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The Underland Chronicles, abbreviated fondly as TUC, was written by author Suzanne Collins as her debut series of novels. The books consist of: Gregor the Overlander Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods Gregor and the Marks of Secret Gregor and the Code of ClawWhen a kid named Gregor follows his little sister, Boots, through a grate in the laundry room of their New York apartment building, he hurtles into the dark Underland beneath the city. There, humans live uneasily besides giant spiders, bats, cockroaches, and rats — but the fragile peace is about to fall apart. Of course, Gregor wants no part of a conflict between these creepy creatures. But when he discovers that a strange prophecy foretells a role for him in the Underland's uncertain future, he knows there's no other choice. Little does he know his quest will change him forever.Though it sounds like your run-of-the-mill fiction, the books are surprisingly good and feature great characters. And, yes, the animals talk. Big time.The series has a small but devoted fanbase, which has become slightly larger following the success of her other series, The Hunger Games. | |
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Applied Phlebotinum | |
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Applied Phlebotinum So... many... prophecies. Not to mention the plot-helping mutations. | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Anyone Can Die: Even characters that have been part of the story for multiple books, like Solovet. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: More than once. Gregor suffers from one in Gregor and the Code of Claw when the realization that if the prophecy is true, he's going to die hits. Luxa becomes essentially catatonic when her cousin betrays her. Howard after Pandora dies. Vikus suffers a stroke after his wife dies. | |
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Multinational Team | |
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Multinational Team: In the last book, the Regalians assemble a team of the smartest members of each race (spiders, cockroaches, bats, mice, rats, and humans) to break the Code of Claw. This was apparently planned long ago, as a separate living space for each one was built into the castle, of appropriate size. | |
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Spectacular Spinning | |
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Spectacular Spinning: Ripred and eventually Gregor spin during fights. It is implied that all ragers can. | |
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Character Name and the Noun Phrase: The series starts off with Gregor the Overlander, then continues to Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane, then Curse of the Warmbloods, and so on. | |
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Reluctant Warrior | |
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Reluctant Warrior: Gregor, who spends the first book trying to convince everyone that he can't be the warrior everyone's talking about. Hamnet in the third book, who makes it clear he considers violence a last resort. | |
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The Swarm | |
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The Swarm: In Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane, they pass an island inhabited by ravenous flying mites that can strip a bat down to the bone in less than a minute. | |
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Senseless Sacrifice | |
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Senseless Sacrifice: In Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods, Mange, Frill, and Hamnet die on the quest to get the starshade, which turns out to be useless. | |
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Good Is Not Nice | |
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Good is Not Nice: Especially characters who may not quite qualify as "good". | |
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Ambiguously Brown | |
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Ambiguously Brown While never directly said, and on first read through it can be totally overlooked, as Gregor's darker skin seeming to be in comparison to the Underlander's. Later in the series, as more becomes known about his family, there are potential hints to them being of Hispanic origin. | |
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The Diaper Change | |
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The Diaper Change: The changing of Boots's "catchcloths" was frequent subject matter. | |
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Covered with Scars | |
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Covered with Scars: Ripred. By the end Gregor's racked up an impressive total. He gets an ointment to help with the ones on his arms and legs from the Vineyard after Curse of the Warmbloods, but often forgets to use it. After his fight with the Bane, he basically gives up the idea of even coming up with an excuse for them. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: The father of the titular character in Gregor the Overlander vanished when he was eight. They find him in the first book, though. | |
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy | |
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Ripred points out that Sandwich's prophecies may well just be coincidence or self-fulfilling, and he doesn't believe in them. They seem to be pretty accurate, but only after a book of trying to decipher them, and you can see how they could be reinterpreted to fit other explanations/events. | |
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The Drag-Along | |
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The Drag-Along: Temp and Boots. Averted in Gregor and The Curse of The Warmbloods. Temp kept on warning them, first suggested the idea that the cradle/cure might not be where they thought it was, and Boots did her dance. Lampshaded by Ripred in the same book: | |
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Shipper on Deck | |
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Shipper on Deck: Very much inverted with Howard, who seems hellbent on making sure Gregor and Luxa never go on a date. And there's Gregor's mom who secretly approves of Luxa because she's "got attitude". | |
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Create Your Own Villain | |
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Create Your Own Villain: Averted; although Gregor spared the Bane, who was a baby it was more a case of You Can't Fight Fate. | |
