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* [[The Chessmaster]]: Colonel Chreighton

* [[City of Spies]]: Lahore just to start with

* [[Coming of Age]]

* [[Cool Gun]] : An ancient cannon in front of the "wonder-house" at Lahore, around which the [[Street Urchins]] play. Apparently there is a real cannon at Lahore called "Kim's Gun" for the benefit of tourists, on which Kipling based it on. According to ''The Quest For Kim'' by Peter Hopkirk this gun had a romantic history being sort of an [[Ancestral Weapon]] of the armies of several Rajahs, and had gone on a number of campaigns before it had become a museum piece.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Kim is so good at this that it is his primary defensive mechanism. He can shoo away bad guys by embarrassing them.

** One Sikh they met along the road said "The police of this land are thieves but at least they allow no competition."

* [[Intrepid Merchant]]: Mahbub Ali

* [[Little Hero, Big War]]

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Kim is "the little friend of all the world"

** The Espionage profession is called ''The Great Game'', especially when the phrase is said to be inspired by chess and the main opponent is Russia.

* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]: Mahbub Ali

* [[The Raj]]

* [[Secret War]]

* [[Shangri La]] : The Red Lama comes from there and the final scene takes place there. It is a bit toned down. While much of the format fits the "mystical place in the mountains" stereotype, there are no [[Death Trap]] s or [[Tome of Eldritch Lore|Tomes Of Eldritch Lore]] or the other things you expect to find there. It is simply another country.

* [[The Spymaster]]: Colonel Chreighton