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* CursedWithAwesome: For the women who prefer not to have the Power.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Darryl is paralyzed by a well-placed zap in a fight with the women who inflicted a CripplingCastration on his older brother. [[spoiler: That's how he knows how to do it to Jos once he's stolen Roxy's skein.]]
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* ChekhovsSkill: Darryl Darrell is paralyzed by a well-placed zap in a fight with the women who inflicted a CripplingCastration on his older brother. [[spoiler: That's how he knows how to do it to Jos once he's stolen Roxy's skein.]]
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* StrongButUnskilled: [[spoiler: Darryl]] when he uses the [[spoiler: skein]] he stole from Roxy.
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* FemaleGaze: Deliberately compared and contrasted with the MaleGaze. Many of Dunde's scenes involve a woman looking at him in a way that uses an implicit balance of power that would usually signify the MaleGaze. All of this comes around the to book's overall theme of gender stereotypes having a lot more to do with power imbalance than biology or social roles.
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* FemaleGaze: Deliberately compared and contrasted with the MaleGaze. Many of Dunde's Tunde's scenes involve a woman looking at him in a way that uses an implicit balance of power that would usually signify the MaleGaze. All of this comes around the to book's overall theme of gender stereotypes having a lot more to do with power imbalance than biology or social roles.
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* ChekovsSkill: Darryl is paralyzed by a well-placed zap in a fight with the women who inflicted a CripplingCastration on his older brother. [[spoiler: That's how he knows how to do it to Jos once he's stolen Roxy's skein.]]
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* ChekovsSkill: ChekhovsSkill: Darryl is paralyzed by a well-placed zap in a fight with the women who inflicted a CripplingCastration on his older brother. [[spoiler: That's how he knows how to do it to Jos once he's stolen Roxy's skein.]]
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* BreaktheHaughty - what happens to [[spoiler:Roxy]].
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* BreaktheHaughty BreakTheHaughty - what happens to [[spoiler:Roxy]].
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* JustBeforeTheEnd: The framing device and chapter openers make it clear the the modern world and the Power are not destined to coexist.
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* FetishFuel: It's acknowledged that certain chromosomal abnormalities can result in a person who is biologically male but possesses a skein. In-universe, Jos dating one such person is perceived as a fetish. Allegorically, it seems similar to real-world fetishes for dominant and physically imposing women.
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* FetishFuel: {{Fetish}}: It's acknowledged that certain chromosomal abnormalities can result in a person who is biologically male but possesses a skein. In-universe, Jos dating one such person is perceived as a fetish. Allegorically, it seems similar to real-world fetishes for dominant and physically imposing women.
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* FantasticDrug: Roxy makes her fortune on "Glitter," a drug that boosts Power reserves of the women who take it.
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** A less flashy example is the medicine Darryl takes to [[spoiler: force his body to grow the nerves required to use Roxy's skein after it's been transplanted.]]
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* DaddysGirl: Played straight with Roxy and Bernie [[spoiler: until it's subverted be her learning who had her mother killed.]]
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* ChekovsSkill: Chekov'sSkill: Darryl is paralyzed by a well-placed in a fight with the women who inflicted a CripplingCastration on his older brother. brother. [[spoiler: That's how he knows how to do it to Jos once he's stolen Roxy's skein.]]
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* ChekovsSkill: Darryl is paralyzed by a well-placed in a fight with the women who inflicted a CripplingCastration on his older brother. [[spoiler: That's how he knows how to do it to Jos once he's stolen Roxy's skein.]]
* CripplingCastration: Roxy manages to save her brother from three girls intent on killing him, but not before this happens.
* CripplingCastration: Roxy manages to save her brother from three girls intent on killing him, but not before this happens.
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* FemaleGaze: Deliberately compared and contrasted with the MaleGaze. Many of Dunde's scenes involve a woman looking at him in a way that uses an implicit balance of power that would usually signify the MaleGaze. All of this comes around the to book's overall theme of gender stereotypes having a lot more to do with power imbalance than biology or social roles.
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* HeManWomanHater: Desconstructed rather aggressively. The book portrays ideas about male and female strength, fragility, and suitability flip-flopping within just a few years. The DistantFinale shows that many of this trope's trappings have become flipped entirely in the intervening Dark Age.
