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* ThreeAmigos: Anastasia as the main character, Kate as her same-gender best friend and Jose as the opposite gender, close friend that could be a love interest.
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* BlindIdiotTranslation: The Hungarian translator of the series went {{memetic|Mutation}} because of this trope. After he arrogantly denied mistranslating anything, when an interviewer asked him why on Earth did he translate Music/KingsOfLeon as Franchise/TheLionKing a local blog called [[http://leiterjakab.blog.hu/ Leiter Jakab]][[note]]They specialize in finding Blind Idiot Translations and {{Translation Train Wreck}}s.[[/note]] took issue with the statement and tone. The first quarter of the book filled 6 lengthy blogposts of examples.
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* AscendedFanfic: The series used to be a ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' [[{{Mundanization}} Mundane-AU]] fanfic named ''Master of the Universe''.
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''Fifty Shades of Grey'' is an erotic novel that started life as a ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' fanfic called [[https://www.inkitt.com/stories/fanfiction/11208?ref=v_b50fbe41-a029-4b7e-8a5d-1c3b7080160e "Master of the Universe."]] Basically, same characters, but less vampire, more sex. Then, the character names were changed from Edward Cullen and Bella Swan to Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele, and now it is not a fanfic but legit fic for sale.
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''Fifty Shades of Grey'' is an erotic novel that started life as a ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' Literature/TheTwilightSaga fanfic called [[https://www.inkitt.com/stories/fanfiction/11208?ref=v_b50fbe41-a029-4b7e-8a5d-1c3b7080160e "Master of the Universe."]] Basically, same characters, but less vampire, more sex. Then, the character names were changed from Edward Cullen and Bella Swan to Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele, and now it is not a fanfic but legit fic for sale.
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* AscendedFanfic: The series used to be a ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' [[{{Mundanization}} Mundane-AU]] fanfic named ''Master of the Universe''.
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* AscendedFanfic: The series used to be a ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' [[{{Mundanization}} Mundane-AU]] fanfic named ''Master of the Universe''.
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* SelfPlagiarism: The trilogy started life as a ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' fanfiction called ''Master of the Universe''. When edited for publication, it remained 89% identical to its former self.
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* SelfPlagiarism: The trilogy started life as a ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' fanfiction called ''Master of the Universe''. When edited for publication, it remained 89% identical to its former self.
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* TitleDrop: a rare 3 different titles dropped, Fifty Shades and Master of the Universe being said multiple times and {{Literature/Twilight}}, referring to the time at night, being said once in the second book.
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* TitleDrop: a rare 3 different titles dropped, Fifty Shades and Master of the Universe being said multiple times and {{Literature/Twilight}}, [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga twilight]], referring to the time at night, being said once in the second book.
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* CreatorsCultureCarryover:
** People refer to "exams" rather than "mid-terms" or "finals", despite them being American and not British.
** The very British "do go through" shows up despite the characters being American.
** ''Fifty Shades Freed'':
*** In Chapter Nine, one of Ana's bodyguards, realizing that someone has smashed a lot of furniture and knick-knacks in the hall outside the penthouse elevator, yells, "Code Blue!" In the U.K., that's a common general code for "Emergency!" In America, that's a common ''hospital'' code for "cardiopulmonary arrest".
*** Chapter Ten talks about the villain being "released from hospital". An American would be more likely to say "released from THE hospital". This mistake recurs throughout the book, too. Earlier in that chapter, a bodyguard says the villain will "have an aching skull when he wakes" instead of "...when he wakes UP."
*** In Chapter Thirteen, Ana refers to Grey leading her from the ground floor of his Aspen mansion to the first floor. In the U.K., that would be correct. However, in America, the ground floor IS the first floor. Ana and Grey would be headed up to the ''second'' floor.
*** In Chapter Fourteen, Ana, her friend Kate Kavanagh, and Ana's sister-in-law Mia all refer to dancing as "throwing some shapes" – which is [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/throw_shapes Irish slang]] that has penetrated Britain but is virtually unknown in America.
** People refer to "exams" rather than "mid-terms" or "finals", despite them being American and not British.
** The very British "do go through" shows up despite the characters being American.
** ''Fifty Shades Freed'':
*** In Chapter Nine, one of Ana's bodyguards, realizing that someone has smashed a lot of furniture and knick-knacks in the hall outside the penthouse elevator, yells, "Code Blue!" In the U.K., that's a common general code for "Emergency!" In America, that's a common ''hospital'' code for "cardiopulmonary arrest".
*** Chapter Ten talks about the villain being "released from hospital". An American would be more likely to say "released from THE hospital". This mistake recurs throughout the book, too. Earlier in that chapter, a bodyguard says the villain will "have an aching skull when he wakes" instead of "...when he wakes UP."
*** In Chapter Thirteen, Ana refers to Grey leading her from the ground floor of his Aspen mansion to the first floor. In the U.K., that would be correct. However, in America, the ground floor IS the first floor. Ana and Grey would be headed up to the ''second'' floor.
*** In Chapter Fourteen, Ana, her friend Kate Kavanagh, and Ana's sister-in-law Mia all refer to dancing as "throwing some shapes" – which is [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/throw_shapes Irish slang]] that has penetrated Britain but is virtually unknown in America.
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* WeAllLiveInAmerica: The series is written by an English author but allegedly set in America. Despite this, there is no concession to the setting whatsoever.
** People refer to "exams" (not "mid-terms" or "finals")
** The very British "do go through" shows up.
** ''Fifty Shades Freed'':
*** It gets a bit funny in Chapter Nine, when one of Ana's bodyguards, realizing that someone has smashed a lot of furniture and knick-knacks in the hall outside the penthouse elevator, yells, "Code Blue!" In the U.K., that's a common general code for "Emergency!" In America, that's a common ''hospital'' code for "cardiopulmonary arrest".
*** Chapter Ten talks about the villain being "released from hospital". An American would be more likely to say "released from THE hospital". This mistake recurs throughout the book, too. Earlier in that chapter, a bodyguard says the villain will "have an aching skull when he wakes" instead of "...when he wakes UP."
*** In Chapter Thirteen, Ana refers to Grey leading her from the ground floor of his Aspen mansion to the first floor. In the U.K., that would be correct. However, in America, the ground floor IS the first floor. Ana and Grey would be headed up to the ''second'' floor.
*** In Chapter Fourteen, Ana, her friend Kate Kavanagh, and Ana's sister-in-law Mia all refer to dancing as "throwing some shapes" – which is [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/throw_shapes Irish slang]] that has penetrated Britain but is virtually unknown in America.
