TruthInTelevision: Animated Series
DavidBrin: The Colonial Mennonites in The Last Colony, though they don't seem to actually have an objection to technology per se, but simply object to excess technology, and that's why the CU sends a large group of them to Roanoke, which is likely to be cut off from the rest of the CU for a very long time, meaning that coping with lower tech levels would probably be necessary at some point.
ReaperMan: In one scene, the wizards are briefly sent into a funk where they ruminate on all the things they hate about the holidays.
Aladdin
KiraIsJustice
NorthByNorthwest: Subsistence came with a disc with the game on, a disc with an online game and revised versions of the first two MSX2 games on it, and a standard DVD with all the cutscenes and gameplay segments laced together into a ridiculously long spy movie. All of the Metal Gear Solid games in Japan (not counting the Updated Re-releases) were sold in a standard barebones edition containing only the game itself, and a "Premium Packaged" filled with additional content such as art books and bonus discs.
ResidentEvil: Get too into this book and you'll soon be idly scanning your neighborhood for easily barricaded streets, potential fortifications, arable land and secure sources of potable water.
Titanic: Beaucoup Fish.
HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas: And the word "Kitty" can kill you.
Insomnia: Mr. Gray speaks with a British accent in the film.
ACupAngst: Lisbeth is a twenty-four year old woman with the bustline of a ten-year old girl. She's not too thrilled with that. In Played With Fire, she solves this problem by getting a boob job.
ADateWithRosiePalms: Henry has one and is really disgusted with himself about it.
AbortedArc: Mommy finding the car and the book never gets a real resolution.
ActionGirl: Rachel; quite insistantly so, in fact, since she's Genre Savvy about Neutral Female and refuses to let it happen to her. Corinne is also quite the duelist.
ActionSurvivor: Sylphs, Gnomes, Undines, and Salamanders all show up. They will serve those who have a talent for their respective elements, and cooperate with mages with a complementary element, but dislike and avoid those with opposing elemental affinity.
ActionizedSequel: The World Beneath is written in third person, switches perspectives between Arthur and Will, and involves having to stop a real antagonist.
AdvancedAncientAcropolis: The suboceanic kingdoms. Their techology was so advanced it's now seen by most as magic.
AlienGeometries: Tiphaine d'Ath has reached her mid-forties in The Given Sacrifice and while still very effective as a combatant, her reflexes are beginning to slow down just as old social and political grudges are starting to manifest themselves in the form of personal challenges. Mathilda and Rudi name her Marshal of Montival's armies, essentially a desk job consisting of staff planning duties for a skeleton force. The appointment places her under their direct protection, much to her consternation.
AlliterativeFamily: The Nitas. Besides Nissa and (Noe)Lani, every person in the family also has an N name.
AlphaBitch: Being surprisingly tightly plotted is one of the strong points of the series. It's a good bet that everything is one, and trying to figure out just how some offhand comment or minor event is going to recur and become a plot element is a good part of the appeal to adults.
AlternateUniverse: There's a reason they call him Swellhead!
AmbiguouslyGay: Higgins' sexuality is heavily implied.
Animorphism: Grahame Coats by the end of the novel.
AnonymousRinger: There's a de-emphasis on geopolitics, so many characters are just referred to by title. Mind you, it's not difficult to figure out who "the Kaiser" and "the Tsar" are.
ArtificialGravity
ArtisticLicenseHistory: Despite being a "historical" spin on the Arthurian mythos, this is still in effect. Arguably, writing "Arthur as a real historical figure" falls into this by default since so little is definitively known and so much is conjecture about the topic. The lineups for the ruling families of the British kingdoms don't necessarily follow the medieval Welsh genealogies for such kingdoms.
AssInAmbassador: Subverted in one novel, where the antics of the usual types at an embassy are used as cover by the intelligence agents there. A covert intelligence agent's wish is to be dismissed by opposing counter-intelligence as a drunken fratboy, so he plays dumb to determine who's drunk and who is just pretending to be.
AsskickingEqualsAuthority: An interesting variation. How hard a person fights as a human before being turned equals how powerful they become as a vampire.
AsteroidMiners: A lot of this goes on in the belt though it doesn't directly impact the plot much.
AuthorAvatar
AuthorTract: To almost Ayn Randian levels in some places, but most notable when Enoch Root becomes his mouthpiece.
BabyFactory: Teenage girls are encouraged to have as many babies as possible.
BadassBookworm: Colophonius Regenschein, the most famous Bookhunter in the city.
BadassNormal: Major Might and the Man In Black.
BaldOfEvil: Lord Loss
BalkanizeMe
BattleCry: If you speak the ancestor languages of Namerique or Sponglish, you'll spot the humor in things like the term for the Brigade nobility ^note or a spineless bottom-feeding fish used for dog food ^note
BerserkButton: Major General Mike Stearns is generally a very easygoing sort of commander. However, do NOT commit atrocities against civilians if you are under his command, otherwise, you will end up having a date with a volley-gun firing squad!
BetterAsFriends: What Dex and Emma initially settle on.
BigBad: Having a perfect understanding of ancient Greek, and whether you are willing to tolerate having ADHD as a side effect of your supernatural combat instincts. And then there's all the monsters you attract, especially if you carry a cell phone
BigEater: Liz turns into one while in Italy.
BigScrewedUpFamily: Beatrice and Dana.
BitchAlert: Alison, Carolyn, and Lauralee throw enough bitchiness to fill a kennel in the very first chapter of the "Phoenix and Ashes."
BlondGuysAreEvil: Nemian
BloodyMurder: Witch's blood is poisonous. Loki's blood (which is black, and freezes as it bleeds) is apparently burning hot.
