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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
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The 1972 sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, beginning directly where the previous book left off. Charlie, having just inherited ownership of Willy Wonka's factory, crashed through the roof of his home to pick up his family in Mr. Wonka's huge glass elevator (it can go in any direction, not just up and down). Having spent the past 20 years in bed, Charlie's grandparents (except for Grandpa Joe, who was already out) refused to get out of bed, so Mr. Wonka, Charlie, and Joe just pushed the bed into the Elevator.Now, Wonka flies the Elevator really high, with the intention that they will then shoot straight down through the roof of the chocolate factory. However, panicky Grandma Josephine accidentally causes them to fly into space, where they end up in orbit around the Earth. What happens up there is just the first half of this novel, because Grandma Josephine and her fellow bedmates manage to get themselves in even more trouble once everyone's back at the factory and Mr. Wonka reveals that he's created a Fountain of Youth pill...You'll probably be unsurprised to hear that this book was/is a lot less popular than the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, though it remains in print to this day. It has never had a film adaptation, since Dahl hated Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory enough to refuse all rights to make this book into a film. Most adaptations of Chocolate Factory, including the 2005 Tim Burton film adaptation and the 2013 stage musical, have complete closure, negating the circumstances of this book (and thus serving as Alternate Continuity). However, Richard George adapted it into a play, and there have been at least five different audiobook versions. On November 27, 2018, it was revealed that Netflix, as part of a deal that allowed them to make adaptations for other Roald Dahl books, will be allowed to make an adaptation of the book.Dahl was working on a third book, Charlie in the White House, but when he died, only one chapter was complete, hence the lack of real closure at the end of this one. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_1195fbb6 | comment |
Solar System Neighbors: Mars, The Moon and Venus used to have life before the Vermicious Knids wiped them out. | |
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I Was Quite a Looker | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_126ce03c | comment |
I Was Quite a Looker: While going through the Wonka Vite pill transformation, Mrs Bucket gets to see that her parents were quite beautiful in their youth. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_1282bf4f | comment |
No Celebrities Were Harmed: The President of the United States was Richard Nixon at the time of this book's writing, but here he is called "Lancelot Gilligrass". | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_177a6464 | type |
Genre Shift | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_177a6464 | comment |
Genre Shift: The first book was a whimsical Urban Fantasy where the fantastical elements were confined to inside of Wonka’s factory. This book is a full blown adventure fantasy with elements of Science Fiction and even Horror thrown in the mix. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_17b7242 | type |
Omnibus | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_17b7242 | comment |
Omnibus: The Complete Adventures of Charlie and Mr. Willy Wonka collects this book and its predecessor in one volume. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_1906ca06 | type |
Scratchy-Voiced Senior | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_1906ca06 | comment |
Scratchy-Voiced Senior: When Grandma Georgina becomes the oldest woman in the world, her voice becomes extremely croaky. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_1a5bba2b | type |
Artistic License – Geology | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_1a5bba2b | comment |
Artistic License – Geology: On the journey down to Minusland, the factory is revealed to extend more than 200,000 feet underground. This depth is actually a good way into Earth's mantle. Where it's hot, pressure is incredible, and it's hard to build. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_1a68cbdc | type |
Character Name and the Noun Phrase | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_1a68cbdc | comment |
Character Name and the Noun Phrase: As per the title of its predecessor. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_1b80d3cf | type |
Cartoon Bug-Sprayer | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_1b80d3cf | comment |
Cartoon Bug-Sprayer: Mr. Wonka uses one to administer the Vita-Wonk to Grandma Georgina. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_1ed13ab0 | type |
Comic Fantasy | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_1ed13ab0 | comment |
Comic Fantasy: Though it shades more into science fiction than the first book did, especially in the first half. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_1f0f3d6f | type |
Cute Kitten | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_1f0f3d6f | comment |
Cute Kitten: The president has a cat called Mrs Taubsypuss. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_1ff3b1d6 | type |
Harmful Healing | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_1ff3b1d6 | comment |
Harmful Healing: Grandma Georgina's "Rescue in Minusland" leaves her 300+ years old! Luckily, a carefully administered dose of Wonka-Vite finally returns her to normal. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_222dc873 | type |
Black Comedy | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_222dc873 | comment |
Black Comedy: As in the first book, characters go through some awful transformations and experiences, but humor is never far away. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_245cb69d | type |
Changing of the Guard | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_245cb69d | comment |
Changing of the Guard: Downplayed as Willy Wonka becomes the protagonist, replacing Charlie Bucket, who is downgraded to a Sidekick role. (Notably, Mr. Wonka is not a Pinball Protagonist, but actually does things that affect the plot.) Played straight as the bedridden grandparents take the place of the four bratty kids and their parents as the troublemaking characters who doubt Mr. Wonka. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_26ac510e | type |
Mythology Gag | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_26ac510e | comment |
Mythology Gag Vermicious Knids were previously mentioned in passing in the author's James and the Giant Peach and would later warrant mention in The Minpins. Mr. Wonka also mentions them as a Cryptic Background Reference in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, though they are apparently native to Loompaland in that continuity. This is the only book in which they actually appear. Also in James and the Giant Peach, the Centipede sarcastically mentions "skyhooks" as a possibility for hauling the peach out of the ocean, the answer Willy Wonka gives Grandma Josephine here when she asks what's keeping the Great Glass Elevator up. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_2711e392 | type |
The Complainer Is Always Wrong | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_2711e392 | comment |
The Complainer Is Always Wrong: Grandma Georgina is the grouchiest and most vocal of the protagonists, and is never right about anything. And suffers more abuse than any of the other characters. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_281de59f | type |
Extremely Short Timespan | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_281de59f | comment |
Extremely Short Timespan: The action takes place over several hours at most; note that Grandpa Joe tells Charlie at the end that — between the tour of the factory in the first book and the events of this one — they've had quite a day. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_286c4020 | type |
Gravity Sucks | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_286c4020 | comment |
Gravity Sucks: Inverted. When the Elevator gets "too high", it spontaneously starts orbiting the Earthnote In reality, they would just come straight back down again - "orbit" means you are moving sideways, at the same rate that the Earth curves away from you, and the Elevator has only gone straight up. Not to mention, they wouldn't start floating just because they got very high, either, as there is plenty of gravity very high up, even as high as the ISS. They would float once they truly started orbiting. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_2a44ebfa | type |
Elevator Gag | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_2a44ebfa | comment |
Elevator Gag: The Book! It goes into space, it goes down to a hellish limbo... | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_2bdae2ae | type |
Awesome, but Impractical | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_2bdae2ae | comment |
Awesome, but Impractical: The President's fly-killing device is elaborate, but needs the fly to not fly away at any point in order to work. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_2eac5753 | type |
