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''The Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar'' is a [[YoungAdultLiterature Young Adult]] fantasy/adventure trilogy by Chilean writer Creator/IsabelAllende. It is composed of the books ''City of Beasts'' (2002), ''Kingdom of the Golden Dragon'' (2004) and the ''Forest of the Pygmies'' (2005).
The trilogy narrates the adventures of American teenager Alexander Cold and his Brazilian friend Nadia Santos. They travel around the world with Alexander's hippie grandmother Kate, a journalist for the fictional ''International Geographic'' magazine, and face multiple perils while discovering both the beauty of nature and mankind's greed.
The trilogy narrates the adventures of American teenager Alexander Cold and his Brazilian friend Nadia Santos. They travel around the world with Alexander's hippie grandmother Kate, a journalist for the fictional ''International Geographic'' magazine, and face multiple perils while discovering both the beauty of nature and mankind's greed.
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''The Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar'' is a [[YoungAdultLiterature Young Adult]] fantasy/adventure trilogy by Chilean writer Creator/IsabelAllende. Itis composed of the books ''City of Beasts'' (2002), ''Kingdom of the Golden Dragon'' (2004) and the ''Forest of the Pygmies'' (2005).
was released from 2002 to 2005.
The trilogy narrates the adventures of American teenager Alexander Cold and his Brazilian friend Nadia Santos. They travel around the world with Alexander's hippie grandmother Kate, a journalist for the fictional ''International Geographic'' magazine, and face multiple perils while discovering both the beauty of nature and the ugliness of mankind'sgreed.
greed.
It is composed of three installments:
* ''City of Beasts'' (2002).
* ''Kingdom of the Golden Dragon'' (2004).
* ''Forest of the Pygmies'' (2005).
''The Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar'' is a [[YoungAdultLiterature Young Adult]] fantasy/adventure trilogy by Chilean writer Creator/IsabelAllende. It
The trilogy narrates the adventures of American teenager Alexander Cold and his Brazilian friend Nadia Santos. They travel around the world with Alexander's hippie grandmother Kate, a journalist for the fictional ''International Geographic'' magazine, and face multiple perils while discovering both the beauty of nature and the ugliness of mankind's
It is composed of three installments:
* ''City of Beasts'' (2002).
* ''Kingdom of the Golden Dragon'' (2004).
* ''Forest of the Pygmies'' (2005).
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* AgeGapRomance: [[spoiler:Relatively. Alexander has three years over Nadia, which isn't much by itself, but means more given that they met as children.]]
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* AgeGapRomance: [[spoiler:Relatively. Alexander has three years over on Nadia, which isn't much by itself, itself by the point they hook up, but means more in their adventures given that they met meet as children.]]
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* LoyalAnimalCompanion: Borobá, Nadia's monkey.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Kate and his antropologist frenemy Ludovic Leblanc have a troubled relationship, but trust each other just enough for her to ask him to join her foundation.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Kate and his antropologist frenemy Ludovic Leblanc have a troubled relationship, but trust each other just enough for her to ask him to join her foundation.
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* LoyalAnimalCompanion: Borobá, Nadia's monkey.
monkey, is fiercely loyal to her (later to Alexander too).
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Kate and his antropologist frenemy Ludovic Leblanc have a troubled relationship, but they still trust each other just enough for her to ask him to join her foundation.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Kate and his antropologist frenemy Ludovic Leblanc have a troubled relationship, but they still trust each other just enough for her to ask him to join her foundation.
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* WomenAreWiser: Present through all the books, with several grades of subtlely or lack thereof. Most female characters, like Nadia and Kate, are of the sensitive type in contrast to the impulsive photographers and Alexander; most of the primitive tribes visited in the story have female chieftainesses who are described as good and wise (Iyomi, Grr-ympr, Nana-Asante), and whenever they have a male leader instead, he's either evil or a brute; also, out of the trilogy's three Big Bads, the most sympathetic one is the only female. The last book underlines it even more, with the group at one point fantasizing with humanity being a matriarchy like certain species of monkeys, and Nana-Asante openly stating women are inherently more moral than men.
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* WomenAreWiser: Present through all the books, with several various grades of subtlely or lack thereof. Most female characters, like Nadia and Kate, are of the sensitive type in contrast to the impulsive photographers Joel, Timothy and Alexander; most of the primitive tribes visited in the story have female chieftainesses who are described as good and wise (Iyomi, Grr-ympr, Nana-Asante), and whenever they have a male leader instead, he's either evil or a brute; DumbMuscle, unless too old for engaging in macho things; also, out of the trilogy's three [[BigBad Big Bads, Bads]], the most sympathetic one is the only female. The last book underlines it even more, with the group at one point fantasizing with humanity being a matriarchy like certain species of monkeys, and Nana-Asante openly stating women are inherently more moral than men.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Played straight at the end, where the kids have to save the day given that [[spoiler:even the secret agent tasked with doing so, Karakawe, was TooDumbToLive.]]
* BigBad: Mauro Carías, an ObviouslyEvil rich man interested in massacring natives to exploit the jungle.
* EarthyBareFootCharacter: Nadia wears native sandals through the journey, boasting of being adapted to the Brazilian jungle, and Alexander is forced to adopt it as well after being biten by leeches inside his boots and socks. They both later lose them and are forced to follow into the jungle barefoot, to Alexander's chagrin, which clearly symbolizes their travel to the deepest of nature.
* PsychicPowers: The mist people have, among other abilities, the power of invisibility, although this seems to work more as mental glamour than truly turning invisible.
* BigBad: Mauro Carías, an ObviouslyEvil rich man interested in massacring natives to exploit the jungle.
