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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Meg absolutely ''destroys'' her stepfather without ever laying a hand on him. And he deserved it.
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* DeagedInDeath: Saint Peter is introduced judging an Italian man who died in his eighties and looks it. When the man is let into heaven, he finds his youth regenerating with every step he takes.

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* AmbiguousSyntax: The third item on Lowrie's list is "Burst Ball". Meg thinks it means he wants to make up for bursting someone else's ball, but Lowrie corrects her, saying that "Ball" refers to an old bully of his named Brendan Ball who he wants to get revenge on.



%% * ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The blue stones.]]

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%% * ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The After filling Meg in on her situation and what she has to do to get into heaven, Flit gives her a couple of blue stones.stones she can use to recharge her aura in an emergency. [[spoiler:In the end, she uses them to give Lowrie and Franco new leases on life, which saves both of them and helps her get into Heaven.]]



* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: St Peter and Beelzebub have a hotline that goes directly to each other and has been key to preventing the EndOfTheWorld several times.
* EveryOneHasStandards: Meg's refusal to let Belch kill Lowrie during the burglary is enough to drag her Karma score up to a completely balanced neutral.

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* DevilsJobOffer: Satan wants Meg's soul because she's cunning, imaginative and ruthless, and he thinks he could use someone like her. So if she ends up in Hell, he plans to give her a job that would entail spreading misery on Earth.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: St Peter and Beelzebub have a hotline that goes directly to each other and has been key to preventing the EndOfTheWorld several times.
times. This is very reminiscent of the famous Moscow-Washington hotline that saw a lot of use during the Cold War.
* EveryOneHasStandards: EveryoneHasStandards: Meg's refusal to let Belch kill Lowrie during the burglary is enough to drag her Karma score up to a completely balanced neutral.neutral.
* EvilIsHammy: Satan is loud, emotional, and prone to melodramatic gestures like making his pinstripe suit catch fire to emphasize how angry he is. Lampshaded by Beelzebub's internal comments that his boss loves theatrics.



* HalfHumanHybrid: Belch's soul is combined with that of his dog after he dies, so he turns into a human-canine both physically and mentally.



%% * HulkSpeak: Belch is reduced to talking like this by the end, thanks to much of the human side of his mind being destroyed.

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%% * HulkSpeak: Belch is reduced to talking like this by the end, thanks to much of the human side of his mind being destroyed.destroyed. He goes from talking in complete sentences to blurting out things like "Finn going down!"
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Meg gets to heaven and sees her mother again, but she doesn't get to stick around Lowrie like she planned. Of course, this being a universe where the afterlife is proven to exist, they'll meet up again.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Meg gets to heaven and sees her mother again, but she doesn't get to stick around Lowrie like she planned. Of course, this being a universe where the afterlife is proven to exist, they'll meet up again. In the meantime, thanks to Meg healing him with the blue stones Lowrie has a bit more time left to do something with his life.]]
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* HighConcept: A recently deceased girl cannot enter Heaven or Hell due to having a neutral soul, and decides to help an Old Man whom she helped rob when she was still living in order to get enough good karma to get into Heaven.
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* GirlNextDoorTurnedSuperstar: Lowrie's first wish is a kiss from his childhood sweetheart, who's become a famous talk show host in the years since he last saw her.
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* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler:Lowrie find out that the bully he went to beat up in revenge is just as old, frail, and suffering from a failing organ like him. He also has grown up and regrets everything he did to Lowrie. They make up.]]

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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: [[spoiler:Lowrie find out that the bully he went to beat up in revenge is just as old, frail, and suffering from a failing organ like him. He also has grown up and regrets everything he did to Lowrie. They make up.]]
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* HighTechHeaven: Zig-zagged: Saint Peter laments that [[TakeThat Hell gets all the computer programmers]], and thus the better technology, so he has to rely on scrolls for his work while his EvilCounterpart Beelzebub gets a computer. By the end of the book, however, a computer programmer gets admitted into heaven and replaces Peter's scroll with a [=PC=].
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* ShoutOut: Also, a possible one when describing [[spoiler:Belch using up Franco's "life"]]. "He was just a [[Franchise/GhostInTheShell ghost in a shell]]."

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* TheAlcoholic: Nora, Lowrie's late wife was this. It ended up killing her in a way -- she came home plastered one night and chugged some toilet bleach by mistake.

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%% * TheAlcoholic: Nora, Lowrie's late wife was this. It ended up killing her in a way -- she came home plastered one night and chugged some toilet bleach by mistake.



* BadBoss: Beelzebub has a bad habit of vaporizing souls for no reason other than him happening to be angry or worried at the time.

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%% * BadBoss: Beelzebub has a bad habit of vaporizing souls for no reason other than him happening to be angry or worried at the time.



