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* HistoricalInJoke: In chapter four, Norby and Jeff are bouncing through time to find a place where Jeff can rest and eat for awhile before going back to when they're fighting Ing. The last place Norby tries is the kitchen of the ''UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic'', on the day it sank.
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First published by Creator/JanetAsimov and Creator/IsaacAsimov in 1987, this ScienceFiction {{Adventure}} story is the sixth story in ''Literature/TheNorbyChronicles''.
Princess Rinda and her robot, Pera, have decided to visit Jeff at Space Academy. Jeff is taking an exam while Norby is giving them a tour, and naturally causing an accident in the process. Admiral Yobo takes him to task over this, but Rinda manipulates him into setting them up with tickets to watch his act as Master of Ceremonies for a circus act. Little do they suspect, one of the clowns is actually [[Literature/NorbyTheMixedUpRobot Ing the Ingrate]], disguised as [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter Threezy the clown]].
Ing has been using a hidden MindProbe to steal the secrets of piloting the [[GrandTheftPrototype prototype hyperdrive ship]], which he proceeds to steal. With the bombs in his possession, Ing plans to [[ApocalypseHow destroy the universe]] and [[CausedTheBigBang start a new one]]. Jeff and Norby have to act fast to find the villain Ing before his plan succeeds.
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!!''Norby Finds a Villain'' contains examples of the following tropes:
* AgonyBeam: One of the PsychicPowers developed by the Master Cult is the ability to cause pain at a distance. In a [[BadFuture false future]], each Master controls an entire planet, wielding their ability to inflict pain as a punishment for the smallest infraction.
* AlternateUniverse: In this story, it is discovered that, with enough power, robots like Norby and Pera can use [[SubspaceOrHyperspace hyperspace]] to travel into other universes.
* ApocalypseHow: Ing's EvilPlan this time is to go into [[SubspaceOrHyperspace hyperspace]] with a bomb so that he can blow up the entire universe at once. Fortunately, it doesn't work. Unfortunately, it does rip a hole and sends him into an AlternateUniverse, causing a BadFuture where [[StarfishAliens tree-like aliens]] conquer the galaxy.
* BadFuture: When Norby tries to go to Space Command, he misses the mark by five hundred years, ending up in a future where creatures from an AlternateUniverse have invaded and established a fascist regime over every planet in the galaxy.
* CausedTheBigBang: Ing's plan for revenge is to set off a bomb in [[SubspaceOrHyperspace hyperspace]]. He believes that this will cause the current universe to collapse and [[DownplayedTrope create a new one]] in its place. He ends up being wrong, as it sends him into a different universe instead, one ruled by the Master Cult.
* {{Dedication}}: This book is dedicated to Creator/CliffordDSimak, because he is [[PromotedFanboy their]] favourite ScienceFiction writer.
* DistressCall: At the end of chapter eleven, Jeff has picked up an S.O.S. signal in standard Federation code, indicating that Ing must be nearby and in danger. He takes ''Hopeful'' over and investigates.
* FunWithAcronyms: Norby nicknames Rembrandt's computer "Yib", short for "Your Immense Brain".
* GrandTheftPrototype: Ing has been hiding himself as a clown named [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter Threezy]] in a circus act. His EvilPlan began with using a MindProbe on Admiral Yobo, head of Space Command, so that he could learn how to pilot the prototype [[SubspaceOrHyperspace hyperdrive spaceship]], ''Quest'', and now he kidnaps Pera and two bombs with him as he takes off into hyperspace. The next step in his plan is to [[ApocalypseHow set off a bomb to destroy the universe]], causing [[CausedTheBigBang a new one to replace it]].
* HistoricalInJoke: In chapter four, Norby and Jeff are bouncing through time to find a place where Jeff can rest and eat for awhile before going back to when they're fighting Ing. The last place Norby tries is the kitchen of the ''UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic'', on the day it sank.
* LanguageBarrier: When they're flung five hundred years into the future, they find a [[StarfishAliens tree-like alien species]] has taken over, but they cannot understand the language. There are translators who use Martian Swahili, but one of the aliens teaches Jeff the language via TouchTelepathy to make it easier to talk.
