Reamde: Difference between revisions
Content added Content deleted
(Import from TV Tropes TVT:Literature.Reamde 2012-07-01, editor history TVTH:Literature.Reamde, CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported license) |
(→Tropes used:: clean up) |
||
Line 26: | Line 26: | ||
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Most characters. Richard notes that Jones likes to be the only one making the snarks. |
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Most characters. Richard notes that Jones likes to be the only one making the snarks. |
||
* [[Defiant to The End]]: {{spoiler|John delivers a choice slur before getting executed by Jones}}. |
* [[Defiant to The End]]: {{spoiler|John delivers a choice slur before getting executed by Jones}}. |
||
* [[ |
* [[Doorstopper]]: It's by Neal Stephenson so not a surprise. |
||
* [[Draft Dodging]]: Richard did this to avoid being drafted for [[The Vietnam War]] , only to come back to the U.S. during Jimmy Carter's blanket amnesty. This earned him [[The So Called Coward|the scorn of many of his family members]] although not the ones who really know him. |
* [[Draft Dodging]]: Richard did this to avoid being drafted for [[The Vietnam War]] , only to come back to the U.S. during Jimmy Carter's blanket amnesty. This earned him [[The So Called Coward|the scorn of many of his family members]] although not the ones who really know him. |
||
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]] |
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]] |
||
* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: Only his family calls Richard "Dodge". |
* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: Only his family calls Richard "Dodge". |
||
* [[Expy]]: Don Don shares a few traits with J.R.R. Tolkein. He's a Cambridge professor by day and medieval fantasy author by night who's written a sprawling fantasy [[ |
* [[Expy]]: Don Don shares a few traits with J.R.R. Tolkein. He's a Cambridge professor by day and medieval fantasy author by night who's written a sprawling fantasy [[Doorstopper]] as he masterpiece and invents languages for his works. |
||
* [[Eye Scream]]: What Zula does to {{spoiler|Khalid}}. With a broken {{spoiler|dvd copy of ''Love Actually''}}, no less. |
* [[Eye Scream]]: What Zula does to {{spoiler|Khalid}}. With a broken {{spoiler|dvd copy of ''Love Actually''}}, no less. |
||
* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: |
* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: |