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* [[Asskicking Equals Authority]]/[[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: It's rather unclear which way it works, and may be a combination, but it's clear that Mab is ''powerful'' as [[Word of God|Jim Butcher]] put it, there's a reason why when Mab wrote the accords and told the various supernatural nations to abide by them, they ''listened''.
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: What many of the mortals (and some of the other Fae) suspect has happened to her in the later books {{spoiler|after she takes [[Artifact of Doom|the Black Athame]] from Lea.}}
* [[Cold -Blooded Torture]]: Literally, being the Winter Queen, and she is a ''master'' of inflicting agonies upon people, such as what she did to {{spoiler|Lloyd Slate}}. In her own words:
{{quote| "To be sure, the White Christ never suffered so long or terribly as did this traitor. Three days on a tree. Hardly enough time for a prelude. When it came to visiting agony, the Romans were hobbyists."}}
* [[Deal With the Devil]]: She keeps making offers to Harry. He keeps turning them down... and occasionally suffers for it. {{spoiler|As of ''Changes'', he took her offer.}}
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{{quote| '''Susan:''' Wow. You...you really ''do'' have a fairy godmother.<br />
'''Leanansidhe:''' And I've never been able to indulge. }}
* [[ItsIt's Personal]]: as she reveals in ''Ghost Story'', the amount of aid that she provided to Harry and company during the [[Storming the Castle]] scene in ''Changes'' was not just because of Mab's orders. {{spoiler|She hadn't forgotten the Black Athame that Bianca gave to her, which subsequently drove her insane. As Harry had already taken down Bianca, she owed him a debt of justice--which she very happily paid by helping him take revenge upon the entire Red Court.}}
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Promising to give {{spoiler|Susan}} a good burial. Genuine acts of kindness are rare from the fae, but as Harry remarks:
{{quote| "Even in Winter, the cold isn’t always bitter, and not every day is cruel."}}
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* [[The Cavalry]]: An especially odd version of one.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: He is a fairy and has a very odd thought process.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Oh that silly little six inch fairy, what could- Good god! My arms!!!
** Forget your arms. Look out for your ''eyes.''
* [[Fairy Companion]]: He doesn't follow Harry around, but Harry is nevertheless his [[The Messiah|personal Jesus]], what with saving his friends and giving them regular deliveries of pizza.
* [[G -Rated Drug]]: Pizza.
{{quote| '''Sanya:''' You are a drug dealer. To tiny fairies. For shame.}}
* [[Hero Secret Service]]: The leader of the Pizza Lord's (Harry's) Guard.
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* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: A boxcutter and a nail. [[Justified Trope|Of course]], he's so small that these are about the right size, and since iron hurts fae, they're also surprisingly effective.
* [[Our Fairies Are Different]]: And obsessed with pizza.
* [[Pint -Sized Powerhouse]]
* [[Power Glows]]: Well he does anyway.
* [[Punch Clock Hero]]: He and his people are mainly in it for the pizza and eventually personal loyalty to the "Za Lord".
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* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Over the books. He started as an informant and became a [[Big Damn Heroes|big damn hero]]. Per [[Word of God]], Toot, like every other Sidhe, gains power by having more influence in the world around him, so he becomes more powerful through each act he performs to aid Harry.
* [[You Shall Not Pass]]: Buys Dresden time by attacking {{spoiler|a ''demigod''}}.
* [[White -Haired Pretty Boy]]: He has white hair and is apparently quite attractive. But he's aligned with the heroes, if for no other reason than the frequent pizzas, and seems to be an affable guy, albeit with a cheerfully amoral bent and a strong mercenary streak.
 
