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The War Against the Chtorr

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The War Against the Chtorr	comment	The War Against the Chtorr is an incomplete sci-fi series by David Gerrold about an invasion of Earth by an entire alien ecosystem, set 20 Minutes into the Future. Just about everyone in The Government has become an Obstructive Bureaucrat, save the odd Magnificent Bastard. The rest of the world has forced the United States to accept crippling economic treaties to keep it from engaging in War for Fun and Profit. Then The End of the World as We Know It begins. First a series of alien plagues wipes out large chunks of humanity, and then aliens (much) bigger than microbes begin popping up. The invaders consist mainly of giant worms, insects, plants and other, extremely unpleasant stuff. They eat everything, resulting in massive environmental damage, but they really like to eat people. Then it gets worse.So far there are four books out, with the fifth Coming Any Day Now for 30 years; there are supposed to be seven altogether.The known titles are: A Matter for Men (1983) A Day for Damnation (1985) A Rage for Revenge (1989) A Season for Slaughter (1993) A Nest for Nightmares A Method for Madness
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_13eea985	type	Arbitrary Skepticism
The War Against the Chtorr / int_13eea985	comment	Arbitrary Skepticism: Most people don't believe in the Chtorrans until the worms start moving into towns and eating people. Even then the Fourth World Alliance insists on downplaying the invasion, until a captive worm escapes is let loose and starts chomping its way through their delegates.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_1501b4a2	type	Flamethrower Backfire
The War Against the Chtorr / int_1501b4a2	comment	Flamethrower Backfire: Duke is horribly burned after using a flamethrower in a cotton candy storm.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_17058a90	type	No Biochemical Barriers
The War Against the Chtorr / int_17058a90	comment	No Biochemical Barriers: The fact that Chtorrans are so well adapted to Earth conditions is one sign that this is a deliberate invasion.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
The War Against the Chtorr / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: Just because one ecology is older than another doesn't mean it's more developed and deadly. In fairness, everything in the books to date about the Chtorr homeworld is total speculation on the part of the humans; it's possible the invaders were deliberately bred or engineered to be so deadly.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
The War Against the Chtorr / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: The GURPS sourcebook notes that while Ted likes Jim, at the end of the day, Ted only really cares about Ted; in the novels, the reader sees a taste of this with his "carpetbagger" status as a member of the Telepathy Corps, using both Jim and a host-body for a one-night stand and leaving the body's host to deal with the cleanup and fallout.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_19944e8f	type	Terraform
The War Against the Chtorr / int_19944e8f	comment	Terraform. Inverted in that it's Earth being converted into a Chtorran world.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_1c398324	type	Death from Above
The War Against the Chtorr / int_1c398324	comment	Death from Above: Lizard dishes this out on several occasions. And in an interesting twist, a group of renegades setting up a night ambush are exposed to a counter-ambush when an orbiting solar mirror is suddenly turned on the area.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_1c512c6c	type	The Swarm
The War Against the Chtorr / int_1c512c6c	comment	The Swarm: The Chtorran ecology regularly spews these out in various forms to attack humans.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_22569655	type	We ARE Struggling Together
The War Against the Chtorr / int_22569655	comment	We ARE Struggling Together. Any and all efforts to co-ordinate the worldwide struggle against the Chtorrans are constantly hampered by political infighting; the series takes place after a successful fait accompli forcing the end of hyperdominance, and every nation sees all of America's efforts to fight the Chtorr as an attempt to restore the 20th-century status quo. They have something of a point in that 21st-century American policy included a couple of Vietnam re-enactments and a nuclear strike, but without efforts focused by and on the industrial superpowers all of humanity will be dead within ten years. As a result, the few successes in international cooperation are increasingly backfiring, as rival nations treat every acquiescence to American plans as a personal insult. In book 4 they would have blown a one-of-a-kind multi-billion-casey airship out of the sky. In that case the people setting off the charges would have done so while over a screaming red jungle, literally a thousand miles from anywhere.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_229c2ec8	type	Uriah Gambit
The War Against the Chtorr / int_229c2ec8	comment	Uriah Gambit: McCarthy has had this happen to him twice. The first time, he had stumbled on an ongoing high-clearance intelligence operation, and they didn't know what to do with him save assign him to guard a worm with a weapon repeatedly demonstrated to be useless against them — without any training in using it. He takes it down anyway. He went out, Read the Freaking Manual, and carved up a few haystacks with it until he was vaguely competent in its use. He's badly wounded in the process and they try to kill him on the table, but luckily a dedicated nurse attacked the officer sent to pull the plug and sat with him until he was conscious again. The second time, after publicly humiliating an idiot (but politically-connected) officer assigned to him and thus getting booted from an upcoming expedition, he charges off on a mission to investigate some Man Eating Plants, only to find he's being denied technical support, his security team has been ordered to withdraw without telling him, and there's a massive duststorm coming up that no-one's warned them about. He manages to find some critical intel during the mission and uses his last connection to beg for help, whereupon he's rescued by unknown persons — but loses several members of his team in the process.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_22c41566	type	Trilogy Creep
The War Against the Chtorr / int_22c41566	comment	Trilogy Creep: Gerrold specifically calls it "the longest trilogy I've ever written."
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
The War Against the Chtorr / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: The GURPS sourcebook was actually well-received, and even included a few things from Gerrold's notes that still haven't made it into the series yet.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
The War Against the Chtorr / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: McCarthy gives one to Dannenfelser after the latter man is dumb (or desperate) enough to meet the former on the tarmac at the airport after setting him up to die in a Uriah Gambit.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_26b2747	type	Alliterative Title
The War Against the Chtorr / int_26b2747	comment	Alliterative Title: Part of the Idiosyncratic Episode Naming, of "A [X] for [Y]", where X and Y alliterate: A Matter for Men (1983) A Day for Damnation (1985) A Rage for Revenge (1989) A Season for Slaughter (1993) A Nest for Nightmares A Method for Madness
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_26c22470	type	Put Down Your Gun and Step Away
The War Against the Chtorr / int_26c22470	comment	Put Down Your Gun and Step Away: Robots not programmed to kill on sight command this. Whether they work properly or not.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The War Against the Chtorr / int_2737c505	comment	Shoot the Dog: The very first chapter has Duke Anderson shoot dead a little girl so she won't be eaten alive (or worse) by Chtorrans. Things go downhill from there. In fact the entire war consists of Shoot The Dog moments, considering that the survival of the human race is at stake.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_27ba9b64	type	What Did I Do Last Night?
