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Unique

195 statements
37 feature instances
27 referencing feature instances

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Unique	label	Unique
Unique	page	Unique
Unique	comment	Everyone thinks of themselves as being unique, an individual protagonist surrounded by a supporting cast consisting of everyone else in the universe. Which is actually true. Unfortunately for the solipsists, the same is true of everyone else. Daily life in a city consists of thousands of protagonists wandering around, each of them the star of their own story. So what happens when some of those protagonists think they're especially special, just because everyone else is clearly only natural, rather than supernatural?Unique is a modern fantasy novel by Andrew Miller, set in an unnamed city that four separate groups call home. The vampires living in stately Semele Manor redefine the notion of the wealthy one percent. The werewolves living on the upstairs floor of their garage fix cars and bikes and trucks for a living, in order to pay the bills and keep the fridge stocked with meat. The Magi hide in plain sight, working their magic and observing their ancient religion. The only ones the cops have any real trouble with are the hunters, who have been slaying vampires and werewolves and other predators of humanity for a very, very long time, and are very good at it. Even if they're presently oblivious to the fact that some of those predators of humanity have a mailing address just up the block. For half a century all four groups have failed to notice each other, moving in separate paths around the city... until this week, when all their orbits finally intersect.
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Unique	parsed	2023-09-25T04:29:09Z
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Unique	isPartOf	DBTropes
Unique / int_173480ed	type	I Will Tear Your Arms Off
Unique / int_173480ed	comment	I Will Tear Your Arms Off: Played with. Clauss WISHES he could do this to customers who piss him off. But of course... he can't. Being able to snatch the head right off an Entitled Bastard of a soccer mom only makes it worse when you know it'd be bad for business. And Agent Smith wouldn't like it.
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Unique	hasFeature	Unique / int_173480ed
Unique / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Unique / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Kuluranjan, the wise and goofy mentor of Sajan.
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Unique	hasFeature	Unique / int_17501df2
Unique / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Unique / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: None of the characters ever tell each other what they are, and several characters try to kill each other because they assume hostility.
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Unique / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Unique / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: When Clauss rushes to stop his son from doing anything stupid to his daughter's boyfriend, he arrives just in time to see all three being threatened by something infinitely more dangerous. It goes badly for the one doing the threatening.
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Unique / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Unique / int_1fc85456	comment	Hopeless with Tech: Some of the older characters are this, although it generally doesn't slow them down much. Not Aelphric; he loves computers, telecommunications and especially the Internet.
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Unique / int_44880a8c	type	Killed to Uphold the Masquerade
Unique / int_44880a8c	comment	Killed to Uphold the Masquerade: Lampshaded but dismissed by Aelfric. Too many people, and most of them have cell phones.
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Unique / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
Unique / int_562abd51	comment	Let's Get Dangerous!: Sajan is a pacifist who only wants to help people and make the world a better place. Then someone with big fangs and a very dark aura threatens his girlfriend.
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Unique / int_58b42f3d	type	Trickster Mentor
Unique / int_58b42f3d	comment	Trickster Mentor: Kuluranjan delights in being this. Not so much to impart a lesson as because he thinks it's hilarious.
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Unique / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Unique / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: After the Masquerade is broken in spectacular fashion, Aelfric and Clauss are forced to improvise a fix on the spot. Fortunately Aelfric was dressed for the occasion.
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Unique / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Unique / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Played straight, downplayed, then ultimately defied.
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Unique / int_5e323fa8	type	The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life
Unique / int_5e323fa8	comment	The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life: This, along with Appeal to Tradition, is why Gunther tries to stop his sister from dating a Muggle.
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Unique / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Unique / int_61a12ee2	comment	Eccentric Mentor: Kuluranjan, so much. One of Sajan's lessons is understanding that his teacher is also the class clown.
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Unique / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
Unique / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: the hunters don't have the unnatural strength or magic of any of the other groups, but Helga was still easily able to beat the stuffing out of eight better-armed thugs, despite being an old lady. And thugs aren't even the thing she specializes in.
