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A series of young adult Paranormal Romance novels by Stephenie Meyer, and the title of the first book. It is about a girl named Bella who falls in love with Edward Cullen, a vampire. Unfortunately, Bella's blood is Edward's equivalent to rich, molten chocolate cake infused with blood orange ganache, so Edward has to form a relationship with Bella while resisting the urge to suck her dry. There's also the occasional Wacky Wayside Tribe such as the vampire tracker James and the Volturi.
The series currently consists of four books ( Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn). Stephenie Meyer had plans to make a POV Sequel called Midnight Sun, which is the plot of Twilight (nearly word-for-word) told through Edward's point of view. Then, leaked copies of the rough draft were released. Meyer has halted the publication until she gets through her reaction over the event, saying "If I tried to write Midnight Sun now, in my current frame of mind, James would probably win and all the Cullens would die." Depending on whether you're a fan or not, that may either horrify or excite you.
Their film version of Twilight released in the US on November 21, 2008. Whether it's Adaptation Distillation or lost something worthwhile in the translation is up to the viewers. The sequel, The Twilight Saga: New Moon was released in November 20, 2009. There were also rumors of an anime, but they proved to be false. Manga-style illustrations of the Japanese edition still exist. A graphic novel really is in the works, however.
Not to be confused with Electric Light Orchestra's anthem of the same name. Or Twilight 2000. Or The Twilight Zone. Or Twilight Watch. Or The Twilight Or "Twilight of the Gods". Or Celtic Twilight. Or Twilight Princess. Or the Twilight Bracelet. Or Twilight Town. Or The Twilight Bark. Or the eleventh Warrior Cats book. Or the Sorcerer/Scientist caste of the same name from Exalted. Or Command And Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight. Or the Decepticon flagship that hovers like some vast, predatory bird. Or Owl City's vanilla-flavored song.
Or, um, the time of day. We can do this all day.
Twilight's a...polarizing series, so try to refrain from a Justifying Edit or a Take That.
These books contain examples of:
- Acceptable Target: Stephenie Meyer and Twilight fans. Take a look at any entry about Twilight on this wiki (or the whole Internet, for that matter) and compare it with any other work of fiction, author and its fan base.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys - Bella doesn't care that Edward is "dangerous", despite Edward's constant warnings. (It probably doesn't help that he keeps saving her life.)
- All Myths Are True - Movie Bella wonders if this is the case after learning about werewolves.
- Slight subversion in that neither of the mystical beings in the books resemble previously accepted mythology.
- All Women Are Lustful: Especially Bella. Quite amusing, considering that the author is a married Mormon housewife.
- Alternate Character Interpretation - Most critics of the series (and a small portion of Twilight readers) see Edward and Bella's relationship as twisted, controlling and abusive. A smaller portion likes the book for that reason. The fans see it as a wonderful story about true love conquering it all.
- Some people see Edward not as an impossibly beautiful bad boy Romeo, but as a self-hating, bipolar, incredibly fucked-up mess of a boyfriend. One of the more notable purveyors of this interpretation is Robert Pattinson, who plays Edward in the movies and has been vocal about his disgust with the character.
- This troper takes a slightly more meta approach, and maintains (or at least hopes) that SMeyer is in fact, a Troll goddess.
- Some see Bella not as the sweet, selfless girl Meyer tries to tell us she is, but as a shallow, haughty bitch with no regard for the feelings of others.
- Anguished Declaration Of Love - Edward in the meadow scene.
- Anti Climax - the final novel, Breaking Dawn ends not with a fight but diplomatic discussion.
- Subverted in Eclipse. It looks like Edward and Bella will miss out on the battle against the newborn vampires, but then Victoria shows up...
- ... Bella closes her eyes for a minute, and then Victoria's head's been ripped off. So much for and expected Gory Discretion Shot!
- In the first novel, James is described as an unstoppable killing machine. Laurent isn't even willing to face him with seven other vampires. But we see none of the fight between him and Edward since Bella is unconscious, and so the scary Big Bad is killed offscreen.
- Not in the movie; we don't see his death in explicit detail, but we do see a laughable 30 second fight between Edward and James, and a few glimpses of the other Cullens tearing James apart after he's been subdued - for example, a shot where it's pretty obvious James' head is torn off.
- Anti Sue - Bella. She is clumsy, and doesn't like how she looks, but to an objective viewer, her description sounds reasonably pretty, and she also does well in school. She also, despite self-admitted poor social skills, immediately attracts the two supernatural boys in town who are still free, as well as a gaggle of human boys, a teacher, and a couple of rapists.
- Then Breaking Dawn comes around and Bella becomes a God Mode Sue. No problems with bloodlust, develops a power the Volturi drool after, kills all her self-esteem problems once she becomes a vampire despite not actually working towards it, etc, etc...
- Anvilicious - The first book in particular is made of anvil. Giving into those base desires will kill you! Sex before marriage will kill you!! Blood equals sex equals death equals don't do it!
- Don't even think naughty thoughts. Vampires will hear you. And... and... judge you!
- Arson Murder And Jaywalking - Bella is disturbed to find out that Jacob has imprinted on her daughter, but managed to keep her self control about it. Until she finds out he nicknamed her "Nessie." At which point she attacks.
- As The Good Book Says - Stephenie Meyer used a completely out-of-context Bible quote at the beginning of her novel
- Attempted Rape - one of the many times Edward saves Bella
- Author Appeal - Non-sexual example: Meyer apparently stated that some of her main characters are fans of British alternative band Muse, one of her favorite bands. Also, she claims to have used them in the story a few times. Needless to say, some of the band's older fanbase dislike the new fans gained from exposure from Twilight media.
- Author Avatar - Bella. When asked to describe what she looks like, Stephenie Meyer basically described herself◊.
- Ax Crazy - Just stay far, far away from Victoria.
- Badass Adorable - Alice.
- Bait And Switch Lesbians - Bella and Alice... they're going to be "such good friends" if Alice can "keep her thoughts to her self"... her completely hetero thoughts.
- Alice "loves" Bella just. so. much.
- And buys her a whole suitcase of french lingerie for her honeymoon, since she can have visions of future events and due that Bella would actually need the lingerie, one has to wonder how much of the honeymoon her "best girlfriend" saw.
- The Barney: Aimed at teenage girls (and probably their mothers). Attacked on every possible side - including not a few teenage girls.
- Baseball Episode
- Base Breaker - Breaking Dawn. It's so bad it converted a chunk of fans into antis.
- The Beautiful People - all the vampires (except James), but especially the Cullens.
- Beauty Equals Goodness - Played straight in the first book. James, the first book's evil vampire, is described as being an average-looking vampire because he was ugly as a human. Naturally, all the Cullens were beautiful in life, making them absolutely gorgeous as vampires. The other books try to avert this with the Volturi, except as Edward points out, the Volturi aren't technically the bad guys...
