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* [[Psmith Psyndrome]]: Go ahead. Call him "Oz the Pervert". We'll wait.

* [[Rock Beats Laser]]: In ''Little Myth Marker'', a crooked casino dealer disdains magical cheating methods (which the gamblers are watching for) in favor if the simple finesse of a marked deck (which they aren't).

* [[Shirley Template]]: "Markie" from ''Little Myth Marker'' is a classic Shirley Temple [[expy]], which is to be expected considering the title and half of the plot of the novel comes from the Shirley Temple movie ''[[Little Miss Marker]]''. The trope is played with when the book's plot diverges from the movie.

* [[Shout-Out]]: E.g. Guido & Nunzio (see their [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] prototype in the [[Unrelated Brothers]] article).

** Idnew and Drahcir, the Woof Writers - A shout out to Wendi and Richard Pini... in werewolf form.

*** Phil Foglio's illustration of Don Bruce for one book looks like a certain [[Barnaby|Mr. O'Malley.]]

**** For that matter, Nick the Vampire is Phil's avatar in-universe.

* [[Shown Their Work]]: Asprin dealt with writer's block by doing research. On the negative side, this sometimes led to the [[Author Filibuster~~|Author Filibusters~~]] mentioned above.

* [[Shown Their Work]]: Asprin dealt with writer's block by doing research. On the negative side, this sometimes led to the [[Author Filibuster]]s mentioned above.

* [[Smoke Out]]: Skeeve tries a variation of this to intimidate an army. Unfortunately, he quickly learns that his ninja smoke makes him sneeze.

* [[Springtime for Hitler]]: Guido and Nunzio's attempts to disrupt the Possiltum army in ''M.Y.T.H. Inc. in Action'' only end up improving the army and/or getting them promoted. Even when they go as far as to have supplies delivered at random.