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The Tome of Bill

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The Tome of Bill	comment	An Affectionate Parody Urban Fantasy series written by Rick Gualtieri.Super-dork Bill Ryder, after a chance encounter on the subway and a series of unfortunate events, finds himself enjoying the night life.So now he's a vampire. Not just any vampire, but the legendary Freewill, which propels him unwillingly into high circles of the vampire society, all the while earning him more enemies than he knows what to do with. Backed by his two roommates, Ed and Tom, and Femme Fatale Sally, he tries to lead something like a normal life while being pursued by assassins, wizards and people he just generally pisses off.The series wraps up in The Wicked Dead but is then continued in Bill of the Dead and False Icons that forms a pair of new series in the setting. A four volume mini-series of novellas called the Bill of the Dead Adventures was released in 2020.
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The Tome of Bill / int_161f1ebf	type	Relationship Upgrade
The Tome of Bill / int_161f1ebf	comment	Relationship Upgrade: Surprisingly, Bill and Christy have been together for over a year at the beginning of the novel with the former serving as Tina's surrogate father.
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The Tome of Bill / int_166e33f3	type	Little Miss Badass
The Tome of Bill / int_166e33f3	comment	Little Miss Badass: Tina is this once she discovers how to throw fireballs.
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The Tome of Bill / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
The Tome of Bill / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: The False Icons books are much more overtly high fantasy than the more down to Earth Bill bookd, dealing with gods and other dimensions.
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The Tome of Bill / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
The Tome of Bill / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Much of the craziness of what is going on is dependent on having read the main Bill the Vampire series and Bill of the Dead.
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The Tome of Bill / int_18ce8f1d	type	Full-Frontal Assault
The Tome of Bill / int_18ce8f1d	comment	Full-Frontal Assault: The Alma don't wear clothes, so tend to use this trope liberally.
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The Tome of Bill / int_1a8dc238	type	Underestimating Badassery
The Tome of Bill / int_1a8dc238	comment	Underestimating Badassery: In Sunset Strip Marlene thinks just because she knew Sally when Sally was still human that she's better than Sally. Sally disabuses her of this notion quickly.
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The Tome of Bill / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Tome of Bill / int_2139c878	comment	Church Militant: The Knights Templar show up in book 4. They mostly become a Teeth-Clenched Teamwork group of Elite Mooks soon after as they answer to Sheila the Icon.
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The Tome of Bill / int_2d88e42c	type	Gender Bender
The Tome of Bill / int_2d88e42c	comment	Gender Bender: Tom has been turned into a woman by possessing Sheila.
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The Tome of Bill / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
The Tome of Bill / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: Jessie tries and fails to kill the White Mother. Thankfully, she gets better.
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The Tome of Bill / int_3ae6199a	type	Psychopathic Manchild
The Tome of Bill / int_3ae6199a	comment	Psychopathic Manchild: Gansetseng. She's actually over three hundred years old, but she was turned when she was just twelve and hasn't physically aged since, and has barely aged emotionally thanks to her "father" (actually her some odd great-grandfather) treating her like a child for all her life. Jeff is a more typical example of the trope, acting incredibly childish and having an exaggerated opinion of himself, and throwing a fit whenever he doesn't get his way. Honestly, Bill and his friends weren't that far from this while human. Tom is especially bad as not only is he a toy-obsessed lunatic but he's even more sexist than Bill.
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The Tome of Bill / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
The Tome of Bill / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Bill is not nearly as much of a homophobic sexist Jerkass as he used to be. He acknowledges this about himself. He's still an asshole mind you but more of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
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The Tome of Bill / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Tome of Bill / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Readers of Bill the Vampire will know that Jessie can't defeat the White Mother.
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The Tome of Bill / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Tome of Bill / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Bill's weekly Dungeons & Dragons game. When Bill failed to show up (on account of having been killed and turned into a vampire) the GM had his character captured by "a tribe of sexually repressed ogres".
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The Tome of Bill / int_3cb17a19	type	Super-Powered Evil Side
The Tome of Bill / int_3cb17a19	comment	Superpowered Evil Side: Doctor Death proves to be this for Bill and repeatedly saves his life throughout the series. It also takes him over a few times.
