History Literature / KillTimeOrDieTrying

* ASimplePlan: Several over the course of the book. Intricate schemes are a WARP pastime. Perhaps the most insane is a scheme to steal a girl's urine for a pregnancy test. [[spoiler: Word Of God says that in real life, this plan didn't work]].

* ButtMonkey: Kyle. Ordered around and exploited by the main characters and, more so, Nathan, almost to the point of abuse. Also, Ari, whose phone number Nathan gives out instead of his own in order to avoid people hassling him (see RunningGag below).
* CatchPhrase: Gregg responds to anything strange by saying 'Normal', in deadpan. In Part II, the group have one collectively in their war-cry: 'Bad idea? How bad?'.

* CloudCuckooLander: Douw has elements of this, once trying to pick up women at a bar while a relica DragonBallZ scouter. Nathan has elements of this as well, when his ComedicSociopath tendencies are dormant. He occasionally hides in the (tiny) club-room fridge waiting for an opportunity to burst out and say something dramatic. He also has the 'Sweet Deal Eel' and the 'Free Meat Parakeet' as his equivalents to Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.

* CloudCuckooLander: Douw has elements of this, once trying to pick up women at a bar while a relica DragonBallZ scouter. Nathan has elements of this as well, when his ComedicSociopath tendencies are dormant. He occasionally hides in the (tiny) club-room fridge waiting for an opportunity to burst out and say something dramatic. He also has the 'Sweet Deal Eel' and the 'Free Meat Parakeet' as his equivalents to Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.

* BasedOnATrueStory: The authors estimate the book to be around 75% factual, with the remaining 25% being composite characters, condensed events, and things that ''should'' have happened. Notable also in that the authors happen to be characters in the book. A fun game for yhour first read is to try spot them without cheating.

* BasedOnATrueStory: The authors estimate the book to be around 75% factual.

* OneOfUs: One of the more extreme examples. Aside from the fact that the book is entirely about geeks, one of the two authors, Neil T Stacey, claimed in one interview that he learnt how to write by reading TVTropes. He also has a Phd in Chemical Engineering and has played Magic the Gathering at a high competitive level.

* CatchPhrase: Gregg responds to anything strange by saying 'Normal', in deadpan.

The second part, ‘‘The How and Why of Hating Everyone’’, acts as a prequel to the first part, and is very much darker and edgier, as it follows the far more cynical Johann through the early years of WARP. Whereas the cast of characters in ‘’The New Normal’’ mostly conform to the stereotype of shy and reserved geeks, most of the cast of ‘’The How and Why of Hating Everyone’’ straddle the line between Deadpan Snarker and comedic sociopath.

* HotBlooded: Douw.

* HotBlooded:

* OneOfUs: One of the more extreme examples. Aside from the fact that the book is entirely about geeks, one of the two authors, Neil T Stacey, claimed in one interview that he learnt how to write by reading TVTropes. He also has a Phd in Chemical Engineering and has played Magic the Gathering at a high competitive level.

Written with an obvious fondness for the subject matter and the characters, which is to be expected considering the authors were members of WARP and were themselves present for the events of the book.

* OneOfUs: One of the more extreme examples. Aside from the fact that the book is entirely about geeks, one of the two authors, Neil T Stacey, claimed in one interview that he learnt how to write from TVTropes. He also has a Phd in Chemical Engineering and has played Magic the Gathering at a high competitive level.