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The Last Battle
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The seventh and final installment in The Chronicles of Narnia and the seventh book chronologically. Over a year (on Earth) after the events of The Silver Chair, Jill and Eustace are summoned back for one last adventure, to aid the current King of Narnia against the treachery of the ape, Shift, and his quasi-Arabian Calormene allies. | |
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Scam Religion | |
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Scam Religion: Shift sets up a religious cult of sorts around his false Aslan, which he identifies with the Calormene Tash. However, the Calormenes he cooperates with become the ones really running the show before long. | |
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Dragon-in-Chief | |
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Dragon-in-Chief: Eventually, Rishda Tarkaan ends up in complete control of Shift, although he keeps up the illusion that Shift is still in charge to manipulate others. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: By far the darkest of the seven books. It was almost inevitable, because The Last Battle draws heavily upon the Biblical Apocalypse. | |
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Walking Wasteland | |
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Walking Wasteland: The grass that Tash's avatar treads upon dies instantly. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: In Chapter 12: | |
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Dressing as the Enemy | |
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Dressing as the Enemy: Tirian, Eustace, and Jill disguise themselves as Calormene soldiers at one point, using Calormene armors and painting their faces to appear darker. | |
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Gone Horribly Right | |
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Gone Horribly Right: Rishda didn't really intend to summon the God of Evil Tash — just to invoke his authority. However, his prayer was answered ... literally. | |
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Dead All Along | |
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Dead All Along: At the end of the book, the protagonists find out that they died in a train crash near the beginning of the book, so their entire adventure in Narnia occurred after their deaths. Eustace had suspected it earlier though. | |
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End of an Age | |
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End of an Age/The End of the World as We Know It: For the Pevensie children, it is the former. For the citizens of Narnia, it is the latter. | |
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Take Our Word for It | |
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Take Our Word for It: Lewis ends the story by claiming that the previous adventures were book covers to the main stories that will follow. We'll never read about them, though. At least not in this world... | |
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A Year and a Day | |
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A Year and a Day: Jewel the Unicorn tells a story about Swanwhite the Queen, who ruled Narnia before the coming of the White Witch and the Great Winter. She was so beautiful that when she looked in a forest pool, the reflection of her face shone out of the water like a star at night for a year and a day afterward. | |
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The War to End All Wars | |
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The War to End All Wars: It's in the title. It's not quite as dramatic as it sounds, however. | |
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Be Careful What You Say | |
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Be Careful What You Say: Rishda Tarkaan really wasn't expecting Tash to respond to his summons, given that he didn't actually believe in the Calormene god in the first place. | |
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Recursive Reality | |
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Recursive Reality: Mr. Tumnus touches on the true nature of Narnia as "an onion where the layers get bigger as you peel them away" | |
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Dragged Off to Hell | |
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Dragged Off to Hell: The eventual fate of Rishda Tarkaan. | |
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Ass in a Lion Skin | |
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Ass in a Lion Skin: Literally. Puzzle the Donkey is put into a lion skin by Shift the ape (probably an allusion to Aesop's Fables). | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: Tirian and Jewel fought together in at least one war prior to the start of the story. | |
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Unicorn | |
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Unicorn: Jewel, but Good Is Not Nice nor soft. | |
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Shut Up, Hannibal! | |
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Shut Up, Hannibal!: Tirian tries, early in the book, but he is cut short and silenced by Shift's followers. | |
