The Baroque Cycle: Difference between revisions

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* [[Back From the Dead]] - {{spoiler|Daniel and Isaac. Maybe Édouard de Gex, but it's kept ambiguous.}}

* [[Badass Boast]] with a distinct flavor of [[I Have Many Names]]

{{quote| '''Jack''': "In fact I have let you live, but for one purpose only: so that you can [[Bring News Back|make your way to Paris and tell them the following]]: that the deed you are about to witness was done for a woman, whose name I will not say, for she knows who she is; and that it was done by [[I Have Many Names|'Half-Cocked' Jack Shaftoe]], ''[[I Have Many Names|L'Emmerdeur]]'', [[I Have Many Names|the King of the Vagabonds, Ali Zaybak: Quicksilver]]!"}}

{{quote|'''Jack''': "In fact I have let you live, but for one purpose only: so that you can [[Bring News Back|make your way to Paris and tell them the following]]: that the deed you are about to witness was done for a woman, whose name I will not say, for she knows who she is; and that it was done by [[I Have Many Names|'Half-Cocked' Jack Shaftoe]], ''[[I Have Many Names|L'Emmerdeur]]'', [[I Have Many Names|the King of the Vagabonds, Ali Zaybak: Quicksilver]]!"}}

* [[Badass Bookworm]] - Some of the characters (i.e. Dappa and Moseh de la Cruz) are very well educated but have amazing fighting skills

** Bonaventure Rossignol is a brilliant cryptanalyst who enjoys reading people's mail (encrypted or not) to find out if they're heading into danger just so he can run off to be a [[Big Damn Heroes|Big Damn Hero]].

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* [[The Longitude Problem]] - It's unsolved. This causes problems.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]:

{{quote| '''Teague''': What d'you think y'are, a ''character'' in a friggin' ''novel'', Bob?}}

{{quote|'''Teague''': What d'you think y'are, a ''character'' in a friggin' ''novel'', Bob?}}

* [[Loving a Shadow]] - Gets an interesting twist in Eliza's relationship with Bob. She references the trope, but notes that since Bob is healthy and level-headed, and Jack is a crazy syphilitic, Jack, the original love, is the one who looks more like a shadow.

* [[Made of Iron]] - Yevgeny is extremely tough and stoically endures even the most grievous injuries.

* [[Magnetic Hero]] - Jack is one. It's outright stated in the books that the people that Jack finds himself around would in any other situation be leaders and good ones- as van Hoek shows. But they all look towards Jack to take action.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Moseh de la Cruz.

{{quote| "'Moses of the Cross'? What the hell kind of name is ''that?"''~~<br />~~

{{quote|"'Moses of the Cross'? What the hell kind of name is ''that?"''

Moseh did not appear to find it especially funny. "It is a long story -- even by ''your'' standards, Jack. Suffice it to say that the Iberian Peninsula is a complicated place to be Jewish." }}

* [[Mistaken for Special Guest]]: Jack Shaftoe, AKA "King of the Vagabonds," accidentally crashes a masquerade party that King Louis of France is expected to attend dressed as...King of the Vagabonds.