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* WidgetSeries: Take a swig every time you laugh out loud ... we dare you.
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''Rats, Bats, and Vats'' and ''The Rats, The Bats, and The Ugly'' are military Science-Fiction books by Creator/EricFlint and Creator/DaveFreer set on a human colony planet called [[PunnyName Harmony And Reason]] with a BugWar going on. But wait, [[SarcasmMode it gets better]]: the colony was put there by a [[SleeperStarship slow ship]] so a good deal of the passengers were of the genetic material variety ... [[CloningBlues instant conscripts]]! Hu, What not so instant? Well, crud. But wait, there are friendly aliens who are willing to sell us their [[AppliedPhlebotinum advanced technology]], [[GullibleLemmings too bad their ship's FTL broke down on the way to warn us about the bugs]]. This technology mostly consists of the implant slowshield/hardshield chip and the Soft-Cyber chip, see below.
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''Rats, Bats, and Vats'' and ''The Rats, The Bats, and The Ugly'' are military Science-Fiction books by Creator/EricFlint and Creator/DaveFreer set on a human colony planet called [[PunnyName Harmony And Reason]] with a BugWar going on. But wait, [[SarcasmMode it gets better]]: the colony was put there by a [[SleeperStarship slow ship]] so a good deal of the passengers were of the genetic material variety ... [[CloningBlues variety... instant conscripts]]! conscripts! Hu, What not so instant? Well, crud. But wait, there are friendly aliens who are willing to sell us their [[AppliedPhlebotinum advanced technology]], [[GullibleLemmings too bad their ship's FTL broke down on the way to warn us about the bugs]]. This technology mostly consists of the implant slowshield/hardshield chip and the Soft-Cyber chip, see below.
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* CourtMartialed: ''The Rats, The Bats, and The Ugly'' is about Chip's court-martial by their planet's insanely corrupt and incompetent military for what happened in the previous book, and his friends' attempts to help him avoid the firing squad.
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* CourtMartialed: ''The Rats, The Bats, and The Ugly'' is about Chip's court-martial by their planet's insanely corrupt and incompetent military for what happened in the previous book, and his friends' attempts to help him avoid the firing squad. Fitzhugh also faces a trial for similar reasons.
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* NoMoreForMe: A fisherman tosses his bottle overboard upon seeing Ginny and her non-human rescuers drifting down the local river in striped golfcart on a pontoon barge.
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* NoMoreForMe: A fisherman tosses his bottle overboard upon seeing Ginny and her non-human rescuers drifting down the local river in a striped golfcart on a pontoon barge.
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* {{Prequel}}: Genie Out of the Bottle is a short story taking place shortly before the main plot, detailing the backstory of Fitz, among other things. Available [[http://www.wattpad.com/486908-genie-out-of-the-bottle-by-eric-flint-%26-dave-freer here]].
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* {{Prequel}}: Genie Out of the Bottle Vat is a short story taking place shortly before the main plot, detailing the backstory of Fitz, among other things. Available [[http://www.wattpad.com/486908-genie-out-of-the-bottle-by-eric-flint-%26-dave-freer [[https://jiltanith.thefifthimperium.com/Collections/GenieOutoftheVatChapters/GenieOutoftheVat_00.php here]].
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A Date With Rosie Palms is no longer a trope
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* UnusualEuphemism: Fal accuses Captain Tesco of "[[ADateWithRosiePalms hoisting his own petard]]".
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* CorruptCop: The entire "Special Branch", to the point of murder. Repeatedly.
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* CorruptCop: The entire "Special Branch", "[[SecretPolice Special Branch]]", to the point of murder. Repeatedly.
* LatinLover: Fluff is one of these, at least as far as [[ChickMagnet any female Rat]] he meets is concerned.
* NoMoreForMe: A fisherman tosses his bottle overboard upon seeing Ginny and her non-human rescuers drifting down the local river in striped golfcart on a pontoon barge.
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* SplitPersonality: what happens when you [[SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat overload a soft-cyber]].
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* SplitPersonality: what happens when you [[SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat overload a soft-cyber]]. Poo-Bah the Rat has several of these that he cycles through; he even wears multiple pouches on a belt so each personality can separately store any bribe money.
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* StickySituation: In the sequel, the protagonist Rats discover the joys of using Krazy Glue against their opponents.
