History Literature / WizardAndGlass

* BadMoonRising
* BeautyEqualsGoodness

** Roland, at least relative to Eddie, who cracks too many dead baby jokes. Roland actually gets pretty pissed at Eddie's "ridiculousness" at various point, only to end up apologizing once it saves them all.

** Roland, at least relative to Eddie, who cracks too many dead baby jokes.

* KarmaHoudini:
** Rhea. She basically orchestrates a majority of the events in the book, including [[spoiler: Susan's demise]] Then she causes Roland to [[spoiler: to shoot his own mother by accident]] and manages to get away scott-free.
*** Though Roland mentions that he did see Rhea again after the events of the story, and it's strongly implied that he killed her.
** Clay Reynolds survives the events of the story, but [[spoiler:the narration lets us know that he was killed shortly thereafter in an unrelated shootout]].

-->[[spoiler:"Why did the dead baby cross the road? Cause it was strapped to the chicken."]]

** Rhea. She basically orchestrates a majority of the events in the book, including [[spoiler: Susan's demise]] Then she causes Roland to [[spoiler: to shoot his own mother by accident]] and manages to get away scott-free.

* MexicanStandoff: What could be the most over-the-top straight version ever. Depape holds Sheemie hostage, Cuthbert gets the drop on him with a ''slingshot,'' Jonas sneaks up on Cuthbert and puts a knife to his throat, and Roland gets behind Jonas with a knife to his back.

* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Tick-Tock Man gets saved by Richard Fannin (or [[TheStand Randall Flagg]]?) only to have him intentionally die almost immediately by the hands of the ''ka-tet''.

* HateAtFirstSight: Rhea hates the young and beautiful Susan when she's called up on to examine her purity ''because'' she's young and beautiful, which eventually becomes a huge snarled mess [[spoiler:resulting in Susan's death at the end and the implied death of Rhea via revenge on Roland's part.]]

* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Tick-Tock Man gets saved by Richard Fannin(or [[TheStand Randall Flagg]]?) only to have him intentionally die almost immediately by the hands of the ''ka-tet''.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: bad boys want bad girls, as well. Coral Thorin and Eldred Jonas shack up. They each state that the other is the best lay they've ever had.

* MexicanStandoff: What could be the most over-the-top straight version ever.

* DeadBabyComedy: A joke about a literal dead baby is vital to the plot.

* BeingWatched: Rhea, and others, are able to do this with the power of Maerlyn's Rainbow.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Mejis for Mexico.

* ImmuneToBullets: Walter can't be hit with bullets from Roland's world. The ones from Jake's, however...

* TattooedCrook: The Big Coffin Hunters all have a tattoo of a coffin on their hands.

* TheSheriff: Avery.

* TheSheriff:

* BeingWatched

* ClickHello

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: See Logic Bomb above.

* ShoutOut: A climax in what may or may not be [[spoiler:Oz]].

* ComedyAsAWeapon: Eddie vs. Blaine. Also counts as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

* InterspeciesRomance: Rhea and her [[{{squick}} snake]].
* KarmaHoudini: Rhea. She basically orchestrates a majority of the events in the book, including [[spoiler: Susan's demise]] Then she causes Roland to [[spoiler: to shoot his own mother by accident]] and manages to get away scott-free. Undoubtedly, Roland caught up with her later to enact some much deserved justice, but from the reader's perspective...

* LogicBomb: An unusual twist: Faced with an insane but brilliant A.I. that has challenged them to a riddle contest, Eddie [[spoiler:forces it to guess the punchlines of bad jokes until it short-circuits]].

** Blaine The Mono is even worse, see LogicBomb.

* TheSheriff

Preceded by ''Literature/TheWastelands''.