History Literature / Twilight

* TheBeautifulPeople: All the vampires (except James), but especially the Cullens.

** The whole concept of the blood typing. First there is the teacher who is randomly sticking students with pins to draw blood without asking either their or their parents permission. Keep in mind that US law leaves it at the parents' digression whether or not they inform their children's schools that they have any diseases communicable by blood, such as HIV or Hepatitis C. And then we have the notion that they are doing this experiment on one another because the Red Cross will be having a blood drive and they need to know their blood type if they want to donate blood. Because the Red Cross will totally accept a seventeen year old's word for it when they tell them they are O neg, especially if the testing was done by a high school junior.

* [=~But I Can't Be Pregnant!~=]: [[spoiler: Bella]]'s initial reaction to her little nudger. She accepts the fact quickly enough, though.

* [=~Can't Have Sex, Ever~=]: Edward and Bella for the first three books.

* [=~Everything's Better With Sparkles~=]: For a given definition of better.

* [=~I Can't Believe A Guy Like You Would Notice Me!~=]: It takes Bella three books to stop talking like this.

* [=~This! Is! SPARTA!~=]: Rosalie in ''Breaking Dawn'':

* [=~What Do You Mean, It's Not For Kids?~=]: And yet Burger King just made ''Twilight''-themed Happy Meals.

** It's also a case of AuthorTract since Meyer hates blonde girls due to experiences in high school. Lauren is blonde for those of you that don't know.

** At one point in ''New Moon'', Bella is thinking about RomeoAndJuliet, and what would have happened "if Rosalind had given [Romeo] the time of day". However, the play doesn't feature Rosalind, since she is from AsYouLikeIt. Bella is thinking of Rosaline.

** TheBigGuy: Emmett

** Either that, or he's just developed massive phobias and hang-ups about sex. Since the books are informed quite heavily by Meyer's religious faith, it's likely he was supposed to be celibate in the same way any [[AllMenArePerverts hormone driven heterosexual guy would be]]. In the movies, RobertPattinson was played him as being a creepy stalker with all manner of sexual hangups -he calls him a "128 year old virgin"- who is using fears about harming Bella to hide how disgusted he is by sex.

* BlueBishonenGhetto: Most of the vampires are male and hot.

* [=~Let's Meet The Meat~=]: Well, ''technically''.
* [=~Life Isn't Fair~=]:

** But really, what's not to love about a fanbase who, [[StalkerWithACrush despite your utter contempt for them, still loves you]] enough to do [[http://i45.tinypic.com/2mfyx06.jpg this?]]

We Are Anonymous. Fear Us

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->''Coldly calculated to pander to your shrieking demographic!''
-->-- '''Michael J. Nelson''', ''RiffTrax''

->''Kids love sexy vampires!''
-->-- '''J.D.''', ''{{Scrubs}}''


A series of young adult [[LowFantasy Low Fantasy]]/[[ParanormalRomance Paranormal Romance]] novels by StephenieMeyer, and the title of the first book. It is about a girl named [[MarySue Bella]] [[AuthorAvatar Swan]] who falls in love with Edward Cullen, a vampire. Bella is - [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot for some reason]] - a ''really special'' girl, and Edward is (a) unable to use his vampire powers to read her mind, (b) totally hot for her blood and (c) madly in love with her. So, Edward wants to form a relationship with Bella while [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything resisting the urge to suck her dry]]. Things get complicated in the second book when Bella's childhood friend Jacob, who also has the hots for her, reveals himself to be a shirtless werewolf. There's also the occasional {{wacky wayside tribe}}, such as the vampire tracker James and the Volturi.

Has, perhaps unsurprisingly, its own [[Characters/{{Twilight}} character page]].

The series currently consists of four books (''Twilight'', ''New Moon'', ''Eclipse'', ''Breaking Dawn''). StephenieMeyer had plans to make a [=POVquel=] called ''Literature/MidnightSun'', which is the plot of ''Twilight'' (nearly word-for-word) told through Edward's point of view. Then, leaked copies of the rough draft were released. Meyer has halted the publication until she gets through her [[CreatorBreakdown reaction]] over the event, saying "''If I tried to write ''Midnight Sun'' now, in my current frame of mind, James would probably win and all the Cullens would die.''" Depending on whether you're a fan or not, [[YourMileageMayVary that may either horrify or excite you]]. She now has written a 200 page "novella" called [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/mar/30/stephenie-meyer-new-twilight-novella The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner]], which came out on June 5, 2010. A guide has been announced as well, planning to be released on April 12th (after being pushed back to another date multiple times).

The [[TheFilmOfTheBook film version]] of ''Twilight'' was released in the US in 2008, with ''The Twilight Saga: New Moon'' following in 2009 and ''The Twilight Saga: Eclipse'' in 2010. There were also rumors of an {{anime}}, but they proved to be false. {{Manga}}-style illustrations of the Japanese edition still exist. [[http://shelf-life.ew.com/2009/07/15/twilight-comic-book-manga/ A graphic novel]] has been released and while it's not all that bad, it's not entirely... ''[[http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/03/18/twilight-manga-review/ sparkly]]''.