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The Tome of Bill / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
The Tome of Bill / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: When Tom is brainwashed in Holier Than Thou, is it a threat to his girlfriend that snaps him out of it? A threat to his best friend since grade school? No. It's a threat to his action figure collection that does the trick.
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The Tome of Bill / int_3e06b5c7	type	Your Vampires Suck
The Tome of Bill / int_3e06b5c7	comment	Your Vampires Suck: Towards Anne Rice and Twilight.
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The Tome of Bill / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Tome of Bill / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Bill is one of these despite being the Freewill. Tom is even worse, getting trapped in an action figure at one point.
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The Tome of Bill / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
The Tome of Bill / int_4a852458	comment	Big Good: Sheila as the prophecized Icon is believed to be The Chosen One who will defeat the Freewill. This is awkward since Bill wants to date her.
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The Tome of Bill / int_4c24a9ed	type	Power Copying
The Tome of Bill / int_4c24a9ed	comment	Power Copying: One of the abilities of the Freewill is to drink the blood of other vampires and add their strength to his own.
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The Tome of Bill / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Tome of Bill / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Jessie ends up attempting to kill the Mother of All Vampires and dies in the process.
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The Tome of Bill / int_4f3c14ca	type	Go Mad from the Isolation
The Tome of Bill / int_4f3c14ca	comment	Go Mad from the Isolation: Bill and Christy assume this happened to Tom but he was always like this.
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The Tome of Bill / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Tome of Bill / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Another trait vampires tend to cultivate. Harry Decker, who's a wizard, believes himself to be wise and powerful but his attacks against Bill are phenomenally stupid. Colin serves as this throughout the series, in part because he's just a mid-level manager for the First. More dangerous is Francois who is an ex-Nazi sympathizing Frenchman who ascends to the First and then promptly betrays them. Turd the leader of the Alma is completely confident in his power to beat up the heroes despite constantly getting his ass kicked.
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The Tome of Bill / int_53c5f30e	type	Happy Ending Override
The Tome of Bill / int_53c5f30e	comment	Happy Ending Override: Sheila and Bill broke up soon after the events of the original book. Then Sheila decided to release magic back in the world, which results in even more problems than there were originally happening. She also dies in the attempt.
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The Tome of Bill / int_5401e7ac	type	Daywalking Vampire
The Tome of Bill / int_5401e7ac	comment	Daywalking Vampire: Freewills all have unique abilities aside from the standard ones. Vehron's was the ability to walk in the sun for up to an hour.
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The Tome of Bill / int_55232afa	type	Politically Incorrect Hero
The Tome of Bill / int_55232afa	comment	Politically Incorrect Hero: Bill is prone to using homophobic and sexist language. He doesn't seem to have anything against either gays or women but lashes out at pretty much everyone. He gets better in the subsequent series.
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The Tome of Bill / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
The Tome of Bill / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: Jessie is of major importance to the Bill-verse but off doing her own thing.
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The Tome of Bill / int_58970bae	type	PromotedToParent
The Tome of Bill / int_58970bae	comment	Promoted to Parent: Bill has been serving as this to Tina.
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The Tome of Bill / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
The Tome of Bill / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: Francois' evil plan for the treat negotiations? Create a alliance with the Alma to harvest billions in maple syrup. Too bad Alexander averts Pragmatic Villainy big time.
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The Tome of Bill / int_5ee73758	type	Council of Vampires
The Tome of Bill / int_5ee73758	comment	Council of Vampires: The First Coven who rule over the vampire nation, are this.
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The Tome of Bill / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Tome of Bill / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: Sheila. Subverted by the discovery that she's just trying to make things right.
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The Tome of Bill / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
The Tome of Bill / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: The reason James puts up with Colin despite Colin being a smarmy buttkisser who sells out anyone that doesn't outrank him at the drop of a hat. Colin is an extremely competent and very loyal assistant who has a knack for making sense of the vampire nation's labyrinthine records. Bill himself is this. His (frequently) noted tendency to screw things up is tolerated because he gets the job done, and he is the Freewill after all.