Narrative Profanity Filter | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_2eac5753 | comment |
Narrative Profanity Filter: "The President said a very rude word into the microphone, and ten million children across the country began repeating it gleefully and got smacked by their parents." | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_32da91b8 | type |
Out of Focus | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_32da91b8 | comment |
Out of Focus: Grandpa Joe — the secondary adult lead of the previous book — doesn't get much to do as the spotlight shifts to the other grandparents, effectively becoming Demoted to Extra. Charlie only avoids becoming this by becoming The Watson / a Kid Sidekick to Mr. Wonka. Charlie's parents are present, but it's very easy to forget they even exist. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_334a404 | type |
Bungling Inventor | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_334a404 | comment |
Bungling Inventor: The President considers himself a dab hand at inventions. When he sucks in his breath sharply, and accidentally sucks in a fly which happens to be passing, on the spot he invents a fly trap, consisting of a raised plank, with a ladder leading up to it at each end. From the plank is dangled a lump of sugar, above a bowl of water. His explanation of how it works is thus: | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_34e05535 | type |
Rummage Fail | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_34e05535 | comment |
Rummage Fail: Mr. Wonka has to turn out his pockets — which contain (according to him) all his most important possessions — to find the recipe for Wonka-Vite, bringing up such items as a rubber fried egg, stink bomb, and "homemade catapult" along the way. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_356b1efb | type |
Hammerspace | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_356b1efb | comment |
Hammerspace: Mr. Wonka pulls a Cartoon Bug-Sprayer full of Vita-Wonk from beneath his tail coat! Moreover, he's apparently had that sprayer with him all along. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_35d4beb4 | type |
Horde of Alien Locusts | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_35d4beb4 | comment |
Horde of Alien Locusts: The Vermicious Knids. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_3687d605 | type |
Rapid Aging | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_3687d605 | comment |
Rapid Aging: Vita-Wonk, created as a counterpart to Wonka-Vite, causes this. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_37ea4a73 | type |
Not Drawn to Scale | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_37ea4a73 | comment |
Not Drawn to Scale: In the first book, the Elevator is large enough to hold a bed that sleeps four people plus several standing occupants, and the ceiling can't be much higher than the occupants because the buttons can be reached and pushed by Willy Wonka. This time out, it's large enough that everyone's floating freely about when it initially goes into orbit and Mr. Wonka, Grandpa Joe, and Charlie have to propel themselves through the air to reach each of the buttons that need to be pushed to stabilize it. Additionally, during their first appearance, the knids are about four feet tall. During the climax where they're assaulting the elevator, they're drawn to be massive, each one far bigger than the elevator or the space capsule it's escorting. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_391d6577 | type |
Sequel Escalation | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_391d6577 | comment |
Sequel Escalation: Regarding the Actionized Sequel events listed above, in both halves the stakes are life-and-death and the possibility of the latter is taken more seriously than it was in the first book with regards to the bratty kids' misfortunes. Willy Wonka is the protagonist this time around rather than the Audience Surrogate Charlie, and his eccentric hijinks are given a lot of page time (such as a stretch in which he basically trolls Earth by claiming he and his companions are aliens). There are also three new Oompa-Loompa songs, several songs/poems for Willy Wonka, and even a song for the President of the United States's nanny/vice president! | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_39688852 | type |
Shapeshifter Default Form | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_39688852 | comment |
Shapeshifter Default Form: Vermicious Knids are normally egg-shaped before turning themselves into various shapes. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_3a90dc63 | type |
Aliens Are Bastards | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_3a90dc63 | comment |
Aliens Are Bastards: The Vermicious Knids are a hostile race that travels the universe consuming all life they come in contact with. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_3be6d35 | type |
Rescued from the Underworld | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_3be6d35 | comment |
Rescued from the Underworld: Willy Wonka and Charlie go deep down to rescue Grandma Georgina from Minus Land, where she went after having reduced her age to below zero. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_3d134824 | type |
Letter Motif | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_3d134824 | comment |
Letter Motif: The astronauts are named Shuckworth, Shanks, and Showler. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_41a5c044 | type |
Plot Leveling | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_41a5c044 | comment |
Plot Leveling: As the first book ends with Mr. Wonka having found an heir in Charlie and the boy and his family destined to live the good life in the factory, thus leaving the characters without any real needs, continuing their story requires throwing them into new adventures. So the Great Glass Elevator accidentally winds up in orbit, and they encounter killer aliens, and then the bedridden grandparents' stubborn refusal to get out of bed leads into the Wonka-Vite misadventure, which leads to the journey to Minusland... | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_42be669c | type |
Absurd Altitude | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_42be669c | comment |
Absurd Altitude: The action proper begins with the elevator winding up in Earth's orbit. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_4389e368 | type |
Actionized Sequel | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_4389e368 | comment |
Actionized Sequel: The first half is an outer space adventure, and even the second half, while more in line with the first book's events, has an Orphean Rescue. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_461038e6 | type |
Mistaken for Spies | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_461038e6 | comment |
Mistaken for Spies: The elevator's passengers are first regarded as spies by the rest of the world and the bed is believed to be a bomb. Ultimately, after they help save the Space Hotel crew and guests from the actual aliens that turn out to be in the hotel, they are regarded as heroic astronauts rather than spies. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_461038e6 | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_461038e6 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_46ee4d3 | type |
Eye Take | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_46ee4d3 | comment |
Eye Take: When the Vermicious Knids are first seen in the Space Hotel, Mr Wonka is described as having his eyes stretched as large as two wheels, signifying this is the first moment Mr Wonka himself is terrified. | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_46ee4d3 | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_46ee4d3 | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_46ee4d3 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_484eb304 | type |
"Knock Knock" Joke | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_484eb304 | comment |
"Knock Knock" Joke: The President inflicts a few of these on people, using them to open his phone calls to them. | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_484eb304 | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_484eb304 | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_484eb304 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_4bfcfa7c | type |
Kansas City Shuffle | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_4bfcfa7c | comment |
Kansas City Shuffle: The President of the United States, on the fly, invents a convoluted device for killing flies. It is basically a walkway mounted on two miniature ladders on each side, with a cube of sugar hanging from the center of the walkway. As the President explains, the fly would climb up the first ladder and would be traversing the walkway when it would catch sight of the sugar cube and become tempted by it; just before it decided to make its way down the hanging string to eat the sugar, however, it would realize that there is a bowl of water directly beneath the hanging cube, meaning that the fly would drown if it fell. As a result, the fly would continue walking over to the second ladder, feeling smug that it had avoided the water trap - until it started to descend the second ladder and fell to its death because the President had left off one of the ladder's rungs near the top. It's parodious, since flies obviously aren't smart enough for such an overelaborate trick to work, and they can't fall to their deaths because they can, y'know, fly. And even then, they lack the mass to cause any damage to themselves by falling, regardless of the distance. | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_4bfcfa7c | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_4bfcfa7c | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_4bfcfa7c | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_5d074a80 | type |
