History Literature / StoryThieves

* CloningBlues: While he got over it, Kiel is said to have had these in the past (specifically in the fourth book of his own series where he finds out he's a clone of his arch-enemy, Doctor Verity.)

* StrawManHasAPoint: Nobody is a weird example. He is very much presented as a straw man from Owen and Bethany's point of view but your actually supposed to agree with him, [[spoiler:at least, according to Nobody himself as he is writing the books, but in the end it's discovered that Nobody is completely wrong and fictional characters have complete control over their own lives.]]

* EvilGloating: Everybody tries to exploit this and after the first or second time it fails because the villains have either gotten smart (dr. verity) or are very knowledgeable of story tropes (Nobody). It always works with Fowen, though because he has a crazy obsession with proving himself better than Owen.

** ComicBook/SquirrelGirl, ComicBook/Bones, and various other comics and comic book characters are mentioned in the third book. In addition, the superhero team Owen is modeling their powers off is either the ComicBook/TeenTitans or ComicBook/YoungJustice.

* BadFuture: Kara takes Owen to two, one fictional and one real.

** He visits the real future in the fifth book that's styled after Literature/NineteenEightyFour, where the existance of fictional people has been revealed but it's been spun so that all fictional people are perceived as evil and an oppressive, tyrannical government has taken over in order to "protect" people from them. Ironically, the person at the top of the oppressive government is Dr. Verity, who is fictional himself.

* ShoutOut: Several books are namedropped in the first book such as Literature/HarryPotter, Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheLightningThief, and others.

** Comic/SquirrelGirl, Comic/Bones, and various other comics and comic book characters are mentioned in the third book. In addition, the superhero team Owen is modeling their powers off is either the Comic/TeenTitans or Comic/YoungJustice.

* ''Story Thieves: Worlds Apart:'' Nobody succeeds in separating the fictional and non-fictional world, resulting in nobody in the non-fictional world having an imagination. After getting his imagination back, Owen embarks on a quest to reunite Bethany's two split halves and stop nobody from wiping out the entire fictional multiverse.

* AndTheAdventureContinues: Assuming the author doesn't write anymore books the last book seems to end on this.

** In addition to this, Authors don't actually have any powers beyond creating characters as after they create the characters, the characters are free to do whatever they want and the Author is just chronicling their adventures using their imagination.

* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:The Dark is Bethany's father, Doc Twilight, not that he know's that.]]

* CloningBlues: While he got over it, Kiel is said to have had these in the past (specifically in the fourth book when he finds out he's a clone of his arch-enemy, Doctor Verity.)

** Subverted with Bethany. While at first she looks like this it turns out she's actually entering books instead of getting lost reading them.

* OutOfGenreExperience: The fourth book which takes a break from the usual formula to be a choose your own adventure book (not like there's any way to get a different ending.)
** A minor example in the third book where the writing will occasionally be interrupted by comic pages showing things that have already happened, usually when Owen is in the in between world with the giant comic.