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* AcceptableTargets: New Jersey.
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** Garcia, the latest recruit of the Believers, is a SerialKiller with a habit of kidnapping prostitutes, murdering them, and then using their bones for art projects - including the twisted sculpture of the Black Angel itself. It's also implied that before coming to America, he did even worse.
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** Garcia, the latest recruit of the Believers, is a SerialKiller with a habit of kidnapping prostitutes, murdering them, and then using their bones for art projects - including the twisted sculpture {{sculpture|s}} of the Black Angel itself. It's also implied that before coming to America, he did even worse.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: Connolly seemed to regret [[spoiler: implying that Parker might be a fallen angel]], and spent a few books avoiding the subject having clearly written himself into a corner. ''The Wrath of Angels'' has Parker finally face up to the possibility that Brightwell may have been correct, only for the ending to prove him wrong, [[spoiler: making Parker human all along.]] (Supposedly, it leaves room for speculation.)
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* AluminiumChristmasTrees: [[http://www.greatlostbear.com/ The Great Lost Bear]], the bar Parker works at from time to time, is a real place. Connolly gave away signed Great Lost Bear bumper stickers with signed copies of the Burning Soul.
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*CompleteMonster: Both from ''The Black Angel'':
** Garcia, the latest recruit of the Believers, is a SerialKiller with a habit of kidnapping prostitutes, murdering them, and then using their bones for art projects - including the twisted sculpture of the Black Angel itself. It's also implied that before coming to America, he did even worse.
** Brightwell is the immortal second-in-command of the Believers, who assists Garcia in the worst of his exploits while also going about much of the Black Angel's dirty work across the centuries: murder, torture, brutal assaults upon defenseless monks and a host of other offenses. For good measure, he has a nasty habit of consuming the souls of his victims and adding them to "the great chorus within..."
** Garcia, the latest recruit of the Believers, is a SerialKiller with a habit of kidnapping prostitutes, murdering them, and then using their bones for art projects - including the twisted sculpture of the Black Angel itself. It's also implied that before coming to America, he did even worse.
** Brightwell is the immortal second-in-command of the Believers, who assists Garcia in the worst of his exploits while also going about much of the Black Angel's dirty work across the centuries: murder, torture, brutal assaults upon defenseless monks and a host of other offenses. For good measure, he has a nasty habit of consuming the souls of his victims and adding them to "the great chorus within..."
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* MomentOfAwesome: The end of ''The White Road'', [[spoiler: which is written and framed in such a way that it seems that Angel and Louis are about to kill Faulkner, with the narration in the third person. Then the narration switches to the first-person and it's revealed that Parker was in fact there all along and had been the one describing the events, right as the three of them shoot the preacher in the head.]]
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* SoOkayItsAverage: to be expected at some point in a long running novel series, many of the books get this reaction. In particular, any book between ''The Black Angel'' and ''The Wolf in Winter''.
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* SoOkayItsAverage: to To be expected at some point in a long running novel series, many of the books get this reaction. In particular, any book between ''The Black Angel'' and ''The Wrath of Angels'' might get this reaction depending on who you ask, though from ''The Wolf in Winter''.Winter'' onward the reception has become almost universally positive again.
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* UglyCute: Probably Angel.
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* UglyCute: Probably Angel.
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* MagnumOpus / ToughActToFollow: Most people regard ''The Black Angel'' as the best in the series, and have been disappointed by everything that has followed it. Connolly is aware of this, [[WordOfGod stating]] at the launch of ''The Wolf in Winter'' in Dublin's Smock Alley Theatre that he is constantly asked "When are you going to write another ''Black Angel''?", the answer being that he just doesn't want to. Interestingly, ''The Wolf in Winter'' is easily the first book in the series to rival ''The Black Angel'' in critical and fan response, and will itself be a ToughActToFollow.
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* ChaoticGood: Parker.
* ChaoticNeutral: Louis, who needs Angel's influence to keep him on the right path.
* ChaoticNeutral: Louis, who needs Angel's influence to keep him on the right path.
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* LawfulGood: Walter Cole, effectively contrasted with ChaoticGood Parker. The police in general are portrayed this way, when they're not [[DirtyCop dirty cops]].
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* NeutralGood: Angel, although he slips up every now and again in an example of OOCIsSeriousBusiness.
