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* [[First-Person Smartass]]

* [[Genki Girl]]: Beverly Brook.

* [[Gentleman Wizard]]: DCI Nightingale again

* [[Ghostapo]]: Whatever happened at Ettersberg.

* [[Gratuitous German]]: Used by Peter to a German family who get trapped in the middle of the riot.

* [[Half Human Hybrids]]: Created by Black Mag....[[Insistent Terminology|Ethically Challenged Magic]] in ''Soho''.

* [[IC Number]]: Referenced and explained.

* [[Insistent Terminology]]: When Peter and Nightingale discover they're up against a black magician in book two, Peter points out that the term "black magician" is problematic, particularly since Peter is of African descent and is thus, in a sense, himself a black magician. Thereafter he uses variations on "ethically challenged magical practitioner" instead.

* [[Instant Sedation]]: Peter wants something that does this, Dr Walid explains there is no such thing (although he can come up with something that will work reasonably quickly at the expense of common sense and basic safety). That would be [[wikipedia:Etorphine|etorphine hydrochloride]] - an opioid derivative a thousand times stronger than morphine, commonly used as a general anesthetic for large animals and perfectly capable of causing fatal respiratory arrest in very small doses. Dr Walid helpfully supplies Peter with auto-injectors of Narcan (an opioid antidote) as well as a card to give paramedics in case of accidental exposure.

* [[Jerkass]]: Tyburn, oh is she ever. And A [[Manipulative Bitch]] to boot.

* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: Peter again.

* [[Lesbian Cop]]: Detective Sergeant Stephanopoulis, described as a "terrifying lesbian". She's also an [[Old-Fashioned Copper]] and the only joke ever told about her sexuality is "do you know what happened to the last sod who made fun of Stephanopoulis? Neither does anyone else, they haven't found the body yet".

* [[Maid of Moe]]: Molly, always wears the full Edwardian-Victorian maid outfit, and to quote the narration in ''[[Moon Over Soho]]''.

{{quote| ''Molly glided into the room like the winner of the all-London Gothic Lolita competition.''}}

* [[Magic Versus Science]]: Magic is an EMP type here. Notably it does have the same effect on human brains as it does on technology, just electrical technology is more sensitive and will short out before your brain does.

** The novels as a whole avert this though. The organised study of magic originates in the setting with Isaac Newton, and Peter frequently attempts to fit magic into an empiricist, rationalist framework. Magic shorts out modern technology not because [[The Dresden Files|magic is inimical to modern science]] but because, it is speculated, modern culture has made technology [[Post Modern Magic|quasi-magical in itself.]]

** Tyburn tried something similar in book one to to try and force Peter to drink from her fountain to put himself in thrall to her. {{spoiler|The practice he got in then helped him resist the bad guy of ''Soho''.}}

* [[Punch and Judy]]: It's not nearly as comic when real babies are going splat out the windows and people are beating each other to bloody headless flinders...

* [[Viewers Are Geniuses|Readers Are Genuises]]: The books are best read with an A-to-Z of London to one side, and a copy of ''[http://www.bartleby.com/81/ Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable]'' to the other. There is a lot of detail and you will need to keep up.

* [[Rich Bitch]]: Tyburn.