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Kitty Norville is a successful, rising star in the radio culture. Her radio show, The Midnight Hour, has become an overnight sensation, providing outre music, observations about the bizarre, and call-in radio advice for the loners, the odd, and the unusual.When the advice includes religious advice for those who can't safely walk into a church or relationship advice for those iffy full moon nights, when the observations are about which popular actor seems a bit too young and avoids sunlight, and the outre music is playing Billie Jean instead of Thriller, it becomes a bit odd. Kitty takes it all in stride, though; compared to dealing with her own lycanthropy, giving advice for a vampire's slaves is easy.Vaughn has described the main storyline as completed, although further works have not been ruled out. The main novels are: Kitty and the Midnight Hour Kitty Goes to Washington Kitty Takes a Holiday Kitty and the Silver Bullet Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand Kitty Raises Hell Kitty's House of Horrors Kitty Goes to War Kitty's Big Trouble Kitty Steals the Show Kitty Rocks the House Kitty in the Underworld Kitty Saves the WorldA solo adventure starring Cormac: Low MidnightAnd the short story collection: Kitty's Greatest HitsThe series is aimed at a bit of a niche market. Each book begins with a song playlist, for starters. While each book does have a single plot that finishes at the end, many of the plotlines stretch from one book to the next. Unlike most books using werewolves and vampires and other horror tropes, and like the Mercy Thompson series, the focus is less on conventional horror and more on the political and social issues underlying the problems. The denouement is less often a massive bloody brawl — Kitty only takes down a single mook and a weak fae herself in the first three books, and the fourth book is the first time a Big Bad is taken out by her hand — and more often about untangling vampire or werewolf politics and managing to not be violent to a nasty politician. As the series has progressed and the stakes have been raised, however, she has gotten continually more proactive and combative, and the books have had increasingly climactic confrontations—she takes out the leader of the Band of Tiamat and two of the Right-Wing Militia Fanatic hunters, and has faced the ultimate Big Bad twice. The whole thing seems to be gearing up toward one incredible showdown. | |
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I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin | |
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I'm Dying, Please Take my MacGuffin: Zora's flash drive. | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Anyone Can Die: And how. Book 7 especially exploits this. | |
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The Call Knows Where You Live | |
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The Call Knows Where You Live: True to form, despite Kitty's constant cries of I Just Want to Be Normal and her determination to stay neutral and out of trouble, fate will not allow her such an out. Aside from being a Weirdness Magnet, her determination to on the one hand be a voice of reason, understanding, and tolerance to bridge the human and supernatural worlds and on the other hand her inability to cease helping those who are in danger or trying to remain human has continually thrust her and those she cares about into the limelight, and the target crosshairs. This particularly is true in book four, when despite attempting not to take sides between Rick and Arturo she ends up trying to help the young abused omega Jenny (because she's heartbreakingly not so different from what Kitty herself used to be)...and when Jenny breaks down and begs Carl for help, he kills her for daring to leave him. And once this galvanizes Kitty to action, she quickly finds that KNOB, her family, and Ben will all be in danger from Carl, Meg, and Arturo if she does not accept the mantle of pack alpha and take them out once and for all. | |
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Skin Walker | |
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Skin Walker: The Monster of the Week in book three. And it is depicted both accurately and rather terrifyingly. Another one turns up in Low Midnight, a part-Navajo named Eddie working for Right-Wing Militia Fanatic Jess Nolan. He's far less creepy, disturbing, and inhuman than the one in book three, despite having killed the brother of one of Layne's men (if Layne can be believed). | |
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Goggles Do Nothing: Played with. The demon bounty hunter's goggles, not being magical or supernatural, really don't do anything (when Kitty pulls them off she almost thinks the trope name, and is bemused they don't turn to ash in her hand). But they do serve a very important purpose, one they're actually meant for: protection, since their wearer is legitimately Blind Without 'Em thanks to being from a place of utter darkness. | |
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Arbitrary Skepticism | |
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Arbitrary Skepticism: Justified—as Kitty says, just because one supernatural thing is real, or the supernatural world at large is, doesn't mean that every myth, legend, conspiracy theory, and fantastic creature is. The fact some are real just means people need to be even more skeptical, to be certain something is genuinely supernatural, to keep from being conned and tricked by those with other agendas or who are too credulous as to believe anything. She isn't the only one, either—various supernaturals she's encountered have been skeptical, startled, or even awed by the discoveries she's made and learned about: Luis and Esperanza didn't know of either the fey or gods and Alette hadn't encountered Roman's binding-spell coins. And Anastasia revealed that dragons aren't real, while Kitty (in reference to "Kitty's Zombie New Year") reveals actual voodoo zombies are real, but not Hollywood zombies. | |
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Love Potion | |
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Love Potion: Intended to be used by the fae girls in order to promote the Love Triangle of Ben/Kitty/Luis. Complete with a Shout-Out to Shakespeare lampshaded by Kitty. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: The afterword of Kitty's Greatest Hits reveals that at first Carrie Vaughn made T.J. gay solely to prevent readers from shipping him with Kitty; then she realized the opportunity this afforded her to make a metaphorical statement about gays and AIDS vs. supernaturals and lycanthropy, and thus played up the subtext deliberately. | |
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Hero Antagonist | |
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Hero Antagonist: Rocks the House introduces us to two. On the one hand Father Columban is unequivocally on the side of good, since he's a devout Catholic, determined to bring down evil (including Roman), and is a member of a special religious order; however, his coming to Denver and offering Rick membership drives a good part of the book's plot, with Kitty becoming increasingly frantic to "save" Rick from being drawn into his circle and leaving her in the lurch relatively alone against the Long Game. He is not at all opposed to Kitty or even her methods, but simply believes she isn't seeing the larger picture and that Rick can do more good for the world in the order rather than only by leading and protecting one city. On the other hand, Darren is an ally of Nasser's and most certainly opposed to Dux Bellorum and it seems clear by the end that he is in fact a good guy...however, having determined in his mind that Kitty isn't strong enough to lead the fight, he undermines her authority so as to take over her pack, and his methods certainly leave a lot to be desired. | |
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You Can Keep Her! | |
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You Can Keep Her!: Amusingly referenced by Grant when he's performing the Disappearing Box trick with a married woman from the audience: "One of these days a husband is going to say no [to bringing his wife back]. Then where will I be?" | |
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Ritual Magic | |
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Ritual Magic: Zora's magic is steeped in this, whether drawing upon the Kabbalah, Celtic/pagan ceremonies, exorcism rites, divination, or even blood magic (including feasting on the living heart of an animal). | |
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Never Split the Party | |
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Never Split the Party: Kitty learns this the hard way in book 9 when, in an attempt to keep Grace safe, she sends her away from where they're fighting Roman's werewolf cohorts...which causes them all to become horribly lost, since the lantern Grace carries is the key to getting them out of the tunnels. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Subverted. After all the plotting and scheming involving Roman, Mercedes, the vampire Masters of Europe, and their werewolf clans, it seems that the kidnapping of Sergeant Tyler is completely perpetrated by human agents only, Dr. Flemming and his military assistants, whom Kitty had completely discounted due to all the supernatural threats she knew about and her determined belief that after being exposed and discredited as he was, he would never show up at the conference. But then it turns out they were all being manipulated and used by Mercedes and Roman, as part of his attempt to gain new recruits for his final gambit in the Long Game. | |
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Hidden Agenda Villain | |
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Hidden Agenda Villain: Dux Bellorum. | |
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Hitler Ate Sugar | |
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Hitler Ate Sugar: Inverted example—as soon as Kitty finds out in House of Horrors that resident Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Mercedes Cook wanted nothing to do with the reality TV show, she was much more inclined to sign on, assuming anything she avoided couldn't be all bad. By Dramatic Irony, of course, if she'd not fallen into this fallacy Kitty wouldn't have nearly been killed by the Right Wing Militia Fanatics (or been able to save the other supernaturals from them). Whether Mercedes actually knew what was up and did this as a form of Reverse Psychology to put Kitty in danger or it was a case of Even Evil Has Standards and a bad judgment call on Kitty's part isn't known. | |
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The Wild West | |
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The Wild West: Amelia still has some fantasies and Nostalgia Filter about this period in United States history, despite the fact she'd discovered in her travels how much the stories did not live up to the reality. They are disproven upon meeting Layne and Nolan, and having her own "showdown at high noon." Her similar views of Injun Country were dispelled when meeting an old Native American reduced to taking pictures with tourists for money and visiting the site of the Sand Creek Massacre. | |
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Genre Savvy | |
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Genre Savvy: Kitty—aside from her inside knowledge of werewolves and vampires combined with being a fan of the supernatural genre, she specifically shows off her knowledge of Slasher Movie tropes in House of Horrors. | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy: Cormac is this, partly due to his father's death at the claws of a werewolf so that he never got the chance to make Douglas proud of him, and partly due to his fears of how much he would be a disappointment to his father for having befriended the "monsters." Amelia helps him lay these guilty demons to rest. | |
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Nuns Are Spooky | |
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Nuns Are Spooky: Sister Hilda in "God's Creatures" who turns out to be a werewolf. | |
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The Trickster | |
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Ben, Kitty, and Luis have the start of one before Kitty nips it in the bud. Partially caused by The Trickster fae girls, but also encouraged by Luis's own The Casanova nature and Ben's jealousy. | |
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Religion of Evil | |
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Religion of Evil: the Band of Tiamat, which gets extra points for (possibly) being based on a real, Babylonian Cult if mythology is to be believed. | |
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Eiffel Tower Effect | |
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Eiffel Tower Effect: The clock tower of Westminster Palace is featured prominently on the cover of Kitty Steals the Show. This is especially notable because no such landmarks were used on the other book covers (e.g., the Washington Monument or the Capitol Building for book two, the Golden Gate Bridge for book nine). | |
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Order Versus Chaos | |
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It definitely seems to be leaning more toward Order Versus Chaos as of Kitty Steals the Show. While Roman and his followers are still trying to Take Over the World and it is very clear his group is evil while the resistance forming against him is (mostly) good, his methods still involve manipulating others and pitting them against each other so as to sow chaos and keep them from uniting against him—whether through his use of various lycanthrope slaves to be his Red Shirts, his dividing the vampire Masters into fractured, suspicious, It's All About Me camps, or his layered deceptions involving Mercedes, Flemming, and the protest rioters. | |
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Guilt by Coincidence: In "Il Est Né", Kitty is at first convinced that her new acquaintance David is the one who committed the just-reported series of bloody murders in the area by the fact he's a werewolf who, not having learned control, shifts all the time and never remembers what he did while Changed. | |
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He Had a Name | |
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Dr. Flemming treats his supernatural patients this way for the most part, despite protests to the contrary and moments of sympathy and caring. In book two Kitty has to remind him several times that Fritz "Has a Name". | |
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The Cameo | |
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New bit-part characters get to have stories told from their point of view in Kitty's Greatest Hits—David, Robin, Jake—while characters from the main series whose backgrounds we've not gotten to know also get their chance to shine as the protagonist—Rick, Ben and Cormac, T.J., and Emma. Matt even gets The Cameo in "Kitty's Zombie New Year". | |
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The Exile | |
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The Exile: Kitty, from the end of book 1 up through her return to Denver in book 4, thanks to the way her confrontation with Meg and Carl plays out. Results in her Walking the Country for a while, taking her show on the road. | |
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The High Queen | |
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The High Queen: Alette. | |
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The Stoic | |
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The Stoic: Cormac, who is also The Aloner and a Shell-Shocked Veteran in something of a permanent Heroic BSoD after witnessing and being unable to prevent the death of his father. Only when Ben (and later Kitty) shake him out of his Black-and-White Morality does this begin to soften and change. | |
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A less far-reaching (but no less critical, in terms of the series' plot) example occurs in the very first book: Meg goes to Arturo to have Kitty taken out (out of jealousy and fear of her growing independence); he, wishing to maintain the masquerade, agrees and, using a third party with ties to Right Wing Militia Fanatics, hires Cormac to do the deed (but also calls the cops so he will take the fall). When this is revealed to Cormac and Kitty, it causes the former to change sides and become a firm ally, and causes Kitty herself to stand up to Carl and Meg. | |
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Senseless Sacrifice | |
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Senseless Sacrifice: To some degree the climax of book twelve comes off as this: after the ritual is ruined by the demon bounty hunter, Kumarbis is simultaneously enraged and despairing at his Life's Work Ruined, thus throwing himself at her and getting speared for his efforts; Zora stays behind to close the portal and bring down the mountain, which arguably kept any further minions of Roman's from coming through but most likely didn't take out the bounty hunter at all; and in the process of fighting the bounty hunter off, Enkidu got slashed by one of her silver weapons. The only good to come out of it all is the information Kitty learns about Dux Bellorum, acquiring Sakhmet as a possible future ally, and obtaining Zora's Book of Shadows. | |
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I Surrender, Suckers | |
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I Surrender, Suckers: How Carl kills T.J. | |
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Diabolus ex Machina | |
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Diabolus ex Machina: The Reveal that Angelo had defected to Roman's side. However, the trope is actually downplayed, considering he really doesn't manage to do much to actually hurt Kitty or ruin her courageous stand, seeing as the angels take her pack away to safety so they can't be used as bargaining chips, the only real damage is to New Moon (which can be rebuilt elsewhere), and both Roman and the bounty hunter are much bigger and more dangerous threats. Also he really doesn't want to do evil or hurt Kitty, keeps trying to warn or send her away so she can be saved, and in the end gives her a Dying Clue to help find the Manus Herculei and stop Roman. | |
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Wizard Duel | |
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Wizard Duel: Between Harold Franklin and possessed Cormac. Thanks to Franklin making the mistake of meddling with powers he did not comprehend, and assuming he could simply call on all the deities of thunder and storms simultaneously (because after all they're all the same, right? And more is better?), the fight is short but oh so sweet. | |
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Who Shot JFK? | |
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Who Shot JFK?: Referenced by Dominic when Kitty is pumping him for supernatural stories, specifically that Lee Harvey Oswald's bullets were silver; she's sure he was only joking to make her Conspiracy Theorist mind go nuts over it, but short of checking presidential appearances against phases of the moon, usage of the White House silver, assassination attempt survivals, and so on, she can't quite be sure... | |
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Deal with the Devil | |
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Deal with the Devil: One of Kitty's callers once asked how he could go about making one of these, so he could play like Jimi Hendrix. The lead singer of the band in "Kitty and the Mosh Pit of the Damned" actually did make one of these—only it was for fame, not virtuoso playing—and it wasn't with an actual devil, but one of the Unseelie. The more literal and explicit example appears in the form of Charles Lightman's offer to give Kitty the live prime-time TV show she's always wanted, and the fame and accolades to go with it, if she will just leave Denver to do it. The fact it occurs in the form of an actual contract, and that Lucifer poses as a TV executive producer who seems "too good to be true", is both hilarious and absolutely fitting. Interestingly, he later claims he expected Kitty to reject it, and the fact she had to debate about it at all intrigued him. Naturally Kitty is very disturbed by this. | |
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A House Divided | |
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A House Divided: Has happened to some degree by the end of book 11. While Darren's attempted coup has actually rallied the pack behind Kitty stronger than ever, he (and through him, Nasser) has certainly not inspired much confidence and loyalty in Kitty and her allies. Meanwhile, Cormac and Hardin's actions have made Rick leave town to join the Order of St. Lazarus, thus leaving Kitty in the lurch and forcing her to deal with the arrogant and distrustful Angelo, and nearly causing Rick and Cormac to kill each other. Even Kitty herself is rather unhappy with Cormac. | |
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Good Is Not Nice | |
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Cormac was on the verge of becoming this as well, before he met Kitty, thanks to Good Is Not Nice (or Soft). In "God's Creatures" he explicitly compares himself to the werewolf he is hunting, noting how the people he helps are no more comfortable in his presence than they are with the "monsters", that they are two sides of the same coin, and that while the monster he's hunting hasn't killed anybody (yet), he has killed many times. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: The European vampire Masters' excuses for why their Caligula-like blood orgy is acceptable. Also Kitty's In-Universe reference to the video of her Change broadcast on live TV courtesy of Flemming and Duke: "The video had five million views on YouTube, baby." On a related note, Kitty's response to Stockton when she's being held in a silver-painted cell and about to be interviewed. | |
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Alpha Bitch | |
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Alpha Bitch: Meg, both literally and figuratively. And she gets exactly what she deserves. | |
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Nepotism | |
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Nepotism: Various members of the D.C. police force are, it seems, in Alette's pocket, making her the true power in the city. However it turns out that they, like her human servants, are all actual relatives, descendants of either her original servants or of her blood children. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Roman's coins. All along Kitty had thought they might have a power, and had had Cormac/Amelia studying them to figure out what it might be. By the last book she has decided they don't and is only proud of them for being markers, badges of battles where she had removed yet another of his followers and allies. But it turns out that defacing them not only breaks the connection to Roman and Lucifer, it repudiates them, so that while they don't protect against the demonic bounty hunter, they do protect against Lucifer himself, keeping him from directly physically harming whomever wears one. And she just happens to have six coins, and six allies needing defending... | |
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Kryptonite Factor | |
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Kryptonite Factor: The expected silver vulnerability is quite severe. Direct contact will cause rashes and welts within a couple of seconds, while trivial-by-human-standards wounds mean an agonizing death. | |
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For Science! | |
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Textbook case in Dr. Flemming. While a good part of his motivation is For (Fantastic) Science!, to the point that he seems not to care what happens to those he studies or uses, and there's a certain amount of What Measure Is a Non-Human? in how he regards lycanthropes and vampires, his avowed purpose, at least at the start, is to study these conditions—not merely to gain special abilities for humankind, but to cure the diseases and, hopefully, learn how the Healing Factor of lycanthropes and the immortality of vampires can have medical applications to curing other diseases (cancer and AIDS come to mind—see Kitty's mother and T.J.) and generally improving quality of life. He's willing to, as he puts it, "tell people what they want to hear" to earn their funding and assistance in his research, and as a result uses methods which range from merely questionable and distasteful to downright contemptible and monstrous. In the end, though, he realizes he is merely a pawn for others, that what he has done has undermined his credibility and gone astray from his intentions, and thus he kills Leo to save Kitty and Alette. Even though he has Jumped Off the Slippery Slope by the time we see him again in Kitty Steals the Show so as to be working outright with shadow military groups to create Super Soldiers, it's enough to garner some Sympathy for the Devil when Mercedes kills him for his failure. | |
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Ironic Name | |
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Charles Lightman, which appears an Ironic Name on the surface but actually references his original appellation as "the Morning Star". | |
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Spontaneous Human Combustion | |
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Spontaneous Human Combustion: What happens to the ifrit's victims, including Mick. | |
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Fire-Forged Friends | |
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Fire-Forged Friends: Ben and Cormac | |
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Emergency Transformation | |
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Emergency Transformation: offered as a solution to Kitty's cancer-stricken mother; declined. Played straight with T.J.'s backstory. | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Mercedes Cook. When first introduced in Kitty and the Silver Bullet she appears to be a genuinely kind, funny, warm, and surprisingly human vampire who, once she's decided to "come out" to the public, has a candid and revealing interview on Kitty's show where she seems to be a kindred spirit, a great face for positive human-supernatural relations, and a possible ally. But after she invites Kitty over to her hotel room, only for it to turn out to be a set-up just to provoke a conflict between her and the antagonistic werewolves (her former alphas) who exiled her back in book one, she is revealed to be nothing like either her stage persona or how she appeared on the show—instead being a cold, manipulative, calculating creature whose motives are opaque and whose intentions are inscrutable. By the end of the book she's unequivocally a villain and major threat to be dealt with (or as Kitty puts it later, a "double-crossing fink"); as of book ten she's turned out to be a recruiting agent for and possibly The Dragon to the ultimate Big Bad of the setting, Dux Bellorum. | |
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Sesquipedalian Smith | |
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Sesquipedalian Smith: Elijah Smith, faith healer and fey. | |
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In the Past, Everyone Will Be Famous | |
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In the Past, Everyone Will Be Famous: Discussed in Steals the Show when Kitty meets Ned—Rick is always teasing her for probing him about his past due to her belief that he must have known many famous historical figures, when as he points out, just because he's a long-lived vampire doesn't mean he's any more likely to have known famous people than anyone else. Of course the fact he came to the New World as a soldier of Coronado's and encountered Doc Holliday, while Ned knew Shakespeare and Marlowe somewhat undercuts his point, since even if he (and other vampires) didn't know everyone famous in their times as a matter of course, they still knew some. | |
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Vampires Are Rich | |
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Vampires Are Rich: Played straight and averted. Vampires in this series range from those that own skyscrapers outright to those that work graveyard shift at a convenience store to pay rent on windowless apartments. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Kitty runs across various Crazy Survivalist websites with Crazy-Prepared theories in the event this will happen when trying to find out how to cure a voodoo zombie. | |
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Talking Down the Suicidal | |
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Talking Down the Suicidal: Thankfully Kitty never had to do this for one of her callers, on-air or otherwise, but she did have to for Sergeant Tyler thanks to fears of What Will I Become?. And it's one of the more riveting and powerful scenes in the series. | |
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Plot Armor | |
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Plot Armor: Yet another literal example, since it turns out Roman's smashed coins protect the wearer from physical harm by Lightman, though this doesn't quite explain why the heroes are able to survive fighting the demons mostly unscathed. A more metaphorical (but still unusually direct) version occurs when the angels take the pack to somewhere safe so they cannot be harmed or used against Kitty. | |
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Bury Your Gays | |
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Bury Your Gays: Straight Gay T.J. gets killed, by the straight man he once loved. Ouch. No other openly gay or lesbian characters show up. However, it should be noted that this definitely falls under the example of a character who does not die because of his gayness or to teach something, not to mention this is only one example among many deaths in the series. His death is more strictly speaking an example of Mentor Occupational Hazard, and Carrie Vaughn notes in the afterword to Kitty's Greatest Hits that she only made T.J. gay to keep readers from shipping him with Kitty, then to display a non-stereotypical tough gay character. | |
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Mauve Shirt | |
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Mauve Shirt: A large majority of the characters in Kitty's House of Horrors are this. Dorian, Jerome Macy, Ariel, Lee, Gemma, and Jeffrey Miles all die after the reader has become attached to them. Although Conrad Garrett tempts fate by mentioning his wife and kids, he survives. (Maybe because he didn't start showing Kitty family photos till afterward in the hospital and through e-mails to keep in touch.) Henry in book 9. Despite the fact he is sent along just to spy and "help", gets put under Mind Control fairly quickly, and is constantly in danger of dying, he makes it out all right in the end. Enkidu, Zora, and Kumarbis in book twelve, although Zora does not become truly sympathetic until her badass last stand against the demon (and in retrospect, once it's discovered what is on her flash drive) and Kumarbis, for all his valor and determination to make amends, is still a rather arrogant Knight Templar who did at one time want to Take Over the World. | |
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Damsel out of Distress | |
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Damsel out of Distress: It's become a Running Gag how many times Kitty gets in trouble or danger, gets kidnapped, or otherwise becomes a target of the villains—but fairly early on her growing strength as a character allows her to weather adversity, and by now, near the end of the series, she's often quite capable of rescuing herself, and even when she isn't she is hardly helpless. | |
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He Who Fights Monsters | |
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He Who Fights Monsters: Flemming falls into this in the end. As Kitty herself says, "Science can become its own brand of fanaticism." Cormac was on the verge of becoming this as well, before he met Kitty, thanks to Good Is Not Nice (or Soft). In "God's Creatures" he explicitly compares himself to the werewolf he is hunting, noting how the people he helps are no more comfortable in his presence than they are with the "monsters", that they are two sides of the same coin, and that while the monster he's hunting hasn't killed anybody (yet), he has killed many times. | |
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Cool, but Inefficient | |
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Cool, but Inefficient: When Cormac discovers that Kuzniak (both elder and younger) are/were pursuing a magical or alchemical means of obtaining gold, Amelia applies this trope, and also discusses how turning lead into gold falls in the same category. Even Roman seems to think the same thing, when they discuss it over e-mails. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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A secondary example: a significant portion of Dead Man's Hand is spent building up Evan and Brenda as Ax-Crazy bounty hunters who believe the best prey is werewolves. But, while they certainly fall into Anti-Hero camp and are hardly the most trustworthy people, in the end it turns out that they're not really after Kitty at all, it's Sylvia and Boris who are the bounty hunters she should fear. And Evan and Brenda even help rescue Kitty from the Band of Tiamat, and see to it that Boris and Sylvia go to jail. | |
