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See also the [[Tabletop Games]] ''Amber Diceless Role Playing''. There was supposedly a prequel series by another author but they [[Canon Dis Continuity|never happened]], as confirmed by [[George RR Martin]] and [[Neil Gaiman]], two friends and colleagues of the late [[Roger Zelazny]].
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* [[A God Am I]] - All the Amberites, starting with {{spoiler|Dworkin}} and including Oberon and Oberon's children. The first thing that any of Oberon's children do upon gaining the ability to wander through alternate dimensions is usually to find a dimension which they consider to be a paradise, complete with an entire society of worshippers. Considering that even the Amberites do not know whether they just find worlds or actually ''create'' them through their imagination, they might just be ''right''.
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* [[Big Damn Heroes]] - Corwin bringing reinforcements in ''Guns of Avalon.'' Notably, he wasn't planning a rescue: until he got there, he'd been intending to invade himself.
* [[Big Eater]] - Corwin.
* [[Big Screwed
* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: More than a few but notably Dara and {{spoiler|Mandor}}. At first he seems to be a [[Reasonable Authority Figure]] until we find out at the end of the series that {{spoiler|he actively tried to magically enslave Merlin}} and when he found out it hadn't worked he {{spoiler|tried to attack Merlin and forcibly put the spells back}}. {{spoiler|He accepts his defeat rather gracefully, though}}.
* [[Black Knight]] - The Green Knight. {{spoiler|It's Caine.}}
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* [[Body to Jewel]] - The Jewel of Judgment is the eye of Serpent of Chaos.
* [[Breaking Them By Talking]]: Brand to Benedict in Tir-na Nog'th, although in this case, he's just killing time {{spoiler|while using the Jewel of Judgement to paralyze Benedict.}}
* [[Brother
* [[Cain and Abel]] - To the power of ten, given the family relationships shown, and one of the brothers is actually named Caine.
** It's better than that: Over the entire first 5 books, {{spoiler|only one brother succeeds in deliberately killing a brother. Guess who it is?}}
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* [[Dumb Is Good]] - Gerard. Inverted with military genius Benedict, who is the only other one above suspicion- because if he wanted the throne, he could have taken it ages ago, even against all the rest of the family united.
** "Dumb" is relative here, though. Gerard isn't "a clever man" like his conniving family, but he's still a capable physician.
* [[Dude, She's Like, in A Coma]] - Merlin with {{spoiler|Coral}}. Subverted in that she's half-awake, "thought [he'd] never ask," and both of them are forced into it to escape.
** Another one in "The Shroudling and the Guisel," where Rhanda reveals she's visited Merlin at night with the aid of a sleeping spells over the years. Subverted in that Merlin's reaction is to say the he just wished she'd have woken him up for it.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]] - Flora's hair color, and whether Random or Eric is Corwin's full brother all change after the first book. Some of this can be waived away by Corwin's amnesia at the time, though.
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** {{spoiler|Coral}} has an arranged, childhood marriage to {{spoiler|Rinaldo, also her half-nephew,}} but neither are interested in consummating it. Most likely, none of the people who set it up knew they were related.
* [[Insignificant Little Blue Planet]] - Shadow Earth is just one of myriads and not all that relevant to most characters.
* [[Intro Dump]] - Chapter 3 of ''Nine Princes in Amber'', in which Corwin, suffering from [[Laser
* [[Inverse Law of Utility and Lethality]] - The Amberites can pronounce a powerful world(s)-breaking curse-- but only when they're dying. Corwin is the first one to use this power and then recover from his near-death state.
* [[Immortal Immaturity]]
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* [[Julius Beethoven Da Vinci]] - Corwin had a slight case of this Trope, though he just knew all those people, rather than being them.
* [[Last Second Chance]] - {{spoiler|Brand is offered this. He declines.}}
* [[Lampshade Hanging]] - Bill, over his status as a [[One
* [[Left Hanging]] - Several loose ends appear in the latter five books, which are left unresolved through [[Author Existence Failure]].
* [[Long
* [[Loveable Rogue]] - Corwin, Random, Bleys, Rinaldo.
* [[Magitek]] - Ghostwheel, Merlin's magic-based computer that was capable of using the Trump power and eventually acquired additional power later. Also a case of [[AI Is a Crapshoot]] and [[Instant AI, Just Add Water]]. While discovering his powers, he even briefly [[A God Am I|thinks he's a god]] until he meets some ''real'' ones.
* [[Master Swordsman]] - also Benedict.
* [[Meaningful Funeral]] - {{spoiler|Oberon}} gets an epic send-off.
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* [[Stable Time Loop]] - Corwin gets a mechanical arm from Ghost!Benedict in Tir-na Nog'th. The arm gets to REAL Benedict, who uses it. Later on, Benedict and Dara are talking in the throne room and Corwin and the rest of 'em are trapped outside, only able to watch. An invisible Ghost!Corwin is there (they can see his sword) and Corwin realizes that it's his past self. Then Past!Corwin gets the mechanical arm from the real Benedict...
** But they stand in different places and say different phrases. So it's not nessesary that Ghost!Corwin gave the arm to the same Ghost!Benedict from whom REAL Corwin got the arm in the first place.
* [[Stalker With a Crush]] - In "The Shroudling and the Guisel," Rhanda tells Merlin that she's been watching him for years from the other side of mirrors and [[Dude, She's Like, in A Coma|visiting him in his sleep.]] Merlin just wishes she had woken him.
* [[Succession Crisis]] - The driving plot of the first five novels is the fact that there's no clear line of succession for the throne of Amber in Oberon's absence and the war between brothers vying for it. The crisis following the death of King Swayvill of Chaos in the last book prompts a rash of deadly duels and assassinations that drastically shortens the line of succession.
* [[Surprise Incest]]: Corwin falls for a girl who turns out to be great-grand-daughter of a half-brother, sired upon an [[Eldritch Abomination]].
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* [[Wham Episode]] - All the freakin' time. Zelazny is a master of this.
* [[Wham Line]]: Almost all the books end in them.
* [[
* [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]] - Tied in closely with the Amberites' ability to move through [[The Multiverse|Shadows via the Pattern]] and the Chaosites' similar ability, the two groups are able to find dimensions in which time flows at a different rate than at 'home'. Several characters use this specific trick in order to fully recover from near mortal wounds by resting in a 'fast Shadow' for a month while only a day has passed in Amber. [[Alice in Wonderland (Literature)|Contrariwise]], Corwin goes to check out Chaos for an hour or two (albeit, on the other end of the multiverse) and gets a call from people wondering where the hell he's been all week.
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