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* HannibalLecture: Dante on Joseph; Mediochre on Gambit.
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--> Every great novelist steals or borrows a lot of material... as it turns out, [[SelfDepreciation the rest of us do it too]].
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* {{Expy}}: The author admits Mediochre bears several similarities to IndianaJones, [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]] and Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant.
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* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: The relationship of greatest enmity in the book is that between Mediochre and Maelstrom, the man who very nearly killed him centuries ago, directly led to his current condition, and who literally kills Mediochre's favourite animals for a living. Plot-wise, however, Maelstrom is at best a DragonWithAnAgenda to [[BigBad Sapphire]] and UnwittingPawn of the [[GreaterScopeVillain tempomancer]].
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* GoodScarsEvilScars: Jack Abrahams has an evil one running from his mouth to his eye.
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** ''Black, White and Shades of Mediochre'' is a pun on 'ochre' and a reference to the MoralityKitchenSink ([[BlackAndWhiteMorality Black, White]] and [[GreyAndGreyMorality Shades of Grey]]). Hopefully not a reference to any other [[FiftyShadesOfGrey shades of grey]].
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** ''Black, White and Shades of Mediochre'' is a pun on 'ochre' and a reference to the MoralityKitchenSink ([[BlackAndWhiteMorality Black, White]] and [[GreyAndGreyMorality Shades of Grey]]). Hopefully not a reference to any other [[FiftyShadesOfGrey [[Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey shades of grey]].
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* CaptainErsatz: Subverted – it’s implied Millacra ''is'' Le Fanu’s {{Carmilla}}.
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* ThirtyGambitPileup: Oh yes.
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* FriendlyEnemy: Mediochre and Queen MAB. Lampshaded via [[LooneyTunes Sam and Ralph]] reference.
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* CaptainErsatz: Jonathan Scruff seems to have deliberately modelled himself off Jonathan Crane AKA Scarecrow from {{Batman}}.
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* NamesTheSame: "Not that Queen" and "Different Merlin."
* FetusTerrible: The necromancer [[spoiler:possessed his current body when it was an embryo.]]
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* TrappedByMountainLions: Joseph and Dhampinella get temporarily removed from the main action due to being stuck outside normal space in Fervour's building. However, they do put their time isolated to good use in deducing the true identity of Carnelian.
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* HalfBreedDiscrimination: The Chlodoveches like the half-human Dhampinella even less that they like her father.
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* ''[[https://www.facebook.com/notes/the-mediochre-q-seth-series/born-to-raise-the-sons-of-earth-mediochreverse-christmas-special-1/719324878097490 Born to Raise the Sons of Earth]]'' - featuring [[TheLancer Joseph Carrion]].
* ''[[https://www.facebook.com/notes/732361073460537/ Please to Put a Penny in the Old Man's Hat]]'' - featuring [[TheHero Mediochre himself]].
** ''[[https://www.facebook.com/notes/the-mediochre-q-seth-series/a-visit-from-the-yule-goat-a-mediochreverse-poem-of-ambiguous-canonicity/732372716792706 A Visit From the Yule Goat]]'' - a "poem of [[LooseCanon ambiguous canonicity]]" released alongside ''Please to Put a Penny in the Old Man's Hat''.
* ''[[https://www.facebook.com/notes/the-mediochre-q-seth-series/to-you-and-your-kin-christmas-special-3/961178923912083 To You and Your Kin]]'' - featuring [[TheBigGuy Dhampinella]].
* ''[[https://www.facebook.com/notes/the-mediochre-q-seth-series/born-to-raise-the-sons-of-earth-mediochreverse-christmas-special-1/719324878097490 Born to Raise the Sons of Earth]]'' - featuring [[TheLancer Joseph Carrion]].
* ''[[https://www.facebook.com/notes/732361073460537/ Please to Put a Penny in the Old Man's Hat]]'' - featuring [[TheHero Mediochre himself]].
** ''[[https://www.facebook.com/notes/the-mediochre-q-seth-series/a-visit-from-the-yule-goat-a-mediochreverse-poem-of-ambiguous-canonicity/732372716792706 A Visit From the Yule Goat]]'' - a "poem of [[LooseCanon ambiguous canonicity]]" released alongside ''Please to Put a Penny in the Old Man's Hat''.
* ''[[https://www.facebook.com/notes/the-mediochre-q-seth-series/to-you-and-your-kin-christmas-special-3/961178923912083 To You and Your Kin]]'' - featuring [[TheBigGuy Dhampinella]].
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* BigGuyLittleGuy: Orcus and Vitus, respectively.
* ChristmasEpisode: The third official Mediochreverse "Christmas special".
* CoolCar: Kind-of subverted. Demetrius owns a classic 1952 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith - but it's almost certainly just for the name.
* CreepyChild: Dhampinella, aged ten.
* DumbMuscle: Orcus. According to Melinoe, he's "dumb as a sack of concrete".
