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* BadassAbnormal: [[spoiler:Earl Harbinger, who is the only werewolf in the world not covered by monster bounties.]]
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* BadassAbnormal: Agent Franks is shown to actually be [[spoiler:Frankenstein's Monster]].
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler: Earl's diary]] reveals that he's been trying to return human after being turned into a werewolf. Unfortunately, after it happens... things get worse, and being a werewolf would ''really'' have been useful. Being a Badass, he just grits his teeth and keeps on fighting.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler: Earl's diary]] reveals that he's been trying to return human after being turned into a werewolf. Unfortunately, after it happens... things get worse, and being a werewolf would ''really'' have been useful. Being a Badass, he just grits his teeth and keeps on fighting.fighting... though hypocritically mentioning things he misses about being a werewolf.
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* {{Gorn}}: Taken {{Up to Eleven}} when Earl and a local drive a snow cutter (think a combine-sized snowblower) through a mass of undead werewolves. Earl pronounces the resulting slurry of werewolf as the most disgusting thing he ever seen
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* {{Gorn}}: Taken {{Up to Eleven}} when Earl and a local drive a snow cutter (think a combine-sized snowblower) through a mass of undead werewolves. Earl pronounces the resulting slurry of werewolf as the most disgusting thing he ever seenseen.
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** And Earl's reaction to finding out that he [[spoiler: bit Sharon.]]
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* BearsAreBadNews: Armored zombie bears, to be precise. Grant briefly freaks out and complains that it's "unfair" to armor zombies.
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* EverythingsWorseWithBears: Armored zombie bears, to be precise. Grant briefly freaks out and complains that it's "unfair" to armor zombies.
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* DirtyCoward: MCB Agent Stark was TheNeidermeyer in the OneManArmy entry for Sam Haven and, in the not-flashback sections, he tries to use his MCB authority to get a nice hiding spot after things get bad.
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Creator/LarryCorreia has some other series in the works: TheGrimnoirChronicles, an UrbanFantasy set in an AlternateHistory [[FilmNoir 1930s]]; Literature/DeadSix, a military thriller; and an untitled project co-written with Creator/JohnRingo. Sample chapters of his work can be found [[http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/online-fiction/ here]].
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Creator/LarryCorreia has some other series in the works: TheGrimnoirChronicles, ''Literature/TheGrimnoirChronicles'', an UrbanFantasy set in an AlternateHistory [[FilmNoir 1930s]]; Literature/DeadSix, a military thriller; and an untitled project co-written with Creator/JohnRingo. Sample chapters of his work can be found [[http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/online-fiction/ here]].
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* {{Necronomicon}}: A book written by a "mad Arab" in which Shoggoths are described, what else could it be?
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* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: Oddly subverted. All the major characters except for Harbinger experience a violent on-screen death at the trap in Mississippi (and Harbinger is slowly succumbing to his wounds), when Owen uses the Artifact's power to revise the timeline. They all remember dying, it just doesn't stick.]]
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* DarkestHour: [[spoiler: The trap in Mississippi. The entire team dies violently. By comparison, only 15 hunters die in the final battle, none of them major characters.]]
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* TheWorfEffect: When Owen isn't reiterating how skilled Julie is, it's because he's busy saving her life. Lampshaded after the final battle by Julie herself.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: Owen is shown on the cover wearing black armor. In the book, his armor is brown, and he derides Grant's black suit.
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* {{Ghostapo}}: Mordechai Byreika's journals express a belief that the Nazis were working with Lord Machado. One of the Master Vampires was a Nazi.
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* YeOldeButcheredEnglish: This is how Thrall speaks.
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* RocksFallEveryoneDies: Sort of subverted. [[spoiler: Most of the important characters end up being killed in a battle with demons in chapter 22, but Owen finds a way to rewind time by five minutes and bring them all back. They all remember dying, and are grateful for the second chance at life.]]
* ShoutOut: Milo's flamethrower [[SchlockMercenary hummed ominously]].
* SilverBullet: Julie explains them to Owen in their first meeting. Silver is too light and hard to engage barrel rifling properly, resulting is a fast, light bullet with low damage and poor accuracy. Instead MHI uses a modified [[http://www.gunblast.com/PowRBall.htm Corbon Pow'r Ball design]]: a hollowpoint round with a silver ball inside the cavity. As it's also ''expensive'', it's only available in .45 ACP and .308 Winchester. The MCB uses a different design that relies on powdered silver in a polymer matrix, available in 9mm Parabellum, 5,56mm NATO and 7.62mm NATO.
* ShoutOut: Milo's flamethrower [[SchlockMercenary hummed ominously]].
* SilverBullet: Julie explains them to Owen in their first meeting. Silver is too light and hard to engage barrel rifling properly, resulting is a fast, light bullet with low damage and poor accuracy. Instead MHI uses a modified [[http://www.gunblast.com/PowRBall.htm Corbon Pow'r Ball design]]: a hollowpoint round with a silver ball inside the cavity. As it's also ''expensive'', it's only available in .45 ACP and .308 Winchester. The MCB uses a different design that relies on powdered silver in a polymer matrix, available in 9mm Parabellum, 5,56mm NATO and 7.62mm NATO.
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* RocksFallEveryoneDies: Sort of subverted.Subverted. [[spoiler: Most of the important characters end up being killed in a battle with demons in chapter 22, but Owen finds a way to rewind time by five minutes and bring them all back. They all remember dying, and are grateful for the second chance at life.]]
* ShoutOut: Milo's flamethrower[[SchlockMercenary [[Webcomic/SchlockMercenary hummed ominously]].
* SilverBullet: Julie explains them to Owen in their first meeting. Silver is too light and hard to engage barrel rifling properly, resulting is a fast, light bullet with low damage and poor accuracy. Instead MHI uses a modified [[http://www.gunblast.com/PowRBall.htm Corbon Pow'r Ball design]]: a hollowpoint round with a silver ball inside the cavity. As it's also ''expensive'', it's only available in .45 ACP and .308 Winchester. The MCB uses a different design that relies on powdered silver in a polymer matrix, available in 9mm Parabellum,5,56mm 5.56mm NATO and 7.62mm NATO.
* ShoutOut: Milo's flamethrower
* SilverBullet: Julie explains them to Owen in their first meeting. Silver is too light and hard to engage barrel rifling properly, resulting is a fast, light bullet with low damage and poor accuracy. Instead MHI uses a modified [[http://www.gunblast.com/PowRBall.htm Corbon Pow'r Ball design]]: a hollowpoint round with a silver ball inside the cavity. As it's also ''expensive'', it's only available in .45 ACP and .308 Winchester. The MCB uses a different design that relies on powdered silver in a polymer matrix, available in 9mm Parabellum,
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Machado" means "Axe."
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* VampiresVsWerewolves: [[spoiler: Earl]] fights vampires.
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** One of the hunter team patches is a [[SluggyFreelance mini-lop bunny armed with a switchblade.]] Another has SamuraiJack as a logo.
