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* PetTheDog: The legendary manner in which King Meander "conquered" a regiment of crack troops sent against him by one of his rival kings, without losing a single one of his own men: he simply invited them to a feast, with fresh game and quality drink, the sort of fare that [[AristocratsAreEvil other kings]] would never dream of sharing with the commoners, even their own soldiers. The entire regiment defected to Meander's army without hesitation.
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* ImAHumanitarian: Meander tells Apropos and Company the very sad story of "Old King Cold", who was trapped in an icy cave with his beloved wife, who eventually decided that he had to cannibalize her in order to survive, and killed herself before he could stop her. To his lasting shame, he did.
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* PetTheDog: The legendary manner in which King Meander "conquered" a regiment of crack troops sent against him by one of his rival kings, without losing a single one of his own men: he simply invited them to a feast, with fresh game and quality drink, the sort of fare that [[SpoiledAristocrat other kings]] would never dream of sharing with the commoners, even their own soldiers. The entire regiment defected to Meander's army without hesitation.
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* PetTheDog: The legendary manner in which King Meander "conquered" a regiment of crack troops sent against him by one of his rival kings, without losing a single one of his own men: he simply invited them to a feast, with fresh game and quality drink, the sort of fare that [[SpoiledAristocrat [[AristocratsAreEvil other kings]] would never dream of sharing with the commoners, even their own soldiers. The entire regiment defected to Meander's army without hesitation.
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* ImAHumanitarian: Meander tells Apropos and Company the very sad story of "Old King Cold", who was trapped in an icy cave with his beloved wife, who eventually decided that he had to cannibalize her in order to survive, and killed herself before he could stop her. To his lasting shame, he did.
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* MultipleChoicePast: Meander tells Apropos and Company the story of "Old King Cold", who went insane after being forced to cannibalize his wife in order to survive in a frozen cave long enough to be rescued. He strongly implies that he himself was the "King Cold" in the story, but expresses polite surprise when the others assume this to be the case. Entipy complains that, if he's not the king in the story, then it doesn't make any sense for him to tell it.
-->'''Meander''': That, child, is one of the glorious advantages to being a madman. I don't have to make sense. It's very liberating. You should try it sometime.
** Seeing a set of old scars on King Meander's face, Apropos asks how he got them, [[spoiler:suspecting that Meander [[YouKilledMyFather killed his mother]], who clawed the face of her attacker as she died.]] Meander replies, with apparent sincerity, that he honestly doesn't remember. [[TraumaInducedAmnesia Yet another advantage of being a madman.]]
-->'''Meander''': That, child, is one of the glorious advantages to being a madman. I don't have to make sense. It's very liberating. You should try it sometime.
** Seeing a set of old scars on King Meander's face, Apropos asks how he got them, [[spoiler:suspecting that Meander [[YouKilledMyFather killed his mother]], who clawed the face of her attacker as she died.]] Meander replies, with apparent sincerity, that he honestly doesn't remember. [[TraumaInducedAmnesia Yet another advantage of being a madman.]]
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* ParanoiaGambit: Apropos' plan for diverting King Meander's army away from the castle.
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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: At one point Entipy eats ham between two slices of bread. Apropos's reaction is almost verbatim the name of this trope.
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* UnsettlingGenderReveal: [[spoiler:Verah Wang Ho]]
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* UnsettlingGenderReveal: [[spoiler:Verah Wang Ho]]Ho.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: At the end of the first book, Apropos receives a tapestry made by a "farweaver" (think "oracle"), of himself, much older, with part of his ear slashed off. We find out how his ear was slashed off at the end of ''Tong Lashing'': [[spoiler:A parting gift from the spirit of the sword...]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: {{Foreshadowing}}:
** At the end of the first book, Apropos receives a tapestry made by a "farweaver" (think "oracle"), of himself, much older, with part of his ear slashed off. We find out how his ear was slashed off at the end of ''Tong Lashing'': [[spoiler:A parting gift from the spirit of the sword...]]
** At the end of the first book, Apropos receives a tapestry made by a "farweaver" (think "oracle"), of himself, much older, with part of his ear slashed off. We find out how his ear was slashed off at the end of ''Tong Lashing'': [[spoiler:A parting gift from the spirit of the sword...]]
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* PrecisionFStrike: One in every book. The first one is done by ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny nuns]]'', no less.
