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* ToughActToFollow: Every songs in the sequels will have to live up to "Love Me Like You Do", as evidence by the significantly less successful sales of "I Don't Want To Live Forever".
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** Everysongs song in the sequels will have to live up to "Love Me Like You Do", as evidence by the significantly less successful sales of "I Don't Want To Live Forever".Forever".
** E.L. James's first non-''Fifty Shades'' novel, ''The Mister'', hasn't been nearly the success that her earlier books were. Not only were the critical reviews mostly poor, but sales-wise ''The Mister'' dropped off the New York Times bestseller list much quicker than any of her other novels.
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** E.L. James's first non-''Fifty Shades'' novel, ''The Mister'', hasn't been nearly the success that her earlier books were. Not only were the critical reviews mostly poor, but sales-wise ''The Mister'' dropped off the New York Times bestseller list much quicker than any of her other novels.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
** Many people view Christian as being an [[DomesticAbuser abusive]] [[StalkerWithACrush stalker]] who doesn't truly care about Ana, using her feelings for him and naivety to [[ManipulativeBastard manipulate or coerce her]] into doing whatever [[ItsAllAboutMe he wants]].
** Some people think Ana's supposed love for Christian is actually just [[LovingAShadow infatuation which she mistakes for love]] due to her naivety and poor self-esteem.
** Due to her often rather glowing and detailed descriptions of attractive women, including (but certainly not limited to) Christian's sister Mia, Dr Flynn's wife Rhian and especially [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship her roommate Kate]], a few readers believe Ana is actually AmbiguouslyBi.
** Some readers have diagnosed Christian with a number of [[AmbiguousDisorder personality disorders]], in particular Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Symptoms of NPD that Christian displays include:
*** Disregarding the feelings and wants of others
*** A willingness to manipulate or coerce others to get what they want
*** A sense of entitlement and strong desire for attention/admiration
*** Expecting special favors or complete compliance with their demands
*** Belittling or avoiding people they see as beneath them
*** Insisting on having the best of everything
*** Displaying an arrogant, aloof and haughty attitude
** Did Jack Hyde hire Ana on at SIP because he genuinely thought she was the best candidate (even though she's fresh out of university with no experience), or was it because he found her attractive and thought she'd make an easy target?
** Christian blames the trauma of his early childhood as being the cause of most of his [[SingleIssuePsychology psychological issues]], but many readers think that the much more recent trauma of being '[[QuestionableConsent seduced]]' by a trusted family friend when he was a vulnerable and unstable teenager arguably did far more damage to his psyche. Christian admits to barely remembering his early childhood, while his 'relationship' with Elena started when he was just 15 and ended when he was 21, around six to seven years before the beginning of the trilogy. He learnt his questionable methods of domming and unhealthy relationship values from Elena, later claiming he never thought anything they did together was wrong and that Elena 'saved' him. He's still in regular contact with Elena, even regarding her as his [[OnlyFriend only true friend]], so she is still continuing to have a great deal of influence over his life.
** Many people view Christian as being an [[DomesticAbuser abusive]] [[StalkerWithACrush stalker]] who doesn't truly care about Ana, using her feelings for him and naivety to [[ManipulativeBastard manipulate or coerce her]] into doing whatever [[ItsAllAboutMe he wants]].
** Some people think Ana's supposed love for Christian is actually just [[LovingAShadow infatuation which she mistakes for love]] due to her naivety and poor self-esteem.
** Due to her often rather glowing and detailed descriptions of attractive women, including (but certainly not limited to) Christian's sister Mia, Dr Flynn's wife Rhian and especially [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship her roommate Kate]], a few readers believe Ana is actually AmbiguouslyBi.
** Some readers have diagnosed Christian with a number of [[AmbiguousDisorder personality disorders]], in particular Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Symptoms of NPD that Christian displays include:
*** Disregarding the feelings and wants of others
*** A willingness to manipulate or coerce others to get what they want
*** A sense of entitlement and strong desire for attention/admiration
*** Expecting special favors or complete compliance with their demands
*** Belittling or avoiding people they see as beneath them
*** Insisting on having the best of everything
*** Displaying an arrogant, aloof and haughty attitude
** Did Jack Hyde hire Ana on at SIP because he genuinely thought she was the best candidate (even though she's fresh out of university with no experience), or was it because he found her attractive and thought she'd make an easy target?
** Christian blames the trauma of his early childhood as being the cause of most of his [[SingleIssuePsychology psychological issues]], but many readers think that the much more recent trauma of being '[[QuestionableConsent seduced]]' by a trusted family friend when he was a vulnerable and unstable teenager arguably did far more damage to his psyche. Christian admits to barely remembering his early childhood, while his 'relationship' with Elena started when he was just 15 and ended when he was 21, around six to seven years before the beginning of the trilogy. He learnt his questionable methods of domming and unhealthy relationship values from Elena, later claiming he never thought anything they did together was wrong and that Elena 'saved' him. He's still in regular contact with Elena, even regarding her as his [[OnlyFriend only true friend]], so she is still continuing to have a great deal of influence over his life.
