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* CaptainObviousReveal: Let's face it, once you get a few pages into ''A Night in Terror Tower'' and read that [[spoiler: the vanished prince and princess were named Edward and Susannah]], it's almost ''painfully'' obvious that [[spoiler: they're the protagonists Eddie and Sue]]. The TV series subverts this by simply mentioning a prince and princess, and not revealing their names until [[spoiler: Eddie and Sue find out they are them]].
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* CaptainObviousReveal: Let's face it, once you get a few pages into ''A Night in Terror Tower'' and read that [[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the vanished prince and princess were named Edward and Susannah]], it's almost ''painfully'' obvious that [[spoiler: they're [[spoiler:they're the protagonists Eddie and Sue]]. The TV series subverts this by simply mentioning a prince and princess, and not revealing their names until [[spoiler: Eddie [[spoiler:Eddie and Sue find out they are them]].
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** There’s also an UglyAmericanStereotype, a woman with a heavy Southern accent who gets upset at Eddie and Sue for talking to the hotel clerk for too long. Followed by a twangy instrumental rendition of “Oh say, can you see…”.
* GeniusBonus: ''A Night in Terror Tower'' for buffs of English history; the story is obviously inspired by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princes_in_the_Tower The Princes in the Tower]] - in which the nephews of Richard III were first imprisoned in the Tower of London after the deaths of their parents, declared illegitimate to allow Richard to ascend the throne and disappeared without a trace. It was commonly assumed Richard had them murdered to secure his reign, but there are of course theories that they may have escaped. [[spoiler: Morgred sending them to the future with new identities would account for their disappearance from historical record]]. In real life, one of the princes was indeed named Edward, and they were 'of York'.
* ParanoiaFuel: You're on holiday in a strange country and suddenly your hotel room is empty, you have no money, your parents are nowhere to be found and you can't even remember your last name. If it weren't for the [[spoiler: time travel plot]], it's easily applicable to someone suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's.
* GeniusBonus: ''A Night in Terror Tower'' for buffs of English history; the story is obviously inspired by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princes_in_the_Tower The Princes in the Tower]] - in which the nephews of Richard III were first imprisoned in the Tower of London after the deaths of their parents, declared illegitimate to allow Richard to ascend the throne and disappeared without a trace. It was commonly assumed Richard had them murdered to secure his reign, but there are of course theories that they may have escaped. [[spoiler: Morgred sending them to the future with new identities would account for their disappearance from historical record]]. In real life, one of the princes was indeed named Edward, and they were 'of York'.
* ParanoiaFuel: You're on holiday in a strange country and suddenly your hotel room is empty, you have no money, your parents are nowhere to be found and you can't even remember your last name. If it weren't for the [[spoiler: time travel plot]], it's easily applicable to someone suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's.
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* GeniusBonus: ''A Night in Terror Tower'' for buffs of English history; the story is obviously inspired by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princes_in_the_Tower The Princes in the Tower]] - in which the nephews of Richard III were first imprisoned in the Tower of London after the deaths of their parents, declared illegitimate to allow Richard to ascend the throne and disappeared without a trace. It was commonly assumed Richard had them murdered to secure his reign, but there are of course theories that they may have escaped.[[spoiler: Morgred [[spoiler:Morgred sending them to the future with new identities would account for their disappearance from historical record]]. In real life, one of the princes was indeed named Edward, and they were 'of York'.
* ParanoiaFuel: You're on holiday in a strange country and suddenly your hotel room is empty, you have no money, your parents are nowhere to be found and you can't even remember your last name. If it weren't for the[[spoiler: time [[spoiler:time travel plot]], it's easily applicable to someone suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's.
* GeniusBonus: ''A Night in Terror Tower'' for buffs of English history; the story is obviously inspired by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princes_in_the_Tower The Princes in the Tower]] - in which the nephews of Richard III were first imprisoned in the Tower of London after the deaths of their parents, declared illegitimate to allow Richard to ascend the throne and disappeared without a trace. It was commonly assumed Richard had them murdered to secure his reign, but there are of course theories that they may have escaped.
* ParanoiaFuel: You're on holiday in a strange country and suddenly your hotel room is empty, you have no money, your parents are nowhere to be found and you can't even remember your last name. If it weren't for the
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* PoorMansSubstitute: The actor who plays Mr. Starkes bears a certain resemblance to Creator/MichaelYork. Similarly, the host at the Balmoral Lounge looks a bit like Creator/TimCurry.
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* PoorMansSubstitute: The actor who plays Mr. Starkes bears a certain resemblance to Creator/MichaelYork. Similarly, the host at the Balmoral Lounge looks a bit like Creator/TimCurry.Creator/TimCurry.
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** The 2011 film ''Unknown'' is a lot like this, with Liam Neeson’s character having to figure out who he actually is (and being horrified by what he learns).
