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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: [[DownplayedTrope But quite close to the standard movie depiction]]. As a bonus, there seem to be 'were' variations on all the mammals.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: [[DownplayedTrope But quite close to the standard movie depiction]]. As a bonus, there seem to be 'were' variations on all the mammals.
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OurGhoulsAreCreepier: Ghouls are corpses brought to life by mages to do their bidding. They're naturally obedient but do have opinions of their own they can act on instead. Being turned into a ghoul does not affect the rotting process and the more damaged the ghoul's body is, the less it can accomplish despite its persistence. Ghouls may or may not need to eat, and what they eat may or may not be living bodies, but in any case they do have a nose for sniffing out "meat". One of the few things that can end a ghoul is for its heart to be pierced with a talon from the left claw of a dead killer, though the body can be revived as a ghoul again thereafter. In ''Castle Storm'', Grand Inquisitor Torca Marda revives a maggot-infested badger corpse as his ghoul to go after Sylver and his band. The targeted group, however, witness the ritual and on the advice of the alchemist Kloog end the ghoul with a claw-of-glory. Then they set the corpse on fire so Torca Marda cannot turn it into a ghoul a second time.
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* TheScrappy: A weird in-universe example, in Windjammer Run the crew are joined by a gerbil. Sylver hates the guy, but everyone else thinks he’s fantastic.
* TotemPoleTrench: in Thunder Oak an trick was used unsuccessfully by nine ferrets in a human-sized suit of armor.
* ViewersAreGeniuses: How many of the preteen target audience are going to get references to ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', ''UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}}'', and ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner''? And said target audience is too old for it to be a ParentalBonus... Makes one think Garry never really cared who would read these books, and just wrote whatever he wanted.
* TotemPoleTrench: in Thunder Oak an trick was used unsuccessfully by nine ferrets in a human-sized suit of armor.
* ViewersAreGeniuses: How many of the preteen target audience are going to get references to ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', ''UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}}'', and ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner''? And said target audience is too old for it to be a ParentalBonus... Makes one think Garry never really cared who would read these books, and just wrote whatever he wanted.
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* TheScrappy: A weird in-universe example, in Windjammer Run ''Windjammer Run'' the crew are joined by a gerbil. Sylver hates the guy, but everyone else thinks he’s he's fantastic.
* TotemPoleTrench:in Thunder Oak an In ''Thunder Oak'', the trick was used unsuccessfully by nine ferrets in a human-sized suit of armor.
* ViewersAreGeniuses: How many of the preteen target audience are going to get references to ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', ''UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}}'', and''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner''? And said target audience is too old for it to be a ParentalBonus... Makes one think Garry never really cared who would read these books, and just wrote whatever he wanted.''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner''?
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* ViewersAreGeniuses: How many of the preteen target audience are going to get references to ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', ''UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}}'', and
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!!The books of the series are:
* ''Thunder Oak'' (1997)
* ''Castle Storm'' (1998)
* ''Windjammer Run'' (1999)
* ''Gaslight Geezers'' (2001)
* ''Vampire Voles'' (2002)
* ''Heastward Ho!'' (2003)
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* RecycledINSPACE: RobinHood and Franchise/SherlockHolmes WITH FURRIES, ''not'' made by Disney!
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* ShoutOut: By the third book, they're coming at the rate of about two per page. Most obviously, the original Sylver is RobinHood and his descendant is Franchise/SherlockHolmes.
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There are TWENTY million rats in London alone, and if the marshes are supposed to be analogous to the UK Fens, they cover a whole county. Rats don't need much space.
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* CheerfulChild: Queen Varicose.
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* LivingShadow: On Dorma Island.
* LogicBomb: [[spoiler:The defeat of Cyclops.]]
* LovableCoward: Maudlin and occasionally Mawk.
* MagicMisfire: Wodehed keeps making these.
* JustLikeRobinHood: For the first trilogy.
* MasterSwordsman Foppington
* LivingShadow: On Dorma Island.
* LogicBomb: [[spoiler:The defeat of Cyclops.]]
* LovableCoward: Maudlin and occasionally Mawk.
