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Neverwhere

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Neverwhere	label	Neverwhere
Neverwhere	page	Neverwhere
Neverwhere	comment	Neverwhere is an Urban Fantasy story by Neil Gaiman about an Unlucky Everydude named Richard Mayhew, whose life is going uneventfully until one day he stops to be a Good Samaritan to an injured young homeless woman named Door. He discovers that Door is being targeted by two assassins named Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar, and is trying to escape them with the help of the eccentric Marquis de Carabas. As a result, Richard finds himself pulled into the Dark World of London Below, populated with a colorful and often deadly cast of characters with strange ties to London and its environs, as he struggles to protect Door and find his way back to his own reality. One thing's for sure: you'll never look at The London Underground the same way again.The story began life in 1996 as a television series for the BBC, co-developed with Lenny Henry. While the end result was reasonably well received, Gaiman felt that it was not entirely true to his vision due to Executive Meddling and budget constraints, and wrote a novelization to reflect the story as it was in his imagination, indirectly launching his career as a novelist.note Good Omens came first, but it was a collaborative effort with Terry Pratchett.It was later adapted by Mike Carey and Glenn Fabry as a miniseries for Vertigo Comics. (The series was explicitly based on Gaiman's novel, rather than the BBC's televised version.)A movie version has been in Development Hell for a few decades now.There have been several stage adaptations, most successfully a 2010 adaption by Robert Kauzlaric, which has been performed by several professional theaters. Gaiman was not involved in the adaptation, but gave it his thumbs up.In March 2013, BBC Radio 4 aired a radio play version, adapted and directed by Dirk Maggs, and starring an astounding who's-who of British actors, led by James McAvoy as Richard and Natalie Dormer as Door. The radio play can be heard here.There is also now a short story in the same universe, How the Marquis Got His Coat Back. Gaiman has teased for a while that he may be writing a sequel novel with the working title The Seven Sisters.
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Neverwhere / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Neverwhere / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Mr. Stockton is a somewhat less abrasive version of Rupert Murdoch, although Murdoch is specifically named in the book as a counterpart to Stockton.
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Neverwhere / int_153299b4	type	Boisterous Bruiser
Neverwhere / int_153299b4	comment	Boisterous Bruiser: Well, as I live, breathe, and defecate, good old Hammersmith fits this trope! Har har har! He's described in the book as being able to do a very good impression of a mountain except for his beard, and is a cheery man who absolutely dotes on Door.
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Neverwhere / int_16ad6f7f	type	"It" Is Dehumanizing
Neverwhere / int_16ad6f7f	comment	"It" Is Dehumanizing: Averted. The narration, and most of the characters, use "it" to refer to the sexless Islington, and nobody objects.
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Neverwhere / int_196b292a	type	All Wishes Granted
Neverwhere / int_196b292a	comment	All Wishes Granted: Neil Gaiman freely admits to cribbing from The Wizard of Oz. Everyone gets their wish. Door learns who killed her family and avenges them. Richard gets a way home. The Marquis is owed a significant favor by Lady Door. Even Hunter gets her wish, which was the chance to hunt the Beast of London Below.
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Neverwhere / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
Neverwhere / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: The Marquis is a rare heroic version.
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Neverwhere / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Neverwhere / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Neil Gaiman plays the Fop with No Name and Mr. Figgis the security guard in the BBC radio production.
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Neverwhere / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
Neverwhere / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: Mr. Croup's efforts to acquire an exquisite porcelain statuette look like this at first. Then he eats it with terrifying glee. He simply loves to destroy precious and beautiful things.
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Neverwhere / int_1dacdb4f	type	Senseless Sacrifice
Neverwhere / int_1dacdb4f	comment	Senseless Sacrifice: The Marquis allows himself to be tortured to death (temporarily) by Croup and Vandemar, so that they will let slip info on their employer and purpose, but by the time he gets back to the rest of the characters, that particular cat is already out of the bag.
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Neverwhere / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Neverwhere / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: In a weird villain example, Croup and Vandemar. Richard isn't even particularly surprised at the end when Vandemar allows himself to be sucked into the vortex at the end because Croup has already fallen in.
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Neverwhere / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Neverwhere / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: The Black Friars, in both versions. In the BBC series, Croup also talks directly to the camera whilst revering his newly acquired figurine.
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Neverwhere / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Neverwhere / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: The Black Friars are all played by actors of African descent in the miniseries and Radio 4 production, and described as having dark brown skin in the book — i.e., they're all Black.
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Neverwhere / int_209d0b5f	type	Wainscot Society
Neverwhere / int_209d0b5f	comment	Wainscot Society: London Below and its counterparts are well-developed, if chaotic, hidden societies hidden in the cracks between and below major world cities.
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Neverwhere / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Neverwhere / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: The exact fate of the hired thug Varney is probably best not examined too closely. Then again, Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar both seem to have some Extreme Omnivore tendencies. Also implied with the curry vendor Richard visits at the second Floating Market. He asks what exactly the meat option is, and whatever answer the vendor gives makes him decide to get everybody vegetable curry instead.
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Neverwhere / int_22793d67	type	Terrifying Pet Store Rat
Neverwhere / int_22793d67	comment	Terrifying Pet Store Rat: Gaiman wanted the Beast of London to be a wild boar, but the people who were sent to the boar farms said they were too friendly and they ended up using a Highland cow.
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Neverwhere / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Neverwhere / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The quartz crystal from Anaesthesia's bracelet.
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Neverwhere / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Neverwhere / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: London Below. It's described a fair bit in the book, and is especially evident in the TV series. Door's family home is an "associative house", a hodge-podge of rooms stolen from forgotten buildings of completely different eras that are all linked by portals that only her family can travel though. Or so they thought... Her father's study also contains an 18th century steampunk video journal. Door makes a passing reference to a group of Roman Legionnaires camped out by the Kilburn River. The Earl holds a medieval court on a Tube train with his courtiers armed with both crossbows and assault rifles. Banquets and toasts are had with fizzy drinks and chocolate bars from vending machines.
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Neverwhere / int_28e69c98	type	Debt Detester
Neverwhere / int_28e69c98	comment	Debt Detester: The Marquis de Carabas. He prefers it when people owe him things.
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Neverwhere / int_294df577	type	Dark World
Neverwhere / int_294df577	comment	Dark World: Right after Richard notices and saves Door and thus involves himself in the mess of Neverwhere, he suddenly finds that his ATM card no longer functions and people in his life act as if he was missing or never existed at all. While a good deal of Neverwhere does take place underground, there are moments where it's clear that "London Below" occasionally extends aboveground but remains unseen by the average human being in the 'real world', especially on rooftops. Near the end, once Richard returns to the 'real world,' his ATM card is shown to function normally once more, and those same people who forgot about him at the beginning recognize him and welcome him back from his supposed vacation.
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Neverwhere / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
Neverwhere / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: The subtlety of Hunter's sexuality isn't enough to save her from this trope, apparently.
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Neverwhere / int_2c77fae3	type	Darkness Equals Death
Neverwhere / int_2c77fae3	comment	Darkness Equals Death: Night's Bridge. The darkness there isn't the absence of light, but a darkness that can (and does) take people away.
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Neverwhere / int_2d3ef5f2	type	New Weird
Neverwhere / int_2d3ef5f2	comment	New Weird: Underneath (and sometimes above) the London we know, there's a Fantasy Kitchen Sink world where angels, Greek demon-inspired ice vampires, and humans with the power to open anything all co-exist side by side. Figurative names in London Above are literal in London Below, with Knightsbridge becoming the shadowy Night's Bridge, The Angel in Islington becoming an angel named Islington, and Blackfriars becoming an order of Black friars associated with darkness. Also, Atlantis is real, though it was destroyed many thousands of years ago. Our hero lives an extremely ordinary life in London Above, but he ends up falling through the cracks in our world into the fantasy world below.
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Neverwhere / int_2d6f00e4	type	Psycho for Hire
Neverwhere / int_2d6f00e4	comment	Psycho for Hire: Croup and Vandemar.
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Neverwhere / int_30f7df9d	type	Rummage Sale Reject
Neverwhere / int_30f7df9d	comment	Rummage Sale Reject: Door's wardrobe is described as follows: Somewhat forgotten in the comic; Door's clothing is still somewhat hodgepodge, but it coheres into some sort of noble style.
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Neverwhere / int_334b7f3a	type	Cryptic Background Reference
Neverwhere / int_334b7f3a	comment	Cryptic Background Reference: Shepherd's Bush and Raven's Court, among many other things.
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Neverwhere / int_3496b29a	type	Heart Is an Awesome Power
Neverwhere / int_3496b29a	comment	Heart Is an Awesome Power: Opening things, to anywhere, whether there was a door there or not. The first way we see Door use her power is to open up an assassin's chest.
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Neverwhere / int_38424ebb	type	Genie in a Bottle
Neverwhere / int_38424ebb	comment	Genie in a Bottle: One of these is for sale at the Floating Market.
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Neverwhere / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Neverwhere / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Three of them. One by the Marquis. He goes to see Croup and Vandemar for information, knowing they'll kill him and gloat. However, he has arranged the means for his revival, meaning he can get potentially valuable information from their gloating. A second by Islington. He was the one who hired Croup and Vandemar to kill Door's family, sending her on the run and thus keeping pressure on her so she'll be desperate, along with planting evidence showing him as trustworthy. Anticipating the second, there's a third by Door, with help from Hammersmith. She hides the real key on Richard so that she only has a duplicate, which lets her open the door to as far away as she can in case of Islington's betrayal.
