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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: In what is quite possibly the most disturbing scene in the entire trilogy, a group of boys in World War II London stone a dachshund because it is a German breed. The distraught owner finds it mutilated and in horrific agony before a neighbour puts the dog out of its misery.
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* MeaningfulName: Webster, the modern surname adopted by the three Nornir who run the Wyrd Museum, is fitting as it means weaver. They weave the destinies of mortals.
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* HelpYourselfInTheFuture: After his death, [[spoiler:Angelo Signorelli]] was given the opportunity by [[TheFates the Webster sisters]] to go back in time and save himself (as well as his friend, his love interest and her son). However, they made him wait for many years to do so, during which his soul was trapped inside a teddy bear in the Wyrd Museum. It was in this form that he returned to the past with Neil as his (initially) unwilling accomplice.
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* HelpYourselfInTheFuture: After his death, [[spoiler:Angelo Signorelli]] was given the opportunity by [[TheFates [[TheWeirdSisters the Webster sisters]] to go back in time and save himself (as well as his friend, his love interest and her son). However, they made him wait for many years to do so, during which his soul was trapped inside a teddy bear in the Wyrd Museum. It was in this form that he returned to the past with Neil as his (initially) unwilling accomplice.
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* HelpYourselfInTheFuture: After his death, [[spoiler:Angelo Signorelli]] was given the opportunity by [[TheFates the Webster sisters]] to go back in time and save himself (as well as his friend, his love interest and her son). However, they made him wait for many years to do so, during which his soul was trapped inside a teddy bear in the Wyrd Museum. It was in this form that he returned to the past with Neil as his (initially) unwilling accomplice.
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* GetBackToTheFuture: Neil's little brother Josh is tricked by Ted into entering a portal to the past, and the former is forced to jump in as well to save him. Initially all Neil wants to do is find Josh and get home. While that remains his ultimate goal, after he gets to know the people in the past Ted wants to save, he decides to help them also.
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11-year-old Neil Chapman's ordinary life is turned upside down when his father takes a job as caretaker of the Wyrd Museum, a creepy old building in the East End of London. The collection of peculiar (and often dangerous) artefacts is watched over by [[TheWeirdSisters three eccentric old ladies]] known as the Webster sisters, who have lived there for centuries spinning the fates of mortals. Neil finds himself caught up in their affairs, being sent into the past with [[LivingToys a talking teddy bear]] to change history and then battling an ancient evil determined to bring the sisters to ruin.
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When Neil Chapman's father takes a job as caretaker of the Wyrd Museum, a creepy old building in the East End of London, the 11-year-old boy is unprepared for what he finds there. The collection of peculiar (and often dangerous) artefacts is watched over by [[TheWeirdSisters three eccentric old ladies]] known as the Webster sisters, who have lived there for centuries spinning the fates of mortals. Neil finds himself caught up in their affairs, being sent into the past with [[LivingToys a talking teddy bear]] to change history and then battling an ancient evil determined to bring the sisters to ruin.
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* LadykillerInLove: The womanizing Angelo Signorelli finds himself falling deeply in love with Jean Evans.
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* MissingMom: Neil's mother left he and his little brother to be raised by their father. [[spoiler:It turns out she is the stepmother of Lauren Humphries, a girl Neil befriends in the second book.]]
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* LongLostRelative: Lauren's mother turns out to be [[spoiler:Neil's estranged mother]].
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* LongLostRelative: Lauren's mother stepmother turns out to be [[spoiler:Neil's estranged mother]].
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* LongLostRelative: Lauren's mother turns out to be [[spoiler:Neil's estranged mother]].
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* PainfulTransformation: The women to whom the crow dolls attach themselves are turned into horrific bird creatures, and are in total agony as it is happening. Their jaws split and become beaks, their arms snap and splinter into wings, and feathers erupt from their skin.
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* TransformationHorror: When the crow dolls attach themselves to unsuspecting women and turn them into bird monsters, the transformations are described in terrifying detail.
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* WasOnceAMan: The Valkyries were human women who became horrific bird creatures under the power of Woden's crow dolls.
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* LossOfIdentity: The crow dolls used by Woden attach themselves to women who morph into the bloodthirsty Valkyries, having no memory of their previous selves. [[spoiler:They all return to normal once free of the dolls, though.]]
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* {{Ghostapo}}: Nazi spy [[spoiler:Kathleen Hewitt]] encounters Belial, an ancient demon from The Separate Collection that Neil and Ted unwittingly brought back into the past with them. She eagerly accepts his offer for her to become his new high priestess, certain that an alliance with the evil being would ensure a Nazi victory. [[spoiler:But in the end he is defeated and her hopes are dashed.]]
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* SealedEvilInACan: Belial, an ancient evil kept by the Webster sisters in a casket in their Separate Collection. He accidentally is freed and must be recaptured by Neil and Ted.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Kathleen Hewitt]], a Nazi spy posing as an English girl who's friends with Jean Evans.
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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: [[spoiler:Ursula]] tries to justify letting [[spoiler:Veronica and Celandine be killed]] as her way for them all to FaceDeathWithDignity.
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-->''"In your hated web you entangled me, and your sisters you sent like cattle to be slaughtered. Was there ever a harder or a colder heart?"''
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* MistakenForMurderer: [[spoiler:Angelo]] finds [[spoiler:Frank]] stabbed to death and, while grieving over the body of his friend, is found by military police who think he was the murderer.
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* MistakenForMurderer: [[spoiler:Angelo]] finds [[spoiler:Frank]] stabbed to death and, while grieving over the body of his friend, is found discovered by military police who think he was the murderer.
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* MistakenForMurderer: [[spoiler:Angelo]] finds [[spoiler:Frank]] stabbed to death and, while grieving over the body of his friend, is found by military police who think he was the murderer.
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* MyFutureSelfAndMe: PlayedWith in that [[spoiler:Angelo]] finds and takes [[spoiler:Ted]] to use as a good luck charm on his thirteenth bombing mission, but as the animated teddy bear does not move or speak in front of him never realises that it is inhabited by his own spirit from the future.
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* FutureSelfReveal: The animated teddy bear who travels back in time to World War II with Neil is eventually revealed to be [[spoiler:the ghost of Angelo Signorelli. He was an American GI who died then and wants to save his past self.]]
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ted [[spoiler:a.k.a. Angelo Signorelli]], who is mouthy and abrasive but comes to care for Neil. Jean finds Angelo to be rude initially and doesn't care for his attitude [[spoiler:(it turns out that Ted is Angelo's ghost, so they're the same person)]], but he then shows a more sensitive side that wins her over.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ted [[spoiler:a.k.a. Angelo Signorelli]], who is mouthy and abrasive but comes to care for Neil. Jean finds Angelo to be rude initially and doesn't care for his attitude [[spoiler:(it turns out that Ted is Angelo's ghost, so they're the same person)]], attitude, but he then shows a more sensitive side that wins her over.over. [[spoiler:It turns out that Ted is the ghost of Angelo, so the aforementioned examples refer to the same person.]]
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ted [[spoiler:a.k.a. Angelo Signorelli]], who is mouthy and abrasive but comes to care for Neil.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ted [[spoiler:a.k.a. Angelo Signorelli]], who is mouthy and abrasive but comes to care for Neil. Jean finds Angelo to be rude initially and doesn't care for his attitude [[spoiler:(it turns out that Ted is Angelo's ghost, so they're the same person)]], but he then shows a more sensitive side that wins her over.
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* DefrostingIceQueen: At first Jean is cold toward Angelo, not caring for his behaviour which she perceives as rude. But eventually she warms up to him and even comes to love him.