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* FunWithAcronyms: Special Task Force Unicorn
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* CrazyAwesome: Milo. He's affectionately referred to as MHI's mad scientist, and his job is to come up with the gear the Hunters use. He's not exactly crazy per se, but Milo does view the world differently from most folks...
** In the short story with Tanya; they admit that "crazy" is not a resume killer to be a Monster Hunter.
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* CrazyAwesome: Milo. He's affectionately referred to as MHI's mad scientist, and his job is to come up with the gear the Hunters use. He's not exactly crazy per se, but Milo does view the world differently from most folks...
** In the short story with Tanya; they admit that "crazy" is not a resume killer to be a Monster Hunter.
** In the short story with Tanya; they admit that "crazy" is not a resume killer to be a Monster Hunter.
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* OurOrcsAreDifferent: They work for MHI as healers and as the pilot for their Mi-24 Hind; each has a special skill that makes them the best at what they do (Gretchen = Ultimate Healer; Skippy = Ultimate Hind Pilot). In Vendetta, Owen's brother speculates that this is the true origin of [[BadassDriver The]][[TopGear Stig]].
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* OurOrcsAreDifferent: They work for MHI as healers and as the pilot for their Mi-24 Hind; each has a special skill that makes them the best at what they do (Gretchen = Ultimate Healer; Skippy = Ultimate Hind Pilot). In Vendetta, Owen's brother speculates that this is the true origin of [[BadassDriver The]][[TopGear The ]][[TopGear Stig]].
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* SureLetsGoWithThat:
->'''Owen:''' We think there's a dangerous supernatural entity loose in your casino.\\
'''Owen:''' Yeah. Sorry to break it to you. It killed several people in northern Nevada yesterday and murdered one of your guests this morning in room 1613.\\
'''Mitch''': That's nuts.\\
'''Owen:''' You know what? Go ahead and roll with that. We're crazy, so just humor us until we're done.
->'''Owen:''' We think there's a dangerous supernatural entity loose in your casino.\\
'''Owen:''' Yeah. Sorry to break it to you. It killed several people in northern Nevada yesterday and murdered one of your guests this morning in room 1613.\\
'''Mitch''': That's nuts.\\
'''Owen:''' You know what? Go ahead and roll with that. We're crazy, so just humor us until we're done.
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* CoolCar: One of the best weapons that the locals have against the werewolves turns out to be a snow-cutter, basically an enormous snowblower/car hybrid whose blades are strong enough to double as a heavy-duty wood-chipper. Earl and Aino basically use it to run the monsters down and reduce them to slush.
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* TastesLikeChicken: Averted with the luska. Earl doesn't care for the taste, but he was ravenously hungry on a full moon.
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* CoolCar: One of the best weapons that the locals have against the werewolves turns out to be a snow-cutter, basically an enormous snowblower/car hybrid whose blades are strong enough to double as a heavy-duty wood-chipper. Earl and Aino basically use it to run the monsters down and reduce them to slush.
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* MundaneUtility: [[spoiler: Heather]], a junk-food adict whos mother had diabetes, is ''thrilled'' to learn that werewolfs burn enough calories that she can eat anything she wants without gaining weight.
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* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Alpha]].
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Alpha]].
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* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler: Earl is temporarily turned human by the Macgruffin]].
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* CursedWithAwesome: [[spoiler:Heather]] doesn't like many of the implications of becoming a werewolf, but is delighted to learn that the accelerated metabolism means that she will never have to diet ever again.
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Creator/LarryCorreia has some other series in the works: TheGrimnoirChronicles, an UrbanFantasy set in an AlternateHistory [[FilmNoir 1930s]]; DeadSix, a military thriller; and an untitled project co-written with Creator/JohnRingo. Sample chapters of his work can be found [[http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/online-fiction/ here]].
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Creator/LarryCorreia has some other series in the works: TheGrimnoirChronicles, an UrbanFantasy set in an AlternateHistory [[FilmNoir 1930s]]; DeadSix, Literature/DeadSix, a military thriller; and an untitled project co-written with Creator/JohnRingo. Sample chapters of his work can be found [[http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/online-fiction/ here]].
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The third book in the series, '''Monster Hunter Alpha''', picks up some time after Vendetta, with a change of pratagonist. Earl Harbinger heads to a remote town in Michigan, to settle some old scores with one of his oldest foes, a vicious werewolf who served the KGB, and take him down for good. But there's another force waiting in the darkness, working to bring about a new breed of werewolves, and the only thing in their way are a handful of locals and a Determinator Earl Harbinger who won't die.
MHV cracked the New York Times Best Sellers list at #27 for mass-market paperbacks. Correia has some other series in the works: TheGrimnoirChronicles, an UrbanFantasy set in an AlternateHistory [[FilmNoir 1930s]]; DeadSix, a military thriller; and an untitled project co-written with Creator/JohnRingo. Sample chapters of his work can be found [[http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/online-fiction/ here]].
MHV cracked the New York Times Best Sellers list at #27 for mass-market paperbacks. Correia has some other series in the works: TheGrimnoirChronicles, an UrbanFantasy set in an AlternateHistory [[FilmNoir 1930s]]; DeadSix, a military thriller; and an untitled project co-written with Creator/JohnRingo. Sample chapters of his work can be found [[http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/online-fiction/ here]].
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The third book in the series, '''Monster Hunter Alpha''', picks up some time after Vendetta, with a change of pratagonist.protagonist. Earl Harbinger heads to a remote town in Michigan, to settle some old scores with one of his oldest foes, a vicious werewolf who served the KGB, and take him down for good. But there's another force waiting in the darkness, working to bring about a new breed of werewolves, and the only thing in their way are a handful of locals and a Determinator {{Determinator}} Earl Harbinger who won't die.
MHV cracked ''Monster Hunter Legion'', the New York Times Best Sellers list at #27 most recent book, brings MHI to Las Vegas, where they and other hunter teams from around the world, invited by a mysterious host for mass-market paperbacks. a hunter convention, run into a buried supernatural super weapon from the tail end of WorldWarTwo.
Correia has some other series in the works: TheGrimnoirChronicles, an UrbanFantasy set in an AlternateHistory [[FilmNoir 1930s]]; DeadSix, a military thriller; and an untitled project co-written with Creator/JohnRingo. Sample chapters of his work can be found [[http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/online-fiction/ here]].
Correia has some other series in the works: TheGrimnoirChronicles, an UrbanFantasy set in an AlternateHistory [[FilmNoir 1930s]]; DeadSix, a military thriller; and an untitled project co-written with Creator/JohnRingo. Sample chapters of his work can be found [[http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/online-fiction/ here]].
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* OddCouple: Edward (Orc ninja) and Tanya (Elven wizard). Notable due to the fact that Orc and Elves ''hate'' each other normally. The two of them teamed up in a [[http://www.baen.com/tanya.asp sidestory]], explaining how they manage to get along.
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->You know what the difference between me and you really is? You look out there and see a horde of evil, brain eating zombies. I look out there and see a target rich environment.
-->--Dillis D. Freeman Jr., as quoted in foreword
''Five days after Owen Zastava Pitt pushed his insufferable [[WarmUpBoss boss]] out of a fourteenth story window, he woke up in the hospital with a [[GoodScarsEvilScars scarred]] face, an unbelievable memory, and a job offer.''
