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==Stories==
{{examples|As of
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* ''[[The Secret Return of Alex Mack]]'', which unintentionally launched the 'Verse.
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* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33046/EllenBrand+Follow+Up.htm Follow Up]'' by EllenBrand
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33136/hysteriumredux+AcquaFuoco.htm AcquaFuoco]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33147/JoshuAB+Ultraman+Year+One.htm Ultraman Year One]'' by JoshuAB
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33158/hysteriumredux+Insensitive.htm Insensitive]'' by hysteriumredux
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* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33898/Manchester+Not+leprechauns.htm Not Leprechauns]'' by Manchester
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/story-33916/hysteriumredux+Ask+Not.htm Ask Not]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33939/hysteriumredux+Ladies+Night.htm Ladies Night]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33983/hysteriumredux+Debriefings.htm Debriefings]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33989/hysteriumredux+Word+s+Out.htm Word's Out]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33994/hysteriumredux+Consultants.htm Consultants]'' by hysteruimredux
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33998/batzulger+Garden+of+Stone.htm Garden of Stone]'' by batzulger
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34004/hysteriumredux+False+I+D.htm False I.D.]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34017/batzulger+B+E+---+The+Al+Mundy+Way.htm B&E---The Al Mundy Way]'' by batzulger
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34046/batzulger+So+It+s+All+Gone+South.htm So It's All Gone South]'' by batzulger
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-33893/EllenBrand+Icebergs.htm Icebergs]''by EllenBrand
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34072/batzulger+Professional+Quality.htm Professional Quality]'' by batzulger
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34067/hysteriumredux+Belisarius.htm Belisarius]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34122/hysteriumredux+Position+Filled.htm Position Filled]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34124/batzulger+Badlands.htm Badlands]'' by batzulger
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34195/batzulger+More+Than+They+Could+Chew.htm More Than They Could Chew]'' by batzulger
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34202/CaptainBoulanger+Christmas+and+Easter.htm Christmas and Easter]'' by CaptainBoulanger
* ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34224/EllenBrand+Revenants.htm Revenant]'' by EllenBrand
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* ''[[Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy]]''
* ''[[Angel]]''
* ''[[Archie Comics]]''
* ''[[The Assassination Bureau]]''
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* [[w:Bonk Business|Bonk Business]]
* ''[[Boondock Saints]]''
* ''[[Borat]]''
* ''[[Boston Legal]]''
* ''[[The Bourne Series (film)|The Bourne Legacy]]''
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* ''[[Bert & I]]''
* ''[[Canterbury's Law]]''
* ''[[Carmen Sandiego]]'' both as in-universe and as an influential work.
* ''[[Carnosaur]]''
* ''[[Cast Away]]''
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* ''[[G-8 and his Battle Aces]]''
* ''[[The Game Plan]]''
* ''[[Gamera]]''
* ''[[Galaxy Quest]]''. A case which straddles the line between in-universe and not. The TV series from within the film exists in the Teraverse, and alongside ''Babylon 5'', largely takes on the same relative significance in the Teraverse's pop culture, as ''[[Star Trek]]'' does in our own.
* ''[[GI Jane]]''
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* ''[[wikipedia:Herbie Popnecker|Herbie, the Fat Fury]]''
* ''[[Hitman (video game series)|Hitman: Codename 47]]''
* ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]''
* ''[[Hooper]]''
* ''[[Horse Feathers]]'': Harmony Kendall was awarded a honorary degree from Huxley College, indicating this school was rebuilt in 1932 after burning down during President Wagstaff's legendary administration.
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* ''[[The Long Kiss Goodnight]]''
* ''[[Lou Grant]]''
* ''[[Ma and Pa Kettle]]''
* ''[[Madame Fatal]]''
* ''[[Man from Atlantis]]''
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* ''[[The Addams Family]]''
* ''[[The Big Sky]]'' Toby Peters met Jason Ward on the set during the filming of the Howard Hawks movie.
* ''[[Carmen Sandiego]]'': series of educational computer games which spawned a PBS game show (both about a fictional globe-trotting thief); Sister Marie and others in her age group can be expected to be quite familiar with them, and she has, at least once, made a joke about Carmen's propensity for completely impossible heists. These may be based on the exploits of the real thief named Carmen Sandiego.
* ''[[Cheers]]'': As noted above, while ''Cheers'' exists as a TV show [[In-Universe]], Carla Tortelli works at the Jolly Redcap in Boston.
* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]''. Including portions of ''Life's a Beach'' and one scene of ''Incubation Period'' being set aboard a yacht actually named ''Dawn Treader,'' and the afterlife shown in ''Beyond the Veil'' looking like it was ripped from the pages of ''The Last Battle''.