** People refer to "exams" (not "mid-terms" or "finals")
** The very British "do go through" shows up.
** ''Fifty Shades Freed'':
*** It gets a bit funny in Chapter Nine, when one of Ana's bodyguards, realizing that someone has smashed a lot of furniture and knick-knacks in the hall outside the penthouse elevator, yells, "Code Blue!" In the U.K., that's a common general code for "Emergency!" In America, that's a common ''hospital'' code for "cardiopulmonary arrest".
*** Chapter Ten talks about the villain being "released from hospital". An American would be more likely to say "released from THE hospital". This mistake recurs throughout the book, too. Earlier in that chapter, a bodyguard says the villain will "have an aching skull when he wakes" instead of "...when he wakes UP."
*** In Chapter Thirteen, Ana refers to Grey leading her from the ground floor of his Aspen mansion to the first floor. In the U.K., that would be correct. However, in America, the ground floor IS the first floor. Ana and Grey would be headed up to the ''second'' floor.
*** In Chapter Fourteen, Ana, her friend Kate Kavanagh, and Ana's sister-in-law Mia all refer to dancing as "throwing some shapes" – which is [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/throw_shapes Irish slang]] that has penetrated Britain but is virtually unknown in America.
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* MoreExperiencedChasesTheInnocent: Anastasia is a 21 year old college student who is [[TheIngenue so innocent]] to the ways of sex that she has not even masturbated before. Christian, on the other hand, is a BDSM connouisseur who has had multiple partners from a young age. He is almost instantly attracted to her and begins to pursue her, despite her being a very ill match for him since she 1) has no experience with BDSM or subbing and 2) is horrified and turned off by most of it when she begins to understand ''exactly'' what Christian is into. The story [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerates]] the dynamic so much that it acts as a DeconReconSwitch of the trope, by showing all of the issues regarding boundaries and power imbalance that can come with such a relationship before arguing that those are all overcomeable obstacles since LoveRedeems.
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* AmbiguousDisorder:
** Anastasia Steele is extremely thin, has poor self-esteem and body-image and never wants to eat.
** Christian Grey, who by his own admission is "fifty shades of fucked up". He dislikes interacting with others, save for a small circle of people he's close to. He seems to have difficulty with communications, often getting angry with Ana for not knowing something she couldn't know unless he told her. He has extreme issues with impulsive behavior, immediately responding to a joke e-mail Ana sent by driving to her house, tying her to the bed, and forcing himself on her, without giving her a chance to explain the situation. He also seems unable to rationally think about previous situations (for example, he continues to hate blondes because a blonde police officer took him away from his dead mother's body, even though sixteen or so years have passed and he should be able to think about it differently). Oh, and he enjoys taking submissives who look like his "crack whore" mother (his own nickname for her) because he enjoys pretending he's beating her. He blames this behavior all on childhood trauma even though said trauma ended when he was four and, by his own admittance, he doesn't remember much of it.
** Anastasia Steele is extremely thin, has poor self-esteem and body-image and never wants to eat.
** Christian Grey, who by his own admission is "fifty shades of fucked up". He dislikes interacting with others, save for a small circle of people he's close to. He seems to have difficulty with communications, often getting angry with Ana for not knowing something she couldn't know unless he told her. He has extreme issues with impulsive behavior, immediately responding to a joke e-mail Ana sent by driving to her house, tying her to the bed, and forcing himself on her, without giving her a chance to explain the situation. He also seems unable to rationally think about previous situations (for example, he continues to hate blondes because a blonde police officer took him away from his dead mother's body, even though sixteen or so years have passed and he should be able to think about it differently). Oh, and he enjoys taking submissives who look like his "crack whore" mother (his own nickname for her) because he enjoys pretending he's beating her. He blames this behavior all on childhood trauma even though said trauma ended when he was four and, by his own admittance, he doesn't remember much of it.
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* AllWomenAreDomsAllMenAreSubs: Averted, for once.
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* YouKeepUsingThatWord:
** Anastasia keeps mentioning that her subconscious is yelling at her, reminding her of something, or something else in that vein. But by definition, it's impossible to feel what's going on in your subconscious.
** At one point, Ana narrates that she wordlessly whispers the words "I haven’t been out on my own since I got married" to her bodyguard. However, it's logically impossible to whisper words wordlessly.
** Anastasia keeps mentioning that her subconscious is yelling at her, reminding her of something, or something else in that vein. But by definition, it's impossible to feel what's going on in your subconscious.
** At one point, Ana narrates that she wordlessly whispers the words "I haven’t been out on my own since I got married" to her bodyguard. However, it's logically impossible to whisper words wordlessly.
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* BastardBoyfriend: Christian Grey. He frequently comes off as condescending, domineering, predatory or an outright {{Jerkass}} towards Ana. He stalks her (both of them actually use the word "stalking" to describe his behavior), emotionally manipulates her and is controlling of her to the point where he ''buys the company where she works'' after he sees her boss has the hots for her. He gets [[CrazyJealousGuy insanely jealous]] of ''any'' man who pays attention to her. On multiple occasions he threatens to beat her, gag her, tie her up or all three if she does something he doesn't like and she admits to feeling intimidated by him. His behavior can come across as textbook emotional/verbal abuse, and there are at least a few instances where Ana's consent to BDSM practices is [[QuestionableConsent debatable]]. This is generally presented as being incredibly erotic and part of Christian's SexGod Dom persona, or is explained as a being [[FreudianExcuse a product]] of his DarkAndTroubledPast which Ana believes she can [[ICanChangeMyBeloved fix]] by unconditionally loving him.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: The POV character Anastasia Steele spends a good chunk (if not ''all'') of the book talking about what a handsome sex god [[BastardBoyfriend Christian]] is and every time he does something reprehensible, like putting a tracker on her phone (''before'' they started dating), selling her old, but cherished car without her permission and buying her a new one, and stalking her across the country when she went to visit her mother in Georgia, Ana fawns over his looks and forgets why she was ever upset with him.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: The POV character Anastasia Steele spends a good chunk (if not ''all'') of the book talking about what a handsome sex god [[BastardBoyfriend [[FetishizedAbuser Christian]] is and every time he does something reprehensible, like putting a tracker on her phone (''before'' they started dating), selling her old, but cherished car without her permission and buying her a new one, and stalking her across the country when she went to visit her mother in Georgia, Ana fawns over his looks and forgets why she was ever upset with him.