The War Against the Chtorr / int_27ba9b64	comment	What Did I Do Last Night?: During Rage For Revenge, McCarthy gets suicidally stoned and wanders into a Chtorran nest where he has a weird dream in which Ted helps him back to his vehicle where he'll be safe(-ish). When he looks at the cameras the next day to find out what happened, all he sees is himself doing a Silly Walk like someone else is controlling his body. McCarthy just puts this down to the drugs and doesn't consider the possibility that he's been secretly implanted by the Telepathy Corp.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
The War Against the Chtorr / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Lizard. She is very stern and cold to McCarthy (and everyone else) at first, but eventually becomes his lover (and then wife).
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: McCarthy's father was (almost certainly) killed before the story starts, caught in a firestorm that destroyed San Francisco.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_2e154495	type	Shower of Angst
The War Against the Chtorr / int_2e154495	comment	Shower of Angst: McCarthy gets a short one in "A Rage For Revenge", right after the renegades have captured him and it becomes clear they're going to try to brainwash him.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_30d2ae29	type	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
The War Against the Chtorr / int_30d2ae29	comment	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Shorty instructs McCarthy in the use of a flamethrower and tells him to burn a Chtorran worm even if someone else is in the way. Guess what happens to Shorty on the next mission...
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_3126c34a	type	Insufferable Genius
The War Against the Chtorr / int_3126c34a	comment	Insufferable Genius: McCarthy is an interesting example, in that he has major self-loathing issues, but also knows he's the best there is when it comes to understanding the Chtorrans. It isn't until the fourth novel that he's finally explicitly told how respected and wide-read his reports actually are, because as Uncle Ira says, he's already, yes, insufferable to deal with.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_31c5e7fb	type	Starfish Aliens
The War Against the Chtorr / int_31c5e7fb	comment	Starfish Aliens: The main point is that the aliens are very alien and one ongoing plot point is trying to discover whether or not there is a guiding intelligence behind the invasion at all. So far the jury is out.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_33987735	type	Disposing of a Body
The War Against the Chtorr / int_33987735	comment	Disposing of a Body: A rarely-seen Surprisingly Realistic Outcome result. See the Depopulation Bomb entry? Well, when that many people die, there aren't enough people to bury them. Especially as lots of the corpses — and there are still hundreds of thousands of mummified bodies waiting to be discovered — are plague hazards. Solution? Ovens. Just stumbling upon one such "mass crematorium" unaware has been known to send people off the deep end.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_33affa42	type	Government Agency of Fiction
The War Against the Chtorr / int_33affa42	comment	Government Agency of Fiction: The Uncle Ira Group AKA United Intelligence. Given that the United States is treated like post-WW1 Germany, the mere fact that it has an intelligence agency is top secret. Likewise with the Special Forces Warrant Agency, a black ops unit whose use of weapons such as napalm is illegal. The Teamwork Army (an unemployment program) actually serves as a cover for training potential soldiers in this ostensibly demilitarized country.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_35d4beb4	type	Horde of Alien Locusts
The War Against the Chtorr / int_35d4beb4	comment	Horde of Alien Locusts: "Cotton candy" duststorms attract swarms of ever-bigger Chtorran critters that devour everything in sight, be it native species or their fellow Chtorrans.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_38718ea8	type	Beautiful All Along
The War Against the Chtorr / int_38718ea8	comment	A sci-fi version when Ted body-surfs into the body of a beautiful woman so he can have sex with McCarthy. The morning after McCarthy gets abruptly thrown out of bed by the woman concerned, as Ted has moved on to another body and left her to deal with the morning-after hangover and cleanup. McCarthy kicks himself for falling for Ted's bullshit again, but ends up justifying it as the result of Ted's new training; the Telepathy Corps' training enables them to pull a Beautiful All Along by sheer force of personality, proven the next morning because without Ted in the driver's seat she's just another traumatized human going through the motions.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The War Against the Chtorr / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: The Uncle Ira Group is fond of tricking their enemies (and sometimes even their own people) into doing what Uncle Ira wanted done in the first place.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_393ec3f9	type	Zeerust
The War Against the Chtorr / int_393ec3f9	comment	Zeerust: Averted mainly because the author shows not only technological changes but social changes as well. There is a noticeable emphasis on internet/cyber-related technology in "A Season for Slaughter" (1993), but as similar devices were used in previous books it doesn't seem unusual.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_3a92b459	type	Please, I Will Do Anything!
