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''Did you ever wonder how?"'' }}
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* [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]: Britannia, mod-goddess of Britpop; herself an aspect of The Goddess (also called The Feminine Principle), who embodies femininity in general.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Do ''not'' do magic at Seth Bingo's club night. Also, don't say [[Girls Aloud]] aren't a real band, or he will destroy every thought you've ever had.
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Almost all of the main cast of The Singles Club. Special mention goes to Laura, however, as she manages to be a [[Deadpan Snarker]] while speaking almost ''exclusively'' via quotes from songs and writers.
* [[Disco Dan]]: The Retromancers.
* [[Do Not Call Me "Paul"]]: Lloyd, who would much rather be known as Mr. Logos. Inverted with his friend Marc, whom everyone calls the Marquis despite his protests.
* [[Hollywood Homely]]: Invoked and lampshaded by Gillen when it comes to Laura Heaven, who is meant to be shorter, slightly fuller-figured and not quite as attractive as Penny B or Emily Aster. Only as Gillen points out, this is a world drawn by Jamie McKelvie, so 'less attractive is relative'.
* [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks]]: Used [[In-Universe]]. Since the cast is made up primarily of people who are essentially indie music snobs with magic powers who draw their power from their indie music snobbery, this trope can appear from time to time. The crib sheets suggest that the authors aren't entirely free of this trope either.
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* [[Magic Music]]: A very postmodern example.
* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]: The Girl (a Polish phonomancer) seems to be like this for Marc.
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* [[Monochromatic Eyes]]: The telltale sign that someone is doing magic.
* [[Nostalgia Ain't Like It Used to Be]]/[[Nostalgia Filter]]: The whole point of ''Rue Britannia''; the retromancers are driven by their inability to let go of the music they love and the false youth it gives them, {{spoiler|but in the climax David makes the not-invalid point to the Goddess of Britpop that she's better off being a much-loved relic of the past who accepts that her time has been and gone and she's not relevant any more, rather than a decaying relic who just keeps on going because she doesn't know how to stop and can't accept that she's irrelevant now.}}
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