History Literature / TheTwilightSaga

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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The Cullens attempt to be this to throw off suspicion, though its debatable how effective they are at this. Despite being GenreBlind to their true nature, the rest of the school ''have'' noticed that both pairs of adopted siblings are romantically involved, that they always buy lunch but never eat any of it, and that they are absent on sunny days.

* MirrorCharacter: Lauren is like a modern human Rosalie.

* TheClan: Of the Cullens.

* DramaticEllipsis: The books abuse both these and dashes -- though mostly the dashes -- in places they don't belong. Like... here -- and back there.
* DreamingTheTruth: Used in ''[[Literature/Twilight2005 Twilight]]'', ''Literature/NewMoon'', and ''Literature/BreakingDawn''.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: The only thing about Edward that frightens Bella.
* TheDulcineaEffect: Edward. Bella also is a female version of this.

* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Edward and Bella. Though Bella can be fairly broody herself at times, Edward is it much more, and so maintains the dynamic.

* ClarkKenting: The Cullens.

* CompulsorySchoolAge: Quite a few times over the years.

** Mainly when it comes to Twilight's Fandom in the saying that: "If these were 40-year old men screaming for 17-year old girls, they'd be on [[PaedoHunt "To Catch A Predator"]] so fast it would make your head spin."

* UnfortunateNames: Jacob is not a fan of the name "Renesmee". Bella, in turn, is not a fan of the nickname "Nessie". They both grow to accept them.

* YouSexyBeast: The entire basis of the series. And the author loves to remind us.

* TheBoardGame: Believe it or not.

* BrotherSisterIncest: Technically, all of the Cullens, though they're NotBloodSiblings.

** Bella: A S600 Guard and a Ferrari F430 after her piece of junk truck broke down.

* FriendlessBackground: Bella.

* MandatoryMotherhood: Technically, not every woman in the story is capable of reproduction. However, the ones that aren't are universally regarded as having something wrong with them, especially if they don't ''want'' to have children. Meyer even contradicts herself to uphold this (she originally said all vampires couldn't have children and later changed it to female vampires can't have children.) In a particularly disturbing passage, an infertile young woman is described as a horror who is less than female.

* LongingLook: Bella spends a lot of time describing Edward in excriciating detail.

* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: Bella seems to think that the Cullens refraining from eating humans makes them some of the greatest people who ever lived. Even if they actively look down on the humans it would bother them to kill, are friends with plenty of other vampires who think nothing of feeding on humans, commit plenty of other crimes with no hesitation or remorse, and have a distinct laissez-faire policy toward bad things happening around them unless it's something that stands a good chance of inconveniencing them, personally.

* {{Manhwa}}: The first book was adapted into this in two parts by Young Kim, released in 2010 and 2011 respectively. An adaptation of New Moon was released in 2013.

* MillsAndBoonProse: Generally averted since Meyer doesn't write sex scenes, but goes with the tried and true fade-to-black.

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of the concept of soulmates. What if your soulmate is a different subspecies of human than you, or born in a completely different century? What if there's something about them that makes you literally want to kill them?

*** When asked how it is that male vampire's produce sperm when all their other body fluids are venom, Meyer explained that he still had the sperm that was there when he turned, failing to explain how it survives there for hundreds of years, how Nahuel's father could have four dhampyr children with decades between them, or why the baby isn't human if the sperm used was in fact made by a human body.

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%%* VoodooShark: Meyer's [[http://web.archive.org/web/20090516234031/http://twilightsucks.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=twilight&action=display&thread=638 attempt]] at explaining why male vampires could breed.

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* LuringInPrey: When revealing that he sparkles in sunlight, Edward explains to Bella that the sparkling is meant to entire humans to come closer so that vampires can eat them.

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* LuringInThePrey: When revealing that he sparkles in sunlight, Edward explains to Bella that the sparkling is meant to entire humans to come closer so that vampires can eat them.

* {{Malaproper}}: Meyer doesn't know what all of the words she uses mean.
** One memorable instance has Meyer say Bella is "translucent," implying this is something that's odd about her. All humans have translucent skin.
** In the fourth book a little girl plays with one of the werewolves hair like "reigns".

