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* [[Aerith and Bob]]: Names like Willard Tate, Max Weider, and Fred Blaine (the real name of a powerful sorcerer) side by side with {{spoiler|Strafa Algardo}} (the real name of a powerful sorceress), Chodo Contague, Bic Gonlit, and many others.

* {{spoiler|[[Alien Abduction]]}}: {{spoiler|This is how the Goddamn Parrot was [[Put On a Bus]], to Garrett's immense relief.}}

** {{spoiler|Much to Garrett's horror [[The Bus Came Back]]. But ''only'' for a cameo, thank Hano!}}

** Becomes a major political concern after the war's end, when human soldiers return home to find non-humans occupying all the civilian jobs.

* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Tinnie Tate.

* [[The Gambling Addict]]: Morley, early in the series.

* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Playmate.

** Taken to Squicky extremes by the cultists from ''Cold Copper Tears''.

* [[Handsome Lech]]: Morley. Also Garrett, shading into [[Chivalrous Pervert]]. A general who met him briefly during his wartime service recalled him as "the kid who could find a girl anywhere, even in the middle of an uninhabited swamp."

* [[Hardboiled Detective]]: Garrett, obviously. Pokey Pigota also.

* [[Heinz Hybrid]]: Also loads, to the point where there's a slang term ("unique") for hybrids with complicated ancestry.

* [[Hospital Hottie]]: Doc Chaz

* [[Hot Librarian]]: Linda Lee

* [[Humans Are Bastards]]: Garrett's opinion on the matter, though technically it's more like 'everyone is a bastard'.

* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: All books in the series follow an Adjective-Metal-Noun format, which may soon prove a problem when Cook runs out of metals. The most recent being ''Gilded [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latten Latten] Bones'', he's already dipping into the obscure...

* [[Living MacGuffin]]: Garrett accidentally ''becomes'' one of these in ''Petty Pewter Gods'' due to some [[Powers That Be]] meddling. They {{spoiler|Intended for him to pick which of the warring pantheons should continue to exist, possibly gathering a large amount of money by the way of bribes along the way.}} It didn't [[Eldritch Abomination|work out]] [[Cosmic Horror|that way.]]

* [[Mad Artist]]: Snake (from ''Old Tin Sorrows''). A little bit of innate, unfocused magic, mixed with his insanity means that every painting of his has a bit of magic in it, for better or worse.

* [[Mafia Princess]]: Belinda Contague

* [[Manly Tears]]: Garrett in ''Old Tin Sorrows.'' [[Tear Jerker|It's completely justified.]]

** The Dead Man's real name has never been stated either.

* [[Nonhuman Humanoid Hybrid]]: Doris and Marsha

* [[Non Indicative First Episode]]: The first book in the series ("Sweet Silver Blues") is less of a mystery and more of a fairly straightforward adventure story, albeit told in a noir style.

* [[Not a Morning Person]]: Garrett.