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*** Worse, her ship was blown to bits while she was trying to surrender, seconds before she was able to strike the wedge. (Even if she had succeeded, she herself likely would've been executed for being one of Warnecke's highest-ranking people anyway.)
* [[Anvilicious]]: The destruction of the starships ''Sovereignty of the People'' and ''Equality'' by {{spoiler|[[State Sec]]}} during the coup that put {{spoiler|Saint-Just}} in power.
** Also, just about anything to do with politics. The good guys' political opponents tend to be horribly stupid and foolish, except for those who are actively evil. Socialism and the decay of the educational system are things that make a Republic into a [[People's Republic of Tyranny|People's Republic]], and helpful military actions are always stymied by [[Head
*** The [[Anvilicious]] Revolutionary France parallels go beyond just Rob S. Pierre: His co-conspirator and successor is [[wikipedia:Louis Antoine de Saint-Just|Oscar Saint-Just,]] his government is called the [[wikipedia:Committee of Public Safety|Committee of Public Safety,]] characters repeatedly refer to his governance as a [[wikipedia:Reign of Terror|Reign of Terror,]] and his capital is [[wikipedia:Paris|Nouveau Paris,]] where the revolutionaries end up having an important meeting [[wikipedia:Tennis Court Oath|in a tennis court.]]
* [[Author's Saving Throw]]: Impeller signatures can be detected FTL. Since [[wikipedia:Speed of gravity#Possible experimental measurements|a widely reported experiment in 2002]] supported the idea that gravitational waves travel at light speed, ''War of Honor'' explains that this works thanks to an echo off of hyperspace and not via direct detection.
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** Samantha. Yes, a treecat [[Canon Sue]]. 'Cats that have the ability/need to bond with humans are rare, and female ones are even rarer. 'Cats capable of becoming memory-singers are rare. 'Cats capable of innovative thought are rare. Samantha is '''all three'''. On top of that, she's one of the only bonded female cats ever to leave Sphinx, she's part of the only human-bonded, mated pair in history, and she's one of the few 'cats to survive losing a partner and forge a second bond. Oh, and she's the leader of the movement to get treecats to start their diaspora, she's right at the heart of treecats learning to speak with humans, and her children may be part of a new generation of human-acclimated, innovative 'cats. If she weren't a side-character, she'd be a perfect shoe-in. Oh wait, she in fact is the main character of the short story, ''Changer of Worlds''.
* [[Cerebus Syndrome]] (or [[Growing the Beard]]): The series starts out as a fairly light space-navy adventure series, but gradually morphs into a galaxy-spanning political conspiracy epic. ([[Ruined FOREVER|Losing some readers]] along the way.)
* [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|Complaining About Books You Don't Read]]: Writing for The Guardian, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2011/apr/22/military-science-fiction-simplify-war Damien G. Walter calls the Honor Harrington series] part of "the same neo-conservative fiction that has perpetuated our real world conflicts." (This, of course, completely ignores the books' strong centrist position that makes [[Strawman Political|Strawmen Political]] of both liberal and conservative extremists, and the fact that several of the books were written by a prominent ''Trotskyist''.) He also refers to Honor defeating "one alien menace after another" and accuses the books of failing to portray the cost in human wreckage that war creates... despite the fact that the only non-friendly aliens in the entire series are displayed as ''victims'' of {{spoiler|Haven's}} plans, and that a book rarely goes without a [[War Is Hell]] [[Wham! Episode]].
* [[Complete Monster]]: Several of Honor's enemies. Pavel Young stands out as someone who is never shown ever displaying a single positive human emotion and who goes to extreme lengths to hurt people in his way.
** Also pretty much every one of the Masadans.
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* [[Ho Yay]]: Although Scotty Tremaine and Horace Harkness are "officially" [[Heterosexual Life Partners]], there is the rare ... hint ... of something more. Like in ''In Enemy Hands'', when they were captured and Tremaine had thought Harkness had turned traitor, but then discovered it was only a ruse so Harnkess could gain the Peeps' trust and engineer an escape:
{{quote| Aside from five of the noncoms, [Harnkess] was junior to every one of them, but he had their undivided attention. Especially that of Scotty Tremaine, who couldn't seem to take his glowing eyes off him.}}
* [[I Knew It!]]: The end of ''Mission of Honor'' features {{spoiler|Haven and Manticore allying against Manpower and the Solarian League.}}
* [[Like You Would Really Do It]]: A character in ''Basilisk'' is given [[The Law of Conservation of Detail|a full three pages of backstory]] before being "killed" while trying to escape. Anyone with any [[Genre Savvy]] at all doubtless figured out it wasn't him. {{spoiler|He is shown later escaping Basilisk thanks to his use of the craft that everyone ''thought'' he was in as a decoy. He shows up again in Field of Dishonor, and is hired by Pavel Young to kill Paul Tankersley and Honor in duels. Succeeds at the first, but the second... not so much.}}
** Despite the author's insistence that [[Anyone Can Die]], there is a distinct pattern of [[Plot Armor]] around Honor and her family. Yes, {{spoiler|nearly the entire Harrington clan is wiped out in Oyster Bay}}, but [[Contrived Coincidence|miraculously]] all the ones we've actually met onscreen escape with their lives.
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