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* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: Used in ''Legacies''.
* [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]: the Ladies
* [[Anti
* [[The Antichrist]]: {{spoiler|Rasalom, and possibly the unborn child from ''Bloodline.''}}
* [[Anyone Can Die]]
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* [[Body Horror]]: People conceived or growing up too close to certain nexus points get "touched" by the Otherness and end up mutated to varying degrees.
** Ah, yes. The "Monroe Cluster"... Picture if you will: A man with tentacles for legs. A woman with a single fused finger on her left hand - and one fused nail. Which later turned into a claw.
*** ''Fatal Error'' reveals that these are not mutations but {{spoiler|''reactivated genes''. In ancient times, the Otherness made war on humanity by altering humans into "q'qrs" - six-limbed living weapons that later ages would remember as "demons". The Ally retaliated by releasing a biological weapon that [[Gendercide|killed all the females of the species]]. In desperation, the males went on a rape spree, hoping to restore their ranks with [[Half Human Hybrids]]. They were unsuccessful in producing further q'qrs, but a lot of that genetic material remains in the human genome as recessive genes. Dawn Pickering's baby, the result of both [[Brother
* [[Buried Alive]]
* [[Bury Your Gays]]: {{spoiler|Jeannette and Kate}}
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** Hey! [[Justified Trope|She's not even ten!]]
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: the Rakoshi
* [[Evil
* [[Executive Meddling]]: there is no tomb in ''The Tomb''. The publisher insisted on the title.
* [[Eye Scream]]: Jack keeps his thumbnails long just for this advantage in a fight. He also stabs a fork through a man's eye.
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* [[Framing the Guilty Party]]: Several times.
* [[Gangsta Style]]: Subverted. A thug tries aiming this way at Jack, who points out what's wrong with that grip. In a painful object lesson.
* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: In Wilson's 'verse there's a specific gene set which [[Hot Blooded|increases violent impulses]] - Jack is the most potent carrier on record; IE, he once tied a man {{spoiler|who seduced and impregnated his own unknowing daughter}} under a truck. At the moment he justified the modernized "draw and quartering" as a kill method which left no trace evidence, but after what was left of the body was identified by DNA testing just a day later, he realized he was just ''[[Unstoppable Rage|that violently angry]]''. Even '''he''' asks himself [[What the Hell, Hero?]].
* {{spoiler|[[Half
* [[Human Resources]]
* [[Hive Mind]]: The Unity
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** Jack sometimes wanders at night, dressed like a tourist, waiting for someone evil and stupid enough to attempt to mug him. Then Jack beats the would-be mugger up, takes his money and jewelery, fences the jewelery, and donates the money to a kids' baseball league.
** Two bandits and later a mugger try to attack Glaeken. The mugger (probably) survives. The bandits are not so lucky.
* [[Multi
* [[Never Found the Body]]
* [[Nikola Tesla]]: Some of his inventions are central to ''Conspiracies''.
* [[The Nondescript]]: Jack ''works'' at being this, and also deliberately subverts it when he's undercover so his fake personas will be markedly unlike his real appearance.
* [[No Name Given]]: Jack is just Jack, which makes people uncomfortable addressing him so familiarly.
* [[Non
* [[Phony Psychic]]: The Kenton brothers and the Fosters from ''The Haunted Air''.
* [[Protectorate]]: Don't mess with Gia or Vicky.
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* [[The Virus]]: The Unity.
* [[We Help the Helpless]]
* [[White
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: Glaeken doesn't at all. He is overjoyed for a chance to live a human life and to get old together with his beloved.
* [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him]]: Jack receives an explanation as to why the Otherness doesn't kill him off:
{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Rasalom'''}}: Physical pain is mere sustenance. But, [[To the Pain|a strong man slowly battered into despair and hopelessness]]...that is a delicacy. In your case, it might even approach ecstasy. I don't want to deprive myself of that.}}
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