* EmotionlessGirl: Dhampinella, even moreso than usual.
* EvilVersusEvil: Demetrius vs the Chlodoveches.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: As a child, Dhampinella has long hair and a demure EmotionlessGirl personality, in contrast to her adult self's BoyishShortHair and stoic {{Badass}} personality.
* FlashbackToCatchphrase: The story ends with Dhampinella and Melinoe referring to each other as 'outcast' and 'link' for the first time.
* LastNameBasis: Demtrius prefers to use his last name (which is all the main book series ever calls him). Turns out, he does have a first name, and it's Albin.
* MeaningfulName: Melinoe's Viscountess mother is named Erzsébet - also the real name of the historical [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory Countess Elizabeth Bathory]], a notoriously blood-obsessed serial killer.
* NouveauRiche: Demetrius, in contrast to the more traditional but less smarmy OldMoney Chlodovech family.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Dhampinella was ten years old in 1983, making her somewhat older than Joseph. In fairness, she's not human.
* OldMoney: The Chlodovech family.
* OppositesAttract[=/=]OddFriendship: Melinoe and Dhampinella, due to being raised by an OldMoney crime family and a NouveauRiche "modern" gangster, respectively.
* ParentalNeglect: Dhampinella and Melinoe bond over their shared experiences of crappy parenting.
* TheQuietOne: Dhampinella was this anyway, but it turns out she was worse as a child. She has exactly one spoken line in the entire story. Oddly, Melinoe is apparently good enough at reading whatever signals Dhampinella does give off to continue the conversation, leading to something like a NewhartPhonecall between two people who are both in the same room.
* SpiritedYoungLady[=/=]RebelliousPrincess: Melinoe may enjoy being a Vampire, but what she enjoys more is breaking tradition to annoy her mother.
* SunglassesAtNight: Demetrius keeps his sunglasses on inside. [[spoiler: It's because he intends to set off a light charm if things don't go his way]].
* TeleportSpam: Vitus is so twitchy he can't ''help'' doing this. He uses it to his advantage when he fights.
* TitledAfterTheSong: Named for a line in 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas'. The full phrase is "Good tidings we bring[=/=]To you and your kin", making this an ironic CompleteTheQuoteTitle, since the tidings brought between the two families are ''far'' from good.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: The Viscountess uses her brother Vitus and her broodchild Orcus as henchmen.
* WomanScorned: The Viscountess ''really'' does not like her ex-husband.
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* BigGuyLittleGuy: Orcus and Vitus, respectively.
* ChristmasEpisode: The third official Mediochreverse "Christmas special".
* CoolCar: Kind-of subverted. Demetrius owns a classic 1952 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith - but it's almost certainly just for the name.
* CreepyChild: Dhampinella, aged ten.
* DumbMuscle: Orcus. According to Melinoe, he's "dumb as a sack of concrete".
* EmotionlessGirl: Dhampinella, even moreso than usual.
* EvilVersusEvil: Demetrius vs the Chlodoveches.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: As a child, Dhampinella has long hair and a demure EmotionlessGirl personality, in contrast to her adult self's BoyishShortHair and stoic {{Badass}} personality.
* FlashbackToCatchphrase: The story ends with Dhampinella and Melinoe referring to each other as 'outcast' and 'link' for the first time.
* LastNameBasis: Demtrius prefers to use his last name (which is all the main book series ever calls him). Turns out, he does have a first name, and it's Albin.
* MeaningfulName: Melinoe's Viscountess mother is named Erzsébet - also the real name of the historical [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory Countess Elizabeth Bathory]], a notoriously blood-obsessed serial killer.
* NouveauRiche: Demetrius, in contrast to the more traditional but less smarmy OldMoney Chlodovech family.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Dhampinella was ten years old in 1983, making her somewhat older than Joseph. In fairness, she's not human.
* OldMoney: The Chlodovech family.
* OppositesAttract[=/=]OddFriendship: Melinoe and Dhampinella, due to being raised by an OldMoney crime family and a NouveauRiche "modern" gangster, respectively.
* ParentalNeglect: Dhampinella and Melinoe bond over their shared experiences of crappy parenting.
* TheQuietOne: Dhampinella was this anyway, but it turns out she was worse as a child. She has exactly one spoken line in the entire story. Oddly, Melinoe is apparently good enough at reading whatever signals Dhampinella does give off to continue the conversation, leading to something like a NewhartPhonecall between two people who are both in the same room.
* SpiritedYoungLady[=/=]RebelliousPrincess: Melinoe may enjoy being a Vampire, but what she enjoys more is breaking tradition to annoy her mother.
* SunglassesAtNight: Demetrius keeps his sunglasses on inside. [[spoiler: It's because he intends to set off a light charm if things don't go his way]].
* TeleportSpam: Vitus is so twitchy he can't ''help'' doing this. He uses it to his advantage when he fights.
