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* {{Animorphism}}: [[spoiler: Grahame Coats by the end of the novel.]]
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* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: A mermaid mentioned in a story near the beginning of the book shows up again near the end of it.]]
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* IronicFear: Fat Charlie is phenomenal singer, even when he's barely trying, but has such severe performance anxiety that [[spoiler: the powers he possesses never have an opportunity to manifest until late into the book.]]
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** The quartet of grumpy old women Charlie knew as a boy, one he was certain was a witch. He was right, but they didn't use magic until he needed them to, and they were grumpy and disapproving, but ultimately friendly and sympathetic to his cause.
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* LadykillerInLove: Spider with Rosie, leading to some confusion on his part, as this usually doesn't happen to him.
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* KnowsAGuyWhoKnowsAGuy: When Charlie asks the old women from home to help him rid him off his brother, [[{{Foreshadowing}} they tell him they did something that worked once]] that can't be done again. But they knew someone who could help, and sent him to the land of the Gods (more or less that of the African pantheon.
* LadykillerInLove: Spider with Rosie, leading to some confusion on his part, as this usually doesn'thappen happen) to him.ask the Gods to catch a deal for assistance.
* LadykillerInLove: Spider with Rosie, leading to some confusion on his part, as this usually doesn't
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* ThirdWheel: In Charlie and Rose's relationship, Spider "insists" on taking over the duties of being Rose's boyfriend, even taking on Charlie's identify. A second one is introduced at the same time when Charlie meets Daisy, and maybe, maybe-not slept with her during a night of revelry in mourning for Anansi.
* TheOldGods: Since ''Homo Sapiens'' weren't the first species to talk about deities and tell stories, there is at least one pantheon that predates human gods. Charlie had to cut a deal with a deity (the "Bird Woman") who had apparently risen from a non-human species.
* TheOldGods: Since ''Homo Sapiens'' weren't the first species to talk about deities and tell stories, there is at least one pantheon that predates human gods. Charlie had to cut a deal with a deity (the "Bird Woman") who had apparently risen from a non-human species.
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** More subtly, Fat Charlie's bad luck disappears when he's an usually cheerful mood, [[spoiler:hinting that his emotions also influence the world around him, like his brother]].
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* AnimalMotifs: Grahame Coats' is a weasel. [[spoiler:He even takes that form when he gets sealed away with Tiger.]]
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* AnimalMotifs: Grahame Coats' is a weasel. [[spoiler:He even takes that form when he gets sealed away with Tiger.]]]] Anansi and Spider's are the latter's namesake.
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* RealityWarper: Spider. He claims all one has to do is "Show Reality who's boss".
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* RealityWarper: Spider. He claims all one has to do is "Show Reality who's boss". His father is the same, teleporting an entire marching band to his dying wife's hospital room to cheer up.
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* AbusiveParents: Mr. Nancy strides the line between this and AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents. It's one thing to play little pranks on your child; it's quite another to use your powers to give him a nickname and InformedAttribute to make him the world's ButtMonkey. [[spoiler:Charlie only grows out of it when he has to fight.]]
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* CallingTheOldManOut: Fat Charlie does this to Mrs. Higgler. [[spoiler:He also does this to his father, though his father refuses to answer why he spent his whole life making fun of Charlie.]]
* KarmaHoudini: Mr. Nancy for his antics and RealityWarper powers in turning Charlie into a ButtMonkey for a good portion of his life. [[spoiler:When Charlie asks him why he spent all his time making fun of him, Mr. Nancy says that they don't have time to be arguing.]]
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: right up to the point when Fat Charlie [[spoiler:[[TookALevelInBadass figures out his powers]]. From the next sentence, the narration and the other characters just call him 'Charlie'.]]
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* WrongGenreSavvy: When Fat Charlie is arrested, he expects GoodCopBadCop interrogation, and tells the Good Cop as much. The Good Cop informs him that there is no Bad Cop in the wings and the police are already pretty sure he's innocent.
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* DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal: Spider uses his supernatural powers to convince Rosie that he's her fiance and has sex with her when she believes he's someone else. [[spoiler: They end up together in the end.]] Of course, all he really did was tell him he was Fat Charlie. [[TheCasanova She slept with him entirely for his own qualities]]. [[spoiler:She does feel confused and conflicted about it when she finds out the truth, especially since she really did fall in love with him, and his feelings of guilt about the matter are what drives him to confess.]]
