History Literature / MollyMoon

* AuthorAppeal: Georgia Byng is apparently fond of accents, speech impediments, [[VerbalTic verbal tics]], etc. Namely, Mrs. Trinklebury stutters, Maharaja Waqt speaks in spoonerisms, Princess Fang lisps, Professor Selkeem [[CloudCuckoolander speaks in riddles, rhymes, and metaphors]], Hiroyuki and the monk Do speak in YouNoTakeCandle fashion, Miss Suzette and Miss Oakkton have a French and German accent respectively, and Ojas tends to say Molly's name as "Mollee" (which could be due to Indian accent).

* LoonWithAHeartOfGold: Professor Selkeem aka Axel is an unusual case since his madness is a direct consequence of his moral qualities and self-sacrificial love. In order to protect his wife, he agreed to transport Princess Fang and her people in time, and multiple time travels shattered his mind.

* HoorayForHollywood: The author seems to think that all stars just randomly stroll around Hollywood ''all the time''.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In canon, Molly is meant to be plain at best and ugly at worst, with a "wafer-thin" figure, "blotchy" legs, close-set eyes, and a "potato" nose. The movie has her played by Raffey Cassidy, who is very glamorous.

* GlowingEyes: Molly's hypnosis manifests by having her eyes glow green.

* CompellingVoice: Anyone who can hypnotize people in this universe has either this or HypnoticEyes. In Molly's case, it's a combination of the two.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In canon, Molly is meant to be plain with a "potato" nose. The movie has her played by Raffey Cassidy, who is very glamorous.

* RealityEnsues: Midway through the first book, Molly realises that while she won a substantial prize at the talent contest, it won't go very far given the way she's spending it, and while she could just hypnotise everyone for everything, that will only work for so long before someone notices something amiss and her cover's blown, so she needs an actual source of income.
** In the second book, while Molly gets a large severance package from her acting job, [[spoiler:funding an orphanage and everyone living there costs a ''lot'', and she worries about money running out there as well.]]
** Petula spends the first part of the first book perpetually grumpy and unfriendly. Molly finds out by hypnotising her that it's because Mrs Adderstone feeds her chocolate biscuits, so she's got a constant stomachache.
** Molly is a very powerful hypnotist, but she's still a young teenager, so she stands out a lot, and often has to hypnotise people into complying with her where an adult wouldn't have that problem.

''Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism'' is a book about a British preteen living in a terrible orphanage. Just before her only friend is adopted and moves to America without saying goodbye, she finds a rare book on hypnotism. She heads off to America to find her friend, hypnotizing people all the way. Meanwhile, a sinister wanna-be hypnotist stalks her... and he is willing to do anything to get the book in his hands.

* EpiphanicPrison: Using the time crystals, Molly sents Waqt back to prehistoric times. The only way for him to return to present would be to use the hidden power of the crystals, but it can only be activated once he realizes the evil of his ways and repents.
* FreudianExcuse: In fact, just about every antagonist in the first book (and several in the later ones) turn out to have a FreudianExcuse for their horrible behavior -- most often they're mean because life hasn't treated them well. For instance, Hazel states the reason she is a bully is because her parents never cared for her even when they were alive.
* GambitPileup: In ''Molly Moon Stops The World'', Molly is sent to stop a ruthless tycoon called Primo Cell from taking over the world with hypnosis. It's revealed towards the end that [[spoiler: Cell was himself hypnotized by Cornelius Logan to take over the world for him. It's then revelaed in the next book that Cornelius himself was hypnotized by the Maharaja of Waqt to hypnotize Cell to take over the world for ''him''.]]

* LineOfSightAlias: Molly goes by 'Miss Yucca' during the bank robbery. Also, this is how Mrs Trinklebury named some of the abandoned babies. Rocky was left in a pram with 'The Scarlet Rocker' written on it, and was thus named Rocky Scarlet. Molly was left in a box of Moon's Marshmallows with a lollipop stick in the box, and Mrs Trinklebury named her Lolly Moon, but Mrs Adderstone refused to allow 'Lolly' as a name, so it was changed to 'Molly'.

* LoonWithAHeartOfGold: Professor Selkeem aka Axel is an unusual case, since his madness is a direct consequence of his moral qualities and self-sacrificial love. In order to protect his wife, he agreed to transport Princess Fang and her people in time, and multiple time travels shattered his mind.

