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* NiceHat: Given Sophie's job, it's only natural a few would show up. [[spoiler: Because of her latent magical ability, they turn into {{Magic Hat}}s.]]
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* DressingDown: Michael remarks that he'll know [[AgentPeacock Howl]] has fallen truly in love only if Howl ''doesn't'' spend hours in the bathroom, making himself prettier before meeting a girl. [[spoiler:When Sophie is captured by the Witch of the Waste, Howl rushes to rescue her, looking disheveled and unkempt]].
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* AmbiguousDisorder: downplayed,
but in modern parlance, Sophie is clearly neurodivergent. She's shy socially but can be dangerously blunt; hyperfocuses on millinery or cleaning but "has no method" and loses interest all at once; finds that she can only do some things when forced to (executive dysfunction); deals very badly with boredom; acts impulsively, and misses nonverbal cues, which leads to many a misunderstanding. Once she discovers her own powers, it doesn't hold her back.
but in modern parlance, Sophie is clearly neurodivergent. She's shy socially but can be dangerously blunt; hyperfocuses on millinery or cleaning but "has no method" and loses interest all at once; finds that she can only do some things when forced to (executive dysfunction); deals very badly with boredom; acts impulsively, and misses nonverbal cues, which leads to many a misunderstanding. Once she discovers her own powers, it doesn't hold her back.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: downplayed,
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* AmbiguousDisorder: downplayed,
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but in modern parlance, Sophie is clearly neurodivergent. She's shy socially but can be dangerously blunt; hyperfocuses on millinery or cleaning but "has no method" and loses interest all at once; finds that she can only do some things when forced to (executive dysfunction); deals very badly with boredom; acts impulsively, and misses nonverbal cues, which leads to many a
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** Regarding Sophie's sisters, it's mentioned early on in chapter 1 that Martha and Lettie used to fight due to envying the other's destiny. [[spoiler: In chapter 2 Sophie learns they have concocted a scheme to magically take on each other's identity, so as to take on the other's role.]]
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* RewatchBonus: A ''lot'' of past scenes are put in a different light once you find out in the last chapters [[spoiler: Calcifer saw Sophie's curse and her magic power immediately, told Howl about it, and they were ''both'' hoping she could break Calcifer's contract]]; that [[spoiler: Howl's flirtations with Lettie and Miss Angorian were both put-on for strategy]]; and that [[spoiler: Howl is [[MagnificentBastard conducting a complicated, deceptive plan]] over not only the Witch of the Waste and Miss Angorian - who both have their ''own'' conflicting gambits - but over Sophie, the entire kingdom, and ''himself''. Almost the only action of Sophie's he didn't predict was her being decent to Miss Angorian]].
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* ConversationHog: Mrs Fairfax tends to ramble on about whatever the topic of conversation is, and whoever she's talking to has to watch for a good moment to insert their comment or else be obliviously talked over. The narration compares it to judging the right moment to jump into a moving skipping-rope.
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* TheMultiverse: This trope shows up again in DWJ's work in a minor way -- Howl turns out to be from an AlternateUniverse, which turns out to be [[EarthAllAlong modern-day Earth]] (specifically Wales in the 1980s), which passes by without much comment from the other characters.
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* EarthAllAlong: A major reveal in the middle of the story is that one of the castle's possible locations (the one marked in black on the doorknob) is an AlternateUniverse, specifically Wales in the 1980s, and this is Howl's original home (where he was born as "Howell Jenkins"). Sophie treats the technology and customs of the real world as just more weirdness associated with Howl that she politely lets pass, and [[AllThereInTheManual the details of how Howl came to Ingary have only been revealed in interviews]].
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* EarthAllAlong: A major reveal in the middle of the story is that one of the castle's possible locations (the one marked in black on the doorknob) is an AlternateUniverse, specifically Wales in the 1980s, 1970s, and this is Howl's original home (where he was born as "Howell Jenkins"). Sophie treats the technology and customs of the real world as just more weirdness associated with Howl that she politely lets pass, and [[AllThereInTheManual the details of how Howl came to Ingary have only been revealed in interviews]].