BornLucky: René, while not completely immune to misfortune, is by far the luckiest character in the books. Even though he gets screwed up pretty badly every so often, most notably, in the end of the second novel.
BottomlessMagazines: Averted. People run out of ammo, and Shaun is the first to call them out on trying to reload with zombies lurching around.
BrattyHalfPint: Norina and J'han's daughter Leeba. Zanja calls her "Little Hurricane" with good reason.
BreathWeapon: Shaping up to be one between Piper, Jason, Reyna, Percy, and Annabeth, in that order. Love Triangle: There is potential between Hazel, Leo, and Frank, but it remains to be seen if there will be one.
BrokenAesop: Virtually all citizens of the commonwealth have Virtual Vision, giving them an Augmented Reality display over their normal vision.
ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts: What about the researchers in Antarctica?. Turns out, they manage to catch The Blinks and die too, due to bringing Coca Cola with them.
CallingTheOldManOut: Eventually done by William to his father.
CantLiveWithoutYou: Inverted. Unless one kills the other, neither a witch nor her doppelganger can die if the other is still alive.
CarnivalOfKillers: "It's full of money."
CelibateHero: Michael is still a virgin at the age of twenty-six (to Angel’s amazement), and remains so even for some time into their marriage (see the listing for Chastity Couple below).
CharmPerson: Lindsay is described as being very charismatic: "Being with her is like being drunk".
ChildHater: Several books have these, including The Ghost Next Door and The Blob That Ate Everyone.
CityInABottle: Andrew Simpson Smith's reservation. Tally's city can be considered one of these, too: the self-sufficient citizens don't seem to know that there's much outside beyond Rusty Ruins.
ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Deconstructed. The entire reason the world's in danger is because enough people believe in the Overtakers to let them come alive.
CloudCuckooLander
ColdBloodedTorture: It is routine for suspects and criminals to be tortured. Though none of the characters wish to undergo torture, they have no moral problem with it.
ColonelBadass: Jun Do assuming the identity of Commander Ga after he kills him in the prison mine.
ComboPlatterPowers: Lorena in book 3.
CommonwealthSaga: One might call this the things that are still recognizable so far into the future. Most Earth monuments are still in place, and several characters appear that never uploaded to ANA. A lot of things change in a millennium, but Paula Myo is always on duty.
CompleteImmortality: Oar's species — they're Made Of Diamond and do not age after the mid 20s. It's insinuated that her ancestors are all still alive, comatose in the towers on their homeworld, just too soul crushingly bored to bother moving. Oar even mentions that one time she found herself stuck at the bottom of a river; she didn't die despite drowning, merely falling into a half-awake coma until she washed up on shore. They are, however, weak to sonic damage. The Tahpo are also shown to be effectively immortal in Ascending, having lived for several thousand years. The fact that Oar's race and the Tahpo are both under this trope is not accidental.
ContrivedCoincidence: Victor likely wouldn't have found Prosper and Bo, and by extension wouldn't have been involved in nearly as much of the plot, if he hadn't happened to run into Prosper while he was out getting pizza.
CoversAlwaysLie: Justin to Rhiannon, for the most part.
CrazyPrepared: For a while Johnny kept a bucket of water in his room in case he spontaneously combusted.
CreatorProvincialism: The action ranges across the country, quite a lot of it takes place in Maine (which is a frequent King locale) and Boulder (where he was living at the time of writing, and of which he is apparently quite fond).
CreepyChild: Theres.
CreepyTwins: Vray and Bastion, the two twins pictured on the cover. They arrive on one of the mysterious Blackstars and seek out Rezin for the specific Retro he's acquired.
CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Charlotte can possess, phase, shapeshift, teleport, and move things telekinetically. Kind of makes dying not sound so bad.
CrystalSpiresAndTogas: Despite their lack of togas, the Forerunners definitely qualify, with their love of crystals and gigantic spires. The description of their culture given in the novel reinforces this.
CultColony: Cthulhu applies for the job as a new world's god but he can't close the deal because, since nobody is currently worshiping him, he's technically dead.
Cyberspace: Amazonia's simulator, which can do pretty much anything.
CycleOfHatred: A major theme. One of the problems of Azkhendir society is that when someone is murdered, they produce a wraith, and the easiest way to lay a wraith is to kill its murderer...which then creates another wraith.
DCAU: Animated Series
DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Nicci. She intentionally invokes or defies several tropes, such as when she kidnapped Richard by exploiting his love for Kahlan, or when she warned Jagang against Names to Run Away From Really Fast and advised him to take the title "Jagang the Just." She also intentionally studies Richard's previous captors so she can avoid their mistakes.
DarkIsEvil: Dark = Evil. No more to be said.
DayOfTheWeekName: Thursday, her mother Wednesday, and her children Tuesday and Friday.
DeadlyDecadentCourt: The City That Is A Mountain is made of this trope.
DeadpanSnarker: Plenty to go around, especially from the protagonists. Ken Ritz and Mac McCullum top the list. Nicolae Carpathia (post-indwelling) can snark with the best of them.
DealWithTheDevil: Toby's deal with the Luidaeg seemed like one at first, but eventually the Luidaeg asked for a favor in return that left them square.
DeathByDespair: Halasaa and Calwyn's father.
DeathByNewberyMedal: Knock, knock. Oh, it's you. Kiss.
DeathSeeker: Not a full-on Genre Deconstruction, but it tries to make the fantasy setting more "realistic" (in the Darker and Edgier way).
DeclarationOfProtection: Alaizabel is possessed by an ancient wych, summoned into her by the Fraternity.
DidYouJustScamCthulhu: Satan's avatar.
Old Man: Neat, eh? Goes down a bomb at parties, I can tell you.
