History Literature / Twilight

* ClContrivedCoincidence: In the second book, Edward's attempted SuicideByCop at the end requires a ludicrous series of events to bring about. A quick rundown on what needed to happen to result in it: Alice's powers had to activate and show Bella jumping off the cliff, Alice had to make an incredibly stupid decision to fly to Bella's house instead of calling ahead of time to warn Charlie or perhaps say something to Bella about it (which she does for no discernible reason, considering she was working under the impression that Bella would have been dead by the time she got there), Alice had to make another dumb decision to simply spend the next day or so hanging out with Bella instead of calling around to let everyone know that Bella didn't really die, Harry Clearwater, a minor character we only truly meet once, has to die at exactly the right moment, setting up Charlie being absent for his funeral, Jacob has to grab the phone when Edward calls and tell him that Charlie is "at the funeral" without saying whose and Edward has to not question whose funeral it is, Edward and Jacob both have to forgo questioning who the other is and why they're calling Bella's house/answering the phone in Bella's house, Rosalie has to be spiteful enough to call Edward and tell him that Bella died without confirmation, and finally, Edward has not only not question this or call Alice to ask her personally if it was true or not, but it requires him to ''throw his phone out for no reason'' upon hearing this, so nobody can call him and tell him what's really going on. If any of this had gone differently, the whole thing wouldn't have happened.

* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: In ''New Moon'', Alice offers to slap some sense into Bella when the latter starts to panic.

** 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 a ''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]].)

* HornyDevils:
** The Denali sisters, formerly—they are even said to have inadvertently founded the succubus myth InUniverse.
** Joham, a vampire "scientist" who purposely impregnates human women in order to create vampire/human hybrids, can be considered an incubus.

** 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]]'. An [[ArtisticLicenseBiology Anatomy Fail on Meyer's part]] when you realize that menstrual blood has been proven to be cleaner/newer/FRESHER/more alive than normal blood. ''The Official Illustrated Guide'' later clarified that it wasn't freshly oxygenated, and thus wouldn't elicit the same reaction as blood from a cut.

** 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 ''Literature/MidnightSun2020''.

** This could also be seen as an example of TrueLoveIsExceptional.

* 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.

* OddlyCommonRarity: Imprinting is supposed to be rare, yet the entire wolfpack that we see save Seth and Leah have imprinted by the end of the series. The series spans two years.

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: The Quileute (also referred to as shape-shifters) are purely hereditary, have higher body temperatures in human form, and can transform at will as long as there's a nearby vampire presence. More traditional werewolves are mentioned -- the Volturi have hunted them to near-extinction.

** Bella at one point criticizes another girl for only liking Edward for his looks and the fact that he comes from a wealthy family, even while she herself [[http://reasoningwithvampires.tumblr.com/post/2850562580/twilight-is-a-lot-of-disturbing-behavior-followed constantly gushes over his physical appearance and hardly ever mentions anything else about him aside from his nice house, cool car, and equally attractive well-to-do family.]]
** She's also always rolling her eyes at the few human girls she occasionally hangs out with for being shallow and silly and frivolous, but adores Alice who is, arguably, the embodiment of those qualities, implying that it's bad to be that way, unless you're a beautiful, wealthy vampire.
** The age difference between Bella and Edward arguably invokes this, considering that the older one is a [[MenAreTheExpendableGender male]].

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'''''[[OverusedRunningGag *SPARKLE*]]'''''

** Edward and Bella quickly become InsatibleNewlyweds. Edward even has to warn Bella that she can't just have sex 24/7. To the point where Bella is having so much fun having sex with Edward she forgets about her newborn daughter.

* 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.
-->'''Emmett Cullen:''' Did Edward tell you how many houses Rose and I smashed?
** To the point where Bella is having so much fun having sex with Edward she forgets about her newborn daughter.

* SelfMutilationDemonstration: In the second book, Jacob offers to show Bella his new power to heal that he got as part of being a werwolf. Bella, being AfraidOfBlood vehemently asks him not to.

* 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.

* GlamourFailure: See the much-reviled/-loved [[RuleOfThree *sparkles*]]

* EccentricMentor: Aro, one of the most cheerful vampires you've ever seen in the entire series, is 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?

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* GoryDiscretionShot: In "Twilight", a security officer gets hunted down by evil vampires Laurent, Victoria and James. And the camera cuts to a far-away blurry shot just as the vampires begin devouring the security officer. And again when the three kill Waylon, it cuts away to the outside of the boats.