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* ArcFatigue: The plotline involving Leila stalking Ana in ''Fifty Shades Darker'' starts to show signs of this. It lasts nearly the entire book (which is over 500 pages long) and yet nothing truly significant happens with it until the last third, when Leila unexpectedly shows up at Ana's apartment with a gun. It doesn't help that it has pretty much [[TrappedByMountainLions no impact on the story in the next book]] and that the situation [[IdiotPlot could've been resolved early on]] if Ana and Christian had just called the police, instead of trying and miserably failing to deal with the problem themselves.
* AssPull: Elena's ex-husband being the one who paid [[spoiler: Jack Hyde's]] bail near the end of the third book, thus allowing him to [[spoiler: kidnap Mia and ransom her to Ana]]. Beyond a vague mention in the second book, he'd barely been featured as a character and his grudge against Christian wasn't well established, and so the PlotTwist came virtually out-of-nowhere.
* AuthorsSavingThrow:
** In ''Fifty Shades Freed'', Ana finally starts [[GrewASpine standing up to Christian]], recognizes a lot of his behavior as harmful and immature, and [[WhatTheHellHero calls him out on it]]. The fact that Christian never really changes (that we see in-story) and Ana apparently just accepts it undermines this, but it was good while it lasted.
** When the first book was adapted into film, they cut a lot of the book's more {{Narm}}y lines and questionable content, such as the infamous tampon scene. The director did try to make more changes, but unfortunately E.L James vetoed a lot of them, ultimately leading to her leaving the franchise.
* AssPull: Elena's ex-husband being the one who paid [[spoiler: Jack Hyde's]] bail near the end of the third book, thus allowing him to [[spoiler: kidnap Mia and ransom her to Ana]]. Beyond a vague mention in the second book, he'd barely been featured as a character and his grudge against Christian wasn't well established, and so the PlotTwist came virtually out-of-nowhere.
* AuthorsSavingThrow:
** In ''Fifty Shades Freed'', Ana finally starts [[GrewASpine standing up to Christian]], recognizes a lot of his behavior as harmful and immature, and [[WhatTheHellHero calls him out on it]]. The fact that Christian never really changes (that we see in-story) and Ana apparently just accepts it undermines this, but it was good while it lasted.
** When the first book was adapted into film, they cut a lot of the book's more {{Narm}}y lines and questionable content, such as the infamous tampon scene. The director did try to make more changes, but unfortunately E.L James vetoed a lot of them, ultimately leading to her leaving the franchise.
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* ClicheStorm: Taking away the BDSM, the main plot of Ana and Christian's relationship is a very common and stereotypical romance plot – naive, virginal everygirl who doesn't realize how pretty she is meets a moody, hot rich guy, who is charmed by her purity and innocence. He provides her with a sexual awakening while she heals him with the Power of Magic Vagina...er, I mean, [[ThePowerOfLove Love]]. Oh and he's got an evil ex who is far more sexually experienced and aggressive than the heroine and tries to break them up. The ending even features [[spoiler: Ana and Christian being married, wealthy and having a son and daughter]], which is practically the ultimate romance cliche.
* CriticProof: Despite being generally negatively regarded by critics, the books had sold 125 million copies worldwide by the middle of 2015 and the first book is one of the fastest selling paperbacks in the UK ever; likewise, the first film made $571 million at the box office (against a budget of $40 million) and is the fourth-highest grossing romance film of all time.
* DesignatedHero: [[BastardBoyfriend Christian]] is viewed as such by several readers. To give it context, some people feel that the only major difference between Christian and [[BigBad Jack Hyde]] (a manipulative sexual predator and stalker) is that the plot presents Christian as being the 'good guy'.
* DesignatedVillain: Gia the architect in ''Fifty Shades Freed''. She's supposed to be more of a HateSink than a villain, but either way Ana views her as being a "slutty" bitch who is out to steal Christian from her, or Elliot from her friend Kate. In the book itself, however, the worst thing Gia does is lightly touch Christian's arm (which he makes no comment on) and hug Elliot (whom she's established to be good friends with), and she otherwise doesn't do anything wrong; in fact, Ana seems to be the only character who has a problem with her (thus having the effect of [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic making Ana look painfully insecure, jealous and paranoid]]).
* EscapistCharacter: Ana Steele. Rather like Bella Swan, of whom she's an {{Expy}}, she's not a very complex character and can easily become an AudienceSurrogate to help readers imagine they're living out the fantasy of having kinky sex with a handsome billionaire and being spoiled by him.
* CriticProof: Despite being generally negatively regarded by critics, the books had sold 125 million copies worldwide by the middle of 2015 and the first book is one of the fastest selling paperbacks in the UK ever; likewise, the first film made $571 million at the box office (against a budget of $40 million) and is the fourth-highest grossing romance film of all time.
