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* [[Fox Chicken Grain Puzzle]]: Presented as a Demon-Rapist-Girl Puzzle, with three women and three demons, and if the demons outnumber the women at any point they'll be raped.
* [[Gambit Pileup]]: Satan, various Fates, Norton as Chronos, Nox, and the Archangel Gabriel have all set up [[Plan|plans]] and [[Gambit Roulette|Roulettes]], some hundreds of years long, to manipulate each other, the other Incarnations, and any mortal who might be useful in the final conflict, until everything finally comes crashing together in And Eternity. {{spoiler|Subverted in the end, everyone won. And I mean everyone. Except Erebus, but who cares about him, anyway?}}
* [[Gender Bender]]: Orlene getting temporarily turned into a man as described in [[I'm a Man, I Can't Help It]] below. There's also Nicolai turning into a woman when he becomes an aspect of Fate.
* [[God Job]]: How the Incarnations work.
* [[Gods Hands Are Tied]]: The fact that Satan's agents frequently interfere in the mortal world, while God apparently does nothing, is initially attributed to God and the Devil having made an agreement to leave the mortal world alone, which the Devil of course immediately broke but God still keeps. (This eventually turns out not to be true, but it's initially portrayed as a straight example of the trope.)
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* [[The Greatest Story Never Told]]: Satan prevents Hitler's rise to power, and only JHVH and himself remembers this.
* [[The Grim Reaper]]: Subverted, as it's only a costume Thanatos wears.
* [[Have You Seen My God?]]: The Christian God, who is the current Incarnation of Good, is inattentive because {{spoiler|He is contemplating His own goodness to the exclusion of all else. In ''...and Eternity'', He is impeached and replaced by a new God.}}
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* [[The Hecate Sisters]]: Fate
* [[High Heel Face Turn]]: Lilah, ''twice''.
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* [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse]]: The Incarnation Of War is accompanied by Famine, Conquest, Slaughter, and Pestilence.
** The Incarnation Of Death, of course. The first book lampshades it with it's title being a paraphrase of the bible: Death rides ''"On a pale horse"''.
* [[I Hate You, Vampire Dad]]: Plays a ''major'' role in the events of ''Under a Velvet Cloak'', which leads to all the Incarnations being affected in some way.
* [[I'm a Man, I Can't Help It]]: In ''And Eternity'', Orlene is transformed into a man and immediately becomes an aggressive, misogynistic, testosterone-charged boor, attempting to rape her friend Jolie. Upon having her female form restored, she and Jolie are horrified and conclude that "Men have passions that women do not", and that the reason all men are not constantly overwhelmed with violent lust is that "they have learned control".
** Possibly subverted, as both Orlene and Jolie were transformed into a ''specific'' man (the grown version of Orlene's child) to show what his genetic affliction would do to him.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Because {{spoiler|Orlene}} is a ghost when she assumes the Office of Good, Vita points out that this makes her a Holy Ghost.
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* [[Pretty in Mink]]: An heiress in the beginning of the first book.
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: Satan, particularly as characterized in the later books, is just doing a dirty but necessary job in tempting humans to sin and punishing the guilty. Most of his predecessors really ''were'' genuinely evil, leading to some really ugly [[All of the Other Reindeer|office politics]] before {{spoiler|Orlene becomes Goddess and patches things up.}}
* [[Retcon]]: Satan in the first four books appeared to be pure, irredeemable evil. In the fifth book, he gets cast more sympathetically, and after that he's a [[Necessarily Evil]] [[Punch Clock Villain|Punch Clock]] [[Anti
** Similarly, the succubus "Lila" sent to seduce Mars in book 4 turns out to be much more than a low-ranking [[Horny Devil]]: she was "Lilah", the same succubus that turned Parry to evil, and was also the "Lilith" of folklore who rejected Adam because he refused to acknowledge her as an equal.
* [[Runaway Fiance]]: Asian Clotho in With A Tangled Skein; she runs away from her strict family because she doesn't like the husband they have chosen for her.
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* [[Sapient Steed]]: Mortis.
* [[Self Inflicted Hell]]: A person's faith determines what afterlife it gets. Atheist souls disintegrate upon death.
** Becomes a bit of a [[Family
** On the other hand, atheists ''[[Cessation of Existence|disintegrate]]''. But that's what they're expecting, they don't consider it any kind of punishment or bad thing.
** {{spoiler|It is this system that Satan is opposing through the sixth and seventh books.}}
* [[Sequel Gap]]: ''Under A Velvet Cloak'' was published seventeen years after the previous book.
* [[Signs of the End Times]]: Plague, earthquakes, floods, and volcanic eruptions are all the result of singing the Llano of Chaos, which ends all living things within weeks of it being sung. Although one could argue that these are less ''signs'' of the end and more the ''cause''.
* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: The succubus "Lilah" goes by slightly different names at different points in the series, changing it depending on the persona she is assuming at the time.
* [[Sympathetic POV]]: The sixth book.
* [[Tangled Family Tree]]: A mild one as things go, but the Kaftan family still has to deal with time travel, prophecies, and temporary agelessness, leading to Niobe's daughter and first granddaughter being born about the same time, and Niobe herself screwing her second granddaughter's affair from the future. Come to think of it, we should be very grateful that Incarnations can't reproduce.
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** ''All'' the Incarnations visit Hell at some point in their careers. Usually it's a trap, sometimes it's just to negotiate.
* [[Twelve Coins Puzzle]]: Featured in the third book.
* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: Zane, while not exactly ugly, is average at best, while Luna is one of the most beautiful women of her generation. Zane was also destined to marry a comparably beautiful and rich woman before a shady salesman tricked him into giving up this destiny.
* [[Vapor Wear]]: Gaea (the one before Orb) and Lilah. Gaea because she [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|doesn't really see the point in clothing]], Lilah because she's [[Horny Devils|a succubus]].
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Satan in ''Wielding A Red Sword'' when {{spoiler|Mars threatens to start World War III and the Apocalypse early.}} Satan may have been faking, though.
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