Mistaken for Aliens | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_5d074a80 | comment |
Mistaken for Aliens: Willy Wonka decides to invoke this trope when he is told to identify himself and his companions at the Space Hotel (there are no cameras in there, so he assumes a funny voice and basically trolls Earth). | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_5d074a80 | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_5d074a80 | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_5d074a80 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_5f3bb274 | type |
Late-Arrival Spoiler | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_5f3bb274 | comment |
Late-Arrival Spoiler: Cover blurbs typically spoil the ending of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_5f3bb274 | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_5f3bb274 | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_5f3bb274 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_5f3d3c83 | type |
Psycho Supporter | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_5f3d3c83 | comment |
Psycho Supporter: The President's chief general is a Psychopathic Manchild. ("Let's blow everybody up! Bam bam boom blam blam!") The President and the Vice President have to constantly keep him from going rogue...and he does respectfully, if unhappily, defer to them, thus fitting this trope. | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_5f3d3c83 | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_5f3d3c83 | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_5f3d3c83 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_61b8f9e2 | type |
Bunny-Ears Lawyer | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_61b8f9e2 | comment |
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: The US president still keeps his childhood nanny around, and even calls her 'Nanny', as well as a cat with a very frou-frou name. | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_61b8f9e2 | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_61b8f9e2 | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_61b8f9e2 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_648a4c38 | type |
"The Hero Sucks" Song | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_648a4c38 | comment |
"The Hero Sucks" Song: Elvira's song about how she raised President Gilligrass, which he actually loves. | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_648a4c38 | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_648a4c38 | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_648a4c38 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_65e9d9df | type |
Fooled by the Sound | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_65e9d9df | comment |
Fooled by the Sound: Wonka tells a story about Goldie, a girl who mistook chocolate-flavored laxatives for candy. Her stomach grumbles so loudly that the neighbors mistake it for thunder. | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_65e9d9df | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_65e9d9df | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_65e9d9df | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_6846c493 | type |
Sacrificial Planet | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_6846c493 | comment |
Sacrificial Planet: The Vermicious Knids are said to have eaten the former inhabitants of Venus, Mars, and the Earth's moon. The only reason why they haven't devoured Earth's dwellers yet is because they can't survive the friction heat from plummeting through the atmosphere. | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_6846c493 | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_6846c493 | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_6846c493 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_685d06d | type |
Plot Parallel | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_685d06d | comment |
Plot Parallel: The Morality Ballad following on from the grandparents de-aging themselves is also about someone who helped themselves to too much medicine with disastrous results. | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_685d06d | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_685d06d | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_685d06d | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_68e9a98d | type |
A Villain Named "Z__rg" | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_68e9a98d | comment |
A Villain Named "Z__rg": The Vermicious Knids. | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_68e9a98d | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_68e9a98d | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_68e9a98d | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_6aa5bcb8 | type |
Vice President Who? | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_6aa5bcb8 | comment |
Vice President Who?: Inverted with Elvira Tibbs, President Gilligrass's former nanny and vice president, who is competent enough to be universally regarded as the real power behind the president — including by the president himself.. | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_6aa5bcb8 | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_6aa5bcb8 | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_6aa5bcb8 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_6c77a1db | type |
Mining for Cookies | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_6c77a1db | comment |
Mining for Cookies: At one point, Charlie and Wonka pass a chocolate mine and, indeed, strike chocolate. | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_6c77a1db | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_6c77a1db | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_6c77a1db | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_6d7026fa | type |
Punny Name | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_6d7026fa | comment |
Punny Name: Besides Helen Highwater (and her millionaire fiancé, Orson Cart) there's a Soviet premier named Yugetoff. There are also Chinese officials named "Chu on-Dat" and "How Yubin". The President accidentally dials a grocer in Shanghai and a stationmaster in Chongqing. The Postmaster General explains that calling China is difficult as the country is so full of Wings and Wongs that every time you wing you get the wong number. | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_6d7026fa | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_6d7026fa | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_6d7026fa | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_6eeaa3c4 | type |
Bus Full of Innocents | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_6eeaa3c4 | comment |
Bus Full of Innocents: After the astronauts and crew of Space Hotel U.S.A. are ambushed by the Vermicious Knids, the survivors reboard the Commuter Capsule — but the Knids manage to cripple it, so it's up to the passengers of the Great Glass Elevator to get it back to Earth safely. | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_6eeaa3c4 | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_6eeaa3c4 | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_6eeaa3c4 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_716c0b1b | type |
And the Adventure Continues | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_716c0b1b | comment |
And the Adventure Continues: At the end, the gang is off to the White House to be hailed as heroes... | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_716c0b1b | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_716c0b1b | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_716c0b1b | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_735b4101 | type |
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_735b4101 | comment |
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Colours of the buttons in the Elevator are often mentioned: brown, green, black, white, silver, golden, yellow, pale blue. On the President's desk, a bright red telephone links to Soviet Russia, and a porcelain telephone links to China. | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_735b4101 | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_735b4101 | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_735b4101 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_7360a2f8 | type |
Growling Gut | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_7360a2f8 | comment |
Growling Gut: The little girl who overdoses on anti-constipation pills gets an extremely noisy case of this, to the point that neighbors think it's thunder! | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_7360a2f8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_7360a2f8 | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_7360a2f8 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_73ef9ef3 | type |