* TitledAfterTheSong: Named for a line in 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas'. The full phrase is "Good tidings we bring[=/=]To you and your kin", making this an ironic CompleteTheQuoteTitle, since the tidings brought between the two families are ''far'' from good.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: The Viscountess uses her brother Vitus and her broodchild Orcus as henchmen.
* WomanScorned: The Viscountess ''really'' does not like her ex-husband.
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* AbusiveParents: Aoife's parents.
* AdultFear: The Pied Piper and the Scissorman's targeting of children.
* AffablyEvil Simultaneous Velocity Carnage is just as likely to have a casual conversation with you as she is to kill you. Plus, she actually manages to out-snark Mediochre.
* {{Angrish}}: Carnage descends into it when Mediochre tricks her.
* ArchEnemy: Only a year after he finally offed Maelstrom, Mediochre gains another one in Carnage.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Springheel's rapsheet - thirty-three counts of theft, twenty-two of arson, twenty-five of GBH, at least twenty-nine of rape and eleven of murder. And one hundred and seventy-seven counts of property damage, [[RoofHopping mostly to roofs]].
* AxeCrazy: Carnage, certainly. Also Springheel.
* BaldOfEvil: Shaven-headed version with Vanadium Steel.
* BatmanGambit: Queen MAB's plan to turn Mediochre against Fervour by getting him to go PapaWolf over Aoife - whom he barely even knew beforehand - is pretty impressive, especially considering ''she wasn't in the country at the time''.
* BeMyValentine: Sort-of inverted. Valentine is sorta romantic on the surface but the real Valentine underneath it all is an asshole.
* BigDamnKiss: Between Mediochre and [[spoiler: Joseph]]. No, it's not what you think. Probably.
* BigDamnVillains: [[spoiler: Mabel Hart]] saves Mediochre from [[spoiler: Vanadium Steel]] and [[spoiler: Springheel Jack]] saves Rowan, Charlotte and Sam from [[spoiler: Thunderbolt Charlie]], both by means of murdering the threat.
* BlatantLies: Mediochre claims his greatest fear is "lecturers" when asked. Not long after, Carnage is asked where Dhampinella is and decides to answer "Munich."
* BlondGuysAreEvil: The Scruffs – although an argument could perhaps be made that Valentine is more Blond Guys Are NotEvilJustMisunderstood (and Really Bad at Thinking About Things).
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Much of Floor Theta, but especially the Scissorman and the Pied Piper.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The Piper's children.
* BreakTheHaughty: The fate of [[spoiler: the Choromancer]].
* BrokenMasquerade: Throughout Britain, as the Floor Theta escapees rampage.
* BroughtDownToNormal: The fate of [[spoiler: the Choromancer]].
* TheBrute: The Choromancer is the biggest and most (physically and mantically) powerful of the villains in the book.
* BullyingADragon: Fervour. Even Rising understands that [[spoiler: taking a Dhampir hostage practically counts as assisted suicide]].
* CainAndAbel: Valentine and Jonathan Scruff.
* TheCaligula: Fervour turns into this post-breakdown.
* CaptainErsatz: Jonathan Scruff seems to have deliberately modelled himself off Jonathan Crane AKA Scarecrow from {{Batman}}.
* CheshireCatGrin: Pretty-much by name.
--> Rowan gave [Charlotte] a grin more befitting of a feline. From Cheshire.
* ChromeChampion: Vanadium Steel, eventually. Deconstructed in that it takes extraordinary conscious effort to hold himself together while moving.
* ConfusionFu: Simultaneous Velocity Carnage's main shtick.
* CriticalExistenceFailure: [[spoiler: Thunderbolt Charlie]] and [[spoiler: Springheel Jack]] obliterate each other from existence.
* CruelToBeKind: Mediochre has to trick Valentine into [[spoiler: threatening Charlotte]] to break his spell. A sort of third-person version of BreakHerHeartToSaveHer.
* CurseCutShort: A mild version from Aoife's mother.
--> '''Mrs Silk:''' Yes I'm Mrs blo-
* DamselInDistress: Aoife, thanks to the Scissorman, and later Charlotte and Edith Bartley, courtesy of the Choromancer.
* DanceBattler: The Scruffs.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Jonathan Scruff]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: The Scissorman's MO. This is the case in [[Literature/{{Struwwelpeter}} the original]] as well.
* DopeSlap: Combined with GetAholdOfYourselfMan to snap Charlotte out of her fear-induced hallucination.
* EmotionBomb: Mediochre's main defence against psychomancers turns out to be a mental shell of [[SurvivorGuilt guilt about everyone he's ever watched die]].
* EnemyCivilWar: The escapees. More of them are killed or defeated by each other than are defeated by the heroes.
* EnemyMine: Mediochre and Darrel against the Choromancer, considering it is Mediochre's ultimate goal that ''all'' the escapees go back to prison. Also Mediochre and Valentine against Jonathan, briefly.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Pied Piper, the Scissorman and the Choromancer don't even have names on their prison records.