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Latin Lover | |
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Latin Lover: Luis, the drop-dead gorgeous Brazilian were-jaguar. Spicy Latina: His sister Esperanza. | |
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The Cavalry Arrives Late | |
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The Cavalry Arrives Late: Happens twice—first in book two, when Cormac, Ben, and the cops all burst into the Georgetown house only to find Kitty, Alette, and Flemming already took care of Leo and his military goons; then in book seven when the police and paramedics arrive in Montana (sent by a worried Ben) only after almost everyone is dead, including the villains. That time, at least, The Cavalry was able to get the living to a hospital and thus save Tina, Conrad, and Grant's lives. A third time is in book twelve, when Ben and Cormac (and the police) arrive at the mine after Kitty has already escaped and all the others save Sakhmet are dead. | |
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Must Make Amends | |
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Kumarbis considers turning Roman to be this, since not only did he end up doing it against his will, but Roman betrayed him, delved into powers and beings he would not dare to consort with, and eventually warped his design into one to destroy the mortal world, then dominate the supernatural one; as a result he is now determined to do anything if it will allow him to kill Roman and make up for his sins. If Kitty's surmise is correct as to just where Kumarbis's feelings and instincts about Roman being meant for greatness came from, he is more right than he knows in considering this such a terrible act. | |
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Sadly Mythtaken | |
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Sadly Mythtaken: In-story, this occurs with the selkies in "The Temptation of Robin Green", since the government studying them lumps them in with wereseals when they are actually a type of fae creature. | |
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Our Werebeasts Are Different | |
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Our Werebeasts Are Different: Many different varieties of werebeasts have been seen so far. In addition to werewolves, there are also werelions, weretigers, were-jaguars, were-African wild dogs, and were-seals. Kitty says that as far as she knows, no were-varieties exist of herbivorous species, only predators. Werebeasts are infected through bites. They change into human sized animalsnote whether they are unusually large or unusually small depends on the animal in question, observing conservation of mass. They can change when they want, must force themselves not to change when under enough stress, have to change once a month at the full moon, and don't always remember what they did as an animal. They have a Healing Factor and are pretty much immune to any sort of normal illness. Silver is nasty for 'em, though, and they can die when decapitated, their hearts are destroyed, or their bodies suffer extreme major trauma (like explosions or evisceration). Female werebeasts can't carry children to term due to the shapeshifting. The old traditional "female werewolves are always subservient to men because they are stronger and bigger" trope has been subverted. Heck, Kitty becomes pack leader in book 4, and nobody once tells her that because she's a girl she can't do it. Nobody expects her mate to run the whole show, either. In the sixth book there is some resistance to the idea, and Kitty's husband does have to push someone around, but the would-be challenger gets conveniently killed soon by the Big Bad. Overall, though, it's clear since the second book that lycanthrope social dynamics vary greatly. | |
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Thou Shalt Not Kill | |
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Thou Shalt Not Kill: Kitty has always made this her unspoken (and sometimes spoken) rule, killing only in self-defense, when her back was to the wall, to protect those she loves, and when she has no choice. However, as of book 7 she has now killed three people, and almost killed or endangered the life of many others either directly or through her allies. And if she accepts Anastasia's charge, she may have to do so on a more offensive and proactive basis. As far as Roman is concerned, she seems to have no compunctions. | |
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Dead Guy Junior | |
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Dead Guy Junior: Milo Kuzniak's great-grandson is named for him, and also follows in his magical footsteps (right down to being in way over his head and not knowing what he was doing, which gets him killed). Cormac briefly thinks he might actually be the original Kuzniak, but this would either require the Philosopher's Stone or some other immortality magic, or for him to be a vampire (which, since they met him during the day...). Whether he looks anything like his great-grandfather is unknown, since there were no pictures of him. | |
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Scary Black Man | |
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Scary Black Man: The vampire bouncer at Psalm 23, Braun, is set up as one of these, especially after Angelo changes sides—but in the end he leads another faction of the Denver Family that stands up to Roman and ends up helping her and the others out in trying to locate him and the Manus Herculei. Kitty ends up respecting and trusting him enough to ask Rick to make him the new Master of Denver. | |
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Shapeshifter Baggage | |
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Shapeshifter Baggage: Averted; werewolves obey conservation of mass. Since a wild wolf weighs about 80 pounds or so, this means that adult male werewolves can be more than twice the size of natural wolves, while a hypothetical werebear would probably be comically tiny. | |
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Fantasy-Forbidding Father | |
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Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Carl, in a way, in how he kept refusing Kitty the chance to have her successful show, not only because it was drawing attention to her and the supernatural world but because a) he had no control over it and b) it was giving her too much power and independence. | |
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Cursed with Awesome | |
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Cursed with Awesome: Vampires are immortal, powerful, dominate the minds of other people, and can recover from all but the most destructive attacks. Werewolves almost never get sick, have impressive senses, heal from nearly anything, and move faster than humans can. Kitty still treats the conditions as a chronic disease… although there are downsides made clear. Vampires need blood (not necessarily to kill people, just to drink blood, but even that is a fairly big downside) and burst into flame in sunlight. They have other weaknesses as well, but sunlight is the big one. Werewolves shapeshift involuntarily once a month and have to work to suppress it whenever they simply get frightened or stressed. When they do shift, they take on the mentality of their alternate form, which is inconvenient at best and sometimes dangerous to themselves or others. They are also severely allergic to silver, and female lycanthropes cannot successfully carry children to term, as they'll miscarry the first time they have to change shape. We see plenty of characters who don't think of the conditions as diseases, but Kitty's attitude is both a way to help maintain her self-control and a sign that she's clinging to normalcy. Werewolves also have to put up with their animal instinct even in human form. Kitty is shown to have taken subtle "wolf" clues from non-were(wolf)s and misinterpret them, and is also shown to have made the same mistake in reverse to non-weres. | |
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Canis Major | |
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Canis Major: All but the smallest werewolves become something noticeably bigger than lupine average when they change. Big (240 pounds on up) werewolves become something firmly in the OHMYGODWHATISTHATDON'TEATME category when they do. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: Balthasar, admitted head of a chaotic Religion of Evil Cult, is as disgusted as Kitty is by Nick's suggestion of admitting their lycanthropy so as to incorporate on-stage transformations into their act. Meanwhile, as dangerous, trigger-happy, Ax-Crazy, and anti-heroic as Evan and Brenda are, they (and most bounty hunters) have strict rules they follow: no poaching other hunters' kills and no harming of the innocent. Thus, even they hate people like Boris and Sylvia who will do anything if the price is right, or will even nastily hunt down and kill supernaturals just For the Evulz. | |
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Create Your Own Villain | |
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If Roman, through Mercedes, hadn't incited a vampire war against her friend Rick, and drawn the werewolves into it, Kitty never would have become pack alpha, and if he hadn't tried to get revenge on her for foiling the Band of Tiamat's sacrifice, he never would have turned her into the Regina Luporum and Arch-Enemy who was so instrumental in bringing him down. By setting up the abduction of Tyler, he's also turned him against him, and by breaking neutrality to get rid of Ned and divide the European Families, he's instead united them against him and drawn the attention of the whole world. In a subversion, it turns out it wasn't Roman who fixed things in Steals the Show (he did, in fact, know better than to do anything which would reveal him and his plans to the world at large or turn the vampire Masters of Europe against him), since it was Mercedes and she alone who was behind the plan with Flemming and Tyler. Whether she used Roman's pseudonym to recruit him without his knowledge or co-opted a false identity he had been using for other purposes isn't known, but needless to say he was quite displeased with her. | |
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Your Princess Is in Another Castle! | |
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Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: When Kitty, Anastasia, and company are led by Grace to find the Dragon's Pearl, they discover the safe holding it is empty. Not because Roman got there first, but because the Monkey King did. | |
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Good-Guy Bar | |
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Good-Guy Bar/Truce Zone: Ahmed's restaurant the Crescent, where all manner of lycanthropes can mingle and interact without territory, dominance, or conflict arising. It inspires Kitty to create one of her own after she takes over the Denver pack, New Moon. Shaun, its proprietor, even lampshades its nature by referring to it as "Rick's Cafe" (prompting a brief bit of In-Universe confusion on her part with vampire ally Rick). | |
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Good Thing You Can Heal | |
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Good Thing You Can Heal: Most Weres, including our heroine, develop this attitude toward themselves to one degree or another. | |
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La Résistance | |
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The ultimate result of this is played out in Rocks the House: because Rick (and Father Columban) won't fully trust or disclose to Kitty and she won't spill the beans to Hardin, the police detective and Cormac end up working at cross-purposes with her, eventually leading to Father Columban's death, Rick leaving town, and her being stuck depending on Angelo as the new Master of Denver. Meanwhile, her lack of being there for her pack due to rallying La Résistance almost causes her to lose Becky and to some extent Trey, helped along by Darren's subversive nature. | |
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Hermetic Magic | |
| Kitty Norville / int_35d7be67 | comment |
Hermetic Magic: Franklin's weather summoning definitely has flavors of this. Being from the Victorian era, so do Amelia Parker's spells. Ritual Magic: Zora's magic is steeped in this, whether drawing upon the Kabbalah, Celtic/pagan ceremonies, exorcism rites, divination, or even blood magic (including feasting on the living heart of an animal). | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: This has been a major theme of the series all along, with Kitty daring to believe lycanthropes can live peaceful, halfway-normal lives and be productive members of society, while everyone from Cormac and Ben, to Detective Hardin, to Ahmed and Alette, and even Rick tell her with varying degrees of certainty and sympathy that she is far too optimistic. Nowhere is this philosophy better articulated though than in this bit from Goes to War: | |
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Don't You Dare Pity Me! | |
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Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Said almost word-for-word by Roman as he lies dying. | |
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Compelling Voice | |
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Compelling Voice: All vampires have this (though Roman takes it to an art) as part of how they use Mind Control on their victims, usually before feeding. Elijah Smith has one as well, which Kitty could even hear (and be mildly affected by) over the phone. | |
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Conspiracy Theorist | |
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Also referenced by one of Kitty's callers, when he claims the way the Long Game will end is with the vampires wiping out all humans and then living off the artificial blood substitutes the creation of which they had clandestinely been funding, only to have the humans have secretly tainted the artificial blood to wipe out the vampires with cancer...thus leading to a reset of the world, nature starting over again. | |
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The Man Behind the Man | |
| Kitty Norville / int_3a1c2171 | comment |
The Man Behind the Man: Almost every book, but especially books 4 through 6 (complete with an inversion from book 5 revealed in book 6) To recap Roman's curriculum vitae in specifics—not only is it fairly clear that he was behind Leo's attempt to usurp Alette's place in Washington, but he controlled the Philadelphia Masters who created Arturo and thus was likely a force behind keeping him and Carl in power. Through Mercedes, he incited the vampire war between Rick and Arturo; through the vampire priestess, Balthasar, and Nick he was behind the Band of Tiamat; he set up the con with the ifrit to get Kitty's service or sacrifice; he sent Harold Franklin after Kitty; and he manipulated Flemming, again through Mercedes, into capturing Tyler. The only times he didn't turn out to be this were when he had nothing to do with the events at hand (the skinwalker and the curse that summoned her, the reality TV show monster-hunters, what happened to Gordon's platoon) or when he was directly involved (his search for the Dragon's Pearl). He was also literally this through his use of figurehead Master Dominic to control Las Vegas, although he appears as one of Dominic's bodyguards to add to the ruse. A less far-reaching (but no less critical, in terms of the series' plot) example occurs in the very first book: Meg goes to Arturo to have Kitty taken out (out of jealousy and fear of her growing independence); he, wishing to maintain the masquerade, agrees and, using a third party with ties to Right Wing Militia Fanatics, hires Cormac to do the deed (but also calls the cops so he will take the fall). When this is revealed to Cormac and Kitty, it causes the former to change sides and become a firm ally, and causes Kitty herself to stand up to Carl and Meg. Incredibly, as of book 11 Dux Bellorum is actually The Dragon to one of these in turn, a "Caesar" magician and ruler for whom he is the literal general of his armies. It is finally revealed in the last book that this is Lucifer himself. | |
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Properly Paranoid | |
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Properly Paranoid: As Kitty learns more and more about the supernatural world, and especially the Long Game, she becomes more and more convinced that everyone is out to get her, or at least that various groups are allied and plotting together, particularly for Roman. What is distressing is how often she's proven right. Subverted with Colette, who points out to Kitty that sometimes a stripper just happens to be a vampire, a radio host happens to be a werewolf, and a Master Vampire happens to be a guy who didn't want to be put in charge but is making the best of it. | |
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Artifact of Doom | |
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Kitty in the Underworld: So the ritual to destroy Dux Bellorum fails, costing the lives of the entire cult save Sakhmet, the demon bounty hunter most likely escaped again, and Dux Bellorum has retrieved his Artifact of Doom. But Kitty has obtained Zora's Book of Shadows, and with the help of Cormac/Amelia and people at KNOB she has managed to post its entire contents online—thus exposing Roman even more to the world, and providing anyone who finds and decodes it the means to band together and stop him. | |
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Foregone Conclusion | |
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Foregone Conclusion: Since the attempt to assassinate Roman takes place in the early chapters of Saves the World, it's obvious they won't succeed. What matters of course is why not, whether they all make it through, and the ultimate results. | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
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Living Lie Detector: Daniel in "The Book of Daniel" (and by extension, all lycanthropes with enough skill and focus). | |
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Noodle Incident | |
| Kitty Norville / int_3c0a4666 | comment |
Noodle Incident: A number of stories from Ben and Cormac's past seem to count as this, but in particular the tale of how Brenda and Ben ended up hunting Cormac (complete with Ben falling and injuring his knee) is never explained. Wherever Shaun and the rest of the pack were taken by the angels in the last book, and whatever they saw and experienced there, is left for the reader to imagine. | |
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Bad Boss | |
| Kitty Norville / int_3cb1d38d | comment |
Bad Boss: Carl. In the first book, he sexually abuses his female packmates—including Kitty—and manipulates them in a power game against his wife Meg. When he returns in the fourth book, he's even worse, dragging his pack into a vampiric civil war and killing underlings out of paranoia. It all backfires on him rather spectacularly: two pack members defect to Kitty's side, four more rat out the entire operation when the police catch them, and the remainder decide enough is enough and tear him to pieces at the end of book four. | |
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Because Destiny Says So | |
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Because Destiny Says So: According to Kumarbis and Zora, Kitty was chosen by the first Regina Luporum to be her avatar, and thus she was meant to become a werewolf. Since even aside from the pain and suffering this has brought to her life, she had to get raped to be in the "right place" to get infected, she naturally responds, "Fuck you!" But judging by what happens during the final ritual, they may just be partly right about her after all... | |
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Secret Test of Character | |
| Kitty Norville / int_3f7a958b | comment |
While obviously Kitty herself turns out to be the biggest spanner in the end, Cormac/Amelia is just as much of one, particularly due to the discoveries he makes when translating Zora's Book of Shadows and how that quest turns up the Maltese cross amulet that is so instrumental in winning the day. When asked where it came from and how he got it, he can only briefly allude to Zora's aunts and the Secret Test of Character they set him on which just happened to produce it, and that he had no idea where it ultimately had come from. To this Grant can only say, "Fate." Also, Anastasia's various bits of advice and means of getting the allies together. | |
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Deus ex Machina | |
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Deus ex Machina: Literally in the form of the angels, yet at the same time also downplayed, since other than spiriting the pack away so they could not be harmed by Roman, using the full-spectrum lights to make the bounty hunter flee, and giving some advice now and then, they don't really do much except ensure the battle will be fair and that the heroes are in the right place and have the right knowledge and chances to do what needs to be done. The only true Deus ex Machina is their gift which allows Kitty and Ben to have a child, and that only happens after Roman's defeat. | |
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First-Name Basis | |
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First-Name Basis: By the last book, Hardin finally insists that Kitty has the right to employ this trope with her. | |
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Manipulative Bastard | |
| Kitty Norville / int_40c57041 | comment |
Manipulative Bitch: Mercedes Cook. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
| Kitty Norville / int_40cc0c7e | comment |
Bittersweet Ending: In "Wild Ride", T.J. becomes a werewolf to become cured of HIV, and ends up finally finding a place to belong, a family of sorts, after his own threw him out for being gay. But...in order to have health and safety with the pack, he must give up all autonomy, become submissive to his alpha, and he has essentially traded one incurable disease for another. So he stands up for himself, rejects his pack, and strikes out on his own to be brave and independent. But thanks to Dramatic Irony, the reader already knows that his decision leads to Colorado, Carl, and his death. Kitty thinks, when she learns his backstory, "Was it worth it, T.J.?" Chances are he would say it was, but there was still a sad price. | |
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Body Surf | |
| Kitty Norville / int_411a35bd | comment |
Body Surf/Grand Theft Me: Heroic variation—during his stint in prison, Cormac got to be the host for the spirit of Amelia Parker, a wrongfully executed Victorian Age wizard. The usual version of this is referenced in Low Midnight when Cormac contemplates In-Universe what would have happened if Roman's spirit had been the one to find him instead of Amelia. | |
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Happy Place | |
| Kitty Norville / int_42a055ac | comment |
Happy Place: Cormac of all people retreats to one of these while in prison, first to keep from going stir-crazy, then to evade the demon killings and growing Hate Plague, and then to escape Amelia's attempts to reach him. It consists of a beautiful meadow up in the Rockies where his father used to take him camping. When she manages to infiltrate it, he is forced to abandon it until the end when he finally lets her in—the two of them then meet and commune there, watching the sun rise together. | |
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Villainous Rescue | |
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Villainous Rescue: This was certainly not her intention, but Mercedes showing up at the meeting in Albuquerque ended up being this trope, both for Kitty and her friends and for Roman: her arrival caused Cormac to miss his shot, but also kept Roman from doing anything to the rest of them, and the distraction the demon bounty hunter then provided by attacking Mercedes allowed both the heroes and Roman to get away unscathed. | |
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Angel Unaware | |
| Kitty Norville / int_45a01289 | comment |
Angel Unaware: The Men in Black from the last book. | |
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Villain Takes an Interest | |
| Kitty Norville / int_45b19b15 | comment |
Villain Takes an Interest: After she escapes the Band of Tiamat, but before he begins plotting to bring her down for consistently being a Spanner in the Works forming La Résistance against him, Roman sets up the ifrit con in order to get Kitty to agree to his terms and ally with him. It is strongly implied he does this, not only because he sees her as a threat, but because she has proven strong-willed, resilient, intelligent, and resourceful. I.e., that she is dangerous to him, and so he would rather have her working for him than against him. | |
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In-Universe | |
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Brenda, which in Kitty's estimation (and combined with the rest of her overdone wardrobe) also makes her an In-Universe Fashion Victim Anti Hero. | |
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You Have Failed Me | |
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You Have Failed Me: Mercedes metes this out to Flemming. Ironically Mercedes herself ends up suffering this fate in the last book when her "having overstepped her bounds in London" causes Roman to abandon her, then allow the bounty hunter to kill her. | |
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Magical Native American | |
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Magical Native American: Tony (although he's a damn cool one) | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Jerk | |
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Jerk With A Heart Of Jerk: Carl. There are hints at Hidden Depths and a few moments in the first book of Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other to suggest he is not all bad, and even inspire sympathy, but in the end he turns out to be this trope. Whether this was always the case or he Jumped Off the Slippery Slope due to Meg's influence can only be speculated. | |
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness | |
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Fantastic Religious Weirdness: The call that puts Kitty on the map as a talk show host comes from a vampire who wants to talk about being Catholic when he literally can't enter a church, at least not without physical pain. Kitty advises him to read Paradise Lost. Drawing on her English major background, she argues that Lucifer's real sin wasn't the rebellion against God itself, but his belief afterwards that he was beyond redemption. She advises her caller not to make the same mistake. By her reasoning, a vampire could still be a good Catholic, he'd just have to work harder at it than most people. The stakes are upped when, in book 9 Kitty meets what appear to be gods. It leads to quite the existential crisis when she has to wonder if this truly means All Myths Are True and what she believes is called into question. Addressed in a different way when the conference is held in London. Esperanza points out that the scientific community's recognition of the reality of the supernatural has caused attendance of religious services to greatly increase—i.e., if magic and monsters are real, God must be too, and so they are going to church more for protection against them. This isn't necessarily unrealistic either, since Ahmed had told Kitty Daniel was a werelion, and that was how he saved himself from the lions—but that he then went on to thank God for making him one, and to contemplate the purpose behind it, suggesting the religious and the supernatural can coincide without abandoning logic. On the other hand, the breaking of the masquerade also caused people in Tanzania to think the superstition about albinos being magical was real, thus justifying killing them for their parts... As of book 11, the supernatural and the religious have crossed paths more clearly in the form of the Order of St. Lazarus of the Shadows, since it's not only composed of vampire priests, its members are quite firmly set in their faith that God is real and grants them His blessing to fight the forces of darkness; Father Columban certainly seems to truly believe in God, even if he's willing to accept the pope's declaration of who is a true Catholic and who isn't rather than God's. Note that no explanation is given of how they actually work, considering that in this setting vampires can't handle crosses or even set foot on consecrated ground. Also, in a nice Call-Back to how this issue first cropped up in book 1, it turns out Milton's Paradise Lost may not be entirely fictional, since the bounty hunter pursuing Father Columban seems to be a Fallen Angel. On the one hand, Enkidu and Sakhmet somewhat dismiss Kitty's stories of having met Sun Wukong and Xiwangmu, as well as suggesting there never was a real Enkidu or Sakhmet, merely stories which told of great powers which they would embody and harness for their ritual; on the other hand they genuinely believe not only that they will gain power which they call divine, but they both speak of lycanthropes as having been the messengers or servants of the gods, and of how much godly power lycanthropes have lost since the days of the ancient world. After everything that has happened by the end of the series, Kitty doesn't know what to believe in any more, only the full moon, the rising sun, and her pack. And although Rick has proof of God through the Order of Shadows (and those they fought), and concludes he does believe in Him, he prefaces his words by claiming the matter is more complicated than that, and that after all the centuries of mankind trying to use religion to figure out "what it all means", people still don't truly understand. | |
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Big Fancy House | |
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Big Fancy House: Played with in Steals the Show. On the one hand, the first sight Kitty gets of the Dulwich estate where Ned lives shows her a humongous, sumptuous, venerable, and extremely rich manor house, exactly fitting her expectations for the vampire Master of London. Except...that's actually a boys' school, and the real house is much smaller, more modest and homey. On the other hand, Fortune House is still very well-appointed and richly furnished within, and while it maintains a lived-in atmosphere, it remains posh and elegant and contains much to impress, particularly the books and artifacts in its library. | |
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I Just Want to Be Normal | |
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As of book 7, despite her protests of I Just Want to Be Normal and Refusal of the Call, Kitty may have to become a fulltime hero and even a leader, just to protect the world, both her allies and innocent humans, from the forces of darkness and chaos. As of book 9, she has actually been given the call directly, and seems to be ready to accept it. See Passing the Torch. | |
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Race Against the Clock | |
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Race Against the Clock: Happens fairly often. Kitty had to track down the Serial Killer before he killed again and rescue Alette before the sun rose; Grant and the bounty hunters had to make it to the temple before Kitty was sacrificed by the Band of Tiamat; the ifrit had to be stopped before it burned any more people to death; she and the other supernaturals had to save Gemma from the cage before the sun rose (this time they failed, at the last moment); Franklin's spell had to be broken before the snowstorm plunged Denver into Katrina-level chaos; the Dragon's Pearl had to be found before Roman got hold of it; and Tyler had to be rescued before he could be smuggled out of London's port. Naturally, the biggest example of all occurs in the last book, where Kitty and her allies must race to Yellowstone and stop Roman from using the Manus Herculei to literally blow up Denver and the rest of the US, thus ushering in a 'vampire world.' | |
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Our Angels Are Different | |
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Our Angels Are Different: Appearing as The Men in Black who apparently enjoy acting innocent and unaware of things in the world, and who cannot intervene often except to nudge mortals a bit and provide protection when matters have become too unbalanced and unfair. Kitty thinks the mythology around them, like so much else in her world, is faulty, incomplete, or just plain wrong, but considering she never saw them in their true forms and doesn't really know how much of Paradise Lost is true, she can't really be sure of this. | |
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The Hero's Journey | |