Not to be confused with [[{{Twilight}} the numerous other works and characters with the name "Twilight"]].
%%Twilight is a polarizing series, so try to refrain from a JustifyingEdit or a TakeThat. We have a YMMV page and a Just Bugs Me page for that.
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!!These books (and movies) contain examples of:
* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: Why doesn't Bella go back into the bookstore in the movie?
* AerithAndBob : No risk of OneSteveLimit with [[spoiler: "Renesmee"]].
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Bella doesn't care that Edward is "[[InformedFlaw dangerous]]," despite Edward's constant warnings.
* AllMythsAreTrue: Bella wonders if this is the case after learning about werewolves.
* AllWomenAreLustful: Especially Bella. Other female characters display this trope, like Tanya and her succubus "sisters", and all the Cullen women seem to spend their nights having sex with their husbands.
* AnalogyBackfire: In ''Eclipse'', Bella compares herself to Cathy of ''WutheringHeights'' and her love for Edward to Cathy's love for Heathcliff... seemingly forgetting there is actually an Isa''bella'' in the same novel who ''does'' marry Heathcliff... to [[DomesticAbuse disastrous effect]].
* {{Anguished Declaration of Love}}: Edward in the meadow scene.
* {{Anticlimax}}: Happens a few times throughout the series:
** In the first novel, James is described as an unstoppable killing machine. Laurent isn't even willing to face him with seven other vampires. [[spoiler: But we see none of the fight between him and Edward since Bella is unconscious, and so the scary BigBad is killed offscreen]]. The movie is somewhat better about this. We don't [[spoiler: see his death in explicit detail, but we do see a roughly 30-second fight between Edward and James, and a few glimpses of the other Cullens tearing James apart after he's been subdued -- for example, a shot where it's pretty obvious James' head is torn off.]]
** Doubly Subverted in ''Eclipse''. [[spoiler:It looks like Edward and Bella will miss out on the battle against the newborn vampires, but then Victoria shows up...]] but then [[spoiler:... Bella closes her eyes for a minute, and then Victoria's head's been ripped off. So much for the expected GoryDiscretionShot!]] This is also fixed in the movie, in which [[spoiler:not only do we see Edward, Victoria, and Riley fighting on the mountain, but we get cuts back to the Cullens fighting the newborn army.]]
** The final novel, ''Breaking Dawn'' [[spoiler: ends not with the epic battle which Meyer had been using a third of the book to build up to... but with diplomatic discussion instead]].
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Bella is disturbed to find out that [[spoiler: Jacob has imprinted on her daughter, but managed to keep her self control about it. [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne Until she finds out he nicknamed her "Nessie"]].]] At which point she attacks.
** Also when Bella finds out Edward has [[StalkerWithACrush broken into her house]], more than once, even before they were dating, to sit in her bedroom and watch her sleep, Bella is more concerned that he heard her talking in her sleep.
** Upon discovering that Edward is a vampire and can read minds, she freaks out...because he says he can't read hers, which makes her think that ''she's'' the freakish one.
* AsTheGoodBookSays: A completely out-of-context [[TheBible Bible]] quote at the beginning of one novel.
** Another Bible quote is used to symbolize Edward and Bella's relationship, namely the "lion and the lamb" one. A quick check of the Bible shows that [[http://bible.cc/isaiah/11-6.htm Meyer got it dramatically wrong]].
* AttemptedRape: One of the many times Edward saves Bella.
* AudibleGleam: In TheMovie, Edward's sparkles come with their own sound effects.
* AuthorAvatar: Bella. When asked to describe [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_Swan#Physical_appearance what she looks like]], StephenieMeyer basically described [[http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6206/stephaniemeyer.jpg herself]].
** Meyer has actually denied that Bella is her AuthorAvatar in [[http://www.twilightseries.ca/books/stephenie-meyer-bella-swan/ this interview]]. She argues that saying while she was sheltered and had an easy life, Bella is forced to be more mature than Meyer was at her age. Even though this doesn't contradict author avatar in the slightest.
* AxCrazy: Just stay far, far away from Victoria.
* BadassAdorable: Alice.
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: [[spoiler:After being born, Renesmee brought peace between the Quileutes by having Jacob imprint on her, mended Rosalie and Bella's relationship(as well as creating a peaceable relationship between Edward and Jacob), and won a lot of allies for the Cullen coven against the Volturi.]]
* BaseballEpisode
* BasedOnADream: A dream of a sparkling vampire lying in a field of flowers, apparently.
* TheBeautifulPeople: All the vampires (except James), but especially the Cullens.
* 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 New Moon, Edward points out, [[BrokenAesop the Volturi aren't technically the bad guys]]. However, at that point all the Cullens though 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 on 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.
** Really, YourMilageMayVary on this topic. The Volturi really don't break any rules on their own for power (because no one has even learned that they are vampires, minus vampires themselves). And, murdering innocents... well, human wise, count how many of the Cullen allies also kill humans to live. Although Aro can still count, as he is pretty evil.
* BeneathTheMask: Rosalie Cullen's attitude towards Bella is revealed to be this.
* BerserkButton: In ''Breaking Dawn'', Bella accidentally breaks Seth's shoulder when she learns that Jacob [[spoiler:nicknamed Renesmee after the Loch Ness monster]].
** Jacob when Bella talks about becoming a vampire or when Edward returns.
** Edward when Bella is in danger.
* BetaCouple: Pretty much the whole cast, except Leah.
* BetterAsFriends: Canon's opinion on Jacob/Bella.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: ManicPixieDreamGirl Alice displays signs of temper, spite, and a less innocent side in the later books. She also [[spoiler: ''rips off James' head'']] in the movie.
** Typical of her clan, she's especially hostile to members of the Quileute tribe. In the ''New Moon'' film, Bella asks if she'll be coming back inside and she responds with "As soon as you put the dog out."
* BigBad: By all rights the Volturi should be this.
** Instead, we get a BigBadEnsemble, with the Volturi on the one hand and Victoria on the other hand.
* BishieSparkle: [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampires]] do this in the sunlight. In the movie? [[spoiler:They glimmer. Imagine them ridiculously sweaty, or using a lot of glitter lotion. The effect was done (at least in the first movie) with glitter glue]]. BetterThanItSounds, because you don't have to listen to Bella whine about it...and because in the movie, there are [[spoiler: ''[[WhiningLight sparkle noises]]''.]] It [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXn5uw4LtKM must be seen]] [[spoiler: and heard]] to be believed.
** The climax of ''New Moon'' revolves around this, where [[spoiler:Edward tries to step into the sunlight in the Volturi's city, which would get him noticed by the humans and [[ICannotSelfTerminate killed by the Volturi]].]]
** The ''Scene It?'' spinoff of the movie takes the sparkle motif UpToEleven. Everything, ''everything'' sparkles, and Carlisle's voiceover constantly informs you that you "sparkle like a diamond".
* [[BlondesAreEvil Blondes Are Unpleasant]]: Most of the book's female antagonists are blonde, whereas the brunettes tend to be portrayed more favorably. WordOfGod says this wasn't intentional, but Meyer has admitted several unpleasant people in her life were blonde, and it might have unconsciously informed her writing.
* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: Rosalie after being turned into a vampire, took revenge on her ex-fiance and his friends after they raped and left her for dead in an alleyway. She wore a wedding dress to do so. However it's subverted since she says she made sure non of them splattered blood on her dress.
* BlueBishonenGhetto: Most of the vampires are male and hot.
* TheBoardGame: Believe it or not.
* [=~But I Can't Be Pregnant!~=]: [[spoiler: Bella]]'s initial reaction to her little nudger. She accepts the fact quickly enough, though.
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Edward and Bella. In New Moon, however, gender-flipping this is what kicks off the Jacob/Bella relationship, with him being the gentle guy to Bella's "My boyfriend dumped me so my life is over" brooding.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Technically, all of the Cullens, though they're NotBloodSiblings. This is {{Lampshaded}} in the first movie, where someone wonders if that's even ''legal''.
* {{Brownface}}: Jacob in the film.
* ButNotTooWhite: In the movie, KristenStewart and RobertPattinson are very pale but no less attractive, and they have been praised for their pale looks with the hope that it will reduce tanning and skin cancer in teenagers.
** They also look creepy to some viewers, as many in the hatedom point out.
* ButYourWingsAreBeautiful: Bella's reaction to Edward's sparkly skin and odd eyes.
* ByronicHero: Edward, according to some interpretations.
* [=~Can't Have Sex, Ever~=]: Edward and Bella for the first three books.
* CanYouHearMeNow: Who ''smashes'' their phone because they get bad news? Who does that?
** Well as vampire he is strong enough to smash it. In real life some people throw their phones in anger (or if they are celebrities they throw it to other people) specially if they are inexpensive ones. In the books he just leave the cell phone conveniently on a trash can that is how they know that he left the country.
* TheCastShowoff: In the movie RobertPattinson plays the (very plot related) song.
* CelibateHero: Edward, as he's afraid that he might hurt Bella.
** Either that, or he's just developed massive phobias and hang-ups about sex. Since the books are informed quite heavily by Meyer's religious faith, it's likely he was supposed to be celibate in the same way any [[AllMenArePerverts hormone driven heterosexual guy would be]]. In the movies, RobertPattinson was played him as being a creepy stalker with all manner of sexual hangups -he calls him a "128 year old virgin"- who is using fears about harming Bella to hide how disgusted he is by sex.
* ChildfreeIsNotAllowed: 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.)
** She was careful to specify that a woman vampire's body couldn't undergo the changes necessary to bear a child. She knew she was going to [[spoiler: have Bella get pregnant]] so she made sure to leave that open.
** In a particularly disturbing passage, an infertile young woman is described as a horror who is less than female.
* TheClan: Of the Cullens.
* ClarkKenting: The Cullens.
* CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds: Jacob in the third book suffers from [[DerailingLoveInterests derailment]]: he goes from a friendly, devoted guy to a possessive jerk to better enable the canon couple. Then, in the last book, he imprints on Bella's newborn baby (squick) and conveniently is no longer at all attracted to Bella. In fact, with the notable exception of Leah, basically every major character is wonderfully paired off by the end of the series.
* CockFight: And the above leads to this between Edward and Jacob over Bella.
* CompellingVoice: Alpha werewolves (to other werewolves, at least). The dazzling from vampires to a certain extent.
* CompulsorySchoolAge: Quite a few times over the years.
* ColorWash: TheFilmOfTheBook desaturates the colors to, according to the director, convey how dreary and rainy Forks is. One might wonder though why the colors are still desaturated in the scenes in [[FridgeLogic sunny Phoenix]].
** It could have also been desaturated in the eyes of Bella. In the scene at the beginning of Twilight, Bella is leaving her mother, step-father and everything she's known behind to live in Forks with a father she barely knows. Suddenly, the world may seem a little more dreary in her eyes.
* CoolCar: All the Cullens have at least one. Even klutzy Bella gets a motorcycle and a sportscar (an S600 Guardian, which is somewhat fitting as it is bulletproof and armored against explosives). {{Word of God}} says the Cullen family likes to drive fast. Meyer's brothers are massive gearheads, so she let them pick cool cars for each of the characters.
** Subverted in the ''New Moon'' movie with Edward's Volvo [=XC90=]. Why such a soccer-mom car? ProductPlacement, natch.
** Edward: Volvo [=S60R=], Aston Martin V12 Vanquish.
** Rosalie: BMW M3
** Bella: [[TheAllegedCar vintage Chevy pickup]], S600 Guard, Ferrari F430
** Alice: more Porsches than you can probably name.
** Tyler: Van.
* CoolLoser: YMMV, but Bella could be seen as an inversion. She's socially awkward, clumsy and generally uncool, but everyone warms up to her the minute she gets to town and soon enough she has her own little circle of friends.
* CreatorBreakdown: StephenieMeyer, author of the ''Twilight'' books, has announced that she has ceased work on the fifth novel of the series (a retelling of the first from the hero's perspective) after someone she knew leaked the first 13 chapters online: "If I tried to write Midnight Sun now, in my current frame of mind, James would probably win and all the Cullens would die, which wouldn't dovetail too well with the original story. In any case, I feel too sad about what has happened to continue working..."
* CreatorCameo: StephenieMeyer makes an appearance in the first film as one of the women in the diner Bella and Charlie visit.
* CreepyChild: Jane, Alec, and Renesmee.
** The last gets further up in the department since she wasn't intended to be so.
* CursedWithAwesome: [[{{Narm}} "This is the skin of a killer, Bella!"]] [[MemeticMutation *sparkles*]]
** Vampirism in general, especially if one survives on a diet of animal blood. It's described as being less tasty than human blood, which basically implies that one gets an eternity of youth, beauty, strength, and some sort of super power, and the only downside is that one has to eat something they don't like.
*** [[FridgeLogic Considering some of the things]] that people [[TruthInTelevision actually do]] in the name of youth, vitality, strength and beauty? In this world TheMasquerade probably doesn't exist in order to keep a vampire genocide from happening, but rather to prevent every vampire in the world from being hounded day and night by desperate people wanting to be turned.
* CuteClumsyGirl: Bella, with lots of {{lampshade hanging}} from Edward.
* {{Defictionalization}}: Nordstrom and Torrid have massive tie-ins with ''New Moon'', mainly replicating Bella's clothes (apparently there were a lot of requests after the first movie and they just said "screw it, we're selling it ourselves"), which by happy coincidence are in style.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Rosalie and Leah.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Edward is from the early 1900s. Some of what he does was perfectly acceptable in his native time. Other parts of his behavior, like sneaking into a girl's room every night to to "protect" her, would have gotten Victorian/Edwardian fathers to take out the shotgun (or send the footman with a club).
* {{Dhampyr}}: Renesmee. A few other Dhampyr are mentioned briefly in this series.
* DidNotDoTheResearch: Quite a few examples of research errors appear throughout the series.
** Meyer never visited the town of Forks or any of the environs mentioned in the book until ''after'' they were all finished. The [[MisplacedWildlife wildlife]] and plant life described in the book do not match up with the real life Olympic Peninsula.
** The mythology of the Quileutes.
** Rosalie's family was well off during the Great Depression because her father was a banker.
** Brazil's west coast. Enough said.
** In ''Breaking Dawn'', a Brazilian cleaning woman recognizes Edward as a "libishomen".[[hottip:*:She could have meant "a bishonen" and we just misheard...]] Ignoring the fact that it's ''Lobisomem'', that particular Portuguese myth is a ''werewolf'' and not a vampire. To make matters worse, the lobisomem looks like a man-ape, so it should have been impossible for Edward Cullen to be recognized as one.
** A driftwood fire is not blue. It's yellow.
** At one point in ''New Moon'', Bella is thinking about RomeoAndJuliet, and what would have happened "if Rosalind had given [Romeo] the time of day". However, the play doesn't feature Rosalind, since she is from AsYouLikeIt. Bella is thinking of Rosaline.
** Carlisle Cullen discovers a coven of vampires in the sewers of 17th century London. Such sewers did not exist in London until two centuries later, when the stench of the open sewers grew unbearable.
*** Carlisle's story in general is a little cringe-worthy to anyone who's done much reading on the 17th century. Quite a bit of general [[YouFailHistoryForever history fail]] there.
** When telling Alice's backstory, Edward remarks that had she been born a century earlier (therefore the early 19th century), she would have been burned as a witch. One: they were not still trying people for witchcraft at that time period. Two: No witches were actually burned in the United States.
** The whole concept of the blood typing. First there is the teacher who is randomly sticking students with pins to draw blood without asking either their or their parents permission. Keep in mind that US law leaves it at the parents' digression whether or not they inform their children's schools that they have any diseases communicable by blood, such as HIV or Hepatitis C. And then we have the notion that they are doing this experiment on one another because the Red Cross will be having a blood drive and they need to know their blood type if they want to donate blood. Because the Red Cross will totally accept a seventeen year old's word for it when they tell them they are O neg, especially if the testing was done by a high school junior.
*** The first part about not asking parental permission is particularly egregious as Meyer is a mother of three. You think she'd know the type of shit storm that would be raised should a teacher start poking their kids with needles.
* DisproportionateRetribution: WordofGod says Lauren fell prey to a modeling scam that cost her over a thousand dollars and a good chunk of her hair. What made her deserving of this? She made one relatively minor sarcastic comment about Bella.
* DistressedDamsel: Bella. So. Much. Immediately upon arriving in small town USA, she's beset with life-threatening dangers so that Edward can capture her attention by saving her over and over. Odd, since she's the viewpoint character and female lead.
* DoorStopper: The first three books float around 600 pages. The fourth book is over 700 pages.
* DoubleEntendre: Emmett spends a whole chapter and a half of ''Breaking Dawn'' making progressively less veiled comments about Edward and Bella's sex life. [[spoiler:While her father is around!]]
* DoubleStandard: Bella once criticizes another girl in her school as shallow for only liking Edward because he is good looking and comes from a wealthy family, yet the things about him that she most often expresses appreciation for are (in order of prevelance) his physical appearance, his equally attractive well-to-do family, his nice house and his expensive car.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: In the first book of Breaking Dawn, Bella has a dream about the Volturi coming to kill her and the Cullens. Bella narrates the exact same thing happening in the preface of the third book--literally: Meyer just copy-pasted Bella's dream into the preface.
* DreamingTheTruth: Used in ''Twilight'', ''New Moon'', and ''Breaking Dawn''.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: The only thing about Edward that frightens Bella.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Bree Tanner. Bad enough she dies for no real reason, but nobody does much to stop it or even really seems to care afterwards.
* DullSurprise: Kristen Stewart as Bella in the movies. Her facial expressions are ''very'' minimal.
* EccentricMentor: Aro, one of the most cheerful vampires you've ever seen in the entire series, is [[spoiler:also the strongly implied leader of the Volturi, and according to Edward, 'You don't irritate the Volturi, not unless you want to die'. And this is before [=SMeyer=] revealed that Aro killed his sister. Among that, it's because he wants to take over the world -- or not the world, but he has some sort of domination plans, it being the reason he killed his sister, because didn't want her to run off with Marcus.]] Puts the guy in a new light, doesn't it?
* EmergencyTransformation: Several times. Actually, most of the Cullens.
** Esme: [[spoiler:Attempted suicide after the death of her son (he was only a few days old).]]
** Rosalie: [[spoiler:Gang-raped, beaten, and left for dead by her fiance and his friends.]]
** Edward: [[spoiler:Just another victim of the 1918 Spanish influenza epidemic.]]
** Emmett: [[spoiler:Mauled by a bear.]]
** Alice: [[spoiler:Was transformed in order to prevent James from hunting and killing her.]]
** Bella: [[spoiler:Childbirth complications. Pulverized pelvis, shattered spine, the hole her husband bit in her uterus... [[SarcasmMode y'know, the usual]].]]
* EmoTeen: Bella becomes one for a while after Edward leaves her in ''New Moon''. Also, despite his actual age, Edward.
** It could be argued that Bella is this through the whole series (until she becomes a vampire) she's constantly miserable (in Edwards absence) despite the fact that she gets straight A's with little effort, her father makes little or no effort to control her and everyone loves her. Any other teenager would be thrilled to have her life.
* EmotionalMaturityIsPhysicalMaturity: it doesn't matter if a character is a hundred years old or one, their maturity level will correspond to their physical appearance.
** Somewhat justified when you consider that their brains would only have developed up to that certain point.
** Subverted hard by [[spoiler: Renesmee.]]
* TheEmpath: Jasper, who has the ability to control other people's emotions. Which might explain a good portion of the plot...
