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* RightBehindMe: {{Justified|Trope}}, given his invisibly, but the doctors get a rude shock while talking about how what happened to Freddie is irreversible while at a friend's house... and then Freddie reveals his presence by angrily yelling "It's ''permanent?''"
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* RightBehindMe: {{Justified|Trope}}, given his invisibly, invisibility, but the doctors get a rude shock while talking about how what happened to Freddie is irreversible while at a friend's house... and then Freddie reveals his presence by angrily yelling "It's ''permanent?''"
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Smoke is a Creator/DonaldWestlake novel following the misadventures of Freddie Noon. Freddie is a smalltime burglar who is caught looting the offices of a pair of cancer scientists who catch him in the act and force him to serve as the test subject for one of their experiments in exchange for not being arrested, Immediately after swallowing the concoction, Freddie flees though, wile also ingesting another potion in the office which he mistakes for an antidote. Instead, the combination turns him invisible. As Freddie and his girlfriend both take advantage of and struggle with his new state, the tobacco company that the two scientists work for try to kidnap him, eager to use him as an industrial spy, while also unsucssfulyl trying to duplicate the experiment on other volunteers.
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Smoke is a Creator/DonaldWestlake novel following the misadventures of Freddie Noon. Freddie is a smalltime small-time burglar who is caught looting the offices of a pair of cancer scientists scientists, who catch him in the act and force him to serve as the test subject for one of their experiments in exchange for not being arrested, Immediately arrested. However, immediately after swallowing the concoction, Freddie flees though, wile while also ingesting another potion in the office which he mistakes for an antidote. Instead, the combination turns him invisible. As Freddie and his girlfriend both take advantage of and struggle with his new state, the tobacco company that the two scientists work for try tries to kidnap him, eager to use him as an industrial spy, while also unsucssfulyl unsuccessfully trying to duplicate the experiment on other volunteers.
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* AmoralAttorney: Morton Leethe, who acts as a liaison between the doctors and Bueler and the tobacco executives and is not only onboard with their plans but suggests several of them before beginning to feel in over his head.
* BaitAndSwitchComment: Jack Fullerton IV declares he won't be part of any human experimentation for a cancer drug, then orders his lawyer to set up a dummy corporation to handle it.
* BaitTheDog: Merrill Fullerton is Introduced as a healthy man with a bit of a disdain for cigarettes and their effects, and a keen grasp of the situation, then starts intensely talking about using Freddy to hijack the human genome project and start a public relations campaign urging woman to abort any baby who might get lung cancer in the future.
* BlessedWithSuck: At first Freddie is happy to be an invisible, uncatchable burglar, then he’s constantly getting bumped into on the streets and such, can’t go out and interact with most people and his girlfriend is grossed out by how he’s invisible during sex.
* BaitAndSwitchComment: Jack Fullerton IV declares he won't be part of any human experimentation for a cancer drug, then orders his lawyer to set up a dummy corporation to handle it.
* BaitTheDog: Merrill Fullerton is Introduced as a healthy man with a bit of a disdain for cigarettes and their effects, and a keen grasp of the situation, then starts intensely talking about using Freddy to hijack the human genome project and start a public relations campaign urging woman to abort any baby who might get lung cancer in the future.
* BlessedWithSuck: At first Freddie is happy to be an invisible, uncatchable burglar, then he’s constantly getting bumped into on the streets and such, can’t go out and interact with most people and his girlfriend is grossed out by how he’s invisible during sex.
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* AmoralAttorney: Morton Leethe, who Leethe acts as a liaison between the doctors and Bueler and the tobacco executives and is not only onboard on board with their plans but also suggests several of them before (before beginning to feel in over his head.
head, anyway).
* BaitAndSwitchComment: Jack Fullerton IV declares that he won't be part of any human experimentation for a cancer drug, then orders his lawyer to set up a dummy corporation to handle it.
* BaitTheDog: Merrill Fullerton isIntroduced introduced as a healthy man with a bit of a disdain for cigarettes and their effects, and a keen grasp of the situation, then starts intensely talking about using Freddy to hijack the human genome project and start a public relations campaign urging woman women to abort any baby babies who might get lung cancer in the future.
* BlessedWithSuck: Atfirst first, Freddie is happy to be an invisible, uncatchable burglar, then he’s burglar. Then he's constantly getting bumped into on the streets and such, can’t can't go out and interact with most people people, and his girlfriend is grossed out by how he’s he's invisible during sex.