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The Hero's Journey: Kitty's journey has been very bumpy and not followed every step of the structure, although she has experienced The Call Knows Where You Live, tried refusing it, and has eventually become resigned to it; she's also encountered the usual Mentor Occupational Hazard, her exile would probably count as Crossing the Threshold, and any number of moments could be considered her spiritual rebirth—nearly being sacrificed by the Band of Tiamat, the experience at the Montana cabin, even her televised Change way back in book two. But book twelve contains the most explicit references. Not only does Kitty keep herself sane while imprisoned by thinking of famous pieces of literature and mythology to compare her ordeal to (particularly Persephone and Inanna), she has embarked on both the Road of Trials and a Night Sea Voyage: she's gone into the underworld in a sense (hence the book title), encountered shapeshifters (including one associated with an Egyptian goddess), and she seeks knowledge/wisdom against the Big Bad. She gets it, too—not just Dux Bellorum's backstory and true motivation, but the literal gift of knowledge contained in Zora's flash drive, her Book of Shadows. Another Night Sea Voyage occurs in the last book when Kitty and Ben must try to sneak into Obsidian to find the Manus Herculei. They fail. Technically all of Low Midnight is a Breather Episode for Kitty, but there's also a brief one when she and her allies are staying at a motel in Yellowstone and planning the Final Battle. As the final steps in her journey, after having gone through the Apotheosis of facing down Lightman among the fumaroles and learning about the true origin of supernaturals, Kitty comes close to sacrificing her closest allies in order to get to Roman...but Everybody Lives, and Kitty hasn't really changed her views of herself or the world in a radical way (see Fantastic Religious Weirdness). She even receives the Ultimate Boon for her to take back on her Return, the amulet that lets her and Ben have a child, even though that was the last thing she intended to gain from it. Though of course there's no actual Return for her, except home; she's inextricably part of the supernatural world and always will be, and in fact the whole point is her continuing to be a bridge for both worlds, to help keep humans and supernaturals balanced so that the endless fight against Lightman can always be won. There is no Atonement With the Father, but this does apply somewhat to Cormac in Low Midnight who even as he's on his own Anti-Hero's Journey is having an adventure that is really just an adjunct to Kitty's (though it does set up for possible future adventures for him). | |
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I'm Cold... So Cold... | |
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I'm Cold... So Cold...: Very much Played for Drama with Emma after she's been turned into a vampire. | |
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Humans Are the Real Monsters | |
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Humans Are the Real Monsters: Not only does Kitty draw a parallel between Island of Dr. Moreau and some of the non-supernatural enemies she's faced, it seems Dux Bellorum's ultimate goal stems from this trope being true of himself—since as soon as he became a vampire and learned the whole supernatural world was real, he took it upon himself to gather all power to him and take it over solely so he could destroy, then rule it. | |
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Taking the Heat | |
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Cormac makes a different sort when he kills the skinwalker and goes to jail for it instead of Kitty. | |
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Silver Has Mystic Powers | |
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Silver Has Mystic Powers: Aside from the usual "silver hurts werewolves" motif, the cult in book twelve imprisons Kitty in an abandoned silver mine not only to keep her from escaping but because Zora believes the silver will help her spell shields protect them from Roman and his servants. Too bad he doesn't just have lycanthropes working for him, but also a demonic Fallen Angel bounty hunter... | |
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Misfit Mobilization Moment | |
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Misfit Mobilization Moment: Tends to happen whenever Kitty rallies her allies together for a battle or rescue. Examples: her gathering the pack to stand against Carl and Meg (and Arturo) in book 4; bringing the Paradox PI crew and Hardin together to capture the ifrit (after doing a technological version of this by appealing to all her show's listeners for information on how to do so!); rallying the pack again (as well as Ben, Cormac, and Tyler) to take on Harold Franklin; and gathering everybody together to rescue Tyler in book ten. And of course, the gathering of Ben, Cormac, Tina, Grant, Hardin, and Sun to help stop Roman's final plan. | |
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A Friend in Need | |
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Of all the men in Gordon's platoon, every one but Tyler ends up dead, whether having killed each other or been brought down with silver bullets by Tyler himself. He does get rehabilitated and in a pack of his own, but still... | |
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What Would X Do? | |
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What Would X Do?: Kitty does a great deal of this during Cormac's time in Prison, appealing to his memory and methods to help her weather the conflicts she faces. Nowhere is this more blatant, or more critical to her survival, than during the siege in House of Horrors—as Kitty says herself, thinking like him saves her life and those of the other supernaturals who make it through. | |
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Mysterious Informant | |
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Mysterious Informant: Dr. Flemming starts out as this before he gets exposed by an interview made in preparation for the Senate hearings on the Center for the Study of Paranatural Biology. Kitty even calls him "Deep Throat" at one point, which somehow he doesn't get. | |
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Magic Versus Science | |
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Magic Versus Science: A great deal of the scientific community, naturally, either doesn't believe in the supernatural, or wishes to quantify and explain it without any recourse to magic or the unknown. Even Flemming, who undoubtedly believes in its reality, and Dr. Schumacher believe the conditions are diseases which can be cured, studied, and (for Flemming) harnessed, despite the fact that their attempts to explain how and why they work continue to be stymied. Dr. Olafson considers all magic to be based on superstition but is willing to admit Kitty and the other supernaturals are "outside his area of expertise". Kitty, on the other hand, sees no reason the two have to be at odds, that instead each can help explain and illuminate the other. She does, however, acknowledge that to some degree, no matter how people like Flemming (and later Schumacher) try to study and understand vampires and lycanthropes, in the end there will always be something indefinable that makes them supernatural, so that even if the two are not fighting one another, neither can they fold together compatibly. | |
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Rape as Backstory | |
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Rape as Backstory: Date Rape in the backstory. In addition, it's implied or threatened several other times. Kitty fears rape from both Leo and Balthasar in their respective books. After she is forced to change on TV, she compares the experience - getting kidnapped, watching an acquaintance get killed, thrown in a cell with walls painted silver, and watched as she transforms - to being raped. (To drive the point home, when she makes this comparison Ben, who at the time isn't aware of the Date Rape in her backstory, actually asks her how she would know.) And like in many settings, vampiric feeding and being converted to a vampire has sexual connotations, so this basically happens to Alette's descendant and maid, Emma. | |
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Not What It Looks Like | |
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Not What It Looks Like: Played for Drama when the authorities catch Amelia Parker having just performed a necromantic rite to find out about a demon who had killed a young girl, and therefore thinking she was the killer instead. | |
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Escalating War | |
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Escalating War: Extremely non-comedic version—the series' antagonists start off by only threatening Kitty personally or those she cares for (T.J., Alette, Ben and Cormac). But once she goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge for Jenny's death, takes out Carl and Meg, and becomes pack alpha (in the process undermining Mercedes and Roman's scheme), she has put herself on the Big Bad's map. Thus each encounter she has becomes increasingly dangerous to herself, Denver, and the world (both supernatural and human): from sacrifice to the Band of Tiamat, to the summoning of an ifrit and then a gigantic blizzard, to obtaining an artifact that can potentially create millions of followers, to trying to turn all the vampire Masters of Europe against each other while creating an army of Super Soldiers. Even the human world gets in on the act, moving from Senator Duke's religious hysteria and Van Helsing Hate Crimes, to the curse which draws the skinwalker, to the Right-Wing Militia Fanatic hunters determined to eradicate all supernaturals. Where it will end, now that Kitty has Thrown Down the Gauntlet, incited the werewolves to Turn Against their Masters, and rallied the vampire La Résistance is anyone's guess...although Roman obtaining his Artifact of Doom and Kitty receiving Zora's Book of Shadows and posting it online has certainly upped the stakes yet again. | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: Charles Lightman appears as this at first, but of course he turns out to be Faux Affably Evil when the chips are down (and his plans are unraveling). | |
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Willing Channeler | |
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Willing Channeler: Another one of Tina's Psychic Powers involves this ability. She originally attempted it in order to communicate with the ifrit, only to suffer Demonic Possession instead. In the last book it's the fact she can do this which Cormac counts on to fool Roman into thinking she's Amelia. | |
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The Dragon | |
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Incredibly, as of book 11 Dux Bellorum is actually The Dragon to one of these in turn, a "Caesar" magician and ruler for whom he is the literal general of his armies. It is finally revealed in the last book that this is Lucifer himself. | |
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Just Think of the Potential! | |
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Commander Gordon (and his superiors) learn this the hard way after their creation of a werewolf Special Forces platoon goes awry. Kitty also says this before going to the London conference; she really should have known better. | |
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Plot Coupon | |
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Plot Coupon: The Dragon's Pearl. | |
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Ley Line | |
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In a seemingly random moment at the start of Kitty Raises Hell, one of her callers claims there is a correlation between robberies, Ley Lines, and the location of Speedy Mart convenience stores. Though intrigued, Kitty dismisses him thanks to his You Have to Believe Me! crackpot nature. However, this turns out to be a Chekhov's Gun: Charles from Shreveport, in Kitty Goes to War, lays out a more detailed plot connecting the president of the company with major weather disasters over the last forty years. It turns out he's absolutely right—and gets killed for his troubles. Even Ben is forced to admit, when the truth comes out, that Kitty may be right to be Properly Paranoid. | |
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Wounded Gazelle Gambit | |
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Wounded Gazelle Gambit: This was Darren's plan with Becky to remove Kitty as alpha, having her call and claim he was hurting her so Kitty would rush to the rescue and into his trap. It is foiled because Kitty gets the whole pack behind her, even Becky once they have a real heart-to-heart. | |
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Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone | |
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Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone: Amusingly, Kitty indirectly invokes the trope in "Il Est Né" after she and David, fresh off their capture of the serial killer, return to the Waffle House—since it's Christmas, the waitress who is suspicious of their having gone into the restroom (and then disappearing through the back area of the restaurant) is thrown off the scent when she claims they'd just been "looking for mistletoe." She explains to David that "people tend not to ask more questions if you tell them you've been fooling around"; even more amusingly, when this prompts him to ask her if this sort of thing happens to her a lot, she replies, "You'd be surprised." | |
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Dark Is Not Evil | |
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Dark Is Not Evil: A repeated theme within the series, especially during the radio show segments. While vampires and werewolves are described as sufferers of a chronic disease that no one should go looking to get, there are both heroic and monstrous examples of both. From the short story collection, Angeline, who not only doesn't kill Arthur outright, but is deliberately keeping him alive (but weak) so that England will not gain a strong king and thus threaten the rest of Europe, i.e., a vampire actually preventing the acquisition of power. | |
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Fantastic Racism | |
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On a grand scale with Roman, who went from hating Kumarbis for turning him, to hating him for being too weak to truly gain power and dominate the world, to hating (and wanting to rule) the supernatural world he was a part of. | |
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Hero of Another Story | |
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Hero of Another Story: It is never revealed just what Grant (and Peter) did off-screen to get into the lair of the vampire priestess who leads the Band of Tiamat—only that it was awesome, and that it resulted in them obtaining and destroying the amulet used to summon the ifrit and bind it to Kitty. | |
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Cats Are Mean | |
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Cats Are Mean: Subverted with Luis, but played depressingly straight with Balthasar and Nick. Played with at first but finally subverted again with Sakhmet (Samira), the badass were-lioness warrior. At first she is simply part of the cult-like fanatical group that kidnaps Kitty to complete their ritual, but throughout her captivity she becomes increasingly solicitous of and sympathetic toward Kitty. By the end of the book she's unquestioningly taking battlefield orders from Kitty, and if she does show up again in the series, she'll clearly be a firm ally. | |
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Enemy Mine | |
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Enemy Mine/Enemy Civil War: The Evil Plan of book two involved one of these—on one side you have Senator Duke, determined to prove supernaturals are monsters sent by the Devil to kill everyone and lead them into sin; on another side you have Dr. Flemming, who is willing to do anything to get the proof he needs that supernaturals are people with treatable conditions, so that he can then get the funding for his continued research; on another side you have Roger Stockton, looking for a scoop; and finally you have Leo, seeking military contacts and greater power, both so he can overthrow Alette and, it now seems certain, on behalf of his master Roman. All of their purposes are served by capturing Kitty on the night of the full moon so her Change can be shown live on TV. And naturally enough, they all end up turning on each other or losing what they were trying to get—once he gets his scoop, Stockton vanishes; Duke discovers Kitty isn't the beast he thinks she is and stalks off, to be sued and censured by the Senate; Flemming gets his proof but his methods cause him to be discredited; and his releasing Kitty allows her to rescue Alette so they can take on Leo, who in the end is killed by Flemming himself. | |
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Kangaroo Court | |
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Kangaroo Court: In the third book, Cormac is accused of murder. He shot someone to protect his friend Kitty, with half a dozen witnesses. However, the person he shot was a Skinwalker and in this setting the Broken Masquerade is still fresh enough that people barely even believe in vampires and werewolves, let alone esoteric monsters like that. And half the witnesses had already been persecuting his friend Kitty due to Fantastic Racism, so testifying in Cormac's defense would be admitting they were wrong before. | |
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Magicians Are Wizards | |
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Magicians Are Wizards: Odysseus Grant | |
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Sympathetic Magic | |
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Sympathetic Magic: How the vampire priestess binds the ifrit to send it after Kitty, through a strand of her hair. | |
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Clarke's Third Law | |
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Clarke's Third Law: Kitty quotes it in reference to the seminar on vampire physiology and space-time theories. | |
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Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke | |
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Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke: Dr. Schumacher compares the way vampirism and lycanthropy change a healthy human's DNA to "evil gene therapy." Considering what is eventually revealed about their source, she's not completely wrong. | |
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Late-Arrival Spoiler | |
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Late-Arrival Spoiler: The blurbs on the backs of the books give away that Kitty becomes pack alpha, and also that Ben becomes a werewolf, and her mate. Also, that Roman is the Big Bad. | |
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Intrepid Reporter | |
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Intrepid Reporter: Kitty herself, but also Roger Stockton. To the extent he'll do anything to get his scoop. | |
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Spanner in the Works | |
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Spanner in the Works: The gambits of the various villains/antagonists, especially Roman, are almost always foiled due to one of these. When it isn't Kitty herself, it tends to be a character from one of the B plots who happens to be of great use when the Two Lines, No Waiting intersect during the climax. Examples: Roger Stockton and Jeffrey Miles helping to bring down Elijah Smith; Magical Native American Tony, brought in to help with the curse in book three, provides advice and assistance against the skinwalker; the bounty hunters and Odysseus Grant, who save the day against the Band of Tiamat; Grant again (and Peter) helping to bring down the Band again, while the Paradox PI crew help capture the ifrit; Sergeant Tyler and possessed Cormac stopping Harold Franklin; and the timely assistance of Nick Parker and the Fae in Tyler's rescue. This last is especially notable since if not for Amelia's ghost on the one hand and the random prank by the Fae girls on the other, neither of them would have been available to help. While obviously Kitty herself turns out to be the biggest spanner in the end, Cormac/Amelia is just as much of one, particularly due to the discoveries he makes when translating Zora's Book of Shadows and how that quest turns up the Maltese cross amulet that is so instrumental in winning the day. When asked where it came from and how he got it, he can only briefly allude to Zora's aunts and the Secret Test of Character they set him on which just happened to produce it, and that he had no idea where it ultimately had come from. To this Grant can only say, "Fate." Also, Anastasia's various bits of advice and means of getting the allies together. | |
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Zombie Apocalypse | |
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Zombie Apocalypse: Kitty runs across various Crazy Survivalist websites with Crazy-Prepared theories in the event this will happen when trying to find out how to cure a voodoo zombie. Also referenced by one of Kitty's callers, when he claims the way the Long Game will end is with the vampires wiping out all humans and then living off the artificial blood substitutes the creation of which they had clandestinely been funding, only to have the humans have secretly tainted the artificial blood to wipe out the vampires with cancer...thus leading to a reset of the world, nature starting over again. | |
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Have You Told Anyone Else? | |
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Have You Told Anyone Else?: Lawrence Wilson pulls this on Kitty and Ben when they go looking into the past of the skinwalker to prove Cormac murdering her was justified and make the mistake of visiting him alone. He's prevented from eliminating witnesses (and punishing those who killed his grandchildren), though, by Louise's pendant. | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Dux Bellorum ("leader/general of wars") | |
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Hellhole Prison | |
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Hellhole Prison: The Colorado Correctional Facility isn't this normally, but it definitely becomes so (literally) in "Long Time Waiting" after numerous murders, a demonic haunting, and riots. | |
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I Have Your Wife | |
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It's thanks to Kitty's mom being diagnosed with cancer that she comes back to Denver and thus falls right into the vampire war between Rick and Arturo, but her mom comes back into the story when Arturo uses her to get Kitty to meet him. | |
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Loony Fan | |
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Loony Fan/I'm Your Biggest Fan: In book twelve Kitty briefly considers that one of these might be her kidnapper, before she finds out who the real captors are. | |
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Sequel Hook | |
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While these do crop up at various points in the books, the most notable one would be the Sequel Hook at the end of Dead Man's Hand—Kitty being shown by Shaun the word "Tiamat" burned on the door of New Moon. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: A couple. TJ, as well as Walters. Cormac makes a different sort when he kills the skinwalker and goes to jail for it instead of Kitty. Jerome makes one for Kitty, blocking the silver arrows that were meant for her. Grant takes the stake for Anastasia, but lives. Father Columban makes one for Rick. Extremely meaningful, since he is in a sense Rick's grandfather. Antony, who gives his life to try and take out Roman, but manages to send word back to Ned of the Manus Herculei. Enkidu, and Zora bringing down a whole mountain to close the portal and stop any more of Roman's forces from coming through. Kitty takes the spear for Kumarbis and also lives. | |
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I See Dead People | |
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The con set up in book 6 via the ifrit to be banished is even more of an example: if Kitty capitulates to Roman, he will remove the ifrit threatening her but in exchange she will have given him her loyalty; if she stays in Denver and tries to ride it out, her pack will either all be slain or turn on her; and if she tries to face the Band of Tiamat, she will be sacrificed for their dark chaotic cult. Again, the plan is only ruined by surprises from the outside—the Paradox PI crew (specifically, Tina), T.J.'s brother Peter, and Odysseus Grant. | |
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Family-Unfriendly Violence | |
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Family-Unfriendly Violence/Death: Unsurprisingly there's a lot of this throughout the series, but notable examples would be Meg and especially Carl's death, Arturo's death, and Mick's death. The whole slew of deaths in House of Horrors takes this up to eleven, but among those Jerome, Lee, and Gemma stand out. Jan's death also counts. And unsurprisingly, Roman suffers the former trope thanks to the backblast from the Manus Herculei. | |
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Drunk with Power | |
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While many vampires in the series are either portrayed negatively due to their ambitions, or their ambitions actually caused them to become evil, others are shown to use their power only for good and/or to have obtained it so as to stop the evil ambitions of others. Examples of the first type are Roman, Mercedes, Jan, Leo, Farida, and to some degree Arturo (although he has a Heel Realization before the end and does what he can to help the heroes win); examples of the second type are Rick, Alette, Ned, Anastasia, the Boss of San Francisco, Antony, and Marid. There are borderline cases though, such as Nasser (since he was willing to encourage someone to take out Kitty because he thought she wasn't strong enough to face Roman); Kumarbis, who started off with evil ambitions but realized the wrong in this when he discovered how far Roman was willing to go and thus set out to stop him; or Angelo who became 'evil' out of fear and self-preservation rather than ambition, and vampires like Dominic who are only in it for the trappings of power and are otherwise figureheads. A few lycanthropes are even portrayed this way such as Carl and Meg or Dack. | |
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Author Appeal | |
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Author Appeal: According to the afterword of Greatest Hits, Amelia Parker is in the series solely because of Carrie Vaughn's love of Victorian adventure fiction and occult stories. | |
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All the Good Men Are Gay | |
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All the Good Men Are Gay: Kitty humorously thinks this of T.J. early in the first book when his orientation is revealed. Subverted, however, when she eventually discovers (and hooks up with) Ben. | |
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Hauled Before a Senate Subcommittee | |
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Hauled Before A Senate Subcommittee: Most of the plot of the second book is this, after the masquerade is broken. Unfortunately for Kitty, the senator in charge is a Moral Guardian on a Witch Hunt (and is in bed with the not-so-ethical scientist who wants supernaturals proven real so he can get funding and study them). | |
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A Storm Is Coming | |
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A Storm Is Coming: Several characters in the last book can feel that the final showdown is coming. While some of this is due to Anastasia's influence (Tina, Grant) or magic (Cormac/Amelia), even Kitty and Ben can sense it. | |
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Epiphany Therapy | |
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Epiphany Therapy: David in "Il Est Né" learns to control himself and have hope for the future through helping Kitty hunt down a Serial Killer. | |
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Expecting Someone Taller | |
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Expecting Someone Taller: Pulled hilariously on Carl by Ben when the two finally meet in book four. Carl doesn't take it well. Also is starting to happen with people who meet Kitty (and to a lesser extent Ben) and find them to be not as badass as they expected. | |
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Those Wacky Nazis | |
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Those Wacky Nazis: In Goes to Washington, Kitty encounters an old, destitute werewolf named Fritz who frequents Ahmed's lycanthrope restaurant the Crescent. Everyone calls him "the Nazi" because he is a German immigrant of the right age to have fought in World War II (and rumors which are persistent but unsubstantiated). When Kitty befriends him and eventually convinces him to call in to her show and tell his story, it turns out the rumors were right in one respect: he and other werewolves like him (including ones created by throwing "recruits" in cages with them to become infected) were forced into being intelligence gatherers, spies, and assassins for the S.S., to "cross enemy lines...change back to human, do what we were sent to do" (like carrying sacks with papers, maps, and photographic film in their mouths) and come back. While he defends some of what he did as being a patriot "like everyone else" Just Following Orders, he takes pains to note both that the Nazis used silver bullets and silver cages to compel obedience and that "it was a madness that took all of Germany." Kitty also observes that the Nazi resistance against the Allied occupation after the war were called the Werewolves, but Fritz either was not involved or doesn't remember, so can't confirm if the name had a deeper meaning. | |
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The Commissioner Gordon | |
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The Commissioner Gordon: Detective Hardin acts as the low-ranked version of this for Kitty, though at times rather unwillingly and snarkily. Even after the decision in the Senate in book 2, people do tend to still fear/hate the supernaturals, making this a secret Hotline version of the trope—at least as far as the public goes; other members of the force are aware of both Kitty and Hardin's focus (they call it obsession) on the paranormal, and instead react with mockery. Except when the shit hits the fan and they need help, of course. She also becomes this, to some degree, for Cormac while he's in prison, coming to him for supernatural assistance in one of her cases, and as of book 11 has even hired him on retainer as a supernatural/mystical investigator. | |
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The Power of Rock | |
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Unsurprisingly, Kitty comes across these on a regular basis, and usually manages to either prove them wrong or dismiss them as crackpots. A more amusing example would be Martin Pearce and his "fae magic explains The Power of Rock and the explosion of mass market pop bands" theory. But after what she learns in London, and her announcement at the conference, she herself is regarded as one...and suddenly sees it from the other side, trying desperately to prove her story, knowing it to actually be true, but realizing she can't differentiate herself from the hordes of theorists who are equally "sure" they're right. It doesn't help that she's actually proposing two theories, the Ancient Conspiracy of the Long Game and the fact some of those in power would love to obtain the "secrets" of the supernatural for their own military and political gain, which sound similar to other crackpot theories out there. | |
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The Reveal | |
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The Reveal: So much is revealed in the last book, but the biggest contenders are: Who is the Caesar behind Roman? Lucifer himself. Where do the supernaturals come from? They were created by Lucifer to pervert God's creation and allow him to control the world. This is why any who manage not to be evil and retain their humanity are called "traitors" by him and Ashtoreth the demonic bounty hunter. Why was Roman always targeting Denver with the Long Game? Not to get rid of Kitty as a threat or even out of revenge, but because it was the closest city with a vampire Family to Yellowstone, thus enabling him to have the minions, power, and base of operations from which to plan and use the Manus Herculei. This finally also provides the reason for him sending Harold Franklin there. This also proves Kitty was right to insist Rick should stay there as Master, and Father Columban was wrong. | |
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Mentor Occupational Hazard | |
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Mentor Occupational Hazard: The other (and primary) reason T.J. kicked the bucket. | |
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Spicy Latina | |
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Spicy Latina: His sister Esperanza. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Kitty, the werewolf. Lampshaded to the point of being a Running Gag. Extremely true of Roman. New Moon, the lycanthrope-friendly restaurant owned and run by Kitty's Number Two, Shaun. Odysseus Grant is probably a subversion of this trope. He deals with things that aren't from around here, but he himself is apparently a normal human. A powerful and mysterious human, but still, from around here. As far as we know he's never made any odysseys of his own, or if he did, he's already come back safely. Anastasia ("she will rise again") as the name for a vampire. The pseudonym adopted by Flemming's mysterious foreign backer is "G. White." "G" for Gaius, and White in Latin is "albus". While all of the cult members in Kitty in the Underworld have significant names of supernatural entities that they gave themselves as part of their ritual, one has an additional layer to its meaning: Kumarbis is one letter away from Kumarbi, a Hurrian and Hittite deity who was considered a father and king of gods. This not only indicates exactly how old the vampire is (and most likely his place of origin), it certainly implies something about his self-image that fits his rather arrogant and condescending attitude, especially toward Kitty. Charles Lightman, which appears an Ironic Name on the surface but actually references his original appellation as "the Morning Star". | |