* EvenEvilHasStandards: It's implied that Beelzebub is disgusted by the surgical procedure Myishi uses to turn Belch into a soul man.



* ForcefulKiss: Somewhat. There was no force involved but it was a surprise to [[spoiler: the woman that Lowrie kissed that he always regretted not doing so.]]

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* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Meg's refusal to let Belch kill Lowrie during the burglary is enough to drag her Karma score up to a completely balanced neutral.
** It's implied that Beelzebub is disgusted by the surgical procedure Myishi uses to turn Belch into a soul man.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards:
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EvenEvilHasStandards: It's implied that Beelzebub is disgusted by the surgical procedure Myishi uses to turn Belch into a soul man.
* EveryOneHasStandards:
Meg's refusal to let Belch kill Lowrie during the burglary is enough to drag her Karma score up to a completely balanced neutral.
** It's implied that Beelzebub is disgusted by the surgical procedure Myishi uses to turn Belch into a soul man.
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The Supernaturalist came out several years after this book.


* ShoutOut: [[Literature/TheSupernaturalist Myishi]] is the name of a character.
** Also, a possible one when describing [[spoiler:Belch using up Franco's "life"]]. "He was just a [[Franchise/GhostInTheShell ghost in a shell]]."

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* ShoutOut: [[Literature/TheSupernaturalist Myishi]] is the name of a character.
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Also, a possible one when describing [[spoiler:Belch using up Franco's "life"]]. "He was just a [[Franchise/GhostInTheShell ghost in a shell]]."
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* RightHandAttackDog: Belch had a pit bull named Raptor in life who served as this. In death, their souls merged.

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%% * RightHandAttackDog: Belch had a pit bull named Raptor in life who served as this. In death, their souls merged.

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* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Step-parents]]: Meg's step-father ''really'' isn't a nice guy.

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%% * [[AbusiveParents Abusive Step-parents]]: AbusiveParents Abusive: Meg's step-father ''really'' isn't a nice guy.



* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Lowrie and, in a sense, Meg's stepfather.]]

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%% * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Lowrie and, in a sense, Meg's stepfather.]]



* {{Beelzebub}}: One of the book's main antagonists.

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%% * {{Beelzebub}}: One of the book's main antagonists.



* CaptainErsatz: Elph is basically Foaly from ''Literature/ArtemisFowl.''

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%% * CaptainErsatz: Elph is basically Foaly from ''Literature/ArtemisFowl.''



* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The blue stones.]]

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%% * ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The blue stones.]]



* DecemberDecemberRomance: At the end, it's implied that [[spoiler:Lowrie will fulfill his promise to get together with Sissy Ward]].

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%% * DecemberDecemberRomance: At the end, it's implied that [[spoiler:Lowrie will fulfill his promise to get together with Sissy Ward]].



* DemonicPossession: Any spirit can do this, but it costs a lot of energy.

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%% * DemonicPossession: Any spirit can do this, but it costs a lot of energy.



* TheHeavy: Belch and Elph.

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%% * TheHeavy: Belch and Elph.



* HulkSpeak: Belch is reduced to talking like this by the end, thanks to much of the human side of his mind being destroyed.

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%% * HulkSpeak: Belch is reduced to talking like this by the end, thanks to much of the human side of his mind being destroyed.



* MadScientist: Myishi.

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%% * MadScientist: Myishi.



* MissingMom: Of the dead variety.

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%% * MissingMom: Of the dead variety.



* OurGhostsAreDifferent[=/=]OurSoulsAreDifferent

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%% * OurGhostsAreDifferent[=/=]OurSoulsAreDifferent



* {{Satan}}: Turns out he's personally interested in collecting Meg's soul.

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%% * {{Satan}}: Turns out he's personally interested in collecting Meg's soul.



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* ReformedBully: [[spoiler:Brendan Ball turns out to be this]].

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* ReformedBully: [[spoiler:Brendan Ball Ball, Lowrie's childhood bully, turns out to be this]].this. Lowrie intended to face him again as an adult and clock him one good, but Brendan turned out to be friendly and remorseful for his past actions, and the two end up bonding]].
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* JudgementOfTheDead: It's revealed that all souls who have recently died will have the good deeds and sins that they have performed in their life weighed upon each other to determine whether they will go to heaven or hell. TheProtagonist Meg Finn is one of the rare cases where her soul is perfectly balanced between good and evil, so she gets sent back to Earth as a spirit in order to tip the scales one way or the other.
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* HealthyInHeaven: An elderly man who has just been admitted into Heaven by St Peter gets visibly younger and healthier as he skips down the path towards the afterlife.
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* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:Belch eventually takes over the body of Meg's [[AbusiveParent father Franco]]]].

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