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* CatchPhrase: "Absatively" for Grahame Coats.
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** Grahame Coats. He even finds a way to blame Maeve (The woman he murdered) for his unhappiness. Eventually he decides Charlie/Spider is to blame for uncovering his shady dealings.
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** Grahame Coats. He even finds a way to blame Maeve (The (the woman he murdered) for his unhappiness. Eventually he decides Charlie/Spider is to blame for uncovering his shady dealings.
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* DeathIsCheap: As a god, Anansi is implied to have suffered numerous deaths in the past. [[spoiler:Even his latest death is explicitly temporary, though given nearly everyone around him is mortal from their point of view it may as well not be.]]
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* CharacterDevelopment: Fat Charlie begins the novel as a neurotic, nervous, but well meaning man hellbent on avoiding embarrassment and discord. His brother Spider is his near opposite - aloof, impossibly cool, and completely incapable of commitment or responsibility. By the end of the novel, [[spoiler:they've developed in roughly the opposite direction - Charlie becomes witty and smooth without losing his down-to-earthedness, while Spider becomes a humble, loving husband whose concern for Rosie is dorkily endearing.]]
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* CompanionCube: Fat Charlie is given a lime. For some reason, everyone except Charlie seems to take this as a matter of great import, and the lime is regarded as his companion or guardian somehow, despite not displaying any qualities beyond being, well, a lime.
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* CompanionCube: Fat Charlie is given a lime. For some reason, everyone except Charlie seems to take this as a matter of great import, and the lime is regarded as his companion or guardian somehow, despite not displaying any qualities beyond being, well, a lime. Fat Charlie even yells at it one point, and the narration has to come to its defense.
* CompellingVoice: Spider's even works on computers, though it's apparently more a matter of ''lies'' than ''orders''.
* CompellingVoice: Spider's even works on computers, though it's apparently more a matter of ''lies'' than ''orders''.
* ContrivedCoincidence: The author goes to great lengths to lampshade the entire core cast [[spoiler:all converging at roughly the same time on the island of Saint Andrews for mostly different reasons.]]
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: [[spoiler:Tiger is trapped inside a cave with a recently deceased, stoat-esque Grahame Coats for a very long time.]]
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: [[spoiler:Tiger is trapped inside a cave with a recently deceased, stoat-esque Grahame Coats for a very long time.]]
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* CompellingVoice: Spider's even works on computers, though it's apparently more a matter of ''lies'' than ''orders''.
* ContrivedCoincidence: The author goes to great lengths to lampshade the entire core cast [[spoiler:all converging at roughly the same time on the island of Saint Andrews for mostly different reasons.]]
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: [[spoiler:Tiger is trapped inside a cave with Grahame Coats for a very long time.]]
* ContrivedCoincidence: The author goes to great lengths to lampshade the entire core cast [[spoiler:all converging at roughly the same time on the island of Saint Andrews for mostly different reasons.]]
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: [[spoiler:Tiger is trapped inside a cave with Grahame Coats for a very long time.]]
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* EasilyForgiven: Spider commits rape by fraud with Rosie, and [[spoiler: she marries him in the end.]]
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* EasilyForgiven: Spider commits rape by fraud with Rosie, and [[spoiler: she [[spoiler:she marries him in the end.]]
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* FairCop: Daisy.
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* FairCop: Daisy.Daisy, who is presented as the only police officer in the novel committed enough to her sense of right and wrong that she [[spoiler:globe trots to Saint Andrews to stop Grahame Coats despite the country's lack of extradition policies and her own lack of leave days to avoid punishment with.]]
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* FakingTheDead: In one of the stories about Anansi, he pretends to be dead after requesting that he be buried in a vegetable garden so that he can sneak out of his grave and eat all of the food (while his family slowly starves). [[spoiler: In the main story, Anansi has "died" so that people will stop taking him for granted. He intends to come back to life in about 20 or 25 years.]]
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* FakingTheDead: In one of the stories about Anansi, he pretends to be dead after requesting that he be buried in a vegetable garden so that he can sneak out of his grave and eat all of the food (while his family slowly starves). [[spoiler: In [[spoiler:In the main story, Anansi has "died" so that people will stop taking him for granted. He intends to come back to life in about 20 or 25 years.]]
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* InWhichATropeIsDescribed: This trope is how most chapters are named.
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* InWhichATropeIsDescribed: This trope is how The naming convention for most chapters are named.chapters.
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* KavorkaMan: Mr. Nancy and Spider.
