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* YearInsideHourOutside: Charles Wallace spends days and weeks within his hosts, but it all takes place in real life within a few hours. Of note is that Meg, who is experiencing is everything via [[''Telepathy'' kything]], but is seemingly not affected by the amount of time she experiences within Charles Wallace versus the real time for her. She can even talk with her family and go back to Charles Walllace at the same time she left him.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: The events of ''ManyWaters'' happen before ''A Swiftly Tilting Planet''. After a time-traveling adventure to thousands of years before the birth of Christ, you'd think that Sandy and Dennys would not be so incredulous. This is explained by the fact that L'Engle wrote ''Many Waters'' after ''A Swiftly Tilting Planet'', but for anyone reading the books in their chronological order this is just weird.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: The events of ''ManyWaters'' ''Literature/ManyWaters'' happen before ''A Swiftly Tilting Planet''. After a time-traveling adventure to thousands of years before the birth of Christ, you'd think that Sandy and Dennys would not be so incredulous. This is explained by the fact that L'Engle wrote ''Many Waters'' after ''A Swiftly Tilting Planet'', but for anyone reading the books in their chronological order this is just weird.
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* {{Unicorn}}: Gaudior. It deserves noting that he's ''very'' different from the unicorns depicted in ''ManyWaters'' in the same world -- he's bigger, he's more reliably (albeit still not completely) real, and he's telepathic. And has magic.
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* {{Unicorn}}: Gaudior. It deserves noting that he's ''very'' different from the unicorns depicted in ''ManyWaters'' ''Literature/ManyWaters'' in the same world -- he's bigger, he's more reliably (albeit still not completely) real, and he's telepathic. And has magic.
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* EvilSmellsBad: The Echthroi, as noted in ''AWindInTheDoor''. Also, Chuck Maddox can smell bad character or cruelty on a person the same way he can physical cancers.
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* EvilSmellsBad: The Echthroi, as noted in ''AWindInTheDoor''.''Literature/AWindInTheDoor''. Also, Chuck Maddox can smell bad character or cruelty on a person the same way he can physical cancers.
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* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Mostly simple. If you're descended from Madoc you're probably a good guy, if you're descended from Gwydyr you're probably bad. [[spoiler: The major exception is Zillie, who is being manipulated by her cruel, ambitious brother--but even she can't be allowed to marry Bran due to her tainted blood. The plot of the novel basically hinges on making sure that Madog Branzillo is born from Madoc's lineage rather than Gwydyr's.]]
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* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Mostly simple. If you're descended from Madoc you're probably a good guy, if you're descended from Gwydyr you're probably bad. [[spoiler: The major exception is Zillie, who is being manipulated by her cruel, ambitious brother--but even she can't brother and would rather be allowed to marry with someone else -- but letting Gedder bully her into marrying Bran would still spell disaster, though this is more due to the undue influence it would allow him to exert rather than "just" being her tainted blood. The plot of the novel basically hinges on making sure that Madog Branzillo is born from Madoc's lineage rather than Gwydyr's.Gwydyr's, and that the fledgling nation of Vespugia is cleansed of Gwydyr's influence.]]
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Even a full-scale nuclear war would not even blow up a planet. It would "merely" turn a good portion of the world (perhaps all of it) into an uninhabitable, or barely habitable, wasteland. The quote in the ArtisticLicenseAstronomy entry is especially curious, as the conversations with Sandy and Dennys, as well as the Projections, depict a more realistic result. That said, in the universe of the books there's more going on than simple physics.
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* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Mostly simple. If you're descended from Madoc you're probably a good guy, if you're descended from Gwydyr you're probably bad. [[spoiler: The major exception is Zillie, who is being manipulated by her cruel, ambitious brother, and the plot of the novel basically hinges on making sure that Madog Branzillo is born from Madoc's lineage rather than Gwydyr's.]]
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* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Mostly simple. If you're descended from Madoc you're probably a good guy, if you're descended from Gwydyr you're probably bad. [[spoiler: The major exception is Zillie, who is being manipulated by her cruel, ambitious brother, and the brother--but even she can't be allowed to marry Bran due to her tainted blood. The plot of the novel basically hinges on making sure that Madog Branzillo is born from Madoc's lineage rather than Gwydyr's.]]
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* YouFailPhysicsForever: Even a full-scale nuclear war would not even blow up a planet. It would "merely" turn a good portion of the world (perhaps all of it) into an uninhabitable, or barely habitable, wasteland. The quote in the ArtisticLicenseAstronomy entry is especially curious, as the conversations with Sandy and Dennys, as well as the Projections, depict a more realistic result. That said, in the universe of the books there's more going on than simple physics.
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* PublicDomainCharacter: Madoc, whose legendary trip to America is discussed on TheOtherWiki. See [[here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madoc]]
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* PublicDomainCharacter: Madoc, whose legendary trip to America is discussed on TheOtherWiki. See [[here http://en.[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madoc]] org/wiki/Madoc here]]
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* {{Pride}}: Charles Wallace's certainty in his own intellect and abilities almost causes disasters many times over, [[ContinuityNod just as it did in]] ''[[Literature/AWrinkleInTime]]''. [[spoiler: Ultimately, he [[CharacterDevelopment accepts that he isn't perfect and doesn't necessarily have all the answers]], just in time to escape a very subtle trap laid by the Ecthroi.]] Gaudior, too, eventually comes to understand and overcome his own disdain for "mortals" bound to time.
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* {{Pride}}: Charles Wallace's certainty in his own intellect and abilities almost causes disasters many times over, [[ContinuityNod just as it did in]] ''[[Literature/AWrinkleInTime]]''.''Literature/AWrinkleInTime''. [[spoiler: Ultimately, he [[CharacterDevelopment accepts that he isn't perfect and doesn't necessarily have all the answers]], just in time to escape a very subtle trap laid by the Ecthroi.]] Gaudior, too, eventually comes to understand and overcome his own disdain for "mortals" bound to time.
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The trope is for when a child is named in-universe in honor of a deceased person. The recurring names in the novel seem to be more about history repeating itself, rather than any of the characters being intentionally named after their similarly-named predecessor.
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* DeadGuyJunior: Many characters have similar, recurring names.
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* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Stepdad]]: Duthbert Mortmain in the Chuck arc.
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* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Stepdad]]: Duthbert Mortmain in the Chuck arc. arc, [[spoiler: ultimately responsible for Chuck suffering brain damage and coming unstuck in time, Beezie growing up into the hard, bitter Mrs. O'Keefe, and their grandmother dying of a heart attack.]]
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* UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWarAmbitionIsEvil: The major sin of Gwydyr's line. Gwydyr himself chose to set himself up as a king over the People Across the Lake and to conquer the People of the Wind, while [[spoiler: his descendant Gedder's desire to dominate Vespugia is what ultimately created Madog Branzillo and destroyed the world.]]
* UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar: The setting for the Matthew Maddox arc, and the source of Bran's post-traumatic stress disorder, eventually leading to him settling in a new South American colony.
* UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar: The setting for the Matthew Maddox arc, and the source of Bran's post-traumatic stress disorder, eventually leading to him settling in a new South American colony.
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* {{Arcadia}}: The area where the Murrys live, in the past.
* ArcWords: St. Patrick's Rune.
* ArcWords: St. Patrick's Rune.
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* {{Arcadia}}: The area where the Murrys live, in the past.
past, when the People of the Wind lived in simple pastoral harmony.
* ArcWords: St. Patrick'sRune.Rune, invoked in each story arc in turn.
* ArcWords: St. Patrick's
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* BadFuture: the "Projections" created by the Echthroi.
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* BadFuture: the The "Projections" created by the Echthroi.Echthroi, in which they attempt to entrap Charles Wallace and Gaudior.
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* BadassPacifist: The Rune itself, and everyone who uses it. Violence crops up from time to time (always regretted), but when you use the Rune, you're basically saying "I will not do harm, but I ask all heaven with its power etc. to stand between me and evil, to see that I am in the right."
* BecauseDestinySaysSo
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Mostly simple. If you're descended from Madoc you're probabaly a good guy, if you're descended from Gwydyr you're probably bad. [[spoiler: The major exception is Zillie, who is being manipulated by her brother, and the plot of the novel basically hinges on making sure that Madog Branzillo is born from Madoc's lineage rather than Gwydyr's.]]
* BodySurf: Charles Wallace surfing from person to person in various time periods makes up most of the narrative, in an unusual example of the hero employing this trope. Notably, however, he is not taking direct control of his hosts so much as submerging into their consciousnesses, observing events from their perspective and providing subconscious nudges toward certain actions.
