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* [[Complete Monster]]: Gothmara, Qagh.
* [[Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy]]: After the fourth or fifth planetary genocide, you'll probably become pretty inured to the whole concept.
** This is no exaggeration. There are at least two planetary genocides just in the third book of the ''Cold Equations'' trilogy alone (and those are the only ones we know about). Of course by then the concept has been run so hard into the ground that the screams of an entire world dying provoke more eye-rolling than horror. It seems that the expanded universe simply can't figure out any sufficient level of drama or threat without having a few dozen billion people die in terror along the way.
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Torvig Bu-kar-nguv of [[Star Trek: Titan]]. Possibly President Nanietta Bacco, who went from a "the president resigned last book so we need a new president" character to a popular character carrying her own West Wing-style political novel ([[Star Trek: Articles of the Federation]]).
* [[Fridge Logic]]: One of the more infamous is the desire to make sense of the Tamarian language from ''Darmok''. A very popular episode, but great amounts of [[Fridge Logic]] result, for the books to eventually deal with. For example, how do the children learn the legends? Answer: Probably not unlike how Chinese speakers learn the [[Translation: "Yes"|four word idioms]]. English too has plenty of strange expressions with obscure origins, but speakers understand the meaning from the context. In fact, the metaphorical meaning tends to become the ordinary meaning over time; for example, English "understand" no longer refers to standing under anything but has become a dead metaphor. Or perhaps the children are taught the stories via some visual medium, like movies or plays.
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