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Change: Know all about ghosts, set up cameras to catch ghosts on film, disprove fake ghosts, get rid of real ghosts Occult ScholarDetective Know weird phenomena,Chasing remember strange names,ghosts, findfinding ancient incantation Bookshop owner Obtain obscure titles,tomes, dust shelves, know where any book inputting the
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Change: Having several Ph. D.s, being built like an Olympic athlete Masked Crusaders Solving unusual crimes or unraveling bizarre mysteries, Masked Crusaders are the predecessors of the superhero. Though usually possessed of
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Change: having a sense of honor, negotiating honestly, allowing wounded hero to escape again to fight another day Yellow Peril being inscrutible, spouting mystic wisdom, using mystic powers Weird Stories Tales of strange monsters, eerie settings, nightmares, hauntings,and the occult.
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Change: ranting about how the world is nothing but grave mold and maggots, plotting the destruction of mankind Red Scare spreading Communism, forming evil unions Evil In A Bottle trying to escape from the bottle, wreaking evil genie havoc, being put back in a bottle Implacable Stalker apparently dying,
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Change: Not a Pulp genre unto themselves, villains can be found in almost any other sub-genre (though Evil youGenius plotting don’telaborately, findtorturing veryfiendishly, manyrevealing Orientalplans Mysticsprematurely, inescaping Westerns). secretly Bloodthirsty Fiend wield axe/knife/noose, surprise victim, hide wielding fromaxes, pursuers,laughing insanelymaniacally
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Change: Impenetrable jungles, deep caverns, and distant polar reaches are often crawling with representatives of unknown or long-extinct cultures. Often, you will find prehistoric animals such as dinosaurs have survived against all odds. (Thanks for many of these to Aaron Allston's "Lands of Mystery" game. Unfrozen Caveman reminiscing about
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Change: getting stuck on alien planet, being better at what the aliens do, marrying an alien princess Alien Princess (getting getting kidnapped, falling in love with handsome earthman, screaming piercingly, postponing “fate worse than death”) death” Gadgeteer (fixing fixing almost anything with enough chewing gum
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Change: Civil War Veteran Determined Widow Snake Oil Salesman Preacher Man Indian Chief Savage Indian Noble Savage Medicine Man STILL IN PROGRESS (Guy Hoyle) CRIME and DETECTIVE CLICHES Hard-Boiled Detective spying on cheating husbands, dodging the landlord, hitting the bottle Cheap Hoodlum pistol-whipping victims, taking it on the lam, planning heists
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Change: Imitate absolutely everybody, wear several sets of clothes on top of each other without discomfort Gentleman Thief owning a tuxedo, going to posh events, stealing jewels stylishly during the party Defective Detective acting eccentrically, outwitting crooks The Fat Man being really fat, wearing white suit, being an evil manipulator Weird
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Change: for a pair of cement overshoes Fence (Receiving Receiving hot property, paying off the cops) cops Weird Science Jetpack Jockey (scorching everything behind you, zipping through the sky like a bat out of hell, walking away without a scratch) Alien Princess (getting kidnapped, falling
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Change: making deals with the local railroad barons, getting rich, selling out the townsfolk (coming Greenhorn coming from Back East, not knowing anything about what's going on, being easy prey for the bad guys) guys Black Hats (riding with outlaws, doing stealing thecattle, dirtyrobbing work,banks, getting shot) shot
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Change: stammering around girls, getting leaned on by football players, being a walking encyclopedia Concert Pianist (practicing practicing constantly, acting snobbish, dressing impeccably) impeccably Daredevil (Escaping Escaping from crashing vehicle, leaping across crevices) crevices Human Fly (Climbing Climbing the Empire State Building without gear, tightrope walking over Niagara Falls) Falls Beat
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Change: Strange inventions, brains in tanks, rebellious robots, trips to other planets, these types of characters often straddle the razor-edge of science, and flirt with knowledge that man was not meant to flirt with. Jetpack Jockey weird helmet and leather(scorching jacket, noisyeverything rocketbehind pack,you, takezipping a
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Change: Hard-boiled detectives, crime-solving attorneys, gangsters and the like were very popular pulp characters. Many masked adventurers had some kind ofCRIME background, and the underworld of the criminal sometimes crossed over into the supernaturalDETECTIVE underworld. CLICHES Hard-Boiled Detective (spying on cheating husbands, dodging the landlord, hitting the bottle) Cheap
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Change: (ordering your lieutenants around, having people rubbed out, running rackets) Gun Moll (being sexy in a cheap and tawdry way) Gangster (carrying a tommy gun in a violin case, talking like Edward G. Robinson or Jimmy Cagney) G-Man (nabbing Public Enemy No. 1, wearing snappy trenchcoat) Mouthpiece (defending
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Change: Direct traffic, walk beat, find donuts, drink stale coffee, chase fugitive Police DetectiveInterrogate suspect, deduce, flash badge, drink gallons of stale coffee LawyerMakeMouthpiece deal,(defending interrogate, know thebad law,guys twistin thecourt, law,making findobjections, loophole,making “Objection!” deals) Informant Know dangerous(trading
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Change: (hiring gunslingers to chase the outlaws out of town, gossiping about the other townfolk) Sidekick (getting into trouble, behaving eccentrically) Greenhorn (coming from Back East, being easy prey for the bad guys) Black Hats (riding with outlaws, doing the dirty work, getting shot) Card Sharp (pulling out
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