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* AmputativeSentencing: Slaves who break the law by running away from their owners can be punished by cutting off their feet.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: ''Gor'' is quite obviously Iowa in some scenes.
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* AdvertisedExtra: While Jack Palance's character is a major villain in ''Outlaw'', in the first film he only had a cameo at the end to set up the sequel. Nevertheless, Palance was [[BillingDisplacement third billed]] on the first movie.

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* AdvertisedExtra: While [[invoked]]While Jack Palance's character is a major villain in ''Outlaw'', in the first film he only had a cameo at the end to set up the sequel. Nevertheless, Palance was [[BillingDisplacement third billed]] on the first movie.
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** Inverted by the Priest Kings, an alien race worshiped as gods who have artificially cultivated and vigilantly constrain Gorean culture and technology. The clearer this becomes, the more arguments about 'the natural order' and the Masters' role in Gor go out the window, but because none of them know the true nature of the Priest Kings they're never exposed to the FridgeLogic. The Free of Gor are themselves pawns in a [[TheMasquerade secret war]].

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** Inverted by the Priest Kings, an alien race worshiped as gods who have artificially cultivated and vigilantly constrain Gorean culture and technology. The clearer this becomes, the more arguments about 'the natural order' and the Masters' role in Gor go out the window, but because none of them know the true nature of the Priest Kings they're never exposed to the FridgeLogic.contradiction. The Free of Gor are themselves pawns in a [[TheMasquerade secret war]].
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* ContemptibleCover: The cover of the latest edition may be ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, but still, [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tarnsman-Gor-John-Norman/dp/0759283834/ look at it.]] [[{{NSFW}} Preferably at home.]] If anything, it may be ''less'' suggestive than [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tarnsman_of_gor_vallejo_cover.jpg the original cover.]] Vallejo's cover art does (fancifully) depict a scene from the book. Standing: Tarl Cabot (somewhat less dressed than the story would have had it). Kneeling: Talena (technically Tarl's slave, in practice an honourably-treated captive, pretending to be more thoroughly subjugated to impress). In the howdah: Mintar the Merchant, a slave-trader. Astride, in the background: Kazrak of Port Kar, one of Mintar's caravan guards. The more recent art, though, suggests that female bondage is the major focus of ''Tarnsman'', which is not at all the case.
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''The Chronicles of Gor'' is a ScienceFantasy novel series (one of those that blur the lines between the ScienceFiction and {{Fantasy}}), written by John Norman (real name Dr. John Frederick Lange, Jr., a professor of philosophy). The Chronicles of Gor starts out as a PlanetaryRomance before moving on to a [[FetishFuelFuture sex-slave culture]] where [[AuthorAppeal most of the female main characters are legally property]]. The planet Gor is a Counter-Earth, a hypothetical planet in Earth's orbit on the other side of the sun, always blocked from view [[note]]An impossible situation, and thus fantastic, given the gravitational influences observed upon every comet passing into the inner solar system, even before the advent of interplanetary exploration in the 1960s; then again, if the alien species in question is capable of moving entire ''planets'' into orbit around stars, erasing traces of gravitational influence would likely not be such a problem[[/note]]. On Gor, some {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s decided to take humans from [[AnachronismStew various eras in human history]] and dump them together and see what happens, after [[FantasyGunControl removing any type of firearm]] and [[BurnTheWitch burning anyone who tries to violate said ban]].

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''The [[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rogue_of_gor.png]]''The Chronicles of Gor'' is a ScienceFantasy novel series (one of those that blur the lines between the ScienceFiction and {{Fantasy}}), written by John Norman (real name Dr. John Frederick Lange, Jr., a professor of philosophy). The Chronicles of Gor starts out as a PlanetaryRomance before moving on to a [[FetishFuelFuture sex-slave culture]] where [[AuthorAppeal most of the female main characters are legally property]]. The planet Gor is a Counter-Earth, a hypothetical planet in Earth's orbit on the other side of the sun, always blocked from view [[note]]An impossible situation, and thus fantastic, given the gravitational influences observed upon every comet passing into the inner solar system, even before the advent of interplanetary exploration in the 1960s; then again, if the alien species in question is capable of moving entire ''planets'' into orbit around stars, erasing traces of gravitational influence would likely not be such a problem[[/note]]. On Gor, some {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s decided to take humans from [[AnachronismStew various eras in human history]] and dump them together and see what happens, after [[FantasyGunControl removing any type of firearm]] and [[BurnTheWitch burning anyone who tries to violate said ban]].

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