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Burial at Sea | |
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Burial at Sea: The Regalians send their dead on small rafts out into the Waterway. Justified since cremation would create smoke with nowhere to go, while there's limited land with actual soil rather than rocks, which they need for agriculture. | |
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Heart Is an Awesome Power | |
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Boots. Even (especially) the creepy-crawly ones. Kind of her "superpower". She speaks fluent (as fluent as a three-year-old can get, anyway) Crawler by the end of the series. | |
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Character Development | |
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Luxa getting over her tendency to hate all rats and look down on/dismiss other species is part of her Character Development. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: A conversation between Vikus and Ripred in Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods gives us this little gem: | |
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Blessed with Suck | |
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Blessed with Suck: Everyone in this series has some sort of tragic past. More specifically, Twitchtip the "scent seer", whose sense of smell is so accurate that she can smell secrets—not a fast track to the popular crowd. Also Nerissa. Funny how a society built on one man's prophecies treats their own personal prophetess so poorly. Turns out being the Warrior of the prophecy isn't much fun for Gregor. At the end of the series, Gregor is warned that with his rager abilities it will be much easier for him to kill people, so he'll always have to keep an eye on himself. Hamnet is a skilled warrior and tactician. He also takes after his father in wanting to be a pacifist and better resolutions to conflict. Solovet doesn't take this well. | |
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Schizo Tech | |
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Schizo Tech: The Regalians have medieval-era technology, with no mention of gunpowder, but also have microscopes and sophisticated enough medicine to create a Synthetic Plague. | |
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First-Name Basis | |
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First-Name Basis: Gregor, Boots, and Lizzie's last name is never mentioned. Their mother's first name is Grace. | |
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Morton's Fork | |
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Morton's Fork: Ares ends up in a textbook example at the end of the first book. His human bond Henry turns out to be a traitor allied with the rats and falls off a cliff attempting to kill Gregor. If Ares lets him fall, he is guilty of betraying his bond and faces banishment as punishment. If he catches him, he is guilty of high treason and faces banishment as punishment. He chooses to let him fall, and is nearly banished until Gregor bonds with him and saves him. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Every single book except the first, verging on Downer Ending by the fifth one. In the latter, half the cast has died Gregor's father plans to move the family to their farm in Virginia, away from the vent, which means Luxa and Gregor may never see each other again, but Gregor manages to broker peace between the rats and humans, and he no longer has prophecies to fulfill. | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture: Solovet locked Hamnet in a prison cell with no human contact and minimal food for months until he broke and carried out a battle plan that wiped out countless rats, bats and humans. She ignores this when criticizing Hamnet ten years later because he wants nothing to do with her, and everyone in Regalia thought he was dead. | |
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Well, Excuse Me, Princess! | |
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Well, Excuse Me, Princess!: Gregor seems to love mocking Luxa's stiff conduct and all that. Has some pretty funny moments. | |
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When Trees Attack | |
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When Trees Attack: Lots of the plants in the Jungle are carnivorous. | |
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Humans Are the Real Monsters | |
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Humans Are the Real Monsters: Solovet ordered the creation of the plague in the third book. In Gregor and the Marks of Secret, we learn that all the other races call humans "killers", and we learn in Gregor and the Code of Claw that this is not without reason: one of their first acts in the Underland was poisoning the water supply of the Diggers to take their land. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: That encoded message in Gregor and the Code of Claw? It says "Twitchtip died in pit". Also, Luxa's declaration of war against the gnawers. In Prophecy of Bane, Nerissa turns the expected interpretation of the prophecy on its head. | |
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Please Wake Up | |
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Please Wake Up: The baby Bane begging his mother, Goldshard, to wake up after his father Snare killed her. | |
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Fantastic Racism | |
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Fantastic Racism: Even though the crawlers/cockroaches, gnawers/rats, spinners/spiders, fliers/bats, etc. that coexist with humans in the Underland are not human, they are sapient and treated as full characters on the same level as humans. Prejudices held among human characters towards these species are even treated as equal to any intrahuman bigotry. The bats, humans, and mice are allies with each other and hate the rats, who hate just about everyone, but especially the humans and mice. Most of the insects, especially the ants, hate all the mammals, although the fireflies will work for anyone who feeds them, and the cockroaches are considered stupid by just about everyone. Luxa getting over her tendency to hate all rats and look down on/dismiss other species is part of her Character Development. Vikus is one of the few Underland humans who doesn't have it. Like Luxa, Henry mocks the cockroaches. He even attempts to kill Ripred. | |
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Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp" | |
