The Dresden Files/Small Favor: Difference between revisions

* [[Break the Cutie]]: {{spoiler|Ivy}}.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Inverted, when the '''absence''' of any mention of {{spoiler|Harry's blasting rod}} becomes a significant plot point later, when {{spoiler|he realizes that Mab took it away from him and blocked his memories of it, making all of his friends very suspicious of him for most of the book.}}

* [[Demonic Possession]]: The Knights of the Blackened Denarius act as hosts for the Fallen.

* [[Eternal Love]]: Nicodemus Archleone and Polonius Lartessa, although their relationship may be a warped version of this trope.

* [[Kill Me Now or Forever Stay Your Hand]]: When Harry notices that Michael has been giving him sideways looks for the entire story he has Michael place his sword at his (Harry's) throat and tell him (Michael) to either cut or reveal where the sudden distrust comes from.

* [[Mundane Wish]]: Subverted, when Harry "wastes" his single wish, which could make the entire Summer Court of Faerie do whatever he wants of them, on a doughnut. {{spoiler|The point, however, is who he commands to get his doughnut. Namely, the [[Implacable Man]] [[Mage Killer]] after his head, who now abandons his deadly mission to find one particular doughtnut.}}

* [[Offhand Backhand]]: [[Little Miss Badass|Ivy]] pulls off one of these, {{spoiler|vaporizing a Denarian jumping at her back without even looking at it.}}

* [[Screw Destiny]]: Harry notices that Gard was staring at Michael in a foreshadowy way and decides to alter his actions to prevent what he thinks is coming. {{spoiler|Uriel later reveals that, despite current appearances, Harry ''did'' change things for the better, since if he had acted differently, both he and Michael would have died on the island instead of Michael only being injured}}.