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* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: Subverted ''hard'' in the Explorer Corps books, where the heroes are always in some way deformed and considered absolutely hideous by Technocracy standards.
* [[Black Box]]: The Technocracy doesn't understand the actual workings of most of the technology it relies on, as it was all given to them by [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]]. {{spoiler|Who are really [[Abusive Precursors]].}}
* [[Card
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Admiral Chee during his senile moments in ''Expendable''; Tut in ''Radiant''
* [[Complete Immortality]]: Oar's species -- they're [[Made of Diamond]] and [[Immortality Begins At Twenty|do not age after the mid 20s.]] It's insinuated that her ancestors are ''all'' still alive, comatose in the towers on their homeworld, just too soul crushingly ''bored'' to bother moving. Oar even mentions that one time she found herself stuck at the bottom of a river; she didn't die despite drowning, merely falling into a half-awake coma until she washed up on shore. {{spoiler|They are, however, weak to sonic damage.}}
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* [[Rousing Speech]]: Phylar Tobit gives one in ''Expendable''. He cribbed it from ''Henry V'', a [[Brick Joke]] about Shakespeare being required reading for the Explorer Corps.
* [[Rules Lawyer]]: Frequently abused by League races. For example, while murdering people (or doing something you or your government ''knows'' will cause their death) is flat out not allowed, damaging their minds using genetic engineering, corrupting their governments, or {{spoiler|exiling them to a technically safe world but never allowing them to leave}} are all acceptable. [[Abusive Precursors|"Something about free will."]]
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* [[Shout Out to Shakespeare]]: Plentiful in ''Expendable''.
* [[Slave to PR]]: The Pollisand goes to great lengths to maintain his evil reputation:
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* [[Wild Child]]: Oar and her race, due to her race having a much longer childhood, along with the "Tired Brain" syndrome that causes people around the age of 50 to enter comas.
* [[We Will Not Use Photoshop in The Future]]: Justified in ''Ascending'', where it is explained that pictures taken with an Honest Camera are considered acceptable evidence because the camera design was provided by [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] and lesser races like humans have yet to figure out how to tamper with it.
* [[What Measure Is a Non
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: Oar's race gets "Tired Brains" after about 40-50 years, leaving them unable to get motivated to do anything other than lay under heat lamps 24 / 7.
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