Locke and Key: Difference between revisions

* [[Compelling Voice]]: Hello, Music Box Key.

* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: Entire first chapter. Entire first ''book''. And then it gets worse.

* [[Everythings Nuttier With Squirrels]]: In one issue which takes place over the course of a month, Dodge's various attacks on the Lockes are shown as single panels. One of them features an army of sword wielding squirrels. Sadly, the history of the Squirrel Key has yet to be revealed.

* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: Dodge at the beginning of the story. {{spoiler|Erin Voss, later.}}

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: "Black-currents" jelly. Dodge instantly figures it out.

* {{spoiler|[[Infant Immortality]]: Averted with Jay Bird}}

* [[Ironic Echo]]: In the first issue, Tyler looks down in the water and imagines his reflection with outfits appropriate to the other vacation destinations he wants to go to. Later, he looks into the water and sees himself covered in blood, as he was after beating Sam Lesser.

* [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot]]

* [[Mundane Utility]]: Tyler uses the head key to cram his studies. It may have backfired.

** Dodge used the Head Key to become a great fencer, Tyler uses the Hercules Key to kick ass at hockey (and take out some frustrations) and Bode uses the Giant Key to play cars with ''real cars.'' Also in the flashback to the school's production of ''[[The Tempest]],'' the Anywhere Key, Hercules Key, Angel Key and Crown of Shadows were used to put on one ''hell'' of a show.

* [[Our Monsters Are Weird]]: Dodge. And the creatures from the characters' heads, removed by the Head Key. Not surprising, when you remember that [[Stephen King|Joe Hill's Dad]] is the poster boy for this trope in literature.

* [[Owl Be Damned]]: Dodge sends a metal owl monster after the Lockes at one point.

* [[Sequel Hook]]: {{spoiler|Dodge's escape and Bode finding the Head Key, and the [[Reveal]] about the Toy soldiers. Arguably, Kinsey removing her fears may also count as this}}.

* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: {{spoiler|Sam's ultimate fate at the end of ''Keys to the Kingdom'' make his story an example of this.}}

** Not necessarily a shoutout, the name appears to read {{spoiler|Ellie Whedon}} to this troper, one of Rendall's {{spoiler|(and Dodge's)}} friends.

** Tyler is shown reading ''[[Peter Pan]]'' to bode in ''Crown Of Shadows''.

* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: "Wait'll you get a load of how I plan to say goodbye, bitch." and "I can't wait to climb down from here and get large on you, bitch." With a cast full of high schoolers, it was inevitable.

* [[Tonight Someone Dies]]: Turns out it's {{spoiler|one of Rufus' action figures.}}

* [[Winged Humanoid]]: The Angel Key.

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: [[Played With]]; Dodge {{spoiler|kills Sam because of this, but then it turns out he was using Sam to try and find the Omega Key}}.