History Literature / TheInkWorldTrilogy

* BadDreams: It's implied in ''Inkdeath'' that this happens to Mo. Ever since being imprisoned in the Castle of Night, he has never been able to sleep in a room with the door closed.

* BlackBestFriend: Subverted. The Black Prince is Dustfinger's best friend, and he is black, but he doesn't fit the description of the role of "Black Best Friend" very well. He's ''much'' more of an independent character.

* FourthWorldShutInStory: The main characters are simply fans of the story, but the author himself got trapped in his own writing, too. He wasn't doing too badly there... for a time.

TheMovie came out in late 2008, starring Eliza Bennett as Meggie, Andy Serkis as Capricorn, Creator/PaulBettany as Dustfinger, and Creator/BrendanFraser as Mo.

''The Inkworld Trilogy'' is a German YA novel series by Creator/CorneliaFunke. It consists of ''Tintenherz'' (''Inkheart''), ''Tintenblut'' (literally "Inkblood", but translated as ''Inkspell'' for the English version), and ''Tintentod'' (''Inkdeath'').

* AdaptationSpeciesChange: In TheFilmOfTheBook, Dustfinger's horned marten was changed to a ferret. Because, well, [[CaptainObvious horned martens don't exist]].

* SpeechImpediment: Darius has a stutter that worsens as he gets nervous or scared, which is nearly all the time when he's a prisoner of Capricorn. This [[CaptainObvious severely affects]] his reading aloud for Capricorn, resulting in his being punished each time he reads something or someone out of a book. His stuttering while reading is the reason for Cockerel's limp, Resa's muteness, and (supposedly) Flatnose's ugly squashed face (though it's implied that, for once, Darius read Flatnose out perfectly, and his face just always looked like that).

--->'''Mo:''' Meggie, just pretend you're in a book. [[InfantImmortality Children always survive in books]].

TheMovie came out in late 2008, starring Eliza Bennett as Meggie, Andy Serkis as Capricorn, Creator/PaulBettany as Dustfinger, and BrendanFraser as Mo.

** Mortimer is an interesting variation of this. While most people call him by his proper name, Dustfinger, Capricorn, and the other characters from ''Inkheart'' refuse to call him anything but "Silvertongue", which he doesn't like. He is also known only by a nickname to his daughter, Meggie, who "had never called her father anything but 'Mo'" and his wife.
** The robbers and strolling players in the Inkworld.

* InfantImmortality: Averted. Notably Dustfinger's youngest daughter, who never appears in the story because she died of fever while he was stranded in our world, and the kids who were killed in a riot in ''Inkdeath''.
** Also [[spoiler: Farid]] is brutally killed during a battle. He may be more of a subversion, though, because in that setting a boy of his age is thought of as a man anyway, and he doesn't actually ''stay'' dead very long.
** Lampshaded in the film.
--->'''Mo:''' Meggie, just pretend you're in a book. Children always survive in books.
--->'''Meggie:''' [[AvertedTrope No they don't]]. Remember ''Literature/TheLittleMatchGirl''? They found her in that alley frozen to death.

* PetTheDog: In a futile attempt to show his softer side to Meggie, Dustfinger pulls out her mother's copy of ''Literature/TheWizardOfOz'' from the book burning pile and tries to give it to her. Meggie just glares at him.

* ForcefulHaircut: Implied with Resa after she tried to escape.

* VictoriaSecretCompartment: Mortola keeps the key to Resa's chains in her cleavage.

* RomanticRunnerUp: [[spoiler:Doria becomes Meggie's boyfriend in ''Inkdeath'' after the harsh ShipSinking Meggie/Faird went through.]]

** But Mo gets a whopping dose, especially in the last book. In the first book, he's a goofy and loving dad, if [[HiddenDepths sad underneath]], and while he may be [[TallDarkAndHandsome physically imposing]], he's a thoroughly [[BookWorm nerdy]] NonActionGuy. He starts to undergo some alarming changes in book 2, and by book 3 he is a complete {{Badass}}, and sometimes just an [[JerkAss ass]]. He finally does find a happy medium, though, going back to his old life [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore as much as he can]].

* WhatTheHellDad: Elinor's father thinks books need more attention than children. He's absent so much that, after he dies, his daughter barely register any difference; it's just as if he's locked himself in the library as usual.

* ShapeShifter: Death, Mortola, [[spoiler: Resa]], and her unnamed son at the very end.

* PalsWithJesus: Dustinger is pals with the White Ladies.