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* [[Beautiful All Along]]: Sophie never saw herself as pretty. It takes a curse and the building up of her confidence to make her see that she is.
** She knew she was pretty, but her sisters were prettier.
* [[Big Bad]]: The Witch of the Waste, whose curse on Sophie kickstarts the events of the novel. She is a threat throughout the entire novel, and Howl takes many measures to keep her away. The witch's threat grows stronger as the book goes on.
* [[But for Me It Was Tuesday]]: Subverted. Sophie thinks she can just walk by the Witch of the Waste because the witch has probably cursed so many people that she won't even remember Sophie. [[It Got Worse|It doesn't work]].
* [[Can't Live Without You]]: If Calcifer dies, so does Howl.
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* [[Handsome Lech]]: Howl, before he falls for Sophie.
** Subverted: {{spoiler|Howl falls for Sophie the first time he sees her, but he maintains the appearance of being a [[Handsome Lech]] while he's actually just trying to find out more about Sophie from her sister.}}
* [[Happily Ever After]]: Lampshaded: {{quote|''Howl said, "I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought she meant it. Sophie knew that living happily ever after with Howl would be a good deal more eventful than any story would make it sound, though she was determined to try.''}}
* [[In Which a Trope Is Described]]: The chapters of the book are named like this. For example, the first chapter is called ''In Which Sophie Talks to Hats'' and the sixth ''In Which Howl Expresses His Feelings with Green Slime''.
* [[Invisible Wall]]: An invisible wall stops Sophie from entering Howl's castle, preventing her hand from touching the front door of the castle. At this, Sophie tries to go for the back door, where she finds ''another'' invisible wall.
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* [[Narrative Profanity Filter]]: Occurs when Sophie is trying to get into Howl's castle. {{quote|''At this, Sophie said a word she had learned from Martha, that neither old ladies nor young girls are supposed to know...''}}
* [[Nice Hat]]: Given Sophie's job, it's only natural a few would show up.
* [[No Ontological Inertia]]: {{spoiler|When the Witch of the Waste's heart is crushed, all of her curses are undone. Sophie is back to her younger self, and Prince Justin and Wizard Suliman are back to normal.}}
* [[One Degree of Separation]]: In the book, Sophie eventually learns that ''every single'' encounter she's had after the first few pages and ''everything'' that's happened to her {{spoiler|has been directly caused by Howl's actions. This only reason this isn't [[The Chessmaster|Chessmastering]] is that while Howl had the prerequisite knowledge, he's actually been}} [[Indy Ploy|pretty much winging it]] instead.
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: The King of Ingary.
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