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* MetaFiction: The book is on one level, a fantasy story, and on another, about the author struggling with ExecutiveMeddling (or, rather, whatever you call it when a sibling demanding he cram in other stuff he thinks is cool).
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* VampiricWerewolf: Christoph is a young attractive vampire who was later bitten by a werewolf. Initially, his transformation just makes him even more alluring, especially to Shae'Vana (much to Roland's chagrin), but the second time it happens, his howling just gets on everyone's nerves
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* StrawMisogynist: Averted InUniverse. Greg disapproves of the decision to turn the likable TokenMinority female elf [[spoiler:into a thief]] because girls will protest the perceived sexism outside Rowley's house. This turns out to be a moot point, though, since [[spoiler:Shae'vana was GoodAllAlong and apologizes for stealing]].
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* UnfortunateImplications: [[invoked]] {{Discussed|Trope}} in-universe a couple of times. Greg shoots down a SaveThePrincess plot because not only is it cliche, but Rowley will get angry letters from girls calling the plot sexist. Greg also disapproves of the decision to turn the likable token female elf [[spoiler:into a thief]] because girls will protest the perceived sexism outside Rowley's house. This turns out to be a moot point, though, since [[spoiler:Shae'vana was GoodAllAlong and apologizes for stealing]].
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* UnfortunateImplications: [[invoked]] {{Discussed|Trope}} in-universe a couple of times. Greg shoots down a SaveThePrincess plot because not only is it cliche, but Rowley will get angry letters from girls calling the plot sexist. Greg also disapproves of the decision to turn the token female elf [[spoiler:into a thief]] because girls will protest the perceived sexism outside Rowley's house. This turns out to be a moot point, though, since [[spoiler:Shae'vana was GoodAllAlong and apologizes for stealing]].
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* UnfortunateImplications: [[invoked]] {{Discussed|Trope}} in-universe a couple of times. Greg shoots down a SaveThePrincess plot because not only is it cliche, but Rowley will get angry letters from girls calling the plot sexist. Greg also disapproves of the decision to turn the likable token female elf [[spoiler:into a thief]] because girls will protest the perceived sexism outside Rowley's house. This turns out to be a moot point, though, since [[spoiler:Shae'vana was GoodAllAlong and apologizes for stealing]].
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* BitingTheHandHumor: Greg's commentary is a parody of [[invoked]]ExecutiveMeddling from publishing companies who are shallowly concerned with merchandising and movie adaptations.
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* EvilAllAlong: In the climax, [[spoiler: the One-Eyed Wizard]] is revealed to be this, [[spoiler: tricking the pure-hearted Rowley into setting out and becoming a pawn in his plan to get revenge upon his brother Santa Claus]].
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* EvilAllAlong: In the climax, [[spoiler: the One-Eyed Wizard]] is revealed to be this, evil, [[spoiler: tricking the pure-hearted Rowley into setting out and becoming a pawn in his plan to get revenge upon his brother Santa Claus]].
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* ExecutiveMeddling: [[invoked]] Parodied. Greg provides commentary on Rowley's story as it's being written, but while Rowley cares about writing a fun story with good morals, Greg is primarily concerned with geting the book published so they can make money off merchandising and movie deals. He insists Rowley add things like gratuitous public domain characters, a token female, and a character death because they'll expand audience appeal, and shuts down any writing decision that doesn't work for the book's supposed demographic. Rowley eventually gives up on trying to please Greg because he wants to write a story for ''himself''.
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* UnfortunateImplications: [[invoked]] {{Discussed|Trope}} in-universe a couple of times. Greg shoots down a SaveThePrincess plot because not only is it cliche, but Rowley will get angry letters from girls calling the plot sexist. Greg also disapproves of the decision to turn the token female elf [[spoiler:into a thief]] because girls will protest the perceived sexism outside Rowley's house. This turns out to be a moot point, though, since [[spoiler:Shae'vana was GoodAllAlong and apologizes for stealing]].
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Discussed. Greg likes it when Rowley expands Roland's party with Sherlock Holmes, the One-Eyed Wizard, Shae'vana, and Stephen because having this trope in play expands merchandising possibilities.
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Jeff Kinney's second book in the SpinOff series from ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'' arrived in August 2020. In a major break from the other books in the series, this is presented as an in-progress HeroicFantasy manuscript by Greg Heffley's best friend Rowley Jefferson.
