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8	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/green_knights_squire.png]]
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10	''Moth and Cobweb'' is a book series by Creator/JohnCWright, projected to consist of four trilogies, revolving about the magical families of Moth and Cobweb.
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12	Works thus far:
13	* ''Green Knight's Squire'' (complete and released as an omnibus)
14	** ''Swan Knight's Son''
15	** ''Feast of the Elfs''
16	** ''Swan Knight's Sword''
17	* ''Dark Avenger’s Sidekick ''
18	** ''Daughter of Danger''
19	** ''City of Corpses''
20	** ''Tithe to Tartarus''
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23	!!Tropes in ''Green Night's Squire'' include:
24	* ApothecaryAlligator: The witch of Bertolac's castle has one hanging in her tower. It's ''mate'' helps Gil and Foxglove escape when they ask.
25	* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Foxglove crushes on Gil simply because he's polite to her.
26	%%* BlueBlood: Of vast importance to the "elfs". It can even trump marrying a human.
27	* CelestialDeadline: Gil is unfamiliar with such concepts as Ember Days. It doesn't help him because that calendar is highly significant.
28	%%* ChangelingTale: Gil foils one. And is arrested.
29	* CrossoverCosmology: Stuff everywhere from Myth/NorseMythology to ''Literature/TheManWhoWasThursday''.
30	* DamselInDistress: Foxglove, a witch's apprentice whom Gil returns to the mortal world. Gil even cites that she's a damsel and in distress to justify his acts.
31	* DudeInDistress: Gil, when he loses the fight at the bridge and is knocked into the water. Ruff uses the term when discussing how Nerea rescues him.
32	* ExactWords: Par for the course when dealing with TheFairFolk.
33	** When Gil asks at a feast that Ruff do something for him, Sheila Mc Guire is told to allow it. She makes the mistake of telling him to do what Gil says. Ruff immediately says, "Now and forever!" freeing himself from her.
34	* TheFairFolk: The "elfs" are extremely nasty.
35	%%* FantasticFoxes: Ruff invokes this trope saying that he's not clever like a fox.
36	* HalfHumanHybrid: Many. Including a discussion of how loose the term "species" gets when applied to those who are only loosely bound by the laws of nature.
37	%%* KingInTheMountain: Arthur sleeps.
38	* KissingCousins: Gil's LoveInterest is his cousin Nerea, though (as Ruff is careful to point out) she is his second cousin once removed.
39	** Ygraine is able to annul her marriage to Alain le Gros, as he is technically her nephew.
40	%%* KnightErrant: Gil tells Ruff he is this.
41	* KnightInShiningArmor: Invoked and examined. Chivalry is expected of all knights. Virtue...not so much. Gil, however, does his best.
42	* TheLadysFavor: Nerea gives Gil (via Ruff) a lock of her hair. It protects him from the sylphs at Knockers.
43	* LeaveYourQuestTest: Gil faces several, including being in prison and realizing that unless he left the next day he would be utterly unable to make it; his mother's forbidding it; Nerea's trying to talk him out of it (though Gil does manage to persuade her that as the lady of KnightErrant, it's her duty to encourage him); a man telling him it was tantamount to suicide and so a sin; and more.
44	* LifesavingMisfortune: Downplayed but serious. When a cop arrests Gil for saving the baby from the fae, he is preventing him from babbling about all sorts of magical things, which might put him or anyone who listens to him in the madhouse.
45	* LiminalBeing: The Moths and Cobwebs are part human, part fae. They are known as the Twilight People as a consequence, and fall between worlds in many ways.
46	* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: False accusations are made about the paternity of [[spoiler:Gil]].
47	* TheNoseKnows: Ruff, being a [[spoiler: elf]] dog, can use scents to find things that are not exactly...logical. He also cites the trope by name.
48	* ObliviousToLove: Ruff laughs at Gil for not realizing what it means when a young woman comes to watch him at his training, day after day.
49	* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Nerea's only part mermaid and so needs things like goggles for swimming underwater.
50	* ThePromise: Giving an oath is SeriousBusiness. Gil is able to LogicBomb his mother at one point by pointing out that it would be impossible to swear an oath that he will break a different oath.
51	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Within their own BlueAndOrangeMorality framework, Alberec and the Erlkoenig are both willing to hear Gil out when he speaks, instruct their minions to treat fairly with him, and give him credit when he fights gallantly.
52	* RescueRomance: Ygraine and the first Swan Knight: she was kidnapped and held hostage by the Woolly Man to weave her hair into a protective cloak for him. When her husband and sons failed to come for her, the Swan Knight did.
53	* RiddleMeThis: Gil's mother is known as Ygraine of the Riddles. She is extremely learned and doesn't lie, and uses riddles and double meanings to get around people.
54	* ShapeshiftingLover: Gil's mother is a swan maiden.