* HeManWomanHater: Desconstructed rather aggressively. The book portrays ideas about male and female strength, fragility, and suitability flip-flopping within just a few years. The DistantFinale shows that many of this trope's trappings have become flipped entirely in the intervening Dark Age.
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* FetishFuel: It's acknowledged that certain chromosomal abnormalities can result in a person who is biologically male but possesses a skein. In-universe, Jos dating one such person is perceived as a fetish.
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* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: The Power draws a rather stark line between male and female. Jos's boyfriend Ryan is an example of how biology isn't quite so clear. Despite being biologically male, he has a chromosomal abnormality that means he ''also'' has a skein. In-universe, this is seen as an abnormality that is also grounds for a particular fetish.
* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: The Power draws a rather stark line between male and female. Jos's boyfriend Ryan is an example of how biology isn't quite so clear. Despite being biologically male, he has a chromosomal abnormality that means he ''also'' has a skein. In-universe, this is seen as an abnormality that is also grounds for a particular fetish.
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* FetishFuel: It's acknowledged that certain chromosomal abnormalities can result in a person who is biologically male but possesses a skein. In-universe, Jos dating one such person is perceived as a fetish.
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* ForWantOfANail: A chemical weapons defense agent from World War Two was carried around the world by the jetstream and made its way into the water table. Since no chemical weapons were employed during the War, it was forgotten about...until it turned out that 80 odd years later, it had caused a mutation in human females that would ultimately set the destruction of human civilization into motion. Oh, and said mutation had become quietly latent in almost every woman living.
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* HandWave: The World War II era anti-chemical-weapon agent Guardian Angel is blamed for the development of the Power. Exactly ''how'' the chemical could so drastically alter the biology of human females--and ''only'' human females--is neither explained nor particularly relevant to the plot.
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* {{Gendercide}}: Mens' Rights Activists start predicting this almost immediately after the Power emerges. [[spoiler: About a decade later, Besapara puts it into practice.]]
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: All three female protagonists. Roxy goes from a gangster's bastard daughter to one of the most powerful people in Europe. Margot goes from a big city mayor to one of the most influential members of Congress. Mother Eve goes from an unwanted runaway to the world's most prominent religious figure. [[spoiler: And each of them has a role to play in ending the world.]]
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: All three female protagonists.protagonists, plus Tatiana Moskolev. Roxy goes from a gangster's bastard daughter to one of the most powerful people in Europe. Margot goes from a big city mayor to one of the most influential members of Congress. Mother Eve goes from an unwanted runaway to the world's most prominent religious figure. Tatiana goes from being a trophy wife to the supreme leader of a nation with a cache of [=WMDs=]. [[spoiler: And each of them has a role to play in ending the world.]]
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* InferredHolocaust: Roxy and [[spoiler: Bernie]] have a conversation at the end of the book that's in the middle of the night with light on the horizon, implying that [[spoiler: London]] is burning.
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* HandicappedBadass: Roxy while she and Tunde are on the run in Besapara, after [[spoiler: her brother stole her skein]].
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* ForgoneConclusion: The framing device is from a far future where women have become the socially dominant sex, with men being repressed. There are interludes with excerpts from an audio guide from a "Museum of Pre-Cataclysmic Artifacts." Each chapter begins with a countdown. You can see where this is going.
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* ForgoneConclusion: ForegoneConclusion: The framing device is from a far future where women have become the socially dominant sex, with men being repressed. There are interludes with excerpts from an audio guide from a "Museum of Pre-Cataclysmic Artifacts." Each chapter begins with a countdown. You can see where this is going.
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* AndItWorked: The framing device shows that, at the cost of [[spoiler: a five-thousand year Dark Age]] Mother Eve's plan to remake society succeeded, despite Roxy insisting the cost was too high.
* ApocalypseHow: The main focus of the story is the how women becoming the more physically intimidating sex upends the world's social order. The framing device makes it clear that a a Class V is on the way, eventually revealed to have caused humanity to regress to [[spoiler: the Stone Age]]. The actual mechanics of said apocalypse is hinted at early, then described explicitly at the conclusion.