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* CompleteMonster: The Travelling Man, Faulkner, Brightwell, Blue... many of the antagonists fall under this, due to the good vs evil nature of the series.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotMadeOnDrugs: The series goes from a fairly normal mystery novel about a detective who happens to be able to see ghosts sometimes, to a novel where [[spoilers: the main antagonists are ''actual honest-to-goodness fallen angels'', who believe that the protagonist is also one of them.]] The fact that the books get a lot tamer straight after this, and eventually go on to refute a lot of the more insane events of earlier books, only serves to highlight how complete bonkers ''The Black Angel'' is. However, this is definitely a case of TropesAreNotBad, as ''The Black Angel'' is probably the most popular book in the series.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasNotMadeOnDrugs: The series goes from a fairly normal mystery novel about a detective who happens to be able to see ghosts sometimes, to a novel where [[spoilers: the main antagonists are ''actual honest-to-goodness fallen angels'', who believe that the protagonist is also one of them.]] The fact that the books get a lot tamer straight after this, and eventually go on to refute a lot of the more insane events of earlier books, only serves to highlight how complete bonkers ''The Black Angel'' is. However, this is definitely a case of TropesAreNotBad, as ''The Black Angel'' is probably the most popular book in the series.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasNotMadeOnDrugs: WhatDoYouMeanItsNotMadeOnDrugs: The series goes from a fairly normal mystery novel about a detective who happens to be able to see ghosts sometimes, to a novel where [[spoilers: the main antagonists are ''actual honest-to-goodness fallen angels'', who believe that the protagonist is also one of them.]] The fact that the books get a lot tamer straight after this, and eventually go on to refute a lot of the more insane events of earlier books, only serves to highlight how complete bonkers ''The Black Angel'' is. However, this is definitely a case of TropesAreNotBad, as ''The Black Angel'' is probably the most popular book in the series.
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* MagnumOpus/ToughActToFollow: Most people regard ''The Black Angel'' as the best in the series, and have been disappointed by everything that has followed it. Connolly is aware of this, [[WordOfGod stating]] at the launch of ''The Wolf in Winter'' in Dublin's Smock Alley Theatre that he is constantly asked "When are you going to write another ''Black Angel''?", the answer being that he just doesn't want to. Interestingly, ''The Wolf in Winter'' is easily the first book in the series to rival ''The Black Angel'' in critical and fan response, and will itself be a ToughActToFollow.
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* MagnumOpus/ToughActToFollow: MagnumOpus / ToughActToFollow: Most people regard ''The Black Angel'' as the best in the series, and have been disappointed by everything that has followed it. Connolly is aware of this, [[WordOfGod stating]] at the launch of ''The Wolf in Winter'' in Dublin's Smock Alley Theatre that he is constantly asked "When are you going to write another ''Black Angel''?", the answer being that he just doesn't want to. Interestingly, ''The Wolf in Winter'' is easily the first book in the series to rival ''The Black Angel'' in critical and fan response, and will itself be a ToughActToFollow.
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* AcceptableTargets: New Jersey.
* AuthorsSavingThrow: Connolly seemed to regret [[spoiler: implying that Parker might be a fallen angel]], and spent a few books avoiding the subject having clearly written himself into a corner. ''The Wrath of Angels'' has Parker finally face up to the possibility that Brightwell may have been correct, only for the ending to prove him wrong, [[spoiler: making Parker human all along.]] (Supposedly, it leaves room for speculation.)
* AuthorsSavingThrow: Connolly seemed to regret [[spoiler: implying that Parker might be a fallen angel]], and spent a few books avoiding the subject having clearly written himself into a corner. ''The Wrath of Angels'' has Parker finally face up to the possibility that Brightwell may have been correct, only for the ending to prove him wrong, [[spoiler: making Parker human all along.]] (Supposedly, it leaves room for speculation.)
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* ChaoticGood: ParkerParker.
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* IronWoobie: Angel, with Louis' help.
* LawfulGood: Walter Cole, effectively contrasted with ChaoticGood Parker. The police in general are portrayed this way, when they're not [[DirtyCop dirty cops]].
* MagnumOpus/ToughActToFollow: Most people regard ''The Black Angel'' as the best in the series, and have been disappointed by everything that has followed it. Connolly is aware of this, [[WordOfGod stating]] at the launch of ''The Wolf in Winter'' in Dublin's Smock Alley Theatre that he is constantly asked "When are you going to write another ''Black Angel''?", the answer being that he just doesn't want to. Interestingly, ''The Wolf in Winter'' is easily the first book in the series to rival ''The Black Angel'' in critical and fan response, and will itself be a ToughActToFollow.
* MomentOfAwesome: The end of ''The White Road'', [[spoiler: which is written and framed in such a way that it seems that Angel and Louis are about to kill Faulkner, with the narration in the third person. Then the narration switches to the first-person and it's revealed that Parker was in fact there all along and had been the one describing the events, right as the three of them shoot the preacher in the head.]]
