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''[[The Inkworld Trilogy]]'' is a German children's book series by Cornelia Funke. It consists of ''Tintenherz'' (''Inkheart''), ''Tintenblut'' (literally "Inkblood", but translated as ''Inkspell'' for the English version), and ''Tintentod'' (''Inkdeath'').
The series centers around Meggie Folchart and her father, Mo. Mo is gifted with the ability to cause anything he reads aloud to appear in front of him. He believes it only applies to inanimate objects until one evening while reading to his wife he accidentally brings to life a fictional [[Evil Overlord]] named Capricorn, along with his knife-happy [[The Dragon|Dragon]], Basta, and the [[Good Scars, Evil Scars|scarred]] fire-eater Dustfinger. At the same time, Mo accidentally sends his wife into the fictional universe, [[Trapped in Another World|trapping her there.]] [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Nice going]].
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[[The Movie]] came out in late 2008, starring Eliza Bennett as Meggie, Andy Serkis as Capricorn (who apparently likes duct tape), Paul Bettany as Dustfinger, and Brendan Fraser as Mo.
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* [[Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder]]: Roxanne. By the time Dustinger finally returns home, he has been gone ten years, and Roxanne has a son (by another man) who is nearly that old, so she can't have waited for him very long.
* [[A God Am I]]: Fenoglio and Orpheus both have attacks of this, and it's hard to tell which man is worse.
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* [[The Faceless]]: The Shadow.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: There is an unintentional (as Funke wasn't planning on writing any sequels at that point) bit of foreshadowing near the beginning of ''Inkheart'' where Mo playfully threatens to cut Dustfinger into "very thin slices" if he continues to tell Meggie scary stories. This becomes something of a [[Funny Aneurysm]] later on when Mo becomes {{spoiler|[[Just Like Robin Hood]]}} and starts regularly {{spoiler|cutting people to bits for real}}.
* [[Fourth Wall Shut-in Story]]: The main characters are simply fans of the story, but the author himself got trapped in his own writing, too. He wasn't doing too badly there... for a time.
* [[Gentle Giant]]: The Strong Man in the third book.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Considering the books are geared at children, it's surprising how many times they say words like "damn", "hell", and "bastard", especially in ''Inkspell''. The reason is probably that the works were translated from German, and Germans have a greater tolerance for these cusswords, even in works for children.
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