Cabal: Really? I’ll have to hold a soirée just to impress my friends.
Old Man: You haven’t got any friends.
Cabal: I’m not holding a soirée, either. You have a problem with sarcasm, don’t you?
DigitalDestruction: Subsistence came with a disc with the game on, a disc with an online game and revised versions of the first two MSX2 games on it, and a standard DVD with all the cutscenes and gameplay segments laced together into a ridiculously long spy movie. All of the Metal Gear Solid games in Japan (not counting the Updated Re-releases) were sold in a standard barebones edition containing only the game itself, and a "Premium Packaged" filled with additional content such as art books and bonus discs.
DiplomaticImpunity: Oh, man! Many of the characters start out as relatively nice, and then become more and more like Jerkasses as the series goes on. Charles Martin notes in the book Vanishing Act that the Vigilantes are treating him with little respect, when they used to defer to his judgement before. Charles is hardly a saint himself in terms of behaviour. However, their attitudes come back to bite them hard in the book Deja Vu, and they seem to have dropped the Jerkassitude (ha, ha!) by the book Home Free.
DisabilitySuperpower: Dag's injured hand is apparently part of what stimulated his magic to grow stronger.
DisneyVillainDeath: Sally Bones falls off a building and dies.
DistressedDude: Skulduggery, who gets chained and tortured in the first book, and Fletcher.
Valkyrie: Don't worry, if the bad man comes, I'll protect you.
Fletcher: If the bad man comes I'll bravely give out a high-pitched scream to distract him. I may even bravely faint, to give him a false sense of security. That will be your signal to strike.
Valkyrie: We make a great team.
Fletcher: Just don't forget to stand in front of me the whole time.
DoNotTauntCthulhu: Or rather, Do Not Piss Carpathia Off. Also, do not tempt God into destroying you during the Tribulation.
DownerEnding: Fred.
DrivingQuestion: Life seems to be conspiring to destroy every Hope Spot Junior encounters in his life. So your druggie brother finally starts to get clean? Oops, the drugs addled his brain. He'll live, but with the mentality of a child. You almost killed yourself to find a cure for your father's cancer? Well, he'll fall asleep at the wheel and die before you get to see him again anyway. You finally convinced your girlfriend to escape your doomed planet with you? She's going to be shot by terrorists a page later. Also applies to other characters, like the man who lost his legs to rug burn.
DudeMagnet: Ruby and Meghan. Both of them are a bit oblivious about it.
DyingMomentOfAwesome: The Sisterhood of Saint Evahlyn to the Brotherhood of Saint Zherneau.
EmbarrassingMiddleName: Mackenzie Winifred Elizabeth Wright Connor
EncyclopediaExposita: The sections of Fire Logic all begin with one quote each from Mackapee's Principles for Community, Mabin's Warfare, and Medric's History of My Father's People. Two of the three authors are characters in the series proper; the other, Mackapee, was the first G'deon and basically responsible for Shaftal's culture prior to the arrival of the Sainnites.
EnfanteTerrible: Even as a baby, there's something off about Medraut...
EvilFeelsGood: Hasruel admits to it.
EvilGenius: Varies, since whoever is in this post ends up pissing Carpathia off ends up dead by his hand. Suhail Akbar is the longest-serving brute under Carpathia's command.
EvilGloating: Played with (its a case of Evil Versus Evil)—after Yrael makes his choice, he proceeds to tell the big bad, an omnicidal maniac who hates life, why. He does so in an incredibly poetic and smug way.
ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
FamedInStory: Pretty much every major character.
FantasyGunControl: Jaenelle casts a spell that causes the 'uncles' who visited Briarwood to suffer all the rapes and tortures they inflicted on the little girls there—and makes sure it doesn't kill them; death would be too easy.
FasterThanLightTravel: The atevi has a government sanctioned assassin's guild. However, in spite of the name, most licensed assassins spend most of their time being bodyguards and doing security work.
FatBastard: Baby Kochamma.
FateWorseThanDeath: The Black Carriage is an extremely terrifying version of this, and characters have even explicitly stated this. The Fork Factory as well.
FemmeFatale: Mrs Rothman.
FireForgedFriends: We are talking about Star Wars novels, after all...
FireKeepsItDead: The series references the Imperial practice of burning ork corpses to prevent re-infestation several times. In ''Death or Glory", Cain is rather confused at how insistent Jurgen is that they burn the corpses of the orks they kill, and the accompanying footnote provides the trope's page quote.
FlameBait: After The Masquerade is broken and Kitty (already Hauled Before A Senate Subcommittee) is forced to Change on national television, a number of protesters start demonstrating outside the Capitol Building. On the side in favor of the supernaturals, there's the Vampire League Against Discrimination: V.L.A.D. They reappear at the London conference in book ten.
Foreshadowing: In Iron Fist, while the Wraiths are trying to figure out what makes Zsinj tick, Face nearly gives Wedge a heart attack by mentioning his theory that Ysanne Isard is still alive, pointing out how odd it was that she was shot down in a shuttle she was never seen boarding, after having shown a tendency for going to ground during losses instead of fleeing. Sure enough, two books later...
FrightDeathtrap: Carrot also informs Vimes that the word "copper" does not come from the fact that the Watch badge is made of copper, but from coppere, which means "to capture".
FullyEmbracedFiend: Darien. He is proud of the fact that he is a werewolf, thinks werewolves are superior to humans and fully indulges in his animalistic side.
GayOption: From the point of view of the player.
GenkiGirl
GeometricMagic: Many magicians in the series make use of magic circles.
GiantSpider: A rare, rare friendly example.