* MagicMisfire: Wodehed keeps making these.
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A series of TalkingAnimal children's books by Creator/GarryKilworth, which has been compared favourably to ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' and is often read by the same target audience.
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* QueerFlowers: It's implied that Maudlin and Scruff have a romantic interest in one another. They share beds in the second book -- with Maudlin's cowardice being pretext -- and there is reference to them perching on the front rail of a ship [[ShoutOut reminiscent]] of a similar romantic scene in ''Film/Titanic1997''. Maudlin is AmbiguouslyGay, and at one point he asks about "Lillie" Longtree's [[WholesomeCrossdresser female-impersonator career]] "with a touch of envy in his voice."
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* EvilAlbino: Prince Poynt is not an albino, but he keeps his ermine pelt all year round, so the visual effect is very similar.
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* AndIMustScream: The fate of [[spoiler:Rosencrass and Guildenswine; after their cruel slaughter of an innocent bird for annoying them and the attempt murder of Sylver's gang under Torca Marda's orders,, the two ferrets received their karmic fate when the sentient trees of the Wood of the Lost Birds ensnare them and turn them into sentient, grimacing trees -- even including a sly wink to the [[Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream source material]] when describing their frozen figures.]]
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* AndIMustScream: The fate of [[spoiler:Rosencrass and Guildenswine; after their cruel slaughter of an innocent bird for annoying them and the attempt attempted murder of Sylver's gang under Torca Marda's orders,, orders, the two ferrets received their karmic fate when the sentient trees of the Wood of the Lost Birds ensnare them and turn them into sentient, grimacing trees -- even including a sly wink to the [[Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream source material]] when describing their frozen figures.]]
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* ViewersAreGeniuses: How many of the preteen target audience are going to get references to ''{{Hamlet}}'', ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', ''UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}}'', and ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner''? And said target audience is too old for it to be a ParentalBonus... Makes one think Garry never really cared who would read these books, and just wrote whatever he wanted.
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* ViewersAreGeniuses: How many of the preteen target audience are going to get references to ''{{Hamlet}}'', ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', ''UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}}'', and ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner''? And said target audience is too old for it to be a ParentalBonus... Makes one think Garry never really cared who would read these books, and just wrote whatever he wanted.
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* ViewersAreGeniuses: How many of the preteen target audience are going to get references to ''{{Hamlet}}'', ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', ''UsefulNotes/Gnosticism'', ''UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}}'', and ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner''? And said target audience is too old for it to be a ParentalBonus... Makes one think Garry never really cared who would read these books, and just wrote whatever he wanted.
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* ViewersAreGeniuses: How many of the preteen target audience are going to get references to ''{{Hamlet}}'', ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', ''UsefulNotes/Gnosticism'', and ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner''? And said target audience is too old for it to be a ParentalBonus... Makes one think Garry never really cared who would read these books, and just wrote whatever he wanted.
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* ViewersAreGeniuses: How many of the preteen target audience are going to get references to ''{{Hamlet}}'', ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', ''UsefulNotes/Gnosticism'', and ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner''? And said target audience is too old for it to be a ParentalBonus ..ParentalBonus...
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* AndIMustScream: The fate of [[spoiler:Rosencrass and Guildenswine]].
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* AndIMustScream: The fate of [[spoiler:Rosencrass and Guildenswine]].Guildenswine; after their cruel slaughter of an innocent bird for annoying them and the attempt murder of Sylver's gang under Torca Marda's orders,, the two ferrets received their karmic fate when the sentient trees of the Wood of the Lost Birds ensnare them and turn them into sentient, grimacing trees -- even including a sly wink to the [[Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream source material]] when describing their frozen figures.]]
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* {{Anvilicious}}: When Hare and Berk [[spoiler: get turned into glass statues, you can see all of their internal organs, perfectly made of glass…except for their throat and lungs which are black with tar and nicotine.]] Don’t smoke, kids!
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Sheriff Falshed single-handedly slaying the jabjab bird and saving the entire ship and its crew. Sadly, since Falshed is the designated ButtMonkey, it quickly turns into a KickTheDog moment. He's the dog.
