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* {{Captain Crash}}: Jack. When he pilots Smart's Hyperjet to Wrekzaw Isle, he crashes it. When he pilots Solomon Roka's starship, he successfully drives it through hyperspace, and then crashes it. When he rides one of Zhi's dragons, he crashes it as well. When he steals Noteworthy's hovercar, he manages to drive it safely through a a war zone and ChaosArchitecture, but crashes it on purpose so he and his passenger Skerren black out so Jack doesn't have to fight him.
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* {{Captain Crash}}: Jack. When he pilots Smart's Hyperjet to Wrekzaw Isle, he crashes it. When he pilots Solomon Roka's starship, starship ''Harbinger'', he successfully drives it through hyperspace, and then crashes it. When he rides one of Zhi's dragons, he crashes it as well. When he steals Noteworthy's hovercar, he manages to drive it safely through a a war zone and ChaosArchitecture, but crashes it on purpose so he and his passenger Skerren black out so Jack doesn't have to fight him.
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* {{Perma Stubble}}: Solomon Roka is first introduced with three days worth of stubble on his face.
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* {{Composite Character}}: [[WordOfGod Matt Myklusch]] stated that Jazen was originally a human character who would disappear after Jack arrived in the Imagine Nation, and Jack would spend the rest of the book being escorted around by a robot butler-type person. The author thought that that [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter Jazen was being wasted]] and the robot butler was boring, so he combined the two.
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* {{Robotic Reveal}}: Right at the beginning, Jazen sets off a metal detector's alarms at the New Jersey harbor, and Jack discovers that Jazen is a android when he passes through an X-Ray machine in the hall of records, and opens up his arm to reveal the mechanisms inside it. Jazen didn't want to tell Jack right away because he didn't want to [[MindScrew blow Jack's mind]].
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** Played straighter with Revile ''the Undying'', who says he's invincible and can regenerate [[FromASingleCell from even the tiniest bit of scrap and computer code]]. He gets KilledOffForReal despite taking less damage than he used to be able to shrug off.
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* {{Hannibal Lecture}}: The Magus gives one of these addressed to all the people of the Imagine Nation, telling them to surrender because there is no use in wasting their lives fighting, so they should just devote them to a worthier cause as Rüstov hosts.
** {{Shut Up Hannibal}}: Jack responds in kind when the Magus reiterates his lecture a second time after they refused to listen the first time. He says that the Rüstov have thirty seconds to withdraw from Earth or he would come in rampaging and destroy them all.
** {{Shut Up Hannibal}}: Jack responds in kind when the Magus reiterates his lecture a second time after they refused to listen the first time. He says that the Rüstov have thirty seconds to withdraw from Earth or he would come in rampaging and destroy them all.
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* {{Fantastic Fruits and Vegetables}}: Kazellian Floovberries, which are rare and can only be found in the Kazellian Nebula. Jazen makes flopflips (read: light, airy blue pancakes) out of them.
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* {{Tribal Carry}: What the Varagog villagers do to Jack after he crashes the medical evacuation vehicle in their borough.
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* {{Tribal Carry}: Carry}}: What the Varagog villagers do to Jack after he crashes the medical evacuation vehicle in their borough.
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** Solomon Roka's ship, the ''Harbinger'' has its own device of this kind called the Ghost Box, which is activated so that his ship doesn't collide with anything during hyperspace jumps.
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* {{Electronic Speech Impediment}}: Jack notices that Jazen has a tendency to twitch and stall in the middle of his actions. Jazen is ashamed and assures that he never glitches. [[spoiler: The "glitches" Jazen experiences are signals that he had contracted a Rüstov spyware virus and was broadcasting all the things he saw and heard right back to them without his knowledge]].
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* {{Androids Are People Too}}: Jack finds out that Jazen is mechanical for the first time, and calls Jazen a "robot". Jazen tells Jack he doesn't like the term "robot" and says all the mechanical people in the Imagine Nation are independent and self-programmed, and that they are called Mechas.
