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* [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette]]: Heleth has black hair and a complexion that's compared in ''Exiles'' to "mushrooms grown in darkness." (She's rather badly [[Embarrassingly Painful Sunburn|sunburnt]] by ''Caves''.) ''And'' she's got [[Facial Markings|facial tattoos]].
* [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette]]: Heleth has black hair and a complexion that's compared in ''Exiles'' to "mushrooms grown in darkness." (She's rather badly [[Embarrassingly Painful Sunburn|sunburnt]] by ''Caves''.) ''And'' she's got [[Facial Markings|facial tattoos]].
* [[Egopolis]]: Inverted at the end of ''Rebellion''. {{spoiler|It's the ''rest'' of the kids—at Cord's suggestion—who want to name the newly-discovered world after Samella}}.
* [[Egopolis]]: Inverted at the end of ''Rebellion''. {{spoiler|It's the ''rest'' of the kids—at Cord's suggestion—who want to name the newly-discovered world after Samella}}.
* [[Elite Mooks]]: The Organization's equivalent of a police force, the Civil Defenders, have an elite branch who're better armed and (supposedly) better trained. They're called Crushers, and are frequent antagonists in the second and third novels. Elite paramilitary police, outfought by street gang members. Money well invested.
* [[Elite Mooks]]: The Organization's equivalent of a police force, the Civil Defenders, have an elite branch who are better armed and are touted as having extensive combat training. They're called Crushers, and are frequent antagonists in the second and third novels. Elite paramilitary police, regularly beaten by street gang members—[[Sarcasm Mode|money well invested]]!
* [[The Empath]]: Samella, again, although this ''only'' factors into the plot at all in ''Exiles''.
* [[The Empath]]: Samella, again, although this ''only'' factors into the plot at all in ''Exiles''.
* {{spoiler|[[Everybody Laughs Ending]]}}: In {{spoiler|the next-to-last chapter of}} ''Rebellion'', everyone just loses it at some tension-breaking silliness {{spoiler|after the asteroid battle}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Everybody Laughs Ending]]}}: In {{spoiler|the next-to-last chapter of}} ''Rebellion'', everyone just loses it at some tension-breaking silliness {{spoiler|after the asteroid battle}}.