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* ArtisticLicenceBiology: Rats are portrayed as being incredibly stupid and filthy creatures. In reality rats are highly intelligent and obsessively clean animals; certainly a lot more intelligent and clean than weasels!
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* ArtisticLicenceBiology: Rats are portrayed as being incredibly stupid and filthy creatures. In reality rats are highly intelligent and obsessively clean animals; certainly a lot more intelligent and clean than weasels!weasels! Flipped back with the sewer rats, who turn out to actually be very well-spoken and fastidious, albeit a century or so behind the times.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: After stopping their ridiculous civil war, Sylver and the crew order the dodos to destroy their weapons and threaten terrible magical deaths for any dodo who carries a weapon. It obviously never occurred to Sylver that the dodos may need to defend themselves from any kind of external threat. Such as, say, ''the rampaging ship of big cats they encountered earlier that admit to attacking settlements and eating the locals'' No wonder the poor birds are extinct!
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: After stopping their ridiculous civil war, Sylver and the crew order the dodos to destroy their weapons and threaten terrible magical deaths for any dodo who carries a weapon. It obviously never occurred to Sylver that the dodos may need to defend themselves from any kind of external threat. Such as, say, ''the rampaging ship of big cats they encountered earlier that admit to attacking settlements and eating the locals'' locals''. No wonder the poor birds are extinct!
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* WritersCannotDoMath: Flaggatis is mentioned to rule over half a million rats. Even bearing in mind their small size, this is an [i]insane[/i] amount of rats to be living in the marshes (and not even all the marshes, since part is ruled by the toads)- it’s the population of a small city! How on earth are these tribes of rats supporting themselves?
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Sheriff Falshed single-handedly slaying the jabjab bird and saving the entire ship and its crew. Sadly, since Falshed is the designated ButtMonkey, it quickly turns into a KickTheDog moment.
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* TheCameo: In Windjammer Run quite a lot of characters from the previous books in the trilogy make a guest appearance.
* TheScrappy: A weird in-universe example, in Windjammer Run the crew are joined by a gerbil. Sylver hates the guy, but everyone else thinks he’s fantastic.
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* WritersCannotDoMath: Flaggatis is mentioned to rule over half a million rats. Even bearing in mind their small size, this is an [i]insane[/i] amount of rats to be living in the marshes (and not even all the marshes, since part is ruled by the toads)- it’s the population of a small city! How on earth are these tribes of rats supporting themselves?
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*Anvilicious: When Hare and Berk [[spoiler: get turned into glass statues, you can see all of their internal organs, perfectly made of glass…except for their throat and lungs which are black with tar and nicotine.]] Don’t smoke, kids!
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Sylver speaking with the lion in Noah’s Ark. It completely comes out of nowhere, is weirdly dark and dramatic, and is never mentioned again.
* ButtMonkey: Poor Sheriff Falshed can’t catch a break.
* ButtMonkey: Poor Sheriff Falshed can’t catch a break.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Sheriff Falshed single-handedly slaying the jabjab bird and saving the entire ship and its crew. Sadly, since Falshed is the designated ButtMonkey, it quickly turns into a KickTheDog moment.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler Hare and Berk are built up to be hard-as-nails ruffians who will give our heroes a hard time when they catch up with them. Falshed’s ship makes a stop at an island, Hare and Berk get off and are promptly turned to glass and shattered.]]
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* FridgeHorror: A rare in-universe example: After discovering the cursed island that turns people into glass statues, and seeing those said statues smashed and ground into shining sand, Sheriff Falshed remarks that at some point in the future others will come to the island and bottle this pretty sand without realising what it once was.
* FurryConfusion: Mustelids and rats are sapient, mice and voles are not. Though weirdly lemmings, gerbils and hamsters are sentient. Birds seem to vary.
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* DayOfTheWeekName: Spindrick's anarchist group use weekdays as code names, as a ShoutOut to ''TheManWhoWasThursday''.
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A series of TalkingAnimal children's books by Garry Kilworth, which has been compared favourably to ''{{Redwall}}'' and is often read by the same target audience.