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* DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal: Spider uses his supernatural powers to convince Rosie that he's her fiance and has sex with her when she believes he's someone else. [[spoiler: They end up together in the end.]] Of course, all he really did was tell him he was Fat Charlie. [[TheCasanova She slept with him entirely for his own qualities]]. [[spoiler:She does feel confused and conflicted about it when she finds out the truth, especially since she really did fall in love with him, and his feelings of guilt about the matter are what drives drive him to confess.]]
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* InformedAttribute: Fat Charlie was never actually fat or even very chubby but merely a little bit pudgy. By the time the story started, he hasn't been like that for years but the nickname stuck anyway.
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* TheTrickster: Anansi, ever so much. So was Charlie, until he got split. Then Spider got all the tricksiness and Charlie was left as the responsible one.
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* TheTrickster: Anansi, ever so much. So was Charlie, until he [[spoiler:he got split. Then Spider got all the tricksiness and Charlie was left as the responsible one.one]].
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* AMythologyIsTrue: While it is [[AllMythsAreTrue part]] of the same universe as ''Literature/AmericanGods'', this story deals exclusively with West African and Carribean mythology.
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* BlackAndGreyMorality: To be honest, Tiger and the Bird Woman have pretty good reasons to be upset. Anansi can be a righteous asshole and is known for tormenting them and many other gods, who merely refuse to help Fat Charlie, rather than actively seek revenge. Of course, they are just as liberal in their own JerkassGods tendencies, and they're targeting Anansi's sons for RevengeByProxy, so any sympathy points they may have dry up pretty quickly.
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LennyHenry has voiced Fat Charlie for both the audiobook and a BBC Radio adaptation. A film version allegedly fell through because [[ExecutiveMeddling the studio]] wanted [[RaceLift a predominantly white cast]] (despite the characters' Caribbean heritage being central to the mythic elements of the story), and Neil Gaiman steadfastly refused. However, he eventually resumed working on an adaptation, which has recently been rescued from DevelopmentHell by production company Red, [[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/04/neil-gaiman-american-gods-anansi-boys-tv who will produce a mini-series for BBC based on the book.]]
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* NonIndicativeName: Fat Charlie was never fat. Between the ages of ten and fourteen he was slightly pudgy, but the nickname got created and stuck.
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* CreepyCrows: The Bird Woman, one of ''many'' people who are still upset at Anansi's antics.
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''Anansi Boys'' is a 2005 novel by NeilGaiman, set in [[TheVerse the same fictional universe]] as his earlier ''Literature/AmericanGods'', although not a direct sequel to that story -- more of a LighterAndSofter spinoff, and it was conceived earlier. The protagonist is the nice but unambitious and chronically unlucky Charles Nancy -- nicknamed 'Fat Charlie' by his father at age 10 and dogged by the name ever since, despite not actually being fat -- who's somewhat nonplussed to be told that his recently deceased father was the African trickster god Anansi. Oh, and the reason Fat Charlie doesn't have his dad's godlike powers is that they went to the brother he never knew existed, who he can contact by giving a message to a spider. Not believing a word of this, Fat Charlie nevertheless gets drunk and tells a spider to invite his brother to come for a visit.
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''Anansi Boys'' is a 2005 novel by NeilGaiman, Creator/NeilGaiman, set in [[TheVerse the same fictional universe]] as his earlier ''Literature/AmericanGods'', although not a direct sequel to that story -- more of a LighterAndSofter spinoff, and it was conceived earlier. The protagonist is the nice but unambitious and chronically unlucky Charles Nancy -- nicknamed 'Fat Charlie' by his father at age 10 and dogged by the name ever since, despite not actually being fat -- who's somewhat nonplussed to be told that his recently deceased father was the African trickster god Anansi. Oh, and the reason Fat Charlie doesn't have his dad's godlike powers is that they went to the brother he never knew existed, who he can contact by giving a message to a spider. Not believing a word of this, Fat Charlie nevertheless gets drunk and tells a spider to invite his brother to come for a visit.
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* SinsOfOurFathers: The people at the Cliffs at the end of the world refuse to help Fat Charlie because Anansi had done most of them wrong at some point. Especially the Bird Woman and Tiger.
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* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Fat Charlie, no matter how hard he tries, can't escape from it [[spoiler:until he realizes his powers.]]
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* WeNeedADiversion: Provided by Mrs Noah and her [[FanDisservice astonishingly bony bum]].
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* AnimalMotifs: Graham Coates' is a weasel. [[spoiler:He even takes that form when he gets sealed away with Tiger.]]
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