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Started life as a 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[s] 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.?]]

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=== Tropes used:

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• 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 "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 nauseum.

• 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.