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* PrecisionFStrike: One in every book. The first one is done by ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny ''[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments nuns]]'', no less.
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* NoIndoorVoice: LORD BELICOSE IN THE SECOND BOOK, BY CRUMM!
** YES, {{BRIAN BLESSED}} IS MY FIRST CHOICE TO PLAY HIM IN THE MOVIE, TOO!!!
** YES, {{BRIAN BLESSED}} IS MY FIRST CHOICE TO PLAY HIM IN THE MOVIE, TOO!!!
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* NoIndoorVoice: LORD BELICOSE IN THE SECOND BOOK, BY CRUMM!
**CRUMM! YES, {{BRIAN BLESSED}} Creator/BrianBlessed IS MY FIRST CHOICE TO PLAY HIM IN THE MOVIE, TOO!!!
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** Entipy, the girl... and the horse.
** Entipy, the girl... and the horse.
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* HistoricalInJoke: After inheriting a tavern by framing its owner as cheating in a game of cards, Apropos appeases the murderous mob who wants to kill the owner for cheating them by letting them drink at the tavern for half price for an hour every night. This made them very...''happy''...indeed.
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* AManIsAlwaysEager: Played with a bit at the beginning of the One Thing story in the second book, lampshaded a bit by Apropos himself:
--> ... It was the ring. The damn thing was enchanted somehow. Sharee was, to put it bluntly, not in her right mind. Under the circumstances, I would have been a cad, a bounder, and an utter rotter to take advantage of the situation. And if you think I failed to do so, then you have clearly not been paying attention.
* CursedWithAwesome: A main plot point of the second book.
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* DespairEventHorizon: Several moments throughout the trilogy could qualify, but it's particularly thoroughly spelled out in the third book, [[spoiler: after Apropos returns to Hosbiyu, only to find everyone dead.]]
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* AdiposeRex: King Runcible and King Meander.
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* AxeCrazy: Entipy, who may have burned down a convent.
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* BrotherSisterIncest: Unknowingly. ''Really'' Unknowingly.
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* ChildByRape: Apropos yet again. His lame leg is a key to figuring out that [[spoiler:The King's jester]] is his father.
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* DeathSeeker: Sir Umbrage
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Thanks to the One Thing.
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* GroinAttack: The One Thing to Rule Them All doesn't go on your finger...
* HeelRealization: It starts with his epiphany that he's a side character in someone else-story, and kind of goes to hell from there.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: He meets a lot of these, but cuts them off before they regale him of their adventures...because he ''hates'' those stories.
* HeroicBSOD: As a result of the UnsettlingGenderReveal. [[spoiler: It results in the Hiroshima-like destruction of a city.]]
* HowWeGotHere: The first chapter of the first book starts at about the middle of the story. They then start at the beginning. The ''very'' beginning.
* HeelRealization: It starts with his epiphany that he's a side character in someone else-story, and kind of goes to hell from there.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: He meets a lot of these, but cuts them off before they regale him of their adventures...because he ''hates'' those stories.
* HeroicBSOD: As a result of the UnsettlingGenderReveal. [[spoiler: It results in the Hiroshima-like destruction of a city.]]
* HowWeGotHere: The first chapter of the first book starts at about the middle of the story. They then start at the beginning. The ''very'' beginning.
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* HeelRealization: It starts
* HeroOfAnotherStory: He meets a lot of these, but cuts them off before they regale him of their adventures...because he ''hates'' those
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* HowWeGotHere: The first chapter of the first book starts at about the middle of the story. They then start at the beginning. The ''very'' beginning.
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* IncestIsRelative: See above.
* KillerGameMaster: Ronnel [=McDonnel=], in the third book. ''[[AndYouThoughtItWasAGame Literally]]''.
* KnightInShiningArmor: Tacit, the hero to whom Apropos is a sidekick.
** Played with; in the story's universe, actual knights in shining armor exist and are forces to be reckoned with like medieval Europe, and Tacit isn't one of them. He's more a Robin Hood figure. That makes him disreputable in the story's universe, but the DesignatedHero in the story.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The comics features two brief appearances by ''[[Franchise/TheDarkTower a Man in Black, fleeing across a desert...]]''
* KillerGameMaster: Ronnel [=McDonnel=], in the third book. ''[[AndYouThoughtItWasAGame Literally]]''.
* KnightInShiningArmor: Tacit, the hero to whom Apropos is a sidekick.
