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* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Idith and Inez Branko.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Idith and Inez Branko.
* ArchEnemy: Harken for the Red King.
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* BadassBookworm: Paton Yewbeam.
* BadassCrew: The children of the Red King.
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* BadassBookworm: Paton Yewbeam.
* BadassCrew: The children of the Red King.
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* BlackSheep: Lyell Bone in the Yewbeam family; Bartholomew Bloor in the Bloor family.
* BoardingSchool: Bloor's Academy is this.
* BoardingSchool: Bloor's Academy is this.
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* ChekhovsGunman: Mr. Pilgrim, who in the fifth book is revealed to be[[spoiler:Lyell [[spoiler: Lyell Bone, Charlie's ten-years-estranged father. He's also the Red Knight]].Knight]].
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* ChekhovsGunman: Mr. Pilgrim, who in the fifth book is revealed to be
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* ABoyAndHisX: For Benjamin, 'a boy and his dog'.
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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: [[spoiler:Miss Chrystal/Titania Tilpin]] gets increasingly ugly after she turns out to be an evil witch.
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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: [[spoiler:Miss [[spoiler: Miss Chrystal/Titania Tilpin]] gets increasingly ugly after she turns out to be an evil witch.
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler: It is Charlie's entering Bloor's that weakens Lyell's trance.]]
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* OfficialCouple: Paton and Julia Ingledew.
** Amy and Lyell, after [[spoiler: Lyell's awakening at the end of the fifth book.]]
** Tancred and Emma could count as well, as [[spoiler: at the end of the final book they do seem to have acknowledged their feelings for one another and are pursuing a relationship of some sort.]]
** Amy and Lyell, after [[spoiler: Lyell's awakening at the end of the fifth book.]]
** Tancred and Emma could count as well, as [[spoiler: at the end of the final book they do seem to have acknowledged their feelings for one another and are pursuing a relationship of some sort.]]
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The series begins with [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Charlie Bone]] accidentally getting the wrong photograph from the photo developer... and discovering that he can hear people talking in the photo. While he is perturbed at this [[IncrediblyLamePun development]], his [[{{Jerkass}} grandmother and great aunts]] inform him he has magical abilities and enroll him in [[WizardingSchool Bloor's Academy]] where he becomes part of the music department (because of his [[DisappearedDad supposedly dead father]], [[ChekhovsGun who played the piano]]). At Bloor's, Charlie makes [[TrueCompanions new friends]], encounters strange magic, and learns all about the history of his BigScrewedUpFamily.
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The series begins with [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Charlie Bone]] accidentally getting the wrong photograph from the photo developer... and And discovering that he can hear people talking in the photo. While he is perturbed at this [[IncrediblyLamePun development]], [[{{Pun}} development,]] his [[{{Jerkass}} grandmother and great aunts]] inform him he has magical abilities and enroll him in [[WizardingSchool Bloor's Academy]] where he becomes part of the music department (because of his [[DisappearedDad supposedly dead father]], father,]] [[ChekhovsGun who played the piano]]). At Bloor's, Charlie makes [[TrueCompanions new friends]], friends,]] encounters strange magic, and learns all about the history of his BigScrewedUpFamily.
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* TheEmpath: Gabriel Silk is psychometric, which allows him to experience the thoughts and feelings of people whose clothes he puts on.
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* WheelChairAntics: Ezekiel Bloor engages in this at least once. In ''Hidden King'', he attaches sparklers to the back of his wheelchair and rides around through a crowd like that.
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There was also a spin-off series released in 2011, chronicling the story of the Red King and his family.
[[AC: The books in the trilogy are:]]
* ''The Secret Kingdom'' (2011)
* ''The Stones of Ravenglass'' (2012)
* ''Leopards' Gold'' (2013)
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** Before the beginning of the series, Manfred Bloor [[spoiler: hypnotises Lyell Bone to punish him for trying to stop the abduction of Emma Tolly. He also does it partially in an attempt to discern the whereabouts of Maybelle's will (which Lyell had hidden). However, while spellbound Lyell has LaserGuidedAmnesia and as such forgets where he put the pearl-inlaid box containing the will.]]
