Line #21 Radio/JackFlanders


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3	Jack Flanders is the hero of a series of audio dramas produced by ZBS. Some of his adventures have appeared on radio, but all have been published in various recorded audio media.
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5	He first appeared in ''The Fourth Tower of Inverness'' and has had many adventures since then. He is a GentlemanAdventurer, BoldExplorer, and paranormal investigator, poking into mysteries to help out friends and relations. He has visited several different planes of being and socialized with a wide variety of non-human, semi-human, and ex-human beings. His adventures all have a comic, light touch and are laced with the mysticisms of various cultures.
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7	Adventures to date:
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9	* The Fourth Tower of Inverness
10	* Moon Over Morocco
11	* Incredible Adventures of Jack Flanders
12	* Ah-Ha Phenomena
13	* Dreams of Rio
14	* The Mystery of Jaguar Reef
15	* Travels With Jack
16	* Return to Inverness
17	* Midnight at the Casa Luna
18	* Traveling Jack
19	* The Fantastic Voyages of Jack Flanders
20	* Steam Dreamers
21	* Do Angels Really Have Wings
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23	!!Tropes found in Jack's adventures:
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25	* ActionHero: One of Jack's mottos is "I always present a moving target."
26	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Characters are perfectly comfortable talking about the audience. At one point, one character describes an eerie feeling of being watched and is reassured it's just the audience.
27	* CoolOldGuy: Jack is getting into that age bracket, though he was not in the first stories.
28	* DreamLand: Jack has been there several times.
29	* FantasyKitchenSink: Jack's setting, beyond the more or less ordinary world he starts out from.
30	* FemmeFatale: The Lady Madonna Vampira, in ''Fourth Tower of Inverness''.
31	* InteractiveNarrator: Mostly not, but occasionally characters will do things like correct his pronunciation, and, at the end of ''Fourth Tower of Inverness,'' the narrator gives Jack a ride in the jeep back to town (and out of the story).
32	* LongList: Early in ''Dreams of Rio'', a mechanical voice starts listing all of the types of Coca-Cola available. The list keeps going even as the narrator is talking over the top of it.
33	* MadScientist: Dr. Missoula, though not a very sinister one, in ''Fourth Tower of Inverness''. Well, he's ''called'' a mad scientist, but his effects are more MagicPoweredPseudoscience.
34	* MagicalNegro: Mojo Sam the Yoodoo Man, Jack's frequent companion.
35	* ManicPixieDreamGirl: The character Little Freida, and her variations.
36	* MegaCity: At the start of ''Dreams of Rio'', all of North America has become one giant city, mostly devoted to selling Coca-Cola.
37	* NarratingTheObvious: As per standard with radio dramas. Since Jack has a distinct (and sometimes interactive) narrator, the characters don't have to describe their own circumstances quite as much as they otherwise would, though they still do more than they would in another medium.
38	* OurDragonsAreDifferent: They breathe fire and looks exactly like classic dragons [[spoiler:but they are thought-forms from the collective unconscious.]]
39	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The Lady Madonna Vampira, in ''Fourth Tower of Inverness'', is an energy vampire. She starts a love affair with a victim, then breaks it off in the middle, going off with all the guy's psychic energy, leaving him an EmptyShell, at least for a while, and making her something of a [[SuccubiAndIncubi succubus]]. She is, however, one of the good guys (more or less) and can't help herself.
40	* PsychicPowers: Loads of characters have 'em.
41	* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: The recurring/reincarnating character Little Freida is (at least sometimes) a Venusian child who seems about ten in Earth terms but declares herself to be "a million and a half years old."

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