• AMechByAnyOtherName: Their war machines.
• AchillesHeel: Like all klees, she is unable to swim.
• ActionGirl: When she's not too busy fighting demons, she also explores temples, collects rare spells, studies other faerie cultures...
• ActionSurvivor
• AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Debatably - she's from a pretty messed up family and isn't a nice person at all, but it's possible she's only like this because of her father.
• AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Mildly to Elinor.
• AnthropomorphicPersonification: He may be a god, but nobody gives him much respect, and the narrative tends to refer to him as "the fat kid."
• AntiHero
• AscendedMeme
• AttentionWhore: Sort of; it doesn't exactly tries to get people attention, but it sure enjoys it. Gregory quickly learn Tom to regularly thank and compliment it for the meals it prepares in order to get on its good side.
• AuthorAvatar: Landy managed to pull this trope off with a character who died in the first chapter.
• BadAssBookWorm: He's a mage but he can use magic...and is good with a sword.
• BadBoss: To Vosen.
• BadassBeard: Especially in the manga adaptataion.
• BadassBoast: "I'm a ring-tailed roarer!"
• BadassGrandma: At various points in her life
• BigEater
• BlowYouAway: Rice, noodles, dough, rotten fruit, people... anything will do.
• BondCreatures: Used to have a dog in this role, then bonds with a thunder tiger.
• ButterflyOfDoom: Spends its spare time very precisely killing specific butterflies.
• CainAndAbel
• CallingTheHeroOut: God did this after Jonah became upset after the people repented:
  But the LORD said, “You have had pity on the plant for which you have not labored, nor made it grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night. And should I not pity Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who cannot discern between their right hand and their left—and much livestock?”
• CanineCompanion: Can greatly alter her size, though not to the extent Gareth can.
• CantCatchUp: Along with Zeb, he returns to California and is never seen in the series again.
• ChainedToARock: She almost melts into a puddle when she encounters unicorns, much to the derision of Sir George.
• ChekhovsClassroom: He introduces the concept of Niffins, which comes in handy later in the book.
• ChronicHeroSyndrome
• ClingyJealousGirl: With Julia. But while Maria is the more beautiful sister, Julia is also attractive, just not as pretty.
• CombatSadomasochist: Will usually claw someone to death with his bare hands,only using a weapon once in the series to kill Ryld.
• CoolOldGuy: He is rather kind to the twins and The Midway Irregulars. He was only mean to Miles because he was a Knightleigh, although it has been implied that they are on good terms now.
• CovertPervert: While carrying a RRoD'd Triss, he takes solace in the fact that he'll die holding a nice ass, despite her protests. Also, you might see him walking around in the background when Geralt has sex with Ves.
• CriminalAmnesiac: Which Mulch gladly exploits.
• CuteBruiser: Laura is a skilled martial artist.
• CuteKitten: She has a kitten named Pearl.
• DecoyProtagonist
• DivergentCharacterEvolution
• EmotionlessGirl: Most of her lines have "flatly" at the start of them.
• FatherIWantToMarryMyBrother
• FieryRedhead: Similar to James.
• FirstNameBasis: Bella almost always calls him "Charlie" instead of "Dad". She only uses "Dad" when she's particularly emotional or upset.
• FromACertainPointOfView: Imriel.
• GentleGiant
• GoodParents: Most of the time. Though she can be stern, she's usually pretty good with her daughters.
• Greed: A driving motivation with him.
• HannibalLecture: Tries to do this with Vin once she is captured by Lord Aradan Yomen.
• HiddenDepths: The point of his characterization, if you weren't getting that by now.
• HistoricalDomainCharacter: Based on George Heneage Lawrence Dundas.
• HomeSweetHome: Nick's initial goal until he meets Mary Hightower.
• IControlMyMinionsThrough: Returns in Shadow Games with an apprentice. Is killed off for good by One-Eye.
• IDidWhatIHadToDo: Hence why the "washing his hands" was done.
• ISeeDeadPeople
• IntrepidReporter: A heroic example.
• ItGetsEasier: His heartless acts slowly increase until he finally murders Piggy by pushing a boulder on top of him.
• JerkassHasAPoint
• Jesus: At the beginning of Acts.
• KilledOffForReal: He really does become a delusional messiah following his interfacing with Mother, but he plays it up around the others to make them think he's gone completely insane when he's still as manipulative and cunning as before.
• LargeHam: Very.
• LeaningOnTheFourthWall: He's done a better job ruling Baalaria than Gothon and doesn't hold his country's bad reputation against those that dislike it because of Gothon's invasion.
• LysistrataGambit: Victim thereof.
• MaidCorps
• MeaningfulName: Miss Honey is a very sweet teacher.
• MentorOccupationalHazard: Ha Ha No.
• MyBelovedSmother: Her lenient and sothering parenting is one of the reasons why Charlie is so screwed up.
• MyDeathIsOnlyTheBeginning: His death was what triggered the Calamity.
• MyGirlBackHome: To Binabik.
• MysteriousAnimalSenses: He's able to sense the supernatural and reacts by barking.
• OfficialCouple: With Fitz but then later with Burrich, years after they think he's dead. Then Fitz again, more years later.
• OrphansOrdeal
• OutdoorsyGal: As a little girl, Catherine hated confinement and cleanliness, and loved rolling down the green slope at the back of the house. She liked playing cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running about the country. When she's grown-up, she still loves taking long walks and spending time outdoors and breathing fresh air.
• PeerPressureMakesYouEvil
• PetTheDog: He shows a surprising amount of concern for Alex in the meeting with the Prime Minister in Crocodile Tears.
• PluckyGirl: Whatever happens, she won't let her spirits be dampened.
• PrecociousCrush: She has several.
• PromotionToParent: His sister a little youger and they all take care of each other.
• RavenHairIvorySkin: An attractive feature she possibly inherited from her late mother.
• RedHerring
• RedOniBlueOni: Josh is red, Sophie is blue.
• RestoredMyFaithInHumanity: Once he gets back from the Other Place, anyway.
• RoaringRampageOfRevenge: He seems to be a combination with Tommy and Sue.
• RomanticFalseLead: His relationship with Sookie goes ends when she realizes he will always put his family before her, and he's eventually phased out of the running, now dating (and having a child with) another weretiger.
• RoyallyScrewedUp
• SeenItAll
• ShapeshifterShowdown
• ShesAllGrownUp
• ShroudedInMyth
• SpicyLatina: Carmen's hurt feelings and temper lead her to throw a rock through her father's dining room window and then run away.
• SpidersAreScary: They are attempting to kill and the dwarves, after all.
• TechnoWizard: Has a group of kids in the ComBom who help help him monitor the Juvies.
• TheDragon: Was once a Grolim, and Zandramas' superior.
• TheJuggernaut
• TheNothingAfterDeath: Fantasticans who jump into the Nothing become lies in the human world.
• TheObiWan
• ThePatriarch
• TheUnreveal
• TheWisePrince
• TheyDo
• Tomboy
• TookALevelInBadass
• TookALevelInJerkass: He's black. Nora's white.
• WeaksauceWeakness: Chthonians don't take well to exposure to, of all things, water. Which helps explain why they usually tend to stay safely miles underground rather than visit Earth's mostly water-covered surface, of course.
• WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The dragon has heavily suffered under his enslavement under Galbatorix, with his sanity having been so depleted that, should he be allowed to, he would destroy the entire planet simply because of his pain and anger. In fact, Elva heavily suggests that the only way to "help" Shruikan is to put him out of his misery.
• Xenafication