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Neverwhere / int_38f5ed1a	type	Dragged Off to Hell
Neverwhere / int_38f5ed1a	comment	Dragged Off to Hell: The final fate of Islington, Croup and Vandemar — sucked into a vortex that could be anything from the Sun to a black hole.
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Neverwhere / int_39994bd9	type	Bazaar of the Bizarre
Neverwhere / int_39994bd9	comment	Bazaar of the Bizarre: The Floating Market is a major, if transient, hub in London Below, where almost anything can be traded for almost anything else: information for a handkerchief, an iron rose for a bag of cheese, a choice corpse for three quarters of a bottle of Chanel N°5, a Hand of Glory ("guaranteed to work") for some junk, and a somewhat alive guide for... unspecified Liquid Assets, among many others. There's also some great curry.
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Neverwhere / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Neverwhere / int_3c0a4666	comment	Although it should be pointed out that the Marquis trusts Old Bailey not for any reason of comradeship or sentimentality, but because Old Bailey has no choice but to return the Marquis's favour. "I was a fool..."
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Neverwhere / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
Neverwhere / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	The Earl holds a medieval court on a Tube train with his courtiers armed with both crossbows and assault rifles. Banquets and toasts are had with fizzy drinks and chocolate bars from vending machines.
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Neverwhere / int_3d038b36	type	Rhetorical Question Blunder
Neverwhere / int_3d038b36	comment	Rhetorical Question Blunder: Mr. Vandemar, repeatedly.
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Neverwhere / int_3e604618	type	Pluralses
Neverwhere / int_3e604618	comment	Pluralses: Old Bailey asks for "shoeses and gloveses" from the Marquis.
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Neverwhere / int_3eb8ba12	type	Description Porn
Neverwhere / int_3eb8ba12	comment	In the BBC series, Croup also talks directly to the camera whilst revering his newly acquired figurine.
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Neverwhere / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Neverwhere / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: Richard Mayhew, when Door awakes. Lampshaded — he thinks about how much he hates saying obvious things, but can't help it.
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Neverwhere / int_3f4561f2	type	Five-Finger Fillet
Neverwhere / int_3f4561f2	comment	Five-Finger Fillet: Mr Croup places his hand against a wall and throws several razor blades at it, landing in the spaces in between his fingers. Mr Vandemar is unimpressed with the fact that he missed all of them.
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Neverwhere / int_41438c44	type	Choosy Beggar
Neverwhere / int_41438c44	comment	Choosy Beggar: After being forgotten by the surface world, Richard is failing to use an ATM when he's approached by a vagrant named Iliaster, begging for change. A frustrated Richard hands him his debit card and says there's several hundred pounds on it if he can get to it. Iliaster snorts, "That and sixty pence would get me a nice cup of tea," and tosses the card back to him. Later it turns out that Iliaster is himself in London Below, so this is justified, as he'd probably just have the same problem Richard did.
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Neverwhere / int_421e0f6a	type	Mysterious Waif
Neverwhere / int_421e0f6a	comment	Lady Door also counts. She appears at first as a Damsel in Distress, but later the trope is subverted as her Opening ability is proven to be unexpectedly deadly. She uses this to send the Angel Islington, Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar "As [...] far away as I could".
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Neverwhere / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Neverwhere / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: A favoured pastime of Croup and Vandemar, as the Marquis finds out: they crucify him to a makeshift wooden frame and slice him to pieces with abandoned medical equipment. Later they threaten to torture Richard if Door doesn't do as Islington asks.
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Neverwhere / int_42c7961d	type	The Only One I Trust
Neverwhere / int_42c7961d	comment	The Only One I Trust: Old Bailey would appear to be this for the Marquis. The Marquis quite literally trusts him with his life, and rather touchingly when you consider he'd probably be better off if he didn't, Old Bailey earns it. Although it should be pointed out that the Marquis trusts Old Bailey not for any reason of comradeship or sentimentality, but because Old Bailey has no choice but to return the Marquis's favour. "I was a fool..."
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Neverwhere / int_430e15e1	type	Stripperific
Neverwhere / int_430e15e1	comment	Stripperific: In Neil Gaiman's audio commentary on the DVD release of the miniseries, one of his complaints is that Hunter was meant to be stripperific, and she didn't turn out that way due to the aforementioned Executive Meddling.
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Neverwhere / int_4565d81d	type	Single-Stroke Battle
Neverwhere / int_4565d81d	comment	Single-Stroke Battle: Hunter vs. the Beast of London. She loses.
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Neverwhere / int_465780af	type	Facial Markings
Neverwhere / int_465780af	comment	Facial Markings: In the comic adaptation, Door's family all have keyhole-shaped marks over their right eye.
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Neverwhere / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Neverwhere / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Richard. Being new to London Below, he stumbles into many pitfalls that any native would know to steer far clear of.
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Neverwhere / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
Neverwhere / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: Okay, so it's more like "Sealed Evil in a room full of candles."
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Neverwhere / int_4977559e	type	Our Angels Are Different
Neverwhere / int_4977559e	comment	Our Angels Are Different: Islington. It looks essentially human, except for its uncanny black eyes in the miniseries, and appears to have no special supernatural powers, though this may be a side effect of its imprisonment. However, it is decidedly not a force of good, as it was the mastermind behind the murder of Door's family and uses their murder to manipulate Door into freeing it to conquer Heaven for itself.
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Neverwhere / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Neverwhere / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn/Scenery Gorn: The original series, by the BBC, uses London's hidden and grimy underside practically as an extra character, and has some spectacular shots of the Royal Mail tunnels, the Greathead Shield, Down Street Station, St. Pancras/Midland Grand Hotel and Bazalgette's sewers.
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Neverwhere / int_4ab9720d	type	I'm Cold... So Cold...
Neverwhere / int_4ab9720d	comment	I'm Cold... So Cold...: While he never says the trope, the Marquis de Carabas describes death as "very dark, and very cold".
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Neverwhere / int_4b1247b8	type	Red Pill, Blue Pill
Neverwhere / int_4b1247b8	comment	Red Pill, Blue Pill: Richard spends most of the story striving to find a way to get back to his old life. When he does, even though he gets a cushy penthouse apartment and a promotion with Jessica willing to build their relationship again, he regrets it.
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Neverwhere / int_4e1edd37	type	Wizard Workshop
Neverwhere / int_4e1edd37	comment	Wizard Workshop: Lord Portico's study contains various leather-bound books, an astrolabe, mirrors, assorted scientific instruments, and a stuffed crocodile hanging from the ceiling.
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Neverwhere / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Neverwhere / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: The Abbot saying "We have lost the key. God help us all." is the first indication that Islington isn't as great as he seems. In fact, the next chapter shows that he's the one who hired Croup and Vandemar.
Neverwhere / int_4e7c4536	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_4e7c4536	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_4e7c4536
Neverwhere / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Neverwhere / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Lord Portico laughed at Islington when the angel asked him to release it. Islington responded by hiring Croup and Vandemar to kill Portico and most of his family.
Neverwhere / int_50b05d30	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_50b05d30	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_50b05d30
Neverwhere / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Neverwhere / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: The Marquis always seems to have something useful for the situation at hand, including, oddly, a large piece of fruitcake.
Neverwhere / int_50f66629	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_50f66629	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_50f66629
Neverwhere / int_517f8d71	type	Delusions of Eloquence
Neverwhere / int_517f8d71	comment	Delusions of Eloquence: Croup and Vandemar, but especially Croup. Croup lampshades it.
Neverwhere / int_517f8d71	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_517f8d71	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_517f8d71
Neverwhere / int_521aa24a	type	Dramatic Necklace Removal
Neverwhere / int_521aa24a	comment	Dramatic Necklace Removal: Inevitably, Islington rips off the key Door had on a chain around her neck. She winces, but seems fine for all that it was made by a master blacksmith.
Neverwhere / int_521aa24a	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_521aa24a	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_521aa24a
Neverwhere / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Neverwhere / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The novel begins and ends with Richard leaving a less-than-satisfying pub gathering, and encountering an old (possibly even the same) bag lady.
Neverwhere / int_5313c266	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_5313c266	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_5313c266
Neverwhere / int_53407671	type	Action Survivor
Neverwhere / int_53407671	comment	Action Survivor: Richard by the end of the story, to the point where the Marquis would like to keep one of his bones after he dies as a good luck charm.
Neverwhere / int_53407671	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_53407671	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_53407671
Neverwhere / int_55d79c60	type	Magical Homeless Person
Neverwhere / int_55d79c60	comment	Magical Homeless Person: There's an entire population of hobo wizards. Once you've entered into their world, mundane humans tend to either ignore you, or not recognize you. The actual level of magical powers they have varies a great deal.
Neverwhere / int_55d79c60	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_55d79c60	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_55d79c60
Neverwhere / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
Neverwhere / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: The Black Friars are associated with darkness, all having names that have something to do with darkness like "bilious" and "fuliginous", and are initially quite threatening to our heroes, but they're not actually evil. In fact, they're the ones guarding the key that keeps the real villain, Islington, locked in its prison.
