Andrew Vachss: Difference between revisions

* [[Cold Sniper]]: Several, including Wesley, Falcon from the Cross series, and El Cannonero. Several short stories also center around them.

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: If Burke knows he's outmatched in a fair fight, he's not going to fight fair. The final battle with Mortay is a good example.

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Burke has one. So does pretty much every other character you meet. Anybody who doesn't is either well outside Burke's world or a [[Butt Monkey]].

* [[Death Seeker]]: At the end of ''Terminal'', Burke says that the prayer he prayed was the first to not ask in some way for death. The meaning is obvious.

* [[Department of Child Disservices]]: Burke had an unpleasant childhood thanks to them, to say the least.

** Averted at least in the sense that child advocates tend to be shown as well-meaning, but underfunded and sometimes deliberately knee-capped by higher-ups.

* [[The Dreaded]]: Wesley, even after his apparent suicide.

** Even worse if you read "A Bomb Built In Hell", essentially Wesley's backstory and horrific even by this series' standards.

* [[Fille Fatale]]: {{spoiler|Melissa Turnbridge}} from ''Terminal'' is described as one.

* [[Fluffy the Terrible]]: Burke owns a hulking Neapolitan mastiff named Pansy.

* [[Genki Girl]]: Pepper.

* [[Hand Cannon]]: Burke favours high-calibre rounds for quick manstopping. Averted when he doesn't want to kill anybody.

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** An unusual treatment in that Vachss approaches this as what it is: a sign of serious mental illness, and incredibly dangerous. Wesley never speaks above a whisper or loses his temper in the entire series, and he's a [[Complete Monster]].

* [[Tyke Bomb]]: In ''Dead and Gone'' Burke learns that {{spoiler|the child he had been tasked with retrieving was made into a killer by Neo-Nazis.}}

** Central premise A Bomb Built in Hell, the unoffical predecessor to the Burke Series.

* [[The Vamp]]: [[Mafia Princess]] Strega

* [[What a Piece of Junk!]]: Burke drives the "ultimate New York taxicab". Its [[Gadgeteer Genius]] owner committed suicide and left Burke the car in payment of an unpaid debt. ''Flood'' and ''Strega'' go into detail on its capabilities.

 

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