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* [[Dirty Communists]]: Played more or less straight until ''The Cardinal of the Kremlin'', but completely turned on its head afterwards.
* [[Discussed Trope]]: Clancy loves to discuss the tropes related to [[Reality Is Unrealistic]], largely via characters commenting on how people expect various aspects of police and spycraft to work because they saw it in a movie.
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* [[Every Bullet Is a Tracer]]: [[Averted]], unsurprisingly. When tracers are used (particularly in the miniguns on the Pave Low helicopters in ''[[Clear and Present Danger]]''), it's specifically mentioned that only one out of X bullets is a tracer round, for the purposes of assisting with aim<ref>miniguns aren't equipped with sights, as they're for area denial and not precision shooting</ref>. Given [[Gatling Good|minigun]] [[More Dakka|rate of fire]], it's also mentioned that it looks like a laser beam at full "rock and roll".
* [[Follow the Leader]]: Clancy's work popularized the techno-thriller genre.
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