* EarthyBareFootCharacter: Nadia wears native sandals through the journey, boasting of being adapted to the Brazilian jungle, and Alexander is forced to adopt it as well after being biten by leeches inside his boots and socks. They both later lose them and are forced to follow into the jungle barefoot, to Alexander's chagrin, which clearly symbolizes their travel to the deepest of nature.
* PsychicPowers: The mist people have, among other abilities, the power of invisibility, although this seems to work more as mental glamour than truly turning invisible.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Played straight at the end, where the kids have to save the day given that [[spoiler:even the secret agent tasked with doing so, Karakawe, was literally TooDumbToLive.]]
* BigBad: Mauro Carías, an ObviouslyEvil rich man interested inmassacring butchering natives to exploit the jungle.
jungle's riches.
*EarthyBareFootCharacter: EarthyBarefootCharacter: Nadia wears native light, native-style sandals through the journey, boasting of being adapted to the Brazilian jungle, and Alexander is forced to adopt it them as well after being biten by leeches inside his boots and socks. They both later lose them their sandals and are forced to follow into the jungle barefoot, to Alexander's chagrin, which clearly symbolizes their travel to the deepest of nature.
* PsychicPowers: The mist people have, among other abilities, the power of invisibility, although this seems towork more as be actually a mental glamour rather than truly turning invisible.
* BigBad: Mauro Carías, an ObviouslyEvil rich man interested in
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* PsychicPowers: The mist people have, among other abilities, the power of invisibility, although this seems to
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* AdvancedAncientHumans: Or yetis in this case. They apparently used to be almost as advanced as we are today, but destroyed their civilization through wars and conflicts.
* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: In the story, characters grab barrels of rifles implied to be AK-47 right after firing. In real life, they would get their hands burned.
* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: Among Tensing's traditional weapons there are nunchakus and shuriken, which are Okinawan and Japanese respectively, not Chinese or Tibetan. It might be justified by the statemente that tao-shu practitioners researched martial arts through many Asian countries, which has no reason not to include Japan and its islands, but they are still treated as if they were ancestral to mainland Asia (also, the fact that Allende describes those weapons crudely and doesn't give their names implies she simply doesn't know a lot about the topic and cannot tell their procedence).
* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: In the story, characters grab barrels of rifles implied to be AK-47 right after firing. In real life, they would get their hands burned.
* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: Among Tensing's traditional weapons there are nunchakus and shuriken, which are Okinawan and Japanese respectively, not Chinese or Tibetan. It might be justified by the statemente that tao-shu practitioners researched martial arts through many Asian countries, which has no reason not to include Japan and its islands, but they are still treated as if they were ancestral to mainland Asia (also, the fact that Allende describes those weapons crudely and doesn't give their names implies she simply doesn't know a lot about the topic and cannot tell their procedence).
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* AdvancedAncientHumans: Or yetis in this case. They apparently used to be almost as advanced as we are today, but destroyed their civilization through was destroyed in several wars and conflicts.
* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: In the story, characters grab barrels of riflesimplied (implied to be AK-47 AK-47, whose metal barrels are exposed) right after firing. In real life, they would get their hands burned.
* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: Among Tensing's traditional weapons there are nunchakus and shuriken, which areOkinawan South Asian and Japanese respectively, not Chinese or Tibetan. Tibetan.[[note]]Nunchaku were apparently adopted in China at some point after being seen in use by Southern Asian tribes, but they were only seldom used there, if at all.[[/note]] It might be justified by the statemente that tao-shu practitioners researched martial arts through many Asian countries, which has no reason not to include Japan and its islands, but they are still treated as if they were ancestral to mainland Asia (also, the fact that Allende describes those weapons crudely and doesn't even give their names implies she simply doesn't know a lot about the topic and cannot tell their procedence).
* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: In the story, characters grab barrels of rifles
* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: Among Tensing's traditional weapons there are nunchakus and shuriken, which are
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* BlackComedyBurst: Alexander accidentally fires an arrow towards a dignatary, which looks dead until he reveals the arrow only hit his hat.
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* BlackComedyBurst: To his horror, Alexander accidentally fires an arrow towards shoots a dignatary, which dignatary with a bow and arrow. The dude looks dead until he reveals the arrow only hit his hat.hat, after which everybody and their dog proceed to laugh at Alexander's clumsiness.
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* CreepyBlueEyes: Armadillo has those. The narration repeatedly compares them to the eyes of a hypnotized person of even a corpse.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Subverted, albeit still as a PetTheDog. The Collector desires to get rid of his elderly mother, but he prefers to pay a heck of a travel life for her instead of throwing her to an asylum.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Subverted, albeit still as a PetTheDog. The Collector desires to get rid of his elderly mother, but he prefers to pay a heck of a travel life for her instead of throwing her to an asylum.
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* CreepyBlueEyes: Armadillo has those. The narration repeatedly compares them to the eyes of a hypnotized person of or even a corpse.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Subverted, albeit still as aPetTheDog. PetTheDog moment. The Collector desires to get rid of his elderly mother, but he prefers to pay a heck of a luxury travel life for her instead of throwing her to an asylum.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Subverted, albeit still as a
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* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler:By Judith Kinski, also known as the Specialist, although in this case it affects her as well.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: The king considers the West to be materialistic and decadent, yet he keeps a lot of spectacular riches around, is attracted to a western woman pretty much because she's hot and stylish, and plans to send his son to study in Europe. He does note the second point himself, though, and is a source of angst for him.
* {{Hypocrite}}: The king considers the West to be materialistic and decadent, yet he keeps a lot of spectacular riches around, is attracted to a western woman pretty much because she's hot and stylish, and plans to send his son to study in Europe. He does note the second point himself, though, and is a source of angst for him.