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* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:Billy Raven, at the end of the series]].
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* DramatisPersonae: Each book has several pages at the beginning listing all the current major characters and their powers, as well as a copy of [[TangledFamilyTree Charlie's ever expanding family tree]] and in later books, the family of the Red King.
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* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[JerkassWoobie Dagbert Endless]], whose CharacterAlignment changes with the moon. [[spoiler:At the end, he seems to have finally settled somewhere on [[LawfulGood the]] [[ChaoticGood "good"]] [[NeutralGood spectrum]]]]. Billy Raven switches to bad side for several books before rejoining the heroes.
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* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[JerkassWoobie Dagbert Endless]], whose CharacterAlignment changes with the moon. [[spoiler:At the end, he seems to have finally settled somewhere on [[LawfulGood the]] [[ChaoticGood "good"]] [[NeutralGood spectrum]]]]. Billy Raven switches to the bad side for several books before rejoining the heroes.
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* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[JerkassWoobie Dagbert Endless]], whose CharacterAlignment changes with the moon. [[spoiler:At the end, he seems to have finally settled somewhere on [[LawfulGood the]] [[ChaoticGood "good"]] [[NeutralGood spectrum]]]]. Billy Raven switches to bad side for several books before rejoining the heroes.
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* HypnoticEyes: Manfred's original power, though it begins to wane to make way for a newer, [PlayingWithFire much more destructive]] one.
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* StupidScientist: Ezekiel has shades of this, crossed with GenreBlindness. He literally had no other plan for controlling [[CompleteMonster Borlath]] except that since he was Borlath's descendant, he'd of course be obligated to help him out.
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* StupidScientist: Ezekiel has shades of this, crossed with GenreBlindness. He literally had no other plan for controlling [[CompleteMonster Borlath]] Borlath except that since he was Borlath's descendant, he'd of course be obligated to help him out.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Paton Yewbeam, though Charlie has a few good ones.
--> '''Charlie:''' It's just my grandma.
--> '''Billy:''' No, Charlie, this is different. Rembrandt says it smells of bad magic and things that should be dead.
--> '''Charlie:''' Like I said.
--> '''Charlie:''' It's just my grandma.
--> '''Billy:''' No, Charlie, this is different. Rembrandt says it smells of bad magic and things that should be dead.
--> '''Charlie:''' Like I said.
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* HypnoticEyes: Manfred's original power, though it begins to wane to make way for a newer, [PlayingWithFire much more destructive]] one.
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* BalanceOfGoodAndEvil: What Cook/[[spoiler: Treasure]] does. This actually is almost her downfall in the fourth book when the good children start getting systematically picked off by the bad ones.
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* OffingTheOffspring: What Lord Grimwald intends to do to Dagbert, due to their family's curse.
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* SelfMadeOrphan: Dagbert Endless, thanks to a nasty curse on his family.
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* TheAssimilator: Yorath is capable of this. [[spoiler: They were released upon his death, though]].
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* ArchnemesisDad: A curse on Dagbert Endless' family ensures that when he turns thirteen, he will have to battle his father, Lord Grimwald, to the death. [[spoiler: He wins]].
* TheAssimilator: Yorath is capable of this. [[spoiler:They The victims were released upon his death, though]].
* TheAssimilator: Yorath is capable of this. [[spoiler:
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* EveryoneIsRelated: Most of the main characters are related and almost ''everyone'' is descended from the Red King.
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* EvilMatriarch: Grandma Bone.
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* MakingASplash: Subverted with Dagbert, who drowns people by simulating the ocean. Somehow. It's implied he will inherit his father's water powers upon [[spoiler: killing him]], however.
