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''[[It Got Worse]]. Jake found out that not only have the Feds been lying to him, but there was a secret war being waged by opposing forces of magic-users. Worst of all, he had attracted the attention of one side's ruthless leaders-who were of the opinion that Jake was far too dangerous to be permitted to live...''
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* [[Batman Gambit]]: {{spoiler|Harkeness}} is running one against the Chairman.
* [[Battle Couple]]: Jake & Delilah. Faye and Francis, briefly.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Faye very calmly vows to kill both Madi and the Chairman himself. She
* [[Beware the Superman]]: Part of the Imperium's plan for taking over the world is to sow distrust of Actives in the United States, by framing them for a Peace Ray attack.
* [[
* [[Boxed Crook]]: Jake is a fairly free-range one at the beginning of the book.
* [[Big Bad]]: The Chairman.
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* [[Designated Girl Fight]]: Faye vs. Toshiko. Despite this, it's an ''awesome'' fight scene featuring frenetic [[Teleport Spam]] on a [[Battle Amongst the Flames|flaming]] [[Zeppelins from Another World|zeppelin]] in the middle of a [[Sky Pirates|pirate attack]] on said [[Zeppelins from Another World|zeppelin]]. Did I mention Toshiko is a [[Ninja]]?
* [[Differently-Powered Individual]]: in-universe, supers are variously referred to as Actives, Magicals and more.
* [[Dumb Muscle]]: An in-world sterotype of Heavies (but not necessarily the more common Brutes). How true this is is unclear, since the only Heavies the story shows in any real detail are Sullivan, who runs directly counter to this {{spoiler|and his brother, who also does}}. The one unrelated Heavy with any speaking role of note, {{spoiler|a man at one of FDR's camps }}, is a simple man whose wife has a major role in his family decisions, but otherwise doesn't come off as particularly dumb.
* [[Elite Mooks]]: The Iron Guard and Shadow Guard are superpowered, ''very'' highly trained and magically enhanced to boot.
* [[The Empire]]: The Imperium, natch.
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** Then, of course, robots show up in the sequel ''Spellbound''.
* [[Noble Bigot]]: Travelin' Joe hates the Okies that pass by his farm, but not so much that he doesn't adopt one to keep her from killing herself with her power.
* [[One Person, One Power]]:
* [[Pet the Dog]]: In a very human and even kind moment, the Chairman {{spoiler|consoles Sullivan over Delilah's death and helps him come to terms with it; Sullivan even sincerely thanks him for it. . . right before saying that he still plans on killing him regardless.}}
* [[Playing with Fire]]: Torches. Most Torches are actually employed to ''put out'' fires, especially on zeppelins.
* [[Playing with Syringes]]: Frequent mention is made of the [[Truth in Television|horrific medical experiments carried out by Unit 731]]
* [[Poisonous Person]]: Harkeness is a Pale Horse, an Active so rare they border on mythological status. He can control his power at will, but that doesn't make Stuyvesant any less wary of him.
* [[Power Tattoo]]: The kanji used by the Imperium to enhance their operatives. They are technically brands though as opposed to actual tattoos. The Russians are preported to have their own, even more horrific, variant {{spoiler|and Sullivan figures out how to make a few himself}}.
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: The Chairman {{spoiler|is indeed the very first Active, and is thus considerably older than he looks.}}
* [[Required Secondary Powers]]: Traveler Fae has a mental mini-map that prevent her from [[Tele Frag]]ing herself. {{spoiler|It turns out this is actually not a secondary power at all: It's actually her ''primary'' one, as Fae is actually a Cog}}.
* [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job]]: Francis.
* [[Rule of Cool]]
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* [[Shout-Out]]: When Sullivan stops to ask directions from an Imperium soldier: "English! [[Pulp Fiction|Do you speak it]]?"
* [[Sky Pirate]]: The last piece of the Geo-Tel is protected by Southunder, who preys on Imperium ships in the Pacific ocean from his zeppelin.
* [[Super Fun Happy Thing of Doom]]: Tesla's "Peace Ray." [Wikipedia:Teleforce It's a real concept he came up with, and a name actually given to it by the press].
* [[Super Strength]]: Delilah, enough said.
* [[Technician Versus Performer]]: Zig-zagged; while Faye's natural talent lets her run circles around the well-trained Toshiko, Jake's greater power does not generally keep him from getting smacked around by the more skillful Madi.
** Given his [[Training from Hell]] and [[Power Tattoo|Iron-Guard-issue kanji brands]], Madi was both more powerful and more skilled than Jake. Jake was just [[Combat Pragmatist|smarter]] and more focused on winning -- as opposed to proving a point.
* [[Teleport Spam]]: Any fight involving a Traveler such as Faye, Toshiko, Travelin' Joe, etc.
* [[They Would Cut You Up]]: A practice Unit 731 does to Actives with unusual powers.
* [[The Dragon]] / [[The Heavy]]: Madi, to the Chairman.
* [[Training from Hell]]: Madi has this in his backstory. Presumably, the other Iron Guards did as well.
* [[Un-Equal Rites]]: There are two forms of magic in this world: the innate magic that people are born with, and magic that comes through drawn symbols (kanji) that use one's innate magic to fuel it.
* [[The Unmasqued World]]: While Actives are public knowledge, {{spoiler|The Grimnoir's existence is made public at the end of the second book, and the true nature of Actives, kept secret by The Chairman, is made public at the end of the third.}}
* [[Walking the Earth]]: The Chairman's backstory includes a long period of doing this.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: In the assault on OCI headquarters, Lance manages to hijack a Siberian tiger. Then everything goes to hell, almost literally. What happened to the tiger is never explained.
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* [[You Fight Like a Cow]]: Faye ([[Irony|who grew up on a dairy farm]]) spends much of her fight with Toshiko tossing insults at the ninja.
* [[You Killed My Father|You Killed My Adoptive Grandfather]]: Why Faye joins the Grimnoir.
* [[Zeppelins from Another World]]: Kind of. Zeppelins play a large role in the story, but it takes place during a time when they really were used in [[Real Life]], though not to the extent they are in the story. It's also justified, as Cracklers and Torches manage to alleviate many of the dangers of the technology. Larry Correia admits a significant chunk of the world building was designed around mitigating and countering the reasons zeppelins fell out of favor in reality.
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