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* OnlyInFlorida: Dorsey, like [[DaveBarry certain]] [[CarlHiaasen other]] Floridian humorists, ''loves'' this trope.
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* OnlyInFlorida: Dorsey, like [[DaveBarry certain]] [[CarlHiaasen [[Creator/CarlHiaasen other]] Floridian humorists, ''loves'' this trope.
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* AntiVillain: Serge is a SerialKiller, and in some stories openly admits it. What saves him from CompleteMonster status are A) his victims tend to be [[JerkAss jerkasses]], B) his genuine love for his home state, and C) his determination to protect innocent lives.
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* AntiVillain: Serge is a SerialKiller, and in some stories openly admits it. What saves him from CompleteMonster status His good points are A) his victims tend to be [[JerkAss jerkasses]], B) his genuine love for his home state, and C) his determination to protect innocent lives.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Most of the victims are [[CompleteMonster Complete Monsters]], but some don't seem to deserve death.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Most of the victims are [[CompleteMonster Complete Monsters]], assholes, but some don't seem to deserve death.
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* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Nicole Davenport, but she still has her moments.
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Tim Dorsey is a Floridan author known for his series of 'comedic crime novels' mostly taking place in and around his home state. The novels follow the story of HeroicSociopath (or AntiHero, depending on your view) Serge A. Storms, a history lover and [[CrazyAwesome incredibly inventive]] killer, along with his many companions.
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Tim Dorsey is a Floridan author known for his series of 'comedic crime novels' mostly taking place in and around his home state. The novels follow the story of HeroicSociopath SociopathicHero (or AntiHero, depending on your view) Serge A. Storms, a history lover and [[CrazyAwesome incredibly inventive]] inventive killer, along with his many companions.
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* ASimplePlan: Serge will have some harebrained scheme to either generate money, steal money, kill bad people, or promote the great state of Florida. Sometimes all four at once. They never count as BatmanGambit or XanatosGambit because they're really not planned out well. And yet, they work.
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* ASimplePlan: Serge will have some harebrained scheme to either generate money, steal money, kill bad people, or promote the great state of Florida. Sometimes all four at once. They never count as BatmanGambit or XanatosGambit because they're They're really not planned out well. And yet, they work.
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* RecurringCharacter: City and Country, two college girls fleeing [[WronglyAccused from a crime they didn't commit]]. Their massive drug consumption (the two women are [[BeyondTheImpossible worse than Coleman]]) is why - despite the great sex - Serge keeps dumping the pair on the side of the road first chance he gets.
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* RecurringCharacter: City and Country, two college girls fleeing [[WronglyAccused from a crime they didn't commit]]. Their massive drug consumption (the two women are [[BeyondTheImpossible [[UpToEleven worse than Coleman]]) is why - despite the great sex - Serge keeps dumping the pair on the side of the road first chance he gets.
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* MetaGuy: Serge's mental issues apparently make him able to perceive the fourth wall, and even break through it on occasion, such as the latter half of ''Pineapple Grenade''.
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* Pineapple Grenade (2012)
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Renaming to Rube Goldberg Device.
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* RobinsonGoldbergContraption: Most of Serge's murder devices.
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* RobinsonGoldbergContraption: RubeGoldbergDevice: Most of Serge's murder devices.
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* CompleteMonster: Never Serge, who remains sympathetic enough and who does save people he knows are innocent. It's left to the visiting bad guys of each novel, [[KarmicDeath who deserve the Serge-Deathtrap treatment]] coming to them.
* CrazyAwesome: Serge
** Special mention should go to Coleman, the stoner who somehow has a complete and expert-level understanding of physics, chemistry, fluid dynamics, aeronautics, and several theoretical and mathematical concepts...which he ''only uses to get stoned''
* CrossesTheLineTwice: Both Serge's murder methods and many of his and Coleman/Lenny's other exploits.
* CrazyAwesome: Serge
** Special mention should go to Coleman, the stoner who somehow has a complete and expert-level understanding of physics, chemistry, fluid dynamics, aeronautics, and several theoretical and mathematical concepts...which he ''only uses to get stoned''
* CrossesTheLineTwice: Both Serge's murder methods and many of his and Coleman/Lenny's other exploits.
