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* JustForPun: Fission Chips a.k.a. 00005, a Film/JamesBond {{expy}}.
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** One to the book reviewers and the publishing industry in general:
-->We don't expect you to actually read the books, just so long as you can be entertaining about them.
-->We don't expect you to actually read the books, just so long as you can be entertaining about them.
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* DepravedDwarf: Markov Chaney, AKA The Midget, a bitter genius who takes his frustration on humanity by hiding in office coffee pots and creating fake red tape documents and awkwardly demanding business signs.
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->''It's a dreadfully long monster of a book... and I certainly won't have time to read it, but I'm giving it a thorough skimming. The authors are utterly incompetent—no sense of style or structure at all. It starts out as a detective story, switches to science-fiction, then goes off into the supernatural, and is full of the most detailed information of dozens of ghastly boring subjects. And the time sequence is all out of order in a very pretentious imitation of Faulkner and Joyce. Worst yet, it has the most raunchy sex scenes, thrown in just to make it sell, I'm sure, and the authors—whom I've never heard of—have the supreme bad taste to introduce real political figures into this mishmash and pretend to be exposing a real conspiracy... If Literature/TheLordOfTheRings is a fairy tale for adults, sophisticated readers will quickly recognize this monumental miscarriage as a fairy tale for paranoids.''
->''It's a dreadfully long monster of a book... and I certainly won't have time to read it, but I'm giving it a thorough skimming. The authors are utterly incompetent—no sense of style or structure at all. It starts out as a detective story, switches to science-fiction, then goes off into the supernatural, and is full of the most detailed information of dozens of ghastly boring subjects. And the time sequence is all out of order in a very pretentious imitation of Faulkner and Joyce. Worst yet, it has the most raunchy sex scenes, thrown in just to make it sell, I'm sure, and the authors—whom I've never heard of—have the supreme bad taste to introduce real political figures into this mishmash and pretend to be exposing a real conspiracy... If Literature/TheLordOfTheRings is a fairy tale for adults, sophisticated readers will quickly recognize this monumental miscarriage as a fairy tale for paranoids.''
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->''It's a dreadfully long monster of a book... and I certainly won't have time to read it, but I'm giving it a thorough skimming. The authors are utterly incompetent—no sense of style or structure at all. It starts out as a detective story, switches to science-fiction, then goes off into the supernatural, and is full of the most detailed information of dozens of ghastly boring subjects. And the time sequence is all out of order in a very pretentious imitation of
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* NumberObsession: Multiple characters are obsessed with the numbers 5, 17, and 23.
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* UnifiedNamingSystem: The plethora of acronymous --and mutually acrimonious.- competing groups. This is not done entirely seriously --witness KCUF-- Knights of Christ United in Faith. Or WHORE --White Heroes Opposing Red Extremism.
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* DeconstructiveParody: Of UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories, [[TheSixties 1960s hippie culture]], and even ''the book itself''. See SelfDeprecation.
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* DeconstructiveParody: Of UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories, conspiracy theories, [[TheSixties 1960s hippie culture]], and even ''the book itself''. See SelfDeprecation.
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* BadDate: the literature critic Epicine Wildblood had placed a personals ad for "[[LoverAndBeloved men interested in Greek culture]]" but got an answer from the unnamed, heterosexual Vice President of the US who wanted to talk about how great he thinks the Greek military Junta is.
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* AncientTradition: The Erisian Liberation Front, and several others.
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* AuthorTract: A lot of the book is blatant anti-authoritarian ranting.
* BavarianFiredrill: Trope Namer.
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* BrownNote: fnord It is hinted that the actual fnord word is not fnord, but some word people actually fnording use, with the same effect.
* CargoShip: An in-universe example in [[spoiler:Leviathan/FUCKUP]]
* CargoShip: An in-universe example in [[spoiler:Leviathan/FUCKUP]]
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* BrownNote: fnord fnord. It is hinted that the actual fnord word is not fnord, but some word people actually fnording use, with the same effect.
* %%* CargoShip: An in-universe example in [[spoiler:Leviathan/FUCKUP]]
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* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Hagbard]]
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* ConspiracyRedemption
* ConspiracyTheorist
* ContemplateOurNavels
* ConspiracyTheorist
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* PinealWeirdness: And ''how''.
* ThePlague: Anthrax Leprosy Mu
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* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: The Ophidians.
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* StrawmanPolitical: Several.
* SubmarinePirates: Hagbard Celine.
* TheSyndicate: Putney Drake's takeover of the mobs creates a mega-syndicate.
* SubmarinePirates: Hagbard Celine.
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* UnfazedEveryman: George Dorn, arguably.
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* WarriorPoet: Howard the Porpoise.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: Joe Malik's dogs.]]
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the appendices.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: Joe Malik's dogs.]]
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the appendices.
