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The seventh and final installment in ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]''. Seven years (on Earth) after the events of ''[[The Silver Chair]]'', Jill and Eustace are summoned back for one last adventure, to aid the current King of Narnia against the treachery of the [[
Critics still wonder what Lewis intended for Susan's ultimate fate to be. Lewis issued no definitive statements on her fate, saying only in published correspondence that "perhaps she will get to Aslan's country in the end." She isn't dead yet, after all -- she's just an apostate for the time being. It is worth noting that this is one of the few cases in literature where the reader gets to feel bad for the [[
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* [[Action Girl]]: Jill has developed into one of these, being even better than Tirian at woodcraft, and a reliable archer.
* [[The Antichrist]]: {{spoiler|Shift, a literal ape of God}}.
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* [[Darker and Edgier]]: By far the darkest of the seven books. It was almost inevitable, because ''The Last Battle'' heavily draws upon the Apocalypse.
* [[Didn't See That Coming]]: {{spoiler|Tash is real and everybody dies and goes to heaven}}.
* [[Dragon
* [[Dressing As the Enemy]]: Tirian, Eustace, and Jill.
* [[Dropped a Bridge On Him]]: Susan survives, but is written out of the story. The Pevensie children claim that she stopped believing in Narnia and started dismissing her adventures as childhood games. The effect is [[Anticlimax]].
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* [[Fighting for Survival]]
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: In a conversation with talking Dogs, it is said that male pups that don't behave are often called Boys. One mentions that female dogs are called Girls instead, and another dog tells him not to use that word because it's rude.
* [[God Guise]]: Puzzle the donkey agrees to wear the skin of a lion while his so-called friend Shift tells everyone that Puzzle is Aslan. Shift's intentions are evil [[Les Collaborateurs|collaborating]] with the [[The Empire|evil empire of Calormen]], but Puzzle himself is [[Gullible Lemmings|mostly just impressionable and bad at saying no]]. It was quite an [[What an Idiot!|idiotic]] move, agreeing to impersonate Aslan and enable the betrayal of the country of Narnia, but the only character who really calls Puzzle out on this is Eustace.
* [[Gondor Calls for Aid]]
* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: {{spoiler|Summoning Tash}}.
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* [[Honor Before Reason]]: Tirian and Jewel are so ashamed of killing the Calormene slavemasters in unfair combat that they voluntarily surrender their weapons and allow themselves to be captured. [[Stupid Sacrifice|Er. Yes]].
* [[Hope Spot]]: The Talking Horses charging to the rescue, only to be shot down by the dwarves.
* [[Kill
* [[King in The Mountain]]: Father Time was once a great king, but sleeps underground (some of the characters saw him in ''The Silver Chair''), to wake at the end of the world.
* [[Laser
* [[Last Stand]]
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Tirian and Jewel after they kill two of the Calormene soldiers they saw murdering the dryads and overworking and whipping a Talking Horse.
* [[Nostalgia Heaven]]: The end of the book. They find themselves in "The England within England, the real England", where "no good thing is destroyed".
* [[Paper
* [[Pre
* [[Rail Enthusiast]]: Edmund is described as “the sort of person who knows about trains.”
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: The train crash is based on a real accident that happened in Britain in 1955. Both real and fictional accidents were caused by a train bound for Bristol taking a sharp curve through a station at excessive speed and derailing.
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** The dwarves in the stable are a more concrete example. They believe themselves to be damned, so they are.
* [[Shape Shifter Mashup]]: Tash, who has four arms, a bird's head, and [[Lovecraftian Superpower|projects an aura of utter terror and horror]].
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: Tirian tries, early in the book, but he is cut short and silenced by Shift's followers.
* [[Smug Snake]]: Ginger
* [[Signs of the End Times]]: Very much like the Biblical signs, in fact. Given that it's a Christian allegory, this should not come as a surprise.
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* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: Puzzle is captured and Tirian plans to reveal him to the Narnians as the false Aslan they've been following. By the time they return, however. Shift has already spread the word about a false Aslan and is using that to frame Tirian and his allies wih the blame of deceiving everyone.
** Shift's noted early on to be very good at this. When a [[Bolt of Divine Retribution]] strikes nearby after Shift and Puzzle think up the plan to pass himself off as Aslan, a quick-thinking Shift says he was about to say Aslan would send such a bolt of lightning to tell them he approves, only the bolt happened before he could get the words out. Later when a lamb protests allying with the Calormens because they worship the evil Tash, Shift just rebukes him and tells him Aslan and Tash are the same being.
* [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]]: A reversal of the usual pattern of Narnian time running faster when Eustace and Jill arrive moments after Tirian's vision in Narnia, but days later in earth time.
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