- Berserk Button - In Breaking Dawn, Bella accidentally breaks Seth's shoulder when she learns that Jacob nicknamed Renesmee after the Loch Ness monster.
- Jacob when Bella talks about becoming a vampire or when Edward returns.
- Edward when Bella its in danger.
- Beta Couple: Pretty much the whole cast, except Leah.
- Better As Friends - Canon's opinion on Jacob/Bella.
- Beware The Nice Ones - Manic Pixie Dream Girl - Alice displays signs of temper, spite, and a less innocent side in the later books.
- She also rips off James' head in the movie.
- Bile Fascination - Like a bizarrely-enjoyable trainwreck, some readers can't pull away.
- Of course, there is the disturbingly massive number of fans who genuinely believe it's the greatest thing ever written.
- Bishie Sparkle - Vampires do this in the sunlight. In the movie? They glimmer. Imagine them ridiculously sweaty, or using a lot of glitter lotion. Better Than It Sounds, because you don't have to listen to Bella whine about it...and because in the movie, there are sparkle noises. It must be seen and heard to be believed.
- The climax of New Moon revolves around this, where Edward tries to step into the sunlight in the Volturi's city, which would get him noticed by the humans and killed by the Volturi.
- The Scene It? spinoff of the movie takes the sparkle motif Up To Eleven. Everything, everything sparkles, and Carlisle's voiceover constantly informs you that you "sparkle like a diamond".
- Blood Splattered Wedding Dress. Rosalie after being turned into a vampire, took revenge on her ex-fiancee and his friends after they raped and left her for dead in an alleyway. She wore a wedding dress to do so. However is slightly averted since she says she made sure non of them splattered blood on her dress.
- The Board Game - Believe it or not.
- Boring Invincible Hero - Pretty much every protagonist in the series, but especially Edward Cullen.
- Broken Base - Leading up to the release of New Moon, the war between the "Team Edward" and "Team Jacob" factions became so intense that Burger King was able to base an ad campaign around it.
- And the base promptly exploded when Breaking Dawn came out.
- But I Cant Be Pregnant - Bella's initial reaction to her little nudger. She accepts the fact disturbingly fast, though.
- But Your Wings Are Beautiful: Bella's reaction to Edward's sparkly skin and odd eyes.
- Byronic Hero - Edward, of course.
- Cant Have Sex Ever - Edward and Bella for the first three books.
- Celibate Hero - Edward as he's afraid that might hurt Bella, not that that dissuades her any...
- Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends - Jacob in the fourth book suffers from derailment: he goes from a friendly, devoted guy to a possessive jerk to better enable the canon couple.
- Compelling Voice - Alpha werewolves (to other werewolves, at least). The dazzling from vampires to a certain extent.
- Compulsory School Age - quite a few times over the years
- Contested Sequel - Even the fans became a Broken Base with Breaking Dawn. The Amazon page gives it an average 3-star rating — because most of the reviews are either 5 stars or 1 star.
- Clark Kenting - The Cullen, adopted not related, kids are not only ALL really pale and with flawless skin they, like their adoptive parents have golden eyes that might change colors according to hungriness. Of course they don't get close to humans except for Bella, but after Bella started dating Edward they surely were among humans a lot more (school cafeteria and graduation party), and no human even mentions this as strange. Forks must be close to Metropolis.
- Jasper and Rosaline are said to be "twins" in the book and Esme as their aunt, explaining their different last name and the resemblance between the three of them, but no explanation is given for why the other children share the same traits.
- Cool Car - all the Cullens have at least one. Even klutzy Bella gets a motorcycle and a sportscar (a s600 Guardian, which is somewhat fitting as it is bulletproof and armoured against explosives). Meyer attempts to Hand Wave this by having Edward say his family simply likes to drive fast.
- Subverted in the New Moon movie with Edward's Volvo XC90. Why such a soccer-mom car? Product Placement, natch.
- Creator Breakdown Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight books, has announced that she has ceased work on the fifth novel of the series (a retelling of the first from the hero's perspective) after someone she knew leaked the first 13 chapters online: "If I tried to write Midnight Sun now, in my current frame of mind, James would probably win and all the Cullens would die, which wouldn't dovetail too well with the original story. In any case, I feel too sad about what has happened to continue working..."
- Creepy Child: Jane, Alec, and Renesmee. Especially Jane.
- Crowning Music Of Awesome - Of course this all depends on your musical tastes, but there are many in the Twilight hatedom who will acknowledge that, despite loathing the books and movies, the soundtrack is pretty damn good. Muse fans are still debating on whether or not this is a good thing.
- Crowning Moment Of Awesome: Edward killing Victoria in Eclipse. This was awesome for this ready since Edward never does anything violent (as in kicking someone ass onscreen) and is usually very kind and controlled. He using his powers to manipulate both villains and then rip Victoria's head off was pretty awesome.
- In the New Moon movie. When Bella runs on Volterra and finally lands on Edward's arm. It might not look so awesome if you are fan of the books but some of the movie fans were clapping when I went.
- In the first book when he saves Bella with his Volvo from the rapists.
- Alice coming back in Breaking Dawn.
- Rosalie killing her rapists wearing a wedding dress.
- Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming: Many quotes, specially from Edward, that melt the hearts of fans:
"If I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I’m not ashamed of it."
"For almost ninety years I’ve walked among my kind, and yours… all the time thinking I was complete in myself, not realizing what I was seeking. And not finding anything, because you weren’t alive yet."
"Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars—points of light and reason… And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything.
"You are the only one who has ever touched my heart. It will always be yours
"I’ll be back so soon you won’t have time to miss me. Look after my heart — I’ve left it with you.
"Isabella Swan? I promise to love you forever — every single day of forever. Will you marry me?"
"Bachelor parties are designed for those who are sad to see the passing of their single days. I couldn’t be more eager to have mine behind me. So there’s really no point."
"I can be noble, Bella. I’m not going to make you choose between us. Just be happy, and you can have whatever part of me you want, or none at all, if that’s better. Don’t let any debt you feel you owe me influence your decision.
"I heard you."
"My brother...my son"
- Bella Swan:
"I’ll always want you. Forever.
"I love you. I will always love you, no matter what happens now.
"Mostly I dream about being with you forever.
- Jacob:
"Until your heart stops beating, Bella. I’ll be here — fighting".
"I’m just here to be your friend. Your best friend, one last time".
- Jasper (After telling the story of how he met Alice):
"I took her hand, and for the first time in almost a century, I felt hope."
- (After Bella is worrying about James hurting anyone because of her)
"I can feel what you’re feeling now — and you are worth it.
