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* HeroesWantRedheads: Hexene Candlemas and Lily Salem are both redheads. Of course, they're also maidens in their respective witch covens. It's averted, since Nick doesn't get either one of them.
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* ButNotTooBlack: Inverted. The notably beautiful Jaguar People who used to to be African American end up looking even darker.
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* CannotTellAJoke: The blob monster Gelatin Keyes knows lots of jokes and delivers them with the proper energy. The problem is that he never matches the setup to the right punchline.
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* ButNowIMustGo: At the end of the book, Hexene goes off on a sabbatical with her coven [[spoiler:to recover their powers after the loss of their familiars]].
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* FantasticRacism: Humans are the downtrodden minority. Monsters call us "meatsticks." This is expanded with racism among the monsters, with vampires being called leeches, werewolves and wolfmen being dogs, gill men being fishies, and so on.
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* FantasticRacism: Humans are the downtrodden minority. Monsters call us "meatsticks." "meatsticks," and humans have the term "snatcher" for monsters in general. This is expanded with racism among the monsters, with vampires being called leeches, werewolves and wolfmen being dogs, gill men being fishies, and so on.on.
* FieryRedhead: Hexene Candlemas.
* FieryRedhead: Hexene Candlemas.
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* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Dr. Uriah Bluddengutz is revealed to be JJ and Aggie Brooks's biological father, who was believed to be killed at the tail end of WWII, but was actually taken and turned by another mad scientist.]]
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* ShipTease: Nick has a bit with both Serendipity and Hexene. He consciously pushes himself away from thinking about Ser that way, though, because of their working relationship. [[spoiler:At the end of the book he tries to ask Hexene on a date, but she needs to go on a sabbatical to recover her powers.]]
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* MundaneSolution: The various monsters all have relatively normal weaknesses and phobias that humans use to drive them away. Jaguar people with holy symbols, clowns with makeup remover, zombies with salt, sasquatch with cameras, and so on.
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Jaguar People transform when sexually aroused (and they get aroused by nearly everything) and fly around in step pyramids.
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Jaguar People transform when sexually aroused (and they get aroused by nearly everything) and fly around in step pyramids.
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* MundaneSolution: The various monsters all have relatively normal weaknesses and phobias that humans use to drive them away. Jaguar people with holy symbols, symbols and cats, clowns with makeup remover, zombies with salt, sasquatch with cameras, and so on.
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Jaguar People transform when sexually aroused (and they get aroused by nearly everything) and fly around instep steppe pyramids.
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Jaguar People transform when sexually aroused (and they get aroused by nearly everything) and fly around in
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* SanityHasAdvantages: Pretty much the only reason why the other monsters allow mad scientists to stick around is that, as potentially dangerous as they are, it's in the nature of their madness to always forget at least one crucial detail that ends up derailing their plans.
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* YouAreTooLate: [[spoiler:Nick puts the pieces together, figuring out how all of his outstanding cases are parts of the same plot, but he's unable to get to the culprits in time to stop them from turning Aggie Brooks into a {{kaiju}} or save the Candlemas familiars. The only full victory he gets is rescuing Corinna Lacks and bringing her home human.]]
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* PedophilePriest: Reverend Gigglesworth, in the sense that a monster's drive to turn humans is very nearly sexual, and he was targeting young Aggie Brooks before her abduction.
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* MonsterMash: The book features werewolves, gremlins, crawling eyes, meat golems, mummies, robots, doppelgangers, phantoms, ghosts, killer vegetables, ogres, sirens, gill men, bug-eyed monsters, and many, many more.
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* MonsterMash: The book features giants, werewolves, gremlins, crawling eyes, meat golems, blob monsters, mummies, sasquatches, robots, doppelgangers, phantoms, ghosts, killer vegetables, ogres, clowns, sirens, gill men, bug-eyed monsters, jaguar people, bogeymen, and many, many more.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Presumably, those go all the way up.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Presumably, those go all the way up.]]
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The last human detective in the City of Angels is looking for a missing girl, a missing woman, and a missing toad, not necessarily in that order. As the title suggests, in this installment, Nick Moss starts running into the larger monsters in the b-movie canon.
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The last human detective in the City of Angels is looking for a missing girl, a missing woman, and a missing toad, not necessarily in that order. As the title suggests, in this installment, Nick Moss starts running into the larger monsters in the b-movie canon.B-movie canon.
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It's 1955 Los Angeles. Monsters rule the world.
The last human detective in the City of Angels is looking for a missing girl, a missing woman, and a missing toad, not necessarily in that order. As the title suggests, in this installment, Nick Moss starts running into the larger monsters in the b-movie canon.
''[[http://captainsupermarket.com/fifty-feet-of-trouble.html Fifty Feet of Trouble]]'' is the sequel of ''Literature/CityOfDevils.''