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* DisabilityImmunity: Billy's albinism gives him poor eyesight, which makes him immune to HypnoticEyes.
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* DisabilityImmunity: Billy's albinism gives him poor eyesight, which makes him immune to HypnoticEyes. HypnoticEyes.
* DisappearedDad: Lyell Bone, who was [[spoiler: hypnotized by Manfred and hidden away as a music teacher in the Academy for the next ten years. He's woken up in the fifth book and is finally reunited with his wife and son]].
* DisappearedDad: Lyell Bone, who was [[spoiler: hypnotized by Manfred and hidden away as a music teacher in the Academy for the next ten years. He's woken up in the fifth book and is finally reunited with his wife and son]].
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* INeverToldYouMyName: Alice Angel knows Olivia's name immediately when she and Charlie walk into her shop, and uses it repeatedly. It doesn't say much for Charlie's character that he doesn't think anything is wrong until Alice also says his name. It turns out that, unknown to them [[spoiler:Alice is Olivia's next door neighbour, godmother, and self-declared guardian angel and a friend of Charlie's Uncle Paton]].
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* INeverToldYouMyName: Alice Angel knows Olivia's name immediately when she and Charlie walk into her shop, and uses it repeatedly. It doesn't say much for Charlie's character that he doesn't think anything is wrong until Alice also says his name. It turns out that, unknown to them [[spoiler:Alice is Olivia's next door neighbour, neighbor, godmother, and self-declared guardian angel and a friend of Charlie's Uncle Paton]].
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* MuggleBestFriend: Benjamin Brown, Fidelio Gunn and Olivia Vertigo [[spoiler: until she is revealed to be endowed as well]].
* MundaneUtility: Charlie uses his wand to help him remember things he's studied for school.
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* MuggleBestFriend: Benjamin Brown, Fidelio Gunn Gunn, and Olivia Vertigo [[spoiler: until she is revealed to be endowed as well]].
* MundaneUtility: Charlie uses his wand to help him remember things he's studied for school. [[spoiler: Olivia sometimes uses her illusion power to stir up mischief when she gets bored.]]
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* MyInstinctsAreShowing: Asa at times. Especially prominent where Yolanda was concerned, as he was attracted to her specifically because of her powers.
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* ParentalAbandonment: Emma's dad, Mostaf Tolly, traded her to the Bloors for a replica of the Toledo knight when she was a baby. He eventually tries to put this right, but is murdered before he can.
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* TheAssimilator: Yorath is capable of this. [[spoiler: They were released upon his death, though]].
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* CatsAreMagic: Played straight in the case of Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius, otherwise known as the Flames. They used to be leopards belonging to the Red King, and are capable of turning themselves into fire, and occasionally can resume their true forms.
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* GoneHorriblyRight: Ezekiel Bloor attempts to bring the brutal tyrant Borlath back to life, and seemingly succeeds - except that there's no way of controlling him. [[spoiler: It turns out that he actually brought back Queen Berenice, who was a loving mother and is compelled to protect the endowed children]].
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* MagicEnhancement: Paton Yewbeam is a "power booster", though this mainly extends just to electronics, lightbulbs in particular. He also knows how to utilize this power effectively, and even manages to fatally electrocute Yolanda with it.
* MagicWand: Charlie inherits one from his ancestor Mathonwy, [[OnlyTheChosenMayWield though it can only be used by one of his bloodline speaking in Welsh]]. [[spoiler: Later on after Manfred tries to destroy it, it becomes a white moth]].
* MagicWand: Charlie inherits one from his ancestor Mathonwy, [[OnlyTheChosenMayWield though it can only be used by one of his bloodline speaking in Welsh]]. [[spoiler: Later on after Manfred tries to destroy it, it becomes a white moth]].
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* MundaneUtility: Charlie uses his wand to help him remember things he's studied for school.