* ExitVillainStageLeft: Carnelian, with a little help from everyone's favourite tempomancer.
* FamousLastWords: Averted with Fervour, who asked for his last words to go on his memorial. He wanted them to be "Dulce et Decorum est pro Patrium Mori". They end up being much less heroic.
--> '''Fervour:''' [[spoiler: I'll... I'll kill her... don't think I won't... I... aargh!]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[BewareTheNiceOnes Mediochre]] threatens the Scissorman with one if he doesn't give in.
* FemmeFatalons: Lark. Pontianak are pretty-much this by default.
* ForHappiness: Why Queen MAB goes along with so many cover-ups, apparently. IgnoranceIsBliss, after all.
* FromACertainPointOfView: Weirdly combined with BlatantLies, above. Mediochre claims his fear-induced hallucination was of "a lecturer". As Charlotte points out, [[spoiler: he is a lecturer – and he did indeed see himself]].
* FromTheMouthsOfBabes[=/=]WiseBeyondTheirYears: Aoife gets the odd insightful line.
* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: Mediochre does it in the final conference with Chrome et al.
* {{Golem}}: Darrel Snake can make them.
* GoodPowersBadPeople: Valentine is a philiamancer. He literally has the power to [[HeartBeatdown spread love and friendship throughout the world]]. He uses it mostly to enforce his own StalkingIsLove point of view.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Subverted with Jenny Kirk who, while a bit cold, is a good person, but has a very evil scar.
* GratuitousFrench: Lampshaded by Mediochre, in regards to himself.
* HeartBeatdown: Valentine.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Not so much 'awesome' as '[[NightMareFuel terrifying]]' in Valentine's case.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Does the Pied Piper count?
* HumiliationConga: Given to [[spoiler: the Choromancer]].
* IHaveYourWife: The Choromancer summons Mediochre by kidnapping Charlotte.
--> We have your apprentice. Follow the golem.
* IKnowWhatYouFear: Jonathan Scruff can force people to see their greatest fear via reverse placebo. We don't know whether he is aware of what they see or not.
* InASingleBound: Springheel Jack, obviously.
* IronicEchoCut: "Hopefully we’ll find something" cuts immediately to, "So, in short, we've found nothing." Also a GilliganCut.
* KidSidekick: What Pigeon used to be.
* KnifeNut: The Scissorman is obsessed with blades of any form.
* LastSecondChance: Mediochre to the Scissorman.
* LetsGetDangerous: Archie goes from polite old man to literally lightning-fast badass when threatened by Thunderbolt Charlie.
* LexLuthorSecurity: Parodied. Mediochre gets in and out of Fervour's building without setting off a single alarm – and then sets them ''all'' off. [[RefugeInAudacity In alphabetical order]].
* MagicalFlutist: The Pied Piper, of course.
* ManipulativeBastard: Carnelian rivals the tempomancer himself.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Fillip Stephano.
* MayDecemberRomance: Mediochre and Melinda used to be in one of these.
* MeaningfulName: ''Watt''ford. Springheel. Valentine. Bogle. [[UpToEleven Vanadium Steel]] verges on self-parody.
* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: Mediochre's certainly is. It also appears that using psychomancy on an insane person drives you insane, which is why nobody's tried it on most of the Floor Theta in-mates.
* MindRape: Mediochre manages to basically Mind Rape an attempted Mind Rapist. Also, the Pied Piper's actual criminal charge was "psychological violation".
* MonsterSobStory: Unlike the rest of Floor Theta, Valentine Scruff seems to genuinely not know how much damage he causes and can't work out why all his girlfriends die. Although he ''does'' still keep trying to make new ones, so he's either evil or really not very bright.
* MusicalAssassin: The Pied Piper.
* MyNameIsInigoMontoya: Charlotte tells Stephano who she is in a BadassBoast just before she wallops him.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: Mediochre's initial decision when given a SadisticChoice – he changes it to ThouShaltNotKill at the last moment.
* NighInvulnerability: Springheel Jack, not that we see him get hit much anyway.
* NoDelaysForTheWicked: Inverted – Fervour is less efficient in everything he tries than Queen MAB was.
* NoMisterBondIExpectYouToDine: Sort-of. Carnage insists on going for coffee with Mediochre.
* NonActionBigBad: Neither Fervour nor [[TheManBehindTheBand Carnelian]] actually fight anyone, but they are responsible for the Stig Unit incident and Floor Theta's escape.
* NoodleIncident: Tanner gave Kirk a nasty scar for some unknown reason. And Samantha Travis is mentioned again.
* NotSoFastBucko: Repeatedly. Eventually Joseph gets frustrated waiting for the adventure to be finally over, basically making this an in-universe example of EndingFatigue.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted with the arrival of Charlotte ‘Thunderbolt Charlie’ Watford.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Tanner is frightened when Fervour manages a whole speech without any [[AltumVidetur Latin]].
