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* HeelFaceTurn: Played with. The new foundation Junie heads up has a rescuee from ''The Dragon Factory'' and someone Deacon has declared as no longer an enemy but to be treated as a friendly: [[spoiler: Alexander "Toys" Chismer]], whose reformation is sincere, but who believes he doesn't deserve the chance he's getting.
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** NotUsingTheZedWord: NotUsingTheZedWord: Played with. with. Sometimes the come right out and say it. it. A Code Zero is [=DMS=] speak for "zombies", and Ledger has used the word "zombie" himself, as have members on their team. team. For reasons of common sense (to avoid a panic) and professionality, they adhere to the trope when dealing with anyone outside of the security loop -- meaning other agencies and all civilians.
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** NotUsingTheZedWord: NotUsingTheZedWord: Played with. with. Sometimes the come right out and say it. it. A Code Zero is [=DMS=] speak for "zombies", and Ledger has used the word "zombie" himself, as have members on their team. team. For reasons of common sense (to avoid a panic) and professionality, they adhere to the trope when dealing with anyone outside of the security loop -- meaning other agencies and all civilians.civilians.
** ShoutOut: Zombie movies specifically are used by Joe in briefing his team, to let them know what kind of scenario they're looking at if they fail.
*** Film/WorldWarZ
*** Film/TwentyEightDaysLater
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** ShoutOut: Zombie movies specifically are used by Joe in briefing his team, to let them know what kind of scenario they're looking at if they fail.
*** Film/WorldWarZ
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* ActionGirl: Any female who becomes a LoveInterest for Joe once he's an adult: Grace, Violin. Even the usually pacifist Jeanie gets in on the act.
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* ZombieApocalypse: Planned but narrowly averted by Joe and team.
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* ZombieApocalypse: Planned but narrowly averted by Joe and team.team.
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** NotUsingTheZedWord: Played with. Sometimes the come right out and say it. A Code Zero is [=DMS=] speak for "zombies", and Ledger has used the word "zombie" himself, as have members on their team. For reasons of common sense (to avoid a panic) and professionality, they adhere to the trope when dealing with anyone outside of the security loop -- meaning other agencies and all civilians.
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** The Echo Team Callsigns don't start out that way, but as the series progresses they get more shout-outs:
*** "Warbride" is a reference to the William Shatner novel series "Tek".
*** "Comicbook/{{Hellboy}}" is obvious.
*** "[[Literature/LordOfTheRings Gandalf]]"
*** "[[LiveActionTV/DoctorWho Bad Wolf]]"
*** "Warbride" is a reference to the William Shatner novel series "Tek".
*** "Comicbook/{{Hellboy}}" is obvious.
*** "[[Literature/LordOfTheRings Gandalf]]"
*** "[[LiveActionTV/DoctorWho Bad Wolf]]"
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** The Echo Team Callsigns don't start out that way, but as Callsigns:
*** Team leader Ledger is "Cowboy"
*** Top Sims is "[[Comicbook/SergeantRock]]"
*** Harvey Rabbit is "Green Giant" after theseries progresses they get more shout-outs:
frozen vegetables.
*** Lydia's callsign "Warbride" is a reference to the William Shatner novel series "Tek".
*** Ivan's callsign "Comicbook/{{Hellboy}}" isobvious.
the same as the title of the MikeMignola comic.
*** Noah's callisgn is "[[Literature/LordOfTheRings Gandalf]]"
*** Duncan's is "[[LiveActionTV/DoctorWho BadWolf]]"Wolf]]"
*** Montana gets the IronicNickname "Stretch", which is actually ''not'' a Comicbook/FantasticFour shout out.
*** Team leader Ledger is "Cowboy"
*** Top Sims is "[[Comicbook/SergeantRock]]"
*** Harvey Rabbit is "Green Giant" after the
*** Lydia's callsign "Warbride" is a reference to the William Shatner novel series "Tek".
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*** Noah's callisgn is "[[Literature/LordOfTheRings Gandalf]]"
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don't start out that way, but as the series progresses they get more shout-outs:
***The callsign "Warbride" is a reference to the William Shatner novel series "Tek".
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* CreepyTwins: The owners of ''The Dragon Factory''. Not only are they incestuous, they've also used gene therapy on themselves to give themselves pointed teeth and other animalistic traits.