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** The 2011 film ''Unknown'' ''Film/Unknown2011'' is a lot like this, with Liam Neeson’s character having to figure out who he actually is (and being horrified by what he learns).
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** There’s also an UglyAmericanStereotype, a woman with a heavy Southern accent who gets upset at Eddie and Sue for talking to the hotel clerk for too long. Followed by a twangy instrumental rendition of “Oh say, can you see…”.
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* ParanoiaFuel: You're on holiday in a strange country and suddenly your hotel room is empty, you have no money, your parents are nowhere to be found and you can't even remember your last name. If it weren't for the [[spoiler: time travel plot]], it's easily applicable to someone suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's.
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* ParanoiaFuel: You're on holiday in a strange country and suddenly your hotel room is empty, you have no money, your parents are nowhere to be found and you can't even remember your last name. If it weren't for the [[spoiler: time travel plot]], it's easily applicable to someone suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's.Alzheimer's.
* PoorMansSubstitute: The actor who plays Mr. Starkes bears a certain resemblance to Creator/MichaelYork. Similarly, the host at the Balmoral Lounge looks a bit like Creator/TimCurry.
* PoorMansSubstitute: The actor who plays Mr. Starkes bears a certain resemblance to Creator/MichaelYork. Similarly, the host at the Balmoral Lounge looks a bit like Creator/TimCurry.
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* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: The ending. Morgred follows Eddie and Susan to the present, and redeems his past failure by adopting them as their new father.
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: It may have been offscreen, but the Lord High Executioner(a normal man) cheating Morgred (basically an Expy of Merlin) out of his time travel stones so he can chase his escaped prisoners. It really shows how [[DeterMinator ruthlessly devoted]] the guy is to his job.
* NightmareFuel: ''A Night In Terror Tower'' is one of the creepiest and most disturbing books in the series.
** Two siblings are locked in a London torture chamber and are then chased by a menacing man in black. Then, when they get back to the hotel, they discover that they have no modern currency and suddenly begin to lose their memories, even of their parents and last names. It turns out that they are actually a prince and a princess from the Middle Ages (mentioned by their tour guide earlier in the book) who were sent forward in time and given false memories for their own protection, and the man chasing them is a notorious executioner who wants their heads on a platter.
** The Executioner himself. He's a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to find his targets, even if he has to travel through time to do so. Basically, he's a medieval version of a Franchise/{{Terminator}}. Even the local wizard is terrified of him!
** The scene where the kids start to lose their memories and have flashbacks to the Middle Ages, the time period from which they came. It's every bit as freaky as in the book, and WordOfGod says it's one of the most genuinely scary scenes he ever wrote.
* ParanoiaFuel: You're on holiday in a strange country and suddenly your hotel room is empty, you have no money, your parents are nowhere to be found and you can't even remember your last name. If it weren't for the [[spoiler: time travel plot]], it's easily applicable to someone suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's.
* TearJerker: Morgred the sorcerer makes an emotional confession that he failed his king when he promised to protect the king's children, Edward and Susannah of York, from execution by their usurperous uncle. The High Executioner caught him before he could rescue them. Especially in the TV adaptation, where he nearly breaks down in tears when he tells them the truth.
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: It may have been offscreen, but the Lord High Executioner(a normal man) cheating Morgred (basically an Expy of Merlin) out of his time travel stones so he can chase his escaped prisoners. It really shows how [[DeterMinator ruthlessly devoted]] the guy is to his job.
* NightmareFuel: ''A Night In Terror Tower'' is one of the creepiest and most disturbing books in the series.
** Two siblings are locked in a London torture chamber and are then chased by a menacing man in black. Then, when they get back to the hotel, they discover that they have no modern currency and suddenly begin to lose their memories, even of their parents and last names. It turns out that they are actually a prince and a princess from the Middle Ages (mentioned by their tour guide earlier in the book) who were sent forward in time and given false memories for their own protection, and the man chasing them is a notorious executioner who wants their heads on a platter.
** The Executioner himself. He's a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to find his targets, even if he has to travel through time to do so. Basically, he's a medieval version of a Franchise/{{Terminator}}. Even the local wizard is terrified of him!
** The scene where the kids start to lose their memories and have flashbacks to the Middle Ages, the time period from which they came. It's every bit as freaky as in the book, and WordOfGod says it's one of the most genuinely scary scenes he ever wrote.
* ParanoiaFuel: You're on holiday in a strange country and suddenly your hotel room is empty, you have no money, your parents are nowhere to be found and you can't even remember your last name. If it weren't for the [[spoiler: time travel plot]], it's easily applicable to someone suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's.
* TearJerker: Morgred the sorcerer makes an emotional confession that he failed his king when he promised to protect the king's children, Edward and Susannah of York, from execution by their usurperous uncle. The High Executioner caught him before he could rescue them. Especially in the TV adaptation, where he nearly breaks down in tears when he tells them the truth.