* DesignatedHero: [[BastardBoyfriend Christian]] is viewed as such by several readers. To give it context, some people feel that the only major difference between Christian and [[BigBad Jack Hyde]] (a manipulative sexual predator and stalker) is that the plot presents Christian as being the 'good guy'.
* DesignatedVillain: Gia the architect in ''Fifty Shades Freed''. She's supposed to be more of a HateSink than a villain, but either way Ana views her as being a "slutty" bitch who is out to steal Christian from her, or Elliot from her friend Kate. In the book itself, however, the worst thing Gia does is lightly touch Christian's arm (which he makes no comment on) and hug Elliot (whom she's established to be good friends with), and she otherwise doesn't do anything wrong; in fact, Ana seems to be the only character who has a problem with her (thus having the effect of [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic making Ana look painfully insecure, jealous and paranoid]]).
* EscapistCharacter: Ana Steele. Rather like Bella Swan, of whom she's an {{Expy}}, she's not a very complex character and can easily become an AudienceSurrogate to help readers imagine they're living out the fantasy of having kinky sex with a handsome billionaire and being spoiled by him.
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* SnarkBait: Boy howdy. This series arguably attracts even ''more'' snark than parent series ''Twilight'' for many reasons, including the {{Narm}}, questionable writing, poor editing, the fact it's rather obviously a ''Twilight'' fanfiction with the SerialNumbersFiledOff, and the fact that the male romantic lead can come across as a ''Series/CriminalMinds'' Unsub with all his stalker-y behavior and creepy comments (which can be traced back to [[SingleIssuePsychology a childhood trauma]]).
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* HypeBacklash: At the time of its publication, the trilogy was hyped up as being a boundary-pushing and risque erotic romance, heavily involving BDSM, which was rarely featured in mainstream romance. While it did make BDSM more visible in the mainstream, some readers felt the trilogy's content was actually pretty tame and [[CriticalResearchFailure inaccurately depicted BDSM]]...to say nothing of the controversy surrounding the way Ana and Christian's relationship [[RomanticizedAbuse can come off]] and the iffy writing.
* MemeticMutation:
** If Christian lived in a trailer, this would be an episode of ''Criminal Minds'' [[labelnote:Explanation]] Critics of the series have been known to state that Christian's stalking and highly controlling behavior are only perceived as sexy because he's wealthy and attractive, and that if he were a more 'normal' seeming guy, he'd come off as a serial killer. His FreudianExcuse is also very similar to the {{Freudian Excuse}}s of various Unsubs featured on ''Series/CriminalMinds'' (just substitute 'beating and shagging women who remind me of my neglectful birth mother' for 'maiming and killing women who remind me of my neglectful birth mother' etc). [[/labelnote]]
** Still a better love story than...oh, wait. [[labelnote:Explanation]] A popular ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' meme is that {{Crack Pairing}}s or romances perceived as badly written are still "better love stories than ''Twilight''". However, ''Fifty Shades of Grey'' is actually [[AscendedFanfic directly based upon]] ''Twilight''; some people also consider Ana and Christian's relationship to be worse in every way than Bella and Edward's. [[/labelnote]]
** My desires are...unconventional [[labelnote:Explanation]] Christian says this to Ana before revealing he's into BDSM; people like to have his 'unconventional desires' be revealed as something else, such as being obsessed with ''My Little Pony'', or hobbits. In turn, this has led to meme-makers applying the line and Ana's response of "Show me" to other fictional characters or occasionally even real people.[[/labelnote]]
** Fifty Shades of X [[labelnote:Explanation]] Applying the title ''Fifty of Shades of [insert name]'' to other pairings, often {{crack pairing}}s, especially if torture and/or imprisonment in involved. A popular one crossing over with ''Series/GameOfThrones'' is ''Fifty Shades of Greyjoy'', due to Theon Greyjoy spending most of Season 3 imprisoned in Ramsay Snow's dungeon and becoming his slave. [[/labelnote]]
* ProtectionFromEditors: It makes sense that the original story, ''Master of the Universe'', would have some spelling and grammatical errors, as well as several [[CriticalResearchFailure research errors]], as fanfictions usually aren't looked at by a formal editor. However, once they had the SerialNumbersFiledOff and properly published the books, many of these errors were actually left in. It almost makes one wonder if the books had an editor at all...and the according to James's acknowledgements, they ''did''. And this is actually case where it was the author's first published novel seemingly getting this treatment. The same can definitely be said of the film adaptations after the books proved to be bestsellers, with James being given a surprising amount of creative control and vetoing several proposed changes (which actually led to the director of the first film quitting after it was finished).
