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7''Courtney Crumrin'' is an independent comic book series written and illustrated by [[http://tednaifeh.com Ted Naifeh]] and published by Creator/OniPress.
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9Courtney Crumrin is an odd middle-school girl who struggles to connect with much of anyone -- including her vapid, self-absorbed parents. When her family finds themselves up to their neck in debt, they move in with her [[TheHermit reclusive Uncle Aloysius,]] at his request, in the ominously unsuspecting upper-class town of Hillsborough. Courtney immediately hates the new locale, including the insipid people who inhabit it... Until she finds out that there's more to her "Uncle A" than at first meets the eye. It turns out Aloysius is a powerful warlock, and upon discovering her own potential for wizardry, Courtney begins simultaneously learning about the [[MagicLand mystical]] [[TheUnderworld Underworld]] [[FantasticNatureReserve of magi,]] and the [[ComingOfAgeStory tribulations of growing up.]]
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11The series is comprised of the following installments:
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13* Chapter 00 Prologue (Featured in Oni Press Color Special 2002, collected in the Volume 6 trade).
14* Volume 1: ''Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things''
15* Volume 2: ''Courtney Crumrin and the Coven of Mystics''
16* Volume 3: ''Courtney Crumrin in the Twilight Kingdom''
17* Volume 4: ''Courtney Crumrin's Monstrous Holiday'' (This is a collected edition of:
18** ''Courtney Crumrin and the Fire-Thief's Tale''
19** ''Courtney Crumrin and the Prince of Nowhere'')
20* Volume 5: ''Courtney Crumrin: The Witch Next Door'' (This is a collection of the first five issues of the full-color series.)
21* Volume 6: ''Courtney Crumrin: The Final Spell'' (This is a collection of the last five issues of the full-color series.)
22* Volume 7: ''Courtney Crumrin: Tales of a Warlock'' (This is a collected edition of:
23** ''Courtney Crumrin Tales: A Portrait of the Warlock as a Young Man''
24** ''Courtney Crumrin Tales Volume 2: The League of Ordinary Gentlemen'')
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26After a bit of a hiatus, the series returned in 2021 under the name "The Crumrin Chronicles", this time focusing on Courtney [[spoiler: helping her newfound brother, Will, navigate the human and magical world.]]
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29!! This comic provides examples of the following tropes:
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31* AboveGoodAndEvil: Aloysius states that wizards and Night Things (such as werewolves) don't operate by the same standards of good and evil as mortals do.
32* ActionGirl: Courtney isn't going to let being small and a preteen get in the way of saving the day.
33* AdultsAreUseless: Played straight with Courtney's parents, averted with Uncle Aloysius and Calpurnia Crisp.
34* AffablyEvil: Tommy Rawhead. Butterworm could also be considered as such.
35* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Courtney's first crush.
36* AlliterativeName:
37** '''C'''ourtney '''C'''rumrin, '''C'''alpurnia '''C'''risp, '''H'''ector '''H'''ughes, and the '''D'''readful '''D'''utchess.
38** The colour series introduces '''H'''olly '''H'''art, Courtney's new friend, to show how they're similar.
39* AlphaBitch:
40** A girl in Courtney's new school who wears OjouRinglets and starts out the year by extorting Courtney's allowance money from her.
41** Blake in ''Courtney Crumrin and the Twilight Kingdom'' counts as a male version.
42* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: [[spoiler: Hermia]] is under a curse until she marries someone she has absolutely no interest in.
43* AristocratsAreEvil: If not really evil, the Dreadful Duchess is [[TheFairFolk completely alien]] to human morality.
44* BadassLongcoat: Somewhat subverted with Aloysius, as his long coat is often the bathrobe he wears around the house. The bathrobe does not in any way impair his ability to be a badass. He does have an impressive frockcoat for public appearances, though.
45* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: Aloysius is ordered by the Coven of Mystics to capture the wanted Courtney Crumrin. He complies, appearing to be completely in line with their reasoning and oblivious to their planned betrayal of them both -- but in actuality he brings Courtney to court only to reveal that he was actually passing judgment on ''them,'' and plans to kill the council after they confirm his suspicions of corruption.]]