* OutGambitted: In a [[UpToEleven notable instance]], Mediochre even managed to out-gambit Carnage, whose sole gambit is '[[IndyPloy not having]] [[ConfusionFu a gambit]]'.
* PostClimaxConfrontation: Hard to tell which confrontation is the climax, but there is almost definitely at least one other confrontation after it, whatever.
* PrecisionFStrike: Charlotte calls Valentine a prick; the first time she's described another person by a vulgar term in the series.
* PsychoLesbian: Thunderbolt Charlie and her girlfriend Carmen are actually pretty level-headed as fictional lesbian criminals go - but when Carmen dies, Charlie ''snaps'' big-time.
* PsychopathicManchild: Springheel Jack sets things on fire because he thinks flames are pretty.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Several.
-->'''Mediochre:''' Where. Did. She. Go?
-->'''Mediochre:''' You’re going... to move... [[spoiler: the moon]].
-->'''Barbarossa [=McCullock=]:''' Very. Well.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech[=/=]WhatTheHellHero: Queen MAB gives a nice one to Mediochre.
* RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun?: Joseph and Dhampinella list Joseph's accomplishments, some of which we've seen, after Rising attempts to show off.
* ReversePolarity: Possibly a deliberate reference by Mediochre.
* RoofHopping: Springheel Jack. Also the Scruffs, although theirs is less 'hopping' more 'skipping and leaping'.
* SadisticChoice: Given to Mediochre accidentally by Fervour - he can save the Stig Unit or he can prevent the prisoners escaping, but he can't do both.
* SealedEvilInACan: Floor Theta.
* StalkerWithACrush: Valentine.
* StarterVillain: Fillip Stephano is dealt with easily before Fervour and Floor Theta get involved.
* StealthPun: The code to activate Queen MAB's BrokenMasquerade, if typed on a standard several-letters-per-number mobile phone keypad, can produce the word ‘elflocks’ – something that, according to Creator/WilliamShakespeare, the original [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet Queen Mab]] was famous for.
* TakeAThirdOption: Maisie realises this is what Joseph would do if made to choose between [[FriendVersusLover her and Mediochre]].
* TalkingToThemself: [[spoiler: Mediochre is forced to confront his biggest fear, which turns out to be himself]].
* ThoseWhoFightMonsters: Lampshaded – sort of – by Aoife.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Mediochre's eventual decision on the SadisticChoice. Also one of the points the [=MABGov=] refuse to bend unless forced to.
* TitleDrop: The very last line of the story is ''almost'' a TitleDrop.
* TrappedByMountainLions: Joseph and Dhampinella get temporarily removed from the main action due to being stuck outside normal space in Fervour's building. However, they do put their time isolated to good use in deducing the true identity of Carnelian.
* TurnsRed: Thunderbolt Charlie suddenly becomes a lot more of a threat [[UnstoppableRage when Carmen dies]].
* [[spoiler: TwoHeadedCoin]]: How Mediochre tricks Simultaneous Velocity Carnage.
* TheUnmasquedWorld: Well, almost.
* VerbalTic: Tanner theorises Fervour's use of Latin might be one of these.
* VillainousBreakdown: Fervour, after the Stig Unit incident. Carnage when she loses. Thunderbolt Charlie when Carmen dies.
* VillainousBSOD: Subverted. Jonathan Scruff expects this to happen to Carnage, but it doesn't.
* VillainousRescue: Valentine Scruff saves the entire FiveManBand from his brother by [[spoiler: injecting a little narcissistic self-love into Mediochre's private nightmare]].
* WesternTerrorists: Vanadium Steel is a [[TerroristsWithoutACause terrorist-for-hire]] and (apparently) western.
* WhatDoTheyFearEpisode: For most of the core cast, thanks to Jonathan Scruff.
* WhereItAllBegan: The eventual confrontation with the Choromancer takes place back at the ruins of the Stygian Secure Unit.
* WolverineClaws: Springheel has blood iron ones.
* WouldHurtAChild: The Scissorman.
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* AbusiveParents: Aoife's parents.
* AdultFear: The Pied Piper and the Scissorman's targeting of children.
* AffablyEvil Simultaneous Velocity Carnage is just as likely to have a casual conversation with you as she is to kill you. Plus, she actually manages to out-snark Mediochre.
* {{Angrish}}: Carnage descends into it when Mediochre tricks her.
* ArchEnemy: Only a year after he finally offed Maelstrom, Mediochre gains another one in Carnage.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Springheel's rapsheet - thirty-three counts of theft, twenty-two of arson, twenty-five of GBH, at least twenty-nine of rape and eleven of murder. And one hundred and seventy-seven counts of property damage, [[RoofHopping mostly to roofs]].
* AxeCrazy: Carnage, certainly. Also Springheel.
* BaldOfEvil: Shaven-headed version with Vanadium Steel.
* BatmanGambit: Queen MAB's plan to turn Mediochre against Fervour by getting him to go PapaWolf over Aoife - whom he barely even knew beforehand - is pretty impressive, especially considering ''she wasn't in the country at the time''.
