History Literature / MissPeregrinesHomeforPeculiarChildren

* EarnYourHappyEnding: The long journey Jake undertook to finally be reunited with Emma. It's only shown in a couple of key shots.

* SpotTheImposter: In the climax, the Barron shapeshifts into Jake so Emma and Enoch don't know who is who as both stand side by side. [[spoiler:But the false Jake cannot see the hollowgast approach and is subsequently killed by it.]]

* TimePassesMontage: Used to show how days pass by time outside the loops.

* MayDecemberRomance: Averted with Emma and Jacob. Even though Emma is ''technically'' in her eighties, living in the [[GroundhogDayLoop loop]] means she hasn't aged physically or emotionally in decades and is still essentially a teenager.

* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Jacob to Emma late in ''Hollow City''.

* OnlyChildSyndrome: Except for [[spoiler:Emma and Sam, who both have sisters]], there's no mention whether Miss Peregrine's wards had any brothers or sisters

* SpotTheImposter: In the climax, Caul shapeshifts into Jake so Emma and Enoch don't know who is who as both stand side by side. [[spoiler:But the false Jake cannot see the hollowgast approach and is subsequently killed by it.]]

* DemBones: Enoch re-animates skeletons from the GhostShip to fight the hollowgast., in a {{homage}} to the works of ** Enoch's re-animated skeletons are an homage to Creator/RayHarryhausen, particularly ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts''.

* ShoutOut: The hollowgast look like [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]].

%%* CainAndAbel: Caul and Bentham in ''Library of Souls''

* {{Circus Brat}}s: All of the peculiars before Miss Peregrine established their loop. Peculiar talents make for easy performing skill, so circuses and traveling shows are where many hide out.

%%* CreepyChild: A lot of the children at Miss Peregrine's orphanage.
* CreepyTwins: Dressed as clowns, no less, though they never actually show up. Vaguely implied with Joel-and-Peter in the sequel, as they're mentally linked but differing in appearance and height and they are not explicitly twins.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Caul and his wight officers are often very polite and appear reasonable, but are unrelentingly cruel.

* MasterOfDisguise: In the first book, the main wight dramatically reveals himself as having been the new-in-town "professional birdwatcher", as well as Jake's middle school bus driver, his grandfather's neighbor, his family's yard-worker, and [[spoiler:his psychiatrist]].

* ParentalSubstitute: Miss Peregrine for the children. Particularly Emma, who outright calls her the only real mother she's ever known--she even celebrates her birthday on the day she met Miss Peregrine; the day her real mother got her. Jacob also comes to regard her as a mother figure, due to his own parents' inability to connect with him even before he discovered the peculiar world.
* PosthumousCharacter: Victor, who's long dead (technically, in temporal context, it's not that long, but many copies of the same day have passed) before the events of the first book.
* ProphetEyes: The wights, who have returned almost perfectly to their human forms, but with this as the exception.
* PsychoPsychologist: Played straight with Jacob's shrink, Dr. Golan.'' [[spoiler:For one thing, he's a wight, mining their sessions to track down the Cairnholm loop's ymbryne.]]

* SingleMindedTwins: Peter-and-Joel; it's one of their peculiarities.

* TeamMom: Emma and Bronwyn tend to take these roles.

* TimeMaster: The ymbrynes, which have the power to manipulate time.

* TheMole: [[spoiler:Jacob's psychiatrist, Dr. Golan, was a wight. Jacob told him everything he knew about the children, apparently.]]

* VoluntaryShapeshifter: Miss Peregrine (and others like her, called ymbrynes) can turn into birds. The reason given is that only birds can master the time loops.

* EvilIsHammy: As Barron, Creator/SamuelLJackson does a very good job in making Barron as much of a LargeHam as he can.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: The wights in the film have white eyes, but they have pupils unlike the book version, which adds a deranged and piercing quality to them, even though the photos in the credits sequences have the blank eyes of the book. Here, the eyes are also never shadowed, which makes for a dramatic shot of Barron shapeshifting as he walks through a shadowed tunnel, his eyes the only thing visible as he does so.

