Line #123 Literature/Everworld


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3	->''"You hopeless idiots. Where do you think you are? This isn't a church. This isn't America. And it's not Philosophy 101, Jalil! This is Everworld, you blind, stupid, ignorant, willful jackasses. You simple-minded, narrow morons, these aren't gods you argue about. You fight them if you have the power, and if you don't, then you do what they say."''
4	-->-- '''Senna''', ''Brave the Betrayal.''
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9	A YoungAdult series written by Creator/KAApplegate and Creator/MichaelGrant and published by Scholastic between 1999 and 2001, written alongside the duo's most successful title, ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}''.
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11	The series is about [[FourTemperamentEnsemble four teenagers with opposing personalities]] who are TrappedInAnotherWorld, where all of the classical polytheistic gods, demons and legendary heroes from various mythologies fled when people stopped worshiping them in the "Old World." While dealing with [[ImmortalImmaturity lunatic gods]] and [[BigCreepyCrawlies insect]] [[OutsideGenreFoe aliens]], they must find a way back to the Old World. Unfortunately, the only person who might be able to help them return is Senna, the [[HotWitch witch]] who brought them to Everworld and shows up from time-to-time to either [[VillainousRescue save their lives]] or travel with them and lend her magic to help. However, Senna has her own goals and plans for Everworld, and is more interested in bringing them to fruition than helping the rest of the group, and may be [[EvilPlan following a master plan darker than any of them could ever guess]].
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13	''Everworld'' had many of the themes of ''Animorphs'', but aimed at an older audience, so it got to include "fun" subjects such as alcoholism, homophobia, religious intolerance, prejudice, neo-Nazism, obsessive-compulsive disorder and child molestation. Like ''Animorphs'', each book was told in first-person narrative from one of the main characters' viewpoints.
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15	Books in the series include:
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17	# ''Search for Senna'' (1999)
18	# ''Land of Loss'' (1999)
19	# ''Enter the Enchanted'' (1999)
20	# ''Realm of the Reaper'' (1999)
21	# ''Discover the Destroyer'' (2000)
22	# ''Fear the Fantastic'' (2000)
23	# ''Gateway to the Gods'' (2000)
24	# ''Brave the Betrayal'' (2000)
25	# ''Inside the Illusion'' (2000)
26	# ''Understand the Unknown'' (2000)
27	# ''Mystify the Magician'' (2001)
28	# ''Entertain the End'' (2001)
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30	In 2021, KA Applegate and Michael Grant confirmed the rights to the series were given back to them, and [[https://twitter.com/kaaauthor/status/1475532695803416584 the series was rereleased in Spring 2022]].
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32	!!Includes examples of:
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34	* AbortedArc: ''Inside the Illusion'' sets up two plot points that were lost in the shuffle and never mentioned again: in one, Senna recalls a mysterious young man with 'the glow' (which would make him the only character from the Old World other than Senna and her mother to wield magic) who led her to a statue of Isis (leading Senna to link her mother with Isis) in a store only to disappear and never be seen again. In another, Senna notes that she feels an unseen presence watching her whenever she opens the gateway between the Old World and Everworld, something distinct from the gods or anyone else. Like the mysterious young man, this watcher is never seen or heard from in any way again.
35	* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Coo-Hatch steel weapons, particularly the jokingly-named "Excalibur." Galahad's sword is also tougher and more durable than your average blade.
36	* ActionSurvivor: The core four (April, Jalil, David and Christopher). They're just trying to stay alive long enough to get home.
37	* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Dionysus is portrayed as one of the nicest gods in the setting (at worst, he's a ChivalrousPervert). In the original myths, he is also the [[MadGod god of insanity]] and a lot nastier.
38	%%* TheAlcoholic: Christopher
39	* TheAlliance: The group opposing Ka Anor by series end includes [[spoiler:the Norse and Olympian Pantheons, the Dwarves, the Elves, every Fairy mercenary that Dwarf gold can buy, Merlin and the Irish, and the core four]]. They plan to grow it even more.
40	* AlliterativeName: The titles of all of the books.
41	%%Belongs in CrossoverCosmology* AllMythsAreTrue: And they all live in Everworld.
42	* AllTrollsAreDifferent: DumbMuscle [[TakenForGranite made of stone]], with rhino heads growing out of their chests. In thrall to Loki.
43	* AlmightyIdiot: Everworld's gods are NighInvulnerable and have RealityWarper-level power, but most might as well have walnuts in their heads for all the brain activity going on upstairs. It's implied in ''Inside the Illusion'' that this is an inevitable consequence of their TimeAbyss-tier lifespans, and that left to their own devices long enough they'll all either degrade into living statues (as the entire Egyptian pantheon has) or get devoured by Ka Anor. Loki and Athena (and Sobek, once Senna coaxes him into it) are the only gods the kids meet who can think outside of their mythologically-mandated boxes, likely because of the nature of their divinity[[note]] as Athena is the Goddess of Wisdom, Loki a God of Cleverness as well as Trickery, and Sobek, though he's descended into TheBrute when Senna meets him, is traditionally rooted as a God of ''Military Prowess and Luck''[[/note]].
44	* AmbitionIsEvil: [[spoiler:Senna. She's more ambitious than every other character in the entire series combined.]]
45	* AmbiguousSituation: Whatever it was that Merlin had planned for Senna. He presented it as taking Senna somewhere where she would be safe and providing her with all she would ever want, while Senna herself saw it as a prison sentence to avoid at all costs. Since both characters are inclined towards deceit and Merlin never actually does get his hands on Senna, it's never revealed whether his intentions for her were in fact as benevolent as he claimed or whether he really did intend to imprison a teenage girl (albeit a powerful and dangerous one) without any benefit of charges or trial.
46	* AncientGrome: We get both the Greek and Roman pantheons, who hate each other. Neptune and Poseidon are always beating the crap out of each other, and Zeus refers to the Romans as "that impostor Jupiter and his brood."
47	* AntiHero: Senna is an UnscrupulousHero on a good day.
48	* AntiVillain: Loki, who wants to survive as badly as the kids do.
49	* ArchEnemy: Several groups.
50	** Loki to the core four.
51	** Merlin to Senna.
52	** Ka Anor to all the other gods.
53	* ArcWords: A supremely creepy example. "Ka Anor is Fear"
54	* ArtifactOfDoom: The Great Scroll of the Gods. Pick it up, and you become the DimensionLord of the entire universe of Everworld. Naturally, [[spoiler:Senna]] wants it ''bad''.
55	* AttackItsWeakPoint: The only way to injure Hel is to attack her living side.
56	* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Loki's sons, Jormungandr and Fenrir are, respectively, a snake so big he encircles the world, and an elephantine wolf.
57	* {{Atlantis}}: One of the few decently-run, semi-democratic places in all of Everworld, courtesy of its real-world mayor, Monsiuer Le Mieux.
58	* AxeCrazy: Neptune, Hel, [[PsychoForHire Keith]], and [[spoiler:Senna in the 11th book]].
59	* BadassNormal: The core four approach this as the series progresses. They'll never win any stand-up fights, but their ability to survive and turn situations to their advantage is very impressive. Any human characters they encounter are either utterly pathetic, or this, with special points going to Thorolf and the other Vikings.
60	%%* BadBoss: All the gods and Senna.
61	%%* BarrierMaiden: The "gateway" [[spoiler:Senna]], though she has her own agenda.
62	%%* BastardBastard: Senna.
63	* BerserkButton:
64	** For April, anything involving [[SiblingYinYang her half-sister]].
65	** Senna's list of berserk buttons include: [[spoiler:being called by her birth name, being in a situation where she isn't in control, any action that she constitutes as a betrayal of her, and the idea of anyone using her as a pawn in a scheme]].