** Played with; in the story's universe, actual knights in shining armor exist and are forces to be reckoned with like medieval Europe, and Tacit isn't one of them. He's more a Robin Hood figure. That makes him disreputable in the story's universe, but the DesignatedHero in the story.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The comics features two brief appearances by ''[[Franchise/TheDarkTower a Man in Black, fleeing across a desert...]]''
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* LongLostSibling: Discovered not quite in time...
* LoveIsInTheAir: Every woman Apropos comes in contact with while the One Thing to Rule Them All is attached to his member jumps his bones. At one point they actually tie him down so that every woman within a 20-mile radius can have a turn.
* LoveIsInTheAir: Every woman Apropos comes in contact with while the One Thing to Rule Them All is attached to his member jumps his bones. At one point they actually tie him down so that every woman within a 20-mile radius can have a turn.
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* NoIndoorVoice: LORD BELICOSE IN THE SECOND BOOK, BY CRUMM!
** YES, {{BRIAN BLESSED}} IS MY FIRST CHOICE TO PLAY HIM IN THE MOVIE, TOO!!!
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: May or may not be the backstory of the mad king in the first book.
** YES, {{BRIAN BLESSED}} IS MY FIRST CHOICE TO PLAY HIM IN THE MOVIE, TOO!!!
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: May or may not be the backstory of the mad king in the first book.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Sir Umbrage; King Meander; [[spoiler:Odclay]]
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* TheResenter: Apropos, towards [[DesignatedHero Tacit]]. Big time.
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* SealedEvilInACan: The spirit of the sword in Tong Lashing. The trigger to unleash him is to say, "I don't care". When Apropos finds out [[spoiler:Veruh Wang Ho is a man]], he says the phrase over and over...cue Chinpan-shattering kaboom. To drive home the symbolism, after that he gives the sword away to a fat man carrying a little boy.
* SequelHook: At the end of "Tong Lashing", Apropos hints that he's borne a son that he was not aware of at the time (likely from one of the many, ''many'' women who serviced him while he was wearing the One Thing).
* SequelHook: At the end of "Tong Lashing", Apropos hints that he's borne a son that he was not aware of at the time (likely from one of the many, ''many'' women who serviced him while he was wearing the One Thing).
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* AdiposeRex: King Runcible and King Meander.
* AxeCrazy: Entipy, who may have burned down a convent.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Unknowingly. ''Really'' Unknowingly.
* ChildByRape: Apropos. His lame leg is a key to figuring out that [[spoiler:The King's jester]] is his father.
* DeathSeeker: Sir Umbrage. After he is heartbroken by the death of his wife, an oracle tells him he'll die in a great battle. He seeks out every fight he can, but when he doesn't actually die in any of them, and as time lessens his grief, he eventually begins avoiding battles at any cost to delay the prophecy.
* HeelRealization: It starts with his epiphany that he's a side character in someone else-story, and kind of goes to hell from there.
* HowWeGotHere: The first chapter of the first book starts at about the middle of the story. They then start at the beginning. The ''very'' beginning.
* IncestIsRelative: See above.
* KnightInShiningArmor: Tacit, the hero to whom Apropos is a sidekick.
** Played with; in the story's universe, actual knights in shining armor exist and are forces to be reckoned with like medieval Europe, and Tacit isn't one of them. He's more a Robin Hood figure. That makes him disreputable in the story's universe, but the DesignatedHero in the story.
* LongLostSibling: Discovered not quite in time...
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: May or may not be the backstory of the mad king in the first book.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Sir Umbrage; King Meander; [[spoiler:Odclay]]
* TheResenter: Apropos, towards [[DesignatedHero Tacit]]. Big time.
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* UnsettlingGenderReveal: [[spoiler:Verah Wang Ho]]
* VillainProtagonist: Apropos becomes one for the second half of the second book.
* WhosOnFirst: in the third book. Played with at the end: "My lousy luck that in Chinpanese the word for "who" was the same as in my language."
* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: Entipy, the girl... and the horse.
** The source of more than a bit of fridge {{Squick}} (hardly the only example related to her, of course, but still) when you remember their connection.
* VillainProtagonist: Apropos becomes one for the second half of the second book.
* WhosOnFirst: in the third book. Played with at the end: "My lousy luck that in Chinpanese the word for "who" was the same as in my language."
* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: Entipy, the girl... and the horse.
