History Literature / ColdDays

** ''Literature/StormFront'' gets a mention when Butters asks what the bad guys could do with a bit of Harry. Harry mentions they could make his heart stop or explode. Butters flashes back to that book's gruesome murders, now finally knowing what caused them.

** Harry briefly muses that should he survive, he will need to get new ID cards for his new job as the Winter Knight, stylized in the same way his old ones were narrated as in ''Literature/StormFront''.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: When Harry discusses [[spoiler:the contagion with Lily]] he comes to the realization [[spoiler:the contagion had brainwashed [[Literature/StormFront Victor Sells]] into a domestic abusing, drug dealing warlock, [[Literature/FoolMoon FBI Agent Denton and company]] into {{Dirty Cop}}s, gave [[Literature/GravePeril Leonid Kravos]] the suicidal overconfidence to try and summon demons to take over Chicago, and turned [[Literature/SummerKnight Summer Lady Aurora]] into an insane woman bent on ending the constant war between Summer and Winter no matter the cost]].

[[JustForFun/TheOneWith The one with]] all the [[TheFairFolk Fae]] and [[EldritchAbomination Outsiders]].

** Harry, to Mab, [[spoiler:when Mab compliments Harry on how thoroughly he "manipulated" Molly into being loyal to him]].
** He then [[spoiler:gets the above-mentioned OhCrap from her, then delivers a pointed KirkSummation, leaving her showing grudging (and/or delighted, hard to tell with [[OrangeAndBlueMorality Mab]]) respect for him once again]].

* YouRemindMeOfX: Mab tells Harry he reminds her of [[spoiler:the previous Winter Knight Literature/TamLin]] when Harry [[spoiler:told her court he would protect any mortal he catches them abusing.]] It should also be said [[spoiler:Literature/TamLin, according to legend, was also loved by the Fairy Queen, and in the end was able to escape the Queen to be with his truelove as a mortal]].

* YouCannotKillAnIdea: As GodNeedsPrayerBadly, Mab wishes to ensure the Winter Fae are not forgotten. So she searched out wordsmiths Creator/TheBrothersGrimm to write down tales and legends of her court. Their work would spread and be told to children for generations to come, ensuring the Fae become an idea that cannot be destroyed. Harry also suspects that Mab may have reached out to Creator/WaltDisney for the same reason.

** By an extension of this, [[spoiler: Mab]] wants Harry to be her Watchman. At the end, in the span of a few minutes, Harry gives her two serious threats to her life and openly states he will hurt her if she harms Molly, and she’s happy with this. She doesn't want some YesMan, but one that is smart enough to think on his own. Possibly even to kill her if she was ever taken by ''Nemesis''.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: This is what tips off Harry that [[spoiler: Cat Sith]] is possessed-he's a CombatPragmatist and, if he wanted to kill Harry, he would've just done so.

* TheWildHunt: Shows up again for the first time since ''Literature/DeadBeat''. [[spoiler:Harry defeats it, earning leadership of the hunt, then declares, "Tonight, we hunt [[EldritchAbomination Outsiders]]!"]]

* WeHelpTheHelpless: Despite becoming the Winter Knight, Harry is still this at heart. He gives the Winter Court fair warning after [[spoiler: Maeve tries to have Redcap kill Harry and Sarissa]] that if he sees any of them with a mortal and will soon be abusing said mortal, he will [[spoiler: freeze them so even their blood is solid and shatter them]]. The idiot who tries to object to Harry's claim [[spoiler: gets frozen mid-sentence.]]

** By an extension of this, [[spoiler: Mab]] wants Harry to be her Watchman. At the end, in the span of a few minutes, Harry gives her two serious threats to her life and openly states he will hurt her if she harms Molly, and she is happy with this. She doesn't want some YesMan, but one that is smart enough to think on his own. Possibly even to kill her if she was ever taken by ''Nemesis''.

** Thomas gives a particularly poignant one when he finds out that Harry is alive and didn't tell him. [[spoiler:He is also pissed that Harry would rather chicken out and be killed rather than live with the power of Mab inside of him, making Harry, in his own beliefs, a monster. Compared to Thomas who is forced to endure his demon.]]

* WarriorTherapist: [[spoiler:Elder Gruff has been this with Titania, and has helped her past her anger over what Harry did to Aurora]].
* WeHaveReserves: Implied. [[spoiler:It’s revealed Maeve sacrificed several Nemesis infected people to get Lily to believe her about her "scanning" powers]].

* WideEyedIdealist: Lily believes in the good in people [[spoiler:and Maeve, which leads her to assist in attacking Demonreach]].

** [[spoiler:Summer Knight Fix, from a HeroAntagonist way, holds it because first he never considered Harry fighting him with anything less than 100% of the Winter Mantle, never considered Harry would go off-script in the battles of instincts the two mantles give them.]]

** Their exact relationship is unsaid, [[spoiler: but upon thinking Harry killed her Fix, Lily unleashes her Summer fury and threatens to cremate Harry for his actions]].

* WeHaveReserves: Implied. [[spoiler:It is revealed Maeve sacrificed several Nemesis infected people to get Lily to believe her about her "scanning" powers]].

