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* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: A variant; While the series is generally agreed to have already [[GrowingTheBeard Grown The Beard]] as of either ''Grave Peril'' or ''Dead Beat'', [[spoiler:Molly's trial]] in this book is often seen as being one of the first truly (for lack of a better word) ''profound'' moments in the series, helping elevate ''The Dresden Files'' beyond just pulpy fun and show how talented Creator/JimButcher really is as a writer.
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* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: A variant; GrowingTheBeard: While the series is generally agreed to have already [[GrowingTheBeard Grown The Beard]] improved as of either ''Grave Peril'' or ''Dead Beat'', [[spoiler:Molly's trial]] in this book is often seen as being one of the first truly (for lack of a better word) ''profound'' moments in the series, helping elevate ''The Dresden Files'' beyond just pulpy fun and show how talented Creator/JimButcher really is as a writer.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Among the shapes adopted by the phobophages are a couple of grotesquely-mutated animals (a baboon and some kind of cat) from an in-Verse-only horror film called ''Nature Red''. Evidently this film is about a retrovirus getting loose in a zoo and turning the animals into bloodthirsty monsters ... which is ''exactly'' the same plot as the 2016 film ''Film/{{Zoombies}}''.
* NightmareRetardant: Harry examining a heroin addict with his sight and seeing her needle marks as hungry mouths opening and closing is horrifying, but much less so once you realize it's yet another of the countless horror movie references in the book, namely to Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors.
* {{Squick}}: The book's description of [[spoiler:Molly trying to seduce Harry]] comes off as (to borrow a term from Butters in [[Literature/WhiteNight the next book]]) rather Nabakovian, considering that [[spoiler:Molly is only seventeen in this book]].
* NightmareRetardant: Harry examining a heroin addict with his sight and seeing her needle marks as hungry mouths opening and closing is horrifying, but much less so once you realize it's yet another of the countless horror movie references in the book, namely to Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors.
* {{Squick}}: The book's description of [[spoiler:Molly trying to seduce Harry]] comes off as (to borrow a term from Butters in [[Literature/WhiteNight the next book]]) rather Nabakovian, considering that [[spoiler:Molly is only seventeen in this book]].
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* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: A variant; While the series is generally agreed to have already [[GrowingTheBeard Grown The Beard]] as of either ''Grave Peril'' or ''Dead Beat'', [[spoiler:Molly's trial]] in this book is often seen as being one of the first truly (for lack of a better word) ''profound'' moments in the series, helping elevate ''The Dresden Files'' beyond just pulpy fun and show how talented Creator/JimButcher really is as a writer.
* HilariousInHindsight: Among the shapes adopted by the phobophages are a couple of grotesquely-mutated animals (a baboon and some kind of cat) from anin-Verse-only InUniverse-only horror film called ''Nature Red''. Evidently this film is about a retrovirus getting loose in a zoo and turning the animals into bloodthirsty monsters ... which is ''exactly'' the same plot as the 2016 film ''Film/{{Zoombies}}''.
* NightmareRetardant: Harry examining a heroin addict with his sight and seeing her needle marks ashungry ''hungry mouths opening and closing closing'' is horrifying, horrifying ...but much potentially less so once you realize it's yet another of the countless horror movie references in the book, namely to Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors.
''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors''.
*{{Squick}}: RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Charity Carpenter goes from an annoying stereotype of a housewife who hates Harry to [[spoiler:an incredibly tragic and sympathetic former wizard who is understandably terrified for the fate of her children and has been struggling with her sense of responsibility thanks to a DarkAndTroubledPast]].
* SignatureScene: [[spoiler:The trial of Molly Carpenter]].
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** Harry's description of having to ''dislocate his thumb'' to escape from Madrigal Raith's thorn manacles is exceptionally hard to read.
** The book's description of [[spoiler:Molly trying to seduce Harry]] comes off as (to borrow a term from Butters in [[Literature/WhiteNight the next book]]) rather Nabakovian, considering that [[spoiler:Molly is only seventeen in thisbook]].book]].
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: The argument between the Merlin and Harry concerning the White Council's hardline attitude regarding warlocks and BlackMagic can be seen as a commentary on heavy policing vs. social outreach.
* TheWoobie: [[spoiler:The various victims of both Molly's mental magic and the fetches]].
* HilariousInHindsight: Among the shapes adopted by the phobophages are a couple of grotesquely-mutated animals (a baboon and some kind of cat) from an
* NightmareRetardant: Harry examining a heroin addict with his sight and seeing her needle marks as
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* SignatureScene: [[spoiler:The trial of Molly Carpenter]].
* {{Squick}}:
** Harry's description of having to ''dislocate his thumb'' to escape from Madrigal Raith's thorn manacles is exceptionally hard to read.
** The book's description of [[spoiler:Molly trying to seduce Harry]] comes off as (to borrow a term from Butters in [[Literature/WhiteNight the next book]]) rather Nabakovian, considering that [[spoiler:Molly is only seventeen in this
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: The argument between the Merlin and Harry concerning the White Council's hardline attitude regarding warlocks and BlackMagic can be seen as a commentary on heavy policing vs. social outreach.
* TheWoobie: [[spoiler:The various victims of both Molly's mental magic and the fetches]].
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* NightmareRetardant: Harry examining a heroin addict with his sight and seeing her needle marks as hungry mouths opening and closing is horrifying, but much less so once you realize it's yet another of the countless horror movie references in the book, namely to Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors.Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors.
* {{Squick}}: The book's description of [[spoiler:Molly trying to seduce Harry]] comes off as (to borrow a term from Butters in [[Literature/WhiteNight the next book]]) rather Nabakovian, considering that [[spoiler:Molly is only seventeen in this book]].
* {{Squick}}: The book's description of [[spoiler:Molly trying to seduce Harry]] comes off as (to borrow a term from Butters in [[Literature/WhiteNight the next book]]) rather Nabakovian, considering that [[spoiler:Molly is only seventeen in this book]].
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* HilariousInHindsight: Among the shapes adopted by the phobophages are a couple of grotesquely-mutated animals (a baboon and some kind of cat) from an in-Verse-only horror film called ''Nature Red''. Evidently this film is about a retrovirus getting loose in a zoo and turning the animals into bloodthirsty monsters ... which is ''exactly'' the same plot as the 2016 film ''Film/{{Zoombies}}''.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Among the shapes adopted by the phobophages are a couple of grotesquely-mutated animals (a baboon and some kind of cat) from an in-Verse-only horror film called ''Nature Red''. Evidently this film is about a retrovirus getting loose in a zoo and turning the animals into bloodthirsty monsters ... which is ''exactly'' the same plot as the 2016 film ''Film/{{Zoombies}}''.''Film/{{Zoombies}}''.
* NightmareRetardant: Harry examining a heroin addict with his sight and seeing her needle marks as hungry mouths opening and closing is horrifying, but much less so once you realize it's yet another of the countless horror movie references in the book, namely to Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors.
* NightmareRetardant: Harry examining a heroin addict with his sight and seeing her needle marks as hungry mouths opening and closing is horrifying, but much less so once you realize it's yet another of the countless horror movie references in the book, namely to Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Among the shapes adopted by the phobophages are a couple of grotesquely-mutated animals (a baboon and some kind of cat) from an in-Verse-only horror film called ''Nature Red''. Evidently this film is about a retrovirus getting loose in a zoo and turning the animals into bloodthirsty monsters ... which is ''exactly'' the same plot as the 2016 film ''Film/{{Zoombies}}''.
