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* BadSamaritan: In the first book, Ronan and Greta stumble upon an elderly couple, Henry and Izzy, who offer them a ride to help find Greta's father. They turn out to Bend Sinister agents sent to capture them.
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* BadSamaritan: In the first book, Ronan and Greta stumble upon an elderly couple, Henry and Izzy, who offer them a ride to help find Greta's father. They turn out to be Bend Sinister agents sent to capture them.
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* HorsemenOfTheApocalypse: Ms. Glass' Doberman guard dogs are named after such, with the exception of Death, who is instead named Debra.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Legion and several of the Bend Sinister agents fall victim to this when Greta's Pure soul being expulsed blasts them off the rooftop. Head Truelove willingly falls to his death shortly afterwards.]]
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* HolierThanThou: The Bend Sinister believe humanity is rotten with sin and thus needs to be cleansed from the Earth, while also thinking they'll be spared from the conflagration and be able to create a better world. Evangeline Birk even likens themselves to Noah and the ark.
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* TheDayOfReckoning: The Bend Sinister refer to the end times as "The Reckoning".
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* TheManBehindTheMan: For the first two books, Head Truelove appears to be the leader of the Bend Sinister, with the Blood Guard focusing their efforts on capturing him. At the end of ''The Glass Gauntlet'', however, it's revealed that Truelove himself takes order from the supreme leader of the Bend Sinister, Evangeline Birk.
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* WiseOldFolkFacade: Bend Sinister agents Henry and Izzy put on the façade of a kindly old couple to lure Ronan and Greta into a trap.
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* WiseOldFolkFacade: Bend Sinister agents Henry and Izzy put on the façade of a kindly old couple to lure Ronan and Greta into a trap.trap.
* WouldHurtAChild: The Bend Sinister have no qualms attempting to torture or kill Ronan and Greta, who are both 13.
* WouldHurtAChild: The Bend Sinister have no qualms attempting to torture or kill Ronan and Greta, who are both 13.
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* DisabilitySuperpower: Patch Steiner is blind, but can rob other people of their senses and see through his acolytes.
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* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Even despite his father being a member of an organization that plans to end the world and having tried to kill him several times, Ronan still cares about his father [[spoiler:and is heartbroken when he commits suicide.]]
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* SaveTheVillain: Attempted by Ronan at the end of ''The Blazing Bridge''. [[spoiler: With his father dangling off the edge of the rooftop, Ronan attempts to pull him to safety with a cable, while also offering to use the Damascene 'Scope to burn away the evil in his father. However, the arrival of the rest of the Blood Guard causes his father to choose death instead.]]
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* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Jack Dawkins looks like a teenager, but is actually 200 years old due to being an Overseer.
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* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Jack ReallySevenHundredYearsOld:
**Jack Dawkins looks like a teenager, but is actually 200 years old due to being anOverseer.Overseer.
** [[spoiler: Agatha looks nine, but is almost as old as Jack, having been stuck in the body of a child due to a malfunction with the Damascene 'Scope.]]
**Jack Dawkins looks like a teenager, but is actually 200 years old due to being an
** [[spoiler: Agatha looks nine, but is almost as old as Jack, having been stuck in the body of a child due to a malfunction with the Damascene 'Scope.]]
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* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: Head Truelove says this to Ronan near word-for-word when the latter [[spoiler:tells Greta that she is a Pure.]]
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* IRegretNothing: Head Truelove says as much to Ronan [[spoiler:shortly before his death.]]
-->'''Head Truelove:''' I can tell you this with all honesty, son: I have done nothing I am ashamed of.
-->'''Head Truelove:''' I can tell you this with all honesty, son: I have done nothing I am ashamed of.
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* DePower: In a sense. [[spoiler: Greta loses her purity after Ronan reveals that she's a Pure, meaning she no longer subconsciously influences others for the better and is now a regular person.]]
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* TournamentArc: ''The Glass Gauntlet'' revolves around the heroes entering a weird school and participating in the titular Gauntlet, a series of head-to-head competitions against other children.
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* ParryingBullets: Ronan's mother deflects gunfire from Bend Sinister agents with a cutlass.
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* MamaBear: Ronan's mother is rather protective of him and is willing to single-handedly take on Bend Sinister agents to ensure his safety.
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* PapaWolf: Greta's father joined the Blood Guard to help protect his daughter, who is one of the Pure, and made sure to teach her various life-saving skills to help her if she found herself in trouble.
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* MisanthropeSupreme: The Bend Sinister as a whole. They're convinced humanity is rotten with sin and seek to wipe out the thirty-six Pure to bring about the end times and rid the world of everyone except them.
