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* [[Eldritch Abomination]] -- Pandelume looks like one, to the point that anyone who looks upon him will instantly go insane, but he behaves like a pretty nice guy. Magnatz is a more straightforward example, since he is unambiguously evil.
* [[Encyclopedia Exposita]] -- In many of the Gaean Reach novels, Vance quotes at length from the philosophical encyclopedia ''Life'', by Unspiek, Baron Bodissey (who was excommunicated from the human race by the Assemblage of Egalitarians. The Baron's response was to comment, "The point is moot." To this day the most erudite thinkers of the Gaean Reach ponder the significance of the remark.).
** Several reviewers are quoted making very hostile comments about the Baron. One, though, expresses the desire to give Baron Bodissey a severe thrashing — and then buy him a drink.
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]] -- Chun the Unavoidable, who because of his rather unusual cloak also qualifies as [[Eye Scream]], since it is made out of woven-together {{spoiler|human eyeballs}}.
* [[Happy Place]] -- The Overworld
* [[Hypocritical Humor]] -- In ''Maske: Thaery'', Nai the Hever signs Jubal Droad up in his intelligence agency -- with a contract that fades away within a day or so to leave blank paper, giving Nai [[Plausible Deniability]]. Until Jubal produces the '''copy''' he made and had notarized before the original faded. Nai calls Jubal "an unscrupulous man." (Takes one to know one, doesn't it?) The young Droad may do quite well in Nai the Hever's employ.
* [[Jerkass]] -- Cugel the Clever, who was downright evil for the first book he was in.
* [[Jerkass Genie]] -- The sandestin in the ''Dying Earth'' stories.
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