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=== Tropes found in [[Chuck Palahniuk]]'s work include: ===
* [[Anachronic Order]] - Common in many of his novels, but probably most prominent in ''[[Invisible Monsters (Literature)|Invisible Monsters]]''.
* [[Anti
* [[Arc Words]] - When he uses them, he refers to them as "choruses".
** And what might be considered an arc ''color''. All of his books have a passing reference to cornflower blue.
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* [[Evilutionary Biologist]]
* [[Fight Clubbing]] - He wrote the book on it.
* [[
** Especially Victor Mancini in ''[[Choke]]''.
** But not ''[[Pygmy]]''.
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* [[How We Got Here]] - ''[[Fight Club (Literature)|Fight Club]]'', ''Survivor'', ''[[Invisible Monsters (Literature)|Invisible Monsters]]'' and ''[[Lullaby]]''.
* [[Minimalism]]: His whole style is based around this.
* [[Money, Dear Boy]] - Palahniuk's explanation for the execrable [[Fight Club]] video game. To quote: "They can do whatever they want with my book as long as the fucking check clears."
* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]
* [[Nightmare Face]] - The protagonist of ''[[Invisible Monsters (Literature)|Invisible Monsters]]''. One look at this [http://chuckpalahniuk.net/files/images/news/invisible-monsters-xander-lg.jpg fan-made image] (NSFW and very disturbing) should tell you why people are so damn afraid of her.
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* [[One Word Title]] - Most of his novels.
* [[Parallel Porn Titles]] - ''Snuff'' includes a '''hurricane''' of them.
* [[Perky Goth]] - He coined the term "Suicide Girl" to describe this type of woman hanging around Portland, OR. Then [[Rule
* [[Reality Subtext]] - He wrote ''[[Lullaby]]'' to cope with his decision of whether his father's murderer should get the death sentence. ''Lullaby'''s probably one of his saddest works.
** His upcoming novel ''Damned'' was written to deal with his mother's death, too.
* [[Ripped
* [[Shout Out]] - A young repressed gay character named Trevor is killed by the titular Pygmy in Palahniuk's 2009 novel. This is a shout out to ''Survivor'', where a young gay character named Trevor kills himself after being encouraged to do so by Tender Branson.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: The research he carries out for his novels is thorough, to say the least. A friend of his recounted an incidence in which Palahniuk read an entire book on serial killers, the information from which ended up being used on ''one page'' of a novel he was working on.
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