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* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: New-timers just recently starting the series won't find the change from fantasy to sci-fi too jarring, but many of the older fans are used to--and pulled in by--the fantasy genre and now that Kazu is changing it, many are not too happy.
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* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: New-timers just recently starting the series won't find the change from fantasy to sci-fi too jarring, but many of the older fans are used to--and pulled in by--the fantasy genre and are unhappy now that Kazu is changing it, many are not too happy.it.
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* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: New-timers just recently starting the series won't find the change from fantasy to sci-fi too jarring, but many of the older fans are used to--and pulled in--by the in by--the fantasy genre and now that Kazu is changing it, many are not too happy.
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* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: especially prevalent among old fans who has been on the series from the start or invested for years. To a new-timer just recently starting the series wouldn't find the change from fantasy to sci-fi too jarring but many of the fans are used to and pulled in due to the fantasy genre and now that Kazu is changing it, a lot are not too happy.
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* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: especially prevalent among old fans who has been on the series from the start or invested for years. To a new-timer New-timers just recently starting the series wouldn't won't find the change from fantasy to sci-fi too jarring jarring, but many of the older fans are used to and to--and pulled in due to in--by the fantasy genre and now that Kazu is changing it, a lot many are not too happy.
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* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: especially prevalent among old fans who has been on the series from the start or invested for years. To a new-timer just recently starting the series wouldn't find the change from fantasy to sci-fi too jarring but many of the fans are used to and pulled in due to the fantasy genre and now that Kazu is changing it, a lot are not too happy.
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* {{Shipping}}: There's some fans of the series who ship Emily and Prince Trellis ("[[PortmanteauCoupleName Tremily]]"), ignoring that there could be a large age gap between the two, depending on [[VagueAge how old Trellis is.]]
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* {{Shipping}}: There's some fans of the series who ship Emily and Prince Trellis ("[[PortmanteauCoupleName Tremily]]"), ignoring that there could be a large age gap between the two, depending on [[VagueAge how old Tremily]]"). It helps that, although Trellis is.]]looks much older, WordOfGod has him being close to her own age at 14 (and later 16.)
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* WhatTheHellCastingAgency: [[RaceLift Willow and Jaden Smith]] were announced to play Emily and Navin for a film adaptation of the books, which appears to have halted in development.
* May be an unpopular opinion, but the popularity and the most poignant thing about the series is its AwesomeArt. But when it comes to anything else such as rounded characters or consistent plot ended up being subpar or severely underdeveloped or unoriginal. In other words, the only really good and undeniable thing about Amulet is its great art and nothing else.
* May be an unpopular opinion, but the popularity and the most poignant thing about the series is its AwesomeArt. But when it comes to anything else such as rounded characters or consistent plot ended up being subpar or severely underdeveloped or unoriginal. In other words, the only really good and undeniable thing about Amulet is its great art and nothing else.
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* May be an unpopular opinion, but the popularity and the most poignant thing about the series is its AwesomeArt. But when it comes to anything else such as rounded characters or consistent plot ended up being subpar or severely underdeveloped or unoriginal. In other words, the only really good and undeniable thing about Amulet is its great art and nothing else.development.
* May be an unpopular opinion, but the popularity and the most poignant thing about the series is its AwesomeArt. But when it comes to anything else such as rounded characters or consistent plot ended up being subpar or severely underdeveloped or unoriginal. In other words, the only really good and undeniable thing about Amulet is its great art and nothing else.
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* WhatTheHellCastingAgency: [[RaceLift Willow and Jaden Smith]] were announced to play Emily and Navin for a film adaptation of the books, which appears to have halted in development.development.
* May be an unpopular opinion, but the popularity and the most poignant thing about the series is its AwesomeArt. But when it comes to anything else such as rounded characters or consistent plot ended up being subpar or severely underdeveloped or unoriginal. In other words, the only really good and undeniable thing about Amulet is its great art and nothing else.
* May be an unpopular opinion, but the popularity and the most poignant thing about the series is its AwesomeArt. But when it comes to anything else such as rounded characters or consistent plot ended up being subpar or severely underdeveloped or unoriginal. In other words, the only really good and undeniable thing about Amulet is its great art and nothing else.
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* StoicWoobie: Trellis ever since Book 1, though the audience doesn't learn the full extent of it until later. When he was young, [[spoiler:he was scarred, mind-wiped, and enslaved to a mind-controlling parasite by his own father for finding out the truth about the Voices, and the only people who ever cared about him were either killed, like Virgil, or used against him, like Luger.]] He then grew up under a cold and clearly emotionally abusive father, during war times, and was treated like crap ''even by his own people'' by the time he became an adult. Things only get worse for him for a while after defecting from his father, until he becomes friends with Emily at least [[spoiler:until he watches her break down and lose control of her stone while he's helpless to stop it...]] and yet, Trellis has rarely ever broken down or even complained about this in any of his appearances, even after [[spoiler:regaining his memories about his youth.]]
