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**Also, {{spoiler|Luke Daab}} ends up floating all alone in space in a small spacecraft, expecting to be picked up by the Terrataker fleet. Unfortunately for {{spoiler|him, the fleet turned tail when they learned that their plan had backfired, leaving him stranded.}}
*[[Anvilicious]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted]]. The series does a good job of providing a Christian touch to a series without sounding overdone.
*[[Batman Cold Open]]: [[Playing Withwith a Trope|Played with]]. It seems like the story starts off in the middle of a dramatic event, but it turns out to be a simulation. The real action had not started then.
*[[Big Applesauce]]: The peace summit in Book 8 is held in New York.
*[[Big Bad Ensemble]]: The Terratakers, including {{spoiler|former director Blaine Steven, Dr. Jordan and Luke Daab}}.
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*[[Just a Kid]]: Notably used in the first book when Tyce explains his ideas to Director Steven. It appears in later books in the series, but not quite as pronouncedly.
*[[Not a Game]]: In the eighth book, the other children believe that the governors they are supposed to shoot are simply a target practice exercise, and are not actually people.
*[[No Waterproofing in Thethe Future]]: In the second book, Tyce's robot falls victim to a ''[[Kill It Withwith Water|sprinkler]]''. {{spoiler|This becomes a major plot point in the eighth book, when Tyce sets off a fire alarm to stop all of the children from shooting the governers at the Summit (see Not a Game above).}}
*[[The Red Planet]]: The setting of books 1-5 and 10.
*[[Spot the Impostor]]: Tyce gets evidence that someone has been intercepting his e-mails when he sends an e-mail discussing Professor Rawling's college hockey career, when he knows that Rawling actually played football. When the e-mail does not correct the error, Tyce knows that it's an impostor.
**[[Spotting the Thread]]: Tyce originally gets tipped off by the unusually common way that Rawlings signed off (he usually uses ''carpe diem'' instead of simply signing his name) and the relative duration he had to wait for a reply.
*Unobtanium: Tantalum, used to create nanotechnology, and is in such short supply that Earth's [[Weird Moon|moon]] is being mined for it. Bonus points for being the name of an actual [[wikipedia:Tantalum|element]].
**[[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: Meta-example. The first mention of it has it spelled "tantulem." Luckily, this was fixed for later books.
*[[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in Book 8. Tyce remarks how no one in New York even glances at the single-file line of robots being marched toward the summit building.
**Lampshaded again in Book 9. When Tyce (as a robot) and his father (disguised as a homeless man) get into a taxi in New York, the driver doesn't even care. Mr. Sanders states that in New York, the taxi drivers have seen everything twice.
*[[Viewers Are Goldfish]]: In every book, readers get the whole system of robotic explained to them, despite probably having read the previous books.
*[[You Said You Couldn't Dance]]: Interesting [[Playing Withwith a Trope|variation]] occurs in Book 10. {{spoiler|Since Tyce had the operation to restore function to his legs, he had been practicing walking. As revealed in the final scene, he had also been practicing dancing, and ends up [[Tear Jerker|doing a slow dance with]] [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Ashley in a garden]].}}
 
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