** [[spoiler:Maeve held it a few times. She used her ability to tell lies to the point Harry, and later Fix, noticed her straightforward and openness as a big Out Of Character moment. She ignored Molly's training. She didn't have her prisoners searched for additional weapons. Then she tried to kill Harry in front of Murphy, and Murphy drawing her backup weapon and Maeve died, her gambit almost a complete failure]].
** [[spoiler:Summer Knight Fix, from a HeroAntagonist way, holds it because first he never considered Harry fighting him with anything less than 100% of the Winter Mantle, never considered Harry would go off-script in the battles of instincts the two mantles give them]].
* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler:Because the White Council is bogged down in Europe and American Wardens running thin, when a Paranetter sends out a distress call because of Fomor, Lara sends out a strike team to their location in less than an hour and is able to do serious damage to the Fomor's plots. The only downside is with each rescue Lara now knows the location of a weaker practitioner]].

* VillainOverride: When Nemesis directly puppets [[spoiler: Cat Sith]].

* WeHelpTheHelpless: Despite becoming the Winter Knight, Harry is still this at heart. He gives the Winter Court fair warning after [[spoiler: Maeve tries to have Redcap kill Harry and Sarissa]] that if he sees any of them with a mortal and will soon be abusing said mortal, he will [[spoiler: freeze them so even their blood is solid and shatter them]]. The idiot who tries to object to Harry's claim [[spoiler: gets frozen mid-sentence]].

* WhamEpisode: [[TheReveal Reveals]] come flying from left, right, and center. The nature of Demonreach, the roles of the Sidhe in the structure of reality, and the Outer Gates are all expanded on; [[TheManBehindTheMan Men Behind the Men]] and [[GreaterScopeVillain Greater-Scope Villains]] are all over the place; and, oh yeah, [[spoiler: Maeve and Lily are dead, Molly's the new Winter Lady, and Harry's parasite is going to burst out of his head and [[YourHeadAsplode kill him]] if it isn't removed in time]].

* WorthIt: By the end of the book, [[spoiler: Mab considers keeping Harry alive and rehabilitating him this. From his attempted suicide to get out of being the Winter Knight, to him seriously threatening her life twice in the span of a few minutes, Harry shows a mindset well worth the lumps and problems he can give her because he won't end up as a YesMan who follows orders without question. Instead, he will look at things many times over and if they feel wrong, he will look into them deeper and search out the truth. And, as the two attempts to kill her show, if ''she'' falls to Nemesis' corruption, she can trust Harry to put her down]].

** Harry proved himself to the Erlking (again) [[spoiler:and Kringle, and thus a person both wish to hunt]].

** Harry subverts this because he questions his orders and what is before him, despite being the Winter Knight.

* PapaWolf: Harry tells Karrin he loves his daughter Maggie so much that the thought that she could be in pain is unbearable to him. This fact will lead to the EurekaMoment above.

** The Mothers are this in their domain [[spoiler:as they make it so the long walk they have with Harry is only seconds in the human world]].
** When the heroes [[spoiler:run into a temporal wave that will make them reach the island too late, Harry turns to Santa Claus to help them out of the wave and back into normal time. As noted, time magic is one of his things]].

** A ogre who spills blood in defiance of one of Mab's commands. It doesn't [[LiterallyShatteredLives end well for it]].
** Soon after, Harry gives a BadassBoast that he will attack any Fairy he finds abusing a mortal in his presence. He then asks if there are any questions. One Sidhe starts to ask how dare Harry think he can order any of them around but ends up like the ogre above.

-->'''Harry:''' Use your imagination. Mab sure as hell did. [[Literature/PeterPan There was a ticking crocodile]].

** At the end of the book, it is revealed [[spoiler:Sarissa was also meant to endure the hell with Harry as part of her training to become a good Winter Lady should Maeve die.]]
* TruceZone: Mac's bar is still a pretty Neutral place all sides can gather to get drinks. [[spoiler:When the Fomor try assaulting it, the ''entire Better Future Sociecty'' (so Karrin, the Alphas, Molly, the Vikings, Marcone's people, and Lara's vampires) come down like an Avalanche. It is said this is the only time when all factions will respond swiftly and without deliberation]]. Later [[spoiler:Harry is forced to fight inside it because Sharkface is attacking. Mac has no qualms with this]].

* WeWantOurJerkBack: "[[spoiler:Maeve]], you are a vicious Goddamn psychopath and we ''need you back''." [[spoiler: It doesn't happen.]]

** One of the original Merlin's power was this [[spoiler:as Demonreach was built not in three dimension, but 4 (or more) and doing so involved Merlin time traveling to build Demonreach multiple times at different time periods]].

** Maeve does it, asking Dresden and Sarissa where Mab is during this confrontation and how Mab can't come because they are in a circle. This makes Dresden realise the Circle can double as a summoning circle, and he summons Mab.

* TakenForGranite: Mab notes that when [[spoiler:Harry puts a gun to her head and readies to fire]] she has turned villages to stone for less insults.
* {{Telepathy}}: Molly's power has grown stronger yet so [[spoiler:she can immediately sense when Harry's Mantle is making him think certain things. She can also read Mouse's thought]].

* StoneWall: [[spoiler:Demonreach]] is this. He was designed to endure oncoming assaults. [[spoiler:It is implied he could be a MightyGlacier, but refrained from killing Maeve and Lily right away, theorized by Harry because it might destroy the island]].

* SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic: [[spoiler:Demonreach's construction is such advanced work]] that it is ''magic'' to Harry. Bob equates Harry's current level of understanding and power in wizardry is equal to making stone wheels and wooden axles. The stuff around them is approximately the internal combustion engine.

* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Molly identifies herself to Harry, after saving him, by quoting Obi-wan. Harry notes it is rare when the forces of darkness quote ''Star Wars''. Serves as a CallBack to ''Literature/GhostStory''--Harry quoted Obi-Wan in that book to convince Molly he was genuine.