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* StoicWoobie: Trellis ever since Book 1, though the audience doesn't learn the full extent of it until later. When he was young, [[spoiler:he was scarred, mind-wiped, and enslaved to a mind-controlling parasite by his own father for finding out the truth about the Voices, and the only people who ever cared about him were either killed, like Virgil, or used against him, like Luger.]] He then grew up under a cold and clearly emotionally abusive father, during war times, and was treated like crap ''even by his own people'' by the time he became an adult.a teenager. Things only get worse for him for a while after defecting from his father, until he becomes friends with Emily at least [[spoiler:until he watches her break down and lose control of her stone while he's helpless to stop it...]] and yet, Trellis has rarely ever broken down or even complained about this in any of his appearances, even after [[spoiler:regaining his memories about his youth.]]
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* StoicWoobie: Trellis ever since Book 1, though the audience doesn't learn the full extent of it until later. When he was young, [[spoiler:he was scarred, mind-wiped, and enslaved to a mind-controlling parasite by his own father for finding out the truth about the Voices, and the only people who ever cared about him were either killed, like Virgil, or used against him, like Luger.]] He then grew up under a cold and clearly emotionally abusive father, during war times, and was treated like crap ''even by his own people'' by the time he became an adult. Things only get worse for him for a while after defecting from his father, until he becomes friends with Emily at least [[spoiler:until he watches her break down and lose control of her stone while he's helpless to stop it...]] and yet, Trellis has rarely ever broken down or even complained about this in any of his appearances, even after [[spoiler:regaining his memories about his youth.]]
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* WhatTheHellCastingAgency: Willow and Jaden Smith have been announced to play Emily and Navn.
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* NightmareFuel: Plenty in Book 6, including such delights as [[spoiler:Chronos being crushed to death, and his guts splattering onto Max, Navin and Aly being trapped in a town full of [[BodySnatcher body snatchers]] that borders on SurvivalHorror, and Max rapidly aging to a skeleton and dying in front of the others.]]
** The very first volume had Trellis eating a live slug with a full mouth of razor sharp teeth, in a panel that made him look really creepy. It was quite a surprise after that that he turned out to be a good person.
** The entire sequence with [[spoiler:the memory of the man who indirectly killed Emily's father]] is very unnerving in how clear it is that Emily is being manipulated--and especially how, [[spoiler:in spite of everything that she said beforehand about not losing control, she gives in to the Voice shockingly easily when her longing to see her father is involved.]]
** The very first volume had Trellis eating a live slug with a full mouth of razor sharp teeth, in a panel that made him look really creepy. It was quite a surprise after that that he turned out to be a good person.
** The entire sequence with [[spoiler:the memory of the man who indirectly killed Emily's father]] is very unnerving in how clear it is that Emily is being manipulated--and especially how, [[spoiler:in spite of everything that she said beforehand about not losing control, she gives in to the Voice shockingly easily when her longing to see her father is involved.]]
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** The entire sequence with [[spoiler:the memory of the man who indirectly killed Emily's father]] is very unnerving in how clear it is that Emily is being manipulated--and especially how, [[spoiler:in spite of everything that she said beforehand about not losing control, she gives in to the Voice shockingly easily when her longing to see her father is involved.]]
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This isn't really fair to Max's dad since there's only one huge prison in Cielis.
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** Max's father has Layra's family detained. Max confronts him about it and his father carelessly gives away the location of their prison, which predictably leads to Max freeing them. It results in Layra and her family being killed alongside the crew that was stowing them away, and Max being arrested, leading to Max's StartOfDarkness.
** Max's father has Layra's family detained. Max confronts him about it and his father carelessly gives away the location of their prison, which predictably leads to Max freeing them. It results in Layra and her family being killed alongside the crew that was stowing them away, and Max being arrested, leading to Max's StartOfDarkness.
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** Max's father has Layra's family detained. Max confronts him about it and his father carelessly gives away the location of their prison, which predictably leads to Max freeing them. It results in Layra and her family being killed alongside the crew that was stowing them away, and Max being arrested, leading to Max's StartOfDarkness.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The car accident that killed David is made a lot worse when it's revealed in Book 7 that [[spoiler:the whole incident was caused by someone ''trying to commit suicide''.]]
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* UncannyValley: The physical form of the Voice in Emily's dreams. He's not that creepy usually, but when he smiles, he does so with a full mouth of teeth. It's the most defined part of his face; yhe rest of him is just a shadowy spirit figure.
