Invisible Man (novel): Difference between revisions

* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: Sybil, you were raped by Santa Claus. Surprise!

* [[Dark Messiah]]: Ras the Exhorter, later known as Ras [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|the Destroyer]] is almost a deconstruction of this--he thinks he's a grand leader, but he's really just a fat, absurd fellow whom the [[Powers That Be]] have no trouble manipulating.

* [[Driven to Madness]]: {{spoiler|By the end/beginning, the protagonist is siphoning electricity just so that he can turn on a bunch of scavenged lights to feel good, and taking full advantage of his "invisibility."}}

* [[Dumbass No More]]: The end/beginning.

* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Many speeches given to the main character can be interpreted this way.

* [[I Am What I Am]]

* [[Invisible Jerkass]]: The protagonist considers himself this. Not literally invisible, but socially invisible and thus able to evade the police after assaulting a man.

* [[Lady in Red]]: The woman who seduces the narrator.

* [[Love Freak]]: the main character fluctuates between this and [[The Messiah]], but is ultimately more the former than the latter. Also something of a [[Pollyanna]] and a [[Horrible Judge of Character]], and has elements of [[The Fool]], but he's more of a [[Butt Monkey]] than that makes him sound. We might as well call him an [[Idiot Hero]], too. Need it be stated that he's a [[Wide Eyed Idealist]]?

* [[No Name Given]]: if a complex character is introduced before their personality is fully explained, they're often not given a full name until we learn their true nature. Some characters go without a name throughout (most notably the narrator, who doesn't quite understand himself.) This is also used with such characters as the Founder to show that [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]].

* [[Not So Harmless]]: Ras may be an idiot, but he's handy with that spear of his.

* [[Parental Incest]]: The main character runs across a man who got his wife and daughter pregnant at the same time. This leads him to disaster.

* [[Path of Inspiration]]: {{spoiler|if it's possible to have a secular one, the Brotherhood is this in spades. Even the lower-ranking officials don't realize just how much the organization focuses on gaining power, and how little its highest-ranking members really care about helping the poor and downtrodden.}}

* [[Powder Keg Crowd]]: one of the main character's few skills is to manipulate these. Ras can do so too.

* [[Seemingly Wholesome Fifties Girl]]: Sybil is a funny case in that she would qualify as [[The Ingenue]] if it weren't for her rape fantasies. (As the victim, mind you, not the rapist--she's utterly smothered by her life, and wants something wild.)

* [[Stepford Smiler]]: hoo boy. There are ''so'' many black characters to whom this applies, and an awful lot of the Brotherhood fits it too.

* [[Take That]]: to Horatio Alger, among others.

* [[Upperclass Twit]]: Sybil, among others.

* [[Who Would Be Stupid Enough]]: How Bledsoe feels about the main character.

 

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