Almighty Janitor | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_73ef9ef3 | comment |
Almighty Janitor: Despite being Vice President, former nanny Elvira Tibbs is universally regarded as the real power in the White House. | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_73ef9ef3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_73ef9ef3 | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_73ef9ef3 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_7431b974 | type |
Vile Villain, Saccharine Show | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_7431b974 | comment |
Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: The whole outer space escapade is quite whimsical until the man-eating Vermicious Knids show up. They're notable as the only out-and-out villains that appear and affect the action between the two novels (the invisible Gnoolies of Minusland are mentioned as a threat but don't actually cause trouble). | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_7431b974 | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_7431b974 | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_7431b974 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_74a7d2d | type |
Creator's Culture Carryover | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_74a7d2d | comment |
Creator's Culture Carryover: The President of the United States says "Courteney one yet?" to a chief of police, which is meant to sound like "caught anyone yet". Being from England, Roald Dahl would have pronounced "Courteney" and "caught any" the same way, but in most American accents they sound very different so the President would likely not be able to make the pun. | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_74a7d2d | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_74a7d2d | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_74a7d2d | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_75c952bf | type |
Our Presidents Are Different | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_75c952bf | comment |
Our Presidents Are Different: Lancelot R. Gilligrass may be the arch-typical President Buffoon. (In Quentin Blake's illustrations, he bears a strong resemblance to a similarly incompetent fictional president, Merkin Muffley.note Interestingly, in the book's original illustrations by Joseph Schindelman, Gilligrass has a full head of hair, but still bears a resemblance to Muffley's portrayer Peter Sellers.) Alternatively, the name "Gilligrass" might also be a reference to "Gilligan" of Gilligan's Island, especially given the president's Manchild personality. | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_75c952bf | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_75c952bf | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_75c952bf | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_7a4a1676 | type |
Comedic Spanking | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_7a4a1676 | comment |
Comedic Spanking: The ten million children across the nation who repeated the President's rude word, and got smacked by their parents. In "the nurse's song". Older editions of the book have this illustrated: | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_7a4a1676 | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_7a4a1676 | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_7a4a1676 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_7d49d74a | type |
Cultural Translation | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_7d49d74a | comment |
Cultural Translation: The previous novel used the term lift in the U.K. edition. Like its predecessor, the U.S. edition of this book came out before the U.K. one, hence the title; the first chapter of the U.K. version includes additional dialogue to justify the use of the term elevator throughout (specifically, Wonka regards the lift as an elevator now that it's acting as an air/spacecraft and is thus extremely elevated). | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_7d49d74a | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_7d49d74a | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_7d49d74a | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_7dafc482 | type |
ChewToy | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_7dafc482 | comment |
Chew Toy: Grandma Georgina, making her the standout character among the grandparents this time around. | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_7dafc482 | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_7dafc482 | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_7dafc482 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_815ea2a1 | type |
All Is Well That Ends Well | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_815ea2a1 | comment |
All Is Well That Ends Well: For the Bucket family members besides Charlie and Grandpa Joe (who are cases of Angst? What Angst? throughout both books). They are effectively kidnapped by Willy Wonka, Charlie, and Grandpa Joe to get everyone back to the factory after the elevator's landing destroyed their shack. Thanks to Grandma Josephine's panicking, everyone winds up in space, encountering human-eating aliens. Once back at the factory the reluctant grandparents overdose on Fountain of Youth pills and Mr. and Mrs. Bucket face the worries of their parents turning into babies or vanishing, and then the vanished one reappears as a centuries-old crone. When Mr. Wonka restores everyone to their original ages, the parents are happy; when the news comes that everyone's been invited to the White House and a helicopter is waiting for them, the grousing grandparents are so overjoyed by the prospect that they voluntarily get out of bed for the first time in decades, and all is forgiven. | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_815ea2a1 | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_815ea2a1 | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_815ea2a1 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_81867cc | type |
Warning Song | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_81867cc | comment |
Warning Song: "Attention, Please!" by the Oompa-Loompas, warning against taking medicine in a foolish way. | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_81867cc | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_81867cc | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_81867cc | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_864aa9 | type |
Hellevator | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_864aa9 | comment |
Hellevator: The Great Glass Elevator is able to travel to a subterranean land described as "Hell without heat" to facilitate an Orphean Rescue. | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_864aa9 | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_864aa9 | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_864aa9 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_86eea0e5 | type |
World of Pun | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_86eea0e5 | comment |
World of Pun: The book is filled with puns, such as the Chief Financial Advisor trying to balance the budget. (It kept falling off his head.) As well as the aforementioned Mr. Wing and Mr. Wong leading to the president saying that "every time you wing you get the wong number." | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_86eea0e5 | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_86eea0e5 | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_86eea0e5 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_8774fb47 | type |
Eldritch Abomination | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_8774fb47 | comment |
Eldritch Abomination: The Vermicious Knids. They look completely innocuous at first - just a furry egg-shaped blob with eyes. But them they reveal themselves as sadistic predators - those Michael Foreman illustrations are Nightmare Fuel incarnate - and eat people. Exactly how is apparently too awful to describe, but the radio feed from a Knid attack is just as horrifying as they are. ("They have other things to bite with.") They don't just eat people, either. They deliberately provoke their would-be prey to run (by spelling "SCRAM") so they can give chase and prolong their suffering. They've (apparently) wiped out all living things on three planets already and can't reach Earth only because they burn up in our atmosphere. Lovecraft would be proud. The Gnoolies, the only native occupants of Minusland. Invisible negative-space bugs, you might wonder why they'd be considered either Eldritch OR Abomination. Wonka explains: They bite, and once bitten, their venom will repeatedly divide your age by random numbers until you dissolve into a swarm of more Gnoolies. Fortunately, Wonka is prepared and uses a repellent to keep them (temporarily) at bay until he can rescue Grandma Georgina. | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_8774fb47 | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_8774fb47 | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_8774fb47 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_886b973e | type |
Insubstantial Ingredients | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_886b973e | comment |
