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* JerkassWoobie: Tiger may be prone to SmallNameBigEgo but you gotta feel for him with how Anansi manipulates him in the stories. [[KickTheSonOfABitch On the other hand...]]

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* JerkassWoobie: Tiger may be prone to SmallNameBigEgo but you gotta feel for him with how Anansi manipulates him in the stories. [[KickTheSonOfABitch On the other hand...]]
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* AngstWhatAngst? Nobody seems to care that Spider committed rape by fraud on Rosie.

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* AngstWhatAngst? AngstWhatAngst: Nobody seems to care that Spider committed rape by fraud on Rosie.
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* AngstWhatAngst? Nobody seems to care that Spider committed rape by fraud on Rosie.
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* UnfortunateImplications: Spider has sex with Rosie while pretending to be Charlie. This is considered to be rape by fraud. It is nevertheless portrayed as acceptable, and as an offense against Charlie rather than Rosie.

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* UnfortunateImplications: Spider has sex with Rosie while pretending to be Charlie. This is considered to be rape by fraud. It is nevertheless portrayed as acceptable, and as an offense against Charlie rather than Rosie.----
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* FridgeBrilliance: With TheReveal that Fat Charlie [[spoiler:also has some reality warping powers]], his exceptionally boring and unlucky life can be partly explained by [[spoiler:him subconsciously causing this to happen to him]].
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* TearJerker: Fat Charlie only realises that he's missing his father after having a dream about speaking to him. When he wakes up, he first believes that his father is still alive, then remembers the truth and starts crying.

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* TearJerker: Fat Charlie only realises that he's missing his father after having a dream about speaking to him. When he wakes up, he first believes that his father is still alive, then remembers the truth and starts crying.crying.
* UnfortunateImplications: Spider has sex with Rosie while pretending to be Charlie. This is considered to be rape by fraud. It is nevertheless portrayed as acceptable, and as an offense against Charlie rather than Rosie.
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* FridgeBrilliance: With TheReveal that Fat Charlie [[spoiler:also has some reality warping powers]], his exceptionally boring and unlucky life can be partly explained by [[spoiler:him subconsciously causing this to happen to him]].
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* NightmareFuel: Everything the Bird Woman does until the end, when she forgives Anansi's line and dances in joy to see them [[spoiler: defeat the Tiger, after humiliating him forever]].

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* NightmareFuel: Everything the Bird Woman does until the end, when she forgives Anansi's line and dances in joy to see them [[spoiler: defeat the Tiger, after humiliating him forever]].forever]].
* TearJerker: Fat Charlie only realises that he's missing his father after having a dream about speaking to him. When he wakes up, he first believes that his father is still alive, then remembers the truth and starts crying.
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* NightmareFuel: Everything the Bird Woman does.

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* NightmareFuel: Everything the Bird Woman does.does until the end, when she forgives Anansi's line and dances in joy to see them [[spoiler: defeat the Tiger, after humiliating him forever]].
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* EvenBetterSequel: A more-focused, better-paced novel than its [[Literature/AmericanGods immediate progenitor]], with a stronger cast, more-consistent tone, with none of the latter's baggage or pretension.

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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Near the end, Fat Charlie meets Dragon, who informs Fat Charlie that he's going to eat him. Fat Charlie tries to tell him he's afraid with his newfound god powers, but it doesn't work so Fat Charlie has to deceive him.
--->Dragon: "I am frightened of nothing.
--->Fat Charlie: "Nothing?"
--->Dragon: "Nothing."
--->Fat Charlie: "Are you extremely frightened of nothing?"
--->Dragon: "Absolutely terrified of it."
--->Fat Charlie:"I have nothing in my pockets. Would you like to see it?"
--->Dragon, uncomfortably: ''"No. No, I most definitely would not."
--->(Dragon flies away)
** Could be he's just the [[ThresholdGuardians guy Charlie has to overcome to show how good he is now]].