* BeMyValentine: Sort-of inverted. Valentine is sorta romantic on the surface but the real Valentine underneath it all is an asshole.
* BigDamnKiss: Between Mediochre and [[spoiler: Joseph]]. No, it's not what you think. Probably.
* BigDamnVillains: [[spoiler: Mabel Hart]] saves Mediochre from [[spoiler: Vanadium Steel]] and [[spoiler: Springheel Jack]] saves Rowan, Charlotte and Sam from [[spoiler: Thunderbolt Charlie]], both by means of murdering the threat.
* BlatantLies: Mediochre claims his greatest fear is "lecturers" when asked. Not long after, Carnage is asked where Dhampinella is and decides to answer "Munich."
* BlondGuysAreEvil: The Scruffs – although an argument could perhaps be made that Valentine is more Blond Guys Are NotEvilJustMisunderstood (and Really Bad at Thinking About Things).
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Much of Floor Theta, but especially the Scissorman and the Pied Piper.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The Piper's children.
* BreakTheHaughty: The fate of [[spoiler: the Choromancer]].
* BrokenMasquerade: Throughout Britain, as the Floor Theta escapees rampage.
* BroughtDownToNormal: The fate of [[spoiler: the Choromancer]].
* TheBrute: The Choromancer is the biggest and most (physically and mantically) powerful of the villains in the book.
* BullyingADragon: Fervour. Even Rising understands that [[spoiler: taking a Dhampir hostage practically counts as assisted suicide]].
* CainAndAbel: Valentine and Jonathan Scruff.
* TheCaligula: Fervour turns into this post-breakdown.
* CaptainErsatz: Jonathan Scruff seems to have deliberately modelled himself off Jonathan Crane AKA Scarecrow from {{Batman}}.
* CheshireCatGrin: Pretty-much by name.
--> Rowan gave [Charlotte] a grin more befitting of a feline. From Cheshire.
* ChromeChampion: Vanadium Steel, eventually. Deconstructed in that it takes extraordinary conscious effort to hold himself together while moving.
* ConfusionFu: Simultaneous Velocity Carnage's main shtick.
* CriticalExistenceFailure: [[spoiler: Thunderbolt Charlie]] and [[spoiler: Springheel Jack]] obliterate each other from existence.
* CruelToBeKind: Mediochre has to trick Valentine into [[spoiler: threatening Charlotte]] to break his spell. A sort of third-person version of BreakHerHeartToSaveHer.
* CurseCutShort: A mild version from Aoife's mother.
--> '''Mrs Silk:''' Yes I'm Mrs blo-
* DamselInDistress: Aoife, thanks to the Scissorman, and later Charlotte and Edith Bartley, courtesy of the Choromancer.
* DanceBattler: The Scruffs.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Jonathan Scruff]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: The Scissorman's MO. This is the case in [[Literature/{{Struwwelpeter}} the original]] as well.
* DopeSlap: Combined with GetAholdOfYourselfMan to snap Charlotte out of her fear-induced hallucination.
* EmotionBomb: Mediochre's main defence against psychomancers turns out to be a mental shell of [[SurvivorGuilt guilt about everyone he's ever watched die]].
* EnemyCivilWar: The escapees. More of them are killed or defeated by each other than are defeated by the heroes.
* EnemyMine: Mediochre and Darrel against the Choromancer, considering it is Mediochre's ultimate goal that ''all'' the escapees go back to prison. Also Mediochre and Valentine against Jonathan, briefly.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Pied Piper, the Scissorman and the Choromancer don't even have names on their prison records.
* ExitVillainStageLeft: Carnelian, with a little help from everyone's favourite tempomancer.
* FamousLastWords: Averted with Fervour, who asked for his last words to go on his memorial. He wanted them to be "Dulce et Decorum est pro Patrium Mori". They end up being much less heroic.
--> '''Fervour:''' [[spoiler: I'll... I'll kill her... don't think I won't... I... aargh!]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[BewareTheNiceOnes Mediochre]] threatens the Scissorman with one if he doesn't give in.
* FemmeFatalons: Lark. Pontianak are pretty-much this by default.
* ForHappiness: Why Queen MAB goes along with so many cover-ups, apparently. IgnoranceIsBliss, after all.
* FromACertainPointOfView: Weirdly combined with BlatantLies, above. Mediochre claims his fear-induced hallucination was of "a lecturer". As Charlotte points out, [[spoiler: he is a lecturer – and he did indeed see himself]].
* FromTheMouthsOfBabes[=/=]WiseBeyondTheirYears: Aoife gets the odd insightful line.
* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: Mediochre does it in the final conference with Chrome et al.
* {{Golem}}: Darrel Snake can make them.
* GoodPowersBadPeople: Valentine is a philiamancer. He literally has the power to [[HeartBeatdown spread love and friendship throughout the world]]. He uses it mostly to enforce his own StalkingIsLove point of view.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Subverted with Jenny Kirk who, while a bit cold, is a good person, but has a very evil scar.
