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10	[[caption-width-right:350:[[TagLine Some loves]] [[RedStringOfFate are meant to be]]. [[SubvertedTrope Others are]] [[{{Curse}} cursed]].]]
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12	''The Caster Chronicles'', by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, is a young adult fantasy series that began in 2009 and concluded in 2012.
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14	The book introduces Ethan Wate, a teenage boy living in Gaitlin, a small town in the southern United States. Ethan cannot wait to graduate high school and get out of what he believes to be [[NothingExcitingEverHappensHere a boring small town where nothing ever happens]]. Then he meets Lena.
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16	Lena Duchannes is a beautiful new girl with a dark secret. She is a member of a family of Casters, short for Spellcasters. Each child born into her family has special powers. Lena's family is unique among the Casters because they are cursed. Every girl in their family, on her sixteenth birthday, is Claimed by either Light or Dark. Lena's cousin and former best friend, Ridley, went Dark recently, and she is terrified that the same thing is going to happen to her.
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18	She and Ethan also face the challenge of the impossibility of the relationship between a Mortal and a Caster. For the Mortal, every touch or kiss is an electric shock, and to "[[UnusualEuphemism be together physically]]" would result in [[OutWithABang his death]].
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20	# ''Beautiful Creatures'' (2009)
21	# ''Beautiful Darkness'' (2010)
22	** ''Dream Dark'' (2011, short story)
23	# ''Beautiful Chaos'' (2011)
24	# ''Beautiful Redemption'' (2012)
25	** ''Dangerous Dreams'' (2013, short story)
26	# ''Dangerous Creatures'' (2014, first in the Ridley-focused spinoff trilogy)
27	# ''Dangerous Deception'' (2015)
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29	A [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] of the first book was released in February 2013 by Creator/WarnerBros. Trailers can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYTptJesPuU here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9rjhB7KWEc here]].
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31	!!The books contain examples of:
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33	%%* AbusiveParents:
34	%%* ActionGirl: Leah Ravenwood, to the max.
35	* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Ryan, the youngest of Lena's cousins and a healer who once saves Ethan's life after he touches Lena before being aware of the magic that keeps Casters and mortals from doing that. This trope is best exemplified by her line:
36	-->'''Ryan:''' If you two do anything disgusting and you need me, I'll be downstairs.
37	* AfterlifeAntechamber: Featured in ''Beautiful Redemption'', when [[spoiler:Ethan is dead and trying to figure out how to come back to life]]. It doubles as a [[spoiler:MundaneAfterlife where the houses of the departed are on their plots in the cemetery instead of in town, but their lives... well, their existences are otherwise a lot like in the realm of the living]].
38	%%* AlasPoorVillain
39	* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: [[ExploitedTrope Exploited]] by [[spoiler: John Breed]] in ''Beautiful Darkness'' to rope [[spoiler: a grieving Lena]] into the plot.
40	** Larkin and eventually Link also have some of this.
41	* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: Averted by Ethan, who couldn't want a cheerleader less.
42	* AlliterativeTitle:
43	** ''Dream Dark''
44	** ''Dangerous Dreams''
45	** ''Dangerous Deception''
46	* AlmightyJanitor: quite a few: Carlton Eaton, the bumbling local mailman, also delivers all the magical mail around town and knows about the casters. Amma is the Wate family’s housekeeper but also a powerful seer and one of the main magical authorities in Gatlin. The Keepers seem like just representatives of a CelestialBureaucracy but can put anyone on trial and one [[spoiler:is the final antagonist of the series]]. Thelma, the sisters nurse, know about the tunnels due to taking Prudence down there and also provides some minor help.
47	* AlphaBitch: Savannah Snow, with Emily, Eden, and the other cheerleaders as her [[GirlPosse Girl Posse]]. They constantly harass new girl Lena for being so unlike the rest of them, to the point of reenacting the last scene in ''{{Film/Carrie\|1976}}'' and staging a near-literal witch trial during ''Beautiful Creatures''. And then again, when their English class covers ''Theatre/TheCrucible'' in ''Beautiful Chaos''.