Insubstantial Ingredients: Certain ingredients in Wonka-Vite are these — "the hip (and the po and the pot) of a hippopotamus", for instance. | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_886b973e | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_886b973e | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_886b973e | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_8e0bedfe | type |
Kid Sidekick | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_8e0bedfe | comment |
Kid Sidekick: Charlie doesn't get to do a whole lot in this story other than occasionally play The Watson — a role he shares with all the other adults that aren't Willy Wonka, the real protagonist this time out. | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_8e0bedfe | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_8e0bedfe | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_8e0bedfe | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_9141fba3 | type |
Fountain of Youth | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_9141fba3 | comment |
Fountain of Youth: One Wonka-Vite pill de-ages the taker 20 years. | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_9141fba3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_9141fba3 | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_9141fba3 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_9156bc50 | type |
Death by Gluttony | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_9156bc50 | comment |
Death by Gluttony: Grandma Georgina barely avoids this when she is stopped from taking six Wonka-Vite pills, which would have made her minus 42 years old! (Not that four isn't too many for her anyway, but with six Georgina would have really been screwed.) | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_9156bc50 | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_9156bc50 | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_9156bc50 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_92e0fc5c | type |
Hotline | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_92e0fc5c | comment |
Hotline: This novel was written as the Cold War was going on, and the first thing the President does when he and his underlings suspect the Elevator's occupants are spies is to call up the Russian premier on a hot line. He also has a hot line to the Chinese premier, which uses a special porcelain phone. | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_92e0fc5c | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_92e0fc5c | featureConfidence |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | hasFeature |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_92e0fc5c | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_973d220f | type |
Never My Fault | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_973d220f | comment |
Never My Fault: The bed-ridden grandparents blame Mr. Wonka for the whole mess with the Wonka-Vite, never mind that he had flat-out warned them how powerful the pills were yet they proceeded to overdose on them. | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_973d220f | featureApplicability |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_99ddfcec | type |
Unwitting Instigator of Doom | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_99ddfcec | comment |
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: It's Grandma Josephine's panicking that causes the elevator to fly into orbit when she keeps Mr. Wonka from reaching the controls that would have stopped it from going that high. They're lucky the elevator turns out to be equipped for space travel! (On the other hand, the heroes will ultimately save many people for being in space.) | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_99ddfcec | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_9bee1a7f | type |
Eldritch Location | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_9bee1a7f | comment |
Eldritch Location: Minusland, a place of negative existence, where anyone that overdoses on Wonka-Vite ends up, and which the Great Glass Elevator can visit - but it's extremely dangerous for ordinary humans (see below). | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_9bee1a7f | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_9bfa1697 | type |
Eye of Newt | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_9bfa1697 | comment |
Eye of Newt: Wonka-Vite and Vita-Wonk consist primarily or entirely of such ingredients. The former needs such things as "the trunk (and the suitcase) of an elephant" and "the horn of a rhinoceros (it must be a loud horn)". The latter requires things that can specifically "create age" — ancient trees and animals are the source of these. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_9bfa1697 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_9dab0a6e | type |
Continuity Nod | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_9dab0a6e | comment |
Continuity Nod: As the elevator heads down to Minusland, Mr. Wonka notes that he hopes the other elevator that runs on the same track isn't headed in their direction. ("I've always been lucky before.") Much the same dialogue appeared in the first book when the tour group first rode the elevator. Also, when Mr. Wonka trots out Wonka-Vite to get the other grandparents out of bed, Charlie is nervous about letting them anywhere near the stuff, remembering what happened with the last miracle invention Mr. Wonka showed off — namely the imperfect three-course-meal gum that turned Violet into a blueberry. Wonka points out that Violet actually snatched the gum against his wishes and ignored him when he told her not to chew it, whereas this time he's actually handing the Wonka-Vite out himself. The pills do work as they're supposed to, but the grandparents foolishly overdose on them, and the chapter title "Good-bye Grandma Georgina" even calls back to the first book's "Good-by Violet"! Vermicious Knids were first mentioned, though not seen, way back in James and the Giant Peach | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_9dab0a6e | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_9f8a12d7 | type |
Who's on First? | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_9f8a12d7 | comment |
Who's on First?: Mr. Wing and Mr. Wong on the phone, and explaining the carpets are wall-to-wall to Mr. Walter Wall. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_9f8a12d7 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a0472bcc | type |
Phlebotinum Pills | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a0472bcc | comment |
Phlebotinum Pills: Wonka-Vite comes in pill form, whereas Vita-Wonk is a liquid. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a0472bcc | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a04e1507 | type |
Frictionless Reentry | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a04e1507 | comment |
Frictionless Reentry: While the book is full of Artistic License in regards to physics, this Trope is nearly inverted completely, because reentry does cause friction here. The mistake made, however, is that Mr. Wonka claims it is the reason that the Knids cannot invade Earth (saying they would burn up in the atmosphere if they tried) but they were able to invade Mars and Venus without this problem. If anything, Venus would be an even bigger problem for this reason, and they wouldn't be able to invade Mars either. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a04e1507 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a0797fb3 | type |
Stunned Silence | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a0797fb3 | comment |
Stunned Silence: When Charlie and Mr. Wonka return from Minusland, only Grandpa Joe greets them, because the rest of the Buckets nearby have been struck stone-silent by the dreadful sight of the now-ancient Grandma Georgina. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a0797fb3 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a2e887be | type |
Secondary Character Title | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a2e887be | comment |
Secondary Character Title: Although Charlie remains an Audience Surrogate, he's about as much of a pinball as he was in the first book. Mr. Wonka is the lead. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a2e887be | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a4905771 | type |
Double-Meaning Title | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a4905771 | comment |
Double-Meaning Title: The first chapter is titled "Mr. Wonka Goes Too Far", referencing both his fearless — and to the others, terrifying — decision to send the elevator absurdly high and his inability to stop it from going further up than he planned thanks to Grandma Josephine. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a4905771 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a65288e2 | type |
Ascended Extra | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a65288e2 | comment |
Ascended Extra: Grandma Josephine, Grandpa George and Grandma Georgina have much larger roles here than in the first book, especially Grandma Georgina who becomes a Foil to Willy Wonka and takes on a The Complainer Is Always Wrong role. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a65288e2 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a6e8221e | type |