66	* BetterThanSex: To Senna, using magic. She makes numerous quotes about it in ''Inside the Illusion'' to this effect.
67	-->''...filled me up, rushed through me, the sensation of power more erotic than any fantasy, more exciting.''\
68	''The power, I loved it so, it filled me and fulfilled me.''\
69	''It was mind, it was body, it was sex and money and power and revenge and triumph all rolled into one.''
70	%%* BewareTheNiceOnes: Holy manslaughter [[spoiler:and sororicide]], April.
71	%%* BigBadEnsemble: Loki, Ka Anor and [[spoiler:Senna]].
72	%%* BigCreepyCrawlies: The Hetwan.
73	* BigFun: Personified in Dionysus, the God of Wine and Ecstasy. [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed,]] as a God whose powers rely on drunken revelry becomes a gigantic liability when trying to rescue him in enemy territory.
74	* BigScrewedUpFamily: Loki's. Christopher says it the best: "As bad as Loki is man, his kids are worse. I mean, how is it that you're this Calvin Klein, underwear model-looking god, and your kids are a snake, a wolf, and a half-dead monster woman?"
75	** And that's not to mention the Wales family; both members that appeared in the series have a serious case of MoralMyopia, and it's implied in the ninth book that [[spoiler:Senna was conceived when her mother used magic to seduce her father, just as Senna is doing to ''David'' in the series]].
76	** Worse yet: it's implied that this [[spoiler:magic-powered seduction]] is how the Wales family has reproduced for ''untold generations'', and Senna may be descended from Morgan La Fey.
77	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Senna. While it's relatively obvious that she's up to no good, she makes an effort to appear [[AffablyEvil polite and reasonable]] to the others in the first three books. As the series goes on, she eventually drops the facade and lets her {{Jerkass}} behavior come to the forefront when they continue to distrust her.
78	%%* BlackAndNerdy: Jalil
79	* BlackShirt: The [[spoiler:Sennites]]. Christopher describes them as a bunch of "hopelessly fried, [[UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} Klebold-Harris]] wannabes."
80	* BlackVikings: {{Lampshaded}} and {{Justified\|Trope}}:
81	** There are Vikings of all different races because Everworld's {{Fantasy Counterpart Culture}}s have a vastly different geography from our world, so that Everworld-Vikings regularly raid Everworld-Aztecs, Everworld-Africans, and apparently Everworld-Asians; this results in many new people entering the Viking society as slaves (who may gain freedom and work their way up) or from mixed marriages between Vikings and captured women. Their king, Olaf Ironfoot, is actually black.
82	** The Amazons are described as similarly having children with whatever men they happen to conquer. The queen, Pretty Little Flower, is mixed-race.
83	* BloodyMurder: Witch's blood is poisonous. Loki's blood (which is black, and freezes as it bleeds) is apparently burning hot.
84	* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Explored in ''Brave the Betrayal'' with Eshu and the Orisha. From the kids' perspective Eshu is a JerkAss TricksterGod, constantly following them around needling them to make a sacrifice to the Orisha and then punishing them when they don't. But from Eshu's case he is simply enforcing the rules of the land the kids have come to and is more puzzled than annoyed by their continued defiance (though he does start to get annoyed with Jalil in particular as the dispute turns into a [[ItsPersonal personal contest of wills between them]]. In the end, [[spoiler:the Orisha get their sacrifice through a handy bit of LoopholeAbuse and Eshu sends the kids on their way without further incident, though he warns them not to return to his lands again]].
85	* BoisterousBruiser: Thorolf and the other Vikings.
86	* BodySnatcher: Senna can insert her mind into the body of a mentally unstable person, taking control of them. The owners are still fully aware when she does this, and think she's just a figment of their imagination. Senna being Senna, she doesn't waste the opportunity to [[DeadpanSnarker snark]] about it.
87	-->'''Fat Billy:''' You're not real. Go away now. Don't be bothering me. I took my meds.\
88	'''Senna:''' You can't get rid of me that easily. I'm with the CIA. You know we can control your brain. You should have worn your tinfoil hat. It's the only way to stop us. Get up, Fat Billy. We have places to go, people to see.
89	* BornInTheWrongCentury:
90	** David, who'd much rather be a Greek general.
91	** Senna also laments being born in the 20th century, noting in ''Inside the Illusion'' that while she might have been drowned or hanged or burned in earlier days, at least she'd have been less bored.
92	* BreakTheCutie:
93	** [[spoiler:Senna's]] backstory. See FreudianExcuse below.
94	** David's backstory, too. Heck, all the main characters over the course of the series, especially April.
95	* BreakingSpeech: An example where one character's attempt to break another with words is turned around and broken in return. Jalil attempts to point out to Senna that she's in a bad situation, being on her own in a world where she has few allies and many enemies. Senna promptly composes and responds with one of these, deconstructing everything from Jalil's confidence to his religious beliefs, to great success.
96	* BrilliantButLazy: [[spoiler:Senna's mother Anica, who has all of her daughter's magical ability but none of her ambition, and seems to have crossed over into Everworld solely as a means to escape the poverty and obscurity of her life in the Old World. She doesn't do much better for herself in Everworld either, though, and Senna is so disappointed all she can do when she learns the truth is laugh at the notion that she ever considered this woman a potential threat]].
97	* BringMyBrownPants: David wets himself when they get to Everworld and are interrogated by Loki.
98	* TheBrute: Keith, so much. He believes in [[AttackAttackAttack force]], MoreDakka, and not much else. Even ''Senna'' thinks he has issues. In a purely story-wise sense, he's closer to TheDragon.
99	** Ares and Heracles fulfill this role for the Olympian gods, with their short tempers, love of violence, and incredible stupidity. Ares in particular is a wonderful case of DumbMuscle meets PsychopathicManchild.
100	%%* BuryYourGays: Bye bye, Ganymede. -- ZCE
101	* TheBusCameBack: Thorolf the Viking vanishes early in the second book and doesn't come back until the eighth.
102	* ButtMonkey: Even though he considers himself TheHero, David gets no respect.
103	* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:Senna and April. But in this case, April, the good sister, kills Senna, the evil one]].
104	* TheCaligula: Most of the gods, but Neptune exemplifies the trope.
105	* CantStayNormal: The first variation of this is a recurring theme throughout the series. As the series progresses, the characters want less and less to do with their regular lives in the real world, until eventually [[spoiler:they are forced to choose between staying in Everworld or returning to the real world, and all four choose Everworld.]]
106	* CarpetRolledCorpse: A rare example where someone's friends smuggle them somewhere this way, alive and willing.
107	* CassandraTruth: Spoken by the actual Cassandra, no less. Despite being GenreSavvy enough to know about her and her curse, they ''still'' don't/can't believe her.
108	* CharacterDevelopment: April develops from TheHeart to an ActionGirl, Jalil experiences serious MessiahCreep, and Christopher drops [[PretendPrejudice his racist act]] and starts to contribute. Even David learns the value of teamwork, and slowly starts to recover from his BadassDecay. At the start they're four normal kids who can't stand each other. By the end, they're a band of TrueCompanions, ready to do war with [[EldritchAbomination Ka Anor]] himself.
109	* TheChessmaster:
110	** Senna and Merlin. A good chunk of the first ten books is made up of the two of them trying to out-maneuver one another. [[spoiler:Senna escapes him in their first three encounters, but comes off worse in their fourth]].
111	** Senna [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructs]] the "chessmaster" analogy in ''Inside the Illusion'', commenting that while a chessmaster has to be able to predict moves far in advance, people are very unpredictable; although she ''is'' good at [[BatmanGambit guessing what people will do]], her ''real'' talent is that she can [[XanatosSpeedChess think quickly and adapt to whatever unexpected situation she finds herself in]].