- Cursed With Awesome - "This is the skin of a killer, Bella!" *sparkles*
- Crowning Moment Of Funny -
"Fall down again, Bella? No Emmett. I punched a werewolf in the face".
- Breaking Dawn:
"Alice: "I'll play you for it. Rock, paper, scissors.
"Edward: "Why don't you just tell me who wins?"
"Alice: "I do. Excellent."
- Edward and Jacob
"You know, Jacob, if we weren't natural enemies and also you weren't trying to steal away the reason for my
existence, I might like you...Maybe, if you weren't a disgusting vampire planning to suck the life out of the girl I love...well, not even then."
- Alice, about Bella to Edward:
"I think she's having hysterics. Maybe you should slap her"
- Edward to Bella (after tells him she is just too young to get married)
"Well, I’m nearly a hundred and ten. It’s time I settled down.
- Eclipse:
"Bella: You won't sleep with me until we're married?
"Edward: Technically I can't ever sleep with you.
"Bella: Very mature, Edward.
- Jessica's pondering over whether zombie films are a metaphor for leprosy and how leprosy is NOT FUNNY in the New Moon film.
- Dan Browned - Readers who are familiar with the Olympic Peninsula may expect to do a lot of facepalming, seeing as Meyer had never actually been there when she wrote the first book. The wildlife alone, good God!
- Meyer never visited the town of Forks or any of the environs mentioned in the book until after they were all finished. SMeyer claims that the real Forks is exactly how she pictured it; people who have lived in or near Forks will tell you the wildlife isn't nearly so crazy as in the books, among other things.
- Defictionalization - Nordstrom and Torrid have massive tie-ins with New Moon, mainly replicating Bella's clothes (apparently there were a lot of requests after the first movie and they just said "screw it, we're selling it ourselves"), which by happy coincedence are in style.
- Defrosting Ice Queen - Rosalie and Leah.
- Destructo Nookie - Ask Emmet.
- Detractor Nickname
- Dhampyr: Renesmee. A few other Dhampyr are mentioned briefly in this series.
- Did Not Do The Research - Meyer never visited the town of Forks or any of the environs mentioned in the book until after they were all finished. SMeyer claims that the real Forks is exactly how she pictured it; people who have lived in or near Forks will tell you the wildlife isn't nearly so crazy as in the books, among other things.
- The Quileutes are an actual tribe whom Meyer chose to include in her story because they 'live near Forks.' She made up mythology for real people.
- About the Quileute and were-wolf thing, in B.D. it's revealed They aren't werewolves but shape-shifters, implying they're descentants of skin-walkers, real Native American myths. However skin-walkers are more of a Navajo story than Quileutes' so it's a case of this trope and Sadly Mythtaken. But if you want to be mericul to the werewolf origin story? Probably just a bunch of bull they told outsider and cold-one tramp Bella.
- Rosalie Cullen grew up in New York during the Great Depression. Her father was able to give them a middle-class life because he worked in a bank. Meyer didn't realize that the entire problem with the Great Depression was that the banks failed.
- A driftwood fire is not blue. It's yellow. A 5 second Google image search would give an image of this. Face Palm.
- Die For Our Ship - Controversial in that it's canon, but the third and fourth books see Jacob becoming much less likable in an attempt to help clear the way for Bella and Edward's romance.
- DisContinuity - If the Amazon.com reviews are any indication, a good portion of the fan base has excommunicated Breaking Dawn.
- Distressed Damsel - Bella. So. Much. Immediately upon arriving in small town USA, she's beset with life-threatening dangers so that Edward can capture her attention by saving her over and over. Odd, since she's the viewpoint character and female lead. In the fourth book, Renesmee might be one.
- Dojikko - Bella, with lots of Lampshade Hanging from Edward.
- Double Entendre - Emmett spends a whole chapter and a half of Breaking Dawn making progressively less veiled comments about Edward and Bella's sex life. While her father is around!
- Draco In Leather Pants: "Team James" has quite a following.
- Aro has become something of this after New Moon's movie came out. We'll see how long it lasts.
- Seeing as he's one of the few vampires who isn't all gloomy, that's somewhat understandable.
- Dreaming The Truth - once in Twilight and once in New Moon.
- Drives Like Crazy - the only thing about Edward that frightens Bella.
- Dull Surprise: Kirsten Stewart as Bella in the movies. Her facial expressions are very minimal.
- The Dumbledore - Aro, one of the most cheerful vampires you've ever seen in the entire series, is also the strongly implied leader of the Volturi, and according to Edward, 'You don't irritate on the Volturi, not unless you want to die'. So Yeah. And this is before SMeyer revealed that Aro killed his sister. Among that, it's because he wants to take over the world- or not the world, but he has some sort of domination plans, it being the reason he killed his sister, because didn't want her to run off with Marcus. Puts the guy in a new light, doesn't it?
- Emergency Transformation - several times.
- Emo Teen - Bella becomes one for a while after Edward leaves her in New Moon.
- The Empath - Jasper, who has the ability to control other people's emotions. Which might explain a good portion of the plot...
- Enemy Mine - The climax of Eclipse has the Quileutes and Cullens working together to defeat a vampire army headed by Victoria.
- Enfant Terrible - Babies who turn into vampires. Although they're never seen in the series, the description of one is enough to provide Nightmare Fuel for Bella.
- Enforced Method Acting: When Carlisle bites Edward, he whispers in Edward's ear. The in-character "I'm sorry" failed to get the right terrified reaction, as did the equally in-character "My son", so whispered "You're sexy".
- Which explains Pattinson's grin right before the CHOMP...
- Ensemble Darkhorse - Carlisle. Some of his fans are among those who otherwise loathe the books. Ditto Alice.
- Jasper, redeemed Blood Knight, is a deep character for a shallow series. On the villains' side, you have Magnificent Bastard Aro.
- And Rosalie for some, particularly people who dislike Bella.
- For the werewolves there's sweet kid Seth and fierce Leah, who has a particularly memorable moment involving a Narrative Profanity Filter. Jacob too, ignoring his Jerkass moments in Eclipse and anything after the *shudder* imprinting.
- The foreign vampires also show a lot of promise, especially Garrett and the "wild" Amazon who ends up being the kindest and most helpful to Bella.
- Epigraph - The Bible, Romeo And Juliet, Robert Frost's Fire and Ice
- Erotic Dream - Thanks to one of these, Bella gets Edward to have sex with her again while she's still human!