The War Against the Chtorr / int_3a92b459	comment	Please, I Will Do Anything!: Jim McCarthy does this when begging Randy Dannenfelser for access to a prowler robot so he can look for "Lizard" Tirelli.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_3a9bbb12	type	Man, I Feel Like a Woman
The War Against the Chtorr / int_3a9bbb12	comment	Man, I Feel Like a Woman: The Telepathy Corps do this to all their agents, and it not only allows them to masquerade as women, but pull off a Beautiful All Along by sheer force of personality.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_3d29fed	type	NoKillLikeOverKill
The War Against the Chtorr / int_3d29fed	comment	No Kill like Overkill: Averted; scorched earth tactics only end up helping the Chtorran ecology spread, as it's more aggressive than the terrestrial ecology.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
The War Against the Chtorr / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: If you want to see an Alien Invasion scenario with mankind at its most noble... this isn't the series for you.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_411a35bd	type	Body Surf
The War Against the Chtorr / int_411a35bd	comment	Body Surf: The Telepathy Corps, a Hive Mind organisation able to share their experiences via electronic implants. Not everyone implanted with such a device is aware of it, however. Including very possibly McCarthy.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_41d9aaef	type	Brainwashed
The War Against the Chtorr / int_41d9aaef	comment	Brainwashed: In "A Rage for Revenge" McCarthy is captured by renegades (humans who worship and help the Chtorr) and is converted to their cause by charismatic cult leader Jason Delandro. This story is intermingled with flash-forward chapters detailing McCarthy's participation in the Mode Training, which some critics believe to be a form of government brainwashing. Gerrold based Mode Training on est a.k.a. Landmark Education.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_421ae215	type	Mysterious Past
The War Against the Chtorr / int_421ae215	comment	Mysterious Past: Most people don't really like to even think about what the invasion has cost them, let alone talk about it.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_42c186e	type	A Tragedy of Impulsiveness
The War Against the Chtorr / int_42c186e	comment	A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: McCarthy regularly brings down a lot of trouble on himself because he acts without thinking. A typical example: he stages a very public stunt humiliating a Jerkass fellow officer that pisses off large chunks of the military bureaucracy, and learns first-hand that he's thus made at least one vindictive and powerful enemy. He then immediately takes his team out on an unscheduled Chtorran-research expedition. It does not go well.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The War Against the Chtorr / int_4781adbb	comment	Though some would judge McCarthy a Jerk with a Heart of Gold. As abrasive as he is to others, he is incredibly self-destructive because he hates seeing anyone get hurt. Then again, he also executes a renegade who is pregnant with his child because she fed his adoptive children to worms. (McCarthy is a complicated man.)
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_4a9c731e	type	When Trees Attack
The War Against the Chtorr / int_4a9c731e	comment	When Trees Attack: Shambler Groves house all sorts of nasties that spew out and attack anyone who gets close ...the only way to survive is somehow walk out of range at five meters an hour.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_4ca752e1	type	Deadly Dust Storm
The War Against the Chtorr / int_4ca752e1	comment	Deadly Dust Storm: The so-called 'cotton candy plant' creates huge duststorms that knock helicopters out of the sky, explode like grain silos, cause thousands of deaths by clogging up people's lungs, and fuel the next stage in Hostile Terraforming by providing food for Chtorran lifeforms while smothering Earth plants and animals.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_4d7a7d53	type	I'd Tell You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You
The War Against the Chtorr / int_4d7a7d53	comment	I'd Tell You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You: The second time McCarthy is airlifted from a pink storm, his rescuers are sent by an unknown party. He inquires about their identity, only for the pilot to reply that he could tell, but then he'd have to drop McCarthy and his team right back into the storm. Understandably, McCarthy quickly drops the issue.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: The Chtorrans are deadly to humans in all sorts of horrible ways - in the first novel, a character gets bitten by a millipede and his red blood cells all explode. Anyone caught in a cotton-candy storm has their lungs destroyed. Spend enough time alive in a Chtorran mandala and you become covered with nerve-parasite quills, with the end result of becoming something like a bunnydog or libbit.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_522811b8	type	Falling into the Cockpit
The War Against the Chtorr / int_522811b8	comment	Falling into the Cockpit. The protagonist is (accidentally) assigned to Special Forces because he has two years of college-level biology (they need a 'scientist'), and is gradually promoted because over the course of the novels he survives long enough to gain the required military skills while everyone around him keeps dying.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
The War Against the Chtorr / int_52871b4e	comment	Vichy Earth: Opinions differ (in the case of renegades, often violently) over whether humanity should follow a policy of resistance or co-existence with the Chtorr. The official GURPS campaign setting suggests that the bunnymen and libbits may be what's left of a previously invaded race that opted for the latter. Given that they're essentially at the bottom of the "natural" Chtorran food chain and absolutely thrilled about it, it isn't considered to bode well for the fate of humanity if it also takes this route.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
The War Against the Chtorr / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica. McCarthy begins "A Rage for Revenge" working on a plague reclamation unit, thanks to the disastrous end of the previous novel. His assigned aide is there for similar reasons.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_59f0de2a	type	Not Himself
The War Against the Chtorr / int_59f0de2a	comment	In the short story Enterprise Fish, someone accuses McCarthy of being Not Himself, but changes his mind when McCarthy delivers a Bond One-Liner after watching another Jerkass get swallowed whole.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_5a4aa505	type	Government Conspiracy
The War Against the Chtorr / int_5a4aa505	comment	Government Conspiracy: Every move by the United States government to fight the Chtorrans is viewed by the rest of the world as an attempt to reassert American supremacy. Ironically these suspicions would be all-too-accurate under different circumstances. The best example would be that every single freaking computer chip the US has built since their deposition as a global superpower is in fact a Trojan Horse; each one has a Tracking Device and a Self-Destruct Mechanism — they know where all the weapons on earth are, and can destroy them at any time. As one character put it: "There's enough history between us to fuel a major war, and if it weren't for the convenient intervention of the worms, that's probably what we'd be doing right now." The Uncle Ira conspiracy must be stated in full to be believed. It begins when a periodic Gulf War escalates into a reverse Cuban Missile Crisis. The Third World then gets its act together for five seconds and demands that the US stand down or get nuked. The President at the time submits rather than start World War III, and the US is forced to disband its military and make multibillion-dollar reparations. This is when the conspiracy is hatched; accede to their demands in ways that benefit the US secretly. The military was disbanded, but reformed as a Peace Corps-like "Teamwork Army" which specializes in public works; the physical labor conditions them every bit as well as boot camp, and people who build stuff for a living tend to be very territorial — once the invasions start, it only takes one month of combat training to transform into a quality army. Weapons platforms like tanks and gunships were sank in the sea — but secretly preserved with acrylic beforehand. Instead of sending money, they send food and machines, forcing US industries to be redesigned to meet those demands. The US suffers a short depression, but loads of super-technology is developed in the process, causing an economic boom despite the treaties, and making the world even more dependent on US technology (complete with the aforementioned Trojan Horse chips). Space technology is developed, to supply the Third World with energy from solar-power satellites — requiring US expertise to maintain, and enabling them to develop space; thanks to a lunar colony, they have mass drivers. And half a million teachers are sent into the Third World to bring them up to speed; and teach them American values. If Tvtropes had been created by an older generation of nerds, the Xanatos Gambit may well have been called the Uncle Ira Gambit; "What if we only pretended to lose?"
