Anita Blake: Difference between revisions

* [[Deus Sex Machina]]: in later books it's used and abused to no end

* [[Double Standard]]: Anita can have sex with just about anyone to slake the ardeur, but none of the men can have sex with each other, only Anita. This is later changed due to Anita's [[Suddenly Sexuality|sudden bisexual]] feelings and she enjoys watching all the guys in her harem get it on with each other while she watches and has one of them servicing her as well.

* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: Micah, Nathaniel and Jean-Claude, among others.

* [[The Eighties]]: The earlier books are set there. As of ''Bullet'', it's modern day.

** 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

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: During ''Blue Moon'', Anita and some of Richard's wolves torture a man for information, and end up in this. Jason snaps her out of it by reminding her that it doesn't matter if she becomes "one of the monsters" as long as she can protect [[True Companions|the people she loves]] and that he would do the same.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[There Are No Therapists]]: So much of the recurring cast could use some couch time, especially Anita, who admits [[Hair-Trigger Temper|she's not happy if she's not pissed about something]], Nathaniel, [[The Load|who has no real will of his own]] and Asher who still bears physical, mental and emotional scars from [[Cosmic Plaything|pretty much everything]].

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

* [[Too Many Love Interests]]: Let's see, there's Jean Claude, Richard, Jason, Nathaniel, Micah...

* [[The Unmasqued World]]: While vampires officially "outed" themselves some time ago, the world clearly has a long history of the masquerade taking a hit or being thin in some areas.

* [[Unwanted Harem]]: Anita's stated preference is monogamy, but the [[Writer On Board|plot]] '''will not let her''' just pick one boyfriend. Heck, she has to [[Too Many Love Interests|sleep with everyone around her, period]]. Or else everyone included in the harem, Anita included, dies.

* [[Urban Fantasy]]

* [[US Marshal]]: Anita is one, and she waves the badge every time she has half a chance.

** Pretty much every time Anita has sex with someone because of the ''ardeur'', it's stated she doesn't want to have sex with them. Rape by ''ardeur'', even on the wielder as well as the meal, is still rape.

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

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Anita will occasionally get called on some of her bullshit, and she'll even, very rarely, acknowledge the validity of these criticisms. [[Aesop Amnesia|And then, by the next book, it's like the conversation never happened]].

* [[Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?]]: Anita often wonders about this trope in regard to Edward, who has shown up with derringers, tiny throwing knives, flamethrowers, homemade vampire killing bullets, etc. The question is answered initially because his legal alter ego is Ted Forrester, a bounty hunter, but Anita still maintains that Edward is just secretly Batman but with lethal force.