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''Rats, Bats, and Vats'' and ''The Rats, The Bats, and The Ugly'' are military Science-Fiction books by Creator/EricFlint and Creator/DaveFreer that take place in the same universe on a colony planet called [[PunnyName Harmony And Reason]] with a BugWar going on. But wait, [[SarcasmMode it gets better]]: the colony was put there by a [[SleeperStarship slow ship]] so a good deal of the passengers were of the genetic material variety ... [[CloningBlues instant conscripts]]! Hu, What not so instant? Well, crud. But wait, there are friendly aliens who are willing to sell us their [[AppliedPhlebotinum advanced technology]], [[GullibleLemmings too bad their ships FTL broke down on the way to warn us about the bugs]]. This technology mostly consists of the implant slowshield/hardshield chip and the Soft-Cyber chip, see below.
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''Rats, Bats, and Vats'' and ''The Rats, The Bats, and The Ugly'' are military Science-Fiction books by Creator/EricFlint and Creator/DaveFreer that take place in the same universe set on a human colony planet called [[PunnyName Harmony And Reason]] with a BugWar going on. But wait, [[SarcasmMode it gets better]]: the colony was put there by a [[SleeperStarship slow ship]] so a good deal of the passengers were of the genetic material variety ... [[CloningBlues instant conscripts]]! Hu, What not so instant? Well, crud. But wait, there are friendly aliens who are willing to sell us their [[AppliedPhlebotinum advanced technology]], [[GullibleLemmings too bad their ships ship's FTL broke down on the way to warn us about the bugs]]. This technology mostly consists of the implant slowshield/hardshield chip and the Soft-Cyber chip, see below.
* AngryChef: Chip's former employer. In the second book, he even tries to shoot Chip in the face with a shotgun for the "crime" of coming into his restaurant as a customer.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The charges Chip is accused of include rape, desertion... and driving without a license.
* BadBoss: [[spoiler: Korozhets routinely kill any slave that fails them, for any reason, and "slave" is also synonymous with "food". They even kill their own people rather casually.]]
* BadBoss: [[spoiler: Korozhets routinely kill any slave that fails them, for any reason, and "slave" is also synonymous with "food". They even kill their own people rather casually.]]
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* AliensAreBastards: [[spoiler: The Korozhet are, among other things, mind-controlling slavers who eat other species' babies alive.]]
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The charges Chip is accused of include rape, desertion... and stealing a kitchen knife and driving without a license.
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** [[spoiler: Korozhets routinely kill any slave that fails them, for any reason, and "slave" is also synonymous with "food". They even kill their own people rather casually.]]]]
** The owner of the restaurant when Chip used to work is a petty tyrant who displays blatant favoritism, even keeping his toadies on the staff from being drafted into the war.
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** [[spoiler: Korozhets routinely kill any slave that fails them, for any reason, and "slave" is also synonymous with "food". They even kill their own people rather casually.
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* CrapsackWorld: The idea behind the colony was a Socialist Utopia. Shareholders have all the money, Vats (the underclass) have to pay not just for their education, but the mandatory fieldtrips Shareholders might force them to be sent on, and the cost of cloning them. There's an alien invasion creating WarIsHell, and, in the second book, it's revealed that the "Special Branch" of the police is regularly getting away with murder to intimidate the Vats into compliance. WhatMeasureIsANonHuman means the newly-created intelligent species are used as CannonFodder, and the prequel mention is made of repeatedly ''executing'' the Rats because they refuse to follow human conventions for military organisation. One of the major plots of the second book is a XanatosGambit to break the system enough that it can't be fixed without a complete overhaul, and to make the public angry enough to demand one.
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* CrapsackWorld: The idea behind the colony was a Socialist Utopia. Shareholders have all the money, Vats (the underclass) have to pay not just for their education, but the mandatory fieldtrips Shareholders might force them to be sent on, and the cost of cloning them. There's an alien invasion creating WarIsHell, and, in the second book, it's revealed that the "Special Branch" of the police is regularly getting away with murder to intimidate the Vats into compliance. WhatMeasureIsANonHuman means the newly-created intelligent species are used as CannonFodder, and the prequel mention is made of repeatedly ''executing'' the Rats because they refuse to follow human conventions for military organisation.organization. One of the major plots of the second book is a XanatosGambit to break the system enough that it can't be fixed without a complete overhaul, and to make the public angry enough to demand one.
