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** Or do you? It could be that {{spoiler|[[Literary Agent Hypothesis|the]] ''[[Literary Agent Hypothesis|movie itself]]'' is the rewrite...}}
** Maybe the story wasn't about Harold at all. {{spoiler|It was about his wristwatch.}}
* [[Bookworm]]: Dr. Jules Hilbert, [[Justified Trope|justified]] since he's a professor in literature and one of the notable names in his field.▼
* [[Black Comedy]]: Slightly. Professor Hilber's casual mention of Harold's death and Harold's own mounting hysteria over the subject is, frankly, a bit funny to watch.
** Related to below, Karen's [[Break the Haughty]] scene and her imagining potential deaths for Harold are also funny.
▲* [[Bookworm]]: Dr. Jules Hilbert, [[Justified Trope|justified]] since he's a professor in literature and one of the notable names in his field.
* [[Break the Haughty]]: This happens to Karen Eiffel, successful and assured in her own abilities {{spoiler|until she realizes everything she's been writing is true, and she may have killed actual people with her last books}}
* [[Butterfly of Doom]]: Variant: If not for a trivial event at the beginning of the movie, the events leading up to Harold Crick's untimely death would not have happened.
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* [[Freak-Out]]: Eiffel goes through one when she realizes Harold was real, and starts wondering if she really killed people with her previous books.
** But not before Harold has his own. The guy does find out he is going to die in a pretty unconventional and profound way, after all. That poor, poor lamp...
* [[Fridge Horror]]: Invoked. So [[Post Modernism|Po Mo]] that this even happens [[In-Universe]]: Karen Eiffel was a well known author whose [[Signature Style]] was the [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog|tragic death of each of her protagonists]]. Harold Crick was the only one who figured it out, and she prevented his death from happening. So how many people did Karen kill before she realized she was controlling real people? When Karen realizes this possibility, it [[Heroic BSOD|hits her like a freight train.]]
** It should be noted that this is not an uncommon worry for writers, of contemporary fiction or otherwise, to have lurking somewhere in the back of their mind. If you've ever wondered why so many authors seem to have a love affair with [[Aerith and Bob|impossible or incongruous names]], part of the reason is to dodge this particular bullet since the probability of an actual person having that name, and thus being effected, is ridiculously low.
* [[Genre Savvy]], [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: ([[Playing with a Trope|Played with]]. The professor is [[Genre Savvy]] because he studies literature, but they can't take advantage of it because they don't know what kind of story Harold Crick is in.)
** Once the professor actually believes Harold is being narrated (due to the "little did he know" line below), he instantly starts displaying his [[Genre Savvy]].
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