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* {{Pensive Flashback}}: Jack wasn't conscious for a year in Rüstov captivity. In ''End of Infinity'', he keeps getting troubled flashbacks about being on the operating table and experimented on, as well as viewing hundreds of planets die in the Rüstov Theater of War, courtesy of [[EnemyWithin his parasite]] attempting to break Jack's will and take control.
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* {{Pensive {{Pensieve Flashback}}: Jack wasn't conscious for a year in Rüstov captivity. In ''End of Infinity'', he keeps getting troubled flashbacks about being on the operating table and experimented on, as well as viewing hundreds of planets die in the Rüstov Theater of War, courtesy of [[EnemyWithin his parasite]] attempting to break Jack's will and take control.
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* {{Psycho For Hire}}: Every member of the Peacemakers is implied to be like this in one way or another.
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* {{Family Of Choice}}: Jack considers Jazen to be his big brother even though Jazen is an android. He also considers his other friends to be his family. Lorem states outright that being a family is about more than blood.
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* {{Drama Preserving Handicap}}: In ''End Of Infinity'', Jack can still use his powers to great effect, but the influence of his parasite actively prevents him from using his technopath sensing on Rüstov directly. Once this limit is removed, it instantly becomes a StoryBreakerPower.
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* {{Fantastic Racism}}: Downplayed. Because Silico, the infamous Great Collaborator was a Mecha, all Mechas like him were considered [[GuiltByAssociation suspects by association]] and regularly targeted and abused in years following the first Rüstov invasion, akin to the Japanese in America during WWII. However, they are considered ordinary citizens with full rights otherwise.
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* {{Fantastic Racism}}: Downplayed. Because Silico, Silico the infamous Great Collaborator was a Mecha, all Mechas like him were considered [[GuiltByAssociation suspects by association]] and regularly targeted and abused in years following the first Rüstov invasion, akin to the Japanese in America during WWII. However, they are considered ordinary citizens with full rights otherwise.
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* {{Logical Weakness}}: Jack and his friends are following behind Midknight and Noteworthy, suspecting the latter two of treachery. Midknight doesn't want the kids following them, so he throws a gadget that traps them. Jack can't use his powers against it because it's made from OrganicTechnology.
** Skerren is GenreSavvy enough to invoke the same later on. The Varagog villagers are more than ready to place Jack in the stockade, but Skerren knows that while technology doesn't work in Varagog, Jack's powers still do and Jack can telekinetically control anything with moving parts, including a simple lock. Skerren suggests that the villagers instead tie him to a pole with a rope.
** Skerren is GenreSavvy enough to invoke the same later on. The Varagog villagers are more than ready to place Jack in the stockade, but Skerren knows that while technology doesn't work in Varagog, Jack's powers still do and Jack can telekinetically control anything with moving parts, including a simple lock. Skerren suggests that the villagers instead tie him to a pole with a rope.
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** Jack invokes this trope in ''End of Infinity''. He hears that Jazen was captured by Smart and was being held prisoner, and confirms this by using his powers to grab a floating advertisement screen and change the channel to the news, showing an interview between Smart and Virtua about the situation.
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** Jack invokes this trope in ''End of Infinity''. He hears that Jazen was captured by Smart and was being held prisoner, and confirms this by using his powers to grab a floating advertisement screen and change the channel to the news, showing a HostageVideo of Jazen and an interview between Smart and Virtua about the situation.
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* {{Tribal Carry}: What the Varagog villagers do to Jack after he crashes the medical evacuation vehicle in their borough.
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** Subverted with the ''Vision'', the first vehicle Jack drives. Jazen gives the helm of the boat to Jack and says that in order to reach the Imagine Nation, Jack has to drive himself there. Jack successfully drives the boat through the heart of a fierce storm to their destination, but realizes that he's dangerously close to driving toward the world's biggest
waterfalls. Blue asks to take over before Jack crashes.
