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{{quote|''"Coldly calculated to pander to your shrieking demographic!"''|'''Michael J. Nelson''', ''[[Riff Trax (Podcast)|Riff Trax]]''}}
 
{{quote|''"Kids love sexy vampires!"''|'''J.D.''', ''[[Scrubs (TV)|Scrubs]]''}}
 
A series of young adult [[Urban Fantasy]]/[[Paranormal Romance]] novels by [[Stephenie Meyer]], and the title of the first book. It is about a girl named Bella Swan who falls in love with Edward Cullen, a vampire. Bella is a really special girl, and Edward is (a) unable to use his vampire powers to read her mind, (b) totally hot for her blood and (c) madly in love with her. So, Edward wants to form a relationship with Bella while [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|resisting the urge to suck her dry]]. Things get complicated in the second book when Bella's childhood friend Jacob, who also has the hots for her, reveals himself to be a shirtless werewolf. There's also the occasional [[Wacky Wayside Tribe]], such as the vampire tracker James and the Volturi.
 
Has, perhaps unsurprisingly, its own [[Twilight (Literaturenovel)/Characters|character page]].
 
The series currently consists of four books (''Twilight'', ''New Moon'', ''Eclipse'', ''Breaking Dawn''). [[Stephenie Meyer]] had plans to make a POVquel called ''[[Midnight Sun (Literaturenovel)|Midnight Sun]]'', which is the plot of ''Twilight'' (nearly word-for-word) told through Edward's point of view. Then, leaked copies of the rough draft were released. Meyer has halted the publication until she gets through her [[Creator Breakdown|reaction]] over the event, saying "''If I tried to write ''[[Midnight Sun]]'' now, in my current frame of mind, James would probably win and all the Cullens would die.''" Depending on whether you're a fan or not, [[Your Mileage May Vary|that may either horrify or excite you]]. She now has written a 200 page "novella" called [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/mar/30/stephenie-meyer-new-twilight-novella The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner], which came out on June 5, 2010. A guide has been announced as well, planning to be released on April 12th (after being pushed back to another date multiple times).
 
The [[The Film of the Book|film version]] of ''Twilight'' was released in the US in 2008, with ''The Twilight Saga: New Moon'' following in 2009, ''The Twilight Saga: Eclipse'' in 2010, and ''Breaking Dawn, Part 1'' in 2011. There were also rumors of an [[Anime]], but they proved to be false. [[Manga]]-style illustrations of the Japanese edition still exist. [http://shelf-life.ew.com/2009/07/15/twilight-comic-book-manga/ A graphic novel] has been released and while it's not all that bad, it's not entirely... ''[http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/03/18/twilight-manga-review/ sparkly]''.
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* [[Alternative Foreign Theme Song]]: The Japanese version of ''New Moon'' uses [[Miliyah Kato|Kato Miliyah]]'s [http://jvideo.info/videos/3184/ "Destiny"] as its theme song.
* [[Amicably Divorced]]: Charlie and Renee. They mainly split up because Renee couldn't stand Forks, and Charlie didn't want to leave. They're shown to be in communication regarding Bella, and on the rare occasion that they are together, they are quite friendly with each other.
* [[Analogy Backfire]]: In ''Eclipse'', Bella compares herself to Cathy of ''[[Wuthering Heights (Literaturenovel)|Wuthering Heights]]'' and her love for Edward to Cathy's love for Heathcliff... seemingly forgetting there is actually an ''Isabella'' in the same novel who ''does'' marry Heathcliff... to [[Domestic Abuse|disastrous effect]].
** Subverted in ''New Moon'' where the author compares Bella and Edward to Romeo and Juliet. See Lost in Imitation below for why.
* [[Anguished Declaration of Love]]: Edward in the meadow scene.
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* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]:
** Bella is disturbed to find out that {{spoiler|Jacob has imprinted on her daughter}}, but managed to keep her self control about it. [[I Take Offense to That Last One|Until she finds out he nicknamed her "Nessie"]]. At which point she attacks.
** Also when Bella finds out Edward has [[Stalker Withwith a Crush|broken into her house]], more than once, even before they were dating, to sit in her bedroom and watch her sleep, Bella is more concerned that he heard her talking in her sleep.
** Upon discovering that Edward is a vampire and can read minds, she freaks out... because he says he can't read hers, which makes her think that ''she's'' the freakish one. This is [[Lampshaded]].
