History Literature / RepairmanJack

** Jack's father and brother aren't named in the text, as it'd give away Jack's surname if the readers learned theirs. Averted with his sister Kate, as she's married and uses her husband's surname.

* GodAndSatanAreBothJerks: While explicitly ''not'' God or Satan, the Ally and Otherness fit this trope pretty well. Although necessary for humanity's survival, the Ally is an utterly pragmatic force that [[spoiler: engineers the deaths of ''all'' of Jack's close blood relatives, plus a lot of innocent bystanders, simply so he won't be distracted from his role as Heir by concern for their welfare]]. The Otherness is ''only'' inherently worse than the Ally because it actively feeds on suffering, and because humans just happen to be adapted to the Ally's reality, not the Other.

* 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.

** Some yaniceri try to hold up Julio's bar when they're searching for Jack. Julio's has a ''lot'' of well-armed customers, so they're forced to back off very, ''very'' politely.

** 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.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Semelee is the only female in the lagoon clan. Other sinkhole-mutant baby girls had been born, but died young.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Semelee is the only female in the lagoon clan.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler: Kusum and Kolabati]] have been around since the 1800's. Glaeken has been around much longer than that.

** Jack's father and brother aren't named in the text, as it'd give away Jack's surname if the readers learned his. Averted with his sister Kate, as she's married and uses her husband's surname.

** Jack's father also, as it'd give away Jack's surname if the readers learned his.

* ElectromagneticGhosts: The supernatural presence in ''The Haunted Air'' causes a television screen to display programming and commercials from TheEighties, and to do so even after the TV's unplugged and all of its internal components have been removed.