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* LivingPhoto: Charlie Bone has the power to hear people in photos talking, though they're not animate and mostly repeat what the subjects said at the time the photo was taken. Paintings, on the other hand, come to life and can converse with him, he can also jump into them.
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* BlackSheep: Lyell Bone in the Yewbeam family; Bartholomew Bloor in the Bloor family.
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* {{Interquel}}: ''Gabriel and the Phantom Sleepers'' is the latest book written to date but is apparently set some time before ''Charlie Bone and the Red Knight'', as [[spoiler:Bloor's Academy hasn't been renamed Bone's Academy yet and Ezekiel and Manfred are briefly mentioned in the present tense, meaning they are still alive.]]
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* ComboPlatterPowers: Usually the setting is fairly strict on OnePersonOnePower. However, Yolanda Yewbeam is both a shapeshifter and a hypnotist, Manfred takes up pyrokinesis after losing his hypnotism (only to get his old power back and keep his new one), and Charlie is both a PortalPicture person and a hereditary wizard, though the latter only becomes clear as the series progresses. Guanhamara, the Red King's third daughter, had at least four endowments: psychic power, illusions, spirit-summoning, and witchcraft. Possibly justified in that she was so closely related to the Red King, but then again her siblings only seem to have had one endowment a piece.

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* ComboPlatterPowers: Usually the setting is fairly strict on OnePersonOnePower. However, Yolanda Yewbeam is both a shapeshifter and a hypnotist, Manfred takes up pyrokinesis after losing his hypnotism (only to get his old power back and keep his new one), Natalia Dobinski is a telekinetic conjurer, and Charlie is both a PortalPicture person and a hereditary wizard, though the latter only becomes clear as the series progresses. Guanhamara, the Red King's third daughter, had at least four endowments: psychic power, illusions, spirit-summoning, and witchcraft. Possibly justified in that she was so closely related to the Red King, but then again her siblings only seem to have had one endowment a piece.
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* ComboPlatterPowers: Usually the setting is fairly strict on OnePersonOnePower. However, Yolanda Yewbeam is both a shapeshifter and a hypnotist, Manfred takes up pyrokinesis after losing his hypnotism (only to get his old power back and keep his new one), and Charlie is both a Picture Portal Person and a hereditary wizard, though the latter only becomes clear as the series progresses. Guanhamara, the Red King's third daughter, had at least four endowments: psychic power, illusions, spirit-summoning, and witchcraft. Possibly justified in that she was so closely related to the Red King, but then again her siblings only seem to have had one endowment a piece.

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* ComboPlatterPowers: Usually the setting is fairly strict on OnePersonOnePower. However, Yolanda Yewbeam is both a shapeshifter and a hypnotist, Manfred takes up pyrokinesis after losing his hypnotism (only to get his old power back and keep his new one), and Charlie is both a Picture Portal Person PortalPicture person and a hereditary wizard, though the latter only becomes clear as the series progresses. Guanhamara, the Red King's third daughter, had at least four endowments: psychic power, illusions, spirit-summoning, and witchcraft. Possibly justified in that she was so closely related to the Red King, but then again her siblings only seem to have had one endowment a piece.
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* IconicSequelCharacter: Dagbert Endless, the most dangerous and complex of the younger antagonists in the series, takes six books to debut.
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* LeftHanging: It is never explained why the villainous faction was holding the famous pianist Alberto Tuccini hostage in the third and fourth books, nor what happens after he parts way with Charlie, Billy, and Paton.
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: Benjamin's private investigator parents occasionally reference being involved in interesting cases unrelated to the magical war between good and evil that dominates the plot (although this also causes them to neglect their son at times). In ''Midnight for Charlie Bone'', Mrs. Brown mentions how an investigation into the disappearance of a window washer who later turned up in a cave in Scotland.

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* HeroOfAnotherStory: Benjamin's private investigator parents occasionally reference being involved in interesting cases unrelated to the magical war between good and evil that dominates the plot (although this also causes them to neglect their son at times). In ''Midnight for Charlie Bone'', Mrs. Brown mentions how an investigation into the disappearance of a window washer who later turned up in a cave in Scotland. In the third and fourth books, they take their son to Hong Kong while spending several months on the trial of a stolen necklace.
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: Benjamin's private investigator parents occasionally reference being involved in interesting cases unrelated to the magical war between good and evil that dominates the plot (although this also causes them to neglect their son at times). In ''Midnight for Charlie Bone'', Mrs. Brown mentions how an investigation into the disappearance of a window washer who later turned up in a cave in Scotland.
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* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[JerkassWoobie Dagbert Endless]], whose morality changes with the moon. [[spoiler:At the end, he seems to have finally settled somewhere on the "good" spectrum]]. Billy Raven switches to the bad side for several books before rejoining the heroes.

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* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[JerkassWoobie Dagbert Endless]], Endless, whose morality changes with the moon. [[spoiler:At the end, he seems to have finally settled somewhere on the "good" spectrum]]. Billy Raven switches to the bad side for several books before rejoining the heroes.

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* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Amadis has the ability to understand and talk to animals.



* TalkingToAnimals: Amadis has the ability to understand and talk to animals.

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* ShipTease: Emma and Charlie, until it is revealed that [[spoiler: Emma has a crush on Tancred]]. Olivia and Charlie qualify too.

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* ShipTease: SpeaksFluentAnimal: Billy Raven's endowment allows him to do this.
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Emma and Charlie, until it is revealed that [[spoiler: Emma has a crush on Tancred]]. Tancred]].
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Olivia and Charlie qualify too.Charlie.



* TalkingToAnimals: Billy Raven's endowment allows him to do this.

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