48	%%* AnyoneCanDie
49	%%* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence
50	* BackFromTheDead: Two times, each with a character dying apparently for good in one book and returning at the end of the next: at the end of ''Beautiful Creatures'', [[spoiler:Macon is killed by the ''Book of Moons'', then returned to the world of the living via Arclight in ''Beautiful Darkness'']]; then, in ''Beautiful Chaos'', [[spoiler:it's '''the protagonist''' Ethan, and ''Beautiful Redemption'' revolves around his attempts to undo the events that led to this so he can come back to life]].
51	%%* BadassFamily
52	%%* BadassNormal
53	%%* BarredFromTheAfterlife
54	* BavarianFireDrill: In her first scene, Ridley gets Ethan to take her into the mansion by acting like she's the one picking up him and that they've both been invited.
55	%%* BettyAndVeronica
56	%%* BerserkButton
57	* BigDamnHeroes:
58	** In ''Beautiful Creatures'', Macon [[spoiler: interrupts Lena's trial in the gymnasium and verbally destroys pretty much everyone who dares to try to defend their persecution of Lena]].
59	** In ''Beautiful Chaos'' John Breed, Macon, Leah, Liv, Lena, Link, Ethan and Ridley appear at Marian's trial at the Far Keep and successfully prevent her execution.
60	* BigBad: Abraham Ravenwood, the founder of the Ravenwood Blood Incubus line, is one of the entire series. He's the source of the majority of the problems Ethan and his friends face in the series, and was instrumental in the corruption of Sarafine, the BigBad of ''Beautiful Creatures''.
61	%%* BigGood
62	* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Ravenwoods and Duchannes, going all the way back to Abraham Ravenwood. The Dark and Light sides of the family have been at war against each other for almost a century.
63	%%* BirdsOfAFeather
64	* BittersweetEnding: In ''Beautiful Chaos''. Though the Order was fixed, [[spoiler: it took Ethan jumping off the water tower to his death to achieve it.]]
65	** Also in ''Beautiful Creatures''. [[spoiler: Lena manages to bring Ethan back to life and post-pone her Claiming, but Macon is killed in the process.]]
66	* BlankBook: In ''Beautiful Creatures'', [[spoiler: the book that Ethan's father was working on. It turned out to be a large pile of squiggles.]]
67	* BlatantLies: Sarafine's love for Lena. Though [[spoiler:she did in fact love Lena and her father when she was born, it took major effort to do so in spite of her Dark nature, and once Abraham Ravenwood started to influence her it got to be too much. By the time of the books she no longer shows any signs of really loving her]].
68	* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim:
69	** [[spoiler: Lena]] cites this as a motive for [[spoiler: abandoning Ethan]] in ''Beautiful Darkness'', [[spoiler: considering herself too dangerous and too tied up in the complex rules of the Caster world for Mortals to be safe around her]].
70	** Macon broke up with [[spoiler: Lila Evers]] because he was afraid of physically hurting or killing her after his Transformation into an Incubus.
71	* BreakoutCharacter: Ridley, who was popular enough to get her own spinoff (''Dangerous Creatures'').
72	%%* BrokenBird
73	* TheBrute: Hunting Ravenwood.
74	* CainAndAbel: Abraham Ravenwood killed his brother Jonah. Most of Macon and Hunting's meetings also are filled with the threat of this [[spoiler: in the end, it's Macon who ends up killing Hunting]].
75	%% * CantHaveSexEver: Any Caster/Mortal or Incubus/Mortal pairing. Mortals are very fragile.
76	* CapitalLettersAreMagic: Caster, Mortal, Incubus, Dark, Light, Claimed...
77	* CaughtInTheRain: Happens to Lena and Ethan several times. Justified because Lena has power over the rain and fire.
78	* The Cheerleader: Savannah, Emily and their GirlPosse.
79	* ChekhovsGun: The Arclight in ''Beautiful Darkness'' that is given to Ethan by Marian turns out to be very important later on in the book's plot. [[spoiler: It helps guide Liv, Ethan, Link and Ridley during their quest to find the Great Barrier and also gives Ethan strange visions. In the end it's revealed that Macon was inside it all along.]]