55	* TalkingAnimal: Almost all animals can speak, though only certain people, such as Gil and his mother, can hear them without magical aid. At one point, Gil speaks to and convinces a spider to help him escape jail.
56	* TheTourney:
57	** This is formally staged so that Winter and Spring can have out their issues.
58	** In the BackStory, Ygrainne had persuaded the knights to indulge in this instead of GladiatorGames, as it was more fitting.
59	* TwitchyEye: In ''Feast'', the Steward develops one after having to deal with Gil for an evening.
60	* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: The narrative cuts away from Gil and [[spoiler: Sir Bertolac]] when the subject of defeating Guynglaff comes up.
61	* WigDressAccent: The Green Knight covers his face with a false nose made of bronze...and sunglasses.
62	* WillNotTellALie: Ygraine and by extension Gil.
63	* TheWorldTree: Invoked by Ruff to explain that another tree is greater.
64	* WorthyOpponent: Alberec smiles when he is outwitted [[spoiler: by Ygraine.]]
65	* YourMother: played for dramatic irony when the insult is aimed at Gil by his ''half brother.''
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67	!! Tropes in ''Dark Avenger's Sidekick'' include
68	* BondVillainStupidity: In ''City of Corpses'', this is averted: after Malen Rudgoch Ren reveals a large chunk of plot to the disguised Yumiko, she then immediately [[spoiler: wipes her memory of it.]]--while taking a moment to gloat that, no, she is ''not'' that stupid.
69	* CaptainErsatz: Criminals live in fear of a ferocious vigilante known as "Winged Vengeance."
70	* CurbStompBattle: Gil versus the werewolves. He's armored and mounted, they aren't. The most they do is slow him down.
71	* DramaticIrony: Yumiko criticizes "that science fiction movie" where the hero is an idiot and the heroine does everything...not realizing that she's in the same situation. (minus the hero being an idiot.)
72	* EmbarrassingNickname: "Yummy Cutie." Yumiko's immediate reaction to hearing this is disbelief, followed by NeverSayThatAgain.
73	* ExplainExplainOhCrap: An enemy has caught Yumiko and spends several paragraphs gloating over the fact before realizing that she still has leverage over him.
74	* GeniusDitz: Elfine, who barely knows how to navigate human society, but can still make accurate observations and deductions about another Twilighter.
75	* GrapplingHookPistol: known as a wirepoon and used most effectively along with an antigravity ring.
76	* FailureHero: Yumiko. Lampshaded by Elfine:
77	--> "Just because you have failed at everything you've done so far doesn't mean you're going to lose!"
78	* HyperspaceArsenal: literally. Yumiko's weapons collapse and fold into themselves and can be hidden in the mist, unobservable to human eyes.
79	* IKnowYourTrueName: used on the nightclub's ''lares'' househob to force him to cooperate.
80	* OfCorsetsSexy: The Peach Cobbler Girls.
81	* NotDistractedByTheSexy: Gil and Matthias resolutely don't look down Yumiko's cleavage while she's wearing the abovementioned corset.
82	* PragmaticHero: Yumiko has absolutely no compunctions about cutting the throats of downed enemies...it prevents them from getting back up again.
83	* RingOfPower: Yumiko has a ring that can turn invisible, turn ''her'' invisible, make her visible in a different spectrum of reality, emit light, or alter gravity. It's shown to be one of the Thirteen Treasures, on par with Gil's FlamingSword from the previous trilogy.
84	* ScienceHero: Tom Moth. Cousin of [[Literature/TomSwift Appleton]] Moth. He invents gadgets. And has adventures.
85	* SueDonym: Ami Nesia, and Sorry Yunomi (a mispronunciation of Sayori Yanomi, itself a historical pseudonym).
86	* TheGogglesDoNothing: Averted, although Yumiko doesn't remember how to use them at first.
87	* TerrorHero: Winged Vengeance, naturally.
88	* TitleDrop: "Dark Avenger's Sidekick" and "city of corpses."
89	* UtilityBelt: Yumiko has one, complete with GrapplingHookPistol (very useful for someone who can alter gravity).
90	* WaifFu: Yumiko is a trained and deadly hand-to-hand combatant....who also happens to be five foot two and weighs less than one hundred pounds. Force multipliers are required, and she either fights [[CombatPragmatist dirty]] or uses ranged weapons.
91	* WaitHere: Gil attempts to tell Yumiko and Elfine to wait out Tom's rescue. Yumiko sweetly tells him he's an absolute idiot.
92	* WrongGenreSavvy: Elfine all but namedrops the trope, while pointing out that she has experience dealing with the fae normally, but not in solving crimes or vigilante murders.
93	* YouWakeUpInARoom: Book 1 begins with an amnesiac girl waking up in a hospital bed.

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