* BaitAndSwitchComment: Jack Fullerton IV declares that he won't be part of any human experimentation for a cancer drug, then orders his lawyer to set up a dummy corporation to handle it.
* BaitTheDog: Merrill Fullerton is
* BlessedWithSuck: At
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--> [George] didn’t so much have a medical history as a medical anthology. He had been shot, he had been stabbed, many of his bones ha been broken in accidents and fights. He had been an alcoholic and a drug addict…. George had at one time or another suffered just about every nonfatal disease known to man.
* CannotTellALie: Geoff feels this way about himself but Freddy punches holes in this fairly quickly by asking if he ever lied to his parents or girlfriends in the past.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jack Fullerton the fourth and the other tobacco executives who want to use an invisible spy for industrial espionage and spying on government committees.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: small town policeman Geoff Wheeabyx isn’t even a cop full time but is the first person to deduce Freddy’s invisibility and almost catch him.
* CannotTellALie: Geoff feels this way about himself but Freddy punches holes in this fairly quickly by asking if he ever lied to his parents or girlfriends in the past.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jack Fullerton the fourth and the other tobacco executives who want to use an invisible spy for industrial espionage and spying on government committees.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: small town policeman Geoff Wheeabyx isn’t even a cop full time but is the first person to deduce Freddy’s invisibility and almost catch him.
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* CannotTellALie: Geoff feels this way about
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jack Fullerton
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass:
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* DirtyCoward: Leethe is reluctant to expose himself to anything that couldn’t be plausibly denied in court and flees in a fight against Freddy.
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* DirtyCoward: Leethe is reluctant to expose himself to anything that couldn’t couldn't be plausibly denied in court court, and he flees in a fight against Freddy.
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* FatBastard: Bueler is a ruthless killer with no morals who eats a lot of high cholesterol food, exercises little and suspects that he’s only a few years away from a heart attack.
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* FatBastard: Bueler is a ruthless killer with no morals who eats a lot of high cholesterol food, exercises little little, and suspects that he’s he's only a few years away from a heart attack.
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* ILied: Freddie does this to Barney (who had kidnapped and threatened to torture Peg) in the climax when convincing him to put down his gun so they can both go their seperate ways.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Jack the fourth has late stage lung cancer and eventually dies of it.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Jack the fourth has late stage lung cancer and eventually dies of it.
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* ILied: Freddie does this to Barney (who had kidnapped and threatened to torture Peg) in the climax when convincing him to put down his gun so that they can both go their seperate separate ways.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Jackthe fourth Fullerton IV has late stage late-stage lung cancer and eventually dies of it.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Jack
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* LovableRogue: Freddie is a petty criminal but a loving boyfriend and somewhat nice guy who wants nothing to do with the crazy schemes of the tobacco company.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: the doctors are affable, somewhat comic characters who are utterly unhappy being dragged into the tobacco companies schemings and just want to get back to their melanoma research.
* MookHorrorShow: While none of them die, this principal is in effect when the invisible Freddy goes against Bueler and his men and at one point they see an axe hovering in the air.
* MundaneUtility: Jack The Fourth is less concerned with using the invisible man his scientists have accidentally created for corporate espionage than to spy on his doctors and see if they're laughing at him.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Freddie gives Bueler one at the end with Geoff describing it as several minutes of it looking as though Bueler is throwing himself against pieces of furniture then dragging himself back to his feet.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: the doctors are affable, somewhat comic characters who are utterly unhappy being dragged into the tobacco companies schemings and just want to get back to their melanoma research.
* MookHorrorShow: While none of them die, this principal is in effect when the invisible Freddy goes against Bueler and his men and at one point they see an axe hovering in the air.
* MundaneUtility: Jack The Fourth is less concerned with using the invisible man his scientists have accidentally created for corporate espionage than to spy on his doctors and see if they're laughing at him.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Freddie gives Bueler one at the end with Geoff describing it as several minutes of it looking as though Bueler is throwing himself against pieces of furniture then dragging himself back to his feet.
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* LovableRogue: Freddie is a petty criminal criminal, but he's also a loving boyfriend and a somewhat nice guy who wants nothing to do with the crazy schemes of the tobacco company.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil:the The doctors are affable, somewhat comic characters who are utterly unhappy being dragged into the tobacco companies schemings company's scheming and just want to get back to their melanoma research.
