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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Wally, as noted by Bruce in Chapter 5.
--> ''Not that Wally wasn't smart--Bruce not only knew what Wally did for a living but had copies of all his school transcripts and job performance evaluations in the Batcomputer--but Bruce had never known anyone else who went to such great lengths to hide the fact. It seemed odd to be in a world where Wally was the detective and he himself was genuinely nothing more than the playboy.
--> ''Not that Wally wasn't smart--Bruce not only knew what Wally did for a living but had copies of all his school transcripts and job performance evaluations in the Batcomputer--but Bruce had never known anyone else who went to such great lengths to hide the fact. It seemed odd to be in a world where Wally was the detective and he himself was genuinely nothing more than the playboy.
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* AlternateUniverse: Invoked in-universe with the magic book--the setting of the story takes place in a crime-noir world where the heroes don't have their superpowers and everyone they know is in a completely different role from canon. For example, Wally becomes a rather seedy detective in the mold of Sam Spade, John is a rich socialite, J'onn is a shady accountant, and Bruce is a CorruptCorporateExecutive. However, certain characters' book counterparts don't share the same name, such as Carter Hall being named Joe Gardner in the story (which gets Shayera into trouble when she repeatedly calls him Carter).
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* AlternateUniverse: Invoked in-universe with the magic book--the setting of the story takes place in a crime-noir world where the heroes don't have their superpowers and everyone they know is in a completely different role from canon. For example, Wally becomes a rather seedy detective in the mold of Sam Spade, John is a rich socialite, J'onn is a shady accountant, and Bruce is a CorruptCorporateExecutive.''genuine'' playboy. However, certain characters' book counterparts don't share the same name, such as Carter Hall being named Joe Gardner in the story (which gets Shayera into trouble when she repeatedly calls him Carter).
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Diana's motive to kill Mari. Both women were together in some of [[{{Blackmail}} Clark's scandalous photos]], and Bruce notes that if the photos were what Mari was going to announce before she was murdered, Diana's reputation would have been sullied]].
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Diana's motive to kill Mari. Both women were together in some of [[{{Blackmail}} Clark's scandalous photos]], and Bruce Clark notes that if Mari's intended public announcement was about the photos were what Mari was going to announce before she was murdered, photos, Diana's reputation would have been sullied]].
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Diana's motive to kill Mari. Both women were together in some of [[{{Blackmail}} Clark's scandalous photos]], and Bruce notes that if the photos were what Mari was going to announce before she was murdered, Diana's reputation would have been sullied]].
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* TwistingTheWords: Clark's character in the book has a reputation for this.
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* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler:Clark's possible motive to kill Mari. He was blackmailing her with scandalous photos and forced her to pay him for his silence, and she was refusing to pay him another cent prior to her murder]].
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* EveryoneIsASuspect: [[spoiler:Except the actual killer]].
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* EveryoneIsASuspect: [[spoiler:Except the actual killer]].EveryoneIsASuspect
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* DirtyOldMan: The book's version of Perry White, as observed by Clark in Chapter 4.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Even in the fictional world, where she's one of several suspects in Mari's murder, Shayera's still got it.
--> '''John:''' Do you have any good news?
--> '''Shayera:''' Fine. I'm fine. Lovely weather we're having today, don't you think?
--> '''John:''' Do you have any good news?
--> '''Shayera:''' Fine. I'm fine. Lovely weather we're having today, don't you think?
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* PunctatedForEmphasis: Diana to Wally, when she finds out her character in the story is his character's secretary.
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* PunctatedForEmphasis: PunctuatedForEmphasis: Diana to Wally, when she finds out her character in the story is his character's secretary.
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* PunctatedForEmphasis: Diana to Wally, when she finds out her character in the story is his character's secretary.
--> '''Diana:''' I. Do. Not. Do. Your. Typing.
--> '''Diana:''' I. Do. Not. Do. Your. Typing.
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* AlternateUniverse: Invoked in-universe with the magic book--the setting of the story takes place in a crime-noir world where the heroes don't have their superpowers and everyone they know is in a completely different role from canon. For example, Wally becomes a rather seedy detective in the mold of Sam Spade, John is a rich socialite, J'onn is a shady accountant, and Bruce is a CorruptCorporateExecutive. However, certain characters' book counterparts don't share the same name, such as Carter Hall being named Joe in the story (which gets Shayera into trouble when she repeatedly calls him Carter).
