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* [[Always Save the Girl]]: "I'd burn the world to save her".
* [[Anyone Can Die]]
* [[Anti
* [[Armor
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Raithe.
* [[Author Tract]]: verging on [[Author Filibuster]] a few times, but remaining a good read nonetheless. Never goes on for more than a few pages at a time.
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* [[Gaias Vengeance]]: Chambaraya {{spoiler|through Pallas.}}
* [[Glory Days]]: Ma/Tan'elKoth, Hari, and Shanna in ''Blade of Tyshalle'', some of the surviving Black Knife Nation in ''Caine Black Knife''.
* [[God
* [[Gods Need Prayer Badly]]
* [[Good Is Dumb]]: Shanna/Pallas's blindness and moral obliviousness ironically only get worse when she {{spoiler|becomes nearly omniscient}}.
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** {{spoiler|Talaan}} didn't actually ''expect'' to die, {{spoiler|did she? She just went into a battle against a far superior villain while [[Mauve Shirt|not being a main character]]. Of course, [[Vasquez Always Dies]] and several other tropes on the "you're for it" end of the [[Sorting Algorithm of Mortality]] applied, but [[Genre Blind|she didn't know that]]}}.
* [[Sociopathic Hero]]: Ummm...yeah.
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: The Khryllians, which Caine thinks is stupid for two reasons. First, because despite being merely [[Power Level|a grade six fighter]], he's managed to kill more than a few [[One
{{quote| '''Caine:''' In the end, what was he going to kill me for? Because I called him names. I have my vanity, I just don't kill for it. I'm not pretending I'm a better man than him, I just hate that people say he's a better man than me.}}
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Caine occasionally has these.
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* [[Insufferable Genius]]: T'Passe
* [[Involuntary Suicide Mechanism]]: Actors are conditioned not to say that they are Actors, speak Earth languages, etc. This protocol is eventually reversed when Aktir hunters get wise to the simple test of demanding a suspect say "I am an Aktir."
* [[
* [[Let's You and Him Fight]]: Lampshaded in ''Caine's Law''.
* [[Knight in Shining Armor]]: The Knights of Khryl in ''Caine Black Knife''. They are good guys...but...
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* [[Name of Cain]]: Ya think?
* [[New Powers As the Plot Demands]]: Or rather, new species traits we weren't told about in the last novel, as ''Caine Black Knife'' introduces the ogrilloi's horse-outrunning quadripedal lope.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Oh man, poor Deliann...
* [[No Dead Body Poops]]: Repeatedly averted.
* [[Our Orcs Are Different]]: Ogrilloi
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* [[Red Shirt]]: subverted. Guys who seemed like mooks in ''Heroes Die'' have plot impacts in ''Blade of Tyshalle'', and the unfortunate death of one guard in ''Caine Black Knife'' becomes a point of argument between Caine and his Knight of Khryl escort.
* [[Satisfied Street Rat]]: Caine to a ridiculous degree, Orbek Black Knife and Majesty/Toa M'Jest to a lesser degree.
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: Earth's caste system means that most of the Businessmen (management) caste think this way, and the Leisuremen (executives and shareholders) above them are even worse.
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: Caine to Ma'elKoth: "You talk too fucking much"
* [[Sick Sad World]]: Earth
* [[State Sec]]: The Social Police.
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* [[Super Detailed Fight Narration]]: "The gassy thing about the figure-four headlock..." *cue paragraph of description in loving detail*
* [[Survival Mantra]]: "Keep your head down and inch towards daylight"
* [[Sword of Plot Advancement]]: Kosall, though a [[Justified Trope]] here in that Kosall just happens to do a lot of important shit included but not limited to {{spoiler|''crippling the main character''.}} Except it turns out it might also be the sword of a god that was also in possession of an order of knights for the past five hundred years ([[Timey
* [[Talk to The Fist]]: Happens no less than five times in ''Blade of Tyshalle'' alone.
* [[Telepathy]]: Kris' "flashes" are described as the product of empathy and a vivid imagination, but this is effectively it.
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* [[Vasquez Always Dies]]: ''Heroes Die''. {{spoiler|Talaan and Shanna are both [[Action Girl|Action Girls]] to an extent, but Talaan is much more [[Badass]]. Naturally, she's the one to draw the short straw}}.
* [[Walking Disaster Area]]: Caine.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Eventually, anyone who gives a shit about Overworld asks the Actors this.
* [[We Could Have Avoided All This]]: Their plot to transfer Hari to the College of Combat in ''Blade of Tyshalle''. ''"Couldn't you have ''asked''?"''
** Ah, but would he have acquiesced or would he have taken the opportunity to shut them down?
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