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* [[Flashback Nightmare]]: Gardener regularly has them about his teenage skiing accident (after which he got the steel plate in his head).
* [[For Want of a Nail]]: All the events are triggered by Bobbie stumbling in a piece of metal. The book actually starts with this sentence: "For want of a nail the kingdom was lost - that's how the catechism goes when you boil it down."
* [[Go Out
* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: The entire race of the Tommyknockers have it.
* [[The Hard Hat]]: Gardener and Ev Hillman are immune to the effects of the spaceship, because they have metal plates in their heads (Gardener bcause of a skiing accident, Ev because of a war wound). Anne Anderson is somewhat protected by extensive metal dental work.
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* [[Never Live It Down]]: The only thing that anyone can ever remember about Gardener is that he shot his wife. Never mind that it was non-fatal, she didn't press charges, or any other thing he's ever done, all that important is that he shot his wife.
* [[Next Sunday AD]]: The book is set in 1988.
* [[No Periods, Period]]: Averted. Practically all the women in town wind up with theirs at the same time when the Tommyknockers show up, to the point that the stores run out of tampons. Even Ruth winds up with one, despite the fact that she'd hit menopause years ago.
* [[Parasol of Pain]]: At the beginning of the novel, Gardener gets into an argument with a guy at a party about the safety of nuclear power. Eventually, it deteriorates into Gardener beating the guy up with an umbrella. He notes to himself that this is the only part people will remember.
** Also, the energy weapon that Gardener uses to kill several Havenites, which is specifically noted to look like a parasol.
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* [[Sickly Green Glow]]: The alien power has it.
* [[Smoldering Shoes]]: Two cops are almost completely disintegrated with a Tommyknocker weapon. All that remains is a single smoking shoe. With a foot still in it.
* [[Stage Magician]]: Hilly Brown, a [[Child Prodigy]], wants to be one; when he gains technical abilities, he builds a machine that sends things to a faraway planet ([[Shout
* [[Town With a Dark Secret]]: Haven becomes this.
* [[Touched By Vorlons]]: Everyone in Haven (except Gardener).
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