* BecauseDestinySaysSo
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Mostly simple. If you're descended from Madoc you're probabaly a good guy, if you're descended from Gwydyr you're probably bad. [[spoiler: The major exception is Zillie, who is being manipulated by her brother, and the plot of the novel basically hinges on making sure that Madog Branzillo is born from Madoc's lineage rather than Gwydyr's.]]
* BodySurf: Charles Wallace surfing from person to person in various time periods makes up most of the narrative, in an unusual example of the hero employing this trope. Notably, however, he is not taking direct control of his hosts so much as submerging into their consciousnesses, observing events from their perspective and providing subconscious nudges toward certain actions.
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* BadassPacifist: The Rune itself, and everyone who uses it. Violence crops up from time to time (always regretted), but when you use invoking the Rune, you're basically saying characters are claiming "I will not do harm, but I ask all heaven with its power etc. to stand between me and evil, to see that I am in the right."
* BecauseDestinySaysSo
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Mostly simple. If you're descended from Madoc you're probabaly probably a good guy, if you're descended from Gwydyr you're probably bad. [[spoiler: The major exception is Zillie, who is being manipulated by her cruel, ambitious brother, and the plot of the novel basically hinges on making sure that Madog Branzillo is born from Madoc's lineage rather than Gwydyr's.]]
* BodySurf: Charles Wallace surfing from person to person in various time periods makes up most of the narrative, in an unusual example of the hero employing this trope. Notably, however, he is not taking direct control of his hosts so much as submerging into their consciousnesses, observing events from their perspective and providing subconscious nudges toward certain actions. Meg, in turn, is basically doing the same with with Charles. [[spoiler: Chuck, after his brain injury permanently changes his perspective, does it too, with Matthew in the past, while Matthew does it with his twin brother and, eventually, with the combined strength of the various other actors, they manage to prevent Gedder from taking over Vespugia.]]
* BodySurf: Charles Wallace surfing from person to person in various time periods makes up most of the narrative, in an unusual example of the hero employing this trope. Notably, however, he is not taking direct control of his hosts so much as submerging into their consciousnesses, observing events from their perspective and providing subconscious nudges toward certain actions. Meg, in turn, is basically doing the same with with Charles. [[spoiler: Chuck, after his brain injury permanently changes his perspective, does it too, with Matthew in the past, while Matthew does it with his twin brother and, eventually, with the combined strength of the various other actors, they manage to prevent Gedder from taking over Vespugia.]]
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* BrokenBird: Mrs. O'Keefe
* BurnTheWitch: Averted. Zylle is sentenced to be hanged.
* CainAndAbel: Madoc and Gwydyr. Another recurring motif.
* CallBack: The first chapter alludes to the tesseract and farandolae of the respective first two books.
* [[CantArgueWithElves Can't Argue With Winged Unicorns]]: Sort of. Gaudior is generally right, but he admits that his pride and impatience aren't helping as the situation develops.
* CombatByChampion: Madoc vs. Gwydyr
* CoolHorse: Gaudior
* BurnTheWitch: Averted. Zylle is sentenced to be hanged.
* CainAndAbel: Madoc and Gwydyr. Another recurring motif.
* CallBack: The first chapter alludes to the tesseract and farandolae of the respective first two books.
* [[CantArgueWithElves Can't Argue With Winged Unicorns]]: Sort of. Gaudior is generally right, but he admits that his pride and impatience aren't helping as the situation develops.
* CombatByChampion: Madoc vs. Gwydyr
* CoolHorse: Gaudior
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* BrokenBird: Mrs. O'Keefe
O'Keefe, Calvin's bitter mother, [[spoiler: was once Beezie, before her father died, her abusive stepfather broke her brother's brain, and she married an equally-abusive man to protect her from him.]]
* BurnTheWitch: Averted.Zylle Zylle, accused of witchcraft, is sentenced to be hanged.
* CainAndAbel: Madoc andGwydyr. Another Gwydyr, two exiled Welsh princes who came to the new world. It eventually turns into one of many recurring motif.
motifs.
* CallBack: The first chapter alludes to the tesseract and farandolae of therespective first two books.
* [[CantArgueWithElves Can't Argue With Winged Unicorns]]: Sort of. Gaudior is generally right, but he admits that his pride and impatience aren't helping as the situationdevelops.
develops, and his lack of mortal perspective is generally held up as a bad thing.
* CombatByChampion: Madoc vs.Gwydyr
Gwydyr in the Madoc arc. [[spoiler: Madoc wins, and exiles his brother from the land of the People of the Wind.]]
* CoolHorse:GaudiorGaudior, a unicorn who drinks starlight, flies through time, and can literally ask the wind for directions.
* CultureClash: In Brandon's arc, between the People of the Wind and the more-liberal, original Welsh settlers on the one hand and the hardline Puritans on the other. This is partly what trips up Zylle during her interrogation by Mortmain.
* BurnTheWitch: Averted.
* CainAndAbel: Madoc and
* CallBack: The first chapter alludes to the tesseract and farandolae of the
* [[CantArgueWithElves Can't Argue With Winged Unicorns]]: Sort of. Gaudior is generally right, but he admits that his pride and impatience aren't helping as the situation
* CombatByChampion: Madoc vs.
* CoolHorse:
* CultureClash: In Brandon's arc, between the People of the Wind and the more-liberal, original Welsh settlers on the one hand and the hardline Puritans on the other. This is partly what trips up Zylle during her interrogation by Mortmain.
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* DeadGuyJunior
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: In Brandon's story, between the People of the Wind and the more liberal Welsh on the one hand, and the hardline Puritans on the other. This is partly what trips up Zylle during her interrogation by Mortmain.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: In Brandon's story, between the People of the Wind and the more liberal Welsh on the one hand, and the hardline Puritans on the other. This is partly what trips up Zylle during her interrogation by Mortmain.
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* DeadGuyJunior
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: In Brandon's story, between the People of the Wind and the more liberal Welsh on the one hand, and the hardline Puritans on the other. This is partly what trips up Zylle during her interrogation by Mortmain.DeadGuyJunior: Many characters have similar, recurring names.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: In Brandon's story, between the People of the Wind and the more liberal Welsh on the one hand, and the hardline Puritans on the other. This is partly what trips up Zylle during her interrogation by Mortmain.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: Played straight with Gedder.
* DomesticAbuse: Heavily implied that Beezie's mother was a victim of it.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Discussed by Matthew and Bran, one of whom is paralyzed and the other suffers from a permanently injured leg and [[ShellShockedVeteran PTSD]].
* EvilSmellsBad: The Echthroi, as noted in ''AWindInTheDoor''. Also, Chuck Maddox can smell bad character or cruelty on a person.
* DomesticAbuse: Heavily implied that Beezie's mother was a victim of it.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Discussed by Matthew and Bran, one of whom is paralyzed and the other suffers from a permanently injured leg and [[ShellShockedVeteran PTSD]].
* EvilSmellsBad: The Echthroi, as noted in ''AWindInTheDoor''. Also, Chuck Maddox can smell bad character or cruelty on a person.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: Played straight with Gedder.[[spoiler: Gedder, who dies from a deadly fall after scrabbling on the clifftop to retrieve his fallen knife]].
* DomesticAbuse:Heavily It is heavily implied that Beezie's mother was a victim of it.
it at the hands of Duthbert Mortmain, [[spoiler: then equally-heavily implied to be what turns her into Mrs. O'Keefe.]]
* DontYouDarePityMe: Discussed by Matthew and Bran, oneof whom is paralyzed with two useless legs and the other suffers suffering from a permanently injured permanently-injured leg and [[ShellShockedVeteran PTSD]].
* EvilSmellsBad: The Echthroi, as noted in ''AWindInTheDoor''. Also, Chuck Maddox can smell bad character or cruelty on aperson.person the same way he can physical cancers.
* DomesticAbuse:
* DontYouDarePityMe: Discussed by Matthew and Bran, one
* EvilSmellsBad: The Echthroi, as noted in ''AWindInTheDoor''. Also, Chuck Maddox can smell bad character or cruelty on a
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: From the way Mrs. O'Keefe talks about him, you know something bad is going to happen to Chuck.
* FictionalDocument: ''The Horn of Joy'' and ''Once More United'', both by Matthew Maddox.
* ForWantOfANail: What they're trying to do, to avert WWIII.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: It's heavily implied that Mortmain is making sexual advances at Beezie.