GilliganCut: At the end of chapter twenty-five of The Eyre Affair, Victor states that there is no way on God's own Earth that Thursday and Bowden are going to get him to pose as an Earthcrosser. Guess what he's doing at the beginning of chapter twenty-six?
GodInHumanForm: Melindora Nightsilver and the rest of the Nine.
GodOfEvil: Seems to be a trait among wetboys- Kylar and Durzo both start snarking heavily from day 1. The voice in their head is one too.
GoingColdTurkey: Averted— Al apparently tries once, and it doesn't work out so well. Justified, as he was withdrawing from heroin.
GoneHorriblyRight: After all the Ghostbusters references being thrown around, Cas almost slips up and says it, but catches himself just in time.
GoodGirlGoneBad: Wisty starts heading down this path in book 4.
GroinAttack: Director Denial's story describes how a fellow Social Worker became so fed up with the local cops having sex with the anatomically-correct dolls she used with sex crime victims that she put razor blades in its orifices. Not to mention the Matchmaker's story. Shoo-rook.
HandicappedBadass: Tom gets his right hand covered in venom in Series 6, crippling him until he's cured.
HaveAGayOldTime: Justified since it's set in the eighteenth century, but just for confused readers, "fag" had a different meaning then.
HeelFaceTurn: Ocho, after realising just how demented his boss is. He brings all his surviving boys along for the ride.
HellishHorse: The eponymous "equoids" in Equoid are large, bad-tempered, have sharp teeth, and eat meat (raw, and, for preference, alive). They're equipped with saddles that are pretty much cages, as much to protect the riders from their mounts as much as from whatever they might be riding toward.
HenpeckedHusband: War.
War: Do I like rabbit?
Mrs. War: Yes, dear.
War: I though I liked beef.
Mrs. War: No, dear. Beef gives you wind.
War: Oh. Any chance of onions?
Mrs. War: You don't like onions, dear.
War: I don't?
Mrs. War: Because of your stomach, dear.
War: Oh. Erm... dear, do I ride out for Apocalypses?
Mrs. War: No, dear. You always come down with a cold.
War: I thought I rather, er, sort of liked that sort of thing?
Mrs. War: No, dear. You don't.
War: Perhaps I would like a beer?
Mrs. War: You don't like beer, dear.
War: I don't?
Mrs. War: No, it brings out your trouble.
War: Ah. Uh, how do I feel about brandy?
Mrs. War: You don't like brandy, dear. You like your special oat drink with the vitamins.
HeroicSacrifice: Andris makes one in the final battle, taking a bolt of death magic Akhlaur had intended for Zalathorm.
HomoeroticSubtext: Oshima and Kafka frequently compliment each other's looks, Kafka blushing in response a few times.
HundredPercentAdorationRating: The Black family seems to have this.
ICallItVera: Savannah likes to name her plants, such as a bougainvillea named Bogey (after Humphrey Bogart).
IThoughtEveryoneCouldDoThat: Cain briefly forgets that not everyone has his tunnel instincts in an early book.
IdentityAmnesia: The Nameless One/ Elyador
ImportantHairCut: One of the times that Shevaun took over Erin, she tried to cut off Erin's long hair, due to Shevaun having shorter hair. This resulted in some pretty bad cuts on Erin's neck. Erin cut her hair to shoulder length and never wore it longer.
ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: Sandra wears a full-length ermine cape to the first Meeting in Corvallis. Juniper notes that it would be too heavy to carry/wear for any length of time, but Sandra's carriage pulls up as close to the exit as possible so that she won't have to walk far. In The Sunrise Lands, Mathilda tells the Thurston daughters that she doesn't wear her formal gowns while traveling because she wouldn't be able to ride or fight well in them.
InSeriesNickname: Rashid has two: to his admirers, he's the Ocean of Notions, but to his rivals he's the Shah of Blah.
InSpiteOfANail: In spite of the fact that Northern England was formerly a separate country, ruled by a magician-king for 300 years, England and Europe at the time of the novel are almost exactly as they were in history. Sir Walter Scott, Lewis Carroll, Francisco Goya, and Lord Byron all show up, and are shown or implied to be just as they were in Real Life.
InTheDoldrums: The world between seconds where the survivors end up.
InformedAttribute: The Race keep saying that their language is very logical compared to human ones, but from the few words we see they seem to have a similar number of irregular plural forms to your average human language. The Race themselves are often described as being obedient and subservient by nature, but once the Colonization Fleet arrives it turns out they casually break laws just as often as humans, including several characters who begin tasting ginger despite the already-present (And extremely harsh) regulations against it
InformedFlaw: Edward and Bella. In New Moon, however, gender-flipping this is what kicks off the Jacob/Bella relationship, with him being the gentle guy to Bella's "My boyfriend dumped me so my life is over" brooding.
InsultToRocks: Catherine's father. Also Geoffrey, the boy who briefly fosters at the manor. Catherine has her moments of this too, particularly towards the beginning of the book.
IronicEcho: Detention with Dolores. "Dolores" means "pains" in Latin, and "Umbridge" is a pun on "umbrage".
ItsAllAboutMe: Trixie, ex-wife #3, is this ten times over.
JamesCameron: Beaucoup Fish.
JerkAss: Some members of the Seattle Police Department are bent. Amber doesn't know how many or which ones, so she doesn't dare go to the police about the beating she received.
JustifiedTrope: At times, Kelly.
KidWithTheLeash: Adele with Tovera. Adele keeps her around partially as a reminder that Bad Dreams are far from the worst possible consequence of her chosen lifestyle.
KillItWithFire: Labienus and a large group of other villains are taken down by a modified version of one of the diseases he created.
KilledOffForReal: Colt, Carey and Nicole.
