History Narm / Literature

** What was apparently meant to be a WhamLine at the end of "Medusa's Coil":

** "Medusa's Coil":

:: "Jerk"? Seriously? The guy's a sociopath and a murderer who's trying to [[spoiler: rape one of your best friends]], and "Jerk" is the worst insult you can come up with?

** The book also tells about an evil prince that rapes the heroine. Unfortunately, his name is Jafar, which may make you think of the funny antagonist from ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}''.

:: "Jerk"? Seriously? The guy's a sociopath and a murderer who's trying to [[spoiler:rape one of your best friends]], and "Jerk" is the worst insult you can come up with?

** Stannis Baratheon delivering a private eulogy for his deceased brother Renly, which is made narmish when he says something like, "I'll go to my grave thinking of my brother's peach." ItMakesSenseInContext, but even so...

* The end of ''Literature/MySistersKeeper'', when [[spoiler: Anna is killed in a car accident]]. It's so [[{{Glurge}} obviously designed]] to be a {{tearjerker}} that it becomes Narm. The DebateAndSwitch doesn't help.

* Jodi Picoult's novel ''A Spark of Light'' is littered with phrases that are supposed to be deep and meaningful but come off as hilariously pretentious and silly, including this ''gem'' of a line:
--> ''"This is what it means to be human." Bex thought. "We are all js just canvases for our scars."''

** The fact that some of Lovecraft's narrators are determined to keep writing in their journals [[ApocalypticLog even as they're being attacked and killed by cosmic horrors,]] such as the final line of ''Dreams In The Witch-House:''
--->"The window... the window!"

* In ''Literature/ColdDays'', book 14 of ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', Harry and Murphy have a very serious discussion about Harry [[spoiler: taking up the mantle of the Winter Knight]] and his relationship with Molly. Harry then mentions the possibility of him going "Darth Dresden". Now, it's not out of character for Harry to make gratuitous pop culture references...but it COMPLETELY kills the mood.

* ''Literature/TheLegendOfRahAndTheMuggles'' is mathematically designed to not be taken seriously. This is a story aimed at preschoolers with Teletubbies-like mascot characters that are descended from eugenics targets in a post-apocalypse. No, this is not a parody. In fact the author takes every moment she can [[{{Anvilicious}} to shove down her deep messages]] on eminent domain laws, the United Nations, political corruption and communism, in a book where characters baby talk and the villain is a schoolyard villain. [[Anime/TheAnimatrix The Second Renaissance]] this ain't. Worse was the lawsuit she threw against ''Franchise/HarryPotter'', in which she tried to portray this as the more mature series...

* The amount of {{Narm}} in ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' can depend heavily on your political background, but some of it is pretty undeniable. If you're inclined to see it as such, it's heavy throughout the whole series (even his ''dedication page'' in [[http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php?showtopic=10558&st=80&p=387035&#entry387035 the first book]]).
** The one thing everyone can agree on is that the evil chicken that cackled was hilarious. The collection of Narms can be found [[http://sandstormreviews.blogspot.com/2006/08/goodkind-parodies.html here]]. The evil chicken scene is so narmy that many readers believed it was ''intentional'' parody. Until Kahlan is face to face with it and then you realize that no, Goodkind genuinely thought he was writing something scary.

:: "Jerk"? Seriously? The guy's a sociopath and a murderer who's trying to [[spoiler: rape one of your best friends]], and "Jerk" is the worst insult you can come up with?

* Creator/OscarWilde isn't immune to this. ''Literature/TheHappyPrince'' involves a bird and a [[TakenForGranite prince-turned-statue]] who is crying over being a statue. Most of Wilde's children's stories contain Narm and soppy morals. Most Victorian moral stories for children do. Wilde's work CrossesTheLineTwice -- you have to barrel through the narm and then double back and start crying like a girl.

* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' ([[{{Pun}} Narm-ia?]]) has several of these, but one of the best is after Puddleglum's [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome awesome]] ShutUpHannibal in ''Literature/TheSilverChair''. What do the others do? Do they stand in awed silence? Come up with their own arguments? Draw their swords? No, they say this:

* [[TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms RA Salvatore]]: "[[Literature/TheIcewindDaleTrilogy You deserve the wrath of Pook]]!" If you think that line is hilarious ''now'', wait till you realize it comes out of ''Artemis Entreri's'' mouth. That's right, the supposedly coldest and most repressed assassin of the series once went around screaming a name one letter away from [[WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends Garfield's]] teddy bear. Uh, Salvatore, we love your fight scenes, but what is up with your dialogue?
** Yeah, yeah, we know, Pook is a dangerous guy; but come on! ''He's almost ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'s teddy bear!''
** It's just as bad when you think of an [[VideoGame/DigDug entirely different]] Pook.
** Even better, in ''Exile'' (book two of ''Literature/TheDarkElfTrilogy'') there's this, which MakesSenseInContext but it's still funny:

* The ''Literature/InheritanceCycle''. The 'baby on a spike' scene is some horrific imagery, but gained Narm thanks to an Creator/EddieIzzard comedy routine on the subject.

** That scene is made even sappy by Eragon's musings when he sees them: "What does our existence mean when it can end like this?" Less than a paragraph later, he kills an innocent crow because it dared to peck at a corpse.
** The first sentence of ''Eragon''--something like "wind howled through the night, carrying a scent that would change the world." And in ''Eldest'', Eragon [[spoiler:is transformed into a half-elf, half-human, calls himself a "princeling," and is]] "more beautiful than any man, more rugged than any elf". Clearly Paolini wanted his readers to be in awe, but this is over the top.

** The scene in ''Brisingr'' in which Roran stands dramatically [[AtopAMountainOfCorpses on top of a 20-foot-tall stack of the bodies of 193 men he had defeated]]. His only stated regret was that there were not enough foes for an even two hundred. While this may suggest [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation even worse disturbing sociopathy than Eragon's]] while [[CharacterDerailment not gelling with how he's been characterized before]], the scene imagined was so ludicrous that it was {{hilari|tyEnsues}}ous.
*** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0439.html Only because he'll never be this cool.]]

*** Durza was also described as having bright red hair and pale white skin. [[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131123020055/spykids/images/thumb/2/2f/Ronald_mcdonald_jumping1.jpg/524px-Ronald_mcdonald_jumping1.jpg Remind you of a certain fast-food mascot?]]

** And then there's the scene in ''Eldest'' in which Eragon reads his poem to the elves. Judging by the praise they heap on him, we're meant to be awe-inspired. Unfortunately, the poem is not the lyrical opus the elves praise it as, but an atrociously written, borderline EmoTeen's love poem. There is neither rhyme nor meter, and it refers to eyes as 'enigmatic pools'.
*** This goes for almost any of the verse Paolini includes in the Cycle - he confines himself to free verse with almost no metre or indeed poetic attributes of any kind.
** In ''Brisingr'', Eragon involuntarily kills two birds and a snake to replenish his magic reserves, and "dies three times". We're clearly meant to be touched by his sensitivity. This falls somewhat flat if you realise that this comes ''after'' he's slaughtered hundreds of the DesignatedVillain's soldiers without so much as batting an eyelid.
*** It's even worse is you're familiar with [[TheModestOrgasm a certain French euphemism]].
** There is also a scene in which the sight of a bee saves Eragon from the brink of death.
** Oh, ''Inheritance'' is almost unreadable, there's so much Narm. This series just takes itself far more seriously than it often deserves.
*** Such as the moment at the end of "The City of Sorrows" when Roran mentally tells Eragon to "hurry, or I swear I'll haunt you from the grave." While this is not a serious threat on Roan's part, it's clearly meant to be a serious moment showing us the dire situation they find themselves in... but it's such a useless, laughable threat that Roran looks like a wimp. "Just in case feeling overwhelming amounts of anguish/guilt for failing to keep the world from falling to the permanent rule of a horrible, inhuman dictator, letting your liegelord be tortured almost to death, losing the schoolboy-crush-esque love of your life, aren't enough... your cousin is also going to return from the dead as a spook in wherever you live in the ensuing dystopia."
*** Galbatorix was never the most original and compelling villain ever written, but ''dear lord'', is his dialogue in ''Inheritance'' clichéd. One wonders how can anyone read such three-dimensional lines such as “I shall kill [these kids I pulled out of nowhere] if you dare attack me again... In fact, if you displease me excessively, I shall kill them anyway” without imagining him twirling his mustache. If you've read ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'', it's also liable to remind you of its version of [[Literature/HarryPotter Voldemort]] going, "Kill [{{Draco|InLeatherPants}}], or I shall kill him anyway!"
*** [[MegatonPunch Eragon kills a random enemy soldier by punching him so hard that he goes flying into the ceiling.]]

