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Described by one early reviewer as "not so much mock epic as muck epic", ''The Borribles'' is one of the
* '''''The Borribles'''''
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* [[Becoming the Mask]]: {{spoiler|One of the disguised midgets dispatched by Inspector Sussworth in the third book comes to appreciate the Borrible way of life so much that he actually ''becomes'' a real Borrible, despite being an adult.}}
* [[The Big Guy]]: Stonks.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: The trilogy ends with {{spoiler|Knocker volunteering to remain behind to be caught by the SBG -- and thus inevitably to get his ears clipped, turning him back into a normal human child -- so that the rest of the heroes can escape undetected}}.
* [[British Accents]]: On display throughout. The Borribles generally speak in a lowerclass dialect (although Sydney demonstrates enough upperclass mannerisms that one wonders who her family was before she ran away and Borribled).
* [[Chaotic Neutral]]/[[Chaotic Good]]: The Borribles are by nature extreme individualists dismissive of all attempts to regulate them. They do recognize good and evil, and although their interpretations are somewhat colored by their culture, do come down (more or less) on the side of good.
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* [[I Have Many Names]]: An explict goal for most if not all Borribles: Borribles begin their (new) lives nameless, and only gain names by great deeds or adventures; the more names one possess, the more legendary and well-known one is.
* [[Inspector Javert]]: An utterly unsympathetic version is found in Inspector Sussworth, to whom the Borribles' very existence is in defiance of his social and political vision of the world.
* [[Lawful Evil]]: Pretty much all government is portrayed this way. When the police are allowed to physically mutilate a prisoner without any kind of trial or due process first ''in order to turn him into a good little citizen'', it's hard to see them as anything else.
** Borribles also view the Rumbles this way, and what little we get to see of Rumble society suggests it might be justified.
* [[Like Reality Unless Noted]]: The world is very clearly 1970s Earth -- except for the immortal elfin children and the intelligent rodents each maintaining their own civilizations in the cracks and crevices of human civilization.
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