History Literature / WaxAndWayne

** "Bad alloy" for something negative ("lead us to a bad alloy" being analogous to a "wild goose chase,"), "strange alloy" for something unexpected or odd, "rust" as a general expression of displeasure.

** Wayne in general. In addition to his general attitude, he's constantly "trading" for things. [[InsistentTerminology Not stealing, ''trading.'']] He might "trade" a nice scarf or hat for an aluminum gun or bullet (aluminum being about as rare and valuable as gold), then "trade" that aluminum bullet for a cheap dime novel. Of course, very few people know Wayne has "traded" something with them until they find their possession missing and something else in it's place. But it's still not stealing.

%%* ThemeNaming: The heroes are Wax and Wayne.

* GenreSavvy: One of the many reasons [[spoiler: Miles]] is dangerous. He knows exactly how a lawman with act.

** Certain places in Elendel are a ShoutOut to friends and beta-readers, notably ZoBell Tower and Feder Tower. Not to mention constable Lieutenant Ahlstrom.

# '' Bands of Mourning'' (January 2016)

* {{Steampunk}}: The technology used in the Elednil Basin, especially within Elendil City itself, has this vibe very strongly.

* TheWildWest: The Roughs, the semi-civilized region outside the Elendil Basin.

** There are stuffed toys showing Ten Soon in his wolfhound form, called "Soonie cubs".[[spoiler: Ten Soon does not approve]]

** There are stuffed toys showing TenSoon in his wolfhound form, called "Soonie cubs".

** Wax's last name, Ladrian, ties him directly to Breeze (Ladrian was [[OnlyKnownByHisNickname Breeze's real name]]). So, presumably he's a distant descendant of Breeze and Allriane.
** The following map features are named after characters from the original series: Elendel, Rashekin, Doxonar, Vindiel, Alendel, Sea of Yomend, Hammondar Bay, Demoux Promenade.

* AntiMagic: Aluminum (and some alloys thereof) is allomantically inert, and can't be Pushed or Pulled allomantically like other metals. In addition, wearing an [[TinfoilHat aluminum foil hat]] (or just one lined with aluminum) protects against emotional Allomancy.

* StealTheSurroundings: [[spoiler:How the heists are performed. Miles used a crane to steal loaded train cars right off the tracks and replace them with empties.]]
* StickyFingers: Wayne is a [[LovableRogue (somewhat)]] reformed kleptomaniac. Or, at least, he's using his powers for good now. Mostly. In another world, he might well be suspected of having some [[{{Dragonlance}} Kender]] blood in him.

** It is all but outright said that Wax's earring, which allows him to communicate with Harmony directly, is [[spoiler: Vin's earring]], as both are actually [[spoiler: Hemalurgic spikes]].

** [[spoiler:Miles]] is a twinborn whose Allomantic and Feruchemic metals are the same -- gold. This allows his powers to interact in a fashion called Compounding, where the energy stored in a metalmind can be accessed by Allomancy, and which releases considerably more Feruchemical energy when burned, allowing the Compounder to bypass the sum-zero limitation of normal Feruchemy, as long as there is a supply of the metal available for burning. In this case, it allows the regeneration of all but the most fatal wounds in seconds and renders the user functionally immortal.

* GameBreaker: [[invoked]] [[spoiler: Miles]] is a double-gold Twinborn, letting him get more health than he started with out of a metalmind. Although he still ages, he's functionally immortal. All the Compounders (Twinborn with matching metals) are overpowered, but a double-gold is a particularly dangerous variety.
** Notably, this is the trick the [[MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy Lord Ruler]] pulled back during the days of the Final Empire, burning Atiumminds (and presumably Goldminds) to release the youth (and health) stored within at a vastly increased rate.

# ''The Alloy of Law'' (2011)
# ''Shadows of Self'' (October 2015)

* AccidentalAimingSkills: Wax jokes that he once hit a criminal in the eye with a throwing knife while aiming for his balls. Wax later confessed was [[SubvertedTrope just trying to hit the man]], since his aim with knives isn't very good.

