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''[[The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay]]'' (2000) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by [[
Many events in the novel are based on the lives of actual comic-book creators, and the book as a whole is generally an homage to the comics of the [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]].
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* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: [[Discussed Trope]]. The Senate committee grills Sam about the fact that he constantly creates young male sidekicks for his characters, and all but calls [[Batman]] gay.
* [[A Nazi
* [[All Germans Are Nazis]]: Deconstructed. Joe ends up venting his hatred of the Nazis on anyone who looks even vaguely German, regardless of whether they support Hitler. Near the end {{spoiler|when he's stationed in Antarctica with the Navy, he's so desperate to kill some Nazis that he goes out of his way to track down and kill an innocent German geologist. He immediately feels terrible about it}}.
** Ironically, in one scene he actually saves the life of the Spaniard [[Salvador Dali]], apparently unaware that he's a prominent Fascist.
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* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Sam's father was always on the road. Just as well, as his relationship with Sam's mother was rather dysfunctional.
** Also, {{spoiler|Joe becomes one to his own son after he joins the Navy and refuses to come home}}.
* [[Dropped a Bridge
* [[Easily Forgiven]]: {{spoiler|Rosa easily takes back Joe after he ran off for thirteen years, then came back and initiated a [[Zany Scheme]] to, [[It Makes Sense in Context|essentially, bungee jump off the Empire State Building]].}}
* [[Escapism]]: The story deals with the theme of literal and metaphorical escapism, especially the way in which various characters use comics to escape the troubles of their lives. Kavalier wants to escape the memory of the Nazis and guilt over his little brother. Clay wishes to escape his closeted gay life and his disability. Together they create the Escapist, a literal escape artist, who gains popularity when the public uses him to escape from the war.
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: Sam Clay's real last name is Klayman, or "Clay Man." The book heavily references the story of the Golem, another Clay Man. Kavalier is a play on the French "cavale", meaning escape. Joe's escape artist stage name is The Amazing Cavalieri, putting the emphasis closer to the French.
* [[Most Writers Are Writers]]
* [[Naked
* [[Name's the Same]]: The Escapist fights crime in a generic New York-esque metropolis called "Empire City". [[
* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]: {{spoiler|Joe's trek across Antarctica is almost entirely skipped over. First, his pilot dies shortly into the trip and he is forced to continue flying it alone with no experience. After killing the German, he treks ''on foot'' across the Tundra and barely survives by finding an old pre-war German base camp and holing up.}}
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: [[Salvador Dali]] in the party scene. Not surprising since he's, well...[[Crazy Awesome|Salvador]] [[Cloudcuckoolander|Dali]].
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