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* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Grahame Coats begins and ends the novel as an unpleasant, opportunistic and devious creature, albeit one with a methodology that at least has the decency to exploit his victims and employees at arm's length. [[spoiler:When he's caught by Maeve and forced to murder her to keep his freedom, he gets a taste for the act, helped along by Tiger gradually influencing him afterward.]]
* KavorkaMan: Mr.Nancy and Spider.Nancy, who is more than old enough looking to be most of the subjects of his affections' grandfather.
* KavorkaMan: Mr.
* ManChild: Anansi and Spider alike are effectively flighty, womanizing teenagers in men's clothing, with several of Spider's interactions with his far more grounded and responsible brother framed the way an exasperated parent might chastise their rebellious child.
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* ManChild: Anansi and Spider alike are effectively flighty, womanizing teenagers in men's clothing, with several of Spider's interactions with his far more grounded and responsible brother framed the way an exasperated parent might chastise their rebellious child.
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* SinsOfOurFathers: The people at the Cliffs at the end of the world refuse to help Fat Charlie because Anansi had done most of them wrong at some point. Especially the Bird Woman and Tiger.
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* SinsOfOurFathers: The people at the Cliffs at the end beginning of the world refuse to help Fat Charlie because Anansi had done most of them wrong at some point. Especially the Bird Woman and Tiger.
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* {{Troll}}: Anansi, naturally, who in both his past stories and current times exists both to enrich himself and fill the lives of those around him with mirth and humor... rather they want to laugh or not. Even his latest death was an elaborate "practical" joke.
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* CharacterDevelopment: Fat Charlie begins the novel as a neurotic, nervous, but well meaning man hellbent on avoiding embarrassment and discord. His brother Spider is his near opposite - aloof, impossibly cool, and completely incapable of commitment or responsibility. By the end of the novel, [[spoiler:they've developed in roughly the opposite direction - Charlie becomes witty and smooth without losing his down-to-earthedness, while Spider becomes a humble, loving husband whose concern for Rosie is dorkily endearing.]]
* ContrivedCoincidence: The author goes to great lengths to lampshade the entire core cast [[spoiler:all converging at roughly the same time on the island of Saint Andrews for mostly different reasons.]]
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* EvilFeelsGood: After [[spoiler:murdering Maeve Livingstone]], Grahame Coats finds himself invigorated and proud of himself.
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* EvilFeelsGood: After [[spoiler:murdering Maeve Livingstone]], Grahame Coats finds himself invigorated and proud of himself.himself, and wistfully looks forward to repeating the act.
** Near the start of the novel, Fat Charlie goes off on an angry rant about his father, and concludes that the best part about getting married is not having to invite his father, to the great chagrin of his fiance.
* HatOfPower: [[spoiler:In and of itself, Anansi's green fedora isn't particularly magical, though his passing it onto Fat Charlie is the tipping point for vanquishing his lifelong nickname, gaining the confidence to sing in front out of others even when several lives aren't on the line, and realizing his demigodly powers.]]
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* LiteralSplitPersonality: They even explicitly refer to it by the old trope name (StarfishCharacter). [[spoiler: Charlie and Spider aren't actually twin brothers, but rather Spider is Charlie's magical trickster nature which was split-off from him, leaving Charlie as an awkward and mundane everyman. Or at least at first. Charlie notes that, like starfish, he and Spider both grew from the severing into whole people, both capable of being down-to-earth and caring or free-spirited tricksters when the situation calls for it.]]
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* LiteralSplitPersonality: They even explicitly refer to it by the old trope name (StarfishCharacter). [[spoiler: Charlie [[spoiler:Charlie and Spider aren't actually twin brothers, but rather Spider is Charlie's magical trickster nature which was split-off from him, leaving Charlie as an awkward and mundane everyman. Or at least at first. Charlie notes that, like starfish, he and Spider both grew from the severing into whole people, both capable of being down-to-earth and caring or free-spirited tricksters when the situation calls for it.]]
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** The gods of the animal pantheon all have characteristics of the animals they're based on, such as tails, whiskers -- and extra nipples.
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** The gods of the animal pantheon all have characteristics of the animals they're based on, such as tails, whiskers -- and extra nipples.nipples, at least when they aren't just the animals themselves, or some logic defying combination of both simultaneously.
* MilesToGoBeforeISleep: [[spoiler:After being murdered by Grahame Coats, Maeve insists on lingering on the mortal plane until she can avenge herself and her late husband, despite the latter's pleas for her to pass on and join him.