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Zerg Rush | |
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Zerg Rush: The Calormenes eventually outmatch Tirian with sheer numbers. | |
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Dropped a Bridge on Him | |
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Dropped a Bridge on Him: Susan survives having not been on the train, but is written out of the story. The Pevensie children claim that she stopped believing in Narnia and started dismissing her adventures as childhood games. | |
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Xanatos Speed Chess | |
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Xanatos Speed Chess Puzzle is captured and Tirian plans to reveal him to the Narnians as the false Aslan they've been following. By the time they return, however, Shift has already spread the word about a false Aslan and is using that to frame Tirian and his allies with the blame of deceiving everyone. Shift's noted early on to be very good at this. When a Bolt of Divine Retribution strikes nearby after Shift and Puzzle think up the plan to pass himself off as Aslan, a quick-thinking Shift says he was about to say Aslan would send such a bolt of lightning to tell them he approves, only the bolt happened before he could get the words out. Later when a lamb protests allying with the Calormenes because they worship the evil Tash, Shift just rebukes him and tells him Aslan and Tash are the same being. Ginger is also good at this. When Puzzle runs away, he comes up with the story that there's an impostor running around in a lion's skin pretending to be Aslan, and that the real Aslan is now so furious at the Narnians that he won't come out of the stable. | |
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Honor Before Reason | |
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Honor Before Reason: Tirian and Jewel are so ashamed of killing the Calormene slavemasters in unfair combat that they voluntarily surrender their weapons and allow themselves to be captured. They were under the belief that Aslan had ordered the Calormenes to use the Talking Horses, so they felt it was necessary to be punished because they had deeply blasphemed. | |
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God Guise | |
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God Guise: Puzzle the donkey agrees to wear the skin of a lion while his so-called friend Shift tells everyone that Puzzle is Aslan. Shift's intentions are evil, collaborating with the evil empire of Calormen, but Puzzle himself is mostly just impressionable and bad at saying no. It was quite an idiotic move, agreeing to impersonate Aslan and enable the betrayal of the country of Narnia, but the only character who really calls Puzzle out on this is Eustace. | |
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Anti-Anti-Christ | |
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Anti Anti Christ: Puzzle the donkey, whom Shift duped into wearing a lion's skin and becoming the fake Aslan. Like the ape, he is weak-willed and not too bright; unlike the ape, he is never deliberately malicious. | |
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Worthy Opponent | |
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Worthy Opponent Emeth, a noble Calormene soldier, is revealed to have been transported to Aslan's Country after he volunteered to investigate the stable and see his god Tash for himself. The reason for this that the man honestly and truly believed in his god with a pure love and spirit, i.e. exactly what Aslan would look for in a follower, and thus he counted him among his "flock". (This is definitely inspired by the "virtuous pagan" doctrine.) By contrast, if the soldier had been a Narnian and had done cruel/evil things in Aslan's name, this would have given him over to Tash. This was Emeth's own reaction on meeting High King Peter: "I know not whether you are a friend or an enemy, but I would be proud to have you for either. Has not one of the poets said that a noble friend is the best gift and a noble enemy the next best?" | |
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Narnia Time | |
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Narnia Time: We see it this time from the Narnians' perspective. Tirian has a vision of the people on earth and tries to communicate that they're needed in Narnia. A few moments later Eustace and Jill show up in Narnia, but for them at least a week has passed. Also, Tirian is astonished to find out that Digory and Polly were still alive in our world, since they were there at the moment of Narnia's creation. | |
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Paper-Thin Disguise | |
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Paper-Thin Disguise: Puzzle's disguise as Aslan is woefully bad. The only reason anybody falls for it is because it's dark when they see him and no one is allowed very close, because he never says anything, and because it's been years since anybody saw a living lion. | |
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Author Tract | |
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Author Tract: Like several other Narnia books, this one is a Biblical allegory, and perhaps the most obvious one in the series. Here, most of the plot is adapted from the Apocalypse. | |