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!! Fifty Feet of Trouble provides examples of:
* AffectionateParody: Of both film noir and monster movies.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Pretty much a direct reference to the original.
* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: The relatively benign park ranger, Harry Foote.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The three most prominent female characters are the giantess Pilar O'Heaven (blonde), the siren (brunette albeit with green highlights) Serendipity Sargasso, and the witch Hexene Candlemas (redhead). Pilar is the untouchable pinup queen and tourist attraction, Serendipity the loyal and starstruck secretary, and Hexene the pugnacious hex slinger. This trope also shows up with the Salem Sisters, the close harmony group/witch coven, with Hyacinth, Verbena, and Lily respectively (in the roles of crone, mother, and maiden).
* BrainFood: Lampshaded, as the zombies of the world can only say "brains" with different inflections.
* ButNotTooBlack: Inverted. The notably beautiful Jaguar People who used to to be African American end up looking even darker.
* CantHaveSexEver: The jaguar people technically could, but as soon as they get... ahem... ready, they turn into two-hundred pound killing machines.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Nick Moss is a nervous, stuttering, weasel of a man. He was also a paratrooper in WWII, remained human through the Night War, and is shockingly resourceful when backed into a corner (which is constantly).
* CuteMonsterGirl: Serendipity Sargasso, the siren secretary, is pretty darn cute. Assuming she doesn't smile.
* CuteWitch: Hexene Candlemas is a subversion, what with her hex-dealing, habit of punctuating curses with obscene gestures, and saturnine toad familiar Escuerzo.
* DefectiveDetective: Nick Moss isn't an impressive man.
* DetectiveAnimal: Lou Garou and Phil Moon, the wolfmen LAPD.
* EldritchAbomination: Keyes. He's really friendly, though. And knows tons of jokes.
* EverybodySmokes: Subverted with Nick's pathological inability to smoke.
* {{Familiar}}: Every witch has one of these, from Hexene's toad Escuerzo to the songbirds of the Salem Sisters.
* FantasticNoir: City of Devils is a noir, with all the supporting characters being monsters from b-movies or legend.
* FantasticRacism: Humans are the downtrodden minority. Monsters call us "meatsticks." This is expanded with racism among the monsters, with vampires being called leeches, werewolves and wolfmen being dogs, gill men being fishies, and so on.
* GenreBusting: It's a noir plot, there are monsters from horror fiction, it's urban and fantastic, and it's a comedy.
* GiantWoman: She's right there on the cover. Pilar herself.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Hexene Candlemas and Lily Salem are both redheads. Of course, they're also maidens in their respective witch covens. It's averted, since Nick doesn't get either one of them.
* HotWitch: The Salem Sisters are all extremely hot.
* MadScientist: Dr. Uriah Bluddengutz. Mad scientists are implied to be monsters like any other.
* MeaningfulName: A central part of the novel is that, once turned into a monster, the new monster chooses a "rebirth name." These names are inevitably meaningful, or at least cool sounding. Many of the monsters have specific naming conventions. The sequel adds characters like the giantess Pilar O'Heaven, the bogeyman Lurkimer Closett, the mad scientist Uriah Bluddengutz, the blob Gelatin Keyes, the clown Bobo Gigglesworth, and the jaguar people Percy Katz and Leona Pryde.
* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Nick is hired to find some missing people and stumbles onto [[spoiler: the creation of Godzilla.]]
* MonsterClown: The Reverend Bobo Gigglesworth.
* MonsterMash: The book features werewolves, gremlins, crawling eyes, meat golems, mummies, robots, doppelgangers, phantoms, ghosts, killer vegetables, ogres, sirens, gill men, bug-eyed monsters, and many, many more.
* MundaneSolution: The various monsters all have relatively normal weaknesses and phobias that humans use to drive them away. Jaguar people with holy symbols, clowns with makeup remover, zombies with salt, sasquatch with cameras, and so on.
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Jaguar People transform when sexually aroused (and they get aroused by nearly everything) and fly around in step pyramids.
* SequelHook: The end of the book has Nick's next case coming through the door: the LAPD shanghaiing Nick for his next job.
* SexySecretary: Serendipity Sargasso. She's definitely cute, but when she smiles and shows off her huge mouthful of needle-sharp teeth, she becomes more scary than sexy.
* ShotInTheAss: Nick Moss was shot in the ass during World War II.
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Hexene Candlemas, as the maiden in a witch coven, has red hair and green eyes.
* StalkerWithACrush: Mira Mirra the doppelganger takes over stalking duties from Sam Haine the pumpkinhead.
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The last human detective in the City of Angels is looking for a missing girl, a missing woman, and a missing toad, not necessarily in that order. As the title suggests, in this installment, Nick Moss starts running into the larger monsters in the b-movie canon.