* AssholeVictim: Saudi Arabia and Moldova are the first countries to fall after the Power is awakened. Saudi Arabia being the world's most repressive regime toward women, and Moldova being the world capital of sex trafficking.
** Likewise, [[spoiler: Darryl Monke]] has a very ugly death that he very much deserved.
* BewareTheSuperman: Played with. A theme of the novel is that abuses of power are not constrained to any single gender.
* ApocalypseHow: The main focus of the story is the how women becoming the more physically intimidating sex upends the world's social order. The framing device makes it clear that a a Class V is on the way, eventually revealed to have caused humanity to regress to [[spoiler: the Stone Age]]. The actual mechanics of said apocalypse is hinted at early, then described explicitly at the conclusion.
* AssholeVictim: Saudi Arabia and Moldova are the first countries to fall after the Power is awakened. Saudi Arabia being the world's most repressive regime toward women, and Moldova being the world capital of sex trafficking.
** Likewise, [[spoiler: Darryl Monke]] has a very ugly death that he very much deserved.
* BewareTheSuperman: Played with. A theme of the novel is that abuses of power are not constrained to any single gender.
* DistantFinale: The framing device shows that Mother Eve's plan worked.
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* FramingDevice: The story is bookended by a (male) novelist in the far future explaining the events of the novel as his recontextualization of the known past as a piece of historical fiction. We get to hear his (female) editor's thoughts at the end of the novel.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: All three female protagonists. Roxy goes from a gangster's bastard daughter to one of the most powerful people in Europe. Margot goes from a big city mayor to one of the most influential members of Congress. Mother Eve goes from an unwanted runaway to the world's most prominent religious figure. [[spoiler: And each of them has a role to play in ending the world.]]
* FramingDevice: The story is bookended by a (male) novelist in the far future explaining the events of the novel as his recontextualization of the known past as a piece of historical fiction. We get to hear his (female) editor's thoughts at the end of the novel.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: All three female protagonists. Roxy goes from a gangster's bastard daughter to one of the most powerful people in Europe. Margot goes from a big city mayor to one of the most influential members of Congress. Mother Eve goes from an unwanted runaway to the world's most prominent religious figure. [[spoiler: And each of them has a role to play in ending the world.]]
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* StrongButUnskilled: [[spoiler: Darryl]] when he uses the [[spoiler: skein]] he stole from Roxy.
* SocietyMarchesOn: The segment of the story set in Saudi Arabia mentions that women there aren't even allowed to drive. This law was repealed in 2017.
* SocietyMarchesOn: The segment of the story set in Saudi Arabia mentions that women there aren't even allowed to drive. This law was repealed in 2017.
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* HolyShitQuotient - “It was Bernie!”
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* BreaktheHaughty - what happens to [[spoiler:Roxy]].
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* DoubleStandard: Rape, Female on Male - AVERTED. Hard. Female on male rape is horrifying, graphic and absolutely not sexy.
* EyeScream:[[spoiler:sSeveral [[spoiler:Several women are blinded in an attempt to control them.]]
* BreaktheHaughty - what happens to [[spoiler:Roxy]].
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane - No explanation is given for Allie’s voices, and it's up to interpretation whether it's a manifestation of some mental illness or a really supernatural occurrence.
* MyEyesAreUpHere / MrFanservice - Tunde. To the point that his [[spoiler: obituary]] mentions it.
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* KarmaHoudini - Bernie fucking Monke.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane - No explanation is given for Allie’s voices, and it's up to interpretation whether it's a manifestation of some mental illness or a really supernatural occurrence.
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The Power is a speculative sci-fi novel by Naomi Alderman, based around the premise of women having the ability to use [[ShockAndAwe electricity]] from their hands. As a result, the world is quickly upended as our four protagonists watch society change.
Spoilers abound.
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* [[spoiler: EyeScream: several women are blinded in an attempt to control them.]]
* BewareTheSuperman: Played with. A theme of the novel is that abuses of power are not constrained to any single gender.
* ShockAndAwe: What women can do.
Spoilers abound.
'''Tropes:'''
* [[spoiler: EyeScream: several women are blinded in an attempt to control them.]]
* BewareTheSuperman: Played with. A theme of the novel is that abuses of power are not constrained to any single gender.
* ShockAndAwe: What women can do.