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Interspecies Friendship | |
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Interspecies Friendship: One prominent example, to the point of Heterosexual Life-Partners: Prince Tirian and Jewel the Unicorn have been best friends ever since their childhood, and have even saved each other's lives in battle more than once. As they prepare for the final battle, Tirian asks Jewel to forgive him for any past offence he might have caused in their long friendship, and Jewel's response is that he almost wishes Tirian had ever given such offence so that he had something to forgive, assuring Tirian that he wouldn't have chosen any life but the life he has lived. When Tirian and Jewel meet Tirian's father in the True Narnia, Jewel reflects that the king often slipped him sugar cubes when he was a colt, reaffirming their long friendship. | |
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Smug Snake | |
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Smug Snake: Both Shift and Ginger are far less formidable than they pretend to be, and even than they believe themselves to be. With Aslan involved, Pride Before a Fall may be counted on, and he does not disappoint. | |
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Crazy-Prepared | |
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Crazy-Prepared: Tirian, Eustace, and Jill need to disguise themselves as Calormenes, and the small guard tower they are staying in just happens to have three sets of Calormene armor, turbans, and some ointment for making their skin the same color as Calormene skin. (The tower is near the Calormene border, so not as unreasonable as most instances). | |
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Fantastic Underclass | |
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Fantastic Underclass: After the conquest of Narnia by Calormen, Talking Animals have been reduced to the level of dumb beasts - perhaps worse, in that the Calormenes treat them worse than they do many of their own valued animals (such as war horses). | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: Back in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, when the Pevensies (and the reader) hear about Aslan for the first time, Lucy gets "the feeling you have when you wake up in the morning and realize that it is the beginning of the holidays or the beginning of Summer.". At the end of The Last Battle, explains that the friends of Narnia (including Lucy) have died and come to his country to stay thusly: | |
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Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers! | |
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Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers!: The dwarfs end up in Aslan's Country with everybody else, but they're too cynical to believe it, and manage to delude themselves into believing they're still locked in a dark stable eating rotten food. | |
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Cats Are Mean | |
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Cats Are Mean: Ginger the Cat is clever enough to see through the fraud of the false Aslan early on, but humors it anyway for his own benefit, even as the other animals suffer under Shift's tyranny. | |
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Unexpectedly Real Magic | |
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Unexpectedly Real Magic: Rishda Tarkaan really wasn't expecting Tash to respond to his summons, given that he didn't actually believe in the Calormene god in the first place. | |
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Brownface | |
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Brownface: Tirian, Eustace, and Jill wear the Narnian version of fake tan as part of their disguises to darken their faces enough to pass as Calormene. It works well enough to briefly convince some Calormenes. | |
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Spanner in the Works | |
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Spanner in the Works: Shift and his Calormene allies are taken quite off-guard by the fact that the Calormene god Tash actually exists, and will come when you summon him properly. Oddly, this doesn't appear absolute. Some of the Calormene soldiers are cheering when he shows up. | |
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Self-Inflicted Hell | |
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Self-Inflicted Hell: The "Last Judgment" of Narnia is precisely this. Aslan says not a word; all the sentient beings of the world come up to him, look him in the face, and either love him or reject him, essentially judging themselves and determining their own fate. The dwarfs in the stable are a more concrete example. They believe themselves to be in a dark stable, so they are. | |
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Bumbling Sidekick | |
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Bumbling Sidekick: Puzzle to Shift, who gets abused and emotionally blackmailed so often that the Heel–Face Turn comes hardly as a surprise. | |
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That Liar Lies | |