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** Subverted with the ''Vision'', the first vehicle Jack drives. Jazen gives the helm of the boat to Jack and says that in order to reach the Imagine Nation, Jack has to drive himself there. Jack successfully drives the boat through the heart of a fierce storm to their destination, but realizes that he's dangerously close to driving toward the world's biggest
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** Jack also crashes the medical evacuation shuttle he's piloting with Allegra, but it wasn't his fault: War Hawks had broken in and sabotaged the engine while they were flying.
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* {{Bond One Liner}}: After Jack takes out a Rüstov carrier, Allegra invokes this trope. She makes a line about the Rüstov catching the train, but tells Jack to stop after he uses lame lines with the verb definition of "train".
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* {{Bond One Liner}}: After Jack takes out a Rüstov carrier, carrier by dropping a train on them, Allegra invokes this trope. She makes a line about the Rüstov catching the train, but tells Jack to stop after he uses lame lines with the verb definition of "train".
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* {{Bond One Liner}}: After Jack takes out a Rüstov carrier, Allegra invokes this trope. She makes a line about the Rüstov catching the train, but tells Jack to stop after he uses lame lines with the verb definition of "train".
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* {{Car Fu}}: Jack uses his powers to control an entire fleet of unarmed ships in an effort to crash them into enemy fighters.
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* {{Car Fu}}: Jack uses his powers to control an entire fleet of unarmed unarmed, unmanned ships in an effort to crash them into enemy fighters.fighters. He also uses a tow cable to derail a train and drop it onto a Rüstov ship.
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* {{Captain Crash}}: Jack. When he pilots Smart's Hyperjet to Wrekzaw Isle, he crashes it. When he pilots Solomon Roka's starship, he successfully drives it through hyperspace, and then crashes it. When he rides one of Zhi's dragons, he crashes it as well. When he steals Noteworthy's hovercar, he manages to drive it safely through a a war zone and ChaosArchitecture, but crashes it on purpose.
** Subverted with the ''Vision'', the first vehicle Jack drives. Jazen gives the helm of the boat to Jack and says that in order to reach the Imagine Nation, Jack has to drive himself there. Jack successfully drives the boat through the heart of a fierce storm to their destination, but realizes that he's dangerously close to driving toward the world's biggest waterfalls. Blue asks to take over before Jack crashes.
** Subverted with the ''Vision'', the first vehicle Jack drives. Jazen gives the helm of the boat to Jack and says that in order to reach the Imagine Nation, Jack has to drive himself there. Jack successfully drives the boat through the heart of a fierce storm to their destination, but realizes that he's dangerously close to driving toward the world's biggest waterfalls. Blue asks to take over before Jack crashes.
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* {{Captain Crash}}: Jack. When he pilots Smart's Hyperjet to Wrekzaw Isle, he crashes it. When he pilots Solomon Roka's starship, he successfully drives it through hyperspace, and then crashes it. When he rides one of Zhi's dragons, he crashes it as well. When he steals Noteworthy's hovercar, he manages to drive it safely through a a war zone and ChaosArchitecture, but crashes it on purpose.
purpose so he and his passenger Skerren black out so Jack doesn't have to fight him.
** Subverted with the ''Vision'', the first vehicle Jack drives. Jazen gives the helm of the boat to Jack and says that in order to reach the Imagine Nation, Jack has to drive himself there. Jack successfully drives the boat through the heart of a fierce storm to their destination, but realizes that he's dangerously close to driving toward the world'sbiggest biggest
waterfalls. Blue asks to take over before Jackcrashes.crashes.
* {{Car Fu}}: Jack uses his powers to control an entire fleet of unarmed ships in an effort to crash them into enemy fighters.
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waterfalls. Blue asks to take over before Jack
* {{Car Fu}}: Jack uses his powers to control an entire fleet of unarmed ships in an effort to crash them into enemy fighters.
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* {{Monumental Damage}}: In an air battle, Jack is using his powers to fire missles at a Rüstov transport ship, but loses concentration. Stray missles destroy the statue of Legend by accident. Jack grumbles that everyone's going to think he did that on purpose.
