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* HeroKiller: Going off his actions, he's managed to dispose of Archangel Gabriel, deceived Adam and Eve, afflicted and doomed Noah with M.A.D after forcing him to help spread the Alternates, [[AmbiguousSituation possibly]] forced Jesus Christ into damnation and flat out subverted God's will in general, with any acts He could have done to curb Satan being nonexistent even in the modern age. His first onscreen kill comes in Vol.4, where he’s implied to have [[EyeScream gouged Dave Lee’s eyes out.]]

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* HeroKiller: Going off his actions, he's managed to dispose of Archangel Gabriel, deceived Adam and Eve, afflicted and doomed Noah with M.A.D after forcing him to help spread the Alternates, Alternates across Earth, [[AmbiguousSituation possibly]] forced Jesus Christ into damnation and flat out subverted God's will in general, with any acts He could have done to curb Satan being nonexistent even in the modern age. His first onscreen kill comes in Vol.4, where he’s implied to have [[EyeScream gouged Dave Lee’s eyes out.]]
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* HearingVoices: Heavily implied in Volume 4 and Mandela Catalyst. In Volume 4, he tells something to "shut up" and to "get the fuck out of my head!" Under the screaming at the end of Mandela Catalyst, Adam could possibly be saying "there is someone--", implying a presence in his mind. Though unexplained, the cause of this definitely has something to do with the Alternates.

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* HearingVoices: Heavily implied in ''Volume 4'' and ''mandela catalyst''. ''In Volume 4 and Mandela Catalyst. In Volume 4, 4'', he tells something to "shut up" and to "get the fuck out of my head!" Under the screaming at the end of Mandela Catalyst, ''mandela catalyst'', Adam could possibly be saying "there is someone--", implying a presence in his mind. Though unexplained, the cause of this definitely has something to do with the Alternates.
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* HearingVoices: Heavily implied in Volume 4 and Mandela Catalyst. In Volume 4, he tells something to "shut up" and to "get the fuck out of my head!" Under the screaming at the end of Mandela Catalyst, Adam could possibly be saying "there is someone--", implying a presence in his mind. Though unexplained, the cause of this definitely has something to do with the Alternates.
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* AlasPoorVillain: Yes, he was indisputably an asshole to pretty much ''anyone'' he's ever interacted with, including his work partner, his best friend, and even two of his exes, but come on! No one deserves to turn into the same vein of creatures[[note]]well, close enough vein of creatures. It was actually Intruder who killed his mom.[[/note]] that drove your mother to suicide and, upon the realization, suffer for what's implied to be several hours after multiple attempts to take your own life, [[ICannotSelfTerminate all failing]] yet [[AndIMustScream still excruciatingly painful]].
-->''"Please... SOMEONE KILL ME!"''
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* BrokenAce: Thatcher went from being a respected cop to a broken, sad man after meeting the Alternates. [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished His instance to investigate Mark's death]] by their hands leads to his partner, Ruth, dying and an Alternate trying to kill him and take his place. By ''Vol. 4'', Thatcher sounds like he's on the verge of killing himself, but his resolve to stop his Alternate prevents him.

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* BrokenAce: Thatcher went from being a respected cop to a broken, sad man after meeting the Alternates. Alternates; [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished His instance his urging to investigate explore Mark's death]] death by their hands hands]] leads to his partner, Ruth, dying and an Alternate trying to kill him and take his place. By ''Vol. 4'', [[DeathSeeker Thatcher sounds like he's on the verge of killing himself, about to put a gun in his mouth,]] but his resolve to stop his Alternate the monster that looks like him prevents him. him from doing so.
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* BlackEyesOfCrazy: If you invert the colors of his suspect photo from ''mandela catalyst'', you'll notice his sclerae is now black, and the irises white.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: If he's canonically Jonah's father, then this trope applies. Assuming Jonah is really dead.

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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: If he's canonically Jonah's father, then this trope applies. Assuming Jonah is really dead.
he outlived his son following his death in ''Volume 2''.



* AtrociousAlias: xXxNOAHxXx. Do I need to say more?

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* AtrociousAlias: xXxNOAHxXx. Do I need to say more?One of Adam's friends has the username [=xXxNOAHxXx=], an obvious pastiche of "edgy" usernames from the older days of the internet.

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* TooDumbToLive: Thatch, we get that you're not really stable right now, but trusting a voice that says to be your intuition yet refers to you in third person into following "the screams" is just a bad idea... It leads to him encountering Adam in his transformation into an Alternate.

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* TooDumbToLive: Thatch, we get that you're it. You're not really stable doing your best mentally right now, but trusting a voice that says to be your intuition yet refers while referring to you in third person into following "the screams" is just a bad idea... It leads It's heavily implied that following the screams led to him encountering Adam in his transformation encounter with Adam, who was turning into an Alternate.Alternate by that point.