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* FetishizedAbuser: Christian Grey. He frequently comes off as condescending, domineering, predatory or an outright {{Jerkass}} towards Ana. He stalks her (both of them actually use the word "stalking" to describe his behavior), emotionally manipulates her and is controlling of her to the point where he ''buys the company where she works'' after he sees her boss has the hots for her. He gets [[CrazyJealousGuy insanely jealous]] of ''any'' man who pays attention to her. On multiple occasions he threatens to beat her, gag her, tie her up or all three if she does something he doesn't like and she admits to feeling intimidated by him. His behavior can come across as textbook emotional/verbal abuse, and there are at least a few instances where Ana's consent to BDSM practices is [[QuestionableConsent debatable]]. This is generally presented as being incredibly erotic and part of Christian's SexGod Dom persona, or is explained as a being [[FreudianExcuse a product]] of his DarkAndTroubledPast which Ana believes she can [[ICanChangeMyBeloved fix]] by unconditionally loving him.
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The book has five sequels. The first two, ''Fifty Shades Darker'' and ''Fifty Shades Freed'', is the story of what happened to Ana after the first book ended. The other three are the [[POVSequel POV sequels]] ''Grey'', ''Darker'', and ''Freed'', who retell the original trilogy from Christian's point of view.
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The book has five sequels. The first two, ''Fifty Shades Darker'' and ''Fifty Shades Freed'', is are the story of what happened to Ana after the first book ended. The other three are the [[POVSequel POV sequels]] {{POV sequel}}s ''Grey'', ''Darker'', and ''Freed'', who which retell the original trilogy from Christian's point of view.
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* FullyClothedNudity: {{Exaggerated|Trope}}. Anastasia gets all flustered by seeing Christian in "nothing but" a t-shirt and jeans. So...fully clothed, then?
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''Do not ever confuse'' with ''Literature/ShadesOfGrey'' and ''Literature/BetweenShadesOfGrey'', much more appropriate literature.
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The first three books were [[TheMovieOfTheBook made into same-titled films]], released over 2015-2018. These have their own page [[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey here]].
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The first three books were [[TheMovieOfTheBook [[TheFilmOfTheBook made into same-titled films]], released over 2015-2018. These have their own page [[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey here]].
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* BlindIdiotTranslation: The Hungarian translator of the series went {{memetic|Mutation}} because of this trope. After he arrogantly denied mistranslating anything, when an interviewer asked him why on Earth did he translate Music/KingsOfLeon as Franchise/TheLionKing a local blog called [[http://leiterjakab.blog.hu/ Leiter Jakab]][[note]]They specialize in finding Blind Idiot Translations and {{Translation Train Wreck}}s.[[/note]] took issue with the statement and tone. To date they found 6 lengthy blogposts worth of egregious examples of these and are only 1/4 through the book.
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* BlindIdiotTranslation: The Hungarian translator of the series went {{memetic|Mutation}} because of this trope. After he arrogantly denied mistranslating anything, when an interviewer asked him why on Earth did he translate Music/KingsOfLeon as Franchise/TheLionKing a local blog called [[http://leiterjakab.blog.hu/ Leiter Jakab]][[note]]They specialize in finding Blind Idiot Translations and {{Translation Train Wreck}}s.[[/note]] took issue with the statement and tone. To date they found The first quarter of the book filled 6 lengthy blogposts worth of egregious examples of these and are only 1/4 through the book.examples.
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The book has five sequels. The first two, ''Fifty Shades Darker'' and ''Fifty Shades Freed'', is the story of what happened to Ana after the first book ended. The other three are the [[POVSequel POV sequels]] ''Grey'', ''Darker'', and ''Freed'', who retell the original trilogy from Christian's point of view. (Despite what you might assume, E.L. James has, reportedly, no plans for a retelling of the final novel from Christian's perspective.)
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The book has five sequels. The first two, ''Fifty Shades Darker'' and ''Fifty Shades Freed'', is the story of what happened to Ana after the first book ended. The other three are the [[POVSequel POV sequels]] ''Grey'', ''Darker'', and ''Freed'', who retell the original trilogy from Christian's point of view. (Despite what you might assume, E.L. James has, reportedly, no plans for a retelling of the final novel from Christian's perspective.) \n
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The book got four sequels. The first two, ''Fifty Shades Darker'' and ''Fifty Shades Freed'', is the story of what happened to Ana after the first book ended. The other two are the [[POVSequel POV sequels]] ''Grey'' and ''Darker'' that retell the first two books from Christian's point of view. (Despite what you might assume, E.L. James has, reportedly, no plans for a retelling of the final novel from Christian's perspective.)
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The book got four has five sequels. The first two, ''Fifty Shades Darker'' and ''Fifty Shades Freed'', is the story of what happened to Ana after the first book ended. The other two three are the [[POVSequel POV sequels]] ''Grey'' ''Grey'', ''Darker'', and ''Darker'' that ''Freed'', who retell the first two books original trilogy from Christian's point of view. (Despite what you might assume, E.L. James has, reportedly, no plans for a retelling of the final novel from Christian's perspective.)
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* TheIngenue: Anastasia Steele. Twenty-one, naive, and so virginal she never even masturbated before meeting Christian Grey.
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* {{Tuckerization}}:
** E.L. James includes three characters whose names echo her pen name: [[DisposableSexWorker Ella]] (the first name of Grey's birth mother), [[ReallyGetsAround Elliot]] (the first name of Grey's adopted brother), and [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale Elena Lincoln]] (the name of the adult {{Dominatrix}} who got into a sexual relationship with fifteen-year-old Grey, thus making her guilty of statutory rape), whose initials are also ''E.L.'' There's also a fourth character, [[BrokenBird Leila]], whose name looks almost like an anagram of Elena's.
** Dr. Raina Sluder, the doctor in ''Fifty Shades Freed'' who takes care of Ray Steele after he gets in a car accident. If you check the Acknowledgments, you'll see E.L. James thanking a group of people, including "Dr. Raina Sluder for help with all matters medical."[[note]]The real Raina Sluder seems to specialize in family medicine, not cardiology, neurology or coma medicine, and she lives nowhere near Washington state.[[/note]]
** E.L. James includes three characters whose names echo her pen name: [[DisposableSexWorker Ella]] (the first name of Grey's birth mother), [[ReallyGetsAround Elliot]] (the first name of Grey's adopted brother), and [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale Elena Lincoln]] (the name of the adult {{Dominatrix}} who got into a sexual relationship with fifteen-year-old Grey, thus making her guilty of statutory rape), whose initials are also ''E.L.'' There's also a fourth character, [[BrokenBird Leila]], whose name looks almost like an anagram of Elena's.