Neverwhere / int_575fd5e2	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_575fd5e2	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_575fd5e2
Neverwhere / int_58aedae3	type	Our Doors Are Different
Neverwhere / int_58aedae3	comment	Our Doors Are Different: Doors are more or less mundane, but when opened by members of the Portico family, they can go anywhere. The Door trapping Islington, however...
Neverwhere / int_58aedae3	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_58aedae3	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_58aedae3
Neverwhere / int_5b057eae	type	Animalistic Abomination
Neverwhere / int_5b057eae	comment	Animalistic Abomination: The Beast of London, which is based off the legend of the Black Sewer swine.
Neverwhere / int_5b057eae	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_5b057eae	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_5b057eae
Neverwhere / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Neverwhere / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Richard's fears are heights, blood, and rats, all of which play rather important parts in the story.
Neverwhere / int_5beef860	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_5beef860	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_5beef860
Neverwhere / int_5e751f8	type	Fallen Angel
Neverwhere / int_5e751f8	comment	Fallen Angel: A reference is made to Lucifer being a fallen angel. Islington doesn't think highly of him. Specifically, it thinks he's a thug, and it's unfair that Islington is treated similarly.
Neverwhere / int_5e751f8	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_5e751f8	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_5e751f8
Neverwhere / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
Neverwhere / int_5f146203	comment	Dissonant Serenity: Islington, most of the time.
Neverwhere / int_5f146203	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_5f146203	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_5f146203
Neverwhere / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Neverwhere / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: He trusted Lamia? Hunter seems to have this sort of reputation in-universe — at one point the characters are each being made fun of in turn by a jester as they introduce themselves. When Hunter offers her name, everybody gets really quiet. Also, Serpentine. The moment Door realizes they're in her house, she goes nuts.
Neverwhere / int_60fa92ac	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_60fa92ac	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_60fa92ac
Neverwhere / int_6141b228	type	Full-Boar Action
Neverwhere / int_6141b228	comment	Full-Boar Action: The Beast of London. Other cities are stated to have had similar giant animals (a bear in Berlin, an alligator in New York). Note the "had" — they're mostly mentioned in the context of Hunter having killed them.
Neverwhere / int_6141b228	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_6141b228	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_6141b228
Neverwhere / int_61459062	type	Perception Filter
Neverwhere / int_61459062	comment	Perception Filter: Normal people are unable to notice those from London Below, except in very extreme cases.
Neverwhere / int_61459062	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_61459062	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_61459062
Neverwhere / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Neverwhere / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: Hunter makes one near the end in the labyrinth.
Neverwhere / int_617f0563	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_617f0563	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_617f0563
Neverwhere / int_61996785	type	Sacrificial Lamb
Neverwhere / int_61996785	comment	Sacrificial Lamb: Anaesthesia's death serves to show how high the stakes are, and motivates Richard to keep forging on to honor her sacrifice.
Neverwhere / int_61996785	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_61996785	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_61996785
Neverwhere / int_61d054a0	type	Animal Stereotypes
Neverwhere / int_61d054a0	comment	Animal Stereotypes: Croup and Vandemar are described as giving very clear impressions of "a fox and a wolf". The rat-speakers are sneaky and live in the sewers with the rats they serve, and their leader is described as being hunched over with his wrists clasped to his chest like a rat standing on its hind legs to paw at something. Lady Serpentine is, well, serpentine. Hunter is often compared to a lioness. The Marquis de Carabas is generally described in catlike terms, even being compared to a panther at one point, and, of course, his name comes from Puss in Boots. He even has more than one life, in a fashion.
Neverwhere / int_61d054a0	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_61d054a0	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_61d054a0
Neverwhere / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Neverwhere / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: Door's sister, who Islington left alive in case manipulating Door didn't work out. Though Gaiman says he "doesn't do sequels", another book in the same universe is entirely possible — see American Gods and Anansi Boys.
Neverwhere / int_6293c185	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_6293c185	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_6293c185
Neverwhere / int_62ac3f93	type	Sinister Subway
Neverwhere / int_62ac3f93	comment	Sinister Subway: London Below. Arguably a case of Truth in Television in the BBC series, as a large number of scenes were actually shot in out-of-use sections of the London Underground.
Neverwhere / int_62ac3f93	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_62ac3f93	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_62ac3f93
Neverwhere / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Neverwhere / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Hunter distracts the Beast in order to give Richard the opportunity to kill it, although it's implied that she was essentially dying anyway before doing so, so this may be more of a Dying Moment of Awesome. Also, the Marquis. He gets better.
Neverwhere / int_6439de78	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_6439de78	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_6439de78
Neverwhere / int_644eca71	type	Rich Bitch
Neverwhere / int_644eca71	comment	Rich Bitch: Jessica is a downplayed example, being merely self-centred and wrapped up in her own privileged problems rather than cruel or malicious. Her introductory Kick the Dog moment essentially involves her ignoring a homeless person in need, and how many readers haven't been guilty of that at some point?
Neverwhere / int_644eca71	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_644eca71	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_644eca71
Neverwhere / int_64f55e69	type	False Innocence Trick
Neverwhere / int_64f55e69	comment	False Innocence Trick: The Angel Islington seems to be a trusted ally to the heroes, and informs them that it is tasked with protecting London Below due to its previous failure to adequately defend its previous city, Atlantis. They should have asked for more detail about that before helping to free it. It destroyed Atlantis because it wasn't satisfied with their worship, and it's basically a Fallen Angel in the tradition of Satan with A God Am I pretensions, aiming to storm Heaven and declare itself God.
Neverwhere / int_64f55e69	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_64f55e69	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_64f55e69
Neverwhere / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
Neverwhere / int_6682d6e4	comment	Hunter distracts the Beast in order to give Richard the opportunity to kill it, although it's implied that she was essentially dying anyway before doing so, so this may be more of a Dying Moment of Awesome.
Neverwhere / int_6682d6e4	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_6682d6e4	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_6682d6e4
Neverwhere / int_67fedd35	type	Bizarrchitecture
Neverwhere / int_67fedd35	comment	Bizarrchitecture: In the comic, "Down Street" is rather literal. It somehow sticks to the side of a cliff, and can only be abseiled down.
Neverwhere / int_67fedd35	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_67fedd35	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_67fedd35
Neverwhere / int_6a6b23ff	type	Unfazed Everyman
Neverwhere / int_6a6b23ff	comment	Unfazed Everyman: Richard. Even down to being given an Arthur Dent shout out with Door calling him "Richardrichardmayhewdick."
Neverwhere / int_6a6b23ff	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_6a6b23ff	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_6a6b23ff
Neverwhere / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Neverwhere / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: During the Victorian era, Henry Mayhew did an in-depth study of the darker side of "London Above". Also, the Marquis de Carabas is the fake title given by Puss in Boots to the miller's son he assists, although the character in Neverwhere has more in common with the cat than with his master, in both de Carabas' scheming and his multiple lives. The Marquis is stated to have picked his name deliberately. Realizing that the world runs on lies, he decided to become a lie, taking the name of a character whose life ran on a lie. "Anaesthesia" is suspiciously similar to "Anastasia", especially considering that she disappears. But she might come back some time after the book is over. Door's family, in line with their inherited ability as "Openers", all have names that suggest a door or entrance: her mother and father the Lord Portico and Lady Portia, her sister Ingress, her brother Arch. Lamia is named after Greek demons which have a lot in common with vampires. All of the Black Friars have names related to the color black, shadows, or darkness. And Hunter. Guess what she does for a living.
Neverwhere / int_6bda9a30	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_6bda9a30	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_6bda9a30
Neverwhere / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Neverwhere / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: How the Ordeal of the Key works — it attempts to drive whoever is undergoing the Ordeal to suicide, and many do. Those who live are never the same.
Neverwhere / int_6d332aea	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_6d332aea	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_6d332aea
Neverwhere / int_6d786f8e	type	Stock Unsolved Mysteries
Neverwhere / int_6d786f8e	comment	Stock Unsolved Mysteries: Atlantis was destroyed by a vengeful angel, and some lost Roman legionnaires fell into a time pocket.
Neverwhere / int_6d786f8e	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_6d786f8e	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_6d786f8e
Neverwhere / int_6de438eb	type	The Everyman
Neverwhere / int_6de438eb	comment	Richard Mayhew is your everyday 30-year-old office worker living in London who is thrown into the London Below after he tried to save a wounded girl. Subverted at the end, when Richard takes a level in badass and kills the Beast of London.
Neverwhere / int_6de438eb	featureApplicability	-0.3
Neverwhere / int_6de438eb	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_6de438eb
Neverwhere / int_6eb1268c	type	Extreme Omnivore
Neverwhere / int_6eb1268c	comment	The exact fate of the hired thug Varney is probably best not examined too closely. Then again, Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar both seem to have some Extreme Omnivore tendencies.
Neverwhere / int_6eb1268c	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_6eb1268c	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_6eb1268c
Neverwhere / int_6fc21d06	type	Fiction 500
Neverwhere / int_6fc21d06	comment	Fiction 500: Arnold Stockton, Jessica's employer, owns a multimedia empire and pays to have the Angelus restored for his own enjoyment.
Neverwhere / int_6fc21d06	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_6fc21d06	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_6fc21d06
Neverwhere / int_7012424f	type	Stealth Hi/Bye
Neverwhere / int_7012424f	comment	Stealth Hi/Bye: Mr. Croup has this as a supernatural ability in the miniseries.