* [[Artistic License Biology]]:
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* [[Attempted Rape]]: One of the many times Edward saves Bella.
* [[Audible Gleam]]: In [[The Movie]], Edward's sparkles come with their own sound effects.
* [[Author Appeal]]: Non-sexual example: [[Word of God|Meyer]] apparently stated that some of her main characters are fans of British alternative band [[Muse (Musicband)|Muse]], one of her favorite bands. Also, she claims to have used them in the story a few times. Needless to say, some of the band's older fanbase dislike the new fans gained from exposure from ''Twilight'' media.
** Something similar happened with ''[[The Hunger Games]]''. Meyer's endorsement of the books led to an influx of Twi-hards into the Hunger Games fandom, resulting in [[Ship-to-Ship Combat]] similar to the Team Edward vs. Team Jacob wars in the Twilight fandom. This greatly displeased older fans of ''[[The Hunger Games]]'', who were more interested in the series' social commentary than the romance.
** And a sexual example: Meyer has gone on record stating she would [[Perverse Sexual Lust|leave her husband in a heartbeat if Edward and/or Jacob were to show up at her door]]. What her husband makes of it, no one knows.
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* [[Babies Make Everything Better]]: {{spoiler|After being born, Renesmee brought peace between the Quileutes by having Jacob imprint on her, mended Rosalie and Bella's relationship(as well as creating a peaceable relationship between Edward and Jacob), and won a lot of allies for the Cullen coven against the Volturi.}}
* [[Baseball Episode]]
* [[Based Onon a Dream]]: A dream of a sparkling vampire lying in a field of flowers, apparently.
* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: Played straight in the first book. James, the first book's evil vampire, is described as being an average-looking vampire because he was ugly as a human. Naturally, all the Cullens were beautiful in life, making them absolutely gorgeous as vampires. The later books avert this with the Volturi. When we first meet them in New Moon, Edward points out, [[Broken Aesop|the Volturi aren't technically the bad guys]]. However, at that point all the Cullens thought the Volturi respected the law and controlled their world in a way that was better than what they will have if vampires became an anarchy with poor humans in the way. By the last book they know the Volturi (specially Aro) are ambitious bastards that will go to any length to get their way, including breaking the law and murdering innocents to achieve power.
* [[Beneath the Mask]]: Rosalie Cullen's attitude towards Bella is revealed to be this.
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** Edward when Bella is in danger.
* [[Beta Couple]]: Pretty much the whole cast, except Leah.
* [[Better Asas Friends]]: Canon's opinion on Jacob/Bella.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]:
** [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]] Alice displays signs of temper, spite, and a less innocent side in the later books. She also {{spoiler|''rips off James' head''}} in the movie.
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* [[Creator Cameo]]: [[Stephenie Meyer]] makes an appearance in the first film as one of the women in the diner Bella and Charlie visit.She is also a guest at Edward and Bella's wedding in the fourth film.
* [[Creepy Child]]: Jane, Alec, and Renesmee. The last gets further up in the department since she wasn't intended to be so.
* [[Cursed Withwith Awesome]]:
** [[Narm|"This is the skin of a killer, Bella!"]] [[Memetic Mutation|*sparkles*]]
** Vampirism in general, especially if one survives on a diet of animal blood. It's described as being less tasty than human blood, which basically implies that one gets an eternity of youth, beauty, strength, and some sort of super power, and the only downside is that one has to eat something they don't like. Considering some of the things that people [[Truth in Television|actually do]] in the name of youth, vitality, strength and beauty? In this world [[The Masquerade]] probably doesn't exist in order to keep a vampire genocide from happening, but rather to prevent every vampire in the world from being hounded day and night by desperate people wanting to be turned.
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* [[Dreaming the Truth]]: Used in ''Twilight'', ''New Moon'', and ''Breaking Dawn''.
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: The only thing about Edward that frightens Bella.
* [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him]]:
** Bree Tanner. Bad enough she dies for no real reason, but nobody does much to stop it or even really seems to care afterwards.
** {{spoiler|Irena Denali}} Her death being a pointless gesture of cruelty was lampshaded in-story, but they had also made a big deal about the fact that they had an ally able to manipulate the elements. Even if the Volturi tore her apart, they could have re-assembled her afterward if he'd kept them from burning the pieces.