* MemeticMutation:
** If Christian lived in a trailer, this would be an episode of ''Criminal Minds'' [[labelnote:Explanation]] Critics of the series have been known to state that Christian's stalking and highly controlling behavior are only perceived as sexy because he's wealthy and attractive, and that if he were a more 'normal' seeming guy, he'd come off as a serial killer. His FreudianExcuse is also very similar to the {{Freudian Excuse}}s of various Unsubs featured on ''Series/CriminalMinds'' (just substitute 'beating and shagging women who remind me of my neglectful birth mother' for 'maiming and killing women who remind me of my neglectful birth mother' etc). [[/labelnote]]
** Still a better love story than...oh, wait. [[labelnote:Explanation]] A popular ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' meme is that {{Crack Pairing}}s or romances perceived as badly written are still "better love stories than ''Twilight''". However, ''Fifty Shades of Grey'' is actually [[AscendedFanfic directly based upon]] ''Twilight''; some people also consider Ana and Christian's relationship to be worse in every way than Bella and Edward's. [[/labelnote]]
** My desires are...unconventional [[labelnote:Explanation]] Christian says this to Ana before revealing he's into BDSM; people like to have his 'unconventional desires' be revealed as something else, such as being obsessed with ''My Little Pony'', or hobbits. In turn, this has led to meme-makers applying the line and Ana's response of "Show me" to other fictional characters or occasionally even real people.[[/labelnote]]
** Fifty Shades of X [[labelnote:Explanation]] Applying the title ''Fifty of Shades of [insert name]'' to other pairings, often {{crack pairing}}s, especially if torture and/or imprisonment in involved. A popular one crossing over with ''Series/GameOfThrones'' is ''Fifty Shades of Greyjoy'', due to Theon Greyjoy spending most of Season 3 imprisoned in Ramsay Snow's dungeon and becoming his slave. [[/labelnote]]
* ProtectionFromEditors: It makes sense that the original story, ''Master of the Universe'', would have some spelling and grammatical errors, as well as several [[CriticalResearchFailure research errors]], as fanfictions usually aren't looked at by a formal editor. However, once they had the SerialNumbersFiledOff and properly published the books, many of these errors were actually left in. It almost makes one wonder if the books had an editor at all...and the according to James's acknowledgements, they ''did''. And this is actually case where it was the author's first published novel seemingly getting this treatment. The same can definitely be said of the film adaptations after the books proved to be bestsellers, with James being given a surprising amount of creative control and vetoing several proposed changes (which actually led to the director of the first film quitting after it was finished).
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* SnarkBait: Boy howdy. This series arguably attracts even ''more'' snark than parent series ''Twilight'' for many reasons, including the {{Narm}}, questionable writing, poor editing, the fact it's rather obviously a ''Twilight'' fanfiction with the SerialNumbersFiledOff, and the fact that the male romantic lead can come across as a ''Series/CriminalMinds'' Unsub with all his stalker-y behavior and creepy comments (which can be traced back to [[SingleIssuePsychology a childhood trauma]]).
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* TrappedByMountainLions: The subplot in ''Fifty Shades Freed'' where [[spoiler: Jose, his dad and Ray]] are involved in a car accident. All three of them ultimately make full recoveries and it has no impact on the rest of the plot.
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* UnintentionallySympathetic:
** Ella, Christian's biological mother (yep, she actually has a proper name, not that Christian ever really uses it). Christian constantly refers to her as "the crack whore", blames her for the emotional trauma of his early years, admits he likes beating women who remind him of her and generally has a disdainful attitude towards her. Ana never seems to refute this (save for one moment in the epilogue of ''Fifty Shades Freed''), even stating at one point she doesn't think Ella loved Christian and that she was a "shitty mother". However, some readers point out that [[ParentsAsPeople Ella actually did seem to love Christian and tried her best to care for him despite struggling with drug addiction and an abusive pimp]], such as baking him a birthday cake, stroking his hair and letting him braid her hair, teaching him to read and buying him a toy car. Christian himself admits Ella never directly abused him – it was her pimp who harmed him, but he never really expresses the same hatred of or attributes blame to the pimp, instead focusing solely on his mother. It also doesn't help that Christian admits to barely remembering his mother at all, so he's hardly the most reliable source about what she was like. The film adaptation of ''Fifty Shades Freed'' actually adds a scene where Christian and Ana track down and visit Ella's grave, with Christian laying flowers there with the implication he forgives her for not being able to care for him properly and thus presenting Ella in a far more sympathetic light. In the books, Christian continues to resent her, to the point where he rather viciously shuts down Ana's suggestion they [[spoiler: name their unborn daughter after her]].
** Gia Matteo, Elliot's ex-fling-turned-friend and architect for the Greys, who Ana views as a man-stealing bitch. However, as mentioned under DesignatedVillain, the actual evidence for this is at best very flimsy and Gia comes across instead as a put-upon architect who agrees to design a nice house for Ana and Christian as a favor to her friend, doing her best to finish the job and remain professional in spite of being insulted and unfairly accused by her employer of trying to seduce her husband.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Christian for some readers. He tends to blame all his emotional problems on his "crack whore" birth mother, even though he claims to barely remember her, it's indicated she did actually love him and made an effort to care for him despite her drug addiction, and it's stated repeatedly that it was in fact her pimp who was abusive to Christian (and to her too). Although Christian's early years were hard, several readers also point out that from the age of four onwards, he lived with a wealthy and loving adoptive family who gave him everything he needed and more (except decent therapy apparently). At the start of the series, Christian is 27 and yet still fixates on the first four years of his life – which by his own admission he only vaguely recalls – and uses it to excuse his Jerkass tendencies and emotional immaturity, while ignoring the 23 years of his life where he had a pretty cushy-sounding deal. His highly controlling treatment of Ana is also excused by him wanting to protect her or being a by-product of his early childhood, but at times it just makes him come across as extremely insecure, selfish and downright abusive. It doesn't help that Christian rarely displays any positive qualities or redeeming traits, generally being surly, rude, short-tempered and aggressive. Although his backstory is sad, some readers [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse do not believe it in any ways justifies or excuses his current behavior]].