* The amount of {{Narm}} in ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' can depend heavily on your political background, but some of it is pretty undeniable. If you're inclined to see it as such, it's heavy throughout the whole series (even his ''dedication page'' in [[http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php?showtopic=10558&st=80&p=387035&#entry387035 the first book]]). The one thing everyone can agree on is that the evil chicken that cackled was hilarious. The collection of Narms can be found [[http://sandstormreviews.blogspot.com/2006/08/goodkind-parodies.html here]].
** As is often the case, they tend to make a '''lot''' [[ItMakesSenseInContext more sense in context,]] and a few are either inaccurate or intentionally misleading. But the "chicken that is not a chicken," the unreasonably long speeches, and the flip-flopping about whether he can eat meat are indisputably Narm.
*** ''[[MemeticMutation "That's no chicken. It's evil manifest." ]]''
*** So the [[ThatsNoMoon chicken]] saw ''[[Film/ANewHope A New Hope]]''?
** The evil chicken scene is so narmy that many readers believed it was ''intentional'' parody. Until Kahlan is face to face with it and then you realize that no, Goodkind genuinely thought he was writing something scary.

** Honestly, this series alternates between being infuriating and being narm. The most serious scenes can be undercut by some serious narm that happens almost immediately.
* The ending of ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen'' contains a scene utterly uncharacteristic of the rest of the book. Lennie has a mental breakdown and is roundly chastised by a giant, hallucinatory bunny (which speaks in Lennie's voice). The scene is omitted from many play and movie adaptations of the book.
** Also, if read aloud a certain way, "I like beans with ketchup!" becomes hilarious.

** The beginning of Dart-Thornton's next trilogy, ''The Iron Tree'', was much worse. It might even venture into the realm of SesquipedalianLoquaciousness. [[spoiler: Dying from a sprig of mistletoe]] shouldn't take so many words.

** If it's a [[PhlebotinumBreakdown Harrier]], then repairable condition is as close as you're getting to perfect.
* Nat's first night at Plumfield in ''Little Men'', when Demi goes into his room and winds up telling him the entire life of Christ as a bedtime story.

*** Patronizing tone aside, the best part is that "led him to believe" unintentionally implies [[LiesToChildren that it isn't even true]]. (And would you believe Dick and Billy [[BuryYourDisabled both get killed off]] between ''Little Men'' and ''Jo's Boys''?)
* Also from Louisa May Alcott, ''Jo's Boys'' goes into great detail about how wonderful Amy and Laurie's wedded bliss has been, including expounding at length on their perfect daughter. ''Little Men'' has an entire chapter about how angelic Bess is and what a good influence she is on the boys, who for some reason are all desperate to impress a four-year-old.

* The poet and classical scholar Creator/AEHousman brilliantly '''parodied''' translation-induced {{Narm}} in "Fragment of a Greek Tragedy":

** Not to mention this gem from the final book of the series:

** You know, saying "Stop it!" would have been much easier.

* This line from Miley Cyrus's memoir, ''Miles to Go'':

** "Jerk"? Seriously? The guy's a sociopath and a murderer who's trying to [[spoiler: rape one of your best friends]], and "Jerk" is the worst insult you can come up with?

** From the same series, we have Stannis Baratheon delivering a private eulogy for his deceased brother Renly, which is made narmish when he says something like, "I'll go to my grave thinking of my brother's peach." ItMakesSenseInContext, but even so...

** Speaking of awkward and archaic word usage, the phrase "breaking their fast" to describe characters... well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin having breakfast]]. Can't they just be described as "eating?"