The series originally consisted of a trilogy, showcasing the adventures of the outlaw weasel Sylver and his band of followers as they battled against the unjust rule of the villainous stoat Prince Poynt and his corrupt sheriff Falshed, in a generically medieval milieu. Kilworth later [[TrilogyCreep wrote a second trilogy]], set in a Victorian-inspired era, about the descendants of four of the original band and some of their enemies.
The most obvious trope demonstrated in the books is the ShoutOut. Many, many references to popular culture are made, including movies, books, poems and RealLife English history.
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!!This series provides examples of:
* AffectionateParody: Of many, many things.
* AnachronismStew
* AndIMustScream: The fate of [[spoiler:Rosencrass and Guildenswine]].
* AmbiguouslyGay: Foppington in ''Castle Storm''. He not only speakth with a thlight lithp, but he also dresses flamboyantly. And though this is het, he also refers to a fellow grey squirrel (female) knight as "his little thauthage".
** Maudlin has the odd hint as well. On top of the way he interacts with Scruff, he spouts elaborate flowery poetry at the slightest provocation and is envious of the WholesomeCrossdresser. Also, while the original {{Dracula}} only attacked attractive young women, Flistagga is only seen to attack young males.
* {{Calvinball}}: Hollyhockers.
* CheerfulChild: Queen Varicose.
* ClockPunk[=/=]SteamPunk: William Jott, the steam-machine inventor, and Thomas Tempus Fugit, the clockwork inventor, are bitter rivals who constantly try to outdo each other, and their machines are all over the place.
* ClockTower: Maudlin and Scruff crash a hot air balloon into the clock tower Ringing Roger and end up dangling from the hands.
* DayOfTheWeekName: Spindrick's anarchist group use weekdays as code names, as a ShoutOut to ''TheManWhoWasThursday''.
* DirtyCoward: Mawk swings between this and LovableCoward.
* EvilAlbino: Prince Poynt is not an albino, but he keeps his ermine pelt all year round, so the visual effect is very similar.
* EvilCounterpart: Downplayed with Spindrick; he's more chaotic than actually evil.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture
** FarEast (Far Kathay.)
** TheDungAges (The first trilogy.)
** TheWildWest (Spindrick's journey in ''Heastward Ho!'')
** VictorianLondon (The second trilogy.)
* FantasyKitchenSink: Animated golem statues and sheep witches are the least of the oddball concepts incorporated into this series.
* FoodChains: Hunters' Hall.
* FurryConfusion: Mustelids and rats are sapient, mice and voles are not. Birds seem to vary.
* GargleBlaster: Honey dew.
* GenerationXerox
* {{Hachimaki}}: Maudlin borrows one for the fight with the pirate junk.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal
* HallOfMirrors: The ghost-hunter's magic box.
* HellHotel: Invoked - Scruff convinces Maudlin they're staying in one as a prank.
* HellishHorse: The dreaded [[IncrediblyLamePun manless horsehead]] of [[ShoutOut Sleepless Hallow]].
* HighClassGlass: Lord Hannover Haukin's monocle.
* HumansAreBastards
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Magellan, Count Flistagga.]]
* IneptMage: Wodehed. Not that he doesn't actually have magical abilities, but he can't use them with any consistency. He does get a great moment in the third book [[spoiler: by calling the Kraken.]]
* KindheartedCatLover: Queen Varicose.
* LivingShadow: On Dorma Island.
* LogicBomb: [[spoiler:The defeat of Cyclops.]]
* LovableCoward: Maudlin and occasionally Mawk.
* MagicMisfire: Wodehed keeps making these.
* JustLikeRobinHood: For the first trilogy.
* MasterSwordsman Foppington
* MinionShipping: Rosencrass and Guildenswine are married.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Torca Marda - a ShoutOut to Tomas de Torquemarda.
* OnlySmartPeopleMayPass: The clues the human children left behind.
* OurGhoulsAreCreepier
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: [[DownplayedTrope But quite close to the standard movie depiction]]. As a bonus, there seem to be 'were' variations on all the mammals.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent
* OurZombiesAreDifferent
* PerfectlyCromulentWord: Spinfer "smools" into a room. The narrator notes that "this is not a real word, but it describes the action perfectly."