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* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler:By Judith Kinski, also known as the Specialist, although in this case it backfires and affects her as well.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: The kingconsiders believes the West to be materialistic and decadent, yet he keeps a lot of spectacular riches around, is attracted to a western woman pretty much because she's hot and stylish, and plans to send his son to study in Europe. He does note the second point himself, though, and is a source of angst for him.
* {{Hypocrite}}: The king
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* NobleDemon: Armadillo explicitly disapproves pointless violence and once saves Alexander's life even although he had no reasons to do so. [[spoiler:The Specialist also seems to have considered to become TheAtoner at some point.]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Judging by his physical description, backstory, fortune and business sector, the Collector is basically UsefulNotes/SteveJobs with some elements from Bill Gates thrown in. Amusingly, while the Collector is a stark materialist that disdains UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} and religion, the real Jobs was a deeply spiritual person who was a Buddhist himself.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Judging by his physical description, backstory, fortune and business sector, the Collector is basically UsefulNotes/SteveJobs with some elements from Bill Gates thrown in. Amusingly, while the Collector is a stark materialist that disdains UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} and religion, the real Jobs was a deeply spiritual person who was a Buddhist himself.
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* NobleDemon: Armadillo explicitly disapproves pointless violence and once saves Alexander's life life, risking his already unbelievable cover, even although he had no reasons to do so. [[spoiler:The Specialist also seems to have considered to become TheAtoner at some point.]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Judging by his physical description, backstory, fortune and business sector, the Collector is basicallyUsefulNotes/SteveJobs UsefulNotes/SteveJobs, with some elements from Bill Gates thrown in. Amusingly, while the Collector is a stark materialist that disdains UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} and religion, the real Jobs was a deeply spiritual person who was a Buddhist himself.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Judging by his physical description, backstory, fortune and business sector, the Collector is basically
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* SamusIsAGirl: [[spoiler:The Specialist is a woman. More surprising in the original Spanish, however, given that Spanish language has gendered words; the Specialist receives masculine treatment through all the novel and is still referred as such even although "he" is revealed to be Kinski.]]
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Subverted and possibly invoked. Armadillo brings up the topic of drugs to state not all hippies like him go to the Kingdom of the Golden Dragon to get ganja, which, needlessly to say, doesn't sound very credible. However, Alexander and Nadia don't give it much of a thought because of the more obvious fact that Armadillo is not a real hippie to begin with. All in all, the statement is technically true in Armadillo's case, it being implied that he purposefully invoked this trope in order to try to pass even more as a stoner.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Subverted and possibly invoked. Armadillo brings up the topic of drugs to state not all hippies like him go to the Kingdom of the Golden Dragon to get ganja, which, needlessly to say, doesn't sound very credible. However, Alexander and Nadia don't give it much of a thought because of the more obvious fact that Armadillo is not a real hippie to begin with. All in all, the statement is technically true in Armadillo's case, it being implied that he purposefully invoked this trope in order to try to pass even more as a stoner.
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* SamusIsAGirl: [[spoiler:The Specialist is a woman. More surprising in the original Spanish, however, given that Spanish language has gendered words; the Specialist receives masculine treatment through all the novel and is still referred as such even although after "he" is revealed to be Kinski.]]
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Subverted and possibly invoked. Armadillo brings up the topic of drugs tostate claim that not all hippies like him go to the Kingdom of the Golden Dragon solely to get ganja, which, needlessly to say, doesn't sound very credible. However, Alexander and Nadia don't give it much of a thought because of the more obvious fact that Armadillo is not a real hippie to begin with. All in all, the statement is technically true in Armadillo's case, it being implied that he purposefully invoked this trope in order to try to pass even more as a stoner.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Subverted and possibly invoked. Armadillo brings up the topic of drugs to
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* BazaarOfTheBizarre: Nairobi's magic market, wich plenty of African witchcraft.
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* BazaarOfTheBizarre: Nairobi's magic market, wich which has plenty of African witchcraft.
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* BigBeautifulWoman: Angie, combined with SassyBlackWoman and AmazonianBeauty. In fact, both Mbembelé and a Masai from her backstory are attracted to her.
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* BigBeautifulWoman: Angie, combined with SassyBlackWoman and AmazonianBeauty. In fact, both Mbembelé and a Masai from her backstory backstory, infinitely more attractive men by masculine standards, are attracted to her.her and want her as a wife.
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* ThisIsReality: Alexander suggests to build a raft to get to Ngoubé through the river, but Father Fernando retors that he has read too many adventure novels. Ironically, the idea gets eventually approved and it's only the arrival of some natives which impedes it.
* TorosYFlamenco: The only Spaniard in the party, Father Fernando, was an aspirant bullfighter in his youth and still has neat pases.
* UnreliableNarrator: Kate suspects that Leblanc's tratise on how Pygmies are an egalitarian society compared to the sexist, classist Bantu might be all a load of bullcrap, but she cannot prove it because she doesn't know about it.
* TorosYFlamenco: The only Spaniard in the party, Father Fernando, was an aspirant bullfighter in his youth and still has neat pases.
* UnreliableNarrator: Kate suspects that Leblanc's tratise on how Pygmies are an egalitarian society compared to the sexist, classist Bantu might be all a load of bullcrap, but she cannot prove it because she doesn't know about it.
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* ThisIsReality: Alexander suggests to build a raft to get to Ngoubé through the river, but Father Fernando retors that he has read too many adventure novels. Ironically, the idea gets eventually approved and it's only due to the arrival of some natives which impedes it.
in their own boats that it never realizes.
* TorosYFlamenco: The only Spaniard in the party, Father Fernando, was anaspirant aspiring bullfighter in his youth and still has neat pases.