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The Tome of Bill / int_628d08d4	type	Silver Bullet
The Tome of Bill / int_628d08d4	comment	Silver Bullet: Silver and vampire blood do not mix. It interferes with vampiric healing abilities.
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The Tome of Bill / int_6a6b23ff	type	Unfazed Everyman
The Tome of Bill / int_6a6b23ff	comment	Unfazed Everyman: Ed to a certain extent. Though he does react to the big things, he takes most everything else - including discovering that Bill is a vampire - in stride.
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The Tome of Bill / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
The Tome of Bill / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: Sally picks up a barfly in Sunset Strip, and he tries to rape her. Things go downhill from there.
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The Tome of Bill / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
The Tome of Bill / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: This is about a coven, vampires, and a Icon that no one knew about during the events of the original series.
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The Tome of Bill / int_79c34029	type	The Nose Knows
The Tome of Bill / int_79c34029	comment	The Nose Knows: As vampires have enhanced senses, they naturally fall into this trope, being able to track scents for huge distances.
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The Tome of Bill / int_7b8f5f07	type	Charm Person
The Tome of Bill / int_7b8f5f07	comment	Charm Person: Vampires have the ability to compel younger vampires, and weak-willed humans. The Freewill gets its name from its immunity to this effect.
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The Tome of Bill / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Tome of Bill / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Sheila's actions make it possible for magic, monsters, and gods to return to the world. Dave brings back vampirism to the world via using their blood in his hand cream.
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The Tome of Bill / int_80d55f20	type	Cuteness Proximity
The Tome of Bill / int_80d55f20	comment	Cuteness Proximity: Jessie has this reaction to the baby Sasquatch Floof.
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The Tome of Bill / int_89631688	type	The Chosen One
The Tome of Bill / int_89631688	comment	The Chosen One: Jessie is the Icon and destined to battle the Freewill. Except she's not. The Unchosen One: Jessie discovers she's a failed attempt to create a fake Icon. She reacts poorly. She does, however, get the Blessing of Uranus, though.
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The Tome of Bill / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
The Tome of Bill / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: Jessie dies in Wannabe Wizard but ends up coming back five years later, very confused.
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The Tome of Bill / int_8ba9512b	type	Our Zombies Are Different
The Tome of Bill / int_8ba9512b	comment	Our Zombies Are Different: They're rank and file White Collar Workers for vampires.
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The Tome of Bill / int_8c4bafff	type	Holy Burns Evil
The Tome of Bill / int_8c4bafff	comment	Holy Burns Evil: Actually, it doesn't. It's all about faith. If a person believes whole-heartedly in the holiness of God and his symbols, then a cross would work just fine. But if they don't have enough faith, it won't do diddly. This effect can be applied to anything that a person has enough faith in, be it a cross or a ham sandwich; Tom imbues a first generation Optimus Prime doll...uh...collectible with this effect. Additionally, there are the very rare people called Icons, whose faith in themselves is so great that they become a Walking Wasteland to the supernatural. Icons have a variety of unspecified powers.
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The Tome of Bill / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Tome of Bill / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Lots and lots. In Sunset Strip nearly everyone who dies deserved it in some way.
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The Tome of Bill / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
The Tome of Bill / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Sally, full stop.
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The Tome of Bill / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Tome of Bill / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Multiple ones for each book but the one for the entire series is Kala the White Goddess a.k.a. Ib the First Vampire. Alexander the Great forms a Big Bad Duumvirate with Kala at the end
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The Tome of Bill / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
The Tome of Bill / int_978a82e6	comment	Alexander the Great forms a Big Bad Duumvirate with Kala at the end
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The Tome of Bill / int_97bc51a8	type	Sliding Scale of Vampire Friendliness
The Tome of Bill / int_97bc51a8	comment	Sliding Scale of Vampire Friendliness: Played with as it turns out vampires can actually drink animal blood but aside from during an emergency, no one actually bothers and they're all murderers. Since it turns out it's possible to turn animals into vampires as well (though they don't last long), this is probably a good thing.