- Everyone Is Satan In Hell - Okay, some conservative objections against the book make sense, but there are a lot of people who take the most bizarre potshots against it. According to this video, Stephenie Meyer must have intentionally hidden Satanic messages into her series because, among other things, a kid with the last name "Cullen" one escaped a Satanic cult, and the chessboard on the Breaking Dawn cover has a check pattern just like the floor in a Masonic lodge. Facepalm
- Everythings Better With Sparkles
- Everybody Hates Mathematics - Bella hates math; it's her worst subject.
- Babies Make Everything Better: Somehow subverted since Bella's pregnancy brought a strain on a finally happy, for like two days, Beward's marriage, mostly because she was killing her mother. But after being born Reneesme brought peace between the Quillettes by having Jacob imprint on her, mended Rosalie's and Bella's relationship and won a lot of allies against The Vulturi's for the Cullen coven. Totally subverted by half the Fandom that felt there was no need or foreshadow for a baby.
- Express Delivery - Oh boy. After Edward and Bella get pregnant the first time they have sex, they realize that the baby is growing too fast. In fact, the baby quickly tries to "eat" its way out of Bella, so Edward has no choice but to perform a cesarean on Bella. With his teeth, because they are the only thing sharp enough to cut through the protective barrier around the fetus. The damage the baby and the cesarean causes force Edward to turn Bella into a vampire.
- Eyes Of Gold - Nuff said.
- Fainting - Bad news usually causes Bella to collapse. As does Edward kissing her, once. And blood. And a few other things.
- Fake American - Robert Pattinson (British) as Edward Cullen, in the movie
- Family Unfriendly Aesop - Most likely unintentional; Arguably the whole series.
- Fan Art - Much of this is pretty snarky. However, there is some serious work out there that's worth taking a look at, as with most fandoms.
- Fan Dumb - Idiocy begets idiocy on the part of the Fandumb and the Hatedom.
- Fan Haters - Inevitably. The more outspoken and ravenous a series' fanbase, the more outspoken and ravenous its haters.
- Fan Myopia - "Twilight is waaay better and more popular than Harry Potter!!!" (You know, until you compare the sales figures. And movie grosses. And ask people outside the English-speaking world which one they've heard of.)
- Fan Nickname - SMeyer, RPattz, KStew, etc.
- Fan Preferred Couple - Jacob/Bella, though the Official Couple has its own
sizeable vast devoted fanbase.
- Fan Service - reaches epidemic levels in the second movie, where most of the male cast wanders around shirtless (or else, removes their shirt at the drop of a hat) the entire time.
- Fatal Attractor - Edward would like to believe he is this.
- Fetish Fuel
- Female Gaze - In a book, no less. Cut out any sentence paying tribute to Edward's godly, wondrous, Adonis-esque physique, and you'll lose maybe more than a third of each book. Even New Moon, which he was only in half of.
- Fetus Terrible - The only people who seem convinced that Bella's hellspawn is a good thing are Bella and Rosalie. Everyone else just wants her to abort it.
- The Film Of The Book
- First Girl Wins: In the books, Edward is the first supernatural male Bella meets and she falls for and keep him in the end in the movie Edward becomes Last Girl Wins being Jacob the first one she meets.
- Follow The Leader: Not this book, but the countless young-adult-vampire/other paranormal entity-romance-novels that have followed in its wake. There's an entire section of a local major book retailer devoted to the black symbolic covers of those books.
- From A Single Cell
- Fridge Logic: Why do Jasper's powers work on Bella when no one else's do? excluding Renesmee. Getting through Bella's shield seems to be one of her powers.
- This is because he doesn't affect her mind, he affects her heart rate, blood flow, endorphins, etc. Or So I Heard. I'm not sure if this would actually work in practice. Actually, that still makes it Fridge Logic, because then how can Jasper affect his fellow vampires, who have no heart rate, blood flow, or hormone-chemical-thingys?
- How do you rip something as hard as diamonds? It's like saying "rip apart a rock."
- Friendly Neighborhood Vampires - the Cullens, not very social but not intentionally harmful.
- Fur Against Fang: Vampires and werewolves really, really hate each other.
- Although Edward and Jacob make friends pretty quickly as soon as Jacob finds out he imprinted on Edward's infant child, despite the decades of hate. Which doesn't upset anyone except Bella, and only
a little enough for her to try and kill him.
- Genki Girl - Alice.
- Glamour Failure: see the much-reviled/-loved *sparkles*
- Good People Have Good Sex - Edward and Bella as newlyweds. So 'good' in fact that super-strong Edward bruises her all over her arms and torso.
- Guilty Pleasures - There is a large part of the fandom who are fully aware of even Twilight's worst flaws (Purple Prose and all), but still eat them up.
- It's a tough category to fit in; you still get threatened beatings from the Fan Dumb for acknowledging its flaws, but the Hatedom sees you as "one of them" and worthy of attack. Those of us who like it for what it is - brain candy not to be examined too closely - usually just deny they like it and change the subject, because you never know what's going to happen.
- Ham And Cheese - The Film Of The Book.
- Happily Married - The entire merry Cullen bunch, sans Edward ( at least, until Breaking Dawn).
- Happily Ever After - Bella gets everything she wanted and then some. Marries Edward, becomes a beautiful and powerful vampire, she doesn't lose contact with Charlie, the Cullens are all happy and together, she lives in a beautiful cottage, her best friend, Jacob, finds his own soulmate in her daughter so he can be family now, the Volturi go without a fight, and she gets a beautiful baby girl. However, Bella is an unreliable narrator and it might be Happily till the Volturi come with a plan to destroy your Ever After.
- Hatedom - boy, does it ever.
- Given how many antis use Jacob's Character Derailment as proof that the book sucks, it's safe to say that they are all on Team Jacob.
- Heroic BSOD - Bella has one for a good part of New Moon. Edward also has one when Bella becomes pregnant
- Heroic Willpower - Edward's oh-so-noble resistance of Bella's blood makes him poster boy for this trope. Of course, both Edward and Bella have to resist their regular sexual lust too, for reasons of safety and morality.
- Hey, It's That Guy!: Cedric's alive!?
- Hikaru Genji Plan - Quil and Claire.
- Hollywood Homely - The movie made James, Bella and others beautiful when they were more plain-looking in the books.
- Though, in the eyes of Edward (and apparently the entire male population of Forks), Bella was exceedingly beautiful.
- Oh, James especially. In the book he's supposed to be plain-looking but many think he's one of the hottest guys in the movie!
- Hormone Addled Teenager - Most of them, but Bella and Edward especially, since they mostly think of absolutely nothing but one another, in New Moon especially to the exclusion of common sense. Jacob too, since he spends a lot of time thinking about getting into Bella's pants, as do seemingly all the other boys in the book. Bella's Heroic BSOD in New Moon has particularly unfortunate connotations in this trope, since how it's handled implies that her life is literally nothing without her boyfriend.
