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* {{spoiler|[[Amnesia Loop]]}}: In ''First Among Sequels'' with Thursday in regards to Jenny.
* [[Androids and Detectives]]: Written!Thursday and [[Clockwork Creature|Sprockett]] in ''Missing''.
* [[Anvil
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: The twenty-second subbasement of the Well of Lost Plots is described as "a haven for cutthroats, bounty hunters, murderers, thieves, cheats, shape-shifters, scene-stealers, brigands, and ''plagiarists.''
** although in-universe, given the nature of the Well, plagiarism is at least as bad as theft. And cheating.
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* [[Brainy Brunette]]: Thursday.
** Her daughter Tuesday could be too; although we don't know her hair color, she certainly has the 'brainy' part down.
* [[Call a Rabbit
* [[CamelCase]]: So much of it that it's [[Deconstructor Fleet|surprising]] it doesn't get lampshaded. There's the OutWorld & the BookWorld, SpecOps has the LiteraTecs and the ChronoGuard, and so on.
* Catchphrase: A remarkably subtle and somewhat heartwarming version that's never pointed out in the text. When the top secret gathering of elite fictional agents in Bookworld breaks up, does the Bellman utter a bloodthirsty battle cry? No, he always warns his people--
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** Also Mr. Toad.
* [[Duet Bonding]]: Thursday and Landen
* [[Due to
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: ''The Eyre Affair'' sees Thursday enter ''Jane Eyre'', but it's not until the second book that Thursday enters the BookWorld and things ''really'' kick off.
* [[Encyclopedia Exposita]]: ''The Jurisfiction Guide to the Great Library'' by the Unitary Authority of Warrington (formely know as Cheshire) Cat.
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* [[Genre Busting]]: So very, very much.
* [[Gilligan Cut]]: At the end of chapter twenty-five of The Eyre Affair, Victor states that there is no way on God's own earth that Thursday and Bowden are going to get him to pose as an Earthcrosser. Guess what he's doing at the beginning of chapter twenty-six?
* [[Giving Up
* [[Gratuitous English]]: Subverted in story when a series of seemingly random English words on Japanese T-shirts turn out to be part of a code message.
* [[Great White Hunter]]: Commander Trafford Bradshaw is a safari adventurer from a series of boys' adventure novels.
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* [[Like Reality Unless Noted]]: Averted, indeed almost ''inverted''. Every time geopolitics is mentioned, for instance, it sounds radically different to that of our world (Russia is Tsarist, one of the two biggest superpowers is based in Africa, Wales has left the United Kingdom - no word on Scotland) and things like Britain being invaded and occupied by the Nazis during [[WW 2]] are casually mentioned out of hand.
* [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]]: The entire setup of the series seems to suggest this, especially the article in ''Well of Lost Plots'' that casually mentions that characters fool the author into believing that he or she is writing the story, whereas in reality their role is minimal. Chapters often open with quotes from Thursday and others, written long after the fact. Although it's also subverted - in ''First Among Sequels'', Thursday needs to visit her previous books, so she goes to the sixth floor of the great library, where all the "F" authors are stored...
* [[Mad Scientist]] / [[Bungling Inventor]]: Thursday's Uncle Mycroft comes up with countless ingenious, insane and downright impossible contraptions, many [[It Runs
* [[Magic Librarian]]: The Cheshire Cat
* [[The Medic]]
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* [[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.
* [[Said Bookism]]: Bookworlders are capable of ''forgetting'' who is currently speaking in a conversation if it goes without dialogue tags for too long. Thursday impresses a few of them by knowing who is talking without them.
* [[Serious Business]]: Works of classic literature. To the extent that [[Yu-Gi-Oh!|a world revolving around a children's card game]] makes perfect sense in comparison. (Fforde says in interviews that the people in the [[Thursday Next]] world have the same mass devotion for literature that people in our world have for sport.)
** Sport? Sport and religion ''combined,'' maybe. Bear in mind sports fans don't go door to door ''evangelising'' their favourite athletes. (Have you ever wondered ''how'' Shakespeare wrote all those wonderful plays?)
** Yet... in ''Well of Lost Plots'' the Bellman says that only [[Fridge Logic|30% of the Outland reads fiction on a regular basis.]]
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*** Art is also Serious Business. The first book contains a ''riot'' over artistic styles and SpecOps-24 deals exclusively with art crime.
** 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
* [[Shout-Out]]: Frequently.
** 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.
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* [[Winds of Destiny Change]]: One of the superpowers of Aornis Hades is her ability to cause deadly coincidences.
* [[Would Not Shoot a Civilian]]
* [[Writer
** Which is pretty ironic considering the Thursday Next series is about fifty percent crossover fanfiction.
** Even more ironic because the character in question is talking about how more people reading the book damages it (the character's job is to perform maintanance on books as they suffer routine wear and tear from being read). That's right, don't write fan fiction, ''[[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|it causes more people to read the original work]]''.
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“It’s a natural consequence of being borrowed from somewhere else,” explained the Thursday, who was, I noted, less than half an inch thick but apparently normal in every other way. “It doesn’t make us any less real or lacking in quality. But being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.” }}
* [[Your Worst Nightmare]]
* [[Zeppelins
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