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==Stories==
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* ''[[The Secret Return of Alex Mack]]'', which unintentionally launched the 'Verse.
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* ''[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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* ''[[The Long Kiss Goodnight]]''
* ''[[Lou Grant]]''
* ''[[Ma and Pa Kettle]]''
* ''[[Madame Fatal]]''
* ''[[Man from Atlantis]]''
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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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* [[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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