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'''''[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Devil_in_Iron The Devil in Iron]''''' is a ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' story by [[Robert E. Howard]], first published in August, 1934. |
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=== Tropes included === |
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* [[Action Prologue]]: The fisherman breaking into the temple |
* [[Action Prologue]]: The fisherman breaking into the temple |
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* [[The Bait]]: Octavia |
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* [[Curiosity Is a Crapshoot]]: The fisherman rouses the evil by his curiosity |
* [[Curiosity Is a Crapshoot]]: The fisherman rouses the evil by his curiosity |
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* [[Deadly Decadent Court]]: the city that appears; what Octavia fled |
* [[Deadly Decadent Court]]: the city that appears; what Octavia fled |
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* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Octavia |
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* [[Faux Death]]: He finds people rousing from it. |
* [[Faux Death]]: He finds people rousing from it. |
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* [[Femme Fatale]]: Octavia was ordered into it. |
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Latest revision as of 12:42, 2 May 2018
The Devil in Iron is a Conan the Barbarian story by Robert E. Howard, first published in August, 1934.
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Tropes used in The Devil in Iron include:
- Action Prologue: The fisherman breaking into the temple
- The Bait: Octavia
- Barbarian Tribe: Conan is leading them
- Blue Blood: Octavia
- Cold-Blooded Torture: Octavia is threatened with this to make her act as the bait.
- Curiosity Is a Crapshoot: The fisherman rouses the evil by his curiosity
- Deadly Decadent Court: the city that appears; what Octavia fled
- Damsel in Distress: Octavia
- Faux Death: He finds people rousing from it.
- Femme Fatale: Octavia was ordered into it.
- Human Sacrifice: In the back story
- Intro-Only Point of View: the fisherman dies and so exits the story
- Made a Slave: Octavia's Backstory
- Necromancer: Who roused the city
- Rescue Sex: Conan is surprised that Octavia rejects this and has to seduce her.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: The Necromancer
- Temple of Doom: Where the trouble was unleashed
- This Was His True Form
- Thunderbolt Iron: Enabled a slave revolt
- Wait Here: Conan tries this on Octavia