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* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Although audiences were certainly shocked by {{spoiler|Corrie, Chris and Robyn's deaths}}, the [[Anyone Can Die]] feel was cemented after {{spoiler|seven year old Davina}} dies in ''The Night Is For Hunting''.

* [[Apocalyptic Log]]: When the group returns to find everything abandoned, Corrie finds a letter from her father reading, in part, "...I'm sending this anyway, then tearing it up so no one'll know what an idiot I've been. But Corrie, if you do get this, '''go bush'''. Take great care. Don't come out till you know it's safe."

* [[Arson Murder and Jaywalking]]: In ''The Third Day, The Frost'', Ellie's list of injuries includes "shock, cracked vertebrae, fractured patella, malnutrition, cuts and abrasions, acute anxiety state, head lice".

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: In ''The Third Day, The Frost'', Ellie's list of injuries includes "shock, cracked vertebrae, fractured patella, malnutrition, cuts and abrasions, acute anxiety state, head lice".

* [[Band of Brothers]] / [[Nakama]] The main characters form one.

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: At the end of the main series, the war is over... {{spoiler|but Australia's apparently lost a lot of its territory to the invaders permanently, and several of Ellie's [[Nakama]] are dead, along with one of the feral children.}}

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* [[Faking the Dead]]: Rescuing {{spoiler|Kevin}} from a prisoner of war camp.

* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: The "Enemy", of (most probably) Indonesia.

* [[Five Man Band]]: Although the characters shift somewhat between books, the most prominent band is as follows:

* [[Five-Man Band]]: Although the characters shift somewhat between books, the most prominent band is as follows:

{{quote| [[The Hero]] - Ellie<br />

[[The Lancer]] - Homer<br />

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* [[Hammer and Sickle Removed For Your Protection]]: The "Enemy" is fairly obviously an expy of Indonesia, but is diplomatically never named, and shares several notable differences from RL Indonesia.

** '''YMMV''' on that. Some saw the Enemy as China, North or South Korea or even India. Marsden deliberately kept it ambiguous as to who the Enemy was, as to prevent [[Fan Dumb|readers]] claiming that they knew they couldn't trust Country X.

* [[Hero Tracking Failure]]: The farmhouse kitchen scene in ''The Night is for Hunting''.

* [[Hero-Tracking Failure]]: The farmhouse kitchen scene in ''The Night is for Hunting''.

* [[Infant Immortality]]: Averted. Brutally. See [[Anyone Can Die]] above.

* [[Inspirationally Disadvantaged]]: Averted. In another YA series the deaf child might serve as a foil of sweetness and light and inspiration to all, as well as a [[The Load|Load]] in times of crisis. Not so here. Gavin averts all the usual conventions that occur when a disabled child is thrown into the narrative mix.

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* [[Kangaroo Court]]: Ellie and her friends face these a couple of times after capture. Even though they ''are'' guilty, being tried in a foreign language by one's enemies is not generally considered the fairest possible procedure.

* [[Let's Get Out of Here]]: The line is used a few times, followed by Lee (and later other characters) [[Lampshade Hanging|remarking]] that it's used in, "like, 60% of movies or something."

* [[Line of Sight Name]]: Ellie poses as 'Amber Faulding', from the sound of ambulances and a word she saw on a bottle of pills, when she's {{spoiler|taken prisoner in ''The Other Side of Dawn''.}}

* [[Line-of-Sight Name]]: Ellie poses as 'Amber Faulding', from the sound of ambulances and a word she saw on a bottle of pills, when she's {{spoiler|taken prisoner in ''The Other Side of Dawn''.}}

* [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]]: The series is Ellie's written record of the things they do. During the Ellie Chronicles, she confirms that she did publish the stories after the war.

** [[Who Would Want to Watch Us]]: They apparently sold poorly, and only the first three were published, which may be a [[Take That]] to the series' poor US sales in the mid 90s that caused only the first three books to be released initially. The full series was not released in mass-market form until 2008, after the Ellie Chronicles had already begun in Australia, and the final book in the Ellie Chronicles has still not been released.

** [[Who Would Want to Watch Us?]]: They apparently sold poorly, and only the first three were published, which may be a [[Take That]] to the series' poor US sales in the mid 90s that caused only the first three books to be released initially. The full series was not released in mass-market form until 2008, after the Ellie Chronicles had already begun in Australia, and the final book in the Ellie Chronicles has still not been released.

* [[Literary Allusion Title]]: ''The Third Day, The Frost'' / ''A Killing Frost''. (''King Henry VIII'', Shakespeare).

* [[Made of Explodium]]: Pretty much any petrol tank will act as a bomb when the plot requires it. Even a lawnmower set alight maimed or killed a couple of soldiers. They destroyed {{spoiler|a bridge}} by igniting {{spoiler|a petrol tanker}} under it - which admittedly would probably work, but not with an explosion. And if you think petrol is impressive, wait til you see what {{spoiler|half a container full of fertilizer and diesel}} will do. It {{spoiler|destroyed one ship and caused major damage to the adjacent wharf.}}

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* [[Trilogy Creep]]: It was originally a tightly-written trilogy, ending with {{spoiler|the group being airlifted to New Zealand}} at the end of ''The Third Day, The Frost''.

* [[War Is Hell]]

* [[What Measure Is a Mook]]: Averted. In the books Ellie frequently reflects on how the enemy soldiers she variously mows down or blows up or hits with big vehicles are people just like her, with hopes and dreams and families who'll miss them. In the film a short scene occurs where Ellie looks at a dying enemy soldier and sees the soldier is a teenage girl just like her.

* [[What Measure Is a Mook?]]: Averted. In the books Ellie frequently reflects on how the enemy soldiers she variously mows down or blows up or hits with big vehicles are people just like her, with hopes and dreams and families who'll miss them. In the film a short scene occurs where Ellie looks at a dying enemy soldier and sees the soldier is a teenage girl just like her.

* [[You Always Hear the Bullet]]: Ellie reflects on this after {{spoiler|Corrie}} is shot in ''Tomorrow, When The War Began''.

* [[You Know the One]]: The name of the country that invaded Australia is never mentioned, for obvious pragmatic reasons. They are referred to as 'the enemy' or 'them' throughout. This becomes quite awkward as the characters have no in-story reason for dancing around the name, and are quite willing to name friendly countries such as New Zealand, the United States and Japan.

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* [[Amoral Attorney]]: Mr Sale is the small-country-town version.

* [[Beware the Quiet Ones]]: The identity of the Scarlet Pimple.

* [[Bread Eggs Milk Squick]]: Interesting variation. In ''While I Live'' a grieving Ellie goes through a litany of memories of her parents. It goes without a beat from the sound of her mother's laugh and the way her father fixed a truck to the texture of her mother's pubic hair and the shape of her father's penis.

* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: Interesting variation. In ''While I Live'' a grieving Ellie goes through a litany of memories of her parents. It goes without a beat from the sound of her mother's laugh and the way her father fixed a truck to the texture of her mother's pubic hair and the shape of her father's penis.

* [[Dead Little Sister|Dead Little Brother]]: Bronte's backstory.

* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Fiona appears only briefly in a couple of books, and Kevin is referred to as being in New Zealand but never appears in person. Justified in that one of the themes of the ''Ellie Chronicles'' is the way that life marches on and how things are different once the war is over.

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* [[Drugs Are Bad]]: They will get a bogged cow out of a dam though, apparently.

* [[Enfant Terrible]]: Gavin.

* [[Five Man Band]]

* [[Five-Man Band]]

{{quote| [[The Hero]] - Ellie<br />

[[The Lancer]] - Homer<br />