!!The book

* {{Adorkable}}: Norrell is ecstatic about studying magic with Strange, and acts like a boy on an adventure when [[spoiler:travelling to Lost-Hope to rescue Arabella. His ridiculous dancing to blend in just increases the impression.]]
* CrazyIsCool: Strange, once he intentionally drives himself mad, with emphasis on both the 'crazy' and the 'awesome'.
* HoYay:
** The gentleman's interactions with Stephen focus on his admiration for Stephen's beauty, and so could be interpreted as this.
** Childermass and Mr. Norrell bicker like an old married couple on occasion (with Childermass obviously overstepping his bounds as a servant, and Mr. Norrell barely noticing). In the book, Mr. Norrell is noted to be relatively comfortable with homosexuality as long as it doesn't interfere with the study of magic.
* JerkassWoobie: Mr Norrell, a man set for a very public destiny but is wholly unsuited for it.
* MoralEventHorizon: Crossed by [[spoiler:Lascelles when he shoots Drawlight. While Drawlight may not earn much sympathy, his murder is so cold-blooded and unexpected that you know Lascelles has gone off the deep end]].
* OlderThanTheyThink: The story of John Uskglass has some resemblance to an English chapbook, ''The Merry Pranks of Robin Goodfellow''. In the story, Robin (aka Puck) is a HalfHumanHybrid child of Oberon whose father grants him magical powers and gives the promise of eventually holding a kingdom in Faerie. Uskglass is admittedly human by birth, but was a foster-son of Oberon.
* SpoiledByTheFormat: If you had any inclination to see John Segundus and Mr. Honeyfoot as {{Decoy Protagonist}}s in the way the narrative begins by following their attempts to revive English magic, you really ought to have been clued in by the name of the book.
* TheWoobie:
** Stephen Black. The Gentleman went looking for a woobie and ended up making one.
** One of the footnotes gives us the story of the fairy called Buckler, who managed to lure several of the family members, servants, and neighbours of Simon Bloodworth into a magical cupboard from which they did not return. ''Two hundred years'' later Martin Pale is visiting a castle in Faerie and encounters a starved-looking little human girl.
--->”She said her name was Anne Bloodworth and she had been in Faerie, she thought, about two weeks. She had been given work to do washing a great pile of dirty pots. She said she had been washing them steadily since she arrived and when she was finished she would go home to see her parents and her sisters. She thought she would be finished in a day or two.”
** Lady Pole. She starts off as an ill girl whose mother hates the doctors and won't let them see her, and dies shortly after her introduction. Then, she is resurrected only to be enslaved by the Gentleman, and spends several following years sad and alone, unable to free herself from his enchantment or tell someone about it. And everyone she knows (except Stephen) thinks she's insane.

!!The TV series:
* {{Narm}}: Stephen Black [[spoiler: using English magic to defeat the gentleman in the BBC finale. It was a bit-over-acted, the effects on his voice were ridiculous, and the gentleman appears to be so transfixed he does nothing to defend himself (in contrast to his stubborn book counterpart]].
-->[[spoiler: Stephen: [[ChewingTheScenery "I COMMAND THE TREEEEEES!"]]]]
* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The BBC series has been praised for its use of special effects, putting on good spectacle while avoiding using it superfluously at the expense of character. The Miracle of York and Horse Sand were particularly praised by critics, but Strange's roads and The King's Road are also impressive.

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