Johnny Maxwell Trilogy: Difference between revisions

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To look at him, you'd think that Johnny Maxwell is just an ordinary twelve-year-old. But weird stuff keeps happening to him. Of course, you could blame these Trying Times -- his parents are in the middle of an acrimonious divorce -- but really, the kinds of things we're talking about aren't part of a normal kid's routine. I mean, what would you do if...

 

The ''[[Johnny Maxwell Trilogy]]'' is a series of three books comprising ''Only You Can Save Mankind'', ''Johnny and the Dead'' and ''Johnny and the Bomb'', written by [[Terry Pratchett]]. It concerns the adventures of Johnny Maxwell and his friends, Wobbler, Bigmac, Yo-less, and Kirsty, as they deal with whatever weird thing the Universe throws at them this week. ''Only You Can Save Mankind'' has been adapted for radio, the other two for TV (''The Dead'' for ITV in 1995 and ''The Bomb'' for [[The BBC]] in 2006). There's also been a [[All Musicals Are Adaptations|stage musical]] of ''Only You Can Save Mankind'', with accompanying soundtrack CD.

 

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* [[Action Girl]]: Kirsty.

* [[Police Are Useless]]: not only do they get in the way, but they fail to get in the way very successfully.

* [[Politically-Correct History]]: averted in a scene in which a shopkeeper in 1941 uses a racial insult to refer to Yo-less. He is about as impressed as you'd expect.

* [[Reality Warper]]: Johnny when in a state of extreme stress.

* [[Resigned to the Call]]: Johnny. As contrasted with Kirsty, who tends to [[Jumped At the Call|Jump At The Call]].

* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: The Captain trying to talk about Earth food. "Pressed wheat extractions treated with sucrose" indeed. {{spoiler|Breakfast cereal.}}

* [[Shout-Out]]: Quite a few: [https://web.archive.org/web/20180119052616/http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/only-you-can-save-mankind.html], [https://web.archive.org/web/20180119052346/http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/johnny-and-the-dead.html], [https://web.archive.org/web/20180301020357/http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/johnny-and-the-bomb.html].

* [[Shrouded in Myth]]

* [[Smart Guy]]: Kirsty. Yo-less sometimes fills in.

** Though hinted at, in the [[Schrödinger's Butterfly]] scene.

 

* [[Accidental Kiss]]: Kirsty gets overexcited and kisses Johnny.

* [[Weenalized]]: In the ''Johnny and the Bomb'' Kirsty is sweet on Johnny, though the book never explicitly stated such a thing.

 

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[[Category:Fantasy Literature]]

[[Category:Children's Literature]]

[[Category:Carnegie Medal]]