46* BazaarOfTheBizarre: Goblin Town contains a fantastic market where you can buy anything your heart desires...for a price. There's also a brisk trade in human children.
47* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: When Courtney tries to become popular in her school by using a Charm spell. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] and {{Invoked|Trope}} by Courtney herself.
48* BewareTheNiceOnes: The Twilight King is, [[BlueAndOrangeMorality differences in morality issues aside,]] one of the nicest of the Night Things. But do not kill one of his subjects [[spoiler: or daughters.]]
49* BlackMagicianGirl: Courtney herself.
50* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Courtney is forced to destroy the entire magic community and leave her uncle forever when her parents move. But her uncle will live forever with the Dreadful Duchess happily, Courtney still has her powerful magical abilities, and she has a new brother as a companion.]]
51* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: When Petru attempts to kill Magda, Alexi blows his brains out.]]
52* CatsAreMean: Somewhat subverted; most cats Courtney meets are actually helpful, but they are somewhat arrogant to other species.
53%%* CatsAreSnarkers: All of them.
54* CatsHaveNineLives: Implied, as any cat in the series who seems to have suffered a fatal injury always turns up unharmed and acting as if everyone should have realized they were fine.
55* ChangelingTale: Several.
56** Courtney babysits a child who is switched for a changeling.
57** A doppelganger of unknown origin tries to take over Courtney's life and erase her from existence.
58** Skarrow was also originally a human who was raised in the Twilight Kingdom.
59** The end of ''Courtney Crumrin and the Twilight Kingdom'' suggests that [[spoiler: Connie runs away to the Twilight Kingdom. This is later confirmed in the ''The Witch Next Door.'']]
60* ChildrenAreInnocent: Subverted all over the place.
61* CombatPragmatist: Aloysius will do what it takes to win, regardless of whether or not it's the most impressive thing he could do.
62* ComingOfAgeStory: Of a kind. Most coming-of-age stories are about children growing into adulthood. Courtney is learning to skip adulthood to be something far cooler--a witch.
63%%* CoolCar: Miss Crisp owns one.
64* DarkIsNotEvil: The Night Things aren't necessarily evil, even if they don't think and behave as humans do. Applies to magic users as well.
65* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: Malcolm's sick mother is revealed to have actually already died, and her ghost lingers about her home out of fear that Malcolm will be lonely without her there. However, her unnatural presence actually repels him.]]
66* DeadpanSnarker: Aloysius Crumrin and Calpurnia Crisp.
67* DespairEventHorizon: A very grim one before the finale. [[spoiler: Calpurnia loses her magic, Aloysius captures Courtney as part of his bigger plan to take down the coven. It fails spectacularly when his health gives way, and Courtney loses her powers and memory. ]]
68* DidntThinkThisThrough: Blake turning Joey into a Night Thing without knowing the countercurse. He doesn't learn his lesson even after that. Courtney takes him and the other kids to the land of the Night Things, after the others beg her to help Joey. She, as the only one who's been there before, tells them they should go around the most populated areas. Blake decides that it's best to barge right through the middle of town, deciding that it's like "Literature/TheLordOfTheRings meets [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disneyland]]." The other kids hesitantly follow, leading to them all getting captured, and most of them being put in extreme danger.
69%%* EmbarrassingRescue: They don't all take having to be saved very well.
70* EveryoneHasASpecialMove: Implied that most witches have their own unique SecretArt they can tap into (e.g. enchanting dolls to come to life,[[spoiler: or even magical poetry]]) although few actually discover it. Calpurnia admits in all her years of witchcraft, she never learnt her own secret talent.
71* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Aloysius is blackmailed by the council to hunt down Courtney with his life on the line, and does so. He redeems himself later when he wipes the memories of the entire community after Courtney devastates them.]]
72%%* TheFairFolk: The Night Things appear to be this trope.
73* FantasticNatureReserve: As humanity grew and inhabited more land, Night Things were slowly forced underground to live in what became the Underworld, away from the humans who feared them.
74* FantasticRacism: The Night Things are widely misunderstood and hated by warlocks and witches.
75* FateWorseThanDeath:
76** What did the Twilight King do to the man that killed his daughter? [[spoiler:Make him fall in love with her, so he must live with the grief forever.]]