* EnemyMine: The climax of ''Eclipse'' has the Quileutes and Cullens working together to [[spoiler:defeat a vampire army headed by Victoria.]]
* EnfantTerrible: Babies who turn into vampires. Although they're [[TakeOurWordForIt never seen in the series]], the description of one is enough to provide NightmareFuel for Bella.
* EnforcedMethodActing: When Carlisle bites Edward, he whispers in Edward's ear. The in-character "I'm sorry" failed to get the right terrified reaction, as did the equally in-character "My son", so he whispered "You're sexy".
* {{Epigraph}}: TheBible, ''RomeoAndJuliet'', RobertFrost's ''Fire and Ice''
* EroticDream: Thanks to one of these, [[spoiler:Bella gets Edward to have sex with her again while she's still human]]!
* EscapistCharacter: For the women: Bella Swan for the guys: Jacob Black.
* EternalLove: Seems to be treated as the best part of being a vampire: you can be with your true love for all eternity.
* [=~Everything's Better With Sparkles~=]: For a given definition of better.
* EverybodyHatesMathematics: Bella hates math, it's her worst subject.
* TheEveryman: Bella Swan, often lampshaded by Edward.
* ExpressDelivery: Oh boy. [[spoiler:After Edward and Bella get pregnant the first time they have sex, they realize that the baby is growing too fast. In fact, the baby quickly tries to [[BodyHorror "eat" its way out of Bella]], so Edward has no choice but to perform a cesarean on Bella. With his teeth, because they are the only thing sharp enough to cut through the protective barrier around the fetus. The damage the baby and the cesarean causes force Edward to turn Bella into a vampire.]]
* EyesOfGold: When the vampires have fed off of non-human blood. When thirsty, they go black, and if they've had human recently, [[RedEyesTakeWarning they turn red]].
* {{Fainting}}: Bad news usually causes Bella to collapse. As does Edward kissing her, once. And a teeny tiny drop of blood. And a few other things.
* FanArt: Much of this [[http://blastedgoose.deviantart.com/art/sparkly-vampire-107854560 is]] [[http://tinybrain.deviantart.com/art/Twilight-92557422 pretty]] [[http://makani.deviantart.com/art/twilight-85434781 snarky]]. However, there is [[http://alicexz.deviantart.com/art/Twilight-103588637 some]] [[http://hohenheim54.deviantart.com/art/Twilight-115520792 serious]] [[http://angela-t.deviantart.com/art/Twilight-Edward-and-Bella-103209110 work]] out there that's worth taking a look at, as with most fandoms.
* FanService: Reaches epidemic levels in the second movie, where most of the male cast wanders around shirtless (or else remove their shirts at the drop of a hat) the entire time.
** The [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent lupine shape-shifters]], at least.
** It got to a point where it became a running gag for the actors portraying them - Jacob's actor has joked, several times, on TheTonightShow and ''Late Night with Jimmy Fallon'', about ripping his shirt off for every little thing.
--->"''Oh, no, you're bleeding!''" (tears shirt off)
** This actually reached somewhat disturbing levels when you consider that lifesize (or larger) shirtless photos of (then seventeen year-old) Taylor Lautner were on display all around the world. It was actually something of a [[DoubleStandard double standard]], as such extremely flagrant sexualization of an underage female actress would probably have triggered more outrage from the MoralGuardians.
** Does no one remember JamieCampbellBower (Caius)'s insistence that there would be a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_JCco9SRoM naked Volturi scene]] in New Moon??
* FatalAttractor: Edward would like to believe he is this.
* FemaleGaze: In a ''book'', no less. Cut out any sentence paying tribute to Edward's godly, wondrous, Adonis-esque physique, and you'll lose maybe more than a third of each book. Even ''New Moon'', which he was only in half of.
* FetusTerrible: [[spoiler:The only people who seem convinced that Bella's child is a good thing are Bella and Rosalie. Everyone else just wants her to abort it.]]
* {{The Film of the Book}}
* {{Fiction 500}}: the Cullens took second place the 2011 ''Forbes'' Fictional 15 list with an estimated wealth of $36.2 billion. Apparently, Carlisle has a controlling interest in the blood product company Immuncor.
* FirstGirlWins: In the books, Edward is the first supernatural male Bella meets and she falls for and keeps him in the end. In the movie Edward becomes LastGirlWins being Jacob the first one she meets.
* FiveManBand: The Cullens, in a way.
** TheHero: Edward
** TheLancer: Jasper
** TheSmartGuy: Carlisle
** TheBigGuy: Emmett
** TheChick: Rosalie and Esme.
* FluffyFashionFeathers: At least in the first film, Victoria wears a white feather cape while attending the prom.
* ForegoneConclusion: ''The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner''.
* ForgotICouldChangeTheRules: Jacob has to submit to the will of Sam, the Alpha Wolf. When Sam orders him to help destroy the Cullens (and Bella), he remembers that he was born to be the Alpha but he had voluntarily given up the birthright. Choosing to become the Alpha frees Jacob from obeying Sam's orders.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires: The Cullens, not very social but not intentionally harmful.
* FriendlessBackground: Bella.
* FromASingleCell
* FromACertainPointOfView: Meyer (in)famously claimed that vampires are unable to reproduce. When Bella later got knocked up, she went back and used WeaselWords to try and claim she actually meant that only ''female'' vampires can't have kids all along(evidently by claiming an obscure definition of "have").
* FurAgainstFang: Vampires and werewolves really, really hate each other.
** Although Edward and Jacob make friends pretty quickly as soon as Jacob finds out [[spoiler:he imprinted on Edward's infant child]], despite the decades of hate. Which doesn't upset anyone except Bella, and only [[strike:a little]] enough for her to try and kill him.
** Add Seth to the budding liking of werewolves to Edward and the Cullens.
* GenkiGirl: Alice.
* GenreLaunch: Say what you will about the quality, but it triggered an explosion of urban fantasy and paranormal romance. SturgeonsLaw is in full effect, but some of them are actually quite good. Though a more accurate statement would be that it brought such a genre into the public consequence as there are/were a number of similar series well before Twilight, most of these considerably better than this series.
* GetALoadOfThatSquare: The films seem to be going for this with some of Charlie and Billy's dialogue, but it would take an extremely... picky teenager to hold it against them.
* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: Jasper can control the emotions of those around him, and according to Bella, it's impossible to feel anything but what he wants you to feel. It's also not a matter of [[NightmareFuel discussion]] or [[MindRape consent.]]
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "Better than Freaky Fred's backside" from The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner (hinting at [[spoiler:anal sex]] there, are we, Meyer?).
* GlamourFailure: see the much-reviled/-loved [[RuleOfThree *sparkles*]]
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Edward and Bella as newlyweds. Edward even has to warn Bella that she can't just have sex 24/7.
** The whole HappilyMarried Cullen family: Bella even marvels, once she realizes how great vampire sex is, why they aren't having sex all the time.
--->"Did Edward tell you how many houses Rose and I smashed?" - Emmett Cullen
** To the point where Bella is having so much fun having sex with Edward she forgets about her [[spoiler:newborn daughter]]
* GoshDangItToHeck: "HOLY CROW!"
* GrandpaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave: Technically, all of the vampires would fall under this banner. Of the film actors you have [[HotDad Billy Burke]], who is aged up by make-up for his role as Charlie Swan, and Gil Burmingham, who plays Jacob's wheelchair-ridden father [[NamesTheSame Billy,]] and is a ''former bodybuilder''.
* HappilyAdopted: The Cullen kids.
* HappilyMarried: The entire merry Cullen bunch, sans Edward ([[spoiler: at least, until ''Breaking Dawn'']]).
* HappilyEverAfter: Bella gets everything she wanted and then some. She marries Edward, becomes a beautiful and powerful vampire, doesn't lose contact with Charlie, the Cullens are all happy and together, she lives in a beautiful cottage, her best friend Jacob finds his own soulmate in her daughter so he can be family now, the Volturi go without a fight, and she gets a beautiful baby girl who requires no raising outside of advice and love, since the kid is well out of diapers and spoon-feeding and screaming by the time she's a year old. However, Bella is an unreliable narrator and it might be Happily till the Volturi come with a plan to destroy the Ever After.
* HeldGaze: In the [[FilmOftheBook film]] version of Literature/{{Twilight}}, Edward and Bella basically do this for two straight hours. Not surprisingly, the novel has them doing the same in a nonvisual form.
* HeroicBSOD: Bella has one for a good part of New Moon. Edward also has one when [[spoiler: Bella becomes pregnant]]
* HeroicWillpower: Edward's resistance of Bella's blood makes him poster boy for this trope. Of course, both Edward and Bella have to resist their regular sexual lust too, for reasons of safety and morality.
* HormoneAddledTeenager: Most of them, but Bella and Edward especially, since they mostly think of ''absolutely nothing'' but one another, in ''New Moon'' especially to the [[IdiotBall exclusion of common sense]]. Jacob too, since he spends a lot of time thinking about getting into Bella's pants, as do seemingly all the other boys in the book. Bella's HeroicBSOD in ''New Moon'' has particularly [[UnfortunateImplications unfortunate connotations]] in this trope, since how it's handled implies that her life is literally nothing without her ''boyfriend''.
** The {{unfortunate implications}} are at least equally portrayed with Edward. He left his family (that loved him and were his only company for decades) to go live in a rat infested place, curl into a ball, and let misery take over right after the break up and then went all suicidal over the possibility of Bella dying, so he was also nothing without his ''girlfriend''.
* HowDoYouLikeThemApples: The front cover of the first book has someone holding an apple, representing that Edward and Bella are each other's Forbidden Fruit. It was represented on a scene of the film, with [[CleolindaJones the Hacky-Sack Apple of I-See-What-You-Did-There]].
** Arguably all the movies have had a representation of their respective covers. In New Moon there was a white flower like cotton cloth spilled with blood that looked a bit like the flower on the cover. In Eclipse Bella's thick red line of blood could had represented the red ribbon of Eclipse's one.
*** And on the leaked images of filming the honeymoon on Breaking Dawn they are playing chess in a red and white pieces board...so full circle with the covers of the books.
* HorrorHunger
