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* [[Disney Villain Death]]: Played straight with Gedder.
* [[Domestic Abuse]]: Heavily implied that Beezie's mother was a victim of it.
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me]]: Discussed by Matthew and Bran, one of whom is paralyzed and the other suffers from a permanently injured leg and [[Shell
* [[Evil Smells Bad]]: The Echthroi, as noted in ''[[A Wind in The Door]]''. Also, Chuck Maddox can smell bad character or cruelty on a person.
* [[Faking the Dead]]: Gwydyr
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* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming|Idiosyncratic Chapter Naming]]: Named after the verses of St. Patrick's Rune.
* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]: Tends to get invoked a lot with those of the Madoc line.
* [[Indian Maiden]]/[[The
* [[In Spite of a Nail]]: They play around with numerous events in history, and the only one that seems to affect the present(or at least, THEIR present) is the one they want.
* [[In the Blood]]: See "[[Black and White Morality]]" above. This is all but stated in as many words in the text; Charles Wallace's ultimate goal is to adjust history so that the leader of a certain nation is descended from Madoc instead of from Gwydyr, changing him from a tyrant nicknamed "Mad Dog" to a benevolent ruler nicknamed "[[Blue Eyes|The Blue-Eyed]]."
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* [[One Steve Limit]]: Averted with Mattie and Matthew, Richard, Ritchie, and Rich Llawcae, Brandon and his namesake nephew, David and Davey Higgins, and most impressively, Zyll, Zylle, Zillie, and Zillah. Then again, most of this has to do with history repeating itself.
* [[Pegasus]]: Gaudior. However, when he takes flight, he hardly ever moves in ''space,'' but only through time. (The movement of the planet Earth itself throughout time is not accounted for.)
* [[Politically
* [[Pregnant Badass]]: Meg, who isn't quite an [[Action Mom]], but lends Charles Wallace her emotional strength on his journey.
* [[The Reveal]]: Eccentric, impoverished Mrs. O'Keefe is descended from royalty (Queen Branwen of Britain, [[The
* [[Seers]]: The people Charles merges with tend to have some sort of clairvoyance. Possibly justified due to Charles' presence in their psyches, the fact that they tend to be descendants of the same line, or perhaps that's why he can target them at all.
* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]
* [[She Is All Grown Up]]: Skinny, gawky, stringy-haired, bespectacled Meg became a beautiful young woman as she reached her twenties.
* [[Sinister Minister]]: Pastor Mortmain
* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: How do you even pronounce "Zylle" to make it distinct from "Zyll" and "Zillie"?
** Zyll=Zill; Zylle=Zeel
* [[Supporting Protagonist]]: On several levels: First, Charles Wallace is only going Within various people from the past, and only once is it explicit that he's even ''doing'' anything while being Within. Then, even when they finally reach 1863, {{spoiler|Charles Wallace is Within Matthew, who is having a vision of ''Richard,'' who is all the way in Vespugia, having the big fight with Gedder that the entire book has actually been building up to.}}
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* [[Time Skip]]: In the Harcels, Chuck, and Matthew storylines.
* [[Twin Telepathy]]: Bran and Matthew Maddox.
* [[Two Lines, No Waiting]]: Meg's back at the house.
** Also [[Meanwhile in The Future]].
* [[Unicorn]]: Gaudior. It deserves noting that he's ''very'' different from the unicorns depicted in ''[[Many Waters]]'' in the same world -- he's bigger, he's more reliably (albeit still not completely) real, and he's telepathic. And has magic.
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