112	* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Also ties in with GodsNeedPrayerBadly, as there is a terrible implication about the nature of Ka Anor... [[spoiler:it's theorized by Jalil that he may not actually ''exist'', not in the way the other Gods in Everworld do. The idea that the God-Eater may actually be a manifestation of the religious fervor of the Hetwan disturbs the group more than any other God they encounter does, though the series ends before it can be fully explored.]]
113	* ClassicVillain: [[spoiler:Senna]] representing a full temperament of pride, wrath, greed and envy. Given how [[spoiler:she]] describes magic you could even throw in Lust and Gluttony as well.
114	* CombatPragmatist: The group (particularly Jalil) become adept at this simply to ''survive'', as each culture seems to be mode-locked into whatever tactics were the norm when they were brought over into Everworld. Under Athena's patronage they are tasked with instructing the Greek Army in guerrilla warfare in order to combat the Hetwan horde. [[spoiler:When the Sennites invade Everworld with modern weaponry capable of killing immortals, the group brings multiple cultures together to school them in modern tactics.]]
115	** The Hetwan as a culture do battle in this manner. Their bodies are frail compared to a Viking or Spartan and they rarely utilize armor (as their carapaces would shatter beneath it with enough force anyway), but they can overwhelm most armies through [[ZergRush sheer numbers]] given how quickly they can spawn. They've developed attachments to their bodies allowing them to weaponize their [[AlienBlood acidic bodily fluids]] as projectiles, not to mention the fact that they can ''fly''.
116	* CompellingVoice: Senna has a sort of compelling ''touch'' which can cause anyone to fall under her spell and obey her every whim, or believe something that is false. [[spoiler:Later in the series, she becomes able to extend it at a distance as well.]]
117	* CoolSword: Galahad's sword burns anyone who isn't supposed to touch it. It also survives physical contact with Hel, something normal swords do ''not'' do, and seems pretty much unbreakable.
118	* CowardlyLion: Christopher is no less able than any of the other characters, and when push comes to shove, he shows it. Otherwise, he's usually the first to advocate running away.
119	* CreepyChild: Senna, especially when she was younger ([[spoiler:and would terrorize her half-sister April at night by taking on the appearance of [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Gollum]] or [[Literature/AliceInWonderland the Queen of Hearts]], which April thought were just nightmares]]), but still creepy as a teenager/young adult. When the author was describing the series online, the only character she mentioned by name was, "Senna Wales, a strange, disturbing girl."
120	* CrossoverCosmology: Anything from human religion or myth lives in the corresponding part of Everworld, i.e. Egyptian gods live in the Everworld's version of Egypt and so on.
121	* DarkAndTroubledPast: The entire main cast, but David and Senna in particular.
122	* DarkerAndEdgier: Essentially, it was a darker and edgier take on a lot of what made ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' popular. And that wasn't the most cheerful series to start with.
123	* DarkMessiah: [[spoiler:Senna]]
124	* DeadpanSnarker: When Senna is actually traveling with the four, she tends to [[EmotionlessGirl stay quiet]], except to occasionally make a sarcastic comment to mock them.
125	** Christopher is also prone to snarking (especially in the books he narrates). Nidhoggr gets a few choice lines in ''Fear the Fantastic''.
126	* DeathGlare: Senna's cold, contemptuous looks; she prefers these to express disapproval most of the time, unless she gets [[UnstoppableRage really angry]].
127	* DidTheyOrDidntThey: In ''Enter the Enchanted'', April goes to see David in his room at the castle they're staying in, and finds to her surprise that he's shirtless, and Senna is in the room with him, in a suspiciously cheery mood. He later admits he can't remember if they slept together or not.
128	* DidYouJustHaveSex: Senna is unusually polite and courteous, even to April, afterwards.
129	* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: Merlin, while he lacks the power of the average god, still holds his own against them by using his intelligence, cleverness and imagination. Senna recognizes this, and later uses the same strategy to good effect.
130	* DirtyCoward: Anica, as noted by Senna while she was giving her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
131	* DominanceThroughFurniture: The Norse goddess Hel has taken to using the victims she's ensnared as the road leading into her domain, essentially burying people up to their necks so their heads serve as the paving stones; as a result, they are left to be repeatedly trodden on and tripped over by any unfortunate guests invited into Niflheim until the victims finally die and decay into skulls that are - at a distance - identical to real paving stones. For good measure, Hel has a thing for keeping the freshest examples closest to her domain, likely so she can enjoy the screams.
132	* DoNotCallMePaul: "Senna" isn't her real name, though it isn't revealed until ''Inside the Illusion'', because the only two people who know about her birth name are Senna herself and her mother.
133	* DoNotTauntCthulhu:
134	** When the kids aren't kowtowing to the gods, they're insulting them.
135	** Defied by Senna, who ''repeatedly'' tells them that taunting Cthulhu is a very bad idea. The page quote is given by her after the core four flip off the African deities, which Senna thinks is outright stupid and unnecessarily risky.
136	%%* DontYouDarePityMe: Several characters express this.
137	* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Senna's control over David is portrayed as creepy, but nothing particularly worse than that. It's implied that early on her actions are giving him flashbacks to [[spoiler:when he was molested as a kid at a summer camp]] or [[MindRape deliberately causing the flashbacks.]] Either way it's not okay.
138	* TheDragAlong: Everyone, at some point, but most notably Christopher.
139	* TheDragon: Merlin has an actual Dragon, Senna has [[spoiler:Dawkins]] to act as her [[NumberTwo second-in-command]] and [[spoiler:[[PsychoForHire Keith]]]] as her primary physical crony, and Loki has Fenrir. Judging from what Eshu says in ''Brave the Betrayal'', the Orisha (demi-gods) play this role to the Great High Gods of the African myth the group wandered into on their way to Egypt.
140	* DragonHoard: The only thing dragons seem to care about is money. The best example is Nidhoggr, who, aside from being huge even by dragon standards, has a hoard to match. Yet when four magical items are stolen, he has a major breakdown and weeps "swimming pools of tears".
141	* DragonRider: While it's not clear if Merlin actually ''rides'' any dragons, her certainly seems to have an affinity for them.
142	* DreamWeaver: Senna has the ability to project her mind into another person's dreams and control them. [[spoiler:This might explain the rather freaky dream of her that David had in ''Search for Senna''.]]
143	* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Debateably [[spoiler:Senna, who gets knifed by April in ''Mystify the Magician'', right after her moment of triumph, and then the book just ends abruptly afterwards]]. Definitely [[spoiler:Finn [=McCool=], an Irish hero]] who looks like he's being set up as a {{Foil}} to David and Christopher [[spoiler:and who promptly gets shot by an unnamed Sennite during an ambush]].
144	* DumbMuscle: Most of Everworld's inhabitants are heavy on the muscle and physical ability and light on the reasoning and critical thinking.
145	* TheDungAges: The kids' view on Everworld is not a positive one. And it's largely accurate.
146	* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:The already dead [[BoisterousBruiser Thorolf]] manages to bail the kids out of an upside down African afterlife ''by holding onto a messenger of the gods with his bare hands'' while Jalil blackmails the gods themselves. This leads to their release, resulting in Thorolf's immediate death...which he greets in true LargeHam style, demanding the Valkyries come and get him]].
147	* DysfunctionJunction: The core four, and Senna. [[spoiler:[[JustifiedTrope Deliberately,]] because Senna wanted a bunch of real-worlders mucking about and causing havoc without working together, so that when the Sennites come to conquer Everworld anyone who can shoots back rather than tries to talk to them.]]
