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* FamilialBodySnatcher: Darrow/Dundee's game plan for living his way back to the 20th century while becoming the wealthiest and most powerful man in the world along the way. [[spoiler:"Too bad" he dies before getting around to siring any offspring to start the chain with.]]
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Darrow arranges for a bunch of ludicrously-wealthy people to be taken back in time to attend a lecture by Coleridge... only to learn the time portal took them back to a week ''before'' that lecture took place. Coleridge is in the building, however, and Doyle suggests that the poet might be able to give an ''impromptu'' lecture for the right price. Before Coleridge can object, Darrow offers him a hundred pounds (bear in mind, that's a hundred pounds ''in 1810 money''). The scene cuts to Coleridge giving a lecture to the assembled travelers.
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* TimeTravel via the titular gates, a harmonic series of episodic fissures that appear up and down the time stream from an initial temporal accident like the ripples resulting from a rock thrown into a pond.
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* TimeTravel TimeTravel: via the titular gates, a harmonic series of episodic fissures that appear up and down the time stream from an initial temporal accident like the ripples resulting from a rock thrown into a pond.
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* CueTheSun: [[spoiler: The boat of the sun god Ra emerges from the tunnerls into the Thames, turns to the east and dematerializes, leaving behind a miraculously restored Ashbless, just as the sun peeks over the horizon.]]
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* CueTheSun: [[spoiler: The boat of the sun god Ra emerges from the tunnerls tunnels into the Thames, turns to the east and dematerializes, leaving behind a miraculously restored Ashbless, just as the sun peeks over the horizon.]]
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already listed as an example of the more specific trope Right In Front Of Me (also, he's definitely figured it out by the end of the chapter, she's pretty clear about it)
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Particularly humorous, as Doyle, now aware of his destiny as Ashbless, tells Jacky that he's going to marry a certain noble woman unaware than Jacky IS his future wife in disguise. She's completely disgusted by his cavalier remarks and Doyle still doesn't get why his friend is so upset even as the final chapter closes . . .
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Particularly humorous, as Doyle, now aware of his destiny as Ashbless, tells Jacky that he's going to marry a certain noble woman unaware than Jacky IS his future wife in disguise. She's completely disgusted by his cavalier remarks and Doyle still doesn't get why his friend is so upset even as the final chapter closes . . .
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* DisneyVillainDeath: In a variation, the leader of the Egyptian sorcerers is last seen falling ''upward'' out of sight, as a side-effect of his long use of magic is that his personal gravity has been inverted (to be precise, his body is now more strongly attracted to the moon than to the earth).
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* InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous: Largely averted, as the only real historical figure Doyle encounters is the one Darrow's expedition deliberately set out to meet, Coleridge. [[spoiler:Byron's clone is arguable, since he's not the real Byron, but the fact that the conspirators happened to choose a famous historical figure to clone entirely by chance does tend toward the trope.]]
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* BodySnatcher: Dog-Face Joe
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* BodySnatcher: Dog-Face JoeJoe, who uses ancient Egyptian magic to swap bodies with new victims each time his current body becomes too hairy to hide. [[spoiler:One of his victims is Doyle, who ends up in the body history knows as William Ashbless. He even pulls this on Darrow right before his historically-recorded execution, but it doesn't save him in the end.]]
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* EarnYourHappyEnding
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* EarnYourHappyEndingEarnYourHappyEnding: Doyle goes through absolute hell, but ends the story in a much better place than where he started it.
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* HistoricalFantasyHistoricalFantasy: It starts in the late 1990s, but the majority of the plot takes place in Victorian England.
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* MonsterClown: HorrabinHorrabin, who tortures and mutilates the beggars who serve under him, is implied to have some of them ''cooked and eaten'', and voluntarily serves the villains.
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* StableTimeLoopStableTimeLoop: [[spoiler:Doyle creates one when, having become Ashbless, he copies Ashbless's poetry from memory in the place and at the time Ashbless is supposed to have written it. He has a brief panic when he realizes that this means nobody ever actually ''wrote'' the poems, but calms down and concludes that, as long as they exist in ''some'' form, history won't care.]]
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* YouAlreadyChangedThePast: Played with.
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* YouAlreadyChangedThePast: Played with. [[spoiler:The past is going exactly the way it's supposed to - it's just that the identities and motives of the people involved aren't exactly what historians will record.]]
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* NoOntologicalInertia: The Egyptian sorcerors have been sustaining themselves with magic for so long that giving it up would cause CriticalExistenceFailure. Their leader exploits this to stop his minions from cutting their losses and abandoning the plan.
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* StopWorshippingMe: The Egyptian villains' plan is intended to make worship of the ancient Egyptian gods the world's dominant religion. The Egyptian gods' interventions in mortal events tend to hinder the villains and help the protagonist Ashbless.
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** For that matter, the [[EvilSorcerer ancient Egyptian sorcerer]] who sent Doctor Romany to England in the first place is pretty nasty, justifiably so given that his true name is ''Khaibitu-em-Betu-Tuf''. Quite literally, ''[[EldritchAbomination Shadows of Abomination.]]
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** For that matter, the [[EvilSorcerer ancient Egyptian sorcerer]] who sent Doctor Romany to England in the first place is pretty nasty, justifiably so given that his true name is ''Khaibitu-em-Betu-Tuf''. Quite literally, ''[[EldritchAbomination Shadows of Abomination.]]]]"
* ObfuscatingDisability: Doyle pretends to be mute in order to hide his conspicuous American accent.
* ObfuscatingDisability: Doyle pretends to be mute in order to hide his conspicuous American accent.
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** For that matter, the [[EvilSorcerer ancient Egyptian sorcerer]] who sent Doctor Romany to England in the first place is pretty nasty, justifiably so given that his true name is ''Khaibitu-em-Betu-Tuf''. Quite literally, ''[[EldritchAbomination ShadowsFreakyFridaySabotage
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** For that matter, the [[EvilSorcerer ancient Egyptian sorcerer]] who sent Doctor Romany to England in the first place is pretty nasty, justifiably so given that his true name is ''Khaibitu-em-Betu-Tuf''. Quite literally, ''[[EldritchAbomination ShadowsFreakyFridaySabotageShadows of Abomination.]]