* MookHorrorShow: While none of them die, thisprincipal trope is in effect when the invisible Freddy goes against Bueler and his men and -- at one point point, they see an axe hovering in the air.
* MundaneUtility: JackThe Fourth Fullerton IV is less concerned with using the invisible man his scientists have accidentally created for corporate espionage than to spy on his doctors and see if they're laughing at him.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Freddie gives Bueler one at theend end, with Geoff describing it as several minutes of it looking as though Bueler is throwing himself against pieces of furniture then dragging himself back to his feet.
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* MookHorrorShow: While none of them die, this
* MundaneUtility: Jack
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--> '''Dr. Heimhocker:''' Without Freddie Noon, without knowing when he took the second formula, what else he ate or drank that night, what he ''did'' the rest of the night, there's no possible way to duplicate the experiment, and therefore no possible way to duplicate the results.
* ReformedCriminal: George Clapp, one of the company drivers and test subjects who comes across as a harmless, burned out guy now but admits that there are warrants out for him in death penalty states that make him want to turn invisible for peace of mind.
* RightBehindMe: Justified, given his invisibly, but the doctors get a rude shock when their talking about how what happened to Freddie is irreversible while at a friend's house and then Freddie reveals his presence by angrily yelling "It's ''permanent?''"
* ReformedCriminal: George Clapp, one of the company drivers and test subjects who comes across as a harmless, burned out guy now but admits that there are warrants out for him in death penalty states that make him want to turn invisible for peace of mind.
* RightBehindMe: Justified, given his invisibly, but the doctors get a rude shock when their talking about how what happened to Freddie is irreversible while at a friend's house and then Freddie reveals his presence by angrily yelling "It's ''permanent?''"
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* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Michael Pendergast, one of the tobacco company’s test subjects to try and reproduce the invisibility formula, whose looks keep her from being taken seriously as a scientist and hoped that being invisible could change this. To her consternation the experiment fails and just makes her ‘’more’’ beautiful.
* SugaryMalice: The doctors friends after Freddie destroys their vacation home during an attempt to trap them. They make a show of acting gracious and amused by the whole affair even as their eyes make it clear the doctors are never being invited back again.
* SuperiorSuccessor: CorruptCorporateExecutive Merrill Fullerton is a villainous version, being more shrewd than his late uncle.
* UnwittingTestSubject: Freddy is caught by the doctors robbing their offices and coerced into testing their formula and the rest is history.
* VisionaryVillain: Merrill Fullerton wants to save Big Tobacco by using the human genome project to eliminate genes likely to develop lung cancer and wants to use Freddy to break into the human genome project.
* SugaryMalice: The doctors friends after Freddie destroys their vacation home during an attempt to trap them. They make a show of acting gracious and amused by the whole affair even as their eyes make it clear the doctors are never being invited back again.
* SuperiorSuccessor: CorruptCorporateExecutive Merrill Fullerton is a villainous version, being more shrewd than his late uncle.
* UnwittingTestSubject: Freddy is caught by the doctors robbing their offices and coerced into testing their formula and the rest is history.
* VisionaryVillain: Merrill Fullerton wants to save Big Tobacco by using the human genome project to eliminate genes likely to develop lung cancer and wants to use Freddy to break into the human genome project.
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* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Michael Pendergast, one One of the tobacco company’s company's test subjects to try and reproduce the invisibility formula, whose formula is named Michael Pendergast -- her looks keep her from being taken seriously as a scientist scientist, and hoped she hopes that being invisible could change this. To her consternation consternation, the experiment fails and just makes her ‘’more’’ ''more'' beautiful.
* SugaryMalice:The doctors friends after After Freddie destroys their the doctors' vacation home during an attempt to trap them. They them, their friends make a show of acting gracious and amused by the whole affair even as their eyes make it clear that the doctors are never being invited back again.
* SuperiorSuccessor: CorruptCorporateExecutive Merrill Fullerton is a villainous version, beingmore shrewd shrewder than his late uncle.
* UnwittingTestSubject: Freddy is caught by the doctors whose offices he is robbingtheir offices and coerced into testing their formula and -- [[{{Invisibility}} the rest is history.
history]].
* VisionaryVillain: Merrill Fullerton wants to save Big Tobacco by using the human genome project to eliminate genes likely to develop lung cancer and wants to use Freddy to break into the human genomeproject.project.
