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Tropes that Apply to this Episode
- Artifact of Attraction: Edgar Allan Poe's pen.
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Ultimately, Warren deeply loves Myka.
- Batman Gambit: Macpherson left the notebook with Myka's dad, knowing that the team would go to help him and do the dirty work for him by eventually finding the pen.
- Bifurcated Weapon: Edgar Allan Poe's pen and notebook.
- Brown Note: The cymbals.
- Buried Alive: Getting magically inhumed is not something anyone should go through, especially Mr. Ives.
- The Bully: Greg. Also pulls double duty as a Jerk Jock.
- Cool Teacher: Mr. Ives.
- Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: Bobby and Tamara end up looking kinda scary thanks to the pen.
- Hypno Trinket: Jack the Ripper's lantern.
- Informed Attribute: It was heavily implied in 'Resonance' that Warren is scary and abusive,. Here he's a little overbearing and distant but nowhere near the domineering patriarch that Myka made him out to be.
- The Power of Love: Myka's love for her father, plus reading from his unpublished novel, ultimately brings her father back.
- Reality-Writing Book: Edgar Allan's Poe's notebook.
- Rewriting Reality: The pen and the notebook.
- Revenge of the Nerd: Bobby wants it, and with the pen, he's definitely going to get it.
- Sanity Slippage: As to be expected from someone who handles Poe's pen, who has a reputation for writing characters who turn loopy and murderous.
- Shout-Out: To a lot of Edgar Allan Poe works. Including, but not limited to "The Raven", "The Cask of Amontillado", and "The Pit and the Pendulum."Pete: What's that noise?Claudia: Just the beating of my hideous h-Pete: Stop it.
- Also the Johnny Cash song 'A Boy Named Sue.'
- That Came Out Wrong: This weird analogy.Artie: We hit the center of that target.Mrs. Frederic: With a small caliber bullet.
- Undeathly Pallor: Zombie Tamara.
- Well Done, Daughter Girl: Myka thinks that her father is disappointed in her.
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Bobby went a little nutty thanks to the pen.
- Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him?: Pete really could have saved everyone a lot of trouble, especially preventing two cops from dying, if he had shot Macpherson with the Tesla. Which is non-lethal.
- Words Can Break My Bones: Words definitely have power in this episode.
- Yandere: Bobby to Tamara. Though it's largely the pen's fault.