* MindProbe: Ing's "magic box" actually had a mind probe inside, which he used to learn how to control the prototype [[SubspaceOrHyperspace hyperspace]] ship [[CrewOfOne on his own]].
* NewspaperDating: In chapter four, Jeff uses the menu of the ''UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic'' to recognize that it was April 14, 1912. When he realizes that [[HistoricalInJoke the ship is sinking]], he orders Norby to take them away.
* PsychicStatic: Norby warns Jeff to recite [[{{Literature/Jabberwocky}} nonsense poems]] to himself while the Master of Mars teaches him their language [[TouchTelepathy through telepathy]].
* ShoutOut: In chapter eight, while [[PsychicStatic shielding against mind reading]], Jeff quotes from "{{Literature/Jabberwocky}}".
* SpacePirates: Unusually, there are two examples in this book, and both of them are good. Remberant's ancestors self-identified as pirates because they fought (and won) against a more controlling organization of the Others. Blif and her crew are pirates fighting against the Master Cult, an oppressively tyrannical organization.
* StarfishAliens: The Biguglies and the Twintas are the most unusual alien species by Asimov. They have a tree-like shape, skin a pale peach (when healthy), eight stubby (root-like) legs, and ten palm leaf-like appendages extending from the top. The Biguglies have a strong cultural divide that has had linguistic effects as well; a pirate branch that is rebelling against the M.C. (Master Cult). Both species have enough latent PsychicPowers that they can utilize some TouchTelepathy, but the M.C. has also developed the ability to [[AgonyBeam cause pain at a distance]].
* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: By chapter three, Threezy is revealed to be Ing, from [[Literature/NorbyTheMixedUpRobot Norby's first adventure]]. As Ing, he's malevolent and attempts to destroy the universe, but nearly dying and then getting healed by the Twintas causes a realignment of his priorities. Once he wakes again at the end of chapter fifteen, he chooses to remain as Threezy the funny clown who does magic tricks.
* VillainousHarlequin: Threezy is the name of a clown who plays an over-the-top villain… except it is a cover for [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter Ing the Incredible]], as he prepares to destroy the universe [[CausedTheBigBang and remake it in his image]]. However, because of nearly dying and then getting healed by the Twintas, he chooses to remain as Threezy the funny clown who does magic tricks.
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First published by Creator/JanetAsimov and Creator/IsaacAsimov in 1987, this ScienceFiction {{Adventure}} story is the sixth story in ''Literature/TheNorbyChronicles''.
Princess Rinda and her robot, Pera, have decided to visit Jeff at Space Academy. Jeff is taking an exam while Norby is giving them a tour, and naturally causing an accident in the process. Admiral Yobo takes him to task over this, but Rinda manipulates him into setting them up with tickets to watch his act as Master of Ceremonies for a circus act. Little do they suspect, one of the clowns is actually [[Literature/NorbyTheMixedUpRobot Ing the Ingrate]], disguised as [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter Threezy the clown]].
Ing has been using a hidden MindProbe to steal the secrets of piloting the [[GrandTheftPrototype prototype hyperdrive ship]], which he proceeds to steal. With the bombs in his possession, Ing plans to [[ApocalypseHow destroy the universe]] and [[CausedTheBigBang start a new one]]. Jeff and Norby have to act fast to find the villain Ing before his plan succeeds.
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!!''Norby Finds a Villain'' contains examples of the following tropes:
* AgonyBeam: One of the PsychicPowers developed by the Master Cult is the ability to cause pain at a distance. In a [[BadFuture false future]], each Master controls an entire planet, wielding their ability to inflict pain as a punishment for the smallest infraction.
* AlternateUniverse: In this story, it is discovered that, with enough power, robots like Norby and Pera can use [[SubspaceOrHyperspace hyperspace]] to travel into other universes.
* ApocalypseHow: Ing's EvilPlan this time is to go into [[SubspaceOrHyperspace hyperspace]] with a bomb so that he can blow up the entire universe at once. Fortunately, it doesn't work. Unfortunately, it does rip a hole and sends him into an AlternateUniverse, causing a BadFuture where [[StarfishAliens tree-like aliens]] conquer the galaxy.
* BadFuture: When Norby tries to go to Space Command, he misses the mark by five hundred years, ending up in a future where creatures from an AlternateUniverse have invaded and established a fascist regime over every planet in the galaxy.