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* SuperiorSuccessor: CorruptCorporateExecutive Merrill Fullerton is a villainous version, being
* UnwittingTestSubject: Freddy is caught by the doctors whose offices he is robbing
* VisionaryVillain: Merrill Fullerton wants to save Big Tobacco by using the human genome project to eliminate genes likely to develop lung cancer and wants to use Freddy to break into the human genome
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* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: Freddie is accidentally turned invisible by taking two skin cancer formulas that weren't meant to be taken together. After unsuccessfully trying to catch Freddie, the scientists and their boss try to recreate the experiment and find two more volunteers to take the chemical combination. One of them turns luminescent, and the other has all of his scar tissue fade away.
--> '''Dr. Heimhocker:''' Without Freddie Noon, without knowing when he took the second formula, what else he ate or drank that night, what he ''did'' the rest of the night, there's no possible way to duplicate the experiment, and therefore no possible way to duplicate the results.
--> '''Dr. Heimhocker:''' Without Freddie Noon, without knowing when he took the second formula, what else he ate or drank that night, what he ''did'' the rest of the night, there's no possible way to duplicate the experiment, and therefore no possible way to duplicate the results.
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--> [[George]] didn’t so much have a medical history as a medical anthology. He had been shot, he had been stabbed, many of his bones ha been broken in accidents and fights. He had been an alcoholic and a drug addict…. George had at one time or another suffered just about every nonfatal disease known to man.
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--> [[George]] [George] didn’t so much have a medical history as a medical anthology. He had been shot, he had been stabbed, many of his bones ha been broken in accidents and fights. He had been an alcoholic and a drug addict…. George had at one time or another suffered just about every nonfatal disease known to man.
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* DragonWithAnAgenda: Bueler is hired to capture Freddy for the tobacco company but is far more interested in forcing Freddy to be an invisible Assassin for himself (killing Buelers enemies and being rented out to organized crime) and gathers blackmail material against his employers.
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* DragonWithAnAgenda: Bueler is hired to capture Freddy for the tobacco company but is far more interested in forcing Freddy to be an invisible Assassin assassin for himself (killing Buelers Bueler's enemies and being rented out to organized crime) and gathers blackmail material against his employers.
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* FramingTheGuiltyParty: Freddie convinces Geoff to claim that Bueler and his men had held Geoff (and his deputy and the construction crew remodeling his basement) hostage not as part of an attempt to kidnap an invisible man, but as part of a plan to rob the local bank. They had no intention of doing anything of the sort, but this story will be more believable for a prosecutor and keep Freddy and Peg out of it.
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* FramingTheGuiltyParty: Freddie convinces Geoff to claim that Bueler and his men had held Geoff (and his deputy and the construction crew remodeling his basement) hostage not as part of an attempt to kidnap an invisible man, but as part of a plan to rob the local bank. They had no intention of doing anything of the sort, but this story will be more believable for a prosecutor seeking to convict them and keep Freddy and Peg out of it.
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* RightBehindMe: Justified, given his invisibly, but the doctors get a rude shock when their talking about how what happened to Freddie is irreversible while at a friends house and then he angrily yells out what do they mean by that.
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* RightBehindMe: Justified, given his invisibly, but the doctors get a rude shock when their talking about how what happened to Freddie is irreversible while at a friends friend's house and then he Freddie reveals his presence by angrily yells out what do they mean by that.yelling "It's ''permanent?''"
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* SuperiorSuccessor: Merrill Fullerton is a villainous version, being more shrewd than his uncle.
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* SuperiorSuccessor: CorruptCorporateExecutive Merrill Fullerton is a villainous version, being more shrewd than his late uncle.
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* BaitAndSwitchComment: Jack Fullerton IV declares he won't be part of any human experimentation for a cancer drug, then orders his lawyer to set up a dummy corporation to handle it.
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* ILied: Freddie does this to Barney in the climax when convincing him to put down his gun and they’ll walk superset ways.
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* ILied: Freddie does this to Barney (who had kidnapped and threatened to torture Peg) in the climax when convincing him to put down his gun and they’ll walk superset so they can both go their seperate ways.
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* MookHorrorShow: Ehike none of them die, this principal is in effect when the invisible Freddy goes against Bueler and his men and at one point they see an axe hovering in the air.