80	* ChekhovsSkill: Larkin's illusionist abilities. In the book [[spoiler: They let him make it look like his gold eyes are green, so his family think he was claimed as light instead of dark]]. and in the movie [[spoiler: where he undergoes AdaptationalHeroism, it lets him impersonate Ethan to screw up Serafinne's plan.]].
81	* ComicBookAdaptation: ''Beautiful Creatures'' received a manga adaptation entitled ''[[TitleTheAdaptation Beautiful Creatures: The Manga]]'', in February 2013 shortly before TheFilmOfTheBook was released.
82	* CoolOldLady: Lena's grandmother, step-grandmother and Great-Aunt Twyla, Amma, and the Sisters.
83	* CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: Lena's cousin Larkin has a little of this [[spoiler: which, given that he's a closet Dark Caster, isn't that surprising]].
84	* CoolTeacher: most of them subvert this, but bit characters Mrs. Spider and Coach Cross seem ok.
85	* {{Curse}}: In Lena's family, Casters are Claimed by Light or Dark on their sixteenth birthdays. They have no choice, unlike most other Casters. This is because Lena's ancestor tried to revive her dead lover.
86	%%** The Ravenwoods have their own curse, which involves male Incubuses of their line experiencing blood hunger.
87	* DangerousSixteenthBirthday: Casters in Lena's family get claimed for Light or Dark on their sixteenth birthday.
88	%%* DarkMagicalGirl
89	%%* DarkAndTroubledPast
90	%% * DarkIsEvil:
91	%% ** Played straight with Dark Casters such as Sarafine.
92	%% ** Subverted with Ridley, who while Dark, is not one hundred percent evil and is perfectly capable of loving both Lena and [[spoiler: Link]].
93	* DarkIsNotEvil:
94	** [[spoiler: Macon, being an Incubus, is of the Dark, but chose to side with the Light]].
95	** Also, as John Breed stated, [[spoiler: there is Light in the Dark and Dark in the Light.]] So, it could be assumed that [[spoiler: Genevieve, Ridley and Macon]] could do good things and help other because they were not completely evil.
96	%% * DeadpanSnarker: Macon Ravenwood, in almost every scene he is in.
97	* DramaticEntrance: In ''Beautiful Creatures'', Macon [[spoiler:blasts open the doors to the gymnasium to interrupt Lena's trial]], striding in with [[spoiler:Marion on his arm and]] not a single drop of water on him despite the raging storm.
98	-->'''Macon:''' I'm so sorry we are late. The weather is just treacherous out there tonight.
99	* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler: Leah Ravenwood]] is first seen at Macon's funeral at the beginning of ''Beautiful Darkness'', but isn't properly introduced or even named until the gang reaches the Great Barrier near the end of the novel.
100	%%* EarnYourHappyEnding
101	* EvilMatriarch:
102	** Lena's mother is Sarafine, who is considered one of the Darkest Casters ever and proves this [[spoiler:by very briefly killing Ethan in ''Beautiful Creatures'']]. Then [[FromBadToWorse she gets worse]].
103	** Also, the matriarch of the entire Duchannes/Ravenwood family, Genevieve. Though her becoming evil [[spoiler:wasn't due to her having a malicious personality, but due to the spell she tried to use to save the love of her life being from the ''Book of Moons'' and therefore backfiring horribly]].
104	* EvilOldFolks: Abraham Ravenwood, unsurprisingly, as you can’t get much older than a guy who was around in the civil war. His son Silas also applies.
105	%%* FantasticRacism
106	%%* FateWorseThanDeath
107	* FauxAffablyEvil: Sarafine talks to Lena in a very motherly tone, but it's always about stuff like proudly taking credit for making Lena's life miserable in ''Beautiful Creatures'' or any of the other terrible things she's done, in between trying to convince Lena to abandon her loved ones.
108	%%* FireForgedFriends
109	* TheFriendNobodyLikes: a few of the unpopular kids eat lunch with Ethan, Link and Lena sometimes when the rest of the school is ostracizing him, but they aren’t quite friends.
110	* GentlemanSnarker: Macon Ravenwood.
111	* TheGhost: Macon's father Silas, while heavily involved in the background, and frequently mentioned, never appears in the original series.
