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* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: The end of ''Hero of Ages''. Also Kelsier's philosophy in general.
* [[Epigraph]]: Each chapter is headed with one, taken from a document that exists in-universe and is read by the main characters. Interestingly, in each case they are presented in such a way as to mislead the reader in some way.
* [[Eleventh
* [[Elite Mooks]]: Hazekillers and Koloss.
* [[Emotion Bomb]]: What happens when Vin combines duralumin with zinc or brass. Straff Venture describes it as feeling "as he imagined death would."
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* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Marsh}}, though this wasn't entirely [[Brainwashed and Crazy|his fault]].
* [[Face Stealer]]: The Kandra, who are essentially smarter mistwraiths have to eat a person's bones to take on their form. Partially to give themselves a skeleton to work with and partially to get the information needed to mimic the body.
* [[Fake King]]: [[Playing With a Trope|Sort of.]] {{spoiler|The switch happened immediately before the man who was replaced would have become king; so in a way the imposter was "king" all along, but he doesn't deserve it as much as people assume. And while he spent his reign committing constant acts of mass murder and oppression, he was ''also'' constantly working against the real [[Big Bad]]; see [[The Good,
* [[Fantasy Gun Control]]: [[Justified Trope|Justified:]] The Lord Ruler was afraid of that guns would make rebellions easier (since gunmen require considerably less training than archers). So, he destroyed them all, killed those who knew how to make them, and then spent a millennium crushing human scientific progress to the point that everyone forgot they had ever existed and were unable to experiment to make more.
** Utterly averted by the time of ''The Alloy of Law.'' Guns are ''everywhere.''
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** Feruchemy: Another [[Functional Magic|Inherent Gift]] system. Feruchemists are {{spoiler|Terrisman}} who are born with a genetic knack. They store certain attributes in metal trinkets, which they later "tap" to boost that attribute. The attributes that can be stored depend on the material it's being stored in, and range from senses to various mental qualities (quickness of thought, emotional resiliency), to physical traits (like speed and strength, but also things like ''mass'' and ''age''). Storing and tapping things works on a 1:1 scale. When you store strength, you become weaker; if you store strength by becoming half as strong as normal for 10 minutes, then you can tap that strength later to become twice as strong for 10 minutes -- or four times as strong for 5 minutes, etc.
** Hemalurgy: this dread art is a terrible form of [[Functional Magic|pseudo-Equivalent Exchange]] [[Blood Magic]], where a victim's abilities are permanently transferred into a recipient via {{spoiler|metal spikes used to impale both victim and recipient at certain points in their bodies. The victim is killed, but the recipient is unharmed by the spikes -- even if he ''should have been'', as with spikes through the brain or through the heart.}} Like allomancy and feruchemy, the attributes transferred are dependent on what materials are used. ''Unlike'' allomancy and feruchemy, hemalurgy can even {{spoiler|grant the recipient allomantic or feruchemical powers, though only from an allomancer or feruchemist "[[Human Sacrifice|donor]]+", and only one attribute at a time}}.
* [[Full
* [[Gambit Pileup]]: Given that it spans ''all of creation'' and most of people influencing it are [[My Death Is Just the Beginning|dead well before their true impact is felt]], yes this trope is in effect. The ''shortest'' possible explanation is still a textwall covering at least five different instances of someone being [[Out
* [[Game Breaker]]: The Lord Ruler. {{spoiler|Combining Allomancy with Feruchemy to create an "infinite loop" of stored power and age}} is very reminiscent of the way a smart [[Magic the Gathering]] player can combine card abilities in unforeseen ways.
** Appropriate comparison; Sanderson is [[One of Us]] and a Magic player.
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* [[God Is Evil]]: Again, the Lord Ruler. {{spoiler|Though he was more [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] than anything else, if a bit crazy due to Ruin's influence. Ruin is a more straight example, but he's less ''the'' God than ''a'' god}}.
* [[God of Evil]]: Subverted with Ruin. {{spoiler|Though he ''is'' evil by basically everyone's standards but his own -- wanting to destroy literally ''everything'' -- he's not a god ''of'' evil, but of entropy and decay, and was just as vital to creating the world as Preservation was}}.