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* AlternateUniverse: Invoked in-universe with the magic book--the setting of the story takes place in a crime-noir world where the heroes don't have their superpowers and everyone they know is in a completely different role from canon. For example, Wally becomes a rather seedy detective in the mold of Sam Spade, John is a rich socialite, J'onn is a shady accountant, and Bruce is a CorruptCorporateExecutive. However, certain characters' book counterparts don't share the same name, such as Carter Hall being named Joe Gardner in the story (which gets Shayera into trouble when she repeatedly calls him Carter).
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* YourCheatingHeart: Zig-zagged. According to the book's mystery plot, John was cheating on Mari with Shayera [[spoiler:and Katma Tui]], and Mari herself is rumored to have cheated on ''him'' [[spoiler:with Bruce]].
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* MurderTheHypotenuse: Within the book's universe, there is suspicion that John may have killed Mari (who is his wife in the story) so he could be with Shayera.
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* AlternateUniverse: Invoked in-universe with the magic book--the setting of the story takes place in a crime-noir world where the heroes don't have their superpowers and everyone they know is in a completely different role from canon. For example, Wally becomes a rather seedy detective in the mold of Sam Spade, John is a rich socialite, J'onn is a shady accountant, and Bruce is a CorruptCorporateExecutive. However, certain characters' book counterparts don't share the same name, such as Carter Hall being named Joe in the story (which gets Shayera into trouble when she repeatedly calls him Carter).
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* CultureClash: A minor example in the second chapter--Clark is initially surprised that while Lois writes the stories he presents to her, they're all submitted in his name instead of hers. Then he realizes the time period is in the 1940s, twenty years before gender equality began picking up speed in RealLife.
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* SituationalSexuality: In the book's universe, Diana is in a relationship with Audrey. She also flirts with a female receptionist in an attempt to get information Wally can't get the normal way.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: In-universe, going hand-in-hand with YourMindMakesItReal; one prominent example is Green Lantern's ongoing LoveTriangle with Shayera (his ex) and Vixen (his current number) playing itself out in the book's story by portraying John and Mari as a married couple and Shayera as John's mistress.
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* LightsOffSomebodyDies: The book's murder mystery begins this way, during a party at Bruce's mansion.
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* AbsenceOfEvidence: in the book's plot, Mari [=McCabe=] is killed via gunshot. The gun is at the scene of the crime...but there are no fingerprints on it.
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* AbsenceOfEvidence: in In the book's plot, Mari [=McCabe=] is killed via gunshot. The gun is at the scene of the crime...but there are no fingerprints on it. Plus, EveryoneIsASuspect, but there's no hard evidence at the scene of the crime to implicate any one particular person.
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* ContinuityNod: Several throughout the story.
* EveryoneIsASuspect: [[spoiler:Except the actual killer]].
* EveryoneIsASuspect: [[spoiler:Except the actual killer]].
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The story starts when Vixen drops dead immediately upon reading a book she finds in the founding Leaguers' conference room. Turns out the book is in fact a magical item that transports anyone who reads even a word or line of its text inside the realm of the book's story; said story happens to be a Sam Spade-esque murder mystery where Vixen's alter ego Mari [=McCabe=] is the murder victim.
The League's Original Seven get transported into the story, as well, and find themselves de-powered and in various roles according to the book's plot. Fortunately, they all still have their real memories, and in the real world Zatanna is working alongside Dr. Fate to find a way to get them all out safely. In the meantime, while the seven work on solving the book's in-universe mystery, they are forced to face their characters' darkest secrets and confront friends turned into foes by the book's magic, as well as confront their own real-world issues...
The League's Original Seven get transported into the story, as well, and find themselves de-powered and in various roles according to the book's plot. Fortunately, they all still have their real memories, and in the real world Zatanna is working alongside Dr. Fate to find a way to get them all out safely. In the meantime, while the seven work on solving the book's in-universe mystery, they are forced to face their characters' darkest secrets and confront friends turned into foes by the book's magic, as well as confront their own real-world issues...