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Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": The assorted oversized creatures of the overworld are given simpler names, allegedly by the people who live there. (Rats are known as "gnawers", spiders as "spinners", and so on.) This is what the creatures of the Underworld actually call themselves in their own language, just translated into the nearest thing in English. Humans have one of these names too among the Underworld creaturesnote "killer", but they don't like to hear it. | |
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Military Maverick | |
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Military Maverick: Luxa shows shades of it in The Prophecy of Bane, when she secretly left Regalia to join the party in searching for the subject of the prophecy. In The Marks of Secret Luxa cements this, by declaring the war at rats by herself, without the Council of Regalia approval. When called out on this, she points out that the rats are likely to exterminate all the mice while the Council is bickering about the topic, and they won't stop to listen to others' accusations anyway. | |
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More Than Meets the Eye | |
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More than Meets the Eye: Everyone seems to have Hidden Depths in this series. | |
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The Berserker | |
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The Berserker: In Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane, Gregor learns that he's a "rager": a person with instinctive highly-developed warrior skills, a natural-born killer. He has a natural capacity to go into this state when his life is in danger. It's not always voluntary, which is really bad for a character who hates to kill. Ripred is also a rager. | |
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Reading The Enemy's Mail | |
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Reading The Enemy's Mail: Underlanders of all species have a system similar to Morse code to send messages. The plot of Gregor and the Code of Claw revolves around breaking the titular code in which the gnawers write theirs. | |
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Death Is Such an Odd Thing | |
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Death Is Such an Odd Thing: The ending leaves Gregor in a state of emotional distress about many characters, many of whom were absolute jerkasses toward him. Particularly in Gregor and the Code of Claw, when faced with the Prophecy of Time that foretells his own death. On a smaller scale, the True Companions have a very confused, not-quite-stunned reaction to the death of Tick in Gregor the Overlander. | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Ripred, the Bane (whose real name is Pearlpelt), Twirltongue, Lapblood, Mange, Razor... the rats have some scary names. A place version: The Arch of Tantalus and the Plains of Tartarus are both named after places in the Greek Underworld (and not the nicer parts either). | |
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Death World | |
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Ripred enjoys delivering these to Gregor on a regular basis, especially in Curse of the Warmbloods when Gregor disobeys orders with the rats while in jungle. | |
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BadassNormal | |
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Badass Normal: Almost everyone who isn't a rager or a seer. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: Used in almost every book—and not just from Gregor. Everyone wants to die for their loved ones. Sometimes this doesn't help all that much. In The Code of Claw, Cartesian the nibbler dies protecting his sister's babies from the rats when they break into the palace. | |
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Missing Mom | |
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Missing Mom: When Gregor's mom gets the plague in Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods, she spends most of the rest of the series recuperating in the Underland, since it's an Underland plague and Overland doctors would have no idea how to treat it. | |
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Ocean of Adventure | |
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Ocean of Adventure: In Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane, most of the story follows Gregor and the rest of his party as they travel the Waterway by boat, encountering classic obstacles like whirlpools, deadly islands, and sea monsters. | |
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Scary Scorpions | |
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Scary Scorpions: A pair of them towards the end of The Marks of Secret. However, they turn out to be much more friendly and helpful when the hero party stands down and switches to talk to them. | |
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Unstoppable Rage | |
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Unstoppable Rage: Ripred and Gregor as a result of being ragers. | |
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I Fell for Hours | |
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I Fell for Hours: In the first book, Gregor feels like he and Boots fall for hours down the laundry shaft. This is actually a good thing, since it means the air currents slowed their descent enough that they didn't have a crash landing. In later books they skip the air currents and just ride bats. | |
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Waif Prophet | |
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Okay, pretty much all female characters save Nerissa, Boots, and Lizzie. | |
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Devastating Remark | |
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Devastating Remark: 7-year-old Hazard says, when he hears about the death of his paternal grandmother, that he doesn't know how to feel because she rarely spoke to him, likely because she and his father (who had been killed in battle less than a year earlier) hated each other. This statement was the proximate cause of her husband, Hazard's grandfather, having a stroke. | |
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Rodents of Unusual Size | |
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Rodents of Unusual Size: The series has these as main characters—not to mention the giant insects and bats... | |
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Man-Eating Plant | |
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Man-Eating Plant: And giant-rat-eating. Gregor and co. face carnivorous plants that look like "giant yellow smiles" in the jungle. | |
