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* [[Obviously Evil]]: Hyde's appearance.
* [[Professor Guinea Pig]]: The [[Ur Example]], beating out ''[[The Invisible Man (novel)|The Invisible Man]]'' by a decade.
* [[Science Marches On]]: Utterson's and Guest's conclusions about Jekyll's and Hyde's handwriting (obviously the same person's but deliberately altered) have been used to contribute to [[Alternative Character Interpretation|Alternative Character Interpretations]] of whether Hyde is a clinical alternate personality or just a hypocritical Jeckyll.
** Jeckyll mentions he deliberately changed his handwriting when he was Hyde, because both their handwritings were normally identical.
* [[Shadow Archetype]]
* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: One of critics' favorite subjects is how no nominal women appear in the original book or even get involved in the plot except as spectators or victims. <ref>[[Tropes Are Not Bad]], and the novella is great anyway.</ref> For some reason, you would never know this from most adaptations...
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