''It turns out that monsters are real. [[AllMythsAreTrue All the things from myth]], legend, and [[BMovie B-movies]] are out there, waiting in the shadows. [[{{Masquerade}} Officially secret]], some of them are [[AlwaysChaoticEvil evil]], and some are just [[HorrorHunger hungry]]. On the other side are the people who kill monsters for a living. Monster Hunter International is the premier [[PrivateMilitaryContractors eradication]] company in the business.''
''And now Owen is their newest recruit. It’s actually a pretty sweet gig, except for one little problem. An ancient entity known as the [[BigBad Cursed One]] has returned to settle a centuries old vendetta. Should the Cursed One succeed, it means the end of the world, and MHI is the only thing standing in his way. With the [[RaceAgainstTheClock clock ticking]] towards Armageddon, Owen finds himself trapped between legions of [[OurZombiesAreDifferent undead minions]], [[ThoseTwoBadGuys belligerent federal agents]], a [[SpiritAdvisor cryptic ghost]] who has taken up residence inside his head, and the cursed family of the [[LoveTriangle woman he loves]].''
''Business is good…''
''Welcome to '''Monster Hunter International'''.''
MHI is a contemporary fantasy/horror/GunPorn novel written by Larry Correia about a group of professional monster hunters. Correia's stated goal was to combine BMovie monster tropes, but have the characters not be complete idiots. Consequently, in order to still present a threat, the monsters are much more powerful than in most B-movies, and the Hunters respond in kind. [[GrenadeLauncher Grenade launchers]]? Check. [[SawedOffShotgun Fully-automatic shotgun]]? Check. [[MoreDakka Claymore mines]]? Check.
MHI was originally self-published in 2008, but high sales through word-of-mouth advertising, especially on gun-related forums, attracted the attention of Creator/BaenBooks, which picked up the series.
The sequel, '''Monster Hunter Vendetta''', focuses on the aftermath of the climax of the first book. Owen is now at the top of the [[EldritchAbomination Old Ones']] Most Wanted list, and they have promised great power to whoever can bring him to them. Now the [[ReligionOfEvil Sanctified Church of the Temporary Mortal Condition]], a necromantic cult with a mysterious leader, is hell-bent on catching him. The [[TheMenInBlack Monster Control Bureau]] has been tracking them for years, and thinks that using Owen as bait is just the break they need. But the Hunters have [[DitchTheBodyguards other]] [[StuffBlowingUp ideas]]...
The third book in the series, '''Monster Hunter Alpha''', picks up some time after Vendetta, with a change of pratagonist. Earl Harbinger heads to a remote town in Michigan, to settle some old scores with one of his oldest foes, a vicious werewolf who served the KGB, and take him down for good. But there's another force waiting in the darkness, working to bring about a new breed of werewolves, and the only thing in their way are a handful of locals and a Determinator Earl Harbinger who won't die.
MHV cracked the New York Times Best Sellers list at #27 for mass-market paperbacks. Correia has some other series in the works: TheGrimnoirChronicles, an UrbanFantasy set in an AlternateHistory [[FilmNoir 1930s]]; DeadSix, a military thriller; and an untitled project co-written with Creator/JohnRingo. Sample chapters of his work can be found [[http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/online-fiction/ here]].
If you're looking for a completely different Monster Hunter, which is a video game, [[VideoGame/MonsterHunter click here]].
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!!The first novel uses the following tropes:
* AcePilot: Skippy
* ActionGirl: Julie and Holly.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Jerome Jermaine Jones, aka Trip to friends.
* AllOfThem: Milo's answer when asked how many gun laws Abomination breaks.
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with.]] At the big climactic showdown, [[spoiler:Koriniha cuts Julie's throat to encourage Owen to use the artifact's power. Owen realizes this would fubar the whole world by letting in the Old Ones, so he doesn't. As he's carrying Julie past what's left of Captain Thrall, Thrall uses the last of his appropriated artifact juice to heal her.]]
* ArtifactOfDoom
* AngelsDevilsAndSquid
* AuthorAppeal. From the "About the Author" page: "Larry Correia is hopelessly addicted to two things: guns and B-horror movies."
* {{BFG}}: [[ICallItVera Abomination]] is a fully automatic shotgun with attached grenade launcher, which gets a more detailed description than most of the human (or otherwise) characters.
* BadassNormal: The bulk of the Hunters are normal humans who undergo TrainingFromHell.
* BadassAbnormal: [[spoiler:Earl Harbinger, who is the only werewolf in the world not covered by monster bounties.]]
* BadassBookworm: Albert Lee, former librarian, and former demolitions expert for the [[SemperFi United States Marine Corps]].
* BadassGrandpa: Raymond Shakelford III, Julie's grandfather. [[spoiler:Being Ray III's dad, Earl's one too, though he doesn't look it]].
* BangingForHelp: A French Hunter team trapped on the ''Antoine-Henri'' communicates this way with the MHI teams. [[spoiler:Well, they ''were'' a French Hunter team before the vampires got 'em.]]
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler: Intentionally subverted, as the black guy, the Asian, and the stripper all survive to the end.]]
* CoolGuns: Abounds with plenty of them, many with GunAccessories. Subverted by Earl, who uses a basic M1928 Thompson submachinegun.
* ChosenOne: [[spoiler: Lord Machado, the villain, and Owen, the hero, are both described in an ancient prophecy as being able to control an artifact that can grant power over time itself.]]
* ChurchMilitant: A reference is made to the Vatican's own team of Hunters.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Holy symbols have power over undead monsters by virtue of the belief placed in them. However, the biggest act of [[HolyHandGrenade faith-based ass kicking]] comes from [[spoiler:Milo, who shares the author's Mormon beliefs]].
* CrazyPrepared: Most Hunters become this in the course of their work. The combat suit Hunters use is designed to be prepared for as many situations as possible.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The orcs wear mostly black, have warty green-grey skin, yellow eyes and tusks but are definitely good guys
* DepletedPhlebotinumShells: Holy symbols in general and [[spoiler:warding stones]] which specifically work against anything that's actually unnatural/eldritch in nature to the point of being an effective FantasticNuke.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: [[spoiler: Koriniha, priestess to the Old Ones.]]
* FantasticNuke: The [[spoiler:warding stones]] function this way activated in a reality with differing physics.
* FantasyKitchenSink: Pretty much every monster myth known is true. Most can be killed with sufficient application of [[MoreDakka dakka]], [[StuffBlowingUp explosives]], [[KillItWithFire fire]], or combinations of the above.
* FluffyTheTerrible: Mr Trashbags. A baby [[CthulhuMythos shoggoth]] that Julie named as a child.
* FriendlySniper: Being team sharpshooter, and an all-around nice girl, Julie is this.
* {{Gorn}}: Few people/things just die in ''Monster Hunter International,'' mortal or otherwise.
* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: The Monster Control Bureau.
* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: The vast majority of the undead fall into this as they fall under the "humans are tasty" clause. Many other creatures do as well, like fishmen which like to [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong lay eggs in live human beings]]. While the government takes this stand in general against most non-humans, they're aware that not every supernatural being are inherently incapable of getting along with people, they just use it for black mail.
* ImplacableMan: Captain Thrall is very durable.
* AManIsNotAVirgin: Subversion with [[spoiler:Trip]]. He is twenty-seven. Holly likes to playfully needle him about this.
* {{Mayincatec}}: The unnamed South American civilization which Lord Machado conquered five hundred years ago fits the mold. [[SpiritAdvisor Mordecai]] says it is for the best they have been forgotten; considering their patrons are {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, there is something to that.
* {{Meganekko}}: Julie, specifically lampshaded early on as our hero has a hard time resisting a woman in corrective eyeware.
* MoreDakka: Much, ''much'' more Dakka.
* MugglesDoItBetter: Five of the seven master vampires (super-powerful vampires that are more dangerous than even normal ones) aiding [[spoiler:Lord Machado]] are contemptuously dismissive of the titular team they face in spite of warnings from the other two more recent conversions to master vampire, one of them [[spoiler:a former MHI member who's very familiar with the ability of human devices thanks to regularly using them when part of the company]], and the other [[spoiler:a Nazi soldier from WW2]]. The five pay for their arrogance and ignorance with their (undead) lives.
* NamedWeapons: Abomination, as noted above. Being a Saiga-12 shotgun, it's probably a ShoutOut to Firefly.
* NoodleIncident One team is unavailable when Earl calls all Hunter Teams to Alabama to deal with the threat, due to hunting a luska in the Bahamas. Owen is told he's better off not knowing what it is; the very name of the thing makes [[TheBigGuy Sam Haven]] shudder.
* NukeEm: The MCB's backup plan for taking care of Lord Machado. [[spoiler: It misses him and instead annoys an Old One]].
* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler: Harbinger is actually over one hundred but looks middle aged.]]
* OurElvesAreBetter: Subverted. The elves live in the Enchanted Forest, a trailer park in rural Mississippi, and Queen Ilrondelia fits every WhiteTrash stereotype in the book [[http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/tanya-princess-of-the-elves/ to a sickening degree]].
* OurOrcsAreDifferent: They work for MHI as healers and as the pilot for their Mi-24 Hind; each has a special skill that makes them the best at what they do (Gretchen = Ultimate Healer; Skippy = Ultimate Hind Pilot). In Vendetta, Owen's brother speculates that this is the true origin of [[BadassDriver The]][[TopGear Stig]].
* ProudWarriorRace: The Orcs, most of whom have unique talents afforded to them by their god(s).
%% Can't remember if the Orcs have more than one god or not, correct me if I'm wrong.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: MHI is not allowed to recruit openly, so most of their new hunters are the survivors of monster attacks. They come from all sorts of backgrounds; the Amazing Newbie Squad, for example, has a stripper, a teacher, a librarian, and an accountant.
* RocksFallEveryoneDies: Sort of subverted. [[spoiler: Most of the important characters end up being killed in a battle with demons in chapter 22, but Owen finds a way to rewind time by five minutes and bring them all back. They all remember dying, and are grateful for the second chance at life.]]
* SilverBullet: Julie explains them to Owen in their first meeting. Silver is too light and hard to engage barrel rifling properly, resulting is a fast, light bullet with low damage and poor accuracy. Instead MHI uses a modified [[http://www.gunblast.com/PowRBall.htm Corbon Pow'r Ball design]]: a hollowpoint round with a silver ball inside the cavity. As it's also ''expensive'', it's only available in .45 ACP and .308 Winchester. The MCB uses a different design that relies on powdered silver in a polymer matrix, available in 9mm Parabellum, 5,56mm NATO and 7.62mm NATO.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Zig-zagged; Owen's personal shotgun ''is'' better, but most Hunters prefer rifles or carbines, with an occasional submachinegun.
* ShoutOut: From Earl Harbinger: "You can know that of a surety, and I swear upon all that I hold holy, I will track you down to the ends of the world, reach down your throat, and [[MarriedWithChildren pull your spine out your mouth]]."
** One of the hunter team patches is a [[SluggyFreelance mini-lop bunny armed with a switchblade.]] Another has SamuraiJack as a logo.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Agents Myers & Franks. Myers is the polite, educated one, and Franks is the quiet, brutal one who's quite capable of [[CurbstompBattle curb-stomping]] the hero, Owen Pitt.
* TrainingFromHell: In addition to the standard MHI training, the borderline-abusive training Owen got as a child was the only reason he survived his initial werewolf encounter.
** In Monster Hunter Alpha, it's revealed that Harbinger spent his days throwing himself off cliffs to control his werewolf side.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Not married, but Julie is described as much more attractive than Owen. Correia claims this is autobiographical, but hasn't provided any sexy pictures of his wife to confirm.
** By Vendetta, Owen and Julie are married.
** Also, Milo and his wife, who is much prettier than he is.
* WasOnceAMan: Lord Machado used to be a Portuguese conquistador. By the time the book starts, he's a walking mass of ''evil and hate.''
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!!Monster Hunter Vendetta adds the following tropes:
* AchievementsInIgnorance: Crossing over with ChildrenAreInnocent, a young Julie Shackleford befriends a [[spoiler: shoggoth]].
* AllTrollsAreDifferent: The trolls here seem to conform to the classic DungeonsAndDragons template, with the addition of being internet-savvy, and having several million dollars that they need your help to get out of [[FourOneNineScam Nigeria]].
* BadassAbnormal: Agent Franks is shown to actually be [[spoiler:Frankenstein's Monster]].
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Owen earns the respect of the gnomes after fending off a swarm of them.
* DeadGuyJunior: Milo's newborn daughter, named after [[spoiler: Sam Haven]].
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler: One of the Old Ones is killed when the protagonists use a doomsday weapon against it.]]
* DitchTheBodyguards: Owen is instructed by the Monster Control Bureau to stay at MHI's compound as bait for the [[ReligionOfEvil Church of the Temporary Mortal Condition]]. However he's a pro-active kind of guy, and prefers to take the fight to them.
* ChekhovsGunman: The aforementioned [[spoiler: shoggoth]], who pulls a HeelFaceTurn when ordered to kill the only person who has ever loved it.
* ContinuityNod: Milo built Leviathan as a dedicated anti-luska weapon, a callback to book 1.
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Owen earned the ire of the Old Ones because [[spoiler: they blame him for the thermonuclear warhead that was launched through the inter-dimensional portal (and slightly injured one of them) at the end of the first book]].
* EldritchAbomination: The Old Ones.
* EverythingsWorseWithBears: Armored zombie bears, to be precise. Grant briefly freaks out and complains that it's "unfair" to armor zombies.
* GroupieBrigade: When Owen Pitt's brother Mosh, a Music/HeavyMetal guitarist of some renown, is brought to MHI headquarters, he's followed by a gaggle of adoring Orcs, who refer to him as "Great War Chief."
* FrankensteinsMonster: Many of the zombie creatures that attack MHI headquarters are amalgams of various animals. [[spoiler:Also Agent Franks]].