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* MeaningfulName:
** Apocryphon is a term for early Christian writings that were meant to be "secret teachings". Genesis Apocryphon literally means something like "Secret Teachings of Genesis". Now, I remind you that most of humanity believes that the events of the Book of Genesis happened as they were told in the Bible, not as they happened in Volume 4. The Volume 4 version of Genesis is implicitly being called a secret teaching. This also extends to the other key events that the clips found in the channel cover, such as Easter.
** Allocate Undamage, as was previously pointed out, sounds eerily similar to "reverse the delusion", a phrase that Gabriel said in his very first appearance in ''Overthrone''. To allocate something means to distribute, the person who runs the channel believes that, by distributing the videos, they are by extension distributing "undamage", a way to reverse the "delusion".
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Adam is practically obsessed with the Alternate happenings in Mandela and wants to know more about them to the point where he cares more about the discovery than his fellow man. In an ironic twist, it turns out that he's a "Sleeper Alternate" that the Intruder made and is so horrified when he somehow finds out that he tries to ''kill himself'' before he "activates".

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Adam is practically obsessed with the Alternate happenings in Mandela and wants to know more about them to the point where he cares more about the discovery knowledge than his fellow man. In an ironic twist, it turns out that ''mandela catalyst'' reveals he's a "Sleeper Alternate" sleeper agent that the Intruder made made, and Adam is so horrified when he somehow finds out shocked that he tries to ''kill himself'' before kill himself. In his pursuit of the truth, he "activates".discovers a secret that even ''he'' doesn't want to know.
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* TooDumbToLife: Thatch, we get that you're not really stable right now, but trusting a voice that says to be your intuition yet refers to you in third person into following "the screams" is just a bad idea... It leads to him encountering Adam in his transformation into an Alternate.

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* TooDumbToLife: TooDumbToLive: Thatch, we get that you're not really stable right now, but trusting a voice that says to be your intuition yet refers to you in third person into following "the screams" is just a bad idea... It leads to him encountering Adam in his transformation into an Alternate.
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* TooDumbToLife: Thatch, we get that you're not really stable right now, but trusting a voice that says to be your intuition yet refers to you in third person into following "the screams" is just a bad idea... It leads to him encountering Adam in his transformation into an Alternate.
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https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_0593.png ''"[[JumpScare [UNINTELLIGIBLE SCREAMING]] HELP!]"''[[/labelnote]]]]

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Adam is practically obsessed with the Alternate happenings in Mandela and wants to know more about them to the point where he cares more about the discovery than his fellow man. In an ironic twist, it turns out that he's a "Sleeper Alternate" that the Intruder made and is so horrified when he somehow finds out that he tries to ''kill himself'' before he "activates".
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* DrivenToSuicide: Horribily Subverted. Adam tries to kill himself by downing a bottle of bleach when he's "activated" as a sleeper Alternate, but because Alternates can't die by conventional means, [[BungledSuicide all the bleach does is burn his throat and vocal cords.]] By the time Thatcher finds him, [[AndIMustScream he's in a lot of pain, and all Adam can do is unintelligibly scream]] while [[DeathSeeker begging the detective to kill him.]]
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* GrayscaleOfEvil: Every time he approaches the scene, the screen turns completely grey.
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->''"Thanks for Review. More coming soon"''

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https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_0593.png ''"[In Thatcher's voice] What are you... Please... [[AndIMustScream SOMEONE HELP!]] [UNINTELLIGIBLE SCREAMING]"''[[/labelnote]]]]

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* HistoryRepeats: As shown in MeaningfulName below, this [[PlotParallel isn't]] the first time Satan tricks someone named Adam by proxy. Both of them were tricked via a woman, who offers them something seemingly harmless at first, which ultimately results in their demise... [[PlayingWithATrope or not]], as Adam ends up surviving... [[AmbiguouslyHuman allegedly]].

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* HistoryRepeats: As shown in MeaningfulName below, this [[PlotParallel isn't]] the first time Satan tricks someone named Adam by proxy. Both of them were tricked via a woman, who offers them something seemingly harmless at first, which ultimately results in their demise... [[PlayingWithATrope or not]], as Adam ends up surviving... [[AmbiguouslyHuman allegedly]].allegedly]]... [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie Yeah, no]]. At the end of ''mandela catalyst'', it's heavily implied that he as well as his biblical counterpart were turned into Alternates.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: After starting to turn into an Alternate, he's implied to have drank a bottle of bleach to presumably [[DyingAsYourself die as a human]]. However, due to the invulnerability that comes with being an Alternate, he doesn't quite make it, leaving him still alive and in excruciating pain. The ending of ''mandela catalyst'' shows him screaming for Thatcher to kill him.