** Dr. Raina Sluder, the doctor in ''Fifty Shades Freed'' who takes care of Ray Steele after he gets in a car accident. If you check the Acknowledgments, you'll see E.L. James thanking a group of people, including "Dr. Raina Sluder for help with all matters medical."[[note]]The real Raina Sluder seems to specialize in family medicine, not cardiology, neurology or coma medicine, and she lives nowhere near Washington state.[[/note]]
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* WeAllLiveInAmerica: The series is written by an English author but allegedly set in America. Despite this, there is no concession to the setting whatsoever.
** People refer to "exams" (not "mid-terms" or "finals")
** The very British "do go through" shows up.
** ''Fifty Shades Freed'':
*** It gets a bit funny in Chapter Nine, when one of Ana's bodyguards, realizing that someone has smashed a lot of furniture and knick-knacks in the hall outside the penthouse elevator, yells, "Code Blue!" In the U.K., that's a common general code for "Emergency!" In America, that's a common ''hospital'' code for "cardiopulmonary arrest".
*** Chapter Ten talks about the villain being "released from hospital". An American would be more likely to say "released from THE hospital". This mistake recurs throughout the book, too. Earlier in that chapter, a bodyguard says the villain will "have an aching skull when he wakes" instead of "...when he wakes UP."
*** In Chapter Thirteen, Ana refers to Grey leading her from the ground floor of his Aspen mansion to the first floor. In the U.K., that would be correct. However, in America, the ground floor IS the first floor. Ana and Grey would be headed up to the ''second'' floor.
*** In Chapter Fourteen, Ana, her friend Kate Kavanagh, and Ana's sister-in-law Mia all refer to dancing as "throwing some shapes" – which is [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/throw_shapes Irish slang]] that has penetrated Britain but is virtually unknown in America.
** People refer to "exams" (not "mid-terms" or "finals")
** The very British "do go through" shows up.
** ''Fifty Shades Freed'':
*** It gets a bit funny in Chapter Nine, when one of Ana's bodyguards, realizing that someone has smashed a lot of furniture and knick-knacks in the hall outside the penthouse elevator, yells, "Code Blue!" In the U.K., that's a common general code for "Emergency!" In America, that's a common ''hospital'' code for "cardiopulmonary arrest".
*** Chapter Ten talks about the villain being "released from hospital". An American would be more likely to say "released from THE hospital". This mistake recurs throughout the book, too. Earlier in that chapter, a bodyguard says the villain will "have an aching skull when he wakes" instead of "...when he wakes UP."
*** In Chapter Thirteen, Ana refers to Grey leading her from the ground floor of his Aspen mansion to the first floor. In the U.K., that would be correct. However, in America, the ground floor IS the first floor. Ana and Grey would be headed up to the ''second'' floor.
*** In Chapter Fourteen, Ana, her friend Kate Kavanagh, and Ana's sister-in-law Mia all refer to dancing as "throwing some shapes" – which is [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/throw_shapes Irish slang]] that has penetrated Britain but is virtually unknown in America.
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* WritersCannotDoMath:
** Ana graduated on Thursday, May 27, 2011 (according to various emails, although in the real world, May 27, 2011 was a ''Friday'') and then had interviews four days later on Monday, May 30. 27 + 4 ≠ 30 in base 10. Monday would have been May ''31''--Memorial Day, a federal holiday in the United States on which most business offices would be closed.
** There's simply no way that Ana can interview Grey on Monday, May 9, 2011 (the date given in E.L. Jame's short story ''Meet Fifty Shades''), have five days pass, meet Grey in the hardware store in which she works on Saturday (which would be May 14), have "several weeks pass"--so three weeks at the very least--have a week of finals and then graduate on May 27. Any way you look at it, you can't squeeze five weeks between May 9 and May 27 without a time machine.
** The date of the interview changes in ''Grey'', which is ''Fifty Shades of Grey'' from Christian Grey's point of view. The book's chapters are dated and Chapter One, the interview chapter, is titled "May 11, 2011." Why the date was changed is unclear, as it gives events even ''less'' time to occur and makes the still-canonical five-day gap between the interview and Grey's visit to Ana's place of employment on Saturday, May 14, 2011 impossible.
** In ''Fifty Shades Freed'', Grey refuses to marry Ana any later than one month after his birthday (his birthday being on June 18, so the deadline for the marriage would be July 18). Since he nearly always gets his way (and has terrible temper tantrums when he doesn't), it seems likely that they married on July 18, if not before. Yet Ana can't remember how long she's been married. She mentions multiple times on the same day that she has been married for two weeks, three weeks, and a month. Even a week after this, when their honeymoon has ended and Grey and Ana are back in Seattle, Ana still insists that she has only been married for three weeks... as if time itself had stood still.
** Ana graduated on Thursday, May 27, 2011 (according to various emails, although in the real world, May 27, 2011 was a ''Friday'') and then had interviews four days later on Monday, May 30. 27 + 4 ≠ 30 in base 10. Monday would have been May ''31''--Memorial Day, a federal holiday in the United States on which most business offices would be closed.
** There's simply no way that Ana can interview Grey on Monday, May 9, 2011 (the date given in E.L. Jame's short story ''Meet Fifty Shades''), have five days pass, meet Grey in the hardware store in which she works on Saturday (which would be May 14), have "several weeks pass"--so three weeks at the very least--have a week of finals and then graduate on May 27. Any way you look at it, you can't squeeze five weeks between May 9 and May 27 without a time machine.
** The date of the interview changes in ''Grey'', which is ''Fifty Shades of Grey'' from Christian Grey's point of view. The book's chapters are dated and Chapter One, the interview chapter, is titled "May 11, 2011." Why the date was changed is unclear, as it gives events even ''less'' time to occur and makes the still-canonical five-day gap between the interview and Grey's visit to Ana's place of employment on Saturday, May 14, 2011 impossible.
** In ''Fifty Shades Freed'', Grey refuses to marry Ana any later than one month after his birthday (his birthday being on June 18, so the deadline for the marriage would be July 18). Since he nearly always gets his way (and has terrible temper tantrums when he doesn't), it seems likely that they married on July 18, if not before. Yet Ana can't remember how long she's been married. She mentions multiple times on the same day that she has been married for two weeks, three weeks, and a month. Even a week after this, when their honeymoon has ended and Grey and Ana are back in Seattle, Ana still insists that she has only been married for three weeks... as if time itself had stood still.