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You Can't Fight Fate | |
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You Can't Fight Fate: Brought home in Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods when his mom contracts the plague; Gregor acknowledges mentally that there was no other way to ensure the prophecy would happen the way it needed to. | |
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Grey-and-Gray Morality | |
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Grey-and-Gray Morality: The human/rat war is FULL of this. | |
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Released to Elsewhere | |
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Released to Elsewhere: The rats are "relocating" all the mice in the Underland. Turns out that they're actually leading the mice to their doom without them suspecting anything. Not surprising, considering that the story is based on the Holocaust. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: Certain phrases from the various Prophecies get repeated over and over again in the story before it's revealed what they mean: "Two Over, two Under, of royal descent, two Crawlers, two Fliers, two Spinners assent. One Gnawer beside, one lost up ahead, and eight will be left when we count up the dead" from the Prophecy Of Grey in Gregor the Overlander. "Die the Baby, die his heart, die his most essential part" from the Prophecy Of Bane in Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane. "Turn and turn and turn again, you see the what but not the when", "Remedy and wrong entwine and so they form a single vine", and "If the flames of war are fanned, all Warmbloods lose the Underland" from the Prophecy Of Blood in Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods. "Father, mother, sister, brother, off they go, I do not know if I'll see another" from the Prophecy Of Secrets in Gregor and the Marks of Secret. "What she saw, it is the flaw, in the Code Of Claw" and "When the Monster's blood is spilled, when the Warrior has been killed" from the Prophecy Of Time in Gregor and the Code of Claw. | |
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I Don't Like the Sound of That Place | |
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A place version: The Arch of Tantalus and the Plains of Tartarus are both named after places in the Greek Underworld (and not the nicer parts either). | |
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty | |
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty: Regalia and the rats' realm. | |
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She Is Not My Girlfriend | |
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She Is Not My Girlfriend: In Gregor and the Marks of Secret, Gregor and Luxa are going to investigate the Nibblers' situation, but, since no one can know about it, they pretend that they are going on a picnic. Of course, Howard shows up and offers to join them, so Gregor, looking for an excuse, tells him that they're going on a date. Even when Howard finds out that Gregor was lying, he still chews him out because seeing as Luxa's a princess and Gregor's not even an Underlander, they couldn't possibly be married. Gregor states several times that he and Luxa aren't like that and marriage is thinking way too far ahead, since they're twelve or thirteen, but then Howard asks Gregor why he thought Howard might believe it in the first place, rendering all his arguments useless. | |
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Badass Pacifist | |
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Badass Pacifist: Nerissa has her moments, especially as Queen of Regalia (temporarily). Hamnet, one of Vikus and Solovet's children. | |
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From Bad to Worse | |
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From Bad to Worse: The entire series can be summed up like this. | |
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The Nose Knows | |
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The Nose Knows: The rats demonstrate this quality in their first appearance by accurately calculating what Gregor and Boots ate for dinner hours earlier, right down to the tiny bowl of greens. They also are shown to be able to estimate human emotions and navigate and fight in complete darkness. In Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane, we meet Twitchtip, who has such a sensitive nose that she is called a "scent seer". Among other things, she can detect the scent of a rager, newly-hardened volcanic rock, secrets, a whirlpool, and the color of Boots' pink shirt from outside the castle tower Boots is in. | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran: Gregor by the end of the series. At twelve. Ripred is an older version of this. | |
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Tentacled Terror | |
| The Underland Chronicles / int_7b7f0141 | comment |
Tentacled Terror: Besides the Sea Serpents, the Waterway also has giant squid that attack ships. | |
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Dysfunction Junction | |
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Dysfunction Junction: Where to begin? Start with Gregor, whose father mysteriously vanished when he was eight and who gets dragged into a war at the age of eleven for no reason other than Because Destiny Says So, then add in Luxa, who broke when both her parents were killed and suffered even more when her cousin and close friend Henry betrayed her in the first book. Gregor's best friend is Ares, who is unfairly stigmatized from Henry's betrayal, which left him in the unpleasant position of choosing to save his bond or Gregor. Ripred is a Deadpan Snarker Fair-Weather Mentor at the best of times, something of an outcast among his own kind, whose wife and children died years ago. Even Nice Guys Howard and Vikus have to deal with ever-increasing amounts of horribleness as the series goes on. The most normal person out of all of them is Boots, who is three, and even she is forced to deal with some of the realities of death and war more than her family would like. Most of the time it's not anybody's fault, exactly, it's just the natural result of living in a Crapsack World where Everything Is Trying to Kill You. | |
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Final Battle | |
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Final Battle: Almost all of Underland's species come together against the Bane's army on the Plains of Tartarus. | |
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Failure Knight | |
