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* [[Anti-Hero]]: Jim, with comparatively little "Anti" to the "Hero".
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Jim, with comparatively little "Anti" to the "Hero".
* [[Anvil On Head]]: The opening of ''The Stainless Steel Rat'' features diGriz dropping a safe on a policeman who's come to arrest him. (It's not until he's sure he has your attention that he bothers to mention that it's a ''robot'' policeman, and so well-armoured that the safe is not going to do it any serious harm.)
* [[Anvil On Head]]: The opening of ''The Stainless Steel Rat'' features diGriz dropping a safe on a policeman who's come to arrest him. (It's not until he's sure he has your attention that he bothers to mention that it's a ''robot'' policeman, and so well-armoured that the safe is not going to do it any serious harm.)
* [[Back Alley Doctor]]. Jim goes to a Back Alley Doctor to have whole body alteration surgery in ''The Stainless Steel Rat''. Now that's dedication to the art of disguise!
* [[Back-Alley Doctor]]. Jim goes to a Back Alley Doctor to have whole body alteration surgery in ''The Stainless Steel Rat''. Now that's dedication to the art of disguise!
* [[Batman Grabs a Gun]]: Jim the [[Technical Pacifist]] does once almost kill a guy, who was a monster and {{spoiler|indirectly responsible for Jim's mentor's death}}. Jim would've gone through with it, if he wasn't knocked out.
* [[Batman Grabs a Gun]]: Jim the [[Technical Pacifist]] does once almost kill a guy, who was a monster and {{spoiler|indirectly responsible for Jim's mentor's death}}. Jim would've gone through with it, if he wasn't knocked out.
* [[Big Brother Is Watching]]: Surveillance is everywhere, and only the most skilled criminal can practise his/her art. See also the planet Cliaand in ''The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge''.
* [[Big Brother Is Watching]]: Surveillance is everywhere, and only the most skilled criminal can practise his/her art. See also the planet Cliaand in ''The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge''.
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* [[Papa Wolf]]: Jim, for his wife and sons. And his sons for their parents. Did I mention they are a close family of highly skilled criminals and Special Corps agents?
* [[Papa Wolf]]: Jim, for his wife and sons. And his sons for their parents. Did I mention they are a close family of highly skilled criminals and Special Corps agents?
* [[The Professor|Professor]] Coypu
* [[The Professor|Professor]] Coypu
* [[Master of Disguise]] / [[Full Body Disguise]]: In a universe of ubiquitous surveillance and paranoid secret policemen this is a basic survival technique, ranging all the way up to full body surgery.
* [[Master of Disguise]] / [[Full-Body Disguise]]: In a universe of ubiquitous surveillance and paranoid secret policemen this is a basic survival technique, ranging all the way up to full body surgery.
* [[Planet of Hats]]: Planet of Uniforms in the case of Cliaand.
* [[Planet of Hats]]: Planet of Uniforms in the case of Cliaand.
* [[Police State]]: ''The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge'' and ''The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted'' (military dictatorship), while the planet in ''The Stainless Steel Rat For President'' is a [[Banana Republic]].
* [[Police State]]: ''The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge'' and ''The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted'' (military dictatorship), while the planet in ''The Stainless Steel Rat For President'' is a [[Banana Republic]].
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