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* EnsembleDarkhorse - Corrie. Fans kept pestering the authors as to when she'd be back.
* EscapistCharacter - Pendergast shows traits of this.
* {{Homage}}: Pendergast is a much more sociable - and American - version of Sherlock Holmes. For example, he talks to D'Agosta in a 'My dear Vincent' fashion, uses the 'elementary' comment, and of course employs {{Sherlock Scan}}s. This hits its apex in ''White Fire'' where part of the plot involves a long-lost Holmes story and includes several references to the original books.
* HoYay - Pendergast and D'Agosta have made more than one reader wonder.
* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt - Let's face it: did anyone really think that [[spoiler: they would just kill off Pendergast at the very ''beginning'' of ''Cold Vengeance'']]?
* TheScrappy - Constance and Viola, to some.
* EscapistCharacter - Pendergast shows traits of this.
* {{Homage}}: Pendergast is a much more sociable - and American - version of Sherlock Holmes. For example, he talks to D'Agosta in a 'My dear Vincent' fashion, uses the 'elementary' comment, and of course employs {{Sherlock Scan}}s. This hits its apex in ''White Fire'' where part of the plot involves a long-lost Holmes story and includes several references to the original books.
* HoYay - Pendergast and D'Agosta have made more than one reader wonder.
* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt - Let's face it: did anyone really think that [[spoiler: they would just kill off Pendergast at the very ''beginning'' of ''Cold Vengeance'']]?
* TheScrappy - Constance and Viola, to some.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse - EnsembleDarkhorse: Corrie. Fans kept pestering the authors as to when she'd be back.
*EscapistCharacter - EscapistCharacter: Pendergast shows traits of this.
*{{Homage}}: Pendergast is a much more sociable - and American - version of Sherlock Holmes. For example, he talks to D'Agosta in a 'My dear Vincent' fashion, uses the 'elementary' comment, and of course employs {{Sherlock Scan}}s. This hits its apex in ''White Fire'' where part of the plot involves a long-lost Holmes story and includes several references to the original books.
* HoYay -HoYay: Pendergast and D'Agosta have made more than one reader wonder.
*LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt - LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: Let's face it: did anyone really think that [[spoiler: they would just kill off Pendergast at the very ''beginning'' of ''Cold Vengeance'']]?
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* BrokenBase: [[spoiler:Revealing that Diogenes was still alive in ''The Obsidian Chamber''. Many people feel he had no place returning and should have stayed dead after the events of ''Book of the Dead'', while others like having him be brought back and point out that since we never actually saw him fall into the volcano and only had Constance's account, it perfectly left the door open for him to return later on.]]
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** [[spoiler:Revealing that Diogenes was still alive in ''The Obsidian Chamber''. Many people feel he had no place returning and should have stayed dead after the events of ''Book of the Dead'', while others like having him be brought back and point out that since we never actually saw him fall into the volcano and only had Constance's account, it perfectly left the door open for him to return later on.]]
** [[spoiler: In ‘’Literature/{{Bloodless}}’’, the TimeTravel and InsectoidAliens elements of the plot, not to mention Pendergast travelling to another planet to defeat said alien, has made a lot of fans describe the novel as the worst in the series.]]
** [[spoiler:Revealing that Diogenes was still alive in ''The Obsidian Chamber''. Many people feel he had no place returning and should have stayed dead after the events of ''Book of the Dead'', while others like having him be brought back and point out that since we never actually saw him fall into the volcano and only had Constance's account, it perfectly left the door open for him to return later on.]]
** [[spoiler: In ‘’Literature/{{Bloodless}}’’, the TimeTravel and InsectoidAliens elements of the plot, not to mention Pendergast travelling to another planet to defeat said alien, has made a lot of fans describe the novel as the worst in the series.]]
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* CompleteMonster: Diogenes Pendergast in the ''Literature/DanceOfDeath'' and ''Literature/BookOfTheDead'' is a massive monster, and [[FreudianExcuse considering what happened to him as a child]] doesn't excuse his horrific actions. Through the course of two books he [[spoiler: kills numerous close friends of his brother while taunting him about it ''and'' doing it to set him up for life in prison, enacts the same procedure that drove him insane on some unlucky souls as a test run before enacting the real thing on thousands of people at once, drugs up one of the oldest friends of Pendergast and D'Agosta after failing to kill her once so she's left in a death-like state and he can return to properly kill her whenever he wants, and tries to completely [[BreakTheCutie shatter the mental state of his brother's ward]] in order to get her to commit suicide]] simply ForTheEvulz. The fact that even before his proper introduction in the books his mere mention is enough to completely unnerve his usually very calm brother truly speaks volumes of how dangerous this man is.
