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* BringHelpBack: When an ArmchairMilitary officer tries to drag Fitzhugh out of the hospital and arrest him as quickly as possible, another patient (who, like most of the men on the line, is likely only still alive due to Fitzhugh's actions) asks to use the restroom and leaves. He quickly returns with several armed, uninjured, and stone-faced soldiers who put the fear of God into Fitzhugh's would-be persecutor and force him to flee the camp in disguise and empty-handed, due to how mad they are.
--> '''Corporal''': He walked into out platoon a few minutes ago, sir. Said it was an emergency, sir. Said some jackass was here trying to pull a field court-martial and execute Major Fitz, sir. Is it true, sir?
--> ''It was said loudly and clearly. It was also said in a tone that suggested that if it was true, the aforementioned "jackass" was a dead man walking.''
--> '''Corporal''': He walked into out platoon a few minutes ago, sir. Said it was an emergency, sir. Said some jackass was here trying to pull a field court-martial and execute Major Fitz, sir. Is it true, sir?
--> ''It was said loudly and clearly. It was also said in a tone that suggested that if it was true, the aforementioned "jackass" was a dead man walking.''
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* BadBoss: [[spoiler: Korozhets routinely kill any slave that fails them, for any reason, and "slave" is also synonymous with "food"...]]
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* BringMyBrownPants: In the second book, Van Klomp uses ReversePsychology to get some ArmchairMilitary officers to demand the fastest way down a cliff, which turns out to be bungee jumping with a cargo net. Van Klamp insincerely apologizes to a general who screamed in terror on the drop down and then orders an aide to get the man a new pair of trousers, [[FromBadToWorse right as a news crew reveal they're getting all of this. And the clean trousers aren't even the right size.]]
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* AmoralAttorney: Lots of them, but especially Tana Gainor (Not only an AmoralAttorney, but also an outright Criminal Ringleader) and Tesco.
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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Or at least uplifted Galagos (aka bushbabies).
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The first book deals with Chip Connolly, a vat-brat conscript, and a number of rats and bats getting TrappedBehindEnemyLines, facing insurmountable odds. At the same time, Virginia "Ginny" Shaw, a young and [[VirginityMakesYouStupid innocent]] heiress, her cyber-uplifted [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys galago]] Fluff, and her Korozhet tutor get captured by the Magh. Against all odds, Chip, the rats and the bats manage to save the girl and win the day.
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The first book deals with Chip Connolly, a vat-brat conscript, and a number of rats and bats getting TrappedBehindEnemyLines, facing insurmountable odds. At the same time, Virginia "Ginny" Shaw, a young and [[VirginityMakesYouStupid innocent]] heiress, her cyber-uplifted [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys galago]] galago Fluff, and her Korozhet tutor get captured by the Magh. Against all odds, Chip, the rats and the bats manage to save the girl and win the day.
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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]]! [[RealityEnsues 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 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]]! [[RealityEnsues Hu, What not so instant]]? 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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* LargeHam: Van Klomp.Klomp is a booming-voiced man with plenty of BlingOfWar and a willingness to insult the incompetent General's Staff.
* LastSecondWordSwap: When Talbot Castrup is told that his brother-in-law, the GeneralFailure was under arrest for drunk and disorderly conduct during Fitzhugh's charge rather than overseeing it himself like the official report claims, Talbot has this to say.
--> '''Talbot:''' "That's a blatant lie! Those charges have been squa . . . dropped!"
* LastSecondWordSwap: When Talbot Castrup is told that his brother-in-law, the GeneralFailure was under arrest for drunk and disorderly conduct during Fitzhugh's charge rather than overseeing it himself like the official report claims, Talbot has this to say.
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* MajorlyAwesome: Both Fitzhugh and Van KlompKlomp are both majors who actually have an understanding of the military's situation and are willing to buck the chain of command to achieve results.
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* IgnoredExpert: Fitzhugh the intelligence officer is constantly observing unprecedented movement and chaos behind the enemy lines which, if taken advantage of, could lead to a major victory. He spends most of his scenes in the first book practically begging his superiors (besides Von Klomp) not just to believe his reports, but to ''read'' them, and eventually has to launch an AntiMutiny just to get ''something'' done before it's too late.
* AccuseTheWitness: Done to great affect, as most of the witnesses are in fact lying scumbags and the cross-examination tends to bring this out.
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* ClearTheirName: Of course. First Chip has to clear his name for desertion. Then he has to clear his name for supposedly raping Ginny. And throughout this Fitzhugh has to deal with charges of mutiny (while in the prequel he had to deal with false assault charges).
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* CrusadingLawyer: Mike Capra.Capra is described as a legal beagle in the appendix and is a younger, more idealistic guy who nonetheless is capable of absolutely ''hammering'' witnesses against his clients and invested in tearing down the corrupt prosection. The same is also true of his older and more calculating colleague Ogata.
* ExactWords: At one point, a corrupt Special Branch officer spying on Fitzhugh is asked by Ogata why his duty log lists him as far away from Fitzhugh when he was supposedly spying on him taking bribes. The man replies his log was doctored for security reasons. Ogata asks that "If I was to say" that Fitzhugh had been in a certain place at a certain time, then would the special branch officer have been there as well, watching. The detective smugly states that he was there and Ogata gives an insincere sigh and says it's a shame that he ''wasn't'' going to say that Fitzhugh had ben in that place at that time, and he can prove it. The detective is left flustered, having just said on record that he'd been spying on Fitzhugh at a place where they can prove Fitzhugh wasn't even at.
