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* [[Future Food Is Artificial]]: Meatbeasts are a carnivorous version; they're giant edible tumors.
* [[Future Imperfect]]: It's not a big deal, but there are moments showing that history hasn't survived entirely intact. In "Second Helpings", Tolly Mune lists great lovers of legend - [[Romeo and Juliet]], [[The Bible|Samson and Delilah]], [[The Bible|Sodom and Gomorrah]], Marx and Lenin. In "Call Him Moses", Tuf notes that there's a historical connection between the original Moses and the Noah after whose Ark his ship is named, but he's not sure what it is -- brothers, perhaps?
* [[A God Am I]]: Having always had the power of a god through The Ark, Tuf slowly begins to wonder if he also has the responsibility and authority of one to boot. The question is left open, of course, and even him most questionable acts are
* [[Hates Being Touched]]: Haviland Tuf.
* [[Karmic Death]]: After killing Tuf's cat, Mushroom, Celise Waan bumps into a bunch of "[[Killer Rabbit|hellkittens]]" - felines from a [[Death World]]. Who spit acid.
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* [[Look Behind You]]: Played with in "The Plague Star". When Tuf attempts to warn Rica Dawnstar that there's a ravenous ''T. rex'' sneaking up behind her, she tells him sternly that she's not going to fall for "the old there's-a-dinosaur-behind-you gambit" -- even though it's making enough noise that she must know it's there. It turns out she's perfectly aware that it's there, and also that she's in no danger from it.
* [[Mini Mecha]]: The Unquin battlesuit.
* [[Oh Crap]]: Tuf has informed the S'uthlamese that he's installed a nuke that will destroy The Ark's "cell library," making the ship useless to them, if they're about to succeed in taking over. Tolly Mune, having acquired a Living Lie Detector of her own, calls his bluff on this, and Tuf admits that she's right. "You have found me out." And then her lie detector says '''that''' was a lie.
* [[Pardon My Klingon]]: Some of the characters on S'uthlam are prone to cussing up a storm, but because of cultural differences the things that count as cusswords on S'uthlam are quite inoffensive to the reader.
* [[Planet of Hats]]: Done in rather more detail than usual with S'uthlam. Their tendency to pop out babies at a ridiculous rate is tied in to everything: their main religion, the Church of Life Evolving, believes mankind can find divinity through procreating and evolution, calling someone an "abortion" is a dire insult and even the planet's technological expertise is tied in to number of geniuses the large population ends up producing.
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* [[Sdrawkcab Name]]: S'uthlam, with the "th" resisting inversion.
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: Tuf's usual mode of speaking. Hell, the merchant ship he flew before he had The Ark was named The Cornucopia of Excellent Goods At Low Prices.
* [[Shout Out]]: As noted in Single Biome Planet below, the water world in "Guardians." Also, Tuf mentions a large, dark flying creature: "a Claremontine wind-rider, also called the ''[[X-Men|ororo]]''."
* [[Single Biome Planet]]: [[Meaningful Name|Namor]], an ocean world.
* [[Space Amish]]: Moses and the Altruists.
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