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Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash, released September 2019 as an Audible-exclusive audiobook and a year later as a paperback, is the direct sequel to Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw's third novel, Will Save The Galaxy For Food, and the second novel of the Jacques McKweon saga. Set a little bit after the first novel, it focuses on the hero, now under the name of "Dashford Pierce". Per the official synopsis:The hero of Will Save the Galaxy for Food returns to do what he does best. Which is — what again, exactly?With the age of heroic star pilots and galactic villains completely killed by quantum teleportation, the ex-star pilot currently named Dashford Pierce is struggling to find his identity in a changing universe.Then, a face from his past returns and makes him an offer he can't refuse: take part in just one teeny weeny, slightly illegal, daring heist, and not only will he have the means to start the new life he craves, but also save his childhood hero from certain death.How hard could that be? If you need to ask — you don’t know Dashford Pierce.Before long, Pierce is surrounded by peril, and forced to partner with the very same supervillains he'd spent his heroic career thwarting. But when he's confronted by the uncomfortable truth that star pilots might not have been the force for good they had intended to be, he begins to wonder if the villains hadn't had the right idea all along...A sequel, Will Leave the Galaxy for Good, is planned for 2024. | |
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The Millstone | |
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The Millstone: Daniel Henderson boasts a simply spectacular ability to make a situation staggeringly worse every single time he attempts to contribute. Without exception, each attempt he makes to help the Narrator endangers his life, including multiple times during the climax. | |
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Jumping Off the Slippery Slope | |
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Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: "Pierce" accidentally destroys a ship of a star pilot pursuing him and considers that a line that only a supervillain would cross. He briefly finds being a supervillain liberating, hamming it up with stock phrases along the lines of "You've made a fatal mistake, fool", but losing the subsequent dogfight snaps him out of it. | |
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The Caper | |
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The Caper: Pretty much the initial premise of the story, set off by our hero finding an opportunity to leave it all behind, on the condition he find scientists to fill out crew rosters for exploration ships. Naturally it all goes awry. The protagonist has a minor identity crisis when he realizes that his side of the deal can be accurately called a "heist". | |
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The Quiet One | |
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The Quiet One: Terrorgorn speaks very rarely, and at the very most in short sentences such as "No, I'm fine." More often he lets out non-committal conversation sounds like, "Mmmm." | |
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Gentleman Thief | |
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Gentleman Thief: Daversham Derby plays this trope dead straight around strangers, except his constant antagonism and inability to really work with his accomplices, but in private it's revealed that he is actually an out-of-work scientist going through a midlife crisis. He is nevertheless highly competent at his chosen profession, albeit far less adept at improvised plans than the protagonist. | |
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Inadequate Inheritor: Daniel has been running his father's businsses after the later became paralyzed with what's implied to be a stroke. He's running through the Henderson fortune for frivolous star pilot memorabilia. | |
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The Dreaded | |
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The Dreaded: Terrorgorn is feared by the star pilot and space villian community in equal measure (even civilians know of him well enoughto consider him a monumental threat to all life), and for a very good reason. Once he's accidentally released from cryo-sleep, he effortlessly trounces everyone in direct combat. | |
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No One Should Survive That! | |
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No One Should Survive That!: Our hero and Derby survive falling from a decent altitude, clinging to a anchor block, i.e. a large chuck of concrete and section of thick steel cable. They bounce a couple of times and manage to avoid being crushed. Also, they take a torpedo and manage to crash in a place with a breathable atmosphere. | |
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Hammerspace | |
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Hammerspace: Derby has access to multitudinous tools which he signals to his niece by non-verbal means to shove through his wrist-mounted quantunnel as the need arises. | |
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Cluster F-Bomb | |
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Cluster F-Bomb: Our hero lets loose a few, but most notably when he realizes Warden is behind his kidnapping at the beginning of the book. More plentiful "pilot math" is applied as the situation demands, with an emphatic "Cal. Cu. Lus." or plentiful uses of "Go forth and multiply" (read: go fuck yourself). | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Our hero saves the day and finally learns to leave his past as a star pilot behind him... just as he's forced to fully commit to pretend being Jacques McKeown as a last-ditch effort to avoid a lengthy prison sentence, and apparently the real McKeown is now after him. Meanwhile, Mr. Henderson's death has created far more problems than it solved, with Warden having to prepare for the inevitable retaliation from his corporation, and Daniel's parting words to our hero giving him pause to wonder what he has planned. | |
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Xanatos Speed Chess | |
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Xanatos Speed Chess: The finale runs entirely on this, with gratuitous use of flashback to justify it. The protagonist, Derby and Sturb (along with Sturb's pet AI "Jimi") are forced to plot around an insurmountable problem (Salvation Station being hijacked by Terrorgorn and the Biscottis) through a combination of improvisation, forethought and constructing things out of spare parts and scrap salvaged from deep space. The plan barely works, and not without its fair share of hiccups based on unforeseen variables. As Derby at one point points out, they would need to complete a Plan A before even considering a Plan B - what they need is a Plan AB. | |
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Metaphorgotten | |
