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* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Collins is shocked when "King Lazaree the Chinee" speaks to him in perfect English.
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* LeftHandedMirror: Wilkie is right-handed, but his doppelganger is left-handed. This becomes apparent when he starts using the doppelganger as an amanuensis; Caroline looks over the notes written by the doppelganger and immediately notices the difference in writing style.
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* DearNegativeReader: In the final chapter, Collins goes on an angry rant against you, the reader, accusing you of having never read any of his books and of only caring about Dickens and Drood.
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* DearNegativeReader: In In-universe example in the final chapter, wherein Collins goes on an angry rant against you, the reader, accusing you of having never read any of his books and of only caring about Dickens and Drood.
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* {{Unperson}}: Collins doesn't just want Dickens to die, he wants him to disappear and be forgotten by history. He plans to accomplish this by luring Dickens to the graveyard at Rochester cathedral, killing him there, dissolving his corpse in a lime pit, and hiding his bones within a cavity in the cathedral’s crypt. [[ForegoneConclusion Naturally, this doesn't happen]].
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* DearNegativeReader: In the final chapter, Collins goes on an angry rant against you, the reader, accusing you of having never read any of his books and of only caring about Dickens and Drood.
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* ObviouslyEvil: Drood is a pale, horrendously mutilated ghoul of a man who dresses all in black. Naturally, he's up to no good.
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* ObviouslyEvil: Drood is a pale, horrendously mutilated ghoul of a man who dresses all in black.black, complete with OminousOperaCape. Naturally, he's up to no good.
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* AllJustADream: Late in the book, Wilkie Collins successfully lures Charles Dickens to Rochester Cathedral and, after learning how Dickens plans to end ''The Mystery of Edwin Drood'', shoots him dead. Collins then wakes up in his bed, realizing that the meeting and murder were just a dream, and that he still has time to make them a reality.
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* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Collins censors all swear words that appear in the text, such that "damn" is written as "d -- ". [[spoiler:He stops doing this in the last chapter so he can rant and curse at you, the reader.]]
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* AntagonistTitle: Drood is the namesake and (apparent) main villain of the book.
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* SsssnakeTalk: Drood tends to draw out the letter s in his words due to his deformities.
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Late in the book, Wilkie buys himself a puppy and takes it on a trip to the abandoned cathedral. Once they get there, he casually snaps the puppy's neck and chucks its corpse into a lime pit, purely to test how long it will take to dissolve.