* UnreliableNarrator:Kate suspects Leblanc has a treatise claiming that Leblanc's tratise on how Pygmies are an egalitarian society compared to the sexist, classist Bantu Bantu. Kate suspects it might be all a load of bullcrap, but she cannot prove it because she doesn't know about it.it either.
* TorosYFlamenco: The only Spaniard in the party, Father Fernando, was an
* UnreliableNarrator:
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* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Nadia, due to being Brasileira. Alexander muses he could paint a portrait of her with only yellow and brown
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* SkunkStripe: Judith Kinski has black hair except by an odd white streak over the forehead.
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* BigBad: Kosongo and Maurice Membelé seem to be a BigBadDuumvirate, with Sombe being implied to be a BiggerBad. [[spoiler:Which at the end amounts to Mbembelé, as they are all the same person.]]
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* BigBad: Kosongo and Maurice Membelé seem to be a BigBadDuumvirate, with Sombe being implied to be a BiggerBad.BigBadDuumvirate. [[spoiler:Which at the end amounts to Mbembelé, as they are all the same person.]]
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The trilogy narrates the adventures of American teenager Alexander Cold and his Brazilian friend Nadia Santos. They travel around the world with Alexander's hippie grandmother Kate, a journalist for the fictitious ''International Geographic'' magazine, and face multiple perils while discovering both the beauty of nature and mankind's greed.
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The trilogy narrates the adventures of American teenager Alexander Cold and his Brazilian friend Nadia Santos. They travel around the world with Alexander's hippie grandmother Kate, a journalist for the fictitious fictional ''International Geographic'' magazine, and face multiple perils while discovering both the beauty of nature and mankind's greed.
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* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Nadia, due to being a Brasileira.
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* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Nadia, due to being Brasileira. Alexander muses he could paint a Brasileira.portrait of her with only yellow and brown
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Kate and his antropologist frenemy Ludovic Leblanc.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Joel González and Timothy Bruce, Kate's usual photographers.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Joel González and Timothy Bruce, Kate's usual photographers.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Kate and his antropologist frenemy Ludovic Leblanc.
Leblanc have a troubled relationship, but trust each other just enough for her to ask him to join her foundation.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Joel González and Timothy Bruce, Kate's usualphotographers.photographers, are always together and forming a semi-routine.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Joel González and Timothy Bruce, Kate's usual
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* WomenAreWiser: Present through all the books, with several grades of subtlely or lack thereof. Most female characters, like Nadia and Kate, are of the sensitive type in contrast to the impulsive and Alexander; most of the primitive tribes visited in the story have female chieftainesses who are described as good and wise (Iyomi, Grr-ympr, Nana-Asante), and whenever they have a male leader instead, he's either evil or a brute; also, out of the trilogy's three Big Bads, the most sympathetic one is the only female. The last book underlines it even more, with the group at one point fantasizing with humanity being a matriarchy like certain species of monkeys, and Nana-Asante openly stating women are inherently more moral than men.
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* WomenAreWiser: Present through all the books, with several grades of subtlely or lack thereof. Most female characters, like Nadia and Kate, are of the sensitive type in contrast to the impulsive photographers and Alexander; most of the primitive tribes visited in the story have female chieftainesses who are described as good and wise (Iyomi, Grr-ympr, Nana-Asante), and whenever they have a male leader instead, he's either evil or a brute; also, out of the trilogy's three Big Bads, the most sympathetic one is the only female. The last book underlines it even more, with the group at one point fantasizing with humanity being a matriarchy like certain species of monkeys, and Nana-Asante openly stating women are inherently more moral than men.
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* EarthyBareFootCharacter: Nadia wears native sandals through the journey, boasting of being adapted to the Brazilian jungle, and Alexander is forced to adopt it as well after being biten by leeches inside his boots. They both later lose them and are forced to follow into the jungle barefoot, to Alexander's chagrin, which clearly symbolizes their travel to the deepest of nature.
* PsychicPowers: The mist people have the power of invisibility, among others.
* PsychicPowers: The mist people have the power of invisibility, among others.
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* EarthyBareFootCharacter: Nadia wears native sandals through the journey, boasting of being adapted to the Brazilian jungle, and Alexander is forced to adopt it as well after being biten by leeches inside his boots.boots and socks. They both later lose them and are forced to follow into the jungle barefoot, to Alexander's chagrin, which clearly symbolizes their travel to the deepest of nature.
* PsychicPowers: The mist peoplehave have, among other abilities, the power of invisibility, among others.
although this seems to work more as mental glamour than truly turning invisible.
* PsychicPowers: The mist people
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* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: Among Tensing's ancestral weapons there are nunchakus and shuriken, which are Okinawan and Japanese respectively, not Chinese or Tibetan. It might be justified by the statemente that tao-shu practitioners researched martial arts through many Asian countries, but the fact that Allende describes those weapons crudely and doesn't give their names implies she simply doesn't know a lot about the topic and cannot tell their procedence.
* BigBad: The Specialist, also known as [[spoiler:Judit Kinski.]] The Collector also acts as a BiggerBad.
* BigBad: The Specialist, also known as [[spoiler:Judit Kinski.]] The Collector also acts as a BiggerBad.
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* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: Among Tensing's ancestral traditional weapons there are nunchakus and shuriken, which are Okinawan and Japanese respectively, not Chinese or Tibetan. It might be justified by the statemente that tao-shu practitioners researched martial arts through many Asian countries, which has no reason not to include Japan and its islands, but they are still treated as if they were ancestral to mainland Asia (also, the fact that Allende describes those weapons crudely and doesn't give their names implies she simply doesn't know a lot about the topic and cannot tell their procedence.
procedence).
