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* [[All Witches Have Cats]]: If you think the vampires are more like witches.
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Aphrodite, until Zoey arrives.
* [[Back -to -Back Badasses]]: Kalona and Rephaim in Awakened
* [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]]: Vampyre variant. A lot of historical figures and also current famous people are said to be vampyres, including Shakespeare and Cleopatra just to name a few.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: In Marked Stevie Rae {{spoiler|volunteers to be “the refrigerator” for Aphrodite’s ritual so that she can then pass on the location of the ritual to Damien and the Twins, so that when everything goes pear-shaped all four of them could step up and help Zoey save the day.}}
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* [[Break the Cutie]]: Stevie Rae all the way.
* [[Brought Down to Normal]]: {{spoiler|Happens to Aphrodite, and as of book 9 she has NOT gotten her vampyrism back. Still kept her visions, though, which was the one thing she could have happily gotten rid of.}}
* [[Broken Bird]]: Rephaim is a male example. For starters he's a [[Child By Rape]] and never knew his mother due to [[Death By Childbirth]]. Destined to be [[Overlord, Jr.]] or possibly redeemed by Love?
* [[Broken Pedestal]]: For both Zoey and Aphrodite with regards to {{spoiler|Neferet}}
* [[Casanova]]: Kalona's on the "Monster" end of the spectrum.
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* [[Double Standard Rape Divine On Mortal]]: Despite the fact that Kalona radiates Darkness, females of all ages are still pretty keen on him. Even when the fact that he has raped women before is mentioned, it is conveniently ignored. Probably helps that Kalona has a [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] effect on people.
* [[Dream Within a Dream]]: In Tempted, Zoey is shown a vision of Kalona's past in a dream.
* [[Dress -Coded for Your Convenience]]: When [[The Big Bad]] decides to take over the Vampyre High Coucil, she changes her colourful wardrobe for skin-tight revealing black dresses. It's also a case of [[Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains]] and she has [[Femme Fatalons]] to complete the look. Kalona also has the habit of only wearing pants.
* [[Elemental Powers]]: Zoey's Goddess-given gift is to have ''all'' of the elemental powers, her [[Five -Man Band]] friends have one power apiece.
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The White Bull of Darkness
* [[The End of the World As We Know It]]: {{spoiler|Aphrodite has recieved multiple visions of this if Zoey doesn't step up to plate and prevent Kalona and Neferet from achieving Power!}}
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** Interestingly enough, most of them seem to be getting phased out by the later books.
* [[The Fashionista]]: Shaunee, Erin and Aphrodite.
* [[Five -Man Band]]: Even though they don't quite fit the stereotypes.
** [[The Hero]]: Zoey.
** [[The Lancer]]: Stevie Rae {{spoiler|In Later Books, Aphrodite}}
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* [[Handsome Devil]]: Kalona lives this trope and enjoys every minute.
* [[Hair of Gold]]: Erin, Aphrodite, Professor Dragon Lankford.
* [[Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?]]: The response Zoey's parents have.
* [[Hearing Voices]]: With Neferet, as of the audiobook chapters available of Awakened, it appears to be a combination of type 1 and 2
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: {{spoiler|Zoey at the end of "Tempted."}} She gets better.
* [[High School Sweethearts]]: Zoey and Heath
* [[Hormone -Addled Teenager]]: Zoey could be the poster girl for this. [[The Big Bad]] is even [[Genre Savvy]] enough to use this against Zoey.
* [[Horror Hunger]]: Red Fledglings occassionally suffer from this.
* [[How the Mighty Have Fallen]]: The Authors tend to favour the [[Break the Haughty]] method:
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* [[Not Quite Dead]] {{spoiler|Heath technically comes back at the end of ''Awakened''}}
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: And how! Vampyres have [[Power Tattoo]] going on, and worship the goddess Nyx. Teenagers are "fledglings" until they either go full vamp or die...and {{spoiler|"dead" fledglings sometimes become a different, more feral version of vampyre. [[Our Zombies Are Different]], anyone?}}
* [[Or Was It a Dream?]]?: In Tempted, Zoey comes to this conclusion when it turns out the locations Kalona has been chosing as the back-drop of their dreams together reveal his actual location.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Happens rather frequently if your parents don't approve of your new vamphood. Zoey's mother has pretty much emotionally abandoned her in favor of her new husband/ChurchMilitant religion by the start of the series anyway, and doesn't need much more to abandon her child entirely.
* [[Parent With New Paramour]]: With Zoey and Rephaim it's type 3.
* [[Passive -Aggressive Kombat]]: Neferet possesses a black belt in passive aggressive dialogue. Overlaps into [[Politeness Judo]] whenever Thanatos and Neferet share a scene.
* [[Peer Pressure Makes You Evil]]: Played straight with Aphrodite but toyed with for Zoey.
* [[Pet Homosexual]]: Damien in the early books. After Jack arrives, he shares this role with this boyfriend. Jack is annoyingly stereotyped.
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* [[Promotion to Parent]]: Stevie Rae seems to be this for her Red Fledglings, mostly because of [[Parental Abandonment]] and/or because most people think they're still dead.