* MundaneUtility: Jack The Fourh is less concerned with using the invisible man for corporate espionage than to spy on his doctors and see if their laughing at him.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Freddie gives Bueler one at the end with Geoff drafting it as several minutes of it looking as though Bueler is growing himself against pieces of furniture than dragging himself back to his feet.
* MundaneUtility: Jack The Fourh is less concerned with using the invisible man for corporate espionage than to spy on his doctors and see if their laughing at him.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Freddie gives Bueler one at the end with Geoff drafting it as several minutes of it looking as though Bueler is growing himself against pieces of furniture than dragging himself back to his feet.
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* MookHorrorShow: Ehike While none of them die, this principal is in effect when the invisible Freddy goes against Bueler and his men and at one point they see an axe hovering in the air.
* MundaneUtility: Jack TheFourh Fourth is less concerned with using the invisible man his scientists have accidentally created for corporate espionage than to spy on his doctors and see if their they're laughing at him.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Freddie gives Bueler one at the end with Geoffdrafting describing it as several minutes of it looking as though Bueler is growing throwing himself against pieces of furniture than then dragging himself back to his feet.
* MundaneUtility: Jack The
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Freddie gives Bueler one at the end with Geoff
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* RightBehindMe: justified, given his invisibly, but the doctors get a rude shock when their talking about how what happened to Freddie is irreversible while at a friends house and then he angrily yells out what do they mean by that.
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* RightBehindMe: justified, Justified, given his invisibly, but the doctors get a rude shock when their talking about how what happened to Freddie is irreversible while at a friends house and then he angrily yells out what do they mean by that.
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* --> [[George]] didn’t so much have a medical history as a medical anthology. He had been shot, he had been stabbed, many of his bones ha been broken in accidents and fights. He had been an alcoholic and a drug addict…. George had at one time or another suffered just about every nonfatal disease known to man.
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* InvisibleStreaker: Freddy can't wear clothes in order to avoid being seen when he goes out and has to deal with all of the troubles of invisibility including exposure to the elements, having to fast to avoid having half-digested food showing, and being noticed at one point by a blind man.
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Smoke is a Creator/DonaldWestlake novel following the misadventures of Freddy Noon. Freddy is a smalltime burglar who is caught looting the offices of a pair of cancer scientists who catch him in the act and force him to serve as the test subject for one of their experiments in exchange for not being arrested, Immediately after swallowing the concoction, Freddy flees though, wile also ingesting another potion in the office which he mistakes for an antidote. Instead, the combination turns him invisible. As Freddy and his girlfriend both take advantage of and struggle with his new state, the tobacco company that the two scientists work for try to kidnap him, eager to use him as an industrial spy, while also unsucssfulyl trying to duplicate the experiment on other volunteers.
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Smoke is a Creator/DonaldWestlake novel following the misadventures of Freddy Freddie Noon. Freddy Freddie is a smalltime burglar who is caught looting the offices of a pair of cancer scientists who catch him in the act and force him to serve as the test subject for one of their experiments in exchange for not being arrested, Immediately after swallowing the concoction, Freddy Freddie flees though, wile also ingesting another potion in the office which he mistakes for an antidote. Instead, the combination turns him invisible. As Freddy Freddie and his girlfriend both take advantage of and struggle with his new state, the tobacco company that the two scientists work for try to kidnap him, eager to use him as an industrial spy, while also unsucssfulyl trying to duplicate the experiment on other volunteers.
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* BlessedWithSuck: At first Freddy is happy to be an invisible, uncatchable burglar, then he’s constantly getting bumped into on the streets and such, can’t go out and interact with most people and his girlfriend is grossed out by how he’s invisible during sex.
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* BlessedWithSuck: At first Freddy Freddie is happy to be an invisible, uncatchable burglar, then he’s constantly getting bumped into on the streets and such, can’t go out and interact with most people and his girlfriend is grossed out by how he’s invisible during sex.
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* FramingTheGuiltyParty: Freddy convinces Geoff to claim that Bueler and his men had held Geoff (and his deputy and the construction crew remodeling his basement) hostage not as part of an attempt to kidnap an invisible man, but as part of a plan to rob the local bank. They had no intention of doing anything of the sort, but this story will be more believable for a prosecutor and keep Freddy and Peg out of it.
