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* [[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.
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* [[The Gods Must Be Lazy]]: Or in [[God]]'s case, {{spoiler|zonked out on his own Divine Presence.}}
* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: Lucifer sent Lilah to [[Go Seduce My Arch
* [[Go Seduce My Arch
* [[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.
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** Despite getting a fair amount of screentime, Orb's bandmates in ''Being a Green Mother'' are only ever referred to as "the guitarist", "the drummer", etc.
* [[Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep]]: In ''On A Pale Horse'', Death decides to read his mail against the advice of his household staff, and one of the letters is from a girl who is afraid that she'll die in her sleep because her mother makes her recite this prayer before going to bed.
* [[Now Its My Turn]]: When Cedric confronts four drunk college students who were attempting to rape Niobe, he deliberately allows them to strike him first, [[Punch
* [[Omniglot]]: The previous Mars before Mym.
* [[One Degree of Separation]]: Everyone's related! [[Justified Trope|Justified]] by the [[Gambit Pileup]] revealed in the later books.
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* [[Satan Is Good]]: The sixth book's entire premise. ([[Necessarily Evil|Sort of.]])
* [[Sapient Steed]]: Mortis.
* [[Self
** Becomes a bit of a [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]], or possibly some variety of [[Take That]] at faith, when you realize that this means, as far as the universe of the books go, that those who believe will have to suffer for their sins... some intentional, many not... while atheists can be as evil as they want to be without any post-death repercussions.
** 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.
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*** In fact most of Chronos' job seems to be helping the other Incarnations out when they need to fiddle with some matter of time or another. He does his other main job, making sure time, y'know, ''exists'', just by being in office.
*** As, in fact, do most of the Incarnations. They make sure problems and important jobs are dealt with, and the small things happen automatically.
* [[To Hell and Back]]: After Cedric sacrifices himself to save Niobe, Niobe travels to Purgatory in an attempt to make a deal with death and bring her husband back to life, even if it means she must [[Take Me Instead!|die in his place]]. Sadly, Death is not convinced that her "but I love him!" argument outweighs the fact that Niobe's survival is crucial to the betterment of mankind.
** ''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.
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* [[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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* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: By the end, things end up arranged so that Satan gets what he wanted regardless of whether Good or Evil ends up in charge of the world. {{spoiler|If Good wins, God gets replaced by someone who is going to do the job properly. If Evil wins, Satan gets to take over. Either way, Hell stops getting souls who don't deserve to be there.}}
* [[You Kill It, You Bought It]]: The office of Death is transferred this way. This is also one of the ways the office of Evil can be transferred.
* [[You Must Be Cold]]: Death gives Luna his cloak once.
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