77* FlamingSword: Courtney conjures one up from a broken twig she finds on the floor, though it's implied to be just an illusion used to scare off her enemies.
78%%* FlyingCar
79* {{Fireballs}}: For a while, this is Courtney's weapon of choice as it's the only spell she actually knows.
80* {{Foreshadowing}}: Courtney's made to read poetry to her class. She chooses a deeply heartfelt poem about her new friend, Skarrow, and is too embarrassed by the situation to notice how a storm brews and the windows crack as she reads. [[spoiler: Her poetry is revealed to be her SecretArt, unlocking her most powerful magic. ]]
81* FungiArePlants: Lampshaded. Courtney is told to gather plants for a spell and chided for including mushrooms in her findings. This also shows her how using magic to get out of actually learning in her classes would still be to her detriment as a witch.
82%%* GentlemanWizard: Uncle Aloysius.
83* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Courtney shows some off whilst summoning a faux-flame sword.
84* GoodIsNotSoft: Practically a theme of the whole series. While almost everyone--including the Night Things--can have their moments, the scales tend to run more to justice than mercy. Sometimes they'll let you live...even if you wish they wouldn't.
85* GrowingUpSucks: Played with. Courtney was never very innocent and is more perceptive than most adults, but she is realizing how complicated being an adult really is.
86* HalfHumanHybrid: Skarrow used to be a boy but was turned into a Night Thing by the Dreadful Duchess. Later, we see that she made another one, probably the baby Courtney was previously babysitting.
87* HauntedHouse: Courtney's friend is living in one. [[spoiler:It's his mother's ghost.]]
88* HeartBrokenBadass:
89** Courtney, after [[spoiler:Skarrow is killed]].
90** Aloysius too, considering how he [[spoiler: had to memory-wipe his fiancee, who then found a new beau.]]
91* {{Homage}}/ShoutOut : The entire plot of 'Coven Of Mystics' works as one to ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'', which works to tell Courtney's coming-of-age story.
92** Both feature a female protagonist in a prejudicial, CloseKnitCommunity, and her older gentleman ReasonableAuthorityFigure, fighting to protect an innocent ScapeGoat, in a larger plot by an evil corrupt hick.
93** Just like Atticus, Aloysius [[RefusalOfTheCall takes the case reluctantly]], talks at length about the town's [[FantasticRacism injustice]], holds off an [[TorchesAndPitchforks angry mob]] (and is saved when Courtney interrupts them [[ShamingTheMob exactly the same way Scout did]]), and presents his case to an unflinching KangarooCourt. As an added bonus, the scene where Aloysius [[spoiler: kills Tommy Rawhide]] has an almost identical effect on Courtney as Atticus' with the rabied dog on Scout. What really sells it is how 'Coven' introduces an african-american [[SternTeacher disciplinarian]] named Calpurnia, who Courtney's mother points out in the final chapter "used to be a maid or something".
94* HumansAreSpecial: Even if Human activity drove him and his subjects underground, the Twilight King is not willing to retaliate and acknowledges human mastery of the surface world.
95* HumansAreFlawed: Courtney's worldview. She sees grownups and children alike as superficial, flighty and narrow-minded (and though the witches of the coven prove to be enlightened, they're selfish and power-hungry). In an aversion, she also spends time asking whether she's wrong for thinking this way, and eventually revises her mindset when she realises she needs friends.
96* ImAHumanitarian: This appears to be common place amongst the Night Things. Butterworm is prone to eating lost travelers, and Courtney's classmate is purchased and almost cooked by a group of small, creepy creatures. [[spoiler:When they lose their human prey, the creatures announced that they'll have to eat the runt of the litter again, implying this happens a ''lot''.]]
97* InvoluntaryShapeshifter: The werewolves have no control over their shapeshifting and suffer from SupernaturalAngst at their magical separation from the rest of humanity, including their own people.
98* IJustWantToHaveFriends:
99** Despite being a snarky loner, Courtney does occasionally wonder if something is wrong with her and not the world.
100** This is also part of [[spoiler: the Dreadful Duchess's]] FreudianExcuse, and their shared loneliness is how Courtney gets to reason with her.
