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12	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/author_pic.png]]
13	[[caption-width-right:350: Not a wookiee.]]
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15	C.T. Phipps is a lifelong student of horror, science fiction, and fantasy. An avid tabletop gamer, he discovered this passion led him to write and turned him into a lifelong geek. He is a regular blogger on ''Blog/TheUnitedFederationOfCharles'' and ''[[http://www.grimdarkmagazine.com Grimdark Magazine.]]''
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17	C.T. Phipps is also the creator of the popular tabletop RPG setting, ''TabletopGame/HaltEvilDoer''. He is also the author of ''Literature/TheRulesOfSupervillainy'', ''Literature/AgentG'', ''Literature/CthulhuArmageddon'', and ''Literature/LucifersStar'', and ''Literature/TheUnitedStatesOfMonsters''.
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20	!! Novels
21	[[index]]
22	* ''Literature/CthulhuArmageddon'' (he's one of the modern writers of Franchise/CthulhuMythos)
23	** ''Cthulhu Armageddon''
24	** ''Literature/TheTowerOfZhaal''
25	** ''Literature/TheTreeOfAzathoth''
26	* ''Literature/DarkDestiny'' with Frank Martin
27	** ''Dark Destiny''
28	** ''Destiny's Paradox''
29	* ''Literature/{{Futurepunk}}''
30	** ''Literature/AgentG''
31	*** ''Agent G: Infiltrator''
32	*** ''Agent G: Saboteur''
33	*** ''Agent G: Assassin''
34	** ''Literature/TheCyberDragonsTrilogy''
35	*** ''Daughter of the Cyber Dragons''
36	*** ''Revenge of the Cyber Dragons''
37	** ''Literature/MoonCopsOnTheMoon''
38	** ''Literature/SpaceAcademy'' with Michael Suttkus
39	*** ''Literature/SpaceAcademyDropouts''
40	*** ''Literature/SpaceAcademyRejects''
41	*** ''Literature/SpaceAcademyWashouts''
42	** ''[[Literature/LucifersStar Lucifer's Star]]'' with Michael Suttkus
43	*** ''Lucifer's Star''
44	*** ''Lucifer's Nebula''
45	** ''Literature/WraithKnight''
46	*** ''Wraith Knight''
47	*** ''Literature/WraithLord''
48	*** ''Literature/WraithKing''
49	* ''Literature/TheSupervillainySaga''
50	** ''Literature/TheRulesOfSupervillainy''
51	** ''Literature/TheGamesOfSupervillainy''
52	** ''Literature/TheSecretsOfSupervillainy''
53	** ''Literature/TheScienceOfSupervillainy''
54	** ''Literature/TheTournamentOfSupervillainy''
55	** ''Literature/TheFutureOfSupervillainy''
56	** ''Literature/TheHorrorOfSupervillainy''
57	** ''[[Literature/TalesOfSupervillainyCindysSeven Tales of Supervillainy: Cindy's Seven]]''
58	* ''Literature/TheUnitedStatesOfMonsters''
59	** ''Literature/RedRoom''
60	*** ''Esoterrorism''
61	*** ''Eldritch Ops''
62	*** ''The Fall of the House''
63	** ''Literature/StraightOuttaFangton''
64	*** ''Straight Outta Fangton''
65	*** ''100 Miles and Vampin''
66	*** ''[=Vampiraz4Life=]''
67	** ''Literature/TheBrightFallsMysteries'' with Michael Suttkus
68	*** ''I Was a Teenage Weredeer''
69	*** ''An American Weredeer in Michigan''
70	*** ''A Nightmare on Elk Street''
71	** ''Literature/MorganDetectiveAgency''
72	*** ''Brightblade''
73	** ''Literature/PsychoKillersInLove''
74	[[/index]]
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76	[[folder: Anthologies]]
77	* ''Art of War: Anthology for Charity''
78	* ''At Hell's Gates 2: Origins of Evil''
79	* ''At Hell's Gates 3: Bound by Blood''
80	* ''Blackest Knights''
81	* ''Blackest Spells''
82	* ''Horror, Humor, and Heroes Volume 3: New Faces of Science Fiction''
83	* ''Humanity 2.0: Emergence''
84	* ''High Tech/Low Life''
85	* ''Monster Hunter: Blood Trails'' (Legends of the Monster Hunter Book 4)
86	* ''Neo Cyberpunk'' volume 2.