* LargeHam: Mr. Barron, once he reveals himself, especially when he thinks his plan is going swimmingly, just loves to talk in loud, wildly exaggerated ways, with much MilkingTheGiantCow.

!!The books contain examples of:

!!The film contains examples of:

* AdapatationalHeroism: Shelley, the Smart Aid manager, disliked Jacob in the book because he was always trying to get fired when the company kept him on due to nepotism. In the film, this is omitted and Shelley is supportive and helpful.

* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:In the first book, it's set up that the peculiar children, who've been living in a this loop for near a century, cannot leave it, or they will age forward and die. This creates a difficult situation for Jacob and Emma. But come ''Library of Souls'', a plot device has reset the ages of everyone involved to match there bodies, and it's {{hand wave}}d away.]]

* HealingFactor: Sam, who can have entire chunks of her body completely torn apart without even a little bit of bleeding, and the wound completely heals up within a day or so. [[spoiler:Millard believes that since she never lived in a loop, and such a profoundly powerful ability would have made her famous among peculiars, that she eventually took a wound she couldn't recover from during the Blitz and died.]] A foolish fighter in the third book also demonstrates accelerated healing, but his arrogance toward the hollow he's facing off against serve him poorly.

* GroundhogDayLoop: As in the book, but the sense of repetition and the peculiar's familiarity with the day is shown with more events, like the fallen baby squirrel that must be replaced in its tree every day, and the addition of a hollow in the loop which must be killed every day like clockwork, always falling into the outline drawn by Miss Peregrine.

** The boy on the cover of ''Library of Souls'' doesn't actually appear in the book [[spoiler:but was used as a propaganda poster by the Claywings]]

* AnachronismStew: Many deliberate examples, including one instance of a scientist in a victorian-era laboratory singing a Fleetwood Mac song. Justified by the fact that many characters pass through different time periods using the time loops.

* AuthorAppeal: The books are full of strange, anonymous, antique, SpookyPhotographs that Ransom Riggs loves, and these photos heavily influence the structure and content of the books.

* DemotedToExtra: In the second book, there's Miss Peregrine, who is arrested in bird form and [[spoiler: actually, was never even in the book to begin with]], and the third demotes the children, who are captive for most of it, leaving most of the focus on Jacob and Emma.
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:In the first book, it's set up that the peculiar children, who've been living in a this loop for near a century, cannot leave it, or try will age forward and die. This creates a difficult situation for Jacob. But come ''Library of Souls'', a plot device has reset the ages of everyone involved to match there bodies, and it's {{hand wave}}d away.]]

* AnIcePerson: Miss Wren's aide Althea has ice powers, so powerful she can fortify a building with ice in minutes.

* MeaningfulName: Miss Peregine, who can transform into a bird. It seems all ymbryne have these, such as Miss Finch, who can transform into a finch, and so on.
* MistakenForCheating: Jacob's father Franklin and his sister Susie always thought that their father was cheating on their mother with another woman because they found letters addressed to him from a woman who called herself "E." [[spoiler:It turned out to be Emma, and he wasn't cheating on his wife with her, having broken off his relationship with her.]]

* PosthumousCharacter: Victor, who's long dead before the events of the first book.

* ThemeNaming: The ymbrynes are all named after birds. Which makes sense, considering they ''can'' turn into them.

* ThoseTwoGuys: A pair of twins constantly shows up in photographs, but we never get to actually meet them.

* AdaptationalModesty: In the books, when ymbrynes transform into birds, they don't take their clothes with them. This was changed for the film. Justified in that, while Creator/EvaGreen often gets naked in her movies, this is a family-oriented film.