101* ISeeDeadPeople: Courtney can see ghosts as a consequence of being magical.
102* ItGetsEasier: Not quite yet, but Courtney shows surprisingly little remorse over her most morally repugnant actions. [[spoiler: That is, resurrecting Tommy to kill for her.]]
103%%* JadeColoredGlasses: Aloysius, especially in light of hints that he was as idealistic as Courtney when younger.
104* JuniorHigh: Courtney attends a snobbish private junior high, and the majority of the kid characters we encounter are her peers.
105* KangarooCourt: [[spoiler:Upon sending Aloysius to capture the wanted Courtney, the Council of Mystics promises both him and his niece a fair trial. The actual proceeding is anything but.]]
106* KidsAreCruel: The kids at Courtney's school are a pack of snobs who are nasty to her and to one another, albeit in fairly ordinary ways: forcing the outcast students to give up their lunch money, for example. Courtney, meanwhile, can be outright cruel in her use of magic to solve problems.
107* KidWithTheLeash: Courtney has Butterworm under her orders thanks to a magic ritual.
108* KungFuWizard: Aloysius is quite a skilled fighter on top of being a warlock.
109* LandOfFaerie: The Twilight Kingdom appears to function as this, even within the wider magical world of the Night Things.
110* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The Council uses this as a form of exile for witches. They take away their magic and their memories of ever having it.
111* LaserGuidedKarma:
112** In ''The Witch Next Door'', Holly learns [[spoiler:the fate of every single person Courtney used magic in revenge against, and takes it upon herself to use the magic learnt from Courtney to stop her from hurting more people]].
113** Soon thereafter, the Council of Mystics discovers that [[spoiler:on top of the curses, Courtney murdered Hector Hughes with Rawhead and Bloody Bones, and places a warrant for her arrest]].
114* LemonyNarrator: When Butterworm isn't narrating. Doubles as AndThatLittleGirlWasMe when the narrator is finally revealed. [[spoiler: It's the Dreadful Duchess's white cat -- and Aloysius's long-lost brother -- restored to human form and adopted into Courtney's family through some [[RealityWarper fairy magic]]. ]]
115* LittleMissSnarker: Snark gets Courtney through life, sometimes more successfully than others. Part of being very young, though, means that she's secretly very idealistic and her snark results from very little being up to her standards.
116* LoveCannotOvercome: [[spoiler:Despite her cruel fiancé's demise, and winning a battle that saves a tribe of innocent Gypsy-werewolves, Magda cannot give up her comfortable lifestyle to be with a Gypsy man who loves her.]]
117* LovecraftCountry: Hillsborough and the neighboring woods have a decidedly New England flare, particularly the old Colonial houses and the insular, secretive inhabitants.
118* LovePotion: Vanya's parents both claim they courted the other by enchanting them with a Love Potion/Charm.
119* MageKiller: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in the Tales prequels. Normal folk fighting Mages simply doesn't ''work'' since magic is, in and of itself, cheating. Only a Mage has any reasonable chance against a Mage.
120* MageSpecies: Subverted. Holly assumes Courtney and Aloysius belong to a magical species. Courtney explains that's wrong - anyone can learn witchcraft. Although, like playing an instrument, it's as much skill as it is hard work.
121* TheMagocracy: The Coven of Mystics, who not-so-secretly run Hillsborough. The ordinary citizens function as window-dressing for the Coven.
122%%* MagicalLand: The Twilight Kingdom.
123* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Tommy's response to being told his body was burned and the ashes thrown into a pit? "I've had worse."
124* TheMasquerade: The Coven to the rest of Hillsborough.
125%%* MentorArchetype: Aloysius Crumrin, and later Ms. Calpurnia Crisp.
126* MiscarriageOfJustice: [[spoiler:Due to the wizarding community's prejudice against Night Things, Skarrow is found guilty of hexing Hermia Harken, and promptly executed.]]
127* {{Muggles}}: Most of Hillsborough inhabitants are completely unaware of the magic in their midst. In the case of Courtney's parents, they can't even figure out that their own daughter is part of it.