* The ''Literature/CircleOfMagic'' books have many scenes where some mean adult insinuates that the kids aren't awesome in every way and they then prove their skills in a way that renders the adult reeling and speechless. There are so many of these scenes that they collectively become Narmy, and some of them are cheesy. The worst is that one in ''Will of the Empress'' when Briar fights the nobleman.

* ''She Said Yes''. The whole book is riddled with hindsight-based "insight" from the subject's parents (the book's authors) about [[FauxSymbolism how every little thing she did was part of an elaborate path towards the end of her life]], repeatedly describing in [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotDidactic overblown]] verbosity the girl's "[[FelonyMisdemeanor shocking]]" lifestyle, which almost any other parent or teenager--or anyone who's seen stories about truly shocking teenage behavior--would recognize as normal adolescence. The only '''real''' gravitas comes from [[ForegoneConclusion knowing the ending in advance]] (it's the biography of a girl who died in the Columbine High School shootings).
** It's worth noting that [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassie_Bernall Cassie Bernall]] ''[[BeamMeUpScotty wasn't]]'' the one who said yes according to the official investigation...

* In ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', there is the moment later Dracula attacks Mina. This scene reads like attempted rape but is brought down by four factors: 1) that Harker is unconscious in the corner with a red face and the description of him sounds as if he's drunk; 2) when the men break the door down Van Helsing goes flying across the floor; and 3) Dr Seward completely kills the moment when he likens the scene in his narration to "a child forcing a kitten's nose into a saucer of milk to compel it to drink." Way to kill the mood, Seward.

** "Literature/TheRatsInTheWalls". The story itself is as eerie and, well, Lovecraftian as any; but it seems like every other paragraph has the main character talking about his beloved cat Niggerman.
*** It should be noted that Lovecraft actually had a cat with that name at the time of that story's writing. Yeah...

** That degree of racism was considered ridiculous and unpleasant even at the time. Besides, the point being made is not that Lovecraft's racism discredits his whole work, but merely that it makes certain scenes lose their impact to the modern reader because of the laughter/fury/FlatWhat factor it causes.

*** Scholars at Miskatonic generally assume that his Arabic name (or alias, more likely) was عبدالله الحظرد ''‘Abd Allah al-Ḥaẓred'' 'servant of God the Prohibited', which would normally be anglicized as ''Abdullah al-Hazred''. (In real life, ''al-Hazred'' is an exoticized version of the surname of some of Lovecraft’s ancestors, Hazard).

* [[http://community.livejournal.com/batman_lulz/710811.html This]] Franchise/{{Batman}} children's book is chock-full of narmy goodness. Highlights include the line 'Batman! This is no time for dessert!' and the Joker stealing a kid's bicycle and riding around on it.mics.
* The ''Literature/AlexRider'' novel ''Point Blank.'' The villain's plot is called Project Gemini. There was a famous RealLife space program called Project Gemini back in the 1960s. So, this novel has lines like these:

** ItMakesSenseInContext, but even then it sounds ridiculous.
* Stephen King's ''Literature/{{It}}'' -- specifically, that scene at the very end of the book. You know the one. The one where 12-year-old Beverly has to help her six 12-year-old friends escape the sewers. Her method, and why it is Narm, is perhaps best left unexplained...[[note]]They [[spoiler:have sex]][[/note]].
** [[spoiler:It was meant as a growing-up ritual. Apparently, defeating an EldritchAbomination doesn't count.]]

** The screams of laughter from the readers reached the novel, which then exploded.
* Mariel in ''Mariel of Redwall'' is the High Queen of Mood Swings. After a mean old squirrel refuses to travel with her:

** Not to mention the line "Sports, playing... what's all that mean?" You've got ''amnesia'', woman, you didn't just crawl out from under a rock! Then there's Treerose and her obsession with being an AttentionWhore until she [[CharacterDevelopment grows up a bit.]]

* "[[Series/TheOReillyFactor You wanted a house by the ocean. Well, the ocean can cut both ways!]]"
** Don't worry about it. Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. Amen.

