History Creator / Wildbow

* CanadaEh: Wildbow hails from Canada, and ''Pact'' is set entirely within it.

* ''Literature/Claw2024'' [-(2024-)-]

* ''Literature/{{Claw}}'' [-(2024-)-]

** ''Literature/{{Pate}}'' [-(short story)-]

** ''Pale'' starts in Kennet, a fictional small ski town which is somewhere in Western Ontario, Canada near the shore of Lake Superior. Wild Abandon 18.y specifies that it's somewhere in the Riding of Thunder Bay—Superior North.

* DeathOfPersonality: In every completed novel so far, the protagonists and some others have suffered this to some degree:

** In ''Twig'', [[spoiler:Sy's hallucinations gradually become worse and worse until they eventually subsume his personality entirely, leaving the Infante construct in control.]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: As mentioned above, any Wildbow protagonist or secondary character is going to go through hell if they want a shot at a good ending.
* EnemyMine: A major theme of his works are shifting alliances and the compromises that must be made for survival. In ''Worm'' this was often combined with the GodzillaThreshold.

** ''Literature/{{Pale}}'' [-(2020-)-]

** ''Pale'' starts in Kennet, a fictional small ski town which is somewhere in Western Ontario, Canada near the shore of Lake Superior. Wild Abandon 18.y specifies that it's somewhere in [[Thunder Bay—Superior North (provincial electoral district) the Riding of Thunder Bay—Superior North]].

* DeathOfPersonality: In every completed novel so far, the protagonists and some others have suffered this to some degree.

* MysteriousWoman: Most of his stories have a powerful, mysterious woman of ambiguous motives who knows what's really going on and who serves as a major mover-and-shaker in the story's plot:
** In ''Worm'', Contessa, the main enforcer of Cauldron.
** In ''Pact'', Ms. Lewis, the most prominent of the named members of the demonic firm that Blake Thorburn is forced to interact with.
** In ''Twig'', Genevieve Fray, an escaped student and recurring antagonist who serves a central role in the rise of the rebellion.
** ''Pale'' has two of them, Miss and Crooked Rook, though Miss, as one who recruited the girls to solve the story's DrivingQuestion, plays a much more central role in the plot.

*** ''Pale:'' The arc titles all relate to fear in ways that would make someone ''pale''.

* Otherverse:

* Literature/{{Parahumans}}:

* ''Literature/{{Worm}}''
* ''Literature/{{Pact}}''
* ''Literature/{{Twig}}''
* ''Literature/{{Ward}}'' [-(sequel to ''Worm'')-]
* ''Literature/{{Pale}}'' [-(Set in the same universe as ''Pact'')-]
* ''[[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bPsZs1iPqHAcsJr4N7UgW-W7Ne4OCTtUjfvcxIoBmdI/edit Poke]]'' [-(a series of short stories set in the same universe as ''Pact'')-]
* ''Literature/{{Pate}}'' [-(Short story set in the same universe as ''Pact'')-]
* ''TabletopGame/{{Weaverdice}}'' [-(a TabletopRPG set in the same universe as ''Worm''[[note]] and ''Ward'', though though it was created prior to ''Ward's'' release and as a setting mainly revolves around the state of the world prior to ''Worm's'' finale[[/note]])-]
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pactdice}}'' [-(a Tabletop RPG set in the same universe as ''Pact'', ''Poke'', and ''Pale'')-]
* ''Roleplay/PRTQuest'' [-(a series of PlayByPostGames set in the same universe as ''Worm'' [[note]]as with Weaverdice, set before the end of ''Worm'' and start of ''Ward''[[/note]])-]

** ''Pale'' starts in Kennet, a fictional small ski town which is somewhere in Western Ontario, Canada near the shore of Lake Superior.

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: All his main works that share a setting also share the first letter of their title.

* BodyHorror: Extremely common in Wildbow's works. Missing limbs, mutilation, voluntary and involuntary transformations and mutations abound. A list of specific examples would rapidly approach the length of a Wildbow work in its own right. ''Twig'' gets a special mention as its Biopunk setting practically runs on this trope.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: All of Wildbow's serials have arc titles that relate to some part of the work's overall themes, ''and'' relate somehow to the action taking place in that arc. Additionally, each chapter is numbered by which arc it belongs to and which chapter it is within that arc, e.g. Taking Root 1.1, Radiation 18.2. Interlude chapters, which are told from a perspective other than the protagonist's, have a chapter letter instead of a number, e.g. Blinding 11.a.
** ''Worm'': All of the arc titles are biology terms relating to insects and their life cycles. The main character has the power to control insects with her mind.
** ''Pact'': The arc titles are all legal terms. The magic system revolves around making deals and contracts with supernatural entities and other practitioners in order to gain power.
** ''Twig'': The arc titles are all common sayings that are also puns that relate to the [[MadScientist mad bio-science]] that defines the setting.
** ''Ward'': The arc titles are all related to light and darkness, metaphorically relating to the main character's struggles with depression and morality, and more literally alluding to [[spoiler:the means by which the world was nearly destroyed at the end of ''Worm'', namely blasts of golden light]].
** ''Pale:'' The arc titles all relate to fear in ways that would make someone ''pale''.

** Chain restaurants have names that are either weird, funny or kinda gross. Examples include "Fugly Bob's" from ''Worm'', "Roadkill" from ''Ward'', and "Yeast Inception" from ''Pale''.