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* TheWoobie: The real hero or heroine of each novel is usually some poor schmuck who gets sucked into the vortex of Serge's craziness. Serge can sense immediately if the guy or gal is normal, and would ensure that the Woobie survives the events (and meet their OneTrueLove in the process).
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** Except in ''Gator-A-Go-Go'' where Serge accidentally ate a tray-full of Coleman's "herb-enhanced" brownies.
-->'''Serge''': Coleman! How... Do... I... Turn... This... Shit... OFF!...
-->'''Serge''': Coleman! How... Do... I... Turn... This... Shit... OFF!...
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** For example, a rude Hummer owner blasting out rap music from his car gets tied up within an empty skyscraper that Serge converts into the world's largest speaker... and then Serge plugs in his guitar...
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** For example, a rude Hummer owner blasting out rap music from his car gets tied up within an empty skyscraper that Serge converts into the world's largest speaker... and then Serge [[BrownNote plugs in his guitar...guitar]]...
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** [[spoiler: Molly]] in ''Electric Barracuda'' for a more literal example. Also doubles as an [[spoiler: ActionMom]]
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: How most of the visiting bad guys in a story overreact when their plans go awry. Subverted with Serge, who only kills those he feels deserve it. While his deathtraps are elaborate, they only target the intended victim.
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: How most of the visiting bad guys in a story overreact when their plans go awry. Subverted with Serge, who only kills those he feels deserve it. While his deathtraps are elaborate, they only target the intended victim. And even then, he gives the victim a way out, usually.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Serge and Coleman in the first book, where surprisingly they aren't really protagonists.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Serge and Coleman in the first book, where surprisingly they aren't really protagonists.
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** And the E-Team.
** And the Davenports.
** And the Davenports.
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** Special mention should go to Coleman, the stoner who somehow has a complete and expert-level understanding of physics, chemistry, fluid dynamics, aeronautics, and several theoretical and mathematical concepts...which he ''only uses to get stoned''
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** Some plots involve specific events that take place in Florida. In the first novel Serge and Coleman attend Game 7 of the 1997 WorldSeries. ''Orange Crush'' and ''Hurricane Punch'' followed real-life events like Election 2000 and the 2004 hurricane season that saw four major storms smash into Florida.
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List of Serge A. Storms novels:
* Florida Roadkill (1999)
* Hammerhead Ranch Motel (2000)
* Orange Crush (2001)
* Triggerfish Twist (2002)
* The Stingray Shuffle (2003)
* Cadillac Beach (2004)
* Torpedo Juice (2005)
* The Big Bamboo (2006)
* Hurricane Punch (2007)
* Atomic Lobster (2008)
* Nuclear Jellyfish (2009)
* Gator A-Go-Go (2010)
* Electric Barracuda (2011)
* Florida Roadkill (1999)
* Hammerhead Ranch Motel (2000)
* Orange Crush (2001)
* Triggerfish Twist (2002)
* The Stingray Shuffle (2003)
* Cadillac Beach (2004)
* Torpedo Juice (2005)
* The Big Bamboo (2006)
* Hurricane Punch (2007)
* Atomic Lobster (2008)
* Nuclear Jellyfish (2009)
* Gator A-Go-Go (2010)
* Electric Barracuda (2011)
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* CompleteMonster: Never Serge, who remains sympathetic enough and who does save people he knows are innocent. It's left to the visiting bad guys of each novel, [[KarmicDeath who deserve the Serge-Deathtrap treatment]] coming to them.
* CrazyAwesome:Serge Serge
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* ASimplePlan: Serge will have some harebrained scheme to either generate money, steal money, kill bad people, or promote the great state of Florida. Sometimes all four at once. They never count as BatmanGambit or XanatosGambit because they're really not planned out well. And yet, they work.
** Guest-starring villains of a particular novel have some scheme going on, only for Serge or the overall craziness of Florida itself ruining the scheme halfway through the novel.
