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* [[TheManBehindTheMan The Woman Behind The Man]]: La Velada is more responsible for Scolopendra's success than he thinks, and despite what she says, it seems clear she's really [[spoiler: been working for the [[BiggerBad NKVD]] all along.]]
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* [[TheManBehindTheMan The Woman Behind The Man]]: La Velada is more responsible for Scolopendra's success than he thinks, and despite what she says, it seems clear she's really [[spoiler: been working for the [[BiggerBad NKVD]] NKVD all along.]]]]
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* ArchnemesisDad: Scolopendra for Jagua. She even says that Audacto Solares, her father, [[ThatManIsDead was killed by Scolopendra years ago.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: La Velada sees the whole scheme going up in (literal) smoke, and gets the hell out of there.
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* TheUnreveal: What's behind La Velada's veil?
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* ActionGirl: Jagua, probably the greatest example in the ''Young Bond'' series.
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* MythologyGag: A particularly daring one. James retrieves Jagua's notes from inside the manuscript of an older ornithologist friend of hers. The manuscript is ''A Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies'', and the (unnamed) ornithologist is the real James Bond!
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* MythologyGag: A particularly daring one. James retrieves Jagua's notes from inside the manuscript of an older ornithologist friend of hers. The manuscript (which wouldn't be published for two more years) is ''A Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies'', and the (unnamed) ornithologist is the real James Bond!
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The seventh ''Literature/Young Bond'' novel, and the second by Steve Cole, released in 2016.
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* MythologyGag: A particularly daring one. James retrieves Jagua's notes from inside the manuscript of an older ornithologist friend of hers. The manuscript is ''A Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies'', and the (unnamed) ornithologist is the real James Bond!
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* BigCreepyCrawlies: Scolopendra named himself after a giant centipede he discovered. He also lets loose a swarm of [[BodyHorror botflies]] against James and Hugo at one point.
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* BigCreepyCrawlies: Scolopendra named himself after a giant centipede he discovered. He also lets loose a swarm of [[BodyHorror botflies]] against James and Hugo at one point. And unconnected to all that, James has a run-in with a tarantula.
* CallForward: This marks the first time Bond is introduced to diving.
* CallForward: This marks the first time Bond is introduced to diving.
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* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: James stumbles upon Ramón and El Puño kidnapping Maritsa and helps out, which brings him into contact with Jagua and kicks off the whole plot.
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* FreudianExcuse: Scolopendra is a Cuban of mixed descent, and also a genius. So he has a ''serious'' chip on his shoulder about having spent his youth in menial labour and as a porter for less gifted scientists, before he made his name and fortune.
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James and his friend Hugo Grande have come to UsefulNotes/Cuba to stay with old family friend Gerald Hardiman until his Aunt Charmian returns from her Mexican anthropological expedition. But they've barely arrived before Hardiman is kidnapped, and James and Hugo find themselves on his trail from Havana and across the Caribbean to face down a MadScientist with a pharmaceutical fortune and genocidal ambitions.
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James and his friend Hugo Grande have come to UsefulNotes/Cuba UsefulNotes/{{Cuba}} to stay with old family friend Gerald Hardiman until his Aunt Charmian returns from her Mexican anthropological expedition. But they've barely arrived before Hardiman is kidnapped, and James and Hugo find themselves on his trail from Havana and across the Caribbean to face down a MadScientist with a pharmaceutical fortune and genocidal ambitions.
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* BigCreepyCrawlies: Scolopendra named himself after a giant centipede he discovered. He also lets loose a swarm of [[BodyHorror botflies]] against James and Hugo at one point.
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* ForScience: Scolopendra is quite willing to infect innocent people with deadly diseases to test his pathogens.
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* RedRightHand: Ramón has an ugly scar running from under his nose to his chin, while his [[CoDragons co-Dragon]] El Puño ("The Fist") lost a hand and had it replaced with a carved fist of solid granite.
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* RedRightHand: Ramón has an ugly scar running from under his nose to his chin, while his [[CoDragons co-Dragon]] El Puño ("The Fist") lost a hand and had it replaced with a block of granite carved fist of solid granite.into a fist.
* [[TheManBehindTheMan The Woman Behind The Man]]: La Velada is more responsible for Scolopendra's success than he thinks, and despite what she says, it seems clear she's really [[spoiler: been working for the [[BiggerBad NKVD]] all along.]]
* [[TheManBehindTheMan The Woman Behind The Man]]: La Velada is more responsible for Scolopendra's success than he thinks, and despite what she says, it seems clear she's really [[spoiler: been working for the [[BiggerBad NKVD]] all along.]]
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* RedRightHand: Ramón has an ugly scar running from under his nose to his chin, while his CoDragon El Puño ("The Fist") lost a hand and had it replaced with a carved fist of solid granite.
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* RedRightHand: Ramón has an ugly scar running from under his nose to his chin, while his CoDragon [[CoDragons co-Dragon]] El Puño ("The Fist") lost a hand and had it replaced with a carved fist of solid granite.
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* BigBad: Audacto Solares, ''alias'' "Scolopendra", after the species of giant centipede he discovered, ''Scolopendra Deltadromeus''.
* DeadpanSnarker: Hugo, as usual. He admits it's a coping mechanism he developed long ago due to his height.
* CoDragons: Ramón and El Puño.
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Scolopendra's daughter Jagua Solares, named after the jaguar goddess.
* RedRightHand: Ramón has an ugly scar running from under his nose to his chin, while his CoDragon El Puño ("The Fist") lost a hand and had it replaced with a carved fist of solid granite.
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* BigBad: Audacto Solares, ''alias'' "Scolopendra", after the species of giant centipede he discovered, ''Scolopendra Deltadromeus''.
* DeadpanSnarker: Hugo, as usual. He admits it's a coping mechanism he developed long ago due to his height.
* CoDragons: Ramón and El Puño.
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Scolopendra's daughter Jagua Solares, named after the jaguar goddess.
* RedRightHand: Ramón has an ugly scar running from under his nose to his chin, while his CoDragon El Puño ("The Fist") lost a hand and had it replaced with a carved fist of solid granite.
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