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* [[Erotic Dream]]: Thanks to one of these, {{spoiler|Bella gets Edward to have sex with her again while she's still human}}!
* [[Eternal Love]]: Seems to be treated as the best part of being a vampire: you can be with your true love for all eternity. Or at least until the sun goes [[Supernova]].
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Sparkles]]: For a given definition of better.
* [[Everybody Hates Mathematics]]: Bella hates maths; it's her worst subject.
* [[The Everyman]]: Bella Swan, often lampshaded by Edward.
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** Reaches epidemic levels in the second movie, where most of the male cast wanders around shirtless (or else remove their shirts at the drop of a hat) the entire time. The [[Our Werewolves Are Different|lupine shape-shifters]], especially. It got to a point where it became a running gag for the actors portraying them - Jacob's actor has joked, several times, on [[The Tonight Show]] and ''Late Night with Jimmy Fallon'', about ripping his shirt off for every little thing.
{{quote| "''Oh, no, you're bleeding!''" (tears shirt off)}}
** This actually reached somewhat disturbing levels when you consider that lifesize (or larger) shirtless photos of (then seventeen year-old) Taylor Lautner were on display all around the world. It was actually something of a [[Double Standard|double standard]], as such extremely flagrant sexualization of an underage female actress would probably have triggered more outrage from the [[Moral Guardians]].
** Does no one remember [[Jamie Campbell Bower]] (Caius)'s insistence that there would be a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_JCco9SRoM naked Volturi scene] in New Moon??
* [[Fatal Attractor]]: Edward would like to believe he is this.
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* [[Genre Popularizer]]: Say what you will about the quality, but it triggered an explosion of urban fantasy and paranormal romance. [[Sturgeon's Law]] is in full effect, but some of them are actually quite good. Though a more accurate statement would be that it brought such a genre into the public consequence as there are/were a number of similar series well before Twilight, most of these considerably better than this series.
* [[Get a Load of That Square]]: The films seem to be going for this with some of Charlie and Billy's dialogue, but it would take an extremely... picky teenager to hold it against them.
* [[Getting Smilies Painted Onon Your Soul]]: Jasper can control the emotions of those around him, and according to Bella, it's impossible to feel anything but what he wants you to feel. It's also not a matter of discussion or [[Mind Rape|consent]].
{{quote| '''Jacob:''' Bloody annoying, that's what it is, only you can't be annoyed until after.}}
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: "Better than Freaky Fred's backside" from The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner (hinting at {{spoiler|anal sex}} there, are we, Meyer?).
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* [[Ivy League for Everyone]]
* [[Jail Bait Wait]]: A rather extreme form, with werewolves falling in love with toddlers, then having to wait for them to hit their mid-late teens before they can do anything physical.
* [[Kill It Withwith Fire]]: The only known way to get rid of vampires for good. But just fire isn't enough: first you have to rip them up into pieces (which is kind of difficult, considering that their flesh is as hard as stone) and then scatter the ashes. However, since their bodily fluids are flammable, once you have them in little pieces setting them on fire is pretty easy (according to the movie, just ripping off the head is enough before setting the body on fire).
** A simple way for them to get set on fire would be through the mouth. And considering the most physically supreme coven in existence(the romanians) died to regular arson(by the Volturi, but still just arson), they are obviously not nearly as impervious as they seem.
* [[Kissing Cousins]]: Sam and Leah are 2nd cousins. This means that it is also possible that he is related to Emily.
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== N - O ==
* [[Name's the Same]]: There's an Isabella in ''[[Wuthering Heights (Literaturenovel)|Wuthering Heights]]''. Oh, sweet [[Irony]]!
* [[New Powers Asas the Plot Demands]]:
** Alice being able to see the future.
** Marcus's power was pretty much drudged up to show yet again just how soul-bonded Bella and Edward are.
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* [[Nice Girl]]: Angela Weber, a background character.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: In ''New Moon'', when Bella gets a small paper-cut, Edward punts Bella away to prevent Jasper attacking her in a blood-frenzy. This, however, causes her to lacerate her arm.
* [[No Periods, Period]]: ''Breaking Dawn'' reveals that {{spoiler|Leah Clearwater, the only female in the Quileute werewolf pack, is a "genetic dead end" (as she puts it) because she stopped getting her period when she first became a werewolf}}. [[Cursed Withwith Awesome|And she thinks this is a bad thing]]. Though, [[Law of Inverse Fertility|given how human anatomy]] [[Genre Savvy|and tropes work]], [[Blessed Withwith Suck|she's probably right]].
