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* DeadpanSnarker: Constantly. Jim is the chief offender, but Angelina isn't far behind, and their boss Inskipp is almost as skilled at it as they are.



* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: More accurately, Sane Cannot Comprehend Homicidal Psychopath. In the first novel, Jim puts himself through ChemicallyInducedInsanity to try to understand Angelina. He concludes afterwards that it didn't help.

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* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: More accurately, Sane Cannot Comprehend Homicidal Psychopath. In the first novel, Jim needs to find Angelina, and rapidly decides that he can't do it as long as he's sane and she isn't. So he puts himself through ChemicallyInducedInsanity to try to understand Angelina. He concludes afterwards that it didn't help.her. It works, but Sane Jim is horrified by how he feels while under the drugs' influence.



* HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook: The Stainless Steel Rat tried to deliberately [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this trope, hoping to learn the tricks of the trade from real criminal minds. Of course, he quickly realizes his [[DidntThinkThisThrough mistake]]: [[spoiler:He won't find any criminal masterminds in prison, because they don't get caught.]]

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* HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook: The Stainless Steel Rat tried Jim tries to deliberately [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this trope, hoping trope In ''A Stainless Steel Rat is Born.'' He intends to learn the tricks of the trade from real criminal minds. Of course, he quickly realizes his [[DidntThinkThisThrough mistake]]: [[spoiler:He won't find any criminal masterminds in prison, because they don't get caught.]]



** ''The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted'' has the third act on a planet inhabited by humans totally forgotten by the rest of the galaxy until a militarized country finds them and decides to conquer them.

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** ''The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted'' has the third act on a planet inhabited by humans totally forgotten by the rest of the galaxy until a militarized country world finds them and decides to conquer them.them.
** Something similar happens in ''The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge'', where the alien base-world turns out to have been previously inhabited by humans. Who are still there.



* MegaMawManeuver: In ''The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You'' the Special Corps investigates the mysterious disappearance of a navy space station whose last message was: "THE TEETH!" Jim uses time travel to go back to the event and sees it swallowed by a planetoid sent by alien invaders, who carry the station back to their homeworld.

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* MegaMawManeuver: In ''The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You'' the Special Corps investigates the mysterious disappearance of a navy space station whose last message was: "THE TEETH!" Jim uses time travel to go back to the event and sees it swallowed by a planetoid gigantic battleship sent by alien invaders, who carry the station back to their homeworld.



%% * TelepathicSpacemen: The Psimen

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%% * TelepathicSpacemen: The PsimenWhile ships can travel faster-than-light, the sheer size of the League of Worlds means that communication is pathetically slow. Enter the psimen, telepathic humans who can communicate instantly, mind-to-mind, over intersystem and even interstellar distances. Psimen with an interstellar reach are so rare that they basically have a guaranteed job as communicators.
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