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The Maiden Name Debate | |
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The Maiden Name Debate: Briefly referenced when Kitty insists she's keeping her own name, because Kitty O'Farrell sounds like "a character in a bawdy Irish ballad". | |
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Stock Unsolved Mysteries | |
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Stock Unsolved Mysteries: Amelia muses upon the Cottingley Fairies, and the conflict over their veracity between Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. | |
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Babies Ever After | |
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Babies Ever After: For Kitty and Ben, and lampshaded by Carrie Vaughn herself as something so many of her readers wanted to have happen. | |
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Big Brother Worship | |
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Big Brother Worship: Peter has this for T.J., although he turned somewhat into The Resenter after T.J. left home when he was thrown out for being gay and didn't take him with him. Still resulted in him traveling across the country, taking odd jobs, and even learning how to spy, sleuth, and break a few laws in order to track him down. | |
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Like an Old Married Couple | |
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Like an Old Married Couple: As observed by Shaun, this applies to Kitty and Ben even before they become officially Happily Married. | |
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My Greatest Failure | |
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My Greatest Failure: Being unable to prevent his father's death is this for Cormac. Kumarbis considers turning Roman to be this, since not only did he end up doing it against his will, but Roman betrayed him, delved into powers and beings he would not dare to consort with, and eventually warped his design into one to destroy the mortal world, then dominate the supernatural one; as a result he is now determined to do anything if it will allow him to kill Roman and make up for his sins. If Kitty's surmise is correct as to just where Kumarbis's feelings and instincts about Roman being meant for greatness came from, he is more right than he knows in considering this such a terrible act. | |
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Masquerade | |
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The initial background has a Masquerade, albeit one run poorly enough that the existence of werewolves and vampires is an open secret kept only because too few people care. There are actually government groups writing unclassified papers on the subject, although most normal people think the matter is a joke. Between the Midnight Hour radio show and said government groups making a fuss when their funding went under review, though, and the concept becomes so commonplace that the first live television werewolf transformation gains little more than an FCC fine for flashing the audience. | |
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Pair the Spares | |
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Pair the Spares: In the last book (and rather out of nowhere) Tina starts showing interest in Cormac when they finally meet. However this is averted in the end since she isn't really sure he's her type and he's already in love with Amelia, who is possessing him. Tina is aware of this, and doesn't know if they can share. Also factoring into the situation is that she is still recovering from the death of Jeffrey Miles, whom she'd gotten involved with in House of Horrors, and so she either might have been seeking Sex for Solace or had decided she has waited long enough and hopes he will be into romancing her. | |
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And the Adventure Continues | |
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And the Adventure Continues: Kitty still has her pack, and her show, and will continue shedding light on the dark world of the supernatural, encouraging both humans and "monsters" to understand each other and be the best people they can be, all while being as snarky and irreverent as ever. All of her friends' various lives will go on, with Tina and Grant's shows, Cormac's study of magic, Rick's mission with the Order, and her various vampire allies' fight against Roman's former followers still continuing. And if something turns up to threaten her pack, or a mystery to solve, or a bit of literature and mythology to research and explore, she'll always be right there to do it. | |
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Idiot Ball | |
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Sun takes the Dragon's Pearl out of its safe to keep it away from Roman...only to bring it back with him when he comes to the rescue, thus allowing Roman to get away with it after all. | |
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Invoked Trope | |
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In one short story, Kitty meets a metal band whose drummer claims to be channeling the demon Morgantix. Turns out it's all an act he put on, just to Scare 'Em Straight and get them all to cooperate so the band could amount to something. | |
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Serial Killer | |
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Serial Killer: A different kind than usual, in James. The more typical (i.e., human) kind is hunted down by David and Kitty in "Il Est Né". | |
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Warm Bloodbags Are Everywhere | |
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Warm Bloodbags Are Everywhere: Naturally this is how humans appear to vampires and lycanthropes. The good ones however, even Kitty in her Extreme Doormat phase, resist this impulse and continue to view them as humans with rights and value, or at least don't wish to descend to that uncontrolled, predatory level and thus lose their dignity or their own humanity. As Luis puts it, "I know that I could rip out their guts, and I choose not to." And Emma, in "Life is the Teacher", even comes to realize that far from being mere sources of blood with which to maintain power and immortality, the living are the ones with the true power—the hosts without which the parasites would not survive—and therefore to be honored, envied, even on some level held sacred, the light they cannot get from the sun. | |
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Unwitting Pawn | |
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Unwitting Pawn: Dr. Flemming. He realized his pawn status in regards to Senator Duke and Leo, but not Roman...a fatal mistake on his part. Arturo was also one, to Mercedes and Roman, and once he realized the truth he committed Anti Villainous Sacrifice to keep power out of their hands and ensure Rick would be there to defeat the Long Game. | |
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Unseen Pen Pal | |
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Unseen Pen Pal: It turns out that the helpful, knowledgeable magic-user who aids Cormac and Amelia via e-mail in figuring out what happened to Crane and Kuzniak (and indirectly stop Layne's plot and obtain Zora's code) is Roman. The usual danger of the trope doesn't appear, although before the reveal is made, Amelia does get rather gushy and blushing over him and his "brilliance", extremely eager and impatient to get back to the computer to converse with him, and even after the reveal mentions wanting to ask him questions at their meeting before Cormac firmly insists this is a stake first, no questions later situation. To be fair, Amelia did not seem to truly fall under his sway or lose their level-headed nature, just become excited about the magical possibilities; on the other hand, the meeting arranged for the last book is one Cormac worries could very well end in his death (and it does turn out to be quite dangerous). | |
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Noble Demon | |
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One of the best would be setting up Arturo, the Master Vampire of Denver who, even in book 1, had turned out to be something of a Noble Demon or even an Anti-Villain, to look like he was responsible for the vampire war with Rick when really he was as much a victim and dupe as anything else—if Rick went up against Arturo and lost, Arturo would then have no other rivals to his authority, a very old vampire who owed allegiance to no Family would be removed from the picture, and Arturo, having been placed there by Mercedes and Roman, would either support them in the Long Game or not get in their way; if instead Rick wins, he would owe Mercedes for her help and would have to capitulate to her and Roman to maintain his position. The plan was only ruined because of Kitty's return to deal with her mother's cancer, something they could not have foreseen, and her usage of Detective Hardin as an ally. (And because of Arturo's Heroic Sacrifice and Rick turning out to be stronger than they gave him credit for.) | |
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Put on a Bus | |
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Put on a Bus: Rick as of Rocks the House. | |
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The Cuckoolander Was Right | |
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The Cuckoolander Was Right: The Fundamentalist insisting that vampires and lycanthropes were created by Lucifer to pervert God's creation turns out to be absolutely correct. And while he was wrong to think this meant supernaturals were intrinsically the Devil's creatures and thus evils that had to be eradicated, that was Lucifer's original intention, one he is very put out at having thwarted. | |
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Played for Laughs | |
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Played for Laughs in the previous book, where a tape of Kitty being forced to transform in a prison cell after being kidnapped gets her fined by the FCC because her breasts were briefly visible mid-transformation. Talk about your screwed-up priorities... | |
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Monster Protection Racket | |
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Monster Protection Racket: Classic example in Roman, the Band of Tiamat, and the ifrit. First discussed by Rick, then lampshaded by Kitty when she realized Rick was right and Roman's story was a little too convenient. | |
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All Myths Are True | |
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The stakes are upped when, in book 9 Kitty meets what appear to be gods. It leads to quite the existential crisis when she has to wonder if this truly means All Myths Are True and what she believes is called into question. | |
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Hell-Bent for Leather | |
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Hellbent For Leather: Brenda, which in Kitty's estimation (and combined with the rest of her overdone wardrobe) also makes her an In-Universe Fashion Victim Anti Hero. Also, the demon bounty hunter (literally!). | |
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Face Your Fears | |
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Face Your Fears: Kitty's biggest fear, her personal In-Universe Nightmare Fuel, is losing herself in the Wolf, losing her humanity and fully becoming a ravening beast, particularly if this leads to her bloodily attacking and killing the innocent. Naturally of course this is what Roman tries to make her do in book six when he induces the Change in her. What is perhaps a bit worrisome about this moment is that Kitty doesn't actually face her fear; Rick intervenes to save her, and while she swears afterward not to let it happen (and continues to fight her enemies without succumbing, even though she comes quite close to doing so in book 7), it can't really be said that she's overcome the fear or truly gained the control she seeks. To a point such a battle is always a lifelong one for a lycanthrope, but overall she seems merely to have sidestepped the issue... | |
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Passing the Torch | |
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Passing the Torch: In book six ( five, technically, but it's not apparent until later) Kitty meets Dux Bellorum ( a.k.a. Roman, a.k.a. Gaius Albinus, but Dux Bellorum is a name given after it's clear he's a villain, so that will do for the unspoilered version), who seems to be a Big Bad Hidden Agenda Villain. In book seven, she meets someone who seems to be a Big Good. Kitty was refusing the call even before she had someone to refuse it to explicitly, but she's been gradually growing into responsibility all along. By the time the Big Good rides off into the sunset in book 9, Kitty almost seems eager to take over. | |
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MindManipulation | |
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Mind Control: While all vampires have the ability to hypnotize and influence the will with their gaze, the Big Bad of book 6 is able to do this, as well as induce the Change, through arcane, Vancian magic. This is shown more explicitly with what he does to Henry in book 9. | |
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ShoutOutToShakespeare | |
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Shout-Out to Shakespeare: Numerous quotes by the Bard are made by Ned, naturally enough, as well as other literary allusions to Marlowe and other playwrights of their day. Thanks to having known Shakespeare, Ned is also able to put to rest In-Universe the Authorship Question—at least to Kitty; he won't tell the world and end all the academic debates because that would "ruin all the fun". | |
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Louis Cypher | |
| Kitty Norville / int_7c58fe32 | comment |
Louis Cypher: Although not quite as obvious as most examples of the trope, Charles Lightman does use the same initials, as well as referencing his original name's meaning. | |
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Stages of Monster Grief | |
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Stages of Monster Grief: Appears at various points throughout the series, with different characters at different stages. Most have reached the Acceptance stage, with people like Kitty, T.J., Alette, Anastasia, Rick, Luis, and so on being Friendly Neighborhood Vampires (or werebeasts), while those like Carl, Meg, Mercedes, and Roman are clearly Fully Embraced Fiends (the latter two being Trans Human Treachery as well). Examples from both sides also exist among Kitty's callers. The two best examples of characters running the whole gamut of stages would be Emma, who (although most of this happens off-screen between books two and ten, other than "Life is the Teacher") goes from contemplating Suicide by Sunlight to a Friendly Neighborhood Vampire and in many ways a Sheep in Wolf's Clothing, and James, who goes through an accelerated version thanks to his mental instability; it's a sad process to watch. Ben goes through this too, of course, though after his initial depression and contemplation of suicide he gets over it and accepts his new life with admirable swiftness. | |
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Almost Kiss | |
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Almost Kiss: Cormac and Amelia experience this inside his mind, during their "Eureka!" Moment about Kuzniak's death, the amulet and how to get it back from Layne. | |
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Big Bad Friend | |
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Big Bad Friend: Diego, to Rick. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The curse from book three, intended to make Kitty leave the area, instead drew the skinwalker there. Sun takes the Dragon's Pearl out of its safe to keep it away from Roman...only to bring it back with him when he comes to the rescue, thus allowing Roman to get away with it after all. A major example of this occurs in Rocks the House: Because Father Columban does not bother to tell Kitty what sort of dark forces are pursuing him, and neither she nor Rick will inform the police of the Long Game and his role in fighting it, Hardin acts on the information from Interpol that seems to tell her the priest is a murderer and arsonist, hiring Cormac to break his protective spell so she can arrest him; his recklessness and loathing for vampires, and Amelia's curiosity about the magic involved, lead him to agree. The end result? The spell is broken all right, a demon is unleashed, and by the time the dust has settled and she has been banished, Father Columban has died to save Rick, Rick has nearly killed Cormac for it, Kitty nearly died, and Rick has left town to join the Order of St. Lazarus, leaving Kitty with only Angelo to work with and spearheading the fight against the Long Game on her own. Cormac is of course completely unrepentant about this; the only good to come out of the whole mess is that Kitty now knows there's a Greater-Scope Villain behind Roman and Hardin is now fully in the loop and willing to help bring down the Long Game. | |
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Black Eyes of Evil | |
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Black Eyes of Evil: The demonic Fallen Angel bounty hunter has these. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: One of Kitty's favorite means of snark. Very early example, when Rick and Kitty are discussing the implications of Elijah Smith's Church of the Pure Faith: | |
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Monster Mash | |
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Some of this appears in Kitty and Rick's alliance post-vampire war, before she admits he's a good guy who's only trying to help and he realizes he needs to stop treating werewolves like his obedient servants and instead share information and work together like equal partners. This sort of arrangement is actually the norm for vampires and werewolves, where they aren't in a Monster Mash, Fur Against Fang, or outright self-inflicted What Measure Is a Non-Human?/Fantastic Racism mindset. | |
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Fur Against Fang | |
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Fur Against Fang: Werewolves and vampires do work together, with the werewolves usually operating as servants, but the situation is unfriendly at best. This is also a large part of Roman's strategy, pitting the werewolf packs against each other and/or against their vampire Masters, when he isn't using them outright as his foot soldiers, and encouraging the other vampires to do the same. This backfires on him, however, when Kitty's Mama Bear instincts kick in and she instead incites the werewolves to Turn Against their Masters, and her actions inspire other vampires to form La Résistance against him. | |
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Large Ham | |
| Kitty Norville / int_823c6e3e | comment |
It's uncertain, but it may be the case that they just they use their speed and/or mesmerism to make it look like they vanish. It's frequently stated that most vampires are melodramatic. In a few scenes, like Arturo in the hospital in Kitty and the Silver Bullet, Kitty expects a vampire to vanish but he actually just walks away. | |
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Final Battle | |
| Kitty Norville / int_830b0ac9 | comment |
Despite all getting out alive, getting the Dragon's Pearl away from Roman, and Anastasia finally getting to have some peace as a handmaiden of Xiwangmu, Cormac has to wonder at the end of book 9 if they won. Considering what lies ahead of Kitty and her allies if she accepts Anastasia's charge, he may be right to worry. | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Kitty Saves the World. | |
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Viva Las Vegas! | |
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Viva Las Vegas!: Dead Man's Hand takes place there (with a short return in Raises Hell.) | |
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The Fair Folk | |
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Elijah Smith, both in terms of his quasi-religious cult that "saves" supernaturals from themselves (but they can never leave or be free) and his true form. Also Pure Is Not Good, with his Church of the Pure Faith. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: Seeing as Carrie Vaughn might someday write more stories/books in this world, and also that she wanted to give the impression of life going on, a number of loose ends remain at the end of the series. Most of these can be guessed or implied, but a few do stand out: Will Kitty's mom's cancer ever come back, which Arturo seemed certain it would? What happened to the rest of the Band of Tiamat? The future fates of Emma, Luis and Esperanza, Tyler, Peter, Sakhmet... What else is in Zora's Book of Shadows? Will Cormac and Tina get together? Or will he and Amelia remain a couple sharing a body? Will Dr. Schumacher or one of her colleagues ever truly come to understand the supernatural, or find cures for lycanthropy and vampirism? Will Ben and Kitty's child turn out to be special in some way after all? And will there be another price paid for him? How will Roman's allies in Europe and the Middle East be taken out? And most concerning of all, Lightman's comment about there always being another tool, and that he could wait. After having a two-thousand-year-old plot spoiled, he likely won't try anything big again anytime soon, and Kitty rather hopes Earth wouldn't be a battleground again, at least in the near future...but he, Ashtoreth, and the other demons are still out there... | |
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"Leave Your Quest" Test | |
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"Leave Your Quest" Test: This is a perhaps inadvertent result of Darren's Secret Test of Character on Kitty, when she becomes extremely tempted to flee Denver, the pack, the Long Game, and all the stresses and pressures so as to have a quiet, normal life with Ben, because she still doubts her abilities and strength as an alpha. In the end, though, she passes. A form of this also occurs for Rick, since even though joining the Order of St. Lazarus would still be fighting evil (and Dux Bellorum) he'd be giving up Denver, his Family, and Kitty to do it. He doesn't pass. Kitty actually received one of these two books earlier as well, when after the confrontation in San Francisco Dux Bellorum offered a truce, claiming he would leave her and her people alone if she agreed not to follow Anastasia's charge and interfere in the Long Game. Although he claims he only offers this because she is an "inconvenience and nuisance", she correctly surmises (bolstered by Xiwangmu's support) that he wouldn't have bothered if he didn't see her as a threat—so she refuses. One final time Roman offers this to Kitty, this time on the air on her show, that if she will stop getting in his way he will allow her to leave the Long Game and have her life to enjoy "for a little while." While the latter threat makes it clear how foolish it would be to accept, Kitty herself states she's gone too far and can't back down now—that the only way she'll get that life and be able to enjoy it is if she stops him. | |
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Psychic Powers | |
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Psychic Powers: Tina, as well as Jeffrey Miles | |
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Conveniently Precise Translation | |
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Conveniently Precise Translation: Ben's lawyer knowledge allows him to translate the name of Dux Bellorum's Artifact of Doom, the Manus Herculei, as the Hand of Hercules—which sounds bad enough, being named after a superstrong and invincible demigod. But it turns out he had the translation wrong: it's Hand of Herculaneum. Kitty, unfortunately, falls prey to common knowledge by not recognizing the name, but with research she'll surely discover just how ominous it is. | |
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Eldritch Abomination | |
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When Kitty is hidden in Grant's magic cabinet and discovers it leads to the world of an Eldritch Abomination, she thinks she was "half expecting to see a snow-covered forest and a lamppost". | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
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Bait-and-Switch: When Ashtoreth takes Kitty to one of the geyser basins in Yellowstone, she first thinks she's been taken to Hell itself. Ironically, she later finds out in some of the brochures for the area that back when Yellowstone was first explored, people actually did think that particular basin was an entrance to Hell. | |
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Refusal of the Call | |
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Refusal of the Call: Kitty has another moment of this in book 11, where after Darren attempts a takeover of her pack she once more doubts herself, her abilities, even her identity as an alpha and is in danger of fleeing all responsibility and becoming a lone wolf again just to escape the pressures of her life. Luckily she snaps out of it. | |
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Disorganized Outline Speech | |
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Disorganized Outline Speech/Verbal Backspace: | |
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Badass Army | |
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Badass Squad: In Kitty Goes to War, Captain Gordon and his pack of Special Forces werewolves are these, achieving results far beyond their expectations, but the pack completely fall apart after Gordon, the alpha, dies. | |
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Only in It for the Money | |
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Of a different nature, Ozzie, who refuses to believe Kitty's exposé of the Long Game and only seems to care about the show and its sponsors. | |
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Small-Town Tyrant | |
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Small-Town Tyrant: Sheriff Marks from Takes a Holiday. As the highest-ranking lawman in a rural Colorado town, this shouldn't be surprising, but needless to say he is not only inherently distrustful of outsiders, he's genuinely prejudiced against Kitty and other lycanthropes and so is at best highly skeptical when she reports seeing a creature with glowing red eyes in the woods around her cabin. It turns out that, lack of belief in magic and the supernatural notwithstanding, he's willing to join in with Alice and Joe to cast a Curse on Kitty, which explains why he doesn't properly investigate the barbed wire crosses, blood, and slaughtered animals she discovers. In his defense, when the skinwalker appears and he realizes Kitty was both telling the truth and not a threat, he does his best to try and fight the creature off. But even having his life saved by Cormac isn't enough to get him to testify in the hit man's defense, since to do so he'd have to admit he was wrong (and to his other crimes). | |
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Meta Guy | |
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Meta Girl: Kitty, on many an occasion. | |
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Did Not Get the Girl | |
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Did Not Get the Girl: Cormac definitely has some regrets of this nature regarding Kitty. | |
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Commuting on a Bus | |
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While not many of the others from earlier in the series return for the final book, several do, for very important reasons and roles: Tina, Grant, Sun Wukong, Anastasia and Rick, who it turns out was just Commuting on a Bus; others, like Ned and Alette, only get to be The Cameo for bit parts. On the villainous side there's also the reappearance of Mercedes Cook. | |
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Wham Episode | |
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One final time Roman offers this to Kitty, this time on the air on her show, that if she will stop getting in his way he will allow her to leave the Long Game and have her life to enjoy "for a little while." While the latter threat makes it clear how foolish it would be to accept, Kitty herself states she's gone too far and can't back down now—that the only way she'll get that life and be able to enjoy it is if she stops him. | |
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Ancient Conspiracy | |
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Ancient Conspiracy: the Long Game | |
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Paranormal Investigation | |
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Paranormal Investigation: The Paradox PI show/crew. It is very much modeled after Ghost Hunters. | |
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Matter Replicator | |
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Matter Replicator: The Dragon's Pearl is the magical equivalent of this. Dux Bellorum's plan for it is, in a way, to turn it into a Mook Maker, since creating multiple copies of his coins allows him to mark, and bind, more and more followers. | |
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Cliff Hanger | |
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Cliffhanger: While these do crop up at various points in the books, the most notable one would be the Sequel Hook at the end of Dead Man's Hand—Kitty being shown by Shaun the word "Tiamat" burned on the door of New Moon. Kitty in the Underworld: So the ritual to destroy Dux Bellorum fails, costing the lives of the entire cult save Sakhmet, the demon bounty hunter most likely escaped again, and Dux Bellorum has retrieved his Artifact of Doom. But Kitty has obtained Zora's Book of Shadows, and with the help of Cormac/Amelia and people at KNOB she has managed to post its entire contents online—thus exposing Roman even more to the world, and providing anyone who finds and decodes it the means to band together and stop him. Low Midnight ends with the double whammy of finally knowing just what the Manus Herculei does and Cormac arranging via anonymous e-mail to try and meet Roman to assassinate him. | |
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Demonic Possession | |
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Demonic Possession: Happens briefly to Tina. In one short story, Kitty meets a metal band whose drummer claims to be channeling the demon Morgantix. Turns out it's all an act he put on, just to Scare 'Em Straight and get them all to cooperate so the band could amount to something. | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
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Ironically Mercedes herself ends up suffering this fate in the last book when her "having overstepped her bounds in London" causes Roman to abandon her, then allow the bounty hunter to kill her. | |
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Rule of Symbolism | |
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Book two, besides literally describing its plot, is a reference to Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. | |
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Sinister Minister | |
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Sinister Minister: Fray Juan in "Conquistador de la Noche", with a good dose of Religious Horror too. Helped along by him deliberately choosing the other side in the Balance Between Good and Evil, then perverting Christian ceremonies by making them reality instead of merely symbolism. It's then revealed in Rocks the House that he originally was a member of the Order of St. Lazarus and only had a Face–Heel Turn later, though it seems to be unrelated to Dux Bellorum. Father Columban, former superior and vampiric sire to Fray Juan, is made out to be one of these too during his introduction, both by his appearance (he's described several times as being "something out of a Gothic novel") and comparing his arrival at New Moon and demand to be invited in with Roman's first appearance in Raises Hell, but it's actually a subversion as he's instead a Badass Preacher and member of the Order of St. Lazarus, opposed to creatures like Juan and Dux Bellorum, although he is a bit of a Knight Templar. | |
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The Bus Came Back | |
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The Bus Came Back: With the ending of the series drawing closer, and due to the nature and far-reaching effects of the London conference, numerous characters from early in the series reappeared in Kitty Steals the Show. Luis and Emma are back with fairly large roles, as is Dr. Flemming; Alette, Tom, and Mercedes all get The Cameo (the latter, however, acting as a Woman Behind the Man for most of the book); and Tyler gets to be the Distressed Dude this time. Jules from the Paradox PI crew is also there, though only named as a guest on Kitty's show. The only ones we haven't seen return are Ahmed, Tony, Grant, Peter, Brenda and Evan, and the non-evil members of the Band of Tiamat...and with the way the series is shaping up, it's likely at least some of them will appear too. While not many of the others from earlier in the series return for the final book, several do, for very important reasons and roles: Tina, Grant, Sun Wukong, Anastasia and Rick, who it turns out was just Commuting on a Bus; others, like Ned and Alette, only get to be The Cameo for bit parts. On the villainous side there's also the reappearance of Mercedes Cook. | |