* GratuitousFrench: Lampshaded by Mediochre, in regards to himself.
* HeartBeatdown: Valentine.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Not so much 'awesome' as '[[NightMareFuel terrifying]]' in Valentine's case.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Does the Pied Piper count?
* HumiliationConga: Given to [[spoiler: the Choromancer]].
* IHaveYourWife: The Choromancer summons Mediochre by kidnapping Charlotte.
--> We have your apprentice. Follow the golem.
* IKnowWhatYouFear: Jonathan Scruff can force people to see their greatest fear via reverse placebo. We don't know whether he is aware of what they see or not.
* InASingleBound: Springheel Jack, obviously.
* IronicEchoCut: "Hopefully we’ll find something" cuts immediately to, "So, in short, we've found nothing." Also a GilliganCut.
* KidSidekick: What Pigeon used to be.
* KnifeNut: The Scissorman is obsessed with blades of any form.
* LastSecondChance: Mediochre to the Scissorman.
* LetsGetDangerous: Archie goes from polite old man to literally lightning-fast badass when threatened by Thunderbolt Charlie.
* LexLuthorSecurity: Parodied. Mediochre gets in and out of Fervour's building without setting off a single alarm – and then sets them ''all'' off. [[RefugeInAudacity In alphabetical order]].
* MagicalFlutist: The Pied Piper, of course.
* ManipulativeBastard: Carnelian rivals the tempomancer himself.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Fillip Stephano.
* MayDecemberRomance: Mediochre and Melinda used to be in one of these.
* MeaningfulName: ''Watt''ford. Springheel. Valentine. Bogle. [[UpToEleven Vanadium Steel]] verges on self-parody.
* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: Mediochre's certainly is. It also appears that using psychomancy on an insane person drives you insane, which is why nobody's tried it on most of the Floor Theta in-mates.
* MindRape: Mediochre manages to basically Mind Rape an attempted Mind Rapist. Also, the Pied Piper's actual criminal charge was "psychological violation".
* MonsterSobStory: Unlike the rest of Floor Theta, Valentine Scruff seems to genuinely not know how much damage he causes and can't work out why all his girlfriends die. Although he ''does'' still keep trying to make new ones, so he's either evil or really not very bright.
* MusicalAssassin: The Pied Piper.
* MyNameIsInigoMontoya: Charlotte tells Stephano who she is in a BadassBoast just before she wallops him.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: Mediochre's initial decision when given a SadisticChoice – he changes it to ThouShaltNotKill at the last moment.
* NighInvulnerability: Springheel Jack, not that we see him get hit much anyway.
* NoDelaysForTheWicked: Inverted – Fervour is less efficient in everything he tries than Queen MAB was.
* NoMisterBondIExpectYouToDine: Sort-of. Carnage insists on going for coffee with Mediochre.
* NonActionBigBad: Neither Fervour nor [[TheManBehindTheBand Carnelian]] actually fight anyone, but they are responsible for the Stig Unit incident and Floor Theta's escape.
* NoodleIncident: Tanner gave Kirk a nasty scar for some unknown reason. And Samantha Travis is mentioned again.
* NotSoFastBucko: Repeatedly. Eventually Joseph gets frustrated waiting for the adventure to be finally over, basically making this an in-universe example of EndingFatigue.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted with the arrival of Charlotte ‘Thunderbolt Charlie’ Watford.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Tanner is frightened when Fervour manages a whole speech without any [[AltumVidetur Latin]].
* OutGambitted: In a [[UpToEleven notable instance]], Mediochre even managed to out-gambit Carnage, whose sole gambit is '[[IndyPloy not having]] [[ConfusionFu a gambit]]'.
* PostClimaxConfrontation: Hard to tell which confrontation is the climax, but there is almost definitely at least one other confrontation after it, whatever.
* PrecisionFStrike: Charlotte calls Valentine a prick; the first time she's described another person by a vulgar term in the series.
* PsychoLesbian: Thunderbolt Charlie and her girlfriend Carmen are actually pretty level-headed as fictional lesbian criminals go - but when Carmen dies, Charlie ''snaps'' big-time.
* PsychopathicManchild: Springheel Jack sets things on fire because he thinks flames are pretty.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Several.
-->'''Mediochre:''' Where. Did. She. Go?
-->'''Mediochre:''' You’re going... to move... [[spoiler: the moon]].
-->'''Barbarossa [=McCullock=]:''' Very. Well.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech[=/=]WhatTheHellHero: Queen MAB gives a nice one to Mediochre.
* RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun?: Joseph and Dhampinella list Joseph's accomplishments, some of which we've seen, after Rising attempts to show off.
* ReversePolarity: Possibly a deliberate reference by Mediochre.
* RoofHopping: Springheel Jack. Also the Scruffs, although theirs is less 'hopping' more 'skipping and leaping'.