* BigBad: The Collector, with the Specialist, also known as [[spoiler:JuditKinski.]] The Collector also acts Kinski]], as a BiggerBad.TheDragon.
* BigBad: The Collector, with the Specialist, also known as [[spoiler:Judit
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Armadillo. For a mercenary, his costume is so ridiculous and flimsy that two teenagers can see through it, but he's a true badass with a lot of guts and skill. [[spoiler:Later subverted when he betrays the Specialist.]]
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Armadillo. For a mercenary, his costume His disguise is so ridiculous and flimsy that two teenagers can see through it, it at first glance, but he's a true badass with a lot of guts and skill. skill, and it could be charitably said he doesn't really need the cover. [[spoiler:Later subverted when he betrays the Specialist.Specialist; he remains competent, but it turns out he's not so good of an employee as he looked.]]
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* {{Hypocrite}}: The king considers the West to be materialistic and decadent, yet he keeps a lot of spectacular riches around, is attracted to a western woman pretty much because she's hot, and plans to send his son to study in Europe. He notes the second point himself and is a source of angst for him.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: The king considers the West to be materialistic and decadent, yet he keeps a lot of spectacular riches around, is attracted to a western woman pretty much because she's hot, hot and stylish, and plans to send his son to study in Europe. He notes does note the second point himself himself, though, and is a source of angst for him.
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* NewAgeRetroHippie: Tex Armadillo dresses and behaves like one. Subverted in that it is just a costume, and such an obvious one than it is not even a spoiler that the kids realize it.
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* NewAgeRetroHippie: Tex Armadillo dresses and behaves like one. Subverted in that it is just a costume, disguise, and such an obvious one than it is not even a spoiler that the kids realize it.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Judging by his physical description, biography, fortune and business sector, the Collector is basically UsefulNotes/SteveJobs with some elements from Bill Gates thrown in. Amusingly, while the Collector is a stark materialist that disdains UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} and religion, the real Jobs was a deeply spiritual person who was a Buddhist himself.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Judging by his physical description, biography, backstory, fortune and business sector, the Collector is basically UsefulNotes/SteveJobs with some elements from Bill Gates thrown in. Amusingly, while the Collector is a stark materialist that disdains UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} and religion, the real Jobs was a deeply spiritual person who was a Buddhist himself.
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* SamusIsAGirl: [[spoiler:The Specialist is a woman. More in the original Spanish, however, given that Spanish language has gendered words; the Specialist receives masculine treatment through all the novel and is still referred as such even although he is revealed to be Kinski.]]
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* SamusIsAGirl: [[spoiler:The Specialist is a woman. More surprising in the original Spanish, however, given that Spanish language has gendered words; the Specialist receives masculine treatment through all the novel and is still referred as such even although he "he" is revealed to be Kinski.]]
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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Armadillo brings up the topic of drugs to state not all hippies like him go to the Kingdom of the Golden Dragon to get ganja. Needlessly to say, Alexander and Nadia don't buy it for a second. [[spoiler:Only that in this case it is probably true.]]
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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Subverted and possibly invoked. Armadillo brings up the topic of drugs to state not all hippies like him go to the Kingdom of the Golden Dragon to get ganja. Needlessly ganja, which, needlessly to say, doesn't sound very credible. However, Alexander and Nadia don't buy give it for much of a second. [[spoiler:Only thought because of the more obvious fact that Armadillo is not a real hippie to begin with. All in all, the statement is technically true in Armadillo's case, it being implied that he purposefully invoked this case it is probably true.]]
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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Maurice Mbembelé and his two aliases.]]
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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Maurice Mbembelé Kosongo and his two aliases.Maurice Membelé seem to be a BigBadDuumvirate, with Sombe being implied to be a BiggerBad. [[spoiler:Which at the end amounts to Mbembelé, as they are all the same person.]]
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* UnreliableNarrator: Kate suspects that Leblanc's tratise on how Pygmies are an egalitarian society compared to the sexist, classist Bantu might be all a load of bull, but she cannot prove it because she doesn't know about it.
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* UnreliableNarrator: Kate suspects that Leblanc's tratise on how Pygmies are an egalitarian society compared to the sexist, classist Bantu might be all a load of bull, bullcrap, but she cannot prove it because she doesn't know about it.
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* AdultAreUseless: Played straight at the end, where the kids have to save the day given that [[spoiler:even the secret agent tasked with doing so, Karakawe, was TooDumbToLive.]]
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* AdultAreUseless: AdultsAreUseless: Played straight at the end, where the kids have to save the day given that [[spoiler:even the secret agent tasked with doing so, Karakawe, was TooDumbToLive.]]
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* FantasticFightingStyle: Tao-shu, which is described as basically the ancient kung fu equivalent of UsefulNote/MixedMartialArts mixed with PressurePoints.
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* FantasticFightingStyle: Tao-shu, which is described as basically the ancient kung fu equivalent of UsefulNote/MixedMartialArts UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts mixed with PressurePoints.PressurePoint abilities.
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* SuspiciouslySpecificalDenial: Armadillo brings up the topic of drugs to state not all hippies like him go to the Kingdom of the Golden Dragon to get ganja. Needlessly to say, Alexander and Nadia don't buy it for a second. [[spoiler:Only that in this case it is probably true.]]
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* SuspiciouslySpecificalDenial: SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Armadillo brings up the topic of drugs to state not all hippies like him go to the Kingdom of the Golden Dragon to get ganja. Needlessly to say, Alexander and Nadia don't buy it for a second. [[spoiler:Only that in this case it is probably true.]]
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* BigBeautifulLady: Angie, combined with SassyBlackWoman and AmazonianBeauty. In fact, both Mbembelé and a Masai from her backstory are attracted to her.