148	* EldritchAbomination: The ever-changing Ka Anor. He's witnessed once, and all the kids can really remember is an all-powerful sense of revulsion.
149	** He is implied to be some kind of physical personification of PrimalFear. He's pretty much a living, sentient BrownNote.
150	* ElvesVsDwarves: Averted. The dwarves prize elven women as potential mates.
151	* EmotionlessGirl: Senna, most of the time, comes across as this due to her withdrawn nature.
152	* EnemyToAllLivingThings: Witches. [[spoiler:Like Senna]] No horse will bear them, and [[BloodyMurder their bodily fluids kill anything they come into contact with]]. As we seen in the series, at least with [[spoiler:[[AxCrazy Senna]] ]], it's pretty justified.
153	* EunuchsAreEvil: Or at least in the employ of Hel. Oddly, Hel's eunuchs do avert the EvilChancellor, SissyVillain archetype associated with this trope, as they are ''Viking eunuchs'', and thus big, brutal and tough.
154	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even [[SelfishEvil Senna]] thinks [[TheSociopath Hel]] is nuts. Even the [[JerkassGods other gods]] think [[GodOfEvil Ka Anor]] is nuts, as is lampshaded by Christopher.
155	-->"How bad? Bad enough that really bad, really violent, really hard, nasty, evil guys are scared of him. Imagine Jeffrey Dahmer thinking someone else was really a hard-core psycho. "Hey, man, sure I kill guys and cut them up and put them in the freezer and cook certain body parts for lunch, but see that guy over there? That guy is crazy!"
156	* EverybodyHatesHades: Hel gets this treatment. The original version of her from Norse Mythology was ''nowhere'' near as evil as this version.
157	* EvilGenius: Loki is probably the smartest of the gods in his own warped way. He knows they can't beat Ka Anor and just wants out of Everworld. Hel is also far from dumb, to the dismay of all.
158	** [[spoiler:Mr. Trent]] is also the EvilGenius for the Sennites, being the primary recruiter and "mission control" who gets their supplies and arms, and presumably delivers them to Dawkins.
159	* EvilIsNotAToy: In ''Brave the Betrayal'', Jalil thinks of Senna as the 'modem' that he can use to 'hack into the software' of Everworld and reasons that if he can use her to learn and understand magic, he can control it and then take it away from her. Come ''Mystify the Magician'', Senna shows him exactly what she does to people who try to use her.
160	* EvilVsEvil: This actually seems to be what's driving the plot a good portion of the time--both Ka Anor and Loki want Senna to keep the other from having her, and she's planning to overthrow both of them. The villains sometimes have alliances (like Loki and Ka Anor in the beginning), but even then they always seem to be planning to betray each other.
161	* FantasyGunControl: [[spoiler:The Sennites ''laugh'' at your silly gun control.]]
162	* FatalFlaw: The god's is their immutability, Senna's is her ego and need for control, David's his urge to prove himself.
163	* FauxAffablyEvil: Senna is this for many, especially after she drops the AffablyEvil act. The combination of DeadpanSnarker and {{Chessmaster}} ability helps, causing some to overlook her JerkAss moments in favour of her capability.
164	* FemalesAreMoreInnocent: April is easily the nicest of the main four characters, and the only girl in the group. Subverted with Senna, who seems nice enough at first, and tries to act innocent, but is really a ''very'' ManipulativeBitch.
165	* {{Flanderization}}: Subverted. The characters seem to be playing it straight for a few books, but eventually grow depths that shed a different light on past actions.
166	* FlatEarthAtheist: Jalil, who is an actual atheist, thinks that the gods and other supernatural creatures in Everworld are just some kind of SufficientlyAdvancedAliens or something, and that the magic is just due to the laws of physics working differently there. Rather ironically, April, who is a devout ''Christian'', mostly agrees with his view that the gods of Everworld aren't for real, although she doesn't seem to have a theory on what they really are.
167	* FlawExploitation:
168	** Senna does this to everyone throughout, but especially in the climax of the story. Poor Jalil...
169	** Conversely, the core four are not above exploiting Senna's need for control to their own advantage. Jalil is especially adept at it, and he and Merlin put her through the psychological ringer in ''Mystify the Magician''.
170	%%* FieryRedhead: April. She's green-eyed to boot, and, of course, has an Irish ancestry.%%How is she "fiery"?
171	* TheForceIsStrongWithThisOne: Senna can sense (and even see, when we finally get a book narrated from her perspective) magic and other magic users.
172	* FourTemperamentEnsemble: April is Sanguine, Christoper is Choleric, David is Melancholic, and Jalil is Phlegmatic.
173	* FriendshipMoment: Mostly between Christopher and Jalil, when they stick up for each other despite their many arguments, especially when that lapses into the "real world."
174	* FreudianExcuse: Senna's mom was generally a nice person ([[ManipulativeBitch well]], [[SmugSnake sort]] [[ItsAllAboutMe of]]) who did want her daughter to be safe, but was too overwhelmed. [[spoiler:However, it was precisely her absence that caused her daughter's start of darkness, because Senna considered it ParentalAbandonment.]] Senna's stepmother contributes to her FreudianExcuse as well; she seems to have never become comfortable with having to take care of her husband's bastard daughter.
175	* FunctionalMagic: Used by wizards and by witches, though the rules and limitations of the system aren't seen in detail until ''Inside the Illusion'', when Senna details her experiences with using it.
176	* GambitPileup: With Senna, Merlin, Loki, Ka Anor, Athena, Jalil, and every one of Everworld's other major players all putting their own plans in motion, this was more or less inevitable.
177	%%* GangstaStyle: Keith. To quote Jalil, "He'd learned his moves from TV."%%Meaning what?
178	* GenreSavvy: Played with, or possibly satired: Christopher babbles about how the laws of movies and TV are inescapable, and even predicts his own [[spoiler:[[RedemptionEqualsDeath death through redemption]]]]. Defied by April.
179	* AGodAmI: In ''Mystify the Magician'', [[spoiler:Senna seems to honestly believe she's become a god, and starts to really [[AxCrazy act like one]].]]
180	* GodEating: Ka Anor terrifies the gods from this reason. He eats Ganyemede onscreen and is known to have eaten the Daghda.
181	* GodOfEvil: Ka Anor embodies everything bad. Fear, revulsion, lust, hatred, it's all there in one twisted, shapeshifting EldritchAbomination.
182	* GodGuise: Senna in ''Inside the Illusion.'' She admits freely that she is no god, merely a mortal with unusual [[FunctionalMagic abilities]]. However, she also pretends to be a god, creating an illusionary appearance and voice, and then passing herself off as one to the Sennites, in order to better unite and encourage them, and give her cause a greater sense of importance. (And she puts on [[LargeHam quite a performance]].)
183	* GoodIsNotNice: Merlin's heart seems to be in the right place, but he spends most of his time trying to abduct Senna, without even bothering to explain to her or the other kids why.
184	* GoshDangItToHeck: Played straight at times, averted at others.
185	* GreaterScopeVillain: [[EldritchAbomination Ka Anor]]. The entire plot of the story is kicked off by Loki's desire to escape him. Every major scheme or plot in the story is generally caused in some way by him; either by his direct influence or, more commonly, [[OutsideContextProblem as a reaction of his mere existence]].
186	* GreenEyedMonster: Senna's whole reason for being so cruel to April seems to just be that April is a nice, normal girl whose parents actually love her (unlike Senna's) and that makes her (Senna) jealous.
187	* HealItWithBooze: April tries to treat Galahad's wounds and start a blood transfusion with limited 20th-century knowledge. She orders someone to get wine instead of water, as the water being germ-free is dubious at best.