Neverwhere / int_7012424f	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_7012424f	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_7012424f
Neverwhere / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
Neverwhere / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: The Marquis answers Richard's call, they step together through a door in the wall that wasn't there seconds ago into London Below, and the story ends.
Neverwhere / int_716c0b1b	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_716c0b1b	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_716c0b1b
Neverwhere / int_71e592a0	type	Non-Action Protagonist
Neverwhere / int_71e592a0	comment	Non-Action Protagonist: Richard Mayhew is your everyday 30-year-old office worker living in London who is thrown into the London Below after he tried to save a wounded girl. Subverted at the end, when Richard takes a level in badass and kills the Beast of London. Lady Door also counts. She appears at first as a Damsel in Distress, but later the trope is subverted as her Opening ability is proven to be unexpectedly deadly. She uses this to send the Angel Islington, Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar "As [...] far away as I could". Marquis de Carabas is the resident trickster of the London Below, who has little combat ability, but is a formidable enemy — for his true strength lies in his trickery and his Chain of Deals. He manages to use both to bring himself Back from the Dead for the grand finale.
Neverwhere / int_71e592a0	featureApplicability	-0.3
Neverwhere / int_71e592a0	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_71e592a0
Neverwhere / int_72217e12	type	Murder, Inc.
Neverwhere / int_72217e12	comment	Murder, Inc.: "Croup and Vandemar, the Old Firm, obstacles obliterated, nuisances eradicated, bothersome limbs removed, and tutelary dentistry."note "tutelary" = "to teach a lesson..." In the comic adaptation, this tends to get abbreviated to "Croup and Vandemar, bespoke violence."
Neverwhere / int_72217e12	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_72217e12	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_72217e12
Neverwhere / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Neverwhere / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: Sometimes, there's nothing you can do.
Neverwhere / int_7464705c	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_7464705c	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_7464705c
Neverwhere / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
Neverwhere / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: The Marquis de Carabas in the comics is an odd example: he has eyes and lips, but no other features, as the rest of his body is just a silhouette. He is described in the book as having extremely dark skin, as his actor in the original miniseries is Black, and it is to be assumed the artist took it literally and gave him ink-black skin. Although after he gets killed and brought back to life, the ink-black is streaked in places, revealing skin of a lighter shade underneath, so it may be some kind of costume or disguise.
Neverwhere / int_7abba202	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_7abba202	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_7abba202
Neverwhere / int_7ad2c23d	type	ShoutOutToShakespeare
Neverwhere / int_7ad2c23d	comment	Shout-Out to Shakespeare: Mr. Croup asks Mr. Vandemar, "if you cut us, do we not bleed?", paraphrasing Shylock's famous quote from William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Mr. Vandemar answers, "No." Richard says "Lead on, Macduff", a common misquotation from Macbeth, at the end of chapter eleven. After he leaves, Brother Fulginous notes that it's actually "Lay on, Macduff", but he "hadn't the heart to correct him. He sounded like such a nice man."
Neverwhere / int_7ad2c23d	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_7ad2c23d	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_7ad2c23d
Neverwhere / int_7b4cb802	type	Bodyguard Betrayal
Neverwhere / int_7b4cb802	comment	Bodyguard Betrayal: Croup and Vandemar approach Varney and order him to become Door's bodyguard for this express purpose. Fortunately for Door, he loses the spot to Hunter. ...who it turns out does the same anyway, as she was also in their employ.
Neverwhere / int_7b4cb802	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_7b4cb802	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_7b4cb802
Neverwhere / int_7c1bf001	type	Character Name Alias
Neverwhere / int_7c1bf001	comment	Character Name Alias: 'The Marquis de Carabas' isn't his real name — he says he got it from a "lie in a fairy tale", a reference to Puss in Boots.
Neverwhere / int_7c1bf001	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_7c1bf001	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_7c1bf001
Neverwhere / int_7d0ffcc0	type	Single Substance Manipulation
Neverwhere / int_7d0ffcc0	comment	Single Substance Manipulation: Door and her family have a talent called opening: they can unlock any door or lock by focusing on it, but it can be broadened to opening anything. in an extreme example, Door uses it on an attacker's heart, which gets real bloody real quick).
Neverwhere / int_7d0ffcc0	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_7d0ffcc0	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_7d0ffcc0
Neverwhere / int_7d49d74a	type	Cultural Translation
Neverwhere / int_7d49d74a	comment	Cultural Translation: For the original U.S. edition, Gaiman cut a lot of British references and humor that his editors thought American audiences wouldn’t get, and added several thousand words of new material to make up for it. The two versions were eventually reconciled into an “Author’s Preferred Text” for the 20th anniversary edition.
Neverwhere / int_7d49d74a	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_7d49d74a	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_7d49d74a
Neverwhere / int_801415e6	type	Hand of Glory
Neverwhere / int_801415e6	comment	Hand of Glory:
Neverwhere / int_801415e6	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_801415e6	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_801415e6
Neverwhere / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Neverwhere / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: "Mr. Croup likes words," the narration tells us. Does he ever. This also extends to the audiobook, where Neil Gaiman is clearly having a hell of a time reading his lines. Taken up to eleven in the radio adaptation as he's played by Anthony Head.
Neverwhere / int_823c6e3e	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_823c6e3e	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_823c6e3e
Neverwhere / int_83adb272	type	Crystal Dragon Jesus
Neverwhere / int_83adb272	comment	Crystal Dragon Jesus: All the people of London Below swear by "Temple and Arch". It's never quite explained what this refers to, but it is thematically appropriate, given the deeper meanings of the other place names.
Neverwhere / int_83adb272	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_83adb272	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_83adb272
Neverwhere / int_83b44e80	type	Straight Gay
Neverwhere / int_83b44e80	comment	Straight Gay: Hunter.
Neverwhere / int_83b44e80	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_83b44e80	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_83b44e80
Neverwhere / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Neverwhere / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: There really is a Knight's Bridge, there really is an Earl's Court, there really is an Angel Islington, etc. It's all a lot more potent if you know the London Underground station map, i.e., live in London. Also, guess what Hunter and Hammersmith do for a living. Door opens doors...and sometimes chests.
Neverwhere / int_8409a385	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_8409a385	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_8409a385
Neverwhere / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
Neverwhere / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: Croup and Vandemar. Whatever they are, they only look human, and have the ability to cross space and time.
Neverwhere / int_851dda8f	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_851dda8f	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_851dda8f
Neverwhere / int_86968c96	type	Above Good and Evil
Neverwhere / int_86968c96	comment	Above Good and Evil: Islington likes to think of themself as this.
Neverwhere / int_86968c96	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_86968c96	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_86968c96
Neverwhere / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Neverwhere / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Hunter has slain the great alligator who lives in the sewers of New York, the bear that lurks beneath Berlin, and several others, and now she's going after the Beast of London. Croup and Vandemar also never tire of telling people how many, and how painfully, they've killed.
Neverwhere / int_86b21114	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_86b21114	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_86b21114
Neverwhere / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Neverwhere / int_875615dd	comment	Arguably a case of Truth in Television in the BBC series, as a large number of scenes were actually shot in out-of-use sections of the London Underground.
Neverwhere / int_875615dd	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_875615dd	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_875615dd
Neverwhere / int_87e661e8	type	Absurdly Spacious Sewer
Neverwhere / int_87e661e8	comment	Absurdly-Spacious Sewer: There are entire clans of people who make their homes and livelihoods in the sewers and Tube tunnels of London Below. The Sewer Folk are trustworthy enough if you don't mind the smell.
Neverwhere / int_87e661e8	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_87e661e8	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_87e661e8
Neverwhere / int_8a2978d1	type	Cool Key
Neverwhere / int_8a2978d1	comment	Cool Key: The key kept by the Black Friars — as the "key to all reality", in the hands of an Opener it can make them an outright Reality Warper. It's never described in the text aside from being silver, but is shown in the comic as an elaborate Skeleton Key. In the miniseries, it's a simple four-pronged key hung on a large silver loop.
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Neverwhere / int_8a2978d1	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_8a2978d1
Neverwhere / int_8e5c0199	type	Egomaniac Hunter
Neverwhere / int_8e5c0199	comment	Egomaniac Hunter: Hunter. Her only real purpose is stalking the beasts of cities.
Neverwhere / int_8e5c0199	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_8e5c0199	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_8e5c0199
Neverwhere / int_8fb244bd	type	Replaced with Replica
Neverwhere / int_8fb244bd	comment	Replaced with Replica: After the protagonists get the key Islington is after, Door makes a copy and gives the original to Richard, so that when they are captured, Islington will take it from her without getting the real thing.
Neverwhere / int_8fb244bd	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_8fb244bd	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_8fb244bd
Neverwhere / int_90984c54	type	Glamour Failure
Neverwhere / int_90984c54	comment	Glamour Failure: Islington, when asked about Atlantis.
Neverwhere / int_90984c54	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_90984c54	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_90984c54
Neverwhere / int_92474ca6	type	Resurrection Gambit
Neverwhere / int_92474ca6	comment	Resurrection Gambit: The Marquis de Carabas does this, hiding his life force in a Soul Jar that is then left in Old Bailey's safekeeping, so that he can allow himself to be caught and murdered by Croup and Vandemar, all so that he can find out who their employer is.