* HotAmazon: How about three hot Amazons? [[spoiler:Zafrina, Kachiri, and Senna: actually called "the Amazon Coven".]]
* HotDad: Carlisle.
** [[spoiler: And Edward in ''Breaking Dawn''.]]
* TheHunter: Edward preying on criminals during his "rebellious years"
* ICannotSelfTerminate: Edward has to ask the Volturi for help committing suicide in ''New Moon''. It doesn't work.
* [=~I Can't Believe A Guy Like You Would Notice Me!~=]: It takes Bella three books to stop talking like this.
** Heck, she continues to go on about it ''at her damned wedding'', wondering why Edward would have picked her over the more attractive Tanya or Rosalie.
* IHateYouVampireDad: Inverted. Not one of the main characters is ever angry at the vampire who turned them. They get plenty angry at their current state but never think to blame Carlisle. [[spoiler:Hell, Bella is ecstatic to be turned by Edward.]]
** In the case of the Volturi Jane and Alec adore Aro (he saved them from burning at the stake after all). Riley loved Victoria till, sadly, too late for him, he realized that she didn't loved him.
*** In the novella, Bree seems quite loyal to Riley, despite the fact that she remembers him turning her into a vampire by kidnapping her and breaking her arm.
* ILoveYouVampireSon: This sums up [[spoiler:Bella and Edward's]] relationship in ''Breaking Dawn''. See IHateYouVampireDad above.
* IncrediblyLamePun: Almost definitely unintentional, but...when the Cullens play baseball, you could refer to their sports equipment as "vampire bats."
* InterClassRomance: Bella's strictly working class. The Cullens are wealthy (its easy to make money if you're immortal and a smart investor).
* InterruptedSuicide: Edward attempts this on ''New Moon'' when he thinks his beloved Bella is dead. He is saved by Bella herself.
* InvincibleHero: Pretty much every protagonist in the series, but especially Edward Cullen.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Jacob's chapters in ''Breaking Dawn'' have chapter titles like ''You Know You've Got Problems When You Feel Bad For Being Rude To Vampires'', ''Good Thing I've Got A Strong Stomach'', [[RuleOfThree and]] ''[[GetOnWithItAlready Waiting For The Damn Fight To Start Already]]''. This is opposed to the one-word titles Meyer usually uses.
** The title of the [[spoiler:birth]] chapter: ''There Are No Words For This''.
** It could also be a way to show the differences between Bella and Jacob given that the 12 leaked chapters of Midnight Sun are titled on the same style that Bella's titles are.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: The whole point of the series.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Rosalie hates being a vampire, and has admitted she'd give up her beauty and immortality just to have the opportunity to have a child of her own. Edward also wishes he could relate to Bella the way a normal guy would, without the bloodlust and super strength getting in the way.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Bella just wants to be special.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Bella is a very good example of type A
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou
* ImNotAHeroIm: "What if I'm not a superhero? What if I'm the bad guy?"
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: the reason Edward leaves in ''New Moon''.
* InformedFlaw: Edward makes much of his dangerous nature but anyone who has read past the first book knows there's no chance in hell he'll hurt Bella.
* InMediasRes: Each book (and the three sections of ''Breaking Dawn'') opens with a preface that describes a scene that happens at the climax of that story.
* {{Interplay of Sex and Violence}}
* InterspeciesRomance: Humans and vampires! Humans and werewolves! [[spoiler: Half-humans/half-vampires and werewolves!]]
* IntimateHealing: Clothed version between [[spoiler: Bella and Jacob]], not that he doesn't try for the naked version.
* InvisibleToNormals: Edward's stopping of the van about to crush Bella with his bare hands with no one but Bella realizing could fall under this, and it is even mocked in [[http://markreadstwilight.buzznet.com/user/journal/4411871/ Mark Reads Twilight]], where he says this is part of an overused idea he calls "The 'I Am Going To Do Something Spectacular And Clearly Attention-Grabbing In Front Of Plenty Of People, Yet No One Is Going To Notice Except (Conveniently) The Main Character' Phenomenon."
* IvyLeagueForEveryone
* JailBaitWait: A rather extreme form, with werewolves falling in love with toddlers, then having to wait for them to hit their mid-late teens before they can do anything physical.
* KillItWithFire: The only known way to get rid of vampires for good. But just fire isn't enough: first you have to rip them up into pieces (which is kind of difficult, considering that their flesh is as hard a stone) and then scatter the ashes. However, since their bodily fluids are flammable, once you have them in little pieces setting them on fire is pretty easy (according to the movie, just ripping off the head is enough before setting the body on fire).
* {{Kiss of the Vampire}}: Edward and Bella's make-out sessions in early books are decidedly tame for this reason.
* {{Knight in Shining Armor}}: Edward is more like Bella's knight in sparkling armor.
* LampshadeHanging: At least in the movie of ''Eclipse''. "Do you ''own'' a shirt?"
** In ''New Moon'' too. Alice to Bella: "I've never met anyone so prone to life-threatening idiocy!"
* {{Law of Inverse Fertility}}: [[spoiler:Bella wasn't even ''trying'' to get pregnant. Then suddenly she did!]] Rosalie and Esme, on the other hand, will never be able to have children of their own (although Esme seems perfectly happy with her big family of big immortal adopted children).
* [=~Let's Meet The Meat~=]: Well, ''technically''.
* [=~Life Isn't Fair~=]:
-->'''Bella''': Hasn't anyone ever told you? Life isn't fair.
** Bear in mind she was saying that in regards to a decision she made herself, which her mother continually assured her she didn't have to.
* {{Les Yay}}: Quite possibly some with Bella and Alice. Even with Esme and Bella. Anyone remember her calling Bella "Dearest Bella', like, right against her skin?
* LewdLustChasteSex
* {{Like Brother and Sister}}: Edward and Rosalie, although some fans would disagree.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Jacob to Bella.
* {{Living Forever is Awesome}}: Even though the Cullens are not totally convinced they seem to have achieve happiness with their condition (except for Edward and Rosalie, at least at the beginning). Bella has no doubt it is.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Meyer seems to just throw names at the reader sometimes, and then expect them to remember who she's talking about when and if one does something relevant to the plot several hundred pages later.
* LongingLook
* LostInImitation: The comparison of Bella/Edward to RomeoAndJuliet takes a very interesting road if you recall that Romeo and Juliet were a pair of shallow (barely) teens who want to fuck in hormone driven lust and Romeo instantly stopped caring about Rosaline when he meets Juliet...
* LoveAtFirstSight: Imprinting for werewolves, sometimes to a {{squick}}y level.
** Variant: Edward falls in Love At First ''Smell'', effectively.
** Some would say Bella.
* LoveMartyr
* LivingLieDetector: Maggie, an Irish vampire, can tell when one is lying. If at any consolation, Charles can tell when you are being truthful.
* LyingCreator: [[spoiler:"Vampires can't have children"]], our collective ''ass''. Meyer apparently narrowly construes the word [[spoiler:"to have"]] as meaning [[spoiler:"to bear"]].
** And her [[http://www.bluecorncomics.com/twilight.htm "genuine" Quileute folklore]] that isn't so genuine.
* MagicalNativeAmerican: The werewolves can be counted as part of this trend, given their common ethnicity.
* {{Malaproper}}: Meyer doesn't know what all of the words she uses mean. At one point in the first chapter, Bella's schedule is accidentally implied to ''[[{{Squick}} be covered in fish semen]]'' due to the magic of this trope.
** Another memorable instance suggests that Bella's skin is see-through, like Saran Wrap.
** In still another Bella watches wide trenches filled with water protecting a fortified building swirl in the air.
** In the fourth book a little girl plays with one of the werewolves hair like it's periods of rulership.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Alice. Subverted in that she does start irritating Bella and others after a while, although no one outright hates her.
* MartyrWithoutACause: Bella is a variant. It's not that she wants to be a hero, it's that, as other characters sometimes lampshade, she blames herself for anything and everything that goes wrong. This leads to the same type of self-hatred (if not the same quantity) as TheAtoner, and while she doesn't often have the opportunity to risk her life, she clearly considers herself more expendable than those around her, particularly Edward, but also her mother, father, unborn baby... (this also seems to be responsible for a good deal of reader hatred, particularly from those who think she's merely TooDumbToLive, but that's neither here nor there).
* AManIsNotAVirgin: Notably averted with Edward. Oh so averted.
* ManlyMenCanHunt: The male Cullens.
* MarsNeedsWomen: The imprinting business with the werewolves looks suspiciously like this, especially if all female werewolves are as infertile as Leah. [[WordOfGod According to Meyer]], there ''were'' no female werewolves before Leah and it is never said if a female werewolf could imprint.
* {{Master of the Mixed Message}}: Edward. Oh, god, Edward.
* MayDecemberRomance
** MayFlyDecemberRomance: One of Bella's main reasons for wanting to become a vampire is her concern that, when she grows old, Edward will no longer find her physically appealing.
* {{Manhwa}}
* MeaningfulName: Probably unintentional, but it is still interesting to note that Bella's last name, Swan, has a meaning in the real-life vampire subculture. Swan is used to refer to people involved in the vampire community, but who are not vampires themselves.
** And let us not forget how appropriate Cullen ("culling") is for a family of predators.
*** Bella is a form of bellum, meaning war in Latin.
**** "Beautiful Ugly Duckling", anyone?
** Actually, pretty much the entire cast. Bella: beautiful. Edward: rich guardian. Jacob: the supplanter. Carlisle: stronghold of light. Esme: loved. Leah: weary. ...it goes on.
* MillsAndBoonProse
* MindRape: specifically Jane and Alec, although most of the Volturi can fall under this category.
** [[spoiler:Renesmee.]] Especially disturbing when you think of what she could do once she grows up and gains a better understanding of {{nightmare fuel}}.
* MisaimedFandom: In-universe; Bella's ''RomeoAndJuliet'' comparisons, which indicate that she has not actually understood the play.
* {{Mockbuster}}: Called ''Blood Red Moon''. Reviewed by ObscurusLupa.
* MoneyDearBoy: Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, the stars of {{The Film of the Book}}, are only in it for the money (and Pattinson claims that he was interested in working with Stewart, an actress he '''respected'''). They claim to hate the story ''and'' the fans.
