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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Fuschia and the Thing]] both die due to seemingly arbitrary acts of happenstance.

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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Fuschia [[spoiler:Fuchsia and the Thing]] both die due to seemingly arbitrary acts of happenstance.



* RisingWaterRisingTension: Book Two sees the usurper Steerpike rising to higher levels in the castle-state\'s hierarchy. As he makes his final bid to overthrow the Groan family and become ruler, torrential unrelenting rain begins and the castle is flooded. The action of the book happens on two levels. As the lower levels of the castle are progressively swamped by floodwaters, its inhabitants struggle for survival, moving themselves and their possessions to higher and higher levels. This adds to the claustrophobic menace of the situation. The flooding becomes a metaphor for cleansing, both of an ancient civilisation strangling in its own history, and of the need to destroy a cancer in the social body - Steerpike. The water rises to menacing levels, and the Princess Fuchsia dies a lonely death by drowning; Titus Groan, the legitimate heir to Ghormenghast, seeks out and kills Steerpike at the point where the floodwaters rise to their highest. Symbolically, after Steerpike's death, the rain stops and the flood recedes.

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* RisingWaterRisingTension: Book Two sees the usurper Steerpike rising to higher levels in the castle-state\'s castle-state's hierarchy. As he makes his final bid to overthrow the Groan family and become ruler, torrential unrelenting rain begins and the castle is flooded. The action of the book happens on two levels. As the lower levels of the castle are progressively swamped by floodwaters, its inhabitants struggle for survival, moving themselves and their possessions to higher and higher levels. This adds to the claustrophobic menace of the situation. The flooding becomes a metaphor for cleansing, both of an ancient civilisation strangling in its own history, and of the need to destroy a cancer in the social body - -- Steerpike. The water rises to menacing levels, and the Princess Fuchsia dies a lonely death by drowning; Titus Groan, the legitimate heir to Ghormenghast, seeks out and kills Steerpike at the point where the floodwaters rise to their highest. Symbolically, after Steerpike's death, the rain stops and the flood recedes.



* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Who was the person who knocked on Fuschia's door, [[spoiler:causing her to slip off the windowsill and fall to her death?]]

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Who was the person who knocked on Fuschia's Fuchsia's door, [[spoiler:causing her to slip off the windowsill and fall to her death?]]
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Moving the Misaimed Fandom entry to YMMV


* MisaimedFandom: the turrets, vaults, and labyrinths of Gormenghast Castle, its bizarre rituals and crazed denizens, have been compelling and alluring to generations of readers. Peake, however, assumed that everyone would sympathize with Titus' disgust for the place and his need to escape it.
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* MisaimedFandom: the turrets, vaults, and labyrinths of Gormenghast Castle, its bizarre rituals and crazed denizens, have been compelling and alluring to generations of readers. Peake, however, assumed that everyone would sympathize with Titus' disgust for the place and his need to escape it.
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* CringeComedy: The way the characters behave in the books qualifies as this, though this is played UpToEleven in the television version.

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* CringeComedy: The way the characters behave in the books qualifies as this, though this is played UpToEleven up to eleven in the television version.

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* AnyoneCanDie: Major characters, including some of the hero's friends and family, die abruptly and grotesquely -- usually thanks to Steerpike.

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* AnyoneCanDie: Major characters, including some of the hero's friends and family, die abruptly and grotesquely -- usually thanks to Steerpike. By the end of the second book, [[spoiler: only Titus, Countess Gertrude, Prunesquallor, Irma and Bellgrove are left alive out of the original main cast.]]



* KillThemAll: By the end of the second book, [[spoiler: only Titus, Countess Gertrude, Prunesquallor, Irma and Bellgrove are left alive out of the original main cast.]]
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Dewicked trope


* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: ''Fifty-five'' prominent characters and many more bit parts.
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Stuffed Into The Fridge is now a Fan Speak disambiguation


* StuffedInTheFridge: [[spoiler:Fuschia and the Thing]] die in order to further Titus's story.
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Author existence failure cleanup per TRS


* AppropriatedTitle: The intended focus of the series was Titus Groan, title character of the first book, not Gormenghast, the childhood home that he departed from two books into [[AuthorExistenceFailure what should have been]] a longer series. Ironically, ''Titus Groan,'' the first book, does not significantly feature Titus as a character, as he's a very young child.

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* AppropriatedTitle: The intended focus of the series was Titus Groan, title character of the first book, not Gormenghast, the childhood home that he departed from two books into [[AuthorExistenceFailure what should have been]] been a longer series. Ironically, ''Titus Groan,'' the first book, does not significantly feature Titus as a character, as he's a very young child.
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* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: [[spoiler:the world outside Gormenghast]].

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* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: [[spoiler:the [[spoiler:The world outside Gormenghast]].

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