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"The Azteca were here, but they brought nothing with them, and they left nothing where they went." }}

 

* [[Aztec Mythology]]: Duh.

* [[Badass Grandpa]]: For someone who considers himself "a bag of wind and bones," Blood Glutton certainly qualifies.

** For those wondering, he's just ordering the last survivors of a band of brigands who hoped to fool Mixtli's party by pretending to be fellow travellers to eat the heads of their fellows, who Blood Glutton ambushed whilst they were waiting in ambush and decapitated them all without alerting the "bait" bandits.

* [[Big Bad]]: Lord Joy for the "childhood arc," {{spoiler|Chimali}} during the "traveler arc," and Cortez (duh) for the "conquest arc."

* [[Dead Little Sister]] {{spoiler|(well, not ''quite'' dead...)}}

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Mixtli, often, especially to the Spanish priests transcribing his story. Also, the old soldier Blood Glutton gets his share of snarkiness as well:

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Everything {{spoiler|Chimali}} does, especially after he had already "evened the score" with Mixtli.

* [[Doorstopper]]: The hardcover copy weighs in at 754 pages. One can only imagine what a paperback copy would look like...(It's just shy of 1000 pages. My well-loved copy fell apart under the strain.)

* [[Insistent Terminology]]: ''Mexica'', not Aztec. Mixtli is also constantly stopping to remind the friars recording his story how ridiculous and utterly nonsensical the Spaniards' new names for places really are. (Example: Texcala is turned into Tlaxcala, which means tortilla. And another pretty name gets changed to Cow Horn.)

* [[Ironic Echo]]

* [[Ironic Name]]: From the very first arc, we have [[Big Bad|Lord Joy]], among others.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Happens repeatedly to Mixtli. See Break The Haughty above. Also, arguably done to the Mexica as a whole by the Spaniards.

* [[Never Found the Body]]: {{spoiler|Tzitzi.}}

* [[Not Me This Time]]: A humorous example: Mixtli has by this point become so well-known for his sexual exploits that when the Bishop returns to hear the next part of his tale, Mixtli remarks:

* [[Omniglot]]: Mixtli's many travels made him one.

* [[Papa Wolf]]: Mixtli, although sadly {{spoiler|he's too late to do any good.}}