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* HiddenInPlainSight: In ''Legacies'', Yoshio spends days watching Kemel and Nazer stand, staring awestruck, at a lamp-lit window. He assumes they've got something that requires light sitting under the lamp, because they never turn it off. [[spoiler: It's actually ''the lamp'' they're staring at, because it's drawing its electricity via broadcast power and they're amazed that it's staying lit at all.]]
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The Repairman Jack novels are a series spun off from the ''Nightworld'' novels (AKA ''Literature/TheAdversaryCycle'') by F. Paul Wilson.
From TheOtherWiki:
Repairman Jack is a self-titled "fix-it" man, but not in the common workshop sense. He is something of an underground mercenary, hired by everyday people to fix situations that cannot be dealt with through legal means (e.g.: blackmail). He is careful about whom he agrees to do fix-its for, preferring innocent, desperate citizens being victimized with no one else to turn to. These fix-its usually begin simply, but grow into complex problems that begin to involve more and more [[ScienceFiction sci-fi]] & [[{{Fantasy}} supernatural]] elements as the novels continue. The second novel, ''Legacies'', is the only one that is completely free of any overtly supernatural elements.
All of Jack's fix-its are immediately relevant problems in today's world, covering topics such as conspiracy groups, grassroots movements, designer drugs, public shootings, terrorists, legal dealings and scientific & biological experiments. Jack relies on his brain, wits, experience and real-life weapons and techniques to do battle, and though he makes increasing use of supernatural sources of information (a spiritual medium, an indestructible tome of unknown age), he has so far not used supernatural weapons or abilities in battle.
Jack hides his identity from the government by not voting, paying taxes, opening bank accounts, registering guns or cars, or doing anything else that will leave a paper or electronic trail. He uses a [=TracFone=] to leave untraceable calls, demands cash only for payment, and stashes his savings in gold coins in his apartment. He consistently wears gloves or wipes surfaces in order not to [[LocardsTheory leave behind traces]] of his identity. He advertises his services strictly by word of mouth and via an anonymous website.
Repairman Jack has appeared in the following novels:
* ''The Tomb''
* ''Legacies''
* ''Conspiracies''
* ''All the Rage''
* ''Hosts''
* ''The Haunted Air''
* ''Gateways''
* ''Crisscross''
* ''Infernal''
* ''Harbingers''
* ''Bloodline''
* ''By the Sword''
* ''Ground Zero''
* ''Fatal Error''
* ''The Dark At The End''
* ''Nightworld''
Three YoungAdult novels also star Jack as well... a Young Adult.
* ''Jack: Secret Histories''
* ''Jack: Secret Vengeance''
* ''Jack: Secret Circles''
A trilogy has been announced which will cover Jack's life between the YoungAdult novels and ''The Tomb'':
* ''Cold City'' -- released in 2012
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!!The ''Repairman Jack'' series contains examples of:
* AirVentPassageway: Used in ''Legacies''.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: the Ladies
* AntiHero: Jack
* TheAntichrist: [[spoiler: Rasalom, and possibly the unborn child from ''Bloodline.'']]
* AnyoneCanDie
* AuthorAvatar: Parodied.
** And then some!
-->Jack: ''"Your books are super." He saw Winslow swell with delight. Authors were so needy.''
* BadassNormal: Jack
* TheBartender: Julio
* BerserkButton: Hurt or threaten Vicky, and Jack ''will go animal'' on your ass, even if you're a nine-foot-tall rakosh.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: Not for the humans, but for the cosmic forces. The Otherness is undeniably evil, but the Ally is far from good: benevolently indifferent at best.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: Averted, Occuli have these but they're [[DarkIsNotEvil not evil]]. Just really creepy.
* {{Blackmail}}: One of the reasons people to go Jack for help.
* BodyHorror: People conceived or growing up too close to certain nexus points get "touched" by the Otherness and end up mutated to varying degrees.
** Ah, yes. The "Monroe Cluster"... Picture if you will: A man with tentacles for legs. A woman with a single fused finger on her left hand - and one fused nail. Which later turned into a claw.