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That Liar Lies: Tirian to Shift. "Ape, you lie damnably. You lie like a Calormene. You lie like an ape." There would have been more, but he gets smacked down before he can finish. * The last sentence, incidentally, isn't an example of Department of Redundancy Department: one of the things Tirian is accusing Shift of lying about is his species. He'd been claiming to be a very old man. | |
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Sacrificial Lamb | |
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Sacrificial Lamb: The dryad who comes to warn the king that the Talking Trees of Lantern Waste are being cut down (killing the dryads who inhabit them) dies right in front of Tirian and co. to emphasize the brutality and horror of the situation to the reader. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: "Puzzle" may be a reference to the "Mystery Babylon" false religion of the Apocalypse. Emeth's name is derived from the Hebrew word for "truth." | |
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And the Adventure Continues | |
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And the Adventure Continues: The ending tells the reader that the previous books were just the covers of the true stories, and that the true stories will continue on forever and ever, each chapter better than the last in the true Narnia — that is, Heaven. | |
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The Last Battle / int_720e28a4 | type |
Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs | |
The Last Battle / int_720e28a4 | comment |
Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Shift claims that the Narnian Aslan and the Calormene god Tash are the same, referring to this combined being as "Tashlan". | |
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The Last Battle / int_7315fd38 | type |
Covers Always Lie | |
The Last Battle / int_7315fd38 | comment |
Covers Always Lie: Not an overt lie, but the first edition of the novel went with the rather puzzling choice of depicting Mr. Tumnus and Lucy having a genteel conversation under some trees in Heaven. Later editions generally chose something more oriented to the action-filled plot. | |
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The Last Battle / int_754df088 | type |
Put on a Bus | |
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Put on a Bus: Although the other Pevensie children (now older) appear in the story, Susan doesn't. | |
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The Last Battle / int_786bf97f | type |
Real Life Writes the Plot | |
The Last Battle / int_786bf97f | comment |
Real Life Writes the Plot: The train crash is based on a real accident that happened in Britain in 1955. Both real and fictional accidents were caused by a train bound for Bristol taking a sharp curve through a station at excessive speed and derailing. | |
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The Last Battle / int_79228148 | type |
Nostalgia Heaven | |
The Last Battle / int_79228148 | comment |
Nostalgia Heaven: The end of the book. They find themselves in "The England within England, the real England", where "no good thing is destroyed". | |
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The Last Battle / int_7e345221 | type |
Snowball Lie | |
The Last Battle / int_7e345221 | comment |
Snowball Lie: Shift's lies about the fake Aslan start to pile up when the Calormenes get involved in conquering Narnia. | |
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The Last Battle / int_803e3201 | type |
Satanic Archetype | |
The Last Battle / int_803e3201 | comment |
Satanic Archetype: Tash. | |
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The Last Battle / int_803e3201 | |
The Last Battle / int_80cd1f62 | type |
God of Evil | |
The Last Battle / int_80cd1f62 | comment |
God of Evil: Tash is described this way, with Crystal Dragon Jesus Aslan outright stating that Tash is his antithesis. Interestingly, while Tash is very much a Card-Carrying Villain, his own religion is not a Religion of Evil, given that it apparently includes a number of sincere followers who believe Tash to be a just and righteous god. It gets better - Tash is so evil that you cannot commit a good act in his name - they automatically are assumed as your service to Aslan. The opposite is also true - if you do something terrible in the name of Aslan, you're really serving Tash. | |
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The Last Battle / int_813e694d | type |
Continuity Cavalcade | |
The Last Battle / int_813e694d | comment |
Continuity Cavalcade: Pretty much every significant character of the past six books (sans Susan) appears in the final chapter. | |
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The Last Battle / int_8296f61d | type |
King in the Mountain | |
The Last Battle / int_8296f61d | comment |
King in the Mountain: Father Time was once a great king, but sleeps underground (some of the characters saw him in The Silver Chair), to wake at the end of the world. | |
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The Last Battle / int_853df68b | type |
Rail Enthusiast | |
The Last Battle / int_853df68b | comment |
Rail Enthusiast: Edmund is described as "the sort of person who knows about trains". | |
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The Last Battle / int_86331fae | type |
The Anti-God | |
The Last Battle / int_86331fae | comment |
