History Literature / TheHorseAndHisBoy

* UndergroundCity

* ABoyAndHisX: A Boy and his Horse as well as A Girl and her Mare. Bree, however, finds this phrasing prejudiced and believes it's just as fair to say that the children are the horses' humans. [[CaptainObvious Hence the title]].

* AFriendInNeed: Both Bree and Hwin reveal they can talk just when Shasta and Aravis, respectively, are in desperate need of help.

* SlapSlapKiss: Aravis and Shasta, canonically. They become so used to fighting and making up again that they get married [[CrowningMomentOfFunny "to go on doing it more conveniently."]]

* BelligerentSexualTension: Shasta/[[spoiler:Cor]] and Aravis.

* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Aravis, again. Also Queen Lucy, although she acts a little more feminine in a private environment, since when she and Aravis meet they start talking about dresses and girly stuff.

* BelligerentSexualTension: Shasta[=/=][[spoiler:Cor]] and Aravis.

* InteruptedSuicide: Aravis in her BackStory. Hwin stops her.

* BelligerentSexualTension: [[spoiler: Aravis and Cor]] become so used to fighting and making up again that they get married [[CrowningMomentOfFunny "to go on doing it more conveniently."]]

* DrivenToSuicide: Aravis in her BackStory. Hwin stops her.

* IceQueen: Aravis is pretty prudish and cold toward Shasta for the first half of the book, though she eventually [[DefrostingIceQueen defrosts]].

* SlapSlapKiss: Aravis and Shasta, canonically.

* TomboyPrincess: Aravis, again. Also Queen Lucy, although she acts a little more feminine in a private environment, since when she and Aravis meet they start talking about dresses and girly stuff.

* LaserGuidedKarma: When our heroes are chased and attacked by a lion [[spoiler:who, it turns out, is Aslan]] it scratches Aravis across her back. The Hermit who tends to her wounds notes that they look rather more like the cuts of a whip than claw marks. [[spoiler: When Aslan reveals himself, he explains that the wounds he gave her, 'tear for tear, throb for throb, blood for blood' were equal to the beating recieved by the slavegirl Aravis drugged in order to make her escape, a possibility Shasta had brought up earlier and which she'd rather callously dismissed.]]

* Lazer-GuidedKarma: When our heroes are chased and attacked by a lion [[spoiler:who, it turns out, is Aslan]] it scratches Aravis across her back. The Hermit who tends to her wounds notes that they look rather more like the cuts of a whip than claw marks. [[spoiler: When Aslan reveals himself, he explains that the wounds he gave her, 'tear for tear, throb for throb, blood for blood' were equal to the beating recieved by the slavegirl Aravis drugged in order to make her escape, a possibility Shasta had brought up earlier and which she'd rather callously dismissed.]]

* LazerGuidedKarma: When our heroes are chased and attacked by a lion [[spoiler:who, it turns out, is Aslan]] it scratches Aravis across her back. The Hermit who tends to her wounds notes that they look rather more like the cuts of a whip than claw marks. [[spoiler: When Aslan reveals himself, he explains that the wounds he gave her, 'tear for tear, throb for throb, blood for blood' were equal to the beating recieved by the slavegirl Aravis drugged in order to make her escape, a possibility Shasta had brought up earlier and which she'd rather callously dismissed.]]

* GameFace: Subverted - Rabadash rolls his eyes, sticks out his tongue, and wiggles his ears. It terrifies his underlings (who know he can have them boiled in oil at any minute), but it has no effect on the free Narnians.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: All that's said among the Narnians about Rabadash's plans for Susan is that he plans to make her his "wife - or more likely, [[SexSlave slave]]."

* InThatOrder: [[TheDitz Lasaraleen]] threatens to beat her servants to death, burn them alive, and keep them on bread and water for three weeks - rather ineffectual punishments if done in that order, and a display of her casual, lazy attitude.

* NotSoSimilar: This is the book that introduces Tash, a figure that is theorized to be another culture's name for Aslan.(it isn't)

* WillNotTellALie: Corin. When Shasta tries to suggest a lie and concludes he will have to tell the truth, he scorns the notion that he would not.

* GameFace: Subverted -- Rabadash rolls his eyes, sticks out his tongue, and wiggles his ears. It terrifies his underlings (who know he can have them boiled in oil at any minute), but it has no effect on the free Narnians.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: All that's said among the Narnians about Rabadash's plans for Susan is that he plans to make her his "wife -- or more likely, [[SexSlave slave]]."

* TheGrandVizier: The Calormene Grand Vizier is too minor of a character to be a ''good'' example of the trope, but he is most definitely not a nice person. He's Calormene and an aristocrat, what were you expecting?

* InThatOrder: [[TheDitz Lasaraleen]] threatens to beat her servants to death, burn them alive, and keep them on bread and water for three weeks -- rather ineffectual punishments if done in that order.

** Bree assures him that it would have been a FateWorseThanDeath.

* NiceToTheWaiter: Averted as part of Aravis's CharacterDevelopment: she drugged one of her servant girls in order to escape. When Shasta asked what happened to the servant, Aravis casually speculated that she was whipped for it. Shasta pointed out that this was hardly fair to the servant, which Aravis coldly rebuffed as she thought the girl was a mere spy of her WickedStepmother. Aravis did get her just desserts when [[spoiler: Aslan attacked the party as a lion and slashed her back, giving her the same wounds as the servant received]].

* RunawayFiance: Aravis again. She's got a good reason, though: she was engaged to the much older Ahoshta Tarkaan aka the Grand Vizier as both a way to gain power for her nobleman father ''and'' an excuse for her WickedStepmother to get rid of her.
* SamusIsAGirl: Aravis, though the confusion happens at their first meeting, at night, and is cleared up quickly.
* TheSavageSouth: Calormen
* SapientSteed: The two Narnian horses in the story. Some additional talking horses are seen as the Narnians go to war, although it's noted that nobody rides talking horses when there isn't a pressing need.

* ArrangedMarriage: What Aravis is fleeing. Suggested to be the case with her friend Lausraleen, though we never see her husband.

* ArrangedMarriage: What Aravis is fleeing.

** During his rant upon learning of Susan's escape, Rabadash calls her a "false jade". To a child, and to many adults, this sounds like he is calling her a backstabbing liar; however, "false jade" is actually an old-fashioned way of calling her a whore.

* EvilChancellor: The Grand Vizier, though unusually for this trope he's more of a passive-aggressive back-biter than anything else.
** Actually, there are ''two'' evil chancellors in this story. The second one, only mentioned in passing, is King Lune's chancellor, Lord Bar, [[spoiler:who kidnapped the infant Prince Cor]].