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{{quote|''"My name is [[Meaningful Name|Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden]]. [[Badass Boast|Conjure by it at your own risk]]. When things get strange, when what [[Things That Go Bump in the Night|goes bump in the night]] flicks on the lights, when no one else can help you, [[Who You Gonna Call?|give me a call]]. I'm in the book."''|'''Harry Dresden'''}} |
{{quote|''"My name is [[Meaningful Name|Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden]]. [[Badass Boast|Conjure by it at your own risk]]. When things get strange, when what [[Things That Go Bump in the Night|goes bump in the night]] flicks on the lights, when no one else can help you, [[Who You Gonna Call?|give me a call]]. I'm in the book."''|'''Harry Dresden'''}} |
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A horror/fantasy/mystery series of novels, |
A horror/fantasy/mystery series of novels, fifteen and counting plus associated short stories and comic miniseries and the like, by [[Jim Butcher]]. Harry Dresden is a [[Occult Detective|wizard and private detective]] operating out of modern day [[The Windy City|Chicago]], and reluctantly hired by a special police task force as a consultant on supernatural crimes. A cross between urban gothic fantasy and [[Film Noir]], the [[Genre Savvy]] main character cracks jokes about the various tropes it uses. Adapted into a [[The Dresden Files (TV series)|drama series on the Sci Fi Channel]]. There's also a [[The Dresden Files (game)|tabletop RPG]], which is much more faithful to the books, as it's [[Direct Line to the Author|written from the characters' perspective]]. |
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Harry meets a wide variety of characters in the series, including Karrin Murphy, the [[Action Girl]] cop who's [[Broken Masquerade|aware of the city's supernatural underworld]]; Bob, [[Sealed Badass in a Can|a spirit of intellect who lives in a skull]] -- human-shaped ghost in the television series -- is Harry's literal [[Magical Computer]]; Michael Carpenter, a modern-day [[The Paladin|paladin]] wielding a [[Cool Sword|holy sword]]; Billy the [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Werewolf]] and his pack of Alphas (a group of young [[Heroic Wannabe|heroic wannabes]]); Thomas Raith, the [[Loveable Rogue]] <s>incubus</s> [[Horny Devils|White]] [[Deadly Decadent Court|Court]] [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampire]]; Harry's on-and-off love interest Susan Rodriguez; and Molly Carpenter, Michael's oldest daughter and Harry's [[The Apprentice|apprentice]]. Like many detective stories, Harry meets a ridiculous number of [[Femme Fatale|femmes fatale]]<!-- it's French; the plural noun "femmes" comes before the adjective "fatale" -->, [[The Don|crime bosses]], and [[Mooks|hired goons]], which is frequently [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in the series. |
Harry meets a wide variety of characters in the series, including Karrin Murphy, the [[Action Girl]] cop who's [[Broken Masquerade|aware of the city's supernatural underworld]]; Bob, [[Sealed Badass in a Can|a spirit of intellect who lives in a skull]] -- human-shaped ghost in the television series -- is Harry's literal [[Magical Computer]]; Michael Carpenter, a modern-day [[The Paladin|paladin]] wielding a [[Cool Sword|holy sword]]; Billy the [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Werewolf]] and his pack of Alphas (a group of young [[Heroic Wannabe|heroic wannabes]]); Thomas Raith, the [[Loveable Rogue]] <s>incubus</s> [[Horny Devils|White]] [[Deadly Decadent Court|Court]] [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampire]]; Harry's on-and-off love interest Susan Rodriguez; and Molly Carpenter, Michael's oldest daughter and Harry's [[The Apprentice|apprentice]]. Like many detective stories, Harry meets a ridiculous number of [[Femme Fatale|femmes fatale]]<!-- it's French; the plural noun "femmes" comes before the adjective "fatale" -->, [[The Don|crime bosses]], and [[Mooks|hired goons]], which is frequently [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in the series. |
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