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Fixed a few cases of tropeslashing and expanded on one or two more tropes.
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* BrainInAJar: Voluntarily becomes this so the aliens can study how the human brain works. Averts AndIMustScream by way of the jar being able to transmit the brain's neural impulses to Peter's body, allowing for remote piloting. He admits the whole thing would be fascinating if it wasn't HIS brain he was looking at.
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* BrainInAJar: Voluntarily becomes this so the aliens can study how the human brain works. Averts AndIMustScream by way of the jar being able to transmit the brain's neural impulses to Peter's body, allowing for remote piloting. He admits the whole thing would be fascinating if it wasn't HIS ''his'' brain he was looking at.
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* FaceHeelTurn: Averted in a BIG way, as it turns out the aliens he joins aren't really bad.
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* FaceHeelTurn: Averted in a BIG way, Subverted -- while he helps Broxholm (whom everyone thinks of as evil simply because he's an alien who wants to kidnap kids) escape the school after being exposed, it turns out the aliens he joins joined aren't really bad.
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* MissingMom: She abandoned her family when "someone better came along", and his father lost HIS mom when he was "too old to be adopted", as he put it.
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* MissingMom: She abandoned her family when "someone better came along", and his father lost HIS ''his'' mom when he was "too old to be adopted", as he put it.
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* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Until the aliens casually fix his eyes as part of a routine checkup.
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* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Until He's both smart and wears glasses, until dropping the latter trait when the aliens casually fix his eyes as part of a routine checkup.
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* TheAce / JackOfAllStats: Peter suggests that she may actually qualify as the "best" student in the class, depending on what criteria Broxholm is using. Her grades aren't as good as Peter's, but they are still excellent. She may not be as angelic as Stacy or Mike, but she's still very well behaved. And she's popular, athletic, and participates in many activities.
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* TheAce / JackOfAllStats: TheAce: Peter suggests that she may actually qualify as the "best" student in the class, depending on what criteria Broxholm is using. Her grades aren't as good as Peter's, but they are still excellent. She may not be as angelic as Stacy or Mike, but she's still very well behaved. And she's popular, athletic, and participates in many activities.
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* SnoopingLittleKid: How she finds out Broxholm's secret in the first place.
* StayWithTheAliens: The series ends with her and Duncan joining the aliens in traveling the universe.
* StayWithTheAliens: The series ends with her and Duncan joining the aliens in traveling the universe.
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* SnoopingLittleKid: How she finds out Broxholm's secret in the first place.
place -- she followed him home to swipe a nasty note from his briefcase, which he'd left sitting on his front porch, but when she heard a screeching noise inside the house she couldn't help but investigate and so discovered his secret.
* StayWithTheAliens: The series ends with her and Duncan joining the aliens in traveling theuniverse.
universe.
* StayWithTheAliens: The series ends with her and Duncan joining the aliens in traveling the
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* AbusiveParents[=/=]BigBrotherBully[=/=]FreudianExcuse: He's pretty much the way he is because of how his dad and brother treat him.
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* AbusiveParents[=/=]BigBrotherBully[=/=]FreudianExcuse: He's AbusiveParents: Mr. Dougal's philosophy is that life is rough, so you might as well get used to it. It's basically a thinly-disguised excuse to physically and emotionally bully both of his sons.
* BigBrotherBully: Like their father, Duncan's brother Patrick pretty muchthe way he is because of how his dad uses him as a physical and brother treat him.emotional punching bag.
* BigBrotherBully: Like their father, Duncan's brother Patrick pretty much
* FreudianExcuse: He's pretty much the way he is because of how his dad and brother treat him.
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* BrutalHonesty / JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He comes off as tactless and gruff. As it turns out, however, on his planet being brutal with honesty is normal (although Broxholm describes it as just telling the truth and then getting on with things), and in fact in comparison to the rest of Broxholm's kind, Broxholm is a "pussycat". But even the "pussycat" Broxholm cannot understand what he sees as the humans' obsession with talking nicely all the time.