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Metaphorgotten: Ritsuko City is broken up into sections named after body parts. It's full Rule of Funny when the traffic reporter is describing normal ish locations like the shoulder, but then it goes to the hips, and to the nipples and "Paizuri Pass". | |
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Mirroring Factions | |
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Mirroring Factions: The protagonist coming to terms with this is a big part of the book. The space heroes and space villains were very similar personalities who made a bee line to the Black because nobody could stop them doing what they wanted. The pilots took up a cowboy fantasy persona and the villains played up being supervillains, and there were all kinds of unwritten rules that meant both sides always escaped to fight another day. It was a big part of why Terrorgorn is so feared by all; he's always playing for keeps. Neither side cared all that much about what happened to everyone else on all those planets caught in the middle, seeing them as little more than background characters. | |
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Pint-Sized Powerhouse | |
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Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Terrorgorn is described as being very short with thin, spindly limbs, but remains an unstoppable force whose presence mortifies everyone even close to him. Late in the book, the narrator describes Terrorgorn's limbs as "atrophied," so this is likely a consequence of using telekinetic powers to solve all his problems. | |
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Eviler than Thou | |
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Eviler than Thou: Mr Henderson dies after underestimating Terrorgorn and trying to regain control of the situation. | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Terrorgorn. Terror. Gorn. | |
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Heel–Face Turn: Malcolm Sturb, evil mastermind of the MalMind and ex-supervillain, seems to have genuinely reformed and is constantly trying to support "Dashford Pierce" and compliment him whilst not stepping on his toes. Naturally, our hero finds it grating at best, and remains steadfast in not fully trusting him. | |
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Sequel Hook | |
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Sequel Hook: The book ends with the real McKeown releasing a book that's based on the protagonist's experiences in Will Save The Galaxy For Food, making it perfectly clear that he knows who "Dashford Pierce" is and implying a confrontation in the future. | |
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Losing Your Head | |
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Losing Your Head: Daniel Henderson uses the narrator's blaster to shoot off Terrorgorn's head, clearly thinking he's saved the day immediately afterward. But since Terrorgorn is able to heal from any injury, and up until that point had had its telekinetic powers held at bay by a (now destroyed) slave crown, this only makes the problem worse. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Daniel Henderson's attempts at helping the heroes end up causing more trouble and endanger him and "Pierce" in the climax twice in a row. | |
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Large Ham | |
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He has the mother of all ones when he accidentally kills a fellow star pilot and decides he's a supervillain, leaning into Large Ham behaviour. It is relatively shortlived, however. | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The trio of heroes in the book is an ex-star pilot trying to ditch the stigma, an ex-supervillain slash nemesis of the ex-pilot, and a gentleman thief with his own bag of issues. | |
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Cargo Cult | |
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Cargo Cult: The Biscotti are a short lived race that has deified the corporation that took them from their homeworld as cheap labor. | |
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Heel Realization | |
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Captain "Pierce" realizes that his desperation and escalating petty crimes has his working with people he once antagonized as a hero, trying to accomplish things he once tried to stop. Though he was a morally ambiguous antihero at the best of times, he eventually he gets arrested and has a Heel Realization when the weight of his many misdeeds start to come down on him. | |
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Faux Affably Evil | |
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Faux Affably Evil: Terrorgorn's first few bits of dialog and several scenes with him (it?) paint it as quite placid and noncommittal, with Yahtzee putting on a soft voice. The shoe drops when he effortlessly snaps Mr Henderson's neck once he starts getting ideas above his station. | |
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Mouth of Sauron | |
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Mouth of Sauron: Because the Terrorgorn hates speaking, he enlists a diminutive, adorable alien race to relay his demands. The Narrator even briefly wonders how long it took for Terrorgorn to relay his instructions to his new servants given how much little he talks, and how many he killed in frustration from being forced to do so. | |
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Not So Different | |
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Finally, when he's forced to renounce star pilots for the injustices they (inadvertently) were responsible for - such as the exploitation of the Biscottis - he is forced to conclude that star pilots and spaces villains are Not So Different, but cannot bring himself to discard his flight jacket. It turns out that the jacket was concealing miniature quantum-tunnels, making it unclear how much of this was genuine inner conflict and how much was stalling as part of his Indy Ploy. | |
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Slowly Slipping Into Evil | |
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Slowly Slipping Into Evil: Captain "Pierce" realizes that his desperation and escalating petty crimes has his working with people he once antagonized as a hero, trying to accomplish things he once tried to stop. Though he was a morally ambiguous antihero at the best of times, he eventually he gets arrested and has a Heel Realization when the weight of his many misdeeds start to come down on him. Malcolm Sturb fears this trope, which makes things difficult when the plan to stop the main villain requires him to return to his old tricks. | |
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Healing Factor | |
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Healing Factor: Terrorgorn is perfectly capable of regenerating from a shot that blows his head clean off. Which is a problem when the slave crown on the blown-off head was the only thing stopping him from murdering Daniel and "Dashford". | |
