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* [[Mass Teleportation]]: One of the Ur-Examples.
* [[May-December Romance]]: Marian Alston is about twice Swindapa's age when they first meet, and then there is Professor Ian Arnstein and grad student Doreen Rosenthal.
* [[Mighty Whitey]]: Gleefuly and consciously inverted by Marian Alston at every opportunity. [[Knight Templar|McAndrews]] tries to do this too, with far less success.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Students of history might want to keep an eye on any compatriots named [[wikipedia:William Walker
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Pamela Lisketter's group aren't heroes except in their own minds, but {{spoiler|their attempt to prepare the Mesoamericans against Nantucket/European encroachment winds up infecting the Mesoamericans with mumps and wiping out their civilization.}}
* [[No Bisexuals]]: Averted by the Earth Folk in general and Swindapa in particular. Not to mention [[Depraved Bisexual|Alice Hong.]]
* [[Perfect Poison]]: Averted in the somewhat prolonged deaths of {{spoiler|Walker, Hong and their entourage at the end of the third book}}. [[Complete Monster|Not that they didn't have it coming.]]
* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]: Most of the Sun People fall into this category.
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* [[Starbucks Skin Scale]]: A mixed race child is literally referred to as having "café-au-lait skin."
* [[Schizo-Tech]]: Bronze axes, ultralights with napalm, katanas, breech-loading rifles, wooden frigates, bicycles, an [[Zeppelins from Another World|airship]]... the list goes on.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Involving William Walker and Ian Arnstein in particular. Prior to {{spoiler|the Siege of Troy}} they exchange some lines from [[Monty Python and
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Bronze Age archaeology has enough competing theories that it would be impossible to be accurate to all of them, but the series is nonetheless impressive in this regard.
* [[Strawman Political]]: Pamela Lisketter and her group. Also [[Too Dumb to Live]]--it turns out the Followers of the Jaguar God are not interested in your help.
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