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* [[Bifauxnen]]: Maggie
* [[Big Bad Friend]]: {{spoiler|Joker}}.
* [[Blood From the Mouth]]: Alice Arquet. Sign that the series [[Wham! Episode|is taking a real turn for the dark]].
* [[Blonde, Brunette, Redhead]]: {{color|yellow| Michelle}}, {{color|brown| Maggie}}, and {{color|red| Anita}}.
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: {{spoiler|Joker again}}, but not Drake.
* [[Blush Sticker]]: Maggie, [[Bifauxnen|oddly enough]], gets these a lot.
* [[Book -Burning]]: The British Library is doing this to books that would not fit under their new "unified culture." Naturally, the protagonists object to this.
* [[Book Ends]]: Lee smoking {{spoiler|after he is revealed as The Mole ("Has it always tasted this bad?"), and just before he dies ("Delicious...")}}.
* [[Brainwashed]]
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* [[Shape Shifter]]: The Mirror Man.
* [[Shorttank]]: Anita
* [[Shout -Out]]: There's a few shout outs to Hong Kong action films in reference to the Paper Sisters: Anita, Maggie, and Michelle are named for the famous actresses Anita Mui, Maggie Cheung, and Michelle Yeoh (also known as Michelle Khan), who starred together in the [[Heroic Trio]], a film about three superheroines from Hong Kong. They also name their white pigeon John Woo, in reference to the symbolic white doves that frequently appear in the director's films. Additionally for shout outs, the titles for the vast majority of the soundtrack are references to various works of literature, and a number of episodes are also named for famous stories:
** "The Right Stuff"
** "In a Grove" (Akutagawa's short story, the basis for the movie ''[[Rashomon]]'')
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* [[Visible Sigh]]
* [[Waif Fu]]: Anita is ''very'' strong, capable of stunning a "vampire" by throwing a book into his face and breaking his nose from 20 feet away ''without'' using her paper powers. She can knock out grown men three times her size; and her fighting style was developed by animators via "[[Le Parkour|observing monkeys]] and [[She Fu|the Chinese Royal Acrobats]]."
* [[Was It All a Lie?]]: When {{spoiler|Nenene asks Lee whether he really did want to read her new book. He says that it was a lie, but later admits that it was not.}}
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: One of the only specific weaknesses between true [[Paper Master|Paper Masters]] like Yomiko and Paper Users like the sisters is the latter makes objects that fall apart if they are damp or disrupted by sound waves. Except when they do not...
** It could be that they can make paper resistant to such if they create their constructs ''expecting'' them to be exposed to fire, sound or water. That would explain how the sisters could make a boat out of paper that doesn't immediately fall apart when in other situations their paper stops working when suddenly soaked.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: Episode 12, when {{spoiler|Nenene is kidnapped, and Lee is revealed to be a Dokusensha agent}}.
** Episode 9, where Alice gets [[Impaled With Extreme Prejudice]], qualifies.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: It is an action/espionage series about books.
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* [[Who Writes This Crap?]]: "Who the heck would come up with such a fiasco? It's no good! It's not realistic at all!"
* [[Younger Than They Look]]: Junior. Chronologically, he is only 6 years old, but due to accelerated aging, he appears to be about 12. This is probably also technically true for his I-Jin mother Nancy.
* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: The [[Wham! Episode]] (see below) begins as a fairly formulaic episode about Anita saying goodbye to her friends before she moves back to Hong Kong, culminating in a sweet moment between herself and Hisa. Time for the credits, right? Right?
 
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