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* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler: How Mary Fairbrothers feels about Krystal Weedon.]]
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* Hypocrite: Two people get called out for their own, more socially acceptable, substance abuse while they're advocating for the closure of the addiction clinic. Dr. Parminder Jawanda [[spoiler: is accused of hypocrisy in her motives for her pro-Fields advocacy by The_Ghost_of_Barry_Fairbrothers.]]
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* Hypocrite: {{Hypocrite}}: Two people get called out for their own, more socially acceptable, substance abuse while they're advocating for the closure of the addiction clinic. Dr. Parminder Jawanda [[spoiler: is accused of hypocrisy in her motives for her pro-Fields advocacy by The_Ghost_of_Barry_Fairbrothers.]]
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* AttentionWhore: what motivates quite a few people in Pagford is their desperate need for attention.
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* SourPrudes: Shirley Mollison, to the point that [[spoiler: her husband has had an affair for more than a decade.]]
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* RefugeInVulgarity: You have no idea.
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* HideYourLesbians: [[spoiler: Patricia Mollison.]]
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* ParanoiaFuel: For the inhabitants of Pagford, [[spoiler: the postings of The_Ghost_of_Barry_Fairbrother's postings on the Parish Council's website certainly count.]]
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* TheHeroDies: To many Fielders, that's what Barry's death feels like.
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* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: Behind closed doors, the Mollisons don't make much of an effort to look sorry for Barry Fairbrother's death.
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* TheBully: Fats.Fats, to Sukhvinder. He's mean and cowardly.
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* RotatingProtagonist: The point of view switches constantly, sometimes mid-chapter. The main protagonists appear to be (in no particular order) Howard, Fats, Andrew, Simon, Krystal, Ruth, Gavin and Kay.
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* RotatingProtagonist: The point of view switches constantly, sometimes mid-chapter. The main protagonists appear to be (in no particular order) Howard, Fats, Andrew, Simon, Krystal, Ruth, Gavin and Kay.Gavin, Kay, Parminder, Sukhvinder.
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* DecoyProtagonist: Assuming you [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil hadn't read any press coverage or read the summary on the inside jacket]] [[SelfDemonstratingArticle (or the description at the top of this page, for that matter)]], you might be forgiven for thinking Barry Fairbrother was the main character [[KilledOffForReal at first]].
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* DecoyProtagonist: Assuming you [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil hadn't read any press coverage or read the summary on the inside jacket]] [[SelfDemonstratingArticle (or the description at the top of this page, for that matter)]], you might be forgiven for thinking Barry Fairbrother was the main character [[KilledOffForReal at first]].
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* {{Epigraph}}: At the start of each "part", usually quoting legislature (such as the definition of a [[TitleDrop casual vacancy]]).
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* UnproblematicProstitution: Dear fucking ''god'', is this ever averted. One look at Terri Weedon should tell you that much.
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* UnproblematicProstitution: Dear fucking ''god'', is this ever averted. One look at Terri Weedon should tell you that much.much.
* UnusualChapterNumbers: The novel is split into parts, which are further split into days of the week. Said days each have their own set of short chapters[[hottip:note:except for the first Friday, which is one long chapter]], and the chapter count resets to I at the start of a new day.
* UnusualChapterNumbers: The novel is split into parts, which are further split into days of the week. Said days each have their own set of short chapters[[hottip:note:except for the first Friday, which is one long chapter]], and the chapter count resets to I at the start of a new day.
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* DecoyProtagonist: Assuming you [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil hadn't read any press coverage or read the summary on the inside jacket]] [[SelfDemonstartingArticle (or the description at the top of this page, for that matter)]], you might be forgiven for thinking Barry Fairbrother was the main character [[KilledOffForReal at first]].
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* DecoyProtagonist: Assuming you [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil hadn't read any press coverage or read the summary on the inside jacket]] [[SelfDemonstartingArticle [[SelfDemonstratingArticle (or the description at the top of this page, for that matter)]], you might be forgiven for thinking Barry Fairbrother was the main character [[KilledOffForReal at first]].
