Line #23 Literature/TheEyesOfKidMidas


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3	''The Eyes of Kid Midas'' is a [[YoungAdultLiterature Young Adult Novel]] by Creator/NealShusterman. It stars Kevin Midas, an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Ordinary Middle School Student]] who stumbles upon a pair of RealityWarping sunglasses. At first, it's great--Kevin can have anything he wants. In the mood for an ice cream cone? Bam: there it is. But it doesn't take long before things start to fall apart, as Kevin quickly discovers [[RealityWarpingIsNotAToy how dangerous godlike powers can be...]]
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5	!!''The Eyes of Kid Midas'' contains examples of:
6	* AllJustADream: Played with. Josh and his teacher discuss the concept of the "Dreamtime," the idea that real life is just a dream. Later, [[spoiler:reality merges with Kevin's dreams]], evoking this trope.
7	* BullyHunter: Once Kevin discovers the power of the glasses, he takes it upon himself to humiliate the bullies who picked on him. It goes a bit farther than he would have liked.
8	* {{Clingy MacGuffin}}: As Kevin uses more and more of the glasses' power, they gradually become a part of his body.
9	* DisproportionateRetribution: {{Lampshaded}}; Kevin is scolded for what he does to Bertram. "Nobody deserves that."
10	* DraggedOffToHell: Kevin tells Bertram to "Go to Hell." The ground promptly opens up and swallows him.
11	* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Bertram's BerserkButton is when his mother is insulted.
12	* FantasticDrug: Intense highs, crippling addiction and withdrawal--pretty straightforward metaphor.
13	* FromBadToWorse: Reality is warping. The world is going mad. Things look pretty dark for Kevin. That's when [[spoiler:Josh gets wiped from existence by the glasses]]. And then [[spoiler:time stops]]. And ''then'' [[spoiler:the glasses shatter]]. Crap.
14	* {{Keepaway}}: Hal and Bertram play Keepaway with Kevin's (ordinary and mundane) glasses in the beginning of the book, breaking them.
15	* LovePotion: Kevin attempts to use his powers to get his crush to fall in love with him. It doesn't work; all it does is creep her out.
16	* MyFutureSelfAndMe: At the end of the book, Kevin encounters a future version of himself who [[spoiler:is visiting the past in a dream and exits accompanied by the sound of a ringing alarm clock]].
17	* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Seventh grade. Close enough.
18	* PornStash: Josh and Kevin find one of their dads' ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' magazines and put it back, feeling mildly embarrassed.
19	%%* PowerIncontinence
20	* PowerLimiter: The glasses can do anything... except ''undo'' what they've already done.
21	* RealAfterAll: Kevin's class is out on a camping field trip with his class, visiting a mountain that's sacred to the local native tribe. His teacher tells a campfire story about how the mountain is supposedly the eye of God, and once a year, the tip of its shadow falls exactly on another sacred spot in the valley below. It's just a story, as the teacher later admits, but when Kevin climbs the mountain, guess what he sees? [[FridgeBrilliance Kevin was wearing the glasses, so his believing in the story made it come true.]]
22	* RealityBleed: Towards the end of the book, Kevin's subconscious thoughts start to bleed into reality, inadvertently reshaping the world.
23	%%* RealityWarper
24	%%* RealityWarpingIsNotAToy
25	* ResetButton: [[spoiler:At the very end, Kevin returns the glasses to the top of the mountain, and everything suddenly reverts back to normal.]]
26	* RhetoricalRequestBlunder: See DraggedOffToHell.
27	* SorcerersApprenticePlot: The Sorcerer in this case being God.
28	* TimeStandsStill: Kevin yells "Stop". And it does.
29	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The first clue that Kevin's power is getting out of control is that people stop noticing the changes he makes, believing that things have always been that way.
30	%%* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity
31	* YourMom: "Your ''mother's'' a pine cone."

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