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* FramingTheGuiltyParty: Freddy Freddie convinces Geoff to claim that Bueler and his men had held Geoff (and his deputy and the construction crew remodeling his basement) hostage not as part of an attempt to kidnap an invisible man, but as part of a plan to rob the local bank. They had no intention of doing anything of the sort, but this story will be more believable for a prosecutor and keep Freddy and Peg out of it.
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* ILied: Freddy does this to Barney in the climax when convincing him to put down his gun and they’ll walk superset ways.
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* ILied: Freddy Freddie does this to Barney in the climax when convincing him to put down his gun and they’ll walk superset ways.
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* LetOffByTheDetective: Geoff agrees to cover for Freddy after he defeats Bueler and decides to leave the country.
* LovableRogue: Freddy is a petty criminal but a loving boyfriend and somewhat nice guy who wants nothing to do with the crazy schemes of the tobacco company.
* LovableRogue: Freddy is a petty criminal but a loving boyfriend and somewhat nice guy who wants nothing to do with the crazy schemes of the tobacco company.
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* LetOffByTheDetective: Geoff agrees to cover for Freddy Freddie after he defeats Bueler and decides to leave the country.
* LovableRogue:Freddy Freddie is a petty criminal but a loving boyfriend and somewhat nice guy who wants nothing to do with the crazy schemes of the tobacco company.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Freddy gives Bueler one at the end with Geoff drafting it as several minutes of it looking as though Bueler is growing himself against pieces of furniture than dragging himself back to his feet.
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* RightBehindMe: justified, given his invisibly, but the doctors get a rude shock when their talking about how what happened to Freddy is irreversible while at a friends house and then he angrily yells out what do they mean by that.
* RunForTheBorder: Freddy and Peg decide to leave the country at the end.
* RunForTheBorder: Freddy and Peg decide to leave the country at the end.
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* RightBehindMe: justified, given his invisibly, but the doctors get a rude shock when their talking about how what happened to Freddy Freddie is irreversible while at a friends house and then he angrily yells out what do they mean by that.
* RunForTheBorder:Freddy Freddie and Peg decide to leave the country at the end.
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* SugaryMalice: The doctors friends after Freddy destroys their vacation home during an attempt to trap them. They make a show of acting gracious and amused by the whole affair even as their eyes make it clear the doctors are never being invited back again.
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* SugaryMalice: The doctors friends after Freddy Freddie destroys their vacation home during an attempt to trap them. They make a show of acting gracious and amused by the whole affair even as their eyes make it clear the doctors are never being invited back again.
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Smoke is a Creator/DonaldWestlake novel following the misadventures of Freddy Noon. Freddy is a smalltime burglar who is caught looting the offices of a pair of cancer scientists who catch him in the act and force him to serve as the test subject for one of their experiments in exchange for not being arrested, Immediately after swallowing the concoction, Freddy flees though, wile also ingesting another potion in the office which he mistakes for an antidote. Instead, the combination turns him invisible. As Freddy and his girlfriend both take advantage of and struggle with his new state, the tobacco company that the two scientists work for try to kidnap him, eager to use him as an industrial spy, while also unsucssfulyl trying to duplicate the experiment on other volunteers.
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* AlliterativeName: Barney Bueler.
* AmoralAttorney: Morton Leethe, who acts as a liaison between the doctors and Bueler and the tobacco executives and is not only onboard with their plans but suggests several of them before beginning to feel in over his head.
* BaitTheDog: Merrill Fullerton is Introduced as a healthy man with a bit of a disdain for cigarettes and their effects, and a keen grasp of the situation, then starts intensely talking about using Freddy to hijack the human genome project and start a public relations campaign urging woman to abort any baby who might get lung cancer in the future.
* BlessedWithSuck: At first Freddy is happy to be an invisible, uncatchable burglar, then he’s constantly getting bumped into on the streets and such, can’t go out and interact with most people and his girlfriend is grossed out by how he’s invisible during sex.
* CampGay: The two doctors and most of their circle of friends.
* TheChewToy: George Clapp in the backstory.
* --> [[George]] didn’t so much have a medical history as a medical anthology. He had been shot, he had been stabbed, many of his bones ha been broken in accidents and fights. He had been an alcoholic and a drug addict…. George had at one time or another suffered just about every nonfatal disease known to man.