* KnuckleTattoos: A truck driver that's an innocent victim of a monster rampage has "LOVE" and "HATE" tattooed on his knuckles. Later, [[spoiler:Agent Franks]] is seen with "HATE" on the knuckles of his left hand. [[spoiler:The arm and its attached hand was taken from the dead trucker, Franks replacing a limb lost earlier in the chapter.]]
* LivingOnBorrowedTime[=/=]TheLastDance: [[spoiler:After Owen is bitten by a zombie, he uses his last couple of hours to trade himself for his brother, and lead a one-man assault on the Condition's inner sanctum]].
* TheMole: Much of the first two-thirds of the book is spent trying to root out a mole at MHI headquarters.
* MonsterProtectionRacket: It's revealed that [[spoiler: Hood used to work for MHI, and was secretly using necromancy to cause zombie outbreaks for his team to put down during slow periods]].
* MuggingTheMonster: The Condition sends a trio of human Mooks to kidnap Owen's father. Said father is an ex-Green Beret who earned the ''Medal of Honor'' in Vietnam and earned the nickname "The Destroyer". Cue offscreen CurbStompBattle.
* MySuitIsAlsoSuper: [[spoiler: Earl Harbinger]] reveals that he survived an assassination attempt because [[spoiler: his leather jacket is made of "100% Minotaur hide" and is therefore bulletproof; also counts as a ChekhovsGun as it'd been mentioned earlier]].
* NamedWeapons: What do you use to take down an armored zombie elephant? Leviathan, a [[KrakenAndLeviathan Kraken]]-sized harpoon gun!
* {{Necromancer}}: That's what serving the Old Ones will get you.
* OurGnomesAreWeirder: They live in the Projects, and will bust a cap in yo' ass if you call them lawn ornaments.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Type F.
* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: [[spoiler: The Condition's leader used to be a Hunter on Harbinger's team. But it turns out that he was really a DeceptiveDisciple, as he only joined MHI as part of a long plan to continue his father's work with necromancy]].
* TheQuisling: The leader of the Condition reveals (or at least claims) that he's only working with the Old Ones so that they won't be as angry when they inevitably take over.
* RedOniBlueOni: Invoked literally. The heroes have to defeat a pair of rampaging oni, one stronger and the other more devious, who attack a heavy metal concert.
* ReligionOfEvil: The Sanctified Church of the Temporary Mortal Condition serve the [[EldritchAbomination Old Ones]], and want to deliver Owen to them to curry favor. Oh, and they're {{necromancer}}s.
* ShapeshifterGuiltTrip: Invoked repeatedly while the team tries to beat some information out of a Doppelganger.
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!!Monster Hunter Alpha adds the following tropes:
* [[AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent And Now For Someone Different]]: After following Owen's 1st person perspective for 2 books, ''Alpha'' shifts to Earl, with a 3rd person perspective for events in the present, and 1st person for Earl's diary.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler: Earl's diary]] reveals that he's been trying to return human after being turned into a werewolf. Unfortunately, after it happens... things get worse, and being a werewolf would ''really'' have been useful. Being a Badass, he just grits his teeth and keeps on fighting.
* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler: Earl is temporarily turned human by the Macgruffin]].
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Earl doesn't recall having killed [[spoiler:Nikolai's wife Lila]], asking that [[spoiler:Nikolai]] be a little more specific, Earl having killed "a mess of folks". [[spoiler:It turns out that Earl ''hadn't'' killed her. Another had, and planted evidence to pin the blame on him.]]
* {{Callback}}: Earl recounts in his diary that as a young werewolf, he once fought and killed a luska. [[{{Squick}} And then ate it]].
* CerebusRetcon: [[spoiler: Earl's bulletproof minatour hide jacket]], which was assumed by readers to be the spoils of a hunt. It turns out that the [[spoiler:minotaur - or bullman, as he preferred to be called - was a NewMeat in the black ops team Earl served with in Nam. When he was killed, his last request was that his hide be turned into a coat for Earl.]]
* DepletedPhlebotinumShells: The special Babba Yaga magic rounds for a Mosin-Nagant that Earl finds. One round causes werewolves to explode.
* FinnsWithFearsomeForests: Heather's grandfather, and much of the town, are from Finland. The grandfather was a werewolf-hunting sniper who passed the MacGuffin on the Heather. Another Finnish resident of Cooper Lake, Aino, comes along to the final battle despite being well into his seventies.
* FishOutOfWater: Earl, born and raised in [[DeepSouth Alabama]], in Michigan, where it is snowing.
* FunWithAcronyms: Special Task Force Unicorn, aka STFU.
* {{Gorn}}: Taken {{Up to Eleven}} when Earl and a local drive a snow cutter (think a combine-sized snowblower) through a mass of undead werewolves. Earl pronounces the resulting slurry of werewolf as the most disgusting thing he ever seen
* HeroesWantRedheads: [[spoiler: Heather]], who ends up retaining most of her humanity despite being a new werewolf, and Earl's new love interest.
* KillItWithFire: Earl uses a hospital's oxygen tank to set a fire to kill a newly turned werewolf who [[spoiler:is immune to the effects of silver]], quoting the trope name when setting it up.
* MundaneUtility: [[spoiler: Heather]], a junk-food adict whos mother had diabetes, is ''thrilled'' to learn that werewolfs burn enough calories that she can eat anything she wants without gaining weight.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Heather's reaction to learning that the first thing she did as a werewolf was eat her dog.]] HeroicBSOD ensures.
* OneManArmy:
** Several werewolves were employed by their national governments as this. Sam Haven is also shown to have been this, single-handedly clearing a cruise liner of monsters after his SEAL team got killed and his [[TheNeiderMeyer Neidermeyer]] CO [[CowerPower hid]].
** It's also subverted: Earl quickly realises that the situation is too big for him to handle and tries to call in his team, but the phones are down. He ends up rallying the locals and gaining a few allies along the way.
* ShoutOut: The luska is finally revealed, and it's a Sharktopus.
* TheSouthpaw: Earl is right-handed, but shoots a sniper rifle left-handed so he can maintain his sight picture and work the bolt faster.
* TastesLikeChicken: Averted with the luska. Earl doesn't care for the taste, but he was ravenously hungry on a full moon.
* TheVietnamWar: Elaboration is given to hints in ''Monster Hunter Vendetta'' that Earl and Owen's dad served in the same black ops team in Nam.
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!!Monster Hunter Legion adds the following tropes:
* InfoDump: When Owen gets a whole mess of memories dumped on him [[spoiler:by Sam Haven in the other world the hotel was moved to,]] the narrative describes it as "quite literally an infodump".
* ShootOutTheLock: Owen uses [[ICallHerVera Abomination]] to shoot out the lock on a fire exit that blocking his path into a building. The ricochet issue is addressed by the narrative, as is the fact that there would normally be a special breacher round to be used for the task, but it's unfortunately unavailable at that moment.
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->You know what the difference between me and you really is? You look out there and see a horde of evil, brain eating zombies. I look out there and see a target rich environment.
