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There have also been several stage adaptations AND an opera adaptation!

* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: averted with Prunesquallor, who is a fifty-something virgin and probably the single most [[Badass]] character in the novels (a [[Badass Bookworm]], no less!). [[Manly Tears]] are shed in many scenes involving him.

* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Prunesquallor.

* [[Appropriated Title]]: ''In''appropriately appropriated - the focus of the series was Titus Groan, title character of the first book, not Gormenghast, the childhood home that he departed from two books into [[Author Existence Failure|what should have been]] a much longer series.

* [[Asshole Victim]]: Most people in Gormenghast are complete and utter tools. Steerpike kills a lot of people. Do the math.

* [[Author Existence Failure]]: Peake was planning on a cycle of seven novels, but contracted Parkinson's Disease, which aggravated his emotional and mental instability, before writing the third and died after finishing only one chapter of ''Titus Awakes'', which would have been the fourth.

** The omnibus edition ends with a ''list of the tropes Peake intended to use later on'' (although not referred to by [[Wiki Word]], of course) and the words "what these books could have been." This was, for him, the biggest [[Tear Jerker]] of the whole damn series.