Anita Blake: Difference between revisions

* [[Action Girl]]: there's no doubt that Anita's good at killing things.

* [[Anime Hair]]: In the later books all the men have long, flowing, rippling hair described as, for example "metallic gold" or "black silk," and may be "foaming." The hair is also unusually long, ranging from mid-back to ankle-length.

* [[Artistic License Biology]]: It becomes an issue in some books that lycanthropes (particularly, but not only, werewolves) don't like to deal with police because police take issue with dominance fights that leave corpses. Fair enough, but the issue is that there's explicit evidence (in terms of {{spoiler|Marmee Noir}} being a were-cave-lion before being turned into a vampire) that the magical virus causing lyncathropes is as old as humanity, or nearly so, and may have co-evolved with us. The issue here is that if you check [[The Other Wiki]]'s article on wolves, it becomes clear that wild wolves mostly mate for life and live in nuclear families, not large polygynous packs, suggesting that this pattern didn't come from a wolf-inspired culture. Also, even those animals which DO have males fighting for dominance, ESPECIALLY those which (like humans) have an s-type breeding strategy (that is, few children with a lot of resources invested in rearing them, and a long lifespan) generally carry out those fights in ways which are less lethal (deer using their antlers to push the other back, rather than gore; cats fighting with sheathed claws). The point here is that the winner gets to breed (with that female, that time around); the loser has an incentive to live to fight again (possibly somewhere else) rather than escalating.

* [[Author Appeal]]: Becomes more obvious as the series progresses.

** In ''Blue Moon'', A [[Mook|vampire flunky]] delivers a pinky finger to Anita as notification that Richard's family has been abducted.

** In ''Bullet'', A severed head is delivered to Anita's office at Animators Inc.

* [[Fur Against Fang]]: Vampires and weres don't always get along so well especially as many vampires can control weres.

* [[Gratuitous French]]: Jean-Claude and Asher are terribly guilty of this, as is Anita with the addition of the [[Horny Devils|Ardeur]].

* [[God Save Us From the Queen]]: Anita is queen of all the "were" groups, including wolf, leopard, tiger and she's clearly gearing up for lion queendom. She's also the human servant for the vampire master of St. Louis, whom she commands because she has necromancy powers. Unfortunately Anita rules by sexing the various male leaders into submission, as well as rape, physical infighting, illegal threats, and cold-blooded murder if you get in wrong with her.

* [[Good People Have Good Sex]]: Despite the series' reputation for raunchiness, the vast vast majority of the sex--at least among the protagonists--is more tame than a lot of stuff you could see on the [[Playboy]] channel. The bad guys, meanwhile, tend to have penchants for rape, snuff, pedophilia, or BDSM of a level that leaves the floor awash in blood.

* [[Grandfather Clause]]: Briefly brought up when discussing Jean Claude's club. With vampires, it matters.

* [[Handsome Lech]]: Jean Claude, but that's a given since he's the charming [[Magnificent Bastard]]. Jason is infamous for this trope, but Zerbrowski may count as well because according to both his description and his comic book incarnation, he's not a bad looking dude.

* [[Hates Small Talk]]: Anita Blake repeatedly mentions how little she likes small talk, and how much she appreciates those characters who don't indulge in it either, like Dolph and Edward.

** Everybody wears leather. Lots of leather. They were leather fedoras, miniskirts, boots, trenchcoats, fetish harnesses, etc.

** Not to mention leather tuxedos and pants it makes you question if there are any cows left in the anitaverse

* [[Horny Devils]]: The ardeur forces Anita to have to feed on sex the way [[Emotion Eater|certain vampires do]], even though technically she isn't one.

* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Strangely enough, Anita is spared from this. Richard is the poster boy for this trope. It starts off pretty reasonable, but then he decides to dump her a ''second'' time in ''Narcissus in Chains'' because he "doesn't want to be with someone more at home with the monsters than I am."

* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Books are frequently named after businesses in the universe.

