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* [[Alliterative Name]]: The ''Marianne'' trilogy is one doozy of an example: ''Marianne, the Magus and the Manticore,'' then ''Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods,'' and finally ''Marianne, the Matchbox, and the Malachite Mouse.''

* [[Anti-Magic]]: The 'muties' in ''The True Game'' series suppress the gifts of all nearby Gamesmen.

* [[Author Tract]]

* [[Bad Powers, Bad People]]: In ''The True Game'' series, with lampshade-hanging from a scholar who remarks that in every case he's aware of, the unpleasant powers always go to unpleasant people who actually enjoy having them.

* [[Body Horror]]: It's found in spades in Tepper's novels. In ''Shadow's End'', in exchange for humans being permitted to live on the planet Dinadh, {{spoiler|when a woman experiences her first pregnancy she is then gang-raped by a native race called the Kachis. Several Kachis grow in her womb, eating the human foetus for sustenance. When the woman goes into labour, if there isn't a special container to restrain the Kachis when they are born, they will proceed to attack the woman.}} In ''Gibbon's Decline and Fall'' the main villain {{spoiler|envisions a world where women exist in mindless suspended animation, the only part of their body utilised is the womb in order to create more men for his "perfect reality."}} It seems that Tepper's pre-author career working for Planned Parenthood gave her plenty of personal [[Nightmare Fuel]]. See also the novel ''Sideshow'' for dinka-jins.

** Also the "Hounds" and "Foxen" (archaic plural of "fox").

* [[City Planet]]: Tepper has a novel called ''Beauty'', in which the Earth has had all its wilderness wiped out, followed by any and all crop growing facilities. And in ''Shadow's End'', the governing planet of an entire solar system is a City Planet.

** In ''Six Moon Dance'' the founding mothers of the planet Newholme create {{spoiler|an artificial scarcity of female babies,}} and a dominant ideology that females are the stronger sex and males are the weaker, leading to the population desiring female heirs.

** In ''Raising the Stones'' the power derived by males from their heirs is eradicated by legally denying the father-child relationship. Heirs are are only accepted through the maternal line, and any male claiming fathership is frowned upon.

* [[Mister Seahorse]]: Found in Tepper's ''The Fresco''.

* [[No Woman's Land]]: For examples just close one's eyes and point at any random Tepper book.

** This troper remembers a conversation between Peter and Maven implying that shifter simply consolidate their neural net when forming smaller shapes.

** And this troper remembers in a subsequent scene that Mavin made soup out of the "discard". But it is the only time this problem and solution is mentioned.

* [[Starfish Alien]]: Many, but especially the rather strange life-cycle in ''Grass''. Spoilered, as it's a major plot point. {{spoiler|All three are stages in the Foxen lifecycle which runs from eggs; to unintelligent slug-like Peepers; to Hounds, a semi-intelligent and vicious predator; to intelligent, but malignant, Hippae; to hyper-intelligent, but [[Contemplate Our Navels|navel-gazing]], Foxen.}}

* [[The Greatest Story Never Told]]: In Tepper's ''The Fresco''

* [[Tomato Surprise]]: In ''The Family Tree'', the story is told from two disconnected points of view through most of the novel, until it is revealed {{spoiler|when the two groups meet that the second set of characters are all talking animals}}. Then shortly thereafter we find out that {{spoiler|the talking animals' dumb beasts of burden are actually human beings}}.

* [[Tongue-Tied]]: In ''The True Games'' series a character is unable to speak about certain information, but is able to write it down. Even further, any character who reads this information will then find ''themselves unable'' to speak the same information.