* Literature/SisterhoodSeries by Creator/FernMichaels: This popped up a few times. For instance, some of the conversations between Jack and Harry fall victim to this because Jack called Harry "you big silly!" A number of reviewers reported having laughed at lines like that, because they know for a fact that men do not talk to each other like that in RealLife.
** In addition, the series is heavy on {{Melodrama}}, which has led to {{Narm}} a few times. For example, Kathryn's rant about how the law works for the criminal in ''Fast Track'' is hard to take seriously, because they are in the U.S.A., and the law is certainly not supposed to work for the criminal there!

** On the other hand, the whole 3000-year history of the Greek nation suggests that fully macho males don't hesitate to cry over things that make them sad or otherwise move them emotionally, like great poetry.

* In the eponymous first book of ''Literature/LeftBehind'', the series' [[TheAntichrist Antichrist]] figure makes a speech to the UsefulNotes/UnitedNations that we are [[ShowDontTell explicitly told]] is "powerful" and "moving," enough for the delegates to stand up cheering and to put humanity under his spell for his New World Order. The speech, however, reads like a schoolchild giving a class report on the UN, during which he lists every member state of the United Nations in alphabetical order... [[MundaneMadeAwesome dramatically]]. The Slacktivist, [[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2007/01/19/lb-boutros-boutros-carpathia-2/ critiquing this scene]] in his blog, challenges the reader to do this without laughing.
** Arguably, the point of the scene is to show that the Antichrist is using mind control on those listening, so that they applaud something any normal person ''would'' laugh at. The problem is that even if this were true, the text ''still'' gives the impression the authors meant the speech to be a good one. When a blog commenter[[labelnote:who?]]Calum Cameron in the Slacktivist link above[[/labelnote]] can write a more convincing version off the top of their head, you know something's gone wrong.

* The white, rose-scented lizard mutts that hiss "Katniss" made the sewer chase in ''[[Literature/TheHungerGames Mockingjay]]'' a little hard to take seriously, due to such creations being so [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill over-the-top]] and [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim highly]] [[ComplexityAddiction impractical.]]

*** Also "morphling." It doesn't even make sense to use it for both the drug and the addict.

* The ''Literature/WingsOfFire'' series, unfortunately, has protagonists the ([[XenoFiction equivalent]]) age of young children, which means that any serious feeling [[TheChosenOne the]] [[CivilWar plot]] generates is evaporated when you hear how ridiculously they talk and think. It goes right through 'ironic sarcasm' to 'seriously annoying.'

** Queen. Moorhen. It has a character named ''Queen Moorhen'' in it! And no, this is not an insulting nickname or an alias- it's her actual name, and everyone talks about her so seriously, no one ever points out how stupid it is for a ''dragon'' to be named ''Moorhen.'' And it means you get narration like this.

--> '''John:''' ''Her toothbrush!'' Joy! ''Joooy!'' The sledgehammer of stark realization finally smashed into me. I’D [[spoiler:KILLED]] JOY! \

** [[http://impishidea.com/spork/war-and-democide-never-again-spork-part-36-final O bathos, thy name is Rudolph Rummel!]]
** Also, the author's insistence on using [[PerfectlyCromulentWord his own coinage]] "democide" to describe what his heroes want to prevent, instead of "genocide" or even the generic term "crimes against humanity", can be considered Narm in and of itself.
*** ''Democide''' is a technical term of political science coined by R.J. Rummel to cover mass killings, including those performed on one's own people (which by definition cannot be genocide), like Stalin's purges and Mao's Great Leap Forward (democide by mass starvation).

* In ''Keys to the Repository'', by Melissa Cruz, the protagonist's {{Wangst}} about being fostered is just a ''bit'' hard to take seriously. (It's a valid point, sure, but the narration makes it sound like the worst thing in the world!)

** Carrie lived a very sheltered life...

** [[Literature/TheInfernalDevices The prequel trilogy]] sometimes goes a little overboard describing how [[TallDarkAndSnarky totally sexy and witty]] Will is. Apparently his eyes are the [[PurpleProse specific blue of the sky in Hell]]. Um... okay?

** There is actually a Creator/RexStout novella called "Eeny Meeny Murder Mo".

* The amount of {{Narm}} in ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' can depend heavily on your political background, but some of it is pretty undeniable. If you're inclined to see it as such, however, it's heavy throughout the whole series (even his ''dedication page'' in [[http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php?showtopic=10558&st=80&p=387035&#entry387035 the first book]]). The one thing everyone can agree on is that the evil chicken that cackled was hilarious. The collection of Narms can be found [[http://sandstormreviews.blogspot.com/2006/08/goodkind-parodies.html here]].

