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* [[Buy Them Off]]: Weregilds, which are paid for deaths throughout the supernatural community.
* [[Call Back]] / [[Brick Joke]]: In the early novels, Lea wants to turn Harry into one of her hounds, in order to protect him. {{spoiler|She gets her chance in ''Changes'', when the group needs to get to Chichen Itza from the Ways quickly.}}
* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: By the events of ''Skin Game'', Harry has mastered [[Le Parkour]] -- and has taken to shouting "Parkour!" every time he uses it.
* [[Canis Latinicus]]: Lots of it, Harry uses it for ''all'' his spells. {{spoiler|Elaine}} uses Dog-Babylonian and Egyptian. Morgan uses Ancient Greek. As of ''Changes'', {{spoiler|Molly}} seems to prefer Japanese. The explanation given in ''Fool Moon'' is that they provide a wizard's mind with "an extra layer of protection against the magical energies coursing through it". The protection is thinner if you use words you are too familiar with, as the words will be close enough to your thoughts that the two are near impossible to separate. Thus, wizards use words that are either made up or from languages they do not really understand.
* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: If Harry could just fit his mouth around "I can't tell you, it's a 'Wizard Thing'", 99% of the angst with Murphy could be dispelled. This actually becomes less of a problem in the books after ''Summer Knight'', when Harry finally spills the magic beans to Murphy about the supernatural world.
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* [[Catch Phrase]]: Harry has two: "Hell's bells!" and "Stars and stones!" Thomas has, "Empty night." [[Word of God]] has said that those three phrases will also be the titles of the Apocalyptic Trilogy that ends the series. In Butcher's own words, "there's a reason those are curses."
** It should be noted however that those three are not completely exclusive as Elaine has been seen to use the first two and Lara (presumably along with other Raiths) use the latter.
** The [[Catch Phrase]] of Harry's musclebound-barbarian PC in the
* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: The ratio of funny to horrendously depressing has changed in the last few books. To the point where, before reading a new book, one might ask "Is it worth the [[Crazy Awesome]] to have my heart ripped out and stomped on?"<ref>The answer, of course, is yes.</ref>
* [[Character Development]]:
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