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* ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful: Christian Grey's unparalleled hotness is often sufficient to make Ana forget about his latest bout of physically harming her, stalking her, bullying her into doing what he wants, etc.
* SelfMadeMan: Christian Grey calls himself this, saying he started up his business and has made it as large and influential as it is now, all by himself. [[{{Hypocrite}} He seems to forget]] that it was Elena Lincoln who gave him the starting capital for his business.
* SelfPlagiarism:First book matches the first third The trilogy started life as a ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' fanfiction called ''Master of the fanfic 89%.Universe''. When edited for publication, it remained 89% identical to its former self.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Anastasia Steele is entirely Christian Grey-sexual. At the age of 21, she never had attractions to men before meeting him and is not interested in other men. She has never even touched her body for her own pleasure and, in ''Fifty Shades Freed'', has to be taught by Grey how to do so.
* SlidingScaleOfGenderInequality: Strangely, Level 7 (Can't Stand Men, Can't Live Without Them) is where the series lands, with its rather unsympathetic portrayal of rich and powerful men and yet, strangely, it also combines it with Level 2 (Whores, Whores, Whores...) since it also implies that women are venal at heart and willing to do anything to latch onto a rich, powerful guy, especially if he's attractive.
* SelfMadeMan: Christian Grey calls himself this, saying he started up his business and has made it as large and influential as it is now, all by himself. [[{{Hypocrite}} He seems to forget]] that it was Elena Lincoln who gave him the starting capital for his business.
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* SingleTargetSexuality: Anastasia Steele is entirely Christian Grey-sexual. At the age of 21, she never had attractions to men before meeting him and is not interested in other men. She has never even touched her body for her own pleasure and, in ''Fifty Shades Freed'', has to be taught by Grey how to do so.
* SlidingScaleOfGenderInequality: Strangely, Level 7 (Can't Stand Men, Can't Live Without Them) is where the series lands, with its rather unsympathetic portrayal of rich and powerful men and yet, strangely, it also combines it with Level 2 (Whores, Whores, Whores...) since it also implies that women are venal at heart and willing to do anything to latch onto a rich, powerful guy, especially if he's attractive.
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* SonOfAWhore: Christan Grey's biological mother was a drug addicted prostitute who committed suicide when he was four because her pimp was abusive.
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* StayInTheKitchen: This is Christian's idea of the 'place for a woman'. He practically mentions the trope itself, by saying that he would much prefer Anastasia to be nothing more than 'barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen'. He seems to have no problem with his second-in-command, Ross, being a working woman, but that might have to do with the fact that she is stated to be a [[LipstickLesbian lesbian]].
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* DistractedByTheSexy: The POV character Anastasia Steele spends a good chunk (if not ''all'') of the book talking about what a handsome sex god [[BastardBoyfriend Christian]] is and every time he does something reprehensible, like putting a tracker on her phone (''before'' they started dating), selling her old, but cherished car without her permission and buying her a new one, and stalking her across the country when she went to visit her mother in Georgia, Ana fawns over his looks and forgets why she was ever upset with him.
* DramaticReading:
** Creator/GilbertGottfried reads ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkLqAlIETkA Fifty Shades of Grey.]]''
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FV-nuhlB5A A drunken YouTuber reads it too.]]
** Watch Creator/GeorgeTakei [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WahBH9sANg do it, too]]. Oh my!
** Creator/GilbertGottfried reads ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkLqAlIETkA Fifty Shades of Grey.]]''
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FV-nuhlB5A A drunken YouTuber reads it too.]]
** Watch Creator/GeorgeTakei [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WahBH9sANg do it, too]]. Oh my!
* EpunymousTitle: ''Fifty Shades of Grey'' is named after the male lead Christian Grey, but it's also a reference to his mysterious life and personality (as in, "different shades") that Ana Steele is quick to uncover.
* FemaleMisogynist: Ana hates more or less all women, as she suspects them of planning to steal her man. She acts as if her one friend, Kate, who is very kind to her, is a nuisance for being concerned about her relationship with the abusive Mr. Grey.
* FirstEpisodeTwist: In ''Fifty Shades of Grey'', Christian Grey is revealed after a hundred pages as secretly practicing BDSM and wants Anna as his sub. This is the first book of a trilogy.
* FourthDateMarriage: The entire trilogy takes place [[ExtremelyShortTimespan over a four and a half month span]]. As seen on the [[http://fiftyshadesofgrey.wikia.com/wiki/Book_timeline Book Timeline]], Anna meets Christian Grey on May 9, accepts his proposal one month later on June 17 (with a five days break up in between), and they get married at the end of July.
* HasAType: Christian Grey has a type: shortish, dark-haired young women with light eyes. Apparently they remind him of [[MommyIssues his late mother]]. Ana fits this profile perfectly. This isn't a question of interpretation, either. Grey tells Ana this outright in ''Fifty Shades Darker'':
--> "...I like to whip little brown-haired girls like you because you all look like the crack whore-my birth mother. I'm sure you can guess why."
--> "...I like to whip little brown-haired girls like you because you all look like the crack whore-my birth mother. I'm sure you can guess why."
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* ICanChangeMyBeloved: Eventually switches to nauseating LoveRedeems, without any real reason.Anastasia has instances where she's thinking that, if she has a 'regular' relationship with Christian, he will eventually denounce his BDSM ways and want nothing more than 'vanilla sex', as he calls it.
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* IrrationalHatred: Christian loathes his birth mother, blaming all of his delinquent behavior and present-day issues on the fact that she was a "crack whore" (his nickname for her) who was unable to protect him from her pimp and who didn't feed him properly. That level of resentment seems pretty harsh when memories and flashbacks show that his mother was unable to even protect ''herself'' from being beaten by the pimp, that she loved her son enough to bake a birthday cake for him, and, based on Christian's focus on having submissives within their late teens to early twenties because they remind him of his mother, that she was in her teens herself when she gave birth and had to raise a child on her own, in terrible conditions. It also comes across as harsh, given that Christian doesn't direct anywhere near that level of hatred towards the pimp himself, who was the one who actually ''did'' hurt Christian.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Christian Grey. He's a very selfish lover, particularly to his subs, and only cares about his own pleasure, often ignoring discomfort about certain aspects during 'scenes'. Even things that he seems to do for the sake of other people, like sending food supplies to Darfur, is all done because ''he'' used to go hungry as a toddler. ''He'' is the one in control of his life, and of those closely associated with him, including his subs and eventual wife, Anastasia Steele. ''His'' pleasure, ''his'' job, ''his'' personal life, is what he focuses on first and foremost.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Christian Grey. He's a very selfish lover, particularly to his subs, and only cares about his own pleasure, often ignoring discomfort about certain aspects during 'scenes'. Even things that he seems to do for the sake of other people, like sending food supplies to Darfur, is all done because ''he'' used to go hungry as a toddler. ''He'' is the one in control of his life, and of those closely associated with him, including his subs and eventual wife, Anastasia Steele. ''His'' pleasure, ''his'' job, ''his'' personal life, is what he focuses on first and foremost.