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_5deb34da	type	Ace Pilot
The War Against the Chtorr / int_5deb34da	comment	Ace Pilot: Colonel "Lizard" Tirelli is an expert chopper pilot.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
The War Against the Chtorr / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Ted notches up a long string of conquests, including McCarthy. Despite that he's kinda likeable. Sometimes.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_605cf3f	type	Something Only They Would Say
The War Against the Chtorr / int_605cf3f	comment	Something Only They Would Say: McCarthy realizes that the Telepathy Corps is watching him because an "implanted" character refers to him as "Jimbo", which is/was Ted's nickname for him. (Though Gerrold evidently screwed up and had the wrong character actually say the name.)
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_610afe0a	type	Flechette Storm
The War Against the Chtorr / int_610afe0a	comment	Flechette Storm: The AM-280 rifle with Laser Sight, which only the user can see because the Goggles Do Something Unusual.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_61b576af	type	I Take Offense to That Last One
The War Against the Chtorr / int_61b576af	comment	I Take Offense to That Last One: At one point during their tumultuous courtship, Jim reels off a list of insults at Lizard, including denigrating her piloting ability. The one she takes objection to is his claim that she has a fat ass.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
The War Against the Chtorr / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: McCarthy is deeply impulsive, self-destructive, and hair-triggered. He's also the front-line expert on the Chtorran ecology, and so Lizard and/or Uncle Ira clean up his messes and keep him propped up and functioning.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_63557923	type	Death World
The War Against the Chtorr / int_63557923	comment	Death World: The original planet of the invaders is assumed to be like this, and they're eager to make Earth just like it.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
The War Against the Chtorr / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: You push one of McCarthy's many Berserk Buttons, he will blow up.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_63be4131	type	Pretty Boy
The War Against the Chtorr / int_63be4131	comment	Pretty Boy: Lizard and Ted regard the teenage protagonist Jim McCarthy this way, though he doesn't believe them. But definitely the case with Shaun — a sixteen year-old, bisexual attendant on the luxury airship Hieronymus Bosch.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_666648a3	type	Hostile Terraforming
The War Against the Chtorr / int_666648a3	comment	Hostile Terraforming: The Chtorran ecology operates by completely replacing those of the planets it invades, utilizing a variety of invasive weed species and plagues tailored to prey on, infect, parasitize and/or poison everything outside of itself. In fully infested areas, Earth life is entirely gone outside of a few species that have been assimilated into the Chtorran ecology.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_68ddad6b	type	Pedestrian Crushes Car
The War Against the Chtorr / int_68ddad6b	comment	Pedestrian Crushes Car: Don't expect you or your car to survive ramming a Chtorran gastropede.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The War Against the Chtorr / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Major Bellus is unqualified and unprepared for the mission to which he gets assigned, but a lot of what he says about McCarthy is true.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_6b4f4350	type	Zeppelins from Another World
The War Against the Chtorr / int_6b4f4350	comment	Zeppelins from Another World: Blimps are used for military and rescue operations, but nothing beats the Hieronymus Bosch, a giant luxury airship converted for the scientific expedition in "A Season for Slaughter".
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_6b510ace	type	Hopeless War
The War Against the Chtorr / int_6b510ace	comment	Hopeless War: Things are not going well, and everybody knows it and acts accordingly.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_6d089995	type	The Shrink
The War Against the Chtorr / int_6d089995	comment	The Shrink: Dr. Davidson is an Awesome example, he's able to help mass-of-issues McCarthy with some of his problems.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The War Against the Chtorr / int_6d332aea	comment	On top of all that, another ten percent will die of Survivor Guilt.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
The War Against the Chtorr / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Theodore Andrew Nathaniel Jackson. A shout out to Larry Niven's commonly-used phrase "There Ain't No Justice", often abbreviated "TANJ" used as a curse word.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_7215c26c	type	Man-Eating Plant
The War Against the Chtorr / int_7215c26c	comment	The second time, after publicly humiliating an idiot (but politically-connected) officer assigned to him and thus getting booted from an upcoming expedition, he charges off on a mission to investigate some Man Eating Plants, only to find he's being denied technical support, his security team has been ordered to withdraw without telling him, and there's a massive duststorm coming up that no-one's warned them about. He manages to find some critical intel during the mission and uses his last connection to beg for help, whereupon he's rescued by unknown persons — but loses several members of his team in the process.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
The War Against the Chtorr / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: Randy Dannenfelser is every overt negative gay stereotype turned up to eleven.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
The War Against the Chtorr / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: Many versions of the series do a lousy job of accurately depicting the worms, often giving them legs that are way too long. (Ironically one of the better attempts is the cover of the GURPS sourcebook.)
