Line #44 Literature/JohnGolden


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2	[[caption-width-right:302: Killing the fairies in your internet.]]
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4	The ''John Golden'' novellas are a series by Django Wexler released by Creator/RagnarokPublications. They star the titular character and his disembodied sister Sarah. John Golden is the world's best Debugger, those rare individuals capable of physically entering the internet and banishing the fae who live there. While most fairies do nothing more than mess up data and prank their users, the worst are capable of stealing souls.
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6	The first John Golden novella, ''John Golden: Freelance Debugger'' was released in February, 2014, followed my a sequel ''John Golden and the Heroes of Mazaroth'' in August. More novellas are planned with a full-length novel in the works.
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12	[[folder:Tropes across the series]]
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14	* BadassAbnormal: John as a Debugger is this. He's able to fight fae on their home turf and win. He's not bad in real-life, either.
15	* CartwrightCurse: John seems to suffer from this given he's had a new girlfriend every story.
16	* ConsummateProfessional: John, despite appearances, takes his job ''very'' seriously.
17	* {{Cyberpunk}}: A LighterAndSofter variant with UrbanFantasy elements.
18	* DeadpanSnarker: John and Sarah both.
19	* FlatEarthAtheist: Sarah is a ghost inhabiting a laptop who hunts fairies but maintains she's an AI because she doesn't believe in magic.
20	* MissionControl: Sarah fills this role for John.
21	* OurFairiesAreDifferent: The fae primarily inhabit computer networks, since it's easier to manifest there.
22	* UrbanFantasy: Fairy-hunting IT guy is this in a nutshell.
23	* VirtualReality: Played with. Fairy burrows ''appear'' to be this but John points out they're magical pocket-dimensions.
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26	[[folder: John Golden: Freelance Debugger]]
27	* ActionGirl: Delphi has shades of this due to her keeping a bat nearby her at all times at home. [[spoiler:She proves it fighting the fae and becoming a Debugger.]]
28	* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: The genie plans to use Falmer's antivirus software to spread to the entire world's networks.]]
29	* BadassNormal: Delphi is this. [[spoiler: Until she becomes a BadassAbnormal.]]
30	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Mister Falmer. [[spoiler: He's not. He's actually dead.]]
31	* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Sarah thinks this would be the case if she died since she's backed up. John feels otherwise.
32	* {{Expy}}: Anti Fae seems to be a stand-in for Norton.
33	* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler: Mister Falmer is possessed.]]
34	* KlingonPromotion: [[spoiler: After a fashion. John convinces the investors to make Delphi CEO after they kill the possessed corpse of the CEO.]]
35	* MeaningfulName: Delphi is both an oracle and also a pun on the Dell computer.
36	* NotWhatItLooksLike: John comes off as a creepy stalker when he visits Delphi's home.
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39	[[folder: John Golden and the Heroes of Mazaroth]]
40	* ActionGirl: Meghan is one, at least in character.
41	** [[spoiler: Sarah becomes one, sort of, with her very male character.]]
42	* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Lord Anaxomander's goal in-game.
43	* {{Antivillain}}: Lord Anaxomander is a CardCarryingVillain but that's just because he was made that way. [[spoiler: When given the option to defect to the side of good, he does.]]
44	* CaptainErsatz: Heroes of Mazaroth ''is'' World of Warcraft.
45	* ChainmailBikini: Kelara's "armor" covers about as much as a standard-issue bikini, plus thigh-high mail boots and spiked shoulder pads.
46	* DarkActionGirl: Kelara is an {{Expy}} of Sylvanas.
47	* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: John is killed in Mazaroth. He then respawns. The experience freaks him out a little.
48	* EvilOverlord: John finds one living in a finance officer's servers. He's a refugee from Heroes of Mazaroth.
49	* HypocriticalHumor: Sarah puts down Heroes of Mazaroth the entire game, yet suspiciously seems to know ''a lot'' about it. [[spoiler: It's because she's a die-hard player with maxed levels and gear.]]
50	* JigglePhysics: Sarah's annotation describes that Kelara's breasts bounce as she strides, and she is "badly in needs of a sports bra".
51	* MageMarksman: Kelara is a sorceress who fights with a bow and arrows.
52	* MsFanservice: Kelara is lithe and dark-haired, with lips painted a bruised-looking purple and flawless olive skin, and quite a lot of that skin is on display. Heroes of Mazaroth's character designers are experts at appealing to their target demographic, for whom "women are a sort of mythical beast slightly less accessible than dragons". Her bust would have "done credit to a blow-up doll".
53	* RainbowPimpGear: Sarah's character in Heroes wears a hat like this because of its stat buffs.
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