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* BrutalHonesty / JerkWithAHeartOfGold: BrutalHonesty: He comes off as tactless and gruff. As it turns out, however, on his planet being brutal with honesty is normal (although Broxholm describes it as just telling the truth and then getting on with things), and in fact in comparison to the rest of Broxholm's kind, Broxholm is a "pussycat". But even the "pussycat" Broxholm cannot understand what he sees as the humans' obsession with talking nicely all the time.
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* SternTeacher: He is very strict and boring in his "Mr. Smith" persona, especially compared to [[CoolTeacher Ms. Schwartz]], the teacher he replaced. He later explains that while he is naturally gruff, he deliberately turned it up a notch as part of the experiment he was involved in - to see how kids reacted to different teaching styles.
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* SternTeacher: He is very strict and boring in his "Mr. Smith" persona, especially compared to [[CoolTeacher Ms. Schwartz]], the teacher he replaced. He later explains that while he is naturally gruff, he deliberately turned it up a notch as part of the experiment he was involved in - -- to see how kids reacted to different teaching styles. styles.
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* CloudCuckoolander: Even the other aliens consider him this. The fact that he wears Bermuda shorts is just the start.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler:Averted, as he slips into what seems to be an irreversible coma, but turns out to be fine in the end]].
* MyGreatestFailure: He gave humanity the secret of television, in an attempt to stall scientific progress. It worked, but he regrets it terribly.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler:Averted, as he slips into what seems to be an irreversible coma, but turns out to be fine in the end]].
* MyGreatestFailure: He gave humanity the secret of television, in an attempt to stall scientific progress. It worked, but he regrets it terribly.
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* CloudCuckoolander: Even the other aliens consider him this.odd. The fact that he wears Bermuda shorts is just the start.
* DisguisedInDrag: In book 4, he disguises himself as a girl named Sharleen to blend in on Earth.
* MentorOccupationalHazard:[[spoiler:Averted, as Subverted -- he slips into what seems to be an irreversible coma, coma as a result of coming into contact with Peter's brain, which turns out to be ''far'' vaster than he expected, but turns out to be fine in the end]].
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* MyGreatestFailure: He gave humanity the secret of television, in an attempt to stall scientific progress. It worked, but he regrets itterribly.terribly because humans weren't ready for such a powerful communication tool.
* DisguisedInDrag: In book 4, he disguises himself as a girl named Sharleen to blend in on Earth.
* MentorOccupationalHazard:
* MyGreatestFailure: He gave humanity the secret of television, in an attempt to stall scientific progress. It worked, but he regrets it
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* TricksterMentor: Has a tendency to teach Peter without explaining what he's doing and why.
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* TricksterMentor: Has a tendency to teach Peter without explaining what he's doing and why.why.
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* StayWithTheAliens: The series ends with she and Duncan joining the aliens in traveling the universe.
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* StayWithTheAliens: The series ends with she her and Duncan joining the aliens in traveling the universe.
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* AbusiveParents / BigBrotherBully / FreudianExcuse: He's pretty much the way he is because of how his dad and brother treat him.
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* AbusiveParents / BigBrotherBully / FreudianExcuse: AbusiveParents[=/=]BigBrotherBully[=/=]FreudianExcuse: He's pretty much the way he is because of how his dad and brother treat him.
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* BrilliantButLazy: Broxholm points out that he was never stupid, he just had tons of untapped potential that the brain fryer unlocked, as do all humans.
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* BrilliantButLazy: Broxholm points out that he was never stupid, stupid; he just had tons of untapped potential that the brain fryer unlocked, as do all humans.
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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Despite it being a part of his job ''not'' to directly interfere with human activity, [[spoiler:in the fourth book, when exposed to a man about to subject a woman to tortures the narrator flatly refuses to name (implied to be rape), Broxholm snaps, knocks the man unconscious, and frees the woman]].