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* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler: Alexander Chismer/Toys as of "Assassin' Code"]]
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted Rudy is a psychiatrist[=/=]psychologist who helps Joe over the death of his girlfiend Helen, and later, Grace.
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* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler: Alexander Chismer/Toys as of "Assassin' "Assassin's Code"]]
* ThereAreNoTherapists:Averted Averted. Rudy is a psychiatrist[=/=]psychologist who helps Joe over the death of his girlfiend Helen, and later, Grace.
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* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: While Dr. Hu is not actually evil, he views the end of the world plots as a chance to play with a new toy
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* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: While Dr. Hu is not actually evil, and is a genuine doctor, he views the end of the world plots as a chance to play with a new toytoy. He seems to lack empathy completely, which keeps most of the [=DMS=] and him in an antagonistic relationship.
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** Not precisely or strictly half and half, but several people in ''The Extinction Machine''.
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** TheHeart -- - Rudy.
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* InnerMonologue: Any part of the book involving Ledger's narration is told from Ledger's [=POV=] and in his voice.
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* CanonWelding: The Joe Ledger books and the author's Pine Deep books take place in the same universe.
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* CanonWelding: The Joe Ledger books and the author's Pine Deep books take place in the same universe.
* CelebrityResemblance: Aunt Sallie is an exact dead ringer for WhoopiGoldberg.
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* CanonWelding: CanonWelding: The Joe Ledger books and the author's Pine Deep books take place in the same universe.
* CelebrityResemblance: Sprinkled throughout.
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The chronological order of the series goes: ''Patient Zero'', ''Zero Tolerance'', then ''Material Witness'', ''Deep, Dark'', ''The Dragon Factory'', ''Countdown'', ''The King of Plagues'', ''The Assassin's Code'', ''Borrowed Power'', ''Extinction Machine''.
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The chronological order of the series goes: ''Patient Zero'', ''Zero Tolerance'', then ''Material Witness'', ''Deep, Dark'', ''The Dragon Factory'', ''Countdown'', ''The King of Plagues'', ''The Assassin's Code'', ''Borrowed Power'', ''Extinction Machine''.
Machine'', ''Code Zero''.
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* BadassBoast: When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week there's either something wrong with your world or something wrong with your skills... and there's nothing wrong with my skills.
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Joe Ledger is the protagonist of a series of military[=/=]{{Horror}}[=/=]SpeculativeFiction thrillers written by Jonathan Maberry.
Troubled Baltimore Police Officer Joseph Ledger is man with an Army background and a painful past. After helping foil a major crime in his home city, he is approached by a man known only as Mr. Church, who offers him the opportunity to head up his own team on a special task force branch of the Department of Homeland Security.
Joe, intrigued, joins up and gets his best friend and therapist Rudy involved as well. He hand picks from the recruits a number of men, including Bradley "Top" Sims and Harvey "Bunny" Rabbit. They are then sent out to stop terrorist cells from doing things that could literally end the world. But these terrorist cells take terror to a new level, often using MadScience to duplicate monsters usually only ever conceived in supernatural fiction and folklore.
The series currently consists of:
* Novels
** Patient Zero
** The Dragon Factory
** The King of Plagues
** The Assassin's Code
** Extinction Machine
* Short Stories
** Countdown
** Zero Tolerance
** Material Witness
** Deep, Dark
** Borrowed Power
The chronological order of the series goes: ''Patient Zero'', ''Zero Tolerance'', then ''Material Witness'', ''Deep, Dark'', ''The Dragon Factory'', ''Countdown'', ''The King of Plagues'', ''The Assassin's Code'', ''Borrowed Power'', ''Extinction Machine''.
!! The Joe Ledger series contains examples of the following tropes:
* ActionGirl: Any female who becomes a LoveInterest for Joe once he's an adult: Grace, Violin. Even the usually pacifist Jeanie gets in on the act.
