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* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: The Duke of Fluel, in "Lion Loose".
* [[Bluffing the Advance Scout]]: In ''The Demon Breed''
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* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: Heslet Quillan takes instant advantage of the situation when the [[Naked People Are Funny|naked]] [[Action Girl]] falls into his arms--but never hesitates when a lady needs his help.
* [[Cloning Blues]]: In "Ti's Toys"
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** Given that the main character of "Forget It" has a tendency to address women as "Doll," the trope name here constitutes a [[Punny Name]].
* [[Extra Eyes]]: In "Company Planet", a surgeon has an additional eye in the centre of his forehead, which Telzey guesses might act as a magnifier for close-in work.
* [[Famous Last Words]]: "And now, if it is within the power of a Tuvela to defy our purpose, show what you can do."<ref>Within 30 seconds, the 'Tuvela' and her companion will be the only people alive in the room. Not bad for starting from an unarmed prisoner with a dozen guns aimed at her. Of course, her companion had set up a [[When Trees Attack]] Superweapon Surprise right under the noses of his captors. At least one of the guards was already dead before the quote was spoken.</ref>
* [[The Federation]]: The Federation of the Hub.
* [[Framing the Guilty Party]]: Telzey does this in "Undercurrents"
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* [[Kaleidoscope Hair]]: Danestar Gems, in "The Searcher", always wears a wig of the same colour as her outfit.
* [[Make the Dog Testify]]: In "Undercurrents". Subverted in that {{spoiler|the dog didn't actually know a damn thing, but Telzey knows some people who can implant fake memories really really well...}}
* [[Method Acting]]: Part of Nile Etland's way of [[Bluffing the Advance Scout]] in "The Demon Breed" is to make herself think as if the alien's suspicion that she's a superhuman [[Mutant]] known as a Tuvela is true.
* [[Mook Horror Show]]: The epilogue to "The Demon Breed" retells the story from the aliens' point of view.
{{quote|I must emphasize strongly the oppressively accumulating effect these events produced on the Parahuans during the relatively short period in which they occurred. As related by the survivors, there was a growing sense of shock and dismay, the conviction finally of having challenged something like an indestructible supernatural power. At the time they were questioned, the survivors still seemed more disturbed by this experience than by the practical fact of their own impending demise on orders of Porad Anz, of which they were aware.}}
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* [[Stealth Expert]]: Corvin Wergard of the Kyth Agency
* [[Sugary Malice]]: The default state of being for Telzey's Aunt Halet in "Novice".
* [[Superweapon Surprise]]: In ''The Tuvela'', alternate title ''The Demon Breed''.
* [[Taking You with Me]]: In ''The Demon Breed'', Ticos Cay's collection of biological specimens was assembled with this and Superweapon Surprise in mind, if he ever outlived his usefulness to the alien invaders.
* [[Teen Genius]]: Telzey ''starts'' out as one.
** Pehanron College (which is specifically described as one of the Hub's most advanced universities, that does its best to recruit only prodigies of one kind or another) seems to have a procedure for finding and developing these. For example, Telzey is already most of the way through pre-law studies as a college undergraduate -- at the age of fifteen. Her roommate Gonwil, who is about to graduate with a degree in finance, is seventeen, and its implied that if she'd continued with her education she'd have a graduate degree before she was twenty. Neither of them is considered as anything unusual by their peers, implying that while not everyone on campus is their age (a later short story has a small group of Pehanron students on a wilderness outing, and the age range runs from early 20s on down to Telzey as the youngest) there are still a lot of teen geniuses running around that campus.
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* [[Transhuman Treachery]]: “The Machmen” claim they have this rather than brainwashing.
* [[Uplifted Animal]]: Nile Etland's hunting otters.
* [[Vocal Dissonance]]: Koll the Great Palach is a vicious speciesist, possibly insane even by his people's standards, and their longevity treatments have shrunken his body. He has a beautiful voice; one person thinks of it as "golden velvet," and another reflects that "It was a deep warm voice, rich and strong, which shouldn't be issuing from such a malevolent little entity."
* [[World of Badass]]: This is a ''deliberate policy'' of the Federation government, which permits private wars to keep the people prepared for outside menaces. The epilogue of "The Demon Breed" has several powerful aliens conclude that {{spoiler|they should actually defend humanity against other aliens, or else Mugging the Monster may piss off that very-prepared humanity against '''all''' aliens}}....
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]
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