The Anti-God: Tash is the God of Evil in opposition to Aslan's Crystal Dragon Jesus. It is explained by Aslan himself that, far from being two facets of the same god, he and Tash are such opposites that anyone who does good in the name of Tash is actually serving Aslan, and anyone who does evil in Aslan's name is actually serving Tash. | |
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The Last Battle / int_86331fae | |
The Last Battle / int_8738b454 | type |
Signs of the End Times | |
The Last Battle / int_8738b454 | comment |
Signs of the End Times: Very much like the Biblical signs, in fact; early in the novel Roonwit the Centaur proclaims that the stars are warning of doom and catastrophe. Given that it's a Christian allegory, this should not come as a surprise. | |
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The Last Battle / int_8738b454 | |
The Last Battle / int_90769dd0 | type |
Evil Genius | |
The Last Battle / int_90769dd0 | comment |
Evil Genius: Ginger the Cat fits into this role, serving as The Mole and as Rishda Tarkaan's secret advisor and schemer. | |
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The Last Battle / int_90e31482 | type |
Laser-Guided Karma | |
The Last Battle / int_90e31482 | comment |
Laser-Guided Karma: Ginger the cat, who takes over from Shift, creates the idea of "Tashlan", and doesn't believe either Tash or Aslan are real. He ends up being driven out of his mind and reduced to a dumb beast after seeing the real Tash. | |
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The Last Battle / int_90e31482 | |
The Last Battle / int_91e894b4 | type |
Apocalypse How | |
The Last Battle / int_91e894b4 | comment |
Apocalypse How: Anywhere from Planetary to Universal Physical Destruction, depending on the actual nature of Narnia. | |
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The Last Battle / int_91e8cd03 | type |
Apocalypse Wow | |
The Last Battle / int_91e8cd03 | comment |
Apocalypse Wow | |
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The Last Battle / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
The Last Battle / int_970c790a | comment |
Big Bad: Zig-Zagged. At first we think it's Shift, pulling the strings with Puzzle, but as soon as he brings in the Calormenes to rule, he loses all his authority and is reduced to a figurehead for Rishda and Ginger. The latter two were Dragons in chief with Rishda being the dominant. Turns out, though, they're not the Big Bads either — they all immediately take an extremely distant back seat to Tash once he shows up, who has been the evil force behind the antagonists all along. | |
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The Last Battle / int_99ddfcec | type |
Unwitting Instigator of Doom | |
The Last Battle / int_99ddfcec | comment |
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Some random hunter in the wilderness kills a lion and discards the skin, leading to horrible consequences for all of Narnia. | |
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The Last Battle / int_9b55df1f | type |
No Animosity in the Afterlife | |
The Last Battle / int_9b55df1f | comment |
No Animosity in the Afterlife: Some people who have opposed Aslan turn towards him in the end. At least two of the dwarfs manage to give up their cynicism, and there is that famous heartwarming story about Emeth, a young Calormene soldier and formerly a devoted worshipper of Tash, who accepts Aslan and makes peace with the Narnians. | |
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The Last Battle / int_9bcd82c0 | type |
Took a Level in Badass | |
The Last Battle / int_9bcd82c0 | comment |
Took a Level in Badass: Jill has honed her survival skills since her last trip to Narnia. Technically, Eustace has taken two since his first appearance. He's stronger and more capable in The Silver Chair and in the final book, he's a warrior, and even kills at least one man. | |
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The Last Battle / int_9bcd82c0 | |
The Last Battle / int_9bd92eef | type |
Astral Projection | |
The Last Battle / int_9bd92eef | comment |
Astral Projection: Tirian has some sort of out-of-body experience in which he's in a room in our world with the seven friends minus Susan who have visited Narnia. They can all see each other; Tirian can hear them and they speak to him, but finds he can't speak aloud to them. When the room fades from Tirian's view, he overhears them saying "He's fading away!" Fortunately they pick up on the message that they're needed in Narnia again. | |
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The Last Battle / int_9c45b5a2 | type |
What Measure Is a Non-Human? | |
The Last Battle / int_9c45b5a2 | comment |
What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Played straight by the Calormenes, who enslave the talking beasts and cut down the dryads' trees in the forest. Averted by the king, however, who is outraged when he learns of this. | |
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The Last Battle / int_9e1e14ea | type |
Ambition Is Evil | |
The Last Battle / int_9e1e14ea | comment |
Ambition Is Evil: Shift the ape, who becomes a false prophet to the false Aslan out of ambition and greed. | |
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The Last Battle / int_a1b141f4 | type |
My God, What Have I Done? | |
