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The Tripods / int_feb0e2fe	comment	The Cognoscs are a non corporeal higher order of beings to whom the Masters are subservient. One of them takes an interest in Will and learns everything about their plans to fight the Masters. Fortunately, this Congnosc is sympathetic and dislikes the Masters. It's only response is to wish Will luck and Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence.
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