Locke and Key: Difference between revisions

** The Lighthouse, which helps {{spoiler|Tyler defeat Dodge in Crown Of Shadows #3}}.

* [[Cliff Hanger]]: All. The. Time.

* [[Cool Loser]]: Scot Kavanaugh and Jamal Saturday.

* [[Cool Shades]]: Scot Kavanaugh.

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

** Also, what awaits all of mankind if Dodge succeeds in opening the Black Door.

* [[Foreshadowing]]: "I can't wait to climb down from here and get large on you, bitch."

** In the first issue of ''Keys to the Kingdom,'' Bode briefly pretends that his head has been utterly emptied of all contents by the Head Key and he is unable to move, think, or care for himself. {{spoiler|The second issue features a woman who actually had that done to her}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Grand Theft Me]]: Bode isn't Bode anymore.}}

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Kinsey and Jackie. Scot and Jamal.

* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: {{spoiler|Benjamin Locke seals away the parasites with a lock made from their own corpses.}}

* [[Hope Spot]]: At the end of "Clockworks #6", {{spoiler|It's implied that the fish hook on Tyler's hat is made from Whispering Iron, and could theoretically be used to create one final key. Whether they can use that knowledge to stop Dodge before he opens the Black Door remains to be seen...}}

* [[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]]

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Sam Lesser gets ''several'' moments in the first volume, most of them involving killing innocent people at random.

* [[Killed Off for Real]]: Played straight, subverted, averted, take your pick.

* [[Living Shadow]]: The Crown of Shadows.

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: The series seems to be expanding into this trope as it explores its [[Myth Arc]] further. The Lockes of each generation, and then their friends, and then their friends, and then...

* [[Mental Time Travel]]: The Timeshift Key lets you do this.

* [[Mistaken for Racist]]: Erin Voss, an old black woman in a mental institution, freaks out and starts yelling "WHITE! WHITE!" whenever she tries to talk to someone. This is attributed as being a hostile reaction to the white people who are always there (it is New England, after all) {{spoiler|but it's actually because her head was completely emptied out by Dodge, and all that's there is endless white, which she sees whenever she tries to think coherently or interact with the worlf.}}

* [[Super Strength]]: Hercules Key

* [[Tell Me About My Father]]: Kinsey goes through this in ''Crown Of Shadows'', even though her father's death was recent. Arguably, this is a major direction of the plot.

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

* [[Wham Episode]]: At least one issue in each volume so far, and possibly the entirety of Keys to the Kingdom.

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