Fablehaven: Difference between revisions

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** The Fairy Queen sometimes qualifies, at least in her benevolent moods.

* [[Bishonen]]: In book 5, ''Bracken.'' Tall, willowy, and with tons of [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|beautiful silvery-white hair.]]

* [[Bigger On the Inside]]: The knapsack in Book 4.

* [[Bigger on the Inside]]: The knapsack in Book 4.

* [[Brown Note]]: Dragons are so awesome, most people get mesmerized just by ''looking'' at them. {{spoiler|Raxtus}} is an exception, but he self-identifies as "lame."

* [[Casual Danger Dialog]]: If anything ever fazes {{spoiler|Warren}}, they haven't yet found it. Even when put up out of comission, he ''still'' tries to help.

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* [[Get It Over With]]: In Grip of the Shadow Plague, when {{spoiler|Patton Burgess}} defeats the centaur Broadhoof in single combat.

* [[Golem]]: Hugo. He initially starts out as just an "earthen automaton," but thanks to the fairies, he actually becomes a (slowly) thinking being.

* [[Go Mad From the Revelation]]: The Oculus does this. It's a lot like [[Indiana Jones and ~~The~~ Kingdom of ~~The~~ Crystal Skull ~~(Film)~~|the Crystal Skull]], when you think about it.

* [[Go Mad From the Revelation]]: The Oculus does this. It's a lot like [[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull|the Crystal Skull]], when you think about it.

* [[Grand Finale]]: While Mull is extremely fond of escalating the stakes in each of his epic fantasy climaxes, the final book manages to leave them all in the dust. And ''every'' major plot thread is tied off neatly.

* Infinity +1 Sword: The Vasilis Sword

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** It should be noted that in cases where family members do not strike them as being Caretaker material, they deliberately make sure the clues will be hidden. Innocence of the existence of magical creatures is (almost) a 100% foolproof way of being protected from them.

* [[Perverse Puppet]]: Mendigo, Muriel's supernaturally strong puppet minion. {{spoiler|After she's gone and her magic fades, he becomes good. But it isn't really a [[Heel Face Turn]], since he has no mind.}}

* [[Red Pill ~~B Lue~~ Pill]]

* [[Red Pill, Blue Pill]]

* [[Sacrificial Lamb]]: {{spoiler|Poor Neil}} and {{spoiler|Dougan...}}

** Book 5, meanwhile, {{spoiler|introduces a whole parcel of characters near the very beginning who get killed just as quickly. Ouch.}}

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* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Kendra's the smart, thoughtful sibling who doesn't like taking risks; Seth's the obnoxious one with more energy than brains. {{spoiler|In the fourth book, it becomes ''literal'' yin yang, as Kendra embodies light by being fairykind and Seth embodies darkness by being a shadow charmer.}}

* [[Sleep Mode Size]]: Olloch the Glutton from the Fablehaven series. To contain him, he was shrunk into a tiny stone statue of himself. If you feed him, he awakens, starts eating anything in his path, and grows at an incredible rate. He only reverts to statue form if he eats the person who fed him (though apparently he doesn't shrink again). At the beginning of the second book, Seth gets tricked into feeding Olloch, who eventually catches up with him and swallows him. Fortunately, at the time he gets eaten, Seth is wearing an impenetrable cocoon, so Olloch reverts to statue form and Seth passes through the digestive system and escapes with his life.

* [[Spanner in ~~The~~ Works]]: {{spoiler|The Sphinx}} had an unstoppable plan, with every contingency planned, against which the heroes were powerless - except that they never anticipated that Seth would inadvertently {{spoiler|free the demon Graulas}}, causing them to lose control of the plan.

* [[Spanner in the Works]]: {{spoiler|The Sphinx}} had an unstoppable plan, with every contingency planned, against which the heroes were powerless - except that they never anticipated that Seth would inadvertently {{spoiler|free the demon Graulas}}, causing them to lose control of the plan.

* [[Stable Time Loop]]: {{spoiler|The Chronometer from Book 3, temporarily bringing Patton Burgess into the present day--which leads him to [[Write Back to ~~The~~ Future]]. This also allows the characters to visit him in the past a few times in book 5.}}

* [[Stable Time Loop]]: {{spoiler|The Chronometer from Book 3, temporarily bringing Patton Burgess into the present day--which leads him to [[Write Back to the Future]]. This also allows the characters to visit him in the past a few times in book 5.}}

* [[Surprise Creepy]]: [[Covers Always Lie|Damn kid-friendly covers.]]

* [[Surveillance As the Plot Demands]]: You never know when the Society is spying on you. {{spoiler|They eventually gain the Oculus, which ''literally'' lets them see anything.}}

* [[Surveillance as the Plot Demands]]: You never know when the Society is spying on you. {{spoiler|They eventually gain the Oculus, which ''literally'' lets them see anything.}}

* [[Taken for Granite]]: Happens several times. Dale is briefly turned into a life-sized lead statue. Olloch the Glutton is also trapped as a statue until someone feeds him. When he eats that person, he reverts back to statue form.

* [[Those Two Guys]]: Just in case things are getting ''too'' angsty, you can count on the satyrs Newel and Doren to pop in to provide a bit of [[Plucky Comic Relief]].