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* StupidScientist: Ezekiel has shades of this, crossed with GenreBlindness. He literally had no other plan for controlling [[CompleteMonster Borlath]] except that since he was Borlath's descendant, he'd of course be obligated to help him out.
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* {{Empathy}}: Gabriel Silk is psychometric, which allows him to experience the thoughts and feelings of people whose clothes he puts on.
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* MasterOfIllusion: [[spoiler: Olivia Vertigo]].
* MyInstinctsAreShowing: Asa at times. Especially prominent where Yolanda was concerned, as he was attracted to her specifically because of her powers.
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* ShipTease: Emma and Charlie, until it is revealed that [[spoiler: Emma has a crush on Tancred]]. Olivia and Charlie would probably qualify too.
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* {{Shapeshifting}}: Yorath Yewbeam and his daughter Yolanda are traditional shapeshifters, able to become literally any living thing (even plants, apparently, in Yorath's case). Emma Tolly and Asa Pike are slightly different, with Emma able to become any type of bird she wants, including made up ones, and Asa being more of a werewolf and transforming depending on how light or dark his surroundings are.
* ShipTease: Emma and Charlie, until it is revealed that [[spoiler: Emma has a crush on Tancred]]. Olivia and Charlie would probably qualify too.
* ShipTease: Emma and Charlie, until it is revealed that [[spoiler: Emma has a crush on Tancred]]. Olivia and Charlie would probably qualify too.
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* TalkingToAnimals: Billy Raven.
* TalkingToAnimals: Billy Raven.
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* BadPowersBadPeople: This almost seems to be the case when it comes to the endowed. Those with more destructive powers tend to be on the side of the Bloors, while those with more useless-sounding powers tend to be good. This is averted by Tancred and Lysander, who are easily the strongest of all the kids at the Academy, and who are both very firmly on Charlie's team.
* CharmPerson: Joshua Tilpin, who is a human magnet in every sense of the word.
* MindOverMatter: Zelda Dobinski, Beth Strong, and Idith and Inez Branko.
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* BigBad: Count Harken Badlock.
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* BigBad: Ezekiel Bloor, until [[spoiler: Count Harken Badlock.
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* PlayingWithFire: Manfred Bloor, upon losing his hypnotism power, begins instead to develop fire powers like his ancestor Borlath. This is especially terrifying for the younger kids when the only other firestarter in the series was a cruel, brutal tyrant whose greatest sport was stated to be torture.
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''Children of the Red King'' is a series of fantasy novels by Jenny Nimmo which first began publishing in 2002. They describe the adventures of Charlie Bone.
The series begins with [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Charlie Bone]] accidentally getting the wrong photograph from the photo developer... and discovering that he can hear people talking in the photo. While he is perturbed at this [[IncrediblyLamePun development]], his [[{{Jerkass}} grandmother and great aunts]] inform him he has magical abilities and enroll him in [[WizardingSchool Bloor's Academy]] where he becomes part of the music department (because of his [[DisappearedDad supposedly dead father]], [[ChekhovsGun who played the piano]]). At Bloor's, Charlie makes [[TrueCompanions new friends]], encounters strange magic, and learns all about the history of his BigScrewedUpFamily.
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* ''Midnight for Charlie Bone'' (2002)
* ''The Time Twister'' (2003) (Also ''Charlie Bone and the Time Twister'')
* ''The Blue Boa'' (2004) (Also ''Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy'')
* ''The Castle of Mirrors'' (2005) (Also ''Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors'')
* ''Charlie Bone and the Hidden King'' (2006)
* ''Charlie Bone and the Wilderness Wolf'' (2007) (Also ''Charlie Bone and the Beast'')
* ''Charlie Bone and the Shadow of Badlock'' (2008)
* ''Charlie Bone and the Red Knight'' (2009)
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!!This series contains examples of the following tropes:
* AcademyOfAdventure / WizardingSchool: Bloor's Academy.