** The source of more than a bit of fridge {{Squick}} (hardly the only example related to her, of course, but still) when you remember their connection.
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* AManIsAlwaysEager: Played with a bit at the beginning of the One Thing story in the second book, lampshaded a bit by Apropos himself:
--> ... It was the ring. The damn thing was enchanted somehow. Sharee was, to put it bluntly, not in her right mind. Under the circumstances, I would have been a cad, a bounder, and an utter rotter to take advantage of the situation. And if you think I failed to do so, then you have clearly not been paying attention.
* CursedWithAwesome: A main plot point of the second book.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Thanks to the One Thing.
* GroinAttack: The One Thing to Rule Them All doesn't go on your finger...
* LoveIsInTheAir: Every woman Apropos comes in contact with while the One Thing to Rule Them All is attached to his member jumps his bones. At one point they actually tie him down so that every woman within a 20-mile radius can have a turn.
* NoIndoorVoice: LORD BELICOSE IN THE SECOND BOOK, BY CRUMM!
** YES, {{BRIAN BLESSED}} IS MY FIRST CHOICE TO PLAY HIM IN THE MOVIE, TOO!!!
* VillainProtagonist: Apropos becomes one for the second half of the second book.
* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: Entipy, the girl... and the horse.
** The source of more than a bit of fridge {{Squick}} (hardly the only example related to her, of course, but still) when you remember their connection.
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* DespairEventHorizon: Several moments throughout the trilogy could qualify, but it's particularly thoroughly spelled out in the third book, [[spoiler: after Apropos returns to Hosbiyu, only to find everyone dead.]]
* HeroicBSOD: As a result of the UnsettlingGenderReveal. [[spoiler: It results in the Hiroshima-like destruction of a city.]]
* KillerGameMaster: Ronnel [=McDonnel=], in the third book. ''[[AndYouThoughtItWasAGame Literally]]''.
* SealedEvilInACan: The spirit of the sword in Tong Lashing. The trigger to unleash him is to say, "I don't care". When Apropos finds out [[spoiler:Veruh Wang Ho is a man]], he says the phrase over and over...cue Chinpan-shattering kaboom. To drive home the symbolism, after that he gives the sword away to a fat man carrying a little boy.
* SequelHook: At the end of "Tong Lashing", Apropos hints that he's borne a son that he was not aware of at the time (likely from one of the many, ''many'' women who serviced him while he was wearing the One Thing).
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: [[spoiler:Verah Wang Ho]]
* WhosOnFirst: in the third book. Played with at the end: "My lousy luck that in Chinpanese the word for "who" was the same as in my language."
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* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The comics features two brief appearances by ''[[Franchise/TheDarkTower a Man in Black, fleeing across a desert...]]''
[[AC:Pyramid Schemes]]
*RejectedApology: [[spoiler:Entipy]] appears to be willing to reconcile with Apropos, but it turns out to be a trick to settle an old score with him.
--> [[spoiler: Dear Moron: Of course I have not forgiven you.]]
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There is also a five-issue comics miniseries published by IDW, called "Gypsies, Vamps, and Thieves", which picks up the story after ''Tong Lashing''.
PAD has announced a fourth book, ''Pyramid Schemes'', in 2015. It was released in July 2016.
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* RedHeadedHero: Well, anti-hero...
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PAD has announced a fourth book, ''Pyramid Schemes'', is currently being written and expected to be in 2015. It was released by the end of 2015.
in July 2016.
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* Foreshadowing: At the end of the first book, Apropos receives a tapestry made by a "farweaver" (think "oracle"), of himself, much older, with part of his ear slashed off. We find out how his ear was slashed off at the end of ''Tong Lashing'': [[spoiler:A parting gift from the spirit of the sword...]]
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* Foreshadowing: {{Foreshadowing}}: At the end of the first book, Apropos receives a tapestry made by a "farweaver" (think "oracle"), of himself, much older, with part of his ear slashed off. We find out how his ear was slashed off at the end of ''Tong Lashing'': [[spoiler:A parting gift from the spirit of the sword...]]
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* KnightInShiningArmor: Tacit, the hero to whom Apropos is a sidekick. Tacit is an idiot.
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There are currently three books in the ''Sir Apropos of Nothing'' series by PeterDavid (whom some of you might recognize from his ''[[StarTrekNewFrontier Star Trek]]'' novels, or his tenure on TheIncredibleHulk).