- The Unfortunate Implications are at least equally portrayed with Edward, he left his family (that loved him and where his only company for decades),and went to live on a rat infested place to curl into a ball and let misery take over, right after the break up and then went all suicidal over her dying, so he was also nothing without his girlfriend.
- How Do You Like Them Apples - The front cover of the first book has someone holding an apple, representing that Edward and Bella are each other's Forbidden Fruit. It was represented on a scene of the film, where Edward holds an apple Bella dropped.
- Horror Hunger
- Hot Amazon - How about three hot Amazons? Zafrina, Kachiri, and Senna: actually called "the Amazon Coven".
- Hot Shoujo Dad - Carlisle.
- Ho Yay - Loads of this, usually unintentional, between Edward and most other males such as Jacob. One assumes that Stephenie Meyer was unaware of the implications of biting pillows, breaking headboards, and Carlisle selecting a handsome teenage boy as his "companion" in vampirism (rather than say, a pretty woman).
- The Romanian vampires, Vladmir and Stefan. Not only do they live and travel together, but they finish each other's sentences.
- Believe it or not, Stephanie Meyer's joke story "Breaking Down" included Mike leaving Bella for Eric.
- The Hunter - Edward preying on criminals during his "rebellious years"
- Hype Backlash - Inevitable when one the world's biggest little romantic Guilty Pleasures gets hyped by a good half of the people you know as some sort of epic good-versus-evil story with vampires and werewolves, and oh, there's some romance... and they fail to warn you about the sparkling thing to boot.
- This got about a billion times worse when Breaking Dawn came out.
- The backlash has been going on for so long and to such as degree that a Hate Backlash is beginning to develop from people who think it's neither the worst nor the best novel in existence and are just as tired of listening to people complain about it as they are of listening to people praise it.
- I Cannot Self Terminate - Edward has to ask the Volturi for help committing suicide in New Moon. It doesn't work.
- I Cant Believe A Guy Like You Would Notice Me! - It takes Bella three books to stop whining like this.
- I Hate You Vampire Dad - Inverted. Not one of the main characters is ever angry at the vampire who turned them. They get plenty angry at their current state but never think to blame Carlisle.
- Hell, Bella is ecstatic to be turned by Edward. And the vampire that turned Alice its described as a kind one that only did it to save her from James.
- Idiosyncratic Episode Naming - Jacob's chapters in Breaking Dawn have chapter titles like You Know You've Got Problems When You Feel Bad For Being Rude To Vampires, Good Thing I've Got A Strong Stomach, and Waiting For The Damn Fight To Start Already. This is opposed to the one-word titles Meyer usually uses.
- Idiot Plot: Almost every plot point in the first book is brought about by one or more character being stupid. Hasn't Carlisle ever heard of homeschooling?
- What about New Moon? Edward decides that Bella's dead based on a vision of the future that Alice has (which are proven to be unreliable) and Rosalie (who hates Bella) claiming that she called Charlie and was told that he was going to "the funeral". Without actually knowing whose funeral it was. Edward then decides to go straight to Italy to commit suicide without actually returning to Forks to find out for himself or at least let Alice go and find out for him. Bella's little oh-so-not-suicide cliff-diving episode would also count.
- I Just Want To Be Normal - Rosalie hates being a vampire, and has admitted she'd give up her beauty and immortality just to have the opportunity to have a child of her own. Edward also wishes he could relate to Bella the way a normal guy would, without the bloodlust and super strength getting in the way.
- I Just Want To Be Special - Bella just wants to be special.
- I Knew It - Before Breaking Dawn came out, enough fans were guessing that Edward and Bella would have a baby together that Stephenie Meyer felt the need to issue a statement that "vampires can't get pregnant" — figuring that most fans would either take it to mean that vampires are sterile (they're not — it's just that their bodies are unchanging, and the, er, "disfigurement" involved in carrying a baby to term could not occur) or assume that Edward wouldn't dare have sex with Bella before turning her (a logical enough conclusion, considering how worried he is about hurting her.) Naturally, those who either read into it carefully or didn't get the message at all had the last laugh.
- I Love You Because I Cant Control You
- I Want My Beloved To Be Happy - the reason Edward leaves in New Moon. If only he'd have gone for good. *sighs*
- Informed Ability - Bella is supposed to be really well-read, but she only ever mentions very few bits of literature in the entire series — all of which are usually required reading in high school. Mansfield Park, Animal Farm, Wuthering Heights, Romeo and Juliet and the Jane Austen compilation. She's also supposed to be incredibly kind and selfless, but there's not too much evidence of that either.
- Informed Attractiveness - Edward. We're told that he's really gorgeous, but aside from his hair, eye color, complexion, and wardrobe, we really have no idea what he looks like. And for being such an awesome boyfriend to have, he's actually kind of dull... except when he's just creepy.
- Informed Flaw - Edward makes much of his dangerous nature but anyone who has read past the first book knows there's no chance in hell he'll hurt Bella.
- Bella describes herself as plain and uninteresting, but everyone—and we do mean everyone—who meets her either adores her (and wants to follow her every move) or hates her (which means they care about her one way or another).
- Internet Backdraft - Pity the poor people who take a neutral stance on the books, then mention to the diehards or the haters that they think the series is "okay".
- Interplay Of Sex And Violence
- Interspecies Romance - Humans and vampires! Humans and werewolves! Half-humans/half-vampires and werewolves!
- Intimate Healing - Clothed version between Bella and Jacob, not that he doesn't try for the naked version.
- Invisible To Normals - Edward's stopping of the van about to crush Bella with his bare hands with no one but Bella realizing could fall under this, and it is even mocked in Mark Reads Twilight, where he says this is part of an overused idea he calls "The 'I Am Going To Do Something Spectacular And Clearly Attention-Grabbing In Front Of Plenty Of People, Yet No One Is Going To Notice Except (Conveniently) The Main Character' Phenomenon."
- Jail Bait Wait - A rather extreme form, with werewolves falling in love with toddlers, then having to wait for them to hit their mid-late teens before they can do anything physical.
- Jerkass Stu - Edward Cullen.
- Jumping The Shark - Many fans believe this is what happened in Breaking Dawn and that the series ended with ''Eclipse''.
- Kill It With Fire - the only known way to get rid of vampires for good, and some would say the proper way to deal with the books.
- Just fire isn't enough: first you have to rip them up into pieces (which is kind of difficult, considering that their flesh is as hard a stone) and then scatter the ashes. However, since their bodily fluids are flammable (no, really), once you have them in little pieces setting them on fire is pretty easy.
- Kiss Of The Vampire - Edward and Bella's make-out sessions in early books are decidedly tame for this reason.
- Knight In Shining Armor - Edward is more like Bella's knight in sparkling armor.