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* ''[[Stripes]]'': In ''Hermione Granger and the Swiss Tournament'', mention is made of a large truck-like military vehicle designed by Willow Rosenberg and Ted Kord. Jack O'Neill calls it the "EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle"; the context makes it clear this is not its official designation but another pop culture reference by O'Neill.
* ''[[Super Mario Brothers]]''
* ''[[Terminator]]''. Popular film series starring [[Jean-Claude Van Damme]] as the T-800 assassin. One factor in the Brane is that the lead characters of Reese and the T-800 are played by different actors in every version.
▲* ''[[Tom Swift]]''
* ''[[Ultraman]]'' and the other [[Ultra Series]] shows would appear to exist, as suggested by [[Stargate Atlantis|Rodney McKay]] [[Freudian Slip|accidentally namechecking]] ''[[Ultraman Tiga]]'' in JoshuaAB's ''Ultra Shorts'' while demonstrating various armors provided to [[My Secret Identity|Andrew "Ultraman" Clements]] by the Canadian government. Not to mention that these armors all tend to be in the colors of the various Ultramen.
* ''[[Unbreakable]]''. There is mention in chapter 8 of ''Bone Deep'' of a movie with a villain whose bones were abnormally fragile, which may be an in-universe version of this film.
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* [[Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress]]: Acknowledged (and very carefully ''not'' invoked) by Seth Pevsner in chapter 17 of ''The Lady and the Detective'' when he finds himself in a position which ''should'' -- but ''doesn't'' -- result in him plummeting to his death.
* [[Gun Porn]]: The stories that batzulger writes are littered with this.
* [[Hackette]]: Willow Rosenberg. Zoe Carter.
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: In addition to the products of Nazi weird science, there are also Lord Deathstrike's lizard-men and wolf-men.
** The Merman.
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** Marcie Ross and Trish Chabot when they are in their 'Field Service' uniforms. These being the black suits popularized by the [[The Men in Black|Men in Black]] Conspiracy theories.
* [[Humanoid Aliens|Humanoid Alien]]: What Spring-Heel'd Jackie claims to be. Even then, she also claims it is just [[A Form You Are Comfortable With]] because her people are [[Energy Beings]] with no physical existence.
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: Warren Mears' "April 2" units. Schubert's Deep Water Combat and Construction units.
* [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game]]: The Savage.
* [[Hyperactive Metabolism]]: "Princess" Awqasisa is basically a mummy afforded animation by a bizarre fungus, who when injured "heals" by consuming large quantities of carbohydrates and water for the fungus to use as raw materials for repairing her.
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** Waylon "Croc" Jones
** The Professional Alligator Wrestler (and sometime hero) James "Leatherback" Collins.
** Woody, close associate of Max Steel
* [[Lovable Rogue]]: Jonathan Lowe is an ethical criminal with an exceptionally strong moral compass.
* [[Lower Deck Episode]]: Several stories shift the focus to the less-prominent members of the SRI, and let us see just how badass they can be on their own. And one plotline in ''Incubation Period'' follows Sister Marie's best friend, intrepid reporter Maddie Sabatino-Taylor.
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* [[Must Have Caffeine]]: Orangutan Suzanne MacGregor is addicted to coffee, and also feels guilty for supporting coffee plantations that replace her native habitat.
* [[My Card]]: Spring-Heel'd Jackie actually says this line while giving an actual physical card to a thug at the door of a criminal hideout she and Batwoman are about to crash in ''Bat by the Bay''. In case you're curious, it reads:
{{quote|<span style{{=}}"text-align: center;">Lady Jacqueline Dacre
''[[Lady of Adventure|adventuress]]''
[[Hell|Jahannum]], [[London]], [[San Francisco]]</
** Zoe "3UrēK@!" Carter has cards for her hacker identity, plain white card stock with a [[Iconic Logo|"eureka!" lightbulb]] one one side, and an IP address in invisible ink on the other.
* [[The Name Is Bond, James Bond]]: "The name is Donne, Alicia Donne."
* [[Named After Somebody Famous]]: A [[Theme Naming|regular practice]] of the Black family from the British Intelligence Community, in ''Hermione Granger and the Boy Who Lived''. Where their counterparts in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' books named their children after constellations and celestial bodies, the Teraverse Blacks name their children after a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|different kind of star entirely]].
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** She also tends to use diminutive forms of first names, particularly when she's dealing with people younger than herself.
** She's also gone to significant lengths in choosing appropriate custom ringtones for all her incoming cellphone contacts, which could ''themselves'' be considered a form of nickname.