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_74828aea	type	Killer Rabbit
The War Against the Chtorr / int_74828aea	comment	Killer Rabbit: Technically everything. No matter how harmless, or relatively harmless, it looks, it can probably kill you. Early in the first book, one of the soldiers gets his finger bitten off by a Chtorran millipede. Losing the finger didn't kill him, it was the multiple infections caused by the alien microorganisms that were transferred by the bite that did. Most notable is the "Cotton Candy" plant, which looks like Exactly What It Says on the Tin, and is the one of the few things in the invading ecosystem that seems non-threatening. It's not until they go through a massive "bloom" and throw clouds of pink dust all over everything that it proves the only thing deadlier than the worms themselves: first, the dust is as fine and flammable as grain dust — it floats clear up to the cloud layer, and knocks aircraft right out of the sky. Then it falls to the ground, acting as the terrestrial equivalent of an upwelling, particularly for Chtorran life — most notably, it's full of Chtorran micro-organisms, so anyone who inhales it get multiple strains of Legionnaires' disease, coughing their lungs out in bloody chunks. After it rains, it becomes a sea of sticky goo that dries into a solid shell, killing all Terrestrial life beneath it. Then everything else in the ecology sweeps in to eat the candy-coated refuse, then the critters that eat those, and the worms to eat them. Areas the size of New England states transformed from pastoral green to screaming red jungle in a manner of days.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_768ae1c9	type	Les Collaborateurs
The War Against the Chtorr / int_768ae1c9	comment	Les Collaborateurs: 'Renegades' worship and help the Chtorran invaders. Their numbers increase as the infestation grows in strength, but it's unclear whether this is the result of an unknown form of brainwashing or simply a psychological/practical response to the overwhelming Alien Invasion.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_76933235	type	Depopulation Bomb
The War Against the Chtorr / int_76933235	comment	Depopulation Bomb: A Discussed Trope, as Gerrold often does. Long List; The plagues killed more than four and a half billion people before the alien locusts showed up. Experts expect to lose another half-billion before the plagues are completely neutralized. The plagues they know about. Everyone who can't survive without medical care — even from something as easily controllable as diabetes — is going to die due to lack of medical personnel and supplies. All the children whose parents died, were crippled, or just reduced to stuttering wrecks are either going to die or go feral. On top of all that, another ten percent will die of Survivor Guilt. By the second book, the body count has risen to five and a half billion. There are less than three and a half billion left, all of whom are mentally damaged by all that death. People may be unable to maintain technological civilization, which is the only thing that could potentially keep the big monsters from destroying what's left. All in all, the human race may already be extinct.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_78410584	type	She Is Not My Girlfriend
The War Against the Chtorr / int_78410584	comment	She Is Not My Girlfriend: Or is that He Is Not My Boyfriend? Yes, Ted's a jerk. Averted when Liz is finally able to respond that McCarthy is not her boyfriend, he's her husband.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_7969f21e	type	No One Gets Left Behind
The War Against the Chtorr / int_7969f21e	comment	No One Gets Left Behind: Averted. Though McCarthy goes to incredible extents to do it anyway and often gets even more people killed.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_79974fb8	type	Rock Beats Laser
The War Against the Chtorr / int_79974fb8	comment	Rock Beats Laser. The invading ecology uses no weapons (though the Chtorr-worshipping renegades do) but even its most innocuous forms can be deadly, as seen when the 'cotton candy plant' creates huge duststorms that knock helicopters out of the sky, explode like grain silos, and cause thousands of deaths by clogging up people's lungs.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_7dafc482	type	ChewToy
The War Against the Chtorr / int_7dafc482	comment	Chew Toy: McCarthy cannot catch a break. So he really doesn't give anyone else much of one, either.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_7fc4e9ce	type	Freeze Ray
The War Against the Chtorr / int_7fc4e9ce	comment	Freeze Ray: McCarthy is one of the troops who tests an experimental weapon that is sort of a reverse flame-thrower, spewing a steam of liquid nitrogen to freeze the targeted worm for study.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_80b5924	type	Left Hanging
The War Against the Chtorr / int_80b5924	comment	Left Hanging: The published books end on a major cliffhanger, and the next volume has been decades in coming.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
The War Against the Chtorr / int_820ac3c5	comment	Justified in that after the initial plagues and population crash, everyone on Earth has a screw or two loose and may exhibit ... unpredictable behavior. See above re: Dysfunction Junction.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
The War Against the Chtorr / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: Uncle Ira. Being dead is a great way to keep people from spying on you.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
The War Against the Chtorr / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Subverted in that whatever overwhelming force is used against the Chtorran ecology only helps it bounce back stronger because the local Earth ecology has now been sterilized.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_8c55e307	type	Ultimate Job Security
The War Against the Chtorr / int_8c55e307	comment	Ultimate Job Security: The Uncle Ira Group protects McCarthy despite him committing several acts liable for court martial; partly because he's good at his job, but also because McCarthy's habit of causing disruption can be turned to their political advantage. He still has to deal with the occasional Obstructive Bureaucrat attempting to kill him — to the point that they really don't care if they kill other soldiers in the process.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_90965cc7	type	Hive Mind
The War Against the Chtorr / int_90965cc7	comment	Hive Mind: The Telepathy Corps use implanted technological uplinks to share all memories and experiences with one another. The Chtorran ecology itself is speculated to be kept in some sort of constant neural contact by means of their symbiotic "hair", which makes fighting them a serious issue — the entire ecology is army and leadership at the same time, robbing humanity of any actual target to eliminate to hurt or disorganize the invaders.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_90abf35b	type	Formerly Sapient Species
The War Against the Chtorr / int_90abf35b	comment	Formerly Sapient Species: This appears to be the place that humans will eventually fill once the Earth is transformed to a completely Chtorran ecology. There are herds of humans in some of the ruined cities that are no longer sapient, and being around them too much can somehow draw other humans into joining them. Its uncertain whether an infectious agent is involved or something else. There are hints that some of the Chtorran lifeforms were also once more sapient than they are now — the bunnymen and libbits are explicitly identified as being descended from human children transformed into non-sapient cattle for the Chtorrians.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: The first novel begins with a newspaper article on how a sheriff had fired two volunteers searching for a missing girl, because they claimed to have seen "Chtorrans". The novel ends with an article stating the same sheriff had gone missing during the evacuation of her town due to the Chtorran threat.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: A cult of renegades uses this trope to capture McCarthy, by sending in a cute little girl.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_93311f8e	comment	The Squadette. Averted by the second book; due to universal conscription, unisex combat teams are completely normal.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_93c04c8a	comment	Future Food Is Artificial: As there are so few people who actually grow food for a living, real food is a luxury. This is actually the basis of the primary currency of the series; "Caseys" or "Kilo-Calories", which are backed by one-thousand-calorie blocks of "soya".