''[[http://captainsupermarket.com/fifty-feet-of-trouble.html Fifty Feet of Trouble]]'' is the sequel of ''Literature/CityOfDevils.''
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!! Fifty Feet of Trouble provides examples of:
* AffectionateParody: Of both film noir and monster movies.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Pretty much a direct reference to the original.
* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: The relatively benign park ranger, Harry Foote.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The three most prominent female characters are the giantess Pilar O'Heaven (blonde), the siren (brunette albeit with green highlights) Serendipity Sargasso, and the witch Hexene Candlemas (redhead). Pilar is the untouchable pinup queen and tourist attraction, Serendipity the loyal and starstruck secretary, and Hexene the pugnacious hex slinger. This trope also shows up with the Salem Sisters, the close harmony group/witch coven, with Hyacinth, Verbena, and Lily respectively (in the roles of crone, mother, and maiden).
* BrainFood: Lampshaded, as the zombies of the world can only say "brains" with different inflections.
* ButNotTooBlack: Inverted. The notably beautiful Jaguar People who used to to be African American end up looking even darker.
* CantHaveSexEver: The jaguar people technically could, but as soon as they get... ahem... ready, they turn into two-hundred pound killing machines.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Nick Moss is a nervous, stuttering, weasel of a man. He was also a paratrooper in WWII, remained human through the Night War, and is shockingly resourceful when backed into a corner (which is constantly).
* CuteMonsterGirl: Serendipity Sargasso, the siren secretary, is pretty darn cute. Assuming she doesn't smile.
* CuteWitch: Hexene Candlemas is a subversion, what with her hex-dealing, habit of punctuating curses with obscene gestures, and saturnine toad familiar Escuerzo.
* DefectiveDetective: Nick Moss isn't an impressive man.
* DetectiveAnimal: Lou Garou and Phil Moon, the wolfmen LAPD.
* EldritchAbomination: Keyes. He's really friendly, though. And knows tons of jokes.
* EverybodySmokes: Subverted with Nick's pathological inability to smoke.
* {{Familiar}}: Every witch has one of these, from Hexene's toad Escuerzo to the songbirds of the Salem Sisters.
* FantasticNoir: City of Devils is a noir, with all the supporting characters being monsters from b-movies or legend.
* FantasticRacism: Humans are the downtrodden minority. Monsters call us "meatsticks." This is expanded with racism among the monsters, with vampires being called leeches, werewolves and wolfmen being dogs, gill men being fishies, and so on.
* GenreBusting: It's a noir plot, there are monsters from horror fiction, it's urban and fantastic, and it's a comedy.
* GiantWoman: She's right there on the cover. Pilar herself.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Hexene Candlemas and Lily Salem are both redheads. Of course, they're also maidens in their respective witch covens. It's averted, since Nick doesn't get either one of them.
* HotWitch: The Salem Sisters are all extremely hot.
* MadScientist: Dr. Uriah Bluddengutz. Mad scientists are implied to be monsters like any other.
* MeaningfulName: A central part of the novel is that, once turned into a monster, the new monster chooses a "rebirth name." These names are inevitably meaningful, or at least cool sounding. Many of the monsters have specific naming conventions. The sequel adds characters like the giantess Pilar O'Heaven, the bogeyman Lurkimer Closett, the mad scientist Uriah Bluddengutz, the blob Gelatin Keyes, the clown Bobo Gigglesworth, and the jaguar people Percy Katz and Leona Pryde.
* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Nick is hired to find some missing people and stumbles onto [[spoiler: the creation of Godzilla.]]
* MonsterClown: The Reverend Bobo Gigglesworth.
* MonsterMash: The book features werewolves, gremlins, crawling eyes, meat golems, mummies, robots, doppelgangers, phantoms, ghosts, killer vegetables, ogres, sirens, gill men, bug-eyed monsters, and many, many more.
* MundaneSolution: The various monsters all have relatively normal weaknesses and phobias that humans use to drive them away. Jaguar people with holy symbols, clowns with makeup remover, zombies with salt, sasquatch with cameras, and so on.
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Jaguar People transform when sexually aroused (and they get aroused by nearly everything) and fly around in step pyramids.
* SequelHook: The end of the book has Nick's next case coming through the door: the LAPD shanghaiing Nick for his next job.
* SexySecretary: Serendipity Sargasso. She's definitely cute, but when she smiles and shows off her huge mouthful of needle-sharp teeth, she becomes more scary than sexy.
* ShotInTheAss: Nick Moss was shot in the ass during World War II.
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Hexene Candlemas, as the maiden in a witch coven, has red hair and green eyes.
* StalkerWithACrush: Mira Mirra the doppelganger takes over stalking duties from Sam Haine the pumpkinhead.
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