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It's Quiet… Too Quiet | |
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It's Quiet… Too Quiet: Absolutely Played for Drama when the geysers and fumaroles at Yellowstone all stop boiling, the sign that the Manus Herculei is about to be used. | |
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Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene | |
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Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: Although a number of these have occurred throughout the series, one of the most meaningful and unexpected occurs when a tired and overwhelmed Kitty stays by the side of a dying Roman. | |
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There Are No Therapists | |
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There Are No Therapists: Played with in "Long Time Waiting". Cormac has Dr. Olson while he's in prison, but the fellow is clinical, condescending, and seems to believe Cormac is a violent nutcase whose problems all stem from losing his parents at a young age. (He may be on to something, since being Forced to Watch as your father is bloodily savaged by a werewolf cannot be good for the psyche, and Cormac certainly has mental issues, but it's more complicated than that and can't be reduced to such obvious answers.) But then after the killings and riots make it clear there is some sort of ghostly or demonic presence, he actually stops being a skeptic, comes to Cormac for help, believes his explanation after the fact when the possession is over, and even puts in a good word for him to the parole board. | |
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Big Bad | |
| Kitty Norville / int_970c790a | comment |
A lot, but most notably Arturo, the Master Vampire of Denver, despite a genuinely moving scene trying to save one of his people from Elijah Smith, is made out to be the Big Bad in book 4. In actuality, he's just a patsy, victim of someone else's plan. | |
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Black Dude Dies First | |
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Black Dude Dies First: Absolutely defied with Sergeant Tyler, who actually makes it to the end of Kitty Goes to War and lives; despite repeated hints to the contrary, he also makes it through Kitty Steals the Show. Sadly played straight with Jerome Macy in House of Horrors, who is the first to die other than Dorian. | |
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Friendly Neighborhood Vampire | |
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Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: Alette, Rick, Henry, the Boss of San Francisco, Anastasia, Ned, Marid, Antony, and to some degree every good character. Staying sane requires werewolves and vampires to keep some semblance of a normal civilized life. | |
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Cane Fu | |
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Cane Fu: Marid is quite adept at this, and it's in fact the whole reason he carries one it seems, since as a vampire he certainly doesn't need one for the usual reason. Would be a Sword Cane, if the sharp tip were actually a separate weapon, or concealed in any way. | |
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Death Takes a Holiday | |
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Book three is a reference to Death Takes a Holiday, which in some ways accurately describes Kitty fighting to make sure Ben doesn't die. | |
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Better to Die than Be Killed | |
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Better to Die than Be Killed: Roman clearly believes this, since rather than let the rising sun destroy him, he falls on a tree branch spear. | |
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Nothing Is the Same Anymore | |
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Nothing Is the Same Anymore: As of the end of Rocks the House, Kitty has become fully in charge of her pack again after a brush with dissension and loss of authority as alpha, a wake-up call regarding her neglect but that has earned her full loyalty again. However, even with the addition of Hardin to the ranks of those who know about the full extent of the Long Game, she has lost Rick as an ally, now has to rely on the far less dependable Angelo, is not sure she can trust all her allies thanks to Darren and Nasser, knows of the existence of fallen angels, and has discovered that Dux Bellorum is merely the general for some faceless unknown evil ruler, one who considers her, Rick, and all werecreatures and vampires to be "traitors" to him and his cause. To say where the series goes from here is going to be a departure from what we've seen so far is an understatement. | |
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When You Coming Home, Dad? | |
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When You Coming Home, Alpha?: To some extent this mindset is beginning to set into the Denver pack, particularly for Becky and Trey, because Kitty is too busy with her crusade against Dux Bellorum and being a celebrity to be there for them when they really need it. To mirror this, Cheryl makes it clear to Kitty that she has felt neglected and abandoned too when it comes to taking care of their mother should her cancer come back; some of this is inspired by her sister's feeling pressured and directionless in her own life, but there's enough truth to it to sting. By the end of the book Kitty has sworn to take steps to make up for these failures, with so far pleasing results. | |
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Greater-Scope Villain | |
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Greater-Scope Villain: Charles Lightman aka Lucifer. | |
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Van Helsing Hate Crimes | |
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Van Helsing Hate Crimes: A senator was willing to commit kidnapping and false imprisonment to get footage of the Savage Monster that Kitty Norville truly is... too bad she only cowered in a corner once she changed. Also, most of the plot of Kitty's House of Horrors. The whole reality show was a setup to get some supernatural people trapped and videotape their murders to show the world that they could and should be killed. It was basically an inversion of a horror movie where the so-called monsters are being hunted and have to work together to survive, lampshaded several times in the story. | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human? | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human?: A pretty common theme. Senator Duke treats werewolves and vampires as something less than human, and a lot of the less admirable vampires treat humans and werewolves like bugs. The hunters in book 7 take this theme to its logical and sickening conclusion, literally turning the supernaturals into the prey in a real life hunt. Dr. Flemming treats his supernatural patients this way for the most part, despite protests to the contrary and moments of sympathy and caring. In book two Kitty has to remind him several times that Fritz "Has a Name". Amelia contemplates and rejects this after she goes to Eastern Europe to investigate the truth behind Dracula and meets what likely was a real vampire. | |
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A Day in the Limelight | |
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A Day in the Limelight: New bit-part characters get to have stories told from their point of view in Kitty's Greatest Hits—David, Robin, Jake—while characters from the main series whose backgrounds we've not gotten to know also get their chance to shine as the protagonist—Rick, Ben and Cormac, T.J., and Emma. Matt even gets The Cameo in "Kitty's Zombie New Year". In book 11 we not only get to meet another member of the pack, Trey, but Becky comes back into focus as a character as does Kitty's sister Cheryl. The entirety of Low Midnight is this for Cormac and Amelia. | |
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Taking the Bullet | |
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Enkidu, and Zora bringing down a whole mountain to close the portal and stop any more of Roman's forces from coming through. Kitty takes the spear for Kumarbis and also lives. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: As proof that the series' Cerebus Syndrome was planned, Alette's discussion of "stories vampires tell to frighten each other" of things that are merely "evil", coupled with Leo's assertion that the plot went "far beyond Flemming", makes it clear Roman was being set up long before he appeared in Kitty Raises Hell. When Ben accompanies Kitty to the Senate hearing in book 2, and she is finally about to testify (on the day of the full moon), Kitty thinks to herself that he had a predatory grin, and was a "wolf in lawyer's clothing". Angelo's Face–Heel Turn, even if it does come a little out of nowhere, is foreshadowed not only by the veiled comments he makes before Kitty and the others go to Albuquerque about Denver "not being the same" when she comes back, but by how terrified he was ever since being made Master of Denver and the number of times he insisted he wasn't strong enough to face Roman. The fact the call which first got Kitty's show her big break involved her giving advice to a Catholic vampire, using Paradise Lost as a source, becomes an incredible piece of long-range foreshadowing (as well as Book Ends of a sort): not only does Lucifer himself appear in the last book, along with ranks of fallen angels straight from Milton, but the advice she gives that first vampire, and to all her callers, turns out to be the very thing that stops Lucifer from achieving victory—to seek forgiveness, never give up, and keep retaining their humanity. Just goes to show how much Vaughn had planned ahead! | |
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Double Consciousness | |
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Double Consciousness: The instincts that came along with Kitty's werewolf transformation, referred to simply as "Wolf," are treated as a separate character, a sort of backseat driver to Kitty's human life. In times of stress or surprise she gets harder to ignore, and from what we see when 'Wolf' is in charge the converse also holds true. | |
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Ambition Is Evil | |
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Ambition Is Evil: Played with in various ways. While many vampires in the series are either portrayed negatively due to their ambitions, or their ambitions actually caused them to become evil, others are shown to use their power only for good and/or to have obtained it so as to stop the evil ambitions of others. Examples of the first type are Roman, Mercedes, Jan, Leo, Farida, and to some degree Arturo (although he has a Heel Realization before the end and does what he can to help the heroes win); examples of the second type are Rick, Alette, Ned, Anastasia, the Boss of San Francisco, Antony, and Marid. There are borderline cases though, such as Nasser (since he was willing to encourage someone to take out Kitty because he thought she wasn't strong enough to face Roman); Kumarbis, who started off with evil ambitions but realized the wrong in this when he discovered how far Roman was willing to go and thus set out to stop him; or Angelo who became 'evil' out of fear and self-preservation rather than ambition, and vampires like Dominic who are only in it for the trappings of power and are otherwise figureheads. A few lycanthropes are even portrayed this way such as Carl and Meg or Dack. One other interesting parallel is set up through Amelia: aside from her being willing to do unscrupulous things to achieve her ends, at various points when the reader gets in her head it's revealed how she is so hungry and eager for magical knowledge that she comes across as greedy, troubling, and even unlikable, particularly in how entitled to it all she acts (such as when trying to obtain knowledge of Native American rituals). This is especially true in Low Midnight where both her desire for Kuzniak's Book of Shadows and the amulet seem quite unsettling and off-putting, and where her claims she is doing this "because it's the right thing to do" and such things shouldn't be left in Layne's hands seem like justifications to disguise her power-mongering; it's telling that Judi and Frida both think at first Cormac wants the code to Zora's Book of Shadows for Amelia rather than for any altruistic motive, and she can't quite deny it. She is even willing at one point to try and learn from Roman just because of the kind of knowledge he possesses! The key differences which separate her from Roman however are that she is clearly quite determined to save and protect the world; her desire for knowledge comes not from wanting to dominate but simply being an obsessed academic who loves and admires every magical thing she comes across; and the fact she pulls back from doing things the way Roman would have and thus subverts Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!. So in the end her ambition, while a bit excessive at times, turns out not to be evil and in fact quite helpful at various points. | |
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Mundanger | |
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Mundanger: Subverted. After all the plotting and scheming involving Roman, Mercedes, the vampire Masters of Europe, and their werewolf clans, it seems that the kidnapping of Sergeant Tyler is completely perpetrated by human agents only, Dr. Flemming and his military assistants, whom Kitty had completely discounted due to all the supernatural threats she knew about and her determined belief that after being exposed and discredited as he was, he would never show up at the conference. But then it turns out they were all being manipulated and used by Mercedes and Roman, as part of his attempt to gain new recruits for his final gambit in the Long Game. Played straight in Dead Man's Hand, however, where Ben's disappearance has nothing to do with either the bounty hunters or the Band of Tiamat, but his werewolf-enhanced gambling. Also played straight in House of Horrors, although the TV show producers who were hunting and killing the supernaturals weren't exactly run-of-the-mill mundanes. | |
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The Older Immortal | |
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The Older Immortal: Roman is this to most other vampires. Note the operative term most. | |
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Elopement | |
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Elopement: What Kitty and Ben decide to do when they opt for a Vegas wedding so as to escape all the expenses and stresses of a big wedding. Subverted when her parents decide to come along. The end result, after they both make it through their separate ordeals with the Band of Tiamat and crime boss Faber, is them choosing My Own Private "I Do" in the form of an Elvis drive-in wedding chapel. | |
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Our Vampires Are Different | |
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Our Vampires Are Different: Break out in hives and die from exposure to sunlight, crosses, and holy water. Wooden stake through the chest kills. Need blood to regenerate injuries, can hypnotize anyone that looks directly into their eyes. The hypnosis can be broken (and they themselves can be paralyzed) if you pray or otherwise speak holy words in their presence, and they cannot speak such words at all. Unless you have Heroic Willpower, like Rick. If you're drained dry, you come back as a vampire later. Much faster than humans, and can teleport through shadows if the way Mercedes and Ned appear and disappear out of nowhere, and how Ned finds Jan hiding in them, is any indication. They can show up in mirrors and photos, or decide not to. And much older, more powerful vampires can apparently make lesser ones sweat blood. It's uncertain, but it may be the case that they just they use their speed and/or mesmerism to make it look like they vanish. It's frequently stated that most vampires are melodramatic. In a few scenes, like Arturo in the hospital in Kitty and the Silver Bullet, Kitty expects a vampire to vanish but he actually just walks away. | |
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Sex–Face Turn | |
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Through persuasion, show of strength, and (sadly) sex, Darren manages to turn Becky into one of these for a while. Luckily she gets shown the error of her ways, so the Face–Heel Turn doesn't stick. | |
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Throwing Down the Gauntlet | |
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Has now happened with a vengeance thanks to Kitty unmasking Roman and the Long Game to the world at the supernatural conference. | |
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Mind Control | |
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The final showdown in book 9 takes this to quite the high level: two werewolves, an 800 year old vampire, a bounty hunter possessed by the ghost of a wizard, and a modern-day magician/videostore owner take on a 2,000 year old vampire, his mind-controlled slave Henry, and the Chinese god of chaos, Hundun with the assistance of the Monkey King and the Queen Mother of the West. | |
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? | |
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: Commander Gordon (and his superiors) learn this the hard way after their creation of a werewolf Special Forces platoon goes awry. Kitty also says this before going to the London conference; she really should have known better. Ozzie also mentions this just before Kitty goes on the reality TV show. When she claims that she could "make an idiot of myself, ruin my reputation, lose my audience, my ratings, my show, and never make a living in this business again", he replies that no, the worst is she could die on film in a freak accident "and how likely is that?" He really must regret those words later... With the number of times Kumarbis and Zora keep insisting nothing can go wrong, that they are well protected, the ritual will not leave them open to danger, and Dux Bellorum will be slain, the reader knows long before they do that things will go pear-shaped. | |
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Balance Between Good and Evil | |
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Balance Between Good and Evil/Order Versus Chaos: It's not clear which way the series is going to fall on these tropes; Roman and his ilk definitely seem to hew toward the "evil and darkness taking over the world" end, while the conflict between Grant and the Band of Tiamat is explicitly described as one fought "over the nature of the universe". In Book 7, Kitty calls such dualities false, to which Grant says "You're learning," but whatever it is they're fighting and why, it seems clear that by the end of the series there will be a big battle, and at stake will be such things as peace and harmony, free will, and of course the fate of the supernatural world. It definitely seems to be leaning more toward Order Versus Chaos as of Kitty Steals the Show. While Roman and his followers are still trying to Take Over the World and it is very clear his group is evil while the resistance forming against him is (mostly) good, his methods still involve manipulating others and pitting them against each other so as to sow chaos and keep them from uniting against him—whether through his use of various lycanthrope slaves to be his Red Shirts, his dividing the vampire Masters into fractured, suspicious, It's All About Me camps, or his layered deceptions involving Mercedes, Flemming, and the protest rioters. Father Columban and the Order of St. Lazarus of the Shadows explicitly describe it as fighting "the forces of darkness" but then they are a bit biased. Another crazed The Fundamentalist caller in the last book tries to bring the whole conflict with Roman back to this trope again, insisting that it's really all about Lucifer and his minions trying to pervert and corrupt God's creation and thus tip the balance in his favor. Kitty of course flatly denies that such simple Black-and-White Morality can cover what's going on...but it turns out he was actually right, as revealed by Lucifer himself, at least in the sense that he was making the conflict be all about this. | |
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Hilarity Sues | |
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Hilarity Sues: Subverted. Cormac, the resident Badass Longcoat, blows half of an evil skinwalker's face off to put it out of its misery, after it was already mortally wounded. This saves the pretty heroine, her lover, a police officer, and a couple civilians. Traditional end to a werewolf story, right? We're only two-thirds through the book; the badass has just been arrested for murder because the final bullet constituted excessive force. (Not so much Hollywood Law as a combination of Dirty Cop, Amoral Attorney, and Fantastic Racism, plus the masquerade only recently having been broken.) Played for Laughs in the previous book, where a tape of Kitty being forced to transform in a prison cell after being kidnapped gets her fined by the FCC because her breasts were briefly visible mid-transformation. Talk about your screwed-up priorities... | |
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Gratuitous Latin | |
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The pseudonym adopted by Flemming's mysterious foreign backer is "G. White." "G" for Gaius, and White in Latin is "albus". | |
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Double-Meaning Title | |
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Not only does Kitty keep herself sane while imprisoned by thinking of famous pieces of literature and mythology to compare her ordeal to (particularly Persephone and Inanna), she has embarked on both the Road of Trials and a Night Sea Voyage: she's gone into the underworld in a sense (hence the book title), encountered shapeshifters (including one associated with an Egyptian goddess), and she seeks knowledge/wisdom against the Big Bad. She gets it, too—not just Dux Bellorum's backstory and true motivation, but the literal gift of knowledge contained in Zora's flash drive, her Book of Shadows. Another Night Sea Voyage occurs in the last book when Kitty and Ben must try to sneak into Obsidian to find the Manus Herculei. They fail. Technically all of Low Midnight is a Breather Episode for Kitty, but there's also a brief one when she and her allies are staying at a motel in Yellowstone and planning the Final Battle. | |
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Naked People Are Funny | |
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Naked People Are Funny: Considering the main character is a werewolf and throughout the story she and other lycanthropes are constantly losing their clothes, witnessed mid-transformation, or seen after Changing back to human form (and very few of these situations are at all funny), this trope is always avoided...until Low Midnight, when as part of the ritual to call gold from the earth, Cormac has to take off his clothes at night, in the mountains, at the tail end of winter. What makes it even funnier is that Amelia is of course still in his mind, which prompts Cormac to accuse her of just wanting to see him naked, and once he is, her also getting to experience just why he was against the idea. | |
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Physical God | |
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Physical God: The Monkey King and the Queen Mother of the West. | |
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Good Is Impotent | |
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Tricked by an inscription claiming a Sumerian cuneiform tablet lay buried beneath a particular stone marker, Amelia instead unleashed one of these in the form of a demon...one that would follow her everywhere she went, killing people to feed on their blood and fear, while she could do nothing to stop it. | |
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Died in Your Arms Tonight | |
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Died in Your Arms Tonight: Enkidu, in Sakhmet's. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Sheriff Marks to a point. The guy Kitty dated in college, and the fake vampire master of Las Vegas, although you'd expect it from him. Also probably Senator Duke. We know that he lost a lawsuit, but he kidnapped someone and were party to murder; losing a lawsuit seems like a poor substitute for jail time. Justified in his case, of course. Dr. Flemming was also an example until book 10. After going the whole series being this, Manipulative Bitch Mercedes Cook finally has karma catch up with her in the last book. | |
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Crystal Skull | |
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Crystal Skull: One of these shows up in Rocks the House courtesy of a fan of the show. Kitty has a great deal of fun with it, both in debunking the mythology behind it and playing a hilarious prank on Ozzie. It even becomes a Brick Joke at the end when she gives it as a gag gift to Rick before he leaves town. | |
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Domino Revelation | |
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Domino Revelation: We meet werewolves, vampires, and various other members of the supernatural by the second and third books. | |
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The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes | |
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The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: At various points throughout the series, Kitty often finds it easier to deal with the problems of her callers than those in her own life. This is most prominent in Kitty Takes a Holiday when first because of her writer's block, desire to hide from publicity, and yearning to go Wolf and never come back, and then later when she's dealing with Ben and Cormac, the curse, and the skinwalker, she ends up calling in to her imitator and in-universe fangirl, "Ariel, Priestess of the Night"—and it helps having someone looking at her life from the outside so as to give her the advice she needs. Played up in Kitty Rocks the House; apparently Kitty's personal life and the Denver pack has been suffering as she pursues her career and networking among vampires willing to resist Roman. | |
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And I Must Scream | |
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And I Must Scream: Poor Beth's fate. | |
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Red Eyes, Take Warning | |
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As does the silent leavings of blood, barbed-wire crosses, and slaughtered animals to cast the curse in book three—Kitty never hears or sees anything, just the evidence left behind—and the sightings of the skinwalker's glowing red eyes. When it is finally seen, it remains nightmarish and disturbing, however. | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance: The orgiastic display of victims at the vampire convocation, and the werewolves there being shown off as pets/slaves, was clearly an in-story attempt by Mercedes and other followers of Roman to push Kitty's Berserk Button by showing her the way vampires "used" to run things—and, if they had their way, how they would be run again. At the same time, however, it was also an attempt by Ned to show Kitty what her opponents were truly like, so as to galvanize her against them (and, admittedly, because he enjoyed watching the other Masters get completely thrown off by Kitty's rebelliousness)...and the manner of punishment he metes out to Jan later shows that for all his disapproval of their plans, he still ascribes to some outdated modes of justice. | |
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Dramatic Irony | |
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Dramatic Irony: If Kitty had bothered to tell Kumarbis and the others what Alette had already told her (that Antony had found Dux Bellorum in Split), there would have been no need for the first ritual to divine his location...and he might not have been forewarned, allowing them to kill him after all. Of course he likely would have had the demon bounty hunter with him anyway, and Kitty was not in a mood to trust her captors, but still... After Kitty says goodbye to Shaun at New Moon, even telling him she and Ben had willed the restaurant to him in case they don't make it back from Albuquerque, it's him and the pack who end up in trouble instead. Until it turns out they were simply rescued from Roman and taken out of the line of fire by a pair of angels. | |
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Alas, Poor Villain | |
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Alas, Poor Villain: Angelo. As annoying, arrogant, and abrasive as he was toward Kitty, he did genuinely stand with her and try to help her before his fear drove him to join Roman, and his constant cries of how weak he was, how he was afraid to face Roman and never wanted to be Master, become much harsher in hindsight as clear cries for help rather than whininess or cowardice. Even after he changes sides, he still tries as hard as he can to spare Kitty's life, and his final attack on her to keep the bounty hunter from killing him for failure is as sad as it is desperate. In the end he manages to stay alive long enough after being staked to tell her where to go to try and stop Roman from getting his Artifact of Doom, and the fact by the time she gets there it's too late and his aid was for nothing just makes the whole thing even more pathetic and painful. Kitty herself has Sympathy for the Devil, practically crying over his ashes (and does cry for him once she gets back to the house with Ben), and despite Cormac's later truthful assertion that he had been a "disaster" as Master of Denver, she still defends him in her thoughts, saying it wasn't his fault and she didn't want to think ill of the dead. Amazingly, after going half the series alternately hating and being terrified of him, Kitty ends up feeling sorry for Roman as he lies dying from the backblast of the Manus Herculei. Even as she commiserates with him over how he must have felt after Kumarbis turned him, she can't bring herself to truly do anything to help him, certainly not to offer him her blood. But she does suggest trying to get him to shelter from the sun so he won't be destroyed by the dawn, and as much as Roman suggests she is simply trying to do the ethical thing to salve her conscience and couldn't really want to help him, that she'd do better to abandon him after all he had done to her and her friends, she still wishes she could save him. She even tries to talk to him about his past, and calls him by his real name as he stakes himself. | |
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Myth Arc | |
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Myth Arc: Beginning with book four, every story has tied in somehow to an ongoing conflict that apparently is an extension of vampire politics, called the Long Game. As publicly-acknowledged supernatural person, a diplomatic-minded werewolf, and for that matter as a leader for werewolves at all, Kitty is a wildcard in that. | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: If Roman, through Mercedes, hadn't incited a vampire war against her friend Rick, and drawn the werewolves into it, Kitty never would have become pack alpha, and if he hadn't tried to get revenge on her for foiling the Band of Tiamat's sacrifice, he never would have turned her into the Regina Luporum and Arch-Enemy who was so instrumental in bringing him down. By setting up the abduction of Tyler, he's also turned him against him, and by breaking neutrality to get rid of Ned and divide the European Families, he's instead united them against him and drawn the attention of the whole world. In a subversion, it turns out it wasn't Roman who fixed things in Steals the Show (he did, in fact, know better than to do anything which would reveal him and his plans to the world at large or turn the vampire Masters of Europe against him), since it was Mercedes and she alone who was behind the plan with Flemming and Tyler. Whether she used Roman's pseudonym to recruit him without his knowledge or co-opted a false identity he had been using for other purposes isn't known, but needless to say he was quite displeased with her. Lightman's intent in having Ashtoreth take Kitty to Yellowstone was to either intimidate her into giving up or forcing her to be a witness (and one of the first victims) of the Manus Herculei. However, once she is able to escape from him (thanks to something he didn't count on protecting her), her proximity enables her to summon the others (and Grant and Tina had in fact already been able to scry for her), and they are able to follow the trail from him back to Roman so as to locate and stop his plot. If Lightman had just left Kitty in Denver, they probably never would have figured out where to go exactly to get there in time. | |
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P.O.V. Cam | |
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P.O.V. Cam: Used to some degree whenever Kitty shifts into Wolf form. | |
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Pyrrhic Victory | |