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** Slow-Shields are [[EnergyAbsorption energy absorbers]] that protect the user from [[KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter kinetic energy weapons]] and power themselves by the body heat of the user, not that the later comes up in story.
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* GeneralFailure: Part of the reason humanity is doing so poorly against the Magh is that all of their military higher-ups are incompetents who wouldn't be too out of place amongst the more useless specimens of UsefulNotes/FirstWorldWar leadership.
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* GeneralFailure: Part of the reason humanity is doing so poorly against the Magh is that all of their military higher-ups are incompetents who wouldn't be too out of place amongst the more useless specimens of UsefulNotes/FirstWorldWar leadership. It's noted in-universe this is because until the Magh arrived, there was no ''need'' for a military on the colony, so it turned into a convenient place to give cushy jobs to well-connected idiots.
* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler: The Korozhet casually kill subordinates who fail in their duties.]]
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* KangarooCourt: Part of a XanatosGambit to let the evil conspirators get ''exactly what they want'', because a fair trial without trumped-up charges would actually have worked. Fitzhugh was a all too willing to make a HeroicSacrifice out of sense of honour. Instead, the kangaroo court is so blatantly rigged that it causes a public outcry and the authorities are forced to overturn the verdict and try Fitzhugh again, while the first trial has hardened Fitzhugh and his lawyers enough to drag the witnesses through the mud and try to convince the judge that his actions were justified.
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* KangarooCourt: Part of a XanatosGambit to let the evil conspirators get ''exactly what they want'', because a fair trial without trumped-up charges would actually have worked. Fitzhugh was a all too willing to make a HeroicSacrifice out of sense of honour.honor. Instead, the kangaroo court is so blatantly rigged that it causes a public outcry and the authorities are forced to overturn the verdict and try Fitzhugh again, while the first trial has hardened Fitzhugh and his lawyers enough to drag the witnesses through the mud and try to convince the judge that his actions were justified.
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* GilliganCut: Chip refuses categorically to go rescue Ginny. Cut to him going into the Magh nest with rest of the team.
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* CourtroomAntic: To be expected when a rat is called to testify.
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* DemotedToExtra: Corporal Johnny Simms, TheScrounger, and satellite technician Henry M'Batha are both prominent supporting characters in the first book and appear in many chapters, helping Fitzhugh in his efforts to monitor Chip's exploits and seize victory from defeat. In the sequel, Henry only makes a cameo appearance as a witness during a courtroom scene and Simms is only mentioned in a single chapter.
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* HighHeelHurt: After Fitzhugh strands a GeneralFailure and his mistress/secretary at a vacation home by tampering with the car, the mistress doesn't take long to complain about how walking home in her heels hurts her feet.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: In the first book, General Cartup-Kreutzler downs a large serving of alcohol after he's subjected to lots of physical pain and humiliation, has his adulterous exploits exposed to his wife, get chewed out for missing the first victory of the war, and finds out that his enemy Fitzhugh is now a revered hero. The drink fails to make him feel better, as it turns out that Ariel swapped the whiskey with rat pee.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: In the first book, General Cartup-Kreutzler downs a large serving of alcohol after he's subjected to lots of physical pain and humiliation, has his adulterous exploits exposed to his wife, get chewed out for missing the first victory of the war, and finds out that his enemy Fitzhugh is now a revered hero. The drink fails to make him feel better, as it turns out that Ariel swapped the whiskey with rat pee.
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* MenOfSherwood: Van Klomp and his parachute troops (barely any of whom are named) are described as being well-trained but untested soldiers, and there is a lot of trepidation about how successful they'll be in their first battle. They prove to be highly effective troops who succeed at their mission without losing many, if any, people.
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* MistakenForProstitute: When Fitzhugh strands General Cartup-Kruetzler and his secretary/mistress Daisy outside of the command center as they engage in some horse-themed sexual exploits, Daisy is mistaken for a prostitute and propositioned by the military police when they try to get back in.
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* YourMakeupIsRunning: A female general's attempt to condescendingly sneer at Van Klomp becomes unintentionally comical due to how her makeup is running in the rain.
