History Literature / PhulesCompany

* BoobsOfSteel: Top Sergeant Brandy is a superior brawler who is described as physically impressive in pretty much every possible way. She's not only the largest woman and one of the best fighters in the company, but also poses naked for a porn magazine, along with Super Gnat and Rose. The magazine titles the spread "The Women of Phule's Company in Small, Medium, and LARGE", and it's heavily implied that Brandy's boobs are as big as the rest of her.

* GungHolierThanThou: Armstrong starts out as this; Phule tells him to knock it off.

* IntelligentGerbil: Cat, slug, warthog, lizard. Phule considers all of these name [[FantasticSlurs racial slurs]] and discourages their use.

* SimpleStaff: Escrima named himself after the Filipino stick-fighting style he's highly adept in.

* MeaningfulName: Legionnaires are generally known by their Legion names, names they chose upon enlisting or are later given by comrades. Some examples include Escrima, for his fighting style, and the Sinthians Spartacus & Louie, who come from opposite social classes and named themselves after the famous rebel slave and Louis the XIV, respectively. One character is initially known as "Violet" (as in ShrinkingViolet, since she's horribly shy), then becomes "Mother" as the company communication specialist who is a ''lot'' more confident over the radio, and tends to get maternal with her colleagues.

** Super Gnat's height in her earlier characterization. She even attacked another legionnaire who asked the mess cook for a short stack of pancakes.
** Insult Escrima's cooking skills or mess with the ingredients of his menu. [[SchmuckBait We'll wait.]]
* BoobsOfSteel: Top Sergeant Brandy is a superior brawler who is described as physically impressive in pretty much every possible way.

* SassyBlackWoman:
** Laverna Nightingale, if more understated than most, and despite having been initially presented as an IceQueen.
** "Mother," aka Rose, is a Sassy White Woman -- but only over the radio.

''Phule's Company'' is a sci-fi series by Robert Asprin about (what appears to be) a MillionairePlayboy in the Space Legion who gets KickedUpstairs and in charge of the Legion's worst unit, unofficially called The Omega Company. He has to turn them from a RagtagBunchOfMisfits into a well-oiled machine, and through the books encounters more and more bizarre assignments and new worlds.

Its Character Sheet would definitely use expansion and some WikiMagic.

!!Trope Examples:

* [[{{Fiction500}} Fiction 500]]: Captain Jester, aka Willard Phule, is one of the richest men in the galaxy, which is why he was reassigned to the Omega company instead of being sent to the stockade.

* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: Supposedly, the books are Beeker's recounting of events; the story is interspersed with his personal comments, and occasionally he will explain that he's just inferring scenes he wasn't there for from the things he does know.

Trope Examples:

* LoopholeAbuse: The Omega Mob finds itself in a competition against the elite Red Eagles to see who can make it through an obstacle course fastest. Phule specifies that the race will be with "full combat gear and conditions," and the Red Eagles quickly complete it despite carrying a full infantry loadout. However, Phule's company finishes even faster since[[spoiler: "full combat conditions" means they can blow up or destroy every obstacle in their way,]] something the Red Eagles hadn't considered. Rather unusually for this trope, the Red Eagles don't object, once their Captain points out that ''they could have done the same thing''.