Sandy Mitchell
Sandy Mitchell is the pen-name of Alex Stewart, a British SF writer best known for his Warhammer 40000 Ciaphas Cain HERO OF THE IMPERIUM! novels. He also wrote the Dark Heresy novels Scourge the Heretic and Innocence Proves Nothing, featuring an inquisitorial team known as the "Carolus Angelae" put together by Inquisitor Carolus Finurbi.
Tropes found in his works include:
- Absurdly Spacious Sewer
- Accidental Hero
- Adaptation Distillation
- A Father to His Men
- Affectionate Parody
- A Friend in Need
- Air Vent Passageway
- Almost-Dead Guy
- Alternative Character Interpretation
- Anachronic Order
- Armor Is Useless
- Artificial Limbs
- Attack! Attack! Attack!
- Attempted Rape
- Badass Back
- Badass Grandpa
- Badass Longcoat
- Badass Normal
- Bad Boss
- Bad Dreams
- Battle Couple
- Big Damn Heroes
- Blue Blood
- Bond One-Liner
- Brainwashed and Crazy
- Bring News Back
- Bullethole Door
- Bumbling Sidekick
- Chainsaw Good
- Chivalrous Pervert
- Closest Thing We Got
- Compelling Voice
- Convection, Schmonvection
- Conveniently an Orphan
- Cool Gate
- Covers Always Lie
- Cult
- Cut Himself Shaving
- Cybernetics Eat Your Soul
- Deliver Us From Evil
- Dirty Business
- Dirty Coward
- Divided We Fall
- Dojikko
- Doorstopper
- Dreaming of Things to Come
- Dressing as the Enemy
- Driven to Suicide
- Duel to the Death
- Due to the Dead
- Dungeon Bypass
- Dying as Yourself
- Enemy Civil War
- Ensign Newbie
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
- Evil Tastes Good
- Exact Words
- Explosive Decompression
- Fake Defector
- Fake Ultimate Hero
- False-Flag Operation
- Famed in Story
- Fantastic Caste System
- Fearless Fool
- Field Promotion
- Fire-Forged Friends
- First-Name Basis
- First-Person Smartass
- Five Rounds Rapid
- Footnote Fever
- Foregone Conclusion
- Friend or Foe
- Gateway Series
- General Ripper
- Geo Effects
- Glamorous Wartime Singer
- Good-Looking Privates
- Green-Eyed Monster
- Guilty Pleasures
- Happily Married
- Hard Head
- Heroic Bastard
- Human Sacrifice
- I Can Still Fight
- I Knew It!
- "I Know What We Can Do!" Cut
- Incorruptible Pure Pureness
- Incredibly Lame Pun ('Danuld Drake', anyone?)
- In Harm's Way
- In Its Hour of Need
- In the Back
- I Surrender, Suckers
- I Take Offense to That Last One
- Join the Army They Said
- Kid Hero
- Kill Me Now or Forever Stay Your Hand
- Literary Allusion Title
- Love At First Sight
- Lowered Monster Difficulty
- Melee a Trois
- The Men First
- Military Moonshiner
- New Meat
- Nice to the Waiter
- No Hero to His Valet
- Oblivious to Love
- Old Retainer
- Power of Trust
- Punny Name
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
- Reassignment Backfire
- Recurring Dreams
- Refuge in Audacity
- Religion of Evil
- Reverse Polarity
- Shout-Out (Good Lord, the Shout Outs)
- Shrouded in Myth
- Shrug of God
- Snowball Fight
- So Proud of You
- Sour Supporter
- Talking in Your Dreams
- The Atoner
- The Chains of Commanding
- The Infiltration
- The Medic
- The Men First
- Think Nothing of It
- Too Dumb to Fool
- Trope Overdosed
- Tsundere
- Two Lines, No Waiting
- Unfriendly Fire
- Unreliable Narrator
- Urban Segregation
- We Named the Monkey "Jack"
- You Are in Command Now
- You Killed My Father
- Your Favorite