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Line 1: {{work}} Book #12 in ''[[~~The Dresden Files (Literature)\|~~The Dresden Files]]''. Long ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry Dresden's lover-until she was attacked by his enemies, leaving her torn between her own humanity and the bloodlust of the vampiric Red Court. Susan then disappeared to South America, where she could fight both her savage gift and those who cursed her with it. Line 20: * [[The Chessmaster]]: Multiple, including Lara Raith and {{spoiler\|Martin}}. * [[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.}} * [[Cliff Hanger]]: {{spoiler\|Harry is shot and [[Word of God\|is dying]] at the end. The opening chapter of ''Ghost Story'' more or less confirms that he is dead--[[Who Dunnit to Me?\|but he is not quite out of the game yet]].}} ** {{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 Byby Champion]] * [[Cultural Posturing]]: {{quote\| PS-Why, yes, I can in fact capitalize any words I desire. The language is English. I am English. Therefore mine is the opinion which matters, colonial heathen.}} ** Ironic, considering the fact that as an Englishman, it should be "[[British English\|capitalise]]". * [[Deal ~~With~~with the Devil]]: The Knights of the Blackened Denarius play host to demons (fallen angels) in exchange for power, knowledge, and immortality. They have to willingly touch a cursed coin and let the Fallen in. ** Harry made a deal with {{spoiler\|Queen Mab}}. In fact, if she had turned him down, his next stop would have been {{spoiler\|to make an almost literal [[Deal ~~With~~with the Devil]] involving the Denarians.}} {{quote\| '''Harry''': Go Go Gadget Faustian Bargain!}} * [[Deconstruction]]: As one would expect from the sheer GRIMDARK. ''Changes'' and ''Ghost Story'' seem to have taken it upon themselves to deconstruct as many of Harry's exploits as possible, with Harry's rap sheet catching up to him. * [[Disappeared Dad]]: {{spoiler\|Harry becomes this to his own daughter due to his deadly lifestyle.}} Line 37: * [[Genre Savvy]]: The team Harry assembles to {{spoiler\|save his daughter}} spend a few moments trying to figure out which [[The Lord of the Rings\|member of the Fellowship they are.]] This also turns out to be [[Foreshadowing]], if you pay attention. * [[Guilt Complex]]: After {{spoiler\|Harry breaks his back and thus can't come to his daughter's rescue. He is so desperate and wracked with guilt that he decides to make a deal with Mab to become the Winter Knight to fix it and gain the magical edge he needs. Though we find out in ''Ghost Story'' that he was manipulated into making that choice by a demon whispering in his ear.}} * [[Guilt -Free Extermination War]]: The war between the Red Court of vampires and the White Council. {{spoiler\|Harry ends up winning it singlehandedly...but he is still guilty [[Human Sacrifice\|because of how he had to win it]].}} * [[Heroic BSOD]]: After {{spoiler\|having to kill Susan, the woman he had loved and mother of his child.}} * [[Heroic Fire Rescue]]: {{spoiler\|How Harry breaks his back}}. He has a severe case of [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]] after all. * [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Martin [[Thanatos Gambit\|orchestrated this]] this when he {{spoiler\|[[Fake Defector\|seemingly betrayed]] Harry and Susan only to let Susan kill him and thus turn into the youngest Red Court vampire.}} * [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]: The Red Court, after {{spoiler\|capturing Dresden's daughter, creates a spell that kills every older member of the target's family. Dresden and Susan rescue their daughter, but Susan kills someone in the process, and becomes a Red Court vampire. In a tear jerker moment, Dresden uses the prepared spell on her, killing her and the ''entire'' Red Court}} * [[Hollywood Silencer]]: Averted. A crowd fails to realize someone just tried to kill Dresden, but then the characters discuss just ''why'' it worked (subsonic ammo, the shooter fired from inside a vehicle to hide the barrel and muffle the sound, etc.) * [[Hope Spot]]: It briefly seems like the group {{spoiler\|will be allowed to leave with Maggie unmolested should Harry beat Arianna in single combat}}. Harry wins the battle, but {{spoiler\|the Red King promptly double crosses him by pointing out that since the promise was made through a translator he does not owe Harry anything, as well as that he only promised that the kid wouldn't be harmed until after the fight was over. Now that the duel's over, he can do whatever he wants.}} * [[Human Sacrifice]]: Used more than once. The plot is saving {{spoiler\|Maggie}} before she can be sacrificed. Harry {{spoiler\|is able to successfully rescue her, but only by sacrificing Susan in her place}}. * [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: {{quote\| '''Harry''': {{spoiler\|I used the knife. I saved a child. I won a war. God forgive me.