The Night Angel Trilogy: Difference between revisions

* [[Can't Have Sex Ever]]: {{spoiler|Kylar and Elene}} have this problem after {{spoiler|Vi ring rapes Kylar to eliminate Godking Ursuul}}. At least {{spoiler|until Sister Ariel figures out a method.}}

* [[Career Killers]]: Taken to a new level: Wetboys, as Blint illustrates in the page quote, are contemptuous of mere 'assassins'.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: One of the first things Logan says as Kylar's friend is about how a story about Ka'Karis interested him. Guess what one of the main plot devices is?

* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Aleine Gunder IX. Played for laughs. Poor Aleine or Niner as he is not so lovingly called by just about everyone, swears all the time. He can actually be quite creative there's only one problem, the only swear he knows is the word shit. Due to this fact, and his childish nature he is prone to rant for several minutes. This is so much the case that when he starts cursing everyone in earshot just tunes him out. It doesn't help much that he's the king and therefore no one will swear in front of him. Then along comes resident badass Durzo. It wasn't until after Niner saw the looks on his guards faces that he realized he'd been insulted.

Durzo, "Your Majesty, a man of your stature's cursing vocabulary ought to extend beyond a tedious repetition of the excreta that fills the void between his ears." }}

* [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]]: The One God. The way Elene and Count Drake act suggest that he preaches ideas very, very similar to what we would consider good Christian virtues.

* [[Good Shepherd]]: Count Drake, in spite of {{spoiler|his dark past}}. This is later brought up when Kylar informs him that while he can {{spoiler|see guilt and sin in people, Count Drake is empty of it, and is told that he is "clean."}} This makes him quite happy.

* [[Handicapped Badass]]: [[The Strategist|Brant]] [[Retired Badass|Agon]] has to walk with two canes by the end of the series, which leads well to his [[Badass Boast]]

[[Samurai|Inspector]]: "But you're an old cripple!"<br />

Agon: "Which will make it all the more embarrassing when I do" }}

* [[Invisibility Flicker]]: A voluntary example; this is Kylar's modus operandi for scaring people as Judgment.

* [[It Will Never Catch On]]: Logan's Dictionary.

* [[Julius Beethoven Da Vinci]]: {{spoiler|Durzo}}. It helps that he's [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]].

* [[Karmic Death]]: You'll be satisfied to know that {{spoiler|Terah and Hu Gibbet}} get whats coming to them.

* [[Self-Made Orphan]]: One of the first tasks that the Godking gives to his sons is to murder their mother.

* [[Sequel Escalation]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Durzo.

* [[Show Some Leg]]: One of Vi's methods.

* [[Smug Snake]]: Terah Graesin. Speaker Istariel has some of this too.