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* BigBeautifulLady: BigBeautifulWoman: Angie, combined with SassyBlackWoman and AmazonianBeauty. In fact, both Mbembelé and a Masai from her backstory are attracted to her.
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* UnrealiableNarrator: UnreliableNarrator: Kate suspects that Leblanc's tratise on how Pygmies are an egalitarian society compared to the sexist, classist Bantu might be all a load of bull, but she cannot prove it because she doesn't know about it.
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!!The trilogy provides the examples of:
* BigBad:
** In the first book, Mauro Carías.
** In the second, the Specialist, also known as [[spoiler:Judit Kinski.]]
** In the second, [[spoiler:Maurice Mbembelé and his two aliases.]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Judging by his physical description, biography, fortune and business sector, the Collector is basically UsefulNotes/SteveJobs with some elements from Bill Gates thrown in. Amusingly, while the Collector is a stark materialist that disdains UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} and religion, the real Jobs was a deeply spiritual person who was a Buddhist himself.
* BigBad:
** In the first book, Mauro Carías.
** In the second, the Specialist, also known as [[spoiler:Judit Kinski.]]
** In the second, [[spoiler:Maurice Mbembelé and his two aliases.]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Judging by his physical description, biography, fortune and business sector, the Collector is basically UsefulNotes/SteveJobs with some elements from Bill Gates thrown in. Amusingly, while the Collector is a stark materialist that disdains UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} and religion, the real Jobs was a deeply spiritual person who was a Buddhist himself.
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!!The entire trilogy provides the examples of:
*BigBad:
** In the first book, Mauro Carías.
** In the second, the Specialist, also knownAgeGapRomance: [[spoiler:Relatively. Alexander has three years over Nadia, which isn't much by itself, but means more given that they met as [[spoiler:Judit Kinski.children.]]
** In the second, [[spoiler:Maurice Mbembelé * TheAlcoholic: Kate, though she insistently claims it to be therapeutic.
* BlandNameProduct: The magazine Kate works for is named '''''Inter'''national Geographic''. Now that's subtle.
* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Nadia, due to being a Brasileira.
* LoyalAnimalCompanion: Borobá, Nadia's monkey.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Kate and his antropologist frenemy Ludovic Leblanc.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Joel González and Timothy Bruce, Kate's usual photographers.
* {{Tsundere}}: Kate is a type A. Bonus points because she was a redhead back when she was younger.
* WomenAreWiser: Present through all the books, with several grades of subtlely or lack thereof. Most female characters, like Nadia and Kate, are of the sensitive type in contrast to the impulsive and Alexander; most of the primitive tribes visited in the story have female chieftainesses who are described as good and wise (Iyomi, Grr-ympr, Nana-Asante), and whenever they have a male leader instead, he's either evil or a brute; also, out of the trilogy's three Big Bads, the most sympathetic one is the only female. The last book underlines it even more, with the group at one point fantasizing with humanity being a matriarchy like certain species of monkeys, and Nana-Asante openly stating women are inherently more moral than men.
!!The first book provides the examples of:
* AdultAreUseless: Played straight at the end, where the kids have to save the day given that [[spoiler:even the secret agent tasked with doing so, Karakawe, was TooDumbToLive.]]
* BigBad: Mauro Carías, an ObviouslyEvil rich man interested in massacring natives to exploit the jungle.
* EarthyBareFootCharacter: Nadia wears native sandals through the journey, boasting of being adapted to the Brazilian jungle, and Alexander is forced to adopt it as well after being biten by leeches inside his boots. They both later lose them and are forced to follow into the jungle barefoot, to Alexander's chagrin, which clearly symbolizes their travel to the deepest of nature.
* PsychicPowers: The mist people have the power of invisibility, among others.
!!The second book provides the examples of:
* AdvancedAncientHumans: Or yetis in this case. They apparently used to be almost as advanced as we are today, but destroyed their civilization through wars and conflicts.
* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: In the story, characters grab barrels of rifles implied to be AK-47 right after firing. In real life, they would get their hands burned.
* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: Among Tensing's ancestral weapons there are nunchakus and shuriken, which are Okinawan and Japanese respectively, not Chinese or Tibetan. It might be justified by the statemente that tao-shu practitioners researched martial arts through many Asian countries, but the fact that Allende describes those weapons crudely and doesn't give their names implies she simply doesn't know a lot about the topic and cannot tell their procedence.
* BigBad: The Specialist, also known as [[spoiler:Judit Kinski.]] The Collector also acts as a BiggerBad.
* BlackComedyBurst: Alexander accidentally fires an arrow towards a dignatary, which looks dead until he reveals the arrow only hit his hat.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Armadillo. For a mercenary, his costume is so ridiculous and flimsy that twoaliases.teenagers can see through it, but he's a true badass with a lot of guts and skill. [[spoiler:Later subverted when he betrays the Specialist.]]
* CreepyBlueEyes: Armadillo has those. The narration repeatedly compares them to the eyes of a hypnotized person of even a corpse.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Subverted, albeit still as a PetTheDog. The Collector desires to get rid of his elderly mother, but he prefers to pay a heck of a travel life for her instead of throwing her to an asylum.
* EvilIsPetty: The Collector is described as such. For starters, he resents being the world's second richest man and wants to dominate the world just in order to be the first.
* FantasticFightingStyle: Tao-shu, which is described as basically the ancient kung fu equivalent of UsefulNote/MixedMartialArts mixed with PressurePoints.
* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler:By Judith Kinski, also known as the Specialist, although in this case it affects her as well.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: The king considers the West to be materialistic and decadent, yet he keeps a lot of spectacular riches around, is attracted to a western woman pretty much because she's hot, and plans to send his son to study in Europe. He notes the second point himself and is a source of angst for him.