** The innocent people who get wrapped up in Serge's plots or the bad guys' plans have a simple plan themselves: ''try to survive to the last page of the book.''
** Guest-starring villains of a particular novel have some scheme going on, only for Serge or the overall craziness of Florida itself ruining the scheme halfway through the novel.
** The innocent people who get wrapped up in Serge's plots or the bad guys' plans have a simple plan themselves: ''try to survive to the last page of the book.''
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* AnyoneCanDie: Warning: If ''you'' ever show up in one of Dorsey's novels, ''you will die''. Painfully.
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* KarmaHoudini: Serge. The police (and Mahoney) can barely keep up with him.
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* TheWoobie: The real hero or heroine of each novel is usually some poor schmuck who gets sucked into the vortex of Serge's craziness. Serge can sense immediately if the guy or gal is normal, and would ensure that the Woobie survives the events (and meet their OneTrueLove in the process).
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* HeelFaceTurn: The young [[StrawmanPolitical Republican Governor]] at the beginning of ''Orange Crush'' had been groomed since birth to become the next great (corrupt) conservative leader of the state. He's pretty much a spoiled rich brat even in his thirties. Events conspire to send him off to Central Europe during the Balkan civil wars where he bonds with poor-class troops and a SergeantBadass, who all die in a heavy engagement before the governor gets rescued. His [[HeroicBSOD shell-shock]] wakes him up and he tries to become a better governor, but events (and the political status quo) keep screwing him over...
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* HeelFaceTurn: The young [[StrawmanPolitical Republican Governor]] at the beginning of ''Orange Crush'' had been groomed since birth to become the next great (corrupt) conservative leader of the state. He's pretty much a spoiled rich brat even in his thirties. Events conspire to send him off to Central Europe during the Balkan civil wars where he bonds with poor-class troops and a SergeantBadass, [[SergeantRock badass sergeant]], who all die in a heavy engagement before the governor gets rescued. His [[HeroicBSOD shell-shock]] wakes him up and he tries to become a better governor, but events (and the political status quo) keep screwing him over...
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* HeelFaceTurn: The young [[PoliticalStrawman Republican Governor]] at the beginning of ''Orange Crush'' had been groomed since birth to become the next great (corrupt) conservative leader of the state. He's pretty much a spoiled rich brat even in his thirties. Events conspire to send him off to Central Europe during the Balkan civil wars where he bonds with poor-class troops and a BadassSergeant, who all die in a heavy engagement before the governor gets rescued. His [[HeroicBSOD shell-shock]] wakes him up and he tries to become a better governor, but events (and the political status quo) keep screwing him over...
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* HeelFaceTurn: The young [[PoliticalStrawman [[StrawmanPolitical Republican Governor]] at the beginning of ''Orange Crush'' had been groomed since birth to become the next great (corrupt) conservative leader of the state. He's pretty much a spoiled rich brat even in his thirties. Events conspire to send him off to Central Europe during the Balkan civil wars where he bonds with poor-class troops and a BadassSergeant, SergeantBadass, who all die in a heavy engagement before the governor gets rescued. His [[HeroicBSOD shell-shock]] wakes him up and he tries to become a better governor, but events (and the political status quo) keep screwing him over...
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* ButtMonkey: Johnny Vegas, every time.
* HeelFaceTurn: The young [[PoliticalStrawman Republican Governor]] at the beginning of ''Orange Crush'' had been groomed since birth to become the next great (corrupt) conservative leader of the state. He's pretty much a spoiled rich brat even in his thirties. Events conspire to send him off to Central Europe during the Balkan civil wars where he bonds with poor-class troops and a BadassSergeant, who all die in a heavy engagement before the governor gets rescued. His [[HeroicBSOD shell-shock]] wakes him up and he tries to become a better governor, but events (and the political status quo) keep screwing him over...
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Serge suffers it at the beginning of ''Orange Crush''. Even though he spends most of the novel thinking he's someone "sane", he still goes off on his occasional rampages whenever someone threatening his beloved state (and the reformed governor he's trying to get re-elected) shows up on his radar.