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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: It may have been offscreen, but the Lord High Executioner(a normal man) cheating Morgred (basically an Expy of Merlin) out of his time travel stones so he can chase his escaped prisoners. It really shows how [[DeterMinator ruthlessly devoted]] the guy is to his job.
* NightmareFuel: ''A Night In Terror Tower'' is one of the creepiest and most disturbing books in the series.
** Two siblings are locked in a London torture chamber and are then chased by a menacing man in black. Then, when they get back to the hotel, they discover that they have no modern currency and suddenly begin to lose their memories, even of their parents and last names. It turns out that they are actually a prince and a princess from the Middle Ages (mentioned by their tour guide earlier in the book) who were sent forward in time and given false memories for their own protection, and the man chasing them is a notorious executioner who wants their heads on a platter.
** The Executioner himself. He's a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to find his targets, even if he has to travel through time to do so. Basically, he's a medieval version of a Franchise/{{Terminator}}. Even the local wizard is terrified of him!
** The scene where the kids start to lose their memories and have flashbacks to the Middle Ages, the time period from which they came. It's every bit as freaky as in the book, and WordOfGod says it's one of the most genuinely scary scenes he ever wrote.
* TearJerker: Morgred the sorcerer makes an emotional confession that he failed his king when he promised to protect the king's children, Edward and Susannah of York, from execution by their usurperous uncle. The High Executioner caught him before he could rescue them. Especially in the TV adaptation, where he nearly breaks down in tears when he tells them the truth.
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* CompleteMonster (includes ''[[Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps Return to Terror Tower]]''): [[EvilUncle King Robert]] usurped control of medieval York by murdering his brother and sister-in-law, whose children, Princess Susannah and Prince Edward, he then locked away in Terror Tower, the entrance of which he then cursed so that anyone who tries to enter it without a key is [[TakenForGranite turned to stone]], a fate which has befallen dozens. When a family friend tried to rescue the children, Robert had the family friend killed and condemned to haunt the royal palace as a ghost until he is deposed. Using a magic amulet, Robert proceeded to brainwash every member of the royal court into serving him, rechristening one man the [[TheDragon Lord High Executioner]]. Under his tyranny, York descends into poverty and squalor; hypnotized soldiers routinely terrorize and steal from the peasantry, and haul suspected dissidents and any man, woman and [[WouldHurtAChild child]] who is to pay his exorbitantly high taxes off to the dungeons, where they are tortured and either beheaded or left to rot, being thrown scraps once a week. Eventually deciding to eliminate Eddie and Sue, he instructs the Executioner to smother them, and when a sympathetic wizard named Morgred uses three magic stones to send the children to the future, he sends the Executioner after them, and cows Morgred into serving him by threatening him with torture and painful death. In ''Return'''s worst possible ending, he steals Morgred's magic stones, has Eddie and Sue executed, and amuses himself by forcing their cousin to dance around the throne room while avoiding blades before having them stabbed to death.
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* ParanoiaFuel: ''A Night in Terror Tower'' - you're on holiday in a strange country and suddenly your hotel room is empty, you have no money, your parents are nowhere to be found and you can't even remember your last name. If it weren't for the [[spoiler: time travel plot]], it's easily applicable to someone suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's.
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* ParanoiaFuel: SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: The ending. Morgred follows Eddie and Susan to the present, and redeems his past failure by adopting them as their new father.
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: It may have been offscreen, but the Lord High Executioner(a normal man) cheating Morgred (basically an Expy of Merlin) out of his time travel stones so he can chase his escaped prisoners. It really shows how [[DeterMinator ruthlessly devoted]] the guy is to his job.
* NightmareFuel: ''A Nightin In Terror Tower'' - you're is one of the creepiest and most disturbing books in the series.
** Two siblings are locked in a London torture chamber and are then chased by a menacing man in black. Then, when they get back to the hotel, they discover that they have no modern currency and suddenly begin to lose their memories, even of their parents and last names. It turns out that they are actually a prince and a princess from the Middle Ages (mentioned by their tour guide earlier in the book) who were sent forward in time and given false memories for their own protection, and the man chasing them is a notorious executioner who wants their heads on a platter.
** The Executioner himself. He's a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to find his targets, even if he has to travel through time to do so. Basically, he's a medieval version of a Franchise/{{Terminator}}. Even the local wizard is terrified of him!
** The scene where the kids start to lose their memories and have flashbacks to the Middle Ages, the time period from which they came. It's every bit as freaky as in the book, and WordOfGod says it's one of the most genuinely scary scenes he ever wrote.
* ParanoiaFuel: You're on holiday in a strange country and suddenly your hotel room is empty, you have no money, your parents are nowhere to be found and you can't even remember your last name. If it weren't for the [[spoiler: time travel plot]], it's easily applicable to someone suffering from dementia orAlzheimer's.Alzheimer's.