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* OurElvesAreBetter: Shae'vana is a Wood Elves variation -- a subverted ArcherArchetype and straight ForestRanger and clever thief, beautiful with pointy ears and breath that smells "like mint leaves dipped in honey", etc. On top of that, [[spoiler: she's also one of Santa's toymakers, subverting the Christmas Elves trope]].
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* OurElvesAreBetter: OurElvesAreDifferent: Shae'vana is a Wood Elves variation -- a subverted ArcherArchetype and straight ForestRanger and clever thief, beautiful with pointy ears and breath that smells "like mint leaves dipped in honey", etc. On top of that, [[spoiler: she's also one of Santa's toymakers, subverting the Christmas Elves trope]].
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* ParodyEpisode: A parody of HeroicFantasy novels (and modern entertainment media in general) in the middle of a down-to-Earth SliceOfLife series.
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: A parody of HeroicFantasy novels in the middle of a down-to-Earth SliceOfLife series, although downplayed by being an in-universe manuscript.
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: A parody of HeroicFantasy novels in the middle of a down-to-Earth SliceOfLife series, although downplayed by being an in-universe manuscript.
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* TheLoad: Christoph the vampire is this for Roland's party. Not only does he have no useful skills, he can't travel during the day so at Shae'vana's insistence everyone else has to travel at night. [[spoiler: His also being a werewolf only makes matters worse, and it's initially thought that Shae'vana's apparent FaceHeelTurn is out of her desire to break his curse, though this proves not to be the case.]] Rowley only writes this character into the story to provide a TokenRomance, so it's likely he and Greg couldn't think of anything for him to ''do'' beyond that.
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* DolledUpInstallment: After Rowley starts introducing various {{Public Domain Character}}s in the story, Greg suggests to just replace completely Roland with [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer Tom Sawyer]], because he thinks the book would sell more as a continuation of a classic literary character's adventures.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Discussed. Greg likes it when Rowley expands Roland's party with Sherlock Holmes, the One-Eyed Wizard, Shae'vana, and Steven because having this trope in play expands merchandising possibilities.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Discussed. Greg likes it when Rowley expands Roland's party with Sherlock Holmes, the One-Eyed Wizard, Shae'vana, and Steven Stephen because having this trope in play expands merchandising possibilities.
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* FantasyAliens: An alien is one of the victims of Medusa that is restored to life by the One-Eyed Wizard and escapes in fear that Medusa might come back. Greg asks Rowley to remove it, since he believes it doesn't make sense.
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* PublicDomainCharacter: Greg encourages Rowley to work some of these into the book to increase its appeal while at the same time not risking copyright infringement lawsuits. Literature/SherlockHolmes becomes a major secondary character, while {{Medusa}} and Literature/TheLittleMermaid ("but not [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid the Disney one]]") have minor but significant appearances. In the late going, the White Warlock is revealed to be [[spoiler: Santa Claus]]. There are also cameos by [[Myth/NorseMythology Thor]], [[Literature/AdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn Huckleberry Finn]], and [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz the Cowardly Lion]].
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* PublicDomainCharacter: Greg encourages Rowley to work some of these into the book to increase its appeal while at the same time not risking copyright infringement lawsuits. Literature/SherlockHolmes becomes a major secondary character, while {{Medusa}} and Literature/TheLittleMermaid ("but not [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 the Disney one]]") have minor but significant appearances. In the late going, the White Warlock is revealed to be [[spoiler: Santa Claus]]. There are also cameos by [[Myth/NorseMythology Thor]], [[Literature/AdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn Huckleberry Finn]], and [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz the Cowardly Lion]].
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* PublicDomainCharacter: Greg encourages Roland to work some of these into the book to increase its appeal while at the same time not risking copyright infringement lawsuits. Literature/SherlockHolmes becomes a major secondary character, while {{Medusa}} and Literature/TheLittleMermaid ("but not [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid the Disney one]]") have minor but significant appearances. In the late going, the White Warlock is revealed to be [[spoiler: Santa Claus]]. There are also cameos by [[Myth/NorseMythology Thor]], [[Literature/AdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn Huckleberry Finn]], and [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz the Cowardly Lion]].