* CannotTellALie: Geoff feels this way about himself but Freddy punches holes in this fairly quickly by asking if he ever lied to his parents or girlfriends in the past.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jack Fullerton the fourth and the other tobacco executives who want to use an invisible spy for industrial espionage and spying on government committees.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: small town policeman Geoff Wheeabyx isn’t even a cop full time but is the first person to deduce Freddy’s invisibility and almost catch him.
* DirtyCop: Barney Bueler is an NYPD detective under heavy investigation for graft and hiring himself out for lots of dirty work.
* DirtyCoward: Leethe is reluctant to expose himself to anything that couldn’t be plausibly denied in court and flees in a fight against Freddy.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Bueler is hired to capture Freddy for the tobacco company but is far more interested in forcing Freddy to be an invisible Assassin for himself (killing Buelers enemies and being rented out to organized crime) and gathers blackmail material against his employers.
* FatBastard: Bueler is a ruthless killer with no morals who eats a lot of high cholesterol food, exercises little and suspects that he’s only a few years away from a heart attack.
* FramingTheGuiltyParty: Freddy convinces Geoff to claim that Bueler and his men had held Geoff (and his deputy and the construction crew remodeling his basement) hostage not as part of an attempt to kidnap an invisible man, but as part of a plan to rob the local bank. They had no intention of doing anything of the sort, but this story will be more believable for a prosecutor and keep Freddy and Peg out of it.
* IHaveYourWife: Bueler plans to use Peg as a hostage against Freddy and does briefly get the chance.
* ILied: Freddy does this to Barney in the climax when convincing him to put down his gun and they’ll walk superset ways.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Jack the fourth has late stage lung cancer and eventually dies of it.
* LetOffByTheDetective: Geoff agrees to cover for Freddy after he defeats Bueler and decides to leave the country.
* LovableRogue: Freddy is a petty criminal but a loving boyfriend and somewhat nice guy who wants nothing to do with the crazy schemes of the tobacco company.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: the doctors are affable, somewhat comic characters who are utterly unhappy being dragged into the tobacco companies schemings and just want to get back to their melanoma research.
* MookHorrorShow: Ehike none of them die, this principal is in effect when the invisible Freddy goes against Bueler and his men and at one point they see an axe hovering in the air.
* MundaneUtility: Jack The Fourh is less concerned with using the invisible man for corporate espionage than to spy on his doctors and see if their laughing at him.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Freddy gives Bueler one at the end with Geoff drafting it as several minutes of it looking as though Bueler is growing himself against pieces of furniture than dragging himself back to his feet.
* ReformedCriminal: George Clapp, one of the company drivers and test subjects who comes across as a harmless, burned out guy now but admits that there are warrants out for him in death penalty states that make him want to turn invisible for peace of mind.
* RightBehindMe: justified, given his invisibly, but the doctors get a rude shock when their talking about how what happened to Freddy is irreversible while at a friends house and then he angrily yells out what do they mean by that.
* RunForTheBorder: Freddy and Peg decide to leave the country at the end.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Michael Pendergast, one of the tobacco company’s test subjects to try and reproduce the invisibility formula, whose looks keep her from being taken seriously as a scientist and hoped that being invisible could change this. To her consternation the experiment fails and just makes her ‘’more’’ beautiful.
* SugaryMalice: The doctors friends after Freddy destroys their vacation home during an attempt to trap them. They make a show of acting gracious and amused by the whole affair even as their eyes make it clear the doctors are never being invited back again.
* SuperiorSuccessor: Merrill Fullerton is a villainous version, being more shrewd than his uncle.
* UnwittingTestSubject: Freddy is caught by the doctors robbing their offices and coerced into testing their formula and the rest is history.
* VisionaryVillain: Merrill Fullerton wants to save Big Tobacco by using the human genome project to eliminate genes likely to develop lung cancer and wants to use Freddy to break into the human genome project.
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!! Tropes:
* AlliterativeName: Barney Bueler.
* AmoralAttorney: Morton Leethe, who acts as a liaison between the doctors and Bueler and the tobacco executives and is not only onboard with their plans but suggests several of them before beginning to feel in over his head.
* BaitTheDog: Merrill Fullerton is Introduced as a healthy man with a bit of a disdain for cigarettes and their effects, and a keen grasp of the situation, then starts intensely talking about using Freddy to hijack the human genome project and start a public relations campaign urging woman to abort any baby who might get lung cancer in the future.
