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* StrawmanHasAPoint: [[spoiler:Jane's speech about the dangers of suburbanization destroying farmland and natural habitats and the negative impacts of factory farming.]]
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* AcceptableTargets: Averted. Only the villains use the word "midget," which is considered by many little people to be a slur.
* AcceptableTargets: Averted. Only the villains use the word "midget," which is considered by many little people to be a slur.
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* DepravedDwarf: Murphy is a mild version, given how his more extreme actions [[spoiler:are only done to rescue a kidnapped friend.]]
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* GranolaGirl: [[spoiler:Jane, as she's much more tolerant of violence and much more manipulative than a typical GG.]]
* HeroInsurance: [[spoiler:Jane could make a reckless endangerment and/or false imprisonment claim against Murphy, although given how she's up to her neck in CRAP's own crimes it was probably wiser to get out of town. Let's hope Oklahoma's Good Samaritan, Stand Your Ground, and citizen's arrest laws cover everything else.]]
* HeroInsurance: [[spoiler:Jane could make a reckless endangerment and/or false imprisonment claim against Murphy, although given how she's up to her neck in CRAP's own crimes it was probably wiser to get out of town. Let's hope Oklahoma's Good Samaritan, Stand Your Ground, and citizen's arrest laws cover everything else.]]
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* LampshadeHanging: Per the post about HeroInsurance, [[spoiler:Stand Your Ground laws are explicitly invoked when Murphy holds CRAP terrorists at gunpoint.]]
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* TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction: Averted ''and'' played straight. The attractive [[spoiler:Jane]] wants to find out how much [[spoiler:Murphy, a little person with a big temper]] knows about how [[spoiler:the Coalition for Radical Animal Protection had kidnapped James]], but [[spoiler:Murphy]] also happens to look a lot like [[spoiler:another terrorist hinted to be her boyfriend]].
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: [[spoiler:Jane's speech about the dangers of suburbanization destroying farmland and natural habitats and the negative impacts of factory farming.]]
* StrawmanPolitical: [[spoiler:CRAP and animal rights groups]]
* StrawmanPolitical: [[spoiler:CRAP and animal rights groups]]
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* AnimalWrongsGroup: [[spoiler:The Coalition for Radical Animal Protection (CRAP)]]
* BreakoutCharacter: Murphy as the story goes on
* CaptainErsatz: [[spoiler:CRAP for PETA and other more extreme animal-rights and environmental groups]]
* BreakoutCharacter: Murphy as the story goes on
* CaptainErsatz: [[spoiler:CRAP for PETA and other more extreme animal-rights and environmental groups]]
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* AnimalWrongsGroup: [[spoiler:The Coalition for Radical Animal Protection (CRAP)]]
* BreakoutCharacter: Murphy as the story goes on
(CRAP).]]
* CaptainErsatz: [[spoiler:CRAP for PETA and other more extreme animal-rights and environmentalgroups]]groups.]]
* BreakoutCharacter: Murphy as the story goes on
* CaptainErsatz: [[spoiler:CRAP for PETA and other more extreme animal-rights and environmental
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* FemmeFataleSpy: [[spoiler:Jane]][[spoiler:Jane.]]
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* WesternTerrorists: [[spoiler: The Coalition for Radical Animal Protection (CRAP)]]
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* WesternTerrorists: [[spoiler: The Coalition for Radical Animal Protection (CRAP)]](CRAP).]]
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* LittlePeopleAreSurreal: Literally the whole plot
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* LittlePeopleAreSurreal: Literally the whole plotplot.
* NextThingTheyKnew: [[spoiler:Murphy and Jane go very quickly from meeting for the first time to having sex. Lampshaded by the fact they both intend to HoneyTrap the other.]]
* NextThingTheyKnew: [[spoiler:Murphy and Jane go very quickly from meeting for the first time to having sex. Lampshaded by the fact they both intend to HoneyTrap the other.]]
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* DownfallBySex: [[spoiler:Jane tries to HoneyTrap Murphy, only to end up ChainedToABed. She has to chew off her own foot to escape, attempts to kill Murphy, loses her ModestyBedsheet in the process, and ends up getting stuffed into the back of car completely naked for her trouble.]]
