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* CosmicKeystone: [[spoiler: The Leviathan, which contains all dreams and stories. If it dies, all reality dies with it.]]
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* MindScrew: A story about stories within stories that blend into other stories to form one big story is most certainly going to give some readers' minds whiplash.
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* PlayingUpTheStereotype: One issue shows how the Cabal made use of Creator/RudyardKipling, elevating him from obscurity while using Kipling's works as {{Propaganda Piece}}s to promote western imperialism and [[WhiteMansBurden colonization of other cultures]]. After Kipling has begun falling out with the Cabal, he meets with Creator/MarkTwain and inquires if Twain was also approached by the group. Twain confirms that he was, but he either knew about the conspiracy beforehand or had a bad feeling about them, because, as he says, when they approached him he acted all country and "red in the neck" until they decided he was just a useless country bumpkin and left him alone.
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** [[spoiler:As well as the real one, though drawing from generic spiritual cliches and MarySue tropes instead of (as much) outright plagiarism.]]
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** [[spoiler:As well as the real one, though drawing from generic spiritual cliches and MarySue tropes instead of (as much) outright plagiarism.]]
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* ChooseYourOwnAdventure: Issue #17 is a "Pick-A-Story" issue, telling the confused backstory of Lizzie Hexam.
* {{Gamebooks}}: Issue #17 is a "Pick-A-Story" issue, telling the confused backstory of Lizzie Hexam.
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* MultipleChoicePast: [[spoiler:Lizzie]]. Literally[[note]]The issue detailing her backstory is a ChooseYourOwnAdventure book![[/note]].
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* MultipleChoicePast: [[spoiler:Lizzie]]. Literally[[note]]The issue detailing her backstory is a ChooseYourOwnAdventure book![[/note]].{{Gamebook|s}}![[/note]].
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* InformedAbility: Wilson Taylor's writing skills. His Tommy Taylor books appear to be some of the most popular literature of all time. From the excerpts actually shown in the comic, they're fair to middling at best - and such brazen rip-offs of the Harry Potter books (which explicitly exist in this universe, and have been eclipsed by Tommy Taylor in popularity) that it would make TheAsylum blush. For perhaps the pinnacle example, see InformedAttribute below.
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* InformedAbility: Wilson Taylor's writing skills. His Tommy Taylor books appear to be some of the most popular literature of all time. From the excerpts actually shown in the comic, they're fair to middling at best - and such brazen rip-offs of the Harry Potter books (which explicitly exist in this universe, and have been eclipsed by Tommy Taylor in popularity) that it would make TheAsylum Creator/TheAsylum blush. For perhaps the pinnacle example, see InformedAttribute below.
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** The ClicheStorm fake 14th Tommy Taylor book, a deliberate case of DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible, was designed to rip off several other novels and so has a number of crushingly blatant shout outs... The most obvious is to ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'' with a ridiculously obvious Expy of Lord Asriel, but there's also a slightly subtler one to ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' in the shape of a scruffy little talking dog who SAYS "Woof!" who is almost certainly meant to be an Expy of Gaspode the Wonder Dog.
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** The ClicheStorm fake 14th Tommy Taylor book, a deliberate case of DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible, book was designed to rip off several other novels and so has a number of crushingly blatant shout outs... The most obvious is to ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'' with a ridiculously obvious Expy of Lord Asriel, but there's also a slightly subtler one to ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' in the shape of a scruffy little talking dog who SAYS "Woof!" who is almost certainly meant to be an Expy of Gaspode the Wonder Dog.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory:
** The Villa Diodati is stated to be a BuildingOfAdventure known for being the location where Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley and Lord Byron met and where ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' was composed. The narrative also states that it was where Creator/JohnMilton composed ''Literature/ParadiseLost''. This is false on multiple levels. The owner of the house, Charles Diodati was a friend of Milton's but Milton died before his purchase of the house, and it's not true that Paradise Lost was composed in the same place.
** The Kipling issue has the author fall out with the GreaterScopeVillain over the loss of his son John in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, seeing it as his BrokenPedestal moment on his role as a writer of empire and British nationalism, after propagandizing for entry into that war. Kipling in real life while grieving for the loss of his son, never once regretted or doubted his support for the Empire, nor for his support of the war. After World War I, he indeed insisted that the Treaty of Versailles was just, and that more effective steps needed to be taken to contain Germany who he saw before the war, and after the war, as AlwaysChaoticEvil. Kipling grieved for his son assuredly but he did believe that the cause he died for, and that of many of his comrades and soldiers, was just and had no doubts about it.
** The Villa Diodati is stated to be a BuildingOfAdventure known for being the location where Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley and Lord Byron met and where ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' was composed. The narrative also states that it was where Creator/JohnMilton composed ''Literature/ParadiseLost''. This is false on multiple levels. The owner of the house, Charles Diodati was a friend of Milton's but Milton died before his purchase of the house, and it's not true that Paradise Lost was composed in the same place.
** The Kipling issue has the author fall out with the GreaterScopeVillain over the loss of his son John in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, seeing it as his BrokenPedestal moment on his role as a writer of empire and British nationalism, after propagandizing for entry into that war. Kipling in real life while grieving for the loss of his son, never once regretted or doubted his support for the Empire, nor for his support of the war. After World War I, he indeed insisted that the Treaty of Versailles was just, and that more effective steps needed to be taken to contain Germany who he saw before the war, and after the war, as AlwaysChaoticEvil. Kipling grieved for his son assuredly but he did believe that the cause he died for, and that of many of his comrades and soldiers, was just and had no doubts about it.
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--> '''Tom''': It's-- It's a story. It's just a ''story'', man. It's not worth dying for.
--> '''Ambrosio''': Just a story? Tell that to the Greeks who fought at Troy, Tommy. Tell the women burned as witches. The Rosenbergs. Sacco and Vanzetti. Tell the Martyrs of all the religions and the millions who fell in all the wars since time began! ''Stories are the ''only'' thing worth dying for!''
The Unwritten is a Creator/VertigoComics series by Creator/MikeCarey and Peter Gross, whom you might know as the principal creative team behind ''Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}''. The series started in July 2009 and tells the story of Tom Taylor, son of an ultra-successful fantasy novelist who disappeared mysteriously at the height of his career. The protagonist of his father's Tommy Taylor series was obviously based on him, causing Tom no small amount of resentment. He is the constant center of attention for fans who want to meet "the real Tommy Taylor". At the same time, he isn't above cashing in by appearing at book shows and signings.
--> '''Ambrosio''': Just a story? Tell that to the Greeks who fought at Troy, Tommy. Tell the women burned as witches. The Rosenbergs. Sacco and Vanzetti. Tell the Martyrs of all the religions and the millions who fell in all the wars since time began! ''Stories are the ''only'' thing worth dying for!''
The Unwritten is a Creator/VertigoComics series by Creator/MikeCarey and Peter Gross, whom you might know as the principal creative team behind ''Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}''. The series started in July 2009 and tells the story of Tom Taylor, son of an ultra-successful fantasy novelist who disappeared mysteriously at the height of his career. The protagonist of his father's Tommy Taylor series was obviously based on him, causing Tom no small amount of resentment. He is the constant center of attention for fans who want to meet "the real Tommy Taylor". At the same time, he isn't above cashing in by appearing at book shows and signings.
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'''Ambrosio:''' Just a story? Tell that to the Greeks who fought at Troy, Tommy. Tell the women burned as witches. The Rosenbergs. Sacco and Vanzetti. Tell the Martyrs of all the religions and the millions who fell in all the wars since time began! ''Stories are the ''only'' thing worth dying for!''
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