* TheGeneralissimo: "Mad Dog" Branzillo rules the fictional South American country Vespugia. The plot revolves around going back in time and changing events so that Branzillo becomes a benevolent ruler instead.
* FictionalDocument: ''The Horn of Joy'' and ''Once More United'', both by Matthew Maddox.
* ForWantOfANail: What they're trying to do, to avert WWIII.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: It's heavily implied that Mortmain is making sexual advances at Beezie.
* TheGeneralissimo: "Mad Dog" Branzillo rules the fictional South American country Vespugia. The plot revolves around going back in time and changing events so that Branzillo becomes a benevolent ruler instead.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: From the way Mrs. O'Keefe often talks about him, you know something bad is going happening to happen to Chuck.
"Chuck." [[spoiler: She doesn't necessarily mean Charles Wallace.]]
* FictionalDocument: ''The Horn of Joy'' and ''Once More United'', both novels by MatthewMaddox.
Maddox relating to time-travel.
* ForWantOfANail:What they're trying to do, Charles Wallace and Gaudior are attempting to avert WWIII.
the nuclear annihilation of the Earth by subtly nudging time around.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: It's heavily implied that Mortmain is making sexual advances atBeezie.
Beezie [[spoiler: before permanently damaging Chuck's brain. It's also implied to be why she ends up with the equally-abusive Paddy O'Keefe for "protection."]]
* TheGeneralissimo: "Mad Dog" Branzillo rules the fictional South American country pf Vespugia. The plot revolves around going back in time and changing events so that Branzillo [[spoiler: becomes a benevolent ruler instead.]]
* FictionalDocument: ''The Horn of Joy'' and ''Once More United'', both novels by Matthew
* ForWantOfANail:
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: It's heavily implied that Mortmain is making sexual advances at
* TheGeneralissimo: "Mad Dog" Branzillo rules the fictional South American country pf Vespugia. The plot revolves around going back in time and changing events so that Branzillo [[spoiler: becomes a benevolent ruler instead.]]
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* GoingNative: Madoc, a Welsh prince who joined the Wind People.
* GoodIsImpotent: Somewhat averted. The "good" people are proactive, strong, and willing to face evil, at least to give it a stern talking-to. But the wicked people are tolerated in the communities because they're ''better at things'' - one woman who is racist against Indians is the best midwife in the village, and Gedder the evil sumbitch is able to teach others how to farm.
* GoodIsImpotent: Somewhat averted. The "good" people are proactive, strong, and willing to face evil, at least to give it a stern talking-to. But the wicked people are tolerated in the communities because they're ''better at things'' - one woman who is racist against Indians is the best midwife in the village, and Gedder the evil sumbitch is able to teach others how to farm.
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* TheGhost: Despite being at the heart of the narrative, "Mad Dog" Branzillo never directly appears on page. The closest we come is seeing his face and thoughts through the POV of various "seers" looking into the future.
* GoingNative: Madoc,a an ancient Welsh prince who came to the new world before Columbus and ultimately joined the Wind People.
People. [[HeroicLineage His physical attributes recur among them for generations,]] [[OccultBlueEyes most notably his wide-set blue eyes.]]
* GoodIsImpotent: Somewhat averted. The "good" people are proactive, strong, and willing to face evil, at least to give it a stern talking-to. But the wicked people are tolerated in the communities becausethey're ''better at things'' they have special talents - one woman who is racist against Indians is the best midwife in the village, and Gedder the evil sumbitch would-be future dictator is a powerful force in helping the Welsh settlers adapt to Vespugia. Played straightest in the Chuck arc; their father is so nice that he makes a poor businessman, lending out too much credit, while Duthbert Mortmain, in all his cruelty, is able to teach others how to farm. keep the failing store in the black.
* GoingNative: Madoc,
* GoodIsImpotent: Somewhat averted. The "good" people are proactive, strong, and willing to face evil, at least to give it a stern talking-to. But the wicked people are tolerated in the communities because
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* HeroicLineage: A big theme.theme, mostly involving the line of Madoc.
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* HiddenElfVillage: The Unicorn's hatching grounds, which is safe from Ecthroi and has never been seen by human eyes.
* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Aww, Matthew.
* IdenticalGrandson: Matthew and Bran for Madoc, Chuck for Brandon.
* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Aww, Matthew.
* IdenticalGrandson: Matthew and Bran for Madoc, Chuck for Brandon.
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* HiddenElfVillage: The Unicorn's hatching grounds, which is safe from Ecthroi and has never been seen by human eyes.
eyes before Charles Wallace.
* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy:Aww, Matthew.
Matthew is deeply in love with his brother's fiancee, [[spoiler: and ultimately spends most of his money to let her elope to South America to be with him. This act of love also helps save the world.]]
* IdenticalGrandson: Matthew and Bran for Madoc, Chuck forBrandon.Brandon, etc.
* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy:
* IdenticalGrandson: Matthew and Bran for Madoc, Chuck for
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* IndianMaiden[=/=]TheChiefsDaughter: Zyll and Zylle.
* InSpiteOfANail: They play around with numerous events in history, and the only one that seems to affect the present(or at least, THEIR present) is the one they want.
* InTheBlood: See "BlackAndWhiteMorality" above. This is all but stated in as many words in the text; Charles Wallace's ultimate goal is to adjust history so that the leader of a certain nation is descended from Madoc instead of from Gwydyr, changing him from a tyrant nicknamed "Mad Dog" to a benevolent ruler nicknamed "The Blue-Eyed."
* InSpiteOfANail: They play around with numerous events in history, and the only one that seems to affect the present(or at least, THEIR present) is the one they want.
* InTheBlood: See "BlackAndWhiteMorality" above. This is all but stated in as many words in the text; Charles Wallace's ultimate goal is to adjust history so that the leader of a certain nation is descended from Madoc instead of from Gwydyr, changing him from a tyrant nicknamed "Mad Dog" to a benevolent ruler nicknamed "The Blue-Eyed."
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* IndianMaiden[=/=]TheChiefsDaughter: Zyll and Zylle.
Zylle both fit parts of the archetype.
* InSpiteOfANail:They Charles and Gaudior play around with numerous events in history, and the only one that seems to affect the present(or present (or at least, THEIR present) is the one they want.
want. Of course, since what they're doing is so subtle that even the characters involved don't usually realize what they've changed, they probably didn't adjust much.
* InTheBlood: See "BlackAndWhiteMorality" above. This is all but stated in as many words in the text; Charles Wallace's ultimate goal is to adjust history so that the leader of a certain nation [[spoiler: is descended from Madoc instead of from Gwydyr, changing him from a tyrant nicknamed "Mad Dog" to a benevolent ruler nicknamed "The Blue-Eyed.""]]
* InSpiteOfANail:
* InTheBlood: See "BlackAndWhiteMorality" above. This is all but stated in as many words in the text; Charles Wallace's ultimate goal is to adjust history so that the leader of a certain nation [[spoiler: is descended from Madoc instead of from Gwydyr, changing him from a tyrant nicknamed "Mad Dog" to a benevolent ruler nicknamed "The Blue-Eyed.
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** Subverted with Calvin, though, whose ancestors, the O'Keefes, include a guy who flings homeless puppies to death against walls, and Paddy, who is implied to be cut from the same cloth as Mortmain.
* KickTheDog: Jack O'Keefe kills homeless puppies by flinging them against the walls of barns.
* KickTheDog: Jack O'Keefe kills homeless puppies by flinging them against the walls of barns.
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** Subverted with Calvin, though, whose ancestors, the O'Keefes, include a guy who flings homeless puppies to death against walls, and Paddy, who is implied to be cut from the same cloth as Mortmain.
[[AbusiveParents Mortmain]].
* KickTheDog: Jack O'Keefe literally kills homeless puppies by flinging them against the walls ofbarns.barns to show off his muscles. Most of the evil characters are also some combination of racist, greedy, and abusive.
* KickTheDog: Jack O'Keefe literally kills homeless puppies by flinging them against the walls of
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
* LoveMakesYouEvil: If you marry the wrong person, it can. Any kids you have with him/her will turn out evil as well.
* MeaningfulName: The names "Maddox", "Bran", "Zilla", and their variations. Also the various characters named "[[ObviouslyEvil Mortmain]]", which means "dead hand" in French.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: If you marry the wrong person, it can. Any kids you have with him/her will turn out evil as well.
* MeaningfulName: The names "Maddox", "Bran", "Zilla", and their variations. Also the various characters named "[[ObviouslyEvil Mortmain]]", which means "dead hand" in French.