*** ''Fatal Error'' reveals that these are not mutations but [[spoiler:''reactivated genes''. In ancient times, the Otherness made war on humanity by altering humans into "q'qrs" - six-limbed living weapons that later ages would remember as "demons". The Ally retaliated by releasing a biological weapon that [[{{Gendercide}} killed all the females of the species]]. In desperation, the males went on a rape spree, hoping to restore their ranks with HalfHumanHybrids. They were unsuccessful in producing further q'qrs, but a lot of that genetic material remains in the human genome as recessive genes. Dawn Pickering's baby, the result of both [[BrotherSisterIncest sibling]] '''and''' ParentalIncest to reinforce those genes to dominance - '''''is a freaking demon!''''']]
* BuriedAlive
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Does it ever. [[spoiler:At least it can be bargained with...]]
* ChekhovsGunman
* TheChosenOne: It's revealed that [[spoiler:Jack is actually the ''backup'' chosen one, should the current chosen one die. [[RefusedTheCall He doesn't want to be]]. It's unknown just how much the Ally has been influencing his life before.]]
* ChurchOfHappyology
* ColdSniper: [[spoiler:Jack's father]]
* CombatPragmatist: Jack goes out of his way to point out that he isn't particularly good at fighting and that real fights are nothing like what is seen in the movies. As such he is quite possibly the most creative fighter this side of [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Rorschach]] in terms of improvising to get an advantage over his opponents.
** Arguably more so, simply due to sheer creativity. Jack once drove off an entire gang in just minutes thus; he squirted stage blood mixed with pepper spray in an attacker's eye, then stuck a rubber eye in his mouth - result: eight no-longer-tough guys screaming OH MY GOD THIS PSYCHO JUST RIPPED OUT MY BUDDY'S EYE AND ATE IT!
* ConMan: Some of Jack's targets and several of his friends are this.
* ConspiracyTheorist: A whole bunch of them in, appropriately, ''Conspiracies''. They even had their own ''convention''. Also Weezy and Harris in ''Ground Zero''
* CoolBigSis: Kate
* CosmicHorror: the Otherness
* CosmicPlaything
* CreatorCareerSelfDeprecation: [[AuthorAvatar P. Frank Winslow]]'s character makes fun of writers in general as well as just F. Paul Wilson.
* CreepyChild: Tara Portman
* CreepyTwins: the (MIB) Twins.
* DeathByPragmatism: Subverted
* DistressCall: ''Conspiracies'' begins with one of these asking for Jack.
* DistressedDamsel: Vicki, a few times.
** Hey! [[JustifiedTrope She's not even ten!]]
* EldritchAbomination: the Rakoshi
* EvilDetectingDog: every dog a Lady has
* EvilGloating: Rasalom enjoys this.
* ExecutiveMeddling: there is no tomb in ''The Tomb''. [[note]]The publisher insisted on the title. Wilson had just released ''Literature/TheKeep'' and the publishers wanted to maintain the naming convention despite it being (at the time) unrelated.[[/note]]
* EyeScream: Jack keeps his thumbnails long just for this advantage in a fight. He also stabs a fork through a man's eye.
** You mean through his eye ''socket''. Fork lobotomy!
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Nightfall.
* FertileFeet: The Lady, occasionally.
* FramingTheGuiltyParty: Several times.
* GangstaStyle: Subverted. A thug tries aiming this way at Jack, who points out what's wrong with that grip. In a painful object lesson.
* GoodIsNotNice: In Wilson's 'verse there's a specific gene set which [[HotBlooded increases violent impulses]] - Jack is the most potent carrier on record; IE, he once tied a man [[spoiler:who seduced and impregnated his own unknowing daughter]] under a truck. At the moment he justified the modernized "draw and quartering" as a kill method which left no trace evidence, but after what was left of the body was identified by DNA testing just a day later, he realized he was just ''[[UnstoppableRage that violently angry]]''. Even '''he''' asks himself WhatTheHellHero.
* [[spoiler: HalfHumanHybrid]]: In ''The Tomb''.
* HeroicNeutral
* HumanResources
* HiveMind: The Unity
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Miller
* {{Immortality}}
* ImmortalityInducer: Ritual from ''The Haunted Air''. [[PoweredByAForsakenChild A living child heart has to be eaten]] between summer solstice and the autumnal equinox every year. After 29 times user stops aging and becomes immune to harm and diseases for as long as ritual is kept up. [[NoImmortalInertia Or else...]]
