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{{quote|''"Our friends need our help! Please turn to the time travel section of your Fireside Girls Handbook."'' |
{{quote|''"Our friends need our help! Please turn to the time travel section of your Fireside Girls Handbook."'' |
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|'''Isabella Garcia-Shapiro''', ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''}} |
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The Great Big Book of Everything: The one-stop shop for all your plot needs. [[How Do I Shot Web?|Need information]] about the [[New Super Power|super-power you've just been given]]? On the first page. Want to find the only way to kill the [[Big Bad]]? It has a detailed entry. |
The Great Big Book of Everything: The one-stop shop for all your plot needs. [[How Do I Shot Web?|Need information]] about the [[New Super Power|super-power you've just been given]]? On the first page. Want to find the only way to kill the [[Big Bad]]? It has a detailed entry. |
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Compare with [[Library of Babel]] and [[Tomes of Prophecy and Fate]]. Contrast [[Blank Book]]. |
Compare with [[Library of Babel]] and [[Tomes of Prophecy and Fate]]. Contrast [[Blank Book]]. |
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If it's evil, then it's a [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]]. Supertrope to [[Big Book of War]]. This trope is [[Do-Anything Robot]] in book form - and YOU do the Anything! |
If it's evil, then it's a [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]]. Supertrope to [[Big Book of War]]. This trope is [[Do-Anything Robot]] in book form - and YOU do the Anything! |
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== Anime |
== Anime and Manga == |
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* Yue's power in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' is this, complete with an actual book that finds everything she needs. In ''Negima!?'', Nodoka's "Armor" power has the same ability. |
* Yue's power in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' is this, complete with an actual book that finds everything she needs. In ''Negima!?'', Nodoka's "Armor" power has the same ability. |
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** Material in the manga (vol. 16) reveals that it's actually tapping in a magical 'net, which can be both an advantage and a flaw: Information is always up-to-date, but you risk losing data [[Wikipedia|"arbitrarily deemed of lesser importance"]] |
** Material in the manga (vol. 16) reveals that it's actually tapping in a magical 'net, which can be both an advantage and a flaw: Information is always up-to-date, but you risk losing data [[Wikipedia|"arbitrarily deemed of lesser importance"]] |
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* The Absorbacon in [[Silver Age]] ''[[Hawkman]]'' comics. |
* The Absorbacon in [[Silver Age]] ''[[Hawkman]]'' comics. |
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== Fan |
== Fan Works == |
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* Parodied in the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' fanfic ''[[Those Lacking Spines]]'' with the ever-handy guidebook which contains anything the protagonists need to know about a given world. |
* Parodied in the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' fanfic ''[[Those Lacking Spines]]'' with the ever-handy guidebook which contains anything the protagonists need to know about a given world. |
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* In the ''[[Total Drama Island]]'' fanfic [[Keepers of the Elements]] there are The Elemental Books which contains all sorts of spells which each Keeper along the line either invented or improved upon. |
* In the ''[[Total Drama Island]]'' fanfic ''[[Keepers of the Elements]]'', there are The Elemental Books which contains all sorts of spells which each Keeper along the line either invented or improved upon. |
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