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* [[Monster Progenitor]]: The Red King to the Red court Vampires. |
* [[Monster Progenitor]]: The Red King to the Red court Vampires. |
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* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Harry likes to tell jokes to lighten tense scenes. In ''Death Masks'' Harry was being tortured and refused to take a bribe to end the pain with, "Sorry, I follow the Tao of Peter Parker." He then followed up by saying the nonplussed villain "must be a DC comics fan." However, it is not always inentional, and it often takes Harry himself by surprise. There is a scene in ''Storm Front'' when Harry goes to ask Bianca, a beautiful vampire, about the death of one of her girls. {{spoiler|The second he says what he is there for she lunges for him, shifting partially into her real form, assuming he is there to kill her. After he drives her back and explains himself, she changes back, and Harry leaves as she is having a snack. All he can now see is the monster who wants to be beautiful.}} |
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Harry likes to tell jokes to lighten tense scenes. In ''Death Masks'' Harry was being tortured and refused to take a bribe to end the pain with, "Sorry, I follow the Tao of Peter Parker." He then followed up by saying the nonplussed villain "must be a DC comics fan." However, it is not always inentional, and it often takes Harry himself by surprise. There is a scene in ''Storm Front'' when Harry goes to ask Bianca, a beautiful vampire, about the death of one of her girls. {{spoiler|The second he says what he is there for she lunges for him, shifting partially into her real form, assuming he is there to kill her. After he drives her back and explains himself, she changes back, and Harry leaves as she is having a snack. All he can now see is the monster who wants to be beautiful.}} |
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* [[Monster of the Week]]: Almost every villain appearing in one of the short stories as opposed to the main books. Includes {{spoiler|a Hecatean hag, the spawn of Grendel, a [[Crazy Survivalist]] priest, a group of [[Lord of the Rings|ringwraith]] and [[Harry Potter|Slytherin house rejects]], supernatural fleas, and a maenad}}. |
* [[Monster of the Week]]: Almost every villain appearing in one of the short stories as opposed to the main books. Includes {{spoiler|a Hecatean hag, the spawn of Grendel, a [[Crazy Survivalist]] priest, a group of [[The Lord of the Rings|ringwraith]] and [[Harry Potter|Slytherin house rejects]], supernatural fleas, and a maenad}}. |
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* [[More Hero Than Thou]] |
* [[More Hero Than Thou]] |
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* [[Mr. Exposition]]: Bob on anything magical. Waldo Butters on anything medical, up to and including trying to give scientific explanations for some of the weird stuff that happens to and around Wizards... ''and succeeding''. The RPG has Exposition and Knowledge Dumping, a Trapping (sub-skill) of Scholarship; on a successful roll, the [[Game Master]] can "borrow" the [[Player Character]] to use as a mouthpiece to [[Info Dump]] about the relevant subject. This effectively cuts out the middleman effect witnessed in most RPG knowledge skill checks (Player 1 rolls, GM relates info, Player 1 says "I tell everyone else".) |
* [[Mr. Exposition]]: Bob on anything magical. Waldo Butters on anything medical, up to and including trying to give scientific explanations for some of the weird stuff that happens to and around Wizards... ''and succeeding''. The RPG has Exposition and Knowledge Dumping, a Trapping (sub-skill) of Scholarship; on a successful roll, the [[Game Master]] can "borrow" the [[Player Character]] to use as a mouthpiece to [[Info Dump]] about the relevant subject. This effectively cuts out the middleman effect witnessed in most RPG knowledge skill checks (Player 1 rolls, GM relates info, Player 1 says "I tell everyone else".) |
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