* InsignificantLittleBluePlanet: Earth isn't even a prize in the fight between the Ally and the Otherness. It's a single poker chip at best.
* KarmicDeath
* KillerRabbit: Oyv the (apparent) chihuahua
* KillerSpaceMonkey: Mauricio
* KnightTemplar: The Yeniceri
* LastOfHisKind: The last rakosh, and the Mother before it.
* LightIsNotGood: It is stressed that the Ally does NOT care much about mankind.
* MainliningTheMonster: In ''All The Rage'', blood from Scar-lip the rakosh is the sole source of the PsychoSerum Berzerk.
* MamaBear: Gia
* TheMenInBlack: the Twins, the Yeniçeri
* MuggingTheMonster:
** Jack sometimes wanders at night, dressed like a tourist, waiting for someone evil and stupid enough to attempt to mug him. Then Jack beats the would-be mugger up, takes his money and jewelery, fences the jewelery, and donates the money to a kids' baseball league.
** Two bandits and later a mugger try to attack Glaeken. The mugger (probably) survives. The bandits are not so lucky.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: The q'qrs, Otherness's living weapons, were four-armed - and, presumably, very dangerous.
* NeverFoundTheBody
* NikolaTesla: Some of his inventions are central to ''Conspiracies''.
* TheNondescript: Jack ''works'' at being this, and also deliberately subverts it when he's undercover so his fake personas will be markedly unlike his real appearance.
* NoNameGiven: Jack is just Jack, which makes people uncomfortable addressing him so familiarly.
* NonIndicativeName: There is no tomb in ''The Tomb''.
* PhonyPsychic: The Kenton brothers and the Fosters from ''The Haunted Air''.
* {{Protectorate}}: Don't mess with Gia or Vicky.
* ProperlyParanoid
* PunchClockHero: Jack tries to maintain that he's a PunchClockHero, but frequently waives client fees and instead takes payment out of seizure of assets from his target.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler: Kusum and Kolabati]] have been around since the 1800's. Glaeken has been around much longer than that.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: ''Harbingers''.
* SacrificialLion
* ScarsAreForever: Jack gets horrible scars from the Rakoshi. At one point they ''glow in the dark.''
** And certain people can see them ''right through his shirt''.
* SignificantAnagram: [[spoiler: Rasalom]] loves using anagrams of his name.
* SignificantMonogram: [[AuthorAvatar F. Paul Wilson]] in ''Bloodline''.
* SpeakOfTheDevil: [[spoiler: Rasalom]] knows ''exactly'' when and where someone says his name. People don't say it to avoid him knowing where they are.
* StopOrIShootMyself: In Harbingers, Jack holds himself hostage this way when [[spoiler: Gia and Vicky are mortally wounded because of the Ally.]] He threatens to shoot himself if [[spoiler: they die, which would deny the Ally of its backup ChosenOne. It works.]]
* StormingTheCastle
* TimeAbyss: Glaeken is 14 or 15 thousand years old. [[spoiler:Rasalom]] is several years older.
* ThePowersThatBe: The Ally
* ToThePain: From Gia, of all people, when a reporter asks her what fate is appropriate for serial child molesters.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The Compendium of Srem, which helpfully [[TranslatorMicrobes translates itself into the reader's native language]]. Then it stops being helpful.
** To white hats at least...
* TheTrickster: Given a choice he'd rather use his wits than force to solve a problem and he has a somewhat twisted sense of humor.
* UltimateEvil: the Otherness.
* TheVirus: The Unity.
* WeHelpTheHelpless
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Glaeken doesn't at all. He is overjoyed for a chance to live a human life and to get old together with his beloved.
* WhyDontYaJustShootHim: Jack receives an explanation as to why the Otherness doesn't kill him off:
--->[[spoiler:'''Rasalom''']]: Physical pain is mere sustenance. But, [[ToThePain a strong man slowly battered into despair and hopelessness]]...that is a delicacy. In your case, it might even approach ecstasy. I don't want to deprive myself of that.
** On the other hand if you happen to find yourself on the business end of Jack's gun and he has a quarrel with you... yeah.
* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: ''Cold City'' includes a long entry of Abe utterly baffling Jack by introducing one Yiddish term after another into a discussion and complaining about having to digress to explain each one.
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: Jack becomes [[spoiler: the Heir of the Sentinel after he accidentally kills the Twins.]]
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From TheOtherWiki:
Repairman Jack is a self-titled "fix-it" man, but not in the common workshop sense. He is something of an underground mercenary, hired by everyday people to fix situations that cannot be dealt with through legal means (e.g.: blackmail). He is careful about whom he agrees to do fix-its for, preferring innocent, desperate citizens being victimized with no one else to turn to. These fix-its usually begin simply, but grow into complex problems that begin to involve more and more [[ScienceFiction sci-fi]] & [[{{Fantasy}} supernatural]] elements as the novels continue. The second novel, ''Legacies'', is the only one that is completely free of any overtly supernatural elements.
All of Jack's fix-its are immediately relevant problems in today's world, covering topics such as conspiracy groups, grassroots movements, designer drugs, public shootings, terrorists, legal dealings and scientific & biological experiments. Jack relies on his brain, wits, experience and real-life weapons and techniques to do battle, and though he makes increasing use of supernatural sources of information (a spiritual medium, an indestructible tome of unknown age), he has so far not used supernatural weapons or abilities in battle.
Jack hides his identity from the government by not voting, paying taxes, opening bank accounts, registering guns or cars, or doing anything else that will leave a paper or electronic trail. He uses a [=TracFone=] to leave untraceable calls, demands cash only for payment, and stashes his savings in gold coins in his apartment. He consistently wears gloves or wipes surfaces in order not to [[LocardsTheory leave behind traces]] of his identity. He advertises his services strictly by word of mouth and via an anonymous website.
Repairman Jack has appeared in the following novels:
* ''The Tomb''
* ''Legacies''
* ''Conspiracies''
* ''All the Rage''
* ''Hosts''
* ''The Haunted Air''
* ''Gateways''
* ''Crisscross''
* ''Infernal''
* ''Harbingers''
* ''Bloodline''
* ''By the Sword''
* ''Ground Zero''
* ''Fatal Error''
* ''The Dark At The End''
* ''Nightworld''
Three YoungAdult novels also star Jack as well... a Young Adult.
* ''Jack: Secret Histories''
* ''Jack: Secret Vengeance''
* ''Jack: Secret Circles''
A trilogy has been announced which will cover Jack's life between the YoungAdult novels and ''The Tomb'':
* ''Cold City'' -- released in 2012
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!!The ''Repairman Jack'' series contains examples of:
* AirVentPassageway: Used in ''Legacies''.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: the Ladies
* AntiHero: Jack
* TheAntichrist: [[spoiler: Rasalom, and possibly the unborn child from ''Bloodline.'']]
* AnyoneCanDie
* AuthorAvatar: Parodied.
** And then some!
-->Jack: ''"Your books are super." He saw Winslow swell with delight. Authors were so needy.''
* BadassNormal: Jack
* TheBartender: Julio
* BerserkButton: Hurt or threaten Vicky, and Jack ''will go animal'' on your ass, even if you're a nine-foot-tall rakosh.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: Not for the humans, but for the cosmic forces. The Otherness is undeniably evil, but the Ally is far from good: benevolently indifferent at best.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: Averted, Occuli have these but they're [[DarkIsNotEvil not evil]]. Just really creepy.
* {{Blackmail}}: One of the reasons people to go Jack for help.
* BodyHorror: People conceived or growing up too close to certain nexus points get "touched" by the Otherness and end up mutated to varying degrees.
** Ah, yes. The "Monroe Cluster"... Picture if you will: A man with tentacles for legs. A woman with a single fused finger on her left hand - and one fused nail. Which later turned into a claw.
*** ''Fatal Error'' reveals that these are not mutations but [[spoiler:''reactivated genes''. In ancient times, the Otherness made war on humanity by altering humans into "q'qrs" - six-limbed living weapons that later ages would remember as "demons". The Ally retaliated by releasing a biological weapon that [[{{Gendercide}} killed all the females of the species]]. In desperation, the males went on a rape spree, hoping to restore their ranks with HalfHumanHybrids. They were unsuccessful in producing further q'qrs, but a lot of that genetic material remains in the human genome as recessive genes. Dawn Pickering's baby, the result of both [[BrotherSisterIncest sibling]] '''and''' ParentalIncest to reinforce those genes to dominance - '''''is a freaking demon!''''']]
