History Literature / TheMortalInstruments

### TheLance: Jace Herondale

** Isabelle Lightwood is the seasoned, snobbish, girly Nephilim to Clary Fray's naïve idealist tomboy.

* NarrativeProfanityFilter: The series uses this. Examples include, in ''City of Bones'', Alec said something that rhymes with 'ducking glass mole' and in ''City of Ashes'', has Jace suggested that the whole cast of Gilligan's Island could do something anatomically unlikely to themselves. At one point a character's lines are simply described as ''something unprintable''.

* NarrativeProfanityFilter: The series uses this. Examples include, in ''City of Bone'', Alec said something that rhymes with 'ducking glass mole' and in ''City of Ashes'', has Jace suggested that the whole cast of Gilligan's Island could do something anatomically unlikely to themselves.

* SharedUniverse: As well as ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices'' prequel series, this seems to be set in the same universe as the ''Literature/ModernFaerieTales'' by Creator/HollyBlack. Val and Luis from ''Literature/{{Valiant}}'' are the homeless kids Clary sees in the first book and Simon listens to Stepping Razor, Ellen's band from ''Literature/{{Tithe}}''.

* TheVerse: ''The Shadowhunter Chronicles'' consisting of this series, prequel series ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices'', sequel series ''The Dark Artifices'', ''The Last Hours'' (sequel to ''The Infernal Devices'') and ''The Wicked Powers'' (sequel to ''The Dark Artifices''), all taking place in the Shadowhunter world.

%% * AllMythsAreTrue: Lampshaded explicitly several times.

* ''The Wicked Powers''\\

!!The Book series provides examples of:

* ''City of Bones''
* ''City of Ashes''
* ''City of Glass''
* ''City of Fallen Angels''
* ''City of Lost Souls''
* ''City of Heavenly Fire''\\

* ''The Secret Treasons''\\

** Church (the Persian cat from the New York Institute) shares his name with [[PetSematary another famous cat]].

A [[FilmOfTheBook film version]] was released August 2013, with Creator/LilyCollins and JamieCampbellBower having been cast as Clary and Jace; the sequel was scheduled to start filming in 2014, [[StillbornFranchise but has since been cancelled.]]

[[spoiler:Jace and Clary end up being siblings... though not before they've sort of fallen in love with each other. Oops...]]\\

* AmbiguousEnding: Because of the cancelled sequel, the movie ends [[spoiler: with no one knowing for sure where Valentine is]], whether Clary and Jace agree or believe deep down [[spoiler: they're not really siblings]], when Jocelyn will wake up, or what will happen with the two other Mortal Instruments. But hey, at least [[spoiler: they got the Cup]].

** Clary and Jace also share one of these when [[Literally Falling In Love Clary accidentally falls on top of him]].

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: SCANDAL's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjisx_lUFHA "Rainy"]] is the theme song for the Japanese release of the film.

* TheHunter: The Shadowhunters protect humanity from supernatural creatures. Subverted somewhat in that the Shadowhunters are themselves supernatural in nature.

%% * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Clary and Isabelle. Played with in that Clary starts out as TheChick and evolves into a {{Badass}} while Isabelle is a {{Badass}} ActionGirl.

-->"Jace suggested that the cast of GilligansIsland could go do [[GoshDarnitToHeck something anatomically unlikely]] with themselves."

An [[UrbanFantasy urban fantasy]] series by CassandraClare following [[PluckyGirl Clary Fray]] after she witnesses three teenagers apparently commit murder in a nightclub - but [[InvisibleToNormals no one else can see them]].

** Val and Luis from Holly Black's [[Literature/ModernFaerieTales Valiant]] are seen at one point.

* SharedUniverse: As well as ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices'' prequel series, this seems to be set in the same universe as the ''Literature/ModernFaerieTales'' by HollyBlack. Val and Luis from Valiant are the homeless kids Clary sees in the first book and Simon listens to Stepping Razor, Ellen's band from Tithe.

* NayTheist: Jace in particular, but the Clave as a whole is extremely irreligious considering that they are a group of enhanced humans whose gifts were very explicitly granted to them by an archangel. While they show a notable interest in angelology, and can name more angels than most people who are not professional theologians, they tend to steer clear of discussions about {{God}}. The Nephilim have no churches, synagogues, mosques, etc in Idris, and when seeking consecrated ground for their Institutes they are prone to using sites that were formerly mundane locations of worship. They also rely heavily on holy water, but do not produce it themselves, instead getting it from various mundane religions.

* ''The Bane Chronicles''
* ''The Shadowhunter Codex''
* ''Tales From the Shadowhunter Academy''

* ''The Dark Artifices''

''The Shadowhunter Codex'' reveals that throughout history, there have been ''several'' attempts to wipeout Downworlders and that torturing them and robbing them was quite legal for some time. Things began to change with the Accords, but the racism lingers in Shadowhunter culture.

* HolyHandGrenade: The Heavenly Fire. Also the ''skeptron'' [[spoiler: developed by the Shadowhunters of the parallel Earth now known as Edom]]. Both are weaponized versions of GoodHurtsEvil[=/=]LightEmUp.
* HomosexualReproduction: [[spoiler: Averted. But Robert Lightwood suspects that Magnus somehow did this magically when he and Alec suddenly adopt an abandoned, blue-skinned, warlock baby. Noting that Alec's eyes are deep blue, and Magnus's magic glows blue, Robert strongly hints that he thinks Magnus created the baby using himself and Alec as some kind of biological donors. Magnus is so stunned that he simply states that he is going to pretend that Robert never asked him about this. Which only seems to make Robert believe it more.]]

%% * HolyHandGrenade: The Heavenly Fire. Also the ''skeptron'' [[spoiler: developed by the Shadowhunters of the parallel Earth now known as Edom]].

** Clary Fray from is often almost insanely self-absorbed. Even though she is unconcerned about things like popularity, she can be rather spectacularly heedless of other people's feelings, tends to jump into dangerous situations without thinking about it and will do whatever she wants even if it literally results in endangering the entire world. Luke calls her out on it one time, [[spoiler:when she tries to blindly Portal to Idris]] and she is shocked because he has never chastised her before.