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''The Inkworld Trilogy'' is a German children's book series by Cornelia Funke. It consists of ''Tintenherz'' (''Inkheart''), ''Tintenblut'' (literally "Inkblood", but translated as ''Inkspell'' for the English version), and ''Tintentod'' (''Inkdeath'').
The series centers around Meggie Folchart and her father, Mo. Mo is gifted with the ability to cause anything he reads aloud to appear in front of him. He believes it only applies to inanimate objects until one evening while reading to his wife he accidentally brings to life a fictional [[Evil Overlord]] named Capricorn, along with his knife-happy [[The Dragon|Dragon]], Basta, and the [[Good Scars, Evil Scars|scarred]] fire-eater Dustfinger. At the same time, Mo accidentally sends his wife into the fictional universe, [[Trapped in Another World|trapping her there.]] [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Nice going]].
Needless to say, Capricorn then goes on to do what all villains do best ([[Take Over the World]], what else?), and it is up to Meggie to save the day. Along with her go Fenoglio, the author who created Capricorn; Farid, a young boy from ''[[Arabian Nights]]''; and her bibliophile aunt, Elinor.
The events of the first book are set mostly in Italy. The next book, ''Inkspell'', takes place mostly in the world of Capricorn, Basta, and Dustfinger. It introduces new villains, such as the Adderhead and the Piper, and new friends, like Roxanne and the Black Prince. The third book, ''Inkdeath'', also takes place in the Inkworld.
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* [[A God Am I]]: Fenoglio and Orpheus both have attacks of this, and it's hard to tell which man is worse.
* [[All Just a Dream]]: Discussed. Several characters hope in vain for this at different points in the series.
* [[An Offer You Can't Refuse]]: Death's "deal" with Mo.
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Dustfinger. At one point, he veers into [[Lovable Traitor]] territory, but events teach him quickly and painfully that he's made a terrible mistake by trusting Capricorn to [[I Lied|keep his word]].
* [[Archnemesis Dad]]: The Adderhead is something of this to his daughter, Violante.
* [[A Real Man Is a Killer]]: Played with.
* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: The only half-way sympathetic aristocratic character is Violante, who looks positively sweet next to her [[Complete Monster|father]], but even she is hard and demanding and can be cruel.
* [[Arranged Marriage]]: Violante and Cosimo. Violante's mother claimed this was the case for she and the Adderhead, {{spoiler|but really they fell in love and ran away together}}.
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* [[Back for the Dead]]: This shows up with a strange twist in ''Inkdeath''. {{spoiler|Basta}} was already dead and removed from the story, but when he was [[Came Back Wrong|was brought back as a monster]], we aren't even told that it's him until Dustfinger recognizes him seconds before killing the creature.
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Mo.
* [[Badass Unintentional]]: Nearly all the protagonists.
* [[Bad Dreams]]: It is implied in ''Inkdeath'' that this happens to Mo. Ever since being imprisoned in the Castle of Night, he has never been able to sleep in a room with the door closed.
* [[Balancing Death's Books]]: Ending of ''Inkspell''.
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* [[Black Best Friend]]: Subverted. The Black Prince is Dustfinger's best friend, and he is black, but he doesn't fit the description of the role of "Black Best Friend" very well. He's much more of an independent character.
* [[Book-Burning]]: This happens to every existing copy of ''Inkheart'' {{spoiler|save one}} in the first book.
** Capricorn's fireraisers burn all the books in Elinor's library.
* [[Bookworm]]: Elinor, Mo, Meggie, Resa, Darius, and Violante.
* [[Break the Haughty]]: Averted. This nearly happened to both Elinor (in ''Inkheart'') and Fenoglio (''Inkspell'' and ''Inkdeath''), but after everything both bounced back to themselves perfectly.
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* [[Came Back Wrong]]: Cosimo.
* [[Casting Gag]]: Paul Bettany's real-life wife, Jennifer Connelly, plays Dustfinger's wife, Roxanne, in a cameo at the end of the movie.
* [[Child Soldiers]]: Not one of Violante's devoted "army" is over fourteen.
* [[Consummate Liar]]: In [[The Movie]] at least, nearly everything that comes out of Capricorn's mouth is a lie. Even when he admits he was lying. It gets to the point where he mocks the heroes for being fooled... again.
* [[Crapsack World]]: The Inkworld as it has evolved from Fenoglio's original book definitely counts.
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* [[Cynical Mentor]]: Dustfinger to Farid.
* [[Daddy's Little Villain]]: Even with no affection between father and daughter, this applies to the Adderhead and Violante, however much she might claim not.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Oh, ever so much so. With each successive book.
* [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]]: Between modern-day Earth and the medieval-inspired Inkworld. In spades.
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Dustfinger, through no fault of his own, though. He was accidentally magically summoned to our world and stuck there for ten years.
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* [[The Dragon]]: Basta is Capricorn's dragon in the first book and the Piper is the Adderhead's dragon in the last two books
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: in ''Inkdeath'' Elinor says this will happen to her if Darius leaves her alone.
* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]:
** Arguably {{spoiler|Capricorn's}} death at the hands of the Shadow.
** In ''Inkdeath'', {{spoiler|Mortola}} has been set up as a major villain, having tried to kill Meggie and [[The Lancer|the Black Prince]] - and nearly succeeding with the Prince - only to be struck by an arrow from Orpheus almost at random. She then [[Disney Villain Death|falls to her death]].