* AlienTropes: ''Extinction Machine'' is [[TropeOverdosed loaded]] with them. A few examples...
** AlienAbduction: The President of the United States is kidnapped and held hostage. The ransom? [[TheManBehindTheMan [=M3=]/Majestic 3's]][[note]]The group that controls MJ-12[=/=]"Majestic 12"[[/note]] [[GreatBigBookOfEverything "Black Book"]].
** AlienNonInterferenceClause: Subverted. The aliens left all kinds of advanced technology lying around, but only intervened when we became capable of using it to wage war.
** CameFromTheSky: Where else?
** DesignerBabies: Alien-Human hybrids (roughly 18% alien, 82% human), bred to pilot the reconstructed alien ships.
** FirstContactMath: In the form of CropCircles on the White House lawn, no less. They express the value of "pi".
** ImportedAlienPhlebotinum: Retrieved from crashed alien spaceships, which are surprisingly plentiful.
** TheMenInBlack: AKA "The Closers". Their responses vary from not-so-veiled threats to [[MurderIsTheBestSolution cold-blooded murder]].
** RoswellThatEndsWell: Where the Phlebotinum was first discovered.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: In ''Extinction Machine'', DMS headquarters is destroyed by bombs made of alien Phlebotinum, and about 200 people are killed.
* AlmostKiss: Played with. Joe stops himself from kissing Violin, and she becomes offended thinking [[spoiler: that her half-vampire nature has disgusted him, knowing now what he knows about the full vampire race. But he stopped her because of two reasons: he'd eaten garlic due to having to face the full vampires and thus had terrible bad breath, and also as a half-vampire, he was afraid he would cause her harm through the same allergic reaction to it]]. When she found out the real reason, she laughed.
* AmazonBrigade: The Mothers of The Fallen and their daughters.
* AnyoneCanDie: among many others, Grace.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Joe admits that although he has fought zombies, mutants, and clones, that he has a really, really difficult time embracing the idea that vampires are real. [[spoiler: And then the [[HigherTechSpecies aliens]] showed up...]]
* AssKickingEqualsAuthority: Joe gets his authority by kicking the ass of his team when they are arguing who should be in charge.
* {{Badass}}: Everyone in the DMS, bonus points to Joe, Mr. Church, Sergeant Dietrich, Bunny and Top Sims
* BadassBoast: When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week there's either something wrong with your world or something wrong with your skills... and there's nothing wrong with my skills.
* BadassInCharge: Church and Joe
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Stoker and several other authors were either working for the Red Order or had been intentionally misdirected by the vampires.
* BerserkButton: Never threaten Mr. Church's family. ''Ever.''
* BigDamnHeroes: Echo Team has one for Joe just about every book.
* BigFriendlyDog: Ghost is one to Echo Team, and only to anyone else Joe has identified as a friend by command phrase.
* BigNo: Echo Team in ''Assassin's Code''.
* BodyHorror: a lot of the things encountered in ''The Dragon Factory'' and "Deep, Dark".
* BornLucky: Joe Ledger, though Aunt Sallie comments it does not extend to those under his command.
* BrotherSisterIncest: [[spoiler: the twins from ''The Dragon Factory'']].
* BruiserWithASoftCenter: Bunny.
* BugBuzz: Noises heard by Joe, Top and Bunny in "Deep, Dark", as a result of the work going on there.
* {{Chessmaster}}: [[spoiler:Hugo Vox]] in ''Assassins's Code'', who delights in manipulating all the players into a LetsYouAndHimFight situation. However, he does not live to enjoy the fruits of his labors, since [[spoiler: Mr. Church tracks him down and kills him.]]
* CloningBlues: [[spoiler: 82 after he discovered that he is a clone of Josef Mengele]]
* CodeName: Used by the [=DMS=] teams and by Arklight's operatives.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Sebastian Gault
* CrossOver: With the Pine Deep Trilogy by the Same Author; In addition The Benny Imura Series of books by the Same Author
* CuteBruiser: Lydia.
