History Literature / Twilight

* OneTrueLove: Bella and Edward, of course. One, as the fact that they neither have nor can have any other [[LoveInterests romantic love interest]] shows. And true, because, even though Mike Newton, Tyler Crowley, Eric Yorkie, Jacob Black, and Tanya all try to persuade Bella or Edward that they would be perfect together, the only perfect pairing (indeed, the only possible one) is Bella and Edward.

* YouKeepUsingThatWord:
** Bella's skin is "translucent". Translucent means "Allowing light, but not detailed images, to pass through." Skin is slightly translucent, which is why, if a person sticks a flashlight in their mouth, their skin glows red. Why this is so noticeable and unique for Bella is never explained, considering it's a universal human thing.
** Not once in the text does Bella/Stephenie use the words "reason" and "reasonable" correctly, as she seems to think the latter means "graceful"; what she means by the former is not known.
** Meyer seems to think that "subjective", when applied to Alice's visions, means "can change easily".

* OneHeadTaller: In the books, the vast majority of the males are tall and the vast majority of the women are average or short. The Quileutes take this UpToEleven.

** Also, Bella Swan, our romantic heroine and POV character herself. We never learn much about her life in Phoenix, and although she easily makes friends in the beginning of the first novel, she immediately dumps them to be with Edward. Her whole life revolves around Edward, to the point where she [[UpToEleven actually goes catatonic]] when he leaves her, and in the last book [[spoiler: she turns into a vampire, and completely leaves her human life behind her for a life with her Edward.]] She also has [[FlatCharacter no character development]] at all throughout the books. At one point her mother literally compares Bella to a satellite around Edward--always orientating herself to always be near him--and Bella ''agrees'' with her mother with no second thoughts.

** Noted, that vampires in general in this series are not forgiving by nature. And as shown throughout the series, unless you want to face a vengeful wrath never kill their loved ones, or their mate.

Bella, meanwhile, turns out to be a very special girl for Edward. For some reason, Edward is:

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Meyer often just throws names at the reader sometimes and expects them to remember who she's talking about when and if one does something relevant to the plot several hundred pages later. Particularly with about a quarter of ''Breaking Dawn'' to go when about twenty vampires, never seen or only briefly mentioned before, show up, and then she'll list off names of vampires watching something happen.

** Meyer appears to have gone to pains to avoid name overlap, considering her [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters 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 ''Breaking Dawn'' because of his power to verify that the Cullens are telling the truth about Renesmee.

** 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 has Meyer say Bella is "translucent," implying this is something that's odd about her. All humans have translucent skin.

* 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.

* 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!]]\
* TownWithADarkSecret: Forks is a subversion.

* 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'').

** Bella is also described by the author to be well-read and having already read all the classics, though we only ever read about her dealing with the most famous classics (''Pride & Prejudice'', ''Romeo and Juliet'', ''Wuthering Heights'', ''Jane Eyre'', etc) and only when they are currently reading said book for school. She also seems to repeatedly misinterpret the meaning the authors were going for or flat out misunderstanding what the book is actually about, like saying that ''Wuthering Heights'' was about Catherine and Heathcliff's romance,[[note]]Technically, it ''is'', but it's not meant to be ''happy'', ''healthy'' example of a romantic relationship.[[/note]] or stating ''Romeo and Juliet'' to be a wonderful love story.[[note]]That's the one where two kids ''killed themselves'' because of their families' petty hatred for each other. Or possibly [[BlackComedy a comedy]], depending on your interpretation.[[/note]] ([[CriticalResearchFailure Though this might be a failure on Meyer's side]].)

*** This also brings up the question of why male Vampires even produce semen if the species can functional reproduce by biting humans.

*** Smeyer has made it known that she is oblivious to how the eye functions, and how she lacks any knowledge of the color spectrum.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
** 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. This is {{lampshaded}}.

* AdultFear: A couple in ''Breaking Dawn'':
** Though Bella knew Jacob beforehand, [[spoiler:finding out that your kid is betrothed to a guy nearly twenty years older without any degree of consent is just... No. And that's ignoring the fact that the kid in question is a BABY]].
** [[spoiler: The equivalent of the government has deemed your child dangerous and are coming to kill her. People are willing to come and fight in a war for you but they're all going to die because that's just how large the opposing force is]].

The books were also adapted into a massively successful film series entitled ''The Twilight Saga'', beginning with ''Twilight'' and ending with the two-part ''Breaking Dawn''. 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.

* YouKilledMyFather: 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

* 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.

* NearAndDearBabyNaming: In ''Breaking Dawn'' Bella comes up with two names for her unborn child depending on whether it's a boy or girl: for a boy she has Edward Jacob in honor of the baby's father and her close friend, respectively, and Renesmee for a girl in honor of both Bella?s mother Renee and Edward's adoptive mother Esme. Bella has a daughter, so Renesmee it is (although most people call her Nessie for convenience). Bella also states that Renesmee's middle name can be Carlie after Bella's father Charlie and her father-in-law Carlisle.

** In still another Bella watches wide trenches filled with water protecting a fortified building swirl in the air.
*** To be fair, that's more of a spelling error since the proper word, 'motes', sounds exactly the same.

* 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!]]