The Apocalypse Troll: Difference between revisions

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* [[Action Girlfriend]]

* [[Ace Pilot]]: As of the beginning of the book, Ludmilla has thirty-four fighter kills and squadrons under her command have destroyed thirteen capital ships, including a dreadnaught which she was the [[Sole Survivor]] of the battle to destroy it. She kills at least one Troll Fighter after scrambling (maybe a second one, but the narrative doesn't confirm that her missile hit). Following that the Troll commander notes that, in the three week long running battle during which her fighter is the only remaining human craft because she hasn't had to sleep, she has killed another ten fighters from his squadron. She's an ace nine times over even before she takes out two more Trolls on atmospheric approach to Earth {{spoiler|and the Troll commander only shoots her down because she was willing to die in order to nuke the Kanga ship carrying a bioweapon that would have made the entire human race extinct}}.

** Likewise, if you haven't guessed that {{spoiler|the [[Badass Normal]] love interest turns out to be [[Million-to-One Chance|the 1 to 5%]] by the end of the book}}, [[Genre Blind|you need to read this wiki more]].

* [[Take Me to Your Leader]]: The second sentence she says to Dick (after "Hello, yourself") after waking up. It's an [[Invoked Trope]] because she's from the future, literally fell from space, has an interest in "historical" entertainment, and (as she explains when Dick calls bullshit on her using this line) has a low brow sense of humor.

* [[Absolute Xenophobe]]: the Kangas. The Trolls, judging by the sample of one we have, go past this and into [[Omnicidal Maniac]] territory.

** The Kangas are [[Absolute Xenophobe|genocidal religious fanatics]] and the Trolls are their [[Brain In a Jar|cyborg slaves]] which also happen to be "programmed" to be [[Omnicidal Maniac|psychotic]] aside from absolute loyalty to their masters. The Trolls are very aware of their enslavement and hate their Kanga masters just as much as everything else (see the [[Omnicidal Maniac]] entry below).

* [[Exclusively Evil]]: the Trolls, every single one.

** The Trolls are portrayed in the book as especially hating Ludmilla and her kind.

* [[Brain In a Jar]]: Trolls are [[Omnicidal Maniac|psychotic]] lab grown human brains that are installed into war machines. They're even interchangeable, as {{spoiler|the Troll leaves his fighter to enter the climactic ground battle by transferring his [[Brain In a Jar|organic component]] into his [[Powered Armor|combat chassis]].}}