* DisposableWoman: Played with. Joe's first girlfriend Helen was raped when they were young teenagers, and suicided some years later. Joe still has nightmares, but doesn't become overbearing protective to the women he ends up attracted to once he's an adult.
* DownerEnding: Played straight and subverted in different books.
* EvilDetectingDog: Joe's dog Ghost subverts the trope. He's just a military trained German Shephard trained for bomb detection, body detection, and attack. Some of the enemies act like he really ''is'' such a dog.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Hugo Vox]].
* FakeHairDrama: Junie.
* FiveManBand: Echo Team -- though the lineup changes because of death by attrition.
** TheHero - Ledger
** TheLancer - Top
** TheBigGuy - Bunny
** TheSmartGuy - shared by Bug, Dr. Hu, and Rudy.
** TheChick - changes due to death by attrition, but is Grace early in the series, Lydia later, though they are TheChick in name only.
* FromBadToWorse: A CorruptCorporateExecutive and Terrorists with Zombies in the First Book ends with Vampires with Nuclear Bombs.
* GetAholdOfYourselfMan: During ''Extinction Machine'', Top Sims snaps Joe Ledger out of his HeroicBSOD, after Joe hears that Mr. Church and Rudy are missing and presumed dead.
* GratuitousSpanish: Lydia. She tends to call Ledger "Gaucho", which is Spanish for his codename, "Cowboy".
* HalfHumanHybrid: Various things in ''The Dragon Factory''.
* {{Hologram}}s: Mr. Church and Aunt Sallie have access to technology that produces them -- within limits.
* ICallHerVera: In "Material Witness," Bunny mentions naming his new gun "Missy".
* IHaveManyNames: Mr. Church aka The Deacon, aka St. Germain. And those are only a few of the aliases mentioned for him, and only the few Joe himself knows personally.
* IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight: In "Deep, Dark" Joe uses this on James Collins.
* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: Aunt Sallie looks exactly like Whoopi Goldberg.
* JerkAss: Doctor Hu.
* LadyOfWar: Grace, Lilith, Violin.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: El Mujahid.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Subverted with Gault. He is already quite evil, but love kind of throws him off his game. A little.
* MadScience: Lots and ''lots'' of it, in every book.
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: One of the twins from ''The Dragon Factory'' who is a MadScientist herself.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Invoked. The team crashes/explodes a Cigarette boat to make it look like a drunk boating accident.
* MenDontCry: Subverted. Even though Joe and his team are all {{Badass}}es, none of them flinches from shedding ManlyTears when the situation calls for it.
* TheMole [[spoiler: Skip Tyler in Patient Zero]]
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: The [[spoiler: Upierczi]] family.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: While Dr. Hu is not actually evil, he views the end of the world plots as a chance to play with a new toy
* OurMonstersAreDifferent
** OurGhostsAreDifferent
** OurVampiresAreDifferent
*** VampireBitesSuck: These vampires are of the "tear the throat out" variety.
*** WeakSauceWeakness: These vampires are allergic to garlic, but not in the usual way; Echo Team of course uses the weakness creatively.
** OurZombiesAreDifferent: They have a MadScientist variation on Mad Cow Disease.
* OverlyLongScream: When the President is abruptly returned at the end of ''Extinction Machine'', the Vice-President[=/=]Acting President starts screaming, and keeps it up for quite a while.
* PapaWolf: Ledger has a few traits of it, Top Sims is a father himself, so definitely qualifies; but Deacon really embodies the trope at one point in the series.
* PlayfulHacker: Jerome Williams, the [=DMS=]'s computer genius, aka Bug.
* PowerTrio: Joe, Top and Bunny.
* PunnyName: Dr. [[Series/DoctorWho Hu]].
* TheQuietOne: John Smith, aka "Chatterbox".
* RapeAsDrama: Ledger's {{Backstory}}.
** The breeding program used by the Red Knights in "Assassin's Code".
* [[RedEyesTakeWarning Red Eyes With]] HellishPupils: The vampires.
* RedHerringMole: [[spoiler: Poor Ollie Brown, but as a former CIA assassin he did look the part]]
* SanitySlippage: Joe tends to suffer a little bit of it in each book, but comes back because he has Rudy to turn to.