** But really, what's not to love about a fanbase who, [[StalkerWithACrush despite your utter contempt for them, still loves you]] enough to do [[http://i45.tinypic.com/2mfyx06.jpg this?]]
* MoralDissonance: Holy HELL is there MoralDissonance. It starts with the idea that Edward once resented Carlisle for ''years'' for ''trying to stop him from eating people'' (which Bella finds ''reasonable'').
* TheMusical: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A1PZZJdSn0 See it here!]]
* NamesTheSame: There's an Isabella in ''WutheringHeights''. Oh, sweet {{irony}}!
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Alice being able to see the future.
** Marcus's power was pretty much drudged up to show yet again just how soul-bonded Bella and Edward are. Also, Victoria's power to always know where to hide was basically a way for the author to HandWave how a pack of werewolves and the entire Cullen family together couldn't catch her sooner.
* NiceGirl: Angela Weber, a background character.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: ''In New Moon'', when Bella gets a small paper-cut, Edward punts Bella away to prevent Jasper attacking her in a blood-frenzy. This however causes her to lacerate her arm...
* NoPeriodsPeriod: ''Breaking Dawn'' reveals that [[spoiler:Leah Clearwater, the only female in the Quileute werewolf pack, is a "genetic dead end" (as she puts it) because she stopped getting her period when she first became a werewolf.]] [[CursedWithAwesome And she thinks this is a bad thing]]. Though, [[LawOfInverseFertility given how human anatomy]] [[GenreSavvy and tropes work]], [[BlessedWithSuck she's probably right]].
** And of course, vampires don't have periods, because their bodies are unchanging (this ties into the whole "can't bear children" thing).
** Played straight with Bella, who, despite having yummy blood, does not trigger a vampire feeding frenzy once a month. [[HandWave Handwaved]] by saying that menstrual blood is '[[WordOfGod dead blood]].'
*** Possibly an AnatomyFail on Meyer's part when you realize that menstrual blood has been proven to be cleaner/newer/FRESHER/more alive than normal blood.
* NoSell: Edward can read every human, vampire or spirit wolf's mind but not his beloved Bella's. This fascinates him.
** Nor Charlie's, for the most part, as was revealed in Midnight Sun.
** James' reaction to getting maced.
** This could also be seen as an example of TrueLoveIsExceptional
* NotBloodSiblings: ...bad puns about their dietary habits aside.
* ObstructiveCodeOfConduct: The Volturi enforce laws that all other vampires must follow: any humans who learn of vampires must be turned into vampires or killed, do not turn babies or toddlers into vampires, do not make alliances with werewolves, do not hunt in Volterra, do not lie to or defy The Volturi. The punishment is death, but The Volturi often bends the rules and invites vampires with special talents to join them.
* OneLastFling: Jacob and Bella's kiss at the end of ''Eclipse'', which heavily borders on [[RapeIsLove sexual assault]] for Bella.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Movie only, obviously. Robert Pattinson actually puts on a decently convincing American accent (even if it's hard to tell just what part of America), but especially in the first movie, he slips up quite noticeably a few times.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Bella, the main character.
* OrphanedSeries: ''Midnight Sun'' was dropped midway through being written with no indication that it'll ever be finished.
* TheOtherRainforest: set in Forks, Washington.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: The Quileute (also referred to as shape-shifters) are purely hereditary, and they have higher body temperatures, for one.
** Though the more stereotypical werewolves are mentioned -- the Volturi have hunted them to near-extinction.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: ''And how!'' they're sparkly {{golem}}-like creatures made of diamonds that run on explosive oil strained from human blood, without fangs (even [[CuteLittleFangs cute little ones]]) and have no problem with the sun, holy symbols or garlic. Hell, Twilight is practically the ''embodiment'' of this trope!
* TheOtherDarrin: Bryce Dallas Howard replaces Rachelle Lefevre as Victoria in the third movie
* PairTheSpares: Everyone. Except Leah.
* PaleSkinnedBrunette: Almost everyone in the book but the Quileute, Rosalie, Jasper and Caius.
* PaperThinDisguise: It takes Bella an insanely short amount of time to figure out that Edward is a vampire.
* ParanormalRomance
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: [[spoiler:One-month gestation results in a September birth date. By December, Renesmee is walking, talking, and reading ''Tennyson''. Another half-vampire reveals that maturity is reached at the age of seven]].
* PoorCommunicationKills: In ''New Moon'', one of Charlie's friends dies, and when Edward gets wind of the funeral he is mistakenly led to believe that it was ''Bella'' who died, driving him to go to Italy and attempt suicide by sparkling. Why he never thought to call someone to verify this or look in the local paper for her obituary instead of automatically assuming she was really dead is anyone's guess.
* ProductPlacement: The ''New Moon'' movie carries ad frames for Volvo, Porshe, Virgin America (who doesn't even do the flights shown in the movie), Burger King, and Nikon (digital camera with included photo printer). The only product that made any sort of sense was Rainier Beer, a brand that you'd actually expect a small town, working class police chief to drink.
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: You can eat humans, and we'll even lend you our cars to broaden your range, as long as you don't try to eat Bella Swan.
** Also - the wolves won't do a thing to stop said human nomming if it's being done in the name of [[spoiler:Jake's sweetie]], Renesmee.
* {{Psychic Dreams for Everyone}}: Bella has prophetic dreams for no apparent reason.
* PunyEarthlings: Humans can't possibly compete with or stand up to vampires or werewolves, and it's implied that before the Cullens only werewolves could protect normal people from vampires.
* PurpleProse: buckets. Especially when it comes to Edward's appearance.
* RapeIsTheNewDeadParents: [[spoiler:Rosalie.]] Though, considering the Cullens are all vampires, they also all have dead parents.
* RapidAging: Renesmee (and all half-human vampires) reach adulthood after seven years of life.
* RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic: Averted in [[TheFilmOfTheBook the movie]].
* RealitySubtext: Most people seem to think so.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: ''To'' the books instead of ''in'' them is the not-quite-blog [[http://reasoningwithvampires.tumblr.com/ Reasoning With Vampires]], which picks apart word choice, sentence structure, logistical issues, and just about everything else wrong with the series in little infographics that deal with specific, stand-out segments of the book. It's surprisingly respectful, for all that.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: For the vampires that drink human blood, as well as newborn ones.
* RedOniBlueOni: Burning-hot Jacob and ice-cold Edward.
* ReluctantWarrior: Carlisle to the point that the werewolves designated him a non-priority target; he had the most experience and a lot of potential to do harm, but his hesitation made him less dangerous.
* RescueRomance
* RevengeByProxy: Victoria's search to harm Bella after [[spoiler:The Cullens kill her mate James]]
* {{Rifftrax}}: The movie of the book has this.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Jacob in ''Breaking Dawn'' decides Bella's baby must die, because Bella apparently died giving birth to her. At least, that was until he looked into the baby's eyes.
* RomanceNovel
* RomanticRunnerUp: Mike Newton, Tyler Crowley, and Eric Yorkie. Either humans just aren't good enough for Bella, or she's really socially messed-up if Edward's the only one for her. Tyler could also qualify as CasanovaWannabe.
** Jacob Black fits this trope better since he actually was around long enough to let his romantic advances to reach to a point that Bella had to made a choice.
* SadlyMythtaken: Granted; vampires actually didn't sparkle in sunlight, and several myths of werewolves were a little more anthropomorphic; except that most cries of this actually were people who didn't really do enough reading themselves - Edward is actually a little more like a strigoi (Strigoi were not fond of sunlight but nowhere said they shriveled up and died when they went out into sunlight), vampires hating the sun is actually NewerThanTheyThink thanks to {{Nosferatu}} and the most of the original myths of werewolves actually ''were'' just men changing into wolves without anthropomorphic features.
* SatelliteCharacter: Bella, [[UnfortunateImplications despite]] being [[DesignatedHero the protagonist]].
* SceneryPorn: The movie has a LOT of it, and a good thing too. The atmosphere was the sole thing many people liked about the movie. Haunting and somber, thick with misty moutains, fertile greenery, and soft Jazz-sounding in the background.
** YourMileageMayVary - some people felt they spent too much time needlessly panning across the various beautiful scenery.
* SecondActBreakup: Pretty much the only point of ''New Moon''.
* ShallowLoveInterest: Bella ''and'' Edward, for each other.
* ShirtlessScene: Actually, does Jacob know what a shirt is?
* ShoutOut: Bella compares her love affair with Edward to ''WutheringHeights'' and ''RomeoAndJuliet''. ''New Moon'' parallels the latter when Bella and Edward almost commit TagTeamSuicide due to a communication error. Even funnier when considered that Shakespeare wrote ''RomeoAndJuliet'' to be a cautionary tale about the dangers of falling in love too fast, which is exactly what Bella and Edward did! On the more {{squick}}y end, one couple is [[{{Lolita}} Claire and Quil]]. Claire is ''two'', Quil is Jacob's age.
** How about KillBill?
** Depending on whether Twilight or ''FullMetalPanic'' came out first, the Japanese title of the first book (The Boy I Like Is Kinda a Vampire) can be a ShoutOut to the title of the first episode of Full Metal Panic (The Guy I Like Is Kinda a Sergeant)
** The fact that the Cullen family likes to drive fast could be a ShoutOut to the line "the dead travel fast" from Bram Stoker's Dracula. (Which was itself a quote from a famous German poem.)
* SickeninglySweethearts: Bella's opinion of Sam and Emily.
** One could also argue this for Edward and Bella, he is fascinated by even the most mundane things about her and she gushes about how gorgeous he is every time he enters her field of vision and once even swoons over how good his breath smells.
* StalkerWithACrush: Edward.
* StalkingIsLove: Edward. Following Bella to keep her safe. Sneaking into her room to watch her sleep. Even ''before'' he was involved with her. And he gets her in the end, too.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: James attempted this trope, video taping him torturing and killing Bella to make Edward seek revenge and start a "game" with him. Lucky for Bella, Edward was fast enough to avert it.
