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* [[Break Out the Museum Piece]]: Used frequently |
* [[Break Out the Museum Piece]]: Used frequently |
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** In ''Crescent Dawn,'' a Byzantine breastplate is used to stop bullets |
** In ''Crescent Dawn,'' a Byzantine breastplate is used to stop bullets |
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* [[Canon Discontinuity]]: A number of the early Dirk Pitt books end with sweeping scientific or political changes (the development of a [[Star Wars]] system that makes nuclear war impossible, the merging of the US and Canada into a single country) that are then completely ignored by subsequent books since they conflict with the by-and-large real-world setting. |
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** Also, the Titanic is raised whole in the book of the same name. After it was discovered in real life to have broken in half, and that raising it was impossible, the whole incident is erased from canon. |
** Also, the Titanic is raised whole in the book of the same name. After it was discovered in real life to have broken in half, and that raising it was impossible, the whole incident is erased from canon. |
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* [[Casual Danger Dialogue]]: Pitt and Giordino are masters of this, especially when all the other characters are terrified out of their wits. |
* [[Casual Danger Dialogue]]: Pitt and Giordino are masters of this, especially when all the other characters are terrified out of their wits. |
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