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Defied. [[spoiler:When the Witch of the Waste holds Sophie hostage, Howl arrives in a flurry, defeats the Witch in a CurbStompBattle, and most definitely kills her]].
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* AngerBornOfWorry: [[spoiler:Howl yells a storm at Sophie when he rescues her from the Witch of the Waste. Namely, he tells her he didn't expect she would be nice enough to rescue a woman she disliked from his dreaded enemy]].
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* CantLiveWithoutYou: If Calcifer dies, so does Howl [[spoiler: because of their contract.]]
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* CantLiveWithoutYou: If Calcifer dies, so does Howl [[spoiler: because of their contract.]] Sophie breaks the curse, gives Calcifer a thousand years and restores Howl back to life]].
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* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: When she learns that the Witch is holding [[spoiler:Miss Angorian, Howl's latest crush, hostage, Sophie commits to rescuing her despite feeling miserable about the prospect. When Howl comes to the castle, he shouts at Sophie that Miss Angorian was the demon trying to kill Calcifer and how was she oblivious for not realizing that Howl was in love with Sophie]]?
* TheJinx: Subverted. Sophie assumes she's bad luck because she's the oldest of three daughters and a step-child at that. [[spoiler:Howl tells her that she's not doomed for failure while they're going to rescue Calcifer, and she just has to learn not to be so impulsive]]
* TheJinx: Subverted. Sophie assumes she's bad luck because she's the oldest of three daughters and a step-child at that. [[spoiler:Howl tells her that she's not doomed for failure while they're going to rescue Calcifer, and she just has to learn not to be so impulsive]]
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: [[spoiler:Howl knew along that Sophie was cursed. Even with the Witch's {{Geas}}, you can't fool a lazy magician. In the hopes of helping her ''and'' saving himself and Calcifer, he took her in and under protest lets her clean the castle, all the while trying to hide his true feelings for her]].
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* OminousKnocking: Happens many times; Justified, since after Sophie is scared half to death by a living scarecrow at the door, she gets alarmed every time someone knocks in fear of seeing the scarecrow again. Then the Witch starts an open war with the castle's inhabitants, and Sophie and Michael often get frightened ''she'' might start knocking on the door. [[spoiler:All the knocking-related alarms turn out to be false]].
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* TwinSwitch: [[spoiler:Mrs Hatter places Martha and Lettie in apprenticeships based on her expectations for their futures, but they each prefer the career path the other has been given. Martha finds a magic spell that lets them switch appearances, and they swap places. By the end of the book they are able to each continue their preferred apprenticeships openly.]]
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* CompanionCube: Sophie discovers she has the magical ability to bring to life to inanimate objects if she treats them like they weren't inanimate.
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Sophie Hatter is a sensible young woman who utterly lacks any confidence in herself. She works in a hat store owned by her late father, where she feels resigned to spend the rest of her days, until one day an encounter with the dashing and handsome young wizard Howl marks her as a target of the Witch of the Waste, a jilted former lover of Howl's. Mistaking Sophie for her sister Lettie, The Witch places a curse on Sophie which turns her into an old woman. After this transformation, Sophie exiles herself from her hometown and happens to become a house cleaner for Howl - who lives inside a moving castle with [[{{PortalNetwork}} magic doors]] leading all over the country. The castle is powered by the grumpy fire demon, Calcifer, who is linked to Howl in a mysterious magical contract. Calcifer, however, has grown to resent Howl over the years and agrees to free Sophie from her curse if she can, in turn, somehow void his own agreement with Howl.
As Sophie and Howl grow closer, it becomes more and more apparent that all is not as it seems. Indeed, the main theme of the book is that everything in the story is something else, having been transformed by magic.