* AdultsAreUseless: Mostly averted. Most of the adults are fairly competent; when they're unable to help the kids it's for reasons that actually make sense, and when they ''do'' help out it makes a big difference. Plus, for every nice adult there's two who are {{Jerkass}}es or [[AxCrazy completely psychotic]].
* {{Awesome McCoolname}}: Olivia Vertigo, Lysander Sage, Tancred Torsson, Gabriel Silk, Eric Shellhorn, Alice Angel, Orvil Onimous, anyone with the last name "Yewbeam"... yeah, there's a lot of these.
* BadassTeacher: Dr. Saltweather and Senor Alvaro, though barely mentioned at all in the final battle, make quite a team.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: [[spoiler:Miss Chrystal/Titania Tilpin]] gets increasingly ugly after she turns out to be an evil witch.
* BigBad: Count Harken Badlock.
** Ezekiel Bloor is the BigBad of the ''series''.
* BigFriendlyDog: Runner Bean.
* BigScrewedUpFamily
* BodyHorror: Asa when he changes from human to beast, or vice versa.
* {{Bouncer}}: Norton Cross is a sort-of bouncer for the Pets' Cafe.
* ButtMonkey: Poor Benjamin and his dog Runner Bean just can't catch a break.
* CastCalculus: Rotates through the books. Mostly involves Charlie and Billy, involves Emma and Olivia more often than not, and occasionally includes Gabriel, Tancred and Lysander.
* [[CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase Character Name and]] {{the X of Y}}: All of the books except the first in the U.S.
* ChekhovsGunman: Mr. Pilgrim, who in the fifth book is revealed to be [[spoiler:Lyell Bone, Charlie's ten-years-estranged father. He's also the Red Knight]].
* ConstantlyCurious: Joshua Tilpin has quite a few questions for Lord Grimwald in the last book.
* CoolOldGuy: Paton Yewbeam.
* CreepyTwins: Idith and Inez Branko.
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Tancred]].
* DontExplainTheJoke: "I think they only put 'FISH' up on that sign to explain the smell, if you catch me. And not because they're selling any."
* EarnYourHappyEnding
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Paton Yewbeam and his sister Venetia could count, as both are on the tall side and have black hair.
* EveryoneIsRelated: Most of the main characters are related and almost ''everyone'' is descended from the Red King.
* EvilOldFolks: Quite a few, but Ezekiel Bloor deserves special mention; he's a GrumpyOldMan taken to [[UpToEleven the extreme]].
* EyesOfGold: Asa Pike's eyes are yellow, which just adds to his wolfish demeanor.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Norton Cross]].
* GoodGuyBar: The Pet Cafe.
* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:Billy Raven, at the end of the series]].
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[JerkassWoobie Dagbert Endless]], whose CharacterAlignment changes with the moon. [[spoiler:At the end, he seems to have finally settled somewhere on [[LawfulGood the]] [[ChaoticGood "good"]] [[NeutralGood spectrum]]]].
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Asa Pike, due to his nature as a Changer. It's implied that he actually might have rejoined the Bloors, had they not seen fit to lock him up for a few months in a cave, later on without sunlight (which is what he requires in order to be human). In other words, they deprived him of his humanity for several weeks and nearly starved him to death in the process. Their actions also led up to Asa's father being shot and killed by local hunters. It's no wonder he turned his back on them completely after that]].
* HeroicAlbino: Billy Raven.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Christopher Crowquill, which makes him one of the very few non-evil characters to be KilledOffForReal]].
** [[spoiler: Asa's dad was shot to death trying to defend his son from hunters]].
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Emma and Olivia.
* INeverToldYouMyName: Alice Angel knows Olivia's name immediately when she and Charlie walk into her shop, and uses it repeatedly. It doesn't say much for Charlie's character that he doesn't think anything is wrong until Alice also says his name. It turns out that, unknown to them [[spoiler:Alice is Olivia's next door neighbour, godmother, and self-declared guardian angel and a friend of Charlie's Uncle Paton]].