188	* TheHeart: Senna states that she brought April along to be the team's emotional center, and [[JerkAss Christopher]] to be the anti-Heart.
189	* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Loki in ''Entertain the End'', now that escape is no longer an option]].
190	* {{Hell}}: Hel, both a place, and the Norse goddess who rules it. Boy is it a horror show.
191	* TheHero: David certainly tries, although the others often view him as little more than Senna's [[TheDragon protector]].
192	* HeroesPreferSwords: There's a reason David gets to carry Galahad's sword anywhere outside of Hel.
193	* HeroicWannabe: [[JumpedAtTheCall David]] starts out as this and develops into more of a hero before being gradually deconstructed back into this. [[spoiler:And then starts reconstructing himself in the last book. He's all over the place]].
194	%%* HeterosexualLifePartners: Christopher and Jalil unwillingly drift in this direction.
195	%%* HonorBeforeReason: David in his protection of Senna. Senna herself inverts this trope.
196	* HotWitch: Senna. Her magic can amplify people's attraction to her, resulting in MoreThanMindControl.
197	* AHouseDivided: Most of the series. It's rare to actually find the four agreeing on any course of action.
198	* HumanPopsicle: [[spoiler:Thor and Balder are frozen in Hel]].
199	* IgnoreTheFanservice: Jalil tries very hard not to look at, "Senna in profile" during ''Understand the Unknown''.
200	* ImAHumanitarian: Ka Anor eats other gods. They aren't happy about this.
201	%%* ImmortalImmaturity:
202	%%** Pretty much all of the immortals, save the Celtic ones.
203	%%** Athena tries to avert this, with varying degrees of success.
204	* InformedAbility: We're told that Etain, Christopher's crush, is very competent with a sword. She's never actually shown going into combat though.
205	* InformedJudaism: David, only brought up when Christopher feels like being a {{Jerkass}}.
206	* InsultedAwake: Subverted. April attempts to insult David's masculinity to "make him mad, wake him up" only to be rudely disabused in a rather creepy scene.
207	-->'''April:''' Where are Jalil and Christopher? Maybe they're still both men.\
208	'''Senna:''' Don't try to provoke him.\
209	'''David:''' Don't try to provoke me.
210	* InTheBlood: It becomes apparent in ''Inside the Illusion'' that [[ManipulativeBitch quite]] [[ItsAllAboutMe a]] [[JerkassWoobie few]] of Senna's traits were inherited from the maternal side.
211	** As an immortal example, Loki and Hel are notably smarter than most of the other gods, much to the dismay of the main characters.
212	* ItsAllAboutMe[=/=]MoralMyopia: Senna and her mother. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''Understand the Unknown'' by David, when he notes that when Senna hurts someone, it's business as usual. When someone hurts Senna, it's unforgiveable.
213	* IWantToBeARealMan: David's early motivation, thanks to his DarkAndTroubledPast.
214	* JadeColoredGlasses: Done in a mild way to April, as she didn't break, but she definitely became more cynical.
215	* {{Jerkass}}:
216	** Senna, increasingly with each book.
217	** Keith is even worse, and Senna decides that he's a natural choice for her [[TheDragon chief minion]] as a result.
218	** Christopher. He comes across as a straight up jerk, but it is revealed to be an act, which he admits at one point. Sadly, he only starts ''really'' letting down that facade toward the very end of the series.
219	* JerkassGods: A major theme of the series. An amputee could count on one hand the number of gods the kids meet who aren't Jerkasses.
220	* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: After [[TookALevelInJerkass taking multiple levels in jerkass]], Senna goes all the way in ''Mystify the Magician''.
221	* KarmicTrickster: Eshu in ''Brave the Betrayal''.
222	* KickTheDog: Senna constantly does this.(Though she claims she's actually [[ShootTheDog shooting it.]]) Christopher and of course, [[PsychoForHire Keith]] also do it on occasion.
223	%%* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Ganymede, Senna, Galahad, Finn [=MacCool=], Fenrir.]]
224	* %% KnightInShiningArmour: Galahad. Finn [=McCool=] thinks he's one, but comes off as more of a JerkAss ArrogantKungFuGuy.
225	* KnightOfCerebus: While the series is DarkerAndEdgier, whenever the Hetwans show up things tend to go FromBadToWorse.
226	* LackOfEmpathy: All the gods to one degree or another, with Hel being the very worst. Keith and Senna suffer from it as well.
227	* LampshadeHanging: CatchPhrase "Welcome to Everworld" serves as a general-purpose lampshade.
228	* LargeHam:
229	** Pretty much every single one of the gods, whose personalities range from PsychopathicManchild to BoisterousBruiser. Even [[TheSmartGuy Athena]] has shades of this. Thorolf, one of the Vikings, is also a decent example, as are many of his crewmates, and Senna does it as an act for [[spoiler:Keith and his psychos]].
230	** Senna has a special, illusion-modified voice that she uses especially for maximum hamminess.
231	* LeftHanging: The ending of ''Entertain the End'', definitely. Unfortunately, it's also ''the last book in the series''.
232	* LivingStatue: The fate of the Egyptian pantheon, who after centuries upon centuries of static worship have disengaged entirely from the world around them. As Amazon leader Pretty Little Flower puts it, "If you want your ass kissed from sunrise to sunrise, then you have to hold your ass very still."
233	* LoveMakesYouDumb: David loving Senna, blinding him to the fact that she's a manipulative, narcissistic sociopath who absolutely cannot be trusted and not a damsel in distress.
234	* MacGuffin: The Great Scroll of the Gods was presumably meant to be this had the series gone on longer. Unfortunately, as it is the Scroll is mentioned in all of ''one'' book and is never actually found, either by the people who want it or by anyone else.
235	* MagicCauldron: There's a take on the Undry of [[Myth/CelticMythology Irish myth]] (mentioned in passing), with the elf queen saying that sure, it produced food, but food that was barely above being fit for pigs (the main characters suspect it was corned beef and cabbage)... and the king adds it needed salt.
236	* TheMagicVersusTechnologyWar: [[spoiler:Deliberately set off and exploited by Senna.]]
237	* MakeThemRot: All witches--including [[TokenEvilTeammate Senna]]--have poisonous blood that kills plants, though apparently not animals or people. It can even render land infertile, which is why (in Everworld at least) witches are always killed in ways that won't shed blood, like drowning or burning.
238	* ManipulativeBastard: Anica Wales, and her daughter Senna even more so. Merlin, and even Jalil can also do this on occasion.
239	* MasterOfDisguise: Senna, and Merlin, the latter having been everything from a sailor to "an extra from a ''Film/MadMax'' movie." Being a ShapeShifter and MasterOfIllusion helps.
240	%%* MasterOfIllusion: Senna and Merlin.
241	* MeaningfulName: Senna's [[DoNotCallMePaul real name]] ([[spoiler:Senda]]) means "Pathway" in Spanish. Her mother was a translator of languages, and apparently guessed that her daughter had inherited the ability to travel between universes.
242	* MedievalStasis: An interesting example as the Stasis of Everworld is both technological ''and'' psychological, with most of the gods being too bound by their traditional roles and domains to do anything about the god-eating threat in their midst. The few gods who ''can'' bring themselves to do something only want to flee, because they know trying to convince the rest is a fool's errand.
243	* MessiahCreep: Ironically, atheist/agnostic Jalil, who evolves from a guy trying to rationalize the situation to the one with the most power to stop Ka Anor and genuinely cares about morality and such. Might also be "Leader Creep", since by that time, David has lost some of the others' trust, while Jalil's been building his.
