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* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Roland has every confidence that Susannah will master the Oriza plates with hardly any effort. effort because she's a gunslinger gunslinger. She does, and almost instantly becomes the town's best shot.
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* TheBusCameBack: After literally being PutOnABus at the end of SalemsLot, Father Callahan finds his way into the DarkTower series.
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* RuleOfCool: The Oriza plates, which are somehow more accurate and hit with more force than crossbow bolts, allowing them to decapitate metal robots.
** Alsorobots. Also, the only reason the plates make a buzzing noise when thrown is because that's how the legend went.
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* BigDamnHeroes: The Ka-Tet to the Calla.
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* CliffHanger: The novel ends with [[spoiler: Susannah missing with no way to follow her and the discovery that Callahan is [[BreakingTheFourthWall a character from a]] Creator/StephenKing [[BreakingTheFourthWall novel]].]]
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* TheAtoner: Pere Callahan tries his best to make up for his failure in SalemsLot, even though he believes he's not worthy of redemption.
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* TheMultiverse: During Callahan's years wandering the Highways in Hiding, he passed through many different versions of Earth.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: In-Story. As the Ka-Tet begins obssessing over the mystery number 19 that keeps appearing, Roland dismisses it as nothing more than a coincidence.
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* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: [[spoiler:The Wolves are Doombots from on mechanical horses with weaponized sneetches from ''Harry Potter'' and wielding lightsabers]].
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* FantasticFruitsAndVegetables: The muffin-balls. A "type of ground-berry" covered in sour little horns which smells and tastes like fresh-baked sourdough bread from [[ProductPlacement Zabar's]].
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* FantasticFruitsAndVegetables: The muffin-balls. A "type of ground-berry" covered in sour little horns which smells and tastes like fresh-baked sourdough bread from [[ProductPlacement Zabar's]].Zabar's]], and which tastes almost like meat when fried in deer fat.
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* SilentWhisper: We're never told exactly what the [[ArcNumber: 19-word sentence]] told to Eddie by the old man was, but we get the gist of it by the book's climax.
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* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Roland has every confidence that Susannah will master the Oriza plates with hardly any effort. She does, and almost instantly becomes the town's best shot. Sort-of {{justified}} in that ImprobableAimingSkills and MultiRangedMaster are par for the course with gunslingers in Roland's world.
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* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Roland has every confidence that Susannah will master the Oriza plates with hardly any effort. because she's a gunslinger She does, and almost instantly becomes the town's best shot. Sort-of {{justified}} in that ImprobableAimingSkills and MultiRangedMaster are par for the course with gunslingers in Roland's world.
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* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: [[spoiler:The Wolves are Doombots from on mechanical horses with weaponized sneetches from ''Harry Potter'']] and wielding lightsabers]].
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** The Wolves use lightsabers straight out of
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* DumbMuscle: Referenced in Father Callahan's story about the Hitler Brothers. He immediately nicknames the huge muscular one "Lenny" and the small weasely one "George," referencing this dynamic from ''OfMiceAndMen'', but discovers to his surprise that the big one is actually the brains.
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** Referenced in Father Callahan's story about the Hitler Brothers. He immediately nicknames the huge muscular one "Lenny" and the small weasely one "George," referencing this dynamic from ''OfMiceAndMen'', but discovers to his surprise that the big one is actually thebrains.brains.
** Roont children become mentally retarded and grow to extreme size.
** Referenced in Father Callahan's story about the Hitler Brothers. He immediately nicknames the huge muscular one "Lenny" and the small weasely one "George," referencing this dynamic from ''OfMiceAndMen'', but discovers to his surprise that the big one is actually the
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* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Roland has every confidence that Susannah will master the Oriza plates with hardly any effort. She does, and almost instantly becomes the town's best shot.
* HiddenDepths: Roland reveals that he is a ''fantastic''dancer.
dancer. It's a bit of a SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat, though he did reference dances being held for the adults in Gilead.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: The women of the Calla fight off invaders by ''throwing sharpened plates'' at them. [[RuleOfCool And it works.]] Kinda helps that they're made outta ''titanium'', though.
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** Overholser's name is a reference to Western author Wayne D. Overholser.
** Sneetches are taken from ''HarryPotter''
** The Wolves use lightsabers straight out of ''StarWars''
** The clothing of the Wolves is based on Dr. Doom.
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** The plot is heavily based on ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven''. Calla Bryn Sturgis is a reference to director John
** Overholser's name is a reference to Western author Wayne D. Overholser.
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Preceded by ''Literature/WizardAndGlass''.
'''''Wolves of the Calla''''' is Book V of Creator/StephenKing's [[DoorStopper Epic]] {{Fantasy}} series ''Franchise/TheDarkTower''. Roland of Gilead's quest to save all worlds from evil continues in this fifth installment of King's epic tale, the series' plot takes a detour which finds the gunslinger and his companions helping the farmers of Calla Bryn Sturgis fight against the terrifying "Wolves" who threaten to kidnap the Calla's children.
