1 | ->''"I swear, this is the weirdest school in the entire world."'' |
2 | -->-- '''Tori, the main character lady''' |
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4 | The Villain Academy is a UsefulNotes/NaNoWriMo 2009 winner, published on Website/LiveJournal. It tells of a sadistic school for villains and one lone hero girl trying to infiltrate them. Featuring death, giant mutant electric squids, plot twists, creepy twins, pyromaniacs, non-sparkly vampires, death, dinosaurs, ninjas, filler, and death. Clocks in at 51k+. |
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6 | !!The tropes used are: |
7 | * AbusiveParents: Rune is shunned by his parents for being born a {{Dhampyr}} and not a pureblooded vampire. |
8 | -->'''Rune:''' "I only learned to cook to feed myself so I wouldn't starve." |
9 | * ActionGirl: Angie, but the other girls could be as well. |
10 | * BlackEyesOfEvil: Rune. It's a vampire thing. |
11 | %%* BlackAndGreyMorality |
12 | * BlatantLies: Pretty much everything the villains tell Tori before [[spoiler: they find out Tori is actually the Snowflakes' long-lost little sister.]] |
13 | * BlessedWithSuck: Rune can read people's thoughts by touching them. Apparently it isn't as cool as it sounds; he's basically shunned human contact. |
14 | ** Version two: Charlie's sister can control plants, but his "superpower" is the ability to disguise his voice perfectly. |
15 | --->'''Tori:''' [[DoubleEntendre "So you're only good over the phone?"]] |
16 | * BloodSplatteredInnocents: Subverted; the villain kids are ''far'' from innocent. |
17 | * BringIt: Tori's [[spoiler: foster]] parents to the Snowflakes. |
18 | * ChandlersLaw: NINJAS! |
19 | * CreepyTwins: The Snowflakes. |
20 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: Oh, ''God.'' |
21 | ** [[spoiler: Truculent]] gets thrown off a second-story glass window. Characters observe his body on the grounds for the remainder of the novel. |
22 | ** [[spoiler: Charlie]] gets stabbed quite horribly and with a very squick-worthy description. |
23 | ** [[spoiler: Joy]] gets chased by the kid villains, slashed by a Velociraptor, and falls down the stairs losing blood and suffering brain damage before finally dying. And then she gets eaten by Velociraptors. |
24 | * CuteLittleFangs: Rune has them. |
25 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Basically all the villains have them in varying degrees. |
26 | * DeadpanSnarker: Ensemble snarkers. It's noted that Tori is, but she quickly becomes tired of everyone else being one too. |
27 | * DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Tori-Aimee basically causes the deaths of her foster family and her sisters]] at the end of the final chapter. |
28 | ** But a BittersweetEnding for the [[spoiler: rabid Tori/Rune shippers.]] |
29 | * Dhampyr: Rune. But dhampyrs and vampires aren't so different, really. |
30 | * DistressCall: Ends badly for all involved. |
31 | ** Secondary distress call doesn't end too well, either. |
32 | * DoomedAppointment: Charlie's with Tori, as well as Felicity and Edgar's. |
33 | * DualityMotif: Tori. [[spoiler:It's because when her foster parents took her home, they had her appearance changed and she got one eye from each of them.]] |
34 | * EvilTowerOfOminousness: The Villain Academy is described to have an ominous tower. But the whole building is just one dark, ominous mass. |
35 | * Filler: It's UsefulNotes/NaNoWriMo. Filler is required. |
36 | * FinalBattle: An [[IncrediblyLamePun explosive one]] in "Finale." |
37 | * FluffyTheTerrible: Rex, the giant mutant electric squid, was apparently raised and trained by Headmaster Truculent. |
38 | * ForTheEvulz: Oh, sure, the villains angst their little brains out, but they're [[ItAmusedMe in it for the lulz.]] |
39 | * GratuitousNinja: It's UsefulNotes/NaNoWriMo. Of course there are entirely unnecessary ninjas! |
40 | * HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[spoiler: Tori. She goes from hero to villain to indecisive villain to neutral.]] |
41 | * IJustWantToBeNormal: [[spoiler: Tori at the end.]] |
42 | * IsItAlwaysLikeThis: Apparently ninja break-ins are a normal, annoying occurence. |
43 | * ItWasADarkAndStormyNight: Always. |
44 | * MeaningfulName: Most everyone in the novel has a name with a deeper meaning or a name that describes their character. Angie's full name Angana means "fire," Gemelle and Tamsyn both mean "twin," and so on. |
45 | * PyroManiac: Angie. |
46 | * Shipping: Many readers are devout Tori/Rune shippers, to the point where they plotted to hunt the author down when [[spoiler: Rune betrayed Tori to the other villains by kissing her.]] |
47 | ** Plotting is such an ugly word, don't you think? |
48 | * ShipSinking: The Tori/Rune ship was once sunk so horribly that the author commented: "The Titanic went "odamn."" |
49 | * ShoutOut: Several. To UsefulNotes/NaNoWriMo itself, to Music/MyChemicalRomance, and to [[Series/TwentyFour 24]]. |
50 | * SiblingTeam: After Tori finds out she's actually [[spoiler: sister to the Snowflakes,]] they team up. |
51 | * OurVampiresAreDifferent: Rune. |
52 | * WhatTheHellHero: Tori calls out her hero parents and her uncle [[spoiler: because they blew up Tori's biological parents, who were mad scientists.]] |
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