87	* ''Planetary: Mars''
88	* ''Simple Deeds''
89	* ''Tales of Capes and Cowls''
90	* ''Tales of Cthulhu''
91	** ''Tales of the Al-Azif''
92	** ''Tales of Yog-Sothoth''
93	[[/folder]]
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95	[[folder: Tabletop Games]]
96	* ''TabletopGame/HaltEvilDoer''
97	* ''The Murder of Modius'' (For ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasqueradeFifthEdition'')
98	[[/folder]]
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100	[[folder: Websites]]
101	* ''Blog/TheUnitedFederationOfCharles'' (link to the actual [[http://unitedfederationofcharles.blogspot.com/ blog]])
102	[[/folder]]
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105	!!His works contain the following tropes:
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107	* AllMythsAreTrue: The case in his urban fantasy and superhero books.
108	* AntiHero: Gary Karkofsky (supervillain), Cassius Mass (ex-fascist starfighter pilot turned criminal), Agent G (professional assassin), Jacob Riverson (Ringwraith), and more.
109	* AscendedFanboy: Used to review a lot of Crossroad Press' books, now is a writer for them.
110	* AuthorAppeal:
111	** {{Goth}} girls make a disproportionate number of appearances in his books.
112	** A number of his characters are in LoveTriangle relationships if not outright {{polyamory}}.
113	** ActionGirl supporting casts tend to surround the male protagonists in his works.
114	* AuthorFilibuster: Not as frequent but tends to crop up whenever his characters would get into a rant against Mega Corporations and how they care more about building their bank account than improving the world.
115	* {{Bathos}}: Arguably the author's SignatureStyle. Issues of democracy, capitalism, and moralistic questions of justification are thrown about with debates about Star Wars as well as parodies of popular culture.
116	* CapePunk: The genre for ''Literature/TheSupervillainySaga.'' It's a {{Deconstruction}} of superhero morality when it's not zig-zagging into {{Reconstruction}} territory.
117	* CapitalismIsBad: {{Megacorp}} and CorruptCorporateExecutive types are frequently villains in his stories.
118	* CanonWelding:
119	** [[Literature/BrightFallsMysteries Jane Doe]], [[Literature/AgentG Agent G]], and [[Literature/LucifersStar Cassius Mass]] all show up in the multiversal tournament of ''Literature/TheTournamentOfSupervillainy'' with the first two becoming regular cast members.
120	*** Later, the protagonists of ''Literature/CthulhuArmageddon'' show up for the HollowEarth in ''Literature/TheFutureOfSupervillainy'' where the book serves as a FullyAbsorbedFinale.
121	*** Happens again in ''Literature/TheHorrorOfSupervillainy'' when William and Nancy from ''Literature/PsychoKillersInLove'' appear.
122	** Happened with the Literature/RedRoom trilogy when it was written in as a prequel to the Literature/UnitedStatesOfMonsters universe despite originally having been a separate urban fantasy group.
123	** The ''Literature/AgentG'' and ''Literature/TheCyberDragonsTrilogy'' became the distant past of both ''Literature/SpaceAcademyDropouts'' and ''Literature/LucifersStar'' when [[spoiler: Agent G]] showed up in ''Space Academy Rejects.''
124	* CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: Only a handful of his characters aren't rebels against the establishment in some way. {{Subverted}} with Vance Turbo who is an InternalReformist for TheFederation that doesn't quite live up to its ideals.
125	* ComicBooksAreReal: All of his various books are fictional media properties in other universes, which leads to the odd situation of Gary and other characters knowing characters from reading their books or watching their movies.