-->--Dillis D. Freeman Jr., as quoted in foreword
''Five days after Owen Zastava Pitt pushed his insufferable [[WarmUpBoss boss]] out of a fourteenth story window, he woke up in the hospital with a [[GoodScarsEvilScars scarred]] face, an unbelievable memory, and a job offer.''
''It turns out that monsters are real. [[AllMythsAreTrue All the things from myth]], legend, and [[BMovie B-movies]] are out there, waiting in the shadows. [[{{Masquerade}} Officially secret]], some of them are [[AlwaysChaoticEvil evil]], and some are just [[HorrorHunger hungry]]. On the other side are the people who kill monsters for a living. Monster Hunter International is the premier [[PrivateMilitaryContractors eradication]] company in the business.''
''And now Owen is their newest recruit. It’s actually a pretty sweet gig, except for one little problem. An ancient entity known as the [[BigBad Cursed One]] has returned to settle a centuries old vendetta. Should the Cursed One succeed, it means the end of the world, and MHI is the only thing standing in his way. With the [[RaceAgainstTheClock clock ticking]] towards Armageddon, Owen finds himself trapped between legions of [[OurZombiesAreDifferent undead minions]], [[ThoseTwoBadGuys belligerent federal agents]], a [[SpiritAdvisor cryptic ghost]] who has taken up residence inside his head, and the cursed family of the [[LoveTriangle woman he loves]].''
''Business is good…''
''Welcome to '''Monster Hunter International'''.''
MHI is a contemporary fantasy/horror/GunPorn novel written by Larry Correia about a group of professional monster hunters. Correia's stated goal was to combine BMovie monster tropes, but have the characters not be complete idiots. Consequently, in order to still present a threat, the monsters are much more powerful than in most B-movies, and the Hunters respond in kind. [[GrenadeLauncher Grenade launchers]]? Check. [[SawedOffShotgun Fully-automatic shotgun]]? Check. [[MoreDakka Claymore mines]]? Check.
MHI was originally self-published in 2008, but high sales through word-of-mouth advertising, especially on gun-related forums, attracted the attention of Creator/BaenBooks, which picked up the series.
The sequel, '''Monster Hunter Vendetta''', focuses on the aftermath of the climax of the first book. Owen is now at the top of the [[EldritchAbomination Old Ones']] Most Wanted list, and they have promised great power to whoever can bring him to them. Now the [[ReligionOfEvil Sanctified Church of the Temporary Mortal Condition]], a necromantic cult with a mysterious leader, is hell-bent on catching him. The [[TheMenInBlack Monster Control Bureau]] has been tracking them for years, and thinks that using Owen as bait is just the break they need. But the Hunters have [[DitchTheBodyguards other]] [[StuffBlowingUp ideas]]...
The third book in the series, '''Monster Hunter Alpha''', picks up some time after Vendetta, with a change of pratagonist. Earl Harbinger heads to a remote town in Michigan, to settle some old scores with one of his oldest foes, a vicious werewolf who served the KGB, and take him down for good. But there's another force waiting in the darkness, working to bring about a new breed of werewolves, and the only thing in their way are a handful of locals and a Determinator Earl Harbinger who won't die.
MHV cracked the New York Times Best Sellers list at #27 for mass-market paperbacks. Correia has some other series in the works: TheGrimnoirChronicles, an UrbanFantasy set in an AlternateHistory [[FilmNoir 1930s]]; DeadSix, a military thriller; and an untitled project co-written with Creator/JohnRingo. Sample chapters of his work can be found [[http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/online-fiction/ here]].
If you're looking for a completely different Monster Hunter, which is a video game, [[VideoGame/MonsterHunter click here]].
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!!The first novel uses the following tropes:
* AcePilot: Skippy
* ActionGirl: Julie and Holly.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Jerome Jermaine Jones, aka Trip to friends.
* AllOfThem: Milo's answer when asked how many gun laws Abomination breaks.
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with.]] At the big climactic showdown, [[spoiler:Koriniha cuts Julie's throat to encourage Owen to use the artifact's power. Owen realizes this would fubar the whole world by letting in the Old Ones, so he doesn't. As he's carrying Julie past what's left of Captain Thrall, Thrall uses the last of his appropriated artifact juice to heal her.]]
* ArtifactOfDoom
* AngelsDevilsAndSquid
* AuthorAppeal. From the "About the Author" page: "Larry Correia is hopelessly addicted to two things: guns and B-horror movies."
* {{BFG}}: [[ICallItVera Abomination]] is a fully automatic shotgun with attached grenade launcher, which gets a more detailed description than most of the human (or otherwise) characters.
* BadassNormal: The bulk of the Hunters are normal humans who undergo TrainingFromHell.
* BadassAbnormal: [[spoiler:Earl Harbinger, who is the only werewolf in the world not covered by monster bounties.]]
* BadassBookworm: Albert Lee, former librarian, and former demolitions expert for the [[SemperFi United States Marine Corps]].
* BadassGrandpa: Raymond Shakelford III, Julie's grandfather. [[spoiler:Being Ray III's dad, Earl's one too, though he doesn't look it]].
* BangingForHelp: A French Hunter team trapped on the ''Antoine-Henri'' communicates this way with the MHI teams. [[spoiler:Well, they ''were'' a French Hunter team before the vampires got 'em.]]
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler: Intentionally subverted, as the black guy, the Asian, and the stripper all survive to the end.]]
* CoolGuns: Abounds with plenty of them, many with GunAccessories. Subverted by Earl, who uses a basic M1928 Thompson submachinegun.
* ChosenOne: [[spoiler: Lord Machado, the villain, and Owen, the hero, are both described in an ancient prophecy as being able to control an artifact that can grant power over time itself.]]
* ChurchMilitant: A reference is made to the Vatican's own team of Hunters.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Holy symbols have power over undead monsters by virtue of the belief placed in them. However, the biggest act of [[HolyHandGrenade faith-based ass kicking]] comes from [[spoiler:Milo, who shares the author's Mormon beliefs]].
* CrazyPrepared: Most Hunters become this in the course of their work. The combat suit Hunters use is designed to be prepared for as many situations as possible.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The orcs wear mostly black, have warty green-grey skin, yellow eyes and tusks but are definitely good guys
* DepletedPhlebotinumShells: Holy symbols in general and [[spoiler:warding stones]] which specifically work against anything that's actually unnatural/eldritch in nature to the point of being an effective FantasticNuke.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: [[spoiler: Koriniha, priestess to the Old Ones.]]
* FantasticNuke: The [[spoiler:warding stones]] function this way activated in a reality with differing physics.
* FantasyKitchenSink: Pretty much every monster myth known is true. Most can be killed with sufficient application of [[MoreDakka dakka]], [[StuffBlowingUp explosives]], [[KillItWithFire fire]], or combinations of the above.
* FluffyTheTerrible: Mr Trashbags. A baby [[CthulhuMythos shoggoth]] that Julie named as a child.
* FriendlySniper: Being team sharpshooter, and an all-around nice girl, Julie is this.
* {{Gorn}}: Few people/things just die in ''Monster Hunter International,'' mortal or otherwise.
* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: The Monster Control Bureau.
* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: The vast majority of the undead fall into this as they fall under the "humans are tasty" clause. Many other creatures do as well, like fishmen which like to [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong lay eggs in live human beings]]. While the government takes this stand in general against most non-humans, they're aware that not every supernatural being are inherently incapable of getting along with people, they just use it for black mail.
* ImplacableMan: Captain Thrall is very durable.
* AManIsNotAVirgin: Subversion with [[spoiler:Trip]]. He is twenty-seven. Holly likes to playfully needle him about this.
* {{Mayincatec}}: The unnamed South American civilization which Lord Machado conquered five hundred years ago fits the mold. [[SpiritAdvisor Mordecai]] says it is for the best they have been forgotten; considering their patrons are {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, there is something to that.
* {{Meganekko}}: Julie, specifically lampshaded early on as our hero has a hard time resisting a woman in corrective eyeware.
* MoreDakka: Much, ''much'' more Dakka.
* MugglesDoItBetter: Five of the seven master vampires (super-powerful vampires that are more dangerous than even normal ones) aiding [[spoiler:Lord Machado]] are contemptuously dismissive of the titular team they face in spite of warnings from the other two more recent conversions to master vampire, one of them [[spoiler:a former MHI member who's very familiar with the ability of human devices thanks to regularly using them when part of the company]], and the other [[spoiler:a Nazi soldier from WW2]]. The five pay for their arrogance and ignorance with their (undead) lives.
* NamedWeapons: Abomination, as noted above. Being a Saiga-12 shotgun, it's probably a ShoutOut to Firefly.
* NoodleIncident One team is unavailable when Earl calls all Hunter Teams to Alabama to deal with the threat, due to hunting a luska in the Bahamas. Owen is told he's better off not knowing what it is; the very name of the thing makes [[TheBigGuy Sam Haven]] shudder.
* NukeEm: The MCB's backup plan for taking care of Lord Machado. [[spoiler: It misses him and instead annoys an Old One]].
* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler: Harbinger is actually over one hundred but looks middle aged.]]
* OurElvesAreBetter: Subverted. The elves live in the Enchanted Forest, a trailer park in rural Mississippi, and Queen Ilrondelia fits every WhiteTrash stereotype in the book [[http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/tanya-princess-of-the-elves/ to a sickening degree]].
* OurOrcsAreDifferent: They work for MHI as healers and as the pilot for their Mi-24 Hind; each has a special skill that makes them the best at what they do (Gretchen = Ultimate Healer; Skippy = Ultimate Hind Pilot). In Vendetta, Owen's brother speculates that this is the true origin of [[BadassDriver The]][[TopGear Stig]].
* ProudWarriorRace: The Orcs, most of whom have unique talents afforded to them by their god(s).
%% Can't remember if the Orcs have more than one god or not, correct me if I'm wrong.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: MHI is not allowed to recruit openly, so most of their new hunters are the survivors of monster attacks. They come from all sorts of backgrounds; the Amazing Newbie Squad, for example, has a stripper, a teacher, a librarian, and an accountant.
* RocksFallEveryoneDies: Sort of subverted. [[spoiler: Most of the important characters end up being killed in a battle with demons in chapter 22, but Owen finds a way to rewind time by five minutes and bring them all back. They all remember dying, and are grateful for the second chance at life.]]
* SilverBullet: Julie explains them to Owen in their first meeting. Silver is too light and hard to engage barrel rifling properly, resulting is a fast, light bullet with low damage and poor accuracy. Instead MHI uses a modified [[http://www.gunblast.com/PowRBall.htm Corbon Pow'r Ball design]]: a hollowpoint round with a silver ball inside the cavity. As it's also ''expensive'', it's only available in .45 ACP and .308 Winchester. The MCB uses a different design that relies on powdered silver in a polymer matrix, available in 9mm Parabellum, 5,56mm NATO and 7.62mm NATO.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Zig-zagged; Owen's personal shotgun ''is'' better, but most Hunters prefer rifles or carbines, with an occasional submachinegun.
* ShoutOut: From Earl Harbinger: "You can know that of a surety, and I swear upon all that I hold holy, I will track you down to the ends of the world, reach down your throat, and [[MarriedWithChildren pull your spine out your mouth]]."
** One of the hunter team patches is a [[SluggyFreelance mini-lop bunny armed with a switchblade.]] Another has SamuraiJack as a logo.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Agents Myers & Franks. Myers is the polite, educated one, and Franks is the quiet, brutal one who's quite capable of [[CurbstompBattle curb-stomping]] the hero, Owen Pitt.
* TrainingFromHell: In addition to the standard MHI training, the borderline-abusive training Owen got as a child was the only reason he survived his initial werewolf encounter.
** In Monster Hunter Alpha, it's revealed that Harbinger spent his days throwing himself off cliffs to control his werewolf side.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Not married, but Julie is described as much more attractive than Owen. Correia claims this is autobiographical, but hasn't provided any sexy pictures of his wife to confirm.
** By Vendetta, Owen and Julie are married.
** Also, Milo and his wife, who is much prettier than he is.
* WasOnceAMan: Lord Machado used to be a Portuguese conquistador. By the time the book starts, he's a walking mass of ''evil and hate.''
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!!Monster Hunter Vendetta adds the following tropes:
* AchievementsInIgnorance: Crossing over with ChildrenAreInnocent, a young Julie Shackleford befriends a [[spoiler: shoggoth]].
* AllTrollsAreDifferent: The trolls here seem to conform to the classic DungeonsAndDragons template, with the addition of being internet-savvy, and having several million dollars that they need your help to get out of [[FourOneNineScam Nigeria]].
* BadassAbnormal: Agent Franks is shown to actually be [[spoiler:Frankenstein's Monster]].
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Owen earns the respect of the gnomes after fending off a swarm of them.
* DeadGuyJunior: Milo's newborn daughter, named after [[spoiler: Sam Haven]].
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler: One of the Old Ones is killed when the protagonists use a doomsday weapon against it.]]
* DitchTheBodyguards: Owen is instructed by the Monster Control Bureau to stay at MHI's compound as bait for the [[ReligionOfEvil Church of the Temporary Mortal Condition]]. However he's a pro-active kind of guy, and prefers to take the fight to them.
* ChekhovsGunman: The aforementioned [[spoiler: shoggoth]], who pulls a HeelFaceTurn when ordered to kill the only person who has ever loved it.
* ContinuityNod: Milo built Leviathan as a dedicated anti-luska weapon, a callback to book 1.
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Owen earned the ire of the Old Ones because [[spoiler: they blame him for the thermonuclear warhead that was launched through the inter-dimensional portal (and slightly injured one of them) at the end of the first book]].
* EldritchAbomination: The Old Ones.
* EverythingsWorseWithBears: Armored zombie bears, to be precise. Grant briefly freaks out and complains that it's "unfair" to armor zombies.
* GroupieBrigade: When Owen Pitt's brother Mosh, a Music/HeavyMetal guitarist of some renown, is brought to MHI headquarters, he's followed by a gaggle of adoring Orcs, who refer to him as "Great War Chief."