112	** Lena's fathers sisters, Adele and Constance Eades, never appear or get mentioned outside of a sketch of the family tree.
113	* GoodIsNotNice: [[spoiler: John Breed after his HeelFaceTurn in ''Beautiful Chaos''. In his short speech when he saves the day at the Far Keep, he even insults his own personality]]. Occasionally Macon and Amma get so adamant about protecting their respective teenagers, and so snarky about it, that they can fall into this too.
114	* HatePlague: The spell Ridley casts on everyone during [[AlphaBitch Savannah Snow's]] party in ''Beautiful Chaos'' amounts to basically this, and it causes everyone in the party to start screaming at each other.
115	* HeroicBSOD: Lena goes through one in ''Beautiful Darkness'', a result of her guilt over accidentally killing her uncle on the night of her sixteenth birthday.
116	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Ethan]] jumps off the water tower at the end of ''Beautiful Chaos'' to fix the Order and prevent the end of the world. At the end of the next book [[spoiler: Amma dies in his place so that Ethan can live out his own life with Lena on Earth]].
117	* HighHeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Ridley as she starts spending more time around the main cast, especially OddCouple [[LoveInterest love interest]] Link. Not that she doesn't stay claimed for Dark.]]
118	* HighSchoolDance: The Winter Formal in ''Beautiful Creatures''. Ends up resembling a much tamer version of Stephen King's ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'', but the mayhem's not actually Lena's doing.
119	%% * HotWitch: The impression most Dark Casters give.
120	%% * HowDoIShotWeb: Lena seems to experience this for a while in the first book.
121	%% * IAmWho
122	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Two instances, for its two subseries:
123	** The main books has "Beautiful [X]":
124	*** ''Beautiful Creatures''
125	*** ''Beautiful Chaos''
126	*** ''Beautiful Redemption''
127	** The Ridley-focused series has "Dangerous [X]", and then there's also ''Dangerous Dreams'':
128	*** ''Dangerous Creatures''
129	*** ''Dangerous Deception''
130	** The first books of its subseries are "[X] Creatures"
131	*** ''Beautiful Creatures''
132	*** ''Dangerous Creatures''
133	%%* ItsAllMyFault
134	* JerkJock: all of the named basketball players besides Ethan and Link.
135	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: [[spoiler:John Breed]] is revealed to be this in ''Beautiful Chaos'' and ''Beautiful Redemption'', the "jerk" part being thanks to [[spoiler: his incredibly [[AbusiveParents abusive surrogate father and grandfather]] Silas and Abraham Ravenwood]].
136	%%* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Sarafine, who is killed by Lena in ''Beautiful Chaos''.]]
137	* LightDarknessJuxtaposition: On their sixteenth birthday, in addition to learning their "true name", Casters are given the choice to turn dark or light. For the Ravenwood Family, however, there's a curse that removes the option for choice. Though not all Dark Casters turn evil, they are {{Anti Hero}}es at best and are associated with sociopathy and negativity, while Light Casters are warm, loving, and fundamentally good. Lena, in her efforts to not turn dark, ended up [[TakeAThirdOption choosing both]], gaining one eye of each Caster's color.
138	* LightIsGood: The Light Casters, who are warm, nice, and fundamentally good.
139	* LivingLieDetector: Lena's eldest cousin, Reece.
140	* LivingProp: Lena's uncle Barclay, who is probably the least plot-relevant member of her family, and TheQuietOne to boot.
141	* TheLostLenore: Ethan’s mom to [[spoiler: Macon]]. Briefly [[spoiler: Ethan]]. to [[spoiler: Lena]]. before he’s resurrected. * LoveDodecahedron: In ''Beautiful Darkness''. Ethan is in love with Lena, who he believes [[spoiler: left him for John Breed]], and is beginning to be attracted to [[spoiler: Olivia]]. Link is also attracted to [[spoiler: Olivia]], but at the same time he's still pining for Ridley. Ridley and [[spoiler: John]] are often seen together, so subtext could lead to interpretation of them as a couple. [[spoiler: Lila Jane Evers]]' first love was [[spoiler: Macon Ravenwood]], but he had to leave her because he was afraid of hurting her, so she met Ethan's father. She's still enough in love with [[spoiler: Macon]] to [[spoiler: save him from dying]]. He never stopped loving her.