* ShoutOut: There are a number of pop culture references, as Joe is an aficionado of same.
** JamesBond
** [[Series/TwentyFour 24]]
* SplitPersonality: Joe Ledger. However, he has worked it out in such a way that the three personalities tend to work together, like a committee. The Civilian keeps him sane, The Cop Works things out and when the [[BloodKnight Warrior]] gets let out, someone is going to get hurt.
* TakeThat: A dig at ''{{Twilight}}'' in "Assassin's Code".
* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler: Alexander Chismer/Toys as of "Assassin' Code"]]
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted Rudy is a psychiatrist[=/=]psychologist who helps Joe over the death of his girlfiend Helen, and later, Grace.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Mr. Church loves Vanilla Wafers, Joe Likes Oreos
* UnfortunateName: {{Harvey}} Rabbit -- naturally everybody calls him "Bunny".
* TheVirus:
** ''Patient Zero'' has one version.
** ''King of Plagues'' has another.
* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: Mr. Church plays with the trope. He is forever pulling amazing technological gadgets out for the [=DMS=] and Joe's team in particular. When asked, all he ever says is "[[RunningGag I have a friend in the industry.]]"
* ZombieApocalypse: Planned but narrowly averted by Joe and team.
Troubled Baltimore Police Officer Joseph Ledger is man with an Army background and a painful past. After helping foil a major crime in his home city, he is approached by a man known only as Mr. Church, who offers him the opportunity to head up his own team on a special task force branch of the Department of Homeland Security.
Joe, intrigued, joins up and gets his best friend and therapist Rudy involved as well. He hand picks from the recruits a number of men, including Bradley "Top" Sims and Harvey "Bunny" Rabbit. They are then sent out to stop terrorist cells from doing things that could literally end the world. But these terrorist cells take terror to a new level, often using MadScience to duplicate monsters usually only ever conceived in supernatural fiction and folklore.
The series currently consists of:
* Novels
** Patient Zero
** The Dragon Factory
** The King of Plagues
** The Assassin's Code
** Extinction Machine
* Short Stories
** Countdown
** Zero Tolerance
** Material Witness
** Deep, Dark
** Borrowed Power
The chronological order of the series goes: ''Patient Zero'', ''Zero Tolerance'', then ''Material Witness'', ''Deep, Dark'', ''The Dragon Factory'', ''Countdown'', ''The King of Plagues'', ''The Assassin's Code'', ''Borrowed Power'', ''Extinction Machine''.
!! The Joe Ledger series contains examples of the following tropes:
* ActionGirl: Any female who becomes a LoveInterest for Joe once he's an adult: Grace, Violin. Even the usually pacifist Jeanie gets in on the act.
* AlienTropes: ''Extinction Machine'' is [[TropeOverdosed loaded]] with them. A few examples...
** AlienAbduction: The President of the United States is kidnapped and held hostage. The ransom? [[TheManBehindTheMan [=M3=]/Majestic 3's]][[note]]The group that controls MJ-12[=/=]"Majestic 12"[[/note]] [[GreatBigBookOfEverything "Black Book"]].
** AlienNonInterferenceClause: Subverted. The aliens left all kinds of advanced technology lying around, but only intervened when we became capable of using it to wage war.
** CameFromTheSky: Where else?
** DesignerBabies: Alien-Human hybrids (roughly 18% alien, 82% human), bred to pilot the reconstructed alien ships.
** FirstContactMath: In the form of CropCircles on the White House lawn, no less. They express the value of "pi".
** ImportedAlienPhlebotinum: Retrieved from crashed alien spaceships, which are surprisingly plentiful.
** TheMenInBlack: AKA "The Closers". Their responses vary from not-so-veiled threats to [[MurderIsTheBestSolution cold-blooded murder]].
** RoswellThatEndsWell: Where the Phlebotinum was first discovered.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: In ''Extinction Machine'', DMS headquarters is destroyed by bombs made of alien Phlebotinum, and about 200 people are killed.