* CausedTheBigBang: Ing's plan for revenge is to set off a bomb in [[SubspaceOrHyperspace hyperspace]]. He believes that this will cause the current universe to collapse and [[DownplayedTrope create a new one]] in its place. He ends up being wrong, as it sends him into a different universe instead, one ruled by the Master Cult.
* {{Dedication}}: This book is dedicated to Creator/CliffordDSimak, because he is [[PromotedFanboy their]] favourite ScienceFiction writer.
* DistressCall: At the end of chapter eleven, Jeff has picked up an S.O.S. signal in standard Federation code, indicating that Ing must be nearby and in danger. He takes ''Hopeful'' over and investigates.
* FunWithAcronyms: Norby nicknames Rembrandt's computer "Yib", short for "Your Immense Brain".
* GrandTheftPrototype: Ing has been hiding himself as a clown named [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter Threezy]] in a circus act. His EvilPlan began with using a MindProbe on Admiral Yobo, head of Space Command, so that he could learn how to pilot the prototype [[SubspaceOrHyperspace hyperdrive spaceship]], ''Quest'', and now he kidnaps Pera and two bombs with him as he takes off into hyperspace. The next step in his plan is to [[ApocalypseHow set off a bomb to destroy the universe]], causing [[CausedTheBigBang a new one to replace it]].
* HistoricalInJoke: In chapter four, Norby and Jeff are bouncing through time to find a place where Jeff can rest and eat for awhile before going back to when they're fighting Ing. The last place Norby tries is the kitchen of the ''UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic'', on the day it sank.
* LanguageBarrier: When they're flung five hundred years into the future, they find a [[StarfishAliens tree-like alien species]] has taken over, but they cannot understand the language. There are translators who use Martian Swahili, but one of the aliens teaches Jeff the language via TouchTelepathy to make it easier to talk.
* MindProbe: Ing's "magic box" actually had a mind probe inside, which he used to learn how to control the prototype [[SubspaceOrHyperspace hyperspace]] ship [[CrewOfOne on his own]].
* NewspaperDating: In chapter four, Jeff uses the menu of the ''UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic'' to recognize that it was April 14, 1912. When he realizes that [[HistoricalInJoke the ship is sinking]], he orders Norby to take them away.
* PsychicStatic: Norby warns Jeff to recite [[{{Literature/Jabberwocky}} nonsense poems]] to himself while the Master of Mars teaches him their language [[TouchTelepathy through telepathy]].
* ShoutOut: In chapter eight, while [[PsychicStatic shielding against mind reading]], Jeff quotes from "{{Literature/Jabberwocky}}".
* SpacePirates: Unusually, there are two examples in this book, and both of them are good. Remberant's ancestors self-identified as pirates because they fought (and won) against a more controlling organization of the Others. Blif and her crew are pirates fighting against the Master Cult, an oppressively tyrannical organization.
* StarfishAliens: The Biguglies and the Twintas are the most unusual alien species by Asimov. They have a tree-like shape, skin a pale peach (when healthy), eight stubby (root-like) legs, and ten palm leaf-like appendages extending from the top. The Biguglies have a strong cultural divide that has had linguistic effects as well; a pirate branch that is rebelling against the M.C. (Master Cult). Both species have enough latent PsychicPowers that they can utilize some TouchTelepathy, but the M.C. has also developed the ability to [[AgonyBeam cause pain at a distance]].
* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: By chapter three, Threezy is revealed to be Ing, from [[Literature/NorbyTheMixedUpRobot Norby's first adventure]]. As Ing, he's malevolent and attempts to destroy the universe, but nearly dying and then getting healed by the Twintas causes a realignment of his priorities. Once he wakes again at the end of chapter fifteen, he chooses to remain as Threezy the funny clown who does magic tricks.
* VillainousHarlequin: Threezy is the name of a clown who plays an over-the-top villain… except it is a cover for [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter Ing the Incredible]], as he prepares to destroy the universe [[CausedTheBigBang and remake it in his image]]. However, because of nearly dying and then getting healed by the Twintas, he chooses to remain as Threezy the funny clown who does magic tricks.
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