Neverwhere / int_92474ca6	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_92474ca6	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_92474ca6
Neverwhere / int_92d728e1	type	Resurrection Sickness
Neverwhere / int_92d728e1	comment	Resurrection Sickness: Literally. The first thing the Marquis does after being resurrected is vomit profusely. Justified, as he has a lot of sewer water in his lungs.
Neverwhere / int_92d728e1	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_92d728e1	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_92d728e1
Neverwhere / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Neverwhere / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Spectacularly, Islington, when asked about the fate of Atlantis:
Neverwhere / int_957e5fc2	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_957e5fc2	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_957e5fc2
Neverwhere / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Neverwhere / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar. Mr. Croup even Lampshades that they may be quirky and amusing, but that doesn't stop them from being dangerous and terrifying. Also Islington after the reveal before its Villainous Breakdown. "I didn't kill your family, Door. I had them killed..."
Neverwhere / int_95b7c400	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_95b7c400	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_95b7c400
Neverwhere / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Neverwhere / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Islington, with Croup and Vandemar as a collective Heavy.
Neverwhere / int_970c790a	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_970c790a	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_970c790a
Neverwhere / int_97a82530	type	Sewer Gator
Neverwhere / int_97a82530	comment	Sewer Gator: Hunter, in a Badass Boast, says that she killed the biggest of the New York sewer gators.
Neverwhere / int_97a82530	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_97a82530	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_97a82530
Neverwhere / int_985e118a	type	Odd Couple
Neverwhere / int_985e118a	comment	Odd Couple: Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar are pretty much opposites, apart from their fashion sense, powers, and love of killing things.
Neverwhere / int_985e118a	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_985e118a	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_985e118a
Neverwhere / int_98664966	type	YouNeverAsked
Neverwhere / int_98664966	comment	You Never Asked: When asked why he never warned them that freeing Islington was a horrible idea, the Abbot only says it wasn't his responsibility (even though he dreaded the possibility).
Neverwhere / int_98664966	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_98664966	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_98664966
Neverwhere / int_98a63dc6	type	Time Abyss
Neverwhere / int_98a63dc6	comment	Time Abyss: The Labyrinth of the Beast of London is said to have lain there under the site on the Thames before the legendary King Lud himself founded the first village. It was built to keep a Sealed Evil in a Can, though the Beast only arrived in the 17th century. Older still are Islington and Croup and Vandemar, although in the latter's case this might be due to their possible ability to move through time.
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Neverwhere / int_98a63dc6	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_98a63dc6
Neverwhere / int_9b08807c	type	Leaving You to Find Myself
Neverwhere / int_9b08807c	comment	Leaving You to Find Myself: Possibly part of the reason why Richard chooses to go back home to his life in London Above and part ways with Door and the Marquis near the end.
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Neverwhere / int_9b08807c	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_9b08807c
Neverwhere / int_9ba53911	type	Stranger in a Familiar Land
Neverwhere / int_9ba53911	comment	Stranger in a Familiar Land Richard realises that his old job and fiancée mean nothing to him and returns to London Below, giving up his life Above for more adventures with Door and the Marquis.
Neverwhere / int_9ba53911	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_9ba53911	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_9ba53911
Neverwhere / int_9bbe05ee	type	Fantasy Keepsake
Neverwhere / int_9bbe05ee	comment	Fantasy Keepsake: Used twice in different ways: during the Ordeal, Richard is able to rebuff the illusion that he's mad and homeless by finding a quartz bead from Anesthesia's necklace on his person. Later, Richard keeps the knife given to him by Hunter after returning to London Above, although since it's just a knife, it doesn't entirely reassure him as to its reality. He also finds the feather given to him by Old Bailey in the book, which again, isn't much proof.
Neverwhere / int_9bbe05ee	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_9bbe05ee	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_9bbe05ee
Neverwhere / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Neverwhere / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Door and the Marquis search Lord Portico's study and unearth his journal from the secret hiding place. Portico's last entry shows him being killed in the middle of recording. As Door figures out, although tragically not fast enough to do anything, these two things don't add up. Croup and Vandemar doctored the last journal entry to trick her into trusting Islington. Door sees the deaths of all of her family except for her sister Ingress; she's seen in a memory with Lady Portia, but the memory ends just as Portia is murdered. Islington, Croup and Vandermar have a discussion about how a plan isn't working since the person involved is too young, so they need to drive Door to get the key. Come the climax and as Door banishes Islington, it desperately tells her that Ingress is still alive in an effort to be spared.
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Neverwhere / int_9d12bbc1	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_9d12bbc1
Neverwhere / int_9dfd7154	type	Fridge Logic
Neverwhere / int_9dfd7154	comment	invokedFridge Logic: In-universe — Door wonders, in a dream, who put away her father's journal after he was killed, but forgets this by the time she wakes. The answer turns out to be significant.
Neverwhere / int_9dfd7154	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_9dfd7154	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_9dfd7154
Neverwhere / int_9e83f027	type	Amazing Technicolor Population
Neverwhere / int_9e83f027	comment	Amazing Technicolor Population: For no real reason, the comics show Anaesthesia (an otherwise normal human, mind you) as being blue. An otherwise normal human who was born in London Above. In that same comic, the Marquis, described as having very dark skin, has solid, pitch black skin. Like Papa Lazarou.
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Neverwhere / int_9e83f027	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_9e83f027
Neverwhere / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
Neverwhere / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: They're called Velvets, they dress like elegant Gothic aristocrats, are apparently all women, and suck the heat out of the body of whoever's dumb enough to kiss them. The Velvets actually have a good bit in common with the Japanese folk monster yuki-onna (snow woman), down to the freezing kiss.
Neverwhere / int_9f63d4f1	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_9f63d4f1	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_9f63d4f1
Neverwhere / int_9fbf8969	type	Cut Lex Luthor a Check
Neverwhere / int_9fbf8969	comment	Cut Lex Luthor a Check: In-universe, Richard wonders why the patrons at the market don't loot the shops in Harrod's while it's closed.
Neverwhere / int_9fbf8969	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_9fbf8969	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_9fbf8969
Neverwhere / int_a0797fb3	type	Stunned Silence
Neverwhere / int_a0797fb3	comment	Hunter seems to have this sort of reputation in-universe — at one point the characters are each being made fun of in turn by a jester as they introduce themselves. When Hunter offers her name, everybody gets really quiet.
Neverwhere / int_a0797fb3	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_a0797fb3	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_a0797fb3
Neverwhere / int_a148f27b	type	Living Legend
Neverwhere / int_a148f27b	comment	Living Legend: Hunter has hunted and will hunt anything.
Neverwhere / int_a148f27b	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_a148f27b	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_a148f27b
Neverwhere / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Neverwhere / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Hunter experiences this after the Beast mows her down, leading to her Heel–Face Turn.
Neverwhere / int_a1b141f4	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_a1b141f4	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_a1b141f4
Neverwhere / int_a2e4af42	type	Time for Plan B
Neverwhere / int_a2e4af42	comment	Time for Plan B: Islington points out to Croup and Vandemar that, with Richard as captive, Door can almost certainly just be asked to use the Key. Richard says he'll never talk...
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Neverwhere / int_a2e4af42	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_a2e4af42
Neverwhere / int_a3a6fdb2	type	Room 101
Neverwhere / int_a3a6fdb2	comment	Room 101: The room the Black Friars put Richard in for "the ordeal."
Neverwhere / int_a3a6fdb2	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_a3a6fdb2	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_a3a6fdb2
Neverwhere / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
Neverwhere / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The Black Friars' Key.
Neverwhere / int_a6c69bd	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_a6c69bd	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_a6c69bd
Neverwhere / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Neverwhere / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: Getting the key from the Black Friars requires passing three tests — and coincidentally, there are just three people in Door's party by then. Also the requirements for Islington to be freed from its prison; as Islington describes it, "A key. A door. An opener of the door. There must be the three, you see: a particularly refined sort of joke."
Neverwhere / int_a6cda066	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_a6cda066	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_a6cda066
Neverwhere / int_a87ad6e8	type	Evil Redeemed in a Can
Neverwhere / int_a87ad6e8	comment	Evil Redeemed in a Can: After the destruction of Atlantis, this was Heaven's plan with the Angel Islington, to lock him up in London Below to reflect and repent, and when he had learned his lesson, he would be released. Unfortunately, Islington decided he didn't deserve his punishment, and tried to arrange for an early release. It did not go as planned, though.
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Neverwhere / int_a87ad6e8	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_a87ad6e8
Neverwhere / int_a8980828	type	Homeless Pigeon Person
Neverwhere / int_a8980828	comment	Homeless Pigeon Person: Old Bailey. He constantly talks to his birds.
Neverwhere / int_a8980828	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_a8980828	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_a8980828
Neverwhere / int_ab2df806	type	Red Baron
Neverwhere / int_ab2df806	comment	Red Baron: Richard gains the nickname The Warrior after killing the Beast. It's implied that Hunter's moniker may be an example of this, as well.
Neverwhere / int_ab2df806	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_ab2df806	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_ab2df806
Neverwhere / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Neverwhere / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: What emotions do you associate with "Cheek to Cheek" by Irving Berlin? Utter, quivering terror? You do now.