142	%%* MagicalLibrary
143	%% * ManipulativeBastard: Macon Ravenwood.
144	* TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife: The Caster community keeps to itself. This makes dating nearly impossible for Lena, once she starts becoming interested in the mortal Ethan.
145	* MeatPuppet: [[spoiler:Two very creepy examples- Sarafine inhabiting Mrs. Lincoln in ''Beautiful Creatures'', and Mrs. English being possessed by the Lilum in ''Beautiful Chaos''.]]
146	%% * MindManipulation:
147	%% ** Ridley. She is a siren after all.
148	%% ** Macon [[spoiler:removing portions of Ethan's dreams.]]
149	* MeaningfulAppearance: The Light Casters automatically have green eyes. Especially appropriate as the trope page notes green eyes often denote magic-using characters.
150	* MirrorCharacter: In ''Beautiful Chaos'', we learn that teenage Sarafine desperately wanted to be Light just like Lena did, and that she initially reacted to going Dark a lot like Lena probably would have: by panicking and vowing to resist it. She even succeeded for awhile.
151	* MissingMom: Lena and Ethan both have one, albeit for different reasons.
152	* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: Macon Ravenwood hasn't left his manor (aboveground, at least) for as long as anyone seems to be able to remember. Naturally he develops a bizarre reputation in town, but turns out to be polite and thoughtful in person. He's also [[LampshadeHanging quite aware]] of this trope, going so far as to name his dog [[ShoutOut Boo]] [[Literature/ToKillAMockingbird Radley]].
153	* MsFanservice: the authors describe Ridley's sex appeal in impressive detail, and the film takes this and runs with it.
154	%%* NiceJobBreakingItHero
155	* NoodleIncident: Since the first book, Link and Amma had been quarreling over something Link did in Ethan's basement when he was a kid, and Ethan never knew what it was, because Link refuses to tell anyone what bad thing he had done. [[spoiler:In the end, we learn that he had put on a Union soldier's uniform.]]
156	%%* NotQuiteDead
157	%%* OnlyKnowByTheirNickname
158	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: A Blood Incubus is basically the same thing as a vampire. A normal Incubus is similar, but it feeds off dreams and emotions instead of blood. ''Beautiful Darkness'' is very unclear about what a Succubus is, aside from being a female Incubus.
159	* OutWithABang: What happens to any Mortal who has -- or tries to have -- sex with a Caster or Incubus. It's doubtful how far anyone would actually get; just a heavy make-out session with Lena nearly kills Ethan in ''Beautiful Creatures''. He ''would'' have died, had it not been for Ryan's intervention.
160	%%* ParentalAbandonment: Lena's father died when she was a baby. Her mother
161	%%* ParentalSubstitute: Macon is this for Lena.
162	* PetTheDog: the local truant officer not reporting Lena and Ethan when he catches them in the water tower and assumes they're a pair of MakeOutKids.
163	%%* ProperlyParanoid
164	%%* Really700YearsOld: Incubi and Succubi are said to live for around two centuries.
165	%%* RedHerring
166	* RomanticFalseLead: Liv for Ethan, and John Breed for Lena.
167	** They end up in a case of PairTheSpares.
168	* RunningGag: Whenever Ethan goes to the library Marian greats him with a literary quote which he always identifies incorrectly, (although he does get close).
169	* SadisticChoice: One is offered to Lena near the climax of the first book. [[spoiler:Choose the Light, and every Dark Caster in the family dies, never to harm anyone ever again -- but Macon will die as well, and Lena will never be able to have a physical relationship with Ethan. Choose the Dark, and every Light Caster in the family dies -- but Macon will survive, and Lena will be given the means to be together with Ethan physically ''and'' emotionally]].
170	* ScatterbrainedSenior: Ethan's great-aunts The Sisters, very much, although they're good sources to consult about the history of Gatlin, and the second book reveals that Aunt Prue knows about the Casters.