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists. More like There Are Not Enough Therapists. Mental illness is a major problem after the death of 60% of the world population. Both individual therapy and the Mode Training is used, though with debatable effectiveness on the protagonist. And lots of people think of the Mode Training as an Omniscient Council of Vagueness.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_97b5e1f9	comment	Bug War: Most of the deadliest Chtorran life forms, including the gastropedes, are distinctly insect-like, though it's noted in-universe that none of them actually are insects.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_986dad9a	comment	Killer Robot. Four-meter high robot spiders which are (not always reliable). Replaced by AI-controlled cyber-beasts in the fourth book.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_99db72ee	comment	Immune to Bullets: Gastropedes and other large Chtorran organisms aren't completely impervious to bullets... but their physiology makes them resilient enough to shrug off many hundreds of rounds before going down, which is far more than enough time for them to kill you first.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_9a5ae2a2	comment	More Teeth than the Osmond Family. Chtorran worms and millipedes. Rows upon rows of sharp, nasty, pointy teeth. This series should win some kind of an award for "most teeth anywhere, ever".
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Flamethrowers are the only reliable way of stopping a charging worm, as their alien physiology makes them all but Immune to Bullets. The protagonist has also used cold-gas weapons when necessary, but doesn't prefer them, as their range is much shorter.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The War Against the Chtorr / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The very first scene in the series includes a young girl taken alive by the worms instead of being instantly devoured as is the norm; much later we learn what horrible fate was likely destined for her instead of being shot dead by Duke.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_a0543350	comment	Earth Is a Battlefield: A free-for-all one. If the worms, the renegades and the foreign spies don't kill you, your own superiors probably will just because they don't know what else to do with you.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid: Jason Delandro is probably on the verge of becoming this before he is executed by McCarthy. Even more so the former scientist the protagonists extract from the Brazilian mandala near the end of "Slaughter". It is implied that the bunnydogs/bunnymen and libbits are the Half-Alien Hybrids of some other species that the Chtorr previously conquered and reduced to their equivalent of cattle, and that this too will be the fate of humanity if the war is lost. The short story Enterprise Fish implies that McCarthy has become this after falling into a Chtorran mandala.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_a3a4a800	comment	Too Clever by Half: McCarthy is one of the smartest people in the world. Unfortunately, that just means he gets into trouble that no-one — including him — has any idea how to get out of. He's been doing it his whole life, too; when he was fourteen, his mother caught him making nitroglycerine in the bathtub. Ouch.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_aba04d22	comment	High Times Future: A textbook example which goes to some trouble to portray a society that's changed both technology-wise and socially. Legal marijuana farms are mentioned and over-the-counter recreational drugs are used. Entire industries have sprung up around drug use, to the point where medicine cabinets contain drugs which rapidly neutralize the effects of other drugs right between the painkillers and the antibiotic ointment.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_ac320c0e	comment	Nuke 'em. For historical and political reasons the government is reluctant to use nuclear weapons, and can only do so after the Uncle Ira Group pulls another Batman Gambit.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Each novel has a name of the form "A [X] for [Y]" where the words X and Y are alliterative. "A Matter for Men", "A Day for Damnation", "A Season for Slaughter", "A Rage for Revenge", "A Nest for Nightmares", and "A Method for Madness". According to Word of God, forthcoming books were thought to be named "A Time for Treason" (sixth) and "A Case for Courage" (seventh), but "A Method for Madness" was thought to be the fifth book but became the title for the sixth, and now no title has surety.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_ad1ab367	comment	The Masochism Tango: By the fourth book, McCarthy's relationship with Lizard approaches this level of dysfunction. They get better, though.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The War Against the Chtorr / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Everybody on board the Hieronymus Bosch when they belatedly realize that stingfly swarms have been chewing the ship's gasbags to tatters.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_af9c3cbb	type	Expospeak
The War Against the Chtorr / int_af9c3cbb	comment	Expo Speak: Lectures, newspaper articles, interviews, psychoanalytic sessions, even jokes and limericks (justified because every single freaking one is funny as all hell).
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_b1e8a3b3	type	Coming of Age Story
The War Against the Chtorr / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Coming of Age Story: As might be expected, given Robert Heinlein's influence on Gerrold.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_b42e16fb	type	Feathered Fiend
The War Against the Chtorr / int_b42e16fb	comment	Feathered Fiend: Shambler trees are host to an entire ecology of carnivorous tenants that swarm in their thousands when they sense the vibrations of nearby prey.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_b53c57d5	type	Epigraph
The War Against the Chtorr / int_b53c57d5	comment	Epigraph. Ranging from newspaper articles and quotes by Solomon Short (a newspaper columnist) in the first two books, limericks in the third book, and long quotes from The Red Book in the fourth.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The War Against the Chtorr / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: At the start of the third novel, McCarthy gets saddled with a disobedient troublemaker as an aide (they are both on punishment detail), and he quickly dies.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_b663974e	type	We Will Spend Credits in the Future
The War Against the Chtorr / int_b663974e	comment	We Will Spend Credits in the Future: Caseys e.g. "kilo-caloriesâ€�. Also a case of Practical Currency; they're backed by food — one casey can be exchanged anywhere in the civilized world for a one-thousand-calorie block of "soya". However the laws of supply and demand are still in effect — it takes a lot of caseys to purchase, say, a pound of caviar. Add in that the book begins at the Class One stage of an anticipated Class Three apocalypse, nine-tenths of the world's population died before the first page and those same laws mean the casey is depreciating at an exponential rate because there's a surplus of food compared to the amount of manpower left in the world AKA humans left alive. Notably, the casey has inspired similar currencies based on gold, oil, coffee, and chocolate since Only Electric Sheep Are Cheap.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_bb40e7e0	type	Failed Future Forecast
The War Against the Chtorr / int_bb40e7e0	comment	Failed Future Forecast: Early printings of the books contained references to the Soviet Union still existing in the future. Later ones avoid this.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The War Against the Chtorr / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Another character comments at one point that McCarthy is metaphorically covered with a collection of these, and goes off like a missile whenever one of them is pushed. (Being seen as gay is a major one.)
