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''Anansi Boys'' is a 2005 novel by [[Neil Gaiman]], set in [[The Verse|the same fictional universe]] as his earlier ''[[
Within a couple of days of Spider turning up, Fat Charlie has lost his job and fiancée, and is also wanted by the police. Willing to do anything to make his brother go away again, he finds a way to contact the other gods and makes a deal. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|And then things start to]] ''[[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|really]]'' [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|go wrong.]]
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* [[Cliché Storm]]: Any attempt to converse with Grahame Coats results in this; he seems to think an abundance of well-worn un-witticisms make him seem far smarter than even a single original thought ever could. When he {{spoiler|takes Rosie and her mother hostage}}, it even describes how delighted he is to have whole new vistas of clichés open to him that he never would have gotten to pull out otherwise.
* [[Closet Sublet]]: When Spider comes to visit, he stays in Fat Charlie's closet. Kind of. The closet door actually opens up into a ridiculously big room somewhere tropical.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: Spider takes his coffee "dark as night and sweet as sin," just like the Slavic deities in [[
* [[The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much]]: The fate of the former dictator of the Caribbean island where the second half of the novel is set. After ruling with an iron fist for decades, he died by "falling out of bed". His fall was apparently hard enough to break a number of bones, and he didn't survive despite all of his bodyguards being in his room during this time, who did everything they could to "help" him.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Grahame Coats
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* [[Dating What Daddy Hates|Dating What Mommy Hates]]: Part of Rosie's reason for dating, and eventually becoming engaged to Fat Charlie.
* [[Demonic Possession]]: {{spoiler|Grahame Coats by Tiger, starts subtly after he kills Maeve.}}
* [[Double Standard Rape (Divine
* [[Enfant Terrible]]: {{spoiler|Charlie, before Spider is split off from him.}}
* [[Foreshadowing]]:
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* [[Giant Spider]]: A rare, rare friendly example.
* [[Hell-Bent for Leather]]: Spider is almost always seen in a black and scarlet leather jacket.
* [[Hijacked
* [[Inhuman Resources]]: Grahame Coats fires his employees just before they qualify for the severance package; Fat Charlie is unusual in this regard, as Coats found him so useful that he's been employed for an unprecedented two years. This ends up biting Coats in the ass; {{spoiler|when he tries to pin his embezzlement on Fat Charlie, his employee turnover rate is all the evidence the police need to put together the fact that the embezzlement predates even Fat Charlie.}}
* [[It's a Costume Party, I Swear]]: When he was little, Mr. Nancy told Charlie that President's Day meant you actually dressed up as your favorite President. Hilarity ensued, for Nancy, at least, when Charlie, not wanting to be just another Lincoln, Washington, or Kennedy, went as Taft.
* [[Jerk
** Mr. Nancy tends to swing wildly between the two.
** Spider.
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* [[Ladykiller in Love]]: Spider with Rosie, leading to some confusion on his part, as this usually doesn't happen to him.
* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: After the incident with his cab driver, Fat Charlie finds himself forced to take his lime everywhere, because word got around about the man with the lime, and everyone is demanding to see it.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: Compared to ''[[
* [[Little Bit Beastly]]
** The gods of the animal pantheon all have characteristics of the animals they're based on, such as tails, whiskers -- and extra nipples.
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* [[No Name Given]]: Is Rosie's mother ever referred to as anything other than Rosie's mother or Mrs. Noah? (Her name is Eutheria Noah, but it's only mentioned once, and it states that no one ever used her name but her husband, and he's dead now.)
* [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]]: Graham Coats {{spoiler|killing Maeve Livingstone}}. He goes downhill from there.
* [[Only Known
* [[Performance Anxiety]]: Charles Nancy has it so bad, he passes out when he gets up on stage to perform earlier in the novel.
* [[Physical God]]: Mr. Nancy, Spider and the rest of the animal pantheon. {{spoiler|Fat Charlie too, eventually.}}
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* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Daisy, although she's outnumbered by many unreasonable ones.
* [[Sand in My Eyes]]: "I'm not crying. It's the rain on my face." Mrs. Higgler isn't fooled.
* [[Sealed Evil in
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Charlie's the nicer, uninteresting, and mundane brother, while Spider is all charm, swagger, and magic. {{spoiler|They both even out later on in the book.}}
* [[Sink or Swim Mentor]]: Mr Nancy after a fashion. When his son {{spoiler|was first split}} he commented that if he couldn't fix it himself he ({{spoiler|Fat Charlie/Spider}}) was no son of his(Nancy's).
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