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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Candy's father is abusive to everyone in the household.

* [[Adipose Rex]]: King Claus, after the death of his beloved daughter.

* [[Artificial Human]]: Some of the stitchlings are fairly close. Also the Kid of Commexo.

* [[Become a Real Boy]]: What Rojo Pixler wants for the Conjuration of Life for--to give life to the Commexo Kid.

* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: {{spoiler|Princess Boa.}} People rhapsodize about her in glowing terms, painting a picture of someone who was [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth|incredibly kind, gentle and loving]]. In ''Absolute Midnight'' the truth is revealed {{spoiler|and it turns out that it was a MASSIVE ruse on Boa's part.}}

* [[Body Horror]]

* [[Great Big Book of Everything]]: Klepp's ''Almenak,'' though the Abaratians know you'd be wise to take everything Klepp writes with a grain of salt. It's good in a ''general'' sense, though.

* [[Half Human Hybrids]]: Lots and lots of them everywhere around--Izarith the part-Skizmut, the half-dragon priest Deetha Maas.

* [[Head Pet]]: Candy briefly has a squid as one. {{spoiler|He dies of exposure, sadly.}}

* [[Hufflepuff House]]: Many of the islands, other than the ones we spend the "most" time on.

* [[Impossible Thief]]: John Mischief and his brothers, who managed to steal the ''tattoos'' of a criminal named Monkai-Monkai while he was in prison.

** {{spoiler|It's because she has Princess Boa's soul inside her.}}

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Several. {{spoiler|Candy and Gazza, mostly [[Ship Tease|shipteased]] Candy and Malingo. Princess Boa and Finnegan Hobb are this, too.}}

* [[Ironic Nursery Tune]]: Shape likes to use these to intimidate people, though they're more openly sinister than tunes from our world, having apparently been written by [[Card-Carrying Villain|Card Carrying Villains]]. There are some innocent nursery tunes too, though. {{spoiler|For example, the lullaby Zephario Carrion sung to his son, Christopher}}.

* [[It Got Worse]]: Book 3. In. Spades.

* [[Magitek]]: Most of the Pixler Company's inventions, the Sublime Verities.

* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: {{spoiler|As of the second book, it seems like Mater Motley is the real [[Big Bad]] of the series and always was.}}

* [[Manipulative Bastard|Manipulative Bitch]]: {{spoiler|Boa}} turns out to be quite a large one in Absolute Midnight.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: A ''lot'' of them.

* [[Monster Sob Story]]: Christopher Carrion's backstory. {{spoiler|His entire family, except for his grandmother and absent father, died in a massive fire, he was brought up to be a perfect villain by his abusive grandmother who had ''sewn up'' his lips for saying the word ''love'', fell in love with a princess who used and then shunned him...and his life didn't get better since then.}}

* [[Morality Pet]]: Maratien to Mater Motley in the third book. She's one of the few people who Motley's shown actual kindness and concern for, even more so than her own son.

* [[Multiple Head Case]]: The John brothers, who share a body, but different heads.

* [[Nightmare Fetishist]]: Christopher Carrion, [[Up to Eleven|who even wears a glass collar for his embodied nightmares swim in]].

* [[Pardon My Klingon]]: Abaratian is full of unique swears.

* [[Peace and Love Incorporated]]: The Pixler Company.

* [[Place Beyond Time]]: The Twenty-Fifth Hour, which is always surrounded by a thick fog. {{spoiler|Over the edge of the world.}}

* [[Retired Monster]]: {{spoiler|Zephario Carrion, who was a monster in his youth, but realized the error of his ways and became a fairly gentle old man.}}

* [[Sentient Cosmic Force]]: The Skein, the Thread.

* [[Split At Birth]]: Inverted. Maybe. {{spoiler|Princess Boa's spirit was reincarnated into a just-about-to-be-born Candy. However, prenatal Candy had a soul of her own. So Candy as an adolescent girl is referred to as the "Two in One," and realizes that "Candy" and "Princess Boa" are two halves of the same whole within her--hence, [[Mental Fusion|fused at birth]].}} It's not exactly clear, just roll with it.

* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Carrion is of the more malicious sort. {{spoiler|Gazza gets disturbingly close, too.}}

* [[Surveillance as the Plot Demands]]: The House of Midnight has spies everywhere. ''Everywhere.''

* [[Tyke Bomb]]: {{spoiler|Christopher was explicitly designed to be one.}}