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** As does Childermass.
* [[Deadly Decadent Court]]: Lost-hope, and most of Faerie by extension.
* [[Deal Withwith the Devil]]: Norrell makes a deal with the Gentleman to bring Lady Pole back from the dead in exchange for half the remaining years of her restored life. What he doesn't realize, is that [[Literal Genie|the Gentleman will take that time at present by imprisoning her in his Kingdom during the night rather than off the end of her life as Norrell assumes.]]
* [[Disc One Final Boss]]: The French army and eventually {{spoiler|Norrell}} for Jonathan Strange.
* [[Doorstopper]]: Don't drop the hardcover version of this book on your foot.
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* [[I Have Many Names]]: The Raven King, aka John Uskglass, aka the Black King of the North, aka "the nameless slave" (ironically), etc. This actually figures into the plot when {{spoiler|Strange and Norrell try to magically locate the Raven King but can't figure out which name to use in the spell.}}
** Norrell speculates {{spoiler|that The Raven King did this on purpose, because names are such an important part of magic. Without his true name, it gets difficult to do anything related to the person you're trying to target ... something that Strange and Norrell experience first-hand.}}
* [[I Know Your True Name]]: [[Playing Withwith a Trope|Played with.]] {{spoiler|The end of the book is the result of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell thinking that they have figured out the Raven King's true name but being wrong.}}
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Given that Norrell knows all too well the danger of consorting with fairies and ought to expect them to be [[Literal Genie|LiteralGenies]] who run on [[Exact Words]], he's very prone to forgetting this [[Contractual Genre Blindness|when the plot requires]].
** {{spoiler|He didn't forget, he was desperate and pushed into making a deal when he normally would never work with faeries. Also he was on the lookout for [[Literal Genie]] tricks and just wasn't talented enough to spot it.}}
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* [[X Meets Y]]: The book has been described as "J.R.R. Tolkien meets [[Jane Austen]]", "[[Harry Potter]] for Adults", or "Harry Potter for History Buffs".
* [[Xanatos Roulette]]: The Raven King, and how! {{spoiler|According to Vinculus, the events of the entire book were orchestrated by him}}, he's able to run three countries at the same time, and he has enough magical power to rival Satan himself explicitly including spells to foretell the future.
* [[A Year and Aa Day]]: The Raven King vanished for that long, once.
 
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