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* CharacterTics: Anastasia is prone to flushing and blushing.
* ComplexityAddiction: Christian seems to have some sort of aversion to simply calling the police about people threatening him. Instead, he sets up needlessly complicated methods of protection, that include making Ana be watched by a bodyguard on his payroll at all times and literally forcing her (he picks her up and starts carrying her away while they're in the middle of the street) to move in with him.
* ComplexityAddiction: Christian seems to have some sort of aversion to simply calling the police about people threatening him. Instead, he sets up needlessly complicated methods of protection, that include making Ana be watched by a bodyguard on his payroll at all times and literally forcing her (he picks her up and starts carrying her away while they're in the middle of the street) to move in with him.
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* CrazyJealousGuy: Christian Grey. He has Ana's workplace under his control, he traces her with her cell phone (a present from him, by the way), and freaks out if she doesn't reply to his texts or emails within a certain time frame. Even in ''Fifty Shades Darker'', he buys all of the pictures of her just because he doesn't want another guy looking at her. In ''Fifty Shades Freed'', he even manages to become jealous of his unborn child and, after {{drowning his sorrows}} with Elena, he admits that he fears that Ana will choose the baby over him.
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* BabiesEverAfter: The trilogy ends two years later, where Ana and Christian are playing with their son, Teddy. Ana is six months pregnant with a daughter whom they plan to name Phoebe. It is also mentioned that Kate and Elliot are married and had a daughter, Ava.
* BastardBoyfriend: Christian Grey. He frequently comes off as condescending, domineering, predatory or an outright {{Jerkass}} towards Ana. He stalks her (both of them actually use the word "stalking" to describe his behavior), emotionally manipulates her and is controlling of her to the point where he ''buys the company where she works'' after he sees her boss has the hots for her. He gets [[CrazyJealousGuy insanely jealous]] of ''any'' man who pays attention to her. On multiple occasions he threatens to beat her, gag her, tie her up or all three if she does something he doesn't like and she admits to feeling intimidated by him. His behavior can come across as textbook emotional/verbal abuse, and there are at least a few instances where Ana's consent to BDSM practices is [[QuestionableConsent debatable]]. This is generally presented as being incredibly erotic and part of Christian's SexGod Dom persona, or is explained as a being [[FreudianExcuse a product]] of his DarkAndTroubledPast which Ana believes she can [[ICanChangeMyBeloved fix]] by unconditionally loving him.
* BeautyIsBad: Christian Grey is described as amazing attractive by his love-slave girlfriend Anastasia Steele, and of course he is cruel, domineering, abusive jerk. Their relationship is portrayed as [[UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} S&M]], but since it completely misses the entire [[UsefulNotes/{{Consent}} "Safe, Sane and Consensual"]] thing, he's really just a {{Domestic Abuse}}r.
* BastardBoyfriend: Christian Grey. He frequently comes off as condescending, domineering, predatory or an outright {{Jerkass}} towards Ana. He stalks her (both of them actually use the word "stalking" to describe his behavior), emotionally manipulates her and is controlling of her to the point where he ''buys the company where she works'' after he sees her boss has the hots for her. He gets [[CrazyJealousGuy insanely jealous]] of ''any'' man who pays attention to her. On multiple occasions he threatens to beat her, gag her, tie her up or all three if she does something he doesn't like and she admits to feeling intimidated by him. His behavior can come across as textbook emotional/verbal abuse, and there are at least a few instances where Ana's consent to BDSM practices is [[QuestionableConsent debatable]]. This is generally presented as being incredibly erotic and part of Christian's SexGod Dom persona, or is explained as a being [[FreudianExcuse a product]] of his DarkAndTroubledPast which Ana believes she can [[ICanChangeMyBeloved fix]] by unconditionally loving him.
* BeautyIsBad: Christian Grey is described as amazing attractive by his love-slave girlfriend Anastasia Steele, and of course he is cruel, domineering, abusive jerk. Their relationship is portrayed as [[UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} S&M]], but since it completely misses the entire [[UsefulNotes/{{Consent}} "Safe, Sane and Consensual"]] thing, he's really just a {{Domestic Abuse}}r.
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* BlindIdiotTranslation: The Hungarian translator of the series went {{memetic|Mutation}} because of this trope. After he arrogantly denied mistranslating anything, when an interviewer asked him why on Earth did he translate Music/KingsOfLeon as Franchise/TheLionKing a local blog called [[http://leiterjakab.blog.hu/ Leiter Jakab]][[note]]They specialize in finding Blind Idiot Translations and {{Translation Train Wreck}}s.[[/note]] took issue with the statement and tone. To date they found 6 lengthy blogposts worth of egregious examples of these and are only 1/4 through the book.
* BondageIsBad: Christian's obsession with BDSM is tied mostly to the fact that he is a damaged, traumatized individual with aggression issues. This stems from [[FreudianExcuse mommy issues]] and his much older girlfriend raping him and making him her sub when he was a teenager. He's naturally "cured" of it at the end.
* BondageIsBad: Christian's obsession with BDSM is tied mostly to the fact that he is a damaged, traumatized individual with aggression issues. This stems from [[FreudianExcuse mommy issues]] and his much older girlfriend raping him and making him her sub when he was a teenager. He's naturally "cured" of it at the end.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Literally. Almost all women in the series are attracted to Christian. Those who aren't are related or lesbians.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Literally. Christian Grey is into BDSM and has the typical personality of the bad boy/alpha male in romance novels: domineering, impatient, frequently angry, and demands to have his own way. Almost all women in the series are attracted to Christian. Those him who aren't are related or lesbians. However, Ana alternates between believing that these are minor quirks and thinking that she can heal him emotionally by giving him everything he wants, thus healing him with the power of her love. Although Ana insists throughout the series (and with ever-increasing strength) that Grey is making progress and is maturing emotionally because of her, he actually becomes crueller and more controlling as the series continues, to the point where ''he tortures her against her will'' in ''Fifty Shades Freed''. Her crime? Getting home later than she said she would and thus avoiding being kidnapped.