* WhatAnIdiot: Carrick and Grace apparently never thought to get Christian therapy when they first adopted him, even though he was a clearly troubled little boy who had been neglected, abused and left alone with [[spoiler: his mother's corpse]] for four days. It's especially bad in Grace's case, as she's a pediatrician.
** Ella, Christian's biological mother (yep, she actually has a proper name, not that Christian ever really uses it). Christian constantly refers to her as "the crack whore", blames her for the emotional trauma of his early years, admits he likes beating women who remind him of her and generally has a disdainful attitude towards her. Ana never seems to refute this (save for one moment in the epilogue of ''Fifty Shades Freed''), even stating at one point she doesn't think Ella loved Christian and that she was a "shitty mother". However, some readers point out that [[ParentsAsPeople Ella actually did seem to love Christian and tried her best to care for him despite struggling with drug addiction and an abusive pimp]], such as baking him a birthday cake, stroking his hair and letting him braid her hair, teaching him to read and buying him a toy car. Christian himself admits Ella never directly abused him – it was her pimp who harmed him, but he never really expresses the same hatred of or attributes blame to the pimp, instead focusing solely on his mother. It also doesn't help that Christian admits to barely remembering his mother at all, so he's hardly the most reliable source about what she was like. The film adaptation of ''Fifty Shades Freed'' actually adds a scene where Christian and Ana track down and visit Ella's grave, with Christian laying flowers there with the implication he forgives her for not being able to care for him properly and thus presenting Ella in a far more sympathetic light. In the books, Christian continues to resent her, to the point where he rather viciously shuts down Ana's suggestion they [[spoiler: name their unborn daughter after her]].
** Gia Matteo, Elliot's ex-fling-turned-friend and architect for the Greys, who Ana views as a man-stealing bitch. However, as mentioned under DesignatedVillain, the actual evidence for this is at best very flimsy and Gia comes across instead as a put-upon architect who agrees to design a nice house for Ana and Christian as a favor to her friend, doing her best to finish the job and remain professional in spite of being insulted and unfairly accused by her employer of trying to seduce her husband.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Christian for some readers. He tends to blame all his emotional problems on his "crack whore" birth mother, even though he claims to barely remember her, it's indicated she did actually love him and made an effort to care for him despite her drug addiction, and it's stated repeatedly that it was in fact her pimp who was abusive to Christian (and to her too). Although Christian's early years were hard, several readers also point out that from the age of four onwards, he lived with a wealthy and loving adoptive family who gave him everything he needed and more (except decent therapy apparently). At the start of the series, Christian is 27 and yet still fixates on the first four years of his life – which by his own admission he only vaguely recalls – and uses it to excuse his Jerkass tendencies and emotional immaturity, while ignoring the 23 years of his life where he had a pretty cushy-sounding deal. His highly controlling treatment of Ana is also excused by him wanting to protect her or being a by-product of his early childhood, but at times it just makes him come across as extremely insecure, selfish and downright abusive. It doesn't help that Christian rarely displays any positive qualities or redeeming traits, generally being surly, rude, short-tempered and aggressive. Although his backstory is sad, some readers [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse do not believe it in any ways justifies or excuses his current behavior]].
* WhatAnIdiot: Carrick and Grace apparently never thought to get Christian therapy when they first adopted him, even though he was a clearly troubled little boy who had been neglected, abused and left alone with [[spoiler: his mother's corpse]] for four days. It's especially bad in Grace's case, as she's a pediatrician.
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** The trailer makes good use of a new goth-style and positively ''eerie'' redux of Music/{{Beyonce}}'s "Crazy in Love".
** "Love Me Like You Do", sang by Ellie Goulding. The song is universally acclaimed and agreed to be much sexier than the actual movie thanks to the writing and Goulding's performance.
** The trailer makes good use of a new goth-style and positively ''eerie'' redux of Music/{{Beyonce}}'s "Crazy in Love".
** "Love Me Like You Do", sang by Ellie Goulding. The song is universally acclaimed and agreed to be much sexier than the actual movie thanks to the writing and Goulding's performance.
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* SerialNumbersFiledOff: ''50 Shades of Grey'' started life as ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' fanfiction, but later became an original work. Readers of both note many remaining similarities between the two works, especially the characterization.