* BuriedAlive
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Does it ever. [[spoiler:At least it can be bargained with...]]
* ChekhovsGunman
* TheChosenOne: It's revealed that [[spoiler:Jack is actually the ''backup'' chosen one, should the current chosen one die. [[RefusedTheCall He doesn't want to be]]. It's unknown just how much the Ally has been influencing his life before.]]
* ChurchOfHappyology
* ColdSniper: [[spoiler:Jack's father]]
* CombatPragmatist: Jack goes out of his way to point out that he isn't particularly good at fighting and that real fights are nothing like what is seen in the movies. As such he is quite possibly the most creative fighter this side of [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Rorschach]] in terms of improvising to get an advantage over his opponents.
** Arguably more so, simply due to sheer creativity. Jack once drove off an entire gang in just minutes thus; he squirted stage blood mixed with pepper spray in an attacker's eye, then stuck a rubber eye in his mouth - result: eight no-longer-tough guys screaming OH MY GOD THIS PSYCHO JUST RIPPED OUT MY BUDDY'S EYE AND ATE IT!
* ConMan: Some of Jack's targets and several of his friends are this.
* ConspiracyTheorist: A whole bunch of them in, appropriately, ''Conspiracies''. They even had their own ''convention''. Also Weezy and Harris in ''Ground Zero''
* CoolBigSis: Kate
* CosmicHorror: the Otherness
* CosmicPlaything
* CreatorCareerSelfDeprecation: [[AuthorAvatar P. Frank Winslow]]'s character makes fun of writers in general as well as just F. Paul Wilson.
* CreepyChild: Tara Portman
* CreepyTwins: the (MIB) Twins.
* DeathByPragmatism: Subverted
* DistressCall: ''Conspiracies'' begins with one of these asking for Jack.
* DistressedDamsel: Vicki, a few times.
** Hey! [[JustifiedTrope She's not even ten!]]
* EldritchAbomination: the Rakoshi
* EvilDetectingDog: every dog a Lady has
* EvilGloating: Rasalom enjoys this.
* ExecutiveMeddling: there is no tomb in ''The Tomb''. [[note]]The publisher insisted on the title. Wilson had just released ''Literature/TheKeep'' and the publishers wanted to maintain the naming convention despite it being (at the time) unrelated.[[/note]]
* EyeScream: Jack keeps his thumbnails long just for this advantage in a fight. He also stabs a fork through a man's eye.
** You mean through his eye ''socket''. Fork lobotomy!
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Nightfall.
* FertileFeet: The Lady, occasionally.
* FramingTheGuiltyParty: Several times.
* GangstaStyle: Subverted. A thug tries aiming this way at Jack, who points out what's wrong with that grip. In a painful object lesson.
* GoodIsNotNice: In Wilson's 'verse there's a specific gene set which [[HotBlooded increases violent impulses]] - Jack is the most potent carrier on record; IE, he once tied a man [[spoiler:who seduced and impregnated his own unknowing daughter]] under a truck. At the moment he justified the modernized "draw and quartering" as a kill method which left no trace evidence, but after what was left of the body was identified by DNA testing just a day later, he realized he was just ''[[UnstoppableRage that violently angry]]''. Even '''he''' asks himself WhatTheHellHero.
* [[spoiler: HalfHumanHybrid]]: In ''The Tomb''.
* HeroicNeutral
* HumanResources
* HiveMind: The Unity
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Miller
* {{Immortality}}
* ImmortalityInducer: Ritual from ''The Haunted Air''. [[PoweredByAForsakenChild A living child heart has to be eaten]] between summer solstice and the autumnal equinox every year. After 29 times user stops aging and becomes immune to harm and diseases for as long as ritual is kept up. [[NoImmortalInertia Or else...]]
* InsignificantLittleBluePlanet: Earth isn't even a prize in the fight between the Ally and the Otherness. It's a single poker chip at best.