* NonHumanSidekick: [[CanineCompanion Petula the Pug]]. Originally she's the bad-tempered, pampered pet of Ms Adderstone, but Molly discovers that the reason she's bad-tempered is because she's improperly fed and suffering from constant stomachaches. She's the first creature Molly successfully hypnotizes, but even after the trance is over Petula ends up attaching herself to the girl, becoming her constant companion for the rest of the series.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Molly develops a new power every book.

* LineOfSightName: Molly goes by 'Miss Yucca' during the bank robbery. Also, this is how Mrs Trinklebury named some of the abandoned babies. Rocky was left in a pram with 'The Scarlet Rocker' written on it, and was thus named Rocky Scarlet. Molly was left in a box of Moon's Marshmallows with a lollipop stick in the box, and Mrs Trinklebury named her Lolly Moon, but Mrs Adderstone refused to allow 'Lolly' as a name, so it was changed to 'Molly'.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The lullaby Mrs Trinkelbury sings says that "It's what mamma cuckoo taught it to do/She taught it that pushing is best". Cuckoos are infamous for being brood parasites; that is, they lay their eggs in the nests of other birds and rely on them to raise the offspring. Mother cuckoos don't teach their children anything, because they don't raise them.

A film adaptation, called ''Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism'' (originally ''Molly Moon: the Incredible Hypnotist''), was screened at 3 international film festivals (Toronto, Bentonville, and Seattle), with a "VOD [video-on-demand] and limited theatrical release" beginning August 14 in America [[labelnote:note]]no longer in theaters, but available for streaming on Amazon and Website/YouTube and also now on DVD[[/labelnote]], and set for mid-October in the UK, and later in the year elsewhere.

* GreenEyes: Molly is described having these in the book series. In the movie, she has InnocentBlueEyes which turn green when hypnotizing.

''Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism'' is a book about a British preteen living in a terrible orphanage. Just before her only friend is adopted and moves to America without saying goodbye, she finds a rare book on hypnotism. She heads off to America to find her friend, hypnotizing people all the way. Meanwhile, a sinister wanna-be hypnotist stalks her...and he is willing to do anything to get the book in his hands.

* ArcWords: In the first book, the lullaby Mrs Trinkelsbury sang to Molly and Rocky when they were small keeps returning to Molly throughout the story, though she doesn't understand its significance until late in the book:

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** The reason that Molly is a more powerful hypnotist than me mother is that [[spoiler:her mother is a twin and therefore split her powers with Cornelius.]] Then in book four, we find out that Molly is in the exact same situation as her mother.

* CharmPerson: Molly meets a young actress in the first book that has this. She does it unconsciously, through eye contact, and it's implied that's how she became so famous. Molly endoes a hypnosis battle with her.

* GoneHorriblyRight: Before leaving for America in the first book, Molly hypnotizes Adderstone and Edna to be nice to all children. [[spoiler: When she and Rocky return, they discover that Adderstone and Edna fired Mrs. Trinklebury and abandoned ed the children in the orphanage, thinking that they would be happier without adults to boss them around.]]
* GoodFeelsGood: Molly tries to invoke this trope several times by hypnotizing the villains with {{freudian excuse}}s into becoming nice and hoping they'll remember the feeling once the hypnosis wears off.
** The most obvious example of this is [[spoiler: Nockman, whose experience with the trope is described in detail in the last part of the first book, and who in the second book is shown to have truly become a kind and loving man.]]

* HypnoPendulum: Molly eventually buys one from an antique store, but she uses her own "homemade" ones early on: the stirring of a spoon (on Edna) and a piece of soap on a string (tries to use this on Hazel, but fails).

** All the stories after the third, have {{Alliterative Title}}s.

* NonHumanSidekick: [[CanineCompanion Petula the Pug]]. Originally she's the bad-tempered, pampered pet of Ms Adderstone, but Molly discovers that the reason she's bad-tempered is that she's improperly fed and suffering from constant stomachaches. She's the first creature Molly successfully hypnotizes, but even after the trance is over Petula ends up attaching herself to the girl, becoming her constant companion for the rest of the series.

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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The titles, starting with ''Molly Moon, Mickey Minus, and the Mind Machine''.

* GoodFeelsGood: Molly tries to invoke this trope several times by hypnotizing the villains with [[FreudianExcuse freudian excuses]] into becoming nice and hoping they'll remember the feeling once the hypnosis wears off.

** While Molly is hypnotizing the crowd at the start of her show, the son of the family watching TV has his head down and wearing headphones while listening to an MP3, making him the only one who isn’t affected.