- Law Of Inverse Fertility - Bella wasn't even trying to get pregnant. Then suddenly she did! Rosalie and Esme, on the other hand, will never be able to have children of their own (although Esme seems perfectly happy with her big family of big immortal adopted children).
- Les Yay - The Amazon vampire coven. Also, Alice and Bella.
- Lets Meet The Meat - Well, technically.
- Like Brother And Sister - Edward and Rosalie, although some fans would disagree.
- Living Forever Is Awesome - Even though the Cullens are not totally convinced they seem to have achieve happiness with their condition (except for Edward and Rosalie, at least at the beginning). Bella has no doubt it is.
- Love At First Sight - Imprinting for werewolves, sometimes to a squicky level.
- Variant: Edward falls in Love At First Smell, effectively.
- Love It Or Hate It: Those who love it, really, really love it. Those who hate it, really, really hate it.
- Love Martyr
- Lying Creator - "Vampires can't have children", our collective ass. Meyer apparently narrowly construes the word "to have" as meaning "to bear".
- Magical Native American - The werewolves can be counted as part of this trend, given their common ethnicity.
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl - Alice. Subverted in that she does start irritating Bella and others after a while, although no one outright hates her.
- A Man Is Not A Virgin: Notably averted with Edward. Oh so averted.
- Mars Needs Women: The imprinting business with the werewolves looks suspiciously like this, especially if all female werewolves are as infertile as Leah.
- According to Meyer, there were no female werewolves before Leah and it is never said if a female werewolf could imprint. Yeah...
- Mary Sue - Edward arguably, Bella definitely.
- Master Of The Mixed Message - Edward. Oh, god, Edward.
- May December Romance
- Manhwa - Ready and to be released on March 16.
- Meaningful Name - Probably unintentional, but it is still interesting to note that Bella's last name, Swan, has a meaning in the real-life vampire subculture. Swan is used to refer to people involved in the vampire community, but who are not vampires themselves.
- Memetic Mutation - CHAGRIN CHAGRIN CHAGRIN CHAGRIN CHAGRIN CHAGRIN CHAGRIN
- Also, it's nearly mandatory to Photoshop any picture of Edward Cullen to include sparkles (see pic). On forums and boards that allow it (such as LiveJournal), sometimes even just his name is formatted to sparkle.
- Edward seeing Bella for the first time is sometimes interpreted... differently.
- "This is the skin of a killer, Bella!" *sparkles*
- Pattinson's "greasy" real-world hair seems to be approaching meme status. If a picture of him is posted somewhere, someone will mention his hair.
- Robert Pattison doesn't shower for a couple days before he goes out in public. Why? He hates the fangirls that constantly approach him, and disgusting body odor is a tool he uses to keep them away.
- And then there's the habit haters have of coming up with alternate shipping teams (i.e., "team Tyler's van", "team Mike Newton," etc.)
- "Team Nyu! Because even she can kick Edward's ass!"
- Money Dear Boy - Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, the stars of The Film Of The Book, are only in it for the money (and Pattinson claims that he was interested in working with Stewart, an actress he respected). They claim to hate the story and the fans.
- Mills And Boon Prose
- Mind Rape - specifically Jane and Alec, although most of the Volturi can fall under this category.
- Renesmee. Especially disturbing when you think of what she could do once she grows up and gains a better understanding of Nightmare Fuel.
- The Musical - See it here!
- MST 3 K Mantra - Everyone repeat after me...
- Narm: Whole theatres have been known to crack up at Alice's vision of Edward and vampire!Bella frolicking in the woods in New Moon.
- Ahem! *sparkles*
- Jasper's facial expressions.
- Edward's facial expressions. And in one scene, Billy's facial expression. The facial expressions in general are...not good.
- Never Live It Down: *sparkles*
- New Powers As The Plot Demands - Alice being able to see the future.
- Nightmare Fuel - Renesmee's birth. If they would make a movie of that, the numbers of teen pregnancy would go down. Scratch that, all pregnancy. Not to mention that Edward, Bella's sweetheart, Jacob, Bella's friend, Carlisle, Bella's doctor, etc., consider and try to force her to have an abortion. Knocking her out first...it is implied.
- When the Volturi ripped a vampire apart at the beginning of the New Moon film.
- The Volturi's feeding methods. They have tourists visit the "beautiful abandoned castle" that they live in. The last room is the throne. There is no leaving. Cranked to High Octane Nightmare Fuel in the film when you hear the tourists screaming, but don't see anything. Spoiler'd because it WILL keep you from sleeping.
- This Troper finds Movie!Edward frightening all on his own. And that's BEFORE his little STALKING problem. Believes it to be the Anime Hair.
- No Periods Period - Breaking Dawn reveals that Leah Clearwater, the only female in the Quileute werewolf pack, is a "genetic dead end" (as she puts it) because she stopped getting her period when she first became a werewolf. And she thinks this is a bad thing.
- And of course, vampires don't have periods, because their bodies are unchanging (this ties into the whole "can't bear children" thing).
- No Sell - Bella is immune to telepathy.
- Not Blood Siblings - ...bad puns about their dietary habits aside.
- Older Than They Think - Let's just say that the series is not quite as original as some of the more zealous fans say it is...
- One Last Fling - Jacob and Bella's kiss at the end of Eclipse, which heavily borders on sexual assault for Bella.
- Ordinary High School Student - Bella, the main character.
- The Other Rainforest - set in Forks, Washington
- Our Werewolves Are Different - Purely hereditary, and they have higher body temperatures, for one.
- Though the more stereotypical werewolves are mentioned - the Volturi have hunted them to near-extinction. They even say that what the Quileute are aren't actually werewolves.
- Our Vampires Are Different - they're sparkly golem-like creatures made of diamonds that run on explosive oil strained from human blood, without fangs (even cute little ones) and have no problem with the sun, holy symbols or garlic. Hell, Twilight is practically the embodiment of this trope!
- Periphery Demographic: The TwiMoms.
- Plot Hole: Jasper goes berserk at the scent of a single drop of Bella's blood, yet Good Vampire Carlisle seems to have no issues sending him to a school where someone is bound to get a bloody nose or a cut at some point. Now, Alice can keep an eye on the future and possibly get him out of there, but then why didn't she forsee the paper-cut disaster?
- Didn't James say that Bella's blood smelled better than most others (he said it was almost floral)? Also, wouldn't nose blood be unappetizing?
- Alice's powers are based on decisions. She can only see the outcome of something that someone decided, and I doubt that Bella simply decided to get a paper-cut. Jasper going to a place with potential for spilt blood is still a mystery, however...
- Jasper reaction was instintic not a decision so there was no way Alice could see it. She probably saw that Bella was going back home since in the end the events didn't killed her.