Neverwhere / int_abad35b4	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_abad35b4	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_abad35b4
Neverwhere / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Neverwhere / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The first indication we get that freeing Islington is not a good idea. After the trio leave the Black Friars upon winning the ordeal and the MacGuffin, the Father says, 'We have lost the key. God help us all.'
Neverwhere / int_ad1db87c	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_ad1db87c	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_ad1db87c
Neverwhere / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
Neverwhere / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: Richard has recurring dreams of the Beast of London, presaging his confrontation with it at the end.
Neverwhere / int_af7d483f	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_af7d483f	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_af7d483f
Neverwhere / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Neverwhere / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: What will happen if you violate the truce of the floating market. The last person who broke it is still being punished; per Hunter, he's "alive-ish" and has long wished for death. Also if you fail the final Ordeal of the Black Friars. The ordeal itself is no fun, either. Implied to be the case for those taken by the Night's Bridge.
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Neverwhere / int_b1346878	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_b1346878
Neverwhere / int_b2cb7993	type	Brains and Brawn
Neverwhere / int_b2cb7993	comment	Brains and Brawn: Croup is a sesquipedalian schemer, while Vandemar is The Brute. Both of them are very skilled assassins, though.
Neverwhere / int_b2cb7993	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_b2cb7993	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_b2cb7993
Neverwhere / int_b579ecc6	type	Gave Up Too Soon
Neverwhere / int_b579ecc6	comment	Gave Up Too Soon: Door agrees to meet up with the Marquis at the floating market. They could have touched him, had they known where he was. Dead at the Sewer Folk's stall. By the time he gets better, they have already left.
Neverwhere / int_b579ecc6	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_b579ecc6	featureConfidence	1.0
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Neverwhere / int_b82ca416	type	Rage Against the Heavens
Neverwhere / int_b82ca416	comment	Rage Against the Heavens: Islington is pissed at Heaven for expelling him.
Neverwhere / int_b82ca416	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_b82ca416	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_b82ca416
Neverwhere / int_b8e38fc5	type	Metaphorically True
Neverwhere / int_b8e38fc5	comment	Metaphorically True: Mr. Croup's claim that he, Mr. Vandemar, and Door are siblings. "All men are brothers."
Neverwhere / int_b8e38fc5	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_b8e38fc5	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_b8e38fc5
Neverwhere / int_b9743771	type	Beast in the Maze
Neverwhere / int_b9743771	comment	Beast in the Maze: The Beast of London is an archetypal mythical creature comparable to the alligators in the sewers of New York. It takes the form of a gigantic boar and prowls a maze far, far, beneath the city, where it also incidentally guards the prison of the angel Islington.
Neverwhere / int_b9743771	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_b9743771	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_b9743771
Neverwhere / int_bb03c099	type	Cool Gate
Neverwhere / int_bb03c099	comment	Cool Gate: The door that the key opens, and the Angelus.
Neverwhere / int_bb03c099	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_bb03c099	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_bb03c099
Neverwhere / int_bcb2cfe1	type	Beam Me Up, Scotty!
Neverwhere / int_bcb2cfe1	comment	Richard says "Lead on, Macduff", a common misquotation from Macbeth, at the end of chapter eleven. After he leaves, Brother Fulginous notes that it's actually "Lay on, Macduff", but he "hadn't the heart to correct him. He sounded like such a nice man."
Neverwhere / int_bcb2cfe1	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_bcb2cfe1	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_bcb2cfe1
Neverwhere / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Neverwhere / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: Richard is subjected to this during their visit to the Black Friars. Arguably, he's subjected to this for most of the book.
Neverwhere / int_bef696dd	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_bef696dd	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_bef696dd
Neverwhere / int_bf9f3b9	type	Suicide Dare
Neverwhere / int_bf9f3b9	comment	Suicide Dare: When Richard is doing the Ordeal, various billboards suggest throwing himself in front of the train would be a good idea.
Neverwhere / int_bf9f3b9	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_bf9f3b9	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_bf9f3b9
Neverwhere / int_c0d598fe	type	Evil Gloating
Neverwhere / int_c0d598fe	comment	Evil Gloating: Invoked by the Marquis, who lets himself be (temporarily) killed because he has no doubt that someone like Croup would tell him their entire plan before killing him.
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Neverwhere / int_c0d598fe	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_c0d598fe
Neverwhere / int_c41e9867	type	Intangible Price
Neverwhere / int_c41e9867	comment	Intangible Price: The Marquis deals in favors, and Lamia wants to be paid in Richard's life.
Neverwhere / int_c41e9867	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_c41e9867	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_c41e9867
Neverwhere / int_c5ec1882	type	Otherworldly and Sexually Ambiguous
Neverwhere / int_c5ec1882	comment	Otherworldly and Sexually Ambiguous: Islington, being an angel, has no biological sex, and is consistently referred to as "it".
Neverwhere / int_c5ec1882	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_c5ec1882	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_c5ec1882
Neverwhere / int_c68ce696	type	King of the Homeless
Neverwhere / int_c68ce696	comment	King of the Homeless: There's a whole feudal system among the denizens of London Below, but there doesn't seem to be any particular overlord. The highest-ranking single person seems to be the Earl of Earl's Court.
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Neverwhere / int_c68ce696	featureConfidence	1.0
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Neverwhere / int_c6e0455d	type	Afterlife Express
Neverwhere / int_c6e0455d	comment	Afterlife Express: An especially gruesome variant, in the form of a subway car filled with the rotting corpses of people who had committed suicide.
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Neverwhere / int_c6e0455d	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_c6e0455d
Neverwhere / int_c70059b4	type	Psychic Dreams for Everyone
Neverwhere / int_c70059b4	comment	Psychic Dreams for Everyone: Richard has nightmares about the Beast of London long before he ever hears of it. In the novel, he also at one point dreams of a figure falling as its wings burn; this, in hindsight, must have been Islington's expulsion from Heaven.
Neverwhere / int_c70059b4	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_c70059b4	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_c70059b4
Neverwhere / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Neverwhere / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: "Sometimes they come back." "The sky was the perfect blue of a television, turned to a dead channel." Played with, since the quote in the original work was meant to evoke a grainy grey colour, but then TV Technology Marched On. Tons to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Notable instances include Richard noting that he is believing many impossible things and he hasn't even had breakfast yet (the White Queen tells Alice, "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast") and sarcastically asking "Jam tomorrow?" to convince Messrs. Croup and Vandemar that Islington is never actually going to pay them (a reference to the same White Queen telling Alice, "The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday – but never jam to-day"). Shout-Out to Shakespeare: Mr. Croup asks Mr. Vandemar, "if you cut us, do we not bleed?", paraphrasing Shylock's famous quote from William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Mr. Vandemar answers, "No." Richard says "Lead on, Macduff", a common misquotation from Macbeth, at the end of chapter eleven. After he leaves, Brother Fulginous notes that it's actually "Lay on, Macduff", but he "hadn't the heart to correct him. He sounded like such a nice man."
Neverwhere / int_c75df49a	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_c75df49a	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_c75df49a
Neverwhere / int_c82e751f	type	Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Neverwhere / int_c82e751f	comment	Unspoken Plan Guarantee: We see Croup and Vandemar's plan to get Varney installed as Door's bodyguard fail. However, they made a plan offscreen to have Hunter become the bodyguard, which succeeded. The marquis' plan to get info from Croup and Vandemar goes exactly as planned, right down to being killed. However, to the audience, it looks like it went horribly wrong.
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Neverwhere / int_c82e751f	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_c82e751f
Neverwhere / int_cc396ff2	type	Rescue Introduction
Neverwhere / int_cc396ff2	comment	Rescue Introduction: How Richard meets Door when he takes her home after finding her lying and bleeding on a cold London Above street.
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Neverwhere / int_cc396ff2	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_cc396ff2
Neverwhere / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Neverwhere / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Gaiman has said that creating the Marquis de Carabas was his opportunity to write a pseudo-Doctor character.
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Neverwhere / int_cc4b45f6	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_cc4b45f6
Neverwhere / int_ce764dfa	type	Apothecary Alligator
Neverwhere / int_ce764dfa	comment	Apothecary Alligator: In Lord Portico's study.
Neverwhere / int_ce764dfa	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_ce764dfa	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_ce764dfa
Neverwhere / int_cedeae6a	type	Wacky Wayside Tribe
Neverwhere / int_cedeae6a	comment	Wacky Wayside Tribe: London Below is apparently inhabited totally by these: the ones who fish through the sewers and have the smell to match, the various bodyguards, the "Shepherds of Shepherd's Bush", the Renfair nuts who live on the Earl's Court train... Meanwhile, Door herself apparently is the sole survivor of the massacre of her family because she ran into a Wacky Wayside Tribe of timelost Roman legionnaires. In fact, the clannishness and disparity of the different cultures of London Below was a pressing concern of Door's late father — he wanted to find a way to unite the people so they would stop warring.
Neverwhere / int_cedeae6a	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_cedeae6a	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_cedeae6a
Neverwhere / int_cf6d4bad	type	Steampunk
Neverwhere / int_cf6d4bad	comment	Steampunk: The way Door's father's journal works is extremely Steampunk. Other technology of London Below seems to tend toward it as well.
Neverwhere / int_cf6d4bad	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_cf6d4bad	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_cf6d4bad
Neverwhere / int_d332bf63	type	LampShades
Neverwhere / int_d332bf63	comment	Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar. Mr. Croup even Lampshades that they may be quirky and amusing, but that doesn't stop them from being dangerous and terrifying.