* NeutralGood: Angel, although he slips up every now and again in an example of OOCIsSeriousBusiness.
* LawfulGood: Walter Cole, effectively contrasted with ChaoticGood Parker. The police in general are portrayed this way, when they're not [[DirtyCop dirty cops]].
* MagnumOpus/ToughActToFollow: Most people regard ''The Black Angel'' as the best in the series, and have been disappointed by everything that has followed it. Connolly is aware of this, [[WordOfGod stating]] at the launch of ''The Wolf in Winter'' in Dublin's Smock Alley Theatre that he is constantly asked "When are you going to write another ''Black Angel''?", the answer being that he just doesn't want to. Interestingly, ''The Wolf in Winter'' is easily the first book in the series to rival ''The Black Angel'' in critical and fan response, and will itself be a ToughActToFollow.
* MomentOfAwesome: The end of ''The White Road'', [[spoiler: which is written and framed in such a way that it seems that Angel and Louis are about to kill Faulkner, with the narration in the third person. Then the narration switches to the first-person and it's revealed that Parker was in fact there all along and had been the one describing the events, right as the three of them shoot the preacher in the head.]]
* NeutralGood: Angel, although he slips up every now and again in an example of OOCIsSeriousBusiness.
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* OneSceneWonder: The English theologian in ''The Wolf in Winter''.
* SoOkayItsAverage: to be expected at some point in a long running novel series, many of the books get this reaction. In particular, any book between ''The Black Angel'' and ''The Wolf in Winter''.
* StoicWoobie: Of all people, Louis.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: many of the characters who are introduced only to be killed off a few chapters - or even pages - later can fall into this, thanks to the work Connolly puts in to giving each and every one of them a unique personality and background.
* UglyCute: ProbablyAngel.Angel.
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasNotMadeOnDrugs: The series goes from a fairly normal mystery novel about a detective who happens to be able to see ghosts sometimes, to a novel where [[spoilers: the main antagonists are ''actual honest-to-goodness fallen angels'', who believe that the protagonist is also one of them.]] The fact that the books get a lot tamer straight after this, and eventually go on to refute a lot of the more insane events of earlier books, only serves to highlight how complete bonkers ''The Black Angel'' is. However, this is definitely a case of TropesAreNotBad, as ''The Black Angel'' is probably the most popular book in the series.
* SoOkayItsAverage: to be expected at some point in a long running novel series, many of the books get this reaction. In particular, any book between ''The Black Angel'' and ''The Wolf in Winter''.
* StoicWoobie: Of all people, Louis.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: many of the characters who are introduced only to be killed off a few chapters - or even pages - later can fall into this, thanks to the work Connolly puts in to giving each and every one of them a unique personality and background.
* UglyCute: Probably
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasNotMadeOnDrugs: The series goes from a fairly normal mystery novel about a detective who happens to be able to see ghosts sometimes, to a novel where [[spoilers: the main antagonists are ''actual honest-to-goodness fallen angels'', who believe that the protagonist is also one of them.]] The fact that the books get a lot tamer straight after this, and eventually go on to refute a lot of the more insane events of earlier books, only serves to highlight how complete bonkers ''The Black Angel'' is. However, this is definitely a case of TropesAreNotBad, as ''The Black Angel'' is probably the most popular book in the series.
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* ChaoticGood: Parker
* ChaoticNeutral: Louis, who needs Angel's influence to keep him on the right path.
* CompleteMonster: The Travelling Man, Faulkner, Brightwell, Blue... many of the antagonists fall under this, due to the good vs evil nature of the series.
* ChaoticNeutral: Louis, who needs Angel's influence to keep him on the right path.
* CompleteMonster: The Travelling Man, Faulkner, Brightwell, Blue... many of the antagonists fall under this, due to the good vs evil nature of the series.
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* BadassDecay: Angel, from ''The Killing Kind'' onwards.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Louis and Angel, enough to get their own book. The Collector as well.
* NightmareFuel: So much so that John Connolly has stated that if he could go back and write the first few books again, the first change he'd make would be to tone down the horror. Particularly the infant deaths and the details of what The Travelling Man does to his victims.
** Later books are still pretty horrifying. The entire town of Prosperous in ''The Wolf in Winter'', for example.
* UglyCute: Probably Angel.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Louis and Angel, enough to get their own book. The Collector as well.
* NightmareFuel: So much so that John Connolly has stated that if he could go back and write the first few books again, the first change he'd make would be to tone down the horror. Particularly the infant deaths and the details of what The Travelling Man does to his victims.
** Later books are still pretty horrifying. The entire town of Prosperous in ''The Wolf in Winter'', for example.
* UglyCute: Probably Angel.
