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* DiagnosedByTheAudience: While Gwendolen's behavior is never attributed to anything more than extreme selfishness by the narrative, some readers have suggested that she is a malignant narcissist.
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* DiagnosisOfGod: Cat's social difficulties, tendency to get stuck on small details when stressed, his low stress threshold in general, his trouble reading others' emotions, and his frightened resistance to change all suggest he be autistic. Given the setting it's never fully clarified in-universe, but Diana Wynne Jones has said in interviews that he is on the spectrum.
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* DiagnosisOfGod: Cat's social difficulties, tendency to get stuck on small details when stressed, his low stress threshold in general, his trouble reading others' emotions, and his frightened resistance to change all suggest he be autistic. Given the setting it's never fully clarified in-universe, but Diana Wynne Jones has said in interviews that he is on the spectrum.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Most of the class bullies anyone who's suspected to be a witch. This can be attributed to FantasticRacism until [[spoiler: it's revealed that most of said bullies are witches, themselves, and know it]].
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* HarsherInHindsight: Most of the class in ''Witch Week'' bullies anyone who's suspected to be a witch. This can be attributed to FantasticRacism until [[spoiler: it's revealed that most of said bullies are witches, themselves, and know it]].
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* ValuesDissonance: Michael spanking Gwendolen with a boot and openly enjoying it, and Chrestomanci boxing Cat's ears hard for not stopping Gwendolen, who's dominated him his whole life, would be considered abusive by some nowadays, but maybe not in the 1970s when Charmed Life was written
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* ValuesDissonance: Michael spanking Gwendolen with a boot and openly enjoying it, and Chrestomanci boxing Cat's ears hard for not stopping Gwendolen, who's dominated him his whole life, would be considered abusive by some nowadays, but maybe not as much in the 1970s when Charmed Life ''Charmed Life'' was writtenwritten.
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* CrazyAwesome: Angelica Petrocchi. She would not be nearly as effective if she wasn't tone-deaf. She may not be actually nuts, but as Renata put it, she's a "back-to-front genius."
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* CrazyAwesome: CrazyIsCool: Angelica Petrocchi. She would not be nearly as effective if she wasn't tone-deaf. She may not be actually nuts, but as Renata put it, she's a "back-to-front genius."
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If this really is the Aesop — it's impossible to tell from lack of context — it's more of a bad Aesop than an uncomfortable-yet-true one.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: Some people, [[spoiler:like Gwendolen]] are born incurable sociopaths who despite being raised by loving, non-abusive parents [[spoiler:will become cold-blooded murderers while they're still children]]
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* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: some Some people, [[spoiler:like Gwendolen]] are born incurable sociopaths who despite being raised by loving, non-abusive parents [[spoiler:will become cold-blooded murderers while they're still children]]
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* ValuesDissonance: Michael spanking Gwendolen with a boot, for Christ's sake, and openly enjoying it, and Chrestomanci boxing Cat's ears hard for not stopping Gwendolen, who's dominated him his whole life, would be considered abusive by some nowadays, but maybe not in the 1970s when Charmed Life was written
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* ValuesDissonance: Michael spanking Gwendolen with a boot, for Christ's sake, boot and openly enjoying it, and Chrestomanci boxing Cat's ears hard for not stopping Gwendolen, who's dominated him his whole life, would be considered abusive by some nowadays, but maybe not in the 1970s when Charmed Life was written
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* UnfortunateImplications: Michael clearly enjoys spanking Gwendolen, an attractive pubescent girl, and says he's been "itching" for Chrestomanci to allow him to. Which to this troper has creepy undertones of sexual sadism and hebephilia.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Is it just me, or did [[spoiler:Chrestomanci (and Millie, Michael, the rest of the staff) do a terrible job handling Gwendolen and Cat?]]
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* AdultsAreUseless: Is it just me, or did [[spoiler:Chrestomanci (and Millie, Michael, the rest of the staff) do a terrible job handling Gwendolen and Cat?]]
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FridgeHorror: The fates of the Living Asheths that Mother Proudfoot wasn't able to rescue.
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* ValuesDissonance: Michael spanking Gwendolen with a boot, for Christ's sake, and openly enjoying it, and Chrestomanci boxing Cat's ears hard for not stopping Gwendolen, who's dominated him his whole life, would be considered abusive by some nowadays, but maybe not in the 1970s when Charmed Life was written
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* FridgeHorror: The fates of the Living Asheths that Mother Proudfoot wasn't able to rescue.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: some people, [[spoiler:like Gwendolen]] are born incurable sociopaths who despite being raised by loving, non-abusive parents [[spoiler:will become cold-blooded murderers while they're still children]]
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FridgeHorror: The fates of the Living Asheths that Mother Proudfoot wasn't able to rescue.