}}}} * [[Kill It ~~With~~with Fire]]: Harry's combat choice du jour. Pointed out by Lea: {{quote\| '''Lea''': Honestly, child, there ''are'' elements other than fire, you know.}} ** 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. Line 59: * [[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. * [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]]: ''[[Precision F-Strike\|"Fuck subtle."]]'' The context? {{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~~For! Emphasis!]] : {{quote\| {{spoiler\|Red King}}: Bow. Down. Mortal.~~<br />~~ Harry: Bite. Me. Asshole. }} * [[Rabid Cop]]: Attempted by Rudolph as a technique to use on Harry. [[Epic Fail\|It failed epically,]] and only resulted in Harry laughing his arse off because of how hard Rudolph failed. * [[Roaring Rampage of Rescue]]: Basically ''Changes'' is entirely this. * [[Shoot the Dog]]: {{spoiler\|The end of}} ''Changes''. {{spoiler\|Martin provokes Susan into killing him with her teeth, which turns her into a full vampire, and then leaves Harry to ''cut out his child's mother's heart'' with a ritual-charged knife, wiping out the Red Court ''completely'' in the process.}} * [[Shoulders of Doom]]: "This is ridiculous. I look like the [[Warhammer ~~40000 (Tabletop Game)~~40,000\|Games Workshop]] version of a Jedi Knight." * [[Spanner in ~~The~~the Works]]: Harry is able to find out that Maggie is in Mexico because the minions in charge of shipping the ritual gear got careless and forgot to send everything. As such they had to send another shipment and keep the records for a checkup; As such Harry was thus able to find the records for the second shipment and narrow it down, which ultimately contributed to his reaching Maggie in time to stop the sacrifice. * [[Stealth Pun]] / [[Visual Pun]]: Harry sees pretty much the entire Red Court standing on a ziggurat, with higher ranking vampires on each level. After a bit of explanation on how their promotion system works and how they trick mortals into thinking they are gods, the reader realizes he is being shown a Pyramid Scheme. * [[Trauma Conga Line]]: Harry learns he has a daughter and that she has been kidnapped by the Red Court. Within the first four chapters, Harry's {{spoiler\|office}} gets blown up. In the rest of the book, {{spoiler\|his car gets crushed, his house gets burned down, his back gets broken when he falls off a ladder trying to get his neighbors out, he is so desperate for a way to help his daughter that he finally accepts the mantle of the Winter Knight, he is forced to kill Susan with his bare hands, Murphy loses her job because she had been helping him, and at the end of the book he [[Cliff Hanger\|gets shot and apparently killed]]}}. * [[Trial Byby Combat]]: When Harry and Susan are pursued by the Eebs and their vampire hit-squad into the Nevernever, they end up in {{spoiler\|the Erlking's lair.}} Due to competing claims by Harry and the Eebs {{spoiler\|the Erlking}} challenges them to a trial by combat to determine who is right. {{spoiler\|Harry wins, and the Eebs and their hit-squad are devoured pretty much on the spot by the Erlking's minions.}} Also, {{spoiler\|Harry duels Duchess Ariana Ortega}} in an example of this trope {{spoiler\|in order to retrieve his kidnapped daughter.}} Because both have equally legitimate claims for collecting blood debts the Red King opts to do the option that will potentially allow both to try to settle their claim. * [[Unholy Nuke]]: The Bloodline ritual, which takes out everyone related to a sacrificial victim. Harry uses it to take out the entire Red Court. * [[Watching Troy Burn]]: In ''Changes'', both Harry's office and apartment are destroyed by Red Court terrorists. In both cases, the vampires used incendiary explosives from a distance, leaving Harry nothing to do but rescue the inhabitants in the buildings and watch them turn to ash. * [[Wham! Episode]]: ''Changes''. Let's just say it lives up to its name. * [[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~~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." * [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]: At the end of ''Changes'', it is ''strongly'' implied that Murphy and Harry were finally going to resolve their UST, and then we get the ending. In the same book, Lea hints that she, and by extension other Sidhe, could remove the vampirism from Susan Rodriguez and other half-turned people. This gives Harry some hope that she could be cured. In the end, {{spoiler\|Harry ''does'' end up curing all the half-turned vampires...by sacrificing freshly fully-turned Susan.}} {{reflist}} ~~[[Category:The Dresden Files (Literature)]]~~ [[Category:Changes]] ~~[[Category~~{{DEFAULTSORT:~~The~~ Dresden Files]], The/Changes}} [[Category:{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]