** And of course, vampires don't have periods, because their bodies are unchanging (this ties into the whole "can't bear children" thing).
** Played straight with Bella, who, despite having yummy blood, does not trigger a vampire feeding frenzy once a month. [[Hand Wave|Handwaved]] by saying that menstrual blood is '[[Word of God|dead blood]]'. An [[You Fail Biology Forever|Anatomy Fail]] [[Did Not Do the Research|on Meyer's part]] when you realize that menstrual blood has been proven to be cleaner/newer/FRESHER/more alive than normal blood.
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** Rosalie in ''Breaking Dawn'':
{{quote| "''You. Got. Food. In. My. Hair.''"}}
** And if you watch the movie version of ''Twilight'' with the [[RifftraxRiff Trax]], you'll hear Mike Nelson yell, [[Three Hundred300|"THIS! IS! Forks High School: Home of the SPARTANS!]]
* [[Puny Earthlings]]: Humans can't possibly compete with or stand up to vampires or werewolves, and it's implied that before the Cullens only werewolves could protect normal people from vampires.
* [[Purple Prose]]: buckets. Especially when it comes to Edward's appearance.
* [[Rape Asas Backstory]]: {{spoiler|Rosalie}}.
* [[Rapid Aging]]: Renesmee (and all half-human vampires) reach adulthood after seven years of life.
* [[Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic]]: Averted in [[The Film of the Book|the movie]].
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* [[Reluctant Warrior]]: Carlisle to the point that the werewolves designated him a non-priority target; he had the most experience and a lot of potential to do harm, but his hesitation made him less dangerous.
* [[Rescue Romance]]: Edward and Bella were already secretly interested in each other, but it was Edward saving Bella from Tyler's out of control van that laid the groundwork for their relationship.
* [[Revenge Byby Proxy]]: Victoria's search to harm Bella after {{spoiler|The Cullens kill her mate James}}
* [[RifftraxRiff Trax]]: The movie of the book has this.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Jacob in ''Breaking Dawn'' decides Bella's baby must die, because Bella apparently died giving birth to her. At least, that was until he looked into the baby's eyes.
* [[Romance Novel]]
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== S - T ==
* [[Sadly Mythtaken]]:
** Granted, vampires actually didn't sparkle in sunlight; vampires hating the sun is actually [[Newer Than They Think]], the idea having been invented and popularized by ''[[Nosferatu (Film)|Nosferatu]]''.
** On the negative side, the myths used to have [[Lookslike Orlock|ugly]], short, smelly peasant vampires with reddish not pale skin. They almost always had some sort of shapeshifting and definitely did sleep (during the day at least). Fangs were also common because of the lips of posthumously exhumed corpses being peeled back after death. Telekinetic and other creepy poltergeist abilities were common because if something bad happened in your home it's easier to just blame a dead guy.
** On the positive side for werewolves while several myths of werewolves were a little more anthropomorphic the most of the original myths of werewolves actually ''were'' just men changing into wolves without anthropomorphic features. Twilight also explicitly mentions the more modern werewolves with their changing on the full moon and bites transferring the infection.
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* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Bella ''and'' Edward, for each other.
* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Actually, does Jacob know what a shirt is?
* [[Shot to Thethe Heart]]: Variant: {{spoiler|Edward injects vampire venom directly into Bella's heart in an attempt to save her life after a difficult childbirth.}}
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** Bella compares her love affair with Edward to ''[[Wuthering Heights (Literaturenovel)|Wuthering Heights]]'' and ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''. ''New Moon'' parallels the latter when Bella and Edward almost commit [[Tag-Team Suicide]] due to a communication error. Even funnier when considered that Shakespeare wrote ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' to be a cautionary tale about the dangers of falling in love too fast, which is exactly what Bella and Edward did! On the more [[Squick|squicky]] end, one couple is [[Lolita|Claire and Quil]]. Claire is ''two'', Quil is Jacob's age.
** How about [[Kill Bill]]?
** Depending on whether Twilight or ''[[Full Metal Panic]]'' came out first, the Japanese title of the first book (The Boy I Like Is Kinda a Vampire) can be a [[Shout-Out]] to the title of the first episode of Full Metal Panic (The Guy I Like Is Kinda a Sergeant)
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** Bella's opinion of Sam and Emily.