* [[The Good,
** The three competing kings from the second book fit this perfectly as well -- Elend is the good, Cett is the bad, and Straff is the evil.
* [[Grievous Harm With a Body]]: If you're a guard wearing a breastplate, the best you can hope for is to get casually tossed aside by a Mistborn. If you're ''not'' lucky, ''you're'' going to be the one tossing aside your comrades. The guards are at least [[Genre Savvy]] about this; they can detach their breastplates immediately if they realize they're up against an Allomancer or Mistborn.
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* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Played with multiple times. {{spoiler|Lord Cett}} does one near the end of ''Well of Ascension'' not out of any change of heart, but because he thinks his chances are better that way. In ''Hero of Ages'', we get one from {{spoiler|Yomen}} after he decides that Vin is the Lord Ruler's true successor, and from {{spoiler|Quellion}} after his [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] is fixed. {{spoiler|The Lord Ruler}} is an odd example; his eventually-revealed motivations change his characterization from [[Complete Monster]] to [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]], giving him a semi-[[Heel Face Turn]] in the eyes of the audience {{spoiler|well after his death}}.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Multiple examples, particularly in the first and third books, none of which are possible to mention without massive spoilers.
* [[How Do I Shot Web?]]:
** Vin goes through this when Kelsier first tells her about her powers, though she gets over it fairly quickly in the grand scheme of things.
** Also happened to the Lord Ruler when he first got the power from the Well of Ascension. In his case, it was a rather bigger deal, as it was his {{spoiler|clumsy use of power that lead directly to the ash-covered brown-planted setting of the series}}. {{spoiler|Vin}} has a similar experience when {{spoiler|she absorbs Preservation; notably, her attempt to stop the ashfalls nearly ''lights half the planet on fire''}}.
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* [[Near Villain Victory]]: ''Final Empire'' is close. {{spoiler|''Hero of Ages'' is even closer}}.
* [[No Guy Wants an Amazon]]: Averted by {{spoiler|Elend's}} relationship with the Mistborn Vin. Doesn't stop her from worrying about it, though.
* [[No
* [[Non-Action Guy]]: Elend in the first two books {{spoiler|[[Took a Level In Badass|but not in ''Hero of Ages''.]]}}
** Also Spook, to a degree. Though he's pretty tough, having grown up on the streets, the fact that he's a Tineye means he can't really compete with most of the other characters on a physical level and knows better than to try. {{spoiler|He also Takes A Level In Badass in ''Hero of Ages''.}}
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* [[Orphan's Plot Trinket]]: Vin's earring, given to her by her mother when she killed Vin's younger sister. {{spoiler|Also, it's a hemalurgic spike that Ruin uses to talk to her and is the method by which Vin's bronze allomantic power is strong enough to pierce copperclouds.}}
* [[Our Orcs Are Different]]: Koloss, which are actually {{spoiler|humans who have been transformed into monsters by careful application of hemalurgy}}.
* [[Out
* [[Patrick Stewart Speech]]: Vin gets one of these near the end of ''Hero of Ages'', combined with a [[Shut UP, Hannibal]] directed at Ruin. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|It was awesome]].
* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: Mistborn are generally treated with the same degree of respect as a tactical missile strike. This goes double for Vin.
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* [[Sad Clown]]: Less "sad" than "furious," but Kelsier considers cracking jokes no matter ''what'' the situation to be a form of rebellion against [[Crapsack World|the world]].
* [[Sanity Has Advantages]]: Invoked by Zane. He's quite open and accepting about the fact that he's nuts (what with {{spoiler|[[Spirit Advisor|that little voice in his head telling him to kill everyone]]}}), but he considers this a weakness and tries to compensate for it.
* [[Schizo
** [[Justified]]. The Lord Ruler suppressed technology that could be inconvenient for him, such as [[Fantasy Gun Control|guns]], while allowing ones which presented no threat.
* [[Science Is Bad]]: Averted pretty nicely, in that one of the reasons they need to defeat the Lord Ruler is that he is choking the world's development -- technology, fashion, and even language have barely changed in the thousand years of his rule.
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