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* [[Dirty Old Man]]: Self-professed even. Not really a surprise to anyone who has read anything he's written.
* [[Disposable Woman]]: Nearly all of his books have these; very often as [[Damsel in Distress|Distressed Damsels]]. Women in ''Bio of a Space Tyrant'' seem to exist solely to be [[Stuffed Into the Fridge|brutally raped and murdered]].
* [[Eskimos Aren't Real]]: In "Possible To Rue", a young boy's pleas for a pet pegasus leads his father to look the animal up in the encyclopedia and show that they're mythical. So are unicorns. To the father's astonishment, so are [[Inverted Trope|zebras, mules, and even horses]], which he distinctly remembers placing bets on. It's implied that, by denying zebras are real to avoid having to buy one, the father has inadvertently begun erasing these creatures from the universe.▼
* [[Fetish Fuel]], particularly [[Blood Lust]]: Colene in the ''Mode'' series. At 14, [[Emo Teen|she's a suicidal cutter]], [[Rape as Drama|she's been gang-raped]], [[Wrong Side of the Tracks|she runs around with a gang member named]] [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|"Slick"]], [[Abusive Parents|her parents are emotionally abusive]] ([[The Alcoholic|and alcoholics]])... [[Sarcasm Mode|Quite an accomplished young lady.]]
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: Particularly in his ''Xanth'' series, almost every one of which are reader submitted (and credited).
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** Xanth tends to have a lot of near-rape moments in it, just not actually carrying through. The characters also only ever seem mildly perturbed by the possibility, as well, so it's almost more like "near-rape as mild annoyance".
** Discussed in ''[[Incarnations of Immortality]]'' when the Incarnation of Fate is in the clutches of a demon that means to rape her. Since she's incapable of being physically harmed, she speculates that rape would be just... interaction. [[Completely Missing the Point|Because it's totally the violence that makes something rape, that whole "lack of consent" thing has nothing to do with it.]]
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* [[Sapient Cetaceans]]: In his stories about a human dentist abducted by aliens to serve as their on-ship oral hygeine practitioner (Prosthro Plus), the intrepid orthodontist is called upon to do some filings for a life-form on a wholly aquatic planet, who turns out to be the son of a whale-like species who are planetary rulers and who can therefore pay the fabulous costs of tons of gold used to restore the cavity-laden rotten teeth. After several days of work with JCB's to excavate the rot and a portable blast furnace to melt the gold for the fillings - all done inside the creature's mouth as it really is that large - the dentist asks what caused catastrophic rot in the first place, learning that over-indulgent parents had allowed too many sweeties and not imposed a good enough teeth-cleaning regime...
* [[Signature Style]], verging on [[Strictly Formula]]:
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