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* MightyWhitey: Madoc, though he has completely abandoned his Welsh homeland, and has no intention of ever returning.
* MindScrew: So how is all of this time traveling solving anything?
* MindScrew: So how is all of this time traveling solving anything?
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* MightyWhitey: Played with. Madoc, though a foreign prince, saves the People of the Wind from his brother, but he has completely abandoned his Welsh homeland, homeland and has no intention of ever returning.
* MindScrew: So howreturning. However, he is all not generally held to be better than the People because of this time traveling solving anything?his race, and the only reason he has to be the one to beat his brother is because he doesn't want anyone to die.
* MindScrew: So how
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* NightmareFace: The creature Charles and Gaudior briefly encounter in a Projection.
* NobleSavage: The People of the Wind.
* ANuclearError: A nuclear exchange between Vespugia and the U.S. would not destroy the U.S. Nuclear weapons are difficult and expensive to make (you need the materials, for one thing), and the United States is an awfully big target, which would require several nukes to take out. (Ca. 2000, the PRC lacked the capacity to hit any more than the U.S.'s West Coast.) On the other hand, Vespugia is said to be about the size of Isreal, and nuking such a small country would not result in a massive global ecological catastrophe -- at least, not as described in the story.
** Keeping in mind that previous books in the Time series have established that in certain areas, the science of this version of Earth is far more advanced.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted with Mattie and Matthew, Richard, Ritchie, and Rich Llawcae, Brandon and his namesake nephew, David and Davey Higgins, and most impressively, Zyll, Zylle, Zillie, and Zillah. Then again, most of this has to do with history repeating itself.
* NobleSavage: The People of the Wind.
* ANuclearError: A nuclear exchange between Vespugia and the U.S. would not destroy the U.S. Nuclear weapons are difficult and expensive to make (you need the materials, for one thing), and the United States is an awfully big target, which would require several nukes to take out. (Ca. 2000, the PRC lacked the capacity to hit any more than the U.S.'s West Coast.) On the other hand, Vespugia is said to be about the size of Isreal, and nuking such a small country would not result in a massive global ecological catastrophe -- at least, not as described in the story.
** Keeping in mind that previous books in the Time series have established that in certain areas, the science of this version of Earth is far more advanced.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted with Mattie and Matthew, Richard, Ritchie, and Rich Llawcae, Brandon and his namesake nephew, David and Davey Higgins, and most impressively, Zyll, Zylle, Zillie, and Zillah. Then again, most of this has to do with history repeating itself.
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* NightmareFace: The creature hideous mutant Charles and Gaudior briefly encounter in a Projection.
* NobleSavage: The People of theWind.
* ANuclearError: A nuclear exchange between VespugiaWind, who live in harmony with nature and the U.S. would with one another. However, as Gaudior bitterly notes, [[RealityEnsues our world is not destroy the U.S. Nuclear weapons are difficult and expensive kind to make (you need the materials, for one thing), and the United States is an awfully big target, which would require several nukes to take out. (Ca. 2000, the PRC lacked the capacity to hit any more than the U.S.'s West Coast.) On the other hand, Vespugia is said to be about the size lovers of Isreal, and nuking such a small country would not result in a massive global ecological catastrophe -- at least, not as described in the story.
** Keeping in mind that previous books in the Time series have established that in certain areas, the science of this version of Earth is far more advanced.
peace]].
* OneSteveLimit: Averted with Mattie and Matthew, Richard, Ritchie, and Rich Llawcae, Brandon and his namesake nephew, David and Davey Higgins, and most impressively, Zyll, Zylle, Zillie, and Zillah. Then again, most of this has to do with [[GenerationXerox history repeatingitself.itself]].
* NobleSavage: The People of the
* ANuclearError: A nuclear exchange between Vespugia
** Keeping in mind that previous books in the Time series have established that in certain areas, the science of this version of Earth is far more advanced.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted with Mattie and Matthew, Richard, Ritchie, and Rich Llawcae, Brandon and his namesake nephew, David and Davey Higgins, and most impressively, Zyll, Zylle, Zillie, and Zillah. Then again, most of this has to do with [[GenerationXerox history repeating
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Pastor Mortmain, and pretty much anyone who takes his side during the Brandon Llawcae plot.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Pastor Mortmain, and pretty much anyone who takes his side during the Brandon Llawcae plot.plot, being racist and close-minded about the local Indians.
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* RealityIsUnrealistic: So, Branzillo, a south american dictator, is distantly related to Welsh people? Actually... not all that farfetched, look around Argentina.
* TheReveal: Eccentric, impoverished Mrs. O'Keefe is descended from royalty (Queen Branwen of Britain, [[TheChiefsDaughter Zyll]]) and through this line she is distantly related to "Mad Dog" Branzillo.
* TheReveal: Eccentric, impoverished Mrs. O'Keefe is descended from royalty (Queen Branwen of Britain, [[TheChiefsDaughter Zyll]]) and through this line she is distantly related to "Mad Dog" Branzillo.
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* {{Pride}}: Charles Wallace's certainty in his own intellect and abilities almost causes disasters many times over, [[ContinuityNod just as it did in]] ''[[Literature/AWrinkleInTime]]''. [[spoiler: Ultimately, he [[CharacterDevelopment accepts that he isn't perfect and doesn't necessarily have all the answers]], just in time to escape a very subtle trap laid by the Ecthroi.]] Gaudior, too, eventually comes to understand and overcome his own disdain for "mortals" bound to time.
* RealityIsUnrealistic: So, Branzillo, asouth american South American dictator, is distantly related to Welsh people? the Welsh? Actually... not all that farfetched, far-fetched, look around Argentina.
* TheReveal: Eccentric, impoverished Mrs. O'Keefe is descended from royalty (Queen Branwen of Britain, [[TheChiefsDaughter Zyll]]) [[spoiler: and through this line she is distantly related to "Mad Dog" Branzillo.]]
* RealityIsUnrealistic: So, Branzillo, a
* TheReveal: Eccentric, impoverished Mrs. O'Keefe is descended from royalty (Queen Branwen of Britain, [[TheChiefsDaughter Zyll]]) [[spoiler: and through this line she is distantly related to "Mad Dog" Branzillo.]]
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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrongSetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The plot of the novel, in an effort to prevent a dictator from kicking off World War III.
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* SinisterMinister: Pastor Mortmain
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* SinisterMinister: Pastor MortmainMortmain in the Bran arc, a HolierThanThou jerk who whips the settlers into a frenzied WitchHunt. [[spoiler: When the lightning rune is invoked at the end of the arc, it burns down his chapel, which the text notes was built more to his own vanity than to God's glory.]]
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* SupportingProtagonist: On several levels: First, Charles Wallace is only going Within various people from the past, and only once is it explicit that he's even ''doing'' anything while being Within. Then, even when they finally reach 1863, [[spoiler: Charles Wallace is Within Matthew, who is having a vision of ''Richard,'' who is all the way in Vespugia, having the big fight with Gedder that the entire book has actually been building up to.]]
** And, of course, there's Meg, the actual viewpoint character, who views the whole thing through a telepathic link with Charles Wallace.
* {{Telepathy}}: "Kything". Also Gaudior's main form of communication.
* ThemeNaming: In each of the time periods where Charles Wallace goes within, there is someone whose name is either a form of Charles (Chuck), or an anagram of Charles or Wallace (Harcels, Reschal, Llawcae).
** Also, note the various forms of Madoc, Zillah, or names that begin with Bran-, throughout each time period (excepting Harcels' time).
** And, of course, there's Meg, the actual viewpoint character, who views the whole thing through a telepathic link with Charles Wallace.
* {{Telepathy}}: "Kything". Also Gaudior's main form of communication.
* ThemeNaming: In each of the time periods where Charles Wallace goes within, there is someone whose name is either a form of Charles (Chuck), or an anagram of Charles or Wallace (Harcels, Reschal, Llawcae).
** Also, note the various forms of Madoc, Zillah, or names that begin with Bran-, throughout each time period (excepting Harcels' time).
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* SupportingProtagonist: On several levels: First, Charles Wallace is only going Within various people from the past, and only once is it explicit that he's even ''doing'' anything while being Within. Then, even when they finally reach 1863, [[spoiler: Charles Wallace is Within Matthew, who is having a vision of ''Richard,'' who is all the way in Vespugia, having the big fight with Gedder that the entire book has actually been building up to.]]
