The Pendragon Adventure: Difference between revisions

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* [[Action Girl]]: Loor and Kasha.

* [[An Aesop]]: More than a couple books have morals, with lessons such as "nuclear weapons are bad!" (The Merchant of Death) and "racism is bad!" (Black Water). This is all well and good, but it leads to [[Anvilicious]] messages like "Capitalism is bad!" (The Quillan Games) and (Raven Rise) in different ways.

* [[~~Always Chaotic~~ Evil]]: Quigs, a deadly species that take the form of that world's wild animal. Earth has dogs, Denduron has bears, Cloral has sharks, Eelong has gars (wild humans. Not to be confused with the [[Badass|concept of "Gar"]]), etc.

* [[Exclusively Evil]]: Quigs, a deadly species that take the form of that world's wild animal. Earth has dogs, Denduron has bears, Cloral has sharks, Eelong has gars (wild humans. Not to be confused with the [[Badass|concept of "Gar"]]), etc.

* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Especially in the later books. {{spoiler|One way or the other, it doesn't quite stick for many of them.}}

* [[Apocalyptic Log]]: Bobby's journals could count as this, as several times through the series he thinks Halla (the entirety of existence) might end and it is all written in his journals.

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* [[Atlantis]]: Both ''The Lost City of Faar'' and ''Black Water'' feature lost cities. Both of these happen to be in their titles.

* [[Author Vocabulary Calendar]]: Part of the author's writing style. "Statement" was Character's adjective reply.

** Also, 'craggy' in the earlier books, if I remember correctly.

* [[Back From the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Loor}}, in an event that baffles Bobby still. Also, {{spoiler|every traveler that died over the course of the series comes back in the last chapter of ''Raven Rise''. The ones that were [[Put on a Bus|trapped on another territory]] show up too.}}

* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Gunny is more of a [[Cool Old Guy]], but he can still kick ass. Press is rather old and qualifies too. Elli becomes [[Never Mess with Granny|the Grandma equivalent]].

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* [[Black and White Morality]]: {{spoiler|We find out in ''The Soldiers of Halla'' that Solara, the birth place of the Travelers, was originally a place of balance before Saint Dane started monkeying around with things. Due to the existence of Ravinia, Solara has been split into two separate planes of existence. One represents the positive aspects of mankind and is fueled by the hopes of the Exiles. The other, darker, Solara covers the negative aspects and is being empowered by the evil intents of those who joined Ravinia.}}

* [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp]]: Black Water's "Gar" (humans) and "Klee" (giant cats). [[Fridge Logic]] kicks in when one recalls that Pendragon's [[Omniglot|inherent translation skills]] should take care of this.

** The author can get away with this one. Klee is a proper noun with no English translation. Gar probably means something weird without a good English equivalent, perhaps a mix of "human" and "slave." Many Earth languages don't line up. See [[Tsundere]], a Japanese colloquialism with no good partner in the English language. Rather than translate it, we simply adopt it verbatim.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: Spader's "Hobey ho." And in later books, Bobby starts saying: "And so we go."

* [[Catfolk]]: The Klees of Eelong are giant, intelligent, bipedal cats.

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* [[Did Not Do the Research]]:

** The first book says that one character has a childish, cartoony "[[Hentai]] animation" poster. Reportedly changed in later editions to "colorful anime superhero poster" (perhaps the editors got wind of the error?), and in ''Raven Rise'' it's just "anime posters."

** In The Lost City of Faar, when talking about his background in scuba diving, Bobby explains that rising too the surface to quickly can cause all sorts of awful ailments, like decompression sickness, and "something awful called 'The Bends'". The two are the same, also called nitrogen narcosis and [[Meaningful Name|The Rapture of the Deep]]. He also failed to explain what causes it properly.

* [[Distant Finale]]

* [[Downer Ending]]: ''The Reality Bug'' and ''The Quillan Games''. Arguably ''Raven Rise'' as well, though mitigated by {{spoiler|the return of the Travelers at the end}}.

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* [[Huge Holographic Head]]: Used by Aja to communicate with people entering her territory, Veelox.

* [[Human Aliens]]: On all the other worlds. Flora and non-human fauna tends to be different from world to world, however.

* [[Humans Are Bastards]]: Saint Dane's entire philosophy is based on this.

* [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]: {{spoiler|Saint Dane does this to Loor. Thankfully, she recovers.}}

* [[Instrumentality]]: {{spoiler|Solara}}

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* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|Nevva Winter, ''The Quillan Games''}}.

* [[Narnia Time]]: Time between the territories is explained to work this way.

* [[~~Near Villain Victory~~]]: "It's not over until Saint Dane thinks he's won."

* [[Eucatastrophe]]: "It's not over until Saint Dane thinks he's won."

* [[New Eden]]: Third Earth.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Bobby's first screw up was the turning point for Denduron. {{spoiler|[[Everything Is Better With Explosions|Tak]] while discovered by the rebels, had not been able to be used in huge amounts besides pea-sized amounts for their slingshots. However, due to Bobby bringing his flashlight with him from second earth, had made the rebels find a way to harness more Tak to create a Bomb.}} Yeah, [[Sarcasm Mode|Nice Job, Bobby.]]

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* [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: Out of the infinite number of habitable planets in the universe, technological civilizations arose on only seven. Six of these civilizations are exclusively human. Just let that sink in.

** {{spoiler|Given the nature of Halla, it is possible that the people who created the universe did this intentionally}}

** {{spoiler|That may very well be. Still doesn't make it any less ridiculous, though.}}

** Except that the most optimistic answer to the Drake Equation you can seriously propose in a scientific setting is roughly 10... hmmmm how convenient.

* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]: Subverted by ''The Never War''. Played straight in the final chapter of ''The Soldiers of Halla''.

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* [[Spin-Off]]: The ''[[Morpheus Road]]'' trilogy has recently been confirmed to be a spin-off from this series.

* [[The Stoic]]: Loor rarely shows emotion. Except for when she does.

* [[Supporting Leader]]: {{spoiler|Both Mark and Courtney in ''Soldiers of Halla.''}}

* [[Teach Me How to Fight]]: After nearly being beaten to death by Saint Dane, Bobby asks Loor [[Accidental Innuendo|to do this with him.]]

* [[Terminally Dependent Society]]: Veelox, to Lifelight. It gets better.