KissOfDeath: Team Zombie stories "Bouganvillea", "Inoculata", and "Prom Night". "The Highest Justice" has zombies come from a disease, but it doesn't appear to be contagious.
KlingonPromotion: How advancement usually occurs in drow society.
LadyMacbeth: Adam Lang's wife is a sinister manipulator towards him.
LampshadeHanging: Martin's father takes this trope Up to Eleven.
Lampshaded: ATHENA was designed as an AI that would use social engineering to nudge individuals showing a high chance of becoming criminals away from a life of crime, or to sniff out spam botnets and identify them for the authorities. Instead, ATHENA is nudging criminals and law enforcement agents into confrontations with each other, and arranging for unlikely deaths-by-chance of various criminals.
LightIsGood: They're pretty much the same thing.
LighterAndSofter: The film compared to the novel. Henry keeps his feet and Gomez isn't in love with Clare.
LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Min and Al.
Lilyhammer: A Season with the San Francisco Giants
LiteralSurveillanceBug: Scorpia Rising, when Smithers disguises an electronic bug as a dead cockroach.
LivingShadow: Barrons, Ryodan, and any other person from their club.
LockedOutOfTheFight: Full Moon Garage and Wolf Lake Park. The latter is Lampshaded when Harry points out that Murphy would immediately go to a place called "Wolf Lake Park" to look for a deranged werewolf on the run. Which of course is exactly what happens.
LoonyFan: Supposedly responsible for Christine's death; in truth, Darius was just loony.
LoveTriangle: Clarissa was in love with Richard in college (and still is to an extent). But, he eventually left her for Louis Waters.
LukeIAmYourFather: Neil Cassidy claims to be Frankie's father.
MadScientist: Dr. Glotz, the evil scientist who devises a plan to force large quantities of starstuff to fall.
ManipulativeBitch: Baby Kochamma
MarilynMonroe: Averted. Demon Download specifically mentions that lasers are instantaneous weapons, where the "The beam didn't travel through space. It simply appeared in the air."
MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: From the point of view of the player.
MeaningfulName: Dr. Mueller, one of Hades' colleagues, dies by bursting into flame just after blabbing the location of their hideout. It's speculated that Hades put some sort of device in Mueller that he could trigger if Mueller decides to betray Hades. In The Woman Who Died A Lot, Goliath has an implant in their employees' brains, which gives them an anurysm if they try to blow the whistle on any of the many things Goliath is up to.
MermaidProblem: Neatly tied up when it comes to the female Khepri. Weird bug head, sexy lady body. For some reason.
MobileMaze: The Gladers' names are not their real names, but names based on scientists and inventors and such that were planted in their memories.
MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Most of the heroines of the series are female. Also, all the living members of the Vida line are girls.
MostWritersAreAdults: Inverted in that, most of the time, Pierre acts significantly younger than a boy who's 12-going-on-13. Aside from his precocious knowledge of mechanical devices, his speech and mannerisms are more akin to a boy of 8 or 9, and he doesn't seem aware of the fact that most people don't live the pampered life he does (see As You Know above), despite his having traveled across Europe with his mother and getting an education from a tutor.
MouthyKid: Junie B. herself.
MrFanservice: Uther Doul. Even within the novel.
MultinationalTeam: Due to the global scope of the events, people from numerous nationalities have to work together.
MyBelovedSmother: Lady Bristow spoils and smothers her children.
MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: When Molly is talking to the porpoises, she keeps telling them her teeth are green when she means hello.
Nanomachines: Cam's group on the ski resort. Also implied what happens to most the other survivors of the plague, when they run out of food on whatever mountaintop they managed to get to.
NeverFoundTheBody: Even though he doesn't always necessarily want the confessions his victims give him to be truthful, Glokta always knows when he's being lied to. Torture is played pretty much the same way no matter who is doing the torturing. It is either used to confirm/clarify previously gathered information or to pull a false confession to advance the torturer's masters' goals.
NighInvulnerable: The Smog, of the Made of Air variety
NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: One of the survivors tells a story about watching an old porn film at his friend's bachelor party post-war. The lead actress is having sex on the hood of a BMW Z4, and the survivor can only think about what a shame it was that no one builds cars like that anymore.
NotListeningToMeAreYou: Played with as of Son of Neptune. Hazel and Frank share a kiss after defeating Alcyoneus, but we don’t know if they’re officially going out by the end. Percy and Annabeth. Later, it seems Jason and Piper have become this as well.
NurseryCrime: The Nexts and they have to be considering that the Hades family also qualifies.
ObliviouslyEvil: How some people view the barnacle.
ObstructiveBureaucrat: In both Necropolis and Sabbat Martyr, officials try to prevent people from taking shelter.
OhCrap: Lea has one when she realized Harry played her with a well crafted distraction just so he could consume a poison that would kill him in a matter of minutes.
OneWorldOrder: Most worlds are ruled by a single government. It's implied that Brunnershabn had more than one. Otherwise, the Nuclear War on it wouldn't make sense (or the presence of nuclear weapons at all).
OnlyOneName: Averted. The characters, if they aren't referred to by characteristics or occupation, do in fact have a last name, although it's simply an initial. (Lucas and Claus T., Klaus T., Peter N., Maria Z.)
OurDragonsAreDifferent: They are shapeshifting dragons who use weather magic.
OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Derek, of the physical sort. And how.
ParentalAbandonment: If your family is still around when you become a Traveler, they won't be for long.
PlayingAgainstType: Some critics were skeptical about Dirty Harry casting himself as a romantic lead. Eastwood himself has stated that this movie is as close as he has ever been to playing himself.