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* SerialNumbersFiledOff: ''50 ''Fifty Shades of Grey'' started life as ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' fanfiction, but later became an original work. Readers of both note many remaining similarities between the two works, especially the characterization.
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* RelationshipWritingFumble: Ana and Kate are just supposed to be good friends, with Kate saying she loves her like a sister, but a lot of their interactions can come off as LesYay, especially from Ana's end considering how often she points out Kate's physical attractiveness with similar terms she uses for Christian. It doesn't help that Kate cares a lot more about Ana's happiness and well-being than [[BastardBoyfriend Christian]] seems to.
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** Christian's thoughts are banal, and also way too stalker-like. While Christian certainly acted like a stalker sometimes, it's unpleasant to see that he actually feels and thinks like a stalker.
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** Christian's thoughts are banal, banal and also way too stalker-like. While Christian certainly acted like a stalker sometimes, it's unpleasant to see that he actually feels and thinks like a stalker.
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* HilariousInHindsight: It was always debatable if Christian's tastes are as "singular" as he claims, considering that even before the Internet [=BDSM=] was one of the most common kinks around. Now, when the ''Fifty Shades'' books have sold millions and millions of copies and have legions of fans eager to try the stuff in the book, Christian might as well have the Dark Secret that he likes watching porn movies.
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* HilariousInHindsight: It was always debatable if Christian's tastes are as "singular" as he claims, considering that even before the Internet [=BDSM=] was one of the most common kinks around. Now, when the ''Fifty Shades'' books have sold millions and millions of copies and have legions of fans eager to try the stuff in the book, Christian might as well have the Dark Secret DarkSecret that he likes watching porn movies.movies.
* HoYay: Quite a bit between [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship Ana and Kate]]. Ana often makes rather detailed, gushing descriptions of her beauty and physical appearance with similar terms she uses for [[LoveInterest Christian]] (and Kate isn't the only woman she does this to), they start out living together and consider each other the most important person in their lives, if either of them are upset or in trouble their first instinct is to go to each other, they rather casually talk about their sex lives with each other (Ana is in fact disappointed she can't share more with Kate due to the NDA) and Kate goes into full {{Tsundere}} mode if she thinks Ana has been hurt or endangered in some way.
* HoYay: Quite a bit between [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship Ana and Kate]]. Ana often makes rather detailed, gushing descriptions of her beauty and physical appearance with similar terms she uses for [[LoveInterest Christian]] (and Kate isn't the only woman she does this to), they start out living together and consider each other the most important person in their lives, if either of them are upset or in trouble their first instinct is to go to each other, they rather casually talk about their sex lives with each other (Ana is in fact disappointed she can't share more with Kate due to the NDA) and Kate goes into full {{Tsundere}} mode if she thinks Ana has been hurt or endangered in some way.
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* NightmareFuel: It's horrifying how many times Ana is struck, raped and/or abused without her consent...and yet this is presented as not only romantic but the a relationship to aspire to.
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* NightmareFuel: It's horrifying how many times Ana is struck, raped and/or abused without her consent...and yet this is presented as not only romantic but the a relationship to aspire to.
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* InternetBackdraft:
** The internet went ''berserk'' when casting was first announced, and a petition demanding that the current duo be replaced by Matt Bomer and Alexis Bledel gained thousands and thousands of signatures.
** Nor were fans pleased when it came out that the book's sex scenes would be "toned down" for the film.
** ''Film/PacificRim'' and ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'' fans were not pleased when Charlie Hunman was cast as Christian Grey, citing that he's going end up like Creator/RobertPattinson and creating a bunch of ''Pacific Rim''/''50 Shades'' jokes. But when Hunman backed out, his fandom rejoiced.
** The internet went ''berserk'' when casting was first announced, and a petition demanding that the current duo be replaced by Matt Bomer and Alexis Bledel gained thousands and thousands of signatures.
** Nor were fans pleased when it came out that the book's sex scenes would be "toned down" for the film.
** ''Film/PacificRim'' and ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'' fans were not pleased when Charlie Hunman was cast as Christian Grey, citing that he's going end up like Creator/RobertPattinson and creating a bunch of ''Pacific Rim''/''50 Shades'' jokes. But when Hunman backed out, his fandom rejoiced.
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* FetishRetardant: The tampon scene. Also, the way Christian speaks of Ana's virginity like an obstacle to be removed.
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* FetishRetardant: The tampon scene. Also, All the way Christian speaks BDSM acts come off as this to people who are actually involved in the subculture, mostly because it's a ''wildly'' inaccurate portrayal, and in fact feeds into some of Ana's virginity like the community's most hated misconceptions. (Mainly, that a dom/sub relationship completely negates the sub's right to say "no," or that being into BDSM is the same as being an obstacle to be removed.abusive partner.)
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* CanonSue: Ana not only gets to date a super-hot man. She also gets promoted from secretary to editor one week after being hired, even though she spent more of her working hours emailing Christian than actually working.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The trailer makes good use of a new goth-style and positively ''eerie'' redux of Music/{{Beyonce}}'s "Crazy in Love".