- Also, why in the world didn't he go crazy in the first book when Bella's delicious blood is splashed all over the ballet studio after James' attack?
- Bella becomes a vampire. Nothing is explained as to how her human friends and family take this or her crazy pregnancy.
- Charlie's reaction to the news is to basically pretend it's not happening and say he doesn't want to know how it happened - so that's one reasonable reaction to the events. And she wasn't really planning on ever trying to see her human friends (or mother) again, bless her heart. Although that's going to be kind of hard considering that they still live in the same town and Esme built them a little fairy tale cottage and everything. And that Carlisle was having trouble passing for 30 at his job by the second book...
- Upon reading Edward's mind in Breaking Dawn, Aro finds out everything... except that Bella has a powerful shielding power which she has been using pretty successfully on others. Bella even mentions several times how good it is that Aro hasn't figured it out yet, basically pointing out the Plot Hole.
- Plot Relevant Age Up: One-month gestation results in a September birth date. By December, Renesmee is walking, talking, and reading Tennyson. Another half-vampire reveals that maturity is reached at the age of seven.
- Portmanteau Couple Name: Surprisingly enough, one of the few noteworthy couples (if not the only) that actually has a portmanteau couple name is Jakeward. It's not too hard to guess who they are.
- Protagonist Centered Morality: You can eat humans, and we'll even lend you our cars to broaden your range, as long as you don't try to eat Bella Swan.
- Psychic Dreams for Everyone - Bella has prophetic dreams for no apparent reason.
- Purple Prose - Though Stephanie Meyer writes at a regular teen-reading level, she suddenly becomes very poetic when describing Edward's appearance.
- Rape Is The New Dead Parents - Rosalie.. Though, considering the Cullens are all vampires, they also all have dead parents.
- Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic - Averted in The Film Of The Book.
- Red Eyes Take Warning - For the vampires that drink human blood, as well as newborn ones.
- Red Oni Blue Oni - Burning-hot Jacob and ice-cold Edward.
- Relationship Sue - Robert Pattinson, or RPattz, noted in an interview that Bella was basically a big wish-fulfillment fantasy of Meyer's. And in the fourth book, Renesmee Carlie "Nessie" Cullen is one for Jacob Black.
- Almost all of the werewolf (erm, shapeshifter) teens get them also - Quil gets Claire, Sam gets Emily, Paul gets Jacob's sister, and Jared gets a female classmate who had a crush on him.
- Reluctant Warrior - Carlisle to the point that the werewolves designated him a non-priority target; he had the most experience and a lot of potential to do harm, but his hesitation made him less dangerous.
- Rescue Romance
- Rifftrax: The movie of the book has this.
- Romance Novel
- Romantic Runner Up - Mike Newton, Tyler Crowley, and Eric Yorkie. Either humans just aren't good enough for Bella, or she's really socially messed-up if Edward's the only one for her. Tyler could also qualify as Leisure Suit Larry.
- Jacob Black fits this trope better since he actually was around long enough to let his romantic advances to reach to a point that Bella had to made a choice.
- Scenery Porn - The movie has a LOT of it, and a good thing too. The atmosphere was the sole thing many people liked about the movie. Haunting and somber, thick with misty moutains, fertile greenery, and soft Jazz-sounding in the background.
- Second Act Breakup - Pretty much the only point of New Moon.
- Selective Squick
- Shallow Love Interest - Bella and Edward, for each other.
- Shout Out - Bella compares her love affair with Edward to Wuthering Heights and Romeo And Juliet. New Moon parallels the latter when Bella and Edward almost commit Tag Team Suicide due to a communication error. Even funnier when considered that Shakespeare wrote Romeo And Juliet to be a cautionary tale about the dangers of falling in love too fast, which is exactly what Bella and Edward did! On the more Squicky end, one couple is Claire and Quil. Claire is two, Quil is Jacob's age.
- Single Target Sexuality - Edward is completely Bella-sexual. The werewolves also become this after they imprint.
- Small Name Big Ego: Meyer has attempted to deflect a lot of flak the books get by blaming the readers.
- Snark Bait - For a sizable fraction of those following it.
- Squick: Though Jacob thinks he has feelings for Bella, their entire relationship is him pre-imprinting on Bella's baby daughter Renesmee long before she was even conceived.
- If he imprinted on Bella's oocyte, he should have imprinted on Edward's sperm, too.
- So Bad Its Horrible: One doesn't have to surf very far to find web sites and message boards dedicated to this belief.
- Special Effects Failure - many in The Film Of The Book, including a sparkling vampire who looks a lot more like he's covered in sweat, and way too much pale makeup on the Cullens.
- Most distracting was the indescribably abysmal wire-works for the jumping bits. Just watch and time how long it takes until you start laughing.
- The flashback/mental image special effects for Bella. Just... no. The only flashback/dream sequence/what-have-you that was tolerable happened to involve two extremely attractive men, um, necking, if you will. The others were rather comic. (Even the necking has some narm with Pattinson's facial expressions...) This is because the actor playing Carlisle reportedly whispered "You're so sexy" into Pattisons ear in order to get the proper freaked-out expression out of him.
- Said pale makeup also would stop at the neck or fail to cover the ears, particularly with Bella in the hospital scene.
- The special effects in the second film were significantly better in most aspects. Just so long as you ignore the werewolf transformations...
- Stalker With A Crush - Edward.
- Stalking Is Love - Edward. Following Bella to keep her safe. Sneaking into her room to watch her sleep. Even before he was involved with her. And he gets her in the end, too.
- Tsundere: Edward Cullen, Type B: He is sweet, generous, kind, caring and devoted to Bella and her happiness. But DO NOT place Bella in a danger of any kind. NO ONE gets away with that with him around, not even himself or her. Bella would be a Vampdere, since she is always nicer to vampires than to humans.
- The Stoic - Sam Uley. Forced to deal with his lycanthropy on his own, he cultivated a kind of zen calm to cope, and help the others who came later.
- The Dulcinea Effect: Edward more explained in Midnight Sun. Bella also is a female version of this.
- Strangled By The Red String - Bella and Edward. What do they talk about? What draws them together? What hobbies do they share? When you can ask even rabid fans these questions and get only blank stares in response, you know something is wrong.
- To an even greater extent, Jacob and Renesmee. She was Jacob's soul mate, even before she was born.
- Stupid Sacrifice - Bella attempts this several times.
- Stupid Sexy Flanders - Leah reveals that ever since she became a werewolf and able to read Jacob's mind, she's been having dreams about kissing Bella.
- Suetiful All Along: Guess... just guess.
- Tag Team Suicide - Edward tries this in New Moon when he thinks Bella's dead.
- Take That: Stephen King has been quoted as saying Meyer has no talent.
