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* [[The Multiverse]]
* [[Save Both Worlds]]: More like save ''all'' worlds.
* [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not for Kids?]]?/[[What Do You Mean ItsIt's for Kids?]]?: This is possibly why blurb copy likes to try and distance ''Merlin'' from ''Secret.'' Despite being written by a prominent children's/young adults' author, ''Deep Secret'' was originally published under an adult label and has more adult themes than her other works. (It has a couple instances of rather shocking violence, and a few references to sex, though it's never explicit.) ''The Merlin Conspiracy'' is ''slightly'' more child-friendly, but not by much.
 
==== Tropes appearing specifically in ''Deep Secret'' include: ====
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* [[Big Beautiful Woman]]: Zinka. Maree describes her as "plumpish" (but then, Maree's not small herself), and Rupert refers at one point to her "lovely, ample form."
* [[Carnivore Confusion]]: Everyone wonders if the centaur Rob eats meat. (He does.)
* [[Chaos Architecture]]: The Hotel Babylon--explicitly so, because someone is [[Magic aA Is Magic A|toying with the node that the hotel is set on.]]
* [[Chessmaster]]: {{spoiler|Nick's mom and Gram White}}.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Andrew, though there's a reason for that.
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* [[Plucky Girl]]: Maree, to the point where even {{spoiler|losing half her soul}} won't stop her.
* [[Rags to Royalty]]: {{spoiler|Nick, Rob, ''and Maree'' are all royalty. Nick and Rob know; Maree doesn't, and when she finds out, she is NOT pleased.}}
* [[Rule Thirty Four34]]: Actually invoked ''in-story,'' as the character of Zinka likes to sell her... ''interesting'' paintings at the convention.
* [[Screw Destiny]]: Rupert finds himself thinking this a ''lot.''
* [[Selfless Wish]]: When Maree and Nick {{spoiler|reach Babylon}}, Maree is supposed to wish for {{spoiler|the other half of her soul back}}, but instead wishes for her dad to be cured of cancer, so Nick, in turn, has to use his wish on her.
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: An in-universe example in Mervin Thurless.
* [[Spirit Advisor]]: Stan.
* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: {{spoiler|Inverted with Maree and Rupert. Rupert is repulsed by Maree at first, her being chubby, a bit smudgy, and her voice being rather whiny. Of course, by the time she comes back from Babylon, he's convinced there's no more beautiful woman in all the Multiverse and wouldn't dream of having anyone else.}}
* [[Would Hurt a Child]]: {{spoiler|Janine would ''murder'' several.}}
* [[You Are in Command Now]]: Davros, a mid-ranking military official, is promoted to ''emperor'' when the real Emperor, and almost all of his high-ranking staff, are assassinated.
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Don't laugh at [[Ax Crazy|Japeth]].
* [[Chessmaster]]: {{spoiler|Joel and Japeth}}.
* [[Cold -Blooded Torture]]: {{spoiler|What Japeth wants to do to Nick. Instead, he settles for human sacrifice.}}
* [[Crapsack World]]: Nick wanders through several. Loggia City is probably the most crapsacky world with living people in it that we see. {{spoiler|At the climax, all worlds get varying degrees of this, with magic being permanantly altered and causing chaos,}} though it's implied they get better.
* [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]]: One of the universes Nick pops through in ''The Merlin Conspiracy'' had Loggia City, which is run by the Prayermaster and the Lawmasters.
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