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
** The trailer makes good use of a new goth-style and positively ''eerie'' redux of Music/{{Beyonce}}'s "Crazy inLove".Love".
** "Love Me Like You Do", sang by Ellie Goulding. The song is universally acclaimed and agreed to be much sexier than the actual movie thanks to the writing and Goulding's performance.
** The trailer makes good use of a new goth-style and positively ''eerie'' redux of Music/{{Beyonce}}'s "Crazy in
** "Love Me Like You Do", sang by Ellie Goulding. The song is universally acclaimed and agreed to be much sexier than the actual movie thanks to the writing and Goulding's performance.
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* ToughActToFollow: Every songs in the sequels will have to live up to "Love Me Like You Do", as evidence by the significantly less successful sales of "I Don't Want To Live Forever".
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not a YMMV tro
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* AuthorAvatar: Not necessarily Ana. Mrs. Robinson's initials are E.L.
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* SerialNumbersFiledOff: Even though supernatural elements are removed, character templates remain mostly same. Which is okay for fanfiction, but not really when it's done for profit. Opinions vary on whether Stephenie Meyer should have sued.
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* SerialNumbersFiledOff: Even though supernatural elements are removed, character templates remain mostly same. Which is okay for ''50 Shades of Grey'' started life as ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' fanfiction, but not really when it's done for profit. Opinions vary on whether Stephenie Meyer should have sued.later became an original work. Readers of both note many remaining similarities between the two works, especially the characterization.
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** ''Film/PacificRim'' and ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'' fans were not pleased when Charlie Hunman was cast as Christian Grey, citing that he's going end up like RobertPattinson and creating a bunch of ''Pacific Rim''/''50 Shades'' jokes. But when Hunman backed out, his fandom rejoiced.
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** ''Film/PacificRim'' and ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'' fans were not pleased when Charlie Hunman was cast as Christian Grey, citing that he's going end up like RobertPattinson Creator/RobertPattinson and creating a bunch of ''Pacific Rim''/''50 Shades'' jokes. But when Hunman backed out, his fandom rejoiced.
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* {{Sequelitis}}: While the series never was a critical favorite, the book ''Grey''--a retelling of the first book from Christian's point of view--has been poorly received even by readers and critics who liked the original trilogy. The two main complaints are as follows:
** Too much of the text is copied and pasted from the original book.
** Christian's thoughts are banal, and also way too stalker-like. While Christian certainly acted like a stalker sometimes, it's unpleasant to see that he actually feels and thinks like a stalker.
** Too much of the text is copied and pasted from the original book.
** Christian's thoughts are banal, and also way too stalker-like. While Christian certainly acted like a stalker sometimes, it's unpleasant to see that he actually feels and thinks like a stalker.
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* ToughActToFollow: While the series never was a critical favorite, the book ''Grey''--a retelling of the first book from Christian's point of view--has been poorly received even by readers and critics who liked the original trilogy. The two main complaints are as follows:
** Too much of the text is copied and pasted from the original book.
** Christian's thoughts are banal, and also way too stalker-like. While Christian certainly acted like a stalker sometimes, it's unpleasant to see that he actually feels and thinks like a stalker.
** Too much of the text is copied and pasted from the original book.
** Christian's thoughts are banal, and also way too stalker-like. While Christian certainly acted like a stalker sometimes, it's unpleasant to see that he actually feels and thinks like a stalker.
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* HilariousInHindsight: It was always debatable if Christian's tastes are as "singular" as he claims, considering that even before the Internet [=BDSM=] was one of the most common kinks around. Now, when the ''Fifty Shades'' books have sold millions and millions of copies and have legions of fans eager to try the stuff in the book, Christianmight as well have the Dark Secret that he likes watching porn movies.
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* HilariousInHindsight: It was always debatable if Christian's tastes are as "singular" as he claims, considering that even before the Internet [=BDSM=] was one of the most common kinks around. Now, when the ''Fifty Shades'' books have sold millions and millions of copies and have legions of fans eager to try the stuff in the book, Christianmight Christian might as well have the Dark Secret that he likes watching porn movies.
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* ToughActToFollow: While the series never was a critical favorite, the book ''Grey''--a retelling of the first book from Christian's point of view--has been poorly received even by readers and critics who liked the original trilogy. The two main complaints are as follows:
** Too much of the text is copied and pasted from the original book.
** Christian's thoughts are banal, and also way too stalker-like. While Christian certainly acted like a stalker sometimes, it's unpleasant to see that he actually feels and thinks like a stalker.
** Too much of the text is copied and pasted from the original book.
** Christian's thoughts are banal, and also way too stalker-like. While Christian certainly acted like a stalker sometimes, it's unpleasant to see that he actually feels and thinks like a stalker.