Status Quo Is God | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a6e8221e | comment |
Status Quo Is God: Mrs Bucket insists on the grandparents being returned to their original ages, despite the Wonka Vite and Vita Wonk easily being able to make them younger when administered safely. She, and Grandma Georgina, are afraid that trying to make them younger will just go wrong again. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a6e8221e | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a70223 | type |
Karma Houdini | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a70223 | comment |
Karma Houdini: In the Oompa-Loompas' song, Goldie Pinklesweet's grandmother faces no apparent repercussions for sneaking out for a double gin and leaving Goldie to her own devices. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a70223 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a939a527 | type |
Red Eyes, Take Warning | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a939a527 | comment |
Red Eyes, Take Warning: The carnivorous Vermicious Knids all have red eyes. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a939a527 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a939d96a | type |
Adults Are Useless | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a939d96a | comment |
Adults Are Useless: Or in this case the U.S. government. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_a939d96a | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_abcb9af1 | type |
Eaten Alive | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_abcb9af1 | comment |
Eaten Alive: One chapter is called "Gobbled Up", in which several characters are gobbled up by the Vermicious Knids. It is not stated how they do this, as Knids do not have mouths, which makes it all the more frightening. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_abcb9af1 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_ac711709 | type |
Easily Thwarted Alien Invasion | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_ac711709 | comment |
Easily Thwarted Alien Invasion: In the backstory, the Vermicious Knids have tried to invade and conquer Earth the way they did several Sacrificial Planets (see below) but Earth's atmosphere is too much for them — what look to humans like shooting stars are actually Vermicious Knids burning up when they try to pass through. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_ac711709 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_ac9cac61 | type |
Scare 'Em Straight | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_ac9cac61 | comment |
Scare 'Em Straight: While this isn't the morality play the first book was, the "don't fool around with medicine" Aesop presented in the second half definitely has this vibe, particularly in the Goldie Pinklesweet Show Within a Show, which details how she had to be taken to the hospital and get her stomach pumped among other things. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_ac9cac61 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_ace24b2c | type |
Halfway Plot Switch | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_ace24b2c | comment |
Halfway Plot Switch: The first half deals with the elevator going into space and the encounter with the Vermicious Knids. The second half deals with the effects of Wonka-Vite on the grandparents, with the events and new characters of the first half forgotten until the final chapter. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_ace24b2c | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_ae69516f | type |
Artificial Gravity | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_ae69516f | comment |
Artificial Gravity: The Space Hotel has artificial gravity, so the characters walk normally inside, but the Elevator does not have this, so they float around. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_ae69516f | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_aeec99a9 | type |
Immediate Sequel | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_aeec99a9 | comment |
Immediate Sequel: Picks up right where the first book ended, with the elevator heading back to the factory. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_aeec99a9 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_affd30b0 | type |
Stupid Evil | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_affd30b0 | comment |
Stupid Evil: The Vermicious Knids twist their stretchy bodies in to the letters "S-C-R-A-M," thus frightening off their victims and depriving themselves of a meal, because, as Mr. Wonka explains, "They're tremendously proud of being able to write like that," and scram is the only word they know how to spell. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_affd30b0 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_b2280b66 | type |
Retcon | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_b2280b66 | comment |
Retcon: All of Charlie's grandparents were said to be over 90 years old in the first book. Here, they're all around the 80-year mark, in order for the Wonka-Vite plotline to work. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_b2280b66 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_b39abd04 | type |
The Whole World Is Watching | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_b39abd04 | comment |
The Whole World Is Watching: It's explicitly said that the whole world is glued to their TVs, watching the glass elevator's flight, listening to Mr. Wonka, and then watching the subsequent confrontation with the Vermicious Knids. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_b39abd04 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_b3c266d5 | type |
Death by De-aging | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_b3c266d5 | comment |
Death by De-aging: Not exactly death, but similar-if someone takes more Wonka-Vite Pills than their age, they're reduced to strange negative ghosts in Minusland who are hunted by the Gnoolies. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_b3c266d5 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_b426973b | type |
The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_b426973b | comment |
The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: A curious variant: When Grandma Georgina is aged to 300+ years old via Vita-Wonk, her memories change to reflect the times she would have been born in and lived through had she come to this point naturally. Her earliest memory is arriving in America on the Mayflower. When she is returned to her natural age, these memories apparently disappear. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_b426973b | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_b44e86c4 | type |
You Do NOT Want to Know | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_b44e86c4 | comment |
You Do NOT Want To Know: Willy Wonka, recounting the story of how he invented and perfected Wonka-Vite, lets on that he tested the prototype versions of the pill on 131 Oompa-Loompas, one at a time. It's clear that something went wrong every time until it was perfected and worked splendidly on the 132nd, but when pressed by the Buckets, he won't say what that was. After Grandma Georgina overdoses on the pills and is de-aged into Minusland, Mr. Wonka finally explains to Charlie that the 131 Oompa-Loompas went through the same experience she did as the pills were too powerful at that point; one test subject apparently ended up de-aging back to minus eighty-seven. Mr. Wonka rescued them all by creating Vita-Wonk and journeying down to Minusland to bring them back, a terribly long and risky process and thus one he didn't want to discuss in the present. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_b44e86c4 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_b707726f | type |
Hypocritical Humor | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_b707726f | comment |
Hypocritical Humor | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_b707726f | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_b797948e | type |
Ass Kicks You | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_b797948e | comment |
Ass Kicks You: A Vermicious Knid attempts to ram the Great Glass Elevator with its tail. Gets inverted into a Literal Ass-Kicking when it bounces right off and is left with a large purple bruise on its rear. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_b797948e | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_b806516f | type |
Chest of Medals | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_b806516f | comment |
Chest of Medals: "The Chief of the Army was wearing so many medal-ribbons they covered the entire front of his tunic on both sides and spread down on to his trousers as well." | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_b806516f | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_b8e3f20a | type |
Demoted to Extra | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_b8e3f20a | comment |
Grandpa Joe — the secondary adult lead of the previous book — doesn't get much to do as the spotlight shifts to the other grandparents, effectively becoming Demoted to Extra. Charlie only avoids becoming this by becoming The Watson / a Kid Sidekick to Mr. Wonka. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_b8e3f20a | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_bac9f95d | type |