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The story starts when Vixen drops dead immediately upon reading a book she finds in the founding Leaguers' conference room. Turns out the book is in fact a magical item that transports anyone who reads even a word or line of its text inside the realm of the book's story; said story happens to be a Sam Spade-esque murder mystery where Vixen's alter ego Mari [=McCabe=] is the murder victim.
victim. The League's Original Seven soon get transported into the story, as well, and find themselves de-powered and in various roles according to the book's plot. plot; the central role goes to the Flash, whose identity in this universe is that of the main detective, Wally West.
Fortunately,they the seven all still have their real memories, and in the real world Zatanna is working alongside Dr. Fate to find a way to get them all out safely. In the meantime, while the seven work on solving the book's in-universe mystery, they are forced to face their characters' darkest secrets and confront friends turned into foes by the book's magic, as well as confront their own real-world issues...
Fortunately,
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* AbsenceOfEvidence: in the book's plot, Mari [=McCabe=] is killed via gunshot. The gun is at the scene of the crime...but there are no fingerprints on it.
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* AnyoneCanDie: Because of this, Zatanna makes a point of warning the heroes to do their best ''not'' to die in the story's plot.
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* BroughtDownToNormal: Everyone who enters the book. Zatanna is the sole exception, as she's able to go back and forth between the book's world and the real world through magical assistance from Dr. Fate, but she only stays long enough to give the heroes information on where they are and what they need to do while she works on a way to free them from outside.
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'''Spoilers abound, both for this story and the canon series.'''
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safely. In the meantime, while the seven work on solving the book's in-universe mystery, they are forced to face their characters' darkest secrets and confront friends turned into foes by the book's magic, as well as confront their own real-world issues...
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The story starts when Vixen drops dead immediately upon reading a book she finds in the founding Leaguers' conference room. \n Turns out the book is in fact a magical item that transports anyone who reads even a word or line of its text inside the realm of the book's story; said story happens to be a Sam Spade-esque murder mystery where Vixen's alter ego Mari [=McCabe=] is the murder victim.
The League's Original Seven get transported into the story, as well, and find themselves de-powered and in various roles according to the book's plot. Fortunately, they all still have their real memories, and in the real world Zatanna is working alongside Dr. Fate to find a way to get them all out safely
The League's Original Seven get transported into the story, as well, and find themselves de-powered and in various roles according to the book's plot. Fortunately, they all still have their real memories, and in the real world Zatanna is working alongside Dr. Fate to find a way to get them all out safely
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* ResetButton: One of two theories Zatanna proposes about how to get the heroes out of the book safely--if they can play out the story's plot right through to the end, even if any of them dies in-story, they will be brought back to their previous conditions in the real world.
* YourMindMakesItReal: One of the book's powers; as Zatanna explains to the heroes, it forms its reality out of what it picks up from the minds of the people it sucks in. Additionally, she warns them that if at any point they are injured during the story, they will still retain those same injuries when they are brought back to reality.
* YourMindMakesItReal: One of the book's powers; as Zatanna explains to the heroes, it forms its reality out of what it picks up from the minds of the people it sucks in. Additionally, she warns them that if at any point they are injured during the story, they will still retain those same injuries when they are brought back to reality.
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The story starts when Vixen drops dead immediately upon reading a book she finds in the founding Leaguers' conference room.
'''Here there be spoilers.'''
!!Tropes in this work include:
* AlternateUniverse: Invoked in-universe with the magic book--the setting of the story takes place in a crime-noir world where the heroes don't have their superpowers and everyone they know is in a completely different role from canon. For example, Wally becomes a rather seedy detective in the mold of Sam Spade, and John and Shayera are rich socialites.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Wally knows that any time Bruce Wayne is afraid and shows it, the situation is ''very'' bad.
'''Here there be spoilers.'''
!!Tropes in this work include:
* AlternateUniverse: Invoked in-universe with the magic book--the setting of the story takes place in a crime-noir world where the heroes don't have their superpowers and everyone they know is in a completely different role from canon. For example, Wally becomes a rather seedy detective in the mold of Sam Spade, and John and Shayera are rich socialites.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Wally knows that any time Bruce Wayne is afraid and shows it, the situation is ''very'' bad.
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''Flash by Northwest'' is a ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' fanfic written by Merlin Missy, and co-written with Dotfic, in 2007. It is set after the ''JLU'' series finale "Destroyer" and the flashback in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker''.
