The Dresden Files/Changes: Difference between revisions

=== Tropes associated with ''Changes'': ===

* [[Always a Bigger Fish]]: Red Court vampire assassins and some kind of giant demon called an Ik'K'Kuox (Referred to as a "devourer") were on Harry's heels. To get away from them, he made a portal to the Nevernever... which {{spoiler|, unfortunately, just happened to lead to the Erlking's banquet hall. The Erlking is as powerful as one of the faerie queens and has a personal grudge against Harry due to an insult in ''Dead Beat'', and Harry is now within his very home at the source of his power.}}

* [[Badass Abnormal]]: Murphy temporarily takes up one of the Swords. And the possibility of a permanent position is even more open than it was before...]] She defies the trope, though; there are job offers for a position of a {{spoiler|Knight of the Cross and a Valkyrie}}, but she isn't enthusiastic about it.

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]

* [[Clarke's Third Law]]: Harry enters the corporate headquarters of Monoc Securities and sees a pair of receptionists working at two computers whose monitors were composed of very fine mist that floated in the air as if a whispy illusion.

{{quote| Sufficiently advanced technology, I suppose.}}

** {{spoiler|As of the end of ''Ghost Story'', Harry's still alive, due to Mab, Demonreach, Uriel, and a certain "parasite" thwarting his suicide-by-Hellhound attempt, and therefore still the Winter Knight.}}

* [[Combat By Champion]]

** Arianna actually specifically prepares for fire by using water spells. Unfortunately for her, Harry had recently added ice to his repertoire.

* [[Locked Into Strangeness]]: Lea.

* [[Magical Defibrillator]]: Immediately after {{spoiler|becoming the Winter Knight}}, Harry's heart stops, and his friends attempt to revive him with a defibrillator. Because of magic, Harry was never in any danger, so the trope is ''technically'' averted. It's played straight in spirit, though, as Butters says using the defibrillator was "what any good mortician would do."

* [[Mama Bear]]: {{spoiler|Susan, with ultimately tragic consequences.}}

* [[Now You Tell Me]]: In the opening chapters of ''Changes,'' {{spoiler|Susan tells Harry that A) They have a daughter and B) Duchess Arianna purchased the building his office is in eight years ago and has been jacking up his rent ever since.}} The maintenance crew also came a while previously to "remove asbestos." Take a guess how that one turned out.

* [[Oh Crap]]: The tagline for ''Changes'' can pretty much be summed up as this, considering the number of times Harry actually thinks or says it.

{{quote| ''Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.'' Tolkien had that one mostly right.}}

* [[Punctuated for Emphasis]] :

* [[Wham Line]]: The first line of ''Changes'' is {{spoiler|"I answered the phone, and Susan Rodriguez said, 'They’ve taken our daughter.'" }}.

* [[What You Are in The Dark]]: Harry has moments like these in the series, but it is most exemplified here, where several characters tell Harry that the current crisis will "show him who he really is."

 

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