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* [[Gentleman Wizard]]: Uncle Aloysius.
* [[Growing Up Sucks]]: Played with. Courtney was never very innocent and is more perceptive than most adults, but she is realizing how complicated being an adult really is.
* [[Half -Human Hybrid]]: Skarrow used to be a boy but was turned into a Night Thing by the Dreadful Duchess. later, we see that she made onother one, probably the baby Courtney was previously baby-sitting.
* [[Haunted House]]: Courtney's friend is living in one. {{spoiler|It's his mother's ghost.}}
* [[Humans Are Special]]: even if Human activity drove him and his subjects underground, the Twilight King is not willing to retaliate and acknowledges human mastery of the surface world.
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* [[I See Dead People]]: Courtney can see ghosts as a consequence of being magical.
* [[It Gets Easier]]: Not quite yet, but Courtney shows surprisingly little remorse over her most morally repugnant actions. {{spoiler|That is, ressurecting Tommy to kill for her.}}
* [[Jade -Colored Glasses]]: Aloysius, especially in light of hints that he was as idealistic as Courtney when younger.
* [[Kids Are Cruel]]
* [[Kid With the Leash]]: Courtney has Butterworm under her orders thanks to a magic ritual.
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* [[Mysterious Past]]: We still only know so much about Aloysius Crumrin and his bad history with the Coven of Mystics.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Courtney herself is becoming one.
* [[Nightmare Fuel StationattendantStation Attendant]]: Butterworm makes the opening and closing narration in a casual and even cheerful way (again, it's Butterworm...)
* [[The Noseless]]
* [[Obfuscating Disability]]: Aloysius is perfectly sound physically and mentally and doesn't need Courtney's parents to take care of him. He just tolerates them because they make his house less menacing and noteworthy.
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* [[Upperclass Twit]]: Courtney's parents. Or at least this is what they aspire to be, which is probably even sadder.
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: One issue deals with a monster immune to curses famed for killing magic-users. What can defeat such a fearsome creature?... Turns out [[Boring but Practical|normal weapons]] work just fine.
* [[Well -Intentioned Extremist]]: the Marshall's successor and former assistant.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: When Courtney and her uncle are on holiday in Europe, Courtney finds herself drawn to the company of a young vampire and starts to find the idea of dying with him to be appealing, since she's tired of everyone she knows dying or leaving her. When her uncle discovers that the vampire has been drinking her blood, he is confused as to how a vampire could get the better of his niece, who is plenty proficient in the use of magic. The owner of the hotel they are staying at promptly tells him off for failing to consider the fact that Courtney is a young girl who had to grow up fast and was thus vulnerable in ways that he was ignoring.
** Courtney gets this herself a couple of times, related to her possibly excessive revenge against {{spoiler|Hector}}. She even wonders herself if it was really justified or if she had less extreme options.
* [[When She Smiles]]: Courtney almost never does this. So when she does, she really means it.
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