* FrankensteinsMonster: Many of the zombie creatures that attack MHI headquarters are amalgams of various animals. [[spoiler:Also Agent Franks]].
* KnuckleTattoos: A truck driver that's an innocent victim of a monster rampage has "LOVE" and "HATE" tattooed on his knuckles. Later, [[spoiler:Agent Franks]] is seen with "HATE" on the knuckles of his left hand. [[spoiler:The arm and its attached hand was taken from the dead trucker, Franks replacing a limb lost earlier in the chapter.]]
* LivingOnBorrowedTime[=/=]TheLastDance: [[spoiler:After Owen is bitten by a zombie, he uses his last couple of hours to trade himself for his brother, and lead a one-man assault on the Condition's inner sanctum]].
* TheMole: Much of the first two-thirds of the book is spent trying to root out a mole at MHI headquarters.
* MonsterProtectionRacket: It's revealed that [[spoiler: Hood used to work for MHI, and was secretly using necromancy to cause zombie outbreaks for his team to put down during slow periods]].
* MuggingTheMonster: The Condition sends a trio of human Mooks to kidnap Owen's father. Said father is an ex-Green Beret who earned the ''Medal of Honor'' in Vietnam and earned the nickname "The Destroyer". Cue offscreen CurbStompBattle.
* MySuitIsAlsoSuper: [[spoiler: Earl Harbinger]] reveals that he survived an assassination attempt because [[spoiler: his leather jacket is made of "100% Minotaur hide" and is therefore bulletproof; also counts as a ChekhovsGun as it'd been mentioned earlier]].
* NamedWeapons: What do you use to take down an armored zombie elephant? Leviathan, a [[KrakenAndLeviathan Kraken]]-sized harpoon gun!
* {{Necromancer}}: That's what serving the Old Ones will get you.
* OurGnomesAreWeirder: They live in the Projects, and will bust a cap in yo' ass if you call them lawn ornaments.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Type F.
* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: [[spoiler: The Condition's leader used to be a Hunter on Harbinger's team. But it turns out that he was really a DeceptiveDisciple, as he only joined MHI as part of a long plan to continue his father's work with necromancy]].
* TheQuisling: The leader of the Condition reveals (or at least claims) that he's only working with the Old Ones so that they won't be as angry when they inevitably take over.
* RedOniBlueOni: Invoked literally. The heroes have to defeat a pair of rampaging oni, one stronger and the other more devious, who attack a heavy metal concert.
* ReligionOfEvil: The Sanctified Church of the Temporary Mortal Condition serve the [[EldritchAbomination Old Ones]], and want to deliver Owen to them to curry favor. Oh, and they're {{necromancer}}s.
* ShapeshifterGuiltTrip: Invoked repeatedly while the team tries to beat some information out of a Doppelganger.
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!!Monster Hunter Alpha adds the following tropes:
* [[AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent And Now For Someone Different]]: After following Owen's 1st person perspective for 2 books, ''Alpha'' shifts to Earl, with a 3rd person perspective for events in the present, and 1st person for Earl's diary.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler: Earl's diary]] reveals that he's been trying to return human after being turned into a werewolf. Unfortunately, after it happens... things get worse, and being a werewolf would ''really'' have been useful. Being a Badass, he just grits his teeth and keeps on fighting.
* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler: Earl is temporarily turned human by the Macgruffin]].
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Earl doesn't recall having killed [[spoiler:Nikolai's wife Lila]], asking that [[spoiler:Nikolai]] be a little more specific, Earl having killed "a mess of folks". [[spoiler:It turns out that Earl ''hadn't'' killed her. Another had, and planted evidence to pin the blame on him.]]
* {{Callback}}: Earl recounts in his diary that as a young werewolf, he once fought and killed a luska. [[{{Squick}} And then ate it]].
* CerebusRetcon: [[spoiler: Earl's bulletproof minatour hide jacket]], which was assumed by readers to be the spoils of a hunt. It turns out that the [[spoiler:minotaur - or bullman, as he preferred to be called - was a NewMeat in the black ops team Earl served with in Nam. When he was killed, his last request was that his hide be turned into a coat for Earl.]]
* DepletedPhlebotinumShells: The special Babba Yaga magic rounds for a Mosin-Nagant that Earl finds. One round causes werewolves to explode.
* FinnsWithFearsomeForests: Heather's grandfather, and much of the town, are from Finland. The grandfather was a werewolf-hunting sniper who passed the MacGuffin on the Heather. Another Finnish resident of Cooper Lake, Aino, comes along to the final battle despite being well into his seventies.
* FishOutOfWater: Earl, born and raised in [[DeepSouth Alabama]], in Michigan, where it is snowing.
* FunWithAcronyms: Special Task Force Unicorn, aka STFU.
* {{Gorn}}: Taken {{Up to Eleven}} when Earl and a local drive a snow cutter (think a combine-sized snowblower) through a mass of undead werewolves. Earl pronounces the resulting slurry of werewolf as the most disgusting thing he ever seen
* HeroesWantRedheads: [[spoiler: Heather]], who ends up retaining most of her humanity despite being a new werewolf, and Earl's new love interest.
* KillItWithFire: Earl uses a hospital's oxygen tank to set a fire to kill a newly turned werewolf who [[spoiler:is immune to the effects of silver]], quoting the trope name when setting it up.
* MundaneUtility: [[spoiler: Heather]], a junk-food adict whos mother had diabetes, is ''thrilled'' to learn that werewolfs burn enough calories that she can eat anything she wants without gaining weight.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Heather's reaction to learning that the first thing she did as a werewolf was eat her dog.]] HeroicBSOD ensures.
* OneManArmy:
** Several werewolves were employed by their national governments as this. Sam Haven is also shown to have been this, single-handedly clearing a cruise liner of monsters after his SEAL team got killed and his [[TheNeiderMeyer Neidermeyer]] CO [[CowerPower hid]].
** It's also subverted: Earl quickly realises that the situation is too big for him to handle and tries to call in his team, but the phones are down. He ends up rallying the locals and gaining a few allies along the way.
* ShoutOut: The luska is finally revealed, and it's a Sharktopus.
* TheSouthpaw: Earl is right-handed, but shoots a sniper rifle left-handed so he can maintain his sight picture and work the bolt faster.
* TastesLikeChicken: Averted with the luska. Earl doesn't care for the taste, but he was ravenously hungry on a full moon.
* TheVietnamWar: Elaboration is given to hints in ''Monster Hunter Vendetta'' that Earl and Owen's dad served in the same black ops team in Nam.
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!!Monster Hunter Legion adds the following tropes:
* InfoDump: When Owen gets a whole mess of memories dumped on him [[spoiler:by Sam Haven in the other world the hotel was moved to,]] the narrative describes it as "quite literally an infodump".
* ShootOutTheLock: Owen uses [[ICallHerVera Abomination]] to shoot out the lock on a fire exit that blocking his path into a building. The ricochet issue is addressed by the narrative, as is the fact that there would normally be a special breacher round to be used for the task, but it's unfortunately unavailable at that moment.
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