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* ExtravertedNerd: Is aware of his nerdiness but doesn't necessarily try to hide it.
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* DislikesTheNewGuy: Kevin usually is the one to antagonize the new fish arriving in prison. He's not fond of Gary not immediately cowering in fear in Kevin's presence and tries to teach him a lesson. [[CurbStompBattle It goes as well as you'd think.]]
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* BitchSlap: Mess with the skulls and Gary will give you a bloody one of these before challenging you to a fight.
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* CopKiller: [[spoiler: He ends up killing several cops who try to ambush the gang as they were hiding away in the mall.]]
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* KillTheOnesYouLove: [[spoiler: Alex is forced to do so upon the realisation that Donovan is too far gone as a blacksuit to be saved.]]
** [[spoiler: In Execution, Alex is forced to do so again and given no other option when his command to put down all creatures infected by the nectar will end Simon's life.]]
** [[spoiler: In Execution, Alex is forced to do so again and given no other option when his command to put down all creatures infected by the nectar will end Simon's life.]]
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* ItWasAGift: Lucy wears a silver medallion that was gifted to her by her father. [[MeaningfulGift St. Christopher is the patron saint of travelers]] [[spoiler: so it seemed fitting for her [[TheLadysFavour to loan it to Alex before he faces off with Furnace, making him promise to return it to her once things are normal again.]] Alex eventually follows through in the epilogue.]]
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* TheBully: Alex himself used to be one.
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* TheBully: Alex himself used to be one.one before he graduated to small-time crook.
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* AdultFear: Even though Alex disbelieves it, Alex's parents were genuinely heartbroken over their son's conviction [[spoiler: going so far as to try to repeal the court order seven times.]]
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* SmartGuy: Zee is very well read and has a love of documentaries, this manages to save the group's collective asses at times be it bypassing electrical circuitry, or spouting a bible verses to win the trust of an [[SinisterMinister unstable preacher.]]
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* SmartGuy: TheSmartGuy: Zee is very well read and has a love of documentaries, this manages to save the group's collective asses at times be it bypassing electrical circuitry, or spouting a bible verses to win the trust of an [[SinisterMinister unstable preacher.]]
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--> '''Monty''': If they catch you, ''just don't forget your name''.
--> '''Monty''': If they catch you, ''just don't forget your name''.
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* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: Simon, realising that Alex's plan to kill off all of the Blacksuits, rats and Berserkers would include him as well, he leaves Alex, Zee and Lucy behind with one last smile and laugh, never to be seen again.]]
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* OneSteveLimit: This Toby shares the same name as Alex's murdered friend, [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Alex is torn up just over the fact he'd hear his best friend's again [[TooSoon so soon]].
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* OneSteveLimit: This Toby shares the same name as Alex's murdered friend, [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Alex is torn up just over the fact he'd hear his best friend's friends again [[TooSoon so soon]]. soon.
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** OriginsEpisode: The prequel short story ''Silent Night'' is a thoughtful and greater look into Donovan's character: the origin of the crime that got him into Furnace; how his love for cheesburgers came to be; his life in Furnace before ever meeting Alex.
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* OriginsEpisode: The prequel short story ''Silent Night'' is a thoughtful and greater look into Donovan's character: the origin of the crime that got him into Furnace; how his love for cheesburgers came to be; his life in Furnace before ever meeting Alex.
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* DeepBreathRevealsTension: Donovan has a tendency to do this when struggling with anxiety attacks.
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* OnlyAFleshWound: During the fight with Santiago in ''Silent Night'', [[spoiler: Donovan is stabbed by Santa's bone shank, not once, not twice, but three times during the fight. Granted, it's after he gets stabbed in the stomach and manages to knock Santiago out that Donovan has to the time to actually recognise how close to death he's gotten. And how it miraculous it was that Santiago hadn't seriously punctured one of his organs.]]
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* OriginsEpisode: The prequel short story ''Silent Night'' is a thoughtful and greater look into Donovan's character: the origin of the crime that got him into Furnace; how his love for cheesburgers came to be; his life in Furnace before ever meeting Alex.
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* PutOnABus: [[spoiler: The last time we hear of Gary is in Death Sentence having gone on a killing spree in the lower levels. Otherwise, he is never mentioned in the following two books and is only assumed to be dead after Alex makes the command decision to kill every being that was corrupted by the nectar.]]