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Failure Knight: Poor Hamnet. He shouldn't have listened to his mother and let the flood gates open so that everyone would drown. Later we discover that Ripred is this for his dead mate and pups. | |
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Broken Pedestal | |
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Broken Pedestal: Gregor loses what little respect he had left for Bartholomew of Sandwich after learning he poisoned the Diggers' water supply to steal their land. At the end of the book he breaks Sandwich's sword to symbolically "kill the Warrior". | |
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Black-and-Gray Morality | |
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Black-and-Gray Morality: verging on Grey-and-Gray Morality before the systematic extermination of the nibblers. Even afterward, individual rats on the Bane's side are portrayed in a sympathetic light. | |
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Falling into the Plot | |
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Falling into the Plot: The first book begins with Gregor and Boots falling down a (seemingly) Bottomless Pit under their apartment building's laundry room. | |
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Prophecies Rhyme All the Time | |
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Prophecies Rhyme All the Time: All of Sandwich's prophecies rhyme. | |
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Never Got to Say Goodbye | |
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Never Got to Say Goodbye: Everyone dies unexpectedly. | |
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Child Prodigy | |
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Child Prodigy: Lizzie, who helps crack secret codes at eight, and Jedidiah, who is the same age and can tell you how all kinds of things work. Hazard is about the same age and can speak several non-human languages fluently. | |
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Karmic Death | |
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Karmic Death: Solovet, a Well-Intentioned Extremist who resorts to violent means and who will torture her son to get a result, dies as a result of a Sadistic Choice that invokes The Needs of the Many. | |
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Children Are Innocent | |
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Children Are Innocent: The reason Gregor doesn't kill the Bane in the second book. Also played straight with Hazard and Boots. | |
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Outliving One's Offspring | |
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Outliving One's Offspring: Luxa's mother Judith had died before the series starts. And her twin brother, presumed dead before the beginning of the series, turns up alive at the beginning of the 3rd book and dies at the end. Their parents are both alive until the 5th book. In the third book, Ripred tells the story of the Garden of the Hesperides, including that several rat parents lost their pups there. In the fifth book, it's revealed that Ripred himself is one of these parents. | |
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Big Bad | |
| The Underland Chronicles / int_970c790a | comment |
By the end Gregor's racked up an impressive total. He gets an ointment to help with the ones on his arms and legs from the Vineyard after Curse of the Warmbloods, but often forgets to use it. After his fight with the Bane, he basically gives up the idea of even coming up with an excuse for them. | |
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"Not So Different" Remark | |
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"Not So Different" Remark: In Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods, Gregor meets Lapblood, who he at first antagonizes, but later realizes is just trying to protect her pups. He notes that they're two sides of the same coin: she's a mother trying to save her children, while he's a child trying to save his mother. | |
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Soda Can Shakeup | |
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Soda Can Shakeup: Weaponized by Gregor in the first book to fight off a Giant Spider. | |
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Ironic Nursery Tune | |
| The Underland Chronicles / int_99c36bb5 | comment |
Ironic Nursery Tune: Gregor and the Mark of Secret features a nursery rhyme that turns out to be a prophecy detailing the Holocaust-esque genocide of a group of innocent mice. Also, the nursery rhyme features the line "Some will slice and some will pour". This sounds like an innocent tea party, but turns out to be a description of the medieval-style warfare used in the Underland. "Slicing" refers to the use of swords and "pouring" refers to the pouring of boiling oil over the walls of a fortress or castle to stop a siege. Given the "revelation" that Sandwich's prophecies are either nonsense or so vague as to be practically so, this seems a lot less significant. | |
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Stock Ness Monster | |
| The Underland Chronicles / int_9a7d4472 | comment |
Stock Ness Monster: The "serpents" that live in the Waterway look like blind plesiosaurs. | |
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I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin! | |
| The Underland Chronicles / int_9b610976 | comment |
I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!: Some of the carnivorous plants in the Jungle subdue you by getting you high. | |
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One-Man Army | |
| The Underland Chronicles / int_9e943076 | comment |
One-Man Army: It takes four hundred soldiers to take out Ripred. Gregor qualifies as well by the end of the series. | |
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Secret-Keeper | |
| The Underland Chronicles / int_9f970427 | comment |
Secret-Keeper: Lizzie is often required to explain why her family members have disappeared for extended periods of time. Mrs. Cormaci becomes this for the family starting in Gregor and the Marks of Secret. | |
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Good with Numbers | |
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Good with Numbers: The mice, judging by their Theme Naming, and Lizzie in Gregor and the Code of Claw. | |
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Eye Scream | |
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Eye Scream: Happens to a rat in Gregor and The Prophecy of Bane. | |
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Wouldn't Hurt a Child | |