244	* MightyWhitey: Subverted. Early leader David is Jewish, while later, leadership shifts to African-American Jalil.
245	* MindRape: Senna has the ability to do this. Poor David and Jalil learn the hard way not to tick her off, in ''Discover the Destroyer'' and ''Inside the Illusion'' respectively.
246	* MiserableMassage: During their stay on Olympus, the cast learns that guests can opt for a massage ([[DoYouWantToCopulate along with other... services...]]), one of which is implied to be this by David.
247	-->"Your choice of nymph or satyr. Or nymph and satyr. Or nymph, satyr, and a helot they call the Harsh Spartan. Don't ask. I did, and trust me, YouDontWantToKnow."
248	-->Christopher spread his hands wide, encompassing the marble and alabaster perfection of the room. "I am home. I mean, this place? Do you have any idea of the profit potential if we could book people from the real world in here? I mean, this is what, a five-thousand-dollar-a-night experience?"
249	-->"Extra for the Harsh Spartan," Jalil said.
250	* [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou Mommy Had A Good Reason For Abandoning You]]: Subverted in ''Inside the Illusion'', much to Senna's disappointment.
251	* {{Mordor}}: The Hetwans' territory could be considered a {{Downplayed}} version of this--aside from their own presence it's not much more dangerous than the rest of Everworld, just weirder.
252	* MoreDakka: The favoured fighting style of [[TheBrute Keith]] and the rest of the Neo-Nazi [[spoiler:Sennites]]. Justified by their lack of training, and effective due to their facing people who have [[spoiler:never seen a gun in their lives]].
253	* MsViceGirl: April is by far the nicest of the main four, her only real flaw being she comes across as kind of [[SoapboxSadie self-righteous]] at times.
254	* MugglesDoItBetter: The kids spend the first ten books fighting and fleeing (mostly fleeing) from various gods, monsters, and other legendary creatures before [[spoiler:Senna gets it in her head to try just throwing regular modern-day Muggles with guns at them]]. And wouldn't you know, it turns out [[spoiler:gunfire]] can kill quite a few "immortal" things...
255	* MysteriousWaif: Senna was cast this way in the first few books, before [[TheChessmaster her]] [[AmbitionIsEvil personality]] really began asserting itself.
256	* NayTheist:
257	** Senna's official view towards the various gods of Everworld. She openly acknowledges their existence and often even scolds the others for not treating them as such, but also quite clearly states that they are not omnipotent, are too weak-minded to use power correctly, and she even [[spoiler:plans to kill or reduce every god to a slave when she rules Everworld]]. It is unknown what her attitude towards the idea of a monotheistic {{God}} is, as the only things she's said about that sort of religion is that she enjoyed going to church and that she can't stand [[SoapboxSadie April's self-righteous religiosity]].
258	** Jalil as well. He can accept that these beings have tremendous powers, etc, etc. But none of them are gods, and as a straight-up atheist, he will not bow to them. In fact, most of the kids express these sorts of sentiments on one occasion or another; he and Senna are just the most obvious about it.
259	** The Coo-Hatch abandoned their deities, the God of the Flame and Goddess of the Ore, for bringing them to Everworld against their will.
260	* NewLifeInAnotherWorldBonus: Subverted. The cast is just as lost and powerless as you'd expect average high-schoolers to be when dragged into AnotherDimension where AllMythsAreTrue. The only things they have going for them are the ability to not go in blind (whenever they go to sleep in Everworld, their conscious mind snaps back to the original world, so they can look up whatever gods and culture they've run into) and because they were dragged in with all the possessions they had at the time, they're eventually able to make use of them (by trading the recipe for gunpowder in a chemistry book or by using a CD player as a marketing gimmick to convince merchants to invest in a telegraph). [[spoiler:Senna also takes heed that modern technology still works, and drags a bunch of white supremacists with guns to Everworld as her personal army for the finale.]]
261	* NotSoDifferentRemark: The similarities between Senna and April, and more frighteningly, Senna and Hel, are repeatedly pointed out.
262	* NightmareFetishist: Senna takes a liking to some . . . rather odd things. The two best examples are in ''Brave the Betrayal'' and ''Inside the Illusion''. In the former, the characters are sent into a mirror world where [[AlienGeometries the sky is down and the ground is up]]. The core four find this extremely disturbing and disorienting, while Senna is cheerfully intrigued, compliments the African deities on creating such an awesome place, and compares the whole thing to fine art. A more disturbing example comes in the next book when Senna states that she likes watching crazy people, and it is implied that she has a thing for Jalil because she enjoys watching him struggle with his obsessive compulsive disorder.
263	* NightOfTheLivingMooks: Hel does this of course, loosing TheUndead on intruders into her realm.
264	* NobleDemon: Arguably Nidhoggr. He's a TrueNeutral dragon in sort-of service to Hel, but he's not malicious, and always keeps his word.
265	* NoManOfWomanBorn: [[spoiler:Merlin claims that no man can kill Senna. As is usual with this trope, that provides no protection against women. And since [[CainAndAbel her sister]] really doesn't like her...]]
266	* {{Omniglot}}: Anica. According to the narrative, she can understand anything anyone says, regardless of language. In ''Inside the Illusion'', she recites the exact etymology of Senna's name.
267	* OtherMeAnnoysMe: Both the Greek and Roman pantheons exist in Everworld, and they can't stand each other. Especially Neptune and Poseidon who are engaged in an eternal turf war for control of the oceans.
268	* OurDragonsAreDifferent; Even from each other. Merlin's is normal sized (for a dragon anyway) and serves as his [[TheDragon Dragon]] in a literary sense as well as a physical one. Nidhoggr, on the other hand, is the size of Godzilla, and serves no one. Kind of a cool guy though.
269	* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Greedy miners with beards, axes, and a limited ability at taking crap? Check please.
270	* OurNymphsAreDifferent: A nymph named Idalia appears after being rescued from gangrape by satyrs. She's four feet tall, green, unable to leave the woods, has SuperSpeed and is a thousand years old. She's willing to sleep with Jalil, but he comes to realize she's closer to sentient furniture than a real woman, whose role is essentially to fall in love with mortals, and she can't remember how many other lovers she'd had or why it might be important, and is even unable to count two plus two.
271	* OutGambitted: Senna outgambits Merlin and Anica in ''Inside the Illusion''. Merlin gets his own back in ''Mystify the Magician'' with assists from Christopher and Jalil. These are just some of the more notable examples; throughout the series, Merlin, Jalil, David, Senna, Loki, Hel, Ka Anor and the other gods run countless overlapping gambits that inevitably end up tripping one another up.
272	* OutOfClothesExperience: David's description of being sucked into Everworld is that he's floating naked in a dark void, with some unknown entity watching him. The fact that it looks into his memories of [[spoiler:being molested]] gives the nudity a darker edge.
273	* OutOfGenreExperience: This was the only fantasy work that Applegate ever did; everything else she's written has been either sci-fi or realistic fiction, with the later exceptions of ''The One and Only Ivan'' and ''Endling''. It does, however, have some sci-fi elements with the presence of alien beings in Everworld like the Hetwan and Coo-Hatch (and others that receive minor mentions but are not seen), who were brought there when their gods found a way into the dimension the gods of Earth created, though technically they're said to have come from other universes rather than other planets.
274	* OutsideContextProblem: Ka Anor is this to the rest of Everworld's divine inhabitants. Oh, sure, they could cope with another god in their midst, but a god who ''eats gods''? That's a curveball none of them saw coming and none of them have any idea what to do about. Uniting to kill the threat is the obvious play, but the curious nature of Everworld's MedievalStasis prevents most gods from even ''considering'' this plan, let alone going along with it.