%%* AGodAmI: Miles
* AlternateSelf: Mile's other ability besides healing is to burn gold, allowing him to see his past self and who he could have become. His KnightTemplar Lawman alternate self [[OtherMeAnnoysMe hates him]], but the process lets him take on some of those mental qualities.

* AxeCrazy: Bloody Tan, the villain of the prologue, is a serial killer. Also, several other criminals from Wax and Wayne's {{Backstory}}, some of them quite nasty, are mentioned in passing.
%%* {{Badass}}: Wax, Wayne, and Miles.
%%* BadassBookworm: [[spoiler: Marasi]].
* BadassLongcoat: Half [[BadassCape mist-cloak]], half duster, all {{Badass}}.
* BattleCouple: Wax and Lessie [[spoiler:until Lessie dies in the prologue.]]
%%* BatmanGambit: Wax successfully pulls one off to defeat [[BigBad Miles]] at the end.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Everybody lives, but the ManBehindTheMan gets away, and Wax rejects Marasi. Also, the first four hostages (and possibly Wax's sister) are still missing.]]
* {{BFG}}: Several guns in the book qualify.
* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: Done by Wax to [[spoiler:Miles]] repeatedly. The reason he is able to do this multiple times is because [[spoiler:Miles has a HealingFactor that lets him regenerate his hand each time Wax ruins it.]]

* TheCameo: Hoid, Sanderson's LegacyCharacter who appears in every other book in the overarching multiverse of his setting, briefly appears at the wedding party, though not directly referenced by name, instead being mentioned as a shabby-looking fellow in black who might have been a beggar. The wedding in question is of two Seventeenth Shard (conspiracy) worldhoppers, according to Sanderson.

%%* ChekhovsGun: When Marasi and Wax are trying to looking for a motive, Wax mentions the extensive genealogical resources in his uncle's library.
* ChekhovsGunman:
** Ranette the gunsmith is mentioned early in the book; it's no surprise when she shows up nearer the end.
** As part of a bit of world-building, [[spoiler:Marsh aka Ironeyes, showing up right at the end.]]
* ChekhovsSkill: Marasi is convinced her Allomantic power is useless. [[spoiler:Being able to slow down time by a significant factor for a large area allows Wax and Marasi to stall for time as Wayne goes to fetch the military to apprehend the indestructible Miles.]]

** Ranette calls her anti-Allomancer bullets "Haze Killers," after the term for soliders in the Final Empire who were specially trained to fight Allomancers.

* CurbstompBattle: [[spoiler:Miles]] gives one to [[spoiler: Wax]] near the end. [[spoiler: Of course Wax was just trying to buy time as part of a BatmanGambit...]]

* TheDeterminator: [[spoiler: Wax, with some possibly divine help.]]
* DeusExMachina: Played with. [[spoiler: It certainly looks like a literal version of this when Harmony actually starts helping Wax out in the finale...then the epilogue confirms that Harmony is Sazed, and definitely more of an active agent than he appears.]]
* DifficultButAwesome: The Pulser power (burning Chromium), which slows time for everything in a pretty wide area...including yourself. For the user, everything outside that area just seems to radically speed up. At first blush it seems useless. [[spoiler: In fact, it's an ideal means of keeping people in place and is crucial to capturing Miles.]]
* DragonWithAnAgenda: [[spoiler:Miles]]
* EliteMooks: The Vanishers with aluminum guns.
* ExactWords:
** Wayne says that Wax was lying about not bringing a gun. Wax replies that he didn't bring ''a'' gun and draws a second one.
** After Steris asks that people stop talking about shooting people and hitting them with bricks, Marasi brings up throwing knives at them.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Miles]], though his time as a Face was before the book started.
%%* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Wax's uncle.]]