171	%%* SecondLove: Mitchell Wate was this to Lila, after she was forced to let Macon go.
172	%%* SheCleansUpNicely
173	%%* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend
174	* SignatureItemClue: In ''Beautiful Darkness'', Ethan finds Lena's iconic and personalized charm necklace on a beach near the Great Barrier, and knows something must have happened to her and that she passed by that spot.
175	%%* SoulJar
176	* SouthernGentleman: Macon.
177	* SouthernGothic: Not as horror-y as the classic model, but features a lot of the same atmosphere and elements, showing the Deep South as being full of things that aren't what they seem, that can't be explained, and that are often very dangerous.
178	%%* SpannerInTheWorks
179	* SpeciesSpecificAfterlife: As the mortal world and the caster world are relatively isolated, and people in the Otherworld wake up and live where they were laid to rest, the mortal and caster portions of the Otherworld are just as isolated, though not impossible to cross between.
180	* SpellMyNameWithAThe: All dark creatures and dark casters are classified as lilum. However, there's one that's just The Lilum. In point of fact, all of her aliases are spelled with a The: The Demon Queen, The Endless River, The Wheel of Fate. Her true form is never seen, but what she must look like to have names like those.
181	* SpiritAdvisor: All the time, most notably Amma regularly asking her deceased ancestors the Greats for help/input. Other, more sporadic examples include Genevieve once or twice, [[spoiler:Aunt Prue when she's in a coma in ''Beautiful Chaos'']], and [[spoiler:Ethan's mother Lila, via the Shadowing Songs in the first three books and then in person in ''Beautiful Chaos'']].
182	* StalkerWithoutACrush: [[spoiler: Macon]] to Ethan in the first book. He was sneaking into Ethan's room while Ethan slept to [[spoiler:[[OurVampiresAreDifferent eat Ethan's dreams]] in order to "replenish" himself]]. Ethan is understandably freaked out when he realizes.
183	* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler: Macon and Lila were in love long ago, but were forced to part when Macon became an Incubus because of the danger of a Mortal and an Incubus being together. They never stopped loving each other, though Lila managed to find a SecondLove in Mitchell Wate.]]
184	* StillFightingTheCivilWar: Mr. Lee, Link’s parents, and Ethan's great-aunts.
185	* SupernaturalGoldEyes: The Dark Casters automatically have these. Also falls into UhOhEyes.
186	* SupernaturalProofFather: Ethan's father Mitchell is the only person in his house who isn't in the know about all the supernatural goings-on in town.
187	* TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler:Lena becoming both Light and Dark at the end of the second book.]] A rare instance where there are major consequences attached to the third option that aren't [[HandWave handwaved away]] or [[MillionToOneChance luckily averted]]: [[spoiler: it's described as her "having broken the world", complete with Biblical-style plagues and all the Casters' powers misfiring, and it's eventually revealed that the only solution is [[HeroicSacrifice Ethan jumping off the water tower]]]].
188	* TheFerryman: Charlie the River Master in ''Beautiful Redemption'' is a somewhat laid-back version of this.
189	* ThickerThanWater: Often cruelly subverted, as whenever someone turns Dark, even though the family knows it's not really their fault and still want to be there for them, they have to kick that child out, as demonstrated with [[spoiler: Sarafine]]. and Ridley, after the last Duchannes child who was claimed dark (Lena'a great-aunt Althea) killed someone after being allowed to stay in the house.
190	** This gets played straighter in ''Beautiful Redemption'' though, when the family takes back [[spoiler: Ridley]]. although she had done a lot to earn it by then.
191	* TitleDrop: By Macon, for the first book.
192	-->'''Macon:''' [Mortals] are such beautiful creatures.
193	* TokenEvilTeammate: [[spoiler: Ridley crashes the Winter Formal and gets some revenge on the popular crowd for how they've treated Lena]] in ''Beautiful Darkness'', the first of many times when this character teams up with the good guys on a per-mission basis for their own advantage and/or [[ItAmusedMe entertainment]].
194	* TownWithADarkSecret: Gatlin. Obviously. Not a typical example, though, in that only about half the town is in on all the supernatural events that go on there.