* KarmicDeath
* KillerRabbit: Oyv the (apparent) chihuahua
* KillerSpaceMonkey: Mauricio
* KnightTemplar: The Yeniceri
* LastOfHisKind: The last rakosh, and the Mother before it.
* LightIsNotGood: It is stressed that the Ally does NOT care much about mankind.
* MainliningTheMonster: In ''All The Rage'', blood from Scar-lip the rakosh is the sole source of the PsychoSerum Berzerk.
* MamaBear: Gia
* TheMenInBlack: the Twins, the Yeniçeri
* MuggingTheMonster:
** Jack sometimes wanders at night, dressed like a tourist, waiting for someone evil and stupid enough to attempt to mug him. Then Jack beats the would-be mugger up, takes his money and jewelery, fences the jewelery, and donates the money to a kids' baseball league.
** Two bandits and later a mugger try to attack Glaeken. The mugger (probably) survives. The bandits are not so lucky.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: The q'qrs, Otherness's living weapons, were four-armed - and, presumably, very dangerous.
* NeverFoundTheBody
* NikolaTesla: Some of his inventions are central to ''Conspiracies''.
* TheNondescript: Jack ''works'' at being this, and also deliberately subverts it when he's undercover so his fake personas will be markedly unlike his real appearance.
* NoNameGiven: Jack is just Jack, which makes people uncomfortable addressing him so familiarly.
* NonIndicativeName: There is no tomb in ''The Tomb''.
* PhonyPsychic: The Kenton brothers and the Fosters from ''The Haunted Air''.
* {{Protectorate}}: Don't mess with Gia or Vicky.
* ProperlyParanoid
* PunchClockHero: Jack tries to maintain that he's a PunchClockHero, but frequently waives client fees and instead takes payment out of seizure of assets from his target.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler: Kusum and Kolabati]] have been around since the 1800's. Glaeken has been around much longer than that.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: ''Harbingers''.
* SacrificialLion
* ScarsAreForever: Jack gets horrible scars from the Rakoshi. At one point they ''glow in the dark.''
** And certain people can see them ''right through his shirt''.
* SignificantAnagram: [[spoiler: Rasalom]] loves using anagrams of his name.
* SignificantMonogram: [[AuthorAvatar F. Paul Wilson]] in ''Bloodline''.
* SpeakOfTheDevil: [[spoiler: Rasalom]] knows ''exactly'' when and where someone says his name. People don't say it to avoid him knowing where they are.
* StopOrIShootMyself: In Harbingers, Jack holds himself hostage this way when [[spoiler: Gia and Vicky are mortally wounded because of the Ally.]] He threatens to shoot himself if [[spoiler: they die, which would deny the Ally of its backup ChosenOne. It works.]]
* StormingTheCastle
* TimeAbyss: Glaeken is 14 or 15 thousand years old. [[spoiler:Rasalom]] is several years older.
* ThePowersThatBe: The Ally
* ToThePain: From Gia, of all people, when a reporter asks her what fate is appropriate for serial child molesters.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The Compendium of Srem, which helpfully [[TranslatorMicrobes translates itself into the reader's native language]]. Then it stops being helpful.
** To white hats at least...
* TheTrickster: Given a choice he'd rather use his wits than force to solve a problem and he has a somewhat twisted sense of humor.
* UltimateEvil: the Otherness.
* TheVirus: The Unity.
* WeHelpTheHelpless
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Glaeken doesn't at all. He is overjoyed for a chance to live a human life and to get old together with his beloved.
* WhyDontYaJustShootHim: Jack receives an explanation as to why the Otherness doesn't kill him off:
--->[[spoiler:'''Rasalom''']]: Physical pain is mere sustenance. But, [[ToThePain a strong man slowly battered into despair and hopelessness]]...that is a delicacy. In your case, it might even approach ecstasy. I don't want to deprive myself of that.
** On the other hand if you happen to find yourself on the business end of Jack's gun and he has a quarrel with you... yeah.
* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: ''Cold City'' includes a long entry of Abe utterly baffling Jack by introducing one Yiddish term after another into a discussion and complaining about having to digress to explain each one.
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: Jack becomes [[spoiler: the Heir of the Sentinel after he accidentally kills the Twins.]]
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