* HeelFaceTurn: Eleazar after leaving the Volturi in favor of a more peaceful lifestyle, but he did this long before the events of the novels and doesn't realize that the Volturi—or, more specifically, Aro—[[VillainWithGoodPublicity has nasty intentions]] until ''Breaking Dawn''. After that, he blames himself for helping their cause even though he was blissfully unaware of it for most of his life.
** The rest of the Denali coven and Edward can also fall under this category, since they all fed on human blood for a portion of their lives and later chose to abstain.

** Non-sexual example: [[WordOfGod Meyer]] apparently stated that some of her main characters are fans of British alternative band Music/{{Muse}}, one of her favorite bands. Also, she claims to have used them in the story a few times. Needless to say, some of the band's older fanbase dislike the new fans gained from exposure from Twilight media.
** It's been suggested that Renesmee being a "perfect" baby (IE not crying, being able to instantly say what's wrong, sleeping soundly through the night) sounds like the fantasy of a woman who's had several children (in the sense of "I haven't slept in three days, oh God help me"). Given that Meyer has three boys there's probably a bit of WishFulfillment there.

* PyrrhicVictory: How the final battle of ''Breaking Dawn'' is depicted. [[spoiler:All of the leaders of the Volturi are killed, but many allies die in the battle including Carlisle, Jasper, Seth, and Leah. However, the entire battle is revealed to be merely a potential future for Aro foreseen by Alice and is promptly avoided peacefully.]]

* 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.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: For someone who grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, Bella sure speaks like a Californian.

* DramaticIrony: Bella is afraid of blood, but wants to be a vampire.
** Bella also hates cold and snow, then falls in love with a man who is literally cold as ice and sparkles in sunlight.

* CoolCar:
** All the Cullens have at least one. Even klutzy Bella gets a motorcycle and a sportscar (a Mercedes S600 Guard, which is somewhat fitting as it is bulletproof and armored against explosives). WordOfGod 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.

** [[{{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. 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.

* DaywalkingVampire: Twilight vampires are not hurt by sunlight -- instead they ''sparkle''.

* DeathByOriginStory: Arguably almost all the Cullens, if you count "between life and death, only turning them into a vampire can save them now" as death.

* UncannyValley: Averted in-universe. Lampshaded when a new vampire gets instructions about how to behave human. ("Cross your legs, blink three times a minute, lift your shoulders so it looks like you are breathing.")

* {{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.

The main series consists of four books (''Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn''). Meyer had plans to make a POVSequel called ''[[Literature/MidnightSun2020 Midnight Sun]]'', which is the plot of Twilight from Edward's point of view. After the manuscript was leaked, the project was put on hold for several years, eventually being completed and published in 2020. Meyer has also 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. In 2015, for the 10th anniversary of the series, Meyer released a gender-swapped version of the first book featuring Beau Swan and Edythe Cullen, titled ''Literature/LifeAndDeathTwilightReimagined''.

The main series consists of four books (''Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn''). Meyer had plans to make a POV sequel called ''[[Literature/MidnightSun2020 Midnight Sun]]'', which is the plot of Twilight from Edward's point of view. After the manuscript was leaked, the project was put on hold for several years, eventually being completed and published in 2020. Meyer has also 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. In 2015, for the 10th anniversary of the series, Meyer released a gender-swapped version of the first book featuring Beau Swan and Edythe Cullen, titled ''Literature/LifeAndDeathTwilightReimagined''.

The main series consists of four books (''Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn''). Meyer had plans to make a [=POVquel=] called ''[[Literature/MidnightSun2020 Midnight Sun]]'', which is the plot of Twilight from Edward's point of view. After the manuscript was leaked, the project was put on hold for several years, eventually being completed and published in 2020. Meyer has also 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. In 2015, for the 10th anniversary of the series, Meyer released a gender-swapped version of the first book featuring Beau Swan and Edythe Cullen, titled ''Literature/LifeAndDeathTwilightReimagined''.

* AbsoluteCleavage: In ''Twilight'', Rosalie's prom dress has a neckline down to her waist.
-->Her vivid scarlet dress was [[SexyBacklessOutfit backless]], tight to her calves where it flared into a wide ruffled train, with a neckline that plunged to her waist.