**]] And, of course, there's Meg, the actual viewpoint character, who views the whole thing through a telepathic link with Charles Wallace.
* {{Telepathy}}:"Kything". Also "Kything," which is more like SharingABody. This is also Gaudior's main form of communication.
* ThemeNaming: In each of the time periods where Charles Wallace goes within, there is someone whose name is either a form of Charles (Chuck), or an anagram of Charles or Wallace (Harcels, Reschal,Llawcae).
**Llawcae). Also, note the various forms of Madoc, Zillah, or names that begin with Bran-, throughout each time period (excepting Harcels' time).
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* ThemeNaming: In each of the time periods where Charles Wallace goes within, there is someone whose name is either a form of Charles (Chuck), or an anagram of Charles or Wallace (Harcels, Reschal,
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* TwinTelepathy: Bran and Matthew Maddox.
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Meg's back at the house.
** Also MeanwhileInTheFuture.
* TwinTelepathy: Bran and Matthew Maddox.
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Meg's back at the house.
** Also MeanwhileInTheFuture.
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* TimeSkip: In the Harcels, Chuck, and Matthew storylines.
storylines, lots of time passes quickly from Charles Wallace's point of view. [[spoiler: Most abruptly, Chuck's brain-damage almost disconnects Charles Wallace from his mind, and only by overcoming the temptation to leave him offered by a disguised Ecthros is he able to return.]]
* TwinTelepathy: Bran and MatthewMaddox.
Maddox are themselves kythers, able to tell what the other is thinking without direct communication.
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Meg's back at thehouse.
** Also MeanwhileInTheFuture.house, Charles is hopping around time.
* TwinTelepathy: Bran and Matthew
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Meg's back at the
** Also MeanwhileInTheFuture.
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* YouFailPhysicsForever: Even a full-scale nuclear war would not even blow up a planet. It would "merely" turn a good portion of the world (perhaps all of it) into an uninhabitable, or barely habitable, wasteland. The quote in the ArtisticLicenseAstronomy entry is especially curious, as the conversations with Sandy and Dennys, as well as the Projections, depict a more realistic result.
* WarIsHell: Bran's time as a Union soldier.
* WitchHunt: A literal one targeting Zylle.
* WarIsHell: Bran's time as a Union soldier.
* WitchHunt: A literal one targeting Zylle.
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* YouFailPhysicsForever: Even a full-scale nuclear war would not even blow up a planet. It would "merely" turn a good portion of the world (perhaps all of it) into an uninhabitable, or barely habitable, wasteland. The quote in the ArtisticLicenseAstronomy entry is especially curious, as the conversations with Sandy and Dennys, as well as the Projections, depict a more realistic result. That said, in the universe of the books there's more going on than simple physics.
* WarIsHell: Bran's time as a Unionsoldier.
soldier. He came in [[WarIsGlorious expecting to go out and fight like Sir Galahad to make men free]], and quickly found himself in a hellish war surrounded by much-less-clear motivations.
* WitchHunt: A literal onetargeting Zylle.targets Zylle during the Bran arc.
* WarIsHell: Bran's time as a Union
* WitchHunt: A literal one
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Awkward phrasing implies that Branzillo would be an ancestor of Madoc or Gwydyr, which is not possible for obvious reasons.
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* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Mostly simple. If you're descended from Madoc you're probabaly a good guy, if you're descended from Gwydyr you're probably bad. [[spoiler: The major exception is Zillie, who is being manipulated by her brother, and the plot of the novel basically hinges on making sure that Madog Branzillo is born to Madoc's ancestors rather than Gwydyr's.]]
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* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Mostly simple. If you're descended from Madoc you're probabaly a good guy, if you're descended from Gwydyr you're probably bad. [[spoiler: The major exception is Zillie, who is being manipulated by her brother, and the plot of the novel basically hinges on making sure that Madog Branzillo is born to from Madoc's ancestors lineage rather than Gwydyr's.]]
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* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Simple. Mostly simple. If you're descended from Madoc you're probabaly a good guy, if you're descended from Gwydyr you're bad.probably bad. [[spoiler: The major exception is Zillie, who is being manipulated by her brother, and the plot of the novel basically hinges on making sure that Madog Branzillo is born to Madoc's ancestors rather than Gwydyr's.]]
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* [[CantArgueWithElves Can't Argue With Winged Unicorns]]Unicorns]]: Sort of. Gaudior is generally right, but he admits that his pride and impatience aren't helping as the situation develops.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: At least, according to ''Planet'', that's the way things began.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: At least, according to ''Planet'', that's the way things began. Now, there's something wrong with both dark ''and'' [[LightIsNotGood light]].
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* FakingTheDead: GwydyrGwydyr initially fakes his own death so he can try to become the king by consolidating power behind his unsuspecting brother's back.
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* GenerationXerox: Certain patterns recur across the various periods in time that Charles Wallace visits, going all the way back to the conflict between Madoc and Gwydyr.
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* BodySurf: Charles Wallace does a variation of this. Notable for a hero to be doing this.
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* BodySurf: Charles Wallace does a variation surfing from person to person in various time periods makes up most of this. Notable for a the narrative, in an unusual example of the hero to be doing this.employing this trope. Notably, however, he is not taking direct control of his hosts so much as submerging into their consciousnesses, observing events from their perspective and providing subconscious nudges toward certain actions.
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* RealityIsUnrealistic: So, Branzillo, a south american dictator, is distantly related to Welsh people? Actually... not all that farfetched, look around Argentina.
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** Keeping in mind that previous books in the Time series have established that in certain areas, the science of this version of Earth is far more advanced.
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The third book in MadeleineLEngle's Time Quartet series to be published, but chronologically the fourth. The Murry family, with Meg now married to Calvin and the twins in college, has reunited for Thanksgiving when Mr. Murry is informed by the President himself that they now have twenty-four hours to avert nuclear war.
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The third book in MadeleineLEngle's Creator/MadeleineLEngle's Time Quartet series to be published, but chronologically the fourth. The Murry family, with Meg now married to Calvin and the twins in college, has reunited for Thanksgiving when Mr. Murry is informed by the President himself that they now have twenty-four hours to avert nuclear war.
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* FictionalDocument: ''The Horn of Joy'' and ''Once More United'', both by Matthew Maddox.
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because it\'s not just about having that eye colour, it\'s about what traits blue eyes supposed to symbolise and blue eyes is constantly being misused for \"X has blue eyes\", so anything that doesn\'t fit the split off tropes or Zero Content Examples will be removed. This goes for most of the Common Eye Colours tropes as well
because it\'s not just about having that eye colour, it\'s about what traits blue eyes supposed to symbolise and blue eyes is constantly being misused for \"X has blue eyes\", so anything that doesn\'t fit the split off tropes or Zero Content Examples will be removed. This goes for most of the Common Eye Colours tropes as wellChanged line(s) 73 (click to see context) from:
* InTheBlood: See "BlackAndWhiteMorality" above. This is all but stated in as many words in the text; Charles Wallace's ultimate goal is to adjust history so that the leader of a certain nation is descended from Madoc instead of from Gwydyr, changing him from a tyrant nicknamed "Mad Dog" to a benevolent ruler nicknamed "[[BlueEyes The Blue-Eyed]]."
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* InTheBlood: See "BlackAndWhiteMorality" above. This is all but stated in as many words in the text; Charles Wallace's ultimate goal is to adjust history so that the leader of a certain nation is descended from Madoc instead of from Gwydyr, changing him from a tyrant nicknamed "Mad Dog" to a benevolent ruler nicknamed "[[BlueEyes The Blue-Eyed]]."The Blue-Eyed."
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Blue Eyes is being split into different tropes (Creepy Blue Eyes,Innocent Blue Eyes, Occult Blue Eyes and Icy Blue Eyes) as per this thread because it\'s not just about having that eye colour, it\'s about what traits blue eyes supposed to symbolise and blue eyes is constantly being misused for \"X has blue eyes\", so anything that doesn\'t fit the split off tropes or Zero Content Examples will be removed. This goes for most of the Common Eye Colours tropes as well
because it\'s not just about having that eye colour, it\'s about what traits blue eyes supposed to symbolise and blue eyes is constantly being misused for \"X has blue eyes\", so anything that doesn\'t fit the split off tropes or Zero Content Examples will be removed. This goes for most of the Common Eye Colours tropes as wellChanged line(s) 38,39 (click to see context) from:
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Simple. If you're descended from Madoc you're a good guy, if you're descended from Gwydyr you're bad.
