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Started life as a [[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]] fanfic called [http://www.epubbud.com/read.php?g=RTHUKGUX&p=1 "Master of the Universe".] Basically, same characters, but less vampire, more sex. Then, the character names were changed from Edward Cullen and Bella Swan to Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele, and now it is not a fanfic but legit fic for sale.

[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/16/50-shades-of-grey-speed-read-14-naughtiest-bits.html "...reimagine<nowiki>[s]</nowiki> the Bella and Edward love affair set in contemporary Seattle, Washington with Bella as the young college graduate virgin and Edward as the masterful billionaire with secret sexual predilections."]

=== Tropes used: ===
* [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]]: Subverted.
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Literally. Almost all women in the series are attracted to Christian. Those who aren't are related or lesbians.
* [[All Women are Doms, All Men are Subs]]: Averted, for once.
* [[Amicable Exes]]
* [[Analogy Backfire]]: Ana compares herself to Tess Durbeyfield and Icarus. Both times ignoring the part where those two characters die.
* [[Anticlimax]]
* [[Attempted Rape]]
* [[Blondes Are Unpleasant]]
* [[Cool Car]]
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Christian Grey. Had an abusive childhood. Refers to his mother as [[Son of a Whore|"Crack whore".]]
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: BDSM and psychology are the most glaringly obvious examples, but there are other errors too.
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Both Christian and Ana.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]
* [[Double Entendre]]
* [[Double Standard]]
* [[Drama Queen]]: Anastasia.
* [[Expy]]: A lot of characters are similar to their original Twilight templates, with some characteristic of movie actors mixed in: Ana is a clumsy virgin who bites her lip a lot and has an absent-minded mother. Christian is an orphan adopted into a rich family, one of his adoptive parents is a doctor, he plays piano and has a brother and a sister {{spoiler|whom Kate and Ethan Kavanagh, blonde siblings, hook up with respectively}}. Etc ad nauseam.
* [[Food Porn]]
* [[Freudian Excuse]]/[[Single-Issue Psychology]]: Christian
* [[I Can Change My Beloved]]: Eventually switches to nauseating [[Love Redeems]], without any real reason.
* [[Love Martyr]]: Anastasia.
* [[The Ingenue]]: Anastasia Steele. Twenty-one, naive, and so virginal she never even masturbated before meeting Christian Grey.
* [[Mills and Boon Prose]]
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Jack Hyde.
* [[Mommy Issues]]: Christian. {{spoiler|He chooses subs that look like his mother so he could beat them.}}
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Jack Hyde.
* [[Parental Neglect]]: Christian. [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on whether it's two times around.
* [[Pimped-Out Car]]: And a Pimped Out Helicopter, too.
* [[Porn Stash]]: Homemade, at that.
* [[Purple Prose]]: ''You beguile me, Christian. Completely overwhelm me. I feel like Icarus flying too close to the sun.''
* [[Self-Plagiarism]]: First book matches the first third of the fanfic 89%.
* [[Therapy Is for the Weak]]: Christian seems to think so. So does his adoptive family, probably. Seeing as they adopted a deeply traumatised child and never bothered to seek professional help. There is a psychiatrist, but he is only there for exposition.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?]]
* [[Yandere]]: Leila, Christian's ex-sub.
* [[You Keep Using That Word]]: If you drank every time the inner goddess is mentioned, you'd be dead before the first third of the book.

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