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* PinnedToTheGround: During their time in the Night School, Fredda would repeatedly sit on Bluebear's back during break time shoving pencils into his nose and ears until he agreed to marry her.
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* ImmuneToMindControl: Three people on the Moloch: Groot (too stupid), Zille (has a kind of instant amnesia) and Bluebear (is protected by Nightingale's mental implant).
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* BatmanGambit: When Bluebear walks into Smyke's office, Smyke's bodyguard Rumo recognizes the person who saved his life as a cub. For over a year Rumo pretends to loathe Bluebear, so that when Bluebear inevitably gets on Smyke's bad side, Rumo is tasked with disposing of him, which gives him a change to save Bluebear.

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%%* AffablyEvil: Voltozan Smyke.
%%* AllDesertsHaveCacti: Even one that is made out of sugar dust!

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%%* * AffablyEvil: Voltozan Smyke.
%%* * AllDesertsHaveCacti: Even one that is made out of sugar dust!



* AlwaysChaoticEvil: A number of Zamonian species: Troglotrolls, Shark Grubs, Spiderwitches and almost all cyclops races. [[spoiler: NEVER trust a troglotroll]]

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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: A number of Zamonian species: Troglotrolls, Shark Grubs, Spiderwitches and almost all cyclops races. To a lesser degree Bluddums, who are always brutish jerks. [[spoiler: NEVER trust a troglotroll]]


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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Apart from being DenserAndWackier than the follow-ups, there are some changes in characterization:
** Wolpertings especially. They are fierce fighters with a fondness for chess, but they are largely described as DumbMuscle, not like the noble warrior race of ''Rumo''. This could be explained by the city of Wolperting's efforts to improve the species' reputation.
** Voltozan Smyke acts like a typical amoral Shark Grub. In the chronologically earlier ''Rumo'', he was just completing his transformation to wise mentor, even risking his life to save his friend's romantic interest.
** Rumo, as portrayed in his own book, would be highly unlikely to work as bodyguard for an evil Smyke.
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%%* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: The Troglotroll, and how.
* ConsummateLiar: Good and bad in Zamonia. On one hand, you need to be careful with [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Troglotrolls]], on the other hand, if you can make your lies convincing and entertaining enough, you can become a Congladiator.
%%* CoolStarship: [[spoiler: Atlantis]]

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%%* * ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: The Troglotroll, and how.
* ConsummateLiar: Good and bad in Zamonia. On one hand, you need to be careful with [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Troglotrolls]], on the other hand, if you can make your lies convincing and entertaining enough, you can become a Congladiator.
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%%* EmotionEater: Hobgoblins

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%%* LatinLover: Chemluth Havana.

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%%* * LatinLover: Chemluth Havana.



%%* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler: The Gourmetica Insularies]].

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%%* * LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler: The Gourmetica Insularies]].
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* RidiculouslyHighRelationshipStandards: Chemluth Havanna is a Kavorka Man who sweeps girls off their feet left and right, but his interest rarely lasts longer than for one date, since he longs for a girl with really thick hair and even in the multi-species metropolis that is Atlantis he can't find anyone good enough for him. [[spoiler:He finally finds love with Bluebear's former classmate Fredda who is entirely covered in long hair]].
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Per TRS, this was renamed to Incidental Multilingual Wordplay and moved to Trivia


* LuckyTranslation: The arc words in the second half "'''Knowledge is Night'''" work a bit better in German ("Wissen ist Nacht" which is very similar to the proverb "Wissen ist Macht" or in English "Knowledge is power"), but since "power" and "might" are almost synonyms, this works reasonably well.
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* WeirdWorldWeirdFood: The inhabitants of the incredibly bizarre 2364th dimension feed on music, which is played on instruments made of milk. To someone from our dimension, it sounds like a horrid cacophony.

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* DeusExmachina: [[PunnyName Deus X. Machina]] and the other Reptilian Rescuer, who literally save people at the last second out of nowhere.

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[[PunnyName Deus X. Machina]] and the other Reptilian Rescuer, Rescuers, who literally save people at the last second out of nowhere. nowhere.
** After running from the Spiderwitch for eight hours straight, Bluebear is on the verge of exhaustion. Fortunately, he falls through a Dimensional Hiatus into another dimension when he collapses.