Neverwhere / int_d332bf63	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_d332bf63	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_d332bf63
Neverwhere / int_d558b013	type	Un-person
Neverwhere / int_d558b013	comment	Unperson: Richard, who unwittingly causes his own disappearance through an act of kindness.
Neverwhere / int_d558b013	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_d558b013	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_d558b013
Neverwhere / int_d60d12e4	type	Harbinger of Impending Doom
Neverwhere / int_d60d12e4	comment	Harbinger of Impending Doom: At the beginning, Door drops onto the sidewalk in front of Richard, out of nowhere and half-dead. His life abruptly gets a lot weirder.
Neverwhere / int_d60d12e4	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_d60d12e4	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_d60d12e4
Neverwhere / int_d64c3cd4	type	Living MacGuffin
Neverwhere / int_d64c3cd4	comment	Living MacGuffin: Door, due to her status and abilities.
Neverwhere / int_d64c3cd4	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_d64c3cd4	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_d64c3cd4
Neverwhere / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Neverwhere / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Hunter is exactly what you might expect.
Neverwhere / int_d7b34c31	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_d7b34c31	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_d7b34c31
Neverwhere / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
Neverwhere / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: A peculiar variant occurs in the comic with the Marquis de Carabas. Unlike every other version of the story, where he's black in the conventional sense, the comic portrays him as having absolutely black skin, but otherwise with European features.
Neverwhere / int_d7c3ba61	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_d7c3ba61	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_d7c3ba61
Neverwhere / int_d8e1b5a3	type	Soul Jar
Neverwhere / int_d8e1b5a3	comment	Soul Jar: The box that the Marquis de Carabas gives to Old Bailey.
Neverwhere / int_d8e1b5a3	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_d8e1b5a3	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_d8e1b5a3
Neverwhere / int_da12bcfb	type	You Can't Go Home Again
Neverwhere / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: Richard wants to, but it really seems he can't.
Neverwhere / int_da12bcfb	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_da12bcfb	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_da12bcfb
Neverwhere / int_da4f8f0	type	The Blacksmith
Neverwhere / int_da4f8f0	comment	The Blacksmith: Hammersmith, as the name suggests.
Neverwhere / int_da4f8f0	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_da4f8f0	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_da4f8f0
Neverwhere / int_dabda72b	type	Only the Worthy May Pass
Neverwhere / int_dabda72b	comment	Only the Worthy May Pass: The only way to get the key is to go through an Ordeal.
Neverwhere / int_dabda72b	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_dabda72b	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_dabda72b
Neverwhere / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Neverwhere / int_db71d717	comment	Thanatos Gambit: The Marquis arranges his own death at the hands of Croup and Vandemar, in order to gain intel from the inevitable Evil Gloating. He also arranges to return from the dead afterward.
Neverwhere / int_db71d717	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_db71d717	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_db71d717
Neverwhere / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Neverwhere / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: The end of one chapter makes it look like the Marquis will be revealed as Croup and Vandemar's employer.
Neverwhere / int_dbca2c99	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_dbca2c99	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_dbca2c99
Neverwhere / int_dc031fde	type	Inelegant Blubbering
Neverwhere / int_dc031fde	comment	Inelegant Blubbering: Door recalls someone doing this in a flashback. Also, poor, poor Richard after Door and the Marquis briefly abandon him.
Neverwhere / int_dc031fde	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_dc031fde	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_dc031fde
Neverwhere / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
Neverwhere / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: Islington has issues.
Neverwhere / int_dc1761bd	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_dc1761bd	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_dc1761bd
Neverwhere / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
Neverwhere / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: Richard and Door. If they do ever get together, it happens after the book is over.
Neverwhere / int_dcb9c541	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_dcb9c541	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_dcb9c541
Neverwhere / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Neverwhere / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunmen: Old Bailey and Hammersmith.
Neverwhere / int_dcbe8a6e	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_dcbe8a6e	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_dcbe8a6e
Neverwhere / int_dd5faec5	type	Only Mostly Dead
Neverwhere / int_dd5faec5	comment	Only Mostly Dead: Did we mention what an awesomely Magnificent Bastard the Marquis de Carabas was? After conning the villains into killing him, gaining vital info in the process, it turns out he'd hidden his life in a box and left it with one of the supporting characters all along.
Neverwhere / int_dd5faec5	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_dd5faec5	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_dd5faec5
Neverwhere / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
Neverwhere / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: Mr. Vandemar gives up after seeing Mr. Croup get sucked into the portal to hell, and consigns himself to the same fate.
Neverwhere / int_e16cd24e	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_e16cd24e	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_e16cd24e
Neverwhere / int_e1ff8ff6	type	Fantasy Kitchen Sink
Neverwhere / int_e1ff8ff6	comment	Fantasy Kitchen Sink: The world of London Below appears to be this, consisting of angels, giant beasts, ice vampires, people who can talk to rats, rats who can talk to people, ancient Roman legions, and all kinds of crazy stuff.
Neverwhere / int_e1ff8ff6	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_e1ff8ff6	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_e1ff8ff6
Neverwhere / int_e235202a	type	The Power of Blood
Neverwhere / int_e235202a	comment	The Power of Blood: Type AB — blood from the Beast confers the ability to navigate the Labyrinth upon Richard.
Neverwhere / int_e235202a	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_e235202a	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_e235202a
Neverwhere / int_e2a41c3b	type	Literal-Minded
Neverwhere / int_e2a41c3b	comment	Literal-Minded: Mr. Vandemar. Given the setting, he's right half the time.
Neverwhere / int_e2a41c3b	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_e2a41c3b	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_e2a41c3b
Neverwhere / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Neverwhere / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Gaiman has said that creating the Marquis de Carabas was his opportunity to write a pseudo-Doctor character. Readers may also sense a bit of the Marquis in the cat from Gaiman's later book, Coraline.
Neverwhere / int_e5421161	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_e5421161	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_e5421161
Neverwhere / int_e543a655	type	Light Is Not Good
Neverwhere / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: Islington. It's associated with light through the candles that cover every surface in its prison and its shimmering robe, and it is an angel, after all. However, given that it was the one who commissioned Messrs. Croup and Vandemar to kill Door and her entire family, it is definitely not good.
Neverwhere / int_e543a655	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_e543a655	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_e543a655
Neverwhere / int_e5507f60	type	Truce Zone
Neverwhere / int_e5507f60	comment	Truce Zone: The Floating Market functions as one of these. While sparring is apparently permitted if you're auditioning bodyguards, no-one — not even Croup and Vandemar — dares any real violence. The last time someone violated Market truce was a few hundred years ago, and he is still being punished.
Neverwhere / int_e5507f60	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_e5507f60	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_e5507f60
Neverwhere / int_e70127	type	The Mole
Neverwhere / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Hunter, as she was hired by Croup and Vandemar to serve as their spy on Door.
Neverwhere / int_e70127	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_e70127	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_e70127
Neverwhere / int_e73f6217	type	Feet-First Introduction
Neverwhere / int_e73f6217	comment	Feet-First Introduction: The barefoot angel Islington.
Neverwhere / int_e73f6217	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_e73f6217	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_e73f6217
Neverwhere / int_e75be4b3	type	MacGuffin Super-Person
Neverwhere / int_e75be4b3	comment	MacGuffin Super-Person: Door spends most of the book being chased by everyone in sight because a) she's Lord Portico's daughter, and b) she has the family ability to open doors. This is a lot more valuable than it sounds.
Neverwhere / int_e75be4b3	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_e75be4b3	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_e75be4b3
Neverwhere / int_e784bb8c	type	Accidental Truth
Neverwhere / int_e784bb8c	comment	Accidental Truth: Towards the end, Richard pretends to have a key the antagonists want. He lies so badly that they assume (correctly) that he's trying to protect Door and ignore him. Unbeknownst to him, she'd slipped the key into his back pocket.
Neverwhere / int_e784bb8c	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_e784bb8c	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_e784bb8c
Neverwhere / int_e8dcba76	type	GrandVizier
Neverwhere / int_e8dcba76	comment	Grand Vizier: Richard describes the Marquis as one, as the page quote demonstrates. He's not evil, but this is definitely an invocation of the trope.
Neverwhere / int_e8dcba76	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_e8dcba76	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_e8dcba76
Neverwhere / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Neverwhere / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: In the comic, the Marquis gets Croup and Vandemar to give him half an hour's Mercy Lead — except they only promise not to touch him for half an hour. This doesn't mean they can't follow him, or tear a ladder off a wall while he's climbing it. (As opposed to the book, where they promise him an hour and then just straight-up break their word.) "When the city of Atlantis sank beneath the waves, there was nothing I could do to prevent it." ...because it deliberately caused the city to do so.
Neverwhere / int_e9e35e8f	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_e9e35e8f	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_e9e35e8f
Neverwhere / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Neverwhere / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: The Marquis showing up just in time to prevent Lamia from killing Richard and force her to give back the life force she stole from him.
Neverwhere / int_eb81c601	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_eb81c601	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_eb81c601
Neverwhere / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Neverwhere / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Richard gets unpersoned for the crime of helping someone from London Below.