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The Tome of Bill / int_982b6570	type	Friendly Neighborhood Vampire
The Tome of Bill / int_982b6570	comment	Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: Subverted hard. While the majority of vampires are somewhat ridiculous, they're all a bunch of murderers and entitled psychopaths with rare exceptions. Even Bill, who is mostly a decent sort of guy (accent on mostly), still overlooks a lot of evil conducted by his coven. Mostly because he can't figure out a way to stop it. Eventually, he does by destroying all vampires everywhere.
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The Tome of Bill / int_98b5f82b	type	Basement-Dweller
The Tome of Bill / int_98b5f82b	comment	Basement-Dweller: Averted. Albeit just barely. Bill's friends are just barely above this with, being adult men who live together and collect toys as their primary occupation. They have jobs, though, and don't live with their parents.
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The Tome of Bill / int_9c23f3a0	type	Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti
The Tome of Bill / int_9c23f3a0	comment	Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: The Alma. They're actually forest spirits, they just choose to take the form of quote "giant shit flinging apes".
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The Tome of Bill / int_9cde2df1	type	Hand Cannon
The Tome of Bill / int_9cde2df1	comment	Hand Cannon: Sally carries around a Desert Eagle.
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The Tome of Bill / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
The Tome of Bill / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: Well, yeah. But even in-universe there are two types. Your regular run of the mill vampire and the mythical Freewill, who can feed on the blood of other vampires (which regular vampires can't do) and add their strength onto his own as well as being immune to Compulsion. Also comes with a Super Mode that's been mentioned a few times but never given any great deal of description.
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The Tome of Bill / int_9f9ef70f	type	The Unchosen One
The Tome of Bill / int_9f9ef70f	comment	The Unchosen One: Jessie discovers she's a failed attempt to create a fake Icon. She reacts poorly. She does, however, get the Blessing of Uranus, though.
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The Tome of Bill / int_a18fda9c	type	Dumb Muscle
The Tome of Bill / int_a18fda9c	comment	Dumb Muscle: Turd is treated as this by Francois. He's not wrong but Turd is probably the smartest of the Alma. Which is a low hurdle indeed.
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The Tome of Bill / int_a2fea27d	type	The Chosen Many
The Tome of Bill / int_a2fea27d	comment	The Chosen Many: There have been many Freewills and Icons down through the ages. It seems that Alexander is keeping all of the surviving Freewills captive as bodiless heads.
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The Tome of Bill / int_a60f7120	type	Physical God
The Tome of Bill / int_a60f7120	comment	Physical God: These coming back from the events of Bill of the Dead are a major source of pain to Jessie.
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The Tome of Bill / int_a7055a94	type	Classical Anti-Hero
The Tome of Bill / int_a7055a94	comment	Classical Anti-Hero: Bill is a cowardly, weak, nerdy sort of guy who just so happens to have a Superpowered Evil Side. He's also not terribly moral even if he has more humanity than the majority of undead.
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The Tome of Bill / int_a8c462db	type	Super-Senses
The Tome of Bill / int_a8c462db	comment	Super Senses: Vampires have stronger senses than humans, and it gets stronger with age.
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The Tome of Bill / int_ab2df806	type	Red Baron
The Tome of Bill / int_ab2df806	comment	Red Baron: Per Jeff's policy, all the vampires have such a name. Jeff is Night Razor and Bill is Dr Death and so on. Bill dispenses with this policy immediately after killing Jeff. James is actually known as "The Wanderer" and finds the concept slightly less silly than most vampires as a result.
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The Tome of Bill / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Tome of Bill / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Sally non-stop. Bill proves to be excellent fodder for snark.
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The Tome of Bill / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
The Tome of Bill / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Face–Heel Turn: Gary turns into a Dark Lord during the five years that Jessie is dead. He's a Smug Snake more than genuinely evil, though.
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The Tome of Bill / int_b905e88c	type	People Jars
The Tome of Bill / int_b905e88c	comment	People Jars: Alexander has a whole closet full of these. It's suggested they're all Freewills.
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The Tome of Bill / int_b9fd7929	type	Morality Chain
The Tome of Bill / int_b9fd7929	comment	Morality Chain: Bill actually prevents Sally and Sheila both from going off the deep end.
