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* ICallItVera: Oscar's sword, "Lady Vivamus". He named it from the motto etched onto it, "Dum vivimus, vivamus!" (While we live, let us live.)
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* NamedWeapons: Oscar's sword, "Lady Vivamus". He named it from the motto etched onto it, "Dum vivimus, vivamus!" (While we live, let us live.)
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I think these tropes are redundant.
* ICallItVera: Oscar's sword, "Lady Vivamus". He named it from the motto etched onto it, "Dum vivimus, vivamus!" (While we live, let us live.)
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* NamedWeapons: Oscar's sword, "Lady Vivamus". He named it from the motto etched onto it, "Dum vivimus, vivamus!" (While we live, let us live.)
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* SquareCubeLaw: DiscussedTrope. Oscar, who hates rats, observes an alien rat the size of a coyote then sees that "their legs and pads were too large."
-->"Perhaps the cube-square law on animal proportions works anywhere."
-->"Perhaps the cube-square law on animal proportions works anywhere."
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* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: The baby dragon that imprints on the group vanishes from the plot a few moments after Oscar take a second to feel sorry for it.
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* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: The baby dragon that imprints on the group vanishes from the plot a few moments after Oscar take a second to feel sorry for it.
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* EggMacGuffin: The phoenix egg that Star needs Oscar to get turns out to be [[spoiler:a data storage device holding the memories of all the previous multiverse rulers.]]
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* EggMacGuffin: The phoenix egg that Star needs Oscar to get turns out to be [[spoiler:a data storage device holding the memories of all the previous multiverse rulers.]]
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* BellyButtonless: Igli the Golem has no bellybutton and pointing it out is a major BerserkButton.
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* NoNavelNovelBirth: Igli the Golem has no bellybutton and pointing it out is a major BerserkButton.
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* ReedRichardsIsUseless: The closest anyone gets to suggesting using their vast wealth to help Earth is Star suggesting they send money to Oscar's mother, to which he shrugs off saying his stepfather provides for her ok.
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* ReedRichardsIsUseless: The closest anyone gets to suggesting using their vast wealth to help Earth is Star suggesting they send money to Oscar's mother, to which he shrugs off off, saying his stepfather provides for her ok.O.K.
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* MysteriousPast: Star and Rufo both make references to bizarre adventures they've had (Star was close friends with William Shakespeare and Rufo fought for the allies during the Invasion of Normandy, among other things) but neither one has much of their back stories elaborated on.
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* MysteriousPast: Star and Rufo both make references to bizarre adventures they've had (Star was close friends with William Shakespeare and Rufo fought for the allies Allies during the Invasion of Normandy, among other things) but neither one has much of their back stories elaborated on.
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* HumanAliens: Humans exist on countless world's throughout the multiverse. Star says the reason has been debated endlessly in-universe with some people thinkinging God created us all the same, evolution always produces us on a certain type of planet or else we originated on one world and spread to everywhere else.
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* HumanAliens: Humans exist on countless world's worlds throughout the multiverse. Star says the reason has been debated endlessly in-universe with some people thinkinging God created us all the same, evolution always produces us on a certain type of planet or else we originated on one world and spread to everywhere else.
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* DinosaursAreDragons: The "dragons" that the party fights on one world are dinosaur-like in appearance but breathe fire. Oscar proceeds to [[LampshadeHanging hang a lampshade]] on this trope.
** In that Oscar heroically slays the dragon, then has to put up with a baby dragon mewing around their cave all night. Rufo tell Oscar the dragon he killed was probably its mother. "It's a hell of a thing when you can't even kill a dragon and feel good about it."
** In that Oscar heroically slays the dragon, then has to put up with a baby dragon mewing around their cave all night. Rufo tell Oscar the dragon he killed was probably its mother. "It's a hell of a thing when you can't even kill a dragon and feel good about it."
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* DinosaursAreDragons: The "dragons" that the party fights on one world are dinosaur-like in appearance but breathe fire. Oscar proceeds to [[LampshadeHanging hang a lampshade]] on this trope.
** In thattrope. Oscar heroically slays the dragon, then has to put up with a baby dragon mewing around their cave all night. Rufo tell Oscar the dragon he killed was probably its mother. "It's a hell of a thing when you can't even kill a dragon and feel good about it."
** In that
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* DeathWorld: The food and water on Karth-Hokesh is poisonous to humans and the air can be breathed for a few hours.
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* DeathWorld: The food and water on Karth-Hokesh is poisonous to humans and the air can only be breathed for a few hours.
