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* [[A Good Name for a Rock Band]] - Hollis Henry's former band, The Curfew, and in ''Zero History'', the Bollards, the band being produced by former Curfew guitarist Reg Inchmale.

** Heidi (the drummer in The Curfew) is talking about about materials for making darts:

{{quote| "Dense," said Heidi, "but no match for wolfram. Old name for tungsten. Should've been a metal band: Wolfram."}}

{{quote|"Dense," said Heidi, "but no match for wolfram. Old name for tungsten. Should've been a metal band: Wolfram."}}

* [[Author Appeal]] : Reading the Bigend trilogy is like reading a history of 21st-century Apple products.

* [[Badass Israeli]]: From ''Zero History'' we learn that even Israeli underwear is [[Badass]].

{{quote| Heidi shrugged out of her leather jacket, tossed it aside, and pulled her black T-shirt off, revealing an olive-drab bra that looked as combat-ready as any bra Hollis had ever seen.~~<br />~~

{{quote|Heidi shrugged out of her leather jacket, tossed it aside, and pulled her black T-shirt off, revealing an olive-drab bra that looked as combat-ready as any bra Hollis had ever seen.

"Nice bra."~~<br />~~

"Nice bra."

"Israeli." }}

* [[Biker Babe]]: Fiona in Zero History.

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* [[Intrepid Reporter]] -- The cool-hunters, Cayce Pollard and Hollis Henry.

* [[It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY"]] - Inverted by Bigend, as explained by Milgrim in ''Zero History'':

{{quote| "The French pronunciation would be 'Bayh-jhan', I think. But he seems to favor the other."}}

{{quote|"The French pronunciation would be 'Bayh-jhan', I think. But he seems to favor the other."}}

* [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]: there are hints in ''Spook Country'' that Tito's Santeria gods are genuinely supernatural. They are carefully kept ambiguous.

* [[McGuffin]] -- while the footage from Pattern Recognition was used by Bigend in his marketing schemes and he uses Bobby Chombo from Spook Country to {{spoiler|predict market order flow}}, he does virtually nothing with Gabriel Hounds secret brand and is not really disappointed {{spoiler|that he doesn't learn about its origins before it goes public}}.