Neverwhere / int_eb8f64a6	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_eb8f64a6	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_eb8f64a6
Neverwhere / int_ed7817b2	type	Shrine to the Fallen
Neverwhere / int_ed7817b2	comment	Shrine to the Fallen: The Black Friars maintain one of these for "those who failed" to pass the Ordeal. It's essentially a colossal corridor filled with hundreds of pictures and portraits that seem to span back centuries.
Neverwhere / int_ed7817b2	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_ed7817b2	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_ed7817b2
Neverwhere / int_f1d3f0c9	type	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
Neverwhere / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Mr Croup. To a lesser extent, the Marquis.
Neverwhere / int_f1d3f0c9	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_f1d3f0c9	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_f1d3f0c9
Neverwhere / int_f1e68523	type	The Not-Love Interest
Neverwhere / int_f1e68523	comment	The Not-Love Interest: While drunk on Atlantean wine, Richard and Door have an Almost Kiss, and that's it. Intentionally avoided by Neil Gaiman, as he never did have Door's age penned down when writing the miniseries.
Neverwhere / int_f1e68523	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_f1e68523	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_f1e68523
Neverwhere / int_f2877d9e	type	IncrediblyLamePun
Neverwhere / int_f2877d9e	comment	Door opens doors...and sometimes chests.
Neverwhere / int_f2877d9e	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_f2877d9e	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_f2877d9e
Neverwhere / int_f362cf07	type	Mercy Lead
Neverwhere / int_f362cf07	comment	In the comic, the Marquis gets Croup and Vandemar to give him half an hour's Mercy Lead — except they only promise not to touch him for half an hour. This doesn't mean they can't follow him, or tear a ladder off a wall while he's climbing it. (As opposed to the book, where they promise him an hour and then just straight-up break their word.)
Neverwhere / int_f362cf07	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_f362cf07	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_f362cf07
Neverwhere / int_f4c4000b	type	Home Sweet Home
Neverwhere / int_f4c4000b	comment	Home Sweet Home: Richard's primary motivation after being dragged into the adventure is to get home.
Neverwhere / int_f4c4000b	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_f4c4000b	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_f4c4000b
Neverwhere / int_f8b3fa5d	type	Our Werewolves Are Different
Neverwhere / int_f8b3fa5d	comment	Our Werewolves Are Different: Possibly. Mr Croup and Mr Vandemar are described as merely "human shaped, two arms, two legs, one head," by Door, are functionally unkillable, and run on Animal Stereotypes so strongly that "the Fox and the Wolf" may not be mere nicknames. They are also not above making accomplices who fail them disappear in a flurry of teeth, claws and small knives. They border on Our Ghouls Are Creepier and Our Demons Are Different. What they are is never made clear, but whatever it is, it ain't human.
Neverwhere / int_f8b3fa5d	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_f8b3fa5d	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_f8b3fa5d
Neverwhere / int_f9671119	type	Death Equals Redemption
Neverwhere / int_f9671119	comment	Death Equals Redemption: Hunter betrays Door to get the spear so she can face the Beast of London. After being mortally wounded in the confrontation, she helps Richard to defeat it, saying this is the recompense for her betrayal.
Neverwhere / int_f9671119	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_f9671119	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_f9671119
Neverwhere / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Neverwhere / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Vandemar's response to Croup's razor-throwing practice. "What's so clever about that, then? You didn't even hit one finger."
Neverwhere / int_fbd285b7	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_fbd285b7	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_fbd285b7
Neverwhere / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
Neverwhere / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: Door's family are all named after words for entrances to buildings (Ingress, Arch, Lord Portico and Lady Portia), the Black Friars are named after synonyms for the color black or adjectives describing darkness, and most of the other characters (including the Black Friars' order itself) are named after buildings or neighbourhoods in London — or rather, buildings or neighborhoods in London have been named after most of the other characters. A lot of people share names with stops or locations on The London Underground as well.
Neverwhere / int_fd94c4ac	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_fd94c4ac	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_fd94c4ac
Neverwhere / int_name	type	ItemName
Neverwhere / int_name	comment
Neverwhere / int_name	featureApplicability	1.0
Neverwhere / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Neverwhere / int_name
Neverwhere / int_name	itemName	Neverwhere

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

NeverWhere	sameAs	Neverwhere
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Above Good and Evil / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Accidental Truth / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Action Survivor / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Afraid of Blood / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Afterlife Express / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Alien Blood / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Alien Geometries / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	And the Adventure Continues / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Animal Stereotypes / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Animalistic Abomination / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Apothecary Alligator / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Audio Adaptation / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Author Catchphrase / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Badass in a Nice Suit / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Badass Longcoat / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Bantering Baddie Buddies / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Bazaar of the Bizarre / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Beast in the Maze / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Better to Kill Than Frighten / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Big Guy, Little Guy / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Black Market / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Blood Is Squicker in Water / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Bodyguard Betrayal / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Brainwashed / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Brits Love Tea / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Calling Me a Logarithm / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Can't Refuse the Call Anymore / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Can't Stay Normal / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Character Name Alias / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Chessmaster Sidekick / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Cold-Blooded Torture / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Comic-Book Adaptation / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Conscience Makes You Go Back / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Cool Key / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Crucified Hero Shot / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Cuckoo Nest / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Cunning Like a Fox / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Dead Man Writing / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Disaster Scavengers / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Diseased Name / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Disposing of a Body / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Don't Look Down / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Dramatic Necklace Removal / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Dreaming of Things to Come / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Driver of a Black Cab / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Ear Worm / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Elaborate Underground Base / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Emergency Food Supply Animal / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	English Literature / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Evil Chancellor / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Evil Duo / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Evil Is Deathly Cold / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Evil Redeemed in a Can / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	False Innocence Trick / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Fantasy Keepsake / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Fat and Skinny / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Figure It Out Yourself / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Five-Finger Fillet / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Force and Finesse / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Foreign Queasine / int_5e1213a8
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Neverwhere	hasFeature	Full-Name Basis / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Gave Up Too Soon / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Geas / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Genius Book Club / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	George Lucas Altered Version / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Go Through Me / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Good Samaritan / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Gory Discretion Shot / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Hand of Glory / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Heart Is an Awesome Power / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Hideous Hangover Cure / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Historical Rap Sheet / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Home Sweet Home / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Homeless Pigeon Person / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Horny Devils / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Human Pincushion / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Humanoid Abomination / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	I Choose to Stay / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	I Do Not Drink Wine / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	I Think You Broke Him / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	I'm Cold... So Cold... / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Impaled Palm / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Impossibly Delicious Food / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Inconsistent Coloring / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Intangible Price / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Interrogation by Vandalism / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Intoxication Ensues / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Invisible to Normals / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	"It" Is Dehumanizing / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Just Between You and Me / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Kaleidoscope Eyes / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	King of the Homeless / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Kiss of Death / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Laughably Evil / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Lethal Harmless Powers / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Literal Metaphor / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Lovable Traitor / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	MacGuffin Super-Person / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Made a Slave / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Magic Music / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Magical Homeless Person / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Making Love in All the Wrong Places / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Mask of Sanity / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Masquerade / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Master of Unlocking / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Mercy Lead / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Messy Hair / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Mistaken for Prostitute / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Money Mauling / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Murder, Inc. / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Mysterious Waif / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	No Entrance / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Non-Action Protagonist / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Obi-Wan Moment / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Oh Look, More Rooms! / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Only the Worthy May Pass / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Open and Shut / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Otherworldly and Sexually Ambiguous / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Our Doors Are Different / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Palate Propping / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Playful Cat Smile / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Portal Network / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Public Domain Artifact / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Rat King / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Reduced to Ratburgers / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Replaced with Replica / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Rescue Introduction / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Resurrection Gambit / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Resurrection Sickness / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Ret-Gone / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Rhetorical Question Blunder / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Room 101 / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Royalty Super Power / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Ruling Family Massacre / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Rummage Sale Reject / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Sadist / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Self-Adaptation / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Self-Mutilation Demonstration / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Semantic Superpower / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Senseless Sacrifice / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Sewer Gator / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Single Substance Manipulation / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Sinister Subway / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Starbucks Skin Scale / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Stout Strength / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Stranger in a Familiar Land / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Succubi and Incubi / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Suicide Dare / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Technicolor Eyes / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Thanatos Gambit / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	That Sounds Familiar / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	The Dividual / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	The Dulcinea Effect / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	The Insomniac / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	The Name Is Bond, James Bond / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	The Nothing After Death / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	The Stinger / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	The Trickster / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Theme Naming / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Thinking Up Portals / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	This Is Gonna Suck / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Threat Backfire / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Too Kinky to Torture / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Torture Cellar / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Trouble Entendre / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Truce Zone / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Unfazed Everyman / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Unreliable Illustrator / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Up the Real Rabbit Hole / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Urban Fantasy / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Villain Teleportation / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Wainscot Society / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Water Wake-up / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Weather Report Opening / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	What the Hell Is That Accent? / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Why Won't You Die? / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Wicked Cultured / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Wild Card / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Wizard Workshop / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Worth It / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	You Can't Make an Omelette... / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	You Owe Me / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Your Heart's Desire / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Your Universe or Mine? / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Yuki-onna / int_5e1213a8
neverwhere	sameAs	Neverwhere
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Mutilation Interrogation / int_5e1213a8
Neverwhere	hasFeature	Trashcan Bonfire / int_5e1213a8

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