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Unique / int_70447aa7	type	Culture Justifies Anything
Unique / int_70447aa7	comment	Culture Justifies Anything: Clauss openly rails against this. In his opinion, traditional werewolf culturenote Traditional culture of werecreatures in general, really consists of behaving like the worst of humanity, then justifying it by claiming to be behaving like a wolf. He'd rather act like a real wolf - which is to say, like a dog who can take himself for walks and can find his own dinner.
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Unique / int_710e51e0	type	Dressed Like a Dominatrix
Unique / int_710e51e0	comment	Dressed Like a Dominatrix: Ophelia the vampire dresses in a glossy-black synthetic leather catsuit when she goes out for a night of clubbing and drinking. The occasions she dresses like that for are basically exercises in dominance over the "kine" around her. She even thinks to herself that she looks like she ought to be carrying a whip. It's partially also glorying in the fact that she's finally lived long enough to reach an age where a woman can get away with that sort of aggressively sexy attire. Early in the book there's a scene of her mentally sneering as she passes Emma (whom she doesn't know yet), who is also dressed in black leather but does so because it's practical for motorcycle riding, and who gets a minor predator's thrill out of wearing real leather.
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Unique / int_720e28a4	type	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs
Unique / int_720e28a4	comment	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Helga's backstory includes fighting demons, vampires, Nazis and demonic Nazi vampires.
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Unique / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Unique / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: One of the plot threads revolves around the hunt for a serial killer who MIGHT be a supernatural creature of some sort.
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Unique / int_79f9249	type	Horrifying the Horror
Unique / int_79f9249	comment	Horrifying the Horror: This cuts every which way. All the main characters are possessed of impressive supernatural abilities. But even as they're trying not to visibly shake in terror, the lethally dangerous terror they're facing is... also trying not to visibly shake.
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Unique / int_8f9c00fd	type	The Apprentice
Unique / int_8f9c00fd	comment	The Apprentice: Sajan and Jan both fall into this category. Sajan has spent all his young life training to be a Farahvashi, a Magi shining as a light in the darkness. Jan has spent his life training to be a Veiðimaðr, hunting those who would hunt humans.
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Unique / int_9e74f33	type	Flock of Wolves
Unique / int_9e74f33	comment	Flock of Wolves: The whole plot is this.
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Unique / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
Unique / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: The changes in the general depictions of vampires in popular folklore (from rotting corpse horrors to glamorous seducers) over the centuries is showcased in the behavior of the vampires themselves. For centuries they were bandits and night horrors, sleeping wherever it was safe during the day. Then came the Renaissance and the realization that they could spend some of the treasure they'd amassed over the centuries to pay for safe buildings to sleep in, and humans to guard them... and other humans to do things, because this was the start of what would become corporate culture. After centuries of accumulating wealth with the assorted East India Companies, buying up real estate, and investing in a diversified portfolio since the start of the New York Stock Exchange, vampires have become the wealthy idle elites living it up in glamour.
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Unique / int_a3673c4c	type	It Gets Easier
Unique / int_a3673c4c	comment	It Gets Easier: Defied with The Coroner. He bluntly tells his visitors that it never gets easier to deal with murder victims, and he does his job so he can help catch their killers.
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Unique	hasFeature	Unique / int_a3673c4c
Unique / int_a4be7043	type	Da Chief
Unique / int_a4be7043	comment	Da Chief: Lieutenant Sanchez gets along a bit better with Jan than with Helga. Nobody likes being compared to Nazis.
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Unique	hasFeature	Unique / int_a4be7043
Unique / int_a4ed127f	type	Muggle Power
Unique / int_a4ed127f	comment	Muggle Power: a variation on type 2, the supernatural individuals in the story were not killed, but were tracked down and told that if they made trouble, they could be killed.
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Unique	hasFeature	Unique / int_a4ed127f
Unique / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Unique / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Sajan and Emma.
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Unique	hasFeature	Unique / int_a8dcb1d7
Unique / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Unique / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Against so many things. Twilight, Teen Wolf, TwentyFour, and more. Much of the book involves poking fun at more melodramatic examples of the genre.
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Unique / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Unique / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: At least eight muggers try to attack an old lady with a cane, while her grandson looks on. Later three of them try to avenge themselves upon the grandson. It turns out about as well as you might expect.