195	* TragicMistake: Genevieve's attempt to resurrect her beloved cursed her and her family for generations to come.
196	* TragicVillain: as revealed in flashbacks from ''Beautiful Chaos'', Sarafine really did try to fight her nature for a while after being claimed for dark before SlowlySlippingIntoEvil, and worked hard trying to be a good kid in the hopes of being claimed Light.
197	* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman / WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: The main character, Ethan Wate, is a Wayward - a mortal whose destiny is essentially intertwined with that of a specific Caster. Waywards are also essentially a guide or compass for their Caster, and instinctively know where they need to go and what they need to do, especially when Casters are about as lost as the next person in the room. Needless to say, this only ever comes in handy when all other options have been exhausted. Comes with plenty of LampshadeHanging that explicitly references Aquaman and his usually useless powers.
198	* UnderstandingBoyfriend: John Eades stayed with Sarafine even when she turned dark, long enough for them to [[spoiler: have Lena together]]. but her falling in with Abraham Ravenwood was too much for him.
199	* UnwittingPawn: Ridley uses an unknowing Ethan to sneak into Ravenwood Manor during the Gathering in ''Beautiful Creatures''. Ethan is horrified when he realises what he'd accidentally let into Macon's house.
200	* WhamLine:
201	** The climax of ''Beautiful Creatures'' has a rapid chain of wham lines when Sarafine reveals that Lena [[spoiler:can choose whether she'll become a light caster or a dark one, but whichever side she chooses, the half of her family aligned to the other side will die]].
202	--> '''Sarafine:''' [[spoiler:Tonight you will not have to be Claimed, you will have to Claim yourself.]]
203	** One in ''Beautiful Redemption'' reveals that [[spoiler: Mercy and Grace also know about the Casters, and what has been happening lately. They reveal that they let Prudence think she was the only one who knew for all those decades as a joke, when in fact they found out before she did]].
204	-->'''Aunt Mercy:''' Well, what if it is? What're ya doin' around here now that Ethan's [[spoiler: gone and passed on ta one world or another?]].
205	* WhiteHairBlackHeart: The blonde Ridley [[spoiler: at first]], although subverted with [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold her two sisters.]]
206
207	!!The film contains examples of:
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209	%% * TheFilmOfTheBook
210	%% * HamToHamCombat: The church scene with Thompson and Creator/JeremyIrons. Not to mention the dinner scene, where Emmy Rossum shows that she can hang with the kings of ham.
211	* MisplacedNamesPoster: [[http://www.heyuguys.com/images/2012/12/Beautiful-Creatures-UK-Poster.jpg This poster]] has ''seven'' cast members listed, and only one of them matches up with their picture!
212	* CompositeCharacter: Amma Tradeau is a combination of novel characters Marian Ashcroft and the previously named Amma.
213	* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Everyone in the film is doing a (bad) attempt at a Southern accent except for Creator/JeremyIrons, who simply does a light English accent. Guess he was saving himself the embarrassment.
214	* PopStarComposer: [[Music/{{Thenewno2}} thenewno2]], Dhanni Harrison's (son of Music/GeorgeHarrison) band composed the score to film, which [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic got acclaim]] even from people who didn't like the movie.
215	* ShoutOut: The cinema marquee that's always spelled wrong at one point says [[{{Film/Inception}} "Interception"]].
216	* TrailersAlwaysLie: There was one shot of [[http://37.media.tumblr.com/1e92b91858c83c944fb79e35de2184ad/tumblr_mn2e8eJWeQ1qmw3xso2_r1_250.gif Ridley screaming]] in what looks like anger in the trailer (at [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HNfEe9PEDg 1:52]], after Lena snarls "I want you outta here!"). Thing is, what actually happens is that Lena tells her to get out, and then Ridley screams in anger that she's so sick of everyone treating Lena like she's special, to which Lena coldly replies "I said, get away from my boyfriend, you witch." Ridley's face changes to surprise and fear, and ''then'' she goes flying.
217	* WorldOfHam: Everybody in the film adaptation {{camp}}s it up with great enthusiasm, with the champion of ham being Creator/EmmaThompson as Sarafine.

Context Literature / TheCasterChronicles