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* BrokenBase: [[spoiler:Revealing that Diogenes was still alive in ''The Obsidian Chamber''. Many people feel he had no place returning and should have stayed dead after the events of ''Book of the Dead'', while others like having him be brought back and point out that since we never actually saw him fall into the volcano and only had Constance's account, it perfectly left the door open for him to return later on.]]
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* GodModeSue - Pendergast is so competent it gets a bit ridiculous at times.
** Though this gets subverted from ''Fever Dream'' onwards.
** Though this gets subverted from ''Fever Dream'' onwards.
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* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: Let's face it: did anyone really think that [[spoiler: they would just kill off Pendergast at the very ''beginning'' of ''Cold Vengeance''?]]
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* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt - Let's face it: did anyone really think that [[spoiler: they would just kill off Pendergast at the very ''beginning'' of ''Cold Vengeance''?]]Vengeance'']]?
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* TrappedByMountainLions: There are a couple of books where a supporting character has to deal with something that spins off of the main plot but is otherwise unrelated to it.
* TrappedByMountainLions: There are a couple of books where a supporting character has to deal with something that spins off of the main plot but is otherwise unrelated to it.
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* {{Homage}}: Pendergast is a much more sociable - and American - version of Sherlock Holmes. For example, he talks to D'Agosta in a 'My dear Vincent' fashion, uses the 'elementary' comment, and of course employs {{Sherlock Scan}}s. This hits its apex in ''White Fire'' where part of the plot involves a long-lost Holmes story and involves several references to the original books.
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* {{Homage}}: Pendergast is a much more sociable - and American - version of Sherlock Holmes. For example, he talks to D'Agosta in a 'My dear Vincent' fashion, uses the 'elementary' comment, and of course employs {{Sherlock Scan}}s. This hits its apex in ''White Fire'' where part of the plot involves a long-lost Holmes story.story and involves several references to the original books.
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* {{Homage}}: Pendergast is a much more sociable - and American - version of Sherlock Holmes. For example, he talks to D'Agosta in a 'My dear Vincent' fashion, uses the 'elementary' comment, and of course employs {{Sherlock Scan}}s.
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* {{Homage}}: Pendergast is a much more sociable - and American - version of Sherlock Holmes. For example, he talks to D'Agosta in a 'My dear Vincent' fashion, uses the 'elementary' comment, and of course employs {{Sherlock Scan}}s. This hits its apex in ''White Fire'' where part of the plot involves a long-lost Holmes story.
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* EndingFatigue: The conclusion to ''Book of the Dead'' is hit with a bit of this. Even after the climax has happened, there's still nearly a hundred pages devoted to [[spoiler: Constance hunting Diogenes across the globe.]]
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* CompleteMonster: Diogenes Pendergast in the Dance Of Death and Book Of The Dead is a massive monster, and considering what happened to him as a child doesn't excuse his horrific actions. Through the course of two books he kills numerous close friends of his brother while taunting him about it and doing it to set him up for life in prison, enacts the same procedure that drove him insane on some unlucky souls as a test run before enacting the real thing on thousands of people at once, [[spoiler: drugs up one of the oldest friends of Pendergast and D'Agosta after failing to kill her once so she's left in a death-like state and he can return to properly kill her whenever he wants, and attempts to completely shatter the mental state of his brother's ward in order to get her to commit suicide]] simply ForTheEvulz. The fact that even before his proper introduction in the books his mere mention is enough to completely unnerve his usually very calm brother truly speaks volumes of how dangerous this man is.
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* CompleteMonster: Diogenes Pendergast in the Dance Of Death ''Literature/DanceOfDeath'' and Book Of The Dead ''Literature/BookOfTheDead'' is a massive monster, and [[FreudianExcuse considering what happened to him as a child child]] doesn't excuse his horrific actions. Through the course of two books he [[spoiler: kills numerous close friends of his brother while taunting him about it and ''and'' doing it to set him up for life in prison, enacts the same procedure that drove him insane on some unlucky souls as a test run before enacting the real thing on thousands of people at once, [[spoiler: drugs up one of the oldest friends of Pendergast and D'Agosta after failing to kill her once so she's left in a death-like state and he can return to properly kill her whenever he wants, and attempts tries to completely [[BreakTheCutie shatter the mental state of his brother's ward ward]] in order to get her to commit suicide]] simply ForTheEvulz. The fact that even before his proper introduction in the books his mere mention is enough to completely unnerve his usually very calm brother truly speaks volumes of how dangerous this man is.
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* CompleteMonster: In ''Still Life with Crows'', [[spoiler: Job's]] [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist]] grandfather is this for being the reason he turned out like that. He forced [[spoiler: Job's mother]] to keep him underground and out of sight to hide the shame of her Teenage pregnancy.