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Alas, Poor Villain | |
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Alas, Poor Villain: Mr Henderson's role of antagonist being usurped by Terrorgorn is treated as a dramatic shift in the plot, with the formerly menacing gangster immediately put on the backfoot by the return of the fabled supervillain, getting increasingly frustrated that "Pierce" no longer considers him a threat by comparison, and eventually getting brutally murdered by Terrorgorn. Eventually, after much internally struggle over how to best deal with the fallout of his death - including giving serious consideration to reanimating him using Malcolm Sturb's tech - "Pierce" recognises that Henderson did not deserve such a Cruel and Unusual Death, covers him with a blanket, and solemnly says "Rest in peace, you poor, mad bracket." This ultimately gets undercut for black comedy with the repeated abuse Henderson's corpse receives post-mortem during the ensuing second half of the book, from being tossed around inside the ship as the Biscotti try to overturn it, to being left inside the ship for so long the Protagonist forgets he was even in there... right until his son Daniel discovers him. | |
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Face–Heel Turn: Played with in Warden. She's arguably just as flighty and impulsive as she was in the first book, it's just that once the protagonist accidentally takes Mr. Henderson hostage and starts realizing there's more to the heist than she's letting on, he unfortunately becomes a loose end that she feels she needs to clear up in the most direct manner possible. | |
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Alliterative Name: Daversham Derby, the Gentleman Thief working with "Dashford Pierce" on the heist. | |
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Littlest Cancer Patient | |
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Littlest Cancer Patient: One of these shows up at McKeownCon and our hero almost dashes her hopes just because he wants to stick it to Jack. | |
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Hollywood Atheist: Ath the Biscotti seems to be one, using an argument along the lines of infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters to describe the creation of a prefabricated space station module. | |
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For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself | |
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For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: Sturb can freely walk the Jacques McCon because everyone assumes he's a cosplayer. | |
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Absurdly Sharp Blade | |
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Absurdly Sharp Blade: Mr. Henderson returns with the Cassowary talon ring. Also, Daversham Derby also has a variety of very sharp cutting instruments at his disposal with his wrist-mounted miniature quantunnel. | |
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Mind-Control Device | |
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Mind-Control Device: Strub specialized in these when he was a supervillain, having used slave-crowns to create a mind-controlled army called the Malmind. The heroes try putting one on Terrorgorn toward the end of the book. It manages to nerf his telepathic power, but he remains incredibly dangerous. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Derby is one for Chzo Mythos's Trilby. Both are gentleman cat burglars who object to being called thieves, Daversham's voice in the audiobook sounds almost exactly like the one Yahtzee used for Trilby when replaying his games in Let's Drown Out, and he's characterized as snobbish, as Trilby was supposed to be prior to the games. They're also both named after a type of hat. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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Insistent Terminology: Our hero is totally not a space pilot anymore. For real, you guys. Except for the fact that his instincts still drive him to do things. Derby doesn't like being called a thief. He prefers "burglar". | |
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All Bikers are Hells Angels | |
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All Bikers are Hells Angels: Daniel (or more likely his father) has hired a bunch of these to be the Henderson's Corporation's muscle on the moon. Except, they use actual bicycles versus motorcycles due to the bubble atmosphere. | |
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Locked Out of the Loop | |
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Locked Out of the Loop: What ends up being Terrorgorn's downfall. He was cryogenically frozen before quantunneling was invented, which means the heroes can use it extensively in their plan to stop him. | |
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Inspector Javert | |
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Inspector Javert: Inspector Honda of the Ritsuko City Police. The protagonist has already crossed paths with him by the start of this story, having been told by him to stay out of trouble following his posting bail following the last book's Downer Ending, and he frequently pops up to give him trouble throughout the events of this one. He is often described as looking sleepy and barely seems to pay attention to his surroundings, but eventually delivers a venomous rant calling out the protagonist on his hypocrisy and the damage he has done over the years prior to the start of the story, and almost foils his ploy to walk away scot-free by forcing him to admit that he is not the real Jacques McKeown or risk digging himself deeper by committing to the lie. | |
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Mind over Matter | |
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Mind over Matter: Terrorgorn's main ability aside form his regeneration talents. | |
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Foe Romance Subtext | |
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Foe Romance Subtext: Invoked. After the Golden Age ended so many Pilots hooked up with their former arch-enemies that swearing vengeance is considered "third base". A few of the protagonists's old friends jokingly suggest he should look into dating Sturb for this reason. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: Despite having slid very far into Antihero territory in the previous book, the narrator does have several moments of clarity when he remembers that he used to be a heroic star pilot that, all faults aside, at least tried to do the right thing. While self-serving for most of the book, there are still moments where he attempts to be a good person, such as speaking kindly to the Littlest Cancer Patient at a convention (before going back to insulting and demeaning all the fans lined up for "his" autograph) or trying to cheer Daniel up after the death of his father, in addition to saving the kid's life. Both of those last two were from a sense of extreme reluctance, but still. | |
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