* PetTheDog: Mayor Poynt is responsible for the refurbishment and reorganisation of BedlamHouse, after he's accidentally left to wake up there after an operation and sees what it's really like.
* RandomEventsPlot
* RecycledINSPACE: RobinHood and Franchise/SherlockHolmes WITH FURRIES, ''not'' made by Disney!
* RuleOfCool
* SdrawkcabName: Spindrick Sylver's pseudonym "Drickspin Revsly".
* SidetrackedByTheAnalogy: One of the anarchists ruins his threat to blow the city to Kingdom Come by pointing out that "Kingdom Go" would be more accurate, since "things aren't coming, they're going, right up in the air".
* ShoutOut: By the third book, they're coming at the rate of about two per page. Most obviously, the original Sylver is RobinHood and his descendant is Franchise/SherlockHolmes.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Rosencrass and Guildenswine, and both generations of the Herk and Bare lines.
* TotemPoleTrench: in Thunder Oak an trick was used unsuccessfully by nine ferrets in a human-sized suit of armor.
* ViewersAreGeniuses: How many of the preteen target audience are going to get references to ''{{Hamlet}}'', ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' and ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner''? And said target audience is too old for it to be a ParentalBonus ..
* WackyWaysideTribe
* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: Averted - there's a psychotic cult of hedgehogs, a brigand gang of moles, an evil zombie badger, and a murderous lemming. And the heroes are weasels, and there's a friendly and very civilised society of sewer rats.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: "Lillie" Longtree.
* WhosOnFirst: The unfortunate result of Spindrick's DayOfTheWeekName code-naming.
* WickedWeasel: Both played straight and averted; weasels are good, their close biological relatives stoats are bad.
* WorldOfPun: Puns nonstop.
* YourVampiresSuck: Directed at other vampires within the same world; it's noted that most of them can't cross running water, but Flistagga has trained himself out of that.
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A series of TalkingAnimal children's books by Garry Kilworth, which has been compared favourably to ''{{Redwall}}'' and is often read by the same target audience.
The series originally consisted of a trilogy, showcasing the adventures of the outlaw weasel Sylver and his band of followers as they battled against the unjust rule of the villainous stoat Prince Poynt and his corrupt sheriff Falshed, in a generically medieval milieu. Kilworth later [[TrilogyCreep wrote a second trilogy]], set in a Victorian-inspired era, about the descendants of four of the original band and some of their enemies.
The most obvious trope demonstrated in the books is the ShoutOut. Many, many references to popular culture are made, including movies, books, poems and RealLife English history.
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!!This series provides examples of:
* AffectionateParody: Of many, many things.
* AnachronismStew
* AndIMustScream: The fate of [[spoiler:Rosencrass and Guildenswine]].
* AmbiguouslyGay: Foppington in ''Castle Storm''. He not only speakth with a thlight lithp, but he also dresses flamboyantly. And though this is het, he also refers to a fellow grey squirrel (female) knight as "his little thauthage".
** Maudlin has the odd hint as well. On top of the way he interacts with Scruff, he spouts elaborate flowery poetry at the slightest provocation and is envious of the WholesomeCrossdresser. Also, while the original {{Dracula}} only attacked attractive young women, Flistagga is only seen to attack young males.
* {{Calvinball}}: Hollyhockers.
* CheerfulChild: Queen Varicose.
* ClockPunk[=/=]SteamPunk: William Jott, the steam-machine inventor, and Thomas Tempus Fugit, the clockwork inventor, are bitter rivals who constantly try to outdo each other, and their machines are all over the place.
* ClockTower: Maudlin and Scruff crash a hot air balloon into the clock tower Ringing Roger and end up dangling from the hands.
* DayOfTheWeekName: Spindrick's anarchist group use weekdays as code names, as a ShoutOut to ''TheManWhoWasThursday''.
* DirtyCoward: Mawk swings between this and LovableCoward.
* EvilAlbino: Prince Poynt is not an albino, but he keeps his ermine pelt all year round, so the visual effect is very similar.