Sweet Tooth | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_bac9f95d | comment |
Sweet Tooth: President Gilligrass seems to have one; in the postscript of his letter inviting Mr. Wonka and the Buckets to the White House he asks the former to bring him some Wonka Bars. (This is because Vice President Tibbs keeps taking his away.) | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_bac9f95d | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_bdbfd01c | type |
Perfectly Cromulent Word | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_bdbfd01c | comment |
Perfectly Cromulent Word: "Vermicious". This could be the adjective denoting an inhabitant of Vermes, the Knids' home planet. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_bdbfd01c | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_be009bbc | type |
Alliterative Name | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_be009bbc | comment |
Alliterative Name: Aside from Willy Wonka himself, there's actress Helen Highwater, only mentioned in passing, and Space Hotel employee Walter Wall. The rocket that brings people from Earth to the hotel is the Commuter Capsule. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_c00802ea | type |
Remembered I Could Fly | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_c00802ea | comment |
Remembered I Could Fly: The elevator spends a long time in orbit being pursued by a Vermicious Knid, which eventually links up with the rest of its kind to form a huge chain and manages to capture it (and the rescued space capsule). As the chain begins to head to the aliens' home planet, Willy Wonka admits that he's "at a loss" for a way to solve this problem...then the despondent Grandma Josephine wails "Why can't we all go home?" This reminds Mr. Wonka that they can just go home by directing the elevator to return to the factory, which will burn up the aliens in Earth's atmosphere in the bargain. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_c0b66f61 | type |
Invisible Monsters | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_c0b66f61 | comment |
Invisible Monsters: The Gnoolies of Minusland are invisible, inaudible insects. The only sign of their presence a human can feel is their bite, and once bitten, the victim is doomed to slowly be divided into more Gnoolies. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_c0b66f61 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_c2393191 | type |
Show Within a Show | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_c2393191 | comment |
Show Within a Show: The sad story of Goldie Pinklesweet, recounted as part of the Oompa-Loompa's Morality Ballad, is a Type 4 Plot Parallel example similar to the Miss Bigelow story in the first book. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_c368c3ea | type |
Spoonerism | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_c368c3ea | comment |
Spoonerism: Grandma Georgina tells Mr Wonka that he has got them into enough tubbles and trumbles for one day. When the President loses contact with the astronauts Shuckworth, Shanks and Showler, he yells "Shankworth! Shucks! Shankler! Showlworth! Shanks! Shuckler! Why don't you answer?" | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_c37e00e7 | type |
Formally-Named Pet | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_c37e00e7 | comment |
Formally-Named Pet: The president's cat is called Mrs Taubsypuss. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_c5f0119c | type |
Insane Troll Logic | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_c5f0119c | comment |
The President accidentally dials a grocer in Shanghai and a stationmaster in Chongqing. The Postmaster General explains that calling China is difficult as the country is so full of Wings and Wongs that every time you wing you get the wong number. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_c6898a73 | type |
Ret-Canon | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_c6898a73 | comment |
Ret-Canon: Two of Mr. Wonka's lines — the Verbal Backspace of "Strike that, reverse it" and "A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men" — are lifted near-verbatim from his dialogue in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, which was released the year before this novel was published. ("Strike that, reverse it" later turns up in the Alton Towers ride and 2013 stage musical based on Factory.) | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: A wacky and mysterious man and his companions use a small box as a spaceship to get to a space hotel. Instead of a nice, peaceful resort facility, they find a charnel house where aliens have invaded. They have to defeat the aliens, while keeping the blustering military and a world leader from getting themselves and others killed. They employ a desperation gamble, which works, and the threat to Earth is eliminated. Sound familiar? He even knows the alien species' name, their modus operandi, and their weaknesses, like The Doctor frequently does about their foe. Quentin Blake's illustrations for the book also depict the President as looking rather similar to Dr Strangelove's Merkin Muffley. He's about as inept, too. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_c7b5445c | type |
Cool Starship | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_c7b5445c | comment |
Cool Starship: The Great Glass Elevator. Sure, it doesn't look like what most people think of when they hear the term "cool starship"...arguably that actually makes it cooler! | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_ca3a6dbd | type |
Informed Ability | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_ca3a6dbd | comment |
Informed Ability: A humorous example: The three American astronauts transporting the staff to the Space Hotel are introduced as being "handsome, clever and brave", and proceed to do absolutely nothing, much less anything clever or brave, for the rest of the book. It's still possible they are handsome. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_ca3a6dbd | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_ca95473c | type |
Series Continuity Error | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_ca95473c | comment |
Series Continuity Error All four grandparents were said to be over 90 years old in the first book, but the three bedridden ones here are in their early 80s at most — which wouldn't be such a big error if it weren't so important to the second half. It specifically says that the TV Stations had been talking about only the Space Hotel for six whole months, and that it was the "event of the century". Except the first book basically said the same thing about the golden ticket contest. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_cc7fae30 | type |
Outside-Context Problem | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_cc7fae30 | comment |
Outside-Context Problem: The Vermicious Knids, whom most of humanity is completely unaware of; when the crew and guests of the space hotel are attacked by them, they have no choice but to flee. Luckily, Willy Wonka is this to the Knids — he not only knows what they and their weaknesses are, but took the trouble to ensure that the Elevator is Knidproof. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_cf4d770 | type |
Nightmare Fuel | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_cf4d770 | comment |
The Vermicious Knids. They look completely innocuous at first - just a furry egg-shaped blob with eyes. But them they reveal themselves as sadistic predators - those Michael Foreman illustrations are Nightmare Fuel incarnate - and eat people. Exactly how is apparently too awful to describe, but the radio feed from a Knid attack is just as horrifying as they are. ("They have other things to bite with.") They don't just eat people, either. They deliberately provoke their would-be prey to run (by spelling "SCRAM") so they can give chase and prolong their suffering. They've (apparently) wiped out all living things on three planets already and can't reach Earth only because they burn up in our atmosphere. Lovecraft would be proud. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_cf4d770 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_d04d14a5 | type |
Everybody Hates Mathematics | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_d04d14a5 | comment |
Everybody Hates Mathematics: The trope is the basis for a Pun. Explaining how the bite of a Gnoolie slowly divides the victim into more Gnoolies, Mr. Wonka notes that "it's long division, very painful". | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_d04d14a5 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_d10d5eb5 | type |
Made of Indestructium | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_d10d5eb5 | comment |
Made of Indestructium: The Elevator is "shockproof, waterproof, bombproof, bulletproof, and Knidproof". Sure enough, the Elevator is undamaged when a huge Knid rams it at high speed. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_d10d5eb5 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_d129e13e | type |
"Eureka!" Moment | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_d129e13e | comment |
"Eureka!" Moment: Grandma Josephine wailing "Why can't we all go home?" triggers this for Willy Wonka when he can't figure out how to escape the chain of Vermicious Knids. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_d442f9d1 | type |