PlayingWithFire: Each demesne has not only a Fisher King Master, but an entire Fisher Court composed of twelve members: Master, Chalice, Grand Seneschal, Prelate, and the "minor circle" composed of the Clearseer, Keepfast, Landsman, Oakstaff, Sunbrightener, Talisman, Weatheraugur, and (presumably) an eighth member whose title isn't mentioned anywhere in the book. If the Master, Chalice, and the rest of the court don't properly live up to their roles, the entire demesne suffers in all manner of ways.
PlotAllergy: Ruby is allergic to just about everything. Her special enhancement allows her to use her allergies almost as form of precognition.
ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Just about all of the Clan cats at one point or another, but probably ShadowClan most of all, considering how often their pride is pointed out. They consider themselves to be superior to pretty much any cat that doesn't live in a Clan. Even then, they generally consider their birth Clan to be better than the other three. Outsiders who have joined Clans often have to deal with prejudice against them due to not being "Clanborn".
PsychicPowers
QuestionableConsent: Jerin, several times. He's not entirely helpless in these situations, but he'd have been in very bad shape without assistance.
RealLifeWritesThePlot: Happens offscreen to four college students. Dave and John are unimpressed.
RealTimeStrategy: Shade has instituted a practice among his children that upon the report of a team-member's death, all present recite the name of the deceased and then two lines from 'For the Fallen' by Laurence Binyon, a poem traditionally read aloud over ANZAC memorials: At the going down of the sun and in the morning / We will remember them. As understandable as this seems at first, it may slowly dawn that these are children reciting a poem about fallen soldiers for other children...
ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Officer Bublanski, the cop in charge of Lisbeth's case. He's aware that there are things which don't add up, and when he's presented with the truth, he works to help clear her name. Dragan Armansky, Lisbeth's former boss, and Holger Palmgren, her former guardian - both of them try to act as father figures to her. Both tell her off when she really needs it but still go to extremes for her. Lisbeth counts them both among the few people she respects, and takes the initiative of visiting.
ReassignmentBackfire: Texas and Cuba break off from the CSA near the end of the Second Great War and assert their independence. Ulster's protestants attempt to pull this off after Ireland becomes independent from Britain. It doesn't work.
RecycledInSpace: This is basically a mixture of elements from Left 4 Dead and Dead Space transferred to the Star Wars setting using a novel and not a video game as the medium. Darker and Edgier indeed.
RedHerring: Both Inverted and Hand Waved: the book starts out with Snape giving Bellatrix (and by extension the readers) a detailed accounting of himself during the previous books to make it plausible he could still be working for Voldemort despite the previous buildup of him as a bad-mannered but otherwise trustworthy good guy.
RefugeInAudacity: When asked, Karou usually tells the truth. Yes, the hair grows blue from her head. No, she doesn't have a tattoo with Kazimir's initials on her chest. Yes, Brimstone and the other Chimaera are actually real. She does so with a wry smile because she knows that this way, nobody will believe her anyway.
ReligionIsRight: Carpathia is this when he stands before Jesus...until Jesus cast Satan out of him.
RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: How do General Pete Alden and Lord Muln-Rolak respond to the offer of a Grik general to join the Grand Alliance in their "hunt" and then casually mentioning eating another tribe of Grik? By slaughtering every Grik in sight except for a civilian Grik who is taken prisoner.
RoaringRampageOfRescue: When Lisbeth rescues Mikael from Martin.
RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Vimes' adherence to this trope causes Polly to mistake him for an irreverent, scruffy sergeant who is blissfully between her and his bloodthirsty commander, "Vimes the Butcher". The Duchess wants to be one, but the collective belief of Borogravia isn't enough to grant her the power to do any good, which causes her tremendous grief.
SanitySlippage: Jen gradually loses it as he tries to free himself from "Master Cangue". This leads to his Loss of Identity.
SayYourPrayers: The Christian on board the cruise liner stuck in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean with no power leads the crew in a final prayer of salvation just before the Giant Wall of Watery Doom hits it in the Dramatic Audio version of Soul Harvest. A woman in New Babylon who took the Mark of the Beast is left desperately saying prayers to God during the supernatural Big Blackout caused by one of God's Bowl Judgments in Armageddon, despite the fact that she's utterly screwed.
ScaryDogmaticAliens: The Rüstov.
SerialKiller: Apparently how Adolican Rhand spends his spare time. During the Time Skip, Dahl pinned it on him, but Rhand skipped town before he could be arrested.
ShipTease: The main Love Triangle aside, Haymitch speaks for many readers when Madge runs through a snowstorm to bring Gale medicine.
Katniss: We used to sell her strawberries.
Haymitch: She must have quite a taste for them.
ShoutOut: Lots of references to The Shadow, in both radio and written incarnations. Braxton from Lifeblood had a copy of the Necronomicon, implied to be a fake he was conned into buying.
SiblingYinYang: Claudia and Janine, Abby and Anna, Karen and Andrew
SilentPartner: Gideon.
SimSimSalabim: Averted for the most part. Although a few critics (like Mark Kermode) have criticized the film for pandering to exoticism.
SingleGenderRace: While it's never actually been discussed...we've never seen a female Dragon. This is resolved within the 7th book, Cast in Ruin. Though The Emperor placed many restrictions on the Dragons, and those that could not follow them but did not rebel are presumed to be taking a very long nap somewhere. It is possible that the ladies are all taking a snooze. On the other hand, maybe they just don't leave the palace much.
SingleIssueWonk: In For The Emperor, Amberley adds a wider view of the situation on Gravalax with excepts from a writer whose main failing is to blame everything on a conspiracy of rogue traders.
"Perhaps one owed him money..."
SinisterMinister: Piscopos Peregrino, the head of Beukohomana's Church Police.
SlidingScaleOfShinyVersusGritty: Gritty end by far.