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* BotheringByTheBook: This book says that there are two kinds of military clerks. The first kind will quote the regulation that prohibits you from doing what you want. The second will dig into the book until they find one that helps you. He must have liked this one, because he mentioned it again almost word-for-word in ''Literature/TheDoorIntoSummer'', this time about payment.
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* BotheringByTheBook: This book says that there are two kinds of military clerks. The first kind will quote the regulation that prohibits you from doing what you want. The second will dig into the book until they find one that helps you. He Heinlein must have liked this one, because he mentioned it again almost word-for-word in ''Literature/TheDoorIntoSummer'', this time about payment.
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Removed How To Write An Example - Do Not Place Multiple Tropes on the Same Bullet by splitting off Bothering By The Book and crosswicking the example text from that page. Alphabetized the other trope, Obstructive Bureaucrat.
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* BotheringByTheBook[=/=]ObstructiveBureaucrat: Oscar remarks, "Regardless of T.O., all military bureaucracies consist of a Surprise Party Department, a Practical Joke Department, and a Fairy Godmother department. The first two process most matters, as the third is very small; the Fairy Godmother Department is one elderly female GS-5 clerk usually out on sick leave."
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* BotheringByTheBook[=/=]ObstructiveBureaucrat: Oscar remarks, "Regardless BotheringByTheBook: This book says that there are two kinds of T.O., all military bureaucracies consist of a Surprise Party Department, a Practical Joke Department, and a Fairy Godmother department. clerks. The first two process most matters, as kind will quote the third is very small; regulation that prohibits you from doing what you want. The second will dig into the Fairy Godmother Department is book until they find one elderly female GS-5 clerk usually out on sick leave."that helps you. He must have liked this one, because he mentioned it again almost word-for-word in ''Literature/TheDoorIntoSummer'', this time about payment.
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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Oscar remarks, "Regardless of T.O., all military bureaucracies consist of a Surprise Party Department, a Practical Joke Department, and a Fairy Godmother department. The first two process most matters, as the third is very small; the Fairy Godmother Department is one elderly female GS-5 clerk usually out on sick leave."
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The Magitek example is Clarkes Third Law
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* AcidTripDimension: The AlienSky on Karth-Hokesh has no sun, moon or stars and is described as "ribbons and boiling shapes and shadow holes of all colours"
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* AllJustADream: When fighting the Eater Of Souls, Oscar finds himself back in the army with his adventures having been a drunken hallucination. Luckily it doesn't last long.
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* AllJustADream: When fighting the Eater Of Souls, Oscar finds himself back in the army with his adventures having been a drunken hallucination. Luckily it doesn't last long.AlienSky: The sky on Karth-Hokesh has no sun, moon or stars and is described as "ribbons and boiling shapes and shadow holes of all colours".
* AndTheAdventureContinues: The book ends with Oscar [[spoiler:preparing for another adventure with Rufo]].
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* AuthorAvatar: When asked by a fan which of his many characters was intended to represent himself, Heinlein jokingly claimed it was [[TheOgre Igli]].
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* AuthorAvatar: When asked by a fan which of his many characters was intended to represent himself, Heinlein jokingly claimed it was [[TheOgre [[OurGolemsAreDifferent Igli]].
* CasualInterstellarTravel: Oscar is able to get from Center back to Earth quickly through three Commercial Gates .
* CuckooNest:
** He doesn't wake up in a mental home but when fighting the Eater Of Souls, Oscar [[spoiler:finds himself back in the army with his adventures having been a drunken hallucination. Luckily it doesn't last long.]]
** Near the end Oscar starts to believe he hallucinated the whole thing until [[spoiler:Rufo contacts him again.]]
** He doesn't wake up in a mental home but when fighting the Eater Of Souls, Oscar [[spoiler:finds himself back in the army with his adventures having been a drunken hallucination. Luckily it doesn't last long.]]
** Near the end Oscar starts to believe he hallucinated the whole thing until [[spoiler:Rufo contacts him again.]]
* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: Star cries when Oscar goes back to Earth. He knows her tears will dry when he's out of sight, he knows that she knows and Oscar knows she prefers it that way.
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* {{Magitek}}: From Oscar's point of view, all of Star's gadgetry and "witchcraft". From her point of view, it's just science.
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* {{Magitek}}: From Oscar's point of view, all of Star's gadgetry MaybeEverAfter: Star guesses that Oscar will probably leave her and "witchcraft". From her point of view, it's just science.come back several times.
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Star considers warlocks who travel to other dimensions to force sex on sleeping people as "sin at its nastiest". Her society executes anyone they catch doing this.
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Star considers warlocks who travel to other dimensions to force sex on sleeping people as "sin at its nastiest". Her society executes anyone they catch doing this.