275	* OvershadowedByAwesome: Senna is a powerful witch in her own right, but her powers don't look that impressive next to Merlin, Loki, Hel, Ka Anor or any of the other people who are out to get her. [[spoiler:Her recruitment of Keith and company is an attempt at rectifying the situation]]. Merlin himself suffers from this in comparison to the [[PhysicalGod gods]], as do heroic humans like [[KnightInShiningArmour Galahad]] and Finn [=McCool=]. As for the core four (who are competent enough by early in the series to be much more than {{innocent bystander}}s, they suffer from it when compared to just about everyone.
276	* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:Senna's FreudianExcuse.]]
277	* PatchworkWorld: The various mythological gods keep their domains in a seemingly random pattern that doesn't correspond to where their followers were in relation to each other on Earth, so that it's about a two-day sail from Viking country to an Aztec city, from which it's a short hike to Arthurian Britain. At one point the characters actually notice the environment transition between the Greek gods' Mediterranean climate and that of sub-Saharan Africa within a few feet (while traveling to the Egyptian area, which should logically be between them). This annoys [[TheSmartGuy Jalil]].
278	* PeoplePuppets: Senna not only has the ability to screw with minds, but to take a person's body over, provided they are either WeakWilled or insane.
279	* PerformerGuise: The first group of people the heroes meet are Vikings, and tell them they're minstrels. They keep that act up by singing "My eyes have seen the glory of the mighty Viking lords", and it works perfectly.
280	* PetTheDog: Senna's reaction when she sees the people imprisoned in Hel.
281	%%* PhysicalGod: All of them.
282	* PowerHigh: Senna claims using magic "...filled me up, rushed through me, the sensation of power more erotic than any fantasy, more exciting. The power, I loved it so, it filled me and fulfilled me. It was mind, it was body, it was sex and money and power and revenge and triumph all rolled into one."
283	* PowerTrio[=/=]TokenTrio: Superego [[TheHeart April]], Id [[TheLancer Christopher]], and Ego [[TheHero Jalil]], during the time that David was bewitched away from the group.
284	%%* PretendPrejudice: Christopher.
285	* {{Pride}}: Senna, David, and almost every god.
286	** PrideBeforeAFall: Senna's ego is what ultimately derails most of her plans and eventually [[spoiler:gets her killed]].
287	** TooCleverByHalf: Jalil isn't above ambition or self-satisfaction, and sometimes lets one or both get the better of him, particularly in his interactions with Senna and Eshu.
288	%%* PsychoForHire: Keith, [[spoiler:and the rest of the Sennites.]]
289	%%* PsychopathicManchild: Many of the gods, and especially Neptune.
290	%%* PsychoticSmirk: Senna.
291	* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler:David, whose wish to be a "capital-M Man" stems largely from shame due to being molested as a kid at a summer camp.]]
292	* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed initially,]] as Senna personally chose each of them for their respective dysfunctions and intended the group to throw a monkey wrench into the workings of Everworld. However, they eventually do come together as TrueCompanions to do exactly the opposite of what she intended - unite Everworld against her, the Sennites, and Ka Anor.
293	* RaisingTheSteaks: Done by various gods.
294	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Senna seems to like doing this. She talks down all four of the other main characters in ''Discover the Destroyer'', then again in ''Brave the Betrayal.'' During ''Inside the Illusion'', she also lets Anica have it pretty bad.
295	** Jalil recognizes this, [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on it, and at one point (''Discover The Destroyer'') even deconstructs one of Senna's speeches point for point. [[spoiler:He and Merlin give Senna and her troops a joint TheReasonYouSuckSpeech in ''Mystify the Magician'']].
296	* RedshirtArmy: Everyone that is allied with the core four; played straightest with the Vikings.
297	* RedOniBlueOni: David and Christopher (red) to Jalil and April (blue).
298	* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: The Sennites.
299	* RightlySelfRighteous: While being kind of self-righteous is April's [[MsViceGirl main flaw,]] she's often ''completely right'' in her judgments, particularly in saying they shouldn't trust Senna.
300	* SadlyMythtaken: The books treat [[TheUnderworld Niflhel]] and [[{{Hell}} Nastrond]] as the same place, as Hel and Niddhoggr both live there, and it's portrayed as a hellish realm of torment. In the original myths, Niflhel was the default afterlife where most people went, whereas Nastrond was a place of punishment for really bad people.
301	* SadClown: Christopher, although his humour tends to be of the incredibly bad and/or racist variety.
302	* SavageWolves: Fenrir is an enforcer for Loki.
303	* SealedEvilInACan: Merlin's plan for dealing with Senna, seemingly. He keeps trying to take her with him, and while he tells her she'll have all she wants, Senna explicitly regards it as a prison sentence and tries to avoid it and him at all costs.
304	* ShapeShifter: Merlin and Senna create the impression of doing this, but it's all illusion. Eshu plays it straight, transforming into a lion during his battle with [[spoiler:Thorolf]].
305	%%* SiblingYinYang: Senna and April.
306	%%* SingleIssuePsychology: See its entry at the trope page.
307	%%* TheSlacker: Christopher.
308	* TheSmartGuy: Jalil, so much. It's why Senna brought him along. [[spoiler:Though he proved to be a bit of a disappointment when he wouldn't obey her, as Senna herself admits]]. Merlin is TheSmartGuy for all of Everworld, and Athena is TheSmartGuy for the Olympian Pantheon.
309	* SmugSnake: Anica is the straightest example. Senna can also be [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation interpreted]] as this.
310	%%* SoapboxSadie: April.
311	%%* TheSociopath: Keith, Hel, and debateably Senna.
312	* SorcerousOverlord: She may be a PhysicalGod, but Hel runs her {{Mordor}}ish realm as though she were a stereotypical EvilOverlord.
313	* SpannerInTheWorks: The core four themselves. [[spoiler:Senna brought them over to Everworld for this very purpose originally, but they ended up causing problems for not only the gods, but her as well.]]
314	* SplitPersonality: Kinda. The four live in both Everworld and our world. When one of them sleeps in Everworld, they reunite until they wake up there. They call this "CNN: Breaking News", where the memories of the Old World and Everworld collide. It gets to the point where they basically think of each life they live as separate people.
315	%%* TheSpock: Jalil
316	* SquareCubeLaw: Lampshaded when a character points out that an elephant-sized wolf shouldn't be able to move, let alone dragons being able to fly.
317	* StumblingUponTheLostWizard: Merlin follows the characters around, trying to capture Senna; and when he is encountered, it is often this trope. He means no harm to the characters other than Senna; and even with Senna, he wishes she would understand that his attempts to capture her are for the greater good of both Everworld and Senna's own safety (she doesn't ever see it this way).
318	* SwitchingPOV: Between the April, Jalil, David, and Christopher. Senna gets her own VillainEpisode.
319	* TakeOverTheWorld: The master plan of [[spoiler:Senna, of course.]] Or rather, [[DimensionLord Universal domination]].
320	* TalkingAnimal: The horses Athena supplies the kids with in ''Brave the Betrayal'', and the pig who mugs them in ''Realm of the Reaper''.
321	* TechnologicallyAdvancedFoe: From the people of Everworld, the Sennites were this. They were just starting to get a handle on the concept of technology, of electricity, and all of a sudden, they're fighting against people with assault rifles.
322	* TechnologyUplift: Jalil and David show various groups in Everworld how to make things like guns, electrical grids, and telegraph networks. Some of it gets used against them.
323	* TokenEvilTeammate: Senna to the core four.
324	* TokenGoodTeammate: Athena to the [[PsychopathicManchild Psychopathic Manchildren]] that are the Olympian gods; Merlin and Ireland to Everworld in general.
