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* [[Absent Aliens]] - No elves, dwarves, goblins, orcs, or other fantasy species. There are some ''very'' weird nonhuman creatures in the Plain of Fear, but they've got a very minor role in the plot.
* [[A Day in
* [[Anti-Magic]] - {{spoiler|The White Rose.}}
* [[Anyone Can Die]] - Anyone can, and most do.
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* [[The Dragon]] - The Lady ''was'' this to the Dominator in her backstory. She herself doesn't have a clear example- Soulcatcher is the strongest Taken, but she's also probably the most treacherous and unstable (and therefore unreliable). In the end, the best fit is probably Limper. In the later books, Mogaba serves as [[The Dragon]] to Longshadow and later {{spoiler|Soulcatcher}}.
* [[Dream Spying]]
* [[Dropped a Bridge
** With the sheer number of characters it is inevitable that some of them die anticlimactically or even without a proper death scene, simply found dead after a large battle.
* [[The Empire]] - The Lady's Empire in the North, which the Black Company works for for a while.
* [[The End of the World
* [[Enfant Terrible]] - {{spoiler|Lady and Croaker's}} daughter, who is {{spoiler|Kina, Goddess of Death}} reborn.
* [[Epic Fail]] - the attempt to capture {{spoiler|Mogaba}} culminates in the whole team rushing into a bedroom in the dark, setting off a trap and starting a wild shootout that kills nearly all the comandos, {{spoiler|Murgen}}, three company wizards {{spoiler|including Howler}} and putting {{spoiler|Lady}} in a coma. As a cherry on top, Croaker knocks himself out during evacuation, trying to ram his flying pole through a reinforced window.
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* [[Evil Overlord]] - Played with in Lady {{spoiler|before she quits}}, who ''is'' ruthless, but genuinely tries to be the lesser of two evils.
* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: Lots! The Lady, the Dominator, the Ten Who Were Taken, and the Shadowmasters all qualify.
* [[Exactly What It Says
** Moonbiter will bite you on the ass?
*** It is mentioned that they sounded more scary in their native tongue so perhaps Moonbiter was [[Lost in Translation]]
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* [[Golem]] - Shivetya. {{spoiler|Also, the clay body of the Limper in ''The Silver Spike''.}}
* [[Hell-Bent for Leather]] - Excluding the probably metal helmet, Soulcatcher is clad entirely in tight leather, from mask to boots.
* [[Hijacked
* [[Ho Yay]] - Murgen tends to linger on descriptions of Mogaba and Willow Swan. May bleed into [[Foe Yay]] territory in places.
* [[Hub Level]] - The Plane of Glittering Stone; an artifact created by the gods in times long past to link sixteen worlds together.
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* [[Old Soldier]] Croaker, and the rest of {{spoiler|the Old Guard}} after {{spoiler|they're resurrected from a decades-long magical}} imprisonment in {{spoiler|Water Sleeps}}.
* [[One-Winged Angel]] - {{spoiler|The Limper, just before the end.}}
* [[Only Known
** Played very straight when Croaker must record his actual name, and has trouble remembering it.
** This becomes a major plot point in ''The White Rose'', when {{spoiler|the Dominator, and everyone else tries to destroy Lady's powers by stating her name.}}
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* [[The Savage South]]: The main characters spend most of the saga travelling from the north (which is the standard fantasy setting) to the south (India expy) down to their place of origin at the southernmost end of the continent... where things get really weird.
* [[Scary Impractical Armor]] - The Lifetaker and Widowmaker outfits. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in that the whole point is for the outfits to be scary {{spoiler|and Lady has laid on the spellwork to make them protective in spite of their impracticality.}}
* [[Sealed Evil in
** {{spoiler|Soulcatcher appears to be this, at the end of ''Soldiers Live''. However, it's hinted that she may be released in the name of balance if Lady decides to become the Lady of Charm again.}}
** This seems to be standard procedure. The Barrowlands have a larger number of sealed evils, but {{spoiler|Old Father Tree and the Plains of Fear}} and {{spoiler|Kina}} both fit the bill as well, and {{spoiler|Shivetya}} may count as Sealed Good in a Can, or at least Sealed Neutral.
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* [[Unfortunate Name]] - “My name is Case. Philodendron Case. Thanks to my Ma.”
* [[Unreliable Narrator]] - The tale is framed as excerpts from the annals of the Black Company, as laid down by various members. Most of the narration is by Croaker, the Company's doctor and eventual leader. In later books the pen is held by the standard bearer, Murgen, his understudy Sleepy, and Croaker's love interest the Lady of Charm. All of them are, by their own admission, less than totally reliable (though Lady only admits that grudgingly).
* [[The Voiceless]] - Silent, [[Exactly What It Says
** Until he [[Took a Level In Badass|speaks ONCE]] after {{spoiler|figuring out Lady's True Name, thus wiping out her power. She gets better.}}
* [[Voice of the Legion]] - Soulcatcher. (But serial, not parallel. She only uses one voice at a time, but she's got a lot of them, and switches every sentence or two.)
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