History Literature / TheHanSoloAdventures

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The Trianii CatPeople aliens often become the "Triani" (with just one concluding ''i'') in other books referencing them.

* GirlOfTheWeek: Played with. There's a different female lead in all three novels (Jess, Fiola, and Hasti). In the first case, the two of them clearly have had (and have again, towards the end) a relationship. In the second case, despite plenty of flirtatious banter, nothing happens. In the third case, Hasti actually rejects him and deconstructs the idea, saying that there's no future in a relationship with a girl-in-every-port space captain.

* TheGunslinger: Gallandro, a major antagonist in the second book, is a famous gunman and LivingLegend whose skills with firearms outstrip even Han's.

* OurShowersAreDifferent: In ''Han Solo and the Lost Legacy'' Han pays for the use of an "omniron" at a spa. Feeling the need for distraction, Han sets it for "maximum treatment", which includes fifteen-second cycles of icy water, "sonics" that vibrate his skin, waves of heat, streams of detergent, foam, air nozzles, and emollients applied by "autoapplicators". Meanwhile, Chewbacca is enjoying the use of a room dedicated to "more hirsute clientele"; while he floats in a zero-gee field, an electrostatic charge separates each of his individual hairs so that old oils and other dirt can be removed, before new oils and conditioners are applied. Other areas in the spa provide a wide variety of other services for many other species (such as "gill-strippers" for "piscine or amphibian life forms").

* InheritanceMurder: TheMole in ''Han Solo at Stars’ End'' does a variant of this. [[spoiler:He tips off the Corporate Sector that his father and older brother are speaking against them, knowing this will get his relatives either killed or arrested and leave him in control of the family fortune. When they're merely sent to a prison facility, he attempts to sabotage efforts to rescue them.]]

* BerserkButton: Han doesn't react well to those who mistreat his ship or his friends. And, if Chewie is in danger, Han will flat out murder anyone who tries to keep him from going to his partner's aid. Also, Han will ''not'' carry slaves, and anyone trying to make him, as in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Han Solo's Revenge]], had best run far and fast.

* ZergRush: In "The Lost Legacy'', Guardian Corps droids perish by the dozens in the mining camp battle, being run over by construction vehicles or shot by firing lines of riflemen, turret gunners, or the cannons of a freighter. However, few of those initially successful opponents survive, as hundreds of robots concentrate on them until the war robots' combined numbers and power are too much.

* WeaponizedExhaust: In ''Han Solo's Revenge'' Fiolla uses the exhaust from a [[HoverBike swoop]] to disable a man who is trying to kill Han with a [[{{Vibroweapon}} vibroblade]]. Very shortly afterwards one of the man's colleagues tries the same trick on Han and Fiolla when everyone is in an aerial swoop chase.

* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: ''Han Solo's Revenge'' has a scene where Han (who is an experienced gunman) deliberately removes the trigger guard from his weapon. He is heading into a hazardous situation where he might need his pistol and is donning environmental gear, but the glove of the environment suit is too thick for his finger to fit inside the trigger guard.

[[quoteright:304:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/han_solo_adventures.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:304:"I happen to like [[HanShotFirst shooting first]], Rekkon, as opposed to [[HilariousInHindsight shooting second]]."]]

-->But it was the man's eyes that had set off most of Han's alarms, making him absolutely certain of the man's profession. The eyes were a deep, clear blue, unblinking, unwavering. They examined all the newcomers, remained for a moment on the Mor Glayyd and came to rest on Han, making a chilly estimate of him in a moment.

* NotSoDifferent: In ''Han Solo at Star's End'', [[spoiler:Torm]] uses this excuse when trying to bargain with Han for his life. [[ThrownOutTheAirlock Han expresses his disagreement with him.]]

* GirlOfTheWeek: Played with. There's a different female lead in all three novels (Jess, Fillo, and Hasti). In the first case, the two of them clearly have had (and have again, towards the end) a relationship. In the second case, despite plenty of flirtatious banter, nothing happens. In the third case, Hasti actually rejects him and deconstructs the idea, saying that there's no future in a relationship with a girl-in-every-port space captain.

* BerserkButton: Han doesn't react well to those who mistreat his ship or his friends. And, if Chewie is in danger, Han will flat out murder anyone who tries to keep him from going to his partner's aid.
** Also, Han will ''not'' carry slaves, and anyone trying to make him, as in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Han Solo's Revenge]], had best run far and fast.

* CargoCult: ''Han Solo and the Lost Legacy'' features a group of cargo cultists who are the descendants of the crew of the treasure-laden starship of an ancient warlord; they have lived on a backwater planet for generations, maintaining sacred "landing fields" complete with mock-ups of spaceships and ritualized "communications procedures." As it turns out, a few of them [[spoiler:know the truth--that they are safeguarding the warlord's hidden treasure, waiting for the chance to use it to reestablish his empire--while using the rest of the cultists as unknowing support]].
** Han also inadvertently creates one in the BatmanColdOpen of ''Han Solo's Revenge'' when he and Chewie try to run a legitimate holotheatre on the [[SingleBiomePlanet desert planet]] of Kamarr. Han had been running a travel guide of a water planet to the [[InsectoidAliens water starved natives]] and ended up starting a religion by accident. The cult became violently upset when Han started showing a new video and chased them off the planet, leading into the main plot.

* DirtyCoward: President Hirken turns out to be one. When Star's End goes down, he demands that Han save him, because he is obviously too valuable to be left to his fate like [[{{mooks}} the lower-ranking staff]] ... and ends up [[TheDogBitesBack shot by one of them]] for trying to desert his post like this.