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* [[I Know Your True Name]] - Played straight, except for Jane (who, as a human, doesn't have one.)
* [[New Weird]]
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]] - It turns out that pretty much every time Jane tried to say "[[Screw Destiny]]", she ended up {{spoiler|[[Spanner in The Works|scuttling the Goddess' plans]] for her to experience some happiness and bring same to those around her.}}
* [[Open Secret]] - Most everyone in the word (save for Jane, of course) knows that astrology doesn't work. However, since any number of corporate interests find belief in astrology useful, the schools teach it as fact.
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]] - they're sentient, sapient (and filled with rage) fighter jets in dragon form.
* [[Our Elves Are Better]] - And they know it.
* [[Rage Against the Heavens]] - More or less Melanchthon's entire reason for living.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] - Jane is told by a female elf noble that as a human, the best she can hope for in life is to {{spoiler|be a brood mare for the elves until [[Dude, She's Like, in A Coma|"Sleeping Beauty's Disease"]] takes her.}}
* [[Sex As Rite of Passage]] / [[I Call Him "Mister Happy"]] - Jane goes through a "naming ceremony" to render "Little Jane" a "friend for life." Males name their dangly bits as well, but the text never states whether not they have a similar rite.
* [[Shout Out]] - At one point, Jane activates a hand of glory by inscribing it with the mystical initials "''[http://www.sfwa.org s f w a]''".
* [[Star
* [[Take That]] - In interviews, Swanwick has claimed that ''The Iron Dragon's Daughter'' was his response to derivative mass-market fantasy.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Jane devolves into this in the end.
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