* BlueEyes: Of immense importance in ''Planet'' to trace Madoc's descendants through the People of the Wind. Charles Wallace has bright blue eyes as well (and it's hinted that he might be a distant relation through his father's great-aunt).
* BlueEyes: Of immense importance in ''Planet'' to trace Madoc's descendants through the People of the Wind. Charles Wallace has bright blue eyes as well (and it's hinted that he might be a distant relation through his father's great-aunt).
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* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Simple. If you're descended from Madoc you're a good guy, if you're descended from Gwydyr you're bad. \n* BlueEyes: Of immense importance in ''Planet'' to trace Madoc's descendants through the People of the Wind. Charles Wallace has bright blue eyes as well (and it's hinted that he might be a distant relation through his father's great-aunt).
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* BadassCreed: The Rune.
-->''"At Tara in this fateful hour,''
-->''I place all Heaven with its power,''
-->''And the sun with its brightness, ''
-->''And the snow with its whiteness, ''
-->''And the fire with all the strength it hath, ''
-->''And the lightning with its rapid wrath, ''
-->''And the winds with their swiftness along their path, ''
-->''And the sea with its deepness, ''
-->''And the rocks with their steepness, ''
-->''And the earth with its starkness, ''
-->''All these I place ''
-->''By God's almighty help and grace''
-->'' '''Between myself and the powers of darkness!"''' ''
-->''"At Tara in this fateful hour,''
-->''I place all Heaven with its power,''
-->''And the sun with its brightness, ''
-->''And the snow with its whiteness, ''
-->''And the fire with all the strength it hath, ''
-->''And the lightning with its rapid wrath, ''
-->''And the winds with their swiftness along their path, ''
-->''And the sea with its deepness, ''
-->''And the rocks with their steepness, ''
-->''And the earth with its starkness, ''
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-->''By God's almighty help and grace''
-->'' '''Between myself and the powers of darkness!"''' ''
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* OneSteveLimit: Averted with Mattie and Matthew, Richard, Ritchie, and Rich Llawcae, Brandon and his namesake nephew, David and Davey Higgins, and most impressively, Zyll, Zylle, Zillie, and Zillah.
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* OneSteveLimit: Averted with Mattie and Matthew, Richard, Ritchie, and Rich Llawcae, Brandon and his namesake nephew, David and Davey Higgins, and most impressively, Zyll, Zylle, Zillie, and Zillah. Then again, most of this has to do with history repeating itself.
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Reciting a rune bestowed upon him by his in-law Mrs. O'Keefe, Charles Wallace summons the winged {{unicorn}} Gaudior, who takes him on a journey through time to seemingly random events, all connected by location and the name "Maddox". Their mission is to change several important "[[ForWantOfANail might-have-beens]]" to avert disaster in the present. The Echthroi, evil beings introduced in ''Literature/AWindInTheDoor'', beset them at every turn.
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!! This book contains the following tropes:
* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Stepdad]]: Duthbert Mortmain in the Chuck arc.
* AfterTheEnd: The Projections. Both were possible futures after a nuclear war on Earth encountered during interdimensional travel. One was an apocalyptic wasteland with hideously mutated barely-sentient "humans", another one had some semblance of civilization with a city of concrete bunkers and [[GasMaskMooks gas-mask-wearing soldiers]].
* AmericanCivilWar
* ArbitrarySkepticism: The events of ''ManyWaters'' happen before ''A Swiftly Tilting Planet''. After a time-traveling adventure to thousands of years before the birth of Christ, you'd think that Sandy and Dennys would not be so incredulous. This is explained by the fact that L'Engle wrote ''Many Waters'' after ''A Swiftly Tilting Planet'', but for anyone reading the books in their chronological order this is just weird.
* {{Arcadia}}: The area where the Murrys live, in the past.
* ArcWords: St. Patrick's Rune.
* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: The following exchange takes place when talking about ''nuclear war''.
-->'''Gaudior:''' "You know some of the possibilities if your planet is blown up."
-->'''Charles Wallace:''' "It just might throw off the balance of things, so that the sun would burst into a supernova."
** Ah, but in this highly fantastical reality, stars are ''literally'' living, feeling, thinking entities that ''sing for joy''. Where everything, from the tiniest smaller-than-cells organism to the greatest galaxy is a vitally important, interconnected part of creation! The loss of one of its planets might well cause the Time-verse Sun to go dark... or even sacrifice itself.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The author has Madoc sailing to America "before Lief Ericson", and refers to him as being polytheistic. However, according to TheOtherWiki, the civil war following the death of Owain of Gwynedd, and the legend of Prince Madoc, took place ca. 1170, nearly two centuries after Leif Ericson. Moreover, at that time, Wales had been Christian for about half a millenium.
* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: Mrs. O'Keefe is glad that Meg and Calvin's baby will be born after all. And damn it, after this night they ''earned'' it!]]
* BadFuture: the "Projections" created by the Echthroi.
* BadassPacifist: The Rune itself, and everyone who uses it. Violence crops up from time to time (always regretted), but when you use the Rune, you're basically saying "I will not do harm, but I ask all heaven with its power etc. to stand between me and evil, to see that I am in the right."
* BecauseDestinySaysSo
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Simple. If you're descended from Madoc you're a good guy, if you're descended from Gwydyr you're bad.
* BlueEyes: Of immense importance in ''Planet'' to trace Madoc's descendants through the People of the Wind. Charles Wallace has bright blue eyes as well (and it's hinted that he might be a distant relation through his father's great-aunt).
* BodySurf: Charles Wallace does a variation of this. Notable for a hero to be doing this.
* BreakTheCutie: Beezie had a wonderful, loving childhood - and a horrific adolescence.
* BrokenBird: Mrs. O'Keefe
* BurnTheWitch: Averted. Zylle is sentenced to be hanged.
* CainAndAbel: Madoc and Gwydyr. Another recurring motif.
* CallBack: The first chapter alludes to the tesseract and farandolae of the respective first two books.
* [[CantArgueWithElves Can't Argue With Winged Unicorns]]
* CombatByChampion: Madoc vs. Gwydyr
* CoolHorse: Gaudior
* DarkIsNotEvil: At least, according to ''Planet'', that's the way things began.
* DeadGuyJunior
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: In Brandon's story, between the People of the Wind and the more liberal Welsh on the one hand, and the hardline Puritans on the other. This is partly what trips up Zylle during her interrogation by Mortmain.
* DemotedToExtra: Calvin, [[PutOnABus who's away on a business trip]] for the entirety of the book.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Played straight with Gedder.
* DomesticAbuse: Heavily implied that Beezie's mother was a victim of it.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Discussed by Matthew and Bran, one of whom is paralyzed and the other suffers from a permanently injured leg and [[ShellShockedVeteran PTSD]].
* EvilSmellsBad: The Echthroi, as noted in ''AWindInTheDoor''. Also, Chuck Maddox can smell bad character or cruelty on a person.
* FakingTheDead: Gwydyr
* {{Foreshadowing}}: From the way Mrs. O'Keefe talks about him, you know something bad is going to happen to Chuck.
* ForWantOfANail: What they're trying to do, to avert WWIII.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: It's heavily implied that Mortmain is making sexual advances at Beezie.
* TheGeneralissimo: "Mad Dog" Branzillo rules the fictional South American country Vespugia. The plot revolves around going back in time and changing events so that Branzillo becomes a benevolent ruler instead.
* GoingNative: Madoc, a Welsh prince who joined the Wind People.
* GoodIsImpotent: Somewhat averted. The "good" people are proactive, strong, and willing to face evil, at least to give it a stern talking-to. But the wicked people are tolerated in the communities because they're ''better at things'' - one woman who is racist against Indians is the best midwife in the village, and Gedder the evil sumbitch is able to teach others how to farm.
* HeatWave: This combined with a drought put the townsfolk in a witch-hunting mood with Zylle as the victim.
* HeroicLineage: A big theme.
* HiddenDepths: From what you've barely heard about Mrs. O'Keefe in previous books, she sounds horrible. In this book, you find out how she got that way (and how she isn't so bad deep down).
* HiddenElfVillage: The Unicorn's hatching grounds, which is safe from Ecthroi and has never been seen by human eyes.
* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Aww, Matthew.
* IdenticalGrandson: Matthew and Bran for Madoc, Chuck for Brandon.
* [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming Idiosyncratic Chapter Naming]]: Named after the verses of St. Patrick's Rune.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Tends to get invoked a lot with those of the Madoc line.
