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* [[Alien Invasion]]
* [[Battle Couple]]: Sir Roger and Lady Catherine
* [[Disneyfication]]: A film version, produced by [[Roland Emmerich]], was made in 1994. It takes the humorous-but-played-straight premise of the book and tries very hard to turn it into ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]] ... [[In Space]]!'' Sadly, this does not work particularly well.
* [[Epic Fail]]: The Wersgor invasion of Earth: their technologically advanced spaceship armed with laser weapons taking on a medieval village ''completely by surprise'' manages to not just get overrun, but captured and commandeered by said medieval villagers.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: The Wersgor see nothing wrong with imperialism and genocide, but are appalled at the medievals' use of [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique|torture]].
* [[Exact Words]]:
{{quote|"Our lords have extensive foreign possessions, such as Ulster, Leinster, Normandy -- but I'll not weary you with a catalogue of planets." I alone noticed he had not actually said those counties and duchies ''were'' planets.}}
** Brother Parvus does it rather nicely, too, backing up Sir Roger's claim that Earthpeople have been exploring space for quite some time by mentioning that our first such endeavor was "about thirty-five hundred years [ago], at a place called Babel." Well, yes, a tower intended to reach into Heaven ''could'' be considered space exploration....
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* [[Feudal Future]]
* [[Framing Device]]
* [[Good Republic, Evil Empire]]:
** Also played with, in that the Wersgor republic is also unfavourably contrasted with the ''Jain'' Republic (one of the lesser starfaring powers Sir Roger convinces to join his crusade against the Wersgor), with the Jain republic described as a true republic, "not a sham one such as the Wersgor had", and the descriptions of the Wersgor explicitly describing their state as all-powerful and the citizens as reflexively subservient to it and to their superiors.
* [[Humanity Is Superior]]
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{{quote|"That word ''sword''. Do you mean a cutting weapon?"
I had no time to ask my master's advice. I prayed inwardly for steadiness and answered, "Yes. You have observed them on our persons in camp. We find them the best tool for hand-to-hand combat. Ask any survivor of the Ganturath garrison." }}
* [[Torture Technician]]
* [[Vichy Earth]]: Wersgor plan for Earth is this. It backfires spectacularly.
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