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* DecoyProtagonist: Assuming you [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil hadn't read any press coverage or read the summary on the inside jacket]], jacket]] [[SelfDemonstartingArticle (or the description at the top of this page, for that matter)]], you might be forgiven for thinking Barry Fairbrother was the main character [[KilledOffForReal at first]].
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* ClusterFBomb: All over the place. Terri and her daughter Krystal are especially adept at it.
* FlippingTheBird: "I DI'N' DO NOTHIN', YOU PRICK!"
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* RotatingProtagonist: The point of view switches constantly, sometimes mid-chapter. The main protagonists appear to be (in no particular order) Howard, Fats, Andrew, Simon, Krystal, Ruth Ruth, Gavin and Kay.
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* FunetikAksent: Characters from Yarvil get a Cockney accent similar to [[Literature/HarryPotter Hagrid's]] to distinguish them from the Pagford folk.
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* FunetikAksent: Characters from Yarvil get a Cockney accent similar to [[Literature/HarryPotter Hagrid's]] Hagrid's]], with plenty of apostrophes and missing h's, to distinguish them from the Pagford folk.
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* NotMeThisTime: Krystal's done a lot of authority-defying things, but [[spoiler: laughing at Cubby's breakdown when he's announcing Barry's death]] is not one of them.
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* NotMeThisTime: Krystal's done a lot of authority-defying things, but [[spoiler: laughing at Cubby's breakdown when he's announcing Barry's death]] death at the school assembly]] is not one of them.
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* {{Leitmotif}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iQRXuAo6Eg Rihanna's "Umbrella"]] appears to be one for Krystal and the rowing team, to the point where [[spoiler: they request that it be played at Barry Fairbrother's funeral as the casket is led out the church.]]
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* {{Leitmotif}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iQRXuAo6Eg Rihanna's "Umbrella"]] appears to be one for Krystal and the rowing team, to the point where [[spoiler: they request that it be played at Barry Fairbrother's funeral as the casket is led out of the church.]]
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* FunetikAksent: Characters from Yarvil get a Cockney accent similar to [[Literature/HarryPotter Hagrid's]] to distinguish them from the Pagford folk.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iQRXuAo6Eg Rihanna's "Umbrella"]] appears to be one for Krystal and the rowing team, to the point where [[spoiler: they request that it be played at Barry Fairbrother's funeral as the casket is led out the church.]]
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: There are less characters here than in Rowling's [[Literature/HarryPotter previous work]], but they still number in the double digits, and several of them can count as protagonists in their own right.
* NotMeThisTime: Krystal's done a lot of authority-defying things, but [[spoiler: laughing at Cubby's breakdown when he's announcing Barry's death]] is not one of them.
* UnfortunateNames: Krystal [[DoubleEntendre Weedon]]. Played with since Krystal doesn't really mind, and even joins in the joking herself.
* UnproblematicProstitution: Dear fucking ''god'', is this ever averted. One look at Terri Weedon should tell you that much.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iQRXuAo6Eg Rihanna's "Umbrella"]] appears to be one for Krystal and the rowing team, to the point where [[spoiler: they request that it be played at Barry Fairbrother's funeral as the casket is led out the church.]]
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: There are less characters here than in Rowling's [[Literature/HarryPotter previous work]], but they still number in the double digits, and several of them can count as protagonists in their own right.
* NotMeThisTime: Krystal's done a lot of authority-defying things, but [[spoiler: laughing at Cubby's breakdown when he's announcing Barry's death]] is not one of them.
* UnfortunateNames: Krystal [[DoubleEntendre Weedon]]. Played with since Krystal doesn't really mind, and even joins in the joking herself.
* UnproblematicProstitution: Dear fucking ''god'', is this ever averted. One look at Terri Weedon should tell you that much.
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The first novel JKRowling has published outside of the [[Literature/HarryPotter Harry Potter-verse]], ''The Casual Vacancy'' is about how the death of a politician reveals the ugly side of the small town of Pegford in the election that follows.
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The first novel JKRowling has published outside of the [[Literature/HarryPotter Harry Potter-verse]], ''The Casual Vacancy'' is about how the death of a politician reveals the ugly side of the small town of Pegford Pagford in the election that follows.
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