* AlmostKiss: Played with. Joe stops himself from kissing Violin, and she becomes offended thinking [[spoiler: that her half-vampire nature has disgusted him, knowing now what he knows about the full vampire race. But he stopped her because of two reasons: he'd eaten garlic due to having to face the full vampires and thus had terrible bad breath, and also as a half-vampire, he was afraid he would cause her harm through the same allergic reaction to it]]. When she found out the real reason, she laughed.
* AmazonBrigade: The Mothers of The Fallen and their daughters.
* AnyoneCanDie: among many others, Grace.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Joe admits that although he has fought zombies, mutants, and clones, that he has a really, really difficult time embracing the idea that vampires are real. [[spoiler: And then the [[HigherTechSpecies aliens]] showed up...]]
* AssKickingEqualsAuthority: Joe gets his authority by kicking the ass of his team when they are arguing who should be in charge.
* {{Badass}}: Everyone in the DMS, bonus points to Joe, Mr. Church, Sergeant Dietrich, Bunny and Top Sims
* BadassBoast: When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week there's either something wrong with your world or something wrong with your skills... and there's nothing wrong with my skills.
* BadassInCharge: Church and Joe
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Stoker and several other authors were either working for the Red Order or had been intentionally misdirected by the vampires.
* BerserkButton: Never threaten Mr. Church's family. ''Ever.''
* BigDamnHeroes: Echo Team has one for Joe just about every book.
* BigFriendlyDog: Ghost is one to Echo Team, and only to anyone else Joe has identified as a friend by command phrase.
* BigNo: Echo Team in ''Assassin's Code''.
* BodyHorror: a lot of the things encountered in ''The Dragon Factory'' and "Deep, Dark".
* BornLucky: Joe Ledger, though Aunt Sallie comments it does not extend to those under his command.
* BrotherSisterIncest: [[spoiler: the twins from ''The Dragon Factory'']].
* BruiserWithASoftCenter: Bunny.
* BugBuzz: Noises heard by Joe, Top and Bunny in "Deep, Dark", as a result of the work going on there.
* {{Chessmaster}}: [[spoiler:Hugo Vox]] in ''Assassins's Code'', who delights in manipulating all the players into a LetsYouAndHimFight situation. However, he does not live to enjoy the fruits of his labors, since [[spoiler: Mr. Church tracks him down and kills him.]]
* CloningBlues: [[spoiler: 82 after he discovered that he is a clone of Josef Mengele]]
* CodeName: Used by the [=DMS=] teams and by Arklight's operatives.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Sebastian Gault
* CrossOver: With the Pine Deep Trilogy by the Same Author; In addition The Benny Imura Series of books by the Same Author
* CuteBruiser: Lydia.
* DisposableWoman: Played with. Joe's first girlfriend Helen was raped when they were young teenagers, and suicided some years later. Joe still has nightmares, but doesn't become overbearing protective to the women he ends up attracted to once he's an adult.
* DownerEnding: Played straight and subverted in different books.
* EvilDetectingDog: Joe's dog Ghost subverts the trope. He's just a military trained German Shephard trained for bomb detection, body detection, and attack. Some of the enemies act like he really ''is'' such a dog.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Hugo Vox]].
* FakeHairDrama: Junie.
* FiveManBand: Echo Team -- though the lineup changes because of death by attrition.
** TheHero - Ledger
** TheLancer - Top
** TheBigGuy - Bunny
** TheSmartGuy - shared by Bug, Dr. Hu, and Rudy.
** TheChick - changes due to death by attrition, but is Grace early in the series, Lydia later, though they are TheChick in name only.
* FromBadToWorse: A CorruptCorporateExecutive and Terrorists with Zombies in the First Book ends with Vampires with Nuclear Bombs.
* GetAholdOfYourselfMan: During ''Extinction Machine'', Top Sims snaps Joe Ledger out of his HeroicBSOD, after Joe hears that Mr. Church and Rudy are missing and presumed dead.
* GratuitousSpanish: Lydia. She tends to call Ledger "Gaucho", which is Spanish for his codename, "Cowboy".