ToiletHumor | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_d442f9d1 | comment |
Toilet Humor: In response to the grandparents taking too much Wonka-Vite, the Oompa-Loompas perform a song telling the sad tale of a little girl who foolishly helped herself to the tastiest-looking stuff in her grandma's medicine cabinet — which turned out to be chocolate-flavored laxatives. She survived, but ever since (as the overdose was so high) she's had to spend seven hours in the ladies' room every day. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_d91700a7 | type |
Minus World | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_d91700a7 | comment |
Minus World: Minus World is analogous to this trope for in-universe reality. It's the place you go if you take too much Wonka-Vite de-aging formula and end up before you were born (thereby neatly avoiding all the Squick-y implications of this you can't put in a kid's book, one presumes). It's a limbo-like place filled with bizarre Invisible Monsters, and can be accessed (somehow) by the eponymous elevator; just as well for Grandma Georgina who has met the aforementioned fate and requires rescuing. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_d91700a7 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_dbc2a0cd | type |
Hand Wave | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_dbc2a0cd | comment |
Handwave: Mr. Wonka claims that Wonka-Vite is too valuable to waste on himself, which is why he needs an heir. That doesn't stop him from wasting a great deal on Charlie's grandparents! Mr. Wonka explains that the elevator can fly because of "skyhooks". When someone asks what the skyhooks are attached to, he brushes off the question. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_dc7d9864 | type |
Virus and Cure Names | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_dc7d9864 | comment |
Virus and Cure Names: The Fountain of Youth pill Wonka-Vite isn't a virus, of course, but the Rapid Aging counterpart developed specifically to re-age those who are rendered too young is known as Vita-Wonk. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_dc7d9864 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_e313b4e7 | type |
Manchild | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_e313b4e7 | comment |
Manchild: President Gilligrass spends most of his time coming up with utterly useless inventions and letting his former Nanny (who still acts as though she's his current nanny) run the country. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_e313b4e7 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_e5e48344 | type |
Instructional Title | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_e5e48344 | comment |
Instructional Title: The final chapter is called "How To Get a Person Out Of Bed". For those wondering how, it's...give them an invitation to the White House. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_e6558beb | type |
Artistic License – Space | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_e6558beb | comment |
Artistic License – Space: In the beginning, the elevator goes straight up into space, and then right into orbit, despite no forces parallel to the earth's surface being applied to the elevator during this time, which a rocket would need in order to orbit the earth. In reality, the elevator would have been pulled right back to Earth by the planet's gravity. At one point, Mr. Wonka states that while in orbit, you can't just turn around and go the other way. This is actually possible; just turn your rocket 90 degrees to the direction it's currently going in, then fire the rockets and your orbit route will change accordingly. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_e6558beb | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_e784bb8c | type |
Accidental Truth | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_e784bb8c | comment |
Accidental Truth: Willy Wonka tells the listening world a poem warning them about the approach of menacing monsters called "grobes". Soon afterwards, the space hotel comes under attack from alien creatures. Mr Wonka identifies the aliens as Vermicious Knids, and admits to Charlie he just made the grobes up. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_e8d46c29 | type |
Backstory | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_e8d46c29 | comment |
Backstory: Mr. Wonka delivers several chunks of this — first to explain what the Vermicious Knids are and what they do, and later to explain how, in turn, Wonka-Vite and Vita-Wonk were created and perfected. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_ec3ff1f7 | type |
In Which a Trope Is Described | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_ec3ff1f7 | comment |
In Which a Trope Is Described: As with its predecessor, many chapter titles spoil the events of said chapters, especially in the second half ("Good-bye Grandma Georgina", "Rescue in Minusland", etc.). | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_ede841fd | type |
No Seat Belts | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_ede841fd | comment |
No Seat Belts: Averted in the second half — when Mr. Wonka and Charlie head for Minusland in the Elevator, it turns out to have seats that fold out from the walls, complete with belts. It's surprising because up to this point in both books everyone using the Elevator stands (unless they're the bedridden grandparents, of course!) as if they are on a subway. Perhaps there wasn't enough room in the Elevator to put the seats down with all the other occupants? | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_ee13f24f | type |
Space Elevator | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_ee13f24f | comment |
Space Elevator: The Great Glass Elevator enters space, though not on a "typical" cable. It uses a cable with "skyhooks". One end is hooked to the elevator, the other to... Hey! Look! A convenient distraction! That's more Mr. Wonka deflecting the question by handwaving the Elevator's support/propulsion mechanism than a genuine explanation. Essentially, the book does not contain an explanation. The elevator also has "rockets" which the illustrations depict as nothing more than an exhaust bell underneath, attached to the outside of the glass, with no sign of the rest of the rocket engine or the fuel tanks. Really the thing works by something between Applied Phlebotinum and magic, and it is not useful to try and explain it rationally. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_ee19d278 | type |
Blob Monster | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_ee19d278 | comment |
Blob Monster: The Vermicious Knids are capable of changing their shape, but most often resemble an upside-down egg with a pointed end. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_efc49c38 | type |
Trapped-with-Monster Plot | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_efc49c38 | comment |
Trapped-with-Monster Plot: The segment in Space Hotel U.S.A. with the Vermicious Knids. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_f16f631d | type |
Crowd Song | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_f16f631d | comment |
Crowd Song: The Oompa-Loompas have a brief chorus welcoming Mr. Wonka back to the factory, one extolling the virtues of Wonka-Vite that even gets a reprise, and the above-mentioned Morality Ballad. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_f66f043f | type |
Phlebotinum Overdose | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_f66f043f | comment |
Phlebotinum Overdose: Happens twice: First when the three grandparents take the Wonka-Vite, and second when Wonka uses the Vita-Wonk to re-age Grandma Georgina. In the latter case, he doesn't have any choice, owing to an exact dose being tough to administer to what's essentially a ghost, but Charlie argues that he didn't have to spray her three times... | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_f6f2ff1 | type |
Insult Backfire | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_f6f2ff1 | comment |
Insult Backfire: Vice President Elvira Tibbs (who was President Gilligrass's nanny when he was a boy) sings a song about how Gilligrass is doltish, semi-literate, and utterly incompetent. He loves the song. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_f6f2ff1 | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_fe1b2e75 | type |
Bigger on the Inside | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_fe1b2e75 | comment |
Bigger on the Inside: Basically applies to the factory, although justified as Wonka had already told the children in the first book that he built a lot of the factory underground to give himself more space to work with than would be possible if he confined himself to the main building. At one point he tells Charlie that a full tour of the entire factory, as opposed to the glimpse Charlie had with the other children in the first book, would take up to three weeks. | |
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_ffaa675b | type |
Asian Speekee Engrish | |
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / int_ffaa675b | comment |
Asian Speekee Engrish: The Premier of China and his assistant speak in this manner. | |
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