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Now has a [[Agent Pendergast (Literature)/Characters|Character Sheet]].
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=== This series provides examples of: ===
 
* [[All There in the Manual]] - The authors like to provide extra information on the Pendergast character through email newsletters.
* [[Alone With the Psycho]] - Several times.
* [[Animated Adaptation]] - [[In Universe]] example: The end of ''Relic'' mentions a Saturday morning cartoon based on the events of the novel. Given how horrific those events were, it's not surprising that the show is mentioned as having been canceled.
* [[Anti -Villain]] - The "[[Big Bad]]" in ''Mount Dragon''. {{spoiler|Despite using his entire staff as guinea pigs and selling bioweaponry to more unscrupulous members of the US Military, he believes what he's doing is crucial to the human race.}}
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: A LOT. {{spoiler|Averted with Margo in Dance of Death - Diogenes missed.}}
* [[Appease the Volcano God]] - Diogenes would have most likely thrown Constance into the volcano.
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* [[Beware the Nice Ones]] - Pendergast, D'Agosta, Hayward, and even Nora.
* [[The Big Easy]] - Where Pendergast comes from.
* [[Big Screwed -Up Family]] - The Pendergasts (who were French [[Blue Blood]] originally). The more we learn about them, the more horrifying they become.
* [[Break the Cutie]] - Never works out well for those who try it.
* [[Break the Haughty]] - What seems to be happening to Pendergast from ''Fever Dream'' on.
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* [[Intrepid Reporter]] - Bill Smithback.
* [[Killed Off for Real]] - {{spoiler|Smithback}} in ''Cemetery Dance''.
* [[The Man Behind the Man]] - In ''Relic'', the authors' first novel, the character of Dr. Kawakita is always at the edge of events, never participating directly, and his presence in the story only seems to be to show him as brilliant, cunning, and amoral, with a [[Sequel Hook]] ending that seems to be setting him up as the [[Big Bad]] of any following novel, being the only character to deduce Mbwun's true nature and planning to exploit it for his own personal gain. In the sequel, ''Reliquary'', {{spoiler|Kawakita is already dead before the story even begins, a fact which is revealed very early on. Instead it turns out that [[The Obi -Wan]] Dr. Frock is the main villain, having been transformed into a megalomaniacal sociopath by a modified version of Kawakita's Mbwun serum.}}
** In ''Fever Dream'', the identity of [[The Man Behind the Man]] is revealed remarkably early in the novel instead of saved for the end, especially as it's something of a twist. However, the characters themselves never discover this.
* [[Martial Pacifist]] - Pendergast.
* [[Mismatched Eyes]] - Diogenes.
* [[Never Found the Body]] - {{spoiler|Diogenes}} but come on, [[No One Could Survive That]].
* [[Non -Idle Rich]] - Pendergast certainly doesn't work for the money.
* [[Not So Stoic]] - Pendergast in ''Cemetery Dance'' and ''Fever Dream''.
* [[Not That Kind of Doctor]]/[[Open Heart Dentistry]] - At the climax of ''The Cabinet of Curiosities'', the serial killer known as The Surgeon surgically exposes Smithback's spine, then leaves him to bleed to death while he goes off to fight Pendergast. Nora Kelly, a Dr. of ''archaeology'', has to stitch Smithback back up (no small task; remember, ''exposed spine'') then administer IV fluid to prevent him from flat-lining from blood loss. Lampshaded by Kelly's internal monologue remarking how insane the situation is; also, after being stabilized by Nora, Smithback still needs to be operated on by an actual doctor to treat his injury and save his life.
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* [[Scooby Doo Hoax]] - While several of the novels do contain genuine supernatural or fantasy elements, the main threat always turns out to be a human villain masquerading as a more supernatural monster. The first two novels, ''Relic'' and ''Reliquary'', are a notable exception in that there really ''is'' a horrific otherworldly monster running around.
** ''Brimstone'' and ''Cemetery Dance'' are the most notable, as the villains' schemes follow the formula of a Scooby Doo episode right down to the letter (other than multiple murders being involved, of course).
* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]] - Pendergast lives on this trope.
* [[Self -Deprecation]] - Pendergast occasionally voices his disdain for modern popular fiction, particularly of the sort that Preston & Child write.
* [[Story Arc]] - ''Brimstone, Dance of Death,'' and ''Book of the Dead''.
** ''Relic'' and ''Reliquary''.
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* [[Ultimate Job Security]] - Pendergast has been threatened with getting fired ''countless'' times for unorthodox and occasionally downright ''illegal'' procedures, but still retains his job at the FBI.
* [[The Watson]] - Anyone who works with Pendergast, but especially D'Agosta. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in the way Pendergast talks with him.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]] - Laura Hayward gives one to Pendergast in ''Fever Dream'' when {{spoiler|D'Agosta gets shot.}}
* [[White -Haired Pretty Boy]] - Pendergast looks like one.
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]] - {{spoiler|The end goal in ''Reliquary'', which would cause the human race to kill themselves, and allow rat/reptile things to rule the earth.}}
 
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