325	* TooDumbToLive: The party and Dionysus are traveling incognito in Hetwan territory, trying to keep the fact that they have a god in tow quiet since, you know, the Hetwan's god ''eats'' gods. Dionysus gets bored, so he ''summons a party out of thin air''. To his credit, he realizes his mistake and distracts the Hetwan by creating their insectoid equivalent of "party girls"[[note]] female Hetwan are barely sentient, flying bags of organs (with translucent skin) that cause any male Hetwan in the vicinity to fly into a hormonal rutting ecstasy[[/note]], resulting in a horrific ''[[HotSkittyOnWailordAction alien orgy]]'' that allows the group to escape.
326	** Having said that, Dionysus' powers are derived from him being drunk. He's useless when he's plastered but he's ''[[TheLoad worse]]'' [[TheLoad than useless when he's sober]], described by Christopher and Jalil who have to drag him away as "Creator/JohnGoodman-sized and Creator/RobertDowneyJr-level stoned."
327	* TookALevelInBadass: April, Jalil, and Christopher move from hopelessly lost kids who just want to go home, to major players in Everworld. Even David does this, following his rebound in the final two books, shaking his dependence on Senna, and becoming a leading figure in Everworld's army, thus undoing some of the aforementioned BadassDecay. And then there's Senna in ''Brave the Betrayal'' when [[spoiler:her powers as a witch increase dramatically and she becomes able to extend her CompellingVoice at distances and even manipulate energies to move the course of an entire river.]]
328	* TookALevelInJerkass: Senna gradually becomes colder and more antagonistic each time she appears, which can be attributed to her revealing more of her true personality. Her actions in ''Mystify the Magician'' are perhaps the most [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope extreme]] example. This is lampshaded by the main cast, and in particular April, who notes that while she's never liked Senna, the arrogance is new.
329	* TrappedInAnotherWorld: The main four thanks to Senna. Senna's status herself is unclear, as she is snatched by Fenrir in the first book and her body is a kind of living gateway between the two worlds, but it is unclear if she can truly cross through it herself.
330	* TroubledTeen: There's David (molested by a male camp counselor as a child and dealing with his feelings of masculine inadequacy), Chris (a racist {{jerkass}} dealing with alcoholism), Jalil (suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder and trying to hide it from everyone else), and then there's Senna who takes the cake as she was abandoned by her mother as a child, but is also a raging narcissist. April is the least troubled; she's just mainly judgemental and self-righteous.
331	* TrueCompanions: Takes a long time to develop, but it's very fulfilling to follow its development. The core four may not like each other all that much, but by the end are very close, and [[spoiler:are willing to give up their normal lives in order to help one another save Everworld]].
332	%%* TwoFaced: Hel.
333	%%* {{Ubermensch}}: [[spoiler:Senna.]]
334	* TheUndead: Hel is half-undead anyway. Only her living side can be injured, while the other side a) is [[NighInvulnerability nigh-invulnerable]] and b) continues to rot.
335	* UngratefulBastard: Senna and April, especially towards each other. It's hard for their relationship to improve when each time one saves the other's life, the other immediately acts like a bitch about it.
336	* UnicornsPreferVirgins: At one point, the characters see a unicorn in the distance, and Christopher jokingly suggests that April wouldn't be able to attract it if she tried. April (who's very religious and, as is later stated, explicitly waiting for marriage) tells him not to believe every rumor going around their school.
337	* UnnamedParent: Nobody's parents are named, with the exception of Tom O'Brien, the father of [[SiblingYinYang April and Senna]]. Doubly Subverted in the ninth book with Senna's mother; her actual name is mentioned in one of Senna's memories, but in the present, she is still consistently referred to only as Senna's mother.
338	%%* {{Unobtainium}}: Coo-Hatch steel.
339	* UnstoppableRage: Senna is normally an EmotionlessGirl, but when she gets ''really'' angry, she doesn't hold back. Pushing her BerserkButton, or putting HonorBeforeReason, tends to provoke this from her.
340	* UpTheRealRabbitHole: The protagonists continually refer to their world as "the real world". Others point out that this doesn't really make sense.
341	* TheVamp: Senna to a degree, who uses David's crush on her to control him. And then there's Hel.
342	* VerbalTic: Senna has a tendency to say the name of the person she's talking to ''[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment several times]]'' in a single conversation, usually at the end of her sentences. In one occasion in ''Inside the Illusion'', she says Jalil's name seven times in one page. Interestingly, David ([[SixthRangerTraitor the one from]] ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'') exhibits a similar tic.
343	* VillainBall: Senna grabs ahold of it in ''Mystify the Magician'' to an extreme degree (see that trope's page for more details). This is one reason the fans don't like the last three books very much.
344	* VillainEpisode: ''Inside the Illusion'', the book which Senna narrates.
345	%%* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler:Loki, saving April from Hel]], among other instances.
346	%%* VisionaryVillain: [[spoiler:Senna, very much so.]]
347	* VitriolicBestBuds: Jalil ([[TheSpock strait-laced]] BlackAndNerdy and TheSmartGuy) and Christopher (formerly racist white guy SadClown and CowardlyLion) head this way as the series progresses.
348	* WeakButSkilled:
349	** Although not nearly as powerful as the gods, human magic-users (Merlin, Senna and Anica) can be quite influential if they use their powers wisely. The latter two, of course, also have the power of moving between worlds, which is difficult even for gods.
350	** The main four can also appear this way compared to the average BadassNormal of Everworld based solely on their modern knowledge of technology. Even in the very first book, their everyday sneakers allow them to move faster and quieter than the viking soldiers chasing them.
351	* WeaponsBreakingWeapons: David mentions this on seeing the (steel-weapon-using) Amazons amid the (copper weapon-using) Egyptians as to why it was so easy for the Amazons to take over.
352	* WhatMeasureIsANonSuper: Senna, being the only member of the group with real magical power, often looks down at the others. From her point of view, they're mostly tools to an end. The irony? That's how the gods and the other players (esp. Loki and Merlin) see her.
353	* WhereTheMagicWent: Everworld, was created whole cloth by the gods to be a new home for them and all other magical beings. The original exodus was in antiquity but, over time, other legendary figures also made their way to Everworld such as King Arthur and Merlin, as well as Ka-Anor, a god worshipped by an alien civilization.
354	* WorldOfJerkass: Compared to ''Animorphs'' the main characters are a lot more flawed. For some readers, that makes them more human. For others, that makes them harder to root for or take interest in. The rest of the cast doesn't fare any better, being mostly made up of various JerkassGods and their servants. Even the more likable characters, like the Vikings and Merlin, have qualities that can make them alienating.
355	* XanatosSpeedChess: Senna prides herself on her ability to adjust her plans on the fly. In fact, this talent is one of her strongest assets, as she is able to escape virtually every dangerous situation she's put in and quickly recover from any setback or defeat, at least until ''Mystify the Magician''. Merlin's pretty competent at it to, and Jalil's learning.
356	* YearInsideHourOutside: The time difference between Everworld and "the Old World" is incredibly wonky. Even if all four of them are asleep in Everworld, that's not a guarantee that they'll be back in the Old World at the same time.
357	* YourWorstMemory: David finds himself tormented by the memory of [[spoiler:watching a child being raped at summer camp]]. It's not until he relives the incident in greater detail -- thanks to Senna -- that he realizes the truth: [[spoiler:''he'' was the one being molested]].
358	* ZergRush: How the Hetwan make war -- they are not terribly effective fighters, but there are so goddamned many of them (''and'' they are capable of spawning half a dozen at a time) that traditional tactics just don't work.

Context Literature / Everworld