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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Near the end, Fat Charlie meets Dragon, who informs Fat Charlie that he's going to eat him. Fat Charlie tries to tell him he's afraid with his newfound god powers, but it doesn't work so Fat Charlie has to deceive him.
--->Dragon: "I am frightened of nothing.
--->Fat Charlie: "Nothing?"
--->Dragon: "Nothing."
--->Fat Charlie: "Are you extremely frightened of nothing?"
--->Dragon: "Absolutely terrified of it."
--->Fat Charlie:"I
him. This scene, while specifically beneficial to Charlie's character, as it shows him coming into his own as Anansi's son, doesn't really have nothing in my pockets. Would you like any rhyme or reason to see it?"
--->Dragon, uncomfortably: ''"No. No, I most definitely would not."
--->(Dragon flies away)
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it. Dragon was never mentioned before, nor is he mentioned again and by his description he seems to draw from European ideas for dragons rather than the [[ThresholdGuardians guy Charlie has African antagonists to overcome to show how good he is now]].this point: Tiger and the Bird Woman.

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* CompleteMonster - [[spoiler: Grahame Coats]] heads down this road pretty fast.



* NightmareFuel: Pretty much everything the Bird Woman does.

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* NightmareFuel: Pretty much everything Everything the Bird Woman does.
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* JerkassWoobie: Tiger may be prone to SmallNameBigEgo but you gotta feel for him with how Anansi manipulates him in the stories. [[KickTheSonOfABitch On the other hand...]]

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* JerkassWoobie: Tiger may be prone to SmallNameBigEgo but you gotta feel for him with how Anansi manipulates him in the stories. [[KickTheSonOfABitch On the other hand...]]]]
* NightmareFuel: Pretty much everything the Bird Woman does.
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** And Tiger was this from the beginning.
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* JerkassWoobie: Tiger may be prone to {{Ted Baxter}}ism but you gotta feel for him with how Anasi manipulates him in the stories. [[KickTheSonOfABitch On the other hand...]]

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* JerkassWoobie: Tiger may be prone to {{Ted Baxter}}ism SmallNameBigEgo but you gotta feel for him with how Anasi Anansi manipulates him in the stories. [[KickTheSonOfABitch On the other hand...]]
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* JerkassWoobie: Tiger may be prone to {{Ted Baxter}}ism but you gotta feel for him with how Anasi manipulates him in the stories.

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* JerkassWoobie: Tiger may be prone to {{Ted Baxter}}ism but you gotta feel for him with how Anasi manipulates him in the stories. [[KickTheSonOfABitch On the other hand...]]
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** And Tiger was this from the beginning.

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** And Tiger was this from the beginning.beginning.
* JerkassWoobie: Tiger may be prone to {{Ted Baxter}}ism but you gotta feel for him with how Anasi manipulates him in the stories.
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** And Tiger was this from the begining.

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** And Tiger was this from the begining.beginning.

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* CompleteMonster - [[spoiler: Grahame Coates]] heads down this road pretty fast.

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* CompleteMonster - [[spoiler: Grahame Coates]] Coats]] heads down this road pretty fast.fast.
** And Tiger was this from the begining.
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Dragon gave no indication that he was associated with Tiger. He just happened to be in Charlie\'s path when Charlie was looking for Tiger.


** Dragon is...TheDragon. Get it? Alternately, he's just the [[ThresholdGuardians guy Charlie has to overcome to show how good he is now]].

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** Dragon is...TheDragon. Get it? Alternately, Could be he's just the [[ThresholdGuardians guy Charlie has to overcome to show how good he is now]].
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** Dragon is...TheDragon. Get it? Alternately, he's just the [[ThresholdGuardians guy Charlie has to overcome to show how good he is now]].

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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Fat Charlie's interaction with a dragon.

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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Near the end, Fat Charlie's interaction Charlie meets Dragon, who informs Fat Charlie that he's going to eat him. Fat Charlie tries to tell him he's afraid with a dragon.his newfound god powers, but it doesn't work so Fat Charlie has to deceive him.



** [[spoiler: And then we never see that dragon again.]]
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Fat Charlie's interaction with a dragon.
--->Dragon: "I am frightened of nothing.
--->Fat Charlie: "Nothing?"
--->Dragon: "Nothing."
--->Fat Charlie: "Are you extremely frightened of nothing?"
--->Dragon: "Absolutely terrified of it."
--->Fat Charlie:"I have nothing in my pockets. Would you like to see it?"
--->Dragon, uncomfortably: ''"No. No, I most definitely would not."
--->(Dragon flies away)
**[[spoiler: And then we never see that dragon again.]]

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