As Sophie and Howl grow closer, it becomes more and more apparent that all is not as it seems. Indeed, the main theme of the book is that everything in the story is something else, having been transformed by magic.
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Sophie Hatter is a sensible young woman who utterly lacks any confidence in herself. She works in a hat store owned by her late father, where she feels resigned to spend the rest of her days, until one day an encounter with the dashing and handsome young wizard Howl marks her as a target of the Witch of the Waste, a jilted former lover of Howl's. Mistaking Sophie for her sister Lettie, The the Witch places a curse on Sophie which turns her into an old woman. After this transformation, Sophie exiles herself from her hometown and happens to become a house cleaner for Howl - who lives inside a moving castle with [[{{PortalNetwork}} magic doors]] leading all over the country. The castle is powered by the grumpy fire demon, Calcifer, who is linked to Howl in a mysterious magical contract. Calcifer, however, has grown to resent Howl over the years and agrees to free Sophie from her curse if she can, in turn, somehow void his own agreement with Howl.
Howl. As Sophie and Howl grow closer, it becomes more and more apparent that all is not as it seems. Indeed, the main theme of the book is that everything in the story is something else, having been transformed by magic.seems.
Indeed, the main theme of the book is that everything in the story is something else, having been transformed by magic.
Indeed, the main theme of the book is that everything in the story is something else, having been transformed by magic.
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* TongueTied: Part of the curse on Sophie is that she is prevented from telling anyone that's she under the curse.
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* TongueTied: Part of the curse on Sophie is that she is prevented from telling anyone that's she under the curse. Nothing stopping anyone from figuring it out themselves, though (Calcifer, for one, can tell just by looking at her), and once someone else figures it out, that someone else is at full liberty to talk about it to whoever they wish. This also means that Sophie is free to talk about the curse with anyone who figured it out on their own.
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** Michael muses that the day Howl doesn't spend at least two hours in the bathroom, making himself gorgeous before he goes out, is the day they'll know he's fallen in love. [[spoiler: During the climax when he turns up at the Witch of the Waste's castle, he's unshaven with dark shadows under his eyes, and frankly looks a mess. Sophie sadly thinks he must love Miss. Angorian very much, unable to realise that Howl loves ''her.'']]
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** Michael muses that the day Howl doesn't spend at least two hours in the bathroom, making himself gorgeous before he goes out, is the day they'll know he's fallen in love. [[spoiler: During the climax when he turns up at the Witch of the Waste's castle, he's unshaven with dark shadows under his eyes, and frankly looks a mess. Sophie sadly thinks he must love Miss. Miss Angorian very much, much; unable to realise that Howl loves ''her.'']]
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* BaseOnWheels: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The titular castle]].
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* BaseOnWheels: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The titular castle]].castle]] moves on ''feet'', then later wings.
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* CompanionCube: Sophie discovers she has the magical ability to bring things to life if she treats them like Companion Cubes.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Sophie, in her natural age and form, has flowing red hair.
* TheIllegible: Howl. In both ''Howl's Moving Castle'' and ''House of Many Ways'' there are references to his handwriting being horrible - both Sophie and Charmain wonder to themselves if he uses a pen or a poker when he's writing.
* LargeHam: Howl is called a 'drama queen' by his own author.
* TheIllegible: Howl. In both ''Howl's Moving Castle'' and ''House of Many Ways'' there are references to his handwriting being horrible - both Sophie and Charmain wonder to themselves if he uses a pen or a poker when he's writing.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Sophie, in her natural age and form, has flowing red hair.
hair, and is the only girl that womanizer Howl is truly interested in.
*TheIllegible: Howl. TheIllegible: In both ''Howl's Moving Castle'' and ''House of Many Ways'' there are references to his Howl' handwriting being horrible - both Sophie and Charmain wonder to themselves if he uses a pen or a poker when he's writing.
