History Literature / TheGeneralist

* CoolGuns: Though guns aren't as useful as blades in the world of The Generalist, that's not to say they don't have their place!
** Jude Maxwell utilizes customized .45's, customized in that they have two large fighting/throwing chakram embedded in the back that double as wrist-stabilizers.
** The Goon Goons are usually equipped with melee weapons, but will sport Thompson Cutters.
** [[spoiler: Mr. Beefy is an Artifact-enhanced, belt fed "Rolling Thunder" pump-shotgun that has enhanced durability and heat resistance, allowing for either Dash or Frank to use it at their full speed.]]
** Benediction is a massive seven-shooter with a puzzle-style grip that allows blades, acid, gas-powered syringes and other goodies to be hidden within it.

* BonusBoss: [[spoiler: There's always a chance that Dash will go Maximum Troll, thus forcing a battle between himself in his berserk status against Frank and anyone else close at hand.]]
* Manga/BoboboboBobobo: Frank is technically Bobobo, and Dash is technically Poppa Rocks

* HornyDevils: Troll "fluid" is considered to be a powerful alchemical reagent. Most of the time, it's blood or viscera, but then there are those times when said entities want "a lil' somethin' different." Guess who gets volunteered for the position of donor~!

%%* BadassBisexual: quite a few of the characters, actually

* KiAttacks: Ki energy in this world is explained as “thermal bio-energy that is manipulated and utilized through a combination of the body and mind’s combined willpower.”

* Badass Bi (from BadassGay): quite a few of the characters, actually

* BadassGrandpa: Mesmer and Father Von Schlaket. [[spoiler: Vitto Scarletti and the current Darkwatch, for that matter.]]

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* CoolGuns: Though guns aren't as useful as blades in the world of The Generalist, that's not to say they don't have their place![[/index]]

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* {{Hammerspace}}: Enforced and canon as hell, manipulation of reality to allow for pocket dimensions and Hammerspace (not to mention "never-ending hallways") is a staple of Neo-L.A. and The Generalist.[[/index]]

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* XmeetsY: Steven Barnes meets Jim Butcher.
** Superfly with psychics.

* HeterosexualLifePartners - Frank and Dash, natch. They live together (for the most part - it's mentioned that Dash has his own leased apartment), train together, and are so in synch that they can pull off combinations and special attacks ForMassiveDamage.

* Taboo 0: Cliché of Memories
* Taboo 1: Where's the Beef?
* Taboo 2: Magic and Mayhem (Part 1 of The Mayhem Arc)
* Taboo 3: Misfits and Mayhem (Part 2 of The Mayhem Arc)

** The Windswept Clan Brownies have had the biggest portion of the spotlight, being the caretakers of both the physical and the energy-based version of The Shop. It's because of them that the interdimensional feng shui of the place is kept going, especially noted when [[spoiler: they go on strike for a bit in Taboo 2.]]

** [[spoiler: In Taboo 1, Dash performs a ki technique known as "Symphony of Destruction."]]

* SomethingWeForgot: [[spoiler: Explosive rune in a prank gone oh-so-right~!]]
* SpamAttack: In Taboo 0, the Fastball was a rather strong attack. [[spoiler: By the third Taboo, Frank merely uses it to feel out his opponents, or to fake them out with a different attack.]]

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* Rule of {{Badass}}: Inherently stated as the foundation of the series.

* BoboboboBobobo: Frank is technically Bobobo, and Dash is technically Poppa Rocks

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* TheBerserker: holy fucking shit, the Shopkeepers BOTH qualify. Between Frank's anger issues and Dash's constant threat of undergoing "Maximum Troll" status, this tends to come up quite frequently.

** Jude Law utilizes customized .45's, customized in that they have two large fighting/throwing chakram embedded in the back that double as wrist-stabilizers.

** Ronald Mesmer, Jude Law, Father Gustav Hunden Von Schlaket

* ArtisticLicense: Word of God is that this is an autobiography, yet the first few pages explains that the reader should ignore that part and accept this as fiction.

* ChekhovsArmory: literally, called "The Armory."

* ChurchMilitant: Father Gustav Hunden Von Schlaket