History Literature / BobbyDollar

* IllBoy: The Broken Boy.

* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Hell has three kinds of residents: the fallen angels; the damned, who are either converted into demons or tortured souls or both; and, rarely, the odd soul who's ''born'' there.

''Bobby Dollar'' is an {{Urban Fantasy}} series written by Creator/TadWilliams. The angel Doloriel is an Advocate, one of several angels tasked with representing mortals' souls in a court-style argument with a demon after the mortal dies. The series kicks off after one person's soul disappears mysteriously, and neither Heaven nor Hell knows where the soul went. The series currently comprises three books: ''The Dirty Streets of Heaven'', ''Happy Hour in Hell'' and ''Sleeping Late on Judgement Day''.

* BalefulPolymorph: Poor George/Fatback.

* CynicalMentor: Leo (and to a lesser extent, Sam), to Bobby.
* DatingCatwoman: Sort of. You've got an angel dating a demon, but since this is basically supernatural FilmNoir, it's more like the AntiHero dating a FemmeFatale (who also has elements of DamselInDistress).

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Eligor the Horseman, the Commissar of Wings and Claws, Lady Zinc, the Mastema, the Purified

* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Hell has three kinds of residents: the fallen angels; the damned, who are either converted into demons or tortured souls or both; and, rarely, the odd soul who's *born* there.

* TheWoobie: Poor poor Smyler. [[spoiler: Conceived when his father raped his mother, he was routinely beaten, abused and tormented by his mother who regarded him as evil and wrong for being a child of rape, always telling him to "smile because God loves you." Cue years later when he becomes a serial killer and kills people because he genuinely believes that by murdering them he is sending a gift to God and the angels, though when he is killed in a car wreck and resurrected by Hell to start killing people again, it is the latter that hunt him down and trap his soul. And that's before he even appears in the series...]]

* {{Hellevator}}: Actually, two in "Happy Hour in Hell:" one that goes down to the bridge that leads into Hell, and one within Hell itself. The latter, toward the lower levels, gets... very unpleasant, at least for Bobby.

* {{Badass}}: Bobby, Caz, Temuel, Smyler, Riprash, Karael.

* Tsundere: Caz could be the poster girl for them, one minute she's hitting Bobby and calling him "A [insert curse word here] idiot" and the next she's tearing his clothes off.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale Averted. When it happens, the victim is explicit about just how violating it is. [[Spoiler: The fact that said female's private parts have more in common with a poisonous jellyfish, MUCH MORE, than actual human genitalia just makes it worse.]]

* {{Determinator}}: Bobby.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale Averted. When it happens, the victim is explicit about just how violating it is.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Eligor

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Temuel, Bobby's boss, speaks on his behalf [[spoiler: when high-ranking angels investigate Bobby after souls disappear]].

* SnarkKnight: Bobby. Also a KnightInSourArmor.

''Bobby Dollar'' is an {{Urban Fantasy}} series written by {{Tad Williams}}. The angel Doloriel is an Advocate, one of several angels tasked with representing mortals' souls in a court-style argument with a demon after the mortal dies. The series kicks off after one person's soul disappears mysteriously, and neither Heaven nor Hell knows where the soul went. The series currently comprises three books: ''The Dirty Streets of Heaven'', ''Happy Hour in Hell'' and ''Sleeping Late on Judgement Day''.

* XMeetsY: {{Hellblazer}} meets RaymondChandler with a dash of JohnLeCarre.

* DatingCatwoman: Sort of. You've got an angel dating a demon, but since this is basically supernatural {{Noir}}, it's more like the AntiHero dating a FemmeFatale (who also has elements of DamselInDistress).

* DisproportionateRetribution: Bobby realises that Hell is this. In particular he's bothered by the fact that some have been sent there, to suffer an eternity of extreme torture, for relatively minor offences with no account taken of exculpatory circumstances or even because they happen to have been unlucky enough to have been unborn when their pregnant mother died and was damned. Even for the truly evil he thinks that eternity is over the top, thinking that a few hundred years of what goes on in hell should be punishment enough for anyone. [[spoiler: Made worse when he discovers that the system is corrupt and that angels sometimes send people there just to get them out of the way.]]

