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** Robyn tends to float between [[The Big Guy]], [[The Smart Guy]], and [[The Chick]] {{spoiler|before she died.}}
* [[Girls With Guns]]
* [[Good Guns, Bad Guns]]: Averted. The bad guys use M-16s too.
* [[Hollywood Tactics]]: Most notably in ''Darkness, Be My Friend'', when they try to {{spoiler|take down the airfield by putting sugar in the gas tanks of planes. It doesn't work, but due to the tank being padlocked}}.
** Interestingly, there was a [[Real Life]] incident of sabotage involving foresting equipment where exactly this happened, and it worked (due to the substance sparking a chemical reaction).
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** Homer makes a point of explaining that this is not due to any actual explosion but rather the buildup of pressure (which would work).
* [[No Export for You]]: Only the first three books were released as part of the series' first American print run, with the other four being held back due to poor sales. The full series got a full American release in 2008, but poor sales ''again'' prevented the release of ''The Ellie Chronicles'' stateside. And who knows if we're ever gonna get [[The Film of the Book|the movie]]...
* [[No Periods, Period]]: After almost a year out in the bush, Ellie mentions that she is down to her last tampon. Note that this is the only time 'that time of the month' is mentioned throughout the series.
** It can almost be justified in that after almost a year with little food and high physical and emotional stress that her periods were very weak and far apart.
*** Or Ellie just didn't feel like writing about her periods.
*** There's also a mention, when Ellie is reminiscing about Corrie, about the two trying (and failing) to synchronise their periods after reading about it in a magazine.
** In the movie, Ellie finds Chris sleeping on watch and starts yelling at him. He mutters 'it must be that time of the month' and quickly finds out that this is NOT a smart thing to say to a woman who is justifiably very annoyed with you and HOLDING A LOADED ASSAULT RIFLE.
* [[Occupiers Out of Our Country!]]
* [[One Sided Battle]]: Applied liberally throughout the series.
* [[Primal Scene]]: Robin mentions in ''The Dead of the Night'' that this was the last time she saw her parents.
* [[The Quisling]]: {{spoiler|Major Harvey}}
* [[Sawed
* [[Shoot the Fuel Tank]]: Played straight and often.
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: {{spoiler|The final book, ''The Other Side Of Dawn'' ends with the enemy nation being allowed to keep a large portion of the land they have invaded, so while the survivors can move back to Wirrawee, they are now right on the border, and the whole group had effectively been fighting (and dying) for very little}}.
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