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_bd8b2b0b	type	To Serve Man
The War Against the Chtorr / int_bd8b2b0b	comment	To Serve Man: Most Chtorran beasts will happily eat anything the encounter, but they seem to prefer eating people; it's hypothesized in-universe that humanity is intended to be the worms' main foodsource.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The War Against the Chtorr / int_be991863	comment	The Neidermeyer: Major Bellus. Averted in McCarthy's case — as a newly-minted officer he starts throwing his weight around, only to have it pointed out that his job is to inspire people, not act like a jerk.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_c2f5b04b	type	Eat Me
The War Against the Chtorr / int_c2f5b04b	comment	Eat Me: A gastropode tries to eat a robot prowler, and its remote operator just chews and claws right through the worm's body and out the other end.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_c515d358	type	America Saves the Day
The War Against the Chtorr / int_c515d358	comment	America Saves the Day: Zig-Zagged. The United States was forced to abandon all of its foreign assets after a nuclear incident in the Middle East, and later decommission much of its military after losing a war in Pakistan. Ironically this now makes the USA the most powerful nation on Earth, as its armed forces were not mobilized to deal with the plagues and so survived mostly intact, making them the best option for a military and/or industrial solution against the Chtorr. The catch is that many nations have openly declared they would rather be eaten by the Chtorr than be "saved" by the United States; their first attempt post-invasion to sabotage American resurgence was interrupted by a worm eating most of the delegates who were observing it, the second by their invasion force crashing and burning due to American-made Trojan Horse chips.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_c558da6a	type	Gunship Rescue
The War Against the Chtorr / int_c558da6a	comment	Gunship Rescue: At one stage McCarthy decides to drive into a Chtorran-infested zone until something eats him, only to have Lizard turn up in a massively-armed jetcopter and blow up the road in front of his vehicle.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The War Against the Chtorr / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Solomon Short's name is a reference to Robert A. Heinlein's Lazarus Long. As mentioned above, Jack Cohen helped design the Chtorran aliens, and "Cohen models" are mentioned off-handedly in one passage. Both Star Trek and Star Wars get explicitly referenced by characters at various points. Lizard's butler-robot in the third novel is named Eye-Gor.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_c7a56f9e	type	The Symbiote
The War Against the Chtorr / int_c7a56f9e	comment	The Symbiote: Just about every Chtorran critter is actually a composite of several Chtorran critters. Many can infest humans. There are hints throughout the books that the entire Chtorran ecosystem may be nothing but one huge symbiote of all the different Chtorran life forms.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_c95d04f2	type	It Can Think
The War Against the Chtorr / int_c95d04f2	comment	It Can Think: Inverted, as all the evidence of the Alien Invasion is that there must be an intelligence behind it, yet there's no sign of spaceships or any other means of crossing interstellar distances. The Chtorran gastropedes are assumed to be behind things, yet their intelligence is that of the idiot savant — they're very good at opening locks and can somehow communicate over vast distances, yet little else. The series appears to be implying that the entire Chtorran ecology is some form of group mind.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_c9aea8c8	type	Armies Are Evil
The War Against the Chtorr / int_c9aea8c8	comment	Armies Are Evil: Averted in that the protagonist is both soldier and scientist and can therefore see both arguments (the scientists want to study the alien invaders, but that means allowing their ecology to gain enough of a foothold to understand how it works. The military want to burn the Chtorr before they can get a foothold, but this approach is inherently flawed, as without better knowledge of the Chtorr the war is hopeless anyway). He's not alone in this viewpoint, but it just tends to make the shouting matches even more confusing.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_c9c756a8	comment	Child Soldiers: With over six million "most urgent" jobs waiting to be filled, anyone old enough to work does so.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_ccb636fe	comment	Kraken and Leviathan: The Enterprise fish, which dwarfs aircraft carriers.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_cd23ee7d	comment	Colonel Badass: Lizard, who flies jet-assisted helicopter gunships on lone combat missions in her spare time. Though as the series progresses, she gets promoted, and it's strongly hinted nearly from the start that she's a lot more important in the military and government power-structure than her nominal rank would indicate.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_cd809603	comment	Tank Goodness: In A Matter For Men a "Patton charger" is mentioned as being a laser-equipped tank.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_e6558beb	comment	Artistic License â€“ Space: There are no red giant suns within 30 light years of Earth's solar system. (The nearest is about 88 light years away.) Again, beyond the evidence that the Chtorrans prefer red light, the idea that the Chtorr come from such a system remains total in-universe speculation.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: McCarthy according to everyone he meets. IRL, most asocial geeks really like him, however. Also his friend Ted, and Randy Dannenfelser, aide-de-camp to General Wainright. Though some would judge McCarthy a Jerk with a Heart of Gold. As abrasive as he is to others, he is incredibly self-destructive because he hates seeing anyone get hurt. Then again, he also executes a renegade who is pregnant with his child because she fed his adoptive children to worms. (McCarthy is a complicated man.) Justified in that after the initial plagues and population crash, everyone on Earth has a screw or two loose and may exhibit ... unpredictable behavior. See above re: Dysfunction Junction. In the short story Enterprise Fish, someone accuses McCarthy of being Not Himself, but changes his mind when McCarthy delivers a Bond One-Liner after watching another Jerkass get swallowed whole.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_ebb900a7	comment	Resignations Not Accepted: McCarthy ends up in the Uncle Ira Group by accident, and after surviving their initial attempt to dispose of this potential liability is offered a position instead. After McCarthy reluctantly agrees he's warned: "Don't drink your orange juice".