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There are currently three books in the ''Sir Apropos of Nothing'' series by PeterDavid (whom some of you might recognize from his ''[[StarTrekNewFrontier Star Trek]]'' novels, or his tenure on TheIncredibleHulk).Creator/PeterDavid.
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* SignatureStyle: PeterDavid loves his puns. And characters who are nattily dressed.
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* SignatureStyle: PeterDavid Creator/PeterDavid loves his puns. And characters who are nattily dressed.
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* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The comics features two brief appearances by ''[[TheDarkTower a Man in Black, fleeing across a desert...]]''
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* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The comics features two brief appearances by ''[[TheDarkTower ''[[Franchise/TheDarkTower a Man in Black, fleeing across a desert...]]''
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* AntiHero: Apropos.
* AxeCrazy: Entipy, who may have burned down a convent.
* BifurcatedWeapon: Apropos' staff can split into two batons, amongst other tricks.
* BornLucky: Used straight and inverted.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Unknowingly. ''Really'' Unknowingly.
* ByronicHero: Apropos.
* ButtMonkey: Apropos again. Many of the horrors and indignities he is subjected to are the result of LaserGuidedKarma; everybody else got away with something, but the ''one'' time he cheated, he got caught and got screwed. Many more are completely out of the blue.
* ChildByRape: Apropos yet again. His lame leg is a key to figuring out that [[spoiler:The King's jester]] is his father.
* AxeCrazy: Entipy, who may have burned down a convent.
* BifurcatedWeapon: Apropos' staff can split into two batons, amongst other tricks.
* BornLucky: Used straight and inverted.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Unknowingly. ''Really'' Unknowingly.
* ByronicHero: Apropos.
* ButtMonkey: Apropos again. Many of the horrors and indignities he is subjected to are the result of LaserGuidedKarma; everybody else got away with something, but the ''one'' time he cheated, he got caught and got screwed. Many more are completely out of the blue.
* ChildByRape: Apropos yet again. His lame leg is a key to figuring out that [[spoiler:The King's jester]] is his father.
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* DeconstructiveParody: Some parts.
* DeathSeeker: Sir Umbrage
* {{Deconstruction}}: Exploring the role of the hero from the point of view of someone who's not a hero. That and slapping several high fantasy tropes in the face.
* DeconstructiveParody: Some parts.
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* DeathSeeker: Sir Umbrage
* {{Deconstruction}}: Exploring the role of the hero from the point of view of someone who's not a hero. That and slapping several high fantasy tropes in the face.
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* AdiposeRex: King Runcible and King Meander.
* AntiHero: Apropos.
* AxeCrazy: Entipy, who may have burned down a convent.
* BifurcatedWeapon: Apropos' staff can split into two batons, amongst other tricks.
* BornLucky: Used straight and inverted.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Unknowingly. ''Really'' Unknowingly.
* ByronicHero: Apropos.
* ButtMonkey: Apropos again. Many of the horrors and indignities he is subjected to are the result of LaserGuidedKarma; everybody else got away with something, but the ''one'' time he cheated, he got caught and got screwed. Many more are completely out of the blue.
* ChildByRape: Apropos yet again. His lame leg is a key to figuring out that [[spoiler:The King's jester]] is his father.
* DeadpanSnarker: Now, we can't keep seeing the same hands every time...
* DeathSeeker: Sir Umbrage
* {{Deconstruction}}: Exploring the role of the hero from the point of view of someone who's not a hero. That and slapping several high fantasy tropes in the face.
* DeconstructiveParody: Some parts.
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: He meets a lot of these, but cuts them off before they regale him of their adventures...because he ''hates'' those stories.
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* SealedEvilInACan: The spirit of the sword in Tong Lashing. The trigger to unleash him is to say, "I don't care". When Apropos finds out [[spoiler:Veruh Wang Ho is a man]], he says the phrase over and over...cue Chinpan-shattering kaboom. To drive home the symbolism, after that he gives the sword away to a fat man carrying a little boy.
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* SequelHook: At the end of "Tong Lashing", Apropos hints that he's borne a son that he was not aware of at the time.time (likely from one of the many, ''many'' women who serviced him while he was wearing the One Thing).
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* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The comics features two brief appearances by ''[[TheDarkTower a Man in Black, fleeing across a desert...]]''