126	* {{Cyberpunk}}: Is the author of three series in the genre with ''Literature/AgentG'', ''Literature/TheCyberDragonsTrilogy'', and ''Literature/DarkDestiny.''
127	* Franchise/CthulhuMythos: In addition to the ''Literature/CthulhuArmageddon'' series, writes in multiple anthologies and frequently makes references to the lore in other worlds like the Great Beasts in the ''Literature/TheSupervillainySaga and the Primordials in ''Literature/SpaceAcademy.''
128	* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: The kind of endings you'd expect from his series range from bittersweet to downer endings. Rarely do any of his main characters get a truly good ending.
129	* FantasticNoir: Several of his series deals in this.
130	** ''Literature/AgentG'' is the story of a professional assassin and cyborg who works for MurderInc. He finds himself ALighterShadeOfBlack than his employers but can't turn to the authorities or anyone else to do better. FemmeFatale characters aplenty.
131	** ''Literature/TheCyberDragonsTrilogy'' appears to be a science fiction action thriller but the protagonist soon finds themselves wrapped up in conspiracies, detective work, and dark pasts they want to forget.
132	** ''Literature/TheBrightFallsMysteries'' is inspired by the works of David Lynch despite being set in a town full of werewolves and spirits. Jane Doe is an amateur detective in a town utterly filled with secrets, lies, and real world evils alongside the supernatural ones.
133	** Literature/MorganDetectiveAgency is a series about a HardboiledDetective who just so happens to walk the beat of a city filled with supernatural horrors. Ashley Morgan is a BrokenAce and struggles to rebuild herself after her trauma as a vampire's slave.
134	** ''Literature/RedRoom'' is a spy story about a morally ambiguous conspiracy that keeps the world ignorant of the supernatural. Its protagonist is an assassin that is aware the organization may do more evil than good. [[spoiler: It also ends with the hero dead and most of the cast.]]
135	* FirstPersonSmartass: Creator/CTPhipps has a tendency to do this with his ''Literature/AgentG'', ''Literature/CthulhuArmageddon'', ''Literature/UnitedStatesOfMonsters'', ''Literature/SpaceAcademy'', and ''Literature/TheSupervillainySaga'' series. All of his protagonists tend to speak in nonstop sardonicism and pop culture references.
136	* TheMultiverse: All of his fiction shares one and started having characters jump from one reality to another. Mostly this is restricted to his comic book universe but is referenced in their home books.
137	* PopCulturedBadass: Almost all of his protagonists (Gary Karkofsky, Agent G, Jane Doe, and more) are ass kickers with an intimate knowledge of ''Star Wars'', ''The Lord of the Rings'', and Disney.
138	* SignatureStyle: FirstPersonSmartass characters and WorldOfSnark in AffectionateParodies of genre fiction.
139	* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: The United States of Monsters series includes quiet drama scenes and horrible violence in-between ridiculous puns.
140	* SpaceOpera: Played with. The ''Literature/LucifersStar'' series is a universe with eldritch space gods, aliens, and sentient robots but is also a darkly cynical hellhole. ''Literature/SpaceAcademyDropouts'' is a more bright, optimistic, and heroic future...that is a {{Prequel}} to ''Lucifer's Star.''
141	* {{Troper}}: Is a frequent poster on the this wiki.
142	* UrbanFantasy: The United States of Monsters novels are an urban fantasy series where the supernatural has come out.
143	* TheVerse: Has three of these with ''Literature/{{Futurepunk}}'', ''Literature/TheSupervillainySaga'', and ''Literature/TheUnitedStatesOfMonsters''
144	* VillainProtagonist: Gary Karkofsky a.k.a Merciless, Agent G, Jacob Riverson, and Cassius Mass all qualify as this due to being ruthless criminals or out to literally take over the world.
145	* WorldOfSnark: Every one of his characters seems to be somewhat sardonic and catty.

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