SpotlightStealingSquad: As the series goes on, more attention becomes devoted to Jack Emery, Harry Wong, Bert Navarro, Ted Robinson, and Joe Espinosa (not to mention a few other characters). Some reviewers noticed this and complained that this series is about the Sisterhood, not the Brotherhood! This may have been the product of Designated Protagonist Syndrome.
StarfishLanguage: The undead inhabitants of High Cromlech "speak" a language called Quiesy. As many of the residents lack vocal equipment due to the mechanisms of their reanimation, or simply had their lips sewn together as part of a mummification process the language makes use of carefully timed periods of silence, eye rolling and presumably other facial body language.
StartXToStopX: As stated in The Dreaded, Obama was such a Charismatic Speaker that the McCain Campaign decided that the only way they would stand a chance is if they could get someone equally charismatic as McCain's running mate. The problem though, as Schmidt would late put it:
Steve Schmidt: Primary difference being Sarah Palin can't name a Supreme Court decision, whereas Barack Obama was a constitutional law professor.
StealthPun: Johnny's sometime nickname, revealed in Only You Can Save Mankind, is "Rubber". For those unfamiliar with British slang, a "rubber johnny" is a condom.
StepfordSmiler: Lucas Cader is implied to be one due to the deaths of his father and older brother.
SternTeacher: Miss Thorn in "Pants on Fire".
StockholmSyndrome: SOC's preferred method of recruiting Latents. Hold out too long and they'll lobotomize you. Britton almost succumbs to it due to his pre-Latency life as a US soldier, but breaks free easily once he realizes that the similarities between the SOC and the Army are superficial - where the Army's purpose is to protect the defenseless, SOC's purpose is to turn Latents into obedient killing machines. Therese and Swift actively resist the Stockholm treatment, and while Swift never joins SOC, Therese eventually breaks down when the SOC convinces her to help treat wounded in the base's infirmary, which shows her just how much good she can do with her powers.
SuicideMission: This is Rogue Squadron's bread and butter, and because they're elite, they always manage to make it out alive (minus the Red Shirts and Mauve Shirts in the squadron). Lampshaded by Xarcce Huwla; she was given the honor of being assigned to Rogue Squadron, and immediately asked for a transfer. When Wedge asked her why, she stated that the death toll of the squadron was far too high for her liking.
SupernaturalMartialArts: Dilaf.
SweetAndSourGrapes: Two of the main protagonists are offered jobs by the Antichrist, jobs that, were they offered by anyone else would seem like dream jobs. The characters are reluctant to take those jobs, rightly seeing them as tests of temptation before them. After some initial reluctance, they take the jobs anyway, as they feel that taking them was "God's will." In any other story, the following rationalization would be Foreshadowing of some kind of Face-Heel Turn, even if we didn't already know that the Big Bad was capable of mind control. In this story, it's considered valid.
TakeOurWordForIt: We never do find out what Daemon does to Cornelia. Most likely, it's better if we don't know.
TearJerker: Date Rape in the backstory. In addition, it's implied or threatened several other times. Kitty fears rape from both Leo and Balthasar in their respective books. After she is forced to change on TV, she compares the experience - getting kidnapped, watching an acquaintance get killed, thrown in a cell with walls painted silver, and watched as she transforms - to being raped. (To drive the point home, when she makes this comparison Ben, who at the time isn't aware of the Date Rape in her backstory, actually asks her how she would know.) And like in many settings, vampiric feeding and being converted to a vampire has sexual connotations, so this basically happens to Alette's descendant and maid, Emma.
TeenPregnancy: Josie's mother gave birth to her as an unmarried teenager.
Telepathy: Trine gains the ability to do it on other people than her brother later in the first book.
ThatCameOutWrong: When Carl tries to bolt when his ex-wife and her new man walk up in the bar, he stretches out the word "gone" into "gone-a-rea". Oops.
TheAllegedCar: Bravo 2-1's Humvee, which was missing several key parts like doors and armor. Colbert and Person had to restore it at their own expense. Rudy and Pappy also had to make repairs to Manimal's turret, which could not turn all the way around. According to the book, the issue with missing vehicle components was a somewhat widespread problem in the build-up to the invasion.
TheAlliance: The Toralii have one. They're pricks.
TheAtoner: the entire Geometer race turns out to be this, as a major turning point in their history was the destruction of another sentient race on their planet through the use of a designer plague. This (along with another major event) triggers a major shift of their culture into one focused on Friendship with everyone (whether they want to or not).
TheBeard: Jimmy Zizmo is this for Lina, who is a lesbian and had to leave Bithynios after her affair with another woman was discovered.
TheBrute: Rollo Napalm, the strongest fighter from Tristalia and champion of "Wicked fight".
TheChick: Angel. She has a reputation for frequently going out with different guys every night. She is the part of Hope that longs to be loved.
TheChosenOne: Jayfeather, Lionblaze and Hollyleaf think that they are the three, but Hollyleaf turns out to not be a member.
TheDon: Matricardi and Rockaforte. The two old men that Frank answers to.
TheEndOrIsIt: After Ed finishes the last ace, it looks like we're heading towards a feel good Bittersweet Ending...and then comes the Joker.
TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks: Again, played with as per comic book tropes. Nuklear Man's use of Norse Mythology for exclamations (see below) turns out to be because he may or may not actually be a Norse god, or at least was created by one.
TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: The UN is portrayed as an evil empire in being, infiltrated to the bone with various New Age cultists ... who don't themselves exactly come across as sympathetic.
TheHeroDies: Ehiru. It falters from time to time until the Mercy Kill.
TheMagnificentSevenSamurai: Lampshaded in-universe. The main deviation is that none of the samurai cowboys die.