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* PublicDomainCharacter: Greg encourages Roland to work some of these into the book to increase its appeal while at the same time not risking copyright infringement lawsuits. SherlockHolmes becomes a major secondary character, while Medusa and the Little Mermaid ("but not the Disney one") have minor but significant appearances. In the late going, the White Warlock is revealed to be [[spoiler: Santa Claus]]. There are also cameos by Thor, Huckleberry Finn, and the Cowardly Lion.
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* TheBigGuy: DumbMuscle Garg fills this role on Roland's team, and is also his best friend.
* DumbMuscle: Garg talks in HulkSpeak and mainly just lugs stuff around or hits it with his club.
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* FaceHeelTurn: When Rowley introduces this as a plot twist with [[spoiler: Shae'vana the elf]], Greg points out that it's a risky move because people who liked the character up to that point will be upset and picket his house, and Rowley's suggestion that they return to the side of good at the end is dismissed as corny. [[spoiler: Rowley instead has her turn out to be Good All Along, only stealing the map to run on ahead and warn Santa of the One-Eyed Wizard's plot.]]
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* OurElvesAreBetter: Shae'vana is a Wood Elves variation -- a subverted ArcherArchetype and straight ForestRanger, beautiful with pointy ears and breath that smells "like mint leaves dipped in honey", etc. On top of that, [[spoiler: she's also one of Santa's toymakers, subverting the Christmas Elves trope]].
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* TheSmartGuy: Sherlock Holmes ends up filling this role on Roland's team, though the only time he gets to use his skills is when [[spoiler: he figures out Shae'vana stole the One-Eyed Wizard's eye ''and'' the map -- due to obvious clues]].
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* CoolSword: Jeremy, previously owned by Roland's grandfather Bamphy the Brave and capable of turning mean people nice.
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* TriangRelations: Greg suggests Type 3 should be incorporated into the novel with Garg and Roland competing for Shae'vana's affections. Rowley doesn't like the friends fighting, though, so he introduces Christoph and goes with Type 4 instead: Roland wants Shae'vana, but she and Christoph immediately become a couple upon meeting.
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* ThePigPen: The trolls all qualify as this, and their land as TrashOfTheTitans. [[spoiler: They wouldn't be this way if not for the pixies dumping their garbage there -- as retaliation for the trolls eating them.]]
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* ThePigPen: The trolls all qualify as this, and their land as TrashOfTheTitans. [[spoiler: They wouldn't be this way if not for the pixies dumping their garbage there -- as retaliation for the trolls eating them.]]
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* ToiletHumor: According to Rowley, "Greg said if you're gonna write a book you HAVE to put in gross stuff or kids won't BUY it." Greg goes on to suggest the book just include [[{{Feelies}} a sticker sheet]] of random gross images and {{Written Sound Effect}}s "so kids could add their OWN body humor wherever they WANTED."
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* ThePigPen: The trolls all qualify as this, and their land as TrashOfTheTitans. [[spoiler: They wouldn't be this way if not for the pixies dumping their garbage there -- as retaliation for the trolls eating them.]]
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* WackyWaysideTribe: Much of Rowley's story involves Roland and Garg's encounters with these, starting with a stretch in which they...just help out townsfolk with their chores for days on end. More conventional fantasy examples of this trope show up later, such as a conflict between pixies and trolls that Roland has to mediate, and giant eagles who want to feed the party to their just-hatching chicks.
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* WavingSignsAround: The illustration of what Greg says could happen if Rowley has a well-liked character do a FaceHeelTurn has girls picketing the latter's house with signs like "Change The Story".
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* PinnedToTheWall: In the climax, Shae'vana does this to [[spoiler: the One-Eyed Wizard as part of her Good All Along reveal]].
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* ArcherArchetype: Shae'vana subverts the trope in that, while she is a master archer, she is not a loner and is emotional enough to fall in love with Christoph.
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* CoolSword: Jeremy, previously owned by Roland's grandfather Bamphy the Brave and capable of turning mean people nice.
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* NamedWeapons: Spoofed with "Jeremy", Roland's CoolSword. Greg is not impressed.
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* BreakoutCharacter: [[invoked]] Rowley never quite realizes it, but Greg is ''really'' determined to see Garg become this trope.
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* TakenForGranite: Chapters 6-8 involve Rowley and Garg encountering Medusa, and Garg ending up the latest victim of this trope as a result, leading to Rowley seeking out the help of the One-Eyed Wizard to change him and the others back.
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