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* RuleOfSymbolism: Moments before the reveal of him becoming an Alternate, we can hear a radio audiobook of Chapter one of "The Fate of the Jester", a book about a boy who lost his humanity in his sleep turning from [[ProtagonistJourneyToVillain the "hero of the story" into a "cog in a machine"]], as a [[BigBad "spectator"]] with white eyes was watching him from the shadows.
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* BungledSuicide: It's implied he tried to kill himself by drinking bleach, following his full transformation into an Alternate. It didn't work out, and Adam is found by Thatcher desperately begging for someone to kill him.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Dave dies after getting his eyes melted by Gabriel. If that wasn't bad enough, ''mandela catalyst'' reveals that he also did ''[[NothingIsScarier something]]'' to Dave's brain. Whatever it was isn't clear, but the nurses at the Bythorne Hospital were pretty spooked.

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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Dave dies after getting his eyes melted by Gabriel. If that wasn't bad enough, ''mandela catalyst'' reveals that he also did ''[[NothingIsScarier something]]'' to Dave's brain. Whatever it was isn't clear, but the nurses at the Bythorne Hospital were pretty spooked. spooked (WordOfGod in the Discord server states that Gabriel made Dave's brain ''explode'').
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Dave dies after getting his eyes melted by Gabriel. If that wasn't bad enough, ''mandela catalyst'' reveals that he also did ''[[NothingIsScarier something]]'' to Dave's brain. Whatever it was isn't clear, but the nurses at the Bythorne Hospital were pretty spooked.
-->'''Nurse #1:''' Oh, Jesus... \\
'''Nurse #2:''' What? \\
'''Nurse #1:''' Come here, look. \\
'''Nurse #2:''' Oh my god! \\
'''Nurse #1:''' Yeah. Brain's not supposed to do that.

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* FaceMonsterTurn: By the time of ''mandela catalyst'', Adam has become an Alternate, with his nature as an "Alternate Sleeper" finally realized.



* ThrillSeeker: His initial reaction upon seeing that there might be more than a ghost cat to the case? Saying that it's "kinda interesting", proceeding with insisting to go back into the house despite Jonah's protests. This is expanded upon in Vol. 4 with the reveal he's been doing this before with Sarah, specifically searching for Alternates. In both cases, Sarah and Jonah can't abide by his recklesses any longer, and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere tell him to find someone else to drag with him.]]

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* ThrillSeeker: His initial reaction upon seeing that there might be more than a ghost cat to the case? Saying that it's "kinda interesting", proceeding with insisting to go back into the house despite Jonah's protests. This is expanded upon in Vol. 4 with the reveal he's been doing this before with Sarah, specifically searching for Alternates. In both cases, Sarah and Jonah can't abide by his recklesses recklessness any longer, and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere tell him to find someone else to drag with him.]]]]
* TomatoInTheMirror: There's an implication that the Intruder did ''something'' to Adam when he was younger that made him less human; the details are murky, but ''Vol. 4'' implies that he's an Alternate sleeper agent. Did the Intruder take the actual Adam and replace him with an Alternate, and he's been dormant about his true nature this entire time? Did he transform him into an Alternate-human hybrid? But whatever the case, it's safe to say that the ''thing'' in ''mandela catalyst'' isn't Adam anymore.
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* EyeScream: Seemingly killed by the Unspeakable by ''popping out his eyes''. We only get to see the aftermath; Dave lying on the floor, dying from blood loss.

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* EyeScream: Seemingly killed Killed by the Unspeakable by ''popping out his eyes''. We only get to see the aftermath; Dave lying on the floor, dying from blood loss.
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!!"GENESIS APOCRYPHON"/"Unallocate Damage"

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!!"GENESIS APOCRYPHON"/"Unallocate Damage"APOCRYPHON"/"allocate undamage"



* AmbiguousSituation: The term "unallocate damage" sounds like another way to say "reverse the delusion", this and the fact that the link of one of their videos was in a TV corruption, and that they're running a channel dedicated to uploading corrupted Beginner's Bible videos may indicate that they're "Gabriel", or at least someone who's aware of his goals.

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* AmbiguousSituation: The term "unallocate damage" "allocate undamage" sounds like another way to say "reverse the delusion", this and the fact that the link of one of their videos was in a TV corruption, and that they're running a channel dedicated to uploading corrupted Beginner's Bible videos may indicate that they're "Gabriel", or at least someone who's aware of his goals.