** At one point in the book whilst explaining to Jacob about Wights, Miss Peregrine states they don’t have any peculiarities. In contrast the Wights shown in the film still have their powers from when they were Peculiars; specifically Mr. Barron is a ShapeShifter and two CanonForeigner Wights include a [[AnIcePerson cryokinetic man]] and [[RatMan a half-rat woman]].
** The method by which the hollows become wights is different. In the books it’s achieved by absorbing a Peculiars’ soul, in the film it’s by consuming a Peculiars’ eyes.
*** A visual metaphor for devouring souls, since eyes are often referred to as "windows to the soul".

* AgeLift: In addition to changing Olive's power from floating to fire, the film also ages her up to be of an age with Emma and Jake, while simultaneously aging down Bronwyn to be a small girl. Enoch was also much younger in the original book, and Fiona, Millard, and Hugh are also younger than the book portrays them.

* AmbiguousGender: The twins, who never speak, wear full-body costumes that cover their faces, and whose faces don't indicate anything when seen. They're never referred to by pronouns, and it's further complicated by Jacob seeing them as boys in the book, yet their [[spoiler:Gorgon]] nature could indicate they're female given that [[Main/OneGenderRace the most famous ones are.]]

* AxeBeforeEntering: Barron shapeshifts his hand into an axe and chops through the door to the ymbryne's holding room to get to Jake.
* BenevolentBoss: Jacob's manager, Shelly, not only drives Jacob to his grandfather's home when Abe's own son couldn't be bothered, but she backs him up with a 0.357 when Jacob cries out that intruders had broken into Abe's home.

* IdiotBall: Granted, Jacob would have never found Abe's body and heard Abe's last words if he had stayed on the porch like Shelly asked, but the way he goes to investigate is exceptionally foolish. He goes to a mangled fence, in the middle of the night, picks up a flashlight with ''fresh blood'' on it, thus contaminating forensic evidence, and then goes through the mangled open hole to look around in a place with thick underbrush and many closely packed large trees. He could have been easily ambushed and killed.

* JudgementOfSolomon: Invoked in a brief visual gag. When Miss Peregrine walks by the twins, they're unsuccessfuly having a tug-of-war over a teddy bear. She actually does split it, tearing it down the middle, and gives each twin half, satisfying them both.

* ShoutOut: The hollowgasts look like [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]].

* TakenForGranite: Combined with LiterallyShatteredLives. [[spoiler:The twins are revealed to be gorgons. They petrify one of the wights and once she becomes a statue, she falls to her death, shattering into pieces... perhaps to ensure we know she won't be trapped as a statue forever. Apparently that would be [[EveryoneHasStandards too cruel, even for a wight]].]]

* ChekhovsGun: The peculiar sheep's wool in ''Hollow City'', and the ambrosia and peculiar sheep's wool ''[[ChekhovsBoomerang angain]]'' in ''Library of Souls''.

** A sinister group of once human monsters stalk a group of children with the intention of either experimenting on them or eating them. The more human ones have infiltrated pretty much every strata of human society that could help them, while the more abominable ones are super strong, high endurance giants that are invisible. Even if they knew what was going on, odds are Jacob's parents would be all but powerless to protect him.

* AuthorAppeal: The books are full of strange, anonymous, antique, SpookyPhotographs that Ransom Riggs loves.

* ChekhovsGun: The Ambrosia and peculiar sheep's wool in ''Library of Souls''.
* {{Circus Brat}}s: All of the peculiars before Miss Peregrine established their loop.

* CreepyTwins: Dressed as clowns, no less, though they never actually show up.
** In the sequel, Joel-and-Peter.

* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:In the first book, it's set up that the peculiar children, who've been living in a this loop for near a century, cannot leave it, or try will age forward and die. This creates a difficult situation for Jacob. But come ''Library of Souls'', a plot device has reset everyone's age, and it's {{hand wave}}d away.]]

* EldritchAbomination: As weird as the kids are, they look positively normal next to the hollowgasts and wights...

