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* Certain [[Discworld]] stories might count as this, considering just how many bizarre concepts tend to be packed into one novel.* A good example would be ''[[Monstrous Regiment]]'' in which a [[Sweet Polly Oliver]] joins a military regiment along with a troll, a vampire, [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|two women who happen to be in love]] - one of them is a pyromaniac and the other is perpetually angry, a religious fanatic {{spoiler|who bears a strong resemblance to Joan of Arc}}, a [[Sergeant Rock|sergeant]] and [[The Igor|an Igor]], and they all fight in a war in the name of {{spoiler|a god {{spoiler|who is dead, and a dead mortal who is in the process of ascending to godhood}}. And it turns out the entire regiment is an {{spoiler|an [[Amazon Brigade]]}} and didn't know it.

** ''[[Carpe Jugulum]]'' is a book about witches fighting vampires, with the help of [[Violent Glaswegian]] [[The Smurfs|Smurfs]], a phoenix, and [[Church Militant|a fighting priest]]. Also, [[The Virus]] {{spoiler|is inverted: "I ain't been vampired. You've been Weatherwaxed."}}

** ''[[Discworld/Jingo|Jingo]]'' is a book where a [[Cowboy Cop]], a [[Our Werewolves Are Different|werewolf]], a man who's [[King Incognito|secretly a king]], a [[Our Trolls Are Different|troll]] and a [[Everything's Deader with Zombies|zombie]] team up with Bedouin to stop a war in a plot borrowed from [[Lawrence of Arabia]], but with more [[The Beautiful Game|football]]. Meanwhile, two [[Too Dumb to Fool]] other cops, a [[Magnificent Bastard]] tyrant and an expy of [[Leonardo da Vinci]] are on a secret mission in a submarine. Oh, and there's [[H.P. Lovecraft|a city built by squid.]]

* In ''[[Dune]]'', there are a few different characters with special abilities. There are the Navigators, who can see in four dimensions. There are Mentats, essentially human computers. There are also the Bene Gesserits, magical witches that have the commanding Voice. And then there's Paul Atreides, the Kwisatz Haderach. This Troper's nickname for him is Paul "multiclasses-in-everything" Atreides, because he is essentially ALL OF THESE! The only person worse than him is his son, who even jumps species to get the extra skills he didn't already inherit from his father.

* Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy is the story of humans fighting back againstanagainst an invasion by dead souls possessing the living to escape a horrible living death afterlife and gaining superpowers in the process unleashed when an alien made of pure energy interrupts a satanic ritual and nearly winning until Al Capone comes back and takes over whole star systems then the dead take some planets to over universes except one is a horrific nightmare realm with an enemy made up of a squillion different species liquefied and mashed together into a blob of pure scary and then the guy who started it all summons the scary blob to our universe and everybody nearly dies but someone else saves the day by piloting a living starship to where a god hangs out and talks it into helping. The impressive part is this is actually done in such a way that every premise is plausible and the impacts they have on the world are realistic.