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Wouldn't Hurt a Child: In Prophecy of Bane, Gregor can't kill the Bane because he's only a baby. Nerissa later interprets the property as saying this. | |
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Rule of Three | |
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Rule of Three: Each book consists of three parts, which in turn consist of nine (three times three) chapters each. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: To an extent Solovet for ordering the plague. As Gregor notes, Doctor Naveeve was executed for her part although she was Just Following Orders, while Solovet would have wiped out the rats and let Regalia suffer for months, doing nothing. | |
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Beneath the Earth | |
| The Underland Chronicles / int_a7544a0f | comment |
Beneath the Earth: The series is all about this trope. More than 90 percent of the books take place in an underground world beneath New York called the Underland. | |
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Cypher Language | |
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Cypher Language: A major plot point in Gregor and the Code of Claw. | |
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Adults Are Useless | |
| The Underland Chronicles / int_a939d96a | comment |
Adults Are Useless: Gregor, Boots, and Lizzie's parents are not completely useless, and never by choice, but they are rarely able to help Gregor with his unique problems. Averted in Gregor the Overlander when his dad manages to steer them back to Regalia. Averted with Vikus, though he usually plays more of a supporting role. Played straight with his son Hamnet, whom Solovet through Cold-Blooded Torture convinced him to fight. | |
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Disappointed in You | |
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Hamnet delivers a tranquil Disappointed in You to Luxa, when she nearly lets Gregor, Ripred and Lapblood drown in quicksand all because she sees Gregor in company with rats and leaps to conclusions. | |
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Bond Creatures | |
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Bond Creatures: The Underlander humans (and Gregor) and the bats are the only species with this. Until Gregor and the Code of Claw. | |
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Chekhov's Hobby | |
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Chekhov's Hobby: Lizzie's love of puzzles, which is brought up first in Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane, and comes in handy for cracking the titular code in Gregor and the Code of Claw. | |
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Scars are Forever | |
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Scars Are Forever: Ripred. Later Gregor as well, which he realizes in part of his Bittersweet Ending. | |
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I Can Still Fight! | |
| The Underland Chronicles / int_ae087674 | comment |
I Can Still Fight!: Gregor and the Code of Claw has everyone doing this. | |
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Religious and Mythological Theme Naming | |
| The Underland Chronicles / int_ae6adc36 | comment |
All of the bats have names taken from Greek mythology. | |
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Die Laughing | |
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Die Laughing: A certain type of carnivorous plant in the Vineyard of Eyes emits a euphoric gas that makes you laugh at everything, rendering you helpless to the attacking vines. | |
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Xtreme Kool Letterz | |
| The Underland Chronicles / int_afd181c7 | comment |
All spiders have names ending in "x". | |
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Abusive Parents | |
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Abusive Parents: Solovet due to her Well-Intentioned Extremist tendencies was this to Hamnet. In fact, what she did to him made him leave Regalia for the more dangerous jungles, and he doesn't regret leaving for a minute. | |
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Sheathe Your Sword | |
| The Underland Chronicles / int_b2226c2f | comment |
Sheathe Your Sword: The peaceful resolution for an encounter with scorpions turns out to be far more fruitful than a violent one. | |
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Your Days Are Numbered | |
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Gregor suffers from one in Gregor and the Code of Claw when the realization that if the prophecy is true, he's going to die hits. | |
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Gut Feeling | |
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Gut Feeling: Happens a lot. | |
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Tonight, Someone Dies | |
| The Underland Chronicles / int_b7d2dbed | comment |
Tonight, Someone Dies: In the Gregor the Overlander, an ancient prophecy states that twelve will set out on a quest "and eight will be left when we count up the dead". Sure enough, by the end of the book, Tick, Gox, Treflex, and Henry have all met their maker. And it goes down from there... | |
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Metaphorically True | |
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Metaphorically True: Invoked by Gregor at the end of The Code of Claw. He breaks his sword and refuses to fight in another war to fulfill the prophecy that the warrior would be killed. Ripred seems to take this as more evidence that the prophecies are mundane after all, since the Prophecy of Time was only fulfilled by stretching the interpretation. | |
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Aerith and Bob | |
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Aerith and Bob: The humans have both typical English names—Henry, Howard, York, Susanna, Judith—and more fantastic names like Solovet, Nerissa, Vikus and Mareth. Lampshaded when Gregor is introduced to Henry—he almost laughs that "among all these strange names, there's a Henry". | |
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Sadistic Choice | |
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Sadistic Choice: Gregor and the Code of Claw has one when they find out that Solovet's route home to Regalia will cause her to fly into a rat ambush. To let her go would mean her death, to keep her from going would cause the rats to realize that the humans have cracked their code and make the humans give up their greatest advantage. | |