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The Tome of Bill / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Tome of Bill / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Numerous. Bill, Tom and Ed are gigantic nerds. Most prominently, Optimus Prime figures into Jeff's demise.
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The Tome of Bill / int_d1ceb951	type	Holier Than Thou
The Tome of Bill / int_d1ceb951	comment	Holier Than Thou: Book 4's name aside, the Templars seem to have a number of these.
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The Tome of Bill / int_d5dfb30a	type	Professional Butt-Kisser
The Tome of Bill / int_d5dfb30a	comment	Professional Butt-Kisser: James's assistant Colin in general, but just about any vampire will switch to ass-kissing mode at the merest hint of the First Coven.
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The Tome of Bill / int_d9d2c40b	type	Amazon Brigade
The Tome of Bill / int_d9d2c40b	comment	Amazon Brigade: The Dryads are this, all being beautiful warrior women.
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The Tome of Bill / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
The Tome of Bill / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: James the Wanderer is one of the only vampires who doesn't appear to be some brand of crazy or a Smug Snake. Joshua is another example. Then again, he's Jesus.
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The Tome of Bill / int_dcbddebe	type	Pregnant Badass
The Tome of Bill / int_dcbddebe	comment	Pregnant Badass: Though Christy is visibly pregnant she kicks nearly as much ass as Sally in Sunset Strip.
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The Tome of Bill / int_dd45df38	type	Unfortunate Names
The Tome of Bill / int_dd45df38	comment	Unfortunate Names: The Alma seem to lean in this direction via Cross-Cultural Kerfluffle. Between Turd and Muff, it's hard to doubt Gualtieri is doing this on purpose.
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The Tome of Bill / int_e24e15a6	type	Has a Type
The Tome of Bill / int_e24e15a6	comment	Has a Type: It seems that Christy is attracted to grossly immature nerdy men.
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The Tome of Bill / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
The Tome of Bill / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Bill becomes one for Sally. Sally is not amused. Morality Chain: Bill actually prevents Sally and Sheila both from going off the deep end.
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The Tome of Bill / int_e3fcfa4a	type	I Hate You, Vampire Dad
The Tome of Bill / int_e3fcfa4a	comment	I Hate You, Vampire Dad: Mark in Sunset Strip. He was Sally's boyfriend when she was still human and she accidentally killed him when she first became a vampire, and didn't know how to feed without turning the victim.
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The Tome of Bill / int_e67ff203	type	Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder
The Tome of Bill / int_e67ff203	comment	Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: Christy starts to wonder what she ever saw in Tom when he comes back from the dead.
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The Tome of Bill / int_e7bffa82	type	Sarcastic Devotee
The Tome of Bill / int_e7bffa82	comment	Sarcastic Devotee: Sally to Bill.
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The Tome of Bill / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The Tome of Bill / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Most vampires tend towards this, but Jeff and Colin stand out. Bill, himself, is this even on his best days.
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The Tome of Bill / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
The Tome of Bill / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Bill and company destroy the Wellspring that results in magic leaving the world. Witches and vampires cease to exist with the majority of undead reverting to their true ages or slightly less. Sally becomes a gorgeous middle aged woman, Bill remains in his twenty, and Gan is immune but aging. James and many others die but it results in the Alma calling off their war on humanity. Bill decides to date Sheila after this.
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The Tome of Bill / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
The Tome of Bill / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: Bill lampshades the tendency for wizards to be named "Harry" citing Harry Decker, Harry Potter, Harry Dresden and Harry Houdini.
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The Tome of Bill / int_fdb6b8ad	type	The Magnificent
The Tome of Bill / int_fdb6b8ad	comment	The Magnificent: Vehron, also known as the Destroyer, the Render, the Hater of All Life, the Sun Strider and many other nicknames besides.
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The Tome of Bill / int_ff16efbf	type	Heroes Want Redheads
The Tome of Bill / int_ff16efbf	comment	Heroes Want Redheads: Our heroine becomes subject to this once she gains her red hair dye.
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The Tome of Bill / int_ff7c3bb0	type	Stronger with Age
The Tome of Bill / int_ff7c3bb0	comment	Stronger with Age: Vampires become more powerful the older they get.
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