* ManChild: Anansi and Spider alike are effectively flighty, womanizing teenagers in men's clothing, with several of Spider's interactions with his far more grounded and responsible brother framed the way an exasperated parent might chastise their rebellious child.
* ManChild: Anansi and Spider alike are effectively flighty, womanizing teenagers in men's clothing, with several of Spider's interactions with his far more grounded and responsible brother framed the way an exasperated parent might chastise their rebellious child.
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* RealityWarper: Spider. He claims all one has to do is "Show Reality who's boss". His father is the same, teleporting an entire marching band to his dying wife's hospital room to cheer up.
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* RealityWarper: Spider. He claims all one has to do is "Show Reality who's boss". His father is the same, teleporting an entire marching band to his dying wife's hospital room to cheer up. [[spoiler:Charlie manages to remove the "Fat" from his name near the end of the novel once he realizes he possesses the same talents.]]
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* OutgrowingTheChildishName: "Fat Charlie" was a nickname given to the protagonist in his childhood when he went through a brief pudgy phase. Thanks to his dad's RealityWarper powers, however, the nickname has stuck around well into adulthood when Charlie is not even overweight anymore. Eventually [[spoiler:Charlie is able to embrace his own abilities and identify himself as plain Charlie Nancy]].
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* FakeBrit: [[invoked]] Charlie is said to have spent years trying to overcome his American accent to sound British.
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* FakeBrit: [[invoked]] Charlie is said to have spent years trying to overcome his American accent to sound British. He succeeded just in time for American accents to become trendy among his British schoolmates.
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* KarmaHoudini: Mr. Nancy for his antics and RealityWarper powers in turning Charlie into a ButtMonkey for a good portion of his life. [[spoiler:When Charlie asks him why he spent all his time making fun of him, Mr. Nancy says that they don't have time to be arguing.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: Mr. Nancy for his antics and RealityWarper powers in turning Charlie into a ButtMonkey for a good portion of his life. [[spoiler:When Charlie asks him why he spent all his time making fun of him, Mr. Nancy says that they don't have time to be arguing. The ending implies that Anansi, as a trickster god, kind of ''had'' to use tricks. Even the Presidents' Day trick helped Charlie learn about about Presidents.]]
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* LeftFieldDescription: Creator/NeilGaiman does this particularly well here. "If on seeing Graham Coats you immediately thought of an albino ferret in an expensive suit, you wouldn't be the first."
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* TheFunInFuneral: In a CringeComedy sort of way. Fat Charlie arrives late to his father's funeral but gives a heartfelt and emotional speech by the graveside... [[spoiler:turns out, he's at the wrong funeral]].
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* PranksterParent: Fat Charlie's father Mr Nancy once convinced him that people [[ItsACostumePartyISwear dress up as presidents]] on President's Day. Charlie, not wanting to be just another Lincoln, went as Taft. Makes sense as Mr Nancy is really Anansi, the trickster god.
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* TeasingParent: Fat Charlie's father Mr Nancy once convinced him that people [[ItsACostumePartyISwear dress up as presidents]] on President's Day. Charlie, not wanting to be just another Lincoln, went as Taft. Makes sense as Mr Nancy is really Anansi, the trickster god.
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* PranksterParent: Fat Charlie's father Mr Nancy once convinced him that people [[ItsACostumePartyISwear dress up as presidents]] on President's Day. Charlie, not wanting to be just another Lincoln, went as Taft. Makes sense as Mr Nancy is really Anansi, the trickster god.
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* ThirdWheel: In Charlie and Rose's relationship, Spider "insists" on taking over the duties of being Rose's boyfriend, even taking on Charlie's identify. A second one is introduced at the same time when Charlie meets Daisy, and maybe, maybe-not slept with her during a night of revelry in mourning for Anansi.
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* ThirdWheel: In Charlie and Rose's relationship, Spider "insists" on taking over the duties of being Rose's boyfriend, even taking on Charlie's identify.identity. A second one is introduced at the same time when Charlie meets Daisy, and maybe, maybe-not slept with her during a night of revelry in mourning for Anansi.
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* SinkOrSwimMentor: Mr Nancy after a fashion. When his son [[spoiler:was first split]] he commented that if he couldn't fix it himself he ([[spoiler:Fat Charlie/Spider]]) was no son of his(Nancy's).
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* SinkOrSwimMentor: Mr Mr. Nancy after a fashion. When his son [[spoiler:was first split]] he commented that if he couldn't fix it himself he ([[spoiler:Fat Charlie/Spider]]) was no son of his(Nancy's).his (Nancy's).