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Prophecy Twist | |
| The Underland Chronicles / int_bb5126ec | comment |
In Prophecy of Bane, Nerissa turns the expected interpretation of the prophecy on its head. | |
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Big Applesauce | |
| The Underland Chronicles / int_beb932ca | comment |
Big Applesauce: The Underland is located directly underneath New York. Of course. | |
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Happily Married | |
| The Underland Chronicles / int_bec0417c | comment |
Happily Married: Vikus and Solovet. Though it's strongly implied that her participation in the creation of the plague made things rocky between them. | |
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Significant Name Shift | |
| The Underland Chronicles / int_bfdbf829 | comment |
Significant Name Shift: For most of the series, Gregor's baby sister Boots refers to him as "Ge-go", since she can't pronounce his name yet. Around the third book it changes to "Gre-go", and in the final scene of the series, after they leave the Underland for the last time she can finally say his name right, showing how they're both growing up. | |
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Wrecked Weapon | |
| The Underland Chronicles / int_c0d106a8 | comment |
Wrecked Weapon: Zig-zagged. In the final book, Gregor himself breaks Sandwich's sword after the war is over, symbolically "killing the Warrior" and announcing that he's finished fighting the Underlanders' battles. | |
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Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male | |
| The Underland Chronicles / int_c0e3994b | comment |
Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Subverted. Fairly early in Gregor the Overlander, Luxa slaps Gregor across the face and is immediately reproved—first by Boots, then by Vikus. | |
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True Companions | |
| The Underland Chronicles / int_c313d43a | comment |
On a smaller scale, the True Companions have a very confused, not-quite-stunned reaction to the death of Tick in Gregor the Overlander. | |
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Seers | |
| The Underland Chronicles / int_c3bc970f | comment |
Mrs. Cormaci, who tends to send just the right objects at just the right times and gives tarot readings. Gregor at one point wonders if she can see what he needs in her tarot cards, and, given that psychics and seers exist in this series, he could be right. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| The Underland Chronicles / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Gregor's name is probably a Shout-Out to Franz Kafka. Vikus and Solovet's three children are named Susannah, Hamnet, and Judith, the same as William Shakespeare's children. Both sets of Hamnet and Judith are also twins. | |
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Synthetic Plague | |
| The Underland Chronicles / int_c8146c52 | comment |
Synthetic Plague: The Reveal at the end of Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods is that the disease called "the Curse of the Warmbloods" was a biological weapon that escaped from a Regalian lab. Its creator didn't tell anyone she had the cure because she didn't want to admit she'd created the plague. | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane | |
| The Underland Chronicles / int_cb70651c | comment |
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Ripred points out that Sandwich's prophecies may well just be coincidence or self-fulfilling, and he doesn't believe in them. They seem to be pretty accurate, but only after a book of trying to decipher them, and you can see how they could be reinterpreted to fit other explanations/events. Mrs. Cormaci, who tends to send just the right objects at just the right times and gives tarot readings. Gregor at one point wonders if she can see what he needs in her tarot cards, and, given that psychics and seers exist in this series, he could be right. | |
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Screw Destiny | |
| The Underland Chronicles / int_ce75a983 | comment |
Screw Destiny: In Gregor and The Code of Claw, Ripred tells Gregor to do this when a prophecy says he's going to die. | |
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Animals Not to Scale | |
| The Underland Chronicles / int_d0c9634e | comment |
Animals Not to Scale: All of the Underland animals are much, much larger than their Overland cousins. | |
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Take Care of the Kids | |
| The Underland Chronicles / int_d19f540a | comment |
Take Care of the Kids: Hamnet's greatest fear is that his son will grow up to be a soldier and an Unwitting Pawn for Solovet. Before he dies he makes Luxa promise to keep Hazard safe. | |
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Patchwork Map | |
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Patchwork Map: In the Underland, there are plains, jungles, maze-like tunnels, small seas, arable land, and desolate areas all within one or two hundred miles of each other, and no transitions. | |
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Lampshaded | |
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Lampshaded by Ripred in the same book: | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: Ripred enjoys delivering these to Gregor on a regular basis, especially in Curse of the Warmbloods when Gregor disobeys orders with the rats while in jungle. Vikus chides Luxa for smacking Gregor in the first book; Boots very soon follows suit. Hamnet delivers a tranquil Disappointed in You to Luxa, when she nearly lets Gregor, Ripred and Lapblood drown in quicksand all because she sees Gregor in company with rats and leaps to conclusions. Gregor gives one of these to the entire Underland at the end of Code of Claw, as Luxa was about to banish the rats to the most inhospitable part of the Underland as punishment for the war. Ripred, the new leader, objects to this, and everyone is ready to go to war again, right then and there, over it. Gregor calls out Luxa for how ungrateful she was for Ripred's help, calls out Ripred for immediately resorting to violence again, and says it all needs to stop. Luxa stops it in the only way she can: bonding with Ripred. | |
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You Can't Go Home Again | |
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You Can't Go Home Again: Averted, mostly. This happens a bit in the first book, but then Gregor goes on this quest to find his missing dad and all that. Otherwise they want him to go home. And then come back for the next 4. Vikus tries to convince Hamnet to return to Regalia, with no success. Hamnet hasn't returned home in ten years, although he sends Hazard there. | |
