History Literature / Nightside

* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: [[spoiler:Pretty Poison.]] Harm Sinner, threaten Sinner, look cross-eyed at Sinner, and you are '''dead''.' [[spoiler:As a succubus demon from Hell, she can do a ''lot'' of damage.]]

* SinisterNudity: The EldritchAbomination Lilith manifests as a BellyButtonless nude woman in shades of grey. The body is nothing more than a [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith concession to the physical world]] she's invading, and she's both [[NighInvulnerability Nigh-Invulnerable]] and indifferent to human mores, so clothes aren't a priority.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Rossignol performs her singing acts barefoot. The Sun King walks around barefoot.

* {{Shapeshifter}}: The Charnel Chimera, a monstrous identity-thief Walker seeks to apprehend at the Griffins' party. Argus of the Thousand Eyes, the ''Night Times'''s gossip-columnist who impersonates people's friends and loved ones to dig up juicy scandals. Rogue, the Immortal who crashes the Ball of Forever in ''Bride''.

** [[spoiler:[=PreciousMemories=]. There's a reason the Walking Man starts there.]]

* RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun: Done with Walker's aforementioned Voice. He's getting sick of it. [[spoiler He only brought the dead back once. Considering how many ''other'' examples of people communicating with and/or summoning the dead have shown up in Green's Verse, Walker's frustration is justified. It's ''not that special'', people, honestly!]]

* NoSell: Almost every BigBad and EldritchAbomination that threatens the Nightside is shown to be resisted whole or in part by something they hadn't really considered as powerful enough to stop them. Even [[spoiler:Lillith herself]] in all her terrible glory can't grasp what [[AnthropomorphicPersonification The Engineer]] is, because she never considered technology to be a power and doesn't have anyway to make people stop believing in Scientific Progress.

** Subverted with Harry Fabulous, who ''claims'' he's trying to atone for his sleazy past, but seems to spend most of his time making equally-sleazy deals. [[spoiler:he finally does some good in the final book Nightfall when he makes a deal with the FallenAngel who cost him his soul and saves the lives of endangered civilians before dying. Much to the angel's disgust.]]

** ''Just Another Judgment Day'' reveals that Razor Eddie has one, after he [[spoiler: gets beaten to near-death by the Walking Man.]]

** In ''Night Fall'', [[spoiler: the entire Droods vs Nightside war was set up by Puck, who took advantage of the longstanding animosity and revulsion the orderly Droods feel for the chaotic Nightside in order to get everyone who could stop him from taking the place over as King to conveniently kill each other off. Unfortunately for him, he was up against John Taylor and Eddie Drood.]]

* OneLastJob: As John won't have enough time to be both [[spoiler: Walker and a PI]], he asks his teen secretary to [[spoiler: find him one last case to go out on]]. As it turns out, [[spoiler: it's Walker's wedding present, allowing him to go out of the PI business with a bang]].

* RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun: Done with Walker's aforementioned Voice. He's getting sick of it. [[spoiler: He only brought the dead back once. Considering how many ''other'' examples of people communicating with and/or summoning the dead have shown up in Green's Verse, Walker's frustration is justified. It's ''not that special'', people, honestly!]]

* VowOfCelibacy: The Holy Trio, a team of religious heavy-hitters, consists of a man and woman who channel a spirit via the psychic strain of lifelong chastity vows. Which is fairly effective, at least until [[spoiler: Razor Eddie transports them to the Church of the Glorious [[Creator/MarilynMonroe Marilyn]] and strips them stark naked.]]

** Ultimately [[spoiler: subverted in ''Night Fall'', when the Drood/Nightside conflict exposes how both sides need to understand each other better. This leads Taylor to swap his destiny for another, so he and Suzie wind up running the ''Drood Council'', while Edwin Drood becomes the new Walker.]]

* ActionGirl: Suzie Shooter, a/k/a Shotgun Suzie, a/k/a Oh Christ, It's Her, ''Run''.
** Quite a lot of these actually, ranging from vicious villains like Belle and Bad Penny to militant heroines like Sister Josephine or Janissary Jane. Whether Ms. Fate qualifies is a matter of opinion.

* AntiAntiChrist: Merlin Satanspawn was born of the devil to be the Antichrist, but he "refused the honor." However his counterpart from Sinister Albion is a more conventional AntiChrist.

* AlienLunch: One of Taylor's favorite street-vendor snacks is "something wriggling on a stick". It's a RunningGag that the "something" is ''never'' identified.

* {{Auction}}: The BatmanColdOpen for ''Hex and the City'' opens with John at an auction for various supernatural-based items, where he's been hired to stand guard over a particular item - a butterfly that represents the ability to do a small change that butterflies into something massive.

--> "I am Pretty Poison, a [[HornyDevils demon of the Inferno]]."