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* KillerGameMaster: Ronnel [=McDonnel=], in the third book. ''[[AndYouThoughtItWasAGame Literally]]''.
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Every heroic fantasy has its hero - the dashing, handsome, fearless warrior who will rush into battle, slaughter the forces of evil, secure in the knowledge that he will save the day and win the favor of the (always beautiful and virginal) princess of the land, and live happily ever after.
This series is not about that guy.
This is about the {{sidekick}}.
Apropos is the son of a prostitute, born of a gang-rape by a bunch of drunk knights, and his mother is convinced that the universe has Great Things planned for him. Apropos is sick of hearing the word "destiny" being bandied about, and he would rather save his own skin than the world. It's a comedy.
There are currently three books in the ''Sir Apropos of Nothing'' series by PeterDavid (whom some of you might recognize from his ''[[StarTrekNewFrontier Star Trek]]'' novels, or his tenure on TheIncredibleHulk).
* ''Sir Apropos of Nothing''
* ''The Woad to Wuin''
* ''Tong Lashing''
There is also a five-issue comics miniseries published by IDW, called "Gypsies, Vamps, and Thieves", which picks up the story after ''Tong Lashing''.
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!!This series provides examples of:
* AdiposeRex: King Runcible and King Meander
* AManIsAlwaysEager: Played with a bit at the beginning of the One Thing story in the second book, lampshaded a bit by Apropos himself:
--> ... It was the ring. The damn thing was enchanted somehow. Sharee was, to put it bluntly, not in her right mind. Under the circumstances, I would have been a cad, a bounder, and an utter rotter to take advantage of the situation. And if you think I failed to do so, then you have clearly not been paying attention.
* AntiHero: Apropos.
* AxeCrazy: Entipy, who may have burned down a convent.
* BifurcatedWeapon: Apropos' staff can split into two batons, amongst other tricks.
* BornLucky: Used straight and inverted.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Unknowingly. ''Really'' Unknowingly.
* ByronicHero: Apropos.
* ButtMonkey: Apropos again. Many of the horrors and indignities he is subjected to are the result of LaserGuidedKarma; everybody else got away with something, but the ''one'' time he cheated, he got caught and got screwed. Many more are completely out of the blue.
* ChildByRape: Apropos yet again. His lame leg is a key to figuring out that [[spoiler:The King's jester]] is his father.
* CursedWithAwesome: A main plot point of the second book.
* DeadpanSnarker: Now, we can't keep seeing the same hands every time...
* DeathSeeker: Sir Umbrage
* {{Deconstruction}}: Exploring the role of the hero from the point of view of someone who's not a hero. That and slapping several high fantasy tropes in the face.
* DeconstructiveParody: Some parts.
* DespairEventHorizon: Several moments throughout the trilogy could qualify, but it's particularly thoroughly spelled out in the third book, [[spoiler: after Apropos returns to Hosbiyu, only to find everyone dead.]]
* DestructiveSavior: Mainly in the second and third books.
* DirtyCoward
* DistantFinale: Implied; Apropos comments in one book that he is writing this in his old age.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Thanks to the One Thing.
* FirstPersonSmartass
* ForegoneConclusion: Well, he survives to old age... he's just not sure how.
* GroinAttack: The One Thing to Rule Them All doesn't go on your finger...
* TheGump: At the end of the second book, it's revealed the "Golden City" much of the book took place in is [[spoiler:Jerusalem]].
* HeelRealization: It starts with his epiphany that he's a side character in someone else-story, and kind of goes to hell from there.
* HeroicBSOD: As a result of the UnsettlingGenderReveal. [[spoiler: It results in the Hiroshima-like destruction of a city.]]
* HowWeGotHere: The first chapter of the first book starts at about the middle of the story. They then start at the beginning. The ''very'' beginning.
* HurricaneOfPuns: Look closely at the maps...
** He spends a full two pages detailing just how a race of bird-men came to be, and how they got their name...the punchline being that they're called the Harpers Bizarre.
* IncestIsRelative: See above.
* KillerGameMaster: Ronnel [=McDonnel=], in the third book.
* KnightInShiningArmor: Tacit, the hero to whom Apropos is a sidekick. Tacit is an idiot.
** Played with; in the story's universe, actual knights in shining armor exist and are forces to be reckoned with like medieval Europe, and Tacit isn't one of them. He's more a Robin Hood figure. That makes him disreputable in the story's universe, but the DesignatedHero in the story.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Apropos knows this is not supposed to be his story. He doesn't care anymore. He'll steal it.
