History Literature / OddThomas

* CharacterNameAlias: Odd goes by the pseudonym HarryPotter for most of the book, so The Presence can't get any information on him. He also briefly goes by Lex Luthor.

* AlienGeometries
* EldritchAbomination: [[DemBones The Uber-Skeleton]]

* [[spoiler: MadScientist]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure

* SaintlyChurch

* SnowedIn

* IgnoreTheFanservice: Datura is very sure that she can seduce anyone. Odd notes her looks rather clinically and dismisses it as unimportant.

* StealthPun: One of Datura's servants is a man named Andre who is repeatedly described as a [[Creator/AndreTheGiant giant]].

* DeusExMachina: The situation is resolved when [[spoiler: a foreshadowed, but unrelated, mountain lion suddenly kills the villain.]]

* CaptainErsatz: The trading cards that young Odd and Danny exchanged are very reminiscent of the set [[Film/MarsAttacks]] was based on.

* ComicBookAdaptation: as an OELManga

* CatsAreMean: Little Ozzie's cat, Terrible Chester, who endeavors to pee on the shoes of everyone he doesn't like. This category includes pretty much everyone in Pico Mundo except Ozzie.

* InSeriesNickname[=/=]OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Fungus Man".

* {{Lolicon}}: Odd's dad likes dating 19-year-old girls who look 16. Odd's mother was one such girl. It is implied that this started after Dad got in trouble for soliciting a minor.

* [[spoiler:DiscOneFinalBoss:]] Fungus Man.

''Odd Thomas'' movie was released in the US on February 28, 2014 and is now available on iTunes.

Recently, Creator/StephenSommers (of ''Film/VanHelsing'' and ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy'' fame) wrote and directed a film adaptation of the first novel. Originally available through satellite tv provider [=DirecTV=] it is now available on Blu-Ray and DVD.

!!!Odd Thomas (2013 Film)
* AdaptedOut: ElvisPresley doesn't appear as a character in the film, though a life-size cardboard cut out of him can be seen in Odd's apartment.
* AgeLift: Viola, though not old in the book, is aged down a few years to be Odd and Stormy's school friend; in the process, her daughters via her ex-husband from the books become either her little sisters or step-daughters (it's never entirely clear which, it's only mentioned that their drug-addicted biological mother dumped them on Viola when she was "barely eighteen").
* DemotedToExtra: Ozzie Boone only appears in one scene, and his character is quite different from the books.
* EasterEgg: Elvis Presley doesn't act as Odd's spirit companion in the film (presumably due to issues with licencing his image); but as a nod to the books, Odd has a life-size cut out of Elvis in his apartment.
* PragmaticAdaptation

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In-Universe example. Odd describes a bizarre encounter with LyndonJohnson, in which the former President, dressed in the hospital pajamas he died in, got off a bus, looked around, spotted Odd, mooned him, and then got on another bus.

* WomanInBlack: Datura again.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Odd could be the poster boy for this trope. Gentle, kind, polite, tries to avoid violence, courteous... that is until he finds out you murdered, hurt, or tortured someone or threaten one of his friends or acquaintances, then, well, you've got one heck of a {{Badass}} {{Determinator}} on your tail and he ''will'' stop you from ever hurting anyone again.

* CharacterNameAlias: Odd uses the name [[TheThirdMan Harry Lime]] a couple of times in this book.

* AllStarCast: For a relatively low-budget movie released with little fanfare, there are some well-known names involved: AntonYelchin (Odd), WillemDafoe (Chief Porter), and Creator/PattonOswalt (Ozzy Boone).

-->--Odd Thomas

* WouldHitAGirl: Odd would to knock her out so she wouldn't alert any of her compatriots. [[spoiler: He ends up killing her later when she escapes and threatens to kill Tim.]]

** "Is that a mouse by the refrigerator?"
** "No. Sorry. It's a big old rat."
** "Well, I don't know why, but I think I'll go set my hair on fire."
** "Maybe it grows back thicker if you burn it off once in awhile."