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Pyrrhic Victory (lampshaded): Of all the men in Gordon's platoon, every one but Tyler ends up dead, whether having killed each other or been brought down with silver bullets by Tyler himself. He does get rehabilitated and in a pack of his own, but still... Despite all getting out alive, getting the Dragon's Pearl away from Roman, and Anastasia finally getting to have some peace as a handmaiden of Xiwangmu, Cormac has to wonder at the end of book 9 if they won. Considering what lies ahead of Kitty and her allies if she accepts Anastasia's charge, he may be right to worry. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Aside from Kitty herself, a number of characters qualify, but one of the most deadpan of all (because of his lawyerly Straight Man persona making him The Comically Serious) is Ben. His response after Kitty's kidnapping, forced televising of her Change, and loss of anonymity have completely overwhelmed her? "Your place in American pop culture is assured. You're going to wind up as a question on a game show, you realize." | |
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First-Person Smartass | |
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Thanks to werewolf superimmunity, nothing foreign will remain in their bodies. After being turned, the werewolf soldiers of Captain Gordon's squad wake up to find their tattoos have become ink staining their sheets, and the microchips the military try to use to track them get ejected. Kitty then notes this means she couldn't get breast implants. | |
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Face–Heel Turn | |
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Angelo's Face–Heel Turn, even if it does come a little out of nowhere, is foreshadowed not only by the veiled comments he makes before Kitty and the others go to Albuquerque about Denver "not being the same" when she comes back, but by how terrified he was ever since being made Master of Denver and the number of times he insisted he wasn't strong enough to face Roman. | |
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Prison | |
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Prison: In the third book, Cormac went to jail and it wasn't a Cardboard Prison. The author specifically stated that the character would get out...in the amount of time specified in his plea bargain. As of Kitty's House of Horrors, he's out on parole for good behavior, although Vaughn has stated something pretty bad happened to him whilst in prison... Hellhole Prison: The Colorado Correctional Facility isn't this normally, but it definitely becomes so (literally) in "Long Time Waiting" after numerous murders, a demonic haunting, and riots. | |
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Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot | |
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Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Ben, the werewolf lawyer ex-part-time-bounty hunter. Cormac, the ex-bounty hunter possessed by the ghost of a witch. Tyler, the werewolf Green Beret. The final showdown in book 9 takes this to quite the high level: two werewolves, an 800 year old vampire, a bounty hunter possessed by the ghost of a wizard, and a modern-day magician/videostore owner take on a 2,000 year old vampire, his mind-controlled slave Henry, and the Chinese god of chaos, Hundun with the assistance of the Monkey King and the Queen Mother of the West. Father Columban, the vampire Catholic priest magician. | |
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Loners Are Freaks | |
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Loners Are Freaks: Werewolves do not do well without a pack. Averted with Rick, however, who turns out to do better (and is on the side of good) precisely because he has a been a lone vampire for so long, outside the influence of the Families, Roman, and the Long Game. | |
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Extreme Doormat | |
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Extreme Doormat: Kitty originally, before loads of Character Development. | |
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Fate Worse than Death | |
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Kitty calls herself out, briefly, near the end of Kitty Raises Hell when she learns that the ifrit's final message to her had been a plea for mercy for the sake of his wife and children, and that he had only been terrorizing her because the vampire priestess made him do it. And she had helped consign him to the world of an Eldritch Abomination. She immediately tries to convince herself and the Paradox PI team that it was only a play for sympathy, that he had still killed people, and the ifrit's fury, malice, and insulting words to her did seem a little too genuine to be a compelled act. Still, the reader can't be sure she was right... | |
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I Did What I Had to Do | |
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This is true of the entire fanatical group that kidnaps Kitty in book twelve, since they are all willing to give their lives to achieve their goals, but especially their leader Kumarbis and the magician Zora. Both are convinced that anything is justified in the name of completing their ritual and destroying Dux Bellorum, both believe Kitty must be kept in the dark about her role for her to become a proper avatar, and both are too tunnel-visioned and convinced of their own rightness and destiny to see the warning signs Kitty points out to them until it is too late. Yet it cannot be denied they are on the side of good and attempting to save the world—and in Kumarbis's case his feelings are justified by the fact he is Roman's progenitor, so with everything Roman has done through the centuries being his fault, he believes he must go to any extreme to make up for his terrible mistake in turning him. And as Kitty says, if his ritual actually works "he wasn't misguided at all". | |
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Loophole Abuse | |
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Vampires are blurry on film, unless they decide to not be. Police officers end up carrying spray bottles of holy water and pistol crossbows that fire wooden quarrels. Silver paint isn't just a chrome-like color scheme. Faerie wards work just fine if the herbs come in pill form. Vampires can enter commercial property without asking (but not a haunted house, since the ghost still lives there and has to invite them). There's a DNA test for lycanthropy and vampirism. A police officer wonders whether sunglasses protect against mental domination, and suggests that a vampire's life sentence be one day. | |
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Coming of Age Story | |
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Coming of Age Story: In many ways, despite Kitty already being a college graduate at the start of the series, this is the shape of the overall plot as she not only learns more about the supernatural world and her place in it, but about herself and how to balance her human and wolf halves. Seeing her grow from the Extreme Doormat, to an independent and strong woman, to pack alpha, to spokeswoman for the supernatural world and heroine combating the forces of darkness/chaos, is extremely satisfying. | |
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Have You Tried Not Being a Monster? | |
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Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?: Kitty gets this from various sources, including of course her family—in book four her sister Cheryl actually compares her "symptoms" (lying, secrecy, etc.) to those of a drug addict, to which Kitty sarcastically retorts, "What are you going to do, stage an intervention?" At one point, before the masquerade is broken, she considers it would be easier to tell her mother she was a lesbian. Ironically, Kitty actually is making a concerted and constant effort not to be a monster—as in, resisting the impulses and retaining her humanity, rather than stopping being a werewolf. | |
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Celestial Deadline | |
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Celestial Deadline: Of a sort; Kumarbis's cult kidnaps Kitty and insists she must join them and help them perform their ritual within a set time period. It turns out the ritual draws on their supernatural power, which for lycanthropes is at the three days of the full moon—so the ritual needs to be performed as close to that time as possible (without them actually being forced to Change and lose control), and if it fails they can't try again until the next month. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: In book 7, Kitty's House of Horrors, Kitty takes a phone call from an arrogant, self-absorbed bounty hunter in Kansas City who's almost certainly supposed to be Anita Blake. Enough sympathy is shown toward her, however, that this may be merely an Homage or Shout-Out. In the very first book, based on her manner of dress, overall appearance, attitude, and the types of books she writes, author Veronica Sevilla reads as a knockoff of Anne Rice (pre-born again Christianity). | |
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Ten Little Murder Victims | |
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Ten Little Murder Victims: Something like this plays out in Kitty's House of Horrors. It's all a subversion. The panicky, incompetent, suspiciously underinformed person isn't the mole, but survives anyway. The competent but high-strung person who constantly accuses someone else of being the mole isn't the mole, and also survives. The helpful, amiable person with lots of useful abilities isn't the mole either. No one is. However, almost everyone besides those three and the narrator dies. Everyone in the house was an intended victim. | |
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If Jesus, Then Aliens | |
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Addressed in a different way when the conference is held in London. Esperanza points out that the scientific community's recognition of the reality of the supernatural has caused attendance of religious services to greatly increase—i.e., if magic and monsters are real, God must be too, and so they are going to church more for protection against them. This isn't necessarily unrealistic either, since Ahmed had told Kitty Daniel was a werelion, and that was how he saved himself from the lions—but that he then went on to thank God for making him one, and to contemplate the purpose behind it, suggesting the religious and the supernatural can coincide without abandoning logic. On the other hand, the breaking of the masquerade also caused people in Tanzania to think the superstition about albinos being magical was real, thus justifying killing them for their parts... | |
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The Final Temptation | |
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The Final Temptation: Not villainous, but Father Columban's offer to Rick to join the Order of St. Lazarus of the Shadows has a similar flavor to it—basically offering him everything he secretly wanted (faith, hope, a family, a return to his roots) without even requiring he abandon his heroism since the Order would not only be fighting evil, but Roman specifically...though he would have to leave Denver to do it. At first he refuses...but then he indirectly accepts the offer after Columban's death. Played straight (but with no vision used): Lightman's TV series offer to Kitty certainly acts as this, since it would give Kitty so much she's craved for so long—respect, prestige, a chance to reach an even wider audience, the money to help take care of the pack and her family. She'd even get the safety she wants too, since going to either New York or LA would get her out of the (immediate) line of fire. But although tempted (the timing certainly makes her more willing to escape the danger she's in), she of course rejects the offer. | |
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Fantastic Romance | |
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Fantastic Romance: Different from most examples, but it's still pretty fantastic to develop romantic feelings for not just a ghost, but one possessing your own body. On the one hand, its very nature means both that it's very likely Love Cannot Overcome (seeing as they probably can't consummate it in any way) and that the logistics and weirdness of it all means it has to be a Secret Relationship. Despite this, what makes it work is the gradual, natural build-up to it (Opposites Attract and Like an Old Married Couple leading to Lonely Together, and finally a mutual You Are Not Alone that keeps either of them from being Alone Among the Couples) and that it manages to be by turns sweet, heartwarming, Slap-Slap-Kiss, Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl, and even shades of Lady and Knight. Whether fans embrace it or not, Cormac and Amelia is certainly an unusual and memorable pairing. | |
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Love Triangle | |
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Love Triangle: Between Kitty, Ben, and Cormac, sort of. Though Kitty and Cormac flirt with the notion of getting involved in the very first book, he can't at that point bring himself to overcome his What Measure Is a Non-Human? thinking. By the time he can do so and seriously considers a relationship with her, Kitty and his cousin are already bonding as werewolves, then he gets locked up for killing the skinwalker. During visiting hours, they briefly discuss whether things could have gone differently, and while they conclude that maybe it might have worked for them, they'll never really know and it's too late by then. Kitty and Ben are Happily Married, and after Cormac gets parole, he seems to have accepted this and is just happy to be their friend and an unofficial third member of the pack. Ben, Kitty, and Luis have the start of one before Kitty nips it in the bud. Partially caused by The Trickster fae girls, but also encouraged by Luis's own The Casanova nature and Ben's jealousy. | |
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Must Be Invited | |
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Must Be Invited: Played with. Commercial buildings and public spaces are fair game, of course, but any place that is a "home", no matter how metaphorical of one it is, can block a vampire from entering. This leads to a rather funny moment when Rick, one of Kitty's friends, tries to walk through the door of the werewolf restaurant/bar, resulting in a "running into a glass door" moment. As he puts it, although the building is a business, the pack has made it a home as well. Kitty teases him by threatening to not let him in, but eventually does. It also applies even when the one who calls the place "home" is dead, it seems, since the fact Flint House is haunted prevents Roman from entering to come after Kitty and the Paradox PI crew. | |
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Morality Chain | |
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Morality Chain: Ben to Cormac | |
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Mirror Character | |
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One other interesting parallel is set up through Amelia: aside from her being willing to do unscrupulous things to achieve her ends, at various points when the reader gets in her head it's revealed how she is so hungry and eager for magical knowledge that she comes across as greedy, troubling, and even unlikable, particularly in how entitled to it all she acts (such as when trying to obtain knowledge of Native American rituals). This is especially true in Low Midnight where both her desire for Kuzniak's Book of Shadows and the amulet seem quite unsettling and off-putting, and where her claims she is doing this "because it's the right thing to do" and such things shouldn't be left in Layne's hands seem like justifications to disguise her power-mongering; it's telling that Judi and Frida both think at first Cormac wants the code to Zora's Book of Shadows for Amelia rather than for any altruistic motive, and she can't quite deny it. She is even willing at one point to try and learn from Roman just because of the kind of knowledge he possesses! The key differences which separate her from Roman however are that she is clearly quite determined to save and protect the world; her desire for knowledge comes not from wanting to dominate but simply being an obsessed academic who loves and admires every magical thing she comes across; and the fact she pulls back from doing things the way Roman would have and thus subverts Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!. So in the end her ambition, while a bit excessive at times, turns out not to be evil and in fact quite helpful at various points. | |
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Part-Time Hero | |
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Part-Time Hero: Kitty herself is a borderline version; while she does hero work and it interferes with her real life, her job is pretty willing to put up with it. Ben is a better example, lawyer by day, werewolf and vampire hunter when necessary. And werewolf, too. He doesn't get enough sleep. As of book 7, despite her protests of I Just Want to Be Normal and Refusal of the Call, Kitty may have to become a fulltime hero and even a leader, just to protect the world, both her allies and innocent humans, from the forces of darkness and chaos. As of book 9, she has actually been given the call directly, and seems to be ready to accept it. See Passing the Torch. | |
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Knight Templar | |
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Enkidu, Zora, and Kumarbis in book twelve, although Zora does not become truly sympathetic until her badass last stand against the demon (and in retrospect, once it's discovered what is on her flash drive) and Kumarbis, for all his valor and determination to make amends, is still a rather arrogant Knight Templar who did at one time want to Take Over the World. | |
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Weirdness Magnet | |
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Weirdness Magnet: Kitty, probably because she's also an Intrepid Reporter. "I bet you don't go a month without getting into trouble." Because of this fact, in addition to their feelings for her, Ben and Cormac insist on staying near her—they know whether she plans it or not, whether it even seems possible or not, danger will be drawn to her and she'll need their help. | |
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Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence | |
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Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Anastasia departing "into the West" with Xiwangmu. It is played reminiscently of Enoch "walking with God". Or rather, it turns out, Shift to a Neighboring Plane of Existence, since Anastasia is still able to mentally contact allies like Tina and Grant to help Kitty when she needs it, and can even appear to her (along with Sun) when in a Liminal Time between life and death, sleeping and waking, human and Wolf. | |
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Kiss of the Vampire | |
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Kiss of the Vampire: Her first experience with vampire feeding makes Kitty question her sexuality. That good. | |
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Happily Married | |
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Happily Married: Kitty and Ben, eventually. | |
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Tarot Motifs | |
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Tarot Motifs: Occasionally Grant's usage of modern playing cards makes reference to this. When speaking to Kitty after Ben has been kidnapped, he briefly shows her the three of spades (swords) meaning betrayal, referencing what she's soon to learn about Balthasar's show, and the ace of hearts (cups), standing for love and her impending marriage. He later displays the ace of spades, symbolizing death, to Nick—warning of the shootout which will cost Balthasar and four others their lives but could also be foreshadowing Nick's own fate in book six. | |
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I Have You Now, My Pretty | |
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I Have You Now, My Pretty: Leo indulges in some of this with Kitty in book two. So does Balthasar after the Band of Tiamat captures her. | |
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The Pornomancer | |
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The Pornomancer: Balthasar, to judge by Kitty's reaction. | |
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Subverted Trope | |
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Between Kitty, Ben, and Cormac, sort of. Though Kitty and Cormac flirt with the notion of getting involved in the very first book, he can't at that point bring himself to overcome his What Measure Is a Non-Human? thinking. By the time he can do so and seriously considers a relationship with her, Kitty and his cousin are already bonding as werewolves, then he gets locked up for killing the skinwalker. During visiting hours, they briefly discuss whether things could have gone differently, and while they conclude that maybe it might have worked for them, they'll never really know and it's too late by then. Kitty and Ben are Happily Married, and after Cormac gets parole, he seems to have accepted this and is just happy to be their friend and an unofficial third member of the pack. | |
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Cutting the Knot | |
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Cutting the Knot: How do you deal with a Chessmaster villain who seems untouchable, incites fear in everyone who knows of him, is gathering allies in secret for a great Order Versus Chaos war to Take Over the World, and is consistently able to outmaneuver or manipulate everyone to his own ends? Reveal his existence and what he is doing to the world in a live public speech. The key to winning in the final book comes down to being able to locate where Roman is to stop his spell. Other than being helpfully teleported to the general area by Ashtoreth at Lightman's behest (oops), how do they do this? Tina, augmented by Grant's spell, calls out to the spirits of the land, the Shoshone's Ground People, who can point the way on a map. | |
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Fun with Acronyms | |
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Fun with Acronyms: After the masquerade is broken and Kitty (already Hauled Before A Senate Subcommittee) is forced to Change on national television, a number of protesters start demonstrating outside the Capitol Building. On the side in favor of the supernaturals, there's the Vampire League Against Discrimination: V.L.A.D. They reappear at the London conference in book ten. | |
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Murder by Inaction | |
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Amazingly, after going half the series alternately hating and being terrified of him, Kitty ends up feeling sorry for Roman as he lies dying from the backblast of the Manus Herculei. Even as she commiserates with him over how he must have felt after Kumarbis turned him, she can't bring herself to truly do anything to help him, certainly not to offer him her blood. But she does suggest trying to get him to shelter from the sun so he won't be destroyed by the dawn, and as much as Roman suggests she is simply trying to do the ethical thing to salve her conscience and couldn't really want to help him, that she'd do better to abandon him after all he had done to her and her friends, she still wishes she could save him. She even tries to talk to him about his past, and calls him by his real name as he stakes himself. | |
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Curse | |
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Curse: In book three, Alice, Joe, and Sheriff Marks cast one on Kitty in order to get her to leave town, preemptively fearing something the "monstrous" werewolf might do to them and their community. But because a) Kitty isn't evil and b) they weren't willing to truly kill and shed blood the curse didn't work properly, instead bringing ill-fortune on all of them until Tony helps cleanse it, and drawing the skinwalker there. Tony also claims that the touch of the skinwalker cursed both Kitty and Cormac. It isn't clear if this is true, or whether the curse was expiated after Kitty met and escaped Lawrence Wilson, but it is worth noting that Cormac not only goes to prison after this but encounters a demon and gets possessed by Amelia while in quick succession after this Kitty's mom gets cancer, she gets caught up in a vampire war and draws Roman's attention, and she encounters the Band of Tiamat, the ifrit, and the Right-Wing Militia Fanatic TV show producers. Some of this may be bad luck or publicity, and if what Alette hinted at was true, Roman was already involved well before the skinwalker showed up, but her touch may have accelerated things and it can't be denied things in Kitty's life get much more complicated and deadly after this encounter... Tricked by an inscription claiming a Sumerian cuneiform tablet lay buried beneath a particular stone marker, Amelia instead unleashed one of these in the form of a demon...one that would follow her everywhere she went, killing people to feed on their blood and fear, while she could do nothing to stop it. | |
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Xanatos Gambit | |
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Xanatos Gambit: Both Mercedes and Roman are good at these. One of the best would be setting up Arturo, the Master Vampire of Denver who, even in book 1, had turned out to be something of a Noble Demon or even an Anti-Villain, to look like he was responsible for the vampire war with Rick when really he was as much a victim and dupe as anything else—if Rick went up against Arturo and lost, Arturo would then have no other rivals to his authority, a very old vampire who owed allegiance to no Family would be removed from the picture, and Arturo, having been placed there by Mercedes and Roman, would either support them in the Long Game or not get in their way; if instead Rick wins, he would owe Mercedes for her help and would have to capitulate to her and Roman to maintain his position. The plan was only ruined because of Kitty's return to deal with her mother's cancer, something they could not have foreseen, and her usage of Detective Hardin as an ally. (And because of Arturo's Heroic Sacrifice and Rick turning out to be stronger than they gave him credit for.) The con set up in book 6 via the ifrit to be banished is even more of an example: if Kitty capitulates to Roman, he will remove the ifrit threatening her but in exchange she will have given him her loyalty; if she stays in Denver and tries to ride it out, her pack will either all be slain or turn on her; and if she tries to face the Band of Tiamat, she will be sacrificed for their dark chaotic cult. Again, the plan is only ruined by surprises from the outside—the Paradox PI crew (specifically, Tina), T.J.'s brother Peter, and Odysseus Grant. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: The kind of prisoner who would not go insane and kill themselves after hearing Amelia's ghost and thinking they were Hearing Voices would also be too strong-willed, determined, and independent to let her in. Lampshaded by Amelia herself. | |
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No, You | |
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No, You: When Kitty meets Meg again for the first time after returning from her exile, with Ben in tow: | |
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You Are Better Than You Think You Are | |
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You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Several side characters, including at least three that have seen enough to make a good assessment, tell Kitty to her face that she is more than capable of living up to the presumptions many make about her authority and leadership. As noted below it has not really sunk in. | |
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And Your Little Dog, Too! | |
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And Your Little Dog, Too!: In general it is always someone or something close to Kitty that is threatened by whatever villain she is facing, starting with T.J., then moving up to Ben and Cormac, but it is the threat to Kitty's own family, and to KNOB, that galvanizes her to take on Carl and Arturo to become pack alpha. Following this, of course, it's the pack itself, as well as all of Denver and her various allies, that become her Protectorate and the target of the Big Bad through increasingly more dangerous and vengeful schemes. What her enemies fail to realize, it seems, is that the more they threaten those she cares for, the more she will refuse to give in and swear to bring them down. Roman intended for Angelo to capture and threaten the pack to coerce Kitty's cooperation, but unfortunately for him the angels got there first. | |
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Heroic Willpower | |
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Break out in hives and die from exposure to sunlight, crosses, and holy water. Wooden stake through the chest kills. Need blood to regenerate injuries, can hypnotize anyone that looks directly into their eyes. The hypnosis can be broken (and they themselves can be paralyzed) if you pray or otherwise speak holy words in their presence, and they cannot speak such words at all. Unless you have Heroic Willpower, like Rick. If you're drained dry, you come back as a vampire later. Much faster than humans, and can teleport through shadows if the way Mercedes and Ned appear and disappear out of nowhere, and how Ned finds Jan hiding in them, is any indication. They can show up in mirrors and photos, or decide not to. And much older, more powerful vampires can apparently make lesser ones sweat blood. | |
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Pretentious Latin Motto | |
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Aside from Roman's adopted name of Dux Bellorum, Latin is also used, it seems, in missives between the vampire Masters of Europe when planning gatherings or communicating generally. Justified since not only is he actually from the Roman Empire, but many of the older vampires are from at least the Middle Ages if not earlier—so they would either also have lived when Latin was a living, spoken language or when it was used by the Church to preserve literature and by nobles to show off their education. It's also one of the few languages all of them would have in common. And it can't be denied it's pretty awesome when applied to Kitty. It is also clearly the Language of Magic, or one of them, since it is used by Roman, Cormac, and Father Columban. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: There are a number of these, but one of the most humorous is in book 7, when Kitty questions a vampire's very attractive and young human servant: Book 9 takes place for the most part in San Francisco's Chinatown. Its title? Kitty's Big Trouble. Beth's arrival at the New Year's Eve party in "Kitty's Zombie New Year" has shades of "The Masque of the Red Death". When Kitty is hidden in Grant's magic cabinet and discovers it leads to the world of an Eldritch Abomination, she thinks she was "half expecting to see a snow-covered forest and a lamppost". When the plan to assassinate Roman is about to be attempted, and everyone (but especially Kitty) is nervous that it won't succeed, Ben quips that instead they should "nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure." What makes this even funnier (and cuter) is that somehow Kitty doesn't recognize the reference, but still recognizes it is a reference, and appreciates Ben all the more for it. | |
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Necromancer | |
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Necromancer: Odysseus Grant proves to be one of these in book 7, and while it comes across as more of an I See Dead People moment, the arcane sigils and ceremonial magic suggests he may be capable of more than that. Which, since he is firmly against the forces of chaos and darkness, makes him the rare good (or at least neutral) example of this trope. Amelia Parker is one as well. | |
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Bring News Back | |
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Antony, who gives his life to try and take out Roman, but manages to send word back to Ned of the Manus Herculei. | |
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Chekhov's Volcano | |
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Chekhov's Volcano: How does Roman intend to use the Manus Herculei to Take Over the World? Blow up the Yellowstone caldera, thus creating for all intents and purposes an eternal cloudcover that will keep vampires safe from the sun, letting them control those who survive the destruction. | |
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Two Lines, No Waiting | |