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** Anastasia Steele is extremely thin, has poor self-esteem and body-image and never wants to eat.
** Christian Grey, who by his own admission is "fifty shades of fucked up". He dislikes interacting with others, save for a small circle of people he's close to. He seems to have difficulty with communications, often getting angry with Ana for not knowing something she couldn't know unless he told her. He has extreme issues with impulsive behavior, immediately responding to a joke e-mail Ana sent by driving to her house, tying her to the bed, and forcing himself on her, without giving her a chance to explain the situation. He also seems unable to rationally think about previous situations (for example, he continues to hate blondes because a blonde police officer took him away from his dead mother's body, even though sixteen or so years have passed and he should be able to think about it differently). Oh, and he enjoys taking submissives who look like his "crack whore" mother (his own nickname for her) because he enjoys pretending he's beating her. He blames this behavior all on childhood trauma even though said trauma ended when he was four and, by his own admittance, he doesn't remember much of it.
** Anastasia Steele is extremely thin, has poor self-esteem and body-image and never wants to eat.
** Christian Grey, who by his own admission is "fifty shades of fucked up". He dislikes interacting with others, save for a small circle of people he's close to. He seems to have difficulty with communications, often getting angry with Ana for not knowing something she couldn't know unless he told her. He has extreme issues with impulsive behavior, immediately responding to a joke e-mail Ana sent by driving to her house, tying her to the bed, and forcing himself on her, without giving her a chance to explain the situation. He also seems unable to rationally think about previous situations (for example, he continues to hate blondes because a blonde police officer took him away from his dead mother's body, even though sixteen or so years have passed and he should be able to think about it differently). Oh, and he enjoys taking submissives who look like his "crack whore" mother (his own nickname for her) because he enjoys pretending he's beating her. He blames this behavior all on childhood trauma even though said trauma ended when he was four and, by his own admittance, he doesn't remember much of it.
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** In ''Fifty Shades of Grey'', Anastasia Steele drives south from Vancouver, Washington to Portland, Oregon to get to Seattle, Washington (which is ''north'' of Vancouver, Washington).
** In ''Fifty Shades Darker'', Christian Grey says the following after disappearing for about eight hours:
---> "I heard the TFR was lifted a while back and I wanted to take a look. Well, it's fortunate that we did. We were flying low, about two hundred feet AGL when the instrument panel lit up. We had a fire in the tail—I had no choice but to cut all the electronics and land." He shakes his head. "I set her down by Silver Lake, got Ros out, and managed to put the fire out."
*** A TFR is a Temporary Flight Restriction. There were no Temporary Flight Restrictions on Mount St. Helens for all of 2011, when this book is set. There were none for all of 2009, either, when E.L. James wrote the fanfic ''Master of the Universe''. The last time that there was a TFR in effect around Mount St. Helens was in [[http://www.hillsboroflying.org/files/HfcNewsletter200812.pdf 2008]]... three ''years'' before the timeline of the book.
*** According to the FAA, the minimum safe altitude for helicopters in a congested area--cities, towns, settlements, or open-air gathering places like campgrounds, bandshells, arenas, stadiums, etc.-- is an altitude of 1,000 feet above the highest obstacle within a horizontal radius of 2,000 feet of the aircraft. Grey said that his altitude--his AGL--was about 200 feet. In addition to Mount St. Helens being 37 miles from Longview, Washington, 43 miles from Vancouver, Washington, and 51 miles from Portland, Oregon--thus making this a congested area--guess what the highest obstacle in the vicinity of Mount St. Helens is? Mount Adams, which is about thirty-four miles east of Mount St. Helens. Mount St. Helens is 8,635 feet high. Mount Adams is ''12,277 feet high.'' If Grey didn't want to smash into ''the largest active volcano in Washington state'', he should have been -- at a minimum -- 13,277 feet up.
*** Silver Lake is part of has three hiking trails running through it, one of which is right next to the area where Grey allegedly landed and which encircles the entire park. Grey and Ros could have started at one end and gone all the way to the other; they were, at MOST, three miles away from help. And the GPS on their phones, which Grey mentions, should have told them this. Silver Lake is also adjacent to a state highway, an interstate highway, and a 475-acre campground, and has two Visitor's Centers within walking distance.
*** The Forest Learning Center is on Highway 504, inside the blast zone of the volcano. That's operated by Weyerhaeuser Company, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, and the State Department of Transportation. And it features Helicopter tours that leave every half hour from 10-6 daily. One of those 'copter pilots should have seen a private helicopter on fire and tried to land, or seen the flames on the ground, and relayed the info to every pilot and ranger around Mount St. Helens.
* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: In this series, doctors don't seem to know the difference between contusions (bruises) and concussions (severe injury to the brain).
** In ''Fifty Shades of Grey'', Anastasia Steele drives south from Vancouver, Washington to Portland, Oregon to get to Seattle, Washington (which is ''north'' of Vancouver, Washington).
** In ''Fifty Shades Darker'', Christian Grey says the following after disappearing for about eight hours:
---> "I heard the TFR was lifted a while back and I wanted to take a look. Well, it's fortunate that we did. We were flying low, about two hundred feet AGL when the instrument panel lit up. We had a fire in the tail—I had no choice but to cut all the electronics and land." He shakes his head. "I set her down by Silver Lake, got Ros out, and managed to put the fire out."
*** A TFR is a Temporary Flight Restriction. There were no Temporary Flight Restrictions on Mount St. Helens for all of 2011, when this book is set. There were none for all of 2009, either, when E.L. James wrote the fanfic ''Master of the Universe''. The last time that there was a TFR in effect around Mount St. Helens was in [[http://www.hillsboroflying.org/files/HfcNewsletter200812.pdf 2008]]... three ''years'' before the timeline of the book.
