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* [[After the End]]: Civilization as we know it is gone.
* [[AKA
* [[All That Glitters]]: The group find some [[Crate Expectations|sealed crates]] and J.D. starts going into [[Gun Porn|excessive detail]] over what exotic weapons might be in them. Everyone (except J.D.) bursts out laughing when the crates turn out to be full of thousands of plastic zippers.
* [[Alternate History]]: Premier Gorbachev dies in a plane crash in 1993, and a bloody civil war in the USSR presages the elevation of a hardline Soviet government, though it is another faction ''within'' this group that starts the war, alarmed over the decline of the Soviet Union and other events such as a civil war in South Africa, the assassination of Fidel Castro, and an active Strategic Defense Initiative.
* [[Angst? What Angst?]] ([[In Universe]]): When [[Action Girl]] Hunaker gets killed, Ryan says it's "like losing my [[Handguns|blaster]]", telling Krysty he [[Anyone Can Die|can't afford to feel anything more]].
* [[Annoying Arrows]]: Very handily averted (though not in the [[Film of the Book]], where Krysty Wroth yanks a crossbow bolt out of her shoulder).
* [[Antimatter]]: Implosion bombs use Anti-Matter in some fashion.{{spoiler|They are used to kill the Cerebus fog defense.}}
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* [[BFG]]: M-60s, .50 caliber machine guns and auto-cannons, to name a few.
* [[Bigger Is Better in Bed]]: Doc Tanner's sometime [[No Social Skills|girlfriend]], Lori, runs off and has an affair with a local [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|bad boy]]. She then returns to the group, complaining that his big dick came with a small brain. Ryan dryly remarks that he "hears that's often the way".
* [[Boom! Headshot!]]: Done with often gory details about eyeballs, teeth, and fragments of bullets and bone doing nasty things.
* [[Car Fu]]: The drivers of the Trader's caravan use this to great effect.
* [[Cold Sniper]]: The snipers that do show up are usually this.
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* [[The End of the World As We Know It]]: Modern civilization is gone; see [[Apocalypse How]] entry above.
* [[Eye Scream]]: One of the nicer things that can possibly happen to your eyes is getting them put out.
* [[Film of the Book]]: [[Sci Fi Channel]] did a fairly decent adaptation of ''Homeward Bound'', where Ryan Cawdor returns to the barony from which he was outlawed. Be prepared however for [[Narm|Narmish]] acting, [[Color Wash|too much]] [[Red Sky, Take Warning|red tint]], no Doc Tanner or Lori Quint, ex-porn star Traci Lords as a [[Lady Macbeth]]-style baroness, and a complete absence of giant mutant monsters.
* [[Forbidden Zone]]: USA, also known as The Death Lands.
* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: {{spoiler|Finnigan is killed by one in ''Crater Lake'',}} and the effects are depicted in [[Squick]]-inducing detail.
* [[Future Imperfect]]: The leader of a Russian war party declares his intention to invade the former United States, having read in the old books about how it's a land of wealth and [[Foreign Fanservice|beautiful women]] instead of the [[Crapsack World]] it is in reality.
* [[Future Slang]]: [[Mutant|Muties]], [[I'm a Humanitarian|cannies]], [[Mooks|sec men]], [[Weaponized Car|war wag]], [[Hired Guns|blasters]], [[Deadly Euphemism|chilled]], and [[Unusual Euphemism|fireblast]].
* [[The Great Politics Mess
* [[Grenade Launcher]]: They are present but not widely used.
* [[Gun Porn]]: Oh so many weapons.
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* [[Mysterious Past]]: Ryan Cawdor and Doc Tanner. {{spoiler|Ryan is the son of a wealthy baron, forced to flee after a palace coup by his [[Wicked Stepmother]] and [[Evil Prince]] brother. Doc turns out to be from the 19th century, and had been time-trawled into the 20th by Project Cerebus scientists. When he kept trying to escape to his own time, the scientists sent him a hundred years into the future [[Kick the Dog|simply to get rid of him]].}}
* [[Nuclear Option]]: Both sides in the war used this to blast each other to hell and back.
* [[No Range Like Point
* [[Not Quite Dead]]: {{spoiler|The Trader is dying of radiation poisoning in the first novel, and walks off into the woods when the pain becomes too much. He meets up with Ryan again in ''Trader: Redux''.}}
* [[Poisoned Weapons]]: Ryan mentions there are some marshland mutant groups who poison their weapons.
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* [[Psychic Powers]]: Some mutes have these -- [[Spider Sense|Sensors]], [[Seer|precogs]]; Krysty has powerful [[Mind Over Matter|telekinetic abilities]].
* [[Rape, Pillage and Burn]]: Standard practice for raiders and bandits. The Trader however believes that [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil]] and forbids his men to do so on penalty of death; this earns him the trust of many otherwise hostile towns.
* [[Rare Guns]]: They usually fall under a form of [[AKA
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: In the [[Film of the Book]] it's the only outward sign of mutation (presumably to save on special effects).
* [[Rule of Cool]]: The book contains plenty instances of this to help keep the story interesting.
* {{spoiler|[[Self-Destruct Mechanism]]: All of the Traders' vehicles have these placed into them to keep the wagons and their contents from falling into the wrong hands. When the switch is not activated after a certain period of time (because everyone's been nerve-gassed) the convoy blows up in front of the [[Big Bad]] who'd hoped to seize it.}}
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