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** Considering the members of that band had only just been born when the books were written, it's more likely Nirvana refers to the British psychedelic band of the same name, or the name may have been made up on the spot.
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* UnreliableExpositor: As befits a ConspiracyKitchenSink, taken UpToEleven.
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* UnreliableExpositor: As befits a ConspiracyKitchenSink, taken UpToEleven.up to eleven.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: And that's if you don't count [[HistoricalDomainCharacter real-life historical figures]]!
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* MultipleChoicePast: There are a ''lot'' of different stories told about Gruad the Greyface, which make him out to be anything from the original Satan or heroic Prometheus or anything in between. [[spoiler:Graud claims he started most of the rumors himself and was just sort of in the right place at the appropriate time, but who knows.]]
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* EldritchAbomination: In addition to the [[EnergyBeings Lloigor]], there's also the Leviathan, a [[{{Kaiju}} mountain-sized]] single-celled life form that's lived in the oceans since the [[TimeAbyss Precambrian Era]].
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* EldritchAbomination: In addition to the [[EnergyBeings Lloigor]], there's also the Leviathan, [[EyeOfProvidence Leviathan]], a [[{{Kaiju}} mountain-sized]] single-celled life form that's lived in the oceans since the [[TimeAbyss Precambrian Era]].
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* EyeOfProvidence: The eye-in-the-pyramid is an omnipresent symbol of the world-spanning conspiracy (of which TheIlluminati are just a small branch) that the heroes are fighting. Eventually, the latter even discover the (in-story) origin/inspiration of said symbol: [[spoiler:a giant sea monster named Leviathan, slumbering in the sunken ruins of {{Atlantis}}, shaped like a pyramid with a giant glowing sphere inside it that looks like an eye[[note]]Leviathan is actually an offspring of the very first eukaryotic cell that evolved on Earth: after its very first division, one of its halves went on to evolve into multicellular life, including humans, while the other just kept growing without dividing for billions of years, adopting the pyramid shape for structural support; the "eye" is actually its giant nucleus shining through the cell walls[[/note]].]]
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* CaptainNemoCopy: Hagbard Celine, the genius anarchist who opposes TheIlluminati with his golden submarine, the ''Leif Ericson''.
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* AuthorTract: A lot of the book is blatant anti-authoritarian ranting. But SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.
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* AuthorTract: A lot of the book is blatant anti-authoritarian ranting. But SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.
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*AllStoriesAreRealSomewhereAmericanEagle: The book ends on a scene where an all-American hunter is climbing a mountain somewhere in the Rockies on a mission that will make him a god among hunters and utterly reviled by liberals, commies, ecologists, hippies and limp-wristed pinkos. Specifically, his mission is to kill the last known American Eagle. As he lowers his rifle and screams "I did it! I killed the last eagle!" the strands of the story come together as a massive earthquake begins under his feet. The San Andreas Fault has just broken up and at this point, a combination of earthquakes and tsunamis destroy the Pacific seaboard of the USA. The implication is clear: America is so bound up with its symbolic eagles that killing the last one, rendering the species extinct, also destroys the USA. The ideal of America dies with the last eagle.
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* ApocalypseCult: The Illuminati Prime (the five most powerful people in the world) are actively seeking to Immanetize the Eschaton - ie, bring about the apocalypse - to make themselves immortal and provide a massive blood sacrifice to their Elder Brothers and Sisters, the Lloigr of Cthulu.
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* ApocalypseCult: The Illuminati Prime (the five most powerful people in the world) are actively seeking to Immanetize the Eschaton - -- ie, bring about the apocalypse - -- to make themselves immortal and provide a massive blood sacrifice to their Elder Brothers and Sisters, the Lloigr of Cthulu.
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* ArcNumber: 5, 17, 23 (''especially'' 23)
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* AgentPeacock: A resident of Fernando Poo who kills several soldiers with a broadsword before being riddled with bullets.
* DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu: Apparently the Necronomicon contains lots of pentagons, with images of people having sex with shoggoths and other Lovecraftian beings.
** Fission Chips hears a Shoggoth attempting to proposition him- at least according to him.
** Fission Chips hears a Shoggoth attempting to proposition him- at least according to him.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: 00005, a Film/JamesBond expy who finds himself in way over his head trying to infiltrate the Esoteric Order of Dagon. Still, when at Fernando Poo, he's more aware of the truth behind the event than all the major intelligence agencies.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: 00005, a Film/JamesBond expy who finds himself in way over his head trying to infiltrate the Esoteric Order of Dagon.Starry Wisdom Church. Still, when at Fernando Poo, he's more aware of the truth behind the event than all the major intelligence agencies.
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* MysticalCityPlanning: It's implied that The Pentagon is built that way because of the occult significance of the shape, and that it's housing some sort of EldritchAbomination.