* TheStoic: Sam Uley. Forced to deal with his lycanthropy on his own, he cultivated a kind of zen calm to cope, and help the others who came later.
* TheDulcineaEffect: Edward more explained in ''Midnight Sun''. Bella also is a female version of this.
* StaticCharacter: All the vampires, literally. WordOfGod is that they are forever frozen at the same level of emotional maturity they were at when they were turned. Hence why Edward manages to become an EmoTeen while being over a hundred years old.
** Bella does not change or grow as a person at all throughout the course of the story.
* StupidSacrifice: Bella attempts this several times.
* StupidSexyFlanders: Leah reveals that ever since she [[spoiler:became a werewolf and able to read Jacob's mind]], she's been having dreams about [[LesYay kissing Bella]]. Jacob retorts that [[HoYay it isn't so great from her perspective]] either.
* SuckOutThePoison: In Twilight, vampires have no body fluids except for venom, which is used to change people into vampires via biting. When James bites Bella at the climax of the first novel, Edward has to suck out the poison to prevent it from spreading. A very heroic thing, except that A) this technique rarely works in the real world (due to the circulation system almost instantly carrying the poison away from the wound) and B) Edward himself has venom in his mouth. By all rights, Bella should have been a vampire by the end of the first book.
* SupportingProtagonist: While Bella is no doubt the protagonist of the series, Edward is TheHero and does all the heroic stuff [[spoiler:up until the end of ''Breaking Dawn'']].
* TagTeamSuicide: Edward tries this in ''New Moon'' when he thinks Bella's dead.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: At the end of the last book of the series, a great battle pitting vampire against vampire is waived in favor of a lengthy discussion. Everyone goes home without a single punch thrown.
** This comes after reading through a lengthy training montage that [[hottip:*:if I recall, please clarify which and remove this]] is said to take weeks if not months of book time.
* TeamMom: Esme, to the vampires; Emily, to the wolves.
* [[ShowDontTell Tell, Don't Show]] Stephanie Meyers's Modus Operandi. She strongly dislikes the word "said" and almost always provides at the very least an adverb for the verb she decides to use, rather than letting the dialogue speak for itself. She is also a big fan of saying how people feel, which can be jarring, since the books are told from a first-person perspective and (with the exception of Midnight Sun) do not have a narrator who can read minds.
* TheirFirstTime: Played straight, except when Edward and Bella kept [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything switching positions]] on who was the "ready" one.
* [=~This! Is! SPARTA!~=]: Rosalie in ''Breaking Dawn'':
-->"''You. Got. Food. In. My. Hair.''"
** And if you watch the movie version of ''Twilight'' with the Rifftrax, you'll hear Mike Nelson yell, "THIS! IS! Forks High School: Home of the SPARTANS!
* ThemeNaming: Many of the Quileutes have Old Testament Biblical names. (Jacob, Leah, Seth, Samuel, Paul...)
** That's because five of them (Jacob, Leah, Seth, Emily, and Paul) were named after Meyer's siblings.
** Can also be attributed to the Mormon belief that many if not all Native Americans are descendants of a Hebrew tribe known as the Lamanites.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Bella's human friends, as well as the members of the pack (who aren't Jacob, Sam, Leah, or Seth) fill this role. Quil and Embry fill it especially well.
* TooDumbToLive: Bella unquestionably, because of her lack of reaction to the fact that Edward's a vampire - [[LampshadeHanging which he often comments on]]. It gets worse in the movie. [[spoiler: After researching vampires, Bella realizes what Edward is. Several people have turned up dead in the area, apparently mauled by animals - which she doesn't believe. So naturally, she ''goes off into the woods with Edward'' to tell him she knows his secret... without telling anyone where she's going or with whom.]]
** Not to mention that she constantly get in trouble, walking alone in a dangerous forest, dark alleys, unstable werewolves, evil vampires. How she made it to seventeen before Edward met her is a mystery.
*** ''New Moon'''s movie lampshaded it as well, with a comment from Alice: [[spoiler:"I've never met anyone so prone to life-threatening idiocy!"]]
*** There's a part in the first book where Bella thinks of deliberately putting herself in danger if it means Edward will come to her rescue. It's on page 211.
* TraumaticCSection: The scene wherein [[spoiler:Edward rips Bella's unborn child out from her body with his teeth.]] Probably not intended to be as worrying as it is.
* TransEqualsGay: In ''Eclipse'', the Quilleute shapeshifters' uncomfortableness with opposite genders sharing sexual memories through their telepathy is characterized as gender confusion.
* TrendCovers: Practically every other YA novel getting released/re-released since Twilight has a "one symbolic object on dark background" cover. Though NewerThanTheyThink since this sort of symbolism has popped up in many genres such as mystery due to the pretty basic symbolism/eye catching picture it provides.
* TroubledButCute: Edward Cullen, described as a fatalist by the author and self loathing by the actor that plays him. Not to mention that he spents half of the time calling himself a soulless monster.
* TwoPersonPoolParty: The Honeymoon, but in ocean instead of a pool. Good thing it's a private island!
* UndeathlyPallor
* UnfortunateNames
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The Cullens attempt to be this to throw off suspicion, though its debatable how effective they are at this.
** To clarify, despite being GenreBlind to their true nature, the rest of the school ''have'' noticed that both pairs of adopted siblings are romantically involved, why they always buy lunch but never eat any of it, and why they are absent on sunny days.
* UnwantedHarem
* UrbanFantasy
* UnreliableNarrator: Bella is supposed to have low self-esteem about her looks, but the events of the series suggest that she's gorgeous. There are also plenty of probably unintentional examples - for example, Bella becomes convinced that her friend Jessica is using her for popularity and doesn't actually like her, on the basis of absolutely no evidence.
** In Bree's novella, the protagonist sees Edward as a good-looking red-headed guy, rather than the marble-perfect tousled, bronze-haired Adonis of Bella's descriptions, suggesting that Bella's viewpoint might be skewed.
* VampireBitesSuck: Extremely painful venom and one of the few things that can actually leave a mark on vampire skin.
* VampiresAreRich: The Cullens ''own their own island''.
** Mmm neither James, Laurent or Victoria were rich. The nomads vampires in general are not wealthy just the ones that establish big covens and are old enough to accumulate money.
** In the case of the Cullens, it's handwaved with the explanation that Alice uses her psychic powers to predict the stock market. And the fact that Edward is the only survivor of his rich family and Carlisle earns a lot of money as a doctor without the expenses a human might have and he also collects ancient art from the time he was turned which is probably enough to afford their lifestyle (Imagine if Carlisle was one of the few people that bought a Van Gogh when the artist was alive for example)
* VampireWereWolfLoveTriangle: The center of the whole story.
** Though it is mostly defused by the fact that no one ever really doubts that Bella is going to wind up with Edward. (See RedStringOfFate)
* {{Vaporware}}: ''Midnight Sun'', due to the leakage of the rough draft, is to be classified as such until further notice.
* VegetarianVampire: The Cullen clan of vampires, who hunt, kill and drink the blood of animals for sustenance, call themselves "vegetarians". They make a point to say they are careful ''not'' to impact the environment. Considering how fast they move on foot and the excess of money they have, they can travel pretty much wherever is needed in order to be responsible vampires.
** In this context this trope is OlderThanTheyThink; most fans of the series believe that this is a new concept that Meyer introduced to the vampire genre, when in reality it was used by Bram Stoker, Anne Rice, ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' and many others long before the Twilight series came out.
* VehicularSabotage: In one of the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' books, Edward sabotages Bella's truck to stop her from visiting Jacob.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Jacob and the wolfpack.
** "[[TheSpoonyExperiment They might as well have called the movie]] ''[[TheSpoonyExperiment Native American in Blue Jeans, And That's It]]'', [[TheSpoonyExperiment and that might have sold it]]."
** Rather amusingly [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Edward in the third film. "Doesn't he ''own a shirt?''
* WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma: It happens [[http://reasoningwithvampires.tumblr.com/search/comma a]] [[http://reasoningwithvampires.tumblr.com/tagged/comma_abuse lot]] in the books.
* WarmBloodbagsAreEverywhere: This series ''runs'' on this trope.
* WeirdnessMagnet: Or "danger magnet" as Bella calls herself.
* [=~What Do You Mean, It's Not For Kids?~=]: And yet Burger King just made ''Twilight''-themed Happy Meals.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Carlisle's power is "compassion", Esme's power is [[ThePowerOfLove love]]. But Rosalie's main power, according to Meyer, is ''beauty''. The alternative suggested by Edward, tenacity, isn't much better.
* WifeHusbandry: Quil and Claire.
** [[spoiler:Jacob and Renesmee]]
* WrenchWench: Rosalie.
* YouAreGrounded: From the last chapter of ''New Moon'' to the first chapter of ''Eclipse''.
* YouNeedToGetLaid: Edward's broodiness and fatalism has been linked to the fact that he has never had sex in almost a century. Once he gets married and does the deed he certainly becomes less stressed. Also, Bella had a history of night terrors and talking in her sleep which ceased after her honeymoon.
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Bella's skin is "translucent". Apparently the fact that her veins and arteries all show is why vampires are so fond of her.
* YouMustBeCold: because Edward is convinced Bella's going to go into shock and let's face it, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent it's not like the cold bothers him]].
* YoungerThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:Renesmee. Dear lord, Renesmee...]]
* YourVampiresSuck: This series has been on both the giving and receiving end of this trope (receiving more often than not, though).
* YouSexyBeast: The entire basis of the series.
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* GenreLaunch: Say what you will about the quality, but it triggered an explosion of urban fantasy and paranormal romance. SturgeonsLaw is in full effect, but some of them are actually quite good. Though a more accurate statement would be that it brought such a genre into the public consequence as there are/were a number of similar series well before Twilight.

