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* [[Ambition Is Evil]]: Senator Wainwright.
* [[Annoying Laugh]]: Dr. Brandt and Allie Carpenter.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: ''“What’s with all these abortion doctors? Don’t they stop at murder? Are they all lechers, too?”''
* [[Author Existence Failure]]: Averted for Zero Tolerance by some fellow Jesuits getting it published after Father Becker’s death. {{spoiler|Unfortunately, he was apparently beginning to work on a fourth, which will never be completed now.}}
* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: Given [[Pungeon Master|Father Becker’s]] favorite kind of joke, this comes as no surprise.
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* [[Diary]]
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: When the bank robber realizes he’s taken Father Wolfe hostage, he gloats that he’ll get revenge for the F’s Father had given him as a student.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]?: Early mentions are made in ''Father, Forgive Them'' to the story of [[The Bible|David and Bathsheba]] and, especially, to [[Hamlet]]. By the end, we realize just how similar {{spoiler|Dr. Brandt’s actions are to those of David and Claudius}}.
** It happens again with {{spoiler|Allie Carpenter and [[Othello|Iago]]}} in ''Cold Comfort''.
** And again with {{spoiler|Colonel Stone and [[Julius Caesar|Brutus]]}} in ''Zero Tolerance''.
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* [[Good Girls Avoid Abortion]]: Both subverted and played straight.
* [[Good Shepherd]]: Father Wolfe.
* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Rather than using a word like “[[Precision F
* [[Green
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: A weird, friendly example. When Father Wolfe is talking to Larry in prison, Larry uses his teacher’s own words to condone his attempted murder. Father Wolfe can’t think of an effective response.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Larry, when his father shows him an [[Squick|educational abortion video]].
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* [[Nightmare Sequence]]
* [[Off the Wagon]]: A variation with Senator Wainwright. As a potential governor/eventual presidential candidate, he avoids drinking for long periods of time. Until he does, and then [[Up to Eleven|he really does]]. And the next morning, he invariably can’t remember what happened to him the previous night. When his wife Gina reveals her pregnancy, Gene assumes she cheated on him, because he [[But Liquor Is Quicker|can’t remember having sex with her]] recently.
* [[One Scene, Two Monologues]]: A variation in ''Zero Tolerance'' where Father Wolfe participates in separate conversations with multiple students at once. The students ignore each other, but their dialogue is written in consecutive paragraphs, making it sound like this trope.
* [[Posthumous Character]]: The murder victims, but also Janey Peer and “Chollie.” {{spoiler|Until Janey Peer shows up in ''Zero Tolerance''.}}
* [[Posthumous Collaboration]]: ''Zero Tolerance'' got published thanks to Sister Donna Jeanne McGahey (and others), who had also helped Father Becker on the previous two as well.
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* [[Shrinking Violet]]: Francesca Morales, an adult example.
* [[Signature Style]]: Father Becker likes to include in his prose—or possibly they’re meant to be Father Wolfe’s thoughts—hyphenated interjections.
* [[Single
* [[Smug Snake]]: Dr. Brandt.
* [[Snooping Little Kid]]: Terry and Barry. [[And Zoidberg|And Todd.]]
* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: Teri—with one ''r'' and an ''i''.
* [[Staged Shooting]]
* [[Stealth Hi Bye]]: Terry and Barry.
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* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: After Senator Wainwright threatens a priest, gets knocked out by a pitched baseball, and carried away by paramedics, all recorded for the evening news, it’s time for {{spoiler|a quiz on punctuation}}.
* [[Verbal Tic]]: Everyone except Father Wolfe says “unnastan” in lieu of “understand.”
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Arthur and Mrs. Curtland seem to have this relationship, making it one of the rare mother-son examples.
* [[Well
* [[Write Who You Know]]: Father Wolfe is basically Fr. Becker (note that they’re both named after [[The Bible|Gospel writers]]), and pretty much every character who isn’t involved in the mystery plot is a student or another teacher he knew at Brophy. In fact, Kino itself is a stand-in for Brophy.
* [[You ALL Share My Story]]: Most characters are Kino students, Kino alumni or parents of a Kino student.
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