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=== ''The Witches of Karres'' provides examples of: ===
* [[Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder]]: Captain Pausert became a trader to impress a girl he was keen on; when he got back from his first trading expedition, she was engaged to somebody else.
* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]] / [[Bratty Half-Pint]]: The Leewit.
* [[Badass Crew]]:
* [[Bad Guy Bar]] / [[City of Spies]]: Uldune is both of these on a [[Planetville|planetary scale]].
* [[The Captain]]: Captain Pausert, owner of the requisite.
** [[Cool Starship]]: The ''Venture'', an elderly but very fast and well-armed starship.
* [[Captain's Log]]: Parodied. Pausert makes a laconic entry about battling space pirates to explain a bit of unauthorized target practice on an asteroid.
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* [[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place]]: The Egger Route, a scary hyperspace which results in a brief period of gibbering madness followed almost complete amnesia right after you come out of it. All someone remembers after going through the Egger Route is that it was absolutely terrifying, but no details as to why -- which is one of the creepiest things about it.
* [[In the Blood]]: Pausert had to listen to Councilor Onswud saying he'd known Pausert would go bad (as Onswud saw it), "Just like his great-uncle Threbus! It's in the blood, I always say!" And then Threbus' daughter told Pausert her father had predicted Pausert would break with his home planet -- and ''he'' said it was in the blood.
* [[Lady of War]]: Hulik do Eldel.
* [[Like Parent, Like Spouse]]: Goth (aged nine or ten) announces that she is going to marry Pausert (twenty-eight) when she grows up. It is noted by several characters that he very much resembles her father
* [[Little Miss Badass]]
* [[Little Miss Con Artist]]
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* [[Mama Bear]]: Toll. Even Big Windy (see above) is afraid of her.
* [[May-December Romance]]: Goth (nine or ten) informs Captain Pausert (twenty-eight) she's going to marry him when she grows up. The Captain later explains to Goth's father that while he's fond of her, he has no intention of taking her seriously. Goth's father indulgently replies that he didn't take ''his'' wife's declaration of intent to marry ''him'' seriously, either.
* [[Negative Space Wedgie]]:
* [[Parental Substitute]]: Pausert to the three sisters, to some extent
* [[Planet of Hats]]:
** Karres is the planet of witches.
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* [[Take a Level In Badass]]: When the captain learns to control his powers.
* [[Traveling Landmass]]: The planet Karres.
* [[Unfortunate Name]]: Goth.
* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]: Goth.
* [[World of Badass]]: Karres.
* [[Wretched Hive]]: Uldune is a [[True Neutral]] version.
=== The sequels provide examples of: ===
* [[Hive Mind]]: Sedmon of the Six Lives.
* [[Sequelitis]]
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