* [[In Love With Your Carnage]]: Olaf falls for Anita after seeing her kill.

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Vampires and werecreatures and humans and harem.

* [[Intimate Healing]]: Raina the werewolf can heal, usually during sex. Trouble is, Raina is a sexual sadist to the monstrous degree...

** Anita's assorted rapes are considered okay because the ardeur intoxicates/overwhelms her victims. Though, not always by her.

** Anita ''herself''. The times she actually wants to have sex with the people the ''ardeur'' forces her to have sex with could probably be counted on one hand.

* [[New Powers As the Plot Demands]]: Anita, even in early books--she was and is still growing. In the most recent novels this is [[Handwaved]] as an explicit power of Anita's that [[Mega Manning|allows her to duplicate supernatural powers which have been used upon her]] if they were used on her during the right set of circumstances. (These circumstances seem to be "when it happens in the course of a novel".)

* [[One of the Boys]]: Particularly early Anita, aggressively so--so much so that it might reveal some troubling [[Author Avatar]] issues. One apt reader points out how Anita's gun is like a substitute penis. I.e, the only way she feels she can ever get respect is by having it with her at all times. She also insists that no one call her "girl" or "ma'am" and is actually ''happy'' when someone calls her a guy or a "son of a bitch." To even begin unpeeling the problems with this mentality would take years.

* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]:

** Vampires grow in power the longer they've been dead, up to a certain limit which is different for each vampire. If they become powerful enough they attain the status of "Master Vampire" which:

** Gives them a handful of powers which, while unique to that particular vampire, are usually influenced by their vampiric "ancestors".

** Gives them a particular type of animal they can control, which gives them a limited degree of mind-control over were-animals of the same type.

** If their human servant is an animator/necromancer and they bond supernaturally to a were-animal of the type the can control (in a similar way that they bond to their human servant) then the three of them will form a "triumvirate" which can be used to generate a great deal of supernatural energy.

* [[Our Werebeasts Are Different]]: There are ''many'' different kinds of werebeasts in this book. In addition to [[Werewolves]], there are wereleopards, werelions, weretigers (including blue, red and black tigers in the last book), at least three weredogs (their abilities are inherited not infection), weresnakes (at lest 2 species cobra and anaconda), swanmen (some are cursed others inherit their abilities like the weredogs), wererats, werebears, and werehyenas.

* [[Rhetorical Request Blunder]]: Anita angrily says she wants a woman's "head in basket." She is shocked and horrified when [[Literal Minded|it is delivered]]. Worth noting that the punishment for the person was execution anyway, Anita just...got the head.

* [[Scarpia Ultimatum]]: Anita has never [[Sex Equals Love|had sex with the villains]], but Jason once agreed to have sex with two villainous minions for the greater good.

* [[Sex Equals Love]]: Anita insists that she truly loves each and every man she has sex with. [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgement|That is all]].

* [[Shapeshifting Lover]]: Again, way too many to keep straight.

* [[Talking in Your Dreams]]: It's a human servant thing.

* [[Tenchi Solution]]: Kind of a moot point since half her harem would die without her [[Life Energy]]--and vice versa, eventually--but Anita claims to love them all.

* [[Three Way Sex]]: that's practically the minimum.

* [[Time Abyss]]: Mr Oliver is at least a ''million-years-old'' vampire. Anita pegs him as a ''Homo Erectus''.

* [[We Hardly Knew Ye]]: {{spoiler|Phillip}}

* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway]]: most vampire masters get one kind of animal to control (with limited control over respective lycanthropes): rats, wolves, snakes... When Warrick becomes a vampire master, he gets butterflies. Subverted in that Warrick is overjoyed: he is [[The Atoner]] and considers his butterflies as a sign that God has forgiven him.

* [[Wolverine Publicity]]: As shown in that page's image, one issue of the comic book featured [[Wolverine]] on the cover, despite the fact that the comic isn't set in the [[Marvel Universe]].

* [[Writer On Board]]