* IndianMaiden[=/=]TheChiefsDaughter: Zyll and Zylle.
* InSpiteOfANail: They play around with numerous events in history, and the only one that seems to affect the present(or at least, THEIR present) is the one they want.
* InTheBlood: See "BlackAndWhiteMorality" above. This is all but stated in as many words in the text; Charles Wallace's ultimate goal is to adjust history so that the leader of a certain nation is descended from Madoc instead of from Gwydyr, changing him from a tyrant nicknamed "Mad Dog" to a benevolent ruler nicknamed "[[BlueEyes The Blue-Eyed]]."
** The Mortmains follow this trope as well: anything they touch, they corrupt or otherwise ruin.
** Subverted with Calvin, though, whose ancestors, the O'Keefes, include a guy who flings homeless puppies to death against walls, and Paddy, who is implied to be cut from the same cloth as Mortmain.
* KickTheDog: Jack O'Keefe kills homeless puppies by flinging them against the walls of barns.
* LampshadedDoubleEntendre: Paddy's comment that Mortmain is "after" Beezie.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
* LoveMakesYouEvil: If you marry the wrong person, it can. Any kids you have with him/her will turn out evil as well.
* MeaningfulName: The names "Maddox", "Bran", "Zilla", and their variations. Also the various characters named "[[ObviouslyEvil Mortmain]]", which means "dead hand" in French.
* MentalFusion: Going "Within", where Charles Wallace "fuses" with several people to influence events.
* MightyWhitey: Madoc, though he has completely abandoned his Welsh homeland, and has no intention of ever returning.
* MindScrew: So how is all of this time traveling solving anything?
* NeutralFemale: Zyll while Madoc fights Gydwyr; Zillie, later on, when Gedder fights Richard.
* NightmareFace: The creature Charles and Gaudior briefly encounter in a Projection.
* NobleSavage: The People of the Wind.
* ANuclearError: A nuclear exchange between Vespugia and the U.S. would not destroy the U.S. Nuclear weapons are difficult and expensive to make (you need the materials, for one thing), and the United States is an awfully big target, which would require several nukes to take out. (Ca. 2000, the PRC lacked the capacity to hit any more than the U.S.'s West Coast.) On the other hand, Vespugia is said to be about the size of Isreal, and nuking such a small country would not result in a massive global ecological catastrophe -- at least, not as described in the story.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted with Mattie and Matthew, Richard, Ritchie, and Rich Llawcae, Brandon and his namesake nephew, David and Davey Higgins, and most impressively, Zyll, Zylle, Zillie, and Zillah.
* {{Pegasus}}: Gaudior. However, when he takes flight, he hardly ever moves in ''space,'' but only through time. (The movement of the planet Earth itself throughout time is not accounted for.)
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Pastor Mortmain, and pretty much anyone who takes his side during the Brandon Llawcae plot.
* PregnantBadass: Meg, who isn't quite an ActionMom, but lends Charles Wallace her emotional strength on his journey.
* TheReveal: Eccentric, impoverished Mrs. O'Keefe is descended from royalty (Queen Branwen of Britain, [[TheChiefsDaughter Zyll]]) and through this line she is distantly related to "Mad Dog" Branzillo.
* {{Seers}}: The people Charles merges with tend to have some sort of clairvoyance. Possibly justified due to Charles' presence in their psyches, the fact that they tend to be descendants of the same line, or perhaps that's why he can target them at all.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong
* SheIsAllGrownUp: Skinny, gawky, stringy-haired, bespectacled Meg became a beautiful young woman as she reached her twenties.
* SinisterMinister: Pastor Mortmain
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: How do you even pronounce "Zylle" to make it distinct from "Zyll" and "Zillie"?
** Zyll=Zill; Zylle=Zeel
* SupportingProtagonist: On several levels: First, Charles Wallace is only going Within various people from the past, and only once is it explicit that he's even ''doing'' anything while being Within. Then, even when they finally reach 1863, [[spoiler: Charles Wallace is Within Matthew, who is having a vision of ''Richard,'' who is all the way in Vespugia, having the big fight with Gedder that the entire book has actually been building up to.]]
* {{Telepathy}}: "Kything". Also Gaudior's main form of communication.
* ThemeNaming: In each of the time periods where Charles Wallace goes within, there is someone whose name is either a form of Charles (Chuck), or an anagram of Charles or Wallace (Harcels, Reschal, Llawcae).
** Also, note the various forms of Madoc, Zillah, or names that begin with Bran-, throughout each time period (excepting Harcels' time).
* ThereAreNoCoincidences: Invoked by Mrs. Murry at the end of the first chapter.
* TimeSkip: In the Harcels, Chuck, and Matthew storylines.
* TwinTelepathy: Bran and Matthew Maddox.
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Meg's back at the house.
** Also MeanwhileInTheFuture.
* {{Unicorn}}: Gaudior. It deserves noting that he's ''very'' different from the unicorns depicted in ''ManyWaters'' in the same world -- he's bigger, he's more reliably (albeit still not completely) real, and he's telepathic. And has magic.
* YouFailPhysicsForever: Even a full-scale nuclear war would not even blow up a planet. It would "merely" turn a good portion of the world (perhaps all of it) into an uninhabitable, or barely habitable, wasteland. The quote in the ArtisticLicenseAstronomy entry is especially curious, as the conversations with Sandy and Dennys, as well as the Projections, depict a more realistic result.
* WarIsHell: Bran's time as a Union soldier.
* WitchHunt: A literal one targeting Zylle.
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Reciting a rune bestowed upon him by his in-law Mrs. O'Keefe, Charles Wallace summons the winged {{unicorn}} Gaudior, who takes him on a journey through time to seemingly random events, all connected by location and the name "Maddox". Their mission is to change several important "[[ForWantOfANail might-have-beens]]" to avert disaster in the present. The Echthroi, evil beings introduced in ''Literature/AWindInTheDoor'', beset them at every turn.
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!! This book contains the following tropes:
* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Stepdad]]: Duthbert Mortmain in the Chuck arc.
* AfterTheEnd: The Projections. Both were possible futures after a nuclear war on Earth encountered during interdimensional travel. One was an apocalyptic wasteland with hideously mutated barely-sentient "humans", another one had some semblance of civilization with a city of concrete bunkers and [[GasMaskMooks gas-mask-wearing soldiers]].
* AmericanCivilWar
* ArbitrarySkepticism: The events of ''ManyWaters'' happen before ''A Swiftly Tilting Planet''. After a time-traveling adventure to thousands of years before the birth of Christ, you'd think that Sandy and Dennys would not be so incredulous. This is explained by the fact that L'Engle wrote ''Many Waters'' after ''A Swiftly Tilting Planet'', but for anyone reading the books in their chronological order this is just weird.
* {{Arcadia}}: The area where the Murrys live, in the past.
* ArcWords: St. Patrick's Rune.
* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: The following exchange takes place when talking about ''nuclear war''.
-->'''Gaudior:''' "You know some of the possibilities if your planet is blown up."
-->'''Charles Wallace:''' "It just might throw off the balance of things, so that the sun would burst into a supernova."
** Ah, but in this highly fantastical reality, stars are ''literally'' living, feeling, thinking entities that ''sing for joy''. Where everything, from the tiniest smaller-than-cells organism to the greatest galaxy is a vitally important, interconnected part of creation! The loss of one of its planets might well cause the Time-verse Sun to go dark... or even sacrifice itself.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The author has Madoc sailing to America "before Lief Ericson", and refers to him as being polytheistic. However, according to TheOtherWiki, the civil war following the death of Owain of Gwynedd, and the legend of Prince Madoc, took place ca. 1170, nearly two centuries after Leif Ericson. Moreover, at that time, Wales had been Christian for about half a millenium.
* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: Mrs. O'Keefe is glad that Meg and Calvin's baby will be born after all. And damn it, after this night they ''earned'' it!]]
* BadFuture: the "Projections" created by the Echthroi.
* BadassPacifist: The Rune itself, and everyone who uses it. Violence crops up from time to time (always regretted), but when you use the Rune, you're basically saying "I will not do harm, but I ask all heaven with its power etc. to stand between me and evil, to see that I am in the right."
* BecauseDestinySaysSo
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Simple. If you're descended from Madoc you're a good guy, if you're descended from Gwydyr you're bad.
* BlueEyes: Of immense importance in ''Planet'' to trace Madoc's descendants through the People of the Wind. Charles Wallace has bright blue eyes as well (and it's hinted that he might be a distant relation through his father's great-aunt).