The Last Battle / int_a1b141f4 | comment |
My God, What Have I Done?: Tirian and Jewel after they kill two of the Calormene soldiers they saw murdering the dryads and overworking and whipping a Talking Horse. | |
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The Last Battle / int_a52f8fdf | type |
Bolt of Divine Retribution | |
The Last Battle / int_a52f8fdf | comment |
Shift's noted early on to be very good at this. When a Bolt of Divine Retribution strikes nearby after Shift and Puzzle think up the plan to pass himself off as Aslan, a quick-thinking Shift says he was about to say Aslan would send such a bolt of lightning to tell them he approves, only the bolt happened before he could get the words out. Later when a lamb protests allying with the Calormenes because they worship the evil Tash, Shift just rebukes him and tells him Aslan and Tash are the same being. | |
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The Last Battle / int_a52f8fdf | |
The Last Battle / int_a62dca03 | type |
Year Inside, Hour Outside | |
The Last Battle / int_a62dca03 | comment |
Year Inside, Hour Outside: A reversal of the usual pattern of Narnian time running faster when Eustace and Jill arrive moments after Tirian's vision in Narnia, but days later in Earth time. | |
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The Last Battle / int_a62dca03 | |
The Last Battle / int_a6b14ee1 | type |
Hollywood Tactics | |
The Last Battle / int_a6b14ee1 | comment |
Hollywood Tactics: Averted, most notably when Jill and Farsight — the only ranged combatants — are sent to flank the attacking Calormenes. Also when the Calormene spears are very effective at killing dangerous but unarmed animals like boars, bears, and unicorns. | |
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The Last Battle / int_aa30e350 | type |
Sole Survivor | |
The Last Battle / int_aa30e350 | comment |
Sole Survivor: Susan's fate: she's had a falling-out with her family, with the book implying that she's neglected them due to prioritizing her social life over everything else. And then they all die in a horrific train accident, destroying her chance of ever making amends with them. | |
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The Last Battle / int_abcb9af1 | type |
Eaten Alive | |
The Last Battle / int_abcb9af1 | comment |
Eaten Alive: After Tirian throws Shift through the Door, they hear the sound of Tash appearing on the other side. The Pevensies later reveal that as soon as he appeared, Tash ate Shift in one bite. | |
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The Last Battle / int_ac6ea68c | type |
Near-Villain Victory | |
The Last Battle / int_ac6ea68c | comment |
Near-Villain Victory: The Calormenes take Cair Paravel and eventually defeat Tirian's forces through sheer weight of numbers. However when that happens Aslan decides to destroy Narnia. | |
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The Last Battle / int_ad66049e | type |
Inspiration Nod | |
The Last Battle / int_ad66049e | comment |
Inspiration Nod: C. S. Lewis' version of Heaven looks exactly like Plato's (which is mentioned by the Professor). Real life Narnia and England are but a reflection of the better, truer Narnia and England within Aslan's heaven. This is a good illustration of Plato's "theory of forms" where everything we experience in real life objects is a copy or reflection of a perfect model "beyond heaven". This is also known as a Platonic Realm. | |
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The Last Battle / int_b1346878 | type |
Fate Worse than Death | |
The Last Battle / int_b1346878 | comment |
Fate Worse than Death: After Ginger goes into the stable to speak to "Tashlan", when he comes out, he turns into a regular non-talking cat. | |
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The Last Battle / int_b64e1024 | type |
Evil Smells Bad | |
The Last Battle / int_b64e1024 | comment |
Evil Smells Bad: Tash is described as smelling like death, and the stench is so bad that other characters can smell him before they see him. | |
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The Last Battle / int_b6f34e9c | type |
Omnicidal Neutral | |
The Last Battle / int_b6f34e9c | comment |
Omnicidal Neutral: The dwarfs attack both sides in the final battle to prevent either from getting the upper hand, claiming, "The dwarfs are for the dwarfs." | |
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The Last Battle / int_b795dd57 | type |
Shapeshifter Mashup | |
The Last Battle / int_b795dd57 | comment |
Shape Shifter Mashup: Tash, who has four arms, a bird's head, and projects an aura of utter terror and horror. | |
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The Last Battle / int_bcff3e56 | type |
The Last Title | |
The Last Battle / int_bcff3e56 | comment |
The Last Title: The title. | |
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The Last Battle / int_bd2812b5 | type |
Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence | |
The Last Battle / int_bd2812b5 | comment |
Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: In the last chapter, anyone who loves and serves Aslan may enter the door to the True Narnia. Also, one from a previous story is brought up when those who are entering the true Narnia are greeted by Reepicheep the Mouse, who went over the wave at the End of the World in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. | |