** One could also argue this for Edward and Bella, he is fascinated by even the most mundane things about her and she gushes about how gorgeous he is every time he enters her field of vision and once even swoons over how good his breath smells.
* [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]]: Edward.
* [[Stalking Is Love]]: Edward. Following Bella to keep her safe. Sneaking into her room to watch her sleep. Even ''before'' he was involved with her. And he gets her in the end, too.
* [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]: James attempted this trope, video taping him torturing and killing Bella to make Edward seek revenge and start a "game" with him. Lucky for Bella, Edward was fast enough to avert it.
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* [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]]: Leah reveals that ever since she {{spoiler|became a werewolf and able to read Jacob's mind}}, she's been having dreams about [[Les Yay|kissing Bella]]. Jacob retorts that [[Ho Yay|it isn't so great from her perspective]] either.
* [[Suck Out the Poison]]: In Twilight, vampires have no body fluids except for venom, which is used to change people into vampires via biting. When James bites Bella at the climax of the first novel, Edward has to suck out the poison to prevent it from spreading. A very heroic thing, except that A) this technique rarely works in the real world (due to the circulation system almost instantly carrying the poison away from the wound) and B) Edward himself has venom in his mouth. By all rights, Bella should have been a vampire by the end of the first book.
* [[Suicide Byby Sunlight]]: Attempted by Edward.
* [[Supporting Protagonist]]: While Bella is no doubt the protagonist of the series, Edward is [[The Hero]] and does all the heroic stuff {{spoiler|up until the end of ''Breaking Dawn''}}.
* [[Sympathetic Murder Backstory]]: Edward Cullen confesses to murdering a whole bunch of people shortly after he was turned, and Bella narrates that it is perfectly reasonable.
* [[Tag-Team Suicide]]: Edward tries this in ''New Moon'' when he thinks Bella's dead.
* [[Talking the Monster Toto Death]]: At the end of the last book of the series, a great battle pitting vampire against vampire is waived in favor of a lengthy discussion. Everyone goes home without a single punch thrown. This comes after reading through a lengthy training montage that <ref> if I recall, please clarify which and remove this</ref> is said to take weeks if not months of book time.
* [[Team Mom]]: Esme, to the vampires; Emily, to the wolves.
* [[Their First Time]]: Played straight, except when Edward and Bella kept [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|switching positions]] on who was the "ready" one.
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* [[Viewers Are Goldfish]]: Stephenie Meyer has the irresistible urge to describe how unbelievably gorgeous [[Our Vampires Are Different|Edward]] is [[Purple Prose|over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over AND OVER]]!!!!! [[Rage Against the Author|We heard you the first time, Meyer]].
* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: Jacob and the wolfpack. "[[The Spoony Experiment|They might as well have called the movie ''Native American in Blue Jeans, And That's It'', and that might have sold it]]." Rather amusingly [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by Edward in the third film. "Doesn't he ''own'' a shirt?"
* [[Wanton Cruelty to Thethe Common Comma]]: It happens [http://reasoningwithvampires.tumblr.com/search/comma a] [http://reasoningwithvampires.tumblr.com/tagged/comma_abuse lot] in the books.
* [[Warm Bloodbags Are Everywhere]]: This series ''runs'' on this trope.
* [[Weirdness Magnet]]: Or "danger magnet" as Bella calls herself.
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* [[Writers Cannot Do Math]]: Edward claims at one point that Renesmee gains a year and a half of development in around 1 month. This means she should be around 18 in only a year, not in 7 years like the story claims.
* [[You Are Grounded]]: From the last chapter of ''New Moon'' to the first chapter of ''Eclipse''.
* [[You Don't Want to Die Aa Virgin, Do You?]]: Bella wants to experience sex with Edward while she is still human, before she gets changed into a vampire. Doubles as a case of [[Too Dumb to Live]], since Edward explicitly warns her that because of his super-strength, the experience will quite likely be extremely traumatic or even fatal.
* [[You Need to Get Laid]]: Edward's broodiness and fatalism has been linked to the fact that he has never had sex in almost a century. Once he gets married and does the deed he certainly becomes less stressed. Also, Bella had a history of night terrors and talking in her sleep which ceased after her honeymoon.
* [[You Keep Using That Word]]:
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