A Sudden Wild Magic

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A novel by Diana Wynne Jones. A team of mages finds it necessary to invade an alternate universe.

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Tropes include:

• Baby Talk: Marcus, Zillah's son. Rather well educated and smart even though his words hardly make sense to anyone but Zillah.
• Blithe Spirit: All of the women who go to Arth.
• Elseworld: Earth, Arth, and Petarchy. They even have alternate people called Analogues.
• Everything's Better With Ether Monkeys: Jimbo
• Henpecked Husband: Mark tends to question from time to time why he married Paulie.
• I Choose to Stay: After the congo dancing scene, the women decided to stay in Arth
• The Infiltration: What drives the plot; realizing that another world has been forcing Earth into war after war to force them to build new technology and copy it, Gladys sends a team of highly trained female mages (as well as Zillah, by accident) to the other world and stop them.
• The Load: Roz tends to see Zillah as this.
• Male Gaze: A world filled with male mages suddenly seeing women in their world that are just dying to get attention (as ulterior motive)? Pretty obvious.
• Moe: Zillah
• The Mole: Brother Tony is assigned to spy on Paulie and return information to Arth. Later, because Tod kissed Zillah, he has to fill in, much to his displeasure.
• Never the Selves Shall Meet: When they enter the alternate universe, all the ones with counterparts there instantly die.
• Shrinking Violet: Zillah again.
• Sex Is Evil: In-universe. It's not allowed in Arth because it will upset the balance.
• Eccentric Mentor: Gladys
• Tomato in The Mirror: Mark.
• Wild Magic: Zillah's true potential