* LightningBruiser: Tensing is a giant by western standards and an absolute monster by Asian ones, but is described to be as nimble as a ballerina.
* NewAgeRetroHippie: Tex Armadillo dresses and behaves like one. Subverted in that it is just a costume, and such an obvious one than it is not even a spoiler that the kids realize it.
* NobleDemon: Armadillo explicitly disapproves pointless violence and once saves Alexander's life even although he had no reasons to do so. [[spoiler:The Specialist also seems to have considered to become TheAtoner at some point.]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Judging by his physical description, biography, fortune and business sector, the Collector is basically UsefulNotes/SteveJobs with some elements from Bill Gates thrown in. Amusingly, while the Collector is a stark materialist that disdains UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} and religion, the real Jobs was a deeply spiritual person who was a Buddhisthimself.himself.
* PsychicPowers: Tensing and Dil Bahadurm have very limited forms of {{Telepathy}} and {{Telekinesis}} thanks to their training. They can also use AstralProjection, with Tensing having even visited the Moon with it.
* SamusIsAGirl: [[spoiler:The Specialist is a woman. More in the original Spanish, however, given that Spanish language has gendered words; the Specialist receives masculine treatment through all the novel and is still referred as such even although he is revealed to be Kinski.]]
* SkunkStripe: Judith Kinski has black hair except by an odd white streak over the forehead.
* SuspiciouslySpecificalDenial: Armadillo brings up the topic of drugs to state not all hippies like him go to the Kingdom of the Golden Dragon to get ganja. Needlessly to say, Alexander and Nadia don't buy it for a second. [[spoiler:Only that in this case it is probably true.]]
!!The third book provides the examples of:
* BazaarOfTheBizarre: Nairobi's magic market, wich plenty of African witchcraft.
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Maurice Mbembelé and his two aliases.]]
* BigBeautifulLady: Angie, combined with SassyBlackWoman and AmazonianBeauty. In fact, both Mbembelé and a Masai from her backstory are attracted to her.
* DashingHispanic: Father Fernando shows his torero side when the party is attacked by a boar, moment in which he improvises a capote and utterly trolls it.
* HollywoodVoodoo: A toned down version is performed by Ma Bangesé.
* ThisIsReality: Alexander suggests to build a raft to get to Ngoubé through the river, but Father Fernando retors that he has read too many adventure novels. Ironically, the idea gets eventually approved and it's only the arrival of some natives which impedes it.
* TorosYFlamenco: The only Spaniard in the party, Father Fernando, was an aspirant bullfighter in his youth and still has neat pases.
* UnrealiableNarrator: Kate suspects that Leblanc's tratise on how Pygmies are an egalitarian society compared to the sexist, classist Bantu might be all a load of bull, but she cannot prove it because she doesn't know about it.
*
** In the first book, Mauro Carías.
** In the second, the Specialist, also known
* BlandNameProduct: The magazine Kate works for is named '''''Inter'''national Geographic''. Now that's subtle.
* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Nadia, due to being a Brasileira.
* LoyalAnimalCompanion: Borobá, Nadia's monkey.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Kate and his antropologist frenemy Ludovic Leblanc.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Joel González and Timothy Bruce, Kate's usual photographers.
* {{Tsundere}}: Kate is a type A. Bonus points because she was a redhead back when she was younger.
* WomenAreWiser: Present through all the books, with several grades of subtlely or lack thereof. Most female characters, like Nadia and Kate, are of the sensitive type in contrast to the impulsive and Alexander; most of the primitive tribes visited in the story have female chieftainesses who are described as good and wise (Iyomi, Grr-ympr, Nana-Asante), and whenever they have a male leader instead, he's either evil or a brute; also, out of the trilogy's three Big Bads, the most sympathetic one is the only female. The last book underlines it even more, with the group at one point fantasizing with humanity being a matriarchy like certain species of monkeys, and Nana-Asante openly stating women are inherently more moral than men.
!!The first book provides the examples of:
* AdultAreUseless: Played straight at the end, where the kids have to save the day given that [[spoiler:even the secret agent tasked with doing so, Karakawe, was TooDumbToLive.]]
* BigBad: Mauro Carías, an ObviouslyEvil rich man interested in massacring natives to exploit the jungle.
* EarthyBareFootCharacter: Nadia wears native sandals through the journey, boasting of being adapted to the Brazilian jungle, and Alexander is forced to adopt it as well after being biten by leeches inside his boots. They both later lose them and are forced to follow into the jungle barefoot, to Alexander's chagrin, which clearly symbolizes their travel to the deepest of nature.
* PsychicPowers: The mist people have the power of invisibility, among others.
!!The second book provides the examples of:
* AdvancedAncientHumans: Or yetis in this case. They apparently used to be almost as advanced as we are today, but destroyed their civilization through wars and conflicts.
* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: In the story, characters grab barrels of rifles implied to be AK-47 right after firing. In real life, they would get their hands burned.
* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: Among Tensing's ancestral weapons there are nunchakus and shuriken, which are Okinawan and Japanese respectively, not Chinese or Tibetan. It might be justified by the statemente that tao-shu practitioners researched martial arts through many Asian countries, but the fact that Allende describes those weapons crudely and doesn't give their names implies she simply doesn't know a lot about the topic and cannot tell their procedence.
* BigBad: The Specialist, also known as [[spoiler:Judit Kinski.]] The Collector also acts as a BiggerBad.
