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A series of [[Steampunk]]-[[Fantasy]] novels by Alan Campbell, previously a member of the team who created the ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' games.
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The ''Deepgate Codex'' series has four installments upon its conclusion this year: the three main books ''Scar Night'', ''Iron Angel'', and ''God of Clocks'', as well as the novella ''Lye Street'', which explores a bit of Carnival's past and introduces the Greene family. Interviews with the author can be found [http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780553384161&view=auqa here] and [http://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com/2008/04/interview-with-alan-campbell.html here]. It has a [[Deepgate Codex/Awesome|CMOA page]], as it should.
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: {{spoiler|Rachel}}'s dad neglected her, sometimes intentionally and sometimes not. Poor {{spoiler|Carnival}} got ''holy shit'' levels of abuse from her father.
* [[Affably Evil]]: Devon, until he goes and [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|jumps off the slippery slope]].
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* [[Alternate Universe]]: The {{spoiler|time schisms}} are responsible for several of these. We see glimpses of a few of them. {{spoiler|The main timeline of the series seems to be the canon one, but there are several other happy worlds that will probably last as [[Alternate Continuity]] fragments. This editor has hopes for the one other world where Carnival has a happy (and in this case, ''normal'') life.}}
* [[And I Must Scream]]: The Soft Men. [[Nightmare Fuel|Eurgh.]]
* [[Animesque]]: It's near impossible for anyone familiar with anime or video game tropes not to imagine how easily these novels could be adapted to either format.
* [[Anticlimax Boss]]: {{spoiler|Ulcis}}. [[Complete Monster|Not that we care, though]].
** Also {{spoiler|Cospinol}} and {{spoiler|Menoa}} and... hell, just about everyone who {{spoiler|pisses Carnival off to that degree}}.
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* [[Bad End]]: We're allowed to see one.
* [[Beautiful All Along]]: Dill and Rachel make a habit of noticing {{spoiler|Carnival's}} inner and outer beauty at seemingly random times throughout ''Scar Night''.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Carnival once hunted a man's descendants ''for [[Disproportionate Retribution|five hundred years]]'' {{spoiler|because he raped a girl; she was [[Driven to Suicide]], and Carnival found her body (and diary)}}. This is a bit excessive [[Hair-Trigger Temper|even for her]]... {{spoiler|but then again, [[Rape
* [[Berserker Tears]]: Carnival, in the tower fight at the end of ''Lye Street''/beginning of ''Scar Night''.
* [[Blood Magic]]: {{spoiler|Angelwine}} is made from the blood of 13 people. (Blood is commonly referred to as 'soul' in the book; bodies drained of blood do not get to join Ulcis's army. This is what drives the B plot in ''Scar Night''.) An injection of it is sufficient to bring {{spoiler|Dill}} ''back to life''. Though granted it does seem to work a bit differently for angels and humans. Humans it makes functionally immortal. {{spoiler|Poor Carnival}} needs it, but has to get her fix by draining someone's blood once a month. Her body is covered in scars {{spoiler|gouged into her body as repentance after each kill.}}
* [[Body Horror]]: {{spoiler|Alice.}}
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: John Anchor. Also Hasp, to some degree.
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* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Most of the cast, although Carnival is particularly notorious for it.
* [[Comic Relief]]: The Soft Men.
* [[Completely Different Title]]: the Italian editions of the three books are title "Il Raccoglitore d'Anime" ("The Harvester of Souls"), "Il Dio delle Nebbie" ("The God of Mists") and "Il Dio delle Anime" ("The God of Souls"); and while the first two ones are at least somewhat related to their plots, the last one... is not.
* [[Complete Monster]]: {{spoiler|Ulcis.}}
* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Rachel, once she takes a liking to Dill.
* [[Crapsack World]] / [[World Half Empty]]: And ''how.'' [[God Is Evil]] and the in-world equivalent of Satan is trying to destroy all life so he can bend it to his will? Yep.
* [[Crazy Awesome]]: Carnival, Mina, Hasp--just about everyone of the [[True Companions]], actually. Some quite often.
* [[Creepy Child]]: Ilsa.
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* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: Carnival is a walking, snarking [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|CMOA]].
* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]: Usually there's at least one per book, and some of them (like this one) overlap with "Crowning Moment of Heart''breaking.''"
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** ...Oh God, [[Tear Jerker|there's something in my eye]].
* [[Cry Cute]]: {{spoiler|Carnival}}. If it doesn't make your heart hurt, you probably don't have one.
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Carnival versus John Anchor. Especially notable in that it was Carnival's only appearance in the second book.
* [[Dead to Begin With]]: Alice.
* [[Deal
** Alice Harper, and need we mention just about every one of the Mesmerists?
* [[Death
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Rachel.
* [[Disc One Final Boss]]: {{spoiler|Ayen and Menoa, in the final trip through time}}.