* BodySurf: Charles Wallace does a variation of this. Notable for a hero to be doing this.
* BreakTheCutie: Beezie had a wonderful, loving childhood - and a horrific adolescence.
* BrokenBird: Mrs. O'Keefe
* BurnTheWitch: Averted. Zylle is sentenced to be hanged.
* CainAndAbel: Madoc and Gwydyr. Another recurring motif.
* CallBack: The first chapter alludes to the tesseract and farandolae of the respective first two books.
* [[CantArgueWithElves Can't Argue With Winged Unicorns]]
* CombatByChampion: Madoc vs. Gwydyr
* CoolHorse: Gaudior
* DarkIsNotEvil: At least, according to ''Planet'', that's the way things began.
* DeadGuyJunior
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: In Brandon's story, between the People of the Wind and the more liberal Welsh on the one hand, and the hardline Puritans on the other. This is partly what trips up Zylle during her interrogation by Mortmain.
* DemotedToExtra: Calvin, [[PutOnABus who's away on a business trip]] for the entirety of the book.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Played straight with Gedder.
* DomesticAbuse: Heavily implied that Beezie's mother was a victim of it.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Discussed by Matthew and Bran, one of whom is paralyzed and the other suffers from a permanently injured leg and [[ShellShockedVeteran PTSD]].
* EvilSmellsBad: The Echthroi, as noted in ''AWindInTheDoor''. Also, Chuck Maddox can smell bad character or cruelty on a person.
* FakingTheDead: Gwydyr
* {{Foreshadowing}}: From the way Mrs. O'Keefe talks about him, you know something bad is going to happen to Chuck.
* ForWantOfANail: What they're trying to do, to avert WWIII.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: It's heavily implied that Mortmain is making sexual advances at Beezie.
* TheGeneralissimo: "Mad Dog" Branzillo rules the fictional South American country Vespugia. The plot revolves around going back in time and changing events so that Branzillo becomes a benevolent ruler instead.
* GoingNative: Madoc, a Welsh prince who joined the Wind People.
* GoodIsImpotent: Somewhat averted. The "good" people are proactive, strong, and willing to face evil, at least to give it a stern talking-to. But the wicked people are tolerated in the communities because they're ''better at things'' - one woman who is racist against Indians is the best midwife in the village, and Gedder the evil sumbitch is able to teach others how to farm.
* HeatWave: This combined with a drought put the townsfolk in a witch-hunting mood with Zylle as the victim.
* HeroicLineage: A big theme.
* HiddenDepths: From what you've barely heard about Mrs. O'Keefe in previous books, she sounds horrible. In this book, you find out how she got that way (and how she isn't so bad deep down).
* HiddenElfVillage: The Unicorn's hatching grounds, which is safe from Ecthroi and has never been seen by human eyes.
* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Aww, Matthew.
* IdenticalGrandson: Matthew and Bran for Madoc, Chuck for Brandon.
* [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming Idiosyncratic Chapter Naming]]: Named after the verses of St. Patrick's Rune.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Tends to get invoked a lot with those of the Madoc line.
* IndianMaiden[=/=]TheChiefsDaughter: Zyll and Zylle.
* InSpiteOfANail: They play around with numerous events in history, and the only one that seems to affect the present(or at least, THEIR present) is the one they want.
* InTheBlood: See "BlackAndWhiteMorality" above. This is all but stated in as many words in the text; Charles Wallace's ultimate goal is to adjust history so that the leader of a certain nation is descended from Madoc instead of from Gwydyr, changing him from a tyrant nicknamed "Mad Dog" to a benevolent ruler nicknamed "[[BlueEyes The Blue-Eyed]]."
** The Mortmains follow this trope as well: anything they touch, they corrupt or otherwise ruin.
** Subverted with Calvin, though, whose ancestors, the O'Keefes, include a guy who flings homeless puppies to death against walls, and Paddy, who is implied to be cut from the same cloth as Mortmain.
* KickTheDog: Jack O'Keefe kills homeless puppies by flinging them against the walls of barns.
* LampshadedDoubleEntendre: Paddy's comment that Mortmain is "after" Beezie.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
* LoveMakesYouEvil: If you marry the wrong person, it can. Any kids you have with him/her will turn out evil as well.
* MeaningfulName: The names "Maddox", "Bran", "Zilla", and their variations. Also the various characters named "[[ObviouslyEvil Mortmain]]", which means "dead hand" in French.
* MentalFusion: Going "Within", where Charles Wallace "fuses" with several people to influence events.
* MightyWhitey: Madoc, though he has completely abandoned his Welsh homeland, and has no intention of ever returning.
* MindScrew: So how is all of this time traveling solving anything?
* NeutralFemale: Zyll while Madoc fights Gydwyr; Zillie, later on, when Gedder fights Richard.
* NightmareFace: The creature Charles and Gaudior briefly encounter in a Projection.
* NobleSavage: The People of the Wind.
* ANuclearError: A nuclear exchange between Vespugia and the U.S. would not destroy the U.S. Nuclear weapons are difficult and expensive to make (you need the materials, for one thing), and the United States is an awfully big target, which would require several nukes to take out. (Ca. 2000, the PRC lacked the capacity to hit any more than the U.S.'s West Coast.) On the other hand, Vespugia is said to be about the size of Isreal, and nuking such a small country would not result in a massive global ecological catastrophe -- at least, not as described in the story.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted with Mattie and Matthew, Richard, Ritchie, and Rich Llawcae, Brandon and his namesake nephew, David and Davey Higgins, and most impressively, Zyll, Zylle, Zillie, and Zillah.
* {{Pegasus}}: Gaudior. However, when he takes flight, he hardly ever moves in ''space,'' but only through time. (The movement of the planet Earth itself throughout time is not accounted for.)
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Pastor Mortmain, and pretty much anyone who takes his side during the Brandon Llawcae plot.
* PregnantBadass: Meg, who isn't quite an ActionMom, but lends Charles Wallace her emotional strength on his journey.
* TheReveal: Eccentric, impoverished Mrs. O'Keefe is descended from royalty (Queen Branwen of Britain, [[TheChiefsDaughter Zyll]]) and through this line she is distantly related to "Mad Dog" Branzillo.
* {{Seers}}: The people Charles merges with tend to have some sort of clairvoyance. Possibly justified due to Charles' presence in their psyches, the fact that they tend to be descendants of the same line, or perhaps that's why he can target them at all.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong
* SheIsAllGrownUp: Skinny, gawky, stringy-haired, bespectacled Meg became a beautiful young woman as she reached her twenties.
* SinisterMinister: Pastor Mortmain
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: How do you even pronounce "Zylle" to make it distinct from "Zyll" and "Zillie"?
** Zyll=Zill; Zylle=Zeel
* SupportingProtagonist: On several levels: First, Charles Wallace is only going Within various people from the past, and only once is it explicit that he's even ''doing'' anything while being Within. Then, even when they finally reach 1863, [[spoiler: Charles Wallace is Within Matthew, who is having a vision of ''Richard,'' who is all the way in Vespugia, having the big fight with Gedder that the entire book has actually been building up to.]]
* {{Telepathy}}: "Kything". Also Gaudior's main form of communication.
* ThemeNaming: In each of the time periods where Charles Wallace goes within, there is someone whose name is either a form of Charles (Chuck), or an anagram of Charles or Wallace (Harcels, Reschal, Llawcae).
** Also, note the various forms of Madoc, Zillah, or names that begin with Bran-, throughout each time period (excepting Harcels' time).
* ThereAreNoCoincidences: Invoked by Mrs. Murry at the end of the first chapter.
* TimeSkip: In the Harcels, Chuck, and Matthew storylines.
* TwinTelepathy: Bran and Matthew Maddox.
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Meg's back at the house.
** Also MeanwhileInTheFuture.
* {{Unicorn}}: Gaudior. It deserves noting that he's ''very'' different from the unicorns depicted in ''ManyWaters'' in the same world -- he's bigger, he's more reliably (albeit still not completely) real, and he's telepathic. And has magic.
* YouFailPhysicsForever: Even a full-scale nuclear war would not even blow up a planet. It would "merely" turn a good portion of the world (perhaps all of it) into an uninhabitable, or barely habitable, wasteland. The quote in the ArtisticLicenseAstronomy entry is especially curious, as the conversations with Sandy and Dennys, as well as the Projections, depict a more realistic result.
* WarIsHell: Bran's time as a Union soldier.
* WitchHunt: A literal one targeting Zylle.
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