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* AbdicateTheThrone: The method of picking emperors is never wrong and only three people have turned it down. Oscar wonders if Rufo turned it down before Star got it.
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* AcidTripDimension: The AlienSky on Karth-Hokesh has no sun, moon or stars and is described as "ribbons and boiling shapes and shadow holes of all colours"
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* AllJustADream: When fighting the Eater Of Souls, Oscar finds himself back in the army with his adventures having been a drunken hallucination. Luckily it doesn't last long.
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* DeathWorld: The food and water on Karth-Hokesh is poisonous to humans and the air can be breathed for a few hours.
* DimensionLord: Star rules Twenty Universes.
* DinosaursAreDragons: Oscar compares the dragons they fight on Nevea to T-Rexes.
* ElderlyImmortal: Rufo deliberately looks older because he's more likely to get respect from younger people and will be able to surprise them in a fight or bed.
* EggMacGuffin: The phoenix egg that Star needs Oscar to get turns out to be [[spoiler:a data storage device holding the memories of all the previous multiverse rulers.]]
* {{Fartillery}}: Oscar asks if the back end of a dragon is as dangerous as its front but thankfully it isn't.
* GeometricMagic: The Gates are activated by drawing pentacles on the ground.
* GravityScrew: Gravity is weird in and surrounding the tower, making it feel like you're going up or down hill when you're on level ground.
* LongevityTreatment: Long-Life treatments are available on Center. People outside Star's family have to move to colony world's to avoid overcrowding Center. Hypnosis similar to how Star teaches Oscar languages can let people choose their age.
* DimensionLord: Star rules Twenty Universes.
* DinosaursAreDragons: Oscar compares the dragons they fight on Nevea to T-Rexes.
* ElderlyImmortal: Rufo deliberately looks older because he's more likely to get respect from younger people and will be able to surprise them in a fight or bed.
* EggMacGuffin: The phoenix egg that Star needs Oscar to get turns out to be [[spoiler:a data storage device holding the memories of all the previous multiverse rulers.]]
* {{Fartillery}}: Oscar asks if the back end of a dragon is as dangerous as its front but thankfully it isn't.
* GeometricMagic: The Gates are activated by drawing pentacles on the ground.
* GravityScrew: Gravity is weird in and surrounding the tower, making it feel like you're going up or down hill when you're on level ground.
* LongevityTreatment: Long-Life treatments are available on Center. People outside Star's family have to move to colony world's to avoid overcrowding Center. Hypnosis similar to how Star teaches Oscar languages can let people choose their age.
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* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: It's not clear why they didn't have backup copies of the previous emperors' memories.
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* PowerPerversionPotential: The Aaron's Rod spell makes stiff things limp and limp things stiff is implied to be usable on exactly what you'd think.
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: The closest anyone gets to suggesting using their vast wealth to help Earth is Star suggesting they send money to Oscar's mother, to which he shrugs off saying his stepfather provides for her ok.
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: The closest anyone gets to suggesting using their vast wealth to help Earth is Star suggesting they send money to Oscar's mother, to which he shrugs off saying his stepfather provides for her ok.
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* RunicMagic: Most of Star's magic involves drawing symbols.
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* SoulEating: No prizes for guessing what the Eater Of Souls guarding the egg wants from Oscar.
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* SpitefulSpit: Oscar does this to his commanding officer to leave his hallucination that his adventures were AllJustADream.
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* TransplantedHumans: It's theorised in-universe that all the HumanAliens in the multiverse originated on one planet and Star says it's possible that this was Earth.
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* VictoryIsBoring: Oscar can't hack doing nothing on Center when his adventure is over and decides to go back to Earth.
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* TheMilkyWayIsTheOnlyWay: Although Star rules the Twenty Universes, it is unclear whether any of them managed to get out of their local version of the Milky Way -- if they even have one, as the laws of physics are different in each one.
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* WeddingSmashers: After studying Earth customs, a Nevian priest equivalent offers to have a pregnant woman interrupt Oscar and Star's wedding.
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Star considers warlocks who travel to other dimensions to force sex on sleeping people as "sin at its nastiest". Her society executes anyone they catch doing this.
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* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Count Cagliostro, an adventurer/con artist who claimed to be immortal is explained as being one of Star's relatives who underwent the same longevity treatment.
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* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy:
** Count Cagliostro, an adventurer/con artist who claimed to be immortal is explained as being one of Star's relatives who underwent the same longevitytreatment.treatment.
** Kaspar Hauser is a refugee from another universe.
** Count Cagliostro, an adventurer/con artist who claimed to be immortal is explained as being one of Star's relatives who underwent the same longevity
** Kaspar Hauser is a refugee from another universe.
