Wolves of Mercy Falls Series: Difference between revisions

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* [[Diabolus Ex Machina]]: In an unusual form: {{spoiler|a deer}}.

* [[Downer Ending]]: The end of ''Linger'' {{spoiler|undoes ''everything'' the protaganists tried to accomplish in ''Shiver'', only mixing it up by having Grace turn into the wolf.}}

* [[Dropped a Bridge On Him]]: The girl Shelby kills in the opening of ''Forever''? {{spoiler|Olivia, absent since the end of ''Shiver''. We don't find out it's her until later.}}

* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: The girl Shelby kills in the opening of ''Forever''? {{spoiler|Olivia, absent since the end of ''Shiver''. We don't find out it's her until later.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Earn Your Happy Ending]]}}

* [[Eyes of Gold]]: Sam in both human and wolf form.

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* [[Karma Houdini]]: Shelby {{spoiler|gets away alive despite trying to [[Murder the Hypotenuse]] in ''Shiver''.}}

** {{spoiler|She gets what she's got coming in ''Forever'', though.}}

* [[Kill It ~~With~~ Fire]]: Technically speaking. {{spoiler|The 'cure' for the wolves is to inject them with meningitis, which they describe as 'burning out the wolf inside'}}

* [[Kill It with Fire]]: Technically speaking. {{spoiler|The 'cure' for the wolves is to inject them with meningitis, which they describe as 'burning out the wolf inside'}}

* [[Last-Name Basis]]: Beck.

* [[Love At First Sight]]: Grace and Sam.

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* [[Naked First Impression]]: Isabel and Cole in ''Linger''

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: At the end of ''Linger'', it turns out {{spoiler|lycanthropy is actually the body's (super)natural defense mechanism against a toxin- spread by the bites- that kills the victim slowly. "Curing" the shifts merely causes the toxin to kill the victim ''faster''.}}

** Annoyingly, this plotline is then ''[[Aborted Arc|dropped]]'' in the third book, in favor of a [[Cliffhanger Copout]]: {{spoiler|the meningitis cure from ''Shiver'' works, but simple heat stroke -- which suppossedly killed Grace's lycanthropy -- just leaves the body defenseless.}} Or something like that. Honestly, you get the feeling that [[New Rules As the Plot Demands|Stiefvater's not too clear on how it all works, either.]]

** Annoyingly, this plotline is then ''[[Aborted Arc|dropped]]'' in the third book, in favor of a [[Cliffhanger Copout]]: {{spoiler|the meningitis cure from ''Shiver'' works, but simple heat stroke -- which suppossedly killed Grace's lycanthropy -- just leaves the body defenseless.}} Or something like that. Honestly, you get the feeling that [[New Rules as the Plot Demands|Stiefvater's not too clear on how it all works, either.]]

* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: Very different indeed.

* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]: Shelby feels this way about being a wolf.

* [[Retool]]: [[Word of God]] says that the third book was finished, then ''completely rewritten from scratch'' because [[Doing It for ~~The~~ Art|the author wasn't happy with it.]] Some problems resulted, possibly including the abovementioned [[Cliffhanger Copout]].

* [[Retool]]: [[Word of God]] says that the third book was finished, then ''completely rewritten from scratch'' because [[Doing It for the Art|the author wasn't happy with it.]] Some problems resulted, possibly including the abovementioned [[Cliffhanger Copout]].

* [[Rich Bitch]]: Isabel. Until she gets [[Character Development]], anyway.

* [[Shadow Archetype]]: Cole to Sam, as [[The Lancer]] sub-type.

* [[Single-Target Sexuality]]: Sam and Grace only have eyes for eachother.

* [[Stalker ~~With~~ a Crush]]: Sam, even if he was a wolf at the time, and Shelby gets like this with Sam, too.

* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Sam, even if he was a wolf at the time, and Shelby gets like this with Sam, too.

* [[Summon Bigger Fish]]: The theorized cure for lycanthropy? {{spoiler|Bacterial meningitis.}} [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique|Results may vary]].

* [[Technicolor Eyes]]: Sam's eyes are naturally yellow.

* [[Their First Time]]: Sam and Grace in ''Shiver''

* [[What Happened to ~~The~~ Mouse?]]: ''Forever'', chapter fifty-eight: Did {{spoiler|Isabel ask Cole in?}}

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: ''Forever'', chapter fifty-eight: Did {{spoiler|Isabel ask Cole in?}}

** In ''Shiver'', Three teenagers {{spoiler|are infected with lycanthropy by Beck}}. One turns out to be [[Early-Bird Cameo|Cole]], the second his friend Victor, but the third never shows up again.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Isabel to Sam in ''Linger'', for {{spoiler|ignoring the fact that Grace is ''dying'' so as not to ruin their "Dream life."}}