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* [[Cosmic Horror]]: M'nemaxa. Also, Massawrath, Mother of Nightmares, but she lives under a mountain.

* [[Crazy Awesome]]

* [[Dirty Communists]]: Averted with the local communist, the dragon Falameezar, who is quite heroic if a bit of a [[Knight Templar]].

* [[Dreadful Musician]]: Jon-Tom can ''play'' well, but his ''singing'' is appalling. This actually gets him and Mudge into a bar fight in the first book with a wolverine and his associates.

** {{spoiler|The villain from the eighth book takes this trope [[Up to Eleven]], singing so horribly that merely being on the same island as him ''kills plants''.}}

** Corroboc himself could allegedly throw four knives at once: one with each wing, one with his beak, and one with his good foot while perching on his peg leg.

* [[Everythings Better With Bunnies]]: Played straight with Caz. Subverted to all hell in the seventh book. There's a group of rabbits who are so sick of being regarded as cute and harmless that they went insane and started messing around with [[The Dark Arts]] / [[Mad Science]] in order to take over the world.

* [[Everythings Wetter With Otters]]: Mudge most prominently, but any given otter also qualifies, particularly since otters as a rule tend to be [[Crazy Awesome]].

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Rats and mice are treated as inferior and have to cope with jobs like janitor, though they get a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] during the Battle of the Jo-Troom Gate when Falameezar rallies them to drive back the Plated Folk, which boosts them into near-respectability from then on.

** A more literal one in the third book. With fat man-eating elves.

* [[Hollywood Tactics]]: Subverted in the second book when the heroes find the Plated Folk are fighting with [[Tunnel King|intelligent]] [[Its Raining Men|tactics]], which are supplied by {{spoiler|a military computer from Earth}}. This is an [[Oh Crap]] moment by Clothahump who notes that magic items or great beasts he can counter, but there is no simple way to deal with what an enemy ''knows''.

* [[Humanity Ensues]]: Clothahump threatens Mudge with it when the otter initially refuses to help Jon-Tom. Also happens to Jon-Tom's group in ''Perambulator''.

* [[I Choose to Stay]]: At the end of sixth book, Jon-Tom finds a stable portal to return to his home dimension, but he's grown so comfortable to the fantasy world, he returns home on a tentative basis and decides to return to the fantasy for good, taking as many goodies from Earth such as songbooks as he can with him.

* [[In the Doldrums]]: The Muddletup Moors.

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Normal in the warmlands to the point that Jon-Tom gives offense by refusing the advances of a lupine female.

*** That's what she tells herself to keep her obvious jealousy under control.

** Flor is infatuated with Caz, a rabbit.

* [[Loads and Loads of Races]]: Possibly the record-holder for this, as every species of mammal, bird, amphibian or turtle known to Earth is a sentient race. Also an unspecified number of insects and spiders, plus assorted mythical creatures and unique creations.

* [[Loveable Rogue]]: Mudge, for a certain definition of "loveable".

* [[Magic Music]]

* [[Meaningful Name]] / [[Stealth Pun]]: M'nemaxa's name, when Jon-Tom sounds it out, sounds like "Omni-maxa". M'nemaxa is described by Clothahump as the supreme gestalt embodiment of all beings, and "omni" means "all", while "max" means "most" or "greatest".

* [[One Head Taller]]: Jon-Tom (over six feet tall) and pretty much any human in the other world (even the males top out at five-and-a-half).

* [[Orphanage of Fear]]: The Friends of the Street.

* [[Unfazed Everyman]]: Jon Tom

* [[The Unpronounceable]]: The Brulumpus' real name.

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: The standard dynamic between Jon-Tom and Mudge.

* [[Wacky Wayside Tribe]]: Everywhere.

* [[Wandering Minstrel]]: Jon Tom

** Similarly, Drom and Roseroar indicate a desire to return to the Bellwoods with Jon-Tom and Mudge at the end of the third book, as did the group of otters from the fourth, but aside from a few passing references to Roseroar, none of them are ever seen or mentioned again.

** The fate of Flor and Caz from the first two books is also left unstated, though you'd think Jon-Tom would want to inform the former about {{spoiler|the gateway home that he eventually discovers.}}

** Prickett, Mudge's daughter from ''Transference'', seems to have vanished without trace during the hiatus between it and ''Son of''.

* [[Working for A Body Upgrade]]: Pog wants Clothahump to transform him from bat to falcon. {{spoiler|Jon-Tom eventually gives him an even better upgrade, to ''phoenix''.}}

* [[You Can Leave Your Hat On]]: The dancing ermine at the Pearl Possum. Jon-Tom is squicked at finding himself as aroused as the various other species of patrons.