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: With a sufficient light source, Asa is human. But in the dark, he cannot retain that shape, instead automatically transforming into a beast -- the eponymous "Wilderness Wolf" of the sixth book. [[spoiler: Being trapped as an animal for too long can also have a bad effect on his sanity, though luckily he manages to hold himself together enough to not rip apart his rescuers when they come for him]].
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: In addition to the aforementioned Christopher and Mr. Pike, BigBad Manfred and his grandfather Ezekiel die at the end of the last book]].
* KissingCousins: The descendents of the Red King have been interbreeding with one another for a ''very'' long time, mostly to "[[BigScrewedUpFamily keep the bloodline pure]]."
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
* MuggleBestFriend: Benjamin Brown, Fidelio Gunn and Olivia Vertigo [[spoiler: until she is revealed to be endowed as well]].
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Mr. Onimous sounds a lot like o'''m'''i'''n'''ous. [[SubvertedTrope He's one of the good guys though]].
** Also, [[AwesomeMcCoolName Count Harken Badlock]].
* PapaWolf: Do not kill [[spoiler:Yolanda Yewbeam]] or [[spoiler:Tancred Torsson]]. Their fathers will be ''pissed''.
* PlotInducedStupidity: By all rights, Tancred and Lysander as a team are powerful enough to solve just about every problem Charlie has ever struggled with -- especially when it comes to the Bloor family, who are all terrified of them. Why they never seem to remember this is a mystery.
** Tancred actually isn't very good at controlling his powers, and often has to force himself from losing control of them. Lysander doesn't really have an excuse, though.
* PoliceAreUseless: Justified, since there's not much the police can do about magical crimes, especially when they've got their hands full with the mundane variety already. Though one does help [[spoiler: Charlie's mother]] offscreen in the last book.
* PowerPerversionPotential / GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The chief protagonist can go into any still image. ''Any'' still image. Think about it.
* PunnyName: An example that overlaps with NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Belle Donner. [[spoiler:Who is actually [[ShapeShifter Yolanda Yewbeam]]]].
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: The eponymous snake from the third book [[spoiler:[[AvertedTrope is more]] {{Woobie}} [[AvertedTrope than abhorrent]]]].
* SchoolForScheming
* SealedEvilInACan: The Shadow/[[spoiler:Count Harken Badlock]].
* ShipTease: Emma and Charlie, until it is revealed that [[spoiler: Emma has a crush on Tancred]]. Olivia and Charlie would probably qualify too.
* SwordCane: Uncle Paton has one in his walking stick, used in the final battle. And it's electrified.
* SuperpowerfulGenetics
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Lucretia, Eustacia, and Venetia Yewbeam live at 13 Darkly Wynd.
** Parodied. They don't all live at the same house, their street has three No. 13s.
* UnfazedEveryman: Benjamin, Fidelio, and Olivia. [[spoiler:Until Olivia turns out to be endowed in the fourth book]].
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. Some of the endowed have powers that initially seem lame, but most of them turn out to be [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Guns]] or more powerful than you'd think.
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''Children of the Red King'' is a series of fantasy novels by Jenny Nimmo which first began publishing in 2002. They describe the adventures of Charlie Bone.
The series begins with [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Charlie Bone]] accidentally getting the wrong photograph from the photo developer... and discovering that he can hear people talking in the photo. While he is perturbed at this [[IncrediblyLamePun development]], his [[{{Jerkass}} grandmother and great aunts]] inform him he has magical abilities and enroll him in [[WizardingSchool Bloor's Academy]] where he becomes part of the music department (because of his [[DisappearedDad supposedly dead father]], [[ChekhovsGun who played the piano]]). At Bloor's, Charlie makes [[TrueCompanions new friends]], encounters strange magic, and learns all about the history of his BigScrewedUpFamily.