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Unique / int_b9fb7790	type	When Elders Attack
Unique / int_b9fb7790	comment	When Elders Attack: Helga walks with a cane because she promised the cops she'd stop carrying an axe. She still carries multiple knives and a hand cannon big enough to bludgeon a werewolf senseless with.
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Unique / int_c0594195	type	Through His Stomach
Unique / int_c0594195	comment	Through His Stomach: gender inverted with Sajan and Emma. Sajan always shares his food with Emma, and enjoys watching her eat possibly even more than he enjoys his own meal.
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Unique / int_ce6b54d9	type	Enemy Eats Your Lunch
Unique / int_ce6b54d9	comment	Enemy Eats Your Lunch: Clauss makes his point about how little he thinks of werewolf culture by doing this to Gunther as an example of what tradition can let them get away with.
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Unique / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Unique / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: The book is called Unique because everyone thinks of themselves as unique.
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Unique / int_e154ff08	type	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
Unique / int_e154ff08	comment	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Invoked and averted when Jan tries to interrogate the muggers for information regarding the serial killer. They're visibly terrified of the young white male demanding information regarding missing white women, and Jan can understand why. Jan also remembers his grandmother words on the subject of torture. He walks away and leaves them be.
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Unique / int_e7b1cb24	type	Old Master
Unique / int_e7b1cb24	comment	Old Master: All four elders of their respective groups are this almost by default. Special points goes to Helga; her debut appearance has her surrounded by muggers in an alley and her grandson begging her not to kill them.
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Unique / int_f8a2924c	type	Dog Walks You
Unique / int_f8a2924c	comment	Dog Walks You: Emma starts to fantasize about this sort of thing, after a few dates with the boy with the beautiful dark eyes.
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Unique / int_f8b3fa5d	type	Our Werewolves Are Different
Unique / int_f8b3fa5d	comment	Our Werewolves Are Different: The werewolves depicted don't want to hunt their loved ones, or roam the woods at night. Mostly they just want to stuff their bellies of tasty BBQ, and ride really fast on their motorcycles. Especially Clauss, who loves to organize the annual Bikers For Babies event for his town.
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Unique / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
Unique / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: All the vampires... depending on which vampire you ask. Some of them view past centuries of bloodshed and atrocities through a Nostalgia Filter.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Unique	hasFeature	Appeal to Tradition / int_d532e41e
Unique	hasFeature	Culture Justifies Anything / int_d532e41e
Unique	hasFeature	Da Chief / int_d532e41e
Unique	hasFeature	Dehumanizing Insult / int_d532e41e
Unique	hasFeature	Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu? / int_d532e41e
Unique	hasFeature	Disappointed in You / int_d532e41e
Unique	hasFeature	Dressed Like a Dominatrix / int_d532e41e
Unique	hasFeature	Enemy Eats Your Lunch / int_d532e41e
Unique	hasFeature	Ensemble Cast / int_d532e41e
Unique	hasFeature	"Everybody Helps Out" Denouement / int_d532e41e
Unique	hasFeature	Everybody's Dead, Dave / int_d532e41e
Unique	hasFeature	Evidence Dungeon / int_d532e41e
Unique	hasFeature	Instant Seduction / int_d532e41e
Unique	hasFeature	Let's Mock the Monsters / int_d532e41e
Unique	hasFeature	Missing White Woman Syndrome / int_d532e41e
Unique	hasFeature	Muggle Power / int_d532e41e
Unique	hasFeature	Publicly Discussing the Secret / int_d532e41e
Unique	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Money! / int_d532e41e
Unique	hasFeature	Seen It All / int_d532e41e
Unique	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Vampire Friendliness / int_d532e41e
Unique	hasFeature	Staring Down Cthulhu / int_d532e41e
Unique	hasFeature	Supernatural Fiction / int_d532e41e
Unique	hasFeature	The Renfield / int_d532e41e
Unique	hasFeature	Through His Stomach / int_d532e41e
Unique	hasFeature	Vampires Are Rich / int_d532e41e
Unique	hasFeature	Van Helsing Hate Crimes / int_d532e41e
Unique	hasFeature	Whip of Dominance / int_d532e41e

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