* ExactWords: At one point, a corrupt Special Branch officer spying on Fitzhugh is asked by Ogata why his duty log lists him as far away from Fitzhugh when he was supposedly spying on him taking bribes. The man replies his log was doctored for security reasons. Ogata asks that "If I was to say" that Fitzhugh had been in a certain place at a certain time, then would the special branch officer have been there as well, watching. The detective smugly states that he was there and Ogata gives an insincere sigh and says it's a shame that he ''wasn't'' going to say that Fitzhugh had ben in that place at that time, and he can prove it. The detective is left flustered, having just said on record that he'd been spying on Fitzhugh at a place where they can prove Fitzhugh wasn't even at.
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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.
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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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* HauteCuisineIsWeird: Chip was an indentured servant at a fancy French restaurant before the war broke out. He notes several times how the patrons would come in and pay outrageous prices for tiny dishes. It's his dream, if he ever wins his freedom, to open a steakhouse right next door to the restaurant so the rich people who previously scorned him will have to go next to it and watch his patrons eat huge portions of meat served at a fraction of the price of their fancy, unfilling meals.
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** Hard-Shields are DeflectorShields set up to not allow anything to travel past a certain speed in a certain perimeter, which conveniently means that if a firearm is set off inside that perimeter the bullet [+BLENDS+] the user
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* {{Uplifted Animal}}s: the Rats and Bats are genetically engineered (the Rats are actually elephant shrew/garden shrew/rat chimeras) bipedal [[HollywoodCyborg cyborgs]] that require Soft-Cyber and vocal implants to soldier and talk.
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* {{Uplifted Animal}}s: the The Rats and Bats are genetically engineered (the Rats are actually elephant shrew/garden shrew/rat chimeras) bipedal [[HollywoodCyborg cyborgs]] that require Soft-Cyber and vocal implants to soldier and talk.
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** PhlebotinumOverload what happens when two Hard-Shields meet
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* BigEater: the uplifted Rats; due to being primarily shrews by genetics, they have extremely demanding metabolisms, to the point where it is mentioned repeatedly that they eat their enemies after every fight if it all possible, and if hungry enough they are compelled to turn on their allies. In the prequel, Fitzhugh pioneers a unit organization where humans carrying sizable loads of sugar and rations are attached to squads of rats; the Rats exhaust themselves after a few frenzied minutes of killing, and so these supply troopers dole out the high-energy boosting food to restore the Rats and get them straight back into the fight.
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* BigEater: the The uplifted Rats; due to being primarily shrews by genetics, they have extremely demanding metabolisms, to the point where it is mentioned repeatedly that they eat their enemies after every fight if it all possible, and if hungry enough they are compelled to turn on their allies. In the prequel, Fitzhugh pioneers a unit organization where humans carrying sizable loads of sugar and rations are attached to squads of rats; the Rats exhaust themselves after a few frenzied minutes of killing, and so these supply troopers dole out the high-energy boosting food to restore the Rats and get them straight back into the fight.
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* DeadlyUpgrade: the [[BarrierWarrior shield]] implants. If not used correctly they will kill their users and/or explode. [[spoiler: Subverted in that this is exactly what they are designed to do; not only are the evil alien masterminds' natural weapons not covered by the two types of shield provided, the implants also don't even have a [[PowerIncontinence on/off switch]]]].
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* DeadlyUpgrade: the The [[BarrierWarrior shield]] implants. If not used correctly they will kill their users and/or explode. [[spoiler: Subverted in that this is exactly what they are designed to do; not only are the evil alien masterminds' natural weapons not covered by the two types of shield provided, the implants also don't even have a [[PowerIncontinence on/off switch]]]].
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* TheMedic: an oddly [[ContemplateOurNavels philosophical]] rat with a good deal of HeroicWillpower.
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* LiteralMinded: The uplifted animals suffer from this, resulting in many a case of IThoughtItMeant.
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* OffOnATechnicality: Used to deal with technically true, but ridiculously trumped up charges in the second book.
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* OffOnATechnicality: Used to deal with technically true, but ridiculously trumped up charges in the second book. Of particular note is Capra getting Chip off the hook for going absent without leave by successfully arguing that [[OutOfTheFryingPan he should be charged with desertion under fire instead]].
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* IrishExplosivesExpert: The [=BombardierBats=], cybernetically uplifted and gengineered giant bats that mostly fight by emplacing and using high explosives. Part of their soft-cyber implants was "Irish revolutionary songs and old 'Wobbly' tunes", causing them to all speak with broad Irish accents and adopt Irish names.
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* LanguageEqualsThought: Not only is this part of the reason behind the BlueAndOrangeMorality of the {{Uplifted Animal}}s, it's an important plot point. [[spoiler: Because their soft-cybers use English, which is "very twisty", Bats and Rats are able to think around their implanted commands to obey Korozhets, whose language only has one word for any given concept expressed by it.]]
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* BrainUploading: It is eventually revealed that, due to the fact Bat and Rat brains are derived from their Soft-Cyber implants, it's possible to resurrect a dead Bat or Rat by removing the Soft-Cyber and installing it in a new brain. [[spoiler: Ariel, a rattess, has this done to her towards the end of the second novel, granting her a human body that she has mixed feelings about; on the one hand, she laments its limitations compared to her old rat body, and finds it rather ugly -- on the other, she is very much appreciative of being able to have an intimate relationship with her human with it.]]
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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.
* 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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* CrapsackWorld: The idea behind the colony was a SocialistUtopia. 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 SocialistUtopia.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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