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Action Girl | |
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Action Girl: Queen Luxa. Pretty much a requirement, with the humans nearly always at war with the rats. Solovet. Okay, pretty much all female characters save Nerissa, Boots, and Lizzie. | |
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Everyone Can See It | |
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Everyone Can See It: By the final book, Ripred can tell that Gregor is in love with Luxa. It's also implied that Ripred figured it out with his sense of smell, as rats have the ability to smell fear already. | |
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Inelegant Blubbering | |
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Inelegant Blubbering: Luxa shortly breaks down into this towards the end of The Marks of Secret after witnessing a big pack of mice — several of her friends included — perish due to toxic gas emitted by a volcano. | |
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Just Following Orders | |
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Just Following Orders: In Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods, Doctor Neveeve says this line while being arrested. Somewhat justified, since Gregor ends up locked up in a prison cell where no one knows where he is after defying Solovet's orderes to save Luxa. | |
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Friend to All Living Things | |
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Friend to All Living Things: Boots. Even (especially) the creepy-crawly ones. Kind of her "superpower". She speaks fluent (as fluent as a three-year-old can get, anyway) Crawler by the end of the series. Vikus is one of a very few Underland humans who would willingly work with a rat. | |
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Calling the Old Man Out | |
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Calling the Old Man Out: Hamnet does this to Vikus quietly, saying that what he can do in Regalia that he can't do in the jungle is "cause no harm". This causes Vikus to fly off rather quickly with Solovet. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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Insistent Terminology: "Fo-Fo? Fo-Fo? I am he called Photos Glow-Glow and will answer to no other name!" | |
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Screaming Warrior | |
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Screaming Warrior: York, Howard's father. Gregor's first impression of him is that he's huge, wields a two-handed sword, and shouts a lot. | |
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Big Creepy-Crawlies | |
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Big Creepy-Crawlies: The Underland has Giant Spiders, cockroaches, ants, scorpions, fireflies, and probably other species we don't see. | |
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Jerkass | |
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The ending leaves Gregor in a state of emotional distress about many characters, many of whom were absolute jerkasses toward him. Particularly in Gregor and the Code of Claw, when faced with the Prophecy of Time that foretells his own death. | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Multiple times, perhaps most pointedly when Gregor's refusal to kill a baby Bane ultimately results in the war between humans and rats. | |
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Duct Tape for Everything | |
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Duct Tape for Everything: One of the most useful materials around. Gregor always takes some on his quests. | |
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Garden of Evil | |
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Garden of Evil: The Vineyard Of Eyes in Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods. | |
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Food Porn | |
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Food Porn: The Underland Chronicles contain descriptions of lavish meals, making for interesting Mood Whiplashes when contrasted with some of the other things described in them. | |
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Platonic Life-Partners | |
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Platonic Life-Partners: Most if not all of the human/bat bonds. | |
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Dude, Where's My Respect? | |
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Dude, Where's My Respect?: The Underlanders will spend centuries meditating on the possible meanings of Sandwich's prophecies, but they won't give a second thought to whatever Nerissa says. Sure, Nerissa is not all there, but her visions are accuratenote The problem is she doesn't know the time her visions take place. They could be ten years into the future or five years before she was born for all she knows. Gregor at least gives her the respect she deserves. | |
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Prophecies Are Always Right | |
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Prophecies Are Always Right: Maybe. While the wording of the prophecies is at times vague, and more than one character attempts to manipulate them, it is established that there are real seers in this universe. Whether the prophecies were accurate or not is ultimately left unclear. | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: Solovet. Her actions in book three cross the line, however, for most of the characters, given she bioengineered a plague to get rid of the rats and said nothing when the plague started affecting Regalians. | |
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Theme Naming | |
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Theme Naming: All of the bats have names taken from Greek mythology. Luxa's mother is named Judith, Judith's twin is named Hamnet, and their sister is named Susannah. William Shakespeare had a daughter named Susannah and twins named Judith and Hamnet. The mice are named after famous mathematicians and mathematical principles. The rats tend to have compound names, usually violent — Ripred, Lapblood, Makemince. We only meet four named cockroaches (Tick, Temp, Pend, and Min), but all of them have monosyllabic names relating to time.note Tick is self-explanatory, Temporal, Pending, and Minute. All spiders have names ending in "x". | |
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