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* [[Disney Death]]: {{spoiler|At the end of the first book Knocker, Stonks, Oroccoco and Napoleon Boot all appear to have died covering the remaining Adventurers' escape from the Wendle tunnels; it's discovered in the second book that they didn't die, but were captured and used as slave labor.}}
* [[Earn Your Title|Earn Your Name]]: The ''only'' way to get any kind of name as a Borrible: until you've earned a name by an impressive feat of daring {{spoiler|such as assassinating a leader of a rival gang}} the best you can expect is to be referred to as "Mush" or "hey, you!" The plot of the first novel is driven in part by the protagonist's desire to get a ''second'' name (which is not unprecedented; one of his associates has several names, each commemorating some memorable deed).
* [[Electrified Bathtub]]: Vulge kills the Rumble chieftain by dropping a space heater in his bath.
* [[Elmuh Fudd Syndwome]]: The Rumbles have a universal lisp. Since their racial name starts with an "R", it forces them to pronounce it as "Wumble", emphasizing their origin as a [[Parody]] of ''[[The Wombles]]''.
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: The District Assistant Commissioner.
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* [[Funny Animal]]: The Rumbles qualify for this trope in every way -- and are a definite reminder that "funny animals" are not necessarily humorous.
* [[Gladiator Games]]: Flinthead's favorite entertainment is to set prisoners loose one at a time in the maze of the Wendle tunnels and let them be hunted down by his people.
* [[Harmless Electrocution]]: Thoroughly averted. Vulge kills the Rumble chieftain by [[Electrified Bathtub|dropping a space heater in his bath]], then wires up the doorknob to his quarters before hitting the intruder alarm. The electrified door kills at least a score more Rumbles.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]:
** At the end of ''The Borribles'', {{spoiler|Knocker, Stonks, Oroccoco and Napoleon Boot hold the mouth of a tunnel against a numerically superior force of Wendle warriors so that the other Adventurers can escape Wandsworth. In Napoleon's case it's especially telling, as he is betraying his Tribe to do so.}}
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