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* FaceHeelTurn: Victor Sells used to be a perfectly decent family man until his dissatisfaction with his ability to provide for his wife and children and inferiority complex over her parents' wealth led him to turn to magic. After this, he [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity steadily became more and more corrupted by his new powers]] until he became a ruthless megalomaniacal crime lord motivated solely by greed and lust for power.
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* TheSocialDarwinist: Victor seems to have become this after discovering magic and becoming DrunkOnTheDarkSide.
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*FaceHeelTurn: Victor Sells used to be a perfectly decent family man until his dissatisfaction with his ability to provide for his wife and children and inferiority complex over her parents' wealth led him to turn to magic. After this, he [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity steadily became more and more corrupted by his new powers]] until he became a ruthless megalomaniacal crime lord motivated solely by greed and lust for power.
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*TheSocialDarwinist: Victor seems to have become this after discovering magic and becoming DrunkOnTheDarkSide.
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** When describing Bianca, Harry makes it sound like there's only one type of vampire.
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** When describing Bianca, Harry makes it sound like there's only one type of vampire. Justified-- he doesn't learn differently until Michael tells him two books later.
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No relation to the far-right website ''Stormfront'' (note the lack of a space between the words), or with the character from ''[[Series/TheBoys2019 The Boys]]'', or the [[VideoGame/SturmFrontTheMutantWar video game]].
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game]], or the [[Music/StormFrontAlbum album]] by Music/BillyJoel.
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* WorkingTheSameCase: Harry initially assumes that the disappearance of Victor Sells and the series of brutal murders are entirely unrelated. He finds out, to his cost, that they most certainly ARE intertwined.
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* ThirteenIsUnlucky: [=McAnally=]'s bar invokes this with 13 of everything, arranged in asymmetrical patterns: carved wooden columns, tables, mirrors, windows, ceiling fans, barstools. The randomness and number act to disperse any random magical outbursts that might come from drunk or angry customers. The whole place is deliberately low-tech, and its few mechanical devices (such as a player piano) rarely stop working.
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* ThirteenIsUnlucky: [=McAnally=]'s bar invokes this with 13 of everything, arranged in asymmetrical patterns: carved wooden columns, tables, mirrors, windows, ceiling fans, barstools. The randomness and number act to disperse any random wild magical outbursts that might come from drunk or angry customers. The whole place is deliberately low-tech, and its few mechanical devices (such as a player piano) rarely stop working.
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* ThirteenIsUnlucky: [=McAnally=]'s bar invokes this with 13 of everything, arranged in asymmetrical patterns: carved wooden columns, tables, ceiling fans, barstools. The randomness and number act to disperse any random magical outbursts that might come from drunk or angry customers. The whole place is deliberately low-tech, and its few mechanical/electrical devices (such as a player piano) rarely stop working.
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* ThirteenIsUnlucky: [=McAnally=]'s bar invokes this with 13 of everything, arranged in asymmetrical patterns: carved wooden columns, tables, mirrors, windows, ceiling fans, barstools. The randomness and number act to disperse any random magical outbursts that might come from drunk or angry customers. The whole place is deliberately low-tech, and its few mechanical/electrical mechanical devices (such as a player piano) rarely stop working.
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* ThouShaltNotKill: The First Law of Magic is that it is forbidden to kill with magic. Harry has violated this in the past (in self-defense), and the book's villain does so with impunity.
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* ThouShaltNotKill: The First Law of Magic is that it is forbidden to kill forbids the killing of a human being with magic. Harry has violated this in the past (in self-defense), and the book's villain does so with impunity. Later books establish that wizards have a lot more leeway when it comes to using their power to kill non-humans.
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* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:In later books it is revealed that the Beckitts lost their only daughter because of mob violence involving Marcone, and seek revenge for their loss.]]
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* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:In later books it is revealed that the Beckitts lost their [[spoiler:The Beckitts' only daughter because of mob violence involving Marcone, was killed in a shootout between Marcone's organization and seek a rival gang. Victor recruited them into his circle with the promise of helping them get revenge for their loss.on Marcone.]]
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* ThirteenIsUnlucky: [=McAnally=]'s bar invokes this with its thirteen carved columns in an asymmetrical pattern, thirteen tables scattered around, and thirteen ceiling fans in various locations. The randomness and number act as a magical break wall to the emotionally-induced magical outputs by patrons. The lights and fans rarely stop working.
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* ThirteenIsUnlucky: [=McAnally=]'s bar invokes this with its thirteen carved columns 13 of everything, arranged in an asymmetrical pattern, thirteen tables scattered around, and thirteen patterns: carved wooden columns, tables, ceiling fans in various locations. fans, barstools. The randomness and number act as a to disperse any random magical break wall to the emotionally-induced magical outputs by patrons. outbursts that might come from drunk or angry customers. The lights whole place is deliberately low-tech, and fans its few mechanical/electrical devices (such as a player piano) rarely stop working.
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** Hendricks - TheVoiceless in later novels - speaks, albeit briefly, in both of Harry's encounters with him and his boss.
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** Hendricks - TheVoiceless in later novels - speaks, albeit briefly, in both of Harry's encounters with him and his boss. This may be explained by the fact that Marcone implies in one of his own short stories that Hendricks is actually quite talkative when they're alone.
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* ReflectiveTeleportation: While Harry's apartment is being described, it is noted that it has no mirrors [[MirrorMonster because a number of unpleasant creatures could use it to teleport straight into his apartment and kill him in his sleep.]]
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[[TheOneWith The one with]] our introduction to Harry Dresden, [[OccultDetective wizard PI]].
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* OneDegreeOfSeparation:
** Harry and the police are the only ones ''not'' involved in the social network until brought into it, but it does make a certain degree of sense. Victor ended up [[spoiler: trying to kill Marcone, as his main business rival, but kills Marcone's body guard and his lover, a prostitute who happened to be Victor's sister-in-law]]. Victor's partners [[spoiler: in crime were said sister-in-law's old friend and lover, and the friend's employers, the Beckitts. The Beckitts had a run in with a young Marcone some fifteen years before, where their daughter was shot in as a bystander to gangland violence, which was their motivation for getting involved with Victor]]. Bianca was a business rival to Marcone in some capacity, but he seems to have tolerated her, and his bodyguard doing business with her.
** Harry and the police are the only ones ''not'' involved in the social network until brought into it, but it does make a certain degree of sense. Victor ended up [[spoiler: trying to kill Marcone, as his main business rival, but kills Marcone's body guard and his lover, a prostitute who happened to be Victor's sister-in-law]]. Victor's partners [[spoiler: in crime were said sister-in-law's old friend and lover, and the friend's employers, the Beckitts. The Beckitts had a run in with a young Marcone some fifteen years before, where their daughter was shot in as a bystander to gangland violence, which was their motivation for getting involved with Victor]]. Bianca was a business rival to Marcone in some capacity, but he seems to have tolerated her, and his bodyguard doing business with her.
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** Donny the photographer seems terrified of this trope as well, and the unnamed Pizza 'Spress delivery boy also.
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** Hendricks - TheVoiceless in later novels - speaks, albeit briefly, in both of Harry's encounters with him and his boss.
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