* LongLostSibling: Discovered not quite in time...
* LoveIsInTheAir: Every woman Apropos comes in contact with while the One Thing to Rule Them All is attached to his member jumps his bones. At one point they actually tie him down so that every woman within a 20-mile radius can have a turn.
* MissedTheCall: A lot, which pissed Apropos off to no end.
* MoodWhiplash
* NoIndoorVoice: LORD BELICOSE IN THE SECOND BOOK, BY CRUMM!
** YES, {{BRIAN BLESSED}} IS MY FIRST CHOICE TO PLAY HIM IN THE MOVIE, TOO!!!
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: May or may not be the backstory of the mad king in the first book.
* PrecisionFStrike: One in every book. The first one is done by ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny nuns]]'', no less.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Sir Umbrage; King Meander; [[spoiler:Odclay]]
* PunnyName: Just about everyone of note. Start with the narrator and walk in a random direction.
* RedHeadedHero: Well, anti-hero...
* RefusalOfTheCall
* TheResenter: Apropos, towards [[DesignatedHero Tacit]]. Big time.
* ScrewDestiny
* ShoutOutLiterature: All over the place.
* SignatureStyle: PeterDavid loves his puns. And characters who are nattily dressed.
* SimpleStaff: Apropos' favored weapon due to his lame leg. Not entirely simple, due to the blade hidden within.
* SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes: Apropos sort of breaks the scale, being a Type IV or V saddled with the loser luck of a cynical Type I.
* SonOfAWhore: Apropos.
* StandardHeroReward: This almost ends very badly.
* SurpriseIncest: Again, see above. Though it does solve the question of who Apropos' father is...
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: [[spoiler:Verah Wang Ho]]
* VillainProtagonist: Apropos becomes one for the second half of the second book.
* WhosOnFirst: in the third book. Played with at the end: "My lousy luck that in Chinpanese the word for "who" was the same as in my language."
* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: Entipy, the girl... and the horse.
** The source of more than a bit of fridge {{Squick}} (hardly the only example related to her, of course, but still) when you remember their connection.
* WrongGenreSavvy: He doesn't realize he's the ''actual'' protagonist of the story until some time after he chucks a rock at the default hero's head and takes the hero role by force.
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This series is not about that guy.
This is about the {{sidekick}}.
Apropos is the son of a prostitute, born of a gang-rape by a bunch of drunk knights, and his mother is convinced that the universe has Great Things planned for him. Apropos is sick of hearing the word "destiny" being bandied about, and he would rather save his own skin than the world. It's a comedy.
There are currently three books in the ''Sir Apropos of Nothing'' series by PeterDavid (whom some of you might recognize from his ''[[StarTrekNewFrontier Star Trek]]'' novels, or his tenure on TheIncredibleHulk).
* ''Sir Apropos of Nothing''
* ''The Woad to Wuin''
* ''Tong Lashing''
There is also a five-issue comics miniseries published by IDW, called "Gypsies, Vamps, and Thieves", which picks up the story after ''Tong Lashing''.
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!!This series provides examples of:
* AdiposeRex: King Runcible and King Meander
* AManIsAlwaysEager: Played with a bit at the beginning of the One Thing story in the second book, lampshaded a bit by Apropos himself:
--> ... It was the ring. The damn thing was enchanted somehow. Sharee was, to put it bluntly, not in her right mind. Under the circumstances, I would have been a cad, a bounder, and an utter rotter to take advantage of the situation. And if you think I failed to do so, then you have clearly not been paying attention.
* AntiHero: Apropos.
* AxeCrazy: Entipy, who may have burned down a convent.
* BifurcatedWeapon: Apropos' staff can split into two batons, amongst other tricks.
* BornLucky: Used straight and inverted.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Unknowingly. ''Really'' Unknowingly.
* ByronicHero: Apropos.
* ButtMonkey: Apropos again. Many of the horrors and indignities he is subjected to are the result of LaserGuidedKarma; everybody else got away with something, but the ''one'' time he cheated, he got caught and got screwed. Many more are completely out of the blue.
* ChildByRape: Apropos yet again. His lame leg is a key to figuring out that [[spoiler:The King's jester]] is his father.
* CursedWithAwesome: A main plot point of the second book.