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* DownfallBySex: [[spoiler:Jane tries to HoneyTrap Murphy, only to end up ChainedToABed. She has to chew off her own foot to escape, attempts to kill Murphy, loses her ModestyBedsheet in the process, and ends up getting stuffed into the back trunk of car completely naked for her trouble.naked, and then gets bounced around as the car is driven recklessly. At this point one wonders how she's still alive.]]
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* DownfallBySex: [[spoiler:Jane tries to HoneyTrap Murphy, only to end up ChainedToABed. She has to chew off her own foot to escape, attempts to kill Murphy, loses her ModestyBedsheet in the process, and ends up getting stuffed into the back of car completely naked for her trouble.]]
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The local chapter of the Little Persons Association, led by James Bolivar, attempts to persuade county animal control to help deal with the situation, but find them...strangely uninterested. Murphy Jones, who has a big chip on his very small shoulder, seeks a more aggressive approach. This in turn leads to a confrontation with not only the predatory badgers, but the mysterious foe behind their attacks.
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The local chapter of the Little Persons Association, led by James Bolivar, attempts to persuade county animal control to help deal with the situation, but find them... strangely uninterested. Murphy Jones, who has a big chip on his very small shoulder, seeks a more aggressive approach. This in turn leads to a confrontation with not only the predatory badgers, but the mysterious foe behind their attacks.
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* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Jane escapes at the end of the book]]
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* CaptainErsatz: [[spoiler:CRAP for PETA and other more extreme animal-rights and environmental groups]]
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* LittlePeopleAreSurreal: Literally the whole plot
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* TheUnfettered: [[spoiler:When James is kidnapped by CRAP, Murphy will do ''anything'' -- or anyone -- to rescue him.]]
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* TheUnfettered: [[spoiler:When James is kidnapped by CRAP, Murphy will do ''anything'' -- or anyone -- to rescue him.]]]]
* WesternTerrorists: [[spoiler: The Coalition for Radical Animal Protection (CRAP)]]
* WesternTerrorists: [[spoiler: The Coalition for Radical Animal Protection (CRAP)]]
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* AnimalWrongsGroup: [[spoiler:The Coalition for Radical Animal Protection (CRAP)]]
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* HoneyTrap: Both [[spoiler:Murphy]] and [[spoiler:Jane]] intend this for the other.
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* HoneyTrap: Both [[spoiler:Murphy]] and [[spoiler:Jane]] intend this for the other.other.
* TheAntiNihilist: Unlike the very religious James, Murphy doesn't believe in God and views himself as ultimately responsible for both his successes and failures.
* TheUnfettered: [[spoiler:When James is kidnapped by CRAP, Murphy will do ''anything'' -- or anyone -- to rescue him.]]
* TheAntiNihilist: Unlike the very religious James, Murphy doesn't believe in God and views himself as ultimately responsible for both his successes and failures.
* TheUnfettered: [[spoiler:When James is kidnapped by CRAP, Murphy will do ''anything'' -- or anyone -- to rescue him.]]
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* ChristianityIsCatholic: The only overtly-religious character is James, a devout Catholic [[spoiler:who by the end of the story is exploring becoming a monk.]]
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* DecoyProtagonist: James is the POV character for the early part of the book, but Murphy takes a much more active role toward the end.
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* HoneyTrap: Both [[spoiler:Murphy]] and [[spoiler:Jane]] intend this for the other.
* HoneyTrap: Both [[spoiler:Murphy]] and [[spoiler:Jane]] intend this for the other.
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The local chapter of the Little Persons Association, led by James Bolivar, attempts to persuade county animal control to help deal with the situation, but find them...strangely uninterested. Murphy Jones, who has a big chip on his very small shoulder, seeks a more aggressive approach. This in turn leads to a confrontation with not only the predatory badgers, but the mysterious foe behind their attacks.
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* ChainedToABed: How [[spoiler:Murphy]] keeps [[spoiler:Jane]] from interfering with [[spoiler:his rescue of the kidnapped James]].
* ChainedToABed: How [[spoiler:Murphy]] keeps [[spoiler:Jane]] from interfering with [[spoiler:his rescue of the kidnapped James]].
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* DecoyProtagonist: James is the POV character for the early part of the book, but Murphy takes a much more active role toward the end.
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!!The series contains examples of:
* DecoyProtagonist: James is the POV character for the early part of the book, but Murphy takes a much more active role toward the end.
