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{{quote|"Magic is applied mathematics. The many-angled ones live at the bottom of the Mandelbrot set. Demonology is right after debugging in the dictionary."|'''Bob Howard''', in ''PIMPF''}}
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* [[Colonel Badass]]: Captain Alan Barnes of the Artists' Rifles.
* [[Cool Car]]: [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] in ''The Jennifer Morgue'', where Bob is stuck with a Smart car. He's not very happy about this, mainly because he has to drive down the Autobahn to a conference and keeps getting blitzed by Audis. On the other hand, once Pinky and Brains jam the obligatory load of James Bond-esque gadgets in it...
** While not exactly a car, the [
* [[Cool Boat]]: Billington, the Blofeldian supervillain of ''The Jennifer Morgue'', owns not one but ''[[Up to Eleven|three]]''. ''Mabuse'', a denavalized ex-Indian Navy ''Krivak III''-class frigate, is his yacht. The ex-''Glomar Explorer'' is the 66,000-ton salvage ship he's bought to enact his plan. And the ''Hopper'' only ever puts in an offscreen appearance, but it's mentioned as a old liner that's wired up with enough satellite bandwidth to serve as the nerve center of his business/surveillance operation.
* [[Cosmic Horror Story]]
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* [[Demonic Possession]]: A common plot element. In particular, a botched summoning at the climax of ''The Fuller Memorandum'' causes {{spoiler|Bob to get possessed by ''himself''.}}
* [[Depleted Phlebotinum Shells]]: standard ammunition for the Laundry takes the form of "banishment rounds"--silver-plated bullets with spells engraved onto them in 90-nanometer scale. Takes care of certain nasties being [[Immune to Bullets]] very nicely, and it still works on other targets as well.
* [[Diesel Punk]]: The [
** [[Justified Trope]]: Angleton [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|isn't stupid]], and there's a perfectly good reason why he uses a machine so outdated that it shouldn't ''exist'': there's this procedure called [
* [[Disaster Dominoes]]: Bob notes early in ''Memorandum'' that no disaster is a single event; instead, they're the result of a whole chain of small missteps that all add up in a spectacularly wrong fashion. This comes back as a [[Brick Joke]] {{spoiler|when Iris and the rest of the Brotherhood of the Black Pharoah try to sacrifice him to summon up the Eater of Souls. Unfortunately for them, they've made a chain of missteps and misunderstandings: nothing disastrous individually, but ''in toto...''}}
* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: Angleton in "The Concrete Jungle".
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