* The amount of {{Narm}} in ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' depends on your political background (if you're a liberal, his ''dedication page'' in [[http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php?showtopic=10558&st=80&p=387035&#entry387035 one book]] is a narm). The one thing everyone can agree on is that the evil chicken that cackled was hilarious. The collection of Narms can be found [[http://sandstormreviews.blogspot.com/2006/08/goodkind-parodies.html here]].
** Most of those make a '''lot''' [[ItMakesSenseInContext more sense in context,]] and a few are either false or worded to be deliberately misleading. But the "chicken that is not a chicken," the stupidly long speeches, and the flip-flopping about whether he can eat meat are indisputably Narm.

** The evil chicken scene is so narmy that many readers initially believed it was ''intentional'' parody. Until Kahlan is face to face with it and then you realize that no, Goodkind genuinely thought he was writing something scary.
** The {{Narm}} on that dedication page is still {{Narm}} even to many [[BeamMeUpScotty gun and religion clinging]] Conservatives.

* Rush Limbaugh now has a series of books out for children. [[http://www.rushrevere.com Yes, really]] -- it's about an AuthorAvatar named Rush Revere, who goes back in time to show kids how wonderfully exceptional American historical figures were (instead of, you know, just regular people). Besides the hilarious premise, the over-the-top dialogue and Rush's face (with only one facial expression, no matter what the situation) photoshopped onto a cartoony figure turn these books into a perfect trifecta of {{Narm}}.

* The Contemporary English Version (of Literature/TheBible)'s translation of [[Literature/TheFourGospels Mark 5:9]] (often translated as "My name is [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Legion]], for we are many") takes that verse turns it from chilling to silly. How does this edition render the demon's boast? "My name is [[FailOSuckyName Lots]], because there are lots of demons in me."

* In the Tu Fu poem ''Visiting Tsan'', the narrator walks sadly through "manured fields", crying. Manure is literally cow poo.
* ''Tales of Muscle and Blood'' describes a soldier's corpse:
-->''...his large cock thick yet lifeless as it lay resting against his body, never again to pleasure or be pleasured.''
* While listing any specific parts in ''Literature/TheBible'' here is just [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment asking for trouble]], it's hard to argue that many re-translations for modern audiences (as in, aside from the classic KJV and updated NIV) aren't filled with incredibly awkward and silly attempts to give the book a more "casual" tone. For instance, the possessed man's response to Jesus in Mark 5:9 ("My name is [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Legion]], for we are many") sounds quite chilling in older translations, and even a little bit badass. How does one contemporary edition render this? "My name is [[FailOSuckyName Lots]], because there are lots of demons in me."

* While listing any specific parts in ''Literature/TheBible'' here is just [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment asking for trouble]], it's hard to argue that many re-translations for modern audiences (as in, aside from the classic KJV and updated NIV) are filled with incredibly awkward and silly attempts to give the book a more "casual" tone. For instance, the possessed man's response to Jesus in Mark 5:9 ("My name is Legion, for we are many") sounds quite chilling in older translations. How does one contemporary edition render this? "My name is [[FailOSuckyName Lots]], because there are lots of demons in me."

-->So what? Schuyler thought, running a hairbrush through her dark hair before pulling it back into a ponytail. So what if [[BigManOnCampus he'd]] given her a book and key? She was still miserable. She was still living with ''[[TheBeautifulElite them]]'' and not her grandfather. Ever since she'd arrived, she had been made to feel as welcome as JaneEyre at Gateshead with her rich cousins. She was lucky [[AlphaBitch Mimi]] hadn't locked her in the closet yet.

* The death of Anji's boyfriend Dave in the Series/DoctorWho Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures novel ''Escape Velocity'', a lousy installment in an otherwise [[GushingAboutShowsYouLike great series]]:

** The high priest of Helgrind resembles a certain [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Black Knight]]. It's a miracle that he didn't shout, "It's just a flesh wound!"