* [[Promoted to Love Interest]]: {{spoiler|Stark is properly upgraded to this in ''Awakened''}}
* [[Protagonist -Centered Morality]]: The entire series is seen and judged through Zoey's sense of Morality. Even in Tempted and Burned (when different POVS and [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] are introduced) and someone has different opinion than that of Zoey's having, they're considered to be having an [[Out -of -Character Moment|OOC moment]] at best or they're automatically considered to be a horrible bitch and/or in kahootz with the [[Big Bad]].
** Kalona, pretty much the cause for every single bad thing that's ever happened in the series, gets a [[Fallen Hero]] backstory and two chapters from his POV. Zoey thought it possible he could be redeemed. Why? {{spoiler|Because in a past life Zoey was in love with him}}.
** The [[Big Bad]], despite have a pretty legitimate [[Freudian Excuse]], has yet to ever have a chapter in their POV explaining why and how they have pretty much become the very thing they have always hated the most. The [[Big Bad]] has been written off as a [[Complete Monster]]. Why? {{spoiler|Because Loren's real lover was Neferet and she sent him to seduce Zoey and segregate her from her friends and allies. Neferet also flirted with Erik when Zoey was still in love with him despite the fact that he wasn't dating anyone and he was a Changed Vampyre}}.
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** When Venus is introduced {{spoiler|she has just recently regained her humanity}} but she is deemed a horrible bitch and possibly evil in the first chapter of Hunted. She is also hated by the fandom considerably. Despite the fact that Venus's personality is very close to that of Aphrodite, PC Cast's favourite character and most popular character with the Fandom. Why? {{spoiler|Because she DARED to flirt with Erik infront of Zoey and hooked up with him when Zoey and Erik broke up. Zoey was telling herself that it was wrong to behave and think the way she did, didn't stop it anyway.}}
** Not to mention how Zoey and her friends all call Aphrodite a "ho" for dating two guys, even though she began going out with the second one only sometime after the first one and is genuinely serious about him. Zoey, meanwhile, has dated/flirted with no less than four guys, lost her virginity to her teacher Loren while she was dating Erik and letting Heath continually lure her into feasting on his blood, and she ''repeatedly'' calls herself out for being unable to settle on one guy. And yet when Erik calls her out on this in a later book, he's dismissed as just a jealous jerk by all her friends and we're clearly meant to disagree with her being a ho even when she keeps on saying that she ''is'' and is ''right''.
** Raven Mockers are mindless creatures of Darkness and they should all be wiped out. Everybody agrees with the [[Kill 'Em All]] attitude and, as of Burned, around twenty Raven Mockers have been killed. Even the idea of giving them a burial is seen as strange. The only exception is Stevie Rae and when she raises valid points of [[What Measure Is a Non -Human?]] and [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]] not only does every character tell her she's wrong but she is suspected of secretly turning over to [[The Dark Side]].
** Speaking of Stevie Rae, how is it okay for the Red Fledglings that haven't "Chosen" yet to be running around killing people? Even after she gives them multiple chances to choose, and they try to kill her and her friends multiple times, she ends up just chasing them away/exiling them... as if wherever they end up, they'll be any less evil and bloodthirsty? Maybe it's just a weakness moment or something, but the fact that they're Red Fledglings and thus "her people" seems to be what keeps her from stopping them from murdering any more innocents... permanently.
* [[Raised By Grandparents]]: Due to [[Parental Abandonment]] by both Zoey's mother and father, Grandma Redbird pretty much raised Zoey and continues to help out whenever possible.
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* [[Salt and Pepper]]: Shaunee and Erin.
* [[Seeking Sanctuary]]: When Zoey and the gang need help and a stay, the Benedictine Nuns come to the rescue.
* [[Self -Insert Fic]] - Zoey is a essentially a more perfect version of Kristen Cast. According to Wikipedia, they based the character on her so she would be easier to write. Yeah...
* [[Sixth Ranger]]: Aphrodite and Jack Twist.
* [[Sssssnaketalk]]: The Raven Mockers are prone to this.
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* [[Starbucks Skin Scale]]: Shaunee is described as having "Cafe au Lait" skin a couple of times.
* [[Strange Bedfellows]]: Aphrodite and Zoey start out with an [[Arch Enemy]] relationship, which ends up morphing when the two of them need each other and have a common enemy. Zoey and Aphrodite frequently have [[Jerkass Has a Point]] moments.
* [[Straight Gay]]: Damien. Unfortunately, he mostly comes across as [[Have I Mentioned I Am Gay?]]
* [[Tempting Fate]]: Done in two forms:
** [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]] - Stevie Rae does this frequently, despite the fact that she reads comic books and should be [[Genre Savvy]] enough to know better.
** [[No One Could Survive That]]: Which practically every Vampyre says about Zoey's [[Heroic BSOD]]. So we all know what's going to happen by the end of the book...
* [[The Bait]]: Rephaim was this for Stevie Rae in Tempted, but it was more a case of [[Got Volunteered]].
* [[The Beautiful Elite]]: The adult vampyres.
* [[The Bus Came Back]]: For [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap|Erik Night]] and [[The Obi -Wan|Thanatos]]
* [[The Chosen One]]: Zoey, who is already on the fast track to high priestessdom. Possibly Stevie Rae as well, in a different way.
* [[The Dark Arts]]: Using the power of any element/force of nature or an ancient immortal, whether it's Darkness or Light, is [[Power At a Price]]. It's played straight with Neferet but subverted with Rephaim who has only been shown thus far to use his Dark powers in a good way.
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