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_efbd4c52	comment	All Bikers are Hells Angels: By the third book, depraved biker gangs are a problem in areas where neither the US government or the Chtorrans have too much presence. Especially when they have rocket launchers on their bikes.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_eff7d17	comment	Mysterious Backer: McCarthy never does learn who it was who extracted him from the Mexican mission; even Uncle Ira claims he doesn't know.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_f0001923	comment	Fire-Breathing Weapon: A flamethrower is McCarthy's weapon of choice against the Chtorr, despite having to burn alive the man who first taught him how to use one.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_f329f2a2	comment	Got Volunteered: Zig-Zagged with the Uriah Gambit — it's made clear that there are legal precedents involving the use of soldiers on dangerous missions, and in the first novel Duke Anderson tells McCarthy he does have the option of refusing to go on a dangerous mission, but then he'll be on the first chopper out of here because a soldier who won't take risks is useless to him. In the second, one of his superiors notes he has an asterisk (Jim: Yeah, I'm sitting on it.) — meaning those legal precedents have been waived. This means he's either part of the Telepathy Corps, pissed someone off enough that they want him KIA'd, or he's gained a reputation for surviving dangerous missions. Specifically, he was once set to guard a worm with a weapon experts had concluded wouldn't work on worms and killed it anyway. By book four he pisses off the wrong General and gets abandoned in a pink storm — along with several other soldiers. He only gets out that time by finding intel too valuable to sacrifice and spending his last remaining political favor. (Though he and the reader never learn who exactly rescues him) There are also indications that he's been given a telepathic implant without his knowledge when he was last in surgery.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_f56aeb67	comment	Alien Invasion: In this case, it's not alien armies invading — an entire alien ecosystem made landfall and is trying to displace Earth's entire biosphere.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_f5e4b663	comment	Walk This Way: McCarthy is saddled with Major Bellus who accidentally walks near a grove of shambler trees: Man Eating Plants hosting an entire ecology of carnivorous symbiotes that swarm when they sense the vibrations of nearby prey. McCarthy points out that these vibrations are relayed by the creeper vines lying all around them, and the only way not to trigger them is to walk out of range at five meters per hour. Cue a Silly Walk that (as McCarthy enjoys pointing out to Bellus) is being relayed via cameras to an extensive internet audience hoping they'll die in an interesting and horrible fashion. Eventually Bellus breaks down under the strain and begs for his life, publicly resigning from the military at McCarthy's request. Then to conclude this Humiliation Conga McCarthy walks out normally, saying they were never in any danger as the shambler grove was uninhabited. This stunt destroys Bellus' career; unfortunately it also earns McCarthy the ire of a powerful general and his loathsome aide, who try to get rid of McCarthy with a Uriah Gambit.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_f95baed	comment	Not Staying for Breakfast: Ted's done this to McCarthy twice. In the first book, he seduces the poor boy while he's still smarting from the whole "man-eating alien caterpillars are real" thing, then treated it as a mindless fling the next morning. Worst part is that Ted's highly libertine upbringing means he never really understands what McCarthy's so pissed about. A sci-fi version when Ted body-surfs into the body of a beautiful woman so he can have sex with McCarthy. The morning after McCarthy gets abruptly thrown out of bed by the woman concerned, as Ted has moved on to another body and left her to deal with the morning-after hangover and cleanup. McCarthy kicks himself for falling for Ted's bullshit again, but ends up justifying it as the result of Ted's new training; the Telepathy Corps' training enables them to pull a Beautiful All Along by sheer force of personality, proven the next morning because without Ted in the driver's seat she's just another traumatized human going through the motions.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_ff04e190	comment	Inciting Incident: McCarthy accidentally ended up in the ultra-secret Special Forces fighting and studying the worms because the plagues caused problems with the assignment paperwork.
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The War Against the Chtorr / int_ff8afd14	comment	Spider Tank: Technically self-controlling robots rather than a traditional tank, but the same idea. McCarthy uses two of them at the end of the first novel.
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The War Against the Chtorr	hasFeature	Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids / int_41963414
The War Against the Chtorr	hasFeature	Surveillance Drone / int_41963414
The War Against the Chtorr	hasFeature	Talking in Your Sleep / int_41963414
The War Against the Chtorr	hasFeature	The Neidermeyer / int_41963414
The War Against the Chtorr	hasFeature	The Short War / int_41963414
The War Against the Chtorr	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_41963414
The War Against the Chtorr	hasFeature	The Swarm / int_41963414
The War Against the Chtorr	hasFeature	The Symbiote / int_41963414
The War Against the Chtorr	hasFeature	13 Is Unlucky / int_41963414
The War Against the Chtorr	hasFeature	Tinfoil Hat / int_41963414
The War Against the Chtorr	hasFeature	To Serve Man / int_41963414
The War Against the Chtorr	hasFeature	Too Clever by Half / int_41963414
The War Against the Chtorr	hasFeature	Tuckerization / int_41963414
The War Against the Chtorr	hasFeature	Ultimate Job Security / int_41963414
The War Against the Chtorr	hasFeature	Vagina Dentata / int_41963414
The War Against the Chtorr	hasFeature	Vichy Earth / int_41963414
The War Against the Chtorr	hasFeature	Walk This Way / int_41963414
The War Against the Chtorr	hasFeature	We Will Spend Credits in the Future / int_41963414
The War Against the Chtorr	hasFeature	Weak to Fire / int_41963414
The War Against the Chtorr	hasFeature	What Does She See in Him? / int_41963414
The War Against the Chtorr	hasFeature	When Trees Attack / int_41963414
The War Against the Chtorr	hasFeature	Why Am I Ticking? / int_41963414
The War Against the Chtorr	hasFeature	You Talk Too Much! / int_41963414
The War Against the Chtorr	hasFeature	Zeppelins from Another World / int_41963414
thewaragainstthechtorr	sameAs	The War Against the Chtorr
The War Against the Chtorr	hasFeature	We Come in Peace — Shoot to Kill / int_41963414

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