* BlackComedyBurst: Alexander accidentally fires an arrow towards a dignatary, which looks dead until he reveals the arrow only hit his hat.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Armadillo. For a mercenary, his costume is so ridiculous and flimsy that two
* CreepyBlueEyes: Armadillo has those. The narration repeatedly compares them to the eyes of a hypnotized person of even a corpse.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Subverted, albeit still as a PetTheDog. The Collector desires to get rid of his elderly mother, but he prefers to pay a heck of a travel life for her instead of throwing her to an asylum.
* EvilIsPetty: The Collector is described as such. For starters, he resents being the world's second richest man and wants to dominate the world just in order to be the first.
* FantasticFightingStyle: Tao-shu, which is described as basically the ancient kung fu equivalent of UsefulNote/MixedMartialArts mixed with PressurePoints.
* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler:By Judith Kinski, also known as the Specialist, although in this case it affects her as well.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: The king considers the West to be materialistic and decadent, yet he keeps a lot of spectacular riches around, is attracted to a western woman pretty much because she's hot, and plans to send his son to study in Europe. He notes the second point himself and is a source of angst for him.
* LightningBruiser: Tensing is a giant by western standards and an absolute monster by Asian ones, but is described to be as nimble as a ballerina.
* NewAgeRetroHippie: Tex Armadillo dresses and behaves like one. Subverted in that it is just a costume, and such an obvious one than it is not even a spoiler that the kids realize it.
* NobleDemon: Armadillo explicitly disapproves pointless violence and once saves Alexander's life even although he had no reasons to do so. [[spoiler:The Specialist also seems to have considered to become TheAtoner at some point.]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Judging by his physical description, biography, fortune and business sector, the Collector is basically UsefulNotes/SteveJobs with some elements from Bill Gates thrown in. Amusingly, while the Collector is a stark materialist that disdains UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} and religion, the real Jobs was a deeply spiritual person who was a Buddhist
* PsychicPowers: Tensing and Dil Bahadurm have very limited forms of {{Telepathy}} and {{Telekinesis}} thanks to their training. They can also use AstralProjection, with Tensing having even visited the Moon with it.
* SamusIsAGirl: [[spoiler:The Specialist is a woman. More in the original Spanish, however, given that Spanish language has gendered words; the Specialist receives masculine treatment through all the novel and is still referred as such even although he is revealed to be Kinski.]]
* SkunkStripe: Judith Kinski has black hair except by an odd white streak over the forehead.
* SuspiciouslySpecificalDenial: Armadillo brings up the topic of drugs to state not all hippies like him go to the Kingdom of the Golden Dragon to get ganja. Needlessly to say, Alexander and Nadia don't buy it for a second. [[spoiler:Only that in this case it is probably true.]]
!!The third book provides the examples of:
* BazaarOfTheBizarre: Nairobi's magic market, wich plenty of African witchcraft.
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Maurice Mbembelé and his two aliases.]]
* BigBeautifulLady: Angie, combined with SassyBlackWoman and AmazonianBeauty. In fact, both Mbembelé and a Masai from her backstory are attracted to her.
* DashingHispanic: Father Fernando shows his torero side when the party is attacked by a boar, moment in which he improvises a capote and utterly trolls it.
* HollywoodVoodoo: A toned down version is performed by Ma Bangesé.
* ThisIsReality: Alexander suggests to build a raft to get to Ngoubé through the river, but Father Fernando retors that he has read too many adventure novels. Ironically, the idea gets eventually approved and it's only the arrival of some natives which impedes it.
* TorosYFlamenco: The only Spaniard in the party, Father Fernando, was an aspirant bullfighter in his youth and still has neat pases.
* UnrealiableNarrator: Kate suspects that Leblanc's tratise on how Pygmies are an egalitarian society compared to the sexist, classist Bantu might be all a load of bull, but she cannot prove it because she doesn't know about it.
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** In the second, [[spoiler:Maurice Mbembelé and his two aliases.]]]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Judging by his physical description, biography, fortune and business sector, the Collector is basically UsefulNotes/SteveJobs with some elements from Bill Gates thrown in. Amusingly, while the Collector is a stark materialist that disdains UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} and religion, the real Jobs was a deeply spiritual person who was a Buddhist himself.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Judging by his physical description, biography, fortune and business sector, the Collector is basically UsefulNotes/SteveJobs with some elements from Bill Gates thrown in. Amusingly, while the Collector is a stark materialist that disdains UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} and religion, the real Jobs was a deeply spiritual person who was a Buddhist himself.
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''The Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar'' is a [[YoungAdultLiterature Young Adult]] fantasy/adventure trilogy by Chilean writer Creator/IsabelAllende. It is composed of the books ''City of Beasts'' (2002), ''Kingdom of the Golden Dragon'' (2004) and the ''Forest of the Pygmies'' (2005).
The trilogy narrates the adventures of American teenager Alexander Cold and his Brazilian friend Nadia Santos. They travel around the world with Alexander's hippie grandmother Kate, a journalist for the fictitious ''International Geographic'' magazine, and face multiple perils while discovering both the beauty of nature and mankind's greed.
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!!The trilogy provides the examples of:
* BigBad:
** In the first book, Mauro Carías.
** In the second, the Specialist, also known as [[spoiler:Judit Kinski.]]
** In the second, [[spoiler:Maurice Mbembelé and his two aliases.]]
The trilogy narrates the adventures of American teenager Alexander Cold and his Brazilian friend Nadia Santos. They travel around the world with Alexander's hippie grandmother Kate, a journalist for the fictitious ''International Geographic'' magazine, and face multiple perils while discovering both the beauty of nature and mankind's greed.
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!!The trilogy provides the examples of:
* BigBad:
** In the first book, Mauro Carías.
** In the second, the Specialist, also known as [[spoiler:Judit Kinski.]]
** In the second, [[spoiler:Maurice Mbembelé and his two aliases.]]