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* [[Jade-Colored Glasses]]: Rachel.
* [[Jerkass Facade]]: Carnival tries to keep this up after ''Scar Night''... but no one is really fooled for long, if at all.
* [[Jerk
* [[The Juggernaut]]: Carnival and John Anchor both qualify (and Anchor is even a traditional example). If you plan to fight one of them, you'll need a highly trained, massive army--or another [[The Juggernaut|juggernaut]].
* [[Kaleidoscope Eyes]]: Dill (and all angels). Carnival's eyes supposedly do this, but so far in the books, they've only ever been [[Black Eyes|black]] (killing rage), [[Gray Eyes|dark gray]], and now {{spoiler|[[Blue Eyes|blue]]}} in ''God of Clocks''.
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* [[Long Bus Trip]]: {{spoiler|Mr. Nettle}}, who is never seen again after the end of ''Scar Night'' though he survived it.
* [[Long-Lost Relative]]: {{spoiler|John Anchor and the slave boy Maybe John}}.
* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]: Devon and Mr. Nettle
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: {{spoiler|Ulcis is the father of Carnival}}.
* [[Magic A Is Magic A]]: Thaumaturgy.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Carnival. {{spoiler|And it's more like a meaningful ''nickname''.}}
** John ''[[Exactly What It Says
* [[Mind Screw]]: ''Iron Angel'' takes more than one readthrough to understand properly. Although this is partly to blame on the way Campbell sucker-punches his readers a third of the way through...
** ''God of Clocks'' is just as bad, if not worse, because of the time schism aspects. This is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] thoroughly by Rachel.
* [[Moe]]: Carnival. ''Ye gods,'' she's adorable.
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|Ulcis}} in the first book; {{spoiler|Menoa}} in the second.
* [[Never Mess
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: We're looking at ''YOU,'' Rys.
** There's also {{spoiler|Carnival, who kills Ulcis and leaves a portal to Hell completely unguarded, thus dooming Deepgate and the entire continent it's on to the attentions of the Mesmerist armies}}.
* [[Non-Action Guy]]: Dill, until he receives some shiny [[Took a Level
* [[Not a Morning Person]]: In a macabre variant, right after Carnival refreshes her life by draining someone's blood, she can usually be found staggering around in a daze, not really comprehending what's going on around her and unable to remember very much. She's ''very'' much Not A Rebirth Person.
* [[The Obi-Wan]]: Hasp.
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* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: Carnival, so goddamn much--just look at her other tropes on this page!
** She frightened off {{spoiler|a river! That was essentially a young god. That had no true physical form and for all intents and purposes could not be killed or even harmed.}}.
** John Anchor has this as his [[Running Gag]], either due to his [[Juggernaut]] nature or because [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Plucky Girl]]: Mina and Carnival.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Inverted with Carnival, who swears so much that any sentence that isn't punctuated with curses tends to grab the attention of anyone nearby.
** Dill plays it straight hilariously in the beginning of ''Scar Night'', though:
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* [[Protectorate]]: If you value your life, you ''do not'' threaten Carnival's [[True Companions]].
* [[Punch-Punch-Punch Uh-Oh]]: Any situation where anyone fights John Anchor in ''Iron Angel''.
* [[Rape
* [[Reality Warper]]: Menoa.
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Carnival is slightly less than 3000 years old. {{spoiler|Mina}} is a bit younger than 2000.
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* [[Tomato Surprise]]: {{spoiler|Carnival is no ordinary angel--she's a demi-god, which partially explains her insane strength.}}
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: The doctor who opens his door for a suspicious woman on Scar Night.
* [[Took a Level
** [[Shaggy Dog Story|... and then he proceeds to essentially ''die'' in his very next fight.]]
* [[Triang Relations]]: Rachel, Carnival, and Dill seem to be at point 8. {{spoiler|There's never an [[Official Couple]], and all the ships have at least one big obstruction by the end of ''God of Clocks''.}}
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* [[The Woobie]]: {{spoiler|Carnival.}} Alice is introduced as one in ''Iron Angel'', too, and by the end of the book {{spoiler|Dill}} is also worthy of the title.
* [[The Worf Effect]]: Suffered by {{spoiler|''Carnival'', of all people}} a third of the way through ''Iron Angel''.
** [[Justified Trope|Justified]],however, because it's said straight in the prologue of ''Iron Angel'' that {{spoiler|Anchor}} has absorbed as many souls as those in the Labyrinth ( i.e. Hell). {{spoiler|Carnival}} has drunk many souls but not ''that'' many.
* [[Wrench Wench]]: Alice.
* [[Viewers Are Geniuses]]: Most of the plot can be understood at face value, but a lot of important worldbuilding details are subtextual, especially {{spoiler|all angels having their mothers' souls}}. Of course, the main plot sometimes gets so convoluted that the ''characters themselves'' complain that they don't get what's going on anymore.
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