* GenreSavvy: One of the many reasons [[spoiler: Miles]] is dangerous.

* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Wayne takes a lot more punishment than Wax does. [[spoiler: Miles]] takes more than both combined. Wayne actually lampshades this at one point, and mentions that people tend to shoot Wayne when they're mad at him, since they know he can heal.
-->'''Wayne:''' It was like saying it was fine to steal a man's beer because he can always order a new one.

* LivingDollCollector: Bloody Tam, the serial killer at the beginning, makes carefully composed scenes using corpses.

%%* InsaneTrollLogic: PlayedForLaughs: "Logic doesn't work on Wayne."
%%-->"I bought a ward against [logic] off a traveling fortune-teller," Wayne explained. "It lets me add two 'n' two and get a pickle."
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: The Vanishers should NOT have shot the old constable offering himself as a hostage in exchange for Marasi and Steris.]]

* LighterAndSofter: ''The Alloy of Law'' is much less serious then the original trilogy and the setting is much less grim.
* MagicPants: [[spoiler:[[NighInvulnerable Miles]] sets off dynamite in his hand to escape a net. His shirt is destroyed, but his pants survive.]]

* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:Wax's uncle, to a degree that makes him an instant [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]]. Incompetent noblemen gambling and carousing their houses into financial ruin is a plot point that shows up often enough that even most readers wouldn't bother to question it.]]
* OutGambitted: [[spoiler: Miles]] is eventually OutGambitted by [[spoiler: Wax]] after several rounds of going back and forth with the gambits.

* RescueRomance: Discussed. [[spoiler:Steris points out that she and Wax can accelerate the timeline for their wedding and avoid the normal scandal in high society specifically because everyone will assume this trope is in effect]].

* SequelHook: The epilogue is pretty much one giant SequelHook.
* ShadowArchetype: [[spoiler: Miles]] to Wax, as well as to [[Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy Kelsier]].

* SpiritAdvisor: [[spoiler: Harmony/Sazed, talks to Wax at a couple points.]]
* [[spoiler:StealTheSurroundings:]] How the heists are performed. [[spoiler:Miles used a crane to steal loaded train cars right off the tracks and replace them with empties.]]

* TakeMeInstead: Enraged at the Vanishers taking two young women as hostages, a retired constable vehemently demands to be taken instead. [[spoiler: He gets shot]]

%%* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Tillaume]] attempts this after trying two other methods of assassination.
* TheCavalry: [[spoiler:Wayne arrives at the head of a small army of constables to take down Miles in the finale, having been sent to fetch them at the start of the final confrontation, before Marasi started slowing down time.]]

* TitleDrop: Done obliquely near the end.

** Earlier on, part of the reason why Wax and Wayne are able to kill so many of the Vanishers when Steris is kidnapped is that the Vanishers didn't already have their aluminium bullets ready as they were ordered, being reluctant to waste the expensive metal on normal targets.

* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Played with: Wax has two plans to deal with Miles. We aren't told much of either in advance, but [[spoiler: Plan A fails while plan B works]].

%%* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Miles]] thinks of himself as one.

%%* XanatosGambit: Turns out that Mr. Suit was running a masterful one throughout the whole book.

''The Mistborn Adventures'' is a SequelSeries to [[Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy the first]] of the ''Franchise/{{Mistborn}}'' trilogies by Creator/BrandonSanderson, set roughly 300 years after the events of ''Hero of Ages''. It features Waxillium Ladrian, a noble that became a lawman in the WildWest-esque Roughs returning to his home in the city of Elendel to try and settle down. His attempts at the quiet life are quickly foiled, however, by the return of his old friend Wayne, his own internal desire to do the right thing, and the appearance of a mysterious group of thieves called "The Vanishers". Now, Wax, Wayne and newcomer Marasi Colms must team up to solve crimes and save the city. However, the Vanishers are only just the beginning of a much deeper conspiracy...