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* SdrawkcabName: The Muggs are traveling the desert in search of a mirage city called Anagrom Ataf. The city's name is "Fata Morgana" spelled backwards; a Fata Morgana is a type of mirage that appears just above the horizon. Bluebear later gets the Muggs looking for a city called "esidaraP s'looF", or "Fool's Paradise". It doesn't actually exist.
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** He has been a canonical RealityWarper at least once in his episodes in DieSendungMitDerMaus, so that might explain some either.

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** He has been a canonical RealityWarper at least once in his episodes in DieSendungMitDerMaus, Series/DieSendungMitDerMaus, so that might explain some either.
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* BizarreAlienBiology: Qwerty. He eats music from instruments ''made out of milk''. He is also a gelatinous blob. Of course, he isn't from Zamonia. He isn't even from this ''dimension'', so it makes sense that he's BizarreAlienBiology UpToEleven.

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* BizarreAlienBiology: Qwerty. He Qwerty is a gelatinous blob whho eats music from instruments ''made out of milk''. He is also a gelatinous blob.milk''. Of course, he isn't from Zamonia. He isn't even from this ''dimension'', so it makes sense that he's BizarreAlienBiology UpToEleven.''dimension''.



* BlatantLies: The Congladiators of Atlantis have turned them into a hugely popular sport.

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* BlatantLies: The Congladiators of Atlantis have turned them fibbing into a hugely popular sport.



* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: The Troglotroll, and how.

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* CoolStarship: [[spoiler: Atlantis]]

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* EmotionEater: Hobgoblins

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* LatinLover: Chemluth Havana.

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* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler: The Gourmetica Insularies]].

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* %%* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler: The Gourmetica Insularies]].
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* AffablyEvil: Voltozan Smyke.
* AllDesertsHaveCacti: Even one that is made out of sugar dust!

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* ExtradimensionalEmergencyExit: Bluebear does it several times in The 13 ½ Lives of Captain Bluebear, thanks to wormholes being scattered all over Zamonia.
** He attempts to do it when he finds a wormhole in the mountain labyrinth, thinking it's the only possible way out, but gets distracted and then led away by the Troglotroll.
** While chased by the Spiderwitch, he accidentally falls into a wormhole and gets transported into the 2364th dimension.
** In the 2364th dimension, after accidentally letting his friend Qwerty (the local prince) fall into a wormhole, he jumps into it after him.
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* TheAce: Bluebear, which of course is part of the entire point with the books being his memoirs. It might take him a few tries, and he does screw up monumentally at times, but it's a running theme in the book that anything he makes a serious attempt at doing, he'll turn out to be immensely talented at it and his expertise very quickly surpasses everyone else's.

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* TheAce: Bluebear, which of course is part of the entire point with the books being his memoirs. It might take him a few tries, and he does screw up monumentally at times, but it's a running theme in the book that anything he makes a serious attempt at doing, he'll turn out to be immensely ''immensely'' talented at it and his expertise very at. Without fail, he'll quickly surpasses everyone else's.become the Best Ever at this particular thing, gaining the respect and admiration of people who have been in the game for far longer.

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* TheAce: Bluebear, which of course is part of the entire point with the books being his memoirs. It might take him a few tries, and he does screw up monumentally at times, but it's a running theme in the book that anything he makes a serious attempt at doing, he'll turn out to be immensely talented at it and his expertise very quickly surpasses everyone else's.



* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Fredda and Avriel are the only two named female characters in over 700 pages, though in some translations 1600H and Insanity are also referred to with female pronouns -- if ideas and concepts can be said to have genders. TheMusical also seas several {{Gender Flip}}ped minor characters which are male in the book but female on stage.

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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Fredda and Avriel are the only two named female characters in over 700 pages, though in some translations 1600H and Insanity are also referred to with female pronouns -- if ideas and concepts can be said to have genders. TheMusical also seas sees several {{Gender Flip}}ped minor characters which are male in the book but female on stage.

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