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* TimeSkip: The series isn't written in chronological order. And some novels will rely heavily on flashbacks.
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* TimeSkip: The series isn't written in chronological order. For example, the amnesia Serge suffered in ''Orange Crush'' wasn't explained until ''Stingray Shuffle'' which was published two novels later.
** And some novels will rely heavily on flashbacks.
** And some novels will rely heavily on flashbacks.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: The Author's and Publication Notes at the end of each novel go into incredibly bizarre descriptions, and in one book Serge and Coleman try to sneak their way through the Author's Notes to avoid getting arrested in the novel proper.
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* RecurringCharacter: City and Country, two college girls fleeing [[WronglyAccused from a crime they didn't commit]]. Also Johnny Vegas.
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* RecurringCharacter: City and Country, two college girls fleeing [[WronglyAccused from a crime they didn't commit]]. Their massive drug consumption (the two women are [[BeyondTheImpossible worse than Coleman]]) is why - despite the great sex - Serge keeps dumping the pair on the side of the road first chance he gets.
** Also Johnny Vegas.
** Also Johnny Vegas.
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* ShoutOut: Any movie or book based in Florida will get referenced by Serge.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Some of Serge's victims are loosely based on national and state-level celebrities, who tend to receive the appropriate KarmicDeath related to their terrible on-air personas.
** The political parody ''Orange Crush'' has cameos by RealLife political figures Lawton Chiles and Jimmy Carter, and {{Expy}} appearances of the Bush family, Katherine Harris, and other figures involved with the 2000 Election debacle.
** The political parody ''Orange Crush'' has cameos by RealLife political figures Lawton Chiles and Jimmy Carter, and {{Expy}} appearances of the Bush family, Katherine Harris, and other figures involved with the 2000 Election debacle.
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* ShownTheirWork: Dorsey knows his Florida history, and a lot of what Serge talks about actually happened in the state.
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* HotMom: Serge tends to bed a lot of middle-aged or older women
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* HotMom: Serge tends to bed a lot of middle-aged or older womenwomen, especially in ''Stingray Shuffle''.
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* InspectorJavert: Detective Mahoney, a homicide cop assigned to the string of deaths that Serge leaves all across Florida. A parody of noir gumshoes, Mahoney can never get enough solid evidence to nail Serge for his murder spree [[spoiler:or in other circumstances because Serge helps stop an even worse criminal.]]
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* RecurringCharacter: City and Country, two college girls fleeing [[WronglyAccused from a crime they didn't commit]]. Also Johnny Vegas.
** Characters from an early book will cameo in the following story to provide some continuity.
** Characters from an early book will cameo in the following story to provide some continuity.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Coleman gets replaced by Lenny pretty early in the series when Dorsey [[spoiler:kills off Coleman by drug dealers after Serge's stolen insurance money.]] But Dorsey quickly regretted the move [[spoiler:and has Coleman return by explaining his death in the most contrived way possible.]] Lenny removes himself [[PutOnABus by getting arrested and placed under house arrest]], only showing up for later cameos.
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* AntiVillain: Serge is a SerialKiller, and in some stories openly admits it. What saves him from CompleteMonster status are A) his victims tend to be [[JerkAss jerkasses]], B) his genuine love for his home state, and C) his determination to protect innocent lives.
* BerserkButton: Woe to any JerkAss who breaks or ruins a piece of Florida history while Serge is watching.
* CrazyAwesome: Serge
* BerserkButton: Woe to any JerkAss who breaks or ruins a piece of Florida history while Serge is watching.
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* GeekyTurnOn: Serge and history. Especially Florida history. Whenever Serge is bedding a hot woman, he can't stop talking about whatever historic topic he's currently fixated on.
* GeekyTurnOn: Serge and history. Especially Florida history. Whenever Serge is bedding a hot woman, he can't stop talking about whatever historic topic he's currently fixated on.
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* KarmicDeath: Most of Serge's victims are killed in elaborate death traps that reflect the jerkass actions they committed to earn Serge's wrath.
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** His novel ''Orange Crush'' is basically a rehash of the Election 2000 debacle, but with Serge in the mix.