128* MundaneSolution: Aloysius is a master of this. [[spoiler:For example, when Rawhead and Bloody Bones boasts that he can't be destroyed by magic, Aloysius simply cuts off his head.]]
129* MysteriousPast: We still only know so much about Aloysius Crumrin and his bad history with the Coven of Mystics.
130* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Tommy Rawhide and Bloody Bones. Even if you don't know that they're basically [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Bones another name for the boogeyman]], the name alone should tip you off that he's not someone to meet in a dark room.
131* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Butterworm makes the opening and closing narration in a casual and even cheerful way. (Again, it's Butterworm...)
132* NonHumanLoverReveal: Magda falls for a Gypsy... who turns out to be a werewolf.
133* TheNoseless: Courtney herself. All other characters are drawn more normally, but no one seems to notice this aspect of her appearance.
134* ObfuscatingDisability: Aloysius is perfectly sound physically and mentally and doesn't need Courtney's parents to take care of him. He just tolerates them because they make his house less menacing and noteworthy.
135* OldDarkHouse: The Crumrin place is infamous as this. Turns out the neighbors are right, but it's not anything like they think it is.
136* OldMaster: Aloysius Crumrin looks like a frail old man, but, when needed, he can behead "The Worst Goblin That Ever Was" in one move.
137* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: Every single goblin is different from one another.
138* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They're more [[UsefulNotes/{{Italy}} Italian]]/bird influenced, for one.
139* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: They're also Gypsies.
140* ParentalNeglect: Courtney's parents don't do a very good job of taking care of her. Not out of spite they just aren't very good at giving her the emotional attention she needs. Issue #8 of the current comic series reveals that Courtney's mother actually ''wants'' to understand Courtney better but has a hard time doing so because they're so distant. She actually took Courtney's diary to try and get a better understanding of her daughter but admits she hated invading her privacy. She also states that she's glad Courtney has Aloysius because she relies on him so much.
141* PowerOfLove: Pretty strongly deconstructed at first, showing idealism alone accomplishes nothing, and even fighting for what you love may often fail. Then the color series happened and ''every single decision Courtney and Aloysius made in the entire series, and magic culture in general'' is deconstructed to devastating effect. Reconstructed again when Courtney connects with the few friends she's made to help her through the climax, relying on Calpurnia's insistence that friends are important -- and when ThePowerOfFriendship [[spoiler: unlocks her SecretArt, and makes her more powerful than ever.]]
142* RageAgainstTheMentor: Courtney temporarily shuns her uncle [[spoiler:after he doesn't save Skarrow]]. Again in ''Monster Holiday,'' after [[spoiler: he refuses to help out a group of werewolf Gypsies and a girl who loves one of them.]]
143* ReligionIsMagic: [[UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}} Christians]] have access to their own class of magic which only works if backed by pious faith. It's also heavily implied that Christian symbols, such as the cross, are repellents against non-Christian magic.
144* RescueArc: ''Twilight Kingdom'' is primarily about Courtney having to save her classmates after they're sold into slavery in Goblin Town.
145* RetiredBadass: Aloysius Crumrin is formally retired from magical society, but keeps getting called in to deal with crises.
146* RunningGag: "Oh, bugger."
147* SecretTestOfCharacter: Aloysius is revealed to have failed one as a youth. [[spoiler: The Dreadful Duchess had imprisoned him as a child when his brother Wilberforce offered to [[TakeMeInstead take his place]]... Aloysius lets him, and Wilberforce is turned into one of her pets. The Duchess later revealed she would have let them both go had Aloysius refused to go through with the plan.]]
148* TheScapegoat: Skarrow.
149* SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers: Calpurnia attempts to teach this to Courtney, forcing her to do her homework when Courtney fails to see the point in school, and telling her about ThePowerOfFriendship when Courtney shows signs of isolating herself.
150* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: The series is all over the scale - Courtney is cynical, lonely, and jaded with the world, and grows ever more so as she discovers just how treacherous witchcraft and the world is. But Aloysius strives to protect her, recognizing she's still got a life and future ahead of her (whereas he's wasted his own losing all he cares for). It ends on a bittersweet, but still upbeat note, with Courtney finally understanding how importing it is to have friends.