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Two Lines, No Waiting: Just about every book in the series has a number of subplots and side issues which come up and are eventually dealt with (unless they relate to the ongoing Myth Arc, and even then some elements or aspects of the plot get resolved in one book even as the arc continues). Some of these, such as the faith healer, allow for character-building moments or thematic ones for the series (in that case, the continuing thread of Kitty becoming the Part-Time Hero she does in order to help other supernaturals and retain her humanity), although even in that case it acts as a Chekhov's Gun for book ten. More cleverly, many of these subplots which seem to be distractions from the main plot end up being useful in resolving it, whether by providing extra allies and powers, providing answers or distractions, or even acting as a Spanner in the Works. See that entry for more details, but also of note: Ben's lycanthropy takes over book three from the curse plot, but said curse is what draws the skinwalker, whose brother was the one to infect Ben in the first place. It's thanks to Kitty's mom being diagnosed with cancer that she comes back to Denver and thus falls right into the vampire war between Rick and Arturo, but her mom comes back into the story when Arturo uses her to get Kitty to meet him. The whole reason Kitty ends up falling into Balthasar's clutches and almost ends up sacrificed to the Band of Tiamat is because she goes to them for help after Ben gets kidnapped for his werewolf-enhanced gambling. | |
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Taking You with Me | |
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This is also what happened to Farida and the Band of Tiamat once Grant released their uncontrolled ifrit so he could get revenge on them. End result, Taking You with Me and a Fate Worse than Death (though a bit more complicated than that). | |
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We ARE Struggling Together | |
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We ARE Struggling Together: Some of this appears in Kitty and Rick's alliance post-vampire war, before she admits he's a good guy who's only trying to help and he realizes he needs to stop treating werewolves like his obedient servants and instead share information and work together like equal partners. This sort of arrangement is actually the norm for vampires and werewolves, where they aren't in a Monster Mash, Fur Against Fang, or outright self-inflicted What Measure Is a Non-Human?/Fantastic Racism mindset. The ultimate result of this is played out in Rocks the House: because Rick (and Father Columban) won't fully trust or disclose to Kitty and she won't spill the beans to Hardin, the police detective and Cormac end up working at cross-purposes with her, eventually leading to Father Columban's death, Rick leaving town, and her being stuck depending on Angelo as the new Master of Denver. Meanwhile, her lack of being there for her pack due to rallying La Résistance almost causes her to lose Becky and to some extent Trey, helped along by Darren's subversive nature. | |
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Nothing Is Scarier | |
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Nothing Is Scarier: Much of what makes Roman such a threat, and so frightening, is that no one, not Kitty and not even the other vampires, know what it is he will do to Take Over the World, other than as an amorphous The End of the World as We Know It. Which is why Kitty's revelation is so effective: Roman only has power, and can strike fear in others, as long as he and his plans remain secret and unknown. When the truth is revealed though, it's actually still rather frightening. Tyler's story of the ghul in Afghanistan partakes of this too. As does the silent leavings of blood, barbed-wire crosses, and slaughtered animals to cast the curse in book three—Kitty never hears or sees anything, just the evidence left behind—and the sightings of the skinwalker's glowing red eyes. When it is finally seen, it remains nightmarish and disturbing, however. | |
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Post-Modern Magik | |
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Post-Modern Magik: Vampires are blurry on film, unless they decide to not be. Police officers end up carrying spray bottles of holy water and pistol crossbows that fire wooden quarrels. Silver paint isn't just a chrome-like color scheme. Faerie wards work just fine if the herbs come in pill form. Vampires can enter commercial property without asking (but not a haunted house, since the ghost still lives there and has to invite them). There's a DNA test for lycanthropy and vampirism. A police officer wonders whether sunglasses protect against mental domination, and suggests that a vampire's life sentence be one day. At one point, Kitty sees Rick, a nearly five-hundred-year-old vampire, with a laptop and is surprised; she jokes that she thought vampires were allergic to modern technology. She asks him what he's doing, and he says he's correcting the Wikipedia entries of historical figures he has known. When she's told that was just a joke, Kitty replies that he should. Thanks to werewolf superimmunity, nothing foreign will remain in their bodies. After being turned, the werewolf soldiers of Captain Gordon's squad wake up to find their tattoos have become ink staining their sheets, and the microchips the military try to use to track them get ejected. Kitty then notes this means she couldn't get breast implants. Mystical runes work just fine when they're used in corporate logos. Books of Shadows (which Amelia describe as "a magician's soul") can be written and viewed on computer, downloaded to a flash drive, and uploaded to the Internet. Amelia speaks of this when she references how even when she was still alive, magicians were exploring how spellwork could be applied to technology (she mentions in passing someone attempting to cast through the telegraph lines, with "ambiguous results"). It also applies to the protective runes she places on Cormac's laptop, to keep out energies that might be dangerous; the result is his e-mail account being "strangely free of spam." | |
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Wacky Wayside Tribe | |
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Wacky Wayside Tribe: Subverted. The trip to Manitou Springs to meet Zora's aunts seems to become one long example of this trope (lampshaded several times by both Cormac and Amelia as there being "another mystery to solve" or another complication to the quest), since the task they set him ends up leading to a convoluted visit to Cormac's past in the form of Anderson Layne, a detour facing off with Jess Nolan and his Skin Walker, and several very tense stand-offs before he finally obtains the proof he needs to solve the mystery (and keep bad guys from messing with the old magic in Kuzniak's claim). But what Cormac takes for distraction and needless danger that he only pursues to obtain the code for the book ends up being far more important than the book itself: while it's true the translation confirms the real nature of Dux Bellorum's Artifact of Doom, of far greater importance is the e-mail exchanges which did the same thing and the Maltese cross amulet. Definitely a case of It's the Journey That Counts. | |
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Flat-Earth Atheist | |
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Flat-Earth Atheist: Most people in the series take the existence of the supernatural in stride; Kitty remarks that she wonders if her parents think of it as a fad or affectation on her part, but even they are willing to take her lycanthropy at face value. The seventh book, Kitty's House of Horrors, introduces what might be the first determined skeptic of the series: the author Conrad Garrett, who believes that alleged supernatural people are frauds or crazy, that video footage of a werewolf shapeshifting is CGI, and that CDC reports on were-people and vampires are the result of collusion with drug companies who want to make money off the conditions. It's arguably justified, though, since the masquerade only was broken in the first book of the series, so there would still be a fair amount of skeptics around. Garrett has a BSOD after he sees Kitty shapeshift, bringing on Skepticism Failure. | |
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All Part of the Show | |
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All Part of the Show: In the very first book, when Kitty is outed as a werewolf by Cormac on the air, later callers (and critical pundits) claim that this was all merely a publicity stunt and that Cormac had in fact been hired to help drive up the ratings. Meanwhile, the animals in Balthasar's show in Las Vegas are all actual lycanthropes, but despite their being smaller than real animals due to conservation of mass, none of the audience members ever realized and just assumed, naturally, that they were watching real animals who were just part of the act. More horrifically, when things first start going wrong at the Montana cabin in House of Horrors, a few of the contestants, particularly Flat-Earth Atheist Conrad Garrett, claim that the new developments are simply part of the reality TV show, more of the same engineered stunts, games, and 'conspiracies' they'd been subjected to already. What is worst of all is that in a way, this is all part of the show, since the real intention of the producers was to, in Kitty's words, make a snuff horror film, showing just how supernatural creatures could be killed. | |
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Cerebus Syndrome | |
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As proof that the series' Cerebus Syndrome was planned, Alette's discussion of "stories vampires tell to frighten each other" of things that are merely "evil", coupled with Leo's assertion that the plot went "far beyond Flemming", makes it clear Roman was being set up long before he appeared in Kitty Raises Hell. | |
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Anti-Villain | |
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Anti-Villain: Alice, Arturo, and the ifrit, which is under the control of the vampire priestess and so is not truly attacking Kitty and her pack out of malice. Maybe. Also Angelo. | |
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Badass Longcoat | |
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Subverted. Cormac, the resident Badass Longcoat, blows half of an evil skinwalker's face off to put it out of its misery, after it was already mortally wounded. This saves the pretty heroine, her lover, a police officer, and a couple civilians. Traditional end to a werewolf story, right? We're only two-thirds through the book; the badass has just been arrested for murder because the final bullet constituted excessive force. (Not so much Hollywood Law as a combination of Dirty Cop, Amoral Attorney, and Fantastic Racism, plus the masquerade only recently having been broken.) | |
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ShesAllGrownUp | |
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She's All Grown Up: Emma in book ten. | |
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Broken Bird | |
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Broken Bird: Anastasia. Between the events of book seven and her backstory as revealed in book nine... | |
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You Keep Telling Yourself That | |
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You Keep Telling Yourself That: A self-inflicted version applies to Kitty, in which she continually believes she is not cut out to be an alpha, to be given so much responsibility, to be believed an expert in the supernatural, to give therapy to her fellow "monsters", to be a spokesperson once the masquerade is broken, and certainly not to be some grand leader in the fight to save everyone from the Long Game. "It was all an act, but it seemed to fool people—they kept asking me for advice. One of these days, everyone was going to see right through it." | |
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No Periods, Period | |
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No Periods, Period: Kitty's menstrual cycle is never mentioned once in the series...until it becomes relevant in book four, when she miscarries, then discovers female lycanthropes can never carry children to term. | |
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Everybody Lives | |
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As the final steps in her journey, after having gone through the Apotheosis of facing down Lightman among the fumaroles and learning about the true origin of supernaturals, Kitty comes close to sacrificing her closest allies in order to get to Roman...but Everybody Lives, and Kitty hasn't really changed her views of herself or the world in a radical way (see Fantastic Religious Weirdness). She even receives the Ultimate Boon for her to take back on her Return, the amulet that lets her and Ben have a child, even though that was the last thing she intended to gain from it. Though of course there's no actual Return for her, except home; she's inextricably part of the supernatural world and always will be, and in fact the whole point is her continuing to be a bridge for both worlds, to help keep humans and supernaturals balanced so that the endless fight against Lightman can always be won. There is no Atonement With the Father, but this does apply somewhat to Cormac in Low Midnight who even as he's on his own Anti-Hero's Journey is having an adventure that is really just an adjunct to Kitty's (though it does set up for possible future adventures for him). | |
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Hunting the Most Dangerous Game | |
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The hunters in book 7 take this theme to its logical and sickening conclusion, literally turning the supernaturals into the prey in a real life hunt. | |
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Schmuck Bait | |
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Ozzie also mentions this just before Kitty goes on the reality TV show. When she claims that she could "make an idiot of myself, ruin my reputation, lose my audience, my ratings, my show, and never make a living in this business again", he replies that no, the worst is she could die on film in a freak accident "and how likely is that?" He really must regret those words later... | |
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Turned Against Their Masters | |
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Turned Against Their Masters: What Kitty has begun among the werewolves of Europe, and possibly beyond it. This is also what happened to Farida and the Band of Tiamat once Grant released their uncontrolled ifrit so he could get revenge on them. End result, Taking You with Me and a Fate Worse than Death (though a bit more complicated than that). | |
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Frivolous Lawsuit | |
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Frivolous Lawsuit: Ben recommends/threatens these as a Running Gag throughout book 2. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: The Maltese cross amulet once owned by Milo Kuzniak is this trope in magical form, since it literally reflects any spell back at its creator, thus causing the deaths of both Augustus Crane and Kuzniak's great-grandson. What's even more delicious though is that Cormac and Amelia would never have figured out what it could do, and been kept from being destroyed so he could claim it, if Roman hadn't given him the e-mail clue about "looking to how the opponent was shielded" and that the winner of a Wizard Duel was often the one with "the strongest defense"...and it ends up being this very amulet which is key in defeating him in the last book. Two big ones strike in the last book—the coins which Roman had used to mark and bind followers to him, once defaced, turn out to have the power to protect the wearer from Lightman, thus enabling the heroes to get through his minions mostly unharmed and stop Roman. And the most literally explosive example is how the Maltese cross amulet reflects the Manus Herculei's spell right back at Roman. The most far-ranging example of this in the series though, now that the entire story can be viewed together, would have to stem from book two—if Leo was indeed working for Roman, then consider the following:note it was mostly his assistance that made it possible for Kitty to be kidnapped so her Change could be televised; it was this event that caused her to go retreat into the mountains; being there is what made Alice decide to curse her; it was this curse which drew the skinwalker, and it was facing the skinwalker that put Cormac in prison where he was possessed by Amelia. And this last event not only enabled him to stop various plots of Roman's that otherwise never could have been (Harold Franklin's storm, the showdown in San Francisco, rescuing Tyler), it led to the translation of Zora's Book of Shadows and, indirectly, the recovery of the amulet that was his undoing. Add in the fact that it was his and Mercedes' plot to cause the vampire civil war between Rick and Arturo, threatening her family and pack, and eventually sicing both the Band of Tiamat and the ifrit on her which set Kitty firmly against Roman, and it seems pretty clear that whether by destiny or chance, Roman ended up defeating himself several times over, both literally and figuratively. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: Kitty calls herself out, briefly, near the end of Kitty Raises Hell when she learns that the ifrit's final message to her had been a plea for mercy for the sake of his wife and children, and that he had only been terrorizing her because the vampire priestess made him do it. And she had helped consign him to the world of an Eldritch Abomination. She immediately tries to convince herself and the Paradox PI team that it was only a play for sympathy, that he had still killed people, and the ifrit's fury, malice, and insulting words to her did seem a little too genuine to be a compelled act. Still, the reader can't be sure she was right... Both she and Rick (though Kitty with less vehemence) also do this to Cormac for his actions near the end of Rocks the House. | |
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Sympathy for the Devil | |
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Sympathy for the Devil Angelo. "He didn't look defiant, or determined, or evil. He looked lost." Roman. "I was still just a bit sad about the whole thing. 'There's always another tool,' Lightman had said. Roman had known he was a tool the entire time, and he must have been satisfied with the role." | |
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CloudCuckooLander | |
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Cloud Cuckoolander: Charlie and Violet, to some extent. | |
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Vampires Own Night Clubs | |
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Vampires Own Nightclubs: Psalm 23, run first by Arturo, then Rick. Also, oddly, the art gallery Obsidian. | |
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You Are Not Ready | |
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A major example of this occurs in Rocks the House: Because Father Columban does not bother to tell Kitty what sort of dark forces are pursuing him, and neither she nor Rick will inform the police of the Long Game and his role in fighting it, Hardin acts on the information from Interpol that seems to tell her the priest is a murderer and arsonist, hiring Cormac to break his protective spell so she can arrest him; his recklessness and loathing for vampires, and Amelia's curiosity about the magic involved, lead him to agree. The end result? The spell is broken all right, a demon is unleashed, and by the time the dust has settled and she has been banished, Father Columban has died to save Rick, Rick has nearly killed Cormac for it, Kitty nearly died, and Rick has left town to join the Order of St. Lazarus, leaving Kitty with only Angelo to work with and spearheading the fight against the Long Game on her own. Cormac is of course completely unrepentant about this; the only good to come out of the whole mess is that Kitty now knows there's a Greater-Scope Villain behind Roman and Hardin is now fully in the loop and willing to help bring down the Long Game. | |
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Lower-Deck Episode | |
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Lower-Deck Episode: Low Midnight, considering it not only concerns Cormac's search to decode Zora's Book of Shadows but that Kitty, Ben, and any of the other main characters appear only in passing cameos or minor roles. The title even says as much (aside from being a hint that this is the calm before the storm, the last leg of the search for underworld knowledge before the final showdown). | |
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The Chessmaster | |
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How do you deal with a Chessmaster villain who seems untouchable, incites fear in everyone who knows of him, is gathering allies in secret for a great Order Versus Chaos war to Take Over the World, and is consistently able to outmaneuver or manipulate everyone to his own ends? Reveal his existence and what he is doing to the world in a live public speech. | |
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Living MacGuffin | |
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Living MacGuffin: After a while, Henry. | |
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In Harmony with Nature | |
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In Harmony with Nature: According to Ahmed, humankind used to be like this in the time of the Garden of Eden, with the lycanthropes as the bridge between worlds that made the harmony possible. This is also what Kitty decides must have been what it was like in the time of Enkidu, when the balance between man and beast that she is always seeking still existed, and is a power which the members of Kumarbis's cult are trying to bring back. | |
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The End of the World as We Know It | |
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The End of the World as We Know It: Roman's final plan turns out to be this far more literally than supposed: to set off a volcanic eruption powerful enough to completely blot out the sun, causing a nuclear winter. Those humans and supernaturals who manage to survive will then easily become slaves to him (and Lucifer) since the ash cover will shroud the world in darkness, making Earth truly a 'vampire world'. And to do it he's even selected a very common modern-day culprit for an apocalypse, the Yellowstone caldera. | |
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Fantastic Science | |
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Fantastic Science: Dr. Flemming and Dr. Schumacher's studies. For Science!: Thanks to Potential Applications, He Who Fights Monsters, and Scale of Scientific Sins, Flemming's motivation turns into this by the end. | |
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…But He Sounds Handsome | |
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…But He Sounds Handsome: One of the revelations made during e-mail exchanges regarding Zora's Book of Shadows is that "I have good reason to believe that the eruption of Vesuvius that buried Pompeii was instigated by magic. The volcano was naturally ready to erupt, of course—but the ultimate trigger was not natural." Amelia calls this extraordinary and the contact agrees. But at the end of the book, after finding out from Zora's notes that Roman's Artifact of Doom destroyed Herculaneum and Pompeii, the contact reveals himself to be Roman, thus making his e-mail praising his own horrific act. Cormac lampshades this quite snarkily. | |
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Religious Horror | |
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Fray Juan in "Conquistador de la Noche", with a good dose of Religious Horror too. Helped along by him deliberately choosing the other side in the Balance Between Good and Evil, then perverting Christian ceremonies by making them reality instead of merely symbolism. It's then revealed in Rocks the House that he originally was a member of the Order of St. Lazarus and only had a Face–Heel Turn later, though it seems to be unrelated to Dux Bellorum. | |
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Hijacked by Ganon | |
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Hijacked by Ganon: With the appearance of Big Bad Roman, combined with comments made by Leo and Mercedes, it's a very strong possibility that he's responsible for almost every threat Kitty has so far faced down. | |
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I Fight for the Strongest Side! | |
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I Fight for the Strongest Side!: Dack, the were-African wild dog, gives this as his motivation when participating in the vampire civil war. Kitty asks him if that means he thinks Rick is the strongest, to which he only grins, foreshadowing that he had actually chosen to follow Mercedes and Roman. | |
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Epiphanic Prison | |
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Epiphanic Prison: Kitty in the Underworld has elements of this. Kitty is in a literal cave, and getting out of it requires learning more about her captors from the inside. She eventually escapes in a physical sense, only to voluntarily go back because her captors have convinced her they're doing the right thing, just in a bad way. | |
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Red Herring | |
| Kitty Norville / int_dbca2c99 | comment |
Red Herring: A lot, but most notably Arturo, the Master Vampire of Denver, despite a genuinely moving scene trying to save one of his people from Elijah Smith, is made out to be the Big Bad in book 4. In actuality, he's just a patsy, victim of someone else's plan. A secondary example: a significant portion of Dead Man's Hand is spent building up Evan and Brenda as Ax-Crazy bounty hunters who believe the best prey is werewolves. But, while they certainly fall into Anti-Hero camp and are hardly the most trustworthy people, in the end it turns out that they're not really after Kitty at all, it's Sylvia and Boris who are the bounty hunters she should fear. And Evan and Brenda even help rescue Kitty from the Band of Tiamat, and see to it that Boris and Sylvia go to jail. | |
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Ear Worm | |
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Ear Worm: When Kitty learns that an ifrit (i.e. genie) is what's after her and her pack, she can't get the Theme Song for I Dream of Jeannie out of her head. Not helped by the fact that various others around her (the Paradox PI crew, Hardin's fellow cops) keep bringing it up. | |
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Contrived Coincidence | |
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Contrived Coincidence: In book four, Kitty's mom's cancer just happens to bring her back to Denver at the same time as a vampire war is breaking out. In book five, she and Ben decide to get married in Vegas at the same time as a bounty hunter convention (and in a hotel quite close to where both Grant and Balthasar perform their acts). In book six, Grant and Peter find the amulet controlling the ifrit and destroy it, possibly at the same time as Kitty and the Paradox PI crew capture it but certainly very close together. Kitty lampshades in "Il Est Né" how unlikely it was that David would happen to find himself near the town where he could meet the one werewolf who'd be willing to listen to him and help him. When the time comes for Cormac to track down Zora's aunts to help with decoding her book, they happen to live in the same town where Amelia Parker was hunting down the demon and executed for its crime. This is actually helpful, as the knowledge of her history helps Cormac convince Judi that he knows what he's talking about and can be trusted somewhat; it also gives Amelia the background to work on the mystery of Kuzniak's murder of Crane. Right after being given the task by Zora's aunts and beginning to investigate, Cormac happens to run into Anderson Layne, a gun/drug-runner and Right-Wing Militia Fanatic from the days of Ben's father—and he just so happens to be hooked up with someone who can help Cormac complete the task: Milo Kuzniak's great-grandson. | |
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Cue the Sun | |
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Cue the Sun: No, not whenever sunrise threatens a vampire, but the actual symbolic meaning of the trope—Rick overthrows Arturo just before dawn, and Kitty and the pack take out Meg and Carl not long afterward; she and Ben drive away into the sunrise, the beginning of a new and heroic era of leadership for Denver's vampires and werewolves. The very last book also has a moment like this, since the defeat of Roman happens just before sunrise. After his death, Kitty spends a great deal of time watching the sunrise, feeling its warmth, and reflecting on how good it feels, with the symbolism of the trope very much coming through in how she finally feels safe, happy, and free of worry at last. | |
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Do with Him as You Will | |
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Do with Him as You Will: At the end of the fourth book, when Kitty finally has Carl cornered, with a silver-loaded gun pointed at him and the rest of the pack closing in, he begs her to spare him. Kitty lowers the gun and says, "I'm sorry, Carl. That's not for me to decide." Then the whole pack descends on him and rips him to shreds. | |
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Hunter of Monsters | |
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Hunter of Monsters: Cormac, who has actually made this his life's work after being trained in the role by his father (a long tradition in the Bennett family), and it adds to the drama when he must choose between this and his friendship with Kitty, resolved initially by him only continuing to hunt the truly inhuman and dangerous supernaturals but not truly dealt with until he can lay his father's spirit to rest. Ben became one too, though only to help Cormac. | |
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Miscarriage of Justice | |
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Heroic variation—during his stint in prison, Cormac got to be the host for the spirit of Amelia Parker, a wrongfully executed Victorian Age wizard. | |
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Fantastic Catholicism | |
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Fantastic Catholicism: The Order of St. Lazarus of the Shadows, "those who return from the dead to do God's work on earth"—a secret order of vampire priests (formerly hidden within one of the same name composed of leper knights during the Crusades) based in Vatican City and given the blessing of the pope himself to fight the forces of darkness. | |
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Didn't See That Coming | |
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Lightman's intent in having Ashtoreth take Kitty to Yellowstone was to either intimidate her into giving up or forcing her to be a witness (and one of the first victims) of the Manus Herculei. However, once she is able to escape from him (thanks to something he didn't count on protecting her), her proximity enables her to summon the others (and Grant and Tina had in fact already been able to scry for her), and they are able to follow the trail from him back to Roman so as to locate and stop his plot. If Lightman had just left Kitty in Denver, they probably never would have figured out where to go exactly to get there in time. | |
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The Evils of Free Will | |
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The Evils of Free Will: Lightman speaks about this as the reason he could never fully turn all supernaturals into his army of darkness to ruin God's creation and take over the world, because they could always choose to be good instead—something Kitty herself had always championed when counseling her callers and listeners to always strive to be Friendly Neighborhood Vampires. Idealism wins again! Also the angels speak of this too, saying it is because of this that humans who have something they choose to fight for will never be pawns, and always stronger than pawns, something which Lightman will never understand. | |
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Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex | |
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Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex: Although most of it is motivated by the amulet and the news Kitty gives him, it's pretty clear this trope is also why she and Ben make passionate love after defeating Roman. | |
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Mama Bear | |
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Mama Bear: Kitty is this now to her pack, as well as Team Mom. | |
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From Nobody to Nightmare | |
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From Nobody to Nightmare: Based on what little is revealed or hinted at about his Backstory, and what he becomes by the time Kitty takes him out, this fairly accurately describes Carl—from insecure dominant who has to become an alpha, have a harem, and boss everyone around to feel like a real man to a murderous rapist and monster who specializes in Breaking the Cutie. This also describes Roman, for while even as a human he was ambitious and sought power, when Kumarbis found him he was only a simple centurion...but from there he has grown to dominate the supernatural world, created and expanded the Long Game to the most power any vampire has ever had, and comes this close to destroying/ruling the world on behalf of his master, Lucifer. | |
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The Bait | |
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The Bait: The plan Cormac comes up with to try and flush Roman out so they can assassinate him, involves this: using Tina to stand in for Amelia, whom Roman had been communicating with via e-mail, so they could get close enough to strike a killing blow. Kitty of course lampshades how such a plan is a terrible mistake likely to go wrong which Roman will see right through; Cormac counters that even if he does, he'll still be lured in since he might believe Tina was channeling Amelia. Turns out they were both right. | |