Followed by ''Literature/SongOfSusannah''.
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!!''Wolves of the Calla'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* {{Bishonen}}: Callahan worked with one at Home.
* CanonWelding: A major part of the series in general. The big one in this case is the appearance of Pere Callahan, who was a character in Stephen King's second novel, ''Literature/SalemsLot''.
* ChildSoldiers: Jake and his friend.
* DeadlyDisc: Sharpened plates as weapons. There's a bit of a legend attached to them about a vengeful woman luring an evil suitor to his doom.
* FantasticFruitsAndVegetables: The muffin-balls. A "type of ground-berry" covered in sour little horns which smells and tastes like fresh-baked sourdough bread from [[ProductPlacement Zabar's]].
* TheGunfighterWannabe
* HalfIdenticalTwins: The Calla is flooded with them, at least until the Wolves seize one of each set. Justified, as the abundance of twin births is not a natural phenomenon.
* HiddenDepths: Roland reveals [[spoiler:that he is a ''fantastic'' dancer.]]
* ImprobableAimingSkills: The women of the Calla fight off invaders by ''throwing sharpened plates'' at them. [[RuleOfCool And it works.]] Kinda helps that they're made outta ''titanium'', though.
* LastStand: The Battle of Jericho Hill, which Roland remembers in his dream; it was there that the last forces of Gilead fell to the barbarians and Roland was the SoleSurvivor.
* TheMagnificentSevenSamurai: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in-universe. The main deviation is that none of the samurai cowboys die.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: [[spoiler:The Wolves are [[Franchise/FantasticFour Doombots]] on mechanical horses with weaponized [[Franchise/HarryPotter Snitches]] and wielding [[Franchise/StarWars lightsabers]]! Seriously!]]
* PreMortemOneLiner: In the legend of Lady Oriza, before killing Gray Dick, who [[YouKilledMyFather killed her father]], she tells him this: "May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest."
* ShoutOut: To ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven''. Calla Bryn Sturgis is a reference to director John Sturges.
* VerbalTic
** "Say thankya," "Hear me well," "Thankya big-big."
** Also, "commala" pretty much means everything (though it literally means "rice" which is the main crop in Calla Bryn Sturgis).
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Preceded by ''Literature/WizardAndGlass''.
'''''Wolves of the Calla''''' is Book V of Creator/StephenKing's [[DoorStopper Epic]] {{Fantasy}} series ''Franchise/TheDarkTower''. Roland of Gilead's quest to save all worlds from evil continues in this fifth installment of King's epic tale, the series' plot takes a detour which finds the gunslinger and his companions helping the farmers of Calla Bryn Sturgis fight against the terrifying "Wolves" who threaten to kidnap the Calla's children.
Followed by ''Literature/SongOfSusannah''.
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!!''Wolves of the Calla'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* {{Bishonen}}: Callahan worked with one at Home.
* CanonWelding: A major part of the series in general. The big one in this case is the appearance of Pere Callahan, who was a character in Stephen King's second novel, ''Literature/SalemsLot''.
* ChildSoldiers: Jake and his friend.
* DeadlyDisc: Sharpened plates as weapons. There's a bit of a legend attached to them about a vengeful woman luring an evil suitor to his doom.
* FantasticFruitsAndVegetables: The muffin-balls. A "type of ground-berry" covered in sour little horns which smells and tastes like fresh-baked sourdough bread from [[ProductPlacement Zabar's]].
* TheGunfighterWannabe
* HalfIdenticalTwins: The Calla is flooded with them, at least until the Wolves seize one of each set. Justified, as the abundance of twin births is not a natural phenomenon.
* HiddenDepths: Roland reveals [[spoiler:that he is a ''fantastic'' dancer.]]
* ImprobableAimingSkills: The women of the Calla fight off invaders by ''throwing sharpened plates'' at them. [[RuleOfCool And it works.]] Kinda helps that they're made outta ''titanium'', though.
* LastStand: The Battle of Jericho Hill, which Roland remembers in his dream; it was there that the last forces of Gilead fell to the barbarians and Roland was the SoleSurvivor.
* TheMagnificentSevenSamurai: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in-universe. The main deviation is that none of the samurai cowboys die.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: [[spoiler:The Wolves are [[Franchise/FantasticFour Doombots]] on mechanical horses with weaponized [[Franchise/HarryPotter Snitches]] and wielding [[Franchise/StarWars lightsabers]]! Seriously!]]
* PreMortemOneLiner: In the legend of Lady Oriza, before killing Gray Dick, who [[YouKilledMyFather killed her father]], she tells him this: "May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest."
* ShoutOut: To ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven''. Calla Bryn Sturgis is a reference to director John Sturges.
* VerbalTic
** "Say thankya," "Hear me well," "Thankya big-big."
** Also, "commala" pretty much means everything (though it literally means "rice" which is the main crop in Calla Bryn Sturgis).
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