* [[Ninja]]: In the Teraverse, the ninja consist of a loose group of clans that provide specialized shadow war agents for Japan in the place of a government-run set of [[Spy School|academies]] as most other major powers have. They function as spies primarily, and most of the rest of the world (including those same elite intelligence academy graduates) believes that that the modern day continued existence of''"Ninja"'' is a creation of comic books and the movies. Named clans include: the Osaki Clan based in Salt Lake City (having Rinkin Mueller and Cate Baltimore as genin) and thought by the other clans to have been completely destroyed; the Phoenix Arizona off-shoot of the Imura Clan
* [[No Conservation of Energy]]: A consequence of anyone or anything that taps Bendix Space for power, because doing so is essentially stealing energy from one universe for use in another.
** [[Averted Trope|Averted]], at least partially, for those characters like Terawatt and Sister Marie whose powers impose a sometimes drastically increased caloric intake on them. (The "partially" comes from it being unclear whether they are actually taking in as many calories as their powers expend; in many cases, there appears to be a rather significant shortfall which has to be made up from ''somewhere''.)
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* [[One Steve Limit]]: Averted several times over, especially in ''Incubation Period'', in which there are several cases of it being averted by minor characters appearing within the same chapter.
** Averted ''twice'' in ''The Hornet's Nest'' chapter 5, in which Sister Marie rescues a small child who has the same name (Maisie) as her custom-made phone AI (which keeps responding every time Marie addresses her). The second aversion is that the story also contains two recurring characters named Shannon.
* [[Online Alias]]: Has a self-aware mix. [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Willow Rosenberg]] lifts "Acid Burn" from ''[[Hackers]]'' to use when she becomes Terawatt's online support, but when she was younger she used "S4l1x480" (which cleverly points back to her, as ''salix'' is the genus of all willows, and 480 references a wavelength of light in the red portion of the visible spectrum). There was also P$ychon4ut, a [[The Cracker|villainous, misogynistic hacker]] she helped get sent to jail. Then there's "3UrēK@!", aka Zoe Carter, originally a specialist in identity theft who seems to be transitioning to a "white hat" as part of Ultraman's team. Another white hat on his team, Zane Donovan, takes the handle "Crash Override" from ''Hackers'' in conscious imitation of Willow. The SRI also has a pair of staff hackers who use decidedly un-military handles online.
* [[Only One Name]]: Lampshaded, as Faith ('just Faith' in the BuffyVerse) is clearly named Delabruzzi to conceal herself.
** And inverted with actress Cherilyn Sarkisian (Cher) who uses her full name when playing Marci Castrati, Gunther Shtepple's ex-wife.
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** Averted as the high-tech firms run by various geniuses are actively marketing their advanced technologies. This has resulted in the entire 'verse being almost a decade or more ahead of our own in the available technology of all kinds.
* [[Reformed Criminal]]: Various. [[Hired Guns|Kaji]], [[Delinquents|Azure Crush]], [[Assassin|Aidos, Wanderer, Orhidei]], and the entire [[Loveable Rogue|Mundy Family]] for example.
* [[Reincarnation (trope)|Reincarnation]]: Apparently happens, but is not universal or automatic, given one line in ''Ye Shall Not Die Alone'' which suggests that after sufficient time in Heaven, Shar may be offered a chance to return to mortal life.
* [[Rent-A-Zilla]]: The series of [[Kaiju]] that ''someone'' is creating (starting with a [[Cthulhu Mythos|Cthulhu]] knockoff in ''Hell's Nanny'') and setting loose on various targets around the world.
* [[Ripped from the Headlines]]: ''Up In Smoke'' is explicitly based upon real-world events which took place in San Diego County, California on Sunday, October 26, 2003, though in slightly modified form (to include the story's fictional characters). Several chapters of ''Incubation Period'' detail the days surrounding October 26, including a continuation of the same incident.
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* [[There Is a God]]: At ''least'' one. {{spoiler|Odin and Thor are name-dropped when Valhalla is offered to Shar in ''Ye Shall Not Die Alone'', and presumably "the Heaven you learned of in church" is overseen by the Abrahamic God, if He's not just the same entity as Odin wearing a different face. And the one doing the namedropping? Skuld of the Norns.}}
* [[They Walk Among Us]]: Invoked in-universe by Spring-Heel'd Jackie, who claims to be an extradimensional exile. (But really isn't.)
* [[Thirty Pieces of Silver]]: In ''Amends'', Daniel Larusso describes the money he made with the [[In-Universe]] versions of the ''[[The Karate Kid|Karate Kid]]'' movies and the book which inspired them as a betrayal of Miyagi-sensei, saying "I had taken the thirty pieces of silver, and denied Sensei three times".
* [[Time Skip]]: ''It's Just A Habit'' summarizes multiple years during chapter 46, and then abruptly skips again between the last two chapters.
** 170 years from 1837 to 2007 in ''East and West''.
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