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* [[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.}}

* [[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.}}

* [[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 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 by 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}}

* [[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.}}

{{quote|{{spoiler|Red King}}: Bow. Down. Mortal.

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.

* [[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|Games Workshop]] version of a Jedi Knight."

* [[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]]}}.