Line #9 Literature/ColdCereal


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3	What happens when you mix a bunch of kids, a bigfoot, a leprechaun, a pooka, a unicat, a fire-breathing bird, a pixie prince, a tiny Queen of England, a magical version of Britain, two goblins, a ghost, a movie star, a time-traveling Merlin with a robotic owl, a giant pink dragon, a secret cult, and an evil cereal company with plans to take over the world? You get ''Cold Cereal'' by Adam Rex, author of ''Literature/TheTrueMeaningOfSmekday'' and the ''Literature/FrankensteinMakesASandwich'' series. In this book, kids Scott, Emily, Erno, and Polly, movie star John Doe, sasquatch Biggs, leprechaun Mick, pooka Harvey, ghost Haskoll, time-traveller Merle Lynn, and a whole lot more go up against the aforementioned evil cereal company. HilarityEnsues.
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6	!!''Cold Cereal'' provides examples of:
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8	* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Excalibur (to be fair, it ''is'' magical). Also, the sword that John uses to pierce the skin of an ''ogre''!
9	* AlwaysABiggerFish: A literal example. Prince Fi escapes being eaten by a fish, only to be eaten by an even bigger fish.
10	* AndIMustScream: Prince Fi, after he is frozen from going through the Rift.
11	* BigBad: Nimue, The Lady of The Lake, [[spoiler: up until the ''very'' end]].
12	* BlandNameProduct: The Goodco Cereals.
13	** Puffties for Rice Krispies, and the Puffties Pixies (Chip, Sparkle, and Pip) for Snap, Crackle, and Pop.
14	** [=KoKo Lumps=] for Coco Puffs, and Kookie the Coconut Vampire for Sonny.
15	** Burlap Crisp for Lucky Charms, and Clover the Leprechaun for Lucky.
16	** Honey-Frosted Snox for both Trix and Honey-Nut Cheerios, and The Snox Rabbit for The Trix Rabbit.
17	** Peanut-Butter Clobbers for Reese's Puffs, and The Peanut Butter Queen for whoever the Reese's Puffs mascot would be if they had one.
18	** Goodco itself for major cereal companies like General Mills.
19	** The Freeman for the Freemasons [[spoiler: (of course, the Freeman ''are'' evil, while the Freemasons are not generally known to be...]]
20	** The only mentioned Goodco cereal ''without'' an obvious counterpart is probably Agent [=SuperCar=].
21	* BluffTheImpostor: Inverted; the impostor queen suspects John of ''not'' being an impostor, so she tricks him into revealing it.
22	* BoundAndGagged: The goblins Pigg and Poke, after Emily ties them up.
23	* TheCameo: Queen Elizabeth and Prince William (actually, Queen Elizabeth is more of a major character than a cameo).
24	* TheCavalry: The rest of the team showing up in a poppadom truck when John, Fi, and Mickey need to escape from a very angry ogre (see AbsurdlySharpBlade, above).
25	* ChekhovsGun: The four-leaf clover that Mick gives Emily.
26	* ChekhovsGunman: The adder in the basement of the house with the Rift in it.
27	* TheDayOfReckoning: The day when Nimue and the Goodco workers use a whale to bring the dragon Saxbriton into Antarctica.
28	* TheDragon: A literal dragon, Saxbriton, is this to Nimue.
29	* TheHero: Scott, Emily, Erno, Polly... Basically every main character that is not a villian has their moments of this.
30	* LampshadeHanging: Ghost! Haskoll saying that he doesn't like stories with too many characters (see below).
31	* {{Mooks}}: The Goodco Workers for Nimue, and the Hairy Men for Morgan le Fay.
32	* ShoutOut: Nutella is mentioned in the second book.

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