* HealingFactor: Sam, can have entire chunks of her body completely torn apart without even a little bit of bleeding, and the wound completely heals up within a day or so. [[spoiler:Millard believes that since she never lived in a loop, and such a profoundly powerful ability would have made her famous among peculiars, that she eventually took a wound she couldn't recover from during the Blitz and died.]]

* AnIcePerson: Althea has ice powers.

* TheInfiltration: [[spoiler:Caul is able to capture Jacob and the other peculiars by pretending to be Miss Peregrine in bird form]]
* IslandOfMystery: Cairnholm--it's got quasi-time travel, and an ExtranormalInstitute… as well as the [[RealityEnsues much less glamorous trappings of a small remote Welsh island]].

* MistakenForCheating: Jacob's father Franklin and his sister Susie always thought that their father was cheating on their mother with another woman because they found letters addressed to him from a woman who called herself "E." [[spoiler:It turned out to be Emma, and he wasn't cheating on his wife with her.]]
* {{Muggles}}: Called variously "normals", "non-peculiars", and "''coerlfolc''".
* NeurodiversityIsSupernatural: [[spoiler:Jacob, who early in the novel is diagnosed with acute stress syndrome and suffers panic attacks, hallucinations, and possibly PTSD... Actually just can see hollowgasts, and his symptoms are him responding to their presence.]]
* NoImmortalInertia: If a child leaves the loop for too long, time will catch up to them and they will rapidly age, to grisly effect. [[spoiler:When the ymbrynes destroy the titular loop at the end of the third book, the rule is subverted; each person's age is reset to their loop age, allowing them to age forward at a normal speed when taken out.]]
* NoPronunciationGuide: The books offer no help as to how "ymbryne" is pronounced. The film makes it "im-breen".
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Jacob regards most of his relatives as this. The only family members he's close to are his Grandad Abe and Aunt Susie.
* OhCrap: Once the children realize that [[spoiler:the time loop is continuing past what it should, which means they're going to get bombed very soon.]]

* OnlyChildSyndrome: Except for [[spoiler:Emma and Sam who both have sisters]] there's no mention whether Miss Peregrine's wards had any brothers or sisters
* OurTimeTravelIsDifferent: In order to keep the children safe, Miss Peregrine has hidden them away in a little pocket of time where it has been September 3rd, 1940 ever since… September 3rd, 1940. She makes sure the time loop resets just before the Germans bomb the everloving crap out of the Home, and the children have not aged since that day, though they remember each iteration of the day. It is mentioned that other ymbrynes have created similar time loops as refuges for other groups of peculiars.
* ParentalSubstitute: Miss Peregrine for the children. Particularly Emma, who outright calls her the only real mother she's ever known--she even celebrates her birthday on the day she met Miss Peregrine; the day her real mother got her.
* PosthumousCharacter: Victor, who's long dead before the events of the first book and is never shown alive on-screen.

* PsychoPsychologist: Played straight with Jacob's doctor in ''Library of Souls.'' [[spoiler:For one thing, he's a wight.]]
* SecretLegacy: Grandpa Portman left some pretty big shoes for Jacob to fill.
* SeriesContinuityError
** In the show the peculiars put on for Jacob in the first book, it's stated that Miss Peregrine's clothes don't shape-shift with her. Not true by the final book.
** In ''Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children'' Horace says he's 83. But in ''Hollow City'', he says he wants to live to see his 105th birthday, implying he's 104.
** In the first book, Jacob takes an apple from the loop and puts in on his bedside table. In the morning--maybe 10 hours later--it has aged forward. But by books two and three, it's possible to spend a 2 or 3 ''days'' outside a loop.

* NoPronunciationGuide: The books offer no help as to how "ymbryne" is pronounced. The films make it "im-breen".

** Whilst Mr. Barron is the film counterpart of the unnamed wight who killed Abraham Portman and stalked and manipulated his Grandson Jacob in the form of [[spoiler:psychiatrist Dr. Golan]], his position as leader of the wights and FauxAffablyEvil nature are taken from Miss Peregrine's evil brother; Caul Bentham.