*** According to the FAA, the minimum safe altitude for helicopters in a congested area--cities, towns, settlements, or open-air gathering places like campgrounds, bandshells, arenas, stadiums, etc.-- is an altitude of 1,000 feet above the highest obstacle within a horizontal radius of 2,000 feet of the aircraft. Grey said that his altitude--his AGL--was about 200 feet. In addition to Mount St. Helens being 37 miles from Longview, Washington, 43 miles from Vancouver, Washington, and 51 miles from Portland, Oregon--thus making this a congested area--guess what the highest obstacle in the vicinity of Mount St. Helens is? Mount Adams, which is about thirty-four miles east of Mount St. Helens. Mount St. Helens is 8,635 feet high. Mount Adams is ''12,277 feet high.'' If Grey didn't want to smash into ''the largest active volcano in Washington state'', he should have been -- at a minimum -- 13,277 feet up.
*** Silver Lake is part of has three hiking trails running through it, one of which is right next to the area where Grey allegedly landed and which encircles the entire park. Grey and Ros could have started at one end and gone all the way to the other; they were, at MOST, three miles away from help. And the GPS on their phones, which Grey mentions, should have told them this. Silver Lake is also adjacent to a state highway, an interstate highway, and a 475-acre campground, and has two Visitor's Centers within walking distance.
*** The Forest Learning Center is on Highway 504, inside the blast zone of the volcano. That's operated by Weyerhaeuser Company, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, and the State Department of Transportation. And it features Helicopter tours that leave every half hour from 10-6 daily. One of those 'copter pilots should have seen a private helicopter on fire and tried to land, or seen the flames on the ground, and relayed the info to every pilot and ranger around Mount St. Helens.
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* ArtisticLicenseUniversityAdmissions: ''Fifty Shades Darker'' and ''Fifty Shades Freed'' both refer to villain Jack Hyde as having won a scholarship to Princeton University because he was bright. Princeton does not give ''any'' non-need-based scholarships. It says so right in their [[http://www.princeton.edu/admission/financialaid/financial_aid_faqs/ FAQ]]:
-->*Do you give scholarships for academic merit, special talents or athletic ability?*\\
''No. All financial aid awards are based solely on need. Learn more about how aid is assigned in the Undergraduate Financial Aid Information and Application Instructions.''
-->*Do you give scholarships for academic merit, special talents or athletic ability?*\\
''No. All financial aid awards are based solely on need. Learn more about how aid is assigned in the Undergraduate Financial Aid Information and Application Instructions.''
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* ConvenientComa: Chapter 23 of ''Fifty Shades Freed'' has Anastasia in a coma. After hitting her head and suffering from a hairline fracture in the skull and some broken ribs, [[ArtisticLicenseMedicine she's in a coma, despite having no brain-swelling]]. She spends a little over one day in a coma, where she is still lucid enough to hear all sorts of conversations taking place near her perfectly, and then wakes up with no repercussions and the drama of Christian [[spoiler: being angry and unhappy that she got pregnant]] is completely gone.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: In ''Fifty Shades Freed'', [[spoiler:Ana discovers that she is pregnant because her birth control wore off earlier than expected]]. It takes her less than a paragraph (in which the word "abortion" is not even mentioned) to decide she's not getting an abortion, including the clichés of declaring that train of thought "a dark path" and wrapping an arm protectively around her belly.
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* TheMaidenNameDebate: In ''Fifty Shades Freed'', Ana, after marrying Christian, insists that she wants to keep using her maiden name at work. Christian... doesn't take it well.
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* PantsPositiveSafety: In ''Fifty Shades Freed'', Ana Steele, who is preparing to go to the bank [[spoiler:and get some money to ransom her sister-in-law Mia]], shoves a loaded handgun into the back of her jeans--despite having stated repeatedly that this type of gun has no safety catch to prevent it from going off and despite knowing that she's pregnant. Although there have been numerous setups throughout the series establishing how dangerous guns can be if treated carelessly, which might lead the reader to conclude that Ana will be injured by the gun, [[PlotArmor nothing of the sort happens]].
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* StrongFamilyResemblance: In the epilogue of ''Fifty Shades Freed'', it's revealed that Ana and Christian have a two-year-old son with red hair--who looks exactly like the toddler version of Christian that Ana has been imagining and daydreaming about post-coitus for the past three books.
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''Do not ever confuse'' with ''Literature/ShadesOfGrey'' and ''Literature/BetweenShadesOfGrey'', much more appropriate literature.
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The book got two sequels, ''Fifty Shades Darker'' and ''Fifty Shades Freed'', and all three books together are known as ''The Fifty Shades Trilogy'' or simply ''Fifty Shades''. All three books were [[TheMovieOfTheBook made into same-titled films]], released over 2015-2018. These have their own page [[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey here]].
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The book got two sequels, four sequels. The first two, ''Fifty Shades Darker'' and ''Fifty Shades Freed'', is the story of what happened to Ana after the first book ended. The other two are the [[POVSequel POV sequels]] ''Grey'' and all three ''Darker'' that retell the first two books together are known as ''The Fifty Shades Trilogy'' or simply ''Fifty Shades''. All from Christian's point of view. (Despite what you might assume, E.L. James has, reportedly, no plans for a retelling of the final novel from Christian's perspective.)
The first three books were [[TheMovieOfTheBook made into same-titled films]], released over 2015-2018. These have their own page [[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey here]].
The first three books were [[TheMovieOfTheBook made into same-titled films]], released over 2015-2018. These have their own page [[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey here]].
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The book got two sequels, ''Fifty Shades Darker'' and ''Fifty Shades Freed'', and all three books together are known as ''The Fifty Shades Trilogy'' or simply ''Fifty Shades''. All three books were [[TheMovieOfTheBook made into same-titled films]], released over 2015-2018. These have their own page [[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey here]].
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''Fifty Shades of Grey'' is an erotic novel that started life as a ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' fanfic called [[http://www.epubbud.com/read.php?g=RTHUKGUX&p=1 "Master of the Universe."]] Basically, same characters, but less vampire, more sex. Then, the character names were changed from Edward Cullen and Bella Swan to Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele, and now it is not a fanfic but legit fic for sale.
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''Fifty Shades of Grey'' is an erotic novel that started life as a ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' fanfic called [[http://www.epubbud.com/read.php?g=RTHUKGUX&p=1 [[https://www.inkitt.com/stories/fanfiction/11208?ref=v_b50fbe41-a029-4b7e-8a5d-1c3b7080160e "Master of the Universe."]] Basically, same characters, but less vampire, more sex. Then, the character names were changed from Edward Cullen and Bella Swan to Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele, and now it is not a fanfic but legit fic for sale.
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* ThreeAmigos: Anastasia as the main character, Kate as her same-gender best friend and Jose as the opposite gender, close friend that could be a love interest.
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