History Trivia / Worm

** Taylor's Trigger Event? That actually happened to a girl that he was working with as a volunteer almost word for word. The only difference was that she wasn't locked in it.

* NamesTheSame: Despite both being dangerous creatures in darkness, Grue's cape name came from Old English, not the monster from ''VideoGame/{{Zork}}''.

* MarySue: {{Invoked}} in early drafts of the story, where Eidolon was a female character named "Mary Sue" to represent her status as the winner of the SuperpowerLottery.

* MeaningfulName: "Thomas" means "twin." [[spoiler: Coil's civilian identity is Thomas Calvert.]]

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Taylor's surname is spelled "Hebert," not "Herbert," and it's pronounced "heeb-ert." Half the fandom still seems to misspell it, mispronounce it, or both.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS and NoPronunciationGuide - Taylor's surname is spelled "Hebert," not "Herbert," and it's pronounced "heeb-ert." Half the fandom still seems to misspell it, mispronounce it, or both.

* FanNickname: Including some interesting cross-contamination between the story and the comments.
** In the same vein as "Scion", the commenters have dubbed the [[spoiler: "Thinker" entity]] "Eden" and [[spoiler: the third entity]] "Abaddon." "Eden" at least has been adopted by the creator via the character tags.
** Echidna's codename was proposed on the comments section way before an InUniverse character came up with it.
** The Simurgh's nickname of "the Smurf" originated from a somewhat confused character InUniverse who could not remember the official name. It immediately got adopted by the posters in the comments.
** The fans have begun using capslock when writing BEHEMOTH's name.
** The Slaughterhouse Nine [[spoiler: clone army]] that Bonesaw assembles is collectively referred to as the "Slaughterhouse Nine-Thousand," or "[=S9K=]" for short.
** Armsmaster has been termed "Halbeard" by the large fanfiction community on Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom after a detractor nickname by the VillainProtagonist of ''Fanfic/DireWorm''.
** Panacea also got the nickname "Panpan".
** Vicky is "Collateral Damage Barbie".

* MarySue: {{Invoked}} in early drafts of the story, where Eidolon was a female character named "Mary Sue" to represent her status as the winner of the SuperpowerLottery.
* MutuallyFictional:
** Weaver Dice is offhandedly mentioned in one chapter of {{Literature/Pact}} by Blake (Pact's main character). Maggie Holt (a secondary character in Pact) is the protagonist of a YA novel series in the Wormverse mentioned in Alexandria's Interlude. [[WordOfGod Given that both universes exist in the same multiverse,]] the implications are [[MindScrew interesting]].
** Within ''{{Literature/Twig}}'', both ''Worm'' and ''Pact'' are referenced in the form of dime store novels with the titles "Doll Man and the Revenge of the Swarm Queen," "Doll Man and the Song of the Moon," and "Barber John and the Dark Forest Monster" respectively.

** This is only made worse by the fact that the canon pronunciation [[CriticalResearchFailure is wrong.]] "Hebert" is a French name that is pronounced "ay-bear," but Wildbow seems to assume that the H is not silent.
*** This would indeed be the case IF the name had been French, and potentially even if it had been from the French-settled regions of the US(such as New Orleans). But Taylor is from Brockton Bay, in the North-East. Thus, her name is exactly as stated. Hee-bert.

* TheWikiRule: A fairly comprehensive wiki, though you need to be careful with checking the sources, exists [[http://parahumans.wikia.com/wiki/Worm_Web_Serial_Novel_Wiki Here.]]

* TheWikiRule: A fairly comprehensive wiki, though you need to be careful with checking the sources, exists [[http://parahumans.wikia.com/wiki/Worm_Web_Serial_Novel_Wiki Here.]]

* HerCodeNameWasMarySue: In early drafts of the story, Eidolon was a female character named "Mary Sue" to represent her status as the winner of the SuperpowerLottery.

* ShrugOfGod: Wildbow has suggested three different interpretations for the final epilogue: [[spoiler:[[SurprisinglyHappyEnding Taylor's alive with her father]], [[AllJustADream Taylor's in a coma]], or [[DeadAllAlong Taylor's dead and in the afterlife.]]]] He advises readers to take whichever interpretation they'd prefer.

* ShrugOfGod: Wildbow has suggested three different interpretations for the final epilogue: [[spoiler:[[SurprisinglyHappyEnding Taylor's alive with her father,]] [[AllJustADream Taylor's in a coma,]] or [[DeadAllAlong Taylor's dead and in the afterlife.]]]] He advises readers to take whichever interpretation they'd prefer.

* TheWikiRule: A wiki, though it has issues with claiming things that aren't canon, exists [[http://parahumans.wikia.com/wiki/Worm_Web_Serial_Novel_Wiki Here.]]

* TheWikiRule: A wiki, not very thorough at the moment, exists [[http://parahumans.wikia.com/wiki/Worm_Web_Serial_Novel_Wiki Here.]]

** Despite Worm being finished, Wildbow continues to answer questions about the story on some forums. Mostly, these are clarifications about disputed issues of Fanon.