* TearJerker: Morgred the sorcerer makes an emotional confession that he failed his king when he promised to protect the king's children, Edward and Susannah of York, from execution by their usurperous uncle. The High Executioner caught him before he could rescue them. Especially in the TV adaptation, where he nearly breaks down in tears when he tells them the truth.
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: It may have been offscreen, but the Lord High Executioner(a normal man) cheating Morgred (basically an Expy of Merlin) out of his time travel stones so he can chase his escaped prisoners. It really shows how [[DeterMinator ruthlessly devoted]] the guy is to his job.
* NightmareFuel: ''A Night
** Two siblings are locked in a London torture chamber and are then chased by a menacing man in black. Then, when they get back to the hotel, they discover that they have no modern currency and suddenly begin to lose their memories, even of their parents and last names. It turns out that they are actually a prince and a princess from the Middle Ages (mentioned by their tour guide earlier in the book) who were sent forward in time and given false memories for their own protection, and the man chasing them is a notorious executioner who wants their heads on a platter.
** The Executioner himself. He's a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to find his targets, even if he has to travel through time to do so. Basically, he's a medieval version of a Franchise/{{Terminator}}. Even the local wizard is terrified of him!
** The scene where the kids start to lose their memories and have flashbacks to the Middle Ages, the time period from which they came. It's every bit as freaky as in the book, and WordOfGod says it's one of the most genuinely scary scenes he ever wrote.
* ParanoiaFuel: You're on holiday in a strange country and suddenly your hotel room is empty, you have no money, your parents are nowhere to be found and you can't even remember your last name. If it weren't for the [[spoiler: time travel plot]], it's easily applicable to someone suffering from dementia or
* TearJerker: Morgred the sorcerer makes an emotional confession that he failed his king when he promised to protect the king's children, Edward and Susannah of York, from execution by their usurperous uncle. The High Executioner caught him before he could rescue them. Especially in the TV adaptation, where he nearly breaks down in tears when he tells them the truth.
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* CaptainObviousReveal: Let's face it, once you get a few pages into ''A Night in Terror Tower'' and read that [[spoiler: the vanished prince and princess were named Edward and Susannah]], it's almost ''painfully'' obvious that [[spoiler: they're the protagonists Eddie and Sue]]. The TV series subverts this by simply mentioning a prince and princess, and not revealing their names until [[spoiler: Eddie and Sue find out they are them]].
* EthnicScrappy: The TV version has some incredibly unflattering portrayals of English people. Aside from Mordred, they're shown as pompous, snobby and ridiculously rude. They also play up the 'English people have bad teeth' stereotype alarmingly straight. Of course they all either speak in bad cockney accents or bad RP ones.
* GeniusBonus: ''A Night in Terror Tower'' for buffs of English history; the story is obviously inspired by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princes_in_the_Tower The Princes in the Tower]] - in which the nephews of Richard III were first imprisoned in the Tower of London after the deaths of their parents, declared illegitimate to allow Richard to ascend the throne and disappeared without a trace. It was commonly assumed Richard had them murdered to secure his reign, but there are of course theories that they may have escaped. [[spoiler: Morgred sending them to the future with new identities would account for their disappearance from historical record]]. In real life, one of the princes was indeed named Edward, and they were 'of York'.
* ParanoiaFuel: ''A Night in Terror Tower'' - you're on holiday in a strange country and suddenly your hotel room is empty, you have no money, your parents are nowhere to be found and you can't even remember your last name. If it weren't for the [[spoiler: time travel plot]], it's easily applicable to someone suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's.
* EthnicScrappy: The TV version has some incredibly unflattering portrayals of English people. Aside from Mordred, they're shown as pompous, snobby and ridiculously rude. They also play up the 'English people have bad teeth' stereotype alarmingly straight. Of course they all either speak in bad cockney accents or bad RP ones.
* GeniusBonus: ''A Night in Terror Tower'' for buffs of English history; the story is obviously inspired by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princes_in_the_Tower The Princes in the Tower]] - in which the nephews of Richard III were first imprisoned in the Tower of London after the deaths of their parents, declared illegitimate to allow Richard to ascend the throne and disappeared without a trace. It was commonly assumed Richard had them murdered to secure his reign, but there are of course theories that they may have escaped. [[spoiler: Morgred sending them to the future with new identities would account for their disappearance from historical record]]. In real life, one of the princes was indeed named Edward, and they were 'of York'.
* ParanoiaFuel: ''A Night in Terror Tower'' - you're on holiday in a strange country and suddenly your hotel room is empty, you have no money, your parents are nowhere to be found and you can't even remember your last name. If it weren't for the [[spoiler: time travel plot]], it's easily applicable to someone suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's.
