Line #17 Literature/EmilyTheStrangeStrangerAndStranger


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3	Emily, the genius goth girl is back.
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5	This time, after an accident in her lab, she duplicates herself, leaving two Emilys and a lot of chaos. The questions, though, who is the real Emily? Or are they both real? Why won't the cats hang around either one any more? Is one of them evil and trying to kill the other? Emily, and Emily, find out these questions.
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7	Written by Rob Reger and Buzz Parker, this book expands on the Emily the Strange comics and is a sequel to ''Literature/EmilyTheStrangeTheLostDays''.
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10	!!This story provides examples of:
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12	* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: A new, unused part of the sewer had walls up to about twelve feet high.
13	* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: To the black Jackal spider
14	* BookEnds: At the beginning, Emily is packing or rather procrastinating in lieu of packing. She does this at the end.
15	* BrokenAesop: Somewhat subverted. Despite all the trouble caused by her duplication device, she still wants to get it working again, though this time with better safeguards.
16	* CallBack: Emily finds more uses for the liquid black rock from the previous book. Raven is still with Emily.
17	* CanNotTellALie: A side effect of the duplication for Emily
18	* ContinuityNod: Emily realizes she lost the ability to calculate terminal velocity. In the previous book, Jakey told her that she was probably the only person in town who did know it.
19	* {{Doppelganger}}: The point of the book. Emily accidentally duplicated herself.
20	* EpistolaryNovel: Emily writes a diary at first instead of packing.
21	* EvilTwin: While not twins per se, one of the duplicate Emilies turns out to be very, very evil.
22	* FunetikAksent: As Emily is writing the story, she makes fun of Venus Fang Fang for her accent by writing exactly what she heard. She has a lot of fun when VFF says "enema" for enemy.
23	* AGoodNameForARockBand: Emily comments that a number of phrases she used would be good names for bands such as Sewer Mural and Dark Artifact.
24	* MacGyvering: very capable. She even explains it:
25	--> I accidentally duplicated myself using a device I built from items I found in a junk store dumpster
26	* MysteriousAnimalSenses: Emily's four cats stop hanging out with her after her duplication. [[spoiler: Since her personality was split, the cats didn't recognize either Emily.]]
27	* NoodleIncident: Some of the things Emily (the one who is writing the diary) didn't know about herself. Especially why the phrase "nothing but a thin broth" is so funny.
28	* OtherMeAnnoysMe: They even call each other 'Other Me' and they definitely annoy each other. Eventually becomes [[spoiler: EvilMeScaresMe]]
29	* RhymingNames: Binary Larry and Hex Lex.
30	* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: An interesting variant. To determine which Emily is the right one, a game of Emily Jeopardy was created to determine who was the real Emily. The two Emilys came up with questions for the other.
31	* SpeaksInBinary: Binary Larry, appropriately. He encoded messages on the sewer wall using only binary language. Emily also speaks the same binary language as she starts to translate it.
32	** Beyond Binary with Hex Lex, a referred-to character who chisels code in the sidewalk in hexadecimal (base 16).
33	* SpotTheImposter: The point of the book, except the two Emilys are trying to determine which one is the real one.
34	* SpySchool: Not an official school, but Venus Fang Fang agrees to train Emily in covert operations.
35	* TeenGenius: Emily created a duplicating device! She is even called out on this trope, particularly when she outsmarts Venus Fang Fang's backyard alarm system.
36	* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Inverted. Thirteen is Emily's favorite number.
37	* TomatoInTheMirror: After losing the Emily Jeopardy, Emily discovers that she may be the clone Emily, not the real one.
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