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* HandicappedBadass: [[spoiler: Loses both of his arms in Fugitives. While one is regrown by the nectar into a spidery three fingered hand, the other is turned into a ''blade.'' In the epilogue, Alex gets the blade arm amputated and is in process of receiving a prosthetic arm.]]
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* TokenMinority: Though the character descriptions in Furnace are all relatively vague in terms of race, Donovan is the only character who is consistently described with dark skin and was confirmed by WordOfGod as being conceptualised as a black boy.
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* UnexplainedAccent: Alex only ever describes Zee as having a "specific accent" but never defining in universe where it actually comes from.
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* UnexplainedAccent: Alex only ever describes Zee as having a "specific accent" but never defining in universe where it actually comes from. WordOfGod claims that Zee has an American accent, but that most American readers assumed he had an English one.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The inmates of Furnace Penitentiary universally only seem to address him as "Warden."
* FauxAffablyEvil: She speaks with a soothing, almost hypnotising voice and has a kind and concerned facade. But her smile is just a little too wide, and she has a little too much fun slicing open kids for it to just be concerned.
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* UnexplainedAccent: One of her first descriptors is that she has the same unspecified accent that Zee has. Though, it can implied to be American considering the WordOfGod claiming that Zee's is American.
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** In Execution, both Zee and Simon desperately try to remind Alex both the good and memories of Furnace in order to give Alex reasons to continue fighting [[spoiler: against The Stranger's commands.]]
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* TheBigGuyTheBigGuy: Described as a tall, well built teenager.
--> '''Zee''': Maybe one of the new fish is a tunnelling expert. That tall one looks like he might have already escaped from a couple of prisons.
--> '''Zee''': Maybe one of the new fish is a tunnelling expert. That tall one looks like he might have already escaped from a couple of prisons.
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Alex's best friend at the beginning of ''Lockdown''.
* SacrificialLamb: The murder of Toby sets up the premise of the entire series.
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Alex's best friend at the beginning of ''Lockdown''.
* SacrificialLamb: The murder of Toby sets up the premise of the entire series.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: About ten minutes into entrance into Furnace, he immediately challenges [[spoiler: Kevin]] and then [[spoiler: breaks Kevin's wrist, dethrones him and takes his position as Skull leader, and then shanks two inmates.]]
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!![[spoiler: Sam Sam]]
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[[spoiler: The blacksuit introduced in Execution that helps escort Alex, Zee, Simon and Lucy to Furnace.]]
[[spoiler: The blacksuit introduced in Execution that helps escort Alex, Zee, Simon and Lucy to Furnace.]]
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Zee shows this before he's even introduced, in the courthouse when he defiantly struggles and attempts to flee from the bailiffs that were dragging him off, and shouting "It wasn't me".
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* ContinuityCameo: [[spoiler: The Stranger makes a brief cameo in ''Literature/TheDevilsEngine'', when Marlow has visions of the multiple universes that feature the past villains of Creator/AlexanderGordonSmith's other series.]]
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* WhatTheHellHero: From Lucy to Alex, when [[spoiler: a nectar crazed Alex drains the blood of a berserker, nearly kills Lucy, but then switches and taking it out by punching a ''moving train'' before blacking out.]] Needless to say, despite Zee and Simon trying to explain their situation, Lucy doesn't buy that they're the good guys.
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[[Spoiler: An ancient eldritch god whose blood can turn children into monsters.]]
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* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler: Has half of his head torn in half by a grenade, then drained of all his blood and the bastard still has some strength left to try to throw himself downstairs, but is ultimately defeated by being torn apart by wheezers]]
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* BreakoutMookCharacter: Becomes this in Execution, when he was originally introduced as one Alfred Furnace's blacksuits, but is then ordered specifically to help Alex. [[spoiler: Over the course of the book, the blacksuit begins to remember small things about his old life, then the realisation that his name was Sam.]]
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* BreakoutMookCharacter: Becomes this in Execution, when he was originally introduced as one Alfred Furnace's blacksuits, but is then ordered specifically to help Alex. [[spoiler: Over the course of the book, the blacksuit begins to remember small things about his old life, then the realisation that his name was Sam.]]]]
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