== '''The Billy Goats Gruff''' ==
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* [[Hitman With a Heart]]: For Titania's personal assassins, they're actually pretty nice guys when they're ''not'' trying to murder your face off.
* [[My Master Right or Wrong]]: The gruffs are disturbed at having to fight Harry, who is someone they deeply respect.
* [[Pint -Sized Powerhouse]]: Eldest Gruff can swat fallen angels like uppity pixies and has killed ''three'' members of the Senior Council in duels over the years. He's five foot three, at most.
* [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]]: Each "wave" of gruffs is significantly smarter and tougher.
 
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* [[Knight Templar]]
* {{spoiler|[[Utopia Justifies the Means]]: Totally willing to kill off billions of innocent mortals to create a better world for the survivors.}}
* [[Well -Intentioned Extremist]]: {{spoiler|She tries to start a war which would destroy the faerie courts, specifically so she can put things back together in a way which would be better for humanity. Unfortunately, she's a little crazy and the collateral damage involved in such a plan is unacceptably high.}}
 
== '''The Erlking''' ==
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* [[Badass]]
* [[Bigger Is Better]]: He's nine feet tall.
* [[One -Scene Wonder]]: Well, two scene wonder. He pops up again in ''Changes'', and is similarly cool.
* [[Our Goblins Are Different]]
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Genuinely respects and likes Harry, and even spared his life because the dinosaur thing was just that cool. Still plans to hunt him down one of these days.
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* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Her first appearence has her wearing a shirt that she cut in half to where.
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: she justifies not coming to Harry's aid sooner with "If I had, it'd have been a fair fight. And I try to avoid those."
* [[Hair -Trigger Temper]]
* [[Jackass Genie]]/[[Literal Genie]]: A man in ''Summer Knight'' apparently said he would die to play music well. Maeve grants that ''literally''.
* [[Jerkass]]: Oh Hell Yes.
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* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Just because she acts like a psychotic dilettante nymphomaniac doesn't mean she isn't a dangerous and intelligent plotter.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Maeve is consistently described as looking old enough to be tempting but young enough to make one feel guilty for thinking said thoughts. This is a facade, as she is easily centuries old and fully aware of the effect it has.
* [[Pint -Sized Powerhouse]]: Woman of average height. One of the top ten fairies in existence.
* [[The Pornomancer]]: She's able to tempt damn near anyone out of their pants. The fact that Harry (a human) can resist her drives her into out-and-out shock.
* [[Unskilled but Strong]]: When Will is made nervous by the waves of cold pouring off of her as she does magic, Harry points out that isn't an indicator of power, it's a sign that she's not controlling her magic properly. Still the Winter Lady though. And it could have been an act.
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* [[Rape As Backstory]]: Though not outright said, it is implied that Lloyd Slate raped her at some point for Maeve's amusement.
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Upon becoming the Summer Lady, Lily went from a weak-willed girl who barely had the wits to survive on her own to a conniving, trickey magic-weilder who can work within the intrigue and treachery-laden world of the Sidhe.
* [[White -Haired Pretty Girl]]: Becomes this one she becomes the Summer Lady.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Green Hair]] Her hair starts out a bright shade of green while she's still a changeling.
 
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* [[Achilles Heel]]: Like all faeries, fetches are vulnerable to iron. As a Winter fae, Scarecrow is vulnerable to fire, too, particularly fire conjured by Summer. However, Scarecrow and his fetch minions are also vulnerable to those who are not afraid of them; they can neither sense them nor use their fear as a shield or source of power. {{spoiler|A fearless Harry wielding Summer fire is enough to panic Scarecrow.}}
* [[Anti -Magic]]: Harry slaps him with a Hellfire-boosted force attack with enough power behind it to knock him over Lake Michigan. Scarecrow walks through it without flinching. Later on it is implied that this works through fear; as long as the one tossing magic is afraid, Scarecrow can block their attacks.
* [[Badass]]: Massive and powerful enough to take on Harry, Mouse, and Thomas and maintain the upper hand.
* [[The Dreaded]]: Deliberately invoked; like all fetches, he assumes horror movie monster forms to frighten his targets, giving him power over them.
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