* BlessedWithSuck: At first Freddy is happy to be an invisible, uncatchable burglar, then he’s constantly getting bumped into on the streets and such, can’t go out and interact with most people and his girlfriend is grossed out by how he’s invisible during sex.
* CampGay: The two doctors and most of their circle of friends.
* TheChewToy: George Clapp in the backstory.
* --> [[George]] didn’t so much have a medical history as a medical anthology. He had been shot, he had been stabbed, many of his bones ha been broken in accidents and fights. He had been an alcoholic and a drug addict…. George had at one time or another suffered just about every nonfatal disease known to man.
* CannotTellALie: Geoff feels this way about himself but Freddy punches holes in this fairly quickly by asking if he ever lied to his parents or girlfriends in the past.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jack Fullerton the fourth and the other tobacco executives who want to use an invisible spy for industrial espionage and spying on government committees.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: small town policeman Geoff Wheeabyx isn’t even a cop full time but is the first person to deduce Freddy’s invisibility and almost catch him.
* DirtyCop: Barney Bueler is an NYPD detective under heavy investigation for graft and hiring himself out for lots of dirty work.
* DirtyCoward: Leethe is reluctant to expose himself to anything that couldn’t be plausibly denied in court and flees in a fight against Freddy.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Bueler is hired to capture Freddy for the tobacco company but is far more interested in forcing Freddy to be an invisible Assassin for himself (killing Buelers enemies and being rented out to organized crime) and gathers blackmail material against his employers.
* FatBastard: Bueler is a ruthless killer with no morals who eats a lot of high cholesterol food, exercises little and suspects that he’s only a few years away from a heart attack.
* FramingTheGuiltyParty: Freddy convinces Geoff to claim that Bueler and his men had held Geoff (and his deputy and the construction crew remodeling his basement) hostage not as part of an attempt to kidnap an invisible man, but as part of a plan to rob the local bank. They had no intention of doing anything of the sort, but this story will be more believable for a prosecutor and keep Freddy and Peg out of it.
* IHaveYourWife: Bueler plans to use Peg as a hostage against Freddy and does briefly get the chance.
* ILied: Freddy does this to Barney in the climax when convincing him to put down his gun and they’ll walk superset ways.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Jack the fourth has late stage lung cancer and eventually dies of it.
* LetOffByTheDetective: Geoff agrees to cover for Freddy after he defeats Bueler and decides to leave the country.
* LovableRogue: Freddy is a petty criminal but a loving boyfriend and somewhat nice guy who wants nothing to do with the crazy schemes of the tobacco company.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: the doctors are affable, somewhat comic characters who are utterly unhappy being dragged into the tobacco companies schemings and just want to get back to their melanoma research.
* MookHorrorShow: Ehike none of them die, this principal is in effect when the invisible Freddy goes against Bueler and his men and at one point they see an axe hovering in the air.
* MundaneUtility: Jack The Fourh is less concerned with using the invisible man for corporate espionage than to spy on his doctors and see if their laughing at him.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Freddy gives Bueler one at the end with Geoff drafting it as several minutes of it looking as though Bueler is growing himself against pieces of furniture than dragging himself back to his feet.
* ReformedCriminal: George Clapp, one of the company drivers and test subjects who comes across as a harmless, burned out guy now but admits that there are warrants out for him in death penalty states that make him want to turn invisible for peace of mind.
* RightBehindMe: justified, given his invisibly, but the doctors get a rude shock when their talking about how what happened to Freddy is irreversible while at a friends house and then he angrily yells out what do they mean by that.
* RunForTheBorder: Freddy and Peg decide to leave the country at the end.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Michael Pendergast, one of the tobacco company’s test subjects to try and reproduce the invisibility formula, whose looks keep her from being taken seriously as a scientist and hoped that being invisible could change this. To her consternation the experiment fails and just makes her ‘’more’’ beautiful.
* SugaryMalice: The doctors friends after Freddy destroys their vacation home during an attempt to trap them. They make a show of acting gracious and amused by the whole affair even as their eyes make it clear the doctors are never being invited back again.
* SuperiorSuccessor: Merrill Fullerton is a villainous version, being more shrewd than his uncle.
* UnwittingTestSubject: Freddy is caught by the doctors robbing their offices and coerced into testing their formula and the rest is history.
* VisionaryVillain: Merrill Fullerton wants to save Big Tobacco by using the human genome project to eliminate genes likely to develop lung cancer and wants to use Freddy to break into the human genome project.