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* [[Badass Normal]]: Thursday.

* [[Bad Dreams]]

* [[Black Market Produce]]: Characters from the BookWorld want things from the Outland (the real world), and those things include foodstuffs. In response to requests and along with other non-food items, Thursday brings back a jar of Marmite, Moggilicious cat food (for The Cat Formerly Known as Cheshire), and Mintolas (for Marianne Dashwood, who describes them as, "A bit like like Munchies but minty").

** In the Outland itself, partly due to the tight borders England has with the Socialist Republic of Wales and partly due to an exorbitant tax to pay for the Crimean War, cheese has become expensive enough for a black market for the stuff to become profitable, under the Cheese Mafia. Then again, considering the cheeses you can get...

* [[Child Prodigy]]: {{spoiler|Tuesday had found a solution to Fermat's last theorem when she was nine.}}

* [[Cliff Hanger]]: in ''First Among Sequels'', where in the final chapter we find out that {{spoiler|there was a serial killer loose in the Bookworld!}}

* [[Cobweb of Disuse]]: Thursday mentions the cobwebs at Satis House when she goes there to meet Miss Havisham.

* [[Coincidence Magnet]]: Thursday herself, who saves the day both in the real world and BookWorld several times, despite being just another LiteraTec and Jurisfiction agent, respectively. Interestingly, a villain has this as a ''consciously-controlled power'', the ability to manipulate probability. Said villain attempts to kill Thursday numerous times with staggeringly unlikely coincidences.

{{quote| "...crimes against humanity, murder, theft, illegal possession of a firearm, the discharge of a weapon in a public place, murder, impersonating a SpecOps officer, cheese smuggling, assorted motoring offenses and murder."}}

* [[Dirty Coward]]

* [[Dream Weaver]]

* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Miss Havisham.

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Cindy Stoker}} in ''Something Rotten'' {{spoiler|''literally'' takes Thursday's place crossing the Styx, saying that Thursday is a better person than she will ever be, and more deserving of a second chance}}. In ''First Among Sequels'' {{spoiler|Evil Thursday uses her final moments to help Thursday to safety, knowing that she herself cannot escape}}.

* [[Renowned Selective Mentor]]: Miss Havisham trains Thursday for Jurisfiction in ''Lost in a Good Book''. She's specifically described by Mrs. Dashwood as being highly selective, and she herself says as much, warning Thursday that she could easily lose the privilege of studying with her.

** Thursday's father was eradicated, but managed to still exist because of his ChronoGuard skills. However, he no longer has/never had a first name.

** And in the fifth book, time travel itself becomes retgone, because it never will be discovered.

* [[Ridiculously Average Guy]]: The generics, the characters in every story that have no personality whatsoever. Every character starts like this.

* [[River of Insanity]]

* [[Rubber Band History]] - An interesting variant - though it isn't set in our world, thanks to [[Time Travel]], it will be once the ChronoGuard sort out all the errors.

** Cheese is Serious Business as well, though it's occasionally justified when certain cheeses can knock out a human at ten feet, or even require evacuation if their rubbersealed metal containers come unsealed.

* [[He Who Must Not Be Seen|She Who Must Not Be Seen]]: Jenny, Thursday's youngest daughter. The recurrent scenes that [[Missed Him By That Much|Thursday always shows up at precisely the wrong time and miss seeing her]] is played as a rather weak [[Running Gag]], {{spoiler|it was revealed that she is a mindworm left by Aornis Hades and does not actually exist. Her family knows this but pretends she exists and are ready with excuses when Thursday asks where Jenny was. This is to prevent Thursday from having a mental breakdown every time she realizes Jenny does not exist; Aornis created a mental block to prevent her from being able to recall this fact.}}

** In ''Lost in a Good Book'', Spike has a powerful vacuum cleaner used to suck up ghosts. He also uses it for his household chores, and says that there's no bag, and therefore no loss of suction. He is quoting, almost word for word, the description of the Dyson line of vacuums, started by inventor James Dyson in the mid-80s. The vacuum in the book, which is set in the mid-80s, was invented by James in R&D.

* [[So Proud of You]]

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