* XMeetsY: ''Hellblazer'' meets RaymondChandler with a dash of JohnLeCarre.

* SnarkKnight: Bobby. Also a KnightInSourArmor.

* CelestialBureaucracy: Heaven. In the first book alone, there is an archangel supervising Bobby Dollar, a rotating group of judges for immortal souls, higher angels who supervise Bobby's boss and pass judgment on Bobby Dollar's performance. There is also a Hall of Records, and it is implied that there are many, many levels of bureaucracy between the Highest (God) and Bobby.

* MysteriousPast: The angels, at least those on Earth, know they used to be mortal but have no memory of it. Starts to become a plot point in the the third book where it's very strongly hinted that [[spoiler: Bobby's past is has some significance to what's going on. He ends the third book vowing to investigate.]]

* DisporportionateRetribution: Bobby realises that Hell is this. In particular he's bothered by the fact that some have been sent there, to suffer an eternity of extreme torture, for relatively minor offences with no account taken of exculpatory circumstances or even because they happen to have been unlucky enough to have been unborn when their pregnant mother died and was damned. Even for the truly evil he thinks that eternity is over the top, thinking that a few hundred years of what goes on in hell should be punishment enough for anyone. [[spoiler: Made worse when he discovers that the system is corrupt and that angels sometimes send people there just to get them out of the way.]]

* MysteriousPast: The angels, at least those on Earth, know they used to be mortal but have no memory of it. Starts to become a plot point in the the third book where it's very strongly hinted that [[spoiler: Bobby's past is very significant.]]

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: And split into many, many different types. Bobby and his co-workers are low-level angels borrowing human bodies. They drink, smoke, and swear regularly. Once you get above Bobby's supervisors, the angels... vary. Some are male, some are female, some are neither (or both), and it is implied that not all of them are benevolent.

''Bobby Dollar'' is an {{Urban Fantasy}} series written by {{Tad Williams}}. The angel Doloriel is an Advocate, one of several angels tasked with representing mortals' souls in a court-style argument with a demon after the mortal dies. The series kicks off after one person's soul disappears mysteriously, and neither Heaven nor Hell knows where the soul went. The series currently comprises two books: ''The Dirty Streets of Heaven'' and ''Happy Hour in Hell.''

* LoveMakesYouDumb[=/=]LoveMakesYouCrazy: Pretty much what everyone thinks about Bobby's determination to literally go to Hell after his lady love, Even Bobby concedes that they have a point.
* TheMacGuffin: In the first two books a feather belonging to a higher angel. [[spoiler: Implied that in the third bokk it will be a horn tip belonging to Eligor, Grand Duke of hell.]]

* LoveMakesYouDumb[=/=]LoveMakesYouCrazy: Pretty much what everyone think about Bobby's determination to literally go to Hell after his lady love, Even Bobby concedes that they have a point.

* {{Hellevator}}: Actually, two in "Happy Hour in Hell:" one that goes down to the bridge that leads into Hell, and one within Hell itself. The latter, toward the lower levels, gets...very unpleasant, at least for Bobby.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: And split into many, many different types. Bobby and his co-workers are low-level angels borrowing human bodies. They drink, smoke, and swear regularly. Once you get above Bobby's supervisors, the angels ... vary. Some are male, some are female, some are neither (or both), and it is implied that not all of them are benevolent.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The second book. Bobby Dollar [[spoiler: visits Hell, and every scene -- every scene -- tops the last scene for cruelty, BodyHorror, and all-round {{Squick}}. Here's a demon made of melting mud. Here's a demon that bites off a main character's hand. And here's a room full of tiny pickled bodies.]]. Tad Williams has a truly frightening imagination.
* IronWoobie: The Countess with Cold Hands.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Temuel, Bobby's boss, speaks on his behalf [[spoiler: when high-ranking angels investigate Bobby after souls disappear]].