* SadisticChoice: Given to Mediochre accidentally by Fervour - he can save the Stig Unit or he can prevent the prisoners escaping, but he can't do both.
* SealedEvilInACan: Floor Theta.
* StalkerWithACrush: Valentine.
* StarterVillain: Fillip Stephano is dealt with easily before Fervour and Floor Theta get involved.
* StealthPun: The code to activate Queen MAB's BrokenMasquerade, if typed on a standard several-letters-per-number mobile phone keypad, can produce the word ‘elflocks’ – something that, according to Creator/WilliamShakespeare, the original [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet Queen Mab]] was famous for.
* TakeAThirdOption: Maisie realises this is what Joseph would do if made to choose between [[FriendVersusLover her and Mediochre]].
* TalkingToThemself: [[spoiler: Mediochre is forced to confront his biggest fear, which turns out to be himself]].
* ThoseWhoFightMonsters: Lampshaded – sort of – by Aoife.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Mediochre's eventual decision on the SadisticChoice. Also one of the points the [=MABGov=] refuse to bend unless forced to.
* TitleDrop: The very last line of the story is ''almost'' a TitleDrop.
* TrappedByMountainLions: Joseph and Dhampinella get temporarily removed from the main action due to being stuck outside normal space in Fervour's building. However, they do put their time isolated to good use in deducing the true identity of Carnelian.
* TurnsRed: Thunderbolt Charlie suddenly becomes a lot more of a threat [[UnstoppableRage when Carmen dies]].
* [[spoiler: TwoHeadedCoin]]: How Mediochre tricks Simultaneous Velocity Carnage.
* TheUnmasquedWorld: Well, almost.
* VerbalTic: Tanner theorises Fervour's use of Latin might be one of these.
* VillainousBreakdown: Fervour, after the Stig Unit incident. Carnage when she loses. Thunderbolt Charlie when Carmen dies.
* VillainousBSOD: Subverted. Jonathan Scruff expects this to happen to Carnage, but it doesn't.
* VillainousRescue: Valentine Scruff saves the entire FiveManBand from his brother by [[spoiler: injecting a little narcissistic self-love into Mediochre's private nightmare]].
* WesternTerrorists: Vanadium Steel is a [[TerroristsWithoutACause terrorist-for-hire]] and (apparently) western.
* WhatDoTheyFearEpisode: For most of the core cast, thanks to Jonathan Scruff.
* WhereItAllBegan: The eventual confrontation with the Choromancer takes place back at the ruins of the Stygian Secure Unit.
* WolverineClaws: Springheel has blood iron ones.
* WouldHurtAChild: The Scissorman.
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* CheckAndMate: Subverted for laughs. Mediochre, being a smug git, sets things up to let him pull one of these on the BigBad - but forgets to factor in the fact that he has the body of a [[GeekPhysique scrawny teenager]] and the BigBad is capable of cutting off his airway before he can finish.
-->'''Mediochre:''' You made me ruin it, you moron. It was gonna be so good, [[LampshadeHanging like one of those smug moments in a film]]. You were gonna say 'what?' and I was gonna... look, let’s try that again: [[spoiler: Kiwi]]?
-->'''[[spoiler: Kiwi]]:''' What?!
-->'''Mediochre:''' [[spoiler: The CCTV’s still on]].
-->'''[[spoiler: Kiwi]]:''' [[OutGambitted WHAT]]?
-->'''Mediochre:''' You made me ruin it, you moron. It was gonna be so good, [[LampshadeHanging like one of those smug moments in a film]]. You were gonna say 'what?' and I was gonna... look, let’s try that again: [[spoiler: Kiwi]]?
-->'''[[spoiler: Kiwi]]:''' What?!
-->'''Mediochre:''' [[spoiler: The CCTV’s still on]].
-->'''[[spoiler: Kiwi]]:''' [[OutGambitted WHAT]]?
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* ImmortalityImmorality: A major theme of the series. Maelstrom in the first book, [[spoiler: the necromancer]] in the second and Stormhold Elect in ''Born to Raise the Sons of Earth'' are all major [[TheHeavy Heavy]] villains who can cheat death and are at least partially motivated by a desire to continue cheating death. Melz somehow manages to be an aversion, remaining a kindly old lady. Mediochre himself... is ''trying'' to avert it, but he's [[ByronicHero pretty]] [[BrokenAce bad]] at it.
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The '''Mediochre Q Seth''' series, otherwise "The Mediochreverse" or just "The Mediochre Series" - although that last [[IThoughtItMeant sounds unfortunate]] – is an in-progress five-part UrbanFantasy series by Calum P Cameron. He started writing it while in high school, primarily out of boredom, but also out of a desire to see if he could write a story about a [[MarySue unique and powerful]] [[DoctorWho [[Series/DoctorWho Doctor-like]] individual while having them [[DeconstructedTrope remain realistically human and fallible]].
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* BigBad: Stormhold Elect, Dreadlord Servant of the Thousand Voices.
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