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* {{Ass In Ambassador}}: Ambassador Equa of the Calculan delegation isn't particularly rude, but he is very fickle regarding whether or not his people should side with Earth. This is chalked up to alien ValuesDissonance; they make their decisions by calculating the odds and factor in many factual variables that lead them to believe siding with the Imagine Nation wouldn't be prudent because they are still fighting amongst themselves.
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* {{Coincidental Broadcast}}: News broadcasting about a Rüstov attacking the Peacemaker Cyberai in Karateka ends up on Jack's television. It's lampshaded that Jack didn't even turn the television on but the news came up automatically.
** Jack invokes this trope in ''End of Infinity''. He hears that Jazen was captured by Smart and was being held prisoner, and confirms this by using his powers to grab a floating advertisement screen and change the channel to the news, showing an interview between Smart and Virtua about the situation.
** Jack invokes this trope in ''End of Infinity''. He hears that Jazen was captured by Smart and was being held prisoner, and confirms this by using his powers to grab a floating advertisement screen and change the channel to the news, showing an interview between Smart and Virtua about the situation.
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* {{Talking In Your Sleep}}: Jack does this, and it's apparently coherent enough that his friends manage to hear the whole story about what the Rüstov did to him in captivity.
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* {{Absurdly Spacious Sewer}}: The drainage tunnels under Lowtown are sufficiently large enough to comfortably hold at least six people in one place. They're also lined with lead so X-rays can't penetrate them.
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* {{Flashback Nightmare}}: Jack wasn't conscious for a year in Rüstov captivity. In ''End of Infinity'', he keeps getting troubled flashbacks about being on the operating table and viewing hundreds of planets die in the Rüstov Theater of War, courtesy of [[EnemyWithin his parasite]] attempting to break Jack's will and take control.
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* {{Flashback Nightmare}}: {{Pensive Flashback}}: Jack wasn't conscious for a year in Rüstov captivity. In ''End of Infinity'', he keeps getting troubled flashbacks about being on the operating table and viewing hundreds of planets die in the Rüstov Theater of War, courtesy of [[EnemyWithin his parasite]] attempting to break Jack's will and take control.
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* {{Captain Crash}}: Jack. When he pilots Smart's Hyperjet to Wrekzaw Isle, he crashes it. When he pilots Solomon Roka's starship, he successfully drives it through hyperspace, and then crashes it. When he rides one of Zhi's dragons, he crashes it as well.
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* {{Captain Crash}}: Jack. When he pilots Smart's Hyperjet to Wrekzaw Isle, he crashes it. When he pilots Solomon Roka's starship, he successfully drives it through hyperspace, and then crashes it. When he rides one of Zhi's dragons, he crashes it as well. When he steals Noteworthy's hovercar, he manages to drive it safely through a a war zone and ChaosArchitecture, but crashes it on purpose.
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* {{Drives Like Crazy}}: Jack is a very reckless driver who has a tendency to bob, weave, and crash into things and shrug it off. Luck, stellar safety engineering, and PlotArmor usually means that he and his passengers tend to survive without injury.
** Skerren has a lot of trouble controlling Allegra's airskimmer while battling in Karateka.
** Skerren has a lot of trouble controlling Allegra's airskimmer while battling in Karateka.
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* {{Soft Glass}}: During Jack's escape from a battle, Jack drives a hovercar through a building and crashes it out through a window. None of the passengers are harmed and the car is still perfectly drivable afterward; Roka's only upset that Jack didn't give any warning that they would go through a window because he was driving a convertible.
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* {{Immune To Bullets}}: Smart's War Hawks fire many rounds to attack Jack, but his friends Jazen, Allegra and Blue manage to form a protective shield around him because the three of them can shrug them off.
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* {{Flashback Nightmare}}: Jack wasn't conscious for a year in Rüstov captivity. In ''End of Infinity'', he keeps getting troubled flashbacks about being on the operating table and viewing hundreds of planets die in the Rüstov Theater of War, courtesy of [[EnemyWithin his parasite]] attempting to break Jack's will and take control.