* EvilCounterpart: Downplayed with Spindrick; he's more chaotic than actually evil.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture
** FarEast (Far Kathay.)
** TheDungAges (The first trilogy.)
** TheWildWest (Spindrick's journey in ''Heastward Ho!'')
** VictorianLondon (The second trilogy.)
* FantasyKitchenSink: Animated golem statues and sheep witches are the least of the oddball concepts incorporated into this series.
* FoodChains: Hunters' Hall.
* FurryConfusion: Mustelids and rats are sapient, mice and voles are not. Birds seem to vary.
* GargleBlaster: Honey dew.
* GenerationXerox
* {{Hachimaki}}: Maudlin borrows one for the fight with the pirate junk.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal
* HallOfMirrors: The ghost-hunter's magic box.
* HellHotel: Invoked - Scruff convinces Maudlin they're staying in one as a prank.
* HellishHorse: The dreaded [[IncrediblyLamePun manless horsehead]] of [[ShoutOut Sleepless Hallow]].
* HighClassGlass: Lord Hannover Haukin's monocle.
* HumansAreBastards
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Magellan, Count Flistagga.]]
* IneptMage: Wodehed. Not that he doesn't actually have magical abilities, but he can't use them with any consistency. He does get a great moment in the third book [[spoiler: by calling the Kraken.]]
* KindheartedCatLover: Queen Varicose.
* LivingShadow: On Dorma Island.
* LogicBomb: [[spoiler:The defeat of Cyclops.]]
* LovableCoward: Maudlin and occasionally Mawk.
* MagicMisfire: Wodehed keeps making these.
* JustLikeRobinHood: For the first trilogy.
* MasterSwordsman Foppington
* MinionShipping: Rosencrass and Guildenswine are married.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Torca Marda - a ShoutOut to Tomas de Torquemarda.
* OnlySmartPeopleMayPass: The clues the human children left behind.
* OurGhoulsAreCreepier
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: [[DownplayedTrope But quite close to the standard movie depiction]]. As a bonus, there seem to be 'were' variations on all the mammals.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent
* OurZombiesAreDifferent
* PerfectlyCromulentWord: Spinfer "smools" into a room. The narrator notes that "this is not a real word, but it describes the action perfectly."
* PetTheDog: Mayor Poynt is responsible for the refurbishment and reorganisation of BedlamHouse, after he's accidentally left to wake up there after an operation and sees what it's really like.
* RandomEventsPlot
* RecycledINSPACE: RobinHood and Franchise/SherlockHolmes WITH FURRIES, ''not'' made by Disney!
* RuleOfCool
* SdrawkcabName: Spindrick Sylver's pseudonym "Drickspin Revsly".
* SidetrackedByTheAnalogy: One of the anarchists ruins his threat to blow the city to Kingdom Come by pointing out that "Kingdom Go" would be more accurate, since "things aren't coming, they're going, right up in the air".
* ShoutOut: By the third book, they're coming at the rate of about two per page. Most obviously, the original Sylver is RobinHood and his descendant is Franchise/SherlockHolmes.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Rosencrass and Guildenswine, and both generations of the Herk and Bare lines.
* TotemPoleTrench: in Thunder Oak an trick was used unsuccessfully by nine ferrets in a human-sized suit of armor.
* ViewersAreGeniuses: How many of the preteen target audience are going to get references to ''{{Hamlet}}'', ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' and ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner''? And said target audience is too old for it to be a ParentalBonus ..
* WackyWaysideTribe
* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: Averted - there's a psychotic cult of hedgehogs, a brigand gang of moles, an evil zombie badger, and a murderous lemming. And the heroes are weasels, and there's a friendly and very civilised society of sewer rats.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: "Lillie" Longtree.
* WhosOnFirst: The unfortunate result of Spindrick's DayOfTheWeekName code-naming.
* WickedWeasel: Both played straight and averted; weasels are good, their close biological relatives stoats are bad.
* WorldOfPun: Puns nonstop.
* YourVampiresSuck: Directed at other vampires within the same world; it's noted that most of them can't cross running water, but Flistagga has trained himself out of that.
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