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* [[General Ripper]]: Troubadour Penzias, in an unusually cruel and racist way.
* [[God Save Us From the Queen]]: Queen Elizabeth II, still ruling Great Britain in 2023, is moody, arrogant, and tends to poison recalcitrant subordinates.
* [[Good People Have Good Sex]]: Lexa Thatcher, Philo Dufresne [[Three
* [[Hidden Depths]]: Matt Ruff apparently likes to eventually unfold detailed backstories for previously sketchy characters.
* [[Knock-Knock Joke]]: Abbie Hoffman has to teach [[Ayn Rand]] humor in heaven as punishment for committing suicide. He tries this kind of joke, but Ayn doesn't like to pretend he was knocking a door, because that's unlogical if she can see it!
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* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]: Maxwell and Troubadour Penzias. Both are rather insane, in different ways.
* [[Take That]]: ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'' is acerbically dissected by Joan.
* [[Tiny Guy, Huge Girl]]: Harry Gant's mother is a tall, husky construction forewoman, while his father is a short, rather frail history buff.
* [[War Is Hell]]: A recurring theme. Several characters are insane [[Shell-Shocked Veteran|Shell Shocked Veterans]], and Kite stopped viewing war as an adventure when the actual killing began.
* [[Why Am I Ticking?]]: A subplot involves {{spoiler|a [[Acceptable Targets|greedy capitalist]]}} who has been fitted with an explosive collar. It will go off in twenty-four hours, killing him, unless he manages to {{spoiler|[[Ironic Hell|earn $1000 by begging in Grand Central, and feed all the bills through a shredder attached to the collar]]. Naturally, people are [[It Got Worse|less likely to give him money when they see what he's doing with it]]...}}
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