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Premature Empowerment | |
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Premature Empowerment: Common practice in Urban Fantasy stories, most notably those dealing with werewolves, vampires, or other infectious paranormal. These books feature a number of characters to whom this happened, for example. | |
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Fantasy Kitchen Sink | |
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Fantasy Kitchen Sink: Fey, psychics, skinwalkers, chaos-worshipers, Cthulhu, ifrit, weather wizards, and the list is still growing... | |
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StrawmanPolitical | |
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Strawman Political: Senator Duke is essentially McCarthy on crack. | |
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Turncoat | |
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Turn Coat: Roger Stockton, Leo, and Dack. (Yes, it happens a lot.) Of a different nature, Ozzie, who refuses to believe Kitty's exposé of the Long Game and only seems to care about the show and its sponsors. Through persuasion, show of strength, and (sadly) sex, Darren manages to turn Becky into one of these for a while. Luckily she gets shown the error of her ways, so the Face–Heel Turn doesn't stick. Angelo, although he does it not out of a desire for power or money, but out of fear. | |
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Call-Forward | |
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Call-Forward: Several times in "Il Est Né" (which references to her being in exile and having been seen on TV date it to taking place between books two and three), foreshadowing is given of Kitty becoming alpha of the Denver pack by her being forced to act like an alpha (and surprising herself at how good at it she is) and her mentioning how much she misses having a pack. | |
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Animal Jingoism | |
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Animal Jingoism: For the most part this does not apply, since outside certain canine mannerisms and traits which werewolves have (and, naturally, the similar mannerisms other werebeasts inherit from their wild counterparts) the werebeasts don't have any particular problems with each other—within packs there are matters of dominance, but lycanthropes of various kinds all mingle freely at Ahmed's restaurant the Crescent and cats and dogs in particular don't have any difficulty getting along. In fact Kitty gets along quite well with Luis. But when she meets the Band of Tiamat she discovers the reason there is no werewolf pack in Las Vegas is because the preferred sacrificial prey of the all-feline cult is werewolves. | |
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I Hate You, Vampire Dad | |
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I Hate You, Vampire Dad: The motivation of Leo. His sire was not ambitious or bloodthirsty enough for his taste. I Hate You Werewolf Alpha is (justly) one of Kitty's major motivations up til the end of the fourth book. Also the root of the conflict between Li Hua and Gaius Albinus AKA Anastasia and Dux Bellorum, respectively. Rick and his creator/Master as well. On a grand scale with Roman, who went from hating Kumarbis for turning him, to hating him for being too weak to truly gain power and dominate the world, to hating (and wanting to rule) the supernatural world he was a part of. | |
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Godwin's Law | |
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Godwin's Law: Skirted by Kitty at several points, from early on in her show to when she is called before the Senate to testify about the Center for Paranatural Biology, and outright addressed when she interviews Senator Duke at the end of the first book, suggesting that what the government intends for supernaturals could very easily become the same as what the Nazis did to Jews and other undesirables. However, based on Duke being an Expy of McCarthy and the events that happen in book two, it is sad and disturbing (and a sign of human nature) that she may actually be right, if the wrong people's views prevail. | |
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We Need a Distraction | |
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We Need a Distraction: A very effective villainous version of this happens in book ten: Flemming (at the instigation of Mercedes and Roman) kidnaps Sergeant Tyler. To keep Kitty from finding out and preventing it, he plants a shill among the protesters at the conference who first incites a riot between the supernaturals and the religious nuts, then actually throws a bucket of blood on Esperanza, nearly setting off her Change right in a crowded public space. | |
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Mars Needs Women | |
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Pack Needs Bitches: How Kitty's plan to capture the renegade wolves in book eight, via Distracted by the Sexy, almost goes horribly wrong. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Blonde, snarky, funny, a great leader, often wants to have a normal life, lives in a supernatural world, and is in many ways The Chosen One. Quick, is this Kitty or Buffy? Tropes are not bad, however—there are major differences between them (besides the obvious) and this is also surely part of the appeal of the series. Augustus Crane seems in many ways to be this trope for Aleister Crowley, at least in his arrogance, range of influence, and the large and fanatically loyal following he had in Manitou Springs (and they even share the same initials). This is despite Aleister Crowley himself being mentioned by Tina in book 7 (along with John Dee). Interestingly, this was in the context of not being certain if he was the genuine article or not, and Amelia never mentions him during her musing upon the Spiritualist movement and her search for true magical knowledge, though she does reference how many charlatans and con artists gained prominence in those days. | |
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Light Is Not Good | |
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Light Is Not Good: Elijah Smith, both in terms of his quasi-religious cult that "saves" supernaturals from themselves (but they can never leave or be free) and his true form. Also Pure Is Not Good, with his Church of the Pure Faith. Charles Lightman, of course. Lampshaded not just by his name, but by him seeming like such a kind, warm fellow with a round, friendly face and a sunny disposition. Considering how Lucifer was described before he fell, the description is apt. He even still has his angelic sword...but once we see what is beneath the surface... | |
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Meaningful Rename | |
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Meaningful Rename: Kumarbis renames the members of his cult (and himself too, though his could possibly be an aspect of being The Atoner) to reflect the names of the deities/mystical beings they are supposed to be channeling or becoming avatars of; much significance is made of whether Kitty will accept her new name/identity as Regina Luporum, whether Sakhmet and the others should tell her their former "mortal" names, and accidental (or not-so-accidental) slips when she is called Kitty. In the end this leads to both a very emotional Say My Name when Sakhmet finally calls Enkidu by his original name as he dies in her arms and Sakhmet eventually confessing her original name—partly because the ritual is ruined and can never be performed again but also because Kitty has helped remind her of who she used to be and inspired her to embrace her old self once more. | |
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The Maze | |
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The Maze: The tunnels underneath San Francisco in book 9. They don't appear to be a Mobile Maze, but thanks to their magic it is pretty much impossible to navigate them without Grace's lantern. There are also a number of traps (some, possibly all, set up and watched over by the Monkey King), and any trappings of the modern world (guns, cell phones) don't work or are suppressed there. | |
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The Mole | |
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Darren's appearance in Rocks the House and attempt to join the Denver pack is a form of this; once Kitty fails to pass in his estimation it turns into an outright The Mole situation where he works to bring her down from within and take over. | |
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Friendly Local Chinatown | |
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Friendly Local Chinatown: Kitty's Big Trouble is largely set in San Francisco's. | |
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Backstory | |
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Based on what little is revealed or hinted at about his Backstory, and what he becomes by the time Kitty takes him out, this fairly accurately describes Carl—from insecure dominant who has to become an alpha, have a harem, and boss everyone around to feel like a real man to a murderous rapist and monster who specializes in Breaking the Cutie. | |
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Talking the Monster to Death | |
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Talking the Monster to Death: Jeffrey Miles tries this with Provost. It doesn't work. | |
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Crusading Lawyer | |
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Crusading Lawyer: Ben O'Farrell, at least when it comes to his cousin Cormac and later Kitty. Although he sometimes helps his cousin with hunting vampires and lycanthropes, this is solely out of familial loyalty, not because he is crusading against supernatural creatures. For Kitty, he's also the Occult Law Firm, but she's his only supernatural client we've seen. George Espinoza, the prosecuting attorney in Cormac's case, more closely fits the negative side of the trope. | |
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Monster of the Week | |
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The Monster of the Week in book three. And it is depicted both accurately and rather terrifyingly. | |
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Nuns 'n' Rosaries | |
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Nuns 'n' Rosaries/Hollywood Nuns: Cormac expects Sister Hilda to have the typical black-and-white habit and veil/headdress "like in the movies" and is bemused that she doesn't. | |
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God's Hands Are Tied | |
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God's Hands Are Tied: Implied by the angels: they are not allowed to interfere directly in the affairs of men, only to step in when a particularly unfair or heinous imbalance happens, and otherwise can only dispense cryptic advice and give nudges here and there. Whether any celestial rules are involved or if this is simply to allow free will to govern isn't clear. It also isn't clear if this applies only to them, or to God Himself. | |
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Who Wants to Live Forever? | |
| Kitty Norville / int_ea39d156 | comment |
Who Wants to Live Forever?: The view of some vampires. Or as Rick puts it, "The end of the world is all some vampires have to look forward to." The rest of them, like Ned and Rick himself, on the other hand.... | |
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Britain Is Only London | |
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Britain Is Only London: Justified, since the supernatural conference is held in a hotel right in the heart of the city, so not only will all the usual sights and landmarks appear, there's no reason to travel outside the city to see the rest of the country. Kitty even lampshades the trope, and compares it to Big Applesauce and Hollywood Provincialism, when noting how familiar Central London seems to her from the movies. Despite all this, very few landmarks or famous places are actually visited during her time there. On a side note, the fact that only the London clan of lycanthropes is mentioned is also justified: due to the small size of the British Isles, it was decided centuries ago to have the clans of Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and the rest of England join together as one giant clan headed by the alpha of London, so as to protect themselves from Europe's vampires and humans alike. | |
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The Vamp | |
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The Vamp: Literal example in Colette, the vampire stripper. | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
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Big Damn Heroes: Happens on numerous occasions in the series, naturally. T.J. saving Kitty from Zan, then Carl. Flemming saving Kitty and Alette from Leo. Cormac saving Kitty from the skinwalker. Hardin and the police coming to the rescue during the vampire war. Grant and the bounty hunters saving Kitty from the Band of Tiamat. Kitty and all of her allies rescuing Tyler in London. Rick showing up to save Kitty and her packmates from Darren. The angels appearing with their full-spectrum lights to drive Ashtoreth off. Rick and the Order of the Shadows showing up first to face all the demons, then to bind and eventually banish Ashtoreth with a holy spear blessed by nuns praying over it for a century. | |
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The Unmasqued World | |
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The Unmasqued World: The initial background has a Masquerade, albeit one run poorly enough that the existence of werewolves and vampires is an open secret kept only because too few people care. There are actually government groups writing unclassified papers on the subject, although most normal people think the matter is a joke. Between the Midnight Hour radio show and said government groups making a fuss when their funding went under review, though, and the concept becomes so commonplace that the first live television werewolf transformation gains little more than an FCC fine for flashing the audience. Has now happened with a vengeance thanks to Kitty unmasking Roman and the Long Game to the world at the supernatural conference. | |
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Take Over the World | |
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Much of what makes Roman such a threat, and so frightening, is that no one, not Kitty and not even the other vampires, know what it is he will do to Take Over the World, other than as an amorphous The End of the World as We Know It. Which is why Kitty's revelation is so effective: Roman only has power, and can strike fear in others, as long as he and his plans remain secret and unknown. When the truth is revealed though, it's actually still rather frightening. | |
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Beethoven Was an Alien Spy | |
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Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Kitty's Big Trouble starts off with Kitty investigating rumors concerning General Sherman and Wyatt Earp. They turn out to be true. Kitty Steals the Show introduces Ned, the Vampire Master of London... better known as Edward Alleyn. | |
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Dwindling Party | |
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Dwindling Party: The Final Battle partakes of this, since in quick succession Kitty is forced to leave Cormac, Hardin, Tina, Grant, and Sun behind fighting demons, then she has to leave Ben behind facing Ashtoreth. By the time Rick and the Order of the Shadows have taken her out, Kitty is left facing the Big Bad alone. | |
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Motivated by Fear | |
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Motivated by Fear: The ultimate reason for Angelo's defection to Roman. | |
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Mundane Utility | |
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The whole reason Kitty ends up falling into Balthasar's clutches and almost ends up sacrificed to the Band of Tiamat is because she goes to them for help after Ben gets kidnapped for his werewolf-enhanced gambling. | |
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Distracted by the Sexy | |
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Distracted by the Sexy: This is the plan Kitty and the military cook up in Kitty Goes to War to catch the renegade wolf-soldiers, using herself and Becky as bait. It doesn't work...or perhaps it does, only too well. | |
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Redemption Equals Death | |
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Redemption Equals Death: Walters. Damn it. | |
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Nothing Left to Do but Die | |
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Nothing Left to Do but Die: Fritz in Kitty Goes to Washington partakes of this trope—living alone and lonely, forgotten by everyone, believed by many to be a Nazi war criminal, but continuing to live on, haunted by the memories of what he saw and did and was made to do...until he finally confesses his story on Kitty's show. Then, having shared a story that "needed to be shared", his heart gives out and he dies...still alone. | |
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Legacy of Service | |
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Legacy of Service: Kitty Goes to Washington features a family that has served a female vampire for centuries. It turns out they are all descended from the two children she had before she became a vampire. | |
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Sign of the Apocalypse | |
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Sign of the Apocalypse: Kitty twice makes this joke regarding dogs and cats being friendly/lovers, despite the fact she got along just fine already with Luis and his sister. | |
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Survival Mantra | |
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Survival Mantra: "Keep it together." Learned from T.J., used by Kitty throughout the series, and passed on to other werewolves she befriends, such as Tyler and David. Becomes a bit tragic at times, either due to the circumstances it's used in or what happens to its originator. | |
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Law of Inverse Fertility | |
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Law of Inverse Fertility: Kitty had never even given any thought to motherhood and whether she wanted children. But finding out she'd had a miscarriage and that, due to the Change, no female werewolf can ever carry a baby to term, naturally leads her into a great deal of What If? daydreaming, a lot of research to try and find a solution, and desperate hoping that someday science will have the answer—and even as late as Kitty Steals the Show, she was willing to use the fae's wish to become pregnant, despite knowing The Fair Folk's nature. It didn't help that her mother had also been telling her I Want Grandkids. The resultant Angst is played quite realistically, and is effectively heartbreaking as well. It turns out Kitty's constant dwelling on this was actually a Chekhov's Gun, since the angels allow her and Ben to have a child through an amulet that keeps her human for a year and a day. | |
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Kneel Before Frodo | |
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Kneel Before Frodo: The pack gives Kitty the werewolf version of this when she becomes alpha. | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending: Kitty and her allies, after being put through quite the wringer, do this with a vengeance in the last book, especially with her and Ben being able to conceive a child at last. | |
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Everything Is Online | |
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Books of Shadows (which Amelia describe as "a magician's soul") can be written and viewed on computer, downloaded to a flash drive, and uploaded to the Internet. | |
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Strongly Worded Letter | |
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Strongly Worded Letter: After Darren's takeover attempt, Rick says he will write one of these to Nasser. | |
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Insult Backfire | |
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Insult Backfire: When Provost finds out from Kitty that his partner Valenti is dead: | |
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The Fundamentalist | |
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The Fundamentalist: Although Kitty has encountered these throughout her radio show, and also in the form of Senator Duke, things come to a head in Kitty Steals the Show, first with the Armageddon-spewing caller and then with Tracy Anderson and her organization Truth Against the Godless. Unsurprisingly, of course, a number of things she says are Flame Bait (she accuses Kitty not only of having done something to "earn" her lycanthropy, but states that this something is having an abortion), Insane Troll Logic, or With Us or Against Us commentary, and her group, naturally, carries out plenty of Activist-Fundamentalist Antics. What is most disturbing about her, of course, is that people just like her exist in Real Life, and a number of the arguments she makes are rather similar to anti-gay rhetoric. | |
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Disappearing Box | |
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Disappearing Box: Grant uses his to hide Kitty; it seems to take her to another world/dimension. | |
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Our Werewolves Are Different | |
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Many different varieties of werebeasts have been seen so far. In addition to werewolves, there are also werelions, weretigers, were-jaguars, were-African wild dogs, and were-seals. Kitty says that as far as she knows, no were-varieties exist of herbivorous species, only predators. Werebeasts are infected through bites. They change into human sized animalsnote whether they are unusually large or unusually small depends on the animal in question, observing conservation of mass. They can change when they want, must force themselves not to change when under enough stress, have to change once a month at the full moon, and don't always remember what they did as an animal. They have a Healing Factor and are pretty much immune to any sort of normal illness. Silver is nasty for 'em, though, and they can die when decapitated, their hearts are destroyed, or their bodies suffer extreme major trauma (like explosions or evisceration). Female werebeasts can't carry children to term due to the shapeshifting. | |
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Lesbian Vampire | |
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Lesbian Vampire: Subverted with Alette. While she can and does magically seduce women before feeding, she's straight, and had kids. Really. | |
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Haunted House | |
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Haunted House: Kitty gets to explore a genuine one, Flint House, with the Paradox PI crew in book six. The ghost itself doesn't factor into the story (other than it being in residence keeping uninvited vampires from entering), but plenty of supernatural stuff occurs there thanks to the ifrit, and the backstory for the house is certainly dark and chilling enough to count. | |
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Right-Wing Militia Fanatic | |
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Another one turns up in Low Midnight, a part-Navajo named Eddie working for Right-Wing Militia Fanatic Jess Nolan. He's far less creepy, disturbing, and inhuman than the one in book three, despite having killed the brother of one of Layne's men (if Layne can be believed). | |
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Place Beyond Time | |
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Place Beyond Time: Where the angels take Kitty's pack to keep them safe from Roman's final gambit. | |
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Running Gag | |
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A much earlier (and funnier, yet still awesome) example occurs in book four, when to flush out their enemies and make them react so they can take them down, Kitty decides to put Rick on her show where he openly declares he is already the vampire Master of Denver. Lampshaded by Kitty who calls it "kicking a wasp's nest"; this phrase and variations on it becomes a Running Gag for whenever Kitty decides to try and get to the bottom of things (or cut the knot) by stirring up trouble. It usually works. | |
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Number Two | |
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New Moon, the lycanthrope-friendly restaurant owned and run by Kitty's Number Two, Shaun. | |
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Real After All | |
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Augustus Crane seems in many ways to be this trope for Aleister Crowley, at least in his arrogance, range of influence, and the large and fanatically loyal following he had in Manitou Springs (and they even share the same initials). This is despite Aleister Crowley himself being mentioned by Tina in book 7 (along with John Dee). Interestingly, this was in the context of not being certain if he was the genuine article or not, and Amelia never mentions him during her musing upon the Spiritualist movement and her search for true magical knowledge, though she does reference how many charlatans and con artists gained prominence in those days. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: Right in the middle of the very serious matter of the pack's disappearance, Roman gearing up for his final gambit, and Ozzie calling to find out if Kitty is still doing her show that week, Ben latches onto something Ozzie mentions to her in passing. | |
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Follow the Leader | |
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Follow the Leader: In-universe example with "Ariel, Priestess of the Night". Kitty wants to sue her until it comes out that Ariel's actually a huge Midnight Hour fangirl. Another form of this occurs when Ned, vampire Master of London, publishes his memoir—referencing the suggestion Kitty made to him but also riding on the coattails of her own book. | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
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Beware the Nice Ones: The curse from Book Three is actually being cast by Alice, the sweet store-owner lady. | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: Textbook case in Dr. Flemming. While a good part of his motivation is For (Fantastic) Science!, to the point that he seems not to care what happens to those he studies or uses, and there's a certain amount of What Measure Is a Non-Human? in how he regards lycanthropes and vampires, his avowed purpose, at least at the start, is to study these conditions—not merely to gain special abilities for humankind, but to cure the diseases and, hopefully, learn how the Healing Factor of lycanthropes and the immortality of vampires can have medical applications to curing other diseases (cancer and AIDS come to mind—see Kitty's mother and T.J.) and generally improving quality of life. He's willing to, as he puts it, "tell people what they want to hear" to earn their funding and assistance in his research, and as a result uses methods which range from merely questionable and distasteful to downright contemptible and monstrous. In the end, though, he realizes he is merely a pawn for others, that what he has done has undermined his credibility and gone astray from his intentions, and thus he kills Leo to save Kitty and Alette. Even though he has Jumped Off the Slippery Slope by the time we see him again in Kitty Steals the Show so as to be working outright with shadow military groups to create Super Soldiers, it's enough to garner some Sympathy for the Devil when Mercedes kills him for his failure. This is true of the entire fanatical group that kidnaps Kitty in book twelve, since they are all willing to give their lives to achieve their goals, but especially their leader Kumarbis and the magician Zora. Both are convinced that anything is justified in the name of completing their ritual and destroying Dux Bellorum, both believe Kitty must be kept in the dark about her role for her to become a proper avatar, and both are too tunnel-visioned and convinced of their own rightness and destiny to see the warning signs Kitty points out to them until it is too late. Yet it cannot be denied they are on the side of good and attempting to save the world—and in Kumarbis's case his feelings are justified by the fact he is Roman's progenitor, so with everything Roman has done through the centuries being his fault, he believes he must go to any extreme to make up for his terrible mistake in turning him. And as Kitty says, if his ritual actually works "he wasn't misguided at all". | |
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Brick Joke | |
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This is also how Kitty's show got started in the first place: talking about the Weekly World News's "Bat Boy" and other supernatural "sightings", and wondering whether they were real and it was all a cover-up. (Which comes back in a great Brick Joke at the end of book one: Bat-Boy is stated on the cover of Weekly World News to be appearing on Kitty's show.) | |
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Evil Parents Want Good Kids | |
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Evil Parents Want Good Kids: Well, she isn't actually evil, but based on Kitty's original impression of her and the fact vampires, like most supernaturals, are considered evil by the general public, Alette comes off this way at first. It turns out, however, that she's actually an example of a Doting/Good Parent who only wants the best for her human servants (and descendants). | |
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Selkies and Wereseals | |
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Selkies and Wereseals: Kitty meets a wereseal in Kitty's House of Horrors. And a selkie appears in "The Temptation of Robin Green". A stealth reference at the end of the first book: in a list of scientific names for various creatures "Homo sapiens pinnipedia" is mentioned, though it cuts off before explaining that seals are pinnipeds. Even more notable due to the fact that the only ones named before them (and therefore the only other ones named in the passage) are vampires* Homo sapiens sanguinis and werewolves* Homo sapiens lupus. | |
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Badass Preacher | |
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Father Columban, former superior and vampiric sire to Fray Juan, is made out to be one of these too during his introduction, both by his appearance (he's described several times as being "something out of a Gothic novel") and comparing his arrival at New Moon and demand to be invited in with Roman's first appearance in Raises Hell, but it's actually a subversion as he's instead a Badass Preacher and member of the Order of St. Lazarus, opposed to creatures like Juan and Dux Bellorum, although he is a bit of a Knight Templar. | |
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You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious | |
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You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: All the way through the first book, Kitty's best friend is called TJ. We only find out what TJ stands for after Carl has killed him, basically to stroke his own ego and she has to think how to answer Hardin's questions about him. Only at the end, when she is about to give her life so the others can escape and she is passing on her magical knowledge, does Zora call Kitty by her true name instead of Regina Luporum. Similarly, as Enkidu dies Sakhmet finally calls him by his true name, and before departing as allies she gives Kitty her own true name. | |
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Dark and Troubled Past | |
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This is also part of the Dark and Troubled Past in Ben and Cormac's Backstory—Ben's father was one of these and created a whole insane fringe group designed to overthrow the government and protect their land until he was caught by the FBI and convicted; after his own father was wounded by a werewolf and had to be killed, Cormac stayed with Ben's family and became part of the group to have somewhere to belong until, as he put it, he realized they were just "playing games, not living in the real world" and left home. Unfortunately this bit of history helps stack the deck against him when facing the Kangaroo Court. This bit of history also comes back to haunt Cormac one last time in Low Midnight, in the form of Anderson Layne, and his rival Jess Nolan. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: Aside from her clear research into the supernatural, the occult, and mythology, Carrie Vaughn also has a great deal of knowledge of history, literature, and culture. While this appears in various ways within the main series, and only has deepened as it has gone on, the stories "A Princess of Spain", "Conquistador de la Noche", and "The Book of Daniel" from Kitty's Greatest Hits particularly exemplify this. | |
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