* HalfHumanHybrid: Various things in ''The Dragon Factory''.
* {{Hologram}}s: Mr. Church and Aunt Sallie have access to technology that produces them -- within limits.
* ICallHerVera: In "Material Witness," Bunny mentions naming his new gun "Missy".
* IHaveManyNames: Mr. Church aka The Deacon, aka St. Germain. And those are only a few of the aliases mentioned for him, and only the few Joe himself knows personally.
* IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight: In "Deep, Dark" Joe uses this on James Collins.
* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: Aunt Sallie looks exactly like Whoopi Goldberg.
* JerkAss: Doctor Hu.
* LadyOfWar: Grace, Lilith, Violin.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: El Mujahid.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Subverted with Gault. He is already quite evil, but love kind of throws him off his game. A little.
* MadScience: Lots and ''lots'' of it, in every book.
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: One of the twins from ''The Dragon Factory'' who is a MadScientist herself.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Invoked. The team crashes/explodes a Cigarette boat to make it look like a drunk boating accident.
* MenDontCry: Subverted. Even though Joe and his team are all {{Badass}}es, none of them flinches from shedding ManlyTears when the situation calls for it.
* TheMole [[spoiler: Skip Tyler in Patient Zero]]
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: The [[spoiler: Upierczi]] family.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: While Dr. Hu is not actually evil, he views the end of the world plots as a chance to play with a new toy
* OurMonstersAreDifferent
** OurGhostsAreDifferent
** OurVampiresAreDifferent
*** VampireBitesSuck: These vampires are of the "tear the throat out" variety.
*** WeakSauceWeakness: These vampires are allergic to garlic, but not in the usual way; Echo Team of course uses the weakness creatively.
** OurZombiesAreDifferent: They have a MadScientist variation on Mad Cow Disease.
* OverlyLongScream: When the President is abruptly returned at the end of ''Extinction Machine'', the Vice-President[=/=]Acting President starts screaming, and keeps it up for quite a while.
* PapaWolf: Ledger has a few traits of it, Top Sims is a father himself, so definitely qualifies; but Deacon really embodies the trope at one point in the series.
* PlayfulHacker: Jerome Williams, the [=DMS=]'s computer genius, aka Bug.
* PowerTrio: Joe, Top and Bunny.
* PunnyName: Dr. [[Series/DoctorWho Hu]].
* TheQuietOne: John Smith, aka "Chatterbox".
* RapeAsDrama: Ledger's {{Backstory}}.
** The breeding program used by the Red Knights in "Assassin's Code".
* [[RedEyesTakeWarning Red Eyes With]] HellishPupils: The vampires.
* RedHerringMole: [[spoiler: Poor Ollie Brown, but as a former CIA assassin he did look the part]]
* SanitySlippage: Joe tends to suffer a little bit of it in each book, but comes back because he has Rudy to turn to.
* ShoutOut: There are a number of pop culture references, as Joe is an aficionado of same.
** JamesBond
** [[Series/TwentyFour 24]]
* SplitPersonality: Joe Ledger. However, he has worked it out in such a way that the three personalities tend to work together, like a committee. The Civilian keeps him sane, The Cop Works things out and when the [[BloodKnight Warrior]] gets let out, someone is going to get hurt.
* TakeThat: A dig at ''{{Twilight}}'' in "Assassin's Code".
* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler: Alexander Chismer/Toys as of "Assassin' Code"]]
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted Rudy is a psychiatrist[=/=]psychologist who helps Joe over the death of his girlfiend Helen, and later, Grace.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Mr. Church loves Vanilla Wafers, Joe Likes Oreos
* UnfortunateName: {{Harvey}} Rabbit -- naturally everybody calls him "Bunny".
* TheVirus:
** ''Patient Zero'' has one version.
** ''King of Plagues'' has another.
* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: Mr. Church plays with the trope. He is forever pulling amazing technological gadgets out for the [=DMS=] and Joe's team in particular. When asked, all he ever says is "[[RunningGag I have a friend in the industry.]]"
* ZombieApocalypse: Planned but narrowly averted by Joe and team.