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[[folder:GENESIS APOCRYPHON]]
!!"GENESIS APOCRYPHON"/"Unallocate Damage"
The owner of a rather suspicious channel that uploads The Beginner's Bible clips.
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* AmbiguousSituation: The term "unallocate damage" sounds like another way to say "reverse the delusion", this and the fact that the link of one of their videos was in a TV corruption, and that they're running a channel dedicated to uploading corrupted Beginner's Bible videos may indicate that they're "Gabriel", or at least someone who's aware of his goals.
* AlternateRealityGame: Not really an ARG per se, but you have to look up the gibberish that pops up on the tv in ''mandela catalyst'' to find their channel.
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https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_0593.png ''"[In Thatcher's voice] What are you... Please... SOMEONE HELP! [UNINTELLIGIBLE SCREAMING]"''[[/labelnote]]]]



* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: ''mandela catalyst'' has made it very clear that he's not human anymore.



* ForgottenFirstMeeting: The captions in Volume 2 imply he has one with the Intruder, which may be {{justified}} due to the [[InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers nature]] of the latter. Volume 333 expands on this by implying that he's been scared of the TV to the point his mother decided to unplug it. This doesn't seem to have worked, however, as implied by multiple clips of a child's eye watching an unplugged TV switching channels rapidly throughout the video. The Intruder tries to remind him again during Volume 4 via hacking Adam's computer.

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* ForgottenFirstMeeting: The captions in Volume 2 imply he has one with the Intruder, which may be {{justified}} {{Justified|Trope}} due to the [[InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers nature]] of the latter. Volume 333 expands on this by implying that he's been scared of the TV to the point his mother decided to unplug it. This doesn't seem to have worked, however, as implied by multiple clips of a child's eye watching an unplugged TV switching channels rapidly throughout the video. The Intruder tries to remind him again during Volume 4 via hacking Adam's computer.
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** {{Averted|Trope}} in the Remake, where he's implied to last less than a day.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Well, [[DownplayedTrope the differences are really minor]], but as stated above, he lasts less than a day with Cesar's Alternate outside his room before comitting suicide in the Remake.


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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the Vol. 1 Remake, Cesar's Alternate mentions her to Mark saying that "[his] little sister is so afraid." In the original Act 1, she wasn't seen or mentioned until ''Exhibition''.


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* AmbiguousSituation: She isn't present in the ''Vol. 1'' Remake whatsoever, leaving it ambiguous whether she's dead or alive. The introductory scene to the Remake does sample a scene that is heavily similar to her encounter with the Alternate in the original Vol. 1, but that's about it.


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* AdaptationalLateAppearance: In the original ''Vol. 1'' and in the mandelapolice.com ARG, it's implied that he cornered Mark in his room immediately after he went to Cesar's house. In the Remake, he has to break into Cesar's house again to check if Mark was still there, and when he realizes that Mark had already left, it takes him a whole day to corner him in his room.
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* TheDreaded: Ironically enough, for a cabal of demons that are strengthened by fear. Gabriel/Satan speaks of The Shepherd in quiet, [[TranquilFury Tranquil Furious]] tones, and it is heavily implied that The Shepherd and their presence in the world, and their influence on it's people, is the ''sole'' reason why, in spite of appearing to have [[TheBadGuyWins already won]], the Alternates have insisted on staying subtle and haven't just taken the world by storm already.
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** It's especially noteworthy when in The Intruder's final speech in Volume 4, he talks about Adam in ''two distinct'' ways: when talking about the Infant Adam he cradled in his arms and took away, he says "Him", where as when he's talking to Adam directly he says ''"You"'', heavily implying that the "Adam" he is speaking to is ''not'' the same Adam as the ''human'' infant he stole away.
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* {{Expy}}: Of [[Characters/BreakingBadSaulGoodman Saul Goodman]] with tints of [[Film/Nobody Hutch Mansell]].

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* DefiantToTheEnd: Even when Thatcher’s firearm proves ineffective against an Alternate that overpowers him and laughs triumphantly, he manages to shut it up with another bullet to the face. Implications are that he survived because of this bold and fearless gesture.

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* DefiantToTheEnd: Even when Thatcher’s firearm proves completely ineffective against an Alternate that overpowers him and laughs triumphantly, he manages to shut it up with another bullet to the face.face, just as a final "screw you" to the Alternate. Implications are that he survived because of this bold and fearless gesture.


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* NervesOfSteel: Arguably Thatcher's signature trait, is him being able to keep calm and not let fear consume him in justifiably terrifying situations. And it is all but outright said that this ability is why he's survived encounters with the Alternates. Like when his Follower corners him and laughs after proving it is ImmuneToBullets, Thatcher [[DefiantToTheEnd defiantly shoots it in the face one last time]], the act making it ultimately leave him with his life. And later, proving that to be the case when he does it again when Ruth's Alternate visits him at night. Thatcher, while clearly shaken by it's sudden arrival, just ''calmly stays still and stares it down''. Refusing to show fear even when it ''[[{{Jumpscare}} suddenly lunges in his direction]]'' in a desperate attempt to scare him, and thus the alternate slowly slithers away into the shadows after it becomes clear he isn't afraid.

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