* ExoticEyeDesigns: The wights in the film have white eyes, but they have pupils unlike the book version, which adds a deranged and piercing quality to them. The eyes are also never shadowed. Oddly, the recreated creepy photos in the credits sequences have blank eyes like the book.

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Mr. Barron is killed having his eyes devoured by a hollowgast; the same thing he did to countless peculiar children over the years.]]

* RaceLift: Whilst his race is never explicitly mentioned in the novel, but based on both the [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/thepeculiarchildren/images/1/18/Mr_Barron.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140626002940 photograph]] the character was based on that was included in the book and he fact that Wights are stated to be so indistinctive that they can look like anyone else with simple prosthetics; it can be assumed that the Wight who stalked the Portmans is Caucasian. In the film, his counterpart Mr. Barron is played by African-American actor Creator/SamuelLJackson. However, he is a shapeshifter in the film, and does take on Caucasian forms as disguises.

** At one point in the book whilst explaining to Jacob about Wights, Miss Peregrine states they don’t have any peculiarities. In contrast the Wights shown in the film still have their powers from when they were Peculiars; specifically Mr. Barron is a ShapeShifter and two CanonForeigner Wights include a [[AnIcePerson Cryo-kinetic man]] and [[RatMan a half-rat woman]].
** The method by which the Hollows become Wights is different. In the books it’s achieved by absorbing a Peculiars’ soul, in the film it’s by consuming a Peculiars’ eyes.

* AllThereInTheManual: The wights are never named as such in the film; you'd have to have read the books to know their title.

* BenevolentBoss: Jacob's manager, Stacy, not only drives Jacob to his grandfather's home when Abe's own son couldn't be bothered, but she backed him up with a 0.357 when Jacob cried out that intruders had broken into Abe's home.
* CassandraTruth: Nobody believes Abe's stories about the Hollows, the wights, or any of the Peculiars. His own son even leaves him completely defenseless by stealing the key to his gun safe, to catastrophic results.

** Whilst Mr. Barron is the film counterpart of the unnamed Wight who killed Abraham Portman and stalked and manipulated his Grandson Jacob in the form of [[spoiler:psychiatrist Dr. Golan]], his position as leader of the Wights and FauxAffablyEvil nature are taken from Miss Peregrine's evil brother; Caul Bentham.
** The twins are based on the clownish ballerinas in the book, with more generic costumes, yet their source of oddity seem to take the "eerily hidden faces" aspect from a photo in the book of two girls with their backs to the camera.
* CreatorCameo: Director Creator/TimBurton cameos as a confused fairground-goer during [[spoiler:the battle between the Hollowgasts and Enoch's skeletons.]]
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Miss Avocet is killed by a Hollowgast, while she survives in the book.]]
* EvilIsHammy: As Barron, Creator/SamuelLJackson did a very good job in making Barron as much of a LargeHam as he can.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: The wights in the film have white eyes, but they have pupils unlike the book version, which adds a deranged and piercing quality to them. Oddly, the recreated creepy photos in the credits sequences have blank eyes like the book.

** Jacob’s male phychiastrist Dr. Golan from the novel is played by actress Creator/AllisonJanney in the film, subverted in that like in the book [[spoiler:Dr Golan turns out to be the false identity of a male Wight- here, he can shapeshift]].
** The very fact that female wights exist in this version is one. In the books, they (and by extension, hollowghasts) are exclusively male for a very well-defined reason. [[spoiler:Specifically, they were jealous of ymbrynes, who could only be female, which is what led them to conduct the ritual.]]
* IdiotBall: Granted, Jacob would have never found Abe's body and heard Abe's last words if he had stayed on the porch like Stacy asked, but the way he went to investigate was exceptionally foolish. He went to a mangled fence, in the middle of the night, picked up a flashlight with ''fresh blood'' on it, thus contaminating forensic evidence, and then went through the mangled open hole to look around in a place with thick underbrush and many closely packed large trees. He could have been easily ambushed and killed.
* ImplausibleDeniability: People bought the cover story, hook, line and sinker, that ''feral dogs'' ripped down the screen door to Abe's home from above head height, and mangled a rather sturdy steel fence, not to mention ate Abe's eyes while leaving the rest of his corpse unmolested.