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The Last Battle / int_bd9ad581 | type |
Stairway to Heaven | |
The Last Battle / int_bd9ad581 | comment |
Stairway to Heaven: "Further up and further in." | |
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The Last Battle / int_bedecc55 | type |
Scout-Out | |
The Last Battle / int_bedecc55 | comment |
Scout-Out: Averted; Jill Pole is flat-out called a member of the Girl Guides and has various skills enhanced by her membership, namely tracking and archery. | |
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The Last Battle / int_bf35c04a | type |
Demoted Memories | |
The Last Battle / int_bf35c04a | comment |
Demoted Memories: Susan gradually develops a refusal to believe in her own life. In this book, she refuses to believe that any of her adventures ever happened. This saves her life, which is not a good thing in this kind of setting: she's left behind on Earth while everyone else go to heaven to be Pals With Aslan. | |
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The Last Battle / int_c3c18143 | type |
Hope Spot | |
The Last Battle / int_c3c18143 | comment |
Hope Spot: The Talking Horses charging to the rescue, only to be shot down by the dwarves. | |
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The Last Battle / int_c856e477 | type |
Seamless Spontaneous Lie | |
The Last Battle / int_c856e477 | comment |
Seamless Spontaneous Lie: Shift is pretty good at these, convincing Puzzle that a thunderbolt is a good omen rather than a bad one; that a fake Aslan is wandering about once Puzzle escapes with Tirian, Eustace and Jill; and later (along with Ginger), convincing some of the talking animals that Aslan and Tash are the same being. | |
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The Last Battle / int_c8c8f92b | type |
Stupid Neutral | |
The Last Battle / int_c8c8f92b | comment |
Stupid Neutral: The Dwarfs refuse to ally themselves with the Calormenes or with the heroes. Then they start shooting at either side to prevent either side from gaining the upper hand. The worst example is their passing the Moral Event Horizon by killing a whole herd of horses who were rushing to Tirian's aid, then jeering at him before invoking the Stupid Neutral idea behind their behaviour. | |
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The Last Battle / int_ca87e3ec | type |
No Name Given | |
The Last Battle / int_ca87e3ec | comment |
The Dwarfs except for Poggin and another No Name Given Dwarf who is implied to repent in the (literally) last minutes. They pay for it by not being able to see their surroundings in Heaven. | |
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The Last Battle / int_cda501da | type |
Killed Off for Real | |
The Last Battle / int_cda501da | comment |
Killed Off for Real: EVERY human from our world that had ever had the fortune to enter Narnia over the course of the books died in a train accident at the end, save for Susan, who was elsewhere at the time of the train accident and has reduced Narnia as a fairy tale in her efforts to "be grown up". The good news is that those who died were welcomed into the remade Aslan's Country. | |
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Flat-Earth Atheist | |
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Flat-Earth Atheist: The Dwarfs except for Poggin and another No Name Given Dwarf who is implied to repent in the (literally) last minutes. They pay for it by not being able to see their surroundings in Heaven. Rishda Tarkaan and Ginger believe in neither Aslan nor Tash. Tash is not happy about this. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: Shift brings the Calormenes into Narnia to help him rule it, they promptly reduce him to a figurehead. Tarkaan Rishda perpetuates the idea of "Tashlan" and is taken to Hell by Tash. | |
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The Cavalry | |
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The Cavalry: Brutally subverted when the Talking Horses come charging to assist the protagonists, and are immediately cut down by the dwarvish archers. | |
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Foe-Tossing Charge | |
The Last Battle / int_da2b1604 | comment |
Foe-Tossing Charge: Jewel the unicorn does this during the battle. | |
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Action Girl | |
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Action Girl: Jill has developed into one of these, being even better than Tirian at woodcraft, and a reliable archer. | |
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Pre-Asskicking One-Liner | |
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Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: "This is my password. The light is dawning, the lie broken. Now guard thee, miscreant, for I am Tirian of Narnia." | |
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Famed In-Story | |
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Famed In-Story: Tirian and Jewel are overwhelmed to encounter all the great kings and heroes of Narnian history, but the one that really staggers Tirian is to be welcomed into Aslan's Country by none other than Reepicheep the Mouse. | |
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Didn't See That Coming | |
The Last Battle / int_dfa40c1b | comment |
