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* [[Burial in Space]]: Launched toward the sun.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Geary's first big speech about not committing war crimes. It first serves a purpose in establishing Geary's attitudes about warfare and honor in relation to how far his society has come, so you may be forgiven for forgetting it. {{spoiler|It's later used as spontaneous evidence by Rione to convince the Grand Council of Geary's honor again.}}

* [[Chest of Medals]]: On a solo mission, Geary and ''Dauntless'' encounter a military they hadn't known about, who use pretentious titles of rank and are '''really''' big on [[Bling of War]]. Captain Desjani isn't quite able to stifle a giggle at how ridiculous the opposing commander looks, and he's later referred to by the nickname "Mister Medals."

{{quote|"How many awards did that clown have displayed on his chest?" Charban, who rarely spoke so bluntly, let his words drip with scorn. "He must be the greatest hero by far in the history of humanity."

<''They play back a close-up visual of "Mister Medals'" bridge crew.''>

"Make that a crew of amazing heroes," Desjani said contemptuously. "They must hand out medals for getting up in the morning."

"From the looks of it," Geary said, "they may hand out medals for displaying your prior medals properly."}}

* [[Colon Cancer]]: After the first series finishes, two sub-series start. Starting with ''The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Dreadnaught''.

* [[Covers Always Lie]]: For some reason the publishers felt it necessary to put Geary in armor holding a BFG while posing in some exotic location even if such a scene has never appeared in any of the books to date. Heck, until ''Victorious'' he doesn't even leave the ''Dauntless'', and then for a space station. It took until the ''Beyond the Frontier'' series for him to finally set foot on a planet -- a friendly one, where the biggest danger was hordes of adoring fans. Lampshaded in ''Invincible'', when Geary and Desjani are talking about her writing a tell-all book about him if he dies; she jokes that it will have a [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall|misleading cover]] of him doing something he never did, like [[Self-Deprecation|making a heroic pose with a gun.]]