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Mr. Barron is killed having his eyes devoured by a Hollowgast; the same thing he did to countless Peculiar Children over the years.]]

* PragmaticAdaptation: The ending and the events leading up to it are much different than in the first book, as well as having several characters acting somewhat differently and/or being vastly different characters than in the book. These changes can be explained by the filmmakers wanting a more action-packed finale and to avoid tying the film's story to a sequel that may never surface. The changes work to make the film work ether as a standalone piece or as part of a series.
* RaceLift: Whilst his race is never explicitly mentioned in the novel, but based on both the [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/thepeculiarchildren/images/1/18/Mr_Barron.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140626002940 photograph]] the character was based on that was included in the book and he fact that Wights are stated to be so indistinctive that they can look like anyone else with simple prosthetics; it can be assumed that the Wight who stalked the Portmans is Caucasian. In the film, his counterpart Mr. Barron is played by African-American actor Creator/SamuelLJackson.
* RealityEnsues: Despite Mr. Barron's taunts, Jacob's accuracy with Ms. Perrigrine's crossbow is actually pretty good. Crossbows are notorious for being easy to use and learn, but difficult to aim. Despite that, Jacob does manage to hit Hollows with difficult shots on numerous occasions, even once shooting ''around'' Enoch to hit the Hollow that was trying to kill him, wounding that same Hollow numerous times while running from it, and sliding down the roof, and while he did miss Mr, Barron, the misses were very, very close, only an inch or two would have made the difference.
* RunningGag: [[spoiler:Jacob trying to hit the Wights like Ms. Peregrine, and missing literally every time.]] Lampshaded by [[spoiler:Mr. Barron.]]

* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler: Miss Avocet]] is suddenly killed by a Hollowgast [[KilledMidSentence in a middle of a speech]].

* TeensAreMonsters: Downplayed, but present. At the start of the movie, Jacob's school mates respond to seeing him work at a retail establishment by taking an item from the display he's setting up, and then ''throwing it'' back, ruining the display before walking out of the store, laughing. Later in the movie, when Jacob is looking for the children's home, his father ''pays'' two teen-age complete strangers to "guide" him there, and they direct Jacob ''through a bog'' while laughing at him from the safety of a paved road, and then later tell him, to his face, that they would only be willing to spend time with him when they're paid. Then there's Eunoch, although in his case, it's more of being a CrazyJealousGuy to Olive. Eunoch ''does'' get better about it though.
* TimeyWimeyBall: How the loops work, at least in the movie. [[spoiler:At first when Jake enters and leaves the Loop, the same amount of time seems to have passed on both sides (excepting for the reset within the Loop). If anyone from within the Loop spends too long in Jake's time (2016, when the Loop is stuck in 1943), they will rapidly age until they are the age they would have been in 2016 (as shown with a flower). When the Loop collapses, anyone inside is returned to moment the Loop was created. But then when the wight who killed Jake's grandfather dies in a Loop months before that happened, and the Loop collapses, Abe was never killed even though it was in the personal past of both Jake and the wight. Despite the aging effect of leaving a Loop in the future from said Loop, doing it in the past does not seem to have a de-aging effect. And then at the end Jake is somehow able to go from 2016 back to 1942 by navigating Loops (presumably without making them collapse, which their ymbrynes would not have agreed to). Confused yet?]]

* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler Miss Avocet]] is suddenly killed by a Hollowgast [[KilledMidSentence in a middle of a speech]].

* CreepyTwins:
%%** Dressed as clowns, no less, though they never actually show up.

* CreatorCameo: Director TimBurton cameos as a confused fairground-goer during [[spoiler:the battle between the Hollowgasts and Enoch's skeletons.]]