** Diogenes Pendergast in the Dance Of Death and Book Of The Dead is a massive monster, and considering what happened to him as a child doesn't excuse his horrific actions. Through the course of two books he kills numerous close friends of his brother while taunting him about it and doing it to set him up for life in prison, enacts the same procedure that drove him insane on some unlucky souls as a test run before enacting the real thing on thousands of people at once, [[spoiler: drugs up one of the oldest friends of Pendergast and D'Agosta after failing to kill her once so she's left in a death-like state and he can return to properly kill her whenever he wants, and attempts to completely shatter the mental state of his brother's ward in order to get her to commit suicide]] simply ForTheEvulz. The fact that even before his proper introduction in the books his mere mention is enough to completely unnerve his usually very calm brother truly speaks volumes of how dangerous this man is.
** Diogenes Pendergast in the Dance Of Death and Book Of The Dead is a massive monster, and considering what happened to him as a child doesn't excuse his horrific actions. Through the course of two books he kills numerous close friends of his brother while taunting him about it and doing it to set him up for life in prison, enacts the same procedure that drove him insane on some unlucky souls as a test run before enacting the real thing on thousands of people at once, [[spoiler: drugs up one of the oldest friends of Pendergast and D'Agosta after failing to kill her once so she's left in a death-like state and he can return to properly kill her whenever he wants, and attempts to completely shatter the mental state of his brother's ward in order to get her to commit suicide]] simply ForTheEvulz. The fact that even before his proper introduction in the books his mere mention is enough to completely unnerve his usually very calm brother truly speaks volumes of how dangerous this man is.
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* CompleteMonster: In ''Still Life with Crows'', [[spoiler: Job's]] [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist]] grandfather is this for being the reason he turned out like that. He forced [[spoiler: Job's mother]] to keep him underground and out of sight to hide the shame of her Teenage pregnancy.
**Diogenes Pendergast in the Dance Of Death and Book Of The Dead is a massive monster, and considering what happened to him as a child doesn't excuse his horrific actions. Through the course of two books he kills numerous close friends of his brother while taunting him about it and doing it to set him up for life in prison, enacts the same procedure that drove him insane on some unlucky souls as a test run before enacting the real thing on thousands of people at once, [[spoiler: drugs up one of the oldest friends of Pendergast and D'Agosta after failing to kill her once so she's left in a death-like state and he can return to properly kill her whenever he wants, and attempts to completely shatter the mental state of his brother's ward in order to get her to commit suicide]] simply ForTheEvulz. The fact that even before his proper introduction in the books his mere mention is enough to completely unnerve his usually very calm brother truly speaks volumes of how dangerous this man is.
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* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: Let's face it: did anyone really think that [[spoiler: they would just kill off Pendergast at the very ''beginning'' of ''Cold Vengeance''?]]
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** Diogenes Pendergast in the Dance Of Death and Book Of The Dead is a massive monster, and considering what happened to him as a child doesn't excuse his horrific actions. Through the course of two books he kills numerous close friends of his brother while taunting him about it and doing it to set him up for life in prison, enacts the same procedure that drove him insane on some unlucky souls as a test run before enacting the real thing on thousands of people at once, drugs up one of the oldest friends of Pendergast and D'Agosta after failing to kill her once so she's left in a death-like state and he can return to properly kill her whenever he wants, and attempts to completely shatter the mental state of his brother's ward in order to get her to commit suicide simply For the Evulz. The fact that even before his proper introduction in the books his mere mention is enough to completely unnerve his usually very calm brother truly speaks volumes of how dangerous this man is.
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** Diogenes Pendergast in the Dance Of Death and Book Of The Dead is a massive monster, and considering what happened to him as a child doesn't excuse his horrific actions. Through the course of two books he kills numerous close friends of his brother while taunting him about it and doing it to set him up for life in prison, enacts the same procedure that drove him insane on some unlucky souls as a test run before enacting the real thing on thousands of people at once, [[spoiler: drugs up one of the oldest friends of Pendergast and D'Agosta after failing to kill her once so she's left in a death-like state and he can return to properly kill her whenever he wants, and attempts to completely shatter the mental state of his brother's ward in order to get her to commit suicide suicide]] simply For the Evulz.ForTheEvulz. The fact that even before his proper introduction in the books his mere mention is enough to completely unnerve his usually very calm brother truly speaks volumes of how dangerous this man is.
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** Diogenes Pendergast in the Dance Of Death and Book Of The Dead is a massive monster, and considering what happened to him as a child doesn't excuse his horrific actions. Through the course of two books he kills numerous close friends of his brother while taunting him about it and doing it to set him up for life in prison, enacts the same procedure that drove him insane on some unlucky souls as a test run before enacting the real thing on thousands of people at once, drugs up one of the oldest friends of Pendergast and D'Agosta after failing to kill her once so she's left in a death-like state and he can return to properly kill her whenever he wants, and attempts to completely shatter the mental state of his brother's ward in order to get her to commit suicide simply For the Evulz. The fact that even before his proper introduction in the books his mere mention is enough to completely unnerve his usually very calm brother truly speaks volumes of how dangerous this man is.