151* SociallyAwkwardHero: Courtney's a whiz at magic, but not so great at navigating junior high. She eventually gets the kids to leave her alone out of fear of her, but she never manages to win any friends.
152* SpookySeance: Courtney holds one to resurrect the disfigured head of Tommy Rawhead.
153* StealthBasedMission: When trying to rescue her classmates from the Dreadful Duchess, Courtney offers to distract the Duchess while her classmates sneak out of her house. [[spoiler: It fails miserably.]]
154** Aloysisus manages to do bypass the Duchess's houses' defenses by doing the exact opposite. Apparently the best way to handle the Duchess is by mind-controlling a significant amount of the Night Things, and [[ZergRush using them to en masse swarm her house.]]
155* SurpassedTheTeacher:
156** [[spoiler: Courtney, when reading her poetry, accesses power Aloysius couldn't dream of even in his prime.]]
157** [[spoiler: Aloysius asks Calpurnia before their duel if the "student has become the master." She seems to believe so. She's wrong.]]
158* SwordCane: Aloysius uses his to keep up his frail-old-man façade, but when it comes down to danger, he can use the sword.
159* TalkingAnimal: All cats in the Crumrin universe can talk. They mostly choose not to. This is accepted as an understood fact among the magic-wielders..
160* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: The Night Things are the ''original'' things that go bump in the night, the old-school forgotten fairies. All are dangerous to humans and particularly to children.
161%%* ThinkingUpPortals
162%%* TheUnderworld: Specifically, Tommy Rawhead's lair.
163* UpperClassTwit: Courtney's parents are aspiring yuppies who live well outside of their means in a desperate attempt to keep up with the old-money elite of Hillsborough. Every interaction proves how superficial, shallow, and clueless they truly are. Even moving in with Uncle Aloysius is all part of their plan to glom off his presumed fortune.
164* VitriolicBestBuds: Courtney and Malcolm's relationship feels like this. [[spoiler:But in the end the vitriolic won out and they stopped being friends.]]
165* WeaksauceWeakness: One issue deals with a monster immune to curses famed for killing magic-users. What can defeat such a fearsome creature? [...] Turns out [[BoringButPractical normal weapons]] work just fine.
166* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Marshall's successor and former assistant.
167** Courtney sicc'ed Tommy Rawhide on [[spoiler: Hector,]] murdering him, but ending his rise to power as CorruptPolitician.
168** Aloysius is revealed to have worked as an OccultDetective in his youth, which meant stopping witches from abusing their powers on muggle society, but also [[spoiler: assassinating them too.]]
169** Holly Hart counts as one as well. She only [[spoiler: betrays Courtney]] when she discovers how she's punished the children around the town -- which, though well-deserved and done when she was a lot more naive, are horrifying to witness.
170* WhatTheHellHero:
171** When Courtney and her uncle are on holiday in Europe, Courtney finds herself drawn to the company of a young vampire and starts to find the idea of dying with him to be appealing, since she's tired of everyone she knows dying or leaving her. When her uncle discovers that the vampire has been drinking her blood, he is confused as to how a vampire could get the better of his niece, who is plenty proficient in the use of magic. The owner of the hotel they are staying at promptly tells him off for failing to consider the fact that Courtney is a young girl who had to grow up fast and was thus vulnerable in ways that he was ignoring.
172** Courtney gets this herself a couple of times, related to her possibly excessive revenge against [[spoiler: Hector.]] She even wonders herself if it was really justified or if she had less extreme options.
173** The start of the new series has got new character Holly calling Courtney out on her actions, and we see what's happened to some of the kids she's inflicted vengeance on, and why they were so mean in the first place.
174* WhenSheSmiles: Courtney almost never does this. So when she does, she really means it.
175* WillNotTellALie: Most Night Things don't know the very concept of lying (even if they can hide a truth,) and are genuinely baffled when Humans don't keep their word.
176* WizardingSchool: Magical children have Saturday School where they learn about the history of magic.
177* WolfMan: One hunts down Holly and Courtney in ''The Witch Next Door.''
178* WorldsStrongestMan: Aloysius is [[CurbStompBattle by far]] the most powerful character in the series. [[spoiler:Until Courtney busts out her poetry book.]]

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