** It could be argued that Bella is this through the whole series (until she becomes a vampire) she's constantly miserable (in Edwards absence) despite the fact that she gets strait A's with little effort, her father makes little or no effort to control her and everyone loves her. Any other teenager would be thrilled to have her life.

** Another memorable instance suggests that Bella's skin is see-through, like Serran Wrap.

** Either that, or he's just developed massive phobias and hang-ups about sex. Since the books are informed quite heavily by Meyer's religious faith, it's likely he was supposed to be celibate in the same way any [[AllMenArePerverts hormone driven heterosexual guy would be]]. In the movies, RobertPattison was played him as being a creepy stalker with all manner of sexual hangups -he calls him a "128 year old virgin"- who is using fears about harming Bella to hide how disgusted he is by sex.

* AnalogyBackfire: In ''Eclipse'', Bella compares herself to Cathy of ''WutheringHeights'' and her love for Edward to Cathy's love for Heathcliff... seemingly forgetting there is actually an Isa''bella'' in the same novel who ''does'' marry Heathcliff... to [[DomesticAbuse disastrous results]].

* BewareTheNiceOnes: ManicPixieDreamGirl - Alice displays signs of temper, spite, and a less innocent side in the later books. She also [[spoiler: ''rips off James' head'']] in the movie.

* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Bella's ''RomeoAndJuliet'' comparisons, which indicate that she has not actually understood the play.