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* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: the unicorn Neysa is an outcast because of her small size and horse-normal coloration.
* [[All Your Powers Combined]]: Anyone with the Book Of Magic gains the ability to use every school of Phaze magic.
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* [[God Mode Item]]: The Book of Magic and the Platinum Flute.
* [[Great Big Book of Everything]]: The Book Of Magic
* [[Green Rocks]]: Phazite, used to power the various spells.
** Which, when taken to Photon, becomes the energy bearing Protonite.
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: Thought to be impossible. [[Idiot Ball|But no one thought to check The Book Of Magic on the subject.]] Once they do along come Flach and Al.
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** Clef's ability with the Platinum Flute allows him to do something that none of the other Adepts can: manipulate the Curtain that separates Proton and Phase.
* [[Magic Versus Science]]: Only magic works in Phaze; only technology in Proton.
* [[Meaningful Rename]]: Several characters choose their names from events and objects of personal importance (Stile, Rifleman, Clef).
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Hulk, which was a [[Shout-Out]]. Also, [[Ridiculously Human Robot|Sheen and Mach]]. The third-generation characters, meanwhile, have names composed of a [[Portmanteau Couple Name]] from their parents--Nepe (Bane, Agape) and Flach (Fleta, Mach).
* [[Merged Reality]]: The two worlds are eventually merged into one; as the characters are explicitly paired across both worlds (mirror-universe twin kinda thing), each pair merges into one being, and each pair has to time-share their body. Substantially easier for the heroes than for the villains, since heroes are used to putting the needs of others on par with or ahead of their own.
* [[Mind Control]]: See [[Hypnotic Eyes]], above.
* [[Mix-and-Match Critters]]: Some native Phazites have animal heads on human bodies.
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* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: Stile and Blue tend to slip into their native dialects when speaking seriously or stressed.
* [[Precocious Crush]]: Brown, towards Stile.
* [[Prophecies Are Always Right]] / [[Prophetic Fallacy]]: In ''Juxtaposition'', Stile was told he would be betrayed by "a young-seeming woman" and concludes it already happened, when Merle turned him in to the Citizen coalition. It turns out, however, that the true traitor was {{spoiler|Brown}}...except in a [[Double Subversion]], not only did she not ''know'' she was a traitor ({{spoiler|she accidentally cast the spell wrong to switch the cardinal directions, thereby reversing ''everything''--though considering her crush, this may not have been accidental after all}}), but the betrayal actually ended up helping Stile in the end--{{spoiler|since it allowed Stile to stay in Phaze by reversing where his spirit lay, putting it in the golem's body and Blue's in Stile's}}. This last was ''another'' [[Prophetic Fallacy]]--everyone assumed {{spoiler|"Blue must leave Phaze forever" meant Stile since he had taken up the mantle of the Adept after his death. But once Blue's spirit was taken out of its [[Soul Jar]] and put in a golem body, he was the one who had to leave Phaze, and did}}.
* [[Psychic Link]]: Mach and Bane, Flach and Nepe (Stile and Blue presumably can do the same but choose not to find out)
* [[Retcon]]: The third generation protagonists get their nature and power level changed radically between when they were background and major characters.
* [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]]: intentionally so.
* [[Rhymes on a Dime]]: How Stile's magic works
* [[Sacrificial Lion]]: {{spoiler|Hulk}}. This, and the death of the equally innocent Bluette, led Stile into a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]].
* [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy]]: {{spoiler|The Red Adept only tried to kill Stile because the Oracle said that Stile would destroy her, but Stile only fought her because she struck first.}}
** In a more series-wide sense, the Oracle does its best to make sure all its prophecies come true, aided by the fact that {{spoiler|it is a magical computer which can therefore work across both frames, and that it has contacts with the self-willed machines, including the [[Dungeon Master|Game Computer]].}}
* [[Serious Business]]: In a world where losing a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors can mean getting booted off the planet, ''everything'' possibly included in the Great Game is treated as Serious Business. Also, oaths on Phaze (which are magically enforced).
* [[Sex as Rite-Of-Passage]]: A werewolf gains adult status only after a ritual First Mating.
* [[Smug Snake]]: the Purple Adept
* [[Soul Jar]]: {{spoiler|Stile's harmonica, which contains the soul of the original Blue Adept.}}
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* [[The Vamp]]: Merle, Yellow (after a youth potion)
* [[There Can Be Only One]]: Established Adepts (read: Any adept who isn't Stile or one of his allies) tend to protect their positions by wiping out anyone who shows any real power within their specialty.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Tournament Arc]]: Most of ''Blue Adept'' and part of ''Juxtaposition'' involves Stile's journey through the Great Game.
* [[Trilogy Creep]]: There are seven books.
* [[Truth Serum]]: when someone swears something's true in Phaze, and they ''really mean'' it, a wave of rainbow light radiates from them.
* [[Tyke Bomb]]: Flach and Nepe
* [[Unobtainium]]: Phazite/Photonite
* [[Unknown Assailant]]: {{spoiler|The Red Adept}}
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* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]: Tan's Evil Eye grants absolute mind control; nifty, but other Adepts with more versatile powers can create spells to duplicate the effect<ref>although they need a new spell each time; see [[It Only Works Once]]</ref> in addition to the many, many other things they're capable of doing.
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: The unicorns, werewolves, and other shifters on Phaze, the self-aware machines on Photon
* [[Why Am I Ticking?]]: In "Blue Adept", the hero is forewarned that the villain will try to force a magic bomb that will destroy him if he returns to Phaze with it. {{spoiler|The bomb turns out to be a bullet, which the villain shoots into the hero}}, who realizes Just In Time what it really is.
* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]: Flach and Nepe
* [[Word of God]]: That Red wasn't a [[Psycho Lesbian]], but an asexual Psycho [[Does Not Like Men|Misandrist]].
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