[[AC: The books in the series are:]]
* ''Midnight for Charlie Bone'' (2002)
* ''The Time Twister'' (2003) (Also ''Charlie Bone and the Time Twister'')
* ''The Blue Boa'' (2004) (Also ''Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy'')
* ''The Castle of Mirrors'' (2005) (Also ''Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors'')
* ''Charlie Bone and the Hidden King'' (2006)
* ''Charlie Bone and the Wilderness Wolf'' (2007) (Also ''Charlie Bone and the Beast'')
* ''Charlie Bone and the Shadow of Badlock'' (2008)
* ''Charlie Bone and the Red Knight'' (2009)
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!!This series contains examples of the following tropes:
* AcademyOfAdventure / WizardingSchool: Bloor's Academy.
* AdultsAreUseless: Mostly averted. Most of the adults are fairly competent; when they're unable to help the kids it's for reasons that actually make sense, and when they ''do'' help out it makes a big difference. Plus, for every nice adult there's two who are {{Jerkass}}es or [[AxCrazy completely psychotic]].
* {{Awesome McCoolname}}: Olivia Vertigo, Lysander Sage, Tancred Torsson, Gabriel Silk, Eric Shellhorn, Alice Angel, Orvil Onimous, anyone with the last name "Yewbeam"... yeah, there's a lot of these.
* BadassTeacher: Dr. Saltweather and Senor Alvaro, though barely mentioned at all in the final battle, make quite a team.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: [[spoiler:Miss Chrystal/Titania Tilpin]] gets increasingly ugly after she turns out to be an evil witch.
* BigBad: Count Harken Badlock.
** Ezekiel Bloor is the BigBad of the ''series''.
* BigFriendlyDog: Runner Bean.
* BigScrewedUpFamily
* BodyHorror: Asa when he changes from human to beast, or vice versa.
* {{Bouncer}}: Norton Cross is a sort-of bouncer for the Pets' Cafe.
* ButtMonkey: Poor Benjamin and his dog Runner Bean just can't catch a break.
* CastCalculus: Rotates through the books. Mostly involves Charlie and Billy, involves Emma and Olivia more often than not, and occasionally includes Gabriel, Tancred and Lysander.
* [[CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase Character Name and]] {{the X of Y}}: All of the books except the first in the U.S.
* ChekhovsGunman: Mr. Pilgrim, who in the fifth book is revealed to be [[spoiler:Lyell Bone, Charlie's ten-years-estranged father. He's also the Red Knight]].
* ConstantlyCurious: Joshua Tilpin has quite a few questions for Lord Grimwald in the last book.
* CoolOldGuy: Paton Yewbeam.
* CreepyTwins: Idith and Inez Branko.
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Tancred]].
* DontExplainTheJoke: "I think they only put 'FISH' up on that sign to explain the smell, if you catch me. And not because they're selling any."
* EarnYourHappyEnding
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Paton Yewbeam and his sister Venetia could count, as both are on the tall side and have black hair.
* EveryoneIsRelated: Most of the main characters are related and almost ''everyone'' is descended from the Red King.
* EvilOldFolks: Quite a few, but Ezekiel Bloor deserves special mention; he's a GrumpyOldMan taken to [[UpToEleven the extreme]].
* EyesOfGold: Asa Pike's eyes are yellow, which just adds to his wolfish demeanor.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Norton Cross]].
* GoodGuyBar: The Pet Cafe.
* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:Billy Raven, at the end of the series]].
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[JerkassWoobie Dagbert Endless]], whose CharacterAlignment changes with the moon. [[spoiler:At the end, he seems to have finally settled somewhere on [[LawfulGood the]] [[ChaoticGood "good"]] [[NeutralGood spectrum]]]].