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* HandsomeLech: [[spoiler: Howl falls for Sophie the first time he sees her, but he maintains the appearance of being a HandsomeLech while trying to find out more about Sophie from her sister.]]
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The second sequel, titled ''Literature/HouseOfManyWays'', is set a couple of years after its predecessor. Again, a new protagonist is introduced as the book follows the story of Charmain, a sheltered bookworm who is assigned to caretake a cottage for her Great Uncle (who is also the Royal Wizard) but soon discovers the cottage is a magical labyrinth in disguise. The cast of the first book are given more involved roles than their cameo appearances in ''Castle in the Air'', but still stay secondary to Charmain's plot.
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* GoodStepmother: Living in a world filled by fairy tale tropes, lampshades, and aversions, Sophie's stepmother Fanny initially shows [[WickedStepmothr antagonistic shades]] before her good intentions towards both her own daughter Martha and her step-daughters Sophie and Lettie are revealed. She loves her daughters equally, even though her judgement is flawed.
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* GoodStepmother: Living in a world filled by fairy tale tropes, lampshades, and aversions, Sophie's stepmother Fanny initially shows [[WickedStepmothr [[WickedStepmother antagonistic shades]] before her good intentions towards both her own daughter Martha and her step-daughters Sophie and Lettie are revealed. She loves her daughters equally, even though her judgement is flawed.
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* NoLovesIntersect: Surprisingly, this turns out to be the case [[spoiler: with Howl, Lettie and Sophie. Rather than pursuing Lettie, Howl was only trying to gain information about Sophie through her, since he noticed they looked alike. Lettie only humoured him because she was worried about him asking about Sophie.]]
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** Michael muses that the day Howl doesn't spend at least two hours in the bathroom, making himself gorgeous before he goes out, is the day they'll know he's fallen in love. [[spoiler: During the climax when he turns up at the Witch of the Waste's castle, he's unshaven with dark shadows under his eyes, and frankly looks a mess. Sophie sadly thinks he must love Miss. Angorian very much, unable to realise that Howl loves ''her.'']]
** When Percival, a man pieced from two different men, talks about the Witch taking his head off and sitting on a shelf looking at himself, Michael protests that this would have killed him. Howl reveals that strong magic would allow him, for example, to take any part of Michael's body he wanted and leave Michael alive. [[spoiler: Very soon after this, it's revealed that both Howl and the Witch of the Waste have removed their own hearts to give them to their respective fire demons.]]
** Michael muses that the day Howl doesn't spend at least two hours in the bathroom, making himself gorgeous before he goes out, is the day they'll know he's fallen in love. [[spoiler: During the climax when he turns up at the Witch of the Waste's castle, he's unshaven with dark shadows under his eyes, and frankly looks a mess. Sophie sadly thinks he must love Miss. Angorian very much, unable to realise that Howl loves ''her.'']]
** When Percival, a man pieced from two different men, talks about the Witch taking his head off and sitting on a shelf looking at himself, Michael protests that this would have killed him. Howl reveals that strong magic would allow him, for example, to take any part of Michael's body he wanted and leave Michael alive. [[spoiler: Very soon after this, it's revealed that both Howl and the Witch of the Waste have removed their own hearts to give them to their respective fire demons.]]
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* GenreSavvy: Subverted. The book opens with a description of how the protagonist, who lives in "the land of Ingary, where such things as [[SevenLeagueBoots seven-league boots]] and cloaks of invisibility really exist", knows what to expect from life because everyone in Ingary knows how fairy stories work. The first dent appears before the end of the first chapter, with the introduction of two not-at-all ugly step-sisters (well, half-sisters), and as the book progresses, it becomes increasingly clear that a lot of what everyone knows is superstition or self-fulfilling prophecy (people make plans according to what everyone knows will happen, so that's what does happen). A major theme of the book is that life isn't as simple as in stories, even in a kingdom where fairy-story magic really exists.
