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* [[Artifact Title]]: Half the books' titles don't have much to do with Jerle Shannara.
* [[Badass Family]]: The Ohmsfords, the Leahs, and the Elessedils have saved the world how many times now?
* [[Big Bad]]: One in each of the first three books and then one for each main series - the Warlock Lord in ''Sword'', Dagda Mor in ''Elfstones'', [[Tome of Eldritch Lore|The Ildatch]] in ''Wishsong''; [[The Heartless|the Shadowen]] led by Rimmer Dall in the Heritage series; [[Evil Sorcerer|the Morgawr]] in the Voayage of the Jerle Shannara trilogy, [[Demon Lords and Archdevils|Tael Riverine]] in the High Druid trilogy, and [[Hero
* [[Big Creepy Crawlies]]: The Creepers and the unnamed monster from early in Sword. [[Hollywood Cyborg|Half machine]], half giant insect, all problem. The Wisteron in ''Elf Queen'' combines this with [[Everything's Better With Monkeys]] and [[The Heartless]]. Brooks is fond of this one.
* [[Big Good]]: Allanon in the classic series has many aspects of this.
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** Although initially played straight as the Federation WAS originally [[The Federation]], with a group of large city-states coming together for mutual defense, it's only later they decided the best way to stay safe, was make sure all Humans were part of them, and all non-humans enslaved or eradicated.
* [[Functional Magic]]: Notably averted. The books go out of their way to point out how magic resists being treated scientifically, and how it evolves in unpredictable ways.
* [[Full
* [[Garden of Evil]]: The ruins in ''First King'', most of the island in ''Elf Queen'', the Melmord from Wishsong, and one of the islands in ''Voyage of the Jerle Shannara''.
* [[Generation Xerox]]: The Ohmsfords, Leahs, and Creels.
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* [[Hive Mind]]: Heavily implied with the communal, bodiless [[Shape Shifter|Shapeshifters]].
* [[Hollywood Cyborg]]: The Creepers are what happen when this trope and [[Big Creepy Crawlies|giant insect]] get together and have children. Antrax builds several out of people in ''Voyage''.
* [[Human Mom, Nonhuman Dad]]: Shea's biological parents. A lot of the Ohmsfords are like this, with Elves and Men marrying and remarrying.
** Inverted with Truhls Rohk, whose father was human and whose mother was a shapeshifter.
* [[Humans Are White]]: Everyone in the Four Lands era is either white or [[Ambiguously Brown]]. Given that it was only America that (barely) survived the apocalypse, it makes sense that after millenia of interbreeding there would be no one very dark. In the pre-''Shannara'' books, the ethnic demographics are what you'd expect (i.e. majority Caucasian, recognizable African-American and Latino minorities).
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** Finally, there are a class of spirits simply called shape-shifters which display this ability to [[Reality Warper]] levels. Though they have undertones of [[The Fair Folk]], they're generally content to leave others alone and their primary appearance in ''Morgawr'' had them willingly aiding the protagonists.
*** Truls Rohk, a half-shapeshifter and a protagonist, has a downgraded version; he can distort his shape but only imperfectly. It has...'''''[[Body Horror|severe]]''''' drawbacks.
* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]] --> [[Heart Is an Awesome Power]]: The Sword of Shannara itself; lampshaded.
** To elaborate: The Sword's power is to force anyone who touches it (including the wielder) to see and accept the complete and total truth about themselves. The [[Big Bad]] of the first book is undead and unaware of it. Put two and two together. This same power is used in ''Heritage'' and ''Voyage'' to help [[Manipulative Bastard|Rimmer Dall]] and the [[Evil Mentor|Morgawr]]'s victims see through the web of lies the two have created.
** Also used with the main Ohmsford of the High Druid series, his family line contains people that can project completely realistic illusions, and even some (like his father and aunt) with near [[Reality Warper]] level, and what does he inherit? He gets to be a second rate Dr. Doolittle that can empathicly feel what other living things are feeling, not communicate directly or control, just trade vague feelings with them. Much angsting ensues.
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