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Played straight in the first book. James, the first book's evil vampire, is described as being an average-looking vampire because he was ugly as a human. Naturally, all the Cullens were beautiful in life, making them absolutely gorgeous as vampires. The later books avert this with the Volturi. When we first meet them in ''Literature/NewMoon'', Edward points out, [[BrokenAesop the Volturi aren't technically the bad guys]]. However, at that point all the Cullens thought the Volturi respected the law and controlled their world in a way that was better than what they will have if vampires became an anarchy with poor humans in the way. By the last book they know the Volturi (specially Aro) are ambitious bastards that will go to any length to get their way, including breaking the law and murdering innocents to achieve power.

** Meyer clarified that Bella being nearly useless wasn't because she (Meyer) is anti-female but because she is ''"anti-human"'':

* ''[[Literature/Twilight2005 Twilight]]'' (2005)

* ''[[Literature/Eclipse2007 Eclipse]]'' (2007)

* [[/index]]''The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner'' (2010). Novella that details the last days of a character introduced in ''Eclipse''.

* ''[[Literature/MidnightSun2020 Midnight Sun]]'' (2020)

The books were adapted into a massively successful film series entitled ''The Twilight Saga'', beginning with ''[[Literature/Twilight2005 Twilight]]'' and ending with the two-part ''Literature/BreakingDawn''. It helped launch the careers of Creator/KristenStewart and Creator/RobertPattinson. In 2015, a collection of seven short films titled ''The Storytellers: New Voices of the Twilight Saga'' was released, which explore background events in the Saga. The segments can be watched online.

* TooDumbToLive: Bree and Diego from The Short, Second Life of Bree Tanner would surely count as well. They both know that they're being kept in a basement by a Riley, who (A) has been kidnapping other teenagers to make into vampires and (B) clearly doesn't care if they kill each other. Later on, they discover that the story they had been fed about how sunlight burns them up was a lie. They also learn that they were all being used as cannon fodder and Bree remembers that the night she had been turned into a vampire, she had been kidnapped and tricked into it. They ''also'' find out that Riley is discussing plans with [[BigBad Victoria]]. So of course they come to the conclusion [[WhatAnIdiot that Riley is completely innocent and will surely help them if they tell him everything they know]], so Diego decides to meet him alone, to tell Riley that [[HeKnowsTooMuch he knows all of these secrets]], without telling anyone except for Bree where he is going. Needless to say, Diego does not return. Bree qualifies as this trope because after all of that, she doesn't realize that Diego is dead until Riley has run off and left her and the other vampires to be killed by the Cullens. [[SarcasmMode What a brilliant pair!]]

* ArtisticLicenseMedicine:
** At some point there is mention of a vampire who sucked all the blood out of a human in the space of one second through a cut in the human's finger. The hydraulics of the vascular system really can't support that sort of thing.

* TheBeautifulElite: The Cullens are portrayed this way, and with the way Bella's friends disappear from the narrative whenever she has Edward and Alice to spend time with, she clearly has every intention of joining.

** ''Literature/BreakingDawn'': Creator/EdnaStVincentMillay's "Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies".

* DownerEnding: For Charlie and Renee at least, post-''Literature/BreakingLiawn''. Since Bella takes measures to hide her newfound vampirism from them, with the implication that she's never going to tell them the truth, she will likely abandon them in a decade, before they start to notice that she's stopped aging.

** The entire merry Cullen bunch, sans Edward (at least, until ''Literature/BreakingLiawn'').

** Meyer appears to have gone to pains to avoid name overlap, considering her huge cast of characters, and only reuses the name Charles. We have the main character's overbearing father, Esme's abusive first husband, and the vampire who's singled out at the end of ''Literature/BreakingLiawn'' because of his power to verify that the Cullens are telling the truth about Renesmee.

* ''Literature/BreakingDawn'' (2008)[[/index]]
* ''The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner'' (2010). Novella that details the last days of a character introduced in ''Eclipse''.

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