* HandsomeLech: [[spoiler: Howl falls for Sophie the first time he sees her but he maintains the appearance of being a HandsomeLech while trying to find out more about Sophie from her sister.]]
* HandsomeLech: [[spoiler: Howl falls for Sophie the first time he sees her but he maintains the appearance of being a HandsomeLech while trying to find out more about Sophie from her sister.]]
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* GenreSavvy: Subverted. The book opens with a description of how the protagonist, who lives in "the land of Ingary, where such things as [[SevenLeagueBoots seven-league boots]] and cloaks of invisibility really exist", knows what to expect from life because everyone in Ingary knows how fairy stories work. The first dent appears before the end of the first chapter, with the introduction of two not-at-all ugly step-sisters (well, half-sisters), half-sisters) and a perfectly kind and loving step-mother, and as the book progresses, it becomes increasingly clear that a lot of what everyone knows 'everyone knows' is really just superstition or self-fulfilling prophecy (people make plans according to what everyone knows will happen, so that's what does ''does'' happen). A major theme of the book is that life isn't as simple as in stories, even in a kingdom where fairy-story magic really exists.
* HandsomeLech: [[spoiler: Howl falls for Sophie the first time he seesher her, but he maintains the appearance of being a HandsomeLech while trying to find out more about Sophie from her sister.]]
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The King of Ingary. We see little of him but he seems like a decent fellow. For intance he's not adverse to giving a StandardHeroReward for a sufficent job but not as long as his daughter is a toddler.
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* ScaryScarecrows: Played with; Sophie finds the animate scarecrow frightening, but when it gets a chance to explain itself without her running away, it turns out to be friendly and helpful.
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* NobleDemon: Calcifer is a demon who looks very scary and lives by eating parts of humans but he has a good relationship with the rest of the Castle 'family'.
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!! Tropes present in ''Castle in the Air'':
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* AchillesHeel: All djinns have a life which they must keep hidden for their own protection. If anyone destroys the life, the djinn is killed.
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* AffablyEvil: Hasruel. He's not truly evil, but has been forced into the role after his brother stole his life and made him his slave.
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* BewitchedAmphibians: The genies threatens to turn anyone who annoys him into toads. [[spoiler: At one point in the story he actually does turn Abdullah and the soldier into toads, but only for a limited amount of time.]] He also turns the first people to open his bottle into toads, though Abdullah makes him reverse the spell during his attempt to challenge fate.
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* CoolCat: Midnight.
* CuteKitten: Whippersnapper.
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* FireForgedFriends: Abdullah and the Soldier, [[spoiler: who is really Prince Justin of Ingary]].
* FirstGirlWins: Flower-in-the-Night is the first girl Abdullah encounters in the story. He falls in love with her instantly and marries her by the end of the story.
* GenieInABottle: Abdullah acquires a genie in a bottle, who is forced to grant him a wish a day.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Dalzel certainly has this going on.
* JackassGenie: The genie, in a nutshell. Every single wish he grants is almost certain to go wrong in some way.
* KindHeartedCatLover: The Soldier turns out to be this. Much to Abdullah's disgust, he insists on keeping the two strays they find in the mountains and even names them 'Midnight' and 'Whippersnapper'.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Abdullah falls for Flower the moment he first meets her. Only days after first meeting he's already planning to elope with her.
* MadeASlave: Hasruel was forced to slave away for his brother after his brother stole his life.
%%* MagicCarpet
* MakeAWish: The genie is forced to grant anyone who asks a wish.
* MamaBear: Midnight/[[spoiler: Sophie]] goes berserk whenever her baby is in danger.
%%* NoSympathy
* PregnantBadass: Lettie Suliman.
%%* ProphecyTwist
* TheQuest: The princess Abdullah wants to elope with is suddenly abducted by a djinn. Abdullah resolves to rescue her.
* SoulJar: [[spoiler: The ring in Hasruel's nose is this for Hasruel's life.]]
%%* YouCantFightFate
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