* ActionGirl: Bronwyn, Emma, and Melina.

* AdultFear: A sinister group of once human monsters stalk a group of children with the intention of either experimenting on them or eating them. The more human ones have infiltrated pretty much every strata of human society that could help them, while the more abominable ones are super strong, high endurance giants that are invisible. Even if they knew what was going on, odds are Jacob's parents would be all but powerless to protect him.

* AdvertisedExtra: The girls in the pictures on the cover of the novels fit this trope to different extents. This seems to be a bit of an EnforcedTrope; their characters correspond with particularly striking photographs:

** Sam, the girl on ''Hollow City's'' cover, plays this completely straight, showing up for a single chapter [[spoiler: that borders on a ShootTheShaggyDog[=/=]BizarroEpisode, as she has no relevance on anything before and is outright said to be a peculiar who was never saved and died during the Blitz]].
** The boy on the cover of ''Library of Souls'' doesn't actually appear in the book [[spoiler: but was used as a propaganda poster by the Claywings]]

* AnimalMotifs: Birds. Miss Peregrine, duh.

* BetaCouple: Hugh and Fiona.
* BigSisterInstinct: Why [[spoiler: Sam]] refuses to leave her normal sister behind and go with the peculiars.

* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: Emma attempts this on Jacob to make him go back to his own time period where he'll be safe. [[spoiler: It doesn't work]]. Mutually tried at the end of ''Library of Souls'', [[spoiler:and it still doesn't work]],
* CainAndAbel: Caul and Bentham in ''Library of Souls''

* CreepyChild: A lot of the children at Miss Peregrine's orphanage.
* CreepyTwins: Dressed as clowns, no less, though they never actually show up.

* DefrostingTheIceQueen: Jacob to Emma.

* EldritchAbomination: As weird as the kids are, they look positively normal next to the hollowgasts and wights…
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: Mr. White expresses his disgust at fellow wight soldier when said soldier begins sexually harassing Emma.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Jacob first manages [[spoiler:near-total control over a hollowgast]] after spending an entire night's sleep commuting with it subconsciously. The trick to [[spoiler:taking control over the entire herd of them]] is falling into a coma along with them.

* GenerationalMagicDecline: It is believed by some that the peculiars of the story are descended from a handful of peculiars who were extremely powerful, and the size of giants. As they multiplied, their powers diluted, and as they became less powerful they shrank.

* HealingFactor: Sam, can have entire chunks of her body completely torn apart without even a little bit of bleeding, and the wound completely heals up within a day or so. [[spoiler: Millard believes that since she never lived in a loop, and such a profoundly powerful ability would have made her famous among peculiars, that she eventually took a wound she couldn't recover from during the Blitz and died.]]
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[spoiler: Bentham, Miss Peregrine's brother, assists the children into infiltrating Caul's fortress, but later betrays them. However, in the climax, he pulls a HeroicSacrifice to stop his brother.]]

* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler: In the end, Jacob chooses to stay with the children in looking for surviving ymbrynes.]]
** [[spoiler: He comes very close to leaving in ''Hollow City'', only for everything to go to hell when the wights capture everyone. He's not going anywhere]].
* TheInfiltration: [[spoiler: Caul is able to capture Jacob and the other peculiars by pretending to be Miss Peregrine in bird form]]

* MistakenForCheating: Jacob's father Franklin and his sister Susie always thought that their father was cheating on their mother with another woman because they found letters addressed to him from a woman who called herself "E." [[spoiler: It turned out to be Emma, and he wasn't cheating on his wife with her.]]

* NeurodiversityIsSupernatural: [[spoiler: Jacob, who early in the novel is diagnosed with acute stress syndrome and suffers panic attacks, hallucinations, and possibly PTSD...Actually just can see hollowgasts, and his symptoms are him responding to their presence.]]
* NoImmortalInertia: If a child leaves the loop for too long, time will catch up to them and they will rapidly age, to grisly effect. [[spoiler: When the ymbrynes destroy the titular loop at the end of the third book, the rule is subverted; each person's age is reset to their loop age, allowing them to age forward at a normal speed when taken out.]]