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* UncannyValley: The physical form of the Voice in Emily's dreams. He's not that creepy usually, but when he smiles, he does so with a full mouth of teeth. It's the most defined part of his face; yhe the rest of him is just a shadowy spirit figure.
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* {{Shipping}}: There's some fans of the series who ship Emily and Prince Trellis ("[[PortmanteauCoupleName Tremily]]"), ignoring that there could be a large age gap between the two, depending on [[VagueAge how old Trellis is.]]
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** Similarly, Luger has a lot of similarities with Admiral Zhao of the same show, being a high ranking and ruthless general that is much older than Trellis, yet rivals him in his service to their king. After [[spoiler:he's reduced to a weak old man without his Stone, he becomes a gentle-hearted, patient Iroh character to the moody Trellis.]]
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* CounterpartComparison: Trellis shares quite a lot of similarities with [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Prince Zuko]]. He's got a noticeable scar down the left side of his face, is a prince with father issues and loner tendencies, ends up disillusioned with his own people and tries to overthrow his father, and he even has an "uncle Iroh" figure in his uncle Virgil and [[spoiler:his big brother Luger, who even beats him at board games.]] He also has a lot of tension with the female lead of the main cast that eventually turns to friendship.
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* CounterpartComparison: Trellis shares quite a lot of similarities with [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Prince Zuko]]. He's got a noticeable scar down the left side of his face, is a prince with father issues and loner tendencies, ends up disillusioned with his own people and tries to overthrow his father, and he even has an "uncle Iroh" figure in his uncle Virgil and [[spoiler:his big brother Luger, now an old man who even beats him at board games.]] He also has a lot of tension with the female lead of the main cast that eventually turns to friendship.
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* CounterpartComparison: Trellis shares quite a lot of similarities with [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Prince Zuko]]. He's got a noticeable scar down the left side of his face, is a prince with father issues and loner tendencies, ends up disillusioned with his own people and tries to overthrow his father, and he even has an "uncle Iroh" figure in his uncle Virgil and [[spoiler:his big brother Luger, who even beats him at board games.]] He also has a lot of tension with the female lead of the main cast that eventually turns to friendship.
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** The very first volume had Trellis eating a live slug with a full mouth of razor sharp teeth, in a panel that made him look very unsettling.really creepy. It was quite a surprise after that that he turned out to be a good person.
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* ClicheStorm: And it still works really well.
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* ClicheStorm: And You have the rebellious scarred prince who wishes to overthrow his father and is morally ambiguous, the Chosen One who is spoken of in a prophecy (two counts of them with both Navin and Emily,) a magical MacGuffin that is more dangerous than it seems at first, the grumpy but honest and hardworking member of the team in Cogsley, a floating city in the sky with a dark secret, and these are just a few examples. The story and art combined still works really well.manage to hold up, however.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Sybrian. After book one, we never see him or hear him mentioned again. [[spoiler: Even though, if Sybrian's species is widely used by the elves, the elves control creatures that can take over peoples' minds. Seriously, you'd think these would get mentioned again.]]
** Nnnnnevermind. His species is back in book six.
** Nnnnnevermind. His species is back in book six.
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** Nnnnnevermind. His species
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** Nnnnnevermind. His species is back in book six.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse?: WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Sybrian. After book one, we never see him or hear him mentioned again. [[spoiler: Even though, if Sybrian's species is widely used by the elves, the elves control creatures that can take over peoples' minds. Seriously, you'd think these would get mentioned again.]]
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* ColorCodedSuperiority: The Charnon amulet is the only red amulet we ever see (all others are green or blue), and of course, it belongs to the heroes.
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* ColorCodedSuperiority: LawOfChromaticSuperiority: The Charnon amulet is the only red amulet we ever see (all others are green or blue), and of course, it belongs to the heroes.
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* ColorCodedSuperiority: The Charnon amulet is the only red amulet we ever see (all others are green or blue), and of course, it belongs to the heroes.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse?: Sybrian. After book one, we never see him or hear him mentioned again. [[spoiler: Even though, if Sybrian's species is widely used by the elves, the elves control creatures that can take over peoples' minds. Seriously, you'd think these would get mentioned again.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse?: Sybrian. After book one, we never see him or hear him mentioned again. [[spoiler: Even though, if Sybrian's species is widely used by the elves, the elves control creatures that can take over peoples' minds. Seriously, you'd think these would get mentioned again.]]
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* ClicheStorm: And it still works.works.
* WhatTheHellCastingAgency?: Willow and Jaden Smith have been announced to play Emily and Navin.
* WhatTheHellCastingAgency?: Willow and Jaden Smith have been announced to play Emily and Navin.