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* UnfortunateImplications: Michael clearly enjoys spanking Gwendolen, an attractive pubescent girl, and says he's been "itching" for Chrestomanci to allow him to. Which to this troper has creepy undertones of sexual sadism and hebephilia.
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* JerkassWoobie: Christopher in ''The Lives of Christopher Chant''. [[spoiler: You have to feel sorry for him when he is neglected by his own parents and his entire life is planned out after he is outed as a nine-lived enchanter. But his taking his frustration out on the people who are only trying to make him feel welcome in the Castle is a jerkass move.]]
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** In ''The Pinhoe Egg'', Marianne's father and uncles cross it when it's revealed that, rather than [[spoiler:kill their father under their mother's orders when he starts getting too uppity]], they [[spoiler:merely crippled his legs and imprisoned him in a pocket dimension in the woods behind his house for ''eight years'']]. They felt it was kinder.
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** In ''The Pinhoe Egg'', Marianne's father and uncles cross it when it's revealed that, rather than [[spoiler:kill their father under their mother's orders when he starts getting too uppity]], they [[spoiler:merely [[spoiler: merely crippled his legs and imprisoned him in a pocket dimension in the woods behind his house for ''eight years'']]. They felt it was kinder.kinder.
* OfficialCouple: Millie and Christopher. [[spoiler: They are shown to be married in ''Charmed Life'', and ''The Lives of Christopher Chant'' and ''Conrad's Fate'' detail how they met and fell in love.]]
* OfficialCouple: Millie and Christopher. [[spoiler: They are shown to be married in ''Charmed Life'', and ''The Lives of Christopher Chant'' and ''Conrad's Fate'' detail how they met and fell in love.]]
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* FridgeHorror: The fates of the Living Asheths that Mother Proudfoot wasn't able to rescue.
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** In ''The Pinhoe Egg'', Marianne's father and uncles cross it when it's revealed that, rather than [[spoiler:kill their father under their mother's orders when he starts getting too uppity]], they [[spoiler:merely crippled his legs and imprisoned him in a pocket dimension in the woods behind his house for ''eight years'']]. They felt it was kinder.kinder.
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* CanonSue: Cat post ''Charmed Life''. His CharacterDevelopment works a bit too well and by the time ''The Pinhoe Egg'' is over, he becomes pretty Sue-ish. He's the most powerful magic user in all the multiverse, good at almost everything he tries and liked by everyone he meets who isn't evil.
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** In ''The Pinhoe Egg'', Marianne's father and uncles cross it when it's revealed that, rather than [[spoiler:kill their father under their mother's orders when he starts getting too uppity]], they [[spoiler:merely crippled his legs and imprisoned him in a pocket dimension in the woods behind his house for ''eight years'']]. They felt it was kinder.
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* CanonSue: Cat post ''Charmed Life''. His CharacterDevelopment works a bit too well and by the time ''The Pinhoe Egg'' is over, he becomes pretty Sue-ish. He's the most powerful magic user in all the multiverse, good at almost everything he tries and liked by everyone he meets who isn't evil.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Most of the class bullies anyone who's suspected to be a witch. This can be attributed to FantasticRacism until [[spoiler: it's revealed that most of said bullies are witches, themselves, and know it.]]
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* CrazyAwesome: Angelica Petrocchi. She would not be nearly as effective if she wasn't tone-deaf. She may not be actually nuts, but as Renata put it, she's a "back-to-front genius."
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** In ''The Pinhoe Egg'', Marianne's father and uncles cross it when it's revealed that, rather than [[spoiler:kill their father under their mother's orders when he starts getting too uppity]], they [[spoiler:merely crippled his legs and imprisoned him in a pocket dimension in the woods behind his house for ''eight years'']]. They felt it was kinder.
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** In ''The Pinhoe Egg'', Marianne's uncles cross it when it's revealed that, rather than [[spoiler:kill their father under their mother's orders when he starts getting too uppity]], they [[spoiler:merely crippled his legs and imprisoned him in a pocket dimension in the woods behind his house for ''eight years'']]. They felt it was kinder.
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: ''This knitting - is really two little caretaker's dogs.''
** Pretty much anything Simon does during the Simon Says spell.
** Pretty much anything Simon does during the Simon Says spell.