* OhCrap: Once the children realize that [[spoiler: the time loop is continuing past what it should, which means they're going to get bombed very soon.]]

* OnlyAFleshWound: Sam reacts this way to [[spoiler: being impaled.]] Apparently, it's happened before. [[spoiler: Millard thinks that in the end, she suffered a wound too severe to shrug off.]]
* OnlyChildSyndrome: Except for [[spoiler: Emma and Sam who both have sisters]] there's no mention whether Miss Peregrine's wards had any brothers or sisters

* PsychoPsychologist: Played straight with Jacob's doctor in ''Library of Souls.'' [[spoiler: For one thing, he's a wight.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: A lot of the peculiar children in ''Hollow City'', once they start using their abilities to fight the hollowgast and the wights. Special mention goes to:
** Emma, for [[spoiler: burning a hollowgast's tongue off]]
** Hugh, for [[spoiler: summoning an army of bees to kill the wights that had taken the others captive]]
** Jacob, whose ability develops over the course of the story to [[spoiler: not only seeing the hollowgast, but also being able to sense them, speak their language, and ultimately control them.]]

--> '''Emma:''' [[spoiler: He could see the monsters.]]
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: [[spoiler: Before Jacob joins the other peculiars on their journey at the end of the first book, Emma warns him that the time loop will close once they leave it, and it will be very difficult for Jacob to return to his own time again, if he even can. He nonetheless agrees to go with them after going back to say goodbye to his father.]]

** Jake can see hollows, but considering the very different and more happy ending, it's left unclear whether his more developed ability [[spoiler: to communicate with and control them]] exists in this version.

* AmbiguousGender: The twins, who never speak, wear full-body costumes that cover their faces, and whose faces don't indicate anything when seen. They're never referred to by pronouns, and it's further complicated by Jacob seeing them as boys in the book, yet their [[spoiler: Gorgon]] nature could indicate they're female given that [[Main/OneGenderRace the most famous ones are.]]
* AscendedExtra: The masked twins. They only feature in a couple of photographs in the book, which give no clear indication of their peculiarity, and they are never seen in person. Here, they're under Miss Peregrine's care and [[spoiler: they're gorgons.]]

* CreatorCameo: Director TimBurton cameos as a confused fairground-goer during [[spoiler: the battle between the Hollowgasts and Enoch's skeletons.]]

* GenderFlip: Jacob’s male phychiastrist Dr Golan from the novel is played by actress Creator/AllisonJanney in the film, subverted in that like in the book [[spoiler:Dr Golan turns out to be the false identity of a male Wight- here, he can shapeshift]].

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Mr. Barron is killed having his eyes devoured by a Hollowgast; the same thing he did to countless Peculiar Children over the years.]]

* RunningGag: [[spoiler: Jacob trying to hit the Wights like Ms. Peregrine, and missing literally every time.]] Lampshaded by [[spoiler:Mr. Barron.]]

* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler: Miss Avocet]] is suddenly killed by a Hollowgast [[KilledMidSentence in a middle of a speech]].
* TakenForGranite: Combined with LiterallyShatteredLives. [[spoiler: The twins are revealed to be gorgons. They petrify one of the wights and once she becomes a statue, she falls to her death, shattering into pieces...perhaps to ensure we know she won't be trapped as a statue forever. Apparently that would be [[EveryoneHasStandards too cruel, even for a wight]].]]

** Jake can see hollows, but considering the very different and more happy ending, it's left unclear whether his more developed ability [[Spoiler: to communicate with and control them]] exists in this version.

** Jake can see hollows, but considering the very different and more happy ending, it's left unclear whether his more developed ability [[apoiler: to communicate with and control them]] exists in this version.

* BlankWhiteEyes: The wights, by way of GlamorFailure.