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Asa Pike, due to his nature as a Changer. It's implied that he actually might have rejoined the Bloors, had they not seen fit to lock him up for a few months in a cave, later on without sunlight (which is what he requires in order to be human). In other words, they deprived him of his humanity for several weeks and nearly starved him to death in the process. Their actions also led up to Asa's father being shot and killed by local hunters. It's no wonder he turned his back on them completely after that]].
* HeroicAlbino: Billy Raven.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Christopher Crowquill, which makes him one of the very few non-evil characters to be KilledOffForReal]].
** [[spoiler: Asa's dad was shot to death trying to defend his son from hunters]].
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Emma and Olivia.
* INeverToldYouMyName: Alice Angel knows Olivia's name immediately when she and Charlie walk into her shop, and uses it repeatedly. It doesn't say much for Charlie's character that he doesn't think anything is wrong until Alice also says his name. It turns out that, unknown to them [[spoiler:Alice is Olivia's next door neighbour, godmother, and self-declared guardian angel and a friend of Charlie's Uncle Paton]].
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: With a sufficient light source, Asa is human. But in the dark, he cannot retain that shape, instead automatically transforming into a beast -- the eponymous "Wilderness Wolf" of the sixth book. [[spoiler: Being trapped as an animal for too long can also have a bad effect on his sanity, though luckily he manages to hold himself together enough to not rip apart his rescuers when they come for him]].
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: In addition to the aforementioned Christopher and Mr. Pike, BigBad Manfred and his grandfather Ezekiel die at the end of the last book]].
* KissingCousins: The descendents of the Red King have been interbreeding with one another for a ''very'' long time, mostly to "[[BigScrewedUpFamily keep the bloodline pure]]."
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
* MuggleBestFriend: Benjamin Brown, Fidelio Gunn and Olivia Vertigo [[spoiler: until she is revealed to be endowed as well]].
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Mr. Onimous sounds a lot like o'''m'''i'''n'''ous. [[SubvertedTrope He's one of the good guys though]].
** Also, [[AwesomeMcCoolName Count Harken Badlock]].
* PapaWolf: Do not kill [[spoiler:Yolanda Yewbeam]] or [[spoiler:Tancred Torsson]]. Their fathers will be ''pissed''.
* PlotInducedStupidity: By all rights, Tancred and Lysander as a team are powerful enough to solve just about every problem Charlie has ever struggled with -- especially when it comes to the Bloor family, who are all terrified of them. Why they never seem to remember this is a mystery.
** Tancred actually isn't very good at controlling his powers, and often has to force himself from losing control of them. Lysander doesn't really have an excuse, though.
* PoliceAreUseless: Justified, since there's not much the police can do about magical crimes, especially when they've got their hands full with the mundane variety already. Though one does help [[spoiler: Charlie's mother]] offscreen in the last book.
* PowerPerversionPotential / GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The chief protagonist can go into any still image. ''Any'' still image. Think about it.
* PunnyName: An example that overlaps with NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Belle Donner. [[spoiler:Who is actually [[ShapeShifter Yolanda Yewbeam]]]].
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: The eponymous snake from the third book [[spoiler:[[AvertedTrope is more]] {{Woobie}} [[AvertedTrope than abhorrent]]]].
* SchoolForScheming
* SealedEvilInACan: The Shadow/[[spoiler:Count Harken Badlock]].
* ShipTease: Emma and Charlie, until it is revealed that [[spoiler: Emma has a crush on Tancred]]. Olivia and Charlie would probably qualify too.
* SwordCane: Uncle Paton has one in his walking stick, used in the final battle. And it's electrified.
* SuperpowerfulGenetics
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Lucretia, Eustacia, and Venetia Yewbeam live at 13 Darkly Wynd.
** Parodied. They don't all live at the same house, their street has three No. 13s.
* UnfazedEveryman: Benjamin, Fidelio, and Olivia. [[spoiler:Until Olivia turns out to be endowed in the fourth book]].
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. Some of the endowed have powers that initially seem lame, but most of them turn out to be [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Guns]] or more powerful than you'd think.
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