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* [[Human Notepad]]: In the film, creatures conjured by the ''[[Big Bad]]'' have random lines of text covering portions of their body, and Meggie writes the words that {{spoiler|kill Capricorn}} all over her arm.
* [[Hypothetical Casting]]: In the back, Cornelia Funke mentioned that she always imagined Mo to be a bit like Brendan Fraser, and then the casting went like that for the movie.
* [[Icon of Rebellion]]: The face of the commoners' uprising was the {{spoiler|fabricated}} folk-hero, The Blue-Jay. He was known by his fairness, thieving, and mask rather than his face, but the songs of the Blue-Jay stirred public favor for the uprising without a face.
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Lampshaded in the film.
{{quote|'''Mo:''' Meggie, just pretend you're in a book. Children always survive in books.
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* [[Knife Nut]]: Basta.
* [[Large Ham]]: Orpheus, and Fenoglio at times. In [[The Movie]], Andy Serkis is clearly enjoying himself as Capricorn.
* [[Le Parkour]]: Farid's specialty
* [[Living Shadow]]: Orpheus' Night-Mare ({{spoiler|[[Reincarnation|who is actually Basta's corrupt spirit]]}}) in the third book.
* [[The Lost Woods]]: Wayless Wood.
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* [[Moral Dissonance]]: Farid is not just a loyal character, but shy and easily embarrassed. At the start of the third book it is established he is in a teenage relationship with Meggie... from Meggie's point of view. When we cut to the chapters from Farid's perspective, the various and numerous serving girls Farid makes out with (whilst still in this relationship) are mentioned casually by the author in passing without any explanation as to how this shy boy suddenly became such a stud... and never again!
* [[Mr. Exposition]]: Dustfinger, when he tells Meggie just how incredibly ''evil'' Capricorn is supposed to be.
* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]:
** There are several cases of this in the books: We are told that "Capricorn" is a name [[Meaningful Rename|he gave himself]], but we never know what his real name is. The same with Orpheus (who gets it double since Farid calls him only "Cheeseface"). The Magpie's real name is Mortola, but she is very rarely referred to that way in the first book. "The Adderhead" and "the Laughing Prince/Prince of Sighs" are names given to them by their subjects. Also the Barn Owl, Nettle, Firefox, Sootbird, the Piper, Flatnose, Cockerell, Cloud-Dancer, and the Black Prince, as well as all the robbers in Book 3. Finally, even though it's never mentioned that he might have another name, Dustfinger could easily be an example of this as well. Since his world is full of regular names like Roxanne, Basta, and Minerva, it's probably safe to assume that this is a nickname rather than what his parents named him.
** Mortimer is an interesting variation of this. While most people call him by his proper name, Dustfinger, Capricorn, and the other characters from ''Inkheart'' refuse to call him anything but "Silvertongue", which he doesn't like. He is also known only by a nickname to his daughter, Meggie, who "had never called her father anything but 'Mo'" and his wife.
* [[Our Giants Are Bigger]]: Actually not; they're smaller than some of the trees. They're definitely different from most fantasy giants, however.
* [[Parent Service]]: In the movie, [[Mr. Fanservice|Dustfinger]]'s [[Playing with Fire|fire-breathing]] [[Shirtless Scene]] is absolutely this.
* [[Portal Book]]: Technically, ''every single written work in existence'', given someone with the right voice.
* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: Come on, they can read the written word aloud - their own, someone elses, any - and make it happen. Surely, at some point, they'll write some self-insert fanfiction or something and just ''read it aloud''...
* [[Purple Prose]]: Funke spends paragraphs on end describing the scenery and minute details of the world.
* [[Reality Writing Book]]: In a variation, Meggie and Mo can read things (and people) in and out of books.
* [[Refugee From TV Land]]: Dustfinger constantly complains about all of the bad aspects of the Real World and wishes for Mo to read him back into Inkheart all through the first book. Turned [[Up to Eleven]] in the film, where he doesn't seem to have much of a personality outside wanting to go home.
* [[Rule of Symbolism]]: After the climax of ''Inkdeath'', it starts snowing. The whiteness is explicitly compared to an unwritten page.
* [[Ship Sinking]]:
** After two novels of setup a sudden relationship formed between Meggie and {{spoiler|... some inventor guy, whilst the back-and-forth Meggie/Farid Ship hit a reef.}}
** Made worse in the beginning of ''Inkdeath'': {{spoiler|Farid and Meggie}} have ''got'' together. Or so the reader thinks, until a few chapters before the end... it's over? Huh?
** Later in the story, Fenoglio tells Meggie about a story he once wrote about {{spoiler|a bookkeeper and an inventor marrying... something which obviously justifies her dumping Farid for some dude who gets barely five lines in the entire novel.}}
* [[Ship Tease]]: [[Just Friends|Dustfinger and Resa]], which is painfully teased throughout the trilogy. Not that anything could come of it since they're both happily married to ''other people'', but their relationship is [[Birds of a Feather|so extremely close]] that even Mo, Meggie, Farid, ''and'' Roxanne at different points of the trilogy have their [[Everyone Can See It|suspicions]] about it. It's in fact heavily implied that Resa and Dustfinger had something going on while she was trapped in the Inkworld. However she still loved Mo and told him about whatever there had been happening between her and Dustfinger.
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