* DeadpanSnarker: Now, we can't keep seeing the same hands every time...
* DeathSeeker: Sir Umbrage
* {{Deconstruction}}: Exploring the role of the hero from the point of view of someone who's not a hero. That and slapping several high fantasy tropes in the face.
* DeconstructiveParody: Some parts.
* DespairEventHorizon: Several moments throughout the trilogy could qualify, but it's particularly thoroughly spelled out in the third book, [[spoiler: after Apropos returns to Hosbiyu, only to find everyone dead.]]
* DestructiveSavior: Mainly in the second and third books.
* DirtyCoward
* DistantFinale: Implied; Apropos comments in one book that he is writing this in his old age.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Thanks to the One Thing.
* FirstPersonSmartass
* ForegoneConclusion: Well, he survives to old age... he's just not sure how.
* GroinAttack: The One Thing to Rule Them All doesn't go on your finger...
* TheGump: At the end of the second book, it's revealed the "Golden City" much of the book took place in is [[spoiler:Jerusalem]].
* HeelRealization: It starts with his epiphany that he's a side character in someone else-story, and kind of goes to hell from there.
* HeroicBSOD: As a result of the UnsettlingGenderReveal. [[spoiler: It results in the Hiroshima-like destruction of a city.]]
* HowWeGotHere: The first chapter of the first book starts at about the middle of the story. They then start at the beginning. The ''very'' beginning.
* HurricaneOfPuns: Look closely at the maps...
** He spends a full two pages detailing just how a race of bird-men came to be, and how they got their name...the punchline being that they're called the Harpers Bizarre.
* IncestIsRelative: See above.
* KillerGameMaster: Ronnel [=McDonnel=], in the third book.
* KnightInShiningArmor: Tacit, the hero to whom Apropos is a sidekick. Tacit is an idiot.
** Played with; in the story's universe, actual knights in shining armor exist and are forces to be reckoned with like medieval Europe, and Tacit isn't one of them. He's more a Robin Hood figure. That makes him disreputable in the story's universe, but the DesignatedHero in the story.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Apropos knows this is not supposed to be his story. He doesn't care anymore. He'll steal it.
* LongLostSibling: Discovered not quite in time...
* LoveIsInTheAir: Every woman Apropos comes in contact with while the One Thing to Rule Them All is attached to his member jumps his bones. At one point they actually tie him down so that every woman within a 20-mile radius can have a turn.
* MissedTheCall: A lot, which pissed Apropos off to no end.
* MoodWhiplash
* NoIndoorVoice: LORD BELICOSE IN THE SECOND BOOK, BY CRUMM!
** YES, {{BRIAN BLESSED}} IS MY FIRST CHOICE TO PLAY HIM IN THE MOVIE, TOO!!!
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: May or may not be the backstory of the mad king in the first book.
* PrecisionFStrike: One in every book. The first one is done by ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny nuns]]'', no less.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Sir Umbrage; King Meander; [[spoiler:Odclay]]
* PunnyName: Just about everyone of note. Start with the narrator and walk in a random direction.
* RedHeadedHero: Well, anti-hero...
* RefusalOfTheCall
* TheResenter: Apropos, towards [[DesignatedHero Tacit]]. Big time.
* ScrewDestiny
* ShoutOutLiterature: All over the place.
* SignatureStyle: PeterDavid loves his puns. And characters who are nattily dressed.
* SimpleStaff: Apropos' favored weapon due to his lame leg. Not entirely simple, due to the blade hidden within.
* SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes: Apropos sort of breaks the scale, being a Type IV or V saddled with the loser luck of a cynical Type I.
* SonOfAWhore: Apropos.
* StandardHeroReward: This almost ends very badly.
* SurpriseIncest: Again, see above. Though it does solve the question of who Apropos' father is...
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: [[spoiler:Verah Wang Ho]]
* VillainProtagonist: Apropos becomes one for the second half of the second book.
* WhosOnFirst: in the third book. Played with at the end: "My lousy luck that in Chinpanese the word for "who" was the same as in my language."
* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: Entipy, the girl... and the horse.
** The source of more than a bit of fridge {{Squick}} (hardly the only example related to her, of course, but still) when you remember their connection.
* WrongGenreSavvy: He doesn't realize he's the ''actual'' protagonist of the story until some time after he chucks a rock at the default hero's head and takes the hero role by force.
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