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* HilariousInHindsight: It was always debatable if Christian's tastes are as "singular" as he claims, considering that even before the Internet [=BDSM=] was one of the most common kinks around. Now, when the ''Fifty Shades'' books have sold millions and millions of copies and have legions of fans eager to try the stuff in the book, Christianmight as well have the Dark Secret that he likes watching porn movies.
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* UnfortunateImplications: The notion that Christian Grey is into BDSM due to his traumatic and abusive childhood and the psychological issues resulting from that. [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/16/fifty-shades-of-grey-isnt-bdsm_n_6684808.html Both real world practitioners of BDSM or psychiatrists disagree that there is any correlation between mental health problems and having an interest in the fetish.]]
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* UnfortunateImplications: The notion that Christian Grey is into BDSM due to his traumatic and abusive childhood and the psychological issues resulting from that. [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/16/fifty-shades-of-grey-isnt-bdsm_n_6684808.html Both real world practitioners of BDSM or and psychiatrists disagree that there is any correlation between mental health problems and having an interest in the fetish.]]
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* UnfortunateImplications: The notion that Christian Grey is into BDSM due to his traumatic and abusive childhood and the psychological issues resulting from that. [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/16/fifty-shades-of-grey-isnt-bdsm_n_6684808.html Both real world practitioners of BDSM or psychiatrists disagree that there is any correlation between mental health problems and having an interest in the fetish.]]
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* CanonSue: Ana not only gets to date a super-hot man. She also gets promoted from secretary to editor one week after being hired, even though she spent more of her working hours emailing Christian than actually working.
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** The internet went ''berserk'' when casting was first announced, and a petition demanding that the current duo be replaced by Matt Bomer and Alexis Bledel gained thousands and thousands of signatures.
** Nor were fans pleased when it came out that the book's sex scenes would be "toned down" for the film.
** ''Film/PacificRim'' and ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'' fans were not pleased when Charlie Hunman was cast as Christian Grey, citing that he's going end up like RobertPattinson and creating a bunch of ''Pacific Rim''/''50 Shades'' jokes. But when Hunman backed out, his fandom rejoiced.
** The internet went ''berserk'' when casting was first announced, and a petition demanding that the current duo be replaced by Matt Bomer and Alexis Bledel gained thousands and thousands of signatures.
** Nor were fans pleased when it came out that the book's sex scenes would be "toned down" for the film.
** ''Film/PacificRim'' and ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'' fans were not pleased when Charlie Hunman was cast as Christian Grey, citing that he's going end up like RobertPattinson and creating a bunch of ''Pacific Rim''/''50 Shades'' jokes. But when Hunman backed out, his fandom rejoiced.
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* {{Padding}}: The Email conversations and the submissive rules and contract that are printed in the book twice take up a lot of space without adding much content.
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* {{Narm}}: Plenty of it, particularly in sex scenes. For example: ''"You. Are. So. Sweet,” he murmurs, each word a staccato.'' For the rest, see [[http://50shadesofsuck.tumblr.com/ this tumblr]].
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* {{Narm}}: Plenty of it, particularly in sex scenes. For example: ''"You. Are. So. Sweet,” he murmurs, each word a staccato.'' For the rest, see [[http://50shadesofsuck.tumblr.com/ this tumblr]].
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* SerialNumbersFiledOff: Even though supernatural elements are removed, character templates remain mostly same. Which is okay for fanfiction, but not really when it's done for profit. Opinions vary on whether Stephenie Meyer should have sued.sued.
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* AuthorAvatar: Not necessarily Ana. Mrs. Robinson's initials are E.L.
* FetishRetardant: The tampon scene. Also, the way Christian speaks of Ana's virginity like an obstacle to be removed.
* FreudWasRight
* {{Narm}}: Plenty of it, particularly in sex scenes. For example: ''"You. Are. So. Sweet,” he murmurs, each word a staccato.'' For the rest, see [[http://50shadesofsuck.tumblr.com/ this tumblr]].
* NightmareFuel: It's horrifying how many times Ana is struck, raped and/or abused without her consent...and yet this is presented as not only romantic but the a relationship to aspire to.
* SerialNumbersFiledOff: Even though supernatural elements are removed, character templates remain mostly same. Which is okay for fanfiction, but not really when it's done for profit. Opinions vary on whether Stephenie Meyer should have sued.
* FetishRetardant: The tampon scene. Also, the way Christian speaks of Ana's virginity like an obstacle to be removed.
* FreudWasRight
* {{Narm}}: Plenty of it, particularly in sex scenes. For example: ''"You. Are. So. Sweet,” he murmurs, each word a staccato.'' For the rest, see [[http://50shadesofsuck.tumblr.com/ this tumblr]].
* NightmareFuel: It's horrifying how many times Ana is struck, raped and/or abused without her consent...and yet this is presented as not only romantic but the a relationship to aspire to.
* SerialNumbersFiledOff: Even though supernatural elements are removed, character templates remain mostly same. Which is okay for fanfiction, but not really when it's done for profit. Opinions vary on whether Stephenie Meyer should have sued.