TheMagocracy: Strongly implied the world of the story was once one of these, before the malices were unleashed and brought it all down.
TheOnlyOne: Inverted. The players of the video game respawn, while the aliens are Killed Off for Real. Also, you're not the only one who can save mankind, and mankind isn't really in that much danger - the aliens are.
ThePowerOfFriendship: A central theme here. The kids are always stronger when they unite their power. It even allows them to go into death and save Rosethorn.
TheSmartGuy: Mediochre.
TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody: Chloe just really wants that Kia Soul.
TheSummation: Partially subverted. Floridius reveals how the "demon" got into the house , however, he fails to explain that the demon is really an octopus. He also takes advantage of the situation to sell more protective charms in addition to recommending solutions that would actually help keep out the octopus.
TheTimeOfMyths: Twice. First, there is the time when Tarra was ruled by Omm and other Old Gods, though only the Orcs remember it in modern times. Then, there were the seven millenia-long rule of the Lightbringers, of which the Elves have the best memories. Modern humans barely remember what the "Great Exodus" was, despite counting years from it.
TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: The Falconer realizes that "Lamora" is an obvious pseudonym, but suddenly decides to effectively bet his life on the assumption that Locke is his real first name. Locke even asks him what ever gave him that impression.
ThoseTwoBadGuys: Vetinari begins talking to high priest Hughnon Ridcully about what a wondrous thing the Clacks are for communication, using an example with a merchant being able to order a cargo of prawns from Genua via clacks. Ridcully, thinking in a way common to the family, spends the rest of the conversation trying to figure out how the prawns would travel from tower to tower and starts wondering if possibly the claws allow them to grab on to the towers as they're tossed.
TimeTravel: In the first part of Something Rotten, Thursday has just come back from her two-year stint in the bookworld, and when she talks to someone she knows, they'd always ask her if she was in prison. When Thursday lampshades this by asking Stiggins why people assumed she was in prison (after Stiggins asked her, again, if she was), he replies that he, at least, expected her to be either incarcerated or dead.
TitleDrop: The Bone Collector, The Coffin Dancer, The Empty Chair, The Vanished Man, The Kill Room.
TortureTechnician: Variation. Fashnek tortures the mind, not the body.
TroubledButCute: Chris perceives Hope, who at the time was calling herself "Karen", to be this before he finds out the truth. Hope herself sees Darryl as this.
TruthInTelevision
Tsundere: Aggra.
UnableToCry: One of the reasons why she grew up to be such a distant, cold, and antisocial was because of water burning her skin, causing her to be unable to cry without her tears painfully burning her face like acid.
UnfortunateNames: Trooper Cant.
UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Simon spoils the whole plan to kill Christopher with Zoë's aid. It doesn't work as planned in the end, duh!
VanillaEdition: Special Edition came on a glowing NES cartridge.
VictoryByEndurance: Actually pretty common in the series. Jean, Locke and Sabetha are prone to frequently dressing each other down for their poor behavior.
VillainProtagonist: Stitch-Face is a Jack the Ripper -esque serial killer who describes himself as a monster. He also saves Alaizabel from the Fraternity and delivers a Karmic Death; his role in the story is aiding the heroes, but his motivations are anything but heroic, never mind his methods, leaving it unclear on which side of the divide he lands.
Stitch-Face: But even monsters want to live.
WarpZone: the places where Ley Lines meet. Point Zero is sabotaged to become one leading to Danu Talis before it fell.
WeaponOfChoice: Several; in one instance, a discretion cut moves to a later scene.
WeirdnessMagnet: Sort of. The children are more like weirdness iron filings, drawn to bizarre people and places. On the other hand, that might just be because there aren't any normal people in Snicketland.
WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: How a lot of people feel about the Shifter.
WhatTheHellHero: Pieter can't understand why Griet refuses to leave the Vermeer family, even though she is only getting into more and more trouble at the house.
WhatWouldXDo: The tendency for 21st century humans to think this (where "X" can be any given celebrity or fictional or religious personage) is the reason the Faction first became interested in humanity, and started the Remote colonies.
WickedWitch: Myajo, although she's willing to offer David needed advice.
WidowWitch: Poor lonely Agnes Sowerbutts.
WomanInWhite: Phčdre does this at least three times over the series at Midwinter Masques. At Cereus House's celebration when she is ten years old, she and the other Cereus fosterlings are dressed in white as part of the winter theme that Cereus House always has. Prince Baudoin singles her out as joy-bearer and kisses her for luck.
YouCantFightFate: See Your Days Are Numbered below.
YouDoNOTWantToKnow: Hilariously inverted in The Floodgate.
YouKeepTellingYourselfThat: To some extent this mindset is beginning to set into the Denver pack, particularly for Becky and Trey, because Kitty is too busy with her crusade against Dux Bellorum and being a celebrity to be there for them when they really need it. To mirror this, Cheryl makes it clear to Kitty that she has felt neglected and abandoned too when it comes to taking care of their mother should her cancer come back; some of this is inspired by her sister's feeling pressured and directionless in her own life, but there's enough truth to it to sting. By the end of the book Kitty has sworn to take steps to make up for these failures, with so far pleasing results.
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Bayonetta
AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses
OneOverZero
ProblemChild: the Animated Series. The show featured several regular characters borrowed from the live-action Road To Avonlea series (although both shows were made by Sullivan Entertainment, so they were basically using characters they created) and was pretty faithful to the original books, except that nearly every episode had a fantasy sequence with Anne (oh, and she had a wood nymph friend named Dryad). It's predated a tad by the Anne of Green Gables series by Nippon Animation from 1979.
TheSmurfsAndTheMagicFlute: Animated Series
UncleGrandpa
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