- Also, many, many from Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattison regarding their respective characters. Pattison, especially, reviles Edward and Stephanie Meyer, and will not hesitate to say so at least once every interview.
- Their First Time - Played straight, except when Edward and Bella kept switching positions on who was the "ready" one.
- This Is SPARTA - Rosalie in Breaking Dawn. "You. Got. Food. In. My. Hair."
- And if you watch the movie version of Twilight with the Rifftrax, you'll hear Mike Nelson yell, "THIS! IS! Forks High School: Home of the SPARTANS!
- Theme Naming: Many of the Quileutes have Old Testament Biblical names. (Jacob, Leah, Seth, Samuel, Paul...)
- That's because five of them (Jacob, Leah, Seth, Emily, and Paul) were named after Meyer's siblings.
- Too Dumb To Live - Bella unquestionably, because of her lack of reaction to the fact that Edward's a vampire - which he often comments on. It gets worse in the movie. After researching vampires, Bella realizes what Edward is. Several people have turned up dead in the area, apparently mauled by animals - which she doesn't believe. So naturally, she goes off into the woods with Edward to tell him she knows his secret... without telling anyone where she's going or with whom.
- Not to mention that she constantly get in trouble, walking alone in a dangerous forest, dark alleys, unstable werewolves, evil vampires. How she made it to seventeen before Edward met her is a mystery.
- New Moon's movie lampshaded it as well, with a comment from Alice: "I've never met anyone so prone to life-threatening idiocy!"
- Not to mention that whenever Bella gets into bad situations (rapists come after her, she is cornered by James, etc), she doesn't do anything to try to escape. This is fixed in the movie when she kicks one of the rapists in his tender area and maces James.
- Trend Covers - Practically every other YA novel getting released/re-released since Twilight has a "one symbolic object on dark background" cover.
- Troubled But Cute - Edward Cullen, described as a fatalist by the author and self loathing by the actor that plays him. No to mention that he spents half of the time calling himself a soulless monster.
- Two Person Pool Party - The Honeymoon, but in ocean instead of a pool. Good thing it's a private island!
- Ugly Guy Hot Wife - Completely averted from Bella's POV.
- Uncanny Valley - Robert Pattinson's heavily made-up face combined with massive Photoshopping on covers, posters, and promotional art.
- Unfortunate Implications - Werewolf "imprinting" is introduced as not necessarily sexual... but when Quil imprints on little girl Claire, becoming a super-duper father figure, it's implied that they will have disturbing lycanthropic sex when she's of age. Won't that be an awkward conversation.
"You never saw a real parent so jazzed to play whatever stupid kiddie sport their rugrat could think up. I'd seen Quil play peekaboo for an hour straight without getting bored. [...] Though I did think it sucked that he had a good fourteen years of monk-i-tude ahead of him until Claire was his age."
- Edward's behavior is basically that of an emotionally abusive boyfriend, and he has all the personality of a cardboard box. But that's okay because he's so gorgeous and he's only abusive to Bella because he loves her. The really scary part is that this is one way that abused women justify the actions of their partners in real life, and the author herself actually expects readers to excuse Edward's behavior thus.
- Emily and Sam's relationship - She agrees to date him after he (accidentally) hurts her enough to leave scars. There is also no mention of Emily doing anything besides cooking, cleaning, weaving, or other household tasks.
- Leah is the only female werewolf ever, can keep up with the menfolk, and lost her ability to have children after she began to transform. She also lost the man she truly loved and was considered a shrewish harpy by virtually everyone. Yeah...
- Unfortunate Names - Do we need to say it again?
- Unwanted Harem
- Urban Fantasy
- Unreliable Narrator: Bella is supposed to have low self-esteem about her looks, but the events of the series suggest that she's gorgeous. There are also plenty of probably unintentional examples - for example, Bella becomes convinced that her friend Jessica is using her for popularity and doesn't actually like her, on the basis of absolutely no evidence.
- Vampire Bites Suck - Extremely painful venom and one of the few things that can actually leave a mark on vampire skin.
- Vampires Prefer Brunettes: Blonde bombshell Rosalie is described as the most beautiful woman, like, EVER, and was literally made for him. Strawberry-blonde Tanya throws herself at him at every opportunity. Yet Edward is attracted to Bella, and Bella alone.
- Vaporware - Midnight Sun, due to the leakage of the rough draft, is to be classified as such until further notice.
- Vegetarian Vampire - The Cullen clan of vampires, who hunt, kill and drink the blood of animals for sustenance, call themselves "vegetarians."
- Vocal Minority: Twilight has spawned a fantastically trollish Fan Dumb, which doesn't really pan out great for the 90% who just want to read the goddamn books. A lot of fans will actually acknowledge all of Twilight's flaws and parody it shamelessly themselves.
- Voodoo Shark - Meyer's attempt at explaining why male vampires could breed.
- Wall Banger - For a lot of fans and ex-fans, when Jacob imprints on Edward and Bella's baby. Not to mention the baby's name: Renesmee. As if there was any doubt Meyer was from Utah...
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Jacob and the wolfpack.
- Wangst - Both Bella and Edward full stop.
- Warm Bloodbags Are Everywhere - This series runs on this trope.
- Weirdness Magnet - Or "danger magnet" as Bella calls herself.
- The Wesley - Bella and Edward for most people.
- What Kind Of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway - Carlisle's power is "compassion", Esme power is love. But Rosalie's main power, according to Meyer, is beauty. Even Edward thinks his sister's power is so stupid that he lies to Bella about it.
- Whining Light - The you-know-what has an accompanying sound effect in The Film Of The Book.
- Why Would Anyone Take Him Back?
- The Woobie: Robert Pattinson. The man took a role he didn't like for a decent paycheck and the chance to work with his celebrity crush, and in return is stalked by fans and raged at by haters.
- Wrench Wench - Rosalie.
- Writer On Board - From Meyer's Author Avatar to the broad strokes she paints those she doesn't like in.
- You Fail at EVERYTHING - Let's just say that Ms. Meyer didn't exactly do her homework...
- You Must Be Cold - because Edward is convinced Bella's going to go into shock and let's face it, it's not like the cold bothers him.
- Younger Than They Look - Renesmee. Dear lord, Renesmee...
- Your Mileage Will Vary - You will either think the books are So Cool Its Awesome, So Okay Its Average, So Bad Its Good or So Bad Its Horrible. Either way, abandon all hope, ye who look upon the Internet Twilight Fan Dumb and Hatedom.
- Your Vampires Suck - This series has been on both the giving and receiving end of this trope (receiving more often than not, though)
- Someone even an essay that went to great lengths to prove that this series' vampires don't even qualify as vampires.
*SPARKLE*
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