Didn't See That Coming: Tash is real and everybody dies and goes to heaven. | |
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Makeup Is Evil | |
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Makeup Is Evil: Whatever one interprets the core reason for Susan not appearing in Narnia this time to be, an excessive interest in make-up and shallow beauty is at least a part of its symptoms. | |
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False Prophet | |
The Last Battle / int_e596b496 | comment |
False Prophet: With the help of a lion skin and his dimwitted friend Puzzle the donkey, the talking ape Shift subjugates the Narnians by insisting Aslan wants them to submit to the invading Calormenes; in the meantime he sets himself up as a prophet and demands food and riches. Later he insists that Aslan and the Calormene god Tash are the same being, Tashlan. Interestingly, Aslan doesn't punish Shift for his blasphemy.... The demonic Tash himself does. | |
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Exact Words | |
The Last Battle / int_e9e35e8f | comment |
Exact Words: The Pevensies were told by Aslan that they'd never return to Narnia again. They don't, because they along with Digory and Polly are taken directly to Aslan's Country after they die (unlike Eustace and Jill), and while they do view the end of Narnia through a doorway they never actually step foot inside. Eustace and Jill were told by Aslan at the end of The Silver Chair that the next time they meet in Aslan's Country it will be to stay. They do indeed stay there forever, because they've died and can't go back even if they wanted to. | |
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Jerkass | |
The Last Battle / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
Jerkass: A lot of the time, Shift doesn't even pretend to be nice. Even while posing as Aslan's spokesperson he never passes off an opportunity to verbally abuse his fellow Narnians. Even when he does put on a friendly facade, he's nothing but condescending and manipulative. | |
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Evil Old Folks | |
The Last Battle / int_eb9afb9d | comment |
Evil Old Folks: Shift the Ape is described as so old that nobody remembers when he arrived. | |
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Swallowed Whole | |
The Last Battle / int_eea96e78 | comment |
Swallowed Whole: This is the fate of Shift the ape. In the words of Edmund: | |
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Species Loyalty | |
The Last Battle / int_eee89c8f | comment |
Species Loyalty: After seemingly being betrayed by everyone they trusted, most of the dwarfs (though not all) decide that they won't be suckers anymore, and will fight only for their own people in the future. | |
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TheAntiChrist | |
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The Antichrist: Shift, a literal ape of God. Though according to Biblical roles, he is arguably closer to the False Prophet of Revelation. | |
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War Is Hell | |
The Last Battle / int_f1d6144a | comment |
War Is Hell | |
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I Don't Think That's Such a Good Idea | |
The Last Battle / int_f33e5ff | comment |
I Don't Think That's Such a Good Idea: Puzzle is very reluctant to impersonate Aslan, especially after the Bolt of Divine Retribution warning, but Shift browbeats him into doing it anyway. | |
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Easily Forgiven | |
The Last Battle / int_f36c4f98 | comment |
Easily Forgiven: Aslan has some words with Puzzle over impersonating him, but in the end he's forgiven and is allowed into Aslan's Country. Though to be fair, he did try to undo the damage he caused. Among those who enter Aslan's Country, there is one of the Dwarfs who had been shooting at the Horses earlier in the day. Eustace is briefly surprised by that, but seeing their fallen friends alive again puts it out of his mind (and, anyway, as the narrator adds, it was no business of his). | |
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Dying Dream | |
The Last Battle / int_f792bc7b | comment |
Dying Dream: The Pevensie children are revealed to have been involved in a train crash. They will never leave the true Narnia—not that they want to. | |
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Distressed Dude | |
The Last Battle / int_f9e16ef | comment |
Distressed Dude: When Tirian accuses Shift of lying, the Calormenes tie him to a tree and he has to be rescued. | |
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Real After All | |
The Last Battle / int_fb724048 | comment |
Real After All: The false prophets pretend to perform a ritual to call forth Tash, the God of Evil. He shows up. | |
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Gondor Calls for Aid | |
The Last Battle / int_fe5e40e2 | comment |
Gondor Calls for Aid: Subversion: Tirian and the crew head back to find Roonwit and the troops he was bringing from Cair Paravel only to find out from Farsight the eagle that Cair Paravel has been sacked by Calormen, and Roonwit is dead. Played straight with the Calormenes. They call for help, and it comes! ("Mordor Calls for Help"?) | |
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