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* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:Job,]] in ''Still Life with Crows'', [[spoiler:who thinks he's really playing with toys instead of horrifically murdering people.]] The resolution involves his mother wondering where it all went wrong, and Pendergast points out that he didn't know because he never experienced morality for himself.
** [[spoiler: Job's]] [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist]] grandfather is this for being the reason he turned out like that. He forced [[spoiler: Job's mother]] to keep him underground and out of sight to hide the shame of her Teenage pregnancy.
** [[spoiler: Job's]] [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist]] grandfather is this for being the reason he turned out like that. He forced [[spoiler: Job's mother]] to keep him underground and out of sight to hide the shame of her Teenage pregnancy.
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* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:Job,]] in In ''Still Life with Crows'', [[spoiler:who thinks he's really playing with toys instead of horrifically murdering people.]] The resolution involves his mother wondering where it all went wrong, and Pendergast points out that he didn't know because he never experienced morality for himself.
**[[spoiler: Job's]] [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist]] grandfather is this for being the reason he turned out like that. He forced [[spoiler: Job's mother]] to keep him underground and out of sight to hide the shame of her Teenage pregnancy.
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* {{Homage}}: Pendergast is basically a much more sociable - and not to mention, American - version of Sherlock Holmes. For example, he talks to D'Agosta in a 'My dear Vincent' fashion, uses the 'elementary' comment, and of course employs {{Sherlock Scan}}s.
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* {{Homage}}: Pendergast is basically a much more sociable - and not to mention, American - version of Sherlock Holmes. For example, he talks to D'Agosta in a 'My dear Vincent' fashion, uses the 'elementary' comment, and of course employs {{Sherlock Scan}}s.
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** [[spoiler: Carol Mason]] in ''The Wheel of Darkness''. [[spoiler: After her inhibitions are removed she]] murders several passengers on the cruise ship Brittania in gruesome fashion in order to create a massive panic and unrest aboard the remaining ones as well as the crew. [[spoiler: This is all with the goal of leading the crew to mutiny against the Commodore and personally commandeer the ship, under the pretense that she's taking over in order to divert course to the nearest port to evacuate and save all survivors. In truth, Mason actually does this as a massive "screw you" to the Commodore, feeling that she should have been given command of the Brittania instead, and plans capping her revenge off by crashing the ship into some rocks, not even giving a damn that doing so will also kill all the remaining passengers on board.]]
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* EnsembleDarkhorse - Corrie. Fans keep pestering the authors as to when she'll be back.
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** [[spoiler: Carol Mason]] in ''The Wheel of Darkness''. [[spoiler: After her inhibitions are removed she]] murders several passengers on the cruise ship Brittania in gruesome fashion in order to create a massive panic and unrest aboard the remaining ones as well as the crew. [[spoiler: This is all with the goal of leading the crew to mutiny against the Commodore and personally commandeer the ship, under the pretense that she's taking over in order to divert course to the nearest port to evacuate and save all survivors. In truth, Mason actually does this as a massive "screw you" to the Commodore, feeling that she should have been given command of the Brittania instead, and plans capping her revenge off by crashing the ship into some rocks, not even giving a damn that doing so will also kill all the remaining passengers on board.]]
* EnsembleDarkhorse - Corrie. Fanskeep kept pestering the authors as to when she'll she'd be back.
* EnsembleDarkhorse - Corrie. Fans
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** [[spoiler: Job's]] [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist]] grandfather is this for being the reason he turned out like that. He forced [[spoiler: Job's mother]] to keep him underground and out of sight to hide the shame of her Teenage pregnancy.
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** Though this gets subverted from ''Fever Dream'' onwards.
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* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:Job,]] in ''Still Life with Crows'', [[spoiler:who thinks he's really playing with toys instead of horrifically murdering people.]] The resolution involves his mother wondering where it all went wrong, and Pendergast points out that he didn't know because he never experienced morality for himself.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse - Carrie. Fans keep pestering the authors as to when she'll be back.
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* HoYay - Pendergast and D'Agosta have made more than one reader wonder.wonder.
* TheScrappy - Constance and Viola, to some.
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* EscapistCharacter - Pendergast shows traits of this.
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* HoYay - Pendergast and D'Agosta have made more than one reader wonder.
* HoYay - Pendergast and D'Agosta have made more than one reader wonder.
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* GodModeSue - Pendergast is so competent it gets a bit ridiculous at times. If this makes him an BoringInvincibleHero or an EscapistCharacter [[YourMileageMayVary it's up to you.]]
