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* [[Ascended Extra]]: From ''[[Tom Brown's Schooldays]]''.
* [[Author Existence Failure]]: Fraser's recent passing likely means it will never be known if he actually planned to write a novel of Flashman's American Civil War adventures, or if it was only a [[Noodle Incident]] along the same lines as [[Sherlock Holmes]]' "missing cases". It would be interesting to know what the plot was of the novel GMF announced he was researching about six months before his death, but his estate/publishers/relatives aren't telling.
** Fraser indicated in various interviews (see [https://web.archive.org/web/20120420230316/http://www.andrewmueller.net/display.lasso?id=147 here]) that he found the Civil War a "colossal bore" and researching it tiresome. Considering this, and that several of his later novels featured events never alluded to in earlier books (eg. ''Flashman on the March''), one may conclude Fraser never intended to write the Civil War novel.
* [[Badass Moustache|Badass Whiskers]]: Flashman's "tart-catchers".
* [[Becoming the Mask]]: {{spoiler|Joe Simmons}} was a member of the Kuklos, and a highly-respected slave, who was tasked with infiltrating John Brown's army to keep an eye on Flashman in ''Flashman and the Angel of the Lord''. Brown's fanatic idealism gets to him, and after Harry planned out the Harper's Ferry raid and was getting ready to leave, though, {{spoiler|Simmons}} threatens to ''shoot'' Flashy for deserting John Brown's cause, along with an awesome speech declaring that he is going to live as a man, not a slave. The really ironic thing is that it was Harry who first planted the seeds of doubt in his mind just to spite him--and, characteristically, his own actions come around to bite him in the arse. {{spoiler|When the raid fails and Harper's Ferry is surrounded by soldiers, Joe is the one who takes it the hardest, calling out Brown for a stupid, brainless execution of the plan, and losing sight of his goal of leading a slave rebellion.}}
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