The Dresden Files/YMMV

The Books provide examples of:
"Harry: "If the world burns, so be it. Me and the kid will roast some marshmallows.""
 * Adaptation Distillation:
 * The comic book. As Jim Butcher himself points out, Dresden Files has the heart and soul of a comic book anyway.
 * The roleplaying game is both incredibly faithful to the books, condensing the Dresdenverse into a very elegant and functional game, and flexible enough to handle anything you might want to do with the game. An example is how a couple of people in one playtest group wanted to play as a ghost and a ghoul. They managed to figure out how to do so after about 10 min of planning for each.
 * One of the other playtester groups succeeded in making a character who was essentially an animated sentient whip.
 * Awesome Ego: Ramirez. The Tabletop Game says as much.
 * Complete Monster : Has its own page.
 * Crazy Awesome: In Ghost Story, Harry was able to  specifically because he was insane, which is the very definition of this trope.   Oh, and the way he comes to realize he's crazy enough to do this? He remembers all the other crazy stuff he's done in previous books. And much of that crazy stuff was awesome.
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome: Heck, just look at the page. But particular mention should go to the Dinosaur Incident. (Yes, it deserves the caps.)
 * While this might not count as a true crowning moment, I'd say that at the very least, Harry qualifies for father of year. Let's look at the facts. From the moment he finds out that he has an eight year-old daughter that he never knew even existed, he is prepared to go to the wall and do whatever it takes to make sure that she's safe. This is a girl that he never even knew existed, much less met. When you compare that to how many fathers have lived with their children for their several years and couldn't give two shits about them, this becomes extremely awesome.

""I... she doesn't deserve you.""
 * Crowning Moment of Funny: Numerous.
 * Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: From "Gentleman" Johnny Marcone, of all people, with  He even goes so far as to
 * Another one from  in White Night.

""You're the one they arrested in the nursery a few years back," he said. "You broke in during a blackout. They found you in the middle of a wrecked room with all those babies."
 * From Dead Beat:

I took a deep breath. "Yeah."

Lamar was silent for a second. Then he said, "You know that the year before, the SIDS rate there was the highest in the nation? They averaged one case every ten days. No one could explain it."

"I didn't know that," I said.

"Since they arrested you there, they haven't lost one," he said. He turned back to me. "You did something.""


 * For clarification, when you realize that Harry has been suffering from Being Good Sucks this whole series, and keeps at it anyway, having someone notice that he made a positive difference and help him because of that is huge.
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: Ride of the Valkyries. Also tells you something about Gard's sense of humor
 * Evil Is Sexy: Lara Raith is pretty much the embodiment of this, as are all the other Raiths, and both Fairy Courts, and Bianca and many of the Red Court vampires (before seeing their true form at least). Harry even mentions the benefits of having no hot water as taking cold showers constantly is a good defense against the supernatural charms of the dangerous female beings he meets constantly.
 * Fan Disservice: The scene in Turn Coat where Lara Raith feeds on (read: consumes emotions and soul by having sex with) her cousin Madeline -- . Also appears to.
 * Foe Yay: Harry and Marcone seem to have a little of this going at times.
 * Funny Aneurysm Moment: The short story "Day Off", found in the anthology Blood Lite, features the characters of . In the book Turn Coat, . Consider the difference in tone between the two stories and you have got Mood Whiplash as well.
 * Growing the Beard: The first two books are okay, but the series really hits its stride at Grave Peril. It improves even more during and after Dead Beat.
 * Butcher really hit his stride when he had Harry  After that the series figured out its pattern of stringing together incredibly awesome scenes with interesting mysteries and witty dialogue.
 * Harsher in Hindsight: From "Changes".
 * Another one occurs in Grave Peril, when Harry is waiting for Susan to bail him out of jail and sees Michael and Charity talkling he finds himself wondering why alll his relationships don't work and jokingly puts it down to all the "ghosts, demons and Human Sacrifice."
 * In the short story "Something Borrowed", Kirby was supposed to be Billy's best man at his wedding, but got really hurt in a fight the night before (no thanks to the jello shots)... Flash forward to Turn Coat...
 * Ho Yay: Harry and Thomas. . Hell's bells, the Ho Yay actually becomes a plot point at times.
 * Les Yay: All of the female members of the Raith clan are bisexual, but the few male members are all straight. An example of Fan Service or Author Appeal anyone?
 * Actually, this makes sense in context. The White Court, and House Raith in particular, have a very large hand in shaping the Pornography industry in America, with the intent of twisting the human psyche towards empty lust rather than genuine love (which is poisonous to the White Court). When you consider that the heterosexual porn industry glamorizes bisexual women but avoids showing bi/gay male sex... basically, it means that the White King's personal fetish for bisexual women was (and is still) getting transmitted into our culture through white-court-controlled porn memes. As for the female members of House Raith, all of them had been shaped (read: raped/dominated/traumatized) by the White King, so it follows that they'd fall in line with his sexual appetites. Now that the White King is only a figurehead, it remains to be seen if Lara will continue in the same vein, or try different approaches.
 * Don't forget Lara more or less outright says that Luccio was bisexual in her previous body....
 * Well the whole thing about male Raiths not being bisexual might not be true. In Blood Rites Lord Raith, as an offhand comment, said that he thought/hoped that Thomas was 'feeding' on Harry considering how much he was spending time with/helping him... and he wasn't necessarily disturbed about it when he said it.
 * There isn't a "whole thing" about male Raiths not being bisexual. Thomas just says that his dad doesn't swing that way is all. And it's not like we've got a lot of data to extrapolate from.
 * Subverted in Ghost Story, where a female White Court vampire tries to blackmail Murphy into letting her feed on her. Murphy's counteroffer is
 * Magnificent Bastard: Quite a few of these are kicking around, to Harry's dismay. Fortunately, some are his friends. Harry himself is TRYING for it at times. He's still at Guile Hero/Manipulative Bastard though
 * Marcone is constantly getting people that hate him to do what he wants, even when they are perfectly aware that, lesser or no, he is evil.
 * , in Changes.
 * Lara Raith.
 * Collin Murphy Wow.
 * Offscreen Moment of Awesome: An unfortunate result of the books being told from Harry's POV is that we miss some of the crazier fights in the background, like  in Dead Beat or   in Proven Guilty.
 * Add to the list  in Changes
 * The Oblivion War, as specified in Backup. Jim Butcher even said that by Harry's very nature, he'd be an immense liability if he even knew about the war.
 * Small Favor had what was likely an awesome parkour chase as a gaggle of faerie elves chased Thomas-disguised-as-Harry across the Chicago rooftops. We missed it mostly because Harry was with Michael as he went Fist of God on a few hundred hobs in the subway.
 * Between Changes and Ghost Story, Murphy . Considering Murphy is a human with no magic to her, that is really impressive, but we sadly don't get to see it.
 * Of course, considering how much awesome is crammed in the series already, adding more might result in brains melting.
 * Paranoia Fuel:
 * Squick:
 * Nicodemus' lover is Deidre... his daughter. Her mom, Tessa, is Really Seven Hundred Years Old, but looks in her teens.
 * Lord Raith ensures his daughters' complete loyalty by raping them into submission.
 * Too Cool to Live:
 * As of Turn Coat,, although this may be Too Badass To Live considering his Jerkassness.
 * , dammit.
 * The Woobie: Both Harry and Thomas.

The TV series provides examples of:

 * Broken Base: The fandom is vehemently torn over whether Book Bob is better than TV Bob, and generally over whether the show is a good adaptation of the books.
 * Fan Dumb: The people who dislike the show can cross into this, to the point where Jim Butcher calls them out on it.
 * Les Yay: Bianca and Natalie. Sharon and Nancy.
 * They Changed It Now It Sucks: The reaction of the bulk of the book fans when the show started.
 * Reasons ranged from the reasonable (the series was far less "quirky" than the books and more a mainstream supernatural show) to the outright weird (Murphy is blonde, dammit!)
 * Too Good to Last: Damn you, Sy Fy! Pretty much all of us can say that while not as epic as the books, it was certainly an interesting TV series, more fun than Sy Fy's usual fare of ragingly awful original movies, guys jumping at movement in the dark the that viewer never sees, and increasing Network Decay (WWE? A cooking show?!)