History Literature / TheDaVinciCode

* [[spoiler: HeelRealization: Silas has one: "[[IronicEcho I am a ghost.]]"]]

* ScourgeOfGod: Silas insists that he's doing God's will.

* {{Claustrophobia}}: Langdon. [[ContinuityNod He is on every book.]]

** Not quite. [[spoiler:"Aringarosa" should be translated more properly as "pink herring", and the character itself is supposed to be of ''Spanish'' origin.]]

* CunningLinguist: Averted, especially in the movie, in which it's more than obvious that Langdon (as well as Tom Hanks who portrays him) knows absolutely nothing about French and can only react to familiar phrases (such as his own name); at other times he just looks at Sophie expectantly.

* SelfDestructingSecurity: The cryptex protects its contents with a combination lock. Attempting to force the cryptex open will break the vial of vinegar inside, which would dissolve the papyrus along with its message before it could be read. As a result, only the right password will grant access to the message.

* PoirotSpeak: Dan Brown's foreign language dialogue is almost unmatched in how ham-handed and unrealistic it is. Almost every bit of dialogue by a French person (and the first part of the book is set in Paris) features one or two words of French in otherwise flawless English, and it's almost always a simple, common word. In real life, people speaking a language that is foreign to them would probably lapse into their native tongue for the unfamiliar or unknown words, not "mister" and "captain".

* AdaptationalVillainy: Bishop Aringarosa gets this in TheMovie. In the book, he's just the leader of Opus Dei (which is presented as nothing more than an unusually conservative Catholic prelate) who gets roped into helping The Teacher find the tomb out of desperation to keep his order from being abolished. In TheMovie, he leads a secretive "shadow council" within the Church that actively wants to destroy the tomb to prevent evidence of Jesus' bloodline from reaching the public, and he manipulates Fache (who's an Opus Dei member in the movie) into hunting down Langdon despite his innocence.

** Then there's the whole ''the goddess'' thing. It's implied that all Pagan religions worshipped feminine beings in a similar way, and that it made them more peaceful as a society.

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Leonardo was part of a ancient group that knew the secret of Jesus

* ConflictBall: It's not immediately clear just what the antagonists are fighting over. The EvilAlbino and Aringarosa want to keep the secret of Mary Magdalene a secret. The Priory--has kept their knowledge of Mary Magdalene secret for centuries.

* EurekaMoment: Saturated with them, the final one is unseen but heavily implied.

* NonNaziSwastika: In the film, Langdon is making a conference. He shows part of an image of a swastika, everyone thinks about nazis, then Langdon shows the complete image, with a clearly buddhist context.

* PlotPoweredStamina: Robert Langdon never sleeps or visits the bathroom in the book, until the end

* AncientConspiracy: [[spoiler: Subverted. It turns out to be the work of a lone nutjob with an agenda. All the power players seemingly acting in concert against our heroes turn out to be unassociated individuals merely acting on poor information.]]

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: Much is made of the Holy Grail legend's significance to Christianity, even though the Holy Grail isn't actually mentioned in any canonical Christian text. The Grail legend wasn't spawned until the 12th century, and it's solely the product of Arthurian literature. This is why the Grail doesn't appear in Leonardo's "The Last Supper" (not to mention that Leonardo, being Italian, wouldn't have had much reason to paint a {{Macguffin}} from a French/British chivalric romance in one of his biblical scenes).

* ParallelPornTitles: ''The Da Vinci Load''. Currently on the second installment.

* RealIsBrown: the flashbacks are set in a grayish tone.

* AdventurerArchaeologist: Sort of; Adventurer Symbologist (a [[strike:made up]] discredited discipline) in this case

* InspectorJavert: Bezu Fache

* TooDumbToLive: Many people were appalled at the sheer stupidity of the officer who let Langdon and Sophie, the former a suspected murderer and the latter his accomplice, get away for fear of damage to the Madonna on the Rocks.

* NeverASelfMadeWoman: a very good example of it, at that.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Bishop Aringarosa gets this in TheMovie. In the book, he was just the leader of Opus Dei (which was presented as an unusually conservative Catholic prelate) who was roped into helping The Teacher find the tomb out of desperation to keep his order from being abolished. In TheMovie, he leads a secretive "shadow council" within the Church that actively wants to destroy the tomb to prevent evidence of Jesus' bloodline from reaching the public, and he manipulates Fache (who's an Opus Dei member in the movie) into hunting down Langdon despite his innocence.

* AncientConspiracy: [[spoiler: Subverted. Just like in AngelsAndDemons, it turns out to be the work of a lone